7O HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

first floor were reserved for the jailer’s accommodation. This interesting establishment was intrusted to the care of the late Robert Hutchinson, Esq, as jailer, who retained the position for many years.

Governor Young met the Assembly on the 4th day of January, 1832. The guard of honor comprised the troops of the garrison commanded by Captain Machen, while salutes were fired, the first at the Battery and the second on Queen Square.

During the late session of the Legislature this year, St. James Presbyterian Church, situated on the west corner of Fitzroy and Pownal Streets, was incorporated. Though opened for worship in 1828, was not completed until the present time ; it was the fourth place of worship erected in Charlotte- town, the ground upon which it stood being a donation to the then small congregation.

There being a dread of the Asiatic cholera, which had visited many ports of America during this year, measures were taken by the Assembly to prevent its spread should it reach the colony, but it fortunately escaped the dreadful pestilence although it had made its appearance in Nova Scotia. An Act was also passed this session to provide for the conveyance of the mails between Charlottetown and Pictou by steamer; for which service the steamer Pocahontas was engaged to ply twice a week with mails and passengers in each direction, receiving a subsidy of £300 annually. On the 11th May she made her first entry into the harbor, greatly to the satisfaction'of all parties. On her second trip to Charlottetown she conveyed a detachment of the 96th Regiment, under Captain Cumberland, to relieve that of the 8th Regiment stationed here. The King’s birthday celebration, on the 28th May, consisted in a review of the troops, Royal Salute, and a levee at Government House, all of which passed off successfully.

During January, 1833, His Excellency again met his faithful Legislature, of whose acts we have but little to boast.

On the 9th April, Town Major Ambrose Lane succeeded to the position of Adjutant-General of Militia,—Colonel Holland having retired after a-long service of many years rendered to his country. He was a descendant of the Surveyor, Captain Holland, who arrived in 1764.