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to withhold the payment of their rents—gave eno ruragement

te the whole body tw persist in their il-advised determination bunces adverted te might have been prevented, and Were the Sheritt’s Sule, to describe the t
of resistance to te demandsol their lond ords, until suca time would have been no pretence tor drawing duwa disgrace upon and bounds
48 those Jandlords should cons nt sell them the freehalds af tue Colony by the Governments procuring « detachment osm compliance with
In fuet it gave them Troops to be eent hither tu enturce due obedienee to the laws
O. the very serivus eXpense which

their farm< on fare and equitable terms
reason te believe that they were pursuing. if not a» striecly
constitutional, yet certainly a justifiable course.
eleariy, he thought, caleulated to encourage’ that belief

ry

Government would, he supposed, adwit that the Js'ander was Ue would, however, merely remark that be thought it would their property, very naturally
lhave ben much better co bave rented buiid.ngs tor their ac-
Hon Levogr of the CoveRNMENT (Mr. POPE ) The Govern. | commodatian than to bave erected new barraces lur that pur- considered that 10 wad meee ssury we
estiun relative to the eXpense sv incucred,
and the unwarrantakle mode in whieh an appropriatiun vf |
W-, were owing to the t

therviore, he) the Sheriffs Sates of the Lands
To the answer) bounds thereot were not proper! Hl
graph ot lls bx.) nad therefore arisen from the working of the present Act t
wil disturbances observed that great care, ywever, shuuld be taken in iraming

their organ.
ment Would admis nothing of the kind,

Organ, at east for the last forcnig! it

lion. Vr COLES then read as follows from an editorial of/ever, have to deal at another time; and,

the Islander of the Lich December, 18633.

* The wilderness state of the greater part of their lands is

rejudicial to themselves as it ts injurious to the community

aod

tant
Vai
tent that will compel them either to part with,
sither by means of tenantry or (reelulders. We are
> interiere with the known legal rghte of individuals.

or settle them

hold Excheat at this time, alter av long an interval of quiet!
| * The House of Aesembly regret that civil disturbances took
By the place in tots Colony during the past year; but the Llouse ot
jaw of nature, no man bas claim to more land than is necessary Assembly respectiady submit that the alleged open and syste-
for his subsistence; and bis rignt te bold more, and transinit | matic defines of tve law angbt Gave been averted by # more
it to his descendants, is derived from the law; and the same | prompt and efergene use of the civil authority. when the dis-
power—the will ul the people—which conferred the right, uiny turbances first made their appearance, and thus the recourse to
And that this has been extrwordinary measures. ay referred ty in your Excellency s

jon, to be not only ridiculous, but impossible.
ight t property. w however, merely conventional.

The

alsy, abridge, reeirain, or abslish it,
dune, we have many modern insta ces = The emancipation ot
the slaves in the West lndus; the selling of the Irish en.
cumbered estates; land ‘aken tur ratiroads and other public
poses, aygrinst the willof the propristors, are cases in point
fthe Government of Great Brita could e-mpel the V ex:

Indian planters ty give up their slaves, at a fixed price, there

ie no reason why it should not compel the Proj retore ot
Prince Edward Isiand to surrender their lands. on being pao
& fair compensation—not what they wight consider euch, bur

what dism erested, impurtial people might, trom reliable

gdurces of Information, determine to be, under the circum
gtances asthe true value. 4nd we cannot help thinking this wil!
be the end of the contention.

comes mote Apparent, and Che cuNsequeners mete InjuTioUs Lo,
the mass of inhalitanis, the less fepagnmance will be maniiested |

to Tesert te extreme measures. And every 1
or lessen the evil, that is rej-cted by the P
serve to reeuncile those who way be at present unwilling to
have recourse to acts of s ringeney, to a p hey, of which, bow.
éver nuch to be deplored, they cannot but confess the neces.
sity. When the siep is im danger of sinking, part of the
cargo is thrown over to save tee rest, and the heaviest firsr ;
end tie losers mut be content with the average cow pensation
Ig wall be for the Proprietors to consider well witht themselves
in the contest muw going on, and of whieh there is not likely
goun to be an end, if they reject reasonable propositions mad.
by the Goveroment of the parent state, whether they will mot
be in the sam~ rituation with those whose gouds have been
eacrificed to lighten the ship; and whether they will not
have tu be contented with a less favorable average than they
could now secure tu themselves by treaty?’

Proposal to modtiy

The hon. geatleman then proceeded to say; These were the
remarks of the Js/ander at the very time when the League

Was.orzanized in King’s County, and immediately ater the |

planting of ® eannon by members of that League on Peters's
Kowd, Lot 63, Murray Liarbor District, for the purpose of de-
terring the officers of thelaw from the discharge of thetr official
duties either in tee service of writs or the execution.of war-
rante of distraint Therefore. be maintained that the civil
adtherity had mot eco duly tested before the Government bad
recourse to the military power, Had the civil power b-en
brought to bear, in due time, for the repression or the ;urting
down of the Tenant League movement it would have been
ohecked. Lad the evil power been properly exerted in due
time for its suppression or discouragement, he was firmly por-
auaded it never would have been carried to the unwarrantadtle,
dangerous, end injirivas lengths to which it, in the end. at-
tained. iad the Government put forth the strength of the
evil authority at the time of the resistanee demonstration in
thisfeounty, the League would never have made th+ organized
parade of their power and cumbers, to which they had ra-
eourse on St. Patrick's Day twelve montis ago. The fool-
hardy attempt to take a man from the very ranks of ihe
League procession on t at day was werely a proof of the ut-

ter unfitness of the man, by whom the attempt was made to!

fill the very responsible office in whieh be was placed—that of
Deputy Sherif: and instead of being caleulated to intimidate
or cheek the Leagu-, its direet tendency was to produce a riot,
and to bind the m+ mbers of the organization more firmly to.

wether in the epirit of resistance to what they believed to be!

an unjust and tyrannical exercise of the power of the law

With the exception of! that very reprehensible act on the part
of the Deputy Sheriff, nothing was done, under the authority
ut by the direction of the Guvernment for the suppression or
intimidation of the League. until recourse was most ebeurdly
bed to the Posse Comitatus for the purpose of arresting one
man, but who—as the whole of the Posse must buve wel
Rnowo he would, after having three or tour days’ notice ot
she slarming intention of the Sherif®— bad wery prodently left
his home and betuken himeelf to parts unknown; and the re.
euls of the famous expedition wae the capturing of a man
oi etraw. ali a dosen constables, however, sent
to due time would have done more than the whole Posse.
Ang he might, ae 2 proof of the cflicieney of the civil power,
when duly and properly exercised, allude to the fact that fifty
of the loyal inhwbrtants of Charluttetown, sworn in ae special
constables, were found fully sufBcient to withstand the deterain-
€@ purpose of three or four hundred of the Leayue to rescue an
ubtortunate member of their aseociation from the gr

w. Yes, he mamtained there would have been no occasion

for the disgrace brought upon the Colony by culling in the |

aid of the Troops, bad the Government made a proper aud
timely exercise of the civil authority ; and neither would Her

Vititul & booty asa poor unfortunate tenant's pig,
Scanty farm stuck, in satistaction of a landiord’s claim.
~~ How the Leader of the Government (Mr. Pope) denied
that the troops were eent tor the purpose ot levy img distraints
They were employed, he said, tu enable the constables, by
their presence, to « tfeet the service of Writs aa
_ Hons Mr. COLES — The service upon which they werecem. |
ployed went lar heyond that. It extend d—to tie disgrace of |
their honorable proiession--to their being yluved as a guard |
upon @ cow-house, to prevent the unlortunure tenant from
having access to it, even tor the purpose of tmiiking the cow
taken in dietramt, without the express sanction of permission
of the Sheriff. Ue was very tar imdeed from defending or-
geviaed, or indeed any resiscance, to the offeere of the law in
she discharge of there official duty ; but he marmtained, as he
had already seserted, that if jodicius endeavours had been
made in time to carry the law into effect by civil means only.
there would have been no ovcusion either for the presence or
#wployment of the Troops. Le bud it from the Sheriff. Mr.
Dodd, himself, that if the Government hed placed twenty or
Abirty epecial constables at his command, he could, eff ctually,
and without any danger of « breach of the peace, have served)
every Writ, and curried into effect every warrant’! disiress
which had been put into hia hands fur euch purposes.
Hon. the Leader of the Government (Mr. Pope) Ile did
not believe that Mr. Dodd ever made use of any such words
Hom Mr, COLES positively reaeserted that the Sheriff. Mr.
Dodd, had distinctly told him that, if the Government bad!
given bim the ussiscance of 20 or 30 espacial constables, he
could have effeetually discharged will bis duties, as against
tenants, withyat the aid of the troops The employment,
however, of such & manasthe Deputy Sheriff, who, as was well
Aguwn, was by no means of too civil and conciliatory a dispo- |
sition, had, must certainly, not tended tu the securing of the |
discharge of the Sheriff s duties in a quiet and peaceable man-
per ; but, on the contrary, his harsh and arbitrary mode ot
ing, had caused the people to entertain sv confirmed a
Gishike to himself persvnally, that his simple appearance, at
the bead of a body o even the most re: pectable, constables had
deen felt to be of itself a provocative to insubordination and
fumult. The arbitrory and o“ensive naure of the man bad
chees sufficiently proved by the fuct that, without any war-
fapt.evmplaint, or say authority save shit of iis own tyran-
Bical will, he bad taken into custudy two peaceable and unof-
fending men, wpon the high-road, asthey were quit! y wending
decir way howe jrow Charlottetown, and bad vandeuff-d and
kept them prisoners io bis own bouse fur one whole night
Sees tyrannical ang unlawful conduct, on the part of the
Mepaty Saceiff, ought to have crused his immediate disiniesal
from oles, tie was, however, allowed tu retain his apport
soent, and such aliowance be yUon. Mr. Coley) thought was
oe immediate cause of the dui fDance whith, soon after
took piace. Le was not going ws Mispute that, bus for the
Fostraining presence of the military, £).% Tesistance and com
wotion whieh arose at Bagnali's would, +9 ai! itkelihood have
heen attended by savst disustrove and Jamentable conse-
neces, dis Excellency said, ‘the general prosperity
of the past year has been marred by the aivil disturd-
ances which took piace in some parts of this .Colung.!
Vaut was’ no dowbs true to the letter; but be would
observa that although those distarbances bad marred the
general ty or the Colony, the ewis which tiey bad
euased were felt by none #0 severely as by the poor untortu-
wate men, who, through the effets of delusion and deception
ised apow them, had been led to set Ghemeeives ip oppo-
ion to the dae execution of the law. The tilegality of the
Tenant League did not lie in the tenaniry beving (ormed
themesives into a Union for the purpose ot endeavouring to
induce their landloris to sell to tucin the ireelolds of theor
ferme vpon what they, the Union, sliould evnceige to be fair
agdequitubly terms; but in their having bound themselves to
each other.to gest «|| demands fur rent, or attempts to en
. pay vt rente, uot gach time as their landlords
willing t) treat with them for the sale and pur-
their fyews op their own terms. That. they had
ves to resist all demands for the payment of
ner im whieh it was generally anderstood by
9 conexion with the League, that was by phy-|

e baring

ore, was tow: ver denieg by sume lenderg.” Phay

hat what ; shoe by restos ¢ Sena tae
nue availing themselver uf all tie

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them “as the putting:

with their proposais.

was persuaded that, ro

And indeed | that wetuion of the Government bad occasioned ; : larmers
an article which appeared in the ds/ander wbout that ine, was! hy the ereetion of barracks tur the aceowmodativa of the leas, and hundreds of our industricts 14

Cie Eraminer rather pose
than the Island he G
han the fsianger, might seem to have been the Government | »

they way eventually find, unless they take some pains to
induce settlers to cultivate their forests, that at no very dis-|

iod the Legislatare—whether of the Island, or the | °°
Colonies may insist upon taxing them, and to an ex-

the last | ment, they were to actin
We [he hon. gentiewan then read and subautted the following

asp of the }

Majesty “s troops have been diagraced by having ty carry off sh taas pince.

bens, and | ti

| Llouse ; alter some time spent thereon, at was muved that the

‘Li€ wers possible, weary-| Lit

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“ prompt and energetic ase of

on the part of the peuple.
tu the Colony

troops, tc was not then, pertapa, the proper time to speak

With the qu
public moneys to defray it had been made, they would, ho

lwould then sey no more upon the subject.
‘proposed, by tve draft Address, to that para
llency's Speech which alludes to the iate ©

jee
lin the Colony, be could nut exactly agree.

i thing

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obedieace to the dictates of consei-nee

‘amendment:

| Speech, might have been avoided.’’

The organization of the League was illegal so far es res
pected the Resolution to resist the exaction of rent; but, other
wise, If was perleetly legal. Lt the aseocration hed sie pil

}on other estates froin the bonds of the téasehold tenure
Hon Mr LONGWORT?I
j that agreement was eff cud by the Tenant League.
| Wore fo purty to tC in any way

They
Lt wae direetiy concluded by

roprietor, will only and beeween Mr. Haythorne and ins teoanty, without the in-

| tervention of any other party.
Hon Me COLES The agreement was drawn ap by the
leaders of the League; and he would be glad to think the hon
jmember for the Second District of Queen's Count
Longworth) wae likely to make as yood a bargain ter bis eon-
, alituenta.

jtion; and he believed that. if made wiser by eXperienee, thes
jsopfined themselves to legal and constitutional action, they
would vet be a means of ensuring substantiated Benefits to tlie
tepantry at lurge

nuthing tu exXpece trom the Liberal party.
to expect anything from that party; for they bad brought
disgrace upon the countsy. Neither his hon trend,
Editor of the Evaminer, nor any other man who was really
anxigus fur the good name and wellare of the country, could
have failed to condewn their proceedings and to detounce
their resistance pledge.
The Hoo. member then submitted his amendment.
R. B. IRVING, Reporter.
( To Le continued, )
SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS IN. THE HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY.

Monpay, April 16.

| The Honse this morning waited on Hos Excellency with the
| Address, to whieh the followieg is Hoes Exevlleney’s reply —
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assemb!y ;

'
j
|
i
i [thank you for your Address, and L teust that your endea-
}vors to promote the welfare aus prosperity of tuts island wili

| be biess d with success.’”’

| The Anoual Reports of the School Visrtors, for the yast year,
| were submitted recerved and read.
| tlon. Mr Coles remarked that the latter Report, namely.
jpeared to be meumplete. It was very desirabie at the pre-
jsent late seswion of the House that all the papers and etatistics
connected with that branch of the public service, be placed un
the table with ag little delay as possible.
Hon. Mr. Longworth, in reply, stated that the Statute al

| lowed the Schou! Visiturs fourteen days after the meeting o!
ithe Legislatare to complete their work. He had nu doube
that the papersaliuded to would be completed within the limit-
led time = He also expressed a hope that the Board of Educa-
huon would tarnie their retoarkaon both Visitors’ Reports, for
{the information of the hon. House. :
| thon. Me. Uenstey said that the Board of Elueation would
jsee that the jaw on that point would be complied with. Le
(said he would take the ltberty tu state that the Board alwaye
|fownd the Visitor from the Western Seetiun of the I-land
'(Mr. Buckerfield) attentive and fuith{ul in the discharge of
| has duties.
| The Board, he said, did not deem it advisable to submit
‘any special extract from the Reports of the School Visitors, a>
| they considered that it would be more satisfactory te the hon
| House to bave the whole w! the Reports in their extended lorw
laid on the table.

Ordered, that said Reports be laid on the table,

lion. Mr. Ee nsley presented a petition from WS MeGowan
'Jobn Knight, Edward Kickin, E-quires, and other rmtabi
| tants of Souris, praying tur an Act ty iuecorporate a Bank at

Said petition was then referred to the following Committee
) report thereon, viz: tions. Messrs. Hensley. MeLaehen, and
Sol General

Hon. Mr Hensley. from said Committee, then reported a
Bill, to be entrled an Act to IncvuTpurate the Souris Bink
etd Bil was received and read ‘

hion. JC. Pope, Leader of the Government, submitted to
the House the Biue Book for the year L304 % Returns of the
different Binks ; Returns of Swali Debt Courts shroughout the
Isiand ; the Ciasafied Accounts ; Lapost and Exews Returns ;
Retoros of the Read Correspondeot and Road Commissioners,
aod the Coloatal Treasurer's Accounts for the past year.

How Mr. Longworth, Chaitman ef the Committee on ex-
pring Laws subuutted a Repore

Ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole Hous
tu-morrow. Ps

tion, Me. Hensley presented a petition from divers Me-
chenies. Merchants and others, praying for ao Act to incur-
porate the Meechanies’ Fishing Company of Charlottetown

Said peution, together with the Drift Bill annexed tiureto
were reerred tu the Cummuittes oo Private Bills to report
thereon. '

Vn motion of the Hon. Mr. Davies, a eupply was granted
to Her Majesty . .

lion Leader of the Government announced a Message: from
His Excelleney the Lieutenant Govenor, transmitting copies ot
Despatches and Correspondence relating to different subjects ;
among them # Despaten infurming the House that the Ad-
dros, which was passed by both branches of the Legislature
of this Coloy Jast session, on the eubj-ct of Colonial Confeder-
ation, bad been laid before Mer Majesty ; also a Correspon-
dence between the Secretary of Scate for the Colonies and the
Governor General of Canada, on the affairs of Britis. North
Awerica, expressing the strong and deliberate opinion of Ler
Maj sty’s Government to the effect that all the British North
American Colonies should agree to unite in one Government

Papers relating to the civil disturbances ‘which took place
in the Colony during the past year, and the Requisitiwa fur a
Detachment of Her Maj-ety's Ir ops.
Papers touching Commercial Treaties, &e.
Tne Clerk proceeded to read the said dveuments to the

Louse adjyura till 10 o'clock to-morrow.
Teespay. April 17.

Mr. Montgomery presented a petition irom divers inhabi-
tants ef Granville, Loc 21, praying for the establishment of a
Pose Office at Granville —recetved and read. After which it
was resulved that a Committee be appuinted to whom shoud
be referred all petivons praying for the eetablishment of new
Post Offices, and ali matters relating to the Inland Mail
Service.

Ordered that Messrs Montgomery, Green, and the Hun.
Mr. MeKachen do compose said Committee.

Petition just read was then referred :o the above Committee,
to report taereon Tue Clerk having finished the readeay of
Despatches und Correspondence, transmitted yesterday by

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the civil authority, the distur-| ment has been obtained in each Townships

He thought sume-
like what he was about to submit would be more in ac-
dance with the senge of the country, and also with that of
‘hon. members on the Government side of the Llouse, if instead
‘of yielding themselves implioitty to the behests of the Govern-

confined themselves to endeavours tu induce proprietors to puri
with the fee simple of ther lands, tu their tenants, un Peas on-
able terms, no fault could, with any propriety, bave been
found with them ; and, as was evidenced by the bargain whicr
they bad concluded with Mr. Haythorne., on bebalf of tis
tenunte, they might, had they not most effectually enleebled
their power to du good by the resistance pledge, have succeed-
As the'evil uf the memupoly b ped, in the same way, in effecting the emancipation of tenanta

It was a wistake tu say that

y (thon. Mr.

tle (Hon Mr. Colesp was glad to learn that the
| League had recinded the resistance clause from ther Consctu-

But although he bad said so wuch in ther
favor, he must quality it by declaring that the League bad
Toey had po right

Tlie

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a _— -
—oeo

o be sold by meted
ay e. been considered
ized by the Courts;
huve been detined
. that be the
Act were worth-

That practice had, vat
the law. and ao recrne
but it i now said that.these fands ebould
by metes and bounds when advertiard tur sale
Lease, all che titles obtamned under ue present

their furma and expended their all Wr Che, Haprovement of

considered that their
were the best that could poasbly

such ttles so acquired.
lion. Mr. Uensley eaid

Vv

pany new Bill un the subject.

to report thereon; and that Mr, M.Lennan, Hons, Messrs
Uen-ley. and Longworth do compose said Committee.

Church,

Committee to report therevd, WIZ: Mr. Duncan, Hons J
Longworth, and Gol Gray

Lon. Mr. Longworth .presented |
habitants of Rustico and other Northern setth ments of th:

frawis or Sethines ia fisting Codtiss un the North Store
Reeewed and read

Hon. Mr. Longworth then explained that the object of th
peti mers Was to protect Che Coufishery grounds on the Nori
Shore irom the injacions « ffeets of Chat sysiem of caching th
fis. alluded to in the peticion,—a system which, 10 af peared
was calculated, in the course of time, ty end in the total ex
tinction of that braneh of our industry Such was the resul
from similar causes on some of the best fishing grounds i
North America.
iuded tu tor catching Fish was prohibited.

to report thereva, we : tivn Ale. Longworth, Messrs. Mowlar
and Green ,
lon Mr. Uensley presented a petition from inhabitants o

Post Office at that place Received and read.
Hon. Mr. Hensley explained the objet of the petition, stat

advantages prayed for im that pe igen.
House 1a Committee on the report of the Committee on cx
pring Laws—Mr. MeLenuan in the Coair,

several laws reported a8 about to exore,
When the resolution touching the Act relating to the Pub

Island, was read, several bon. nembers addressed the Com

charged under the provisions of the present Act; and also ov

throaghout the Island
or rates, w Considercble sum might be realized towards keep

considerable reliet tu the general revenue of the Colony.

Returns of the Commisstoner of Public Lands tar the pas
ear. is
ilon. Mr. Davies submitted the puntilic estimates for the eur

LU pusea. Kast poins.
A Bal to dweorporate
read; ordered to be read a. seeind time to-morrow.
Lion Sol
weold move the jollowing resulution ;—That in consequence
of the threatened invesion of cha Beitish North Awortcan Co

to place the whole of tee revenues of this Ishend at the dia-
posal ef the Government tor the purpose of organizing the

as muy be d-emed expedient fur the protection aad defeace o!
the Colony.
Lguse adjoursed,

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Wepwespay, April 12.
| Contederation of the Provinces,
Despatch relating to the address of the Legislature, touching the

| >
rralary of His Exeelleney the Lieuteauant Governor. Alea desvatel

j clanging The power of sppomnting Jastiees of the Peace, from the

i Lieulenant Governor te the Governor in Coaneil.
| Hou. Leader of the Government replied that the twe first named

| Despatches would be submitted, but that nu such despatch as tic

latter had been received,

lien Mr. Warburton, pursnant to notiee, asked for the Returns

jof the Prince of Wales College, and Grawuiar Schools of the three
| Connties.
| Hou. Leader of the Government submitted the Returns of the
Nutuber of Pupils attending the s@id College, and the Grammar
Seiivel in connection therewith, as follows?
j Attending Cotlege, 59,
Grammar School, 47.
Horn. Leader of the Government alao presented the Report of the
| Commissioner of Pablie Lauds for the past year—all of which were
| laid ov the table.

Hon. Leader of the Oppesition asked for the Warrant Book and
tailed Accounts of the past year,

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A petition from James MeCallum-ond others, inhabitants of

Brackley Point and vicinity, was presented by the Hon Mr. Coles,

praying the fiouse to redress ‘he grievances complained of, by

acerialit Marsh therein named, iworder to prevent cattle and sheep
from rusoing at large on the sand bolis; and alse setring ferth the
neeess! y of procuring a Dredging Machine to be deed jor the pur-
pose of Keeping open the various bacbers on the coasts ot this Island

Was to protect their farms from the encroachments of the shitting
sand. Phe aand bills, he aad, wete now a considerable distance
further qoward than formerly, irom the sbrtting nature of which
scine Valuable farma were in danger of being Totally overwhe lied
and destroyed. ‘The only preveniafice was the-eultivation of the
grass on the avid ewnd bills, aad thateould net be suecesstuliy car-
ried ont anless sheep and callie, were protibited trom coustantly
trampling among thesand.. > :

Ordered, thas.said petition be refereed to the following Commnittee
to report thereon, vizr Hots, Cotes, oTHensiey, Mesers Howat,
Montgomery ead Hash. © Our inetemoef the flea Mr. Davies, the
Howse Tesuived Heelt inte: Me dbo Lebwainin the Cnaic.

Qn motion of the Hon MY. Heuley, the Bill te incorporate the
Souris Bank was then teed a weewid tiaié, and submitted to a Com-
nuittee of the whole ‘Louse

A short discussion then ensned, touching the neacasity of extend
ing the Oxpital Sieck of said Bank; the amount of whieh. as named
in the Doh, waa £.4,000, payablé by thrée annual iustalmenis, ia
shares of five pound each a é

throughout the Tsiand, was an indieation of the prosperity and en-
cerprise of the people, aud that the Baok at Souris, owing to ite re-
mole distance from Chartottetown Banks, would afford very great
tacilities to the trade of King’s Qyvualy, were very forcibly sie
expecially by the hon. members representing the East Point District
. The clause, touching the Capital of the Souris Bank, was then
agreed to, and progress reported. ;

Mr. Howlan presented a petition from divers Farmera, Merchants |
and Mechanes. of Alberton, praying for an Act to incorporate a
Bank te be denominated the Western Bauk, was then received,
read aud relerred to the following Committee to report thereon,
viz-—Mr. Howlan, Hons. Hensley and Longworth.

Hou. Mr. Longworth submitted the remaming portions of the
Repo tot the Visitor of Schools lor the Western Section of the Is-
lind, incl ding the total et his statistics, and thereby completing the
grid Visitor's Reports for the past year. Said papers were then
ordered to be laid en the table.

On motion of Mr. Brecken the House went inte Committe to take
into consideration the expedieney of a Bil! to ameud the Charlotte-
town Lucorporation Act. Mr. Haslam in the Chanr.

A Resolution was then subentted by Mr. Breeken, and adopted,
te the effeet that if was expvedierit to amend the said Act, tor the
purpose-of enabliag the Mayor and, City Conveil to levy additions!
usseseinents for permaneat improvemests aud other purvoses, aod
also to enable them to impose penalties in certain cases, not pro-
vided tor by the present Act.”

The eeveral clauses in the eaid Act of Incorporution, sought to
be atended, were then remarked upon by several hou members,
there especially the clause tenehing the expedieney of iucteased
tuxation, and the best mode of effectiog that object. Afler which,
on motion of Mr Breeken, a Comunitter was appointed to bring 1
a Bill mm contermity with the said resolution s,

How. Leader of the Goseriment sub oat d the Warrant Book,
and the de ailed accounts, aud also certain vouchers of expenditure
for the past year.

Mr. Howlau, Chatrman ef the Committee appointed te bring in a
Bit to incorporate the Weetern Bank, subwitted a Bill. Relerred
to Comwittee oo Private Bills. :

Hon Mr. Longwerth, Chairman of Committee on Private Bille
repor el the BL wi Catporate tae Mechanics’ Fishing Companys al
Crarlottetown. *. .

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message frow this Excellency the Createnant Governor, the
reading of wiich occupied at least four houre, 1 wae resolved |
thaton Friday next, the House in Committee take into consider-4
ation the eid D spatehes and Correspon tenes. Hod

thoo. Col Gray presented a petition trom the Minister and)
Trustees of a Presbyterian Chureh at Carcumpec, praying tor
an Act of Iueorpora:ion. — Petition received aud read and re:
terred to Comittee to report thereon. ;

Hien. Col, Gray, Chairman of sand Committee, reported a
bill agreed to in compliance with prayer of petitivners. Said!
bill reterted to Committee on private hilly. Rog

lion. Mr. Hensiey presented a petition from certain Inhahi-!
tants of Lot 47, praying for a grant towards » road in thut io~.
caltyv, copy of whicu he had already submitted to the Ex-.
eotive Couneil

Ubjection was taken to the
ground that i¢ Was contrary
relative to the initiat
withdrawn,

Mr. MeLénnan’ presented two petitions from certain. inhabi-
tants of Prince County. praymg fora Bill for
confirming the-title to eortain Iandssold throughout the Isiend
generally, but more espeda!ly in that-County,.at- Sheruf
Dales, under the provisions Of the Land Assessment:Act: —-

reception of the petition, on the.
Mt to the standing rule of the House, |
tn of muney votes. - 1c was therefore.

On motion of the Hom Mr. Henste
be read a second time to morrow,

Pursuant to notiee, the Hon. Solicitor Geseral then moved that
the House, in Commitee of the whole, take inte consideration the
Resolution tonebing the expediency of placing the whole revenues af
the colony at the disposal of ihe Government, for the purpose of ar.
gamizing the mibGa and goluuterrs, in couseqnence of threatened in-
vasion of the British North American Colonies, by Fevian marauders
The House aecordingly psy, itself into a Committee of the

y. it was ordered that said Bil)

bole—Mr MeLenuan in the etatre >
During the spirited debate Which thet foliowed. in which almost
every hou. member in the Alouse took part, septiments of the musi}
loyal aud patriotic nature that could possioly be uttered. charac.
terig’d the debate Phe Whole reaoarces of the Colony were freely
prottered, and pliced at the disposal af the Executive of the Colony
tor the purposes of defene®: and tip readiness of the people te re-
spud to any call Chatmight be dade upon them te defend their
Learthe and hemes, aud the free gud uoble constitution of their
country a8 a dependency ot the British Crown, was tally expressed
ou both sides of the House. | At the close of fhe debate the Hon
Leader of the Government read to the’ House a telegram just ren
eaived from New Benuswick, to the effect, thatea United Starea re-

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the purpase of) veuwe cutter bad just seized a Bria eehooner, laden with arma, B:

between Portland aud “Eastport, Marie.

9. 1do 9 of cies IL was but justice té the)
United dtates~aathorities, he wads thie

to nétice the pramewerthy

and at the time of |

who purchased
tiles
be «beamed, he theretore
nact a Liaw confirming all
that the doubts which had arisen |
act that in the advertisements, teuching

alluded) to—the metes and
defined— grievous imjurice)

Ordered that the same: petitions be referred to a Committee

Mr. Duncan presented a petition from the Minister and
Trustees of the Presbyterian Church at Brown's Creek, pray.
ing for an amendmen: to the Act of Incorporation of said

Rece:ved, read, and ordered to be referred to the following

la petition trom divers in-

sland, setting forth the necessity of prevepting the use o:

,

In Canada and other places, the practice al-

Said petition was teen referred to the following Committee

East Pont and viemity, asking tor the establishment of a

ing the necessity of securing for the people of that place the

Deveral resulutions were submitted by che Eon, Mr. Long.
worth, Chairman of said Coayoittee. on expiring Laws, bav-
tog for their object the eonsmuaatioon and ‘amendment of the
hic Whart at Georgetown, and other wharves throughout Che

mittee, urging the necessity ofmer aging the rite of wharfage

mposing Like charges on vessels loading at public Bridges
By the Imposition of such charges

ing such public works in repair, and thereby afford a very

Lien Leader of the Governanent lard before the House the

rent year, auong which dean appropriation of £11 000 tor
Roads and Bridges, abd £750 towards the erection vl a Logie

the Suuris Bank was received and

General then gave Hotive t at to-merrow he
ionies by bands of Fenian maraaders this House pledges stactt |

Militia and Volunteers, and tor sach other Military purposes

IIon. Leader of the Opposition asked for the Despatch which ac-
that of the Visttor tor the western seetion of the Island, up! companied the Address of bet brauches of the Leyislature, on the

causing a gate te be placed across the Road leading to the shore at)

Hon Ale Uviles then explained that the object ot the Peulioners |

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Phe fact, however, that-the establishment of such Institutions | House weut inte Committee of Ways aud |

‘having been soapendrd, the bill was read

Tnerspay, April 19. |

Hon. Mr. Pope presented a bill to compel
Sandeters of Vessela to extubit a Light while in.
‘barbour in the nigh! time. i

Received and read and ordered to be read!
a second time to-morrow. |

Mr. Yeo preseuted a petition from inhabi- |
tanta ot Higgius’ Road aud vicinity, praying |
for the estabbshment of a Post Office.

any and read

rdered to be referred to the Committee on |
Post Offices, fo report thereon.

Hon Mr. Hensley solicited the attention of |
jthe Government, relative to the very uunafe |
state of the public « ffices in tne Coons |
Building. The Registry and Protho otar,
Offices were, he said, were especially in-
aecure, in case of fire. The se-extied sale, tu
the Registry Office, waa uselesss; and in the
Prothenotary’s Office, where many of the uioat
valuable records of the Colony were kept,
there was net the slightest security; and the
papers were so exposed that, should a fire
uoiertanately oceur, it would be impossible to
save them frow tte ravages. Lt was highly ne-
cessary, theretore, that steps should be taken
to protect the most valuable records of the
Colony, which, ehauld they, by any accident,
be destroyed, it would be impossible to replace.

Hon Leader of the Government admittea
the necessity of adopting means for the more
permanent security of the public offices, son
of which were also too small The Controller
of Custos and his assistants were, during the
Session of the Leyislauture, driven from one
stpall office to another, and, at the present,
were cowpelled to (raveact their business in
one of the garret rocina of the Building. Tha
oue of the principal «Yiees of the Colony
should be thus disturbed was highly improper
Lae Land Office was ge small, that His Ex
cellency'’s Office in the adjoining room had ty
be used for fhe transaction of some of the basi
ness connected with the public service. Tha:
part of the building new eecapied ns a Cour
House sheuld be made into a Land Office ane
Custom House departinent, and a new Court
House sivuld be erected. These, however,
are improvements which would at present,
owing to cur peeulidr position, be inadvisabie :
bat he hoped the day was not far distaat when
the subject would receive the best cousidera-
tion of the Legislature

The bill tetncorporate the Mechanies’ Fish
wg Coe pany of Charlottetown was read
second tive.

After some tine spent in Committee on said
bill, dung Which a discussion ares -. touching
ihe necessity of guarding against giving Buel
cotupanies any inde pesiion. whieh migh
prove injurious to the jaterests of the public,
progress was reported.

A bill to incorporate the Presbyterian
Churebh at Cascumpre was reevived and read

Mr. Yeo preseuted a petition trom inbabr-
auts of Lets 7 and 8, praying for the estab-
lishinent of a Siwali Debt Conmumissioners’
Court, at or near Cape Wolf, was received
aud read) Referred to Committee.

i Mr. Howlan presented two petitions:

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One
from mwhabstants of Trguieh, praying tor the
removal of the present Post Office to a more
eeotral site, ood for the estabiishueni of ane
ther Post Office at William Dillon's, Litth
Miguish, Lot 2.) And another trom Josep
Rochards aud others, praviig tor the establish-

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the past year, the nomber of valuable
ae destroyed bad greatly
petitioners prayed for the protection ot
valuable anitwal (row ihe rasages thus com

Ordered to be referred tea Committee bor
port thereon. ; .

Hon. Col :
Minister and Kidersef St John’s Church, Beitas

asking for an aeration in their act of Lncotpora-
i tiow. of the tine for helding their Aguas Meeting
for the vier wo of Trastees. Recvived, read; and | mation I possess, Which may be useful in eur
| referred to Committee, yaa”

Hou. Mr. MeEachen presented a petition from yur Island as that ef flax ewiti
divers inhabitants of Bay Ferfune, praying tor tue
m® for the punpdse oi
askesming damages, that might be susiained by
parties, through whose faruws a read would be
opened, leading to the shore of Lowe Bay 44) tiaus in the most simple tmaaner

appointment of a Comins

aso a eubseription lint accompanying said pel
tion, (owards ibe erection of & whartat the berm
nus of said reed.

Ordered to be laid on the table.

first Mouday in August.
Merchants and others of Charlottetown, prayit

Received and read. Referred te Committee.

borough Ferry.

increase of accomnedation for the public on sa

on, or by causing the present beat to ply eve
quarter of an heur between Charloitetuwn at
Southport, especially on market days.
The said petition was received aud read.
Hon Col Gray observed that there were U

munity must, doubtless, have etreng grounds f

eoquired jute and mvestigated,
subuuited their peticwn to the favorable consider
tien of that hon. House.

Ly, Pope and Davies, the petition was relerved
a Special Comunitee, as toilows, viz: Hons. Cc
G ay and Hensley, aud Mr Beeeckeu,

Ou motion of the Hon Mr Davies, the Revent
Bil was read a third time aud pussed.

Willuia MePuail, aud other Sehool Teacher
praying tor Amendment of School Act—whic

salary of Teachers, could not be entertained

Lk was, therefore, ordered to be withdrawn

Mr. Brecken presented a petition from Belino
School District, which was rejecied on simil
grounds as above

St Andrew's Church, Biackes Point Road
Reeeived, read and reterred to Comniitee
Mr. MeLenuan presented a peiition toa Tree

vent of a Post Office at or near the Cros
Roads at Nad Pond Settlement,
(lous were received and read. Ordered to b
jreerred to the Speeiml Conmimitree appointed
ie reporton all petrens of a similar sature

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vom Isnabitants ef Let 3, praypmig tor the
venti ofa pew read, batit was not received
he natore of it being relative to the initiatio:
af money vates.

lien tue Leader eotthe Government subanitied
thie Dospateh trou His axeelleucy toe Lieu.
iiaul Govervor lo the Seeretary of Sinte, res-
peeling the proposed OCottederation

liéritisa North American Colotiies: aud

a’ ol “Me
Hie Despatch touching diis Execelleucy’s salary.
asked for dy the hen beader of the Opposition.

Ordered that said Despatches du lie ou the
tables.
tery desirable to furvish each beu. member oi |
Nat House wath a printed copy of the Des}
putehes just euibmitled : the subjects to Which |
They alluded were of vast nnpertances it war)
there care proper to give bon members an up /
peitunity of thus aequainting themselves more
bully wath their contents.

After seme further remarke from eeveral!

resolution te the effect, That said Despatches |
be printed tor convenience of kon. turunbere, |
a3 Was the practices in ather Colonies. }

question, eu the ground that it was contrary
iv the standing rule of the Tlouse ou that)
polit. |

Hou. Solicitor General then said that the |
documents in question weuld be duly submit.

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juded to, wiraeut aoy Resolviton of the House. |

The Ill te ineorporuic the Western Bauk |
was reeeived and tend, ;

and praring for redress.

te a Committee to report thereon. }
How Selector General presented petition |

jem the Rew Alex, McWilliam and ethers, |

| praying tor ag ac! te incorporate the Churet af |

Scotland at Cardyaa. Ordered

i petigon be referred io a Cou mittee.

that said!

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| Chariottetown.

read a first time.

| port: thereon.
{ Hon. Col. Gray asked the Government for
a Retars ef all menies expended by Govern-
went House Commitiee, on account of Gowers.
ape tl House, trom the deur Is32 to the pre-
svut date.

Hon. Leader of the Government said the
papers usked tor would be aubinitted

Hou Leeder of the Goverment presented,
the Returns oF the Grammar Schools of! !
Georgetown and Sun:merside : and
report ot the Cotminittee of Management o
the Geverninent Stock: Fariw.

On motion of the Hon. Mr. Davies, the

atrerand amend the Act of Tucorporation ot |

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Means, if

Mr. MeLencean in the Chair.

Hon. Mr, Davies then enbmitted a Resolu- | *
tion wuking certain alterations in the Taritt.
the principal of which was the levying of a
duty ot one ehilling and eIXpehee on every
Barrel of Flour imported trom countries not

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Suid per? |

Mr. Howlan offered te present a petinios | : .
ger pay fae deposiied with the Cleth of The Couneil foil iest the produce of your sowing. T would take

Petitioner aise atieges | the produce, if sept, right and menranee paid

Hon Mr. Coles remarked that it wonld be}

Conrey—tl

erred to Canuuittee,

Hon Mr EvEacten presented a petition fro

. \The anid

Gray anbmnitted @ petirion from th

Hou. Col. Gray submitted a bili te amend the
Incorporation Act et Saint John’s Church, ehang-
ing the time of holding Annual Meetings of that
body from the first Puesday in January to the’
Bill received and read. !
Mr. Brecken presented a petition frou divers

tor an Act to Incorporate a Woollen Factory

Hon. Col. Gray prese: ted a petition, very
uumerously signed, from the northern portion ot
tis Constituents, and others, relating to the Hille-
Petitioners conplain of uis-
management, aud Che siolation ef the rules and
conditions of the contract of that Ferry, on Uh
part of the Contr ctor. They pray fora redress
of the erievaners complained of, and also for an

Kerry by placing an additional Steambent there-

waids of five hundred names attached to tue
petition, that such # large portion ef the com:

tieir allegations, which he boped weuld be duly
He, therefore,

Atter some temarks trom Tons. Messra. [ens

waving for one of its objects the imposition of ar
additional tax tor the purpese of inereasing the

Me. Beeckeu presented a petition to Incerpera’e

| Abererowbie Wuieck, sefitag forth thar be, the

Kaimront, Deomner, E
Maren 28th, 1sug,

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Dear Sit: Your letter dated Mareh J0th is te
baad. Lt affords me much pleasure to think thay
Fei be ol any eervice be you, or, through seu, ty
Prisco Edward bland, ond 1 will now proceed te
|aueeier your questions, at lewet, ax tor on |

few, aud shali be baypy to give you all the intes,

you te inaugurate so important go indus jy
Sutiow. 1 wit
give you wy id¢gas firet as te the best mode
commencement, 1 would say that looking tu the
seareny of labor and the cost ut appliances im your
Island, 1 would advise you te begin your opera.
; vorertble, wud {
lean give you no better advice thaw (at first)
) | adopt the same wethod as we adopt in aoe ee ,
Devonshire, and Somersetstire. Afi our flay
these comulies is dew-retted, of De re
as. followa: Tha seed is sowed in The ine
April (of + stash a modify Met ae
cording te your climate aud seasuns), as it is y
evsential that the flax should grow very qu
_atter the eed is sown. We sow one and a haif
vor two bushels of seed per acte (statute), and ugg
a small machine ter sewing, Which curts abung
five pounds, and whieh 1 would advive you py
procure here. 1 believe 1 could brecure tor yoy
one, 1We, or three steady men, and fared
ried and with families, whe have Seen
io the growth avd mawagement of Bax, and whe
would be competent fe sow the land, poll the Bay
at the proper stage of mypeness from te
stack it, judge how beng at showld remain iy
take M thener, pound ot, in order te separate and
preserve the seed tor anther sewing (for Which
mour comntry the sate serd would or hor
certainty three years) restork the tus, end hen
the proper time ariived (which would be deter
imined by the nature of your searona) take it a.
trom the stack, wud spreading it on the stad one
turn it constantly, and attend toi antinthe spas:
phere had compleiely retied oF ripened ity ko
woud then pot itin etack again aed at ie coun.
Feoience seutch HW. This wan would bring wnt
with Lin the timplenents weerstary tor aceteblag
the flux, and 1 wed then be reads jor salen T
only thing you would have to pretide would
coutortable dwellings for the men aud thear
families, if any, and a reugh shed in which the
man Weuld have Co fix or heat he flax previous y
co seutching tt. From what 1 have suid )ou wil
see Lhal the processes are particularly sitople and
inexpensive, and if your sod and climate are ta-

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Hou. Mr Longworth presented a petition from ad ise you m the first instance (0 be aaticfied wha

lyorable, there is bo reasen why you seould not
produce ax good flax as we deo here. 1 atrdng
‘s.) thre wede et preparing your flax. it ie notese
0.) elaberate or perfect ae that followed in loeland or
jin Melginm, but the fax prepared ca 0 teeum
| stared rs worth Within about a penny pec bb. ee
» }much as the Erih flux,—say low Bor i work
ilb., and ax your haber is scare’, and as iw would
Nt) be dfiicult and expeneve at fitet te prepare pits

having been stibuitted through the Exeeut.v | «even pence per fo. avd flex as prepared ebony i
Government tn accordance with the rue of the) worth «x pence per lb.—ibese are preseut prices,
Heuse touching the inthation of Money votes | but higher than the average by 58) OF PCLUY per

porate the Sunaoerside Fisting Leupans —Re- | ag se wiONY ACI 28 the Doe seu pel oul mogld

{seu to vest sativfied wiih the eawe processes xe
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" ) fost instance, TE would recommend yon lbp eow-
peelves. You ought sebecquently extend your eul-

‘ivation M som found It to anewer Phe

jaaid petitivcer, had discovered veins of Cosh ot seed, } eeonid procure tur you trom a Riga: house

parts of Let 50, ou this Lsland, Bpechiene eh w his

| the Inspection of that body
tual be bas discovered, on ezid Township, Moral
substances, and aise a periect metal whieh be b
luirves to be copper. He therefore prays that

s¢ieuttic survey and exploration of the
Pownalip be made, aud that the appropriatte

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vet revoked to hie prejudice.

O:dered that the said petitioa do ine on thy

tadte
Mr. Hoalam presented a petition from eerta
heb taviset Crapaudjcomy! ming of the deci

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of the Supreme Court in Janugry bast, relatiog ie | the exprriaenis eufieren( ip lasge.

a read over the lands of Wilham Dawson,

Ordered to be withdrawn, on the ground tha!
would be dangerous to establish a preeeden
interiering With the decisions of tbe Jury ot)

Court.
Hien. Solicitor General submitted a petitic
trom the members ef the Provincial and Sabo

dtuate Lodges of the Biitieh Order of Good Teo
revs, eiebbere; the Muu Mr. Chdwarubiditied a| plars. in this Island, praying tor us Act of Lneor- | aan eould be procured for 21+. per week, only

poration — Reterred iv Committee,

Hon, Sol General aise presented a petition from) you west engage fora certain pened, aad pro-

Fr

raucts Hyde, of West Kiver, setting forth ce

Hiix Hotior the Speaker declined putting the | @™ alieded grievances therein named, relating | wite and children) and packed iu bab-s Of about
jie the mede ef conducting the Perry between |
' MeKacheu’s and Me Pwen’s whart om said pices
Pel whieh the petitioner it Cie lesser.

Ordered that satd pelilion be withdrawn, ©
the ground that the petition contemplated an ir

ted by the Goverment in printed form ax aki terfereugce With the existing Contract Loucning suid | these detaile and mame these ports beeause, i vou

ferry.

Mr. Brecken presented a petition from imha lit. |

ante of Charlottetown Royalty, tenehing th

Mr. Sineiair presented a petition from in- | durthen impesed upen them by having teture anti that yen shenld Koow thia neighborhood: it atl
habitants of Let Js, compiaining that, by a| and remove the pitches avid heavy sinewedsetts | romaine anteh as yous deft it, probabty it bas rather
late sucvey of the County line read thes have | during the winter rronttis. in the Royalty atere-| advaneed in industrial pursuits, Or Flex Mille
lost nearly ene chain off the rear of the.r farms, | d—the reads therem, owing to the great the | have probably quadrupled in extent
}roughiare approaching the City, being more still the centre of the industry af Fishing Twine,
Ordered, that the siid petition be referred | subject te such pitches and cradic-tills, atter! Line, and Net making, which ia now pearly nil

heavy snew eferuis, than any ether portion of itn
Isiand. Petition r-ceived and referved ty Com
mities

lion, Leader of the Gevernment moved for :

| Commitier of the whole House, on the seeona |
jreadimg of the Bill traveferring the Fand rueised |
Mr. Breckes sabmitted, in aceordanes with | DY the Sale et the Muvary Barracks ia Charietic- |
the Resolution previously agreed to, a bill te | fown towards the erection of the mew Barracks. |
lion. Mr. Coles moved, in amendment, that tin |
Said bill was reeeived and) 84 Bul be read that day three months, on tie | Mr. Wrrtax:—
sibentes grounds that be oh) scted te the bmtreduction )
Ordered to be referred to Committee to re. 0! Ue Bul, nauwely, that it was an appropriation |
ot tinoney, aad ahould, thet vlore, have or igthated |
ina Cammittes of the whole, in avcurdanee with! Mr FOC. Mall waa the ehief speaker on the [h-
the usual mode of proeedure,
A debate eusued, when it was contended by the |
Stipperters of Lie motion te gu ite Comaniter, |
that the Bull only coutemplaied the transterring | > that bie preposition to ask the Legislature for

w placing of certain monies to the eredit of tne

Veleny, dud Was hot tberelore an appropriation
Affe rw luch the House divided as follows:— Fir

he ativendwent of the fon. Mr, Colea — Hons

hia the | Coles, Whelan, Laird, Thornton, Warburion,
f! Kelly, Hensley, Mesera divwat, [owlan, Walkes
Against it — Hons. Pope, Kaye |

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Javies, MeEachen, Solicitor General, Lougworth,

Gray, Mesers Montgomery, MeLeonan, Green,

Junean, Yeo, Brecken, Haslaw—14.) The Bui!

was then committed to a Comunttes of the whole,

d reported agreed lo,
Hou, Mr. Longworth submitted the Bill te in-
erperate the Prestyterian Chuareb at Bonsiaw.

Reterred te Committee te report thereou,

Mr. Beecken introduced a Bill to incorporate

reciprocating with this Island. Ou the aub.} ® Weellea Factory in Charlottetown. Read
ject, a discussion took place, which will ap-| 4 referred to Comumitter, — Reported trow
pear in the extended debates ; the said Resoly- | COmnttee. read a second time, and ordered tu

lion Was then agreed to

The Resolution placing the whole of the
revenues of the Colony at the disposal of the
Government, fer military defences, was aleo
agreed to in Committee,

After which, progress was re

House adjuurned.

Frivay, April 20, 1866.

Hen. Mr. Davies reported to the Hoease
several Reewlatiane agreed to in Comimittos of
Supply. Said Re-olutions were adopted.

How. Mr. Long werth presented to the House
trom the Miuster. and others of Boushaw
Presbyterian Church, a petition asking for au }
Actot fncorporation. Referred to Cowmitte
on Private Bille.

lion. Solicitor General presented and read
a petition frou inhabitants of King’s County,
Ieuching the necessity of compelling parties
havieg Mill Dams, to erect Waste Gates or
Slips, suitable for flrating Legs and Timber
Through The same; avd to cause wand Waete
Gat 8 to be opened when requred, ov the pay-
inevt of a small ice vy those requering the use
© tie raume. Referred o a Cowmuiitlee of the
whole House, to report thereon

Hon Mr. Coles presented a petition of the
inhabditonie ef Banbury School District, Lot
45, sevting ferth their inubiaty to keep oper
their Schowl, owing fo the small nuuber of) g:
children in that) Di-triet. Petition basi a!
reference to the geanting of money,
dered te be withdrawn.

Hen, Mr, Coles presented a petition from

ported,
; tt

p

“©

ee

the Chureh at Cascumpec.

be engrossed.

Hon. Col. Gray snbmitted a Bill to incorporate
Read und agreed to.
The House, at a late bour, waited on His Ex-

cellency at the bar of the Council Chamber, when
Hie Excellency was pleased to give bie assent te

i Revenue Act for the curreut year, which bad

passed both branéhes of the Legislature with up-

recedented dispatch, The tellowing is a list of

the alterations in the Tariff for the curren? year
= oes by the abrogation of the Reeiproety
cet; Ledtwer of al! hinds (+ xcept Sole Leather)

featy, vizt—Piteh, tar, and Rosia, Two pet

duced trom Six and a quarter percent to Five;

Rice, Piye per eeut.; Fruits avd Veuetables. un- : : P

dried, Five per cent.; Bar oud Spring Stecl, Five eunployed;, but they.are wot the waly Seasele in
percent > Gyypsunt—yrer
percent > Batter, the ev
(Saip and Piulat), the Juv tba,

baud unground. five
Tew stuilinga; Bread
one slading; Ba-

ow, the cw. Ten shilliags; beet the bare.

Three siiflings;
otk, the barrel, Six shilling: ; Tobacco, unmanu-

The seve rob or icles above enumerated being the

il be exempted trom the duty iupased as shove

when imported direct from any et the said Piv-}
Was OF) jnces reciprocaling With this Island,

House adjourned.

J R. Bourke, Jun, and othera, louchiag the
erection of a Wharf’) Ordered ‘to laid on
the table. ah

Se ET

-- GORRESPONBENCE,

Hon, Mr, Coles asked for -he detailed ac-
counts teuching the expenditure of one thon-
sand pounds towards ihe Volunteer movemen|
hist year,”

Hien, Leader of the Government, in reply.
said the accounts alluded te would be laid on |
the table. .

Hon.’ Mr. Davies. submitted the Revenue
Bill for the current. year. | Reeeied and
read; and the Rute, touching the second
reading of a bill, wifhout the usual notice,

second Hime, and eoumitted tow Committee
of the whele House, o Mery Yeo jn the Chair.
After some time spent tn Cowniittee, the
ii was reported agreed to. without auy
amendment, and ordered te be engrossed.

Mr. Courey presented a petition trem cer-

instruction as to its cultivation and management
obtained,—1 beg to forward you the accompany -
tng lelter, from @ firm, of Jong standing and high
respectability in Evgiand, assured from. the in
tevest you have lilberio auitested in ihe pro-

“THE FLAX QUESTION.”

To THe Epiror of THE EXAMINER.

Sir;—Being desirous of laying befere the public

any information I may from tune to time receive
trom my correspondents on the subject of Flax
Growing, Wheretrom 1 conceive any farther in-|
ducement may be derived for tte cultivation, or!

siudiet-af their officers, in prompily capturing these disturbere at tain inhabitapte of the Western seetion of) swulgation of the * Plax Question,” yeu will most

up, is Pone. al : joders, {it ftendly relatious existing, betwreu that, Republic dud the Pro, Prince County, touching the destruction ot! y
: gnder tid At, “author tig cate! wate OBdbndel gba mig RNder counids-rerien war thet put-nnd Carried y-/ wouter, 7 fen terete
tor yinent of Livid Nasessment. ‘The practios has been tended te hear. the debate. nn ee ee naniaersof V7 aemate been desieoyed ty thet
: ‘ ‘ LJ ar e a s: ‘i i . ?
to advertise fur sule the quantity of lund agaist whieh judg-| Bouse adjuurned pant ofthe Uuosty by dage eed thet durian

wilingly Gud 1 a place iv the evlumus of the £a-
aminer. |

JOHN

Syl

Land OBoe, 17th Apra, ime APPOPS:.

lands ©

| worth, to crowd them into the States). But tet

a) | for sieeping and mills for seutebing. L advise
we employ in eur counties. Tlere we consider

) 70 tor manufacture) for each acre; and in the

j te seu tes could prepare ad couplets thea

“te fin London, and rhip.it for you; and m order to

hl te Lordon or Bristot, and ative spimning it, give
+ | you the tur value writ. Tha weuid enable yo
# ito text the experiment, and me to dee *hether
bnew change in the preparatory steps shoud be

nhadsiees bn this manner, by ecincply paping for

wngly
— | that it is a fair erep to get five ewt. of fax Gee
j
Rea ©
ke
|

of the, Of tbe Legisiajure fer Ue discovery eof Coal bel the coming ont of seme aaeiul men, and by the

outlay of yrelabiy 29 tor a sowing umachine, aad
{£3 jor ecnteiime, sou would be in a powtiem Io
_ term a fair eettmate of the «veces of the experi
hhh mment DP would ter tee the men ae itinerant ihstrtie-
ne) tors, but as laborers ou suffiexent fad ty tuuke

I have giver you my ideas pe belly at Bear im

the present stage of thie matter, bat ehall be wasnt
happy to anawer any birther ifquities Yow way

ve to meke, or in feet to paetet Joule any way
Ait (he DEOSECH ON OT Jour Hanieh enierpriae.

mi You should have Jeur fas rreetie we ti 12 le.

t-| bundles (the men sent aut te sen wil de this for

yeu. asthey Kuow hevwit is dese bere, and diieha

}finding hie & honse, he weld keep bimerlf, but

rt hubly be able te Bid eisphoymeat, if needed, tor Bas

aA
<

eet. eseh, and securely covered and ropett
} Vou shawld clip HM dieret, either te Lendan) er
) Bristol, consigned, if to the first port, to Mitase,
u) Halweed & Ceo,ef & Pinch Lane, er of ta the

latter, then to Mr I. Fo Rennett. Dgive vou all

=

determine eu eching the flax to us, they are the 7
nerrest toon place, aud the juland earriaue for «&

e riall quantities would be less, It ix rather etirions €

Bridport is

| done by machinery, instead of by hand labor, as
_ot old.
| Beleye me, my dear Sir,
Yours tral
* >

ae | am
eve

* *

ISLAND

———--. - --
FISHERTES.

;

Sir,—When in town rome time vinee, T wae
| permitted to attend the Debating Clnb, Whete
i
! tnd fisheries, und the whole of hit dueffine
seemed te be iinbibed by the andi-nee—ko much

[a bounty of ose dollar per barrel on Mackere',
lappeared “te be wraninensaly eudursed. - In the
| courae of bis remorks, Mr Viall intimated thet
, net only would our Eland trade and our fisheries
| be vaetly improved by ebtsising this bonnty, but
the moral and intellectual attainments of ovr
young men, aud in tact of the mhubitants of the
Island generally, would. be greatly euhanerd!
Byt he went semewhat farther, and intimated
hat there were wo such vessels in the warld so

MGT: BE ELE REE FETE NG AO ie EARN CRORE ABS “EEE TES MR

jwell suited for our fisheries; and no market under

heaven for our fat Mackerel but the American !
i very mee doetrine to be promulgated by
highly intere ted party.
Not being n member of the Club, 1, of course,
did not feel at liberty to make any remarka, or to
ask any questions of the apesker, but as the mait-
ter treated of there, by ite publicity in the Island
papers, has become public property, it may not
be out of place to make some remarks on thie
subject, so that the Legislature may sed ‘ariother
side of the question, and get come to as hasty 3
conclusion to grant the proposed bounty, ae Mr.
Hall's audience was. In the Gret place, with re-
spect to the description of vessels, ny doubt they
j are well suited to the business in whiok they ure

BOE Sy of) ad

:
;

the World of this inodel, vers many, if net allot the
| fishing vessels used on the coast of Scotland are
vexactly similar in model; avd it ie net at, all un-

Six Shillings; Flowr—Wh wen aud Rye-and likely that some keen ryed Awvrican, in his cam-
Corn Meal the barrel ove stuiling aud sixpence ;
Hama, the ewt, Senerilhiys; Lord, the ews, Ten
shiitinges; Ontortix, tlie LUO Tbe.
P
factured, the lb, Three pence; daty ou same to
be ievied on the quactity imperted, withwut any
dedaction for 8 ems

| vies on the Beoteh shore, has caughtaight of, aad
ome their improved forms, (aver the Ame-

Hivan fishing Semele of some thirty yeare sinee;)
| if so, we have only te tsavk the Auericuns dor
having brought the HU provement semer te lus
than we would have bad it trea Scothwdy but it

igrewth or preducion ef the British Provinees| js pot all fact that Aimerican schoouera are’ the

best vessels for nackerel fishing on ott comet + if
p they were, why are there so many bitte ve

j successiully used? for it ie Well huown that”
nen in the employ of Capt. Maubalt, Mr. Mo-
| Craith, and even Mr. Hall himee|f, used bouts,
and wade vers large catchesof Mackerel in theap !
| Then, with respect to the American being the
only market for all eur macketel, such ws pot the
| fact; tor the last few yours it bas bee #, been nse
| the pereons conducting this branch of the Islawd
| fishery, either were Americans oF succeeded ia
| precuring all tbe fish caught, for that market,
leaving us bene for home consumption, fet be
cause we could not eat fat, fis, bet use 8

(bh gher price was given than they) were eetually

i

that pase; it ie well known that The greater por
tion of our wackerel are poor; the fat vnes will
do to send to England; and the poor te the West
Indies, because they keep better ins ware
climate than fut vores; nor is this anew ided, for
the merchants of Halifax have for years:
oe to the West rp