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Mayor’s Court ia civil cases, and also to give the Corporation oe which they did not now possess in criminal cases.

Fith reference to the imcrease of jurisdiction in civil cases, he end hie hon. colleague had made some inquires, and found a difference of epinion on the subject; some being in favor of 1, end others thinking it objectionable, as there Was another Court in the City to whieh parues could repair. He did not think it would be goed policy, as long as there was a Small Debts’ Court in Charlottetown, that parties should be compelled to go to the Mayor’s Court; he would leave it to their own choice. He approved of that part ef the bill which related to criminal cases, though ot exactly as it was Jaid down inthe bill; but he would give them power to try certain cases of petty larceny, and to punish for such offences by hard labor, &c. He would not, however make it compulsory on parties to be tried in that tourt, but meke provision that if they gave bai! ull the Supreme Court sat, they might be tried at it; and if they did not choose to be tried by a jury of their countrymen, they would be tried by the Mayor's Court. Were there such an enactment it would be a very great improvement in regard to many of the smalier cases now tried in the Supreme Court. In reference to that pert of the bill which relsied to the civil jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court, he would by no means accede to it. * He was surprised to see that part of the bill relating to the qualifications of city electors, because provision was already made for that but he had no objections to that part of it respecting the power of granting licences. Ile confessed he did not like the provision in the bill which related to the appointment of City Recorder, ae it appeared to savor a little of arbitrary conduct on the part of the City Council. fle moved that the bill be committed to a committee of the whole House.

Mr. MACDON AL!) said he would oppose,the motion. They |

saw there three bills come into the House from the City Council jnst at the close of the session. He moved in amendment that the bill be read “ this day three months.”’

Hon. Mr. MONTGOMERY would support the motion of the hon. member for Georgetown ; fur it had been the practice of the inhabitants of Charlottetown that their bills were brought io near the close of the session, then perhaps taking up the time of the House a week.

Mr. MACINTOSH ‘thought it was not the time when the bills were sent in that was to be considered ; but the members of the House were here to do the business of the Colony. The qnestion for them to decide was, whether the bill should be passed or not. He would support the motion that it go into cammittee.

Hon. COL. SECRET AR Y did not think it would be necessary that the whole of the bill should be carried out ; but many cases might be settled by the Mayor’s Court. He did not see the necessity of having two courts for the recovery of Small Debts sitting in Charlottetown ; but he thought where either party resided in Charlottetown, the case ought to be decided in the Mayor's Court. As to the clause relating to the electors, it was only explanatory ; and if there were doulis existing in reference to the act in furce, it onght to be explained. Wath regard to the City Recorder, he thought when the City Councillors were elected annually thst that officer ought to be elected also. He did not think there would be that objection to tne bill which would prevent the House going into committee on it; and he thonght they would be placing themselves in a very wrong light before the public, stiould they refuse to commit the bill to committee, ™

Mr. PERRY thought from explanations made, that there was no need of the bill.

The House then divided on the motion of amendment as | charity shrouds itself.

follows.

Yeas— Mr. Macdonald, Hons. T’. H. Haviland, Montgomery and Wightwnan, Messrs. Clark, Laird, Muirhead, Perry, Dingwell and ‘I’. Heath Haviland—10.

Nays—Hons. Palmer, Col. Secretary, Cole Treasurer, Whelan, Mooney, Longworth and Lord, Messrs. Munro, Mac- intosh, Cooper, and Yeo—II.

A motion was then made that the House adjourn, which was carried by a majerity of one, Mr. Yeo voting with the majority. So the bill was lost. Adjourned for one hour.

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AFTERNOON SITTING.

House in committee of the whole on the further considera- tion of Pauper Scales. Mr. Mcionald in the cha:z. The following pauper grants were then made :—

£23 104 to Rev. Alexander Munroe, Lot 57; £19 14s to Rev. Alexander McKay. Belfast; £8 10s to Peter Nicholson, Orwell; £7 to Philip Lane, Lot 49; £24 15a to Joseph Dingwell ;*£39 10s to Rev. S. KE. Perry ; £35 2s Gd to Rev. Pius McPhee, 51. Andrew's; £44 10s to Rev. David Fitz gerald, Charlettetown ; £40 10s to Benevolent Irish Society, Charlottetown ; £15 to Dorcas Society, Charlottetown ; £39 to Rev P. Mcintyre; £8 10s to Donald Ramsay, Lot 11; £17 103 to James Yeo, Port Hil) ; £34 to Hon. W. W. Lord ; £15 to James Muirhead; £6 to Robert Simpson; £6 10s to Rev. Alexander Sutherland ; £2to Kev. Mr. Meek ; £12 10s to Alexander Laird ; £3 10sto David Johnston, New London ; £44 153 to Hon. George Coles; £43 12s to Hon, Robert Mooney; £44 9s to William McGill; £14 to Lawrence Peter’s; £12 to Rev. Donald McDonald; £11 10s to John McIntosh ; £31 to Johnson Aitken ; 23 to Hugh McDonald ; £2 to Mrs. Duncan Mc!onald ; £6 10s to John Sorry, Lot 61.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS,

The house resumed. The chairman reported the pauper scales sgreed to, which report was received by the house.

The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the report of the special committee appointed to examine and report onthe Public Accounts. Mr. Muirhead in the chair. The report of the special committee having been read. A short conversational discussion took place, which the reporter was unable to fully note down ; and after a few unimportant alterations being made, therein—

Mr. COOPER.—Are there any vouchers for the disburse- ments of the commissioner ? ‘

Hon. T. H. HAVILAND.—Nothing but the books. In former times, if an officer expended the public money, he was compelled to submit vouchers for every item expended. The house appropriates the money and it is but right they should know bow itis expended. 1 would ask, is it right or consistent in a public officer to psy out money without proper authority for sv doing.

Hon. COL. SECRETARY.—Cannot an officer pay himself if has authority ?

Hon. T. H. HAVILAND.—If he receive money, it should be paid into the Treasury ; but if he want it to expend, he should get a warrant for it.

Mr. CLARK.—The vouchers ought to be produced, if for no other reason than to allay any suspicion that might prevail.

Mr. PERRY.—It would certainly be the fairest way, to produce the vouchers.

fdow. Mr. PALMER.—There is nothing in the act to authorize the Commissiover of Public Lands to measure his own expenses. If be expend any amount over his salary he should be called upon to make it up. He is in receipt of large sums of public money, whieh he ehould pay into the Treasury ; but if he require money for expenses, he should get a warrant for the same, and not take it upon himself to pay any sums on account of the Government without such authority. This is the way affsirs of that kind usedto be managed, Vouchers were always demanded, and always forthcoming for every item of expenditure. But now, when vouchers are asked for, none ere produced, and the Commissioner 1s safe to spend the public money as he likes. without ever being apprehensive of being ealled to account for the same. If we take the Act, however, ors guide, we will find it implied that the duty of the Com- ‘missioner is the same in this respect as that of other officers. If he has claims, the proper way, is to present them through ahe Governor and Council, to be examined by them, and a ‘warrant given. But if a public officer is allowed to spend the public mopey, Without being called to account for so doing— af he be sustained in expending hundreds now, he will be sustained in expending thousands by and by.

Hon, COL. SECRETARY.—The Hon. and learned member who has a sat down says, that formerly vouchers were handed in with (he publie accoupts. This I deny. Vouchers were not always hended informerly, and the former Commissioner of Crown Lands, disbursed his own accounts.

Hon. T. HW. HAVILAND. deny it. The disbursements umade by the former Commissioner were authorized to be made by Government.

Hon. COL. SECRETARY.—It was never paid into the ‘Treasury,

Hon, T. WH. HAVILAND.—Why should it?

Hon, COL, SECRETARY.—And why should this? What if the Commissioner wants a man or two men, 50 or 60 miles

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n, present his account of a few shil! :

Council, and get warrants for the same ? wonder if Mr. Wright ever did 80? ; lion. T. H. HAVILAND. —Nevertheless vouchers have ‘been produced for ali expenditures, and why not now ?

Hon. COL. SECRETARY.—If vouchers have hitherto been ‘presented, as the hon, member intimates, they are not to be ‘seen on the Journals, But | would ask, who could the ¢ om=| | missioner get to be chain-beerers, if there was a prospect of having to wait for a month before getting payment for a day s| hire, which at anything else would command ready payment: | If, however, it could be found out that the Commissioner has inisapplied the public money, and not given a correct account of what he has expended, | would be found among the first to censure such conduct, But such is not the case ; and I will allow no man to censure him when he deserves it not. ;

Mr. COOPER,—When we came to have Responsible Government in this Colony, it was expected that all public officers would be responsible to the people for the faithful performance of their. duties, in reality as well asin nanie: therefore, in this case, it is nothing but an act of mere duty for the Commissioner of Public Lands to present vouchers for all the money he has expended. But I had all along understood that the Commissioner had to pay his expenses out of his own salary. Above all, when we pass an Act on the principles of economy. it is but just to observe the restrictions it imposes on

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Correspondence.

THE « ECHO’ OF THE ISLANDER. To rue Epvrror or true Examiner.

Sir,—lI little thought, at the time I presumed to trouble you with a brief notice the action of the Mayor’s Court with reference to the removal, from the Garrison of this city, of the guns and other munitions of war, that my doing so would lay me under an obligation to reply to, or acknowledge any ob-

it might be supposed, had induced me to make it.

With much surprise, therefore,—with what other feelings I need not say—I observed the very géntiemanly, high-minded, generous, charitable and truthful notice of my ‘‘ report,’’ in the Islander of the 3rd instant. : This notice I would have allowed—even although estimating it at its full worth—to pass unnoticed; did not the writer thereof, his authority or authorities, (very ey: quite inadvertently, no donbt,) accord to me. both positively and negatively, much greater merit than I can lay any claim to in the matter. :

I have, therefore, to request, sir, that, with your usual good nature, you will allow me, through your columns, to return my acknowledgments to my unknown friend or friends, for their exceedingly kind and indulgent notice of my Report, in the form hereunto annexed.

Were | quite certain who the individual or individuals are, from whom the candid notice emanated, I would, perhaps, prefer replying to it in another way; but, as he or they ap- pear to be of the character of those who

“ Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame;”

I shall not seek to penetrate the darkness in which their Their retiring modesty must be well understood ; and surely no one would seek to violate it.

** Who builds a fane to Truth, and not to Fame, Wifl never mark the marble with his name.”’

I am, sir, your obedient servant, Charlottetown, July 6, 1857. R. B. IRVING.

CARD OF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ** As rust corrodes iron, so doth envy the envious man.” * Fain would they blast the wreath they cannot wear,

Blacken the bright, and tarn the foul to fair;

Loud in their blame, but niggard in their praise,

With jealous eyes on excellence they gaze,

Hope that astray his footsteps may be lured,

The lustre dimmed that cannot be endured. Mr. R. B. Irvine begs leave to acknowledge the obligation conferred upon him, by the ‘* Echo’’ of the Islander. In the space of a Card, Mr. |. cannot find room to compliment the ‘*Eeho,”’ according to their worth, upon the | taste, elegance, truth, and charity, in which it has had its birth. These appertinents of the ‘* Echo’s’’ origin, these ‘* gems—so rich and rare,’ as respects the sources of nearly all the pro- ductions of a certain class—Mr.1. must, for the oe leave unextolled ; and pass on simply to acquit himself of the great oblig.tion imposed upon him by the ** Echo.”’ In the first place, Mr. I. must conscientiously make ‘‘ some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself?’ about the very large measure of truth and justice, thus awarded him by the ‘¢ Echo”’ :—

‘* Report says that Mr. R. B. Irving reported a long speech for Mr. B. Davies, which he never delivered; and that he re- fused to report or get published, what was said by others, who found fault with the Government. The question is asked— who paid Irving for his trouble ?”’

Now to “‘ Report’’—Legion it may be—and to the faithful ‘** Echo,”’ Irving and truth reply: In Irving’s letter to the Editor of the Examiner of the 29th ult., Irving has fully ex- peed how he happened to be in the Mayor’s Court, on the 26th ult.,and why he noticed a certain action of that Court. He now begs leave further to state, for the information of ‘* Report’’ and the ‘* Echo,’’ and, to enable those substantial or unsubstantial beings, those real things or airy nothings, to rectify, if they choose to do so, the too charitable opinion which they have so hastily formed, and so eagerly sought to circulate respecting his report of Councillor Dayies’s speech, &e.—that, on the occasiou alluded to, he had not, in what he did, any party or pews object to serve ; he had no malice to indulge, no wounded pride or personal pique to satisfy ; he was in perfect charity with all concerned ; he felt not the smallest se sie to elevate one, at the expense of another : he had no desire to see one man’s candle put into a candle- stick, and another’s hid beneath a bushel ; and, assuredly, he sought not to effect any such invidious distribution of the lights of the Council. In doing what he did, he thought he was merely, with an equal hand, doing deserved honor to the whole Council ; and, moreover, he imagined they would—one and all—perceive that he haddoneso. The occurrences which he noted, he noted in the order in which they occurred; and if, in his report, one individual is more prominent than another, it is simply beeause he was so in action. To Mr. Davies’s speech, Mr. I. listened with much attention ; and, he thinks, it was heard with much interest and attention by the Mayor and the rest of the Council. Whilst listening to it, how- ever, Mr. I. had no thought of reporting it. The propriety of reporting it and the consequent action of the Council, was altogether an after-thought ; and haying consulted no one re- speeting it, his report of the speech was and could be nothing more, than a mere effort of awakened memory. His report. thereof is certainly not verbatim ; but the facts set forth there-. in, the conelusions drawn from these facts, and the course of | action suggested, are truly all Mr. Davies’s; and the report | is, therefore, essentially correct. In the delivery of his speech, | Mr. Davies was fluent but deliberate ; and he enunciated facts. and the inferences to be drawn therefrom with much tact and discretion ; and Mr. I. is so far from admitting that he has done for Mr. Davies what ‘‘ Report,’’ according to the ‘* Echo’’ says he has done, that he is convinced a verbatim report of the speech would have done Mr. Davies much more credit than

r. I’s imperfect detail of it from memory.

As to the exercise of discretion, in having refrained from placing some individual Councillor or Councillors in antago- nistic attitudes with respect to the Government, with which Mr. I. is obscurely complimented, when ‘ Report,’”’ according to the ‘* Echo,’’ says, ‘* He refused to report, or get published, what waa said by others, who found fault with the Govern-| ment ;”’ Mr. L. begs leave most distinctly to state, that no one requested him to were even so much as one word which was. uttered, or one act that occurred, in the Mayor's Court, on the occasion in question, or on any other occasion; and therefore he could not have refused to comply with any such request.

Mr. I. hopes that he may here be permitted to intimate to such of the Councillors as may feel anxious to make a public. display of their opposition to the Government, on account of . the removal of the munitions of war from the garrison, or on | any other account, that—although he declines to sow the seeds of social dissension, and has no Teche to set parties at enmity, to which they are, perhaps, too much predisposed, or in which

: ’ , apes @p ip the country, to work for him a day ortwo,—is helo come they may be already too hy engaged—they may, if dissatisfied

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servations affecting my communication, or the motives which, |

> and ambitious of ** towering ake the trouble to report have reproached the d ready to

with ‘ unlaurelled mediocrity, fame,’ and provided they will only t for themselves the speeches in which they hay Government, very easily find a printer willing an vublish them. aon : 'The ‘* Echo’? also says: ‘‘ The question is asked,—who paid Irving for his trouble.” To this question, so blandly and po- litely put, Irving replies, that, not being employed or engaged to report by any one, but his action being voluntary, he neither expected nor asked for, nor has he xeceived, any other reward than that which arises from & consciousness of haying freely done what he believed to be right,—affording a piece of eresting information to the public, (which he happened to have leisure to do,) and at the same time awarding, ae he thought, ‘* honor to whom honor was due.”? In times now one by, Irving was frequently satisfied with such payment for * his trouble” voluntarily incurred ; incurred, perhaps, for some of those who now so generously and politely, on this occasion, enquire, ‘* Who paid Irving for his trouble ?’’ Judging from the very unenvious and indisputably truthful and generous disposition evinced, with respect to the matter in question, by, or on behalf of, the shrouded parties to whom this Card of Acknowledgments is addressed, Mr. I. feels per- suaded that there is, in certain lines which have just occurred to his recollection, a very peinted applicability to what may reasonably be supposed to be the position of one or more of them ; and,—as beyond the evident applicability, in such case, of these lines, they seem well calculated to arouse such reflec- tions as cannot prove otherwise than consolatory to the wound- ed spirits — for wounded indeed, strange and anomalous as it may seem, are the spirits of these latent, although truly liberal, crities of the sayings and doings of others, —he begs leave, with all due respect, to add them, as a graceful finish to his Card, and heartily to recommend to each of them, a careful and meditative perusal of them. «« Veiling his weakness from the public view, Obscurity has been a brother true; Shades of the valley have his course concealed, And no bright ray bas e’er his soul revealed ; As a black line is unapparent found, Traced by the pencil on a sable ground. Against the current never doomed to swim, Tongues are not busy speaking ill of him; His negative position is a shield That foils the stoutest champion of the field. But what can hide the children of renown? Each action marked, each folly noted down, Each trifling error magnified to crime, Each fault damnation for all after time. The few who glory’s Alpine summits gain, Leave envious swarms behind them on the plain, Eager to reach them with their rude attacks, Ay! doom them to the block and headsman’s axe.”

6th July, 1857.

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To rue Epiror or tHe Examiner.

Str ;—I regret to learn that steps have been taken by the partizans of the conservative party to rend the composition of the Town Council, and destroy the efficiency and public spirit of that body by sacrificing the weal of the citizens to political intrigue. Hitherto the efforts of the Council have been directed towards advancing the well-being of the cor- poration, regardless of private interest, factional influence or religious creeds, and the officers chosen to carry out their decisions, and watch over the unruly amongst our society, have been selected indiscriminately from the ranks of both Tory and Liberal, and the selection made from the candi- dates for office appears to have been decided on, upon the merits or capability of the persons offering. Thus we have had a good working council, and effective officers adminis- tering the civic laws, jealously guarding the citizens’ rights ; and although they have been unsuccessful in recovering the Common and other landed property which by right is that of the Corporation, but which was seized upon in the time of yore, when three or four individuals, supported by a dozen sycophants who depended upon the serips they purloined from the public for a livelihood, deceived the country and governed the Island; and I feel no hssitation in stating as my opinion, that the gentlemen who have represented Char- lottetown in the Legislature for the last twenty years, have knowingly and wantonly allowed the Commion and other landed property attached, as a gift to the town from the Crown, to be seized upon, divided and unlawfully held amongst a faction, and very probably partaken themselves of a smad/ part of the public property they were chosea to defend ; and L say, although the Council have been unsuccessful in their applications to the Legislature, and although they suffered the most scurrilous abuse from the town members which any low fellows for want of argument could be driven to, and which is by foolish men often received as sound sense ; and although the Court has decided against the power to remove any encroachments on the streets, squares, &c., by the coun- cil,—yet neither the one nor the other, the Assembly nor the Court, have attempted to prove, that the Common is not the property of the people of the Town, and that the Corporation ought to be the power which should remove en- croachment from the streets and squares and elsewhere, I was going to say about the Town, which have encumbered us so long. What appears extraordinary to me is, that if the Court deny this power to the Council it is apparent it must remain with themselves, because we know the Court caused Jonathan Collings and others to remove their fences some twenty feet from off the street directly opposite the resi- dence of William Pope, Esquire, a worthy member of the Bar, on whose complaint the Grand Jury indicted the en- croachers on the street, and at the same time, on the same street, while encroaching much more than Collings and others, they allowed the Misses Stewart (Mr. Pope’s clients, I un- derstand, and certainly his connexions) to remain. Now, I often think it must be an eye-sore to see the Misses Stewarts’ encroachment projecting so prominently directly alongside the old Court House, over which a Chief Justice used to pre- side, and I cannot help thinking when I pass the place by, that this encroachment isa kind of memento held to pre- serve the power and respect of the past administrator of the civil laws of the Jand. In connection with this same en- croachment I wish to observe, that it is said about town that on a presentation to the Grand Jury of this nuisance, the rumor is, the Jury declined acting thereon, believing it came not within the bounds of their power, and that it appertained to the Legislature only to meddle with nuisances appertain- ing to Land. Ob! tell it not in Gath! it may not be time. In my next, Mr. Editor, I shall revert to the first movers for an Act of Incorporation. I shall show their rea- sons for it, and the opposition they have offered on its being found that the Mayor’s and other civic chairs became filled by men who paid respect only to virtue, and show the cause of the exertions that are now attempting to be made to esta- blish themselves.as at first intended when the Act was pro- jected. I am, sir, yours, &c.,

_A CITIZEN.

Charlottetown, July 4th, 1857, i

To tue Eprror oF THE Sir,—By giving the subjoined report of the mination of Souris (East) School, a place in your next issue, you will con- fer a favor on A SUBSCRIBER. At an examination of Souris (East) School held on the 24th day of June, fifty-four scholars were examined. The Readers acquitted themselves creditably, and displayed a fair knowledge of the lessons, with correct spelling and meaning of The Geography class has made excellent progress si opening of the present school, and acquitted tirely to our satisfaction. Arithmetic, V Grammar classes haye also a favorable aspect much proficiency since the openin order of the school—when the small room are taken into consideration—is, in creditable a at Teacher, Mr. Ronald sign Donatp Bzaron, ee Joun O’Haxte?, of Sot Gp uate GABRIEL MacDonALp,

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.1., JULY 13, 1957, _

PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT.

Tux Islander is well aware that there is nothing more yp. popular in this country than a leaning towards the interests of the landed proprietors; and acting upon this conviction, its editor is almost constantly making the most desperate ang insane efforts to show that the Tory party are quite untra. melied by proprietary influence, and that the Liberal ment not only owe their position as the ruling party to the power and intrigues of the land owners, but that almost ' act of the administration must be shaped in conformity with their wishes, or originated for the special purpose of promot. ing their aggrandisement. In short, we are told that the present Government exists entirely by the breath of the pro: prictors, and that the former cannot move hand or foot with. out the consent of the latter. We have not often noticed this delusion — it being so gross and palpable as to require no re. futation. But our silence seems to have emboldened the editor of the Islander to make heavier draughts upon the credulity of his readers. In his paper of Friday last we find the following sentences :-— ,

‘‘The Proprietors have notoriously the ear of the Colonial Minister, who instructs his agent the Lieut. Governor, who again directs his Sworn servants, called Executive Councillorg and officials, in the mera, te legislate agreeably to the views of the Colonial Minister. Hence, so long as the majority of es Sepery soneph of oon that majority is pecessar ily the meee ay pes ty,’ and with that party Mr. Cooper has

Now, every person who knows anything of our public affairs must see the arrant folly of publishing such nonsense. If pro~ prietors had, as it is said, ‘‘ the ear of the Colonial Minister,” there could be no legislation in the Colony without their con- sent. Fortunately, the Colonial Minister is not so much under their control. Ever since the present Government came into office, the proprietors have waged desperate war against them. They have memorialised the Crown to pass its veto upon almost every measure of importance. In ene or two instances they have succeeded, as in the case of the Rent Roll and Tenant Compensation Bills; but in all other cases of interference be- tween the Crown and the Colony they have signally failed. They opposed, by petition, the Free Education Bill, the Small Debt Bill, the One-ninth Bill, the Franchise Bill, the Sheriff Bill, and the Loan Bill. If they had ** the ear of the Colonial

unheeded. It is very well known, too, that they ecountenanced’ the infamous scheme which was concocted by the Tories under the late Sir Donald Campbell to deprive the Colony of its free. constitution—-to restrict the elective franchise to freeholders. and leaseholders of twenty years’ standing, with improvements

to the amount of £500 each—to reduce the number of repre-

sentatives, and to raise their property qualifications—a mea-

sure which would have entirely thrown the Legislature and

the Government of the country into the hands of the proprie-

tors; and it is also very well known that their oft-repeated

complaint against the Legislative Council—into which the

present Government have infused a liberal spirit—is, that it does not include a larger number of land proprietors or their agents.

It seems almost incredible that in the face of positive fact

and common sense, the Js/ander should continue, from week to week, to shew that the Liberals are the friends and supporters of the proprietary party. If that were the ease, there would

be, in the House of Assembly, no opposition to their Govern-

ment. The regular, standing minority in the House consists

of seven members. They oppose the Government on almost

every question. And out of this minority of seven, on/y five

are land owners themselves, namely: Mr. Haviland, sen. ;

Mr. Hayiland, jun , (though perhaps not an extensive land

owner, his interests and feelings are ideation! with his father’s);

Mr. Palmer, Mr. Douse and Mr. Yeo. The other two mem-

bers of the minority are Mr. Francis Longworth and Mr.

Montgomery, and their votes are invariably cast with the

others whose names are above given. Now, if the majority

in the Assembly be a ‘ proprietary party’’—banded together

to promote proprictary interests—it is marvellous that the

minority, who are all deeply interested proprictors except two,

should cherish such a deep-rooted hostility towards them!

We leave our readers to ponder on these facts. They require

no further comment.

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SUPREME COURT.

Tue Trinity Term of the above Court commenced on Tues-

day last —his Lordship the Chief Justice presiding. There

was a considerable number of civil and criminal cases before

the Court, all of which, we believe, have been disposed of. We

shall give in our next issne the results of the several trials. . The Chief Justice’s Charge to the Grand Jury at the com-

mencement of the Term, was as follows :—

“ GENTLEMEN OF THE Granp Jury —The cases for your con- sideration atthis Term are ten in number. They consist of one assault and battery, and two larcenies, two misdemeanors, are charged against the same individual, and two persons only are accused of the receipt of stolen goods—the rly being alleged to have belonged to five different owners. Ip all probability this will involve the necessity of as many distinct prosecutions ; but the fact of the offenders being few in number, and the offences of the minor class, this state of the Criminal Calender, having in view the extent and population of the Couaty, affords, upon the whole, matter for congratulation.

‘* The case of assault and battery sppears to be rather of an aggravated nature, and for this reason, probably, sent up to this court, the party, Andrew Robertson, being charged with

endangering his sight. 7

‘« The cases of larceny are against two persone, respectively named Robert Armour and Sarah M’Pherson, and are of the ordinary class of cases of that description,—the one against: Armour being for stealing articles frem a shop in this city, and that against M’Pherson for stealing oats from a barn in the country.

‘* The cases of misdemeanor sre against Patrick Bearney, heretofore a Commissioner of Roads in this County, who 18 charged with having, in that capacity, granted false certificates, thereby enabling a third party to obtain the public money,

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and which money, it is alleged, was afterwards handed over by the party to Bearney, and by hii appropriated to his own use,—a charge, if true, involving a sericus develiction of hie duties as a Roed Commissioner, and rendering tum liable to prosecution for a misdemeanor, and to punishment for the offence.

“The cases for receiving stoien goods are against Artem George Sims and William Crabb, the younger, who are charged with having received iron and copper articies, the property of

ish | several persons in this City, knowing the same to have beea t' stolen.

It appears fromthe depositions that these parties have, rad scme time past, been engaged somewhat extensively in buy- ing up and exporting old iron and copper, and they are charged with having, in the course of their traffic, bought the articles im

question under such circumstances as render them guilty of the

offence preferred against them.

« ‘To constitute this offence, there must be reasonable proof of the articles having been stolen, and evidence must be given of the parties’ guilty knowledge that they reccived the goods,

voted by the Legislature for expenditure on Roads avd Bridges. within the District im which he(Bearney) acted as Commissioner,

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