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take effect till Her Majesty's pleasure shall) Wales and the Princess Alexandra, the pub- be known. A clause of that nature is only lie have been told that the wedding-ring, required to be appended to Bills that inter«| Which, Mof course,”’ is of plain gold, ar Til. ‘ : fere with private rignts, — Bills for issuing ing keeper is ect with dix precious stones, paper money and such like, im compliance | siected and arranged so that the initial let- with Her Majesty's instructions, The pre-|ters of their pames shall form the word sent Bill does not come withia that class|‘*Bertie,’’ an affectionate variation of ‘*Al- which requires a suspending clause. The) bert."’ The stones of which this happy com- Colonists have always couteaded that such | bination is effected are a beryl, an emerald, Bills as the one now before us should not|® Tey, 4 furquoise, a ree another have a suspending clause, Tie ahesnes co. A pale gold ring wee likewibe a een made to be worn by the Prince himself.

that elause will not prevent Her Majesty rhe “plain gold ring,’’ so often referred from withholding her assent to the Bill. Lt} ty by modern poets, and which is so familiar the Bill go into Committee L will oppose | to all the preeent generation, is but of com- that clause, on the growad that it is an ack-| paratively recent introduction. Formerly nowledgment of a principle that the Colonists | these rings were ornamented in various ways, bave contended against. If the principle is} — — . Se tor a The admitted it may be a ground for giving in- ea = ara ee ’ edding-rings of the Romans, who originated struction to Her Majesty's repfesentative £0) 01, aplaged joined hands, intaglios, and diteet a to invert such clauses inscriptions. Later the ‘*gimmel"’ or double in other Bills. jring, which opens into two and yet cannot Hon. Mr. LORD.—L iatend, your honors, be aaa, cos used, and rings aie

to support the amendment, because | do not} with filigree and enamel. It was also the think sach a Bill is required in this country. | S°0dly custom to inscribe wedding and be-

: ltrothal rings with appropriate mottoes. In It bas been said that tere is nothing in the} Germany‘and Italy inaee-ttea esos “to have

rales or constitution of the Orange soviety to} been more elaborate during the Middle Ages, interfere with the rights of any other party. | and more recently than has been common in That may be true; but it is pot the organi-| England. There is the betrothal ring of zation of the society that does the harm; it! Martin Luther with Catherine Von Bora, is the display of their flags and their pro- | which is composed of an intricate device of cessions. We know that such processions 6°!d work, set with her. :—the emblem of Siem fant be tecable, Bee. whet teak plese! exalted love. The go devices re resent all : ~ 6 : 7 P | the symbols of the * Passion. n the cen in Saint John, New Brunswick, a few years | tre is the crucified Saviour; on one side the ago, on the occasion of an Orange proces- | spear, with which the side was pierced, end sion. It has been said by one of your houors! the rod of reeds: on the other is a branch of that the passing of this Bill will be laying| byssop: beneath are the dice with which the down a precedent for the other Colonies ; | *vldiers cast lots for the garment without a but if we caunot give them a better prece-| 82m, aad below are the three nails. The Sent thenithin, 1 hone wo will ken our | Wuole is arranged so as to make a large " * f me | cross, surmounted by the raby. Inside the | precedents on this side of the Strait. On| ring, are the names of the betrothed pair, | the occasion of introducing a similar Bill | and the wedding-day in German,—* Der 13 into the Legislature of a neighbouring Co-| Junij, 1525.’’ This ring was presented to) lony, there was a procession got up and aj the intended wife at the betrothal, and) great display made, which led to a riot, in) Worm by her after marriage. . which two or three lives were lost. That; Tbe ting used at the marriage ceremonial | was the means of procuring the rejection of | *™ worn by Lather after the wedding. This} rr td vo = o lis a **cimmel” ring, an emblem of the the Bill. No such Bill has yet been IDLrO-| married state. There is a motto engraved | duced in Nova Seotia, and it has not been} within in old German. Og one hoop is a| introduced here because Protestantism is in) diamond, the emblem of power and duration ; | danger, but because a certain political party | and on the inside of the hoop, which is con-| is in danger. It is to maintain the stand-|cealed, are the initials of Martin Lather, | ing of a party that this Bill is introduced. | followed by - D, meer ae | Your hovers may smile, but these are my | doctor. On the corresponding surface of the | : : ” mounting of the gem of the hoop are the seatiments, aud I will express them, We) initials of his wife—C v B.” The gem | know that no good can be derived from the | on this side is a ruby, the emblem of exalted | Orange soviety, though perhaps it may assist Jove. The rings are doubtless the design, | in keeping a certain political party in power. | and probably the handiwork, of Lucas Cra | If it were not for their processions and dis- | nach, the friend cf Luther, who was one of plays, which are likely to lead toa breach the three witnesses to his betrothal : and it of the peace,"perhaps the society would not be #0 very objectiouable. I hope his honor kind of art-workmanship, that we are in- the Attorney Geseral will withdraw his op- | debted for these beautiful productions. position to the suspending clause, for | am)

advise [ler Majesty to assent to this Bill, a po OF

eball oppose the House going into Committee, | George IIL-, when taste in this country was Hon. Mr. YRU.—For my part, I am sorry ad ;

that this Bill has been introduced; but since | tables, and every description of furniture, and

it has been brought forward, I wil! support | houses, were made plain and heavy: so the

it. I would not like to do any thing that! finger-rings and other articles on which both °°

would annoy any party. | know very little| skill and design had been formerly bestowed, about Urangeiem ; but! never heard of them

| quoting. Yet I presume the individual who re-| Road Commissioners therefor.

| that to be successful a person must needs be a}

lof Derby, Russell, Paimerston, &e.

ov doubt owing = the combination of] sketch but atrue type of the character that claims | or twenty pounds, which amount was formerly artistic Knowledge with practical skill in this| to have all medical science centred in the clique | paid to the Protectors of those Fisheries. No.

So far as we have been able to learn of the| truly successful practitioner, they are also want- | System — to shut up many public schools, and confident that the Colonial Minister will never | use of the plain gold ring at weddings, it be- | ing in judgment even in the most trivial of things. | to starve well deserving schoolmasters out of their ] | came common in the reign of George IL. or What benefits the poor patient, whether the man | present employments; No. 12 isan Act to provide

‘in a deplorable condition ; when chairs, |

It may be said that we are blinded by partizan feeling in giving euch a deseription of the Session; but we shall not allow oar words to go unsupported by facts; and the strongest of all facts may be adduced from the list of Bills passed during the Session. The object for which a Legislature is constituted is to pass laws,—the laws passed inust surely indicate the character, the capacity, and the wisdom of the Legislature. Now, we shall judge the Orange Parliament by its deeds. We publish below a list of the Acts passed, Contrary to all former practice, the Royal Gazette has not published the list of Acts — neither the Monitor, the Islander nor the Protestant has done so. We presume they are ashamed of the smallness of the uumber, and of the exceedingly unimportant public character of nearly all the Acts:—

CORRESPONDENCE,

[Fon THE EXAMINER] ABOUT LIES. Lies, whoppers, have been class’d and known In colours only two; These culminating point had gain’d As lies the only true.”

The bouncing White—malignant Black— The world was wout to say, Were kings of lies; no champion yet

Could bear their belts away.

~~ as : : ae So Black and White unrivall'd bore Some thousand years the sway, 'Till a puissant chieftain rose In honorable Gray.

Now Gray his gallant gauntlet cast, And gaged his prowess rare,

To meet the veterans Black and White, And beat the lying pair.

1. An Act authorizing the Legislative Council and House of Assembly to commit prisoners jn con tempt to the Common Jail of Queen's County.

2. An Act to continue certain Acts therein men- tioned. : 3

3. An Act relating to Steam Navigation in this Island.

4. An Act to incorporate King Hiram Lodge, No. 1123, of Free and Accepted Masons, of St. Eleanor’s, in Prince Edward Island.

5. An Actto incorporate the Grand Orange Lodge of Prince Edward Island andthe Subordinate Lodges in connection therewith.

6. An Act to incorporate the Marine Insurance Company of P. EB. Island. pili 7

rreater lie than they. 7. An Act to incorporate the Minister and [rus

Gene a IN : MR. SNOOKS tees of the Preebvterkan Chureh , of St. Peter's Bay.

eo " 8. An Act to incorporate the Minister and Trustees Lt. Col. P, E. 1, M. of the Presbyterian Church of Bay Fortune.

9. An Act to alter and amend the Act for the pre

Then fiercely closed the potent three In combat for the bay ;

But White was foil’d, and Black did yield To the accomplished Gray.

Thus Black and White astounded fell Before the monster Gray ; And erown'd that champion chieftain was

April, 1863.

*Real. ; 2 ; i : ; . —-_ —< 00 servation of Alewives Fishery in this — ue ’ . . 0. An Act ine ate the Union Bank o To Tue Eprror or THE EXAMINER. he or to. mearpeyy Sir j— 11. An Act to alter and amend the Act intituled

An Act to consolidate and amend the several Laws relating to Edueation.

12. An Act to amend the law relating to Statute Labor, and to authorize the establishment of certain additional Road Districts, and the appointment of

I observe in the Jsfander of the 10th instant an article signed “ Viator,” wherein the writer, in attempting to show his proficiency in latin, only proclaims his ignorance of the classics by mis-

joices in the nom de plume of “ Viator,” is one of | 13. An Act to incorporate sundry eee: © -_ that antiquated school of professionals who insist name of the J resident, Directors and Company o the Farmers Bank, of Rustico. ‘

profound classic. If this were absolutely the test = : a aivtaaentadian | ade i oaiiie

of proficieney, I am inclined to think that our| therein mentioned for the service of the year of our

people would be reduced to the humiliating alter-| Pord, 1863. . :

native of sending to some of the larger cities of 16. An Act forthe naturalization of Aliens.

our sister Provinces and the States, or of dying | 17. An Act toauthorize His Excellency the Lieut

withont the aid of medical advice. | Governor of Prince Edward Island to sell certain I am one of these persons, Mr. Editor, who| Pews in St. Paul s Chureh, Charlottes»wn, now

must contves myself so obtuse a8 not to perceive | ee a ee the Government to sell

any matertai ditlerence between an assuming ad-) the Military Barracks ia Charlottetown.

venturer from the old countries, minus his diplo- | “

mas, and an intelligent pill vendor from the United |

QZ these 18 Acts, 7 are altogether of a private |

States. Them is a distinction without a difler- nature, in which the general public can take no! ence. The old countryman generally claims to |

. ; | interest :—N i { yrannical majorit be descended from the Norman conquerors ; boasts | interest:—No. 1 is to enable a tyrannical majority

ot his connection with Oxford or Cambridge; tells spicy aneedotes of the times when he w alked | mere transcript of a similar thing passed every Guy’s or Saint Bartholomew’s; talks of his dis-| PSR gh TO iiesetiadeiie Ain tinguished relatives, and speaks in familiar terms | * a a ee gu pig Now and| 4, 5, 6,7, 8, and 10, are some of the private Bills | then in his conversation he will threw in a latin | above referred to; No. 9 is an Act to destroy the

ao ee net ie | Alewives Piaberien, with the view of saving itoen

to put members of Parliament in jail; No. 2 is a

to which they belong. Lacking that energy of | : >: . . RP oe character and probity which distinguishes the | 11 is a Bill to destroy the Free Education

| who physics him claims to be the relative of a | peer or is the son of a tinker 80 lung as the pa- tient is cured, that is the main object in view. Our people are nit so gullible as “ Viator” |would have us believe; and in the sound} exercise of their judgment will never fail to dis- | P™

| Road Commissionerships for some hungry haagers- on of the Government; No. 13 is a Private Bill; No. 14 is a sweeping imposition of new and un- scedented taxes; No. 15 points out how those

adopted, there would be an end to the usefulness of the Office in Downing Street, and a fatal blow struck at the independence of its Chief—a con- summation whieh, we are sure, will never be brought about so long as the Duke of Newcastle remains where he is.

One's patience might stand the test, for a while at least, of the intolerable nonsense which has been talked in favour of the Award, and of the ridiculous efforts which have been made to res- tore some vitality to the dead and rotting thing, it we could discover one solitary good quality which belonged to it, excepting the Loan recom, mendatjon, and which the local Government would not couitenance. As we have often shown, the Award proposed most inpertant concessions to the proprietors, and offered nothing to the tenantry but the privilege of buying their farms al a very high rate, or of subsmitting to an expene sive and vexatious arbitration, in order to deter- mine the value of the farms; and this would affect but a small proportion of the tenantry. It was the latter proposal which fortunately procured the strangulation of the Award. And now, in- stead of shedding crocodile tears over the worth- less thing—making a hideous lamentation across the Atlantic — asking the Queen for a bevy of lawyers to apply a sort of legal galvanic battery to the defunct—we ought to rejoice that it is out of our sight ; and take consolation in the thought, that, as a warning to the innumerable spawn of Humbug, the Award has been deservedly com- mitted to the dark regions of the damned.

We are reminded, since writing the above, that the Address passed last Session made reference to only the general Bill to confirm the Award,—the Bill to regulate the local arbitrations or valuations between landlord and tenant was passed unnoticed in the Address to the Queen. Here is another and a glaring proof of the duplicity of the Go- vernment party in their dealings with the Land

Question ! —— «>.

THE ORANGE BILL.

Ir will be seen that this most unealled-for and mischievous measure was one of the Bills which received the Lieut. Governor's assent on Wednes- day last. On the eve of that day, the Legislative Council abandoned their amendment (namely, the siriking out of the suspending clause), and it only remained then for His Exeelleney to assent to it, or use his influence to have it put aside. There

| cannot be the shadow of a doubt that he might,

with great propriety and ease, have adopted the latter course; indeed. he might have prevented the abominable thing from ever coming before the Legislature if he had any firmness, with a little regard for the feelings of the Catholics of this Island; but he has unfortunately shown that he may be easily moulded to the designs of the Orangemen whenever they want to make use of him. We are eorry that His Excellency has ¢ommitted himself to this notoriously disleyal, uncharitable, uncbristian and infamous Society. Hitherto we were disposed to attribute all the short-comings of the Administration partly to

cover either English presumption or Yankee | taxes shall be squandered amongst the favourites quackery. The unblushing efiruntery of “Viator’ | of the Goverument; No. 16 is nearly a verbatim |

making any disturbance in the old ceuntry, and | do not know why avy party should take offence at them here.

Hon. Mr. WALKER.—The Act to incor-| 8'¥e8 the fullowing as a true report of a)

= the Roman Catholie Bishop of Char- ottetown bad a suspending clause.

The question was then pat on the amend- ment, and the House divided ;

Coxtents — Hon. Messrs. Walker, Ding- well, Lerd and McDonald—4.

Non - Contents — Hon. Messrs. Attorney General, Yeo, Anderson, McLaren, Ramsay, Gof, Beer and Henderson—8.

The original motion for the second reading of the Bill was agreed to on the same divi- sien, reading the contents for non-contents.

The B 2] was then read the second time, and the House went into Committee thereon, Hoo. Mr. Ramsay in the chair. The Com- mittee haying gone throngh the Bill clause by clause, the Hoase was resumed, and the cbeizman reported the Bill agreed to, with a certuin amendment. The amendment was simply striking out the suspending cluuse.

House adjourned.

SEE — MISCELLANEOUS,

‘* Fast Young Laptes.’’—Some people ap- pear to suppose that within the last few years there has been spread a species of moral miasma, whieh has produced the morbid phenomena designated as * fast young ladies.’ They seem to think that among the wealthier classes there prevails a lower statdard of manners and conduct than existed in the last generation. We are by no means disposed to believe that the case is really so. If, as can hardly be denied, the opinion and feeling of s%eiety are in a sounder state than at any previous period of English history, it is scarcely conceivable that such a deterioation aais alleged can have taken place. There will, we tear, always be a certain proportion of foolish and frivolous persons who will glory iu their folly and frivolity, and it may oc- easionally happen that they obtain unusual notoriety. Such persons and their friends are apt to speak of themselves as if they con- stiteted the elite of English eociety, and they tell one another, and toll everybody else, that to be *fust’’ is to be fashionable. ‘Their influence, we apprehend, is confined to & very narrow clue, which is by no means a fair sasaple of the average, not to say the best, English society. It may be believed that, in the presentday, there exists generally among the wealthy and educated classes a sirong senve of duty, and that there are fewer people now than there were five and twenty years ago, who conceive that they were sent into this world to eat, and to drink, and to dress themecives. Tuey are not ** fast young ladice’’ who have organised and who mana

so many of the London and country charities, or who are tending the Lancashire poer.

It seems to us very preposterous, if not impertinent, to assume that, because a certain number of persons are so wanting in se'f-respect and decency as to make a display of coarseness and vulgarity, it is therefore to be inferred that s ciety is generally tainted. Bat probably this species of cant has nearly had its day, and it will soon be discovered that the evil complained is not of the alarm- ing character which it appears to possess in the eyes of novelists. After all, the ‘* fast

ge | And I met with a fall too, in meeting the fair;

| were made to vorrespond.— Enghsh paper.

A Harpsmett Sexwon. — Rev. J. H | Aughey, a Union refugee from Mississippi,

| portion of a sermon he heard from a primitive or hardshell Baptist in that State. | a warm morning in July, and the reverend /gentleman took off his coat and vest, rolled | up his sleeves, and began :

‘“*My Brethering and Sisterin—I air a |ignorant man, follered the plough ail my i life and never rubbed agin nary a school

house. As I said afore, 1'm ignorant, and [| represented? For the past four years there has | been in successful practice in Prince County an |

| thank God for it. [Brother Jones responds |—** Parson, yer ort to be very thankful, for yer very ignorant.’’] Well, [’m agin all'high | arnt fellers what preaches grammar and | Greek fur a thousand dollars a year. They | preaches for the money, and they gits it, and | that’s all they'll git. They've got so high | larnt they contradicts Seripter, what plainly | tells us that the sun rises and sets. They say it don't, but that the yerth whirls round like clay to the seal. What ud come of the water in the wells if it did? Would’nt it all spill out, and leave ’em dry, and where ud we be? I may say to them, as the serpent said unto David, much learning hath made thee mad.

‘* When I preaches, | never takes a text till I goes into the pulpit; then I preaches a plain sarment, what even women can under- stand. I never premeditates, but what is given to me in that same hour, that I sez. Now i'm a gwite ter open the bibie, and the

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tex. [Suiting tle action to the word, he opened the bible, and commenced reading and spelling together.] Man is f-a-r-f-u-l-ly —feartul and w-o-n-d-e-r-!-u-l-ly wond: rfully m-a-d-e—mad. ‘* Man is fearfully and won- derfully made.’ [Pronounced mad.] Well. it’s a quar tex, but I said I'’se a gwine to po from it, and I'm a gwine to do it. n the fust place, I'll divide my sarment into three heads. Fust and forem st, I will show you that a man will get mad. 2nd, That sometimes he'll get fearfully mad ; and 3rd, and lastly ; when thar's lots of things to vex and pester him, be’ll get fearfully and wonderfully mad. And in the application I'll show you that good men sometimes gets mad, for the posle David himself, who wrote the tex, got mad, and called all men liars, and cussed his enemies, wishin’ ’em to go down quick into hell. And Noah, he got. tite, and cussed his nigger boy [lam, jest like | some drunken masters now cusses their niggers. Bat Noah and David repented, and all on us what gets mad must repent, or the devil ‘ll get us.” sername LOVE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

I met a dear creature, it matters not where;

For I fell quite in love, —but you wouldn't bame me If this beautiful creature you only could see. : Her eyes were like—stay they bewildered me quite : No mortal could see them and criticize right. I could only observe that their number was two, Aud their colour—about the most mischievous blue. Her mouth (my own waters)—don't ask me I pray Iwas the sweetest of mouths, and that’sall I can say: And the envious fellow who dares to say “no,” ~ If he had any tuste, faith. he wouldn’t say so! Her mouth, when she laughed, wus a casket thrown

wide, With pearls gleaming white from pink velvet inside > When the sang, ‘twas a cage, which to shut were

a sin, While her tongue, like a little bird, warbled within.

young lady” is, it may be hoped, a very ex- ceptional phenomenon, and is, for the most part, to be accounted for by the carelessness and want of education of her parents. Educated mem never have fast daughters or fast sieters. The species belongs exclusively to the class where there is some wealth, no occupation, no intellectual cultivation, ne mora! or réligious sentiment. The fast young Judy is the just punishmet of the neglect of the parents. But it isa pity that she should sufi-r. It were almost to be wished that steps should be taken to make education com- pulsory with some of the wealthy classes, re

Peri_s or Precocirry —Baillet mentions one hondred and sixty-three children endowed with extraordinary talents, ameng whom few atrived at an advanced age. The two sons of Quintilian, so vaunted by their father, did not yeaeh their tenth year. Hermogenes—who, at the age of fifteen, tanght rhetorie to Marcus Aurelius, who triumphed over the mostcelebrated rbetericians of Greeve—did not die, but at twenty-four lost b® faeu!ties, and forgot all be had previously uired. Pica di Mirandola died at thirty-two; Johannes Secuudus at twenty-five, having at the age of fifteen composed admirably Greek and Latin verses, and beeome profoundly versed in juris- prudence and letters. Pascal, whose genius de-

velo itself at ten years old, did sot attain the third of a @ntary. In 1791 a ebild was bern at Labeck, named | Heinneken, whose precocity

was miraculous. At ten months old he spoke dis- tinetly, at twelve learnt the Pentateuch by note, and at fourteen months was perfectly acquainted with the Old and New Testaments. At two years he was as familiar with aneéiest history as the more erudite authors of antiquity. Bausop and Danville only could compete with him in geogra- hieai knowledge. In the ancient and modern nguages be wasa proficient. This wonderful ehild was unfyrtunately carried off in his fourth year, — >

A Nore ov Weppvine-Kinos.—All thoughts just now are runsing connubial-wise. In

Her hair, gathered up in a net with mach care,

Peeped out from the bars of its prison up there,

Ev'ry ware, ev'ry fold, seeming slily to say,— |

“Don't you think it’s a shame to confine me this way!”

For lightness, her foot was like that of a lamb ;

For whiteness, her hand might have borne off the

alm ; And ind was the heart that went beating below, To keep itself warm in her bosom of snow. ‘The next time I met my dear charmer, thought I,— “I'll disclose to her father the trath, or I die.’’ “ Introduce me,” I said, ‘to your worthy old sire, The grey, spectaciled gentleman next to the fire.”’ She replied with surprise, and a mixture of alee : “That old gentleman there—is my husband !"’ says slie.

~—-s3oo——————

A Cure Trick,—A_ fashionable-looking lady, not long ago, drove up in a handsume private carriage to a well-known lunatic asy- lum, Siasabit's few miles from Paris, and requested t2 see the proprietor. Her wish being acceded to, she informed the doetor that she desired to place her husband under his care, to see if a cruel mania under which he laboured, namely, that he had lost a large quantity of jewels, could not be remoyed. After some hesitation the doctor consented, and the lady, after receiving his assurance, drove directly to the first jeweller’s in Paris, and selected jewels to the value of several hundred pounds. Requesting one of the shopmen to go with her in the carriage to

re the money for the goods she had taken, she drove with him to the insane asylum, and arrivi re he was shown into aroom. The lady n sought the doctor, told him of the arrival of her husband, and, getting into her carriage again, drove rapidly away. The poor fellow after waiting and waiting, grew impatient, and violently rang the bell. The doctor made his appearance, aad the young man, commencing eagerly to inquire after the lady and his jewels, was forced iavo a ht jacket, the malady complained of, as the doctor imagined, mak-

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first verse I sees, I'm gwine ter takeJt for a)

| in asking the Legislature for a “ preventive Act’ } is really amusing. He would give a patent right »te ene class of empirics to bleed the community, literally and figuratively. Would this be wise or just to give a monopoly to prejudiced practitioners and ci’ divant chewmist’s apprentices from English | country towns, for such are the class that would | most assuredly claim te be the Faculty, and most of them, having practised for years, would claim

| though it is well known that many ot them have no diplomas.

What are the facts that “ Viator” has so mis-|

exemption in any act that nnght be passed. even |

copy of an Act passed last year, but contained one | | fatal biunder, which was pointed out by the Colo- | | nial Minister, and it was therefore rehashed; it} I chiefly concerns a few adventurous Yankees who | may choose to take up their abode in our midst; | | and Nos. 17 and J8 are too insignificant te demand levena passing notice. Wemay, however, obzerve that the only object in passing these two Bills w as. to put a few pounds in the exhausted Treasury of|

tae Colony. | ?

* can our readers imagine what amount of |

American, a man of great shrewdness and sound | money has been taken feom the pockeis of the |

physician of the old school, but follows the prae- known in Europe as America, and what has been | | the result of his practice ne compared with the lefforts of the self-styled cducated men? Thomas Waite of Lot 19; ask Jonathan Adams | of New London; ask George Ellison of St. Eleanor’s, and many others in Charlottetown and | elsewhere throughout the country. The only | other person whom I believe they wish to accuse of quackery, is also an American, a young man | apparently of edneation, and unquestionably of| good address, and I believe as successful a physi- | cian as if he was an heir toa dukedom. These | are the men whose name are legion. A “ fair field and tio favour” is all they ask, and if they! can’t hold their own against the educated (7), let | the public discountenance them.

In conelusion, 1 would ask * Viator” or any of| his clique to be governed by the following from | the language which they profess to know se much | of—* Sapieus is tantum profero qui memoro dig- | nus suin.” Yours, &e.

CASSANDNIA. | — ——B 00 | To THE Epiror of THE EXAMINER.

Sir ;—I regret that too much eause exists forsuch | severe sarcasm as that employed by “ A lover of | cleanliness” in the Islander of the 17th inst. Our | streets and sidewalks are indeed in a filthy, neglect- | ful state, and though our Corporation staff alone | costs us annually over one thousand pounds, it ap- pears that our city authorities cannot afford to expend as many shillings for the remedying of any oue of the legion of existing grievances so per- nicious to our best interests. Among these may be classed the absence of one ray of Gas light emanating from any of those Lamps placed on all the principal corners of our streets—and that, too, ; at an expense of some hundreds of pounds to the! Gas Company. the managers of which were led to | believe that their expenditure for the erection of posts and lamps would be amply remunerated by the quantity of Gas that would be consumed at} the expense of the City ;—but no, Mr. Editor, the unworthy Fathers of our City have broken faith with the Gas Company. They haveallowed us to grovel in the dark, and to mudlark along as best | wecan. Surely their posts and lamps which meet our gaze at every corner are somany monuments | of disgrace, when it will be remembered that we are deprived of theiruse by the |stick-in-the-mud policy pursued by our eivie authorities. Strangers visiting our shores, on landing at any of our City wharfs, are in danger of stepping into a cold bath, and of getting an uncomforiable dipping, because of the absence of light to direct them forth to any of our Hotels. . ;

My object in directing attention to this subject is to show the citizens of this place that false econowy kas been practised—that whilst a very | heavy sum is annually expended in keeping up a useless staff of officers, no effort has been made to impreve our city ; and I do hope that previous to the approaching civie elections, this subject will be fully ventilated, avd the necessary means

provided tor the removal of existing evils. OBSERVER.

Che Examiner.

Charlottetown, April 27th, 1863.

CLOSE OF THE SESSION OF THE ORANGE PARLIAMENT.

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Tue first Session of the Orange Parliament closed on Wednesday last. We are sure it would be difficult to find in the annals of British or Co- lonial legislation the record of a more worthless aud inglorious career than that which character- ised, during the past six or seven weeks, the trumpery concern which asumes all the airs and diguities of a Legislature in this Island.

The Speech of the Governor ia closing this Orange Parliament will be found somewhere in these columns. We have neither time nor taste to deseribe the pomp and circumstance, which, with erue] mockery, were laboriously prepared to witness the dying throes @ the First Session. Suffice it to say that “fuss and feathers” were in abundance — that there was some clanging of swords — some exhibition of epaulettes — a small spread of crinoline —a few ious phizzes resting on a good foundation of white chokers, and a fair sprinkling of the “Great Unwashed ” in the gallery.

As for the Speech, we commend it to the lovers of light literature as a thing which was produced without any brain work, and will certaiuly require no effort of thought to comprebend it. But lest, from this remark, the reader should be deiuded into the perusal of His Excellency’s Speech, we beg to warn him beforehand that the Speech is

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the accounts which have been given of the preparations for the wedding of the Priuce of:

ing its appearance. He wascon several days, before the lady's ruse was discovered.

like the Seasion which ub polishes off—eppty, fri- volous, and good-for-nothing,

judgment, who minds his own business and keeps | sobe This man does not claim to be an educated | |

|tiee of an eminent American Doctor, as well) posicively mischievous avd oppressive?

Ask | sand pounds have been’ pent in passing these

eople to pass these 18 Bills—oearly all of them | useless to the general publie—two or three of them Let our |

readers then know that more than four thou-

i comparatively worthless,’ and, in seme cases, | P 3

worse than wortbless Bills.

The reader may be startled to hear that such a large amount as four thousand pounds has been | expended on the legislation of measures of ie!

more importance than would engage the attention ot a Vestry meeting or a Board of Aldermen in a town of the most insiguificant dimensions; but the statement is nevertheless true, as we shall show. We see by the House of Assembly Jour- nal of last year that the expenses of the Legisla- ture for the previous year amounted to £3083 6s. 64d. The expenses this year will be about the same. Add £500 for pay to the President and members of the Legislative Council, together with their travelling fees; £80 for four Silk Gowns— one for the President of the Legislative Council, one for the Speaker of the House of Assembiv, and one each for the Clerks of the two Branches of the Legislature; and add, at least, £350 for

| printing the Laws in the Royal Gazette; for presence. printing them again in the Statute book; for i le os il printing in the Gazette and Journals the Orders} PROROGATION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

of the Queen in Council, assenting or dissenting to these measures,—and it will be seen that four thousand pounds will not cover the cost of passing the 18 Bills.

The Address from the Legislature to the Queen on the Award of the Land Commissioners, has received very little notice from the press. For our own part, we had grown so weary of the subject from long previous discussions, and con- ceived such an inexpressible disgust for the hum- bugging disposition of the Government, which prompted them to revive the stale thing, in order to squeeze a little political capital out of it—that we were not loth to let it sink into a temporary oblivion. What motives induced the silence of the other journals, we are not prepared to say. Those in the interest of the Government are evi- dently not sanguine as to the success of the Address, otherwise we should, no doubt, have heard more about it.

We predicted that the Award Bills, passed in the Session of 1862, would not receive Her Ma- jesty’s allowance. Our prediction was fulfilled. We now predict that the Address will not receive any more favourable consideration. How is it possible it should? In one of the despatches from the Duke of Newcastle, whe has supreme control of our Colonial affairs, his Grace has dis- tinctly stated that one—and the principal—part of the Award was open to “insuperable objec- tions ;” in another despatch, he said that the Commissioners had exceeded their powers; and that, therefore, the Bills which were intended to give effect to their Report could not be submitted for the Queen’s assent. Now, what is asked for in the Address to the Queen? Why, an appeal from the solemn decision of her Majesty's Minis- ter to a tribunal which is unknown to the consti- tution! The Queen is modestly asked to disregard the opinion and judgment of the Duke of New- castle, who is charged with the administration of Colonial affairs, and to callin two or three lawyers to determine whether his Grace has been right or wrong in pronouncing judgment on our Bills. In short, the Duke is te be put upon his trial for quashing our legislation! We have never heard or read of an instance of such stupid folly, or shameless humbug, and trifling with public pa- tience, as this case exhibits. Who will present the Address to the Queen? Surely it must be the Duke of Newvastle, if he be Minister at the time it goes home, as he is mostlikely to be. To whom will Her Majesty look for advice on the subject? Surely to none other than the Minister for the Colonies. Is it likely that he will give such advice as would lead to a question being raised regarding the wisdom ‘and propriety of his decision against our Bills? Is it likely thay will allow his judgment to be impugned, and the affairs of his department to be controlled, by meddlesome lawyers that might be selected for the nonce? Why, if such a course were to be

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for signature, and when all anti-Orangemen in attendance will be invited to sign it. are requested not to offend the meeting by their