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in like manner rejected; and that at the general election in March last, the treasurer and postmaster—general were also rejected,—the colonial secretary being the only departmental officer who was able to procure a constituency.

On the nineteenth of May, Lieut. Governor Daly pro- rogued the house in a graceful speech. He said he could not permit the last opportunity to pass without expressing the gratification which he should ever experience in the recollec- tion of the harmony which had subsisted between the execu- tive and the other branches of the legislature during the whole course of his administration, to which the uninterrupted tran- quillity of the island during the same period might in a great measure be attributed. The performance of the important and often anxious duties attached to his station had been facilitated and alleviated by the confidence which they had ever so frankly reposed in the sincerity of his desire to pro- mote the welfare of the community; and notwithstanding the peculiar evils with which the colony had to contend, he had the satisfaction of witnessing the triumph of its natural resources in its steady though limited improvement. In bidding the house and the people farewell, he trusted that the favor of Divine Providence, which had been so signally manifested towards the island, might ever be continued to it, and conduct its inhabitants to the condition of pros- perity and improvement which was ever attainable by the united and harmonious cultivation of such capabilities as were possessed by Prince Edward Island.

Sir Dominick Daly having left the island in May, the Hononble Charles Young, president of the legislative council, was sworn in as administrator. l\Ir. George Dundas, member of parliament for Linlithgowshire, was appointed lieutenant—governor, and arrived in June, when he received a cordial welcome. Amongst the numerous addresses pre-