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Monpay, April 14.

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Honse in Committee on a Bill relating to elee-

tric telegraph conmmaunication wiih this Island.

Hei. the PRESIDENS—There 1 ouly one
Observation which | wish to make with regard to
The Company are bowed by tins Bill

thia Bill.
tw bave the Cable in working order on the Ist of
July. Now, | ihink that ix Wo seon—they should
have a little more time. The cable. it is true.has
been ont of order when it was most required, es-
pecially daring thie winter, when the mails could
net cteas the Straits fer three or four weeks ; bus
that is their misfortune, net their fault. And as
this Company has expended a very large sum oft
money 18 erreting this line, it weuld be unfair to
bind them down te the Ist of July. Lau aware

that they bave net received 2 per cent. for their!

outlay. | believe it is the intention of the Com-
uy to lay down a new cable, and that can only

¢ dene ander peealiar cireuaisiances, in order
te be successial: the weather in June might
toe sivrmy te lay it down, and when laid the first
cable mig at not be anceessiul, They have already
luid two cables, both of which bave become de-
fertive, and they must have cost 4000 or Suu
dollars each. | thik the clause is rather stringent,
aad [, therefore, move that the werd " July” be

struck out, and the werd “ August” substituted. |

Hon. Mr. ANDERSON—!] agree with lus ben-
or de President. L tink the time shyuid be ex-
tended ty August, and in the me wilune it need
pet slacken tavir energies in getting the cable

laid

Hten. Mr. DINGWELL—I would leave the
whole management ef it in the hands of the Go-
termacat. We do net require the cable so much
in the summer asi the winter. [ do not think
tiey should be tied down to yay particular tine;
aud by Dixkng them dewn io sucn a stringent
manner We may be deprived of the cable ulio-

gvticr

Hoa. Mr. PALMER—The object m fixing the

time at tie Ist of July is to stinjulate the epera-
tiens of the Company ia restoring the cabie to
working order; for [ believe the tact is that ii
mays the Company so badly that they feel very
fous interest m it There is nothing to urge the
Company te
put terta any efforts to restore the cable to work-
wg ordetT, Covsiderable Inconvenicuce ws ex-
pereegcoed during the last autuayn and winter tor
wart of tue cabie, and it ie likely to continue so
For this reason L apprehend the Legislature las
thought proper net te allow the Cowmpaay a greai
sevpe of tia ay Willing to believe that the
site er posttion ef tie cable is susceptible of im-
provemest, and if T thought it was the intentiou
of the Ceupany to attend to it and put itina
better place, | would be willing to extend the
time. tHowever, | de net see any great objection
to extending the time te August, aud leaving it in
the haads of Tie Government to give 1 or not as
circngscances may require

How. Mr. SIMV?SON—If the Company
any eifuria te put the cable in working
before the first ot July, I would be willing to ex-
tend the tiwe; but if not the contract should then
cease.

Tae question of coneurrence was then pat on
the amewdiaeut, and it passed ia the afficuuative

through the Bill,
the Howse was resemed and the chairman re-
ported the Bill agreed tw with 3 certain amend-
mneut.

The Apprepriatien Bill and a Rill relating te
steam! navigation were then severally read the
second time, passed through Committee, and re-
ported agreed te. Toe Bill to render the Legis-
ative Council elective was read the third time, as
aincaded, and passed.

Hon. Mr. @alwer moved that the Honse do go
jutv Connnitier on the bili to give effeet to the
Report of the Commissiovers on tie Land Ques-
diets

‘fon Me. DINGWELL—Though I should stand
alone I will rae my voice against passing that
Lili at the present tue, as [understand that ti
Cievernment have writteu for documents con-
nected with The Report which are net here, and
which should be beture us beteore We go to legis
late upeoo the Award. The reportof the so catied
Spy is net before the House; and, from the high
teram in Which he is spoken of by one of the Cow-
missioners, | think his report has had a good deal
vt influence on the decision of the Comjaussiouers
As that Report is net betore us new, aud as this
Commission bas been brought through withour
the sanction of the couutry, ior the country has
never been tested ape if, theretore l think we
are legisiating very bastily, and hasty legisiation
le aiways dangerous. Lejere we go te contira an
Award witelt fixes the price of land at acre, | totnk we should pause. It proposes to
convert leasehold inte ireehold estates: but are
the people tu a position te purcurse their tarus at
ue. an acre? Jf the Award :e confirmed in that
Shape, it wil he ho beneiit tu the te nantry. Ela
many tenants will be made treebolders by it!
What advantage will it be to the tenauts whe are
net able te pay their year’s rent, to have the pri-
vilege of purcadiing their tars at 20s. au acre
] thik there is somethiug better im stere for the
tenants ot thie Idand. [i [ thought the arbitra-
tiep clause could be carned out i would support
this Bill; bat Lb de net see any benefit that could
result from passing it in its. present shape. I tear
it Wilk ve au injury. 1 wouid at least wait ull we
have the Bili te facilitate the operation of the ar-
bitration clause befere us, and af we are satistied
with that thea we can pass this Bill; but we cav-
net take a step backwards if we ones sanction it.
i dw pot like to be called, upou to legislate Wheo
wauat We have to legislate upon is not beture us.
We may set a pre edent which would be very in-
jurioms to the people. Even at the low price
Waieh the Government offer the land which the;
possess, uiany of the tenauts are not able to pur-
cus,

Hes. Mr. HUTCHINSGN—There cannot be

make

ordet

The Commiitiee having gene

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any great objection to wailing till the other Bill,

Chas up.

How. Dr. JOUNSON—Nodoubt the arguments
of los heuer, Mr. Dingweil, wili tind an echo;
but | consider that we are bound to abide by the
Award, and, thereture, it is our duty to contirm
it.

Hoa. Mr. DINGWELL—~I want to see the na-

ture of the Bill to coudivrw the arbitration clause.

_| that we are on the right road

etion, and, tuereture, taey have not!

ave wy tue Uplullns OF Tne
there would be very few fou
her in his views.

come yet

j confirming the Award.

power, The Award has now been before the peo-

le almost since the meeting of the Legislature.
i Jt has been disseminated over the Island almost
‘as broadly as it could be sown, and what is the
| conseq rence? Lhave not seen a single petition,
jor heard a single complaint agaiust it, with a view
of repudiating it

Hon. Mr. DING WELL—It has been received
with general dissatistaction.

Hon. Mr. PLLMER—It is very extraordinary
jthen that there has not been a single petition
} against it presented to the Legislature. [ thin’
| this taet speaks volumes, Mr. Presidout. Itshows
Now, Sir, his hon-
or has remarked with a good deal of emphasis ou
the person whom the Couunissioners entrosted to
collect special evidence, and he has followed in

ihe ery of parties outside and called hin a Spy

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cause his information was obtained privately.
| Now, I take the opportunity te say, once tor all,
that when the Comunissioners sat here all partie

1 tea

{North America more capabie,or who would more

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faithfully represent their interests, than the uma} spectacles than the present contrast in Great Britain
’ They | of unbounded wealjh and luxury, with the

i chosen by the Goverument of this Colony.
} held their Court here, and solicited every man, iu
} the most unrestricted manner, to appear betore
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| optuion in their favear
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; agent came.

| “fon. Mr. PALMER—Very well, I am glad to

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON —The time>may

le. But I trust | immorality of Catholic countries, may be permitted
to support his hon-

Hon. Mr. PALMER —Yes it may; but that) exist elsewhere besides in, Catholic countries,
} should not induce us to hesitate one moment in} one can deny that England is at the present day
The people might not} great and glorious in many respects, and there are
thank us for uot confirming it when we bad the/ few who are pronder than your humble servant of

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endeavouring to make his mission an odious one,| cltiely interested in the tower,
must present mach that is repulsive. .

bad the most uahounded coutideace in them. Theliry to a degree of ignorance, want and misery,
peaple considered that no mau could be found ia} which must tonch every heart not made of stone

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}them, and they iit this Island having popular} , pal

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON—Yes, till the secret | ring with guiety, and dazzle with pomp and un

get that adajission trem an hen, member of the}

Opposition. Well, what was the next thing pre-
sented to the mind of the Lieutenant Goveruor !
One day a stranger presented himself to His Ex-
celency and gave him a letter informing bim that
the Cooimissioners had seleeted that man te ob-
fain information oa such particulars as they
deemed essential in order to make an Award ;
and that they had sent him to his Exeelleacy, net
io ask his epuuen, but te see whether the Island
Let me ask you would
any Governor turn reund, under these cireum-
stances, afd say, No! we will not receive you!
Waat would be the votce of the peope 1 mney
were listening! Would they not say 1¢ was tolly
tor the Goveraor to reject bin!) Would they noi
say it was anu iusult ty the Comutissioners woo
sent him!
celleney but to say this Isiand would bear the e
pense. His Excellency was enjoined to secrecy.
tle was at liberty to cousull wit eve
his Geverament with regard to the egpense, but
JYhen, who is to blame that the Com-
seat that man here? I suppose the
man followed his instructions. When the British
Gevernment require a diplomatist they select a
man of shrewdness him to read
his instructions aloud wherever he goes. He just
lis among the
people aud watches public opinion and publie sen-
uiment, and keeps his Government pested up in
Therefore, 1 do not see that there is anything
so very extraerdinary in the course pursued by
the Commissioners or by their secret agent, This

man could fall in with proprietors as well aa with

woall beur ais efpehises.

Libersnndvery’ aah
no more
Hitsslouer’s
one .

ney do not tell

vllows instructions; he goes

tenants, and if his mission were known they would |

cram him with imformation which would be pre-
udicial te the igterests of the tenants: it was bet
to make it known, The Ge-
vernor had no discretion to twtertere further than
to get bis disbursements; and L think the
Gevernment bas done all that any Government
| having (he good of the country at heart could do.
'Mr. Whitman done his business well, for he was
away from the Island betore avy member of the
Goveruwent but myself knew that he was bere.
i hope I shall not have oceasion to rise again to
answer any objections te that person which your
levers have caught up trom persons outside.
Hon. Mr. HUTCHUINSON—His bhoenor has
stated that it was necessary that Mr. Whitman
sheuld Keep his business secret; but I think he
cou d have gone to cillereut places and to difier-
parties, aud asked the price of land, without
keeping his business so very secret. No person
of a neste mad could have acted as he acted.
But what astouishes me most of all is, that the
Commissioners could not have come toa proper

i) ter,

theretere, ne!

him

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decision Without sending such a mai here at all.
They weat throngh the ditferent Counties and
then retnrued to Cuarlottetown — their court was
me, and could take
r. Wittman could. and
wiy could they not come to a decision without
sending bim here’ When he was here I went into
the Treasarer’s office one day and seeing wa strange
man there Lenqnired who be was: L was told that
Le wis a tmansent here by a Firm to establish a
Fishery ou the Island, and he is leoking through
the dvcuments to asce n where he ean zeta good
place Now, I thiuk the

buve dove withont seuding that

open and free—they had ample ti
evidence mach better than sf

Co Hihissioners

man here; be has
caused a great deal of agitation throughent the Is
laud, and if be hus net giveu fulee iuforwation, the
poopie believe he bars.

} Hon. Mr. DINGWELL—I was not prepared to
hear his honor the leader of the Governmeut take
this man’s part, or to justify him in going Mroaygh
the country to condemn the evidence taken betore
lone Commissioners

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tthode who may differ frou myself in religion, but

- |‘ purlour'—for there are
Tiuvre was no alternative tor his Ex-

to bring before the public a few facts regarding the

respecting it? Of this I have very little doubt, al-
thonuh they may have unwittin

social and moral condition of millions of Kuglish—|iayg benefit on

men, not for the purpose of hurting the feelings of |

in order to show that ignorance and tsamocnthyy
aso

her bizh prestige and free institutions—the result
not of her Protestantism bat of that glorious British
Constitution wrested from tyrannical sway in the
good old Catholic times — yet that there exists
amongst the ameses of her people an amount of
j rnoranee, immorality, and beastly degradation un
surpassed in any country in the world, is a tact
which L presume no one will attempt to gainsay,
and which shoald canse British Protestants to blush
with shame at the violent attacks which are made
on Catholies abroad, when they themselves bave
such air immense amount of beatbenism and bru: |
tality to remedy at home. That such is the case 1]
shall prove from the nmiost respectable Protestant |
authorities. Dr. Channing, in hie * Duty of Free }
States,"’ as quoted by J. Kay, Esq., M.A., Travel
ling Bacuelor of the University of Cambrid
suys =—

“Toa man who looks with sympathy and bro
therly reward on the mass of the people, who is |
| classes, Eugland |
.e The eondi- }
tion of the lower classes at the present mouient js a|
mourn*ul comment on Enylish institutions and eivi
lization. The maltitude are depressed in that coun

ge, |

In the civilized world there are fewer sadder |

starva
tion of thousands and teas of thousands, crowded |
into cellars and deus, without veutilation or light,
compared with which the wigwam of the Indian is
ace. Misery, fuinine, degradation, in the vejgh
bourhood and presence of stately mausions which

bounded profiwivn, shock us us no otter wretched
ness does.” (Lue Social Condition and Education
ot the People, by J. Kay, M. A., vol. 1, p. 374.)
Mr. Kay quotes largely from ‘* Lord Ashley's
audi rable apeeet Om pay euile destitution, delivered |

inthe Ilouse of Commons on the 6th of June,}
S48," and from which [ will vive a few extracts

Itauppears thatin London alone there are thirty |
thousand young persous living in * lodging houses,’ |
which Me. Kay ealls © hells,” and of whieh Lord
Asiiley gives the following description :—

“TL will give a description of the lodying-honses
Many of then which Lhave seen were abomiuable ;
but tue statement F will lay before the House was}
yiven on the authority of a City Missionary, whe}
had been appoinied to iuspect and report on the |
subject. It ds not un exaggerated description of
those places, where hundreds aud thousands of the
human race are congregated. ‘Tne City Missionary,
speaking of a lodying-house, and referring to the
i many enploniogs teris to
be upplied—said:— The parlour measures 15 feet |
by LO. Beds are arranged ou each side of it, com
posed of straw, rays aud shavings. Here are 2
aiale and fewaule adalts, and 31 children, with seve
ral dows ; t

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in all oS human beiags, ia a contracted
deafrom which light andair are systematically ex
claded. It is impossible,’ he suys, ' to conveys a pust
idea eft their state,—tie q ianuiies ef vermin are |
amazing! I have entered a room, and in a few

minutes L have feit them droppimg Gn my hat like
peas.” * They may be gathered by handfuls,’
wrved oue of the inmates. ‘Lcould fill a pailina
few minutes. Ihave been so tormented with the
itch, that on two ovecusions I illed my pockets with |
stones, aid Waited Uila policemay game up, and
then broke a lamp, that TI might be sent to prison,
ere be cleansed, as is required before new
‘Ah! said another, standing

ob

comers are adiyjtied.’

Iy confe a

the opportonity of squandering £ 1,000 sterling: is
paying three or four values for their own lends and
those of their friends. The Col. Seeretary expatia-
ted last year very largely on the benefits likely to
accrue to the tenant fron: the arbitration clause ;
but he has been discreetly silent on that point since
the appearance of Neweastle’s despatch, throwing
cold water on the atfuir. The climax of the Land
Commission farce is the Tories confirming the
Award, knowing at the same Ume to a certainty
that the Dake of Newenstle will not stualtify himself
by recommending the Queen to confirm au Act the
contents of which are directly contrary to bis in
atractions, But what do they care so long as they
can suneceed in deceiving the tenantry, Their fate
is now sealed—political humbay, charlatanry und
jagglery will now avail nothing, | pe

* ‘Kuowing that their rale of deception is coming to
a close—anticipating the storm of indignation that
will burst over their heads at the eppreeshing elec
tion, W.H Pope, who appears to be their scape
goat, tries to play bis card by the effect of religious
auimosities. fle leaves nostone unturned to excite
BP. otestants against Catholics ; but his efforts will
fail. Protestants and Catholics are bere uuited and
they are detersuined to uce their united strength to

lexpel from office a deceitful, hypocritical, tyranni

cal clique which has deali so shamefully, and ty

such un extent, in deecit and political cajolery. |

Protestants in this directionare ashamed of tne part
played in the rame of Protestantism by that

|** hated’ individacl who-has been publicly acensed

of having been couvicted of a very immoral action,
and is very genevally believed to have the
bank ; and they have very serious doubts about the
sincerity of a £00 religion, and the orthodoxy of
an individual whom theysbave good reasons for re-
garding in no betier light than us ‘ta big potatoe

infidel.”’
A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

-- ore

FOR
THE SONGS I LOVE BEST—THE SWEET
SONGS OF THE SPRING.
Dame Nature, exultant from death's cold embrace,
Comes fresh ou the stage with a smile on her face ;
And dushed with new viger, I hear her now sing
Lie songs | love best, tae sweet sous of the spring.

THE EXAMINER,

The snow-laden tempest no longer I fear,

For a vertical sun now softens the year,

And curbs the wild Bear of the North in his speed ;

Wiile the mild South'rn Lawb frisks tame o'er the
mead.

A rich carpet of grass sprouts green o'er the earth,
And the wvood$ and the plaius all vocal with mirth,
Revive my sad heart, a8 in tune forth they sing

Phe seugs L love best, the sweet songs of the spring.

The shrill creak of the door encased by the frost,
And the click of the axe in the forest.are lost ;
Wiuiile the robiu’s gay nate, at moratag’s tirst dawn,
Lutorms me that winter, cold wiater, lias gone.

The bleat of the lambkjn oft strikes my ear now,

Audthe shoutof the swain, atthe hilter bis plonyh ; |

Yes, each light zephyr on iis bosou doth bring

Soute sound T love best, some sweet song of the
spring.

E’en ye May-tlower, just blown, in majden-like
b oom,

Sings, syiph-like, in silence, of life from the tomb,4 Township Lands uientioned in the Schedule to this '

And bids us look forward in faith to an our
Wien manu from the grave shall spriag up like a
flower. .

Then come ye with me to the forests and fields,
Aud list to the music Dame Nature now vields;
For all flashed witt uew life, [ hear her now sing

| Lie songs L love best, the sweet sougsof the spring,

by. ‘you can get a comfortable snooze and serub | : 7. = we e
there’! (pp. duyand 400 | New London, May %h, 1862,
* Here,’ says Lord Ashley, * is a statement made | ————~+ane—_—__-—~

by a medieal man :—* La a piace, where these public
privies exist, scenes of the most shocking character |
are of occurrence, It Ww ill scare ely be be
lieved, that these public privies often stand oppo
site the doors of the houses: modesty and deceucy
are, therefore, ther impossible’ But, in a
private house, isthe b Vv exposed to better intla
ences than inthe lodging-house ! Very ofien seve
ral families are found in eue room. It is a fortunate
family which has one room for itself. Everything |
is transacted in that room. Cleanliness is impos!
sible ; it is a scene of filth, misery and vice.” (pp.
ial Thas it appears thata large proportion of
those who dwell in all the larger towns * of the
British empire are crammed into reyicus of filtirand
daiktess, the ancient bul hot solitary re iga of the
newts and teads.”’ (p. 4il.)

«Did one-twentieth part of the sickening abomina
tions which Lord Asaley brought to the nevlice of
the House of Commons exist in [taly, Spain, or
Austria, what eloquent Popish abomination sveec!
would be delivered by “* Ministers of the Gospel ‘
he length and breadth of the land! It
is ny Wonder that so much viee and degradation ex
ist htuony the common peuple of England aud Wales,
for it we ure to believ® the most respectable Pro
iestunt authorities, they liye and die ina state of
heathenism. Mr. Kay aavs :—

Of the Operatives in Lancashire, and of the
workmen in our great towns, there is not—and I
speak after considerable experience and namerones

aaily
a

alt
aoe

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throughout t

To tne Epitor or THE EXAMINER.
Sir,—The writer in * Ross's Weekly’ of the Sth

inst., in his remarks upon the misapplication of the |

word * transpire,’ may rest assured that he is per
fectly correct in bis eriticisin. ,
is certainly eutitled to respect. and among Americaus
itis probably decisive; but with educated English-
men, who may be snpposed to undersiaud their own
langaage in its simplicity and purity, it is quite an-
other thing.

Dr. Johuson, our best lexicographer, in his se-
condary deiluition of the word * transpire,” viz:
“to escape from secrecy to notice,” observes, that
this rendering “is an innovation from France, wit!
out necessity ;”” and if this got nutisnal acceptation
of its meamag be foreign and needices, wiat are
we to think of that unauihorised one of Webster's,
which not only confounds the meaning of the

l H af
t
at COPSEPUCTION

seid, actually ehe

from transitive to intransitive

tuges Ils Very

It is evident that he who styles himself “ One of
the Moderns.”’ . | ++}
he Modern he Lith

has not studied the vernneniar to mach nx ivunt

te +t ‘ : €-
in the monitor o

or be would uot have adventered upon the defence
of so palpable a solevism ’

* Waether Vielation of
suid Lo traue? "i!)) Thisis all mere jarzon
t wiaspire ft li
fhe

the Subbath can be
j To

eqyuires the exertion. of a diving aveiut.

obeervation of the Sabbath isa divine command,

the breach of which is not onle ireejpnent, but note

rivus, aud does not adit @f perseptiication by any
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inquiries —TH RF: £ IS NOT ONE OUT OF EVERY TEN) role of rhetoric. :

WHO EVER ENTERS A Cnuncen, and stil fewer It would be well for our medern fiend te know
attein vis - - t ’ 4 .

who attend regularly vol. 1, p. 416.) LT REPEAT that thy purest akd est ngNsh was written and

THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PROPLE IN spoken in what has been terined the Angastan age

FHE GREAT TOWSS oF THIS KinGpomM HAVE No

RELIGION vol. 2, p Sil.)

Perhaps I may be permitted most respectfully to
sugvest to Mr. Laird and the other religious gentle
meu of Charlottetown, who seem to take such a

, deep interest.in the couversion of the heathen, the

propriety of establishing a society for the conversion
of the poor. heathens of England, who certaiuly

petand in as wach need of the Gespel, and have as}

Was not prepared, I say, to)

bear him attempt to justify either that man or the |
Commissionefs in sending him, becanse he descend- |

ed so low as to take advantage of the poor and iguo-
raut to their injury i

say such w Mali cCumnot have
the feelings of a gentleman.

Should a Judge in
any Court, I ask, after hearing the evidence, take
evidence frow oue party privately ‘
wand language sviiciently strong to express n

IT caunoy cou-

detestutiou of such proceedings; and if iis honor, |

| the leuder of the Government, knew the ieelings « 1
the coumtry on toe matter as w ellas Ido, 1] question
if he wouid attempt to justily eituer Mr. Whitman
or the Comtuissioners.
| Mouse adjourned
Tvurspay, April 15th.
| A‘ Bill for investing all estates and property oc
peapied by or for the Naval Service of Great Britain
aud Ireland, ia the Lord thigh Admiral, or the
| Coun for executing the office of Lord
thigh Admiral for the time berm,” a“ Bil relating

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ne communication with this Is- |

Are we bewud ty cootira: tie Award when we! land,” and a iit to appropriate certain moneys}

fre bet luruisued Wilu the papers connected with
it!) By eoutirming the Awacd, 1 consider that
We are sauctioming the proceediogs of & man who
his goue through the country as a spy deciving
tie people, Tae Award winy be fonuded on false
etuteuients; thereture J coutend tit it is not
eemistent for the Legislature to sauciion at. The

Attatr about the apy is so discracetul tuat it should {

Lut be tolerated ta any country.

Hiew. Dr. JUUNSUN—We tiave nothing to do
with iat; We have to do with the Award aa it
is, and we are bound to confirm it.

Hou. Mr. SiMPSON—His boner appears to |
thus thac we should have all the evidence betore |

Us to make another report. Dees bis boner ex-

peet us, alter this * pais taking report,” by com-

petent men, te sit dewa bere tor three or four
betas months te examine all the evideuce, and wak
anetuer report! The Commissioners have exe
tinted the evidence aud bere is the result. As to
the so called spy, 1 coasider it a reflection on the
gentiemen Whe seat hiay bere te call him a spy
W hese fault is it that tue coautry has pot bee
consulted ou the Award! Ut the petitions, about
which we heard se mach last sumer, bad been
sevt ia, dare say the people would have had au
epportamity ef expressing Lauer opiuions, As to
tee deiay Ul the other Jill comes, if this Bill is
pot passed we will not require auotuer.

that the debate on the principle of the Bill was

closed ow Saturday. lL save objections to being

called upou to repeat my observations on the Bill,

Jt ueiteer interesting to the Colony, nor tor th:

advancement of the pulbe business that 1 shouia

du so. But L believe the arguments and observa-

tions of lis howr, Me. Vingwell, are intended te

‘ ge torii ty the world, and L should be very sorry
\ te let them go without being auswered.

auy ot your houers. Now, Sur, is boner would

base us to wait Uil we obiain the evidence which !

the Commmsioners acted upou, aud he appears te

tuink that this evideuce is very essential! tor the |

iaiwormation of the Legiviaiure betore passing this

Mul. Now, Sur, you are aware that an applica-

thon has beeo sade to the Colonial Office tor this

juatior, and the answer is before ug Appheation

Las alse been made to thy 4'ounnissiovers tor it,

aud the auswer was that they possessed ny printea

eupy aad it would take a great deal of time, and

entail a good deal Oi expedse, to copy it, as it Was

avery voluminous ducument. Now is it neces-

eury torus to wait aad risk the loss of this mea-

sure beeause We bave not tis appeudix before us !

li is not our province to examine the materials

trom which the Commissioners drew their deci-

* tivu, wed Wo say that their decision waa wrong. It
Wodia OF Sioisting the compact which exists be-

tween the Colony and the otber parties concerned

iw the Commission. We would be periling the

Testnt of tie Couuission, and lowering ourselves,

were we to de se. | would not do so jf I had the

/ appendix in litters of gold. 1 cauread and appre-
f ciate the Award without the evidence on whieh it
: founded. I have wo objection to the country
| seviug it: but L look upou it as a document whica
y ‘ has intuing w GO Waa site “progress of this Bil
theouge the Legisiature. Hic honor also appears

fon. Mr. PALMER—I thought, Mr. President, |

I dev nei
vise With the expeeiation of changing the minds 0; |

te tuick that, notwithstanding the power given to
the Comuissoners, the Awara should be submit-
ted to Lhe beture it is co. ficmed.,

Hoo. Mr. DINGWELL~I1 ou y said we should

to the people,

jiow. Mr. PALMER—~Por w! at purpose t

Hou. Mr. DINGWELL — To test tucir minds
on the Award.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—That i: what I call sub-
wmitting it te the

wore returned

» Mr. Py sideat. And if) tions
dissolution

| therein mentioned, for the service of the veur of
mr Lord isoz,’’ were severally read the third time
und passed
lmissioners on the land question,’ was then coth-
mitted and agreed to without any amendment.
On tie question being put, “shall the report of
j the comunitiee be received,’ the House divided :
Coxtestrs—Hon. the President, Hons. Messrs
| Simpsou, Kamsuy, Haszurd, Andersou and Jotinson
——
| —Now- oNTENTS—IJons. Messrs. Hutchinson and
| Walker—2Z
| So it passed in ihe affirmative.
House adjourned tor one hour, .

AFTERNOON
| Hon. Mr. PALMER presented a Bill to explain
certain parts of tne Act for the establishment of the
| Prince of Wales’ College. It is somewhat doubt
i

'

i

SITTING,

il, said his honor, whetuer scholurships can be se-
ected from the College, or whether they can only
be taken fromthe District schools. 1 believe it was
originally inteuded that they should only be taken
frow the District schools, but the Act is not suili-
j eiertly explicit on that point

;

\ Bill © for raising a revenne,” anda Bil) “to
| facili the operation, in certain particulars, of the

) Award or Report made by certain Commissioners
appoiuted to seitle and adjust diilereuces respecting
j some of the Township lauds of Cus Island,” were
severally read the second time, passed through com-
mittee, and reported agreed to
The Bill relating to Ste.m Navigation in this Is-
land was read the third time and passed.
Louse adjourned.

df

| CORRESPONDENCE,
|

MORALITY IN PRUSSIA AND IN ENGLAND.
No. 13.
i To rue Evrrork or THe EXAMINER.

Deer Sin—It has been the yim of certain parties,
| with the view of advauejug their own political and

seliish interests, te make Catholics and Catholic
| countries appear as low as possible in the social aud
| moral scale. In endeavouriug to remove some of
i the odium heaped ou us it is necessary sometimes to

give statistics and extracts which may be a litle
| disagreeable to many friends , but as this is done in
| self defence, of course it cannot be attributed to the
| desire of giving the least offence even to the most
| sensitive. I have already shown the deplorable
| state of morals in Lutheran Sweden and especially

jin Stockholm, where, xecording to the testimony
jof a distinguished Seoteh Presbyterian traveller,
| more thay one third of the population are bastards!
\Lshall now give from the writings of the sume
| gentleman an extract from whieh we may forin an
' idea of the meralitv of Protestant Prussia, the coun-
try of Luther. Mr. Laing asserts in reyard to this
jcountry that chastity, the “Index virtue of the
moral condition of a people, is lower than in almost
any part of Europe.” (p. 173.) Iu proof of this he
says:—

“It isno uncommon event in the family of a
respectabje tradesman in Berjjn to find on his break.
fast table a little baby, of which, whoever may be
the father,he bas no doubt at all about the maternal
grandfather. Such aceidepts are so common iv the
class in whiel they are least common with us—the
middle ciass remoyed from iguorance or indigence
—that they are regarded bat as accidents, a8 youth-
ful indiscretions, not as disgraces, affecting, as with
us, toe respectability and heppiness of all the kith
and kin for a generation.” (Lvid.)

This frightful state of morals is vot at all sur-
prising ; for in no cogutry in the world should we
expect the doctrines of Luther—* Si nolit domina,
veniat ancilla,” &c.,—to be practised to such an
extent as in Prussia, and, as a wutter of course, it
should be * no uncommon event in the family of a
respectable suman in Berliv to find on bis break-
fust table a little baby.’ and such “ accidents”
should be regarded as mere “ youthful indiscre-

bt

When innumerable British Protestants are endea-

wok
(pra we the oven Wwe we oould not be

vouring social agaiust Cath
lies, by" freqeently ng em the ignorance and

The Uill “to give effect tothe Report of the Com

|
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|

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| British Colony.

strouy a cliim on British charity us their coufreres
the beathens of Erromanga.
I have the honor, &e., |
A. McDONALD.
St. Danstan’s College, May 15, L5v2.
—_-—_--~+0e- —--——
FOR THE EXAMINER
TO MISS
O Lassie, ye hue gaen agley
wi pride an nneo foun;
Ye ken it was a heaveril thing
For sic # lass as you.

—_—-—

Ye are na like the bonnie ross—
Your birth’s ua bigh ava;

Your tocher is no muckle, luse;
Your wit is vera sma.

Guid suke what are ye proud about?
Wir haud your head in air, |

And winna look at decent folk,
As guid as ye and fair!

Ye hae a silly fashion, lass,
When wi some hanglity friend,
To gang your auld acquaintance by, |
As tho’ ye never ken’d.

Thae “upper crast,”” wha’ baked themsel'es

jineral or political!
| strawa, and sinking Tories have no tegard either

of oui history + # period tuat dates bic kK bearly two
hundred years; and still more, thatahe authorized
version of the Holy Seriptures, mad@ in the days of
the Ist James, is and will ever rewmin the test of
the best Enetish composition, all additions and fan
cied improvements by moderu tyro€ to’ the crutrary
BOOW Ith slang
ONE OF
22d May, 1862.
ee
A NEW TORY DODGE.

Hox. Mr. WaeLan—S:in—The Tories are
trembling fortheir Governm widhave recourye
to the most odious and ignoble nieans to retain
their pos.tion. Finding that War. MeGilil, Exqr.,
is likely to be returaed at the coming election by
a Protestant coustituency, they wish to represent
that gentleman as the tool of Catholic Priests;
and tor this purpose a late * Moniter’ calls public
attention to his being often seen tete-a-tete with
Priests. No one acquainted with Mr. MeGill
ever thought. that he was anything else than a
cousistent Protestant ; and Lhave no hesitation in
saying that the assertion regarding bis been tre-

THE OLD SCHOOL.

| quently seen inconversation with Catholic clergy-
| men is a contemptible, malicious lie.

And even
li he did speak to Catholic Priests, is that a sin,
Drowning men eatch at

to hoaur or truth to support their tottering cause.

| Mr. MeGill’s political aud religious Opiuions are

too well kinowu to be much misrepresented by the
‘Monitor. I have never seen Mr. MeGill walk-

lig arm in arin with a Roman Catholic Priest ; 1!

have never seen him put his arms on his shoulders

Vhae c.kes o’ high dezree, jin the House of Assembly; [I bave not seen hia
Thae a o’ birth, an’ sense an’ gowd, | visit Bishop Melutyre’s residence about two or
Just laugh, puir lass, ut ye. | three Cimes a day for several weeks; but there

}is aman high in office in the Government whom

As thae apes ape, sae ye maun ape
The unco high and braw,

Yotw a’ ae woof o° senseless airs,
Na geutles lass ava.

Think na sae mickle o’ yoursel, '
fis mental wastrie a’ ; !

Get na on stilts when wi’ big folk,
For pride maun hue a fa’.

Toom headed lass, just ken voursel,
The keek your pains maun pay,
Syne ve shall fuad puir pauglty ane,
Ye'r nought but common clay.
KECK TUE REDE, |
Charlott+town.
* —

ee
POLITICAL JUGGLERY.

Hos. Evwarnd WHetan—Dearn Str—The cen-
duct of the Tories respecting the Land Commission |
is the greatest piece of political ja: slery in colonial |
legislation of which I have yet read. It is evident
that the sole object of the proprietary clique, who
have plunged this Islind into a ruinons debt by
their reckless extravagance, in serving their politi
“al partisans, has been the contlirmation of theirown |
doubtful titles as well as those of their friends.
Had they been in earnest they wight have settled |
the Land Question forever; Lut instead of doing
this, they tave made matters ten times as bud as
ever they were. They have made large prowmises, |
raised anxious expectatious—buat they bave per-|
formed ryhing. Lad they desired the Commission
to be bene cc’ Lto tie tenantry, they would have
atlorded every facility for making an inquiry into}
the state of the land tenures, by giving public doen- |
ments, &c., and pleading the cause of the poor op-!
oressed tenants. Butthey did none of these things. |
Drerythion they done in the way of giving docu
ments appeared to be done aguiust the grain; and, |
far from intereeding for the poor and the oppressed, |
U:ey actually pleaded the cause of the proprietors. |
Witness, for example, the conduct of the Colvnial |
Secretary. I believe that one member of the Go- |
vernment, for the purpose, perhaps, of deceiving |
the unwary teuants,by appearing to be their friend, |
attempted to say something in their favour, but he |
was svon * gauged.”

The most infamous thing connected with the Land
Commission farce was the employing of a Sry,who,
ii appears, was favoured with an office in the Pro-
vince Building, and furnished with all the docu-
ments which he required. This is, I believe, the |
most disgraceful thing that was ever permitted in a
This Spy went through the coun- |
try on false pretences, deceiving the people by |
speaking about fisheries, railroads, &c., to induce
the poor people to pat a high price ov their lands.
The Government party has defeuded this procedure
which no language can render calicloutly odious.
Our Tory Spy detenders sball soon learn how we |
regard the disgraceful manner ju which we have |
been iinposed on.

The only portions of the famous Award, viz :—
the arbitration Clause and the recommendation to
borrow money to purchase the Jands from the pro-
prietors, which were likely to be of any benefit to
the tenantry, have been, I muy agy, protested
against by the Duke of Neweastle. At this we
cannot be surprised when we consider the influence
of the Tories—an influence of which they so often
boast—at the Colonial Oitice. It-is well known
that Mr. Palmer and bis Government are averse to
the policy of a Loan. ‘This is evident enough from
the snabbing which Mr. Palmer gave the Editor of
the ‘ Islander,’ alias the Col. Secretary, who had to
make a most ignowini de honorable for bis
recommendation of a Loan. Is it to be supposed
that the Tery faction did not use their ollsenes
against the recommendation in the Award,
and benes the opivion of the Duke of Newcastle

| which I see he is

‘and the West.

| but simply to give to New England and Pennsy!-
i vania the mouopoly of the markets of the whole
| country for their special productions ; and conse-
| quently the burden of the tariff falls upon the
| consumers of the goods,

have seen do these things, and that is that dis- |

tinguished supporter, nut of Protestantisin, but of

| Tory-Orange-Lrotestantism—W. H. Pope, Col.

Secretary.
Yours sincerely,
A HATER OF HYPOCRISY.
Charlottetown, May 17, Inez.
—_— A #60 oe
To tHE Eprton or tue EXaMIneR. %
Sin, — In Parson Sutherland's new Geography,

reddling iHlegally through the

Webster's authority |

verb)

lust ,!

The Examiner.

Charlottetown, May 26th, 1862.

ee el
THE PROPRIETORS’ LAND SET-
TLEMENT BILL.

We copy from the last ‘Royal Gazette’ the
following despatch from the Colonial Minister, w ith
the accompanying draft Bill seat out by the Pro-
prietors’ to supersede the Bills passed last Session,
relating to the Award of the Land Comuiission :—
Prince Edward Island.
| No. 103. Dows1nG STREET, Sth April, 1862.

| SIR—I have been requested by Sir Samuel Can-
(ard to forward to you tle enclosed Draft Iill, ea

| bodying a pe for yiving the Teuauts in Prince | yfe William Candall, Proprietor of part of Town

| Edward Island the power of purchasing their hold
| . .
\jnes on certain terms there laid down.

| Cunard expresses to me a confident hope that these

| terms will be found to satisfy tie expectations ot |

lthe Tenants, and will be well received by the Le
| vislature

[have not had time, since receiving this doeu
} ment, to exainine the full bearings of ive proposal ;
ner in any ease should L pronowuce a contident opi-
nioa on a matter depending so much on questions of
local detail. But I need hardly say that u willgive
me great pleasure to tind Sir Samuel Cauard’s anti
cipations are well founded i :

Che Letter in which the Draft Bill was first com
miunicated to me was sigued by Sir Samuel Cunard,
Mr. E. Cunard, Mr. L. Sullivan, and Sir Graham

mery, Who therefore may be taken as having un-
questionably eovenrred in it. }
tne Bill—L don’t know on what authority —«
Various other maues, i

the gentlemen whose names I haveabove given. 1
should have littl doubt, however, that tie other

ventlemen named in the Schedule to the Bill, are in|

lact consenting pauruies, although it has not been
practicable to forward their actual signatures to the
Colonial Otlice.
I Lave the honor to be, &c., &e.,
| Siyned) NEWCASTLE.
Lieut. Governor Dunvas, &ec., &¢.

A Bill for settling differences between Landlord and
j e

Tenant, and to enable Tenants on certain Town-

slips to purchase the Reversion of tneir Farms.

Whereas, by a certain Address of the House of
Assembly of tois Island, pursuant to certain Resu
lutions passed by tue said Houre,it was praved that
iler Majesty's Governinent would be pleased to ai
rect a Couiuission to enquire jute tie exicting re
lations betweea Landlora and Tenant, and to nego-
tiate with the Po oprietors for abatement of Arrears
of Rent, and also tur terns to enable tue Tenants to
purcuase the reversion of their farnis.

Aud whereas Sir Samuel Canard, Baronet, Ed
ward Cunard, Sir Grahan Moutgomery, James
Mouigowery, the hight Honorable Lawrence Suiii-
Vai, Mauuicl tiodgsou, Wiliam Cuudaill, Joun Rouch
the Honorable Tiiomas Heath Uavilaud,
John A. MeDouald, aud the Honorable Edward Pal-

merand Henry Paluer, proprietors of tie several!

bourke,

; Act, marked A., did agree to the issuluz of such

um. And whereas a Koyal Counuission
was thereupon issued, which is as luliows :—

| (L.S.) “Vicronia R,

j** Vicrorta, by the grace of God, of the United
Kingdom ot Great Britain and Lreland, Queen,
Defeuder of the Fuith. Vo all to whom these
Presents stiall come, greeting.

“Whereas We have been moved by the Assembly

} of Our Ishaud of Prince Edward, to appoint Com

} missioners ty inquire into the differences now pre

} vailing in our said Ishund, relating to the rights of

Cou

| latdowners and tenants in Our said Island, with a
view to the settiewent of the same on just and

equitable principies: And whereas tie said Assein-
bly has further, by a resolution dated the Lath

Sir Samuel |

Montgomery, for himself and Mr. James Montgo- |

But the Schedule to)
yitaliis al
I think that if the Bill was) a few words as merely preliminary to the many THIS SUMMER?

to be passed by the Legislature, the only Proprietors) tengthy comments whieh the Proprietors’ Bill will |
on Wior it could be made at once coupnisory, are i

dav of April last, set forth its agreement to abide

ea

Numbers Two, Fourteen, Twenty-one, Thirty-two, 3
Forty-four, Sixty three, Sixty-four, and of halves | Grafted in this Island, and retit to Rip
of Townships Nambers Twenty, Forty-five, Forty | Cunard ; and if Mr. Palmer is the

six, Forty-nine, and parts of Townships Eight, ; :

| Forty-eight, Fifty-four, and Sixty-five ; also one- | ™easure, or if he was cognizant of j
| third part of Township Twenty-seven. _ | he involves the whole Gov ,

Mr! Edward onadh Proprietor of Townships | Sins ‘ ' ernment in the

Numbers Four, Five, Six, und half of Township |® concocting such a Bill, or consenting ty

No. Que. 7 | coction, at the very time, no d
‘Right Honorable Lawrence Sallivan, Proprietor | qeletere here. oa bh aa me when
| of Townships Nos. Nine, Sixteen, Twenty-twe,and | Sed o , under the direction of Mr.
| Sixty-one. : j and Col. Gray, were enacting the :
| Sir Graham Mouteomery, PrSprietor of the One- | re iui two Bin = SPCUBIVE tom,
| third pascs of Townships Nos. Fifty-one, Fifty-nine, | . ~ 2 two Bills to confirm the A
land Tuirty-._ ar. : : which Mr. Palmer and his collea
Honorable Thomas Heath Haviland, Proprietor fore made up their minds to ewes had long he,
of Township Number Futty six, and parts of Town- ‘ Oppose, and x
shins Numbers Forty-three, Forty, anq Hight. _| they knew would be rejected. It inust be
Henry and Edward Palmer, Proprictors of half e
86 their
bat to suf.

} nough to the patience
of Township Namber One. : | " . . patience af any People to
Mr. Daniel Hodzson, Proprietor of part of Town- | affairs mismmanaged, as they are now ;
ship Number Tweuty-three | fer quietly the additional wrong of being
l ahin Member Turenty. and deceived by their tulers, under the
Mr. Jotn A. McDonald, Proprietor of parts of on the part of those rulers .
| Townships Numbers Thirty-five, and Thirty-six. | J : ers, of Promoting the ge
Mr. Join R Bourke, Proprictor of half of Town. | neral welfare, requires the exercise gf a degree of
ship Number Thirty-seven magnanimity which the haman eh
| Jumes Montgomery, Esqr., One-third part o , nibited: end wht eeacter
{Townships Numbers Fifty-one, Fifty-nine, and | rarely exhibited, and which would be q
Thirty-four. disgrace to even a half-civilized community
| We had nearly come to the conclusion to say | We have stated t os we would offer only some
| preliminary remarks in our present No. We
| shall, of course, return to the subject in our

| dinary documents, thinking, perhaps, it would be |

: ., | When we will reprint the Bill;
| well to let our readers recover frou: the fistenisa-| 7°" ™ eprint he Bits ant fully ©Xpog

ape i i 3 \ the arbitrary and impracticable proyisi
) ment and indignation with which they will peruse | red I cable p isons Of ity
. : ; .. | several clauses.
| them, before adding one word of our own to excite |
i=} — ~~ —

|
their feelings; yet, we cannot refrain from saying WILL THERE BE A NEW
|

|be very certain to call forth from ourselves and | THE impatience of the people to get rid of the
| present proprietary Government is fully showy
jin the frequener with which the above

tion is asked. Country people especially ate very
| earnest and very persevering in making the ep.
| quiry whenever they come to the city, beenuse

=
Sutbor Of the

18 cone
the La

nothing this week respecting the above extraor-

| some of our correspondents in succeeding numbers.
| Our readers will perceive that the despatch is
| dated the 5th April. It could not have failed to
(have arrived here between the 15th and 20th of

i that month, probably before the closing of the- thoy deune'en thie Gatien :
| Legislature ; it was not published until the 2st 4 4 1m Charlier
chau , ., | town does, or should, know the movements and
May—more than a mouth after its receipt. Why | . . .
’ ‘ : * intentions of the Gorerument with regard t, 5
was ali this delay allowed with regard toa matter | Ai Y a
i date Laer general election; and the questioners almost jp.
of so much importance, or why are the docurfents | : ae :
, | variably couple their interregatory With a remark,
to the effect, that when the election shall take
plac, the country will be fully revenged on the
Governn ent for the deceit that has been
on them with regard to the Land Question, ava
the injury dene to the country by the enermous.
inerease of the public debt. It may seem strange
that we, as one of the Opposition, should give
publicity to a statement of this kind, ag it canugt
luil to alarm and distress the Government, and
induce theip to postpoue, if possible, the period at
: which a general elvetion shall be beld, so that there
But let us consider the painful and humiliating may be time for a generous oblivion te hide ecu
ke seun we learn from as proprictory dictativn. | of their sins, and enable them to devise, out of the
We have two Houses of Legislature, and all the | fyllpess of their capacity for deceit, some treach-
machiuery of a Government, supposed to be inde-| erous and mischievous project for still further in
pendent of any power but that of the Crown. To | posing on the credulity of the people, But we sco
carry on this Government costs us many thousands | there is no use in keeping seerecy on the matter
- >. sf °
of pounds per annum. For the last three years jf jt were in our power to do so. The Govern-

; the machinery of this Government has been exer- | ment know—and they will be made te feel it, be-
cised, at very great expense, in devising some

published now! They were withheld, we have
good reason to believe, at the instance of the Ex-
ecutive Council, because that body had not the

| courage to brave the public indignation which the |
Proprietors’ Bill wid be sure to arouse ; and they
are published now, we believe, by the imperative
conmmand of Tis Excellency the Lieut. Governor, |
who felt, no doubt, the full weight of his responsi- |
bilityte the Lanperial authorities and considered that
further concealment would not be safe or judicious
for hii.

means of eradicating a great chronic grievance. | they are the most unpopular set of men thatever
We have had resolutions, and speeches, and acts) ruled the destinies of this country. The Old Fa.

by the decision of any ench Coumissioners, or the} of Parliament innumerable ubout it—magnificent | pily Compact Gorernment — the much sipned

luajority of them, aud to concur in Whatever inea-
' ‘
; decision: Aud wieress it ts bi nly desirable that
| the suid diflerences should be adjusted :

“a

Our Royal consideration, are graciously picased

to nominate and appoint, and do by these presents

howluate aud appoiut, O ir trasty and weli-beloved
Join Hamilton Gray, Esquire, Onr trusty and
well-beloved Josepti llowe, heqnire, und Oui
trusty and well-beloved Join Wiiliam Ritchie,
Esquire, to be Our Counnissioners for inquiring
inte the said ditterences, and for adjustlug the
suine on fair and equitable principles.
“Given at Our Court at Backimeban Palace, this
Reign.
“ By Her Majesiy’s commend,
* (Signed) NEWCASTLE.”
And wheress the said Commissioners, by their
Report, did find and de« > suid Tow: Lip
Lands were not lable to forfeiture in comkequence
of any Omission lo perforni, or any non-performance
Of auy oF the conditiousia the origiaal #irants tuere
And also that no arrears of the Quit R ;
the said wranty reserved, are now due or

are thal

able fromthe Proprietors, Teuauts, or Ocenpiers of

such laids ; and also tuat the Proprietors, their Pen-
auie, or Ovenpicis, shoald be quieted in their pos-
sesslun of certain parts of the said land, called or
kyown as “The Fishery Reserves,” and did also
declare and Award that all arrears of Rent which
weerued due to the suid Prop rictors in respect of any
loft the said Lands, pres ious to the——-, Laos, should
he remitted w t feuants, and did also fix ce:tain
rates at which they should bavea right to parchiase
‘| the reversion of theirfarnus And whereasthe suid
| Commissioners did also, by their Report, direct and
} provide thal, in certain Cases, the value of the lands
| sould be uscertained by Arbitrators, ty be uppoint-
ed by the Landlords aud their Tenants, ia making
which last direction or pr Wision the suid ons
sivners exceeded the autiority intended to be given
them by the Assembly and tie said Proprietors, and
the sume, if contirmed by Act,
touny disputes and much litigation between Laid
lords and Tenants, and saco direction or provision
cannot be aliowed or contirmed. And whereus it
is, neveitheless, expedient for preventing the Ten-
) ants being deluded by the agitation of impracticable
| projects, based en certain questions ealled, in the
said Resolutions, * The Escheat Question,’ “ The

wight vive rise to

, Question,’ as well as for seeuring to them the be-
retit arising from the remission of Arrears of Reut,
and the right to purchase the reversion of their
farms, that the declarations, provisves, or directions
relutive thereto shoald be contirwed in the manter
and under the provisves hereinafter mentioued.

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And whereas the said Proprietars huve agreed,
during the several periods hereinafter mentioned,
to adopt the rates of commutation fixed by Her Ma.
jesty’s Government for the Commutation of the
Qait Rents, us the rates at which they will permit
tueir Tenants to purchase the reversion of their re
spective farts, and which rates are more advanta-
geous to the Tenants, than the rates fixed in the
vaid Award.
| 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Go-
| vernor, Council, and Assembly, that from aad after
the passing of this Act, every Tenant of any of the
Proprietors in the said Schedule named, having, at
the time of his desiring to exercise the night of pur-
chase hereinafter given, au aubexpired term of not
| less than tw enty-one years, under writien detiise,
jin any of the Yownship lands of such Proprietors

therein mentioned, shall have a right or option to
purchase the reversionary interest of such Proprie-
tors, bis beirs, or assigns therein, at the rates here-
inafter meutioned, that is to suy: daring the first
period of tive years, from the Ist day of May, Laue,
every such Tenant shall have a right or option to
| purchase sich reversionuary interest at fifteen yerrs
}parchase of the yearly reserved rent; during the
| next period of tive years ensuing. such Tenant shall

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sures may be requsite for giving validity to their

Now know ye, that We, taking te premises into

Fishery Reserve Question,” and * The Quit Rent |

| promises were held out by the party in power thai against aud sinning Old Family Compact—never
| the disease would be expelled from the body po-! ysed their power so disastrously for the incerests
litic in less than eight monihs from the time the | of phe people as the present domiuaut faction. The
cure was applied; and we were positively assured | giq Coupact were a respectable set of despote—
that all the long suffering tenantry of this Island they acknowledged themselves as despots — they
would be tuade happy and prosperous beyond their) planned and carried out their measures m the face
of day—they scorned the idea of being responsible
tlemen at the head of affairs in this Calony, with to the people, and treated the people as serfs, aa
Col. Gray as their guiding star. Then we had | 41) pigh-handed despots do. But, witha first con
public meetings by the score, and addresses by gjderation for their owa immediate interests, they

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| most sanguine expectations by the patriotic gev-

wuth day of June, Lo0¥, in the Yath year of Qur | the cart load, at, and in which teadying to men | did their best, we believe, to heep the country

in power was doue in the most approved fashion; | from going headlong to ruia—koowing their bread
aud thousands of people clapped their hands aad) and putter depended on its prosperity—knowiag,
flung up their hats when they got the first glimpse or_believing, that their power was net of a four
of the Queen’s Commission, delegating high but years duration, but that of w liiedeng tenure.

undetined powers to three distinguishet Colonists, The present Government, on the contrary,
who were hastening to settle, in the saost delight-. knowing they will not be permitted to continue in
ful manner, and aecerding to their own judgment, office, atier a new House of Assenibly shall meet,
all the vexatious disputes that have arisen out of are reckless of the ill consequences of their adui-
the leasehold tenure. The House of Asseussly uistration,—they had a majority of only one at the
undertook to pledge the good faith of the Colony | just general election, —chieanery, bigotry, and mit
that its inhabitants would abide the deeision of | representation preeured them that majority,—
the Royal Commission, whatever that decision they ineveased it by two more in expelling irom
nught be: and it-was fondly believed that the the House two members of the Liberal party who
British Government and certain Proprietors, wha were, we believe, legally and coustitutionally
were joiat parties to the Commission, would also! elected ;—and ever since, they have carried on—
accept any Award that might be given. Then | as if it were natural to them—a system of decep-
came the Koy al Commissioners, in all thvir pomp | tion the most shameless and stupendous that was
and dignity; aud the lawyers with their stuf and | eyer practised in this or any other Colony, as their
silken gowns, to spin out learned arguments in -policy with regard te the Land Commission very
favor of the tenants and proprietors respectively ; clearly proves. We caunot suppose, therefure,
and there were Secretanes and Reporters teshed | that a Government which can be so characterised
to the uttermost ends of the earth the light of wilibe inahurry to consummate theirewn destruc.
knowledge with regard to tenant rights aud ten-| tion: and w ws asked if we think there will be
ant wrongs in this Island. And “their Excellen- 4 new election this summer, we have expressed
cies” baving opened their court, |our belief that there will not be one, as we think

| * Ab! then and there was hurrying to and fro » Ger .
iad ented on » | the Government have not courage enough to face

of Delegates from all parts of the Island to give a!
fair account of the condition of the tenantry, |
Which “their Excellencies” duly noted in their 4),

“ : ir dependents 10 office.
books. And then came the Spy, with his budget | That there should be a general election this
of ties, and his pen, ink, and paper, to falsiiy

leverything which the Delegates had said. The | reqular sessions of the present House have been
scene Was then shifted to Rothsay, where the’ heid at the usual and ordinary seasons; and ab
great Convention of Commissioners took place, to though the election law states that the Parliament
| examive all the evidence that had been taken by | shall continue in being for four years, it was never
, "contemplated that more than four regular Ses
quires of paper and many bushels of vysters were | sions should be held during the existence of any
consumed in preparing the wondertul Report. | House. We do not think that any ease can be
It is unnecessary to describe any more of the | pointed out, showing that that number has been
farce. exceeded under any one Parliament. It may, i
to our readers—from the sending of the Report to | deed, be necessary someties to hold aa extra
England, where, after the formaiity of getting it session in any one year that has witnessed a rey
_ printed, it was shot into the rubbish hole by the | gular session, when some extraordinary and spe-
Duke of Newcastle, down to the egregious fully ot | cific object calls for the intervention of the Legis.
passing Bills in this Colony, to give vitality to the | lature; but no general business is transacted in
miserable bantling that was strangled as soon as | such Session. Yet, the Government may — and

| the Spy and by themselves, where a great many

All its scenes and incidents are well known

Island, he states that the Wood Islands are 2) have a right or op tion to purchase such reversionary | lL had seen the light of the Colonial Office. The} we believe some of the Executive Council have

“barren rock.” Now, it is generally said by all

rity of the Board of Edacation, for the thingappears
to be patronized by that body; and he suys he in

interest at 18 years purchase of the said vearly re

| those who know them that there is mo better land) served rent; and during ull subsequent periods
jon the Island or Main La id.

The owner und oceupier, Thomas MeMahon, is |
| very wrothy at such a statement going through the
Island in such a way as wight be suid by the atthe-| ale ays, that in uny cuse Where the saideyearly rent, , Count the expense attending the

Tenant shall ave au right or option to
| purcuase suc h reVersionary interest at twenty years’
| pureluse of the suid yearly reserved rent. Provided

l every such

| during the first portion or years of the term, snali be
jess than the yearly rent rekerved duriag the resi-

people know, too, or ought to knew, that all these} declared an intention to that effeet—so construe
area al yr iceedings have cost them about fif ecn | the law as to enable them te eke out their politi-
hundred pounds of good money — taking inte ac-! ¢al existene> to the very last month of the four
passing of the | years, so that theic dependents in office may live
_ Bills of last Session—to say nothing of theanxiety, at the public expense as long as possible. If we

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tends to enter an action at coumeu law aguinst the | due of such term, the amount of the purehase mo- | vexation, and disappointment they have endured. gonsulted the interests of the Liberal party, with.

Rev. Peddler for damages, as his’ appellation of
*barren’’ applied to the Wood Islands would have
the eilect of damaying the sale of them considerably
in the estimation of all those who do not kuow of
their extraordinary fertility, as it is very seldom
they require the application ef manure, being
naturally good. "

By publishing this yon will cohfer a favour on
Mr. MeMahon, and also on,

Yours, &e.
May 17, 1862. : TRUTH.

East AND West.—The foliowing little article
from the Chicago “Times” indicates the beginning
of a somewhat ugly controversy between the East
We have long foreseen that some
such difficulties would arise :—

“That the interests of the entire producing West
are sacrificed for the benefit of the maunacturing
monopolies of the East by the existing republican
tariff, needs no argument to prove. It was mt
designed toe produce the largest amount of revenue,

The pringiple of such
a tariff is not only wrong in itself, but, from this
time forward, will be doubly oppressive upon tle
producing West. The West must pay into the
pockets of the East an amount equal to the tarifl
upon their articles of consumption, or the tariff
upon the imported article. Aud as the tariff was
designed tor protection and not for revenue, the
remainder of the means necessary to pay the ex-
penses of the government, the war debt and the
war open must be laid directly upon the
people by direct taxation. These points were
ciearly set forth in the preamble and_reselution
rejected by the House the other day by a strictly
party vote. The facts in the case were presented
clearly by a Washington correspondent of the
‘Times’ in Thursday's paper. The North-West
will get rid of its mania for black men after a little,
ond a its attention to the protection of its own
rights.”

A gentleman who has travelled around the world
states that he found a volume of Lallah Rook in

{ney shall be compated by multiplying the maximum
jor full rent reserved Curing such residue of such
term by the number Of years purchase at which such
Tenant may, under tie provision aforesaid, be en-
titled to purchase.

2. Be it further enacted, that the hereinbefore re-
cited Declarations or Award of the said Commis.
sioners, respecting the [escheat or forfeiture of the
Lands, and the Arrears of Quit Rents, and the Lauds
called or known as the Fishery Reserves; and also
concerning the Remission to Tesants of Arreurs of
Rent, which have accrued due previous to the
day of ———— 1808, and which are now unpaid, be,
and the same is hereby declared to be, valid and
binding at law and in equity,

3. Be it further enacted, that in any action here-
after to be brought by any of the saik Proprietors,
their heirs, or assigns, aguinst any sach tenant, for
the recevery of rent which tay bave accrued due
previous to the dav. of , 1858, under any
such demise as aforesuid, this Act (as to so mnech of
the demand as relates to rent accrued due previous
to such last mentioned date) shall be a good defence
ander the general issue, without the same being
specially pleaded in bar thereto.

4. That nothing in this Act shall be constrned to
entitle the Tenant of any farm or lands, comprising
any will site or water-power, capable of being used
forthe driving of any saw or grist mill, to retain
any'such remission of arrears of rent, or a right to
purchase the reversion thereof, as aforesaid,

o. That this Act shall not extend to any lease er
demise where the unexpired term shall be Jess than
twenty-one years; nor to any lease or demise of any
farm of lauds baviny, at tte time of the granting
thereot, any houses, buildings, or other uuprove-
ments of that description thereon unless such houses,
buildings, or other improvements shall have been
erecied or placed thereon by such lessee, or some
person from whom be may have received thereof
vefore the granting of saci lease.

_6. That no Tenant shall be entitled to claim the
right or option to purchase under this Act, anless
all arrears of rent, and which may be recoverable
by action, shull be tirst duly paid and satisfied.

7. That in case the Tenant shall desireto pur-
chase between the periods or days on which the rent
}falls due, the same shall be upportioned, and the
portion there found to be due, added tothe purchase
money, payable by such Tenant under the provi.

sions of uhis Act.
That ne in this Act shall extend to any
e

: lease made after i f this Act.

. ee rcey Poy gue —— of = ‘Poems on| y. ‘That no Landlcrd shell be compelled 10 sell

edition of Chi mera, an American | under the provisions of this Act, unless the whole
‘hilde Harold ov an island in the Pacific | of the ase woney be tendered or offered to be

They know, likewise, that the landholders have
been more oppressive in their dealings with their
_tenautry than ever they were in former years; and_
| instituted ruinous actions to recover old arrears”

out reference to the welfare of the whole Island,
we should not be sorry_if the Government carried
out this intention, although the country might
suffer in the meantime; because it would sbow
of rent, which some of those landholders thought | that the Government themselves regard (heir pros.
“might be swept away from them by the Award; | pects a8 extremely gloomy, and believe their po-
;W hile the tenantry were waiting and hoping for litical fortunes to be in a desperate condition. Be-
| the promised relief under that measure. | Sides, this stretching out of tiue, for the sake of
| Now, the farce of the Land Commission has | official lucre, would so fully imbue the public mind
, come te a conclusion at last. We felt assured ali with disgust at their meanness, that nothing which
| along that it would disappear in a very ignomiui-| they éan do between the present or ensuing summer?
(ous manner from the public stage; but we did not | and another session could save them from an over
|expect to see a few of the proprietors cowing | Whelming and crushing defeat. They have pot
forward and avewing that they had destroyed it, done one good thing for the country during the
and offering to substitute an ugly abortion oi | time they have been in power,—every day serves
| their own. | to exhibit in more glaring light than was visible
| Bane cy ang ns LeMans = previous day their niggas — regard to
c proprietors, the Land Question—in fact, they have not one rag
| for they have broken their solemu agreement to of political reputation left to cever them, — and
, abide by the decision of the Commissioners, and they are sure to be beaten whenever they come
thereby humbagged the House of Assembly and to the hustings, Deisying the election for a few
people of this Colony; and we regret to add, that! months will give greater force and eclat to the
Mer Majesty's Colonial Minister Las countenanced triumph of Liberal principles, and add intensity
the violation of faith, and become a party to it. | to the hatred with which the people now regard
2nd — that Sir Samuel Cunard and a few other. propnetary domination.
landholders in England and in this Colony can ee ee
override our Government and Legislature, and) WE are in receipt of the April numberof the
wake slaves of our tellow colouists at their will, | Londen Quarterly Review, from Messrs. Leonard
Lf our tellow colonists will consent to be slaves— | Scott & Co., New York. We have not had time

oo SCHEDULE A. .-. - that the Bill was framed himeclf «: po)
“Sir Samuel Canard, Proprietor of Townships supervision—we have apheresis. hy

iore another year, at most, shall pass away—that -

the constituencies while they are so exceedingly
unpopular, and while it is a matter of se muchia~
portance to have another year’s pay seeured for

summer, there cancot be a shadow of doubt. Four

if they will not assert their independence at the
next election—let it come soon or late — they de-
serve to suffer all the punishment which the most
odious tyranny can iutliet. Nor let them torget
that the Leader of the present Government, the
Hon. Edward Palmer, is a conseuting party to
the iniquitous Bill now before them; his name
figures in the preamible,where it is distinetly stated
that he agrees to the arrangement proposed in
that Bill; and his name again appears in the eche-
due. There is very little doubt on our mind

to peruse the whole of the contents; but “ Dor-
set,” “ The Lite of Turner,” “ Stauhope’s Life of
Pitt,” and “The Merrimae aud Monitor,” we
have read with great interest, and we have ae
doubt the other articles will equally repay perusal,
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t[¥” A Public Meeting will be held at the City
Hatt to-morerw (‘Tuesday,) at 11 o'clock, putear
ant to a requisition to His Worship the Mayor, te
take into consideration the propriety of
two or three of the Island Voluuteers to E

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