MR. HORNE'S RESIGNATION.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 504, 15 May 1869, Page 2

MR. HORNE'S RESIGNATION.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.) 1 Sib, —"We have all a duty to pe J form, but the man who climbs toi certain public positions of distinction! who promises those who elevate himtflj such a position that he will honorably! faithfully, and truly perform his duty! and does it not, then I say most emj phatically, that man has not performed! his duty, and instead of satisfaction! there is produced a feeling akin ifl aversion, indignation, and scorn tw wards the man. I ask theiO any man having the slightest pre! tensions to a patriotic feeling, has out! late M.P.C., Mr George WiggeHornel performed his duty ? I say mosw emphatically, and withoutfearofcontnH diction—No! I say he has most dw gracefully deserted his constituents-* who honored him so highly, who 4 pressed so much confidence in

much lauded integrity and administrative capacity—deserted them at a time, on pretences so ridiculous, when it was impossible to find a substitute to fill his place. He sent in his.resignation as a " gallant" officer would do when ordered to the front.

Of all the miserable subterfuges I ever heard of in my life, the grounds on which he resigned " bate them out intirely," they are so puerile and old-womanish. I have read some paragraphs recently in the columns of j a neighbouring contemporary touching the administrative ability of our late M.P.C., but I never could see much of it myself, and I fancy such is all sheer nonsense. There is a household expression : " The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it." Mr Home attended a public meeting of some importance here recently in the capacity of M.P.C., on which occasion he showed very little of " the fine old English gentleman." He attacked the Chief Magistrate of the Province in an extraordinary manner. Very few of us here have much veneration for Mr Curtis or his imbecile government, still we have and claim that great British characteristic " fair play." What opinion, then, could anyone have of the much lauded ability refer red

to, save contempt, when our grea orator, without " rime or raison," ad dressed a respectable audience to th< following effect and in the following twaddle:—" It would take little Curtis our great Superintendent, to stand 01 sixpenny-worth of halfpence to 100 l through the key-hole." If poor Curtis belongs to the Liliputian family 1 would recommend him to answer sucl " bosh " for the future in the following manner, and in the language of a great man who was similarly afflicted with small impertinences of a like kind:— " Were I so tall as to reach the Pole, Or grasp the ocean in my span, I should be measured by my soul, The mind's the standard of the man." Then he attacked the recently appointed K.'M. and Warden to the Cobden District, by announcing that the extent of this gentleman's experience, Ac, qualified him so far as to enable him to administer an oath, &c, &e. This sort of thing may do very well with the great unwashed as auditors, but we Brightonians are a classic people, and we (I hope without egotism) arrogate to ourselves certain pretensions, and our opinions of our late M.P.C. on that memorable occasion were anything but of a sublime nature. However, as my friend is politically dead, I will pay the last tribute of respect to his memorv. Bequiescat in pace. —I am, Sir, yours, &c., Bbightokian. Brighton, May 12.