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m other en f"-- Shakespeare always paints virtue in the host

a ° : a a and impartial manner in which he bas dis-| day immediately followed. When the House self, was “the enuse of wit charged the duties of the high and honorable met in the afternoon, the Hun, Col. Gray,

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he ever so wisely and eloquently.

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Moved by Mr. Strang Hart, seconded b) |

But when

The Delegates whom, in conformity with your

; bas proved fraitiess, and the action taken by On motion ot Mr. Green, second. ® ve Jover of toleration. In a dark and eit

' - | Mr. Mathew Howard : Resolution, T shall proceed to appoint, for the | peatous Conservatives and ardent Orangemen pub- i . : n all their unit-) addressing the Clerk, said be was commanded | : TEusae EaeeenG aT i ONAGL. } Ist That seeing that the Roval Commis puroose of diesuadli thivenpedicdly of an ooo | hely express opinions diametrically opposed to ps al fey See ca bsaidesies smenaanedl be is seativncy wi state that tis Exeel- | lowety > 2 gan he oem euch pictures of k + LAUT 8 PU NAC, q i, » at sere . if »P be i scotia, New F ic . ' + : . ¢ . Vv as ¢ lathe ° “ai } — - LO 35. F Png oe wey ye eer | Eaibides Rowan ike, will Tw babhlews, those of the Government, then afluirs begin to | they have devised have entitled them tv, In | leney assented to the appointment of anew ice - ome sides all this, he was

enter upoo the dates committed to thea with 3 | assume quite auother aspect. The task that ap-/ ghe estimation of sensible and im partial men; Speaker.

accordance with publia notice, a gene- the present Government on the recent Dole- na I

; Z ; i : Sati ae j day he dared to assert the no cae Tul meeting of the resident tenants of Tuwn- gation is worre than useless, inasmuch es — of. or peared easy while the people were supine, _ ~~ the eae Diericy hmelf-ved Se leis thao , * Ile i the heretic a re ae bs slip Nawoer Tairty five was held in the bad they obtained their request ot 16 years — og Sapae fis ney, fs \comes exceedingly difficult when hey . 7 Giker that the forcible ejectnent of the Hon.) A message from Lis Excelleney the Lieut. Not he that sutlers in it.” . Dovey eae > ore gg oe + ra ee eye have eae Pad Sibiete's untae; 3 tna yee torte | awake and alice to their own aa ou oe. Haviland, by the Government, from | Governor was then announced, commanding His writings shew that he was not only a great 223 asta ' ae sap all CF Stajest) awe, , ’ : a . sj » 8 . 1. ah ‘ : a ae, ok oan wn and a | Island, a test ey Solely tecmtdcedt a Supplies which you haye granted for the public | country members, usually so docile, begin to the Speaker's Chaw—/orcible ejectment we the attendance of the House at the bar of the drumatisi—perhaps the greatest the world bas :

Council Chamber, where Lis Excellency was s eased to approve of the appointment of the | produced—but that he was a grest muralist and

lon. R. McAulay as Speaker. The Speaker 4 great philosopher. It is only in the present cge was conducted to the Chair by Mr. Green | that the vastness of Shakespeare’s intellect is pe- and the Hon. A. Laird, and, before be as | ing properly comprehended. He is not dead but

sumed it, be briefly thanked the House tor): : ss hati nail the bigh honor they had conferred apov him, licing,. tenching,..@riighting, sad goregning.the

say ; for such an ejeetment it bas been, will prove to them, by a sort of prefiguremont, ‘the beginning of the end’’ of their power, asa Government, just as Napoleon s divorce- ment uf Josephine proved the commenc ment of his own dowalall. And ** Sv mote it be,” We say.

service. if they don’t want to face outraged and deceived Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the | constituencies, they must act with prudence and Legislative Council: . lindependence. The blandishments of the high-

| Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of A®| + pice lose much of their effect when visions of ae madly : The deep interest which His Grace the Duke

ayitated Laud Question, as well as the dis- “boon conterred upon them, must have been aidected aud much oppressed state of the considered a cunningly devised scheme tu tenantry of sad Pownship wad that of the betray the tenantry and bind them more Isiand generaliy. The meeting was ably re- firmly under the grasp of Landiordisim ; and presented by the tenavtry of said fowush pit is the Opipion of this Fueling that the,

o7, 48 ‘stern and indignant supporters, demanding an wed others (rom Lots Jv, 37, 48 and 49, to) part played by the Colonial Secretary 1m |

| aecount of their doings, rise before them. Many

Ahn A ly NA a cast al AO

a nt

the ouwber of 400, and tuey all cordially | agreed that nowung shurt of o right of pur-) ¢ ase on equal teruw with the settiers on the | S-ikirk K-eate, Lot LL and Lot S4, could) eusay the disaffection Cheehe amony the tenantry of these Lots aud tie Island gene- | rally.

Southport, to the Chair, and Cwen Began

were submitted, aud ananimuusly carried,

Wie. oo Moved by Mr. Patrick Brazil, seconded by

Mr. Peter Tramer:

Whereas this meeting having no confidence | { ; ; ; , > eae iv the sincerity of the Government ip settling | tenantry of other Lots who share the one! was prepared by our Special Reporter, and we! through the Legislature the Proprietors’ Bull, ' -

the Land Quessiva ; therelore, be it resulved comuion affl.ction, and shall be ready at our desire our readers to understand that the principal | and then goes on to show that the “ery”

that the seepantry on tow Lot do act in con- jubetion with the rest of the tenaatry throughout the Colony in forming a Teaaut League, to detead their rights, untd the agu t time arrives when they will be granted fair nod equitabie terms. Moved by Mr. Angus MeDonald, seconded Ly Mr. James Trainor: . Resolved, as the opin of this Meeting, that the tenantry generaily throughout the Island should be placed on un equal tooting

wth the @ecuniers of lands on the Worrell, |

Setkirk, Pot ll aad Lot 54 Estates; aod that the tenants residing im this locality are willing to pay for the freehold of their farms the Sajue prices as Wel

tenants on the estates abevy Mentone d

Moved by Mr. Leotard Woeds, seeunded | lots do act im conjunction with the Test “ sides: and the Jess that outsiders say about such | hard a bargain with the tenantry as they can. |

ty Mr. Themas McManus:

” Resolved, Tiwt the tennotry throughout the Coloay should repudiate, in the piaimest wunner, the proposals aulanitted by Muossrs Palmer and Pope, the Delegates from this J-land. in their correspondence with the Co- Jontal Office, es a means of settling the land question, as well us the vers extraordinary Lill submited by S.r Sumuch Cunard, on be-

half of bimseli and other Proprietors, for the | considerativa vi the Government of this Is-;

Jand. Both the proposals et tie Delegates and ‘the Pull of the Proprieters mention a eum, namely, sixteen yeur: purchase, which very few, if any, of the taunts could pay ; and, besides, the short leases under which the greatest evils and op pressions are en- dared, were set aside in tue Delegates’ pro- posals, as well as the Proprietors’ Bil; and the latter demands concess: ns to Proprietary joterests whi. are ciusvagaut and un- reasvoable.

Moved by Mr. Jobn Trainor, seconded by Mr Michael Hanrahan ;

Resvived, Tirat as the opinion of this meet- ing, there never will be contentment in the Colony anti] the principles of the Land Purchase B.)i are more widely extended, sv us to effect the object contemplated in the ferogoi resolutions.

adie Sumuel Lane, Esquire, Mount Mellick. seeunded by acclamation :

Resolved, That all journals m the Island be and are bereby requested to publisy the foregoing resulutions iu their columns.

Alter a vote of thanks was accorded to the chairman for his truly able and impartial condact in the chair, the meeting gave three ebecrs for our beloved Sovereign the Queen, end then dispersed in the most orderly man- per and upapimity of sentiment. It is to be hoped that prejudice, ere long, will be num- bered among the things unknown, and buried

jo vbliviun. Eecan, Seeretary.

Cres icenct, Lot 35, April 23d, 1864.

Wenant Tdeeting at Monaghan Rho2d, Lot 36.

A pablic meeting of the Tenantry on Lot 36, aud adjacent Townships, was beld ot the Echovl-honse, on Monaghan Road, on ‘Thurs- cay, April 14th, for the purpose of taking into consideration the now important and long-agi- tated Land Question, as we'l as to join aad co- operate with the Penen'ry throaghout the Island generally, in abolishing the presen: ty- raunical and slavish Leese! old system.

Several speakers expressod their views upon the subject, and explaiced the pature of the grievances winch the Tenentry bad endured and would contijue to endure if the people did not interpose for their rights, and withhold the payment of rent and arrears of rent until some

eutisfactory settiement should be effected be- |

tween Landlord and Tenust, which would «n-

‘ >) them ; : ; om cl | cost, able the people to purchuse the freehold of |“ menepoly in the corn trade weedone away |

their farms apon jast end equitable terms. The weeting wa largely attended by both Tenant aod Freeholder, and ell were unani pious in the opinion that nothing less than a right of purchase, similar to that eharged to tle Tenauts on Township lands purchased by

the government, will satis!y the demands of the | title good to any property, only tie fulfil- | try, he says: “A little enquiry into the circum. | Went of the condititions iu the deed or grant.

people of this island, whe have been greaily dissatisfied with the ex'ravagant proposels mede by the Delegates and Sar Samuel Caon- ard —propovals which if adopted woud prove tujnous to the welfare of this Colony.

The meeting haviag been duly organized by

the sppvintment of Samuel Lane, Esq. as) meeting of the Delegates (rom each Lot, to |

Chairman, and Mr. Francis Trainor, as acting secretary, the following Resolutions were sub mitted aud unanimously agreed to:

lst. Moved by Mr. Wer. lugs, aud seconded br Mr. Patrick Moouey,--

Resolved, As the opinion of this. meeting, that the Tenantry generally throughout the Js.and should we placed on an equal footing with the oceupiera of lands on the Worrell Selkirk, Lot 11 and Lot 54 estates, end that the ‘Tenants residing is this loslity are will ing to pay for the treebe id of their farms the fume prices as were charred to Lhe Teyunts ou the estates above mentivied.

2d. Moved by Mr. Jas. Callaghan, and sec- onded by Mr. Yerance Hoylen,—

Resolved, That as the opinion of this nacet- jug, there pever will bo eontentment in this Colony, uotil the principles the Land Purehase Jill are more widely extended, so as to effect the object conicwplated in the foregoing Reso Jutions.

3d. Moved by Mr. Johu Mooney, and sec- onded by Mr. Join Kelly,—

Resoired, That we the inhabitants of Lot!

36, and ueighboring ‘Townships rssembled at this meetiug,endoree the opinions of those Resolutions passed at those meetings held tur the same pirpose in Lois 48 49, 50, &e.

' 4th. vved by Mr James McEntee, and seconded by Mr. Patrick McK enna,~

Resolved, Vinat at least two of the indepen- dent Journals printed in this Island, be re- quested tv publish the iminates of this geet ing.

A committee of management and dele- gates having been sppojnted, and a vote of thanks accorded to the Chairman for his able and efficient services Whilst in that eapavity ; ald three cheers having been given for Her Gracious Majesty the (javen, the whole meet- ing quietly dispersed.

F eancus Trarxor, See.

Monaghan Road, Lo: 36, April 13, 1s64.

~—— 9 oe we TENANT MEETING AT CAMPBELTON, Lu® 4.

A meeting was held at Camphelton, Lot 4, School House, ou Thuy y tue Qletof April, lor the purpose of advocating the claims of Tenants. 4 very large nawher of persons

were present at the meeting, principally in- habitants of Lots 4, 7. & 2, — al snead

the one common séniiment, believing that

the oppression of the tepantry of this Island

is such, that ut is high time that some action oe of this

@ galling Lam glad to observe, among the wuamerous en. McKen-

suould be taken by the to relieve the mselges from yoke of Landiordiam. Mr, Charles

| the

that tion being to sell tae rights of the people at the highest possible rate.

Moved by Mr. James Sullivan, seevnded |

by Mr. Eugene MeArthy :

Dudk That this meeting do urge upon the) ‘he meeting Deng declared organized | Legislators the necessity of retraining from | by ibe appuintment of Solomon Muten, E+q., giving their sunctiun to aoy Bill at lo or 16 | years purchase, as we believe that such a | seting Secretary, the iollowing Kesusutions | course could not satisty the tenants of this’ lengthy statement regarding the misatiderstand-

isiund, but would be oaly eaiealated to ren-

der their condition worse than af present

Moved by Mr. Peter McDougall, seconded by Mr. Daniel Sullivan: 3rd. That we deeply sympatize with the

post to aid im curryimg out any measure that may have for is objet the mehorstiva ot condition of the tenapiry.

Moved by Mr. Eugene McArthy, seconded by Mr. Audrew Bell: | ch. ‘Loat we, feeling it a very great griev- ance to remaia under the rental systaim, do | propuse to purchase the fee Simple Ol our taurus at the rate at which the Selkirk and W orre! Estat. s were seld—all arrears of rent up to 1804 te be re lingu shed.

Moved by Mr. dames Puvwpson, seconded by Me. duhu MeArthy :

Sh. Toate this meeting have no confidence that the Governmest will settie the Land

e charged tu the Question on just and equitable terms—Re- | it was a family quarrel,

sulved, thereture, that the tenantry un these

the tenantry in turming a ** Tenant League, ty protect Luem until tie time arrives When tur avd equitabie berms siuil be granted them. Moved by Mr. Jobr Waters, seconded by Mr. Jobn Dalton: 6th. That the minutes of this meeting be published in all the indepeadsut Jvuruais ot the Island. Campbelton, Lot 4, April 21, 1864. eee OG me To rue Eptron o Tak ExaMiner. Sta—l eve by the papers that there are a great many Tenant League meetings being held, all of whow eondemn the Governwent for offering the proprietors on behalf of the tenuntry through tts delegutes, 15 and 16 years purchase of their rent, but L doubt ii the tenantry are going to take the Land Question vt of the Legislature that they are iu the wrung track; and I think that the funds which they are raising should be ap- plied te the support of an agitation, for the | parpose of returning at the first General Eleetion, for members to serve in the Coun- ei) and Assembly, Gentlemen who are known tu be really the tenants’ friends, and who bave po leanings towards the proprietary bo- dy at all, whieh agitation would be alioge- tier Jeyal; tor they may rest assured that a redress of their greivances can be obtained ‘only through legislation, as all unlawtul re- sistance, at the long run, will terimimate in the blasting of their most cherished hopes, aod the subjugation of ull those who yesurt to such means; lor even our present Louse of Assembly do pass a Jaw, and also be sane- tioncd by the Secretary of State tor the Colo- nies ia Kagland, to swengthen the iandlords m their iniquitous titles—sril the constitu- tion gaurantees to us the right to repeal that law, by giving us the piivilege of returning

Wen iN their paces, at the neat election, who gilt te ask questions — whenever they want to | © be traupled ou, witheut publiely evincing the |

will not betray us, as our present party are doing or have done since the commencement , of that ** gigantic huaibug,”’ the Land Cuu- | mission. | IL de oot Write this for the purpose of eon- | demuing the Tenant League Mouvement, as it ws perfectly legal as &pplied to the carry- iog on @ lawiul agitation; and, mdeed, | there is sumething of the kind needed at pre- sent, to wilay tue religious strife, commenced and fumented by the Colonial Secretary, \that ** patern of morality,”” W. H. Pope, and who isstiil duing his utmostto keep it alive, as witness his advice in editorials mm jate numbers of the Islander w the Protestant tevaotry, to submit to the fet-

ters now being attempted te be rivetted on |

them by the present proprietary party in the | Bill whieh is being passed, allowing them 15 years rent as purchise, cash down, together | with all the back rent due since 18538. | ‘tbe Anti-Corn Law League of England was legai ,wnd through the judici,us working of it

with ; and it is to be hoped that through a | Tenant League, rightly managed here, the land monopoly in this Island will also be |done away with, and seldom be abolisued | forever.

| othing can make landlords’ or any man's

Yours, &e.. &e.. A TENANT RIGHT LEAGUER. | Lot 50. April 23d, 1864.

| P.S. Since writing the above 1 lewd Se

‘an advertisment in the dslander, ealiing a

| be beid at the North American Hotel. leis | to be hoped that they will deviss some wise | plan of operations, aad shew the tenantry } that any benefits which will arise to them | must be through @ Parliament returned by | the electors, wio will be genuine supporters of Tenant right, for when Col Gray aod Wm. _ Pope epeaks of the rights of property, they j}mean thereby Proprietors’ richie wlone, | without any ailasion to the Lenauts’ Pigat at all. — ooo

Ehe Cxramiver,

Charlottstown, May 2, 1864,

ew

ONIN NINN , PROROGATION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

THe Legislative Session for 1364 was proro sued thw day at 5 o'clock. Tie usual torialities were observed on the eccasien, but in the Couvcil Chamber there was ouly a amall attendance of

| ladies and geutlemen to do keuor te the ocea- |}

| Bion.

}

We give below, without being prepared to take any comments upon it, the Speech with which His Excellency closed the Session. It has the small merit uf being short, and the de- merit of being without any point of interest | whatever :—

| Mr. President and Honorable Geatienen Legislatice Counce :

| Mr. Speaker end Geutlemen Assembly :

| [thank you for the attention which you have given to the various subjects web, at the open | ug of this Session, I recommended to your espe- | cial consideration, add also for the labour whieh | you have bestowed uu ihe geueral business uf the Province.

I have forwarded to the Seeretary of State for the Colones your congratulatory Addresses to Her Majesty the Qtieen and to His Royal High wess the Prince af Wales, on the oceasion of the jbuth of His Royal Highness Prince Albert | Victor of Wales, le It will afford ine great satisfaction to tranamit | for the consideration of the Colovial Minister the | Act which yoy have passed tor settling differences

nopware meceeyens fanaa, and te evnable ten- ants on certain Tewnsbips to {simple of their farme. PUrebaee the fee | This Act contains mych which is calculated to ameliorate the coudition of the teuautry affected ie it. I trust its terms are such as will receive thie sanction of Her Majesiy’s Goverunent.

of the

of the House of

| Setiments te whieh Ihave just given my assent,

} i PA , i} *y oe elegaticn was a mere hoax, his inten- | of Newcastle has takew in this Colony, will cause

| tired

imagine that the application of some spur wis

you to heur with regret that His Grace has te- necessary to urge on some of our members in the }

fron the Colonial Departwent of Her Majesty's Government,

1 rejoice that 1 am now able to releare ; from turther atfendauce here, by proroguing | forcibly reminded that there were other powers this General Assembly. in the country than that whose seat is in the THE SPEAKER SHIP Proyines Building in Charlottetown. To both oa ee ere classes the application of the screw — public

Wer publish in ether columns a somewhat} opinion—can do no possible harm. The Islander says “ that the cry now is, that

you | path ef duty, and that others needed to be pretty |

Ty institute a comparison betweeen the character and quulificutions of the new Speaker, the Hoa. Roderwk Me.\ulay, and his predecessur, the Hon T. H. Uaviland, is not now our purpose. Indeed, we think it would be absurd to do so; but this we will siy—that the House will son fiud, if they have not already found, how unwisely they have cust off ‘the old love”’ for **the new.” To the House, the change cannot, upon the

ing which occurred in the House of Assembly | the Government desire to eoniirm the titles of

last week, and which led to the resignation of the | the proprietors and to give thea: sixteen years’

Chair by Mr. Speaker Haviland. ‘This statement | purchase fur their lands—that (hey intend to pass is a6 Editor is not responsible for the comments which | near the truth as it cau well be. it contains. ‘The facts are, in the main, clearly | strongly of vpinion that were it not for these and correctly set forth; but the principal Editor! same tenant meetinga, this rumour would ere does not believe that the Hon, and learned ex this have been an accomplished fact. Ile argues Speaker was wholly tvee from blame in tie matter. | that a public declaration by statute that the He thinks the Hon. ex Speaker erred in judg- | lands of the proprictors were not liable to escheat ment and in temper—while the majority are | would not streagthen their Utles — that these censurable in a bigher degree for want of judg-| titles have been indivectly admitted to be valid, ‘ment, want of temper, and want of proper, | aud 80 forth. If this declaration is of no use to courteous and delicate feeling towards a geutle-| the proprietors, why do they require itt That ‘man had served bis party faithfully | the proprietors set value upon such a declaration, and ably fur a great many years. In short, | should make the people most chary of making it. in which, like most | [t would seem that the proprietors, through their tamily quarrels, there were taults on both | agents, the Government, are bound to drive as

who

‘quarrels the better it will be for the outsiders, | The people may depend upon it, if they wil not We are not of those who thiuk it wise te sing | look after thelr own interests, the Government peons in the ear of the ex-Npeaker at the stand | will not do it for them, We inter from the tone

he has taken against his party, or to run tranti-| ofthe slander that the measure Which the Gevern-

cally to place a croan of laurels on his brow, be- | went is hatching will, after the period of ineuba-

fore eur own judgment has cooled sufficieutly to | tion shall have expired, and it breaks ths shell of,

examine very closely hie claims to these bowours, | mystery and secresy that encloses it, prove se That Mr. Haviland bas been an excelett Speaker, | like the Proprietors’ Bil), that it will require con- and an ornament to the Couservative party, are | siderable powers of discrimination te distinguish | eXpressions that have very generally fallen from | tiem apart. It is to contain all Ue objectionable

the lips of all whe knew him; aud the principal | teatures of that fanious production of proprietary |

Editer of this Juurnal is not so niggard of bis) Moderation and liberality. We know pretty

praise as to dissent from this compliment. But} well now, thank the public meetings, What the as the whole affair was merely a persoual miisun- | tenantry, Liberal and Conservative, think of that derstanding ~~ as no public interests are much | Measure, nor is it et all likely that their estimate affected by it—as the relative position of parties | of it will be changed by the special pleading of is pot materially changed—we think it 18 scarcely the editor of the Islander. It will require greater necessary to attempt tu magnily the circumstance | powers of persuasion than he possesses to cou- of the late Speakér’s resignation into great pro- | Vince them that it is calculated, in the slightest, portions, or say much abyut it—at least until we degree, to ameliorate their condition, should it see Whether it may lead to any new, and at pre- | become the law of the land.

Though we have taken po part, either directly or indirectly, in getting up the public meetir gs that have given such offence to the editor of the |

sent unexpected, political complications. | -—-- seer |

THe Islander of the loth altime contained an | article on the * Public Meetings of the subject of | Islander and his colleagues in the Government, the Laud Question.” These meetings gives a| yet we will say that those who de convene them, good deal of annoyance to the editor of the Js-| and those whe take a part in them, are doing ‘ander aud to the proprietors whose servant he What they have a perfect right to do; and more | is. Anything like freedom of enquiry and inde-| —they are dug what the itelligent citizens of | pendence of spirit among the tenantry is peeu- | a free country must, if they have any regard for, | their own interests, ellen do, er subusit to Lhe

Au} : jrule of tyrannical, dishonest or tucapable mien.

| arly distasteful to the present government. ‘obedient, uninquisitive people—a people who do What they are tuld and ask no questions, aud) We have always thought that the people of this wake bo remarks, are they over whom Tory | country were too apaibetic: they have allowed rulers delight tu bear sway. Whenever men be-| iheir interests to be sacrificed and their rights know the reasuo why and where the money goes, | slighiest siga of disapproval, Proceediygs that (they are vo longer fit subjects for Tory rule. would bave raised a siorur Gf agitation in other | Duis independent, presumpiuous, meddling spirit | countries, have in this beeu subuiitted to without is one Which is peculiarly bately touil true Tories. | @ murmur. We bave had hitherto no sueh thing They believe in a division of labour. Their busi- | a» public opinion, If the people tock a greater ness is to rule: the peoples business is tu be | interest in public alfairs, and if\they gave public ruled. expression tw their opinions, they would be more anything to say in what 1s tAcir peculiar concern, zealously and houestly served by their represen- is not to be for a moment entertamed. This is | tatives in Parliament and otier public tunction- }rank Radicalism, Liberalism, or Suateherisu, | aries. We would not then see men returned to

The idea that the people should have

| Successive Houses of Assembly who are neither a spirit mavilests itself among the unwashed | by nature nor education fitted to perform the ‘multitude. It is a demon that must be exorcised duties devolving upon them as legislators and | cofiservators of the public rights — meu who be-

: come the mere creatures of their more sagacious , and better educated men of their party. The

| presume to dictate io their beaven-bora rulers | whole legislative career of suchanen is a game ot | aud hereditary superiors what they shali or sual) |“ follow my Leader.” They, through sheer belp- | uvt do.” “ Sach fellows aust be put down at any | lesstiess and inability to act independently, eling to the skirts of the leaders of their party, aud vole with het through thick aad thin—for good

measures and for bad A vigilant aud intelligent

constituency wight, perhaps, once send one of these Incapables te the Legislature, but he might rest assured that atter tour years trial he would be allowed to direct his attention to some em-

| according to the particular period in which such p

jaiter tie most approved fashiow aud wiih the | least deiay.

say they, when every “gnu, Dick and Liarry uy

“Things are comezto a preity puss

We wiliteach them to know their places.” | Such ie the language of Tories at all times aud in ) all places; nor is that of the Tory editor of the | Islander any exeeption. Endeavouring tu aceount | for the origin of the numerous tenaut-meetngs | that have bee held in differeut parts of the coun- stances duder Which these meetings were got up| ployment more suited to bis capacity, aud more will disclose that the instigators of them were Liberals.” Of course they must bave been Li-| berals—good ‘Tories would have been content to let their betters think aud act for them — and would have accepted, with becoming thanktul- ness, What they in their goodness would condes cend to bestow. A model Tory constituency would not dare toe eail iu question the wisdom,

past, proprietors would not have obtained the | power that they now wield. They would vot have had it in their power to fill the House of Assembly with their advocates, or to defeat every. measure calculated to benefit the tenautry as seon | as it reaches the Colouial Office in Dowuing | Street, |

In conclusion, we say that whatever the people |

much less the honesty of those set over them iu high places. Tie “ insigators” of such proceed- ings must have been dreadtully switteu with that wost horrible of all moral or pohtical diseases, Liberalism. The learnuedieditor, no doubt. used the term “instigaters” advisedly. Such an erudite gentleman as he knows the true value ot words too well to use them without due care. He bas not coutracted among other loose habits aud practises that of loose and slovenly composi- tion. He does not require that charity to be ex- tended to him that we extend towards stump orators, members of the legisiature, debating so- cieties, and newspaper correspondents. He must be considered to mean what he says. Now, every iutelligent nau knows that the word * instigators” | is always understood in a bad sense. According ! to Noah Webster, who is a pretty good authority | in these matters, the word means one who incites ito an evil act, atempler, As the learned editor of | the Islander denowinates the couveuers of the public meetings that have been held and are being held throughout the country “ iustigatere,” and | as instigator weans one who incites to an evil aet, it follows that he considers the calling of le : : ahi together to discuss the proceedings ot ns om _ ae — = eel el , wre | secent monitress, Josephine. When she was went on the Land Question an © evil set,” and | forced from bis side, bis good genius. it is that tow an evil act of which Liberals alpje ave) generally admitted. forsouk him; and the) capable. ‘Those gentlemen who act as chairmer | commencement of bis fall and the decline of nb thant stdin tab thant needle onl ra gener. bene been dated from the hour in» ‘cod tone hing ht hey Haba ocr that wngvart a voie for them—are all committing ‘* wicked acts,”

career of Napuleen the Great, and that of | and therefore must be liberals, The Colunial| our existing Government — which way well, | Seeretary disowns them—won't allow that they | be called ** the Liitle’’—there is not, perhaps, | are Tories, so they must belong to the Libera) Strictly speaking, any closer paralle! thao Party, or to that * middle party ” we heard so Sere aed heneemee aie eee ana eee much about some tine ago. We hope that what- i Get y ever party they belong to they wits wateliful the heavens, * with fear of change perplex- and not allow W. H. Pope to draw the wool over

ing wonarchs,’’ and that of a farthing dip in

a horn lantern, borne along a miry road, by their eyes, as he seema very much inclined to do. These same meetings have beeo most embar-

some hemble oe ona dark and moon- rassing to the ex-delegate and his colleagues in

expression of their opinions on the Land Ques- tion, they will gain nothing whatever by a stupid | aequiescence in whatever the Proprietors may | Choose to propose and the Government to accept. They should remember that more hopeless causes than theirs have been brought to a seccesstul

years upparenily fruitless agitation. | +?-“2er--

THE No. 7. REsIGNaTION oF THE SPEAKERSHIP BY THE Tow. T H. DaviILann, AND THE ELECTION THERETO or THE Hon. Rok. MeAvuuay. | Lhureday, 28th April, 1864. Nearly every writer, ur historian, we be- lieve, who has traced the extraordinay career | oi Napoleon Bonaparte, vr traced the leading | events of lis lie, bus remarked thaé bis de-. scent irom the pinnacle uf power, to which) be had alwost miraculously attained, com- | menveed with his divorce of his lovely, amiable,

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iess nighs. et we cannot help instituting a oatcom paanont os infatuation af - : reat Napoleon, oa the ovcasion of his di-

the Government, The betrayal of the tenantry voreing ble wife, cea ae that of our would have gone on strovthly and pleasantly usually fatuous Government, ia having driven enough were it not for this uytimely and unwel-| !rom the Speakership, and divorced trom come interterence. The Opposition, being mw a. their party, @ gentleman who, hewever bit- ‘ter he may at times have been on the fluor

" be the immediate cause of their overthrow.

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cougenial to his taste than that of Wrausacting the | publie business ot the Colony. Had the people be pursued by them foradhe punishment, we | brightest ornaments iu the Republic of Letters, shown more spirit and greater unanimity in times SUPpose, of the Hon. the Speaker for what | said of William Shakespeare that:—

tay gain by active agitation anda forcible public | :

| Conroy, J. Yeo, Watker—i2.

shortest experience, bs otherwise thup morti- fying and embarrassing ina very high de- gree; and the lost which the Goverpwent | have thereby sustained may yet ultimagely

The Hon. the ex-Speaker appears to be very

| sensible—acutely sv, we think, and we do

| wut Wonder at it—ofthe very unfair, ungen-

jerous, and ungrateiul conduct of hia late j

| political friends, which has compelled him to

und assored them that it would always be lis study to discharge the duties of bis office according to the best of his ability, and with strict impartiality. Respecting this ** untoward event’’— as the party at present in power will yet, we opine, have good reuson to call it~we bave neither time nor space to extend our state- ments or remarks much further at present.

The rearon assigned the Hon. the Speaker, Mr. Haviland, for refusing to allow the above Damed Supplementary Estimate, to be referred to the Llouse in Committee, was that the motion for its bemg so referred was in violation of the Resolution of the last Ses- sion-- which declared that, from and after that Session, the annual grants to the various Churches in Charluttetuwa would be discon- tinued.

The hon. gentleman contended that, as the

| resign the Speakership, and we sincerely isympathize with hun in what we ean well ‘understand to be hisfeelings. Our sympathy on the present cecaston, is not, however, that | kiad of sympathy which may be felt to be hamiliating to the party lor whom it is pro- ‘fessed ; for, while we sympathize with the | on. ex-Speaker in his indignation at the |uoworthy treatment which be bas experien- | eed at the hands of his Jate political friends, | we see in hima bizh-mwinded, honorable, and independent man, whose fall—if fall it can truly becalled—from hs late ** high estate,"’ has only been the means of conterring upon hiu: new honor and dignity ; and it may be truly said of hun that, honorably, impartial- ly, and effiviently as be filled the Speaker's Chair, nothing be did, whilst he filled it, be- eame him like the leaving of it, Asthe Hon Mr. Warburton very happily expressed it— '++ Whilst he oeeapied the Chair, be, on all occasions proved himself to be fully entitled to the respect and honor of the House, as their Speaker ; Dut, im leaving it, he did more, he

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showed himself to be truly entitled to respect

and honor, as“a man ;"’ andcertain weare thai, when all the circumstances of the case which bas lea to his abdication of the Speaker's Chair, avd bis honest and mdependent econ- duct in dealing with that case, shail become fully known to the public, he will in, conse quence thereof, be placed, in the estimation of the people, immeasurably above the very best of thos: who have assailed and aspersed him, because, in his high and honorable po- sition, be was Jound tu be possessed of too much integrity—too much independence of spirit—to submit to be made the tool of a party.

Reserving our comments thereon for a fu- ture vceasion, we shall now endeavour, fur the information of our readers, to state us suceincily, yet as clearly as possible, the Circumstances which have led to the Hon. T. H. Haviland’s resignation of the Speaker- siiip: they are as foliuw :

“ Wednesday, 27th April, 1364.

“On motion of the Hon. J.C. Pope—

* Resuleed, That the llouse de now resolve it- self into a Connuittee of the whole Llouse to consider further of a Supply. | “The Hon. J. C. Pope moved that the Supple-

mentary Estimate laid on the table of the House yesterday, viz: ‘Pew in St. James’s Chureh, for the use of itis Excellency the Lieutenaut Ge-

verior, £7. be reterred to the said Comumitice.

| “Mer. Speaker declined receiving the wetion stuting, as his reason, that the said Lstiuiate is Inconsistent with the Resolution ef this Llouse, of the Seventh duy of April, 1563, last, which Reso- (lution is in these terms: * Whereas it is deemed inexpedient turther to coutinue ‘the grant o: Seventy-two pounds, per annam, to detray the expenses of Pews in different Churgbes iu Char- lottetown, tor the accommodation of the members 8 tee Legislature—Resolved that the Clerk of t e House do notity the Ministers or Trustees of tue various Churches in receipt of annual grants from this House, that the same will be discov- | tinued after the present Session,’