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EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY,

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1859.

Provincial Parliament, |

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. |

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Tvuespay, 10th May, 1859. |

iss to the ineasures of the party with which he was associated, he had not once uttered a word or written a line advocating a change im its constitution. He believed with the poet, that *Pime at length sets all things even,” and the result had justified his confidence. ‘There was no ground for the belief

~~,-ithat the Coane would factiously reject any measures of the

present Government > and it was unfatr. uncourteous, and un-

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ther own tumedinte neiibourhood; i would be better,.as there were io be three members for King’s and Prince Counties respectively, that there should be three electora! divisions for each. ‘ne hon. member, Mr.Coles, hod said that Councilors might vote agam-t the party that appointed them. They mig’, it is true, but no party would put his oppone: ts there. Much. stress had been laid) by the opposition on th

/Now, Sandy, I am sorry to soy that the liars stand too ‘clearly convicted on the face of this vile sheet which you ‘have brought me. If, therefore, the devil is the father of | lies and speaketh of his own when he speaketh a lie, who, I pray, is the father of the liars themselves ?

| “ F shall now let you see, my dear boy, said he, how nicely

l constitutional sos ymatie the members of that body as bein e ELECTIVE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. constitution # igmatie the member that body as being the

| Slavish puppers Of & party, when they were as much entitled to (Continued.) ppebiic respect as the Honse of Aysembly. He denied that it } was the general wish of the people that the coustitution of the

Hon. Col. GRAY had heard very able and well digested re-, Council should be changed, or that the question had heen

assertion that the Council wou d not pasa the Bill. That had | the Christian conduet of those worthies tallies with the in- , but small weight with him, They were sent there to carry | spired word of God, and he began to open the Bible, as [ out the wishes, not to betray the interest, of those whom they | thought, at random ; tor he read something from every place

represented; and if the Council rejected a measure which he) he opened. Wisdom i. 11: “ Keep yourselves therefore considered the pnblhe wea! required, he would persevere, and

marks from his hon. colleagues in the Government, and fro Hon. Mr. McAulay; bur aaa plain farmer, he would offer a few argumenis in plain language on what appeared to hie the | main point involved, namely, whch was most desirable, a | nominated or elective Council? ‘The present Government had | been styled one of patchwork. It might be @o, bul it was not amere sham. If evera people had been deluded by a name, | the inhabitants of this Island had been eutled for the last seven years by the name of Responsible Government. The une. heppy Roland put on record the last sad reflection of hia hfe: | “ Ob Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!’ ‘The same was true with reference to the mode in which Responsible Government was carried out in ‘his Colony, to which its! enemies should come if they wished to find a justification of | their opposition. Wath reference, however, to the question | more immediately before them—the choice between a nomi-| nated oran elective Legislative Counciimhe did not think! that the Island possessed the requisite materials. The sum of | £700 was, he considered, too low asa property qualification. In one co'ony a candidate was required to qualify on £3000, in another, £1000, in real or £5000 in personal property. As it was, however, necessary to have an upper branch, it would be their duty of two eviis to choose the least ; and therefore it was that he would support the Bil. It could not be said with trath | that we had (Lesponsible Government, so long as the Legislative Counetl might be a: the beck and nod of the loader of any party which gogh: be dominant in that House. He did not refer especially to the leader of the late or of the present Government, —he would invest nei her with such influence. Under the present system the Leader wominates to vicant seats at the! Council Board; and it would be absurd to deny that in the Government having the confidence of the majority of the House, are vested the nominations tothe Upper Branch. They must continue the present mockery, or make the Council elective When he had been offered a seat in that body some five years | ego, he asked if he was to take it unpledged. He was told | that he was to consider himself perfectly free, and he went thére unfettered. Before the Japse of a few months, however, he saw that the whole thing was a perfect farce ‘The divisions | were regulated solely by revard to party tnterests, In short, it was a perfect game of ** Follow my Leater.” He followed! his, and bid) them good bye. = (laugiiter.) He came tothis House as the chosen of 900 voters, and felt that he held a pnsi-! tion of far greater weight inthe country than when he had for a short time sat in a body which had earned the chsracter im-! parted to it, of @ shan, For what purpose had the Connei been originally constiimted 2? = The framers of the constiintion | had intended the * potent, grave, and reverend sionors’’ of the Council to sect d3 a check upon tie exu lira spirits and hasty acte of the junior branch; but.instead of affording such check, they had seen them in the character of. vosy hamble eervante! of the Leader of the party at the time dominant in the House. The Lon, member, the Leader of ithe late Administration, had | told the House thattwo of the present councillors (Hons. | Messrs. Swabey and Young) had been appointed by the old If so, they liad of late been changed tato office ; he independence of the one might be jaferred from the fiet of bis holding 12 or 13 offices, the other 2,3 0r 4; he did not exactly recollect the number. Now, would it not be black ingratitude, if, invested by his hon. colleague, the Leader of the present Government, with so liberal a number as a dozen | public offices, when, perhaps, he mig!.t not own the very chairs! in his house, he should be found to oppose lim in the legisla-/ tive capacity which was due to his kindness? Some two or} three years ago he had told his constituegts that the people | would never have Responsible Government while the Leader} had power to nominate to seats in the Legislative Council. | They asked what was the use of returning a majority to the| Assembly. if the majority of the Counc:! were all slaves of one | ian? = He heped soon to s-e a Councileomposed of men whe} would be s'aves tonoone. The hon. Leader of the late Go-| vernment had intimated that some members of the Council | would be willing to adopt the elective principle. It might be | 84, bat the will of the peonle wou'd mike the whole of the seats | elective. te had no objection to the course saggested by | tion. Mr. Palmer. Vhe discussion of the Bill would or cupy » good deal of time, and the season was now far advanced; and | if it were sent to the Council, much time would be wasted, he! feared, but to little purpose, as ut was not hke'y to meet ‘he approval of that august bodv, which was characterised by an inordinate degree of vanity, but very little independence. Therefore, another course from that pursued generally was necessary for the House to adopt, in order to obtain what the | people wisiied—an mdependent Upper Chamber.

Mr. SINCLAIR—ft was unnecess:ry to fire broadsides | Without an object at which to direct the sim tion members) on the Government side had argued as though they had artici-) pated great opposition to the Bill ; perhaps they wished to ex cite it. ft had not met with any opposition to the principle. It appeared to him that the Government were anxious thar should not pass, and for that purpose enceavoMfed to excite such feelings as would render its defeat inev@able. One clause seemed to have been introduced expressly for the pur pose of preventing the Council assenting to it—that winch | provided for the immediate electivn of the whole body. He | had heard it said, when the Liberals were in power, that they kept a nest-egg in reserve, ag a means of retaining popularity. The pres-ut Government were fullowing their example, by | keeping tius Bill in abeyance as their nest-egg. It framed | properly, why not adopt the usual and constitutional course to pass it into law at once? The Government said that they did | net expect it to pass the Council, but they would lay it betore | the people. Why did they not introduce a measure which they | could expeet would pass, and if that were ‘hrown out, and 1) were in accordance with the popular wish, the people would | rally to their support, and their position would thus be materially strengthened.

Hon. Mr. WHELAN had no expectation that any observa-_ tions of his wonld influence the minds of hon. members on either side of the House, for he was, he feared, s!most alone in | unqualified opposition to the principle of the Bill. To that) princip'e he had always been opposed, and he emphatically !

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denied the rigit of one branch of the Legislature to interfere | with the construction of another. Besides, he did not consider | that the Council would be of more service to the country by | being made elective. 1t was unnecessary that he should review | all the arguments that had been urged in favor of the Bill, bur | he bad heard none which would induce him to change his| opinion, although the hon, member, Mr. Coles, had entlered a change to come o'er the spirit of Ins dream since last session, | when he bad warmly ooposed the measure. Tre course pure | sued by the Government, with reference to the Council, was

precisely such as might be expected from them, now that they

had not a mujority of that body ready to do their bidding, “Ten | or twelve Years since the party now in power would not allow) & syllable to be breathed against the Council of thet day. It! was accounted almost sedition ta utter a remark in any degree | disparaging to them. They were then the tndependent repre- | sentatives of the wealth and imelligence of the people; dul! Row they were unworthy of any respect, and no epithets were | too vile to be applied to them. When, at the time to which he) referred, ‘he Counci) had shown a spirit of determined antegon- |

i made a test at the elections: Some few mestotrs might have | never »low expediency to influence his conduct agaims:

| stitution of the House.

| bad as much right to do so, as they had to pass this Billi. Such

| t was unreasonable to suppose that it would

| change in the constitution of the country, and it was their | duty to declare their opinions in emphatic terms, and they,

| Qaeen’s a rmght to one half of the seats in the Couneil, the

}conpiv should have the fame proportion there.

own internal affairs. The hon. member for Georgetown, Mr, ispirit of his long-since ceceased off-pring had eurvived the 'Pythayorean doctrine of the transmigration of souls had not

i been changed at ourse; for if its lineaments resembled those

a pariicuiarly Ortiliant iflustration of bis argument, for the early history of that Colony vas as replete with absurdities as

l euch were the case, it went toshew the rotteuness of the present

been returned pledged to the measure, but there was no autho. | principle. ; rity for the assertion that it was generally desired Bar were a ee gadis , tee Eee : on. Mr. THORNTON, being tn favor of the principle of nN otherwise, the change cowld not take pisce without the con- the B I would v ai for ai lor . i to Committee, at whic! . } € ary ’ ‘ > ‘ . ire ; , *e " sent of the Council itself. (Laugher) Hoa members miaht | = : : laugh, bat they would probably laugh at the ovher side of their!

the measvre. A great desl oftime had been spent on those mouths, if the Council shoulf introduce a Bill altering the con- r ;

this debate, qirte auneces-arily, as the same grounds would a! be gone over again when the Bill should have been commitred >. : y ld }e | on™ ee r o F yee oe a pm oy . — langh meee meogie x ta Che country demanded a change in the composition of th ‘ ef ° 4 f \ 1 ~ ahi inet iq? d ‘4 : ' aN Wold do sd too, bul reahy ounc! /Coune)), and the sooner the elective principle was adopted th jbetter, [ts apotication should, however, be gradual, and suc! canduct would not be a whit more impudent and absurd than | he would emapir: but ohi- in : ‘1 t d sweeping their own. ‘T'he | ber, Mr. Pai { [= d support; but objected to so viclent and sweeping an ae id a a a me one = instted that Pe lalteration.. Two hon members had cisimed, one shat he wa- ! ould not pass the Counce, tol, Gray ! ' , Pp BACH, BNE TI08 ee a ae the grandfither, the other teat he was the father of this Bel! ; the time of the country b fe -* 3 7a | Out @ reference io ‘he Order Book of 1850 would show that h- oes : ry by thus enacting a solemn farce 2? With jcould arrogate to himself the relation of great grandfather 1 reference to what had been said on the subject of the address | the semiiie. abe Pa et os id tube itt to the throne, recent! lopted by the C sil, that body had | easnre, end Consegnentiy it Wa+ not to be expected th t ’ y adopted by the Council, that body had | ne would disown hie descendant By the adopion of th an undoubted right to express their opinions on the recent | elective principle they would not be preceding Canada and the 9C > i : 2 a om » —ceY gy Unt i 4 - | low er Colomes, but inerely following in their footsteps.

ought not to be called to account for having done so in that| Hoa. Mr. HAVILAND congratulated the House on the general re-

House. The hon. member, M avil: ’ -, | Cognition of the principle of the Bull, in his opposition to which the ° weve r. Haviland, hid stated that it! Hon. Mr. Whelan stood alone ; but it was the first occasion on which

Stage « fits progress it wonld be proper to discuss the de sils of |

from murmuring, which profiteth nothing; and refrain your tongues from detraction; for an obscene speech shall nut go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.’ Keclesiasticus xxiii, 21: “Two sorts of men multiply sins: and the third bringeth wrath and destruction. 22: A hot soul is a burning fire: it will never be quenched till it de. vour something. 23: Anda man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire.” xx. 26: “A licis a foul blot ia a man: and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline. 27: A thief is better than a man that is always lying; bat both of them shall inherit destruction. 28: The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confugiou is with them without ceasing.” vii. 13: “ Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend. 14: Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.” Psalm y. 10: ‘ For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain. 11: Their throat is an open sepulchre ; they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices : according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for

was only necessary to ask the Home Government, and it would the Hon. Mr. Thornton had made knowa the relation in which be stood sanction the proposed change. ‘That might be the case, if the tothe Bill. He was glad that the principle fuund favor in the eyes of th: t Billi came befire them in proper shape, and the consent of | hon member, ulthough he regretted his opposition ta the details the other Branch@was necessary tothat. As to the cita-! There would be no use in inserting the small end of the wedge. To tions frown the sp@ches of Lords Derby, Harrowby and ocher | Present Council must be abrogated. There was no chance of their co- British Statesmen, with which the hon. introducer of the Bill Parte | ey government to which the hon. the leader of the oy aiiemy prey “ne ietige tite seaptineagahontar? ohetestapt Berburpe se — y — ; be opposed. He was amused wt iat hon. member's

; yA, ’ | teference to Messrs. Swabey and Young, as having been put into the his faith upon the sleeve of any man. It mig!it suit the purpose | Council by the old Tory party, consequently they at the present day

of that hon. member to quote those authorities when their | reflected the views of them who sent them there. With that party

opinions happened to coincide with his own ; but he recollected | t¢ Geverement had nothing todo. They had gone to their political

ithe time when the views of Lord John Russell, as eminent a | tomb, and he hoped the Council would speedily participate in the same

; = . . . siatesinin as any of them, on the subject of Responsible Gor | Ste, Eras abiued ts auy tht choy would support tbe majvit ofthe . . e sorme e t ek ; Hnves

vernment, had been scou'ed by that hon. member and his} jate Govern nent, ani the ese had been théir Attorney General 1 confreres, as being foolish and absurd, and the system of Re- | former years, wheu be su'ked, and went out of ofice—came back, an sponsible Government was stygmatised as mere humbug ond | new was out again. The hon. member, Mr, Whelan, was entitled to moonshine, Apart from his objection to the principle, the de- great credit fur the leugth of his speech, which consisted principall, tails of the Bill would meet his decided opposition. ‘The un-! i tof maments on his-owa and Hon. Mc. gMcAuia ee equil allet nent of represengation to th* counties was one ground j cle in ae ae a ans gj ade age Sian 8>..eee Dt ” of o'gection ; and the ettremoted justification of nw isa mere | Derby and otis. Ye. cu maeahe addeesd “their opiai a a hew fallacy ; for if the preponderance of wealth and population gave | that an.elective Council would be conceded by the Government of the

| other country, whenever it might be asked for. In addition t the same argument should epply to that House, and the favered | “tesman whom he bwi cod, he would fortify bis argument by the The qnalifica- | eee _ <A oY \\ ~t Moleaw ee ee Pea as : ith 7 ot hy i ta Radical as the hon. member himself. (laughter e thon for the Counet lors wes too high tor 80 eral and coin=} bon. a. here read frow w speech of the iate Sir Wun “‘Moelastustis. paratively peor a Colony. t might do for Nova Scotia or New delivered ia March, 1359, advocating elective Councils]. The dei th Brunswick ; but the effect of it here wou!d be to place the | warrant of the nominee system had been sigued; it had found no whole legislative power.of the Upper Branch in the hands of | favor ia the Britis Lords or Commons. Yn the year 1837-the Home we proprictOes. Acai, the extraordinary provision that the | Government, em address, bad temodeited the cld Couficiis ia thes Bg ‘ : 7 ' Colonies, and Would do so now, when once made aware that such wa {the wish of the péople. At present the C-unciliors were not the nomi vees of the Crown, but of the leader of the Government of the day. }

Crown shou'd uot have the power of dissolving the elective Council, while it.could at any moment send the mem)ers of the Assembly back to their constituents, might lead to most.4 ‘Phere’ was no foundation for the assertion that the qualification © embarrassisg complications. Suppose, for instance, the Counci! | £709 would have the effect of putting into the Council none but pr: entertained wews diametrically opposed to those held by the } prietors, He had stated bis willingness to reduce the amount to £50 House of Asseu.biy, ond that each body was determined to and €xpected it would be cut dewn in Committee. A propr etor wou!

’ " {not be the party most likely to suceeed in un appeal to a constituene jof tenantz. Lue hon. member (Mr. Whelan) koew that the Bili wa not inteaded te have, nor would it have that effect, but he wished th: odinion to go abroad to the country in his speech. As to the objection The Counci! could not be dismissed, and how was the Go- j te the division of Councillors, among the different counties, while eac! vernor to remove he dead fock? Ifthe Crown had power to | had an equal representation in that House, be said boldly that Queen’: dissolve one branch, it should be ina position to exercise the had not mer fair proportion oa aheir A wr and for that he blamed th: same authority over the other. Another objectionable result elas Se en ee eT oa Phen sat et oo

' ( ' ‘ & o “ “ i 8 ‘ 3 i 0 eo Pr night, and probably would, occur, At present that House | praying for this change. Where were the setts is requesting an ad had the exclusive con'rol of the purse strings ; but once bring | dition of six members t> the former number of the House? That ad- this elective principle into’ operation, anddhe Council, 58 an | dition had been made in the expectation of getting a majority of seat equally elected body, could claim: a co-ordinate mah. ‘lhe | for the late Governmenc at the then ensuing general election, but alas ! Bill also contains provisions on matters which should properly | t#¢ bon, wember and his friends hal dug a pit and fallen ints it thew be left to the members of Council theaiselves to settle —xuch ae | Selves, and out of it they were not likely to yet fur somo time to come

(To be continued.) W. M. Hows, Reporter.

adnere tothetrrown —the Government might! dissolve the House, > } : a

and if the newly elected one were itnbued with the opinions

and spiritof their predecessors, what would be the resalt?

be appointment of their President, and the power to punish their refractory or delinquent fellows. All such assemblies made such rules and regulations as they though: fit ;, and this sageared to hin to bea very offensive interferenee with the universally recegn aed ngit of such bodies to regulate their

Correspondence.

For tite Examiner.

WeAulay, had represented huneeifin the venerable character ot

* vrandiaiher’’ to this precious B!), and had stated that th

“ Angustam amice pauperiem pati, Robustas acri wilitia puer Cundiseat, et parthes feroces Vexet eques metuendus hasta. Hor. Las 3, Ope 2.

Still must IT hear ?—< hal! hoarse Fitzgerald bawl

At Orange meetings in the Temp’rance Hall,

And I not sing, lest haply Scotch reviews

Should dad ine seribbler and denounce my muse.

Btill there are follies e’en fur me tu chase,

And yield at least amusement in the raze;

Laush when [ laugti—TI seck no other fame,

The ery is up, au@ diars are my gume.—Brron, (slightly altered.

body, and now ammated this pet child of bis colleague. For he credit of that how mcarber, he chirttably hoped mat the

received an illust addon in this case, but that his bantling had

before thea, the venerable granudsire had but littie canse to reyret the untimely death of so ill favored an urchin, Lis re- ference te the Massachuset’s of a hundred years ago was not

that of any country of the time. ‘To be consistent, he shoutd have! sencmmended for. ver eduption: she highly balightene® ( Concluded.) code commonly kuowa as the Blue Laws of Connecticut, and

the humane and imellizent practice of burning supposed witch- Take and read, for instance, what is laid down from the

es. tle would vote ce bey borers to eee ane me word: pop. ry’ in the third column on the first page, and ide ne agi Vv ae lic asa . » e he cons'dered it would endanger t te Me any " i - — t vd on through the remaining part of that end the following subsist between the House and the Counetl, whieh latier, ip-| d if vou do not find a speci f detracti d flamed with the passions and angry feelings excited by election | cCOsamo, aud § you . no 3 id a specimen ? efraction ap contesta, would not be’ as likely as at present to exercise a Seurrility, do not call me Unele Jim. Take again the lead-

they have provoked thee, O Lord.” Ixiii.4: © For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing to shoot in secret the ufdefiled. 6: They wiil shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares, xlix. 19: “ Thy mouth bath abounded with evil and thy tongue framed deceits. 20: Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay scandal against thy mother’s son. 21: These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I shall be like to thee: but J will reprove thee, and set before thy face. Understand these things you that forget God. x. 3: For lo, the wicked have bent their bow; they have prepared their arrows in the quiver to shoot in the dark the upright of heart. 4: For they have destroyed the things thou hast made; but what has the just man done?) c. 5: The man that in private de- tracted his neighbour him did I persecute. cxix.2:Q Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips and a deceitful tongue. 3: What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, toa deceitful tongue? Psalm x: (According to the Hebrew divison.) 7. His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and coirow. 8. He sitteth in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent, xxxvii. 18. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceit all the day long. 14. But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening hismouth. 21. They that render evil for good have detracted me, because I fol- lowed goodness. Proverbs iv. 24. Remove from thee a for- ward mouth: and let detracting lips be far from thee. xxiv. 8. He taat deviseth to do evils shall be called a fool. 9. The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomi- nation of men. 21. My son, fear the Lord, and the King, and have noting to do with detractors. xxv. 18. A man that beareth false witvess against bis neighbour is like a dart and a sword and an arrow. Leviticus xix. 13, Thou shalt not calumniate nor oppress him by violence. 16. Thou shalt uot be # detractor nor a whisperer among the people,” James i. 26, * And ifany man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.” Apocalipse xiv. 4. ** These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. They were purchased from among meh, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. 5. And in their mouth there was found n> /te: for they are without spot before the throne of God.” But enough, my dear Sandy, you see it would be an endless task to point out all the texts of Seripture that bear upon the subject. ‘Truly may the word of Matthew xxiii. be applied tothem. 13: “ But woe to you Seribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going iu, you suffer not to enter.” 14: “ Woeto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.” 15: * Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte: and when he is made, you make him the child of heli twofold more than yourselves.” 16: -* Wee to you blind guides,” &e. &e. &.

Now, my young friend, these are the men who come here —but not sent here—to enlighten and astonish us natives. Their lying propensities might be indulged in with impunity in those nooks and corners from which they have been spewed out—whether it be the Highlands of Scotland, the north of Ireland, or the county of Pictou, N.5., that has vomitted

calin and deliberate supervision of the measures of the House ; | ing article, headed + * Our object,’ and you will find another|them forth. But bere they shall not succeed in their game.

arising from pulitical struggles, of which there was already too | jg out, Yes, wy dear Sandy, without incurring the danger Mr. HOWATT would address himself to the main question

involved, namely, whether it was desirable that the cons:Rution | ye se cS ae : ; of the Council shou'd be changed, or allowed to remain as at | ¥'l 15, and invited me to see how applicable the following

present. ‘That body, as now constitured, was and hed words were Beware of false prophets, who come to you | been obstructive, nut only to the conservative, but aiso to the | in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening | liberal party. For when the latter passed a Bill ty cause the | wolves, 16: By their fruits you shall know them. Domen proprietors to put their titles on recotd, the Council threw it) gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Could 1) out ; itmght be, at the suggestion of the very parties who had | venture, dear Sandy, tc build an argument or draw a con-| introduced it imo the House. The bon, member, Mr. Coles, | aucion from the private interpretation principle, I could) stated that a late member of the Council had been bought. If! turn the last word of the text quoted to a good account ; fort I do believe in my heart that the word ‘thistle in the above |

their fruits you shall know them.’ He then opened Matthew,

sys f appointinent to seats, and was certamly a high com- : we : Lae it yo argon liar the hon. member (Mr. Coles) who | text is a living image of come of my fanatical country:nen— |

had selected the gentleman referred to. It was an old saying, ; Nemo me impune laceswt.’ Now what do you find to be | that money makes the mare go, and it appeared to have made | the fruits so peculiarly characteristic of these gentlemen?’ |

‘tne Couneil’or go too. (Laughter) As to the details of the |+ Lies, calumpy, detraction, and the foulest insinuations that.

Bil, he considered that Queen’s County would ee a | could ever emanate from the filthy sinks of their prarient proportion relatively to King’s and Prince Coumies.. fe oe imaginations,’ said I. “Keep cool, Sandy, said the old) hot, however, oppose the Bill on that ground at present, Dut a ‘fellow, there is no use of getting in a fuss. I would cer-.

future time would support a modification of that provision. | : : . : r He would, however, canlie the qualification of eardidates, as | tainly feel a delicacy in applying the terms liirs, ealumpie |

being altogether too high fur the crreumstunces of the country. | alors or detractors to the gentlemen in question, did I not it might appear low to some possessed of plenty of property, | fiud them so freely and so frequently used in the sacred | but i must be reduced before it would meet the views of the Scripture. Open Jehn viii. 44, and you will find how. wreat body ot the people. It was calculated to mest the) srrikingly the text applics: ‘You are of your father the Council with too aristocratic and exclusive a character, an ‘devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a

i opportunity to the better class of oe ; : i ee ie saa aoaae Leb also objected to the| murderer sag the beginning; and he stood not in the truth ; plan proposed of each Councillor being elected by the whole because truth is not io hin,

County. The majority of farmers were but little known out of speaketh of bis own,

When he speaketb a lie he’

‘but would probably augment the bickerings and heari-bursings | evangelical dose truly worthy of the apothecaries who dealt | They may attempt, with all the craft and skill of the common father of lies and of all liars, to darken the character of

much. of profaning the sacred Scripture, I say emphatically * by | honest and unoffending Catholics; but in this they will not

suceeed. They may, perhaps for a time, fiud a few of their own countrymen equally bigotted, ignorant and narrow- minded as themselves, who have not as yet bad the time or the opportunity of growing out of that gross ignorance, pre-

'judice and bigotry which they imbibed at home in early life,

and unfortunately did not divest theutselves of before coming to live among the peaceable, unoffending, generous and loyal people of our dear native Island. But the Catholics aud Protestants who have been brought up here like members of one family, who went to school together, played —

‘laboured together, saug together, !aughed together, danced

together, ate together, and drank together, understend one acother and Jove one another too well tu be set by the ears by those imps of hell. The monster must be strangled in its infancy, to save us and our enlightened Protestant fellow colonists the trouble of strangliag him after he shail have grown to maturity.

“Uncle Jim,” said I, “ will you lend me one of your Bibles? My mother is continually reading ours, and I wou!d wish to have one at my own hand for a few hours.” “ Willingly, my good boy. Take it and read it whenever you can; for it is the book of books.” ‘Good morning, Uncle Jim, and think you.” ‘Good morning, my deae boy.” So burried home with Uncle Jim's Bible while

‘matters were yet fresh in my memory, and after haviag for he is a liar, and the father thereof.” ‘arranged thus hurriedly some of the texts pointed out by my