The only mention I have been able to find of a newspaper in the brief histories of Prince Edward Island, is of the appearance, in 1823, of the _Register_, printed and edited by J. D. Haszard, who distinguished himself at the outset of his career by a libel on one of the Courts before which he was summoned with legal promptitude--just as printers are now-a-days in Manitoba--and dismissed with a solemn reprimand, on condition of revealing the authors of the libel. The remarks of the Chancellor (who appears to have been also the Governor of the Island), in dismissing the culprit, are quite unique in their way. 'I compassionate your youth and inexperience; did I not do so, I would lay you by the heels long enough for you to remember it. You have delivered your evidence fairly, plainly and clearly, and as became a man; but I caution you, when you publish anything again, keep clear, Sir, of a Chancellor. Beware, Sir, of a Chancellor.' [Footnote: Campbell's Hist, of P. E. I.] Many other papers were published in later years; the most prominent being the _Islander_, which appeared in 1842, and continued in existence for forty-two years. This paper along with the _Examiner_, edited by the Hon. Edward Whelan, a man of brilliant parts, now dead, had much influence over political affairs in the little colony. The history of the newspaper press of British Columbia does not go beyond twenty-two years. The first attempt at journalistic enterprise was the Victoria _Gazette_, a daily published in 1858, by two Americans, who, however, stopped the issue in the following year. The next paper was the _Courrier de la Nouvelle Caledonie_ printed by one Thornton, an Anglo-Frenchman, who had travelled all over the world. The somewhat notorious Marriott, of the San Francisco _News-Letter_, also, in 1859, published the Vancouver Island _Gazette_, but only for a while. It is a noteworthy fact, that the Cariboo _Sentinel_--now no longer in existence--was printed on a press sent out to Mgr. Demers, by the Roman Catholics of Paris. Even the little settlement of Emory has had its newspaper, the _Inland Sentinel_. The best known newspaper in the Pacific Province has always been, since 1858, the _British Colonist_, owned and edited originally by Hon. Amor de Cosmos, for some time Premier, and now a well-known member of the House of Commons, who made his paper a power in the little colony by his enterprise and forcible expression of opinion. The _Standard_ is also another paper of political influence, and is published daily, like the _Colonist_. Two papers are printed in New Westminster, and one in Nanaimo; the total number in the province being five.