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In 1842, the birth of an heir apparent to the crow ofthese realms furnished the House of Assembly,and the Legislative Council, with an auspicious opportu nity of congratulating the noblest woman on the face ofthe earth upon the greatest event that could hap-t pen either to herself or them. Lieut. Governor‘ Huntley, on the occasion of an Address, observed to the members of the House of Assembly, “ The language which conveys your feelings towards our beloved Sovereign well becomes the representatives

of this *loyal Colony.”

Gratifying as these two leading events were and are in the history and welfare of Prince Edward Island, another of equal magnitude and more appre- ciable interest was reserved for the year whose requiem has just been chanted. The Prince of Wales, who as a birthling only, in 1842 evoked the congratulations ofthe representatives ofthe people, in 1860 witnessed a reception, which, for enthusiasm, loyalty and devotion, was second to none which His Royal Highness experienced in all North America.

* Editors of newspapers are good judges of what suits the taste of their readers, and when anecdotes are current in the cheaper periodicals ofa place, calculated to foster a loyal spirit, it may be correctly inferred in what direction the popular mind turns. For instance—I quote it in corroboration of the justness of Lieut. Go- vernor Huntley’s opinion of P. E. I. loyalty—in the number ofa late paper, in March 1861, it is not secession, nor annexation, nor amalgamation, but the English nation (of which we are happily part) he illustrates by showing the

“ STABILITY or ruxxos IN ExeLAND.—In one of his lectures Mr. Emerson tells a story to exemplify the stability of things in England. He says that William of Wykeham, about the year 1050, endow- ed a house in the neighbourhood of Winchester, to provide a mea- sure of beer and a suflieieney of bread to every one that asked it, forever; and when Mr. Emerson was in England, he was curious to test that good man’s credit; and he knocked at the door, preferred his requestand received his measure of beer and quantum of bread,

though the owner had been dead 800 years.”

Tapper may well remark of England that it is “ Great in the stability ofthe earth.”