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tell you, may not be the exact words used; but she will Swear to you, as se has a ready sworn to the justices, that they are very acar, and contain the sentiment that was uttered. Cullateral fact the second, then, my lord and gentle- @en of the jury, is. that the knife which did the deed of blood belonged te the prisoner, and was bought by her at Culumbo, ta Ceylon, Gentlemen, God aid and help as all to get at the teuth in this matter! [have nothing more to say.” _The Attorney Cieneral sat down, not adding ono word to bis bare statewent of these facts, oa which the case rested.

A cold perspiration sat on my brow. How fearfully strong was the case, and what had I to rebut it with? Nothing— nothing! What if Brown had absconded ? had beea swallowed up by an earthquake? His absence or presence made bat little account in such a case. He had only seer what others saw—be could add nothing to the evidence of the landlord and landlady of the ina. I felt as if my wery heart paled as | saw the blank, half-terror stricken eveutenances of the jury, aad fancied that in every whisper taey iedulged ig te each ovher, the word ‘guilty’ might be found,

Tbe janive counsel for tho prosecution now rose, and called out * Jacob Wilts !’

There was a slight bastle, and the landlord of the inn got into the witues box. He merely deposed to the coming of the sisters aud the child to The Wheatsheaf, and the alarm in ~ aight, aud the fiading of the body of the child, as etated. ,

The attorney general then glanced at me, and J roso to ¢ro+s-examine. se Had you any o her guest in Tho Wheatsheaf on tho night 10 question ?

* Yes, sir. A Mr. Brown,

* When did he come ?

* About an hour after the ladies,”

* Was be a stranger to you ?’

* Quite, sir.’

* Whefe did he sleep ?”

* At the far end of the gallery, about fifty paces off the | ladies’ room.’

* You can go down now, but I shall want you again.’

* ¥oa, sir.’

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‘I have nothing to say,’ eried Brown ; ‘ no evidence to give, I tell you. L was fast asleep, and heard eries, and went to see what was amiss; and then | saw just what the landlord and landlady saw, and no more, or no less.’

‘ Lights, there f° cried the judge.

‘ Yes, my lord,’ ssid a voice.

A man appeared with a light, with which to ignite the ‘chandelier. What shrieks are those! Oh! sounds of terror | -——-wild laughter—cries of exultation mingled with horror.

It is the boreaved mother.

* Look ! oh, look ! There—on the wall—near to you, my Lord judge! This is God's merey! It is heaven's testimony

derer’s shadow " | There was a strange, shouting ery in the court. The | counsel all rose from their seats, and the judge looked askance with amazement on his face.

Cast on the wall of the court by the light that had been | brought, was the shadow of the man Brown. Luge and ex- | agzerated, there it was; and as he shrank down in the vain | hope of escaping its production, Mrs, Seatun had seen it, ‘even as she had seen it cast on the wall of the corridor of the jinn by theoil lamp in the passage, as he shrank away with ‘the blood of the innocent child upon his soul. | Brown then made a frantic effort to e-eape. hut he was | overpowered and secured ina moment, ‘The storm-clouds | passed over, and a long, broad beam of sunghiue streamed into | the court. | Not guilty !” cried the jury, with one voice; and in |another moment Anna was in the arms of her sister.

Then a tall pale old man stood up by the side of the judge. It was Sir Ralph Heritage, the high sheriff, who had risen from his sick bed, and arrived in the court during its dark- ness from the starm. His hinds were clasped together, and with a deep sigh he said, as ho looked at Brown, ‘ You are my unhappy son, and now I haye a key to all these mysteries. You have done marder, lest a new claimant on my affection should arise in the person of tha paor child you have destroyed. My Lord judge, this is my death blow, Take me home, you who haye compassian.*

* * * * *

Nartha Wilts, the land!ady, was the noxt witness examined, and she confirmed what the attarney general had stated. Her account of what Auna had said made a strong impression on the jury, and whea | raso to cross examine her, | felt that that was the point to attend to. |

* Now. Mrs. Wilts,’ [ said, * you have said many a thing! in jest to your husband, and he to you, no doubt 7

* Lord bless you, yes, sir,’

* And meant no harm ¢

* Not the least, sir,’

* Of eourse not. Now, can you recollect anything you have said to him, or of him, in that harmless way lately ?”

* Oh, dear, yes, sir} When he takes a drop too much [| am very apt to say that | hope the next will choke him, but I no more mean it than you do, sir.’

* And of coarse, by the tune in whieh you say it, he knows it is only a joke?

*To be sure !’

* You speak it in something of the tone of the prisonor at the bar, when she said she should never get a husband,’

* Just so, sir.’ |

* That will do. You can go down.’

Mr. Browa was the uext witness called, and no one ap- | peared. I was resolved t) make the most I could in faveur of the prisoner out of this disappearance of Brown, although | I feared it would not be much, but it was not then time to} take notice of it, The name of Brown reverberated through | the court, and the passages, and the adjaceut street, but no | Brown appeared.

The atiorney general then himself rose and said, ‘It is} now my most painful duty to call Mrs. Rachael Seaton. it} is a duty | would fain have avoided, if possible, for no one can feel more sensibly than 1 do how sad to her must be the} task of beiug summoned for the prosecution in this case, | but it cannot be helped, aud I therefore eall Mrs. Nachael | Seaton.”

With a slow and melancholy step the poor mother got into the witness box, but she kept her eyes upon Anna with a lunging, tender glance, til! the judge said, mildly, * Wituggs. you mus? look this way.’

Then she gently turned from the observation of Anna, | and they could see the tears rolling down her cheeks.

* Sirs—sirs, she cried; ‘this should not be. You will’ understand, sir, that he wis my boy—my only one. You)

| which is one of the most labored effusions that any one ever

| &e.,” as he does not refer to any particular time past.

The motive of Richard Heritage in committing the dread-

ful deed at the inn was new but too apparent. He was tried | and convicted in due course, but managed to procure a deadly |

poison, and evaded the sentence of the law.

Ghe Gramitner.

l1f thie is true, the conduct of the Government is highly eul- ipable. We should have a Report of all our Schools ; let, therefore, the Messrs. Cundall, or some other honest, competent ithe work, fet us have two or more, it required. | Jf Mr. Arbuckle is, by reason of his meagre literary and ‘scientific acquirements, totally unfit for his present positior, ‘he i frouch more 80 on account of his}want of principle, and | other blemishes in his character. | heard that whilst a master in the Academy, he was very negligent in the discharge of his duty, and that he spent a considerable por.ion of the Clags hours in going to the rooms of the other masters, smoking, &e. I believe that he was about to be ignominiously dismissed when lhe resigned. [ have been informed that somo time ago a

What if Brown | —the phantom witness! I know it well! There is the mur-) gentleman of the highest respectability sent a person to the

| Academy to have him qualified for a Teacher, and considering Mr. Arbuckle to be an upright man, specially recommended ithis person to him by letter ; but Mr. Arbuckle, insteed of | assisting and directing this person in the prosecution of his lstudies, employed him for two or three weeks cutting wood, l feeding his old cow, &e. Uf he deny this disereditable conduct,

'{ am prepared io give the names of the parties so very dis-

’ ne jhonorably treated. IL have been informed that when he visits |

'any Country School he is too lazy to examine the scholars, ex- | cusing himself by saying that ‘¢ every man knows how to tune his own fiddle best’’! or something like this; and that when ihe goes to en examination of any of the City Schools, he re- fmains only a few minutes, and then goes away, muking some | miserable excuse, In fact, he is sucha grest humbug that very ‘few persons entertain any respect at all for him. If all these ‘things are true, it is absurd to suppose that he wilt faithfally discharge his duty as Visitor of Schools. [ have no desire tu jinjure Mr. Arbuckle’s character; my sole aim has been to stiew how utterly unfit he is far his present situation, and what | a gross injustice it is to the country to have such a man in such (an office. Our public servants should perform conscientiously | the public duty.

[ fear { have alrealy occupied too much of your valuable ‘space; however, | will presume on your kindness to allow me lto sav a few words about another point connected with our | system of Education, concerning which very jittle has hi:herto | been said in our preas, I allude to ** the provision for Scholar- | ships in the Academy.’’ It is six or seven years, I believe, isince the Legislature placed about £120 anoually at the dis- | posal of the Governwent for Scholarships in the Academy.

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| ‘The country has not been made aware, as far as I know, of the

The high sheriff sunk back on the bench, and when they persons wha have hitherto obtained these Scholarships, or Of and B assigns it to C,°C cannot sue A at law, because a| went to raise him they found but a corpse. | what benefit they have been to the cause of education, Per-| * |

haps our School Visitor will have the kindness to enlighten us lon the subject. VIATOR. December 26th, 1860.

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For tue EXAMINER.

A will of Sir Ralph Heritage was found, which left the TO GEORGE DUNDAS, ESQ., LIBUT. GOVERNOR AND

bulk of his property to the poor mardered child, so that his |

male relatives put in their claims; but a sufficient sum was)

COMMANDER-LN-CUILEF, &c., &c. Six,—One of the sound constitutional privileges in the birth-

secured for ease and competence both to Rachael and Anna. right of a British subject, resident in the British Isles, or

Poor Rachael ! She anly lived one year, and then sho went living in Colonial possessions under the Sovereign rule and | ding, not only the property in the goods therein mentioned, | to see, not in a dream, but in reality, the sunshine of heaven | Sceptre of the British Crown, is, that the humblest of the sub- | bur also all rights of suit, shall be transferred to and vested in on the face of her baby boy 3 jects may privately or publicly, in becoming and decorous | him to whom it is eudoreed ; that is, the endorsee or assignee of

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Correspondence.

To tus Eprror or tne Exasiner. |

language, address the highest officer in the land, and remon-

| person be appointed Visitor, and if one is not sufficient to do |

eee ae

| In areeent number of the Islander, your Secretary, you| are aware, has again delivered bis malice of a malignant attack upon the private character of Sir Dominick Daly. ! Inflated with authority, and flushed, perhaps, with applause he therein has trampled with unholy feet upon the sacred con- | 'yentionals of society, and rushing with barbaric ferocity into the private arena, made a dastardly stab at Sir Dominick. | This act and others of the kind, made and practised by your | | Excelleney’s confidential Secretary, as acts of permission, | ‘involve your personal @ponsibility, and must induce un-| | pleasant but unavoidable private retaliation—that which you | permit your Secretary to sow, your Excellency must be satis- | | fied to reap, and henceforth as Editor of the Js/ander and con- | tributor to the Monitor, and your Secretary, his assaults upon | | Sir Dominick must be met, treated and chastised in the letter | and spirit which dictated and permitted the abomination. | Your Excellency will observe, and be assured, that no desire rests with this writer to plunge into a conflict in private life, |and beyond a guid pro quo, he certainly will not advance The | remedy is with your Excelleney. Hold in your vicious Secre- | tary, and preserve peace; privilege his en’argement, and | ** Finem reepice.”’

Believing that the provocation renders apology unnecessary | for thus publicly addressing your Excellency, under an) jassuined name, I am, Sir, Respectfully Yours, &e., &e.

NOM DE PLUME.

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- ne nn To rus Eprror or tue Examiner. Sirn—Not long ago a communication appeared in the E-v- | aminer—if | remember arighi—enquiring the object or effect of an Act passed last Session, ¢ ntitled,** An Act lo amend the | Laws relating tu Bills of Lading.”” As the subject is of great importsnce to commercial men, and as I do not remember hay- ing seen your correspondent 8 questions answered, you will, | perhaps, allow me to make a few observations upon that Act. | Goods inentioned in a Bill of Lading are embraced in what | lawyers term a ‘* chose in a tion,” which means, where a man has not the enjoyment of the thing in question, but merely a) right to recover it by a suit or sction at law; whence the term | |chose or thing in action. Now, an old, but little observed, | | maxim of faw is, that a chose in action is not assignable ; ac-! cording to this rule Biils of Sale, Mortgages, B.lis of Lading, | &c., could not in law be assigned. The difficulty is thus go: |rid of ; suppose that A executes a Bi/l of Sale in favor of B,

|“*chose in action is not assignable,’’ and hence in every ; assignment of things of this nature the party assigning consti- | jtules the assignee his attorney to sue in his (the assignce’s) }name, ¢@. g., In the above instance B would constitute C his | attorney to sue A in B's name, (and not in U’s own name, }which the law does not allow). Now, the person to whom a Bill of Lading is endorsed stood, before the passing of the late | , Act, im the very predicament of © in the above example, and } for Similar reason Could not sue as Indorsee of such Bill of ; Lading. ‘This was obviously a great inconvenience, and there- fore thia Act enacts that by the endorsement of a Bill of La-

}a Bill of Lading stands precisely in the same position as if the

strate against, or impugn his public acts. This acknowledged | contract thereiu contained had originally been made wich

the people living under your gubernatorial command. In| April, 1859, the time at which the present Government came

‘and practised privilege justifies me in thus addressing your | himself. | Excellency, on a public matter of much notoriety, gravely im-| | pressed, aud being more deeply engraved upon tho minds of clusive evidence on behalf of the endorsee thereof against the

By anoiher clause of the same Act the Bill of Lading is con-

master or captain of the shipment of the goods named in it. | A very unaccountable decision of the Courts of Jaw in England |

Sim—As you have, of late, devoted a large portion of yous into political power in this Island, Lieut. Governor Sir tad established a different doctrine, and hence this ciauee.

valuable space to the subject of Education, and as there are several points connected therewith, which have not beea alluded to, [ will presume to say a few words on the subject. A great grievance of which we ail have very just reasons to complain, is the appointment by the Government of the present very inefficieat School Visitor. It is well known | that Mr. Arbuckle is, neither by his talents, nor by his up- | rightness and independence of character, qualified for the | office which he holds. He is neither a classical, nor a ma- thematical scholar, and hence he is quite unqualified in many instances to judge whether the advancement of the schools is either “ prominent” or “satisfactory.” He is not able even to write correct and intelligible English, as every one can sce by glancing at his meagre, miserable Report, a part

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of which appeared in the Royal Gazette of the 27th ult. | members of either branch of the Logislature, or of the Govern- | !ather.

To give some samples of Mr. Arbuckle’s admirable grammar | and style, I will copy a few passages from this document, |

read. Alluding to some schools, he says: ‘it was there-}

auxiliary and the verb, In the fifth paragraph, he says, | I visited many schools:” this should be * L have visited, | Hlere |

is a sample of our Superintendent's conciseness, “ It was’

desirable that it wight be known whether the instructions |

Dominick Daly exercised the high functions of Her Majesty's Representative here. The party then in the ascendant had gained political power at the hustings under the influence of | the celebrated Bible question agitation, and by a claptrap) enunciated scheme to demolish Responsible Goverement by | heads of departments, conceded to this Island in 1851 by the Imperial fiat, on condition of the entire payment by us of our Civil List, ineluding retiring allowances to certain officials now wiped away from the pension list of this colony, with the sole | exception of the Hon. IT. H. Haviland, the elder, who now

‘enjoys a £200 pension per annum from the Revenue of this cation under the signature of Mr. Charles Wright, in reference

Island. Might being in the hands of the new Government, ! they invaded the political constitution ratified by purchase in payment of the Civil List, and swept away. notwithstanding | the statesmanly protest of Sir Dominick Daly against the in-| novation, the Departmental System or non-permitment of

ment, to haye or hold any of the public offices of heads of de-

partments. When the new Cabinet then formed were creating | the irresponsible officials, your Excellency’s present Secretary, | Mr. W. I. Pope, was, alter mach severe dispute and high |

Tunis act is of considerable importance, and has been copied verbatim fromthe imperial! Stature 18th and 19th Vic. Cap. LIL Your obd’t. Servant, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Ch.Town, Dec. 18, 1860.

Tc tne Eprror or THe EXAMINER.

Sirn—Allow me a space in your valuable journal to correct | some misetatements in your issue of the 2nd inst., in a communi-

to my statement before the Land Commissioners, at their Court in Georgetown, on the 20th of Sept. last. Mr. Wright, in his communication, says, the Guernsey settlers were never pro- mised land bordering on the Elliot River, and that if they were deceived it was most certainly by neither J. Camoridge nor his |

Now, Mr, Editor, it would be almost needless for me to re- iterate or go in detail upon the whole ef what I stated before the Royal Commission, as many who were there can vouch te the correctness of what I stated. Nevertheless, to let the pub-

displeasure of mfatfy of the party eisct, presented by Executive | le know that [have es unquestionable a characer as Mr. |

fore necessary that they first should receive my attention.” | proxy to Lieut. Governor Daly fur provisional appointment é ! : | Every school-boy knows that first should be between tke}to the office of Colonial or Provinciai Secretary, but Sir/ entesvour to Case his seemingly wounded spirit, in reference

Dominick paused. At this time, and for a considerable period previously, the name of Mr. W. fl. Pope was in itself offen- sively before the community of Charlottetown and throngout

the Country in imputed highly disreputable conduct towards |

Wright, U will uere!ly state bere ag sufficient te convince, and

to his ancestors, that when asked by the Commissioners who it was that deluded my father to come to this Ishiad, I made answer, Lady Burns, and nut the ssid Charles Wright's great giand father, ae it seems be would have it as such, for it must

the Banking Company of P. Kk. Island, Ly which it was stated | be known that my father never knew nor saw any such person

he had invuelved them in a Ioss of some £14,000. * * * *

las J. Cambridge’s father.

L also stated that the land he was

eannot understund how--[—loved him—because—because | of the Board were put in operation.” This of course would | With this generally believed weight of moral degradation | to have on this Island from said lady wes represented to ve

that is hidden here—here, in my peor, broken heart. But

be far better thus: * It was desirable to know,” Ke. He}

resting upon him and uncontradicted or gaivsaid, Sir Dominick |

when I, the mother —when I who in josing him, you see, sirs, says: “ Hence the value of the Visitor’s inspection is to be | Daly, notwithstanding the urgent appeals of some of his Execu- |

have lost all —ail [ had in the world—when [| declare that | Anna is iunocent, you should listen to me. Last night, sirs| —it was at the same hour—he my babe—my own dear Qh, heaven, these tears seald me! If 4 could only die now —now.’

liow she wept — what passion of grief was there—and | throughout all the court might be hea

and the judge wrapt his mantle over his face and leant back Visitor, that a verb should agree with its nominative, and | Haszard.

ju his chair, and all was still but the voice of grief in that court. __ The attorney general then said faintly—t I shall ask noth- | ing of this woman.’

Thea I rose. |

* Madam! madam!”

My voice sounded hollow and strange, in the midst of so much grief and sounds of tears, aud the poor woman started and looked up at me. |

* Ab, yes,’ she said. ‘To you—to you.’

She had recognized me as acting for the defence, and she | meant that she would speak to me; and then, before [ could” a:k her anything she weut on.

‘Sirs, all, listen tome. I did not see the murderer of my darling, but | saw bis shadow. It is ever present to me) now—like a phantom, it goes with me wherever [ may go. | Last night too—ch, you will say that was a dream, but) dreams are of heaven’s making, as well as waking thoughts— | 1 saw him then--my little angel. Ob, what light was there) —the light of heaven in the dear eyes and on the little face, —the shining colors from the wings of God's arch-angels: were aboat him—my own dear little one. He came with) Heaven's sunshine on b's face. I heard his voice—so soft, | sv low, © beautiful; ancl he said she had ever loved him.’

‘Sister, dear sister!’ eried Anua, ‘ I did ever love him ; “I am invocent.’

There were sobs a: cries now in the court, and twice I tried to command my voice before [ could say to her, * Ma- dam, madam! That shadew you saw on the night of the

wsurder! Tell us of it.’ :

+L will, 1 will. I saw it on the wall, The tall, broad shadow, or phantom, of a man.’

*What was it like!” interposed the Judge. ‘ Tell us, madam, what it was like, if you can.”

‘Twill, What is this?

Mrs. Seaton looked sround her and up at the windows of the court, with a shudder.

+ [t ie nothing,’ said 1. A thunder storm is abeut to take

. That isall.’

For the last few wminates the court had been gradually

ge'ting so dark that it was impossible to sce from one side

lout all the grammatical and other blunders in this labored |

estimated by the ‘progress in improvements, rather than by the mere number possed over.” Indeed, if we were to es | timate the value of Mr. Arbuckle’s visitation by the number | of schools which he is said to have passed over, we might | say that it was almost incalculable.

dieates that a very large proportion of the rising generation '

consequently proportion being singular, are sheuld be 7s.

' I would generally mention, that there is a decided improve- |

ment in the method and means of communicating instruction, ed. ‘I would generally mention,”—this is splendid pl.rase- ology for a School Visitor. What does he mean when he says there is a decided improvement in the “ quality” of communicationg ivetruction imparted? Were 1 to point |

Report, I would fill the Examiner. I have, however, noticed enough of them to shew that Mr. Arbuckle is iguo- rant of the merest principles of English Grammar, and con- sequently quite uvfit for the position which he at present holds. When he came to this Island, some thirty years ago, he might have been able to take charge of a school ina backwoods settlement; but it is very evident from his own production that nature never intended him for a School Visitor, and that it would be better for the Educational prospects of this Is'and, were he engaged in preaching tem- perance and polities, or in conducting a Bog School. What will the neighbouring Colonies think of us when they read the Report of our Superintendent of Kducation? Undoubtedly they will consider our educational establishments below zero, when a man like Mr. Arbuckle is at the head of them.

It is not my intention at present to enter largely into an examination of Mr. Arbuckle’s excuses for not visiting more schools, and for his Report being so short ; but 1 must) say that they appear very frivolous and altogether insufficient | to justify dereliction of duty. Tere is one of these flimsy excuses : “ Since my appointinent, the two vacations for the year have occurred, in which the schools are closed.” Does he imagine that such “ vacations” never happened before ? He must have counted largely on the credulity of the public when he wrote this. It may suit Mr. Arbuckle or any other School Visitor, who may be too lazy, or incapable of performing his duty, to say: “ I have not entered now into a minute detail of our schools, except those in the city, al- though the materials are all before me; because they pre- sent, as the Board well know, a great similarity to the par- ticular reports so frequently laid oa your table; and because I believe it is a waste of time and money to draw out and

of it to the other; and scarcely had the last words passed my lips whea a flash of blue lightning, that was perfectly bewildering in its brightness, lit up the place, and was fol- lowed by such a peal of thunder, that the building in which was the court house appeared to shake to its foundations.

publish such voluminous details of very doubtful value.” | But I presume this will not satisfy the country, which is paying Mr. Arbuckle’s salary. It would be far better for our Visitor to give details than to give a series of excuses for

bordering on the Hillsborengh River, and when he {iny father) with bis fumly emigrated to this isiand, where was the pro-

° ° > » ° ° ‘ . areliee & he » F i . \tive to appoint, finally refused to place in the highest office in | mised ircality bat in the imterior of the forest, some miles

. . ; . | Stade ans Tillel iver ? ln the colony an individaal of Mr. Pope's questionable reputation. | distant from — d Hiillsborough River? made no allusion lenry Haszard, Esq., was subsequently accepted by Sir) Whatever to itot River,

Dominick, and beeame Secretary of the Colony, in which | c capacity, as you are aware, you found him on your Excellency’s | ! ; « The attendance in- assumption of the Government, and in which he continued for | father, who was at that time oa this Island, and he related the

sometime after, and until, in an evil hour, the evil genius of

The undisguised fact of Sir Dominick's refusal to appoint Mr. Pope to the Secretaryship, or countenance, by any act of

his, Sir Dominick, a man so tarnished in name as Mr. Pope}

was gravely believed to be, insured to and obtained for Sir g y

| and also in the quality imparted.” This sentence is wretch- | Dominick the lasting vindictiveness, the active animosity, and

abundant malevolence of Mr. W. H. Pope.

The unremoved and uncontradicted blemishes fastened upon Mr. Pope, and which forbade Sir Dominick to countenance or appoint him to official position under his administration of the Government, wera, it appears, insufficient to influence your Excellency’s mind, or dictate to you the danger and impro-

riety of giving official position and confidence to the indivi- dual whom Sir Dominick’s keen perception, his high integrity and knowledge of human nature, and regard for society, could not countenance nor support. Your Excellency, wi lingly or unwillingly I know not which, bowed to your Council, and ander your sanction and authority Mr. Pope is Colonial Secretary; and your every day official and personal adviser

Furthermore, 1 stated that my father, having accidentally , fallen in with Joho Cambridge, that is, Mr, Wright’s grand- |

| circumstance to him of the manner in which he bad been treat- |

sobs and faint cries; are absent from school ” Allow me to tell you, Mr. School your Excellency’s Government, Mr. Pope, succeeded Mr. | ed by Lady Burns; so Mr. Cambridge advised iny father to!

!yove down to Murray Uarbour with his family, ana he would there sell him land cheaper and better than that of Lady Burns’s, of which he bought 100 acres from said J. Cambridge and paid | him the sam of £50 currency.

I think, Mr. Iditor, that Charles Wright must have been in some zone of oblivion when he penned his commounicatior, for he says, in one place, that I should have stated it was John | Cambridge’s father that induced my father to come to this Island, and directly after, that it was John Cambridge (that is Mr. Wright's grandfather), that was named ; and he also in- forms us that his great grand father was dcad years before the Guernsy settlers thought of emigrating. Now, then, cou!d it be possib!e for me to make allusion to a person who was dead long before 1 was born ?

I must not forget to thank Mr. Wright for affording a little information in reference to the history of the Guernsy settlers, and what induced them to emigrate to this Island; but that in- formation is stale to me, for believe 1 can afford him all the | necessary information on that subject, as I was but very yonng

and confidentia! clerk of your Kxecutive Council, unsatisfied with these palms of victory which your Excellency has seen fit to twine upon his front, awardiny at the same time to bim |

department of the Islander—a newspaper notoriously known in support of class interests, the ucflinching and open adyoca'e of the Proprietors and their interests, and the concomitant antagonist of the welfare of the tenantry. That paper has been received weekly at Government House during your pro- bation, ‘and | assume, with a certainty of factg, that you have read or perused it week by week, and therefore, the manner, the matter and general conductment of that periodieal is un- doubtedly well known to you, and also known to you as your Excelloney’s Government organ.

| am justified, then, your Excellency, in asserting that the tout ensemble, editorial matter of the Js/ander, under your Secretary's direction and pen, has met your approval and ap- probation ; and in confirmation of this [ observe that if your approval was not with it, your Excellency had the power to control the spirit and tone of the writings of its Mditor, Mr. Pope, or to have forbidden hia writing at all under forfeiture and loss of office. This fast is irrefragable.

In permitting then, sanctioning asd authorising your

the first time | remember my parexts relating the whole affair | of the delusion practised upon them by Lady Burns, In conclusion, Mr, Editor, | think the foregoing way be ade- |

the golden favors of emolument in offiee—your | xcellency has | quate to convince Mr. Wright that I made no slanderous as-| jg related, permitted him, Mr. Pope, to assume and conduct the Editorial | persions in reference to the person to whom he seems to be go ‘exhibited in his business.

affectionately bound by natural ties. iam, Sir, your very obd't. Servant, BARTHOLOMEW L&E LACHEUR. | Guernsy Cove, Sept, 17th, 1860.

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i wT Gleanings from late Papers.

Tue War in [raty.—A correspondent in Paris, writing on Wednesday night, says :—

Toere is considerable confusion in the last telegram from Italy. But although we may safely disbelieve the news via Rowe that Cialdini has been defeated by the Neapolitans, it | seems probable that he has failed to accomplish the object he had in view, and that he did not succeed in crossing the Garigliano. The very distressing, though to me not sur- prising intelligence, arrives by two distinct telegrams, that

Secretary to abuse, lead or direct the public mind as Editor of the Islander, your Excellency ga.. scope to the animus of that individual ; but bad and injudicious acts mostly receive in the end their proper deserts, and in the case before us, your Excellency’s Secretary, taking advantage of the latitude you gave him, has, as you must be aware, indulged his malice and subserved his own and proprietary benefits and gaing to the utmost of his capacity ; but he has done so by adding additional malidor to his name, and in con-

not inspecting schools, and then to contradict himself by

tributing his quota to the impending downfall of your Excel- | leney’s Government, sentenced as it is to early dissolution by

A scene of confusion occurred in the court, by the efforts! saying that the materials were before him to give the details | the aroused indignation of seven eighths of the adult population

of some to leave, ani by some females fainting. A loud voice then cried out, close to the door, “ Make way there ; make way! Out of my way, Lsay! L cannot—I will not stay here. We shall bave the place down about our ears! Out of my way"

A man who had been hiding in an obscure corner close to the jury-box, tried to fight his way out of the court. Then a voice ealled out, * That is Brown.”

It was never discovered who uttered those words, but I ealied out loudly, ‘ Jetain that man! He is a witness in “his ease, and duly ‘subpeened, and, being in court, can be cumpetied to speak. Stop that man!”

Brown was pounced upon by several officers, and brought

onward.

‘What is this for?’ he ericd, * What have I done? Nia! ha! A prime joke this!”

The attorvey genera! sprang to his feet,

*You are our witiess,’ be said. * My lord judge, may we have lights ?

* Ligh's} ered the jadze. ‘1 cannot see my notes.’

The darkness of tue court increased each moment, and the thunder aguin, ike the dischargwof heavy ordnance, Tujt Over Uae bydsrg,

the public revenue for “ drawing out” the details of our schools, and John Ings is paid very handsomely for the public printing ; and | should like to know why they should be excused for not performing a duty for which they are paid. If we want our District Schools to make any pro- gress, it is absolutely necessary for us to have a Visitor that will give * details,” and will publicly expose the want of suitable houses in particular localities, the deficiencies, the neglect, &e., of some Teachers, and the superiority of others, Mr. Stark did a gaeat deal of good in this manner by giving the ‘ details” of the schools which he visited. It is true that he excited the ire of the lazy, ignorant Teachers whom he exposed, but that fact should not deter an honest man from doing his duty, It appears that last year the District Schools a'one absorbed the enormous sum of £11,548. Now, it is too bad for the Colony to pay this large sum, and at the same time to be deprived of the services of an efficient Superintendent of Education, Our present Government seem to exhibit a stoieal indifference with regard to the best interests of the Colony. Indeed, I have beard it said that the present Visitor is indebted for his position to the active

part waich he touk in the election of Mr. Heath Haviland. invade the hallowed circle of private life?

—to your knowledge, | believe, and apparently with your sanction, in the press and out of it, and before the Royal Commissioners—he, your Excellency’s confidential Secretary, has endeavoured by all ways and means to wreck and destroy, with the view and aim to sustain in force and tact proprietary claims, whether legitimate or illegitimate, and thereby defeat the pretended policy of tenant protection assumed by your Government. In those to him pleasing avocations under your Excelleny’s auspices, your Secretary has availed himself of his privileges in the Is/ander to connect with his lucabrations on public matters gross and malevolent attacks upon the private characters of many men of worth in the ranks of the opposition ; but not satisfied with maligning the characters of those gentlemen, ho, your Excellency’s confidential Secretary, has again and again, in that paper, made fierce and dishonest assaults upon the private character of our late competent, honorable and esteemed Governor, Sir Dominick Daly. Here Lam impelled by those outrages upon that gentleman, more than once brought to your Excellency’s notice. to ask by what mode of decerous reasoning—by what vein of proper feeling —with what, your Excellency will pardon me, decency due to society, you would or could in your gubernatorial position, and as a private gentleman of birth and education, have so allowed your Secretary, within your control, to insult and grossly

a dangerous and broad |

the French admiral, Lebarbier de Tinen, interfered to stop the Piedmontese fleet from firing upon the Neapolitan camp, jand to prevent a body of Sardinian troops from Janding at | the mouth of the Garigliano, How, after this intervention, | Napoleon IIT, will contrive to keep up his reputation as (the great friend of Italy, 1 am at a loss to conceive.’ It is quite plain that his conduct is calculated to prolong a hope- | less Struggle, and to cause the useless cacrifice of thousands | of lives.

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| Porvtation or Russta.—A correspondent at St. Peters-

of these wnvisited schools! John Arbuckle is paid out of | of this Island, whose rights, benefits, well-fare and im:anities burg writes—* Soon after the war in the Crimea a general

| census of the population was begun throughout the Russian empire ; it is now completed, and gives the following re- sults :—The population is 79,000,000. The number of fe-| males exceeds that of males by 1,750,000. The lower orders, serfs, petty traders, and artisans, form a total of 53,500,000 : the nobles and the higher guild of traders about 1,000,000.