[35] D.W. Prowse, "History of Newfoundland," second edition (London,
1896), pp. 424, 425, 426.

[36] Prowse, _op. cit._, pp. 429, 430.

[37] _Ibid._, p. 431.

[38] Prowse, _op. cit._, p. 434.

[39] Kielly _v._ Carson (1842), Moore's Privy Council Cases, vol. iv.,
pp. 63, 88.




CHAPTER VII

SELF-GOVERNMENT


The political faculty in Newfoundland was so rudimentary at this
period that from 1841 to 1843 it became necessary to suspend the
Constitution. In the autumn of 1840 an election riot at Carbonear
occurred, which was of such a serious character that the sympathies of
the British ministry with Newfoundland affairs were alienated, and the
Governor was ordered to dissolve the Legislature. He did this on April
26th, 1841, and in his speech pointed out the reason for such drastic
action: "As a Committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to
enquire into the state of Newfoundland, before which Committee I shall
have to appear, I will on the present occasion confine myself to the