The Herald -- 1868-04-08 -- Page 3

‘THE HERALD,

WEDNES

skilfutly ‘employed; patient
head, as well as of the hands, must be exerted

time for the developent of results must be allowed,
and eventually success will, withous doubt, follow in

exact propertion to the mannor in which these condi
tions have been pbserved.

All which is respectfully submitted —together with the
documents mentione J in the accompanying Ust—by the

undersigued,
(Signed)

a“
“

Grorex Bene,

Ronerr P. Waytruorne,

Perer SiuNciain,

LL. C. Owen,

J. T. Janta,

No. 1. Minutes of the Committce’s meetings and copy o:
letter to L. C. Owen, Esquire, M. P. VP.

No. 2
Breaker and panmlilets, (No, 1, Mr. Marsden to Hon

J. Hensley, July, 1867; No. 2, Messrs, Goldsworthy &
sons to Hon, Mr, Beer; No. 3, Messrs, Tenant to
same; No.4, L. C. Owen, Esquire, to Hon. R. P.

Haythorne.)

No. 3. Eperiments as to relative welghts and measure

of stone, by Hon. G, Leer,
No. 4.. Estimate by same.
No. 5. Communication by James Rattray, Esquire.

No, 6, Ditto from John Williams, Esquire, as to cost of

macadamizing,

No. 7. Messrs. Gray of Uddingtoa, by Glasgow, per L.

C. Owen, Esquire, on Steam Engines.

PAPIRS
Relating to the Land T

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BO0th of March, 1363):— f
Copy of Despateh trom the Lieutenant Governor to

the Secretary of State, marked No. 6, Prince Edward
Islaud, and dated Government Iou:e, Prince Edward

Island, 11th January, 1853, with enclosure, viz:
A Minute of the Exeoutive Conncil, containing their

views on the Land Tenures, and sabmitting considera-
tions on which they seek the sanction of the Imperial

Government to the itroduction in the local Legislature,

of a measure, compelling Proprivtors to sell their in-

terests in their estates.
Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State to the
Lieutenant Governor, marked No. 13, Prince Edward

Island, and dated Downing Street, 2ad March, 1863, in

reply thereto,
(Ordered by the House of Assembly to be Printed.)

PRIXCE EDWARD ISLAND,
Goversment Ilousr.
No. 6. iith Junuary, 1868.

My Lord Duke,

My advisers have requested me to forward to your

Grace, the enclosed Minute ot Council.

This ininute contains the views of the Executive
Council, of this Island. on the Land tenures, and cer-
tain arguments which the Members of the Coancil urge

with the view of inducing your Grace to sanction the
introduction in the local legislature. of a measure, com-
pelling Proprietors to sell their interests in their estates.

The geneval arguments are similar to those which
have from time to time been urged upon the Imperial

Government, and do not appear to require any report

on my part ‘There is however, reference made to re-
cent negociations with the proprietors, which perhaps,
does require some explanation.

It is stated, (pages 4 and 5). that the Local Govern-

ment has ‘cndeavoured to indoce the remaining pro-
prietors to tender their Lands to the Governinent for

vale, and their proposals have not been entertained,”
and, (page 20), “that before seeking a compnisory settle-
ment of this momentous question, every effort has been
exhausted to obtain the desired vesalt by voluntary
agreement with the remaining proprictors,” For these

negociations, Ihave torefer your Grace to Mr. Hensley's
report, (pages 10 & 16), copies of which | forwarded

with my despatch, No. 83, of 2ad November, 1867.

Mr. Hensley bas also reported that since the date of his

report, he, on the part of the Government, has asked

Mr. Robert Brace Stewart, a resident owner of about

50,000 aeves, whether he would sell his lands under the

provision of the Land Parchase Act, @ ¢., at a sum not

exceeding five shillings an acre, inclading arrears), and
that Me. Stewart has replied that he is nut williog to do
80.
‘Tho proprivtors, therefore, with whom the local
Government has been im eommanication sre, Lord
Melville, Lady Georgina Fane, Colonel Cuinberland,
Mias Sullivan, Sie Graham Montgomery, Lady Wood,
Miss Fanniag and Mr. Brace Stewart.

Negociations with Lord Mulville are not yet closed,
as an Offer has beeu made to him of £4,000 for his es-
tate. of what the rental is, (page 17), £445, and the
urreare due are £2,600.

Tam informed by Me. Hensley, that Lady Wood and

Miss Panning, are willing to sell, but at a price far ex-

ceeding what the Government will give, viz: at 20 years

purchase of the reserved rent, with all the arrears dre.

The estates of Miss Sullivan, and of Sir Graham

Montgomery. alone, of these proprietors are sahject to

the Act of 1864, referred to at page 16, of the minute,

and under that Act, each of the tenants on these estates,
is already at liberty to purchase his farm at Gtteen years
purehase of the reserved rent.

Besides the propfietors named, there are several
others—chieily resident here, with whom my Govern-
ment dovs not appear to have deemed it necessary at the
present time to open negociations. t
the estates of any of these proprictors are very extensive ;
aud some of these owners hold their estates under con-
ditions, which render it im
a title, even if disposed to sell.

As the question for your Grace's decision is, whether
your Grave will sanction the introduction of a compul-
sory Act. any comnent on the minute of my Coaneil
bevond these explanations appears unnecessary.

Vo the enclosed minute is annexed a retara of arrears

on certain estates.

The Legislature will meet on the 4th March; T will
therefore ventare to ask your Grace's carly decision on

this question.
I have, &c., &c., Xe.,
GEORGE DUNDAS,

Inborious 3 industry of the

Correspondence concerning Blake's Stone

snures of Prince Edward
Island, (laid before the House ef Assembly, on the

[do not think that

ssible for them to give

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APRIL 8, 1868,

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i. ~ pave now under review, should be conceded on
ve neiple that they militate against the geueral wel:
Acting in accordance with the v'owa they entertain on
this subject, and believing that tie Colony will never
be prospereus and happy so long as the leasehold tenure
exists in it to any great eXtent, they have endeavoured
to {induce the remaining Vroprictors to tender thuir
lands to this Government for sale. and their proposals
not having been entertained, the Council is of opinion
that the question cannot now be finally or satisfactoril
settled mes by the passing of a measure, which would,
under certain conditions, and in respect of certain com-
pensations or valuations, to be carefully and equitably
defined and eettled, render the sale of large estates of
township lands compulsory, Unless sone such course be
adopted, the Council believes this question will long yet
continue to retard the progress of the colony, discounge its
people and cause many of the rising generation to leave
its shores for countries where a more generous eystem
of land tenure prevails, and they now thus express ther
convictions, with the object of ascertaining the views of
Her Majesty's Imperial Government on the point, and
whether its sanction would be given to the introduction
of such a measure as that just alluded to.
Tho present time seems to be peculiarly opportune
for the re-opening of this question: during the last
eight years the public mind has been kept in a state of
perpetual expectation, and ecems now to have settled
down into the conviction that a general conversion of
the leasehold tenure can only be accomplished in the
manner indicated above.
Iu 1860, three Commissioners were appointed to in-
quire intoand adjust the differences “ between landlord
und tenant.” ne of these was selected by the Secre-
tary of State, a second by the proprietors, and the third
by the loral Legislature. Their public inquiry was held
in 186), bat their report and award was not officially pub-
lished till Mareh, 1862. That decument, which was
characterized by the late Duke of Neweastle, then
Secretary of State for the Colonivs, * as able and im-
partial,” though it was subsequently set aside by his
Grace, yet cannot be considered valueless; it contains
the result of many months’ patient inquiry into a com-
plicated and protraeted question by three talented and
independent gentlemen,
_ It traces * the origin of these unhappy disputes to a
improvident and unwise exercise of the Royal peroga-
tive.” ~ It states “ that the proprietors have been treated
by the Crown with an excessive indulgence, which
warrants the exercise of the Perogative in the applica-
tion of remedial measures.” It suggests * the e ten
sion of the principles of the Land Purchase Bill,” it
assumes that ** the proprietors will be willing to convert
the tenures and will he coerced by legislation, should
fair terms be offered and they refused to comply.” It
failed, because *t the Commissioners sought to devolve
the duty of assessing the value of Township lands,” a
duty they should have performed themselves, upon other
partics not recognized in the Commission, and thus it
has happened that the virtual promise of a settlement
made to the tenants eight years ago remains to this day
only partially folfilled,
‘The question has since been simplified by the acqui-
sition of several estates by this Government under the
provisions of the Land Purchase Bill, and notably by
that of Sir Samuel Cunard, consisting of 212,000 acres,
These purchases effected, at rates, in no case exceeding
five shillings sterling per acre, may be assumed to form
a just criterion of the value of other contiguous ‘Town-
ships, not differing materially in quality of soil, situa-
tion or population, If, however, a difference can be
shewn to exist, the Council will not hesitate to admit
that it should have due weight in estimating the price a
propricter ought to receive for an estate; and as the |
tenants of those proprieters who ha:e refuced to sell |
their lands are naturally desirous to share the advan-
tages recently acquired by their fellow colonists, the
Council, therefore, deems ita duty to abstain from ex-
citing expectations in the people's minds, which may
again prove delusive, befure the sanction of the Seere-
tary of State has been sought for the introduction of a |
| measure which, resuming the question at the gta
| where the award of the late Royal Commissioners fa fled |
to take effect, would provide the v ans of ascertaining
the value of proprietors’ estates, aud thus ect this much
vexed grievance at reset forever,
It is most important that a solution of this difficuls
problem should be arrived at without delay. The in-
terests of this whole community demand it as impera-
tively as do the tenants themselves; it absorbs the pub-
lic attention to the exclusion or obstraction ofall others,
Does the local Legislature look around for a source
whence revenae may be derived for internal improve-
ments, or following the dictates of philanthrrophy, seck
to enlarge the Colonial Lunatic Asylam, or in confor-
mity with the desire expressed by His Grace the Seere-
tary of State, is it proposed to improve the prieons and
prison discipline within the Colony, the most natural
and certain resource of a new country—a land tax—is
found to be anticipated by the proprietors’ rent, Most
other Colonies, at some period of their history, have
possessed a fund derived from the sale of wilderness
lands, applicable to emigration or the construction of
public works, Priace Edward Island not euly has had
no land fand, but has been compelled, to the great em-
barrassinent of her finances and the impoverishment .of
her people, to remit monies which should have been em-
ployed for the benefit of her population at hom, The
progress of a community thus cireumstanced, must ne-
cessarily be slow; nor is it surprising, that peace, har-
mony, and contentment, which should be as household
words in the thriving settler’s home, have here given
place to anxiety, discontent, and not unfrequently, to
despair,
To treat this question as one between landlord aud
tenant only, is to ‘ake a limited and erroneous view of
it. It cannot be supposed that any class of the commu-
nity regards with indifference, tue employment of Her
Majesty's ‘Troops to collect rent for proprietors, er to
coerce refractory tenants; still less can the expenditure
of Colomal resources in building barracks, unneces-
sary, except in connection with the leasehold tenure,
he approved, ‘The annual abstraction of cash for remit-
tance abroad, instead of circulating through the ordi-
nary commercial channel, is another cause of embar-
rasment affecting all classes, to which may be added
the indolence and want of enterprise which the leage-
hold system often engenders, and which react on the
revenue, as wellas on the profits of tradvamen and
mechanics, :
There are certain objections often urged by the in-
terested parties, who oppose A settlement of this
which it may be worth while to anticipate.

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‘ants residing on townshipe, ‘whose owners refase to se

their properties

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he deplored, that the interests of
ent parts of the isl.nd, should depend to a considerab!

value by the increase of population, the expenditure o
appropriations from the general revenue, and the ex
tension of steam navigdtion,) | ©" «'r!

therein named, were remitted,

amounting to over £53,000 sterling. Assuming this ad

proprietor’s rent roll.
contirmed by observing the amount of arrears which ex-
isted on some of the estates purchased by this Govern

further confirmation is opportunely afforded by the es
tate of Lord Melville, comprising 11,200 acres.

sterling.

less financial embarrassment,
Assuming that some temporar
against it should be sot off the sav

in

withheld or grudgingly: applied in sufficient qnantit

aristocracy !

his Grace’s attention, the fact that the proprietory

only alternative left them,

in British North America.

rival nation, thus depriving the colony which has nur-

of their age.

Secretary ef State for the Colonies.

(cory.)
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.
Down1ixa Srrerr.

No. 13. Zod March, 1868,
Si,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of you

prictors to sell their interests in their estates,
] ae
Executiy

measure Which would uaturally tend to raise in the

sult it might be deemed inexpedient to comply,

support (fa law for the compulso
those proprieters who were not }
1364; 1 am not prepared to ac
sanction such & measure,

The views of former Secretaries of State upon this

pondence, :
now than to state, that TI find no special rerson assignec

Representatives,
availed themselves of the provisions of the Act of 1864
and if so, to what extent?
I have, &c., &c., X&e.,
[Signed.] BUCKINGHAM & CIIANDOS.
Lieut. Governor Dundas, &c., &c., &e.

can nm

All Sorts of Paragraphs. :

sa capsaicin tacts ennai Pata ie a

The Council cannot but regard it as a fact deeply to
families, in differ-

extent upon the will of a single individual reeiding
across the Atlantic. And that this large number may
be further augmented, when the wilderness lands—the
property of the same individeal,, acquires additional

_ By an Act passed in 1864, intitled {* An Act to settle
differences between landlord and tanant ''~-ull arrears
of rent due previously to 1858, on ¢ertain’ townships
The advocates of that
measure claimed for it the favorable consideration of
the public, on the ground that it cancelled arrears

tuission to be correct, it affords clear evidence as to the
unsatisfactory position of the relations between land-
lorda and their tenants, and of the fictitious value of the
This view of the case may be

ment—a memorandum of which 1s hereto annexed; a

Tt is
shewn by a return recently furnished by his Lordship's
order, that with a gross rental of £416 sterling. per
annuni, arrears have accumulated amounting to £2,000

3d. Tt has been agreed that a wholesale purchase of
leaschold and wilderness Jands by this Gover nment
cannot prove a self-sustaining process, and that the
colony would thereby be plunged inte a stateof, hope-

loss would ensue,
g of all future con-
tingencies connected with the coercion of tenante ; the
good effects of the stimalus which the prospect of pos-
sessing free Jand would apply to the energies of the
people; also, the results of the liberal application of
capital and labour to the scil, which have hitherto been

Another important object would be gained —the with.
drawal of the wilderness lands from the operation of the
leaschold system ; then the increased value they would
acquire by the completion of public works, by steam
navigation, promoted at the public expenge, and by the
rapid increase of pepulation, would become, as it ought
always to have been, the property of the people, and
not serve to enrivh an absentee or even a resident

In conclusion, the Council desire tu impress upon

aystew, which thus paralyzed the energies and oppressed
the industry of the people, bas ne longer any existence
across the narrow straits whieh separates this Islany
from the Dominion of Canada; also, that before seck-
ing a comptlsory settlement of this mémentous qnes-
tion, every effort has been exhausted to obtain the
desired result by voluntary agreement With the remain-
ing proprietors. Thus the remedy now sought for, is the
The Council, therefore,
earnestly desires the sanction of his Grace. the Seere-
tary of State, to a measure of the kind indicated, and
thus to obliterate the last traces of the leaseheld tenure

Without such a measure, the rising generation of this
Colony, having the experience of their fathers before
their eyes, will not grow up to poesess this land.te which
they clearly have the best natural right. Following:
the example of their Irish prototypes, they will accept
the Litter alternative of expatriation, they willemégrate,
as many have already dong, to the neighboring Repub-
lie. an] there devote their youthful energies to enrich a

tured and ecueated them of their services in the flower

The Council has felt it an imperative daty respect-
fully to urge these considerations on Your Excellency’s
attention, and wow suggest that Your Excellency will
cause this memorial to be forwa:de] to his Grace, the

Despatch, No. G, of the 11th ultimo, enclosing a minute
of your Executive Council, submitting the grounds ou
which they seek the approval of Her Majesty's Govern-
ment, for the introduction into the Legislature of
Prinee Edward Island, of a measure, compelling pro-

recognize the propriety of the course which the
e Council have taken, in seekmg to obtain the
sauction of the Secretary of State, before Introducing a

mints of the people, expectations with which in the re-

I make the recognition the more fully, because, after
a carefal consideration of the whole case, and of the
grounds now put forward by the Executive Council, in
ry,aale of the land of
varties to the Act of
visp Her Majesty to

subject. and the grounds upon which such views were
based, have been so clearly explained in prior corres-
that it appears to me unnecessary to ds more

and also, whether any tenants have

—"~

| Tue New York correspondent of the Boston Zravel-
ler says:—The Roman Catholic body is displaying an
unwonted vigor in all its departments. Archbishop
McCloskey is very different in his tactics from Arch-
bishop Hughes, who fought every thing and every body
that was anti-Catholic. He fought the Bible Society,
common schools, politicians and Protestants. THe war
always before the public—on the platform. cn the ros-
trum, or in the press. He was belligerent and dog-
matical to the last. Archbishop McCloskey assaily no-
body, attacks nobody, never appears in public unless in
connection with his Charch duties, But for years this
Diocese had not been guided by so efficient a hand, or
ruled by a man of such marked executive ability. The
Diocese everywhere gives signs of new life. New

churches are coneecrated ; old ones enlarged ; education-

al interests vigorous, and immenve audiences fill the

churches on Sanday night when subjects are treated in

defence of the Catholic faith; tracts answering popular

objections are distributed through the cars, omnibuses

and places of public business. The work on the new

Cathedral on Fifth Avenue ia to be recommenced this

fall, —Lzehange.

Tt is stated that Il. M. 4th Regt., at present atation-
ed in this garrison. are under orders to proceed to Eng-
land, their term of service having expired,-+-J[e, paper.

A despatch from Ottawa, to the Toronto Leader,
says the weight of evidence is largely in favor of the
Northern roate for the Intereolonlal Railway,

Ifon. Mr. Tilley, of New Brunswick, is confined to
his room at Ottawa, by an attack of erysipelas in the
eye.

Hortiou!tari-ts predict that the coming season will be
a good one for fruit.

1,500 persons applied for charity food one morning
last week in New York.

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Died,

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On Monday, the Ist inst., after a few hours’ illness,
at the residence of her brother, A. H. Yates, Esq.
Penelope Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Riehard
Yates, Esq.

At Crapand, on the 31st of March, Elizabeth, the be-
loved wife of Mr. George Wigginton, aged 71 years,
At the ‘Len Mile House, on Monday, the 21st inst..
Mr. Walter Byrne, a native of County Kildare, Ireland,
and 49 years a resident of this Island, aged 54 years,
leaving a wife and ten children to mourn their irrepara-
ble Joss. R. 1. P,

Mew Advertisements.

RU tr et art Ne

ENDERS will be reeerved by the undersigned, un-
til MONDAY, the 20:h instant, at 12 o'clock, for
buildiag a new nirtpGe on the north branch of Pinette
River, at Eon's Wharf; plan and specification to be
seen nt my office, Hillborough Square, anda copy of
specification at D. McLeod's, Esq, Eldon Post OMlee. The
names of two responsible persons, willing to become se-
curity for the performance of the Contract, must accom-
pany each tender, ‘The coutractor will receivé a sabserip-
tion list of one hundred and filty-one pounds six shillings,
as part payment, the balance in the usual way, one-third
on signing the bonds, the remainder when the contract is
completed ; all to be finished on or before the first day
of November, A. D., 1868.
The Government is not to be considered as bound to
accept the lowest Tender.
Luvclopes to be marked * Tender for Pinette
Bridge.” B. WILLIAMS,

April 7. 1868, Sup. Pub. Works.

FOR SALE,
YPUAT valaable property situated atthe flourishing
village of MONTAGUE BRIDGE, and known ts
the “SUMMER HILL INN.” It consists of a Dwelling
House, 34% 26, and a Kitchen attached, 21% 17, to-
gether with Stables and Shed.
The above p.operty is most advantageously situated,
and very well adopted either for a house of entertain-
ment or place of general business. It will be sold ata
reasonable price on early application at Montague to
MACDONALD & BROS.,
orto A. A. MACDONALD & BROS.,

April 5, 18u3. pat 4 i Georgetown.

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p isl 2ins

Administrator's Sale of Real Estate.

be sold by Public Auction, in frout of the Court
llouse, in Georgetown, on SATURDAY, the 16th
day of May next, at the hour of Twelve o'clock, noon,
under license, bearing date the twenty-seventh day of
March last, past, in that behalf granted by His Honor,
the Surrogate, all that piece of Land, the property of
Peter MacLellan, late of Burnt Point, near George-
town, farmer, deceased, intestate, situate at Burnt Point,
aforesaid, bounded and described as follows, thatisto say:
commencing at a square stake, fixed at the south-west
angle of Roderick MacDonald's farm, on the North side
of the Brudenell River, thence (according to the mag-
netic North of the year 1764) North eleven chains and
twenty-five links, thence North-West four chains and
eighty links, thence North eight chains, thence North-
West nine chains, thence North to MacLellan’s Creek,
thence along said Creek and Pond South-westwardly,
and following the various courses of said river East-
wardly to the place of commencement, containing forty-
two acree and six acres of Marsh Land,

‘Terms made known at the tine of Sale. In the mean-
time full information may be obtained on application to
Mr. Rt. Reddin, Barrister, at his Office in Charlattetown.

MARGARET McKENZIE,
Administratrix of the Estate

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in the Minute of Council, which, in my opinion would | April 8, 1868, Of the late Mr, MacLellan.
justify, on the tea pe of public poliey the proposed di-| -

rect appropriation of private property. -". . ; :

a a be - to —. from you the pe of a eT ANDREW S HALL
actually purchased by the Government, and how much

somal a the hands of the original Grantees or their DRAM ATIC CLUB.

DRAMATIC & MUSICAL

CNTERTALN MEN
, For the benefit of the Poor, on

EASTER MONDAY & TUESDAY
Evenings, April 13 and 14.

Tur Tnstrumental part of the Entertainment will be

Carriage-Makers & Blacksmiths
LOOK HERE! LOOK HERE!

Wagon Axles.
Wagon Axles.

On hand: One Hundred Setts of
Half Patent Wagon Axles,
At Twenty-one Shillings and Six Pence per sett.
b@™ Superior to any yet imported. ~.0%

ARCH'D WHITE.
King Square, Feb. 26, 1368.

3a
TWINES, LINES, &c.,
FOR SALF.

15 & 18 Thread COD LINES,
POLLOCK LINES,

Patent Topped SALMON TWINE,
Rest 3 ply HERRING TWINE,
COD HOOKS, all sizes.

Aso,
6 Casks prime COD OIL, cheap tor Cash,
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Charlottetown, March 18, 1868.

DAWSON’S ESTATE.
Important Notice!

ITE SUBSCRIBERS have heen instructed by the

TRUSTEES of W. B. DAWSON'S ESTATE, to

SUE all parties, without any distinction, whose unset-

tide Accounts, or Notes of Hand, to W. B, DAWSON

or GEORGE NICOLL, are not immediately paid,

ALLEY & DAVIES,

Atty’s for Trustees of Dawson's Estate.

OR tant, Ba RE, ee

CORNS & WARTS !

Are Permanently and Effectually Cured by the use of!
ROBINSON'S

PATENT CORN SOLVENT.

For Sale by
W. R. WATSON.
City Drag Store, Dec. 13, 1867.
wots
a hereby given, that a call of ONE PER CENT, on all
sums insuied in the Charlottetown Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company, between the 25th JULY, 1866, and 25th
JULY, 1867, is hereby required within forty days from the’
date hereof, to pay LOSSES, otherwise proceedings will be
taken the next da, to enforce payment from ull ters,
Dated this 23th January, 1868.
MENRY PALMER,
isl Sec’y & ‘Treasurer.
SEZOP TO Lz.

O LET, one of the Shops m REDDIN’S NEW |
BUILDING, immediately adjoiniag the Drug Store
of W. Rt. Watson, Esq., Lower Queen Street. For a
business stand this shop is not surpassed in the city.
Possession can be giveu about the 1st of April next.
Enquire of B.D. REDDIN.
Ch'town, Feb. 26, 1868,

R. REDDIN,

Attorney and Darvister at Baw,
CONVAYTINCER, Se.

Office,---Great-George St., Charlottetown.
(Near the Catholic Cathedral.)
August 22,1866. E tf

RONALD McDONALD,
Commission Merchant, Auctionecy,

AND

COLLECTING AGENT.
Soaris, Jan'y 2, 1863. ly

_ CHARLOTTETOWN MUTUAL
Wire Insurance Oompany.

Fvb. 5, 1868

Board of Directors for the current year:
lion. Gronce Bern, President.

William Brown, Esq., Mark Butcher, Esq.
Hion, George Coles, Mr. Thomas Essery,
Ilen. H. J. Calbeck, John Scott, Esq.,
Hertram Moore, Esq., ‘Thos. W. Doad, Esq.,
William Dodd, Esq. Hon..W. W. Lord,
Artemas Lord, Esq.. Wm. Heard, Esq.

Office hours from 10 a, m, to 4 p. m,

Il. PALME, Secretary.
Mutual Fire Insurance Office, Kert St., :
pi

Charlottetown, Ist Feb., 1868.
COvGTav,

Wat,

(Late of the Customs Department)

SHIP BROKER, &c.,

Ilaving rented the SCALES on
Queen's Wharf,

IIe will attend to oe: See of COAL, OATS
,

éc.

Charlotetown, P. E. Island.

Co-Partnership Notice.

IIE SUBSCRIBERS have this day entered into
CO-PARTNERSHIP 4s BARRISTERS and AT-
TORNIES-AT-LAW, under the name, style and firm of
ALLEY & DAVIES,
Office - «+ + O’Halloran’s Building,
Great George Street,

GEORGE ALLEY,

LOUIS H. DAVIES.

(Signed) question,

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Land For Sale!

IIE subscriber offera for sale 80 Acres FREEMOLD
LAND, situated at Ilay River, Lot 44, 60 acres of
which are cleared, and in a good state of cultivation; has
a good Dwelling House and Barn; is convenient to Sea
Ma.ure and Fishing, about on: mile east of St. Margaret's,

Tue Growru or Excuann'’s Nationan Desr.—Mr. Oct. 23, 1867.
William Howitt, the author of Cassel's History of Eng-
land, writes on the subject of the National Debt. Be-
fore the reign of Charles II., he says, there kingdoms
knew nothing of a National Debt, At the accession
of Anne, owing to the military-exploits of William IIL,
and Marlborough, on the Continent, it had swelled to
£16,000,000. “At the accession of George I. it had

Lat. That the amount in question, is insignificant, and
cannot materially affect individual or general prosperity.
It should. however, be remembered, that rent in Prince
Edward Island, bears no analogy to rent in Britain,
Here it is demanded for land covered with forest and
without a vestige of im ph org eer
ildi must all be provides the tenant’s labour;
poe! 4 Shea be obtained from

performed by Messrs. Earnie & Vinnicompr, who have
kindly volunteered their services on this occasion.
Tickets, 1s. Gd. and 3s.; to be had at the stores of
Hon. P. Walker, W. R. Watson, James Reddin, Owen
Connolly, Newton Large, Esquires, anu at the Bookstore
of Edward Reilly, Esq.
Doors open at 7; Performance to commence at 8.

Lieutenant Governor,
Hie Grace, the Dake of Backingham and Chandos.

mene

Minute of Council on the Land Tenures.

en into consideration

The Executive Council have tak

rer > ietors of Township Lands in | live stock and implements must & I : é W. C. GRANT, Sec’y. ta Terms easy. .
this Colon apy bomb ether they would Faneont to | the was poaves oy tet aS rach on Seeciens ints ine d e129, ot 0.000; at ce Pale April 1, 1868. ™ ae? eve i “ey % Mr. gore eS
, t, if upon | public works, for the decent ministratto’ , . a a0 z merchant, arlottetown; Mr, James McDona t,
ag Ss ted teas too, itn a: “10 come or those contingencies which awaitevery family, If to | mnt of the. French wer to 0 thitle more than £220, OLOVER SEED. Peter’s Harbor, or to the subscriber on the premises,
'

000,000; and that stupendous effort to restore to the
French throne the effete Bourbons, with the addition of
the Irish debt, brought it, in 1817, up to something
more than £848.000,000, Between that time and 1833,
the Government reduced the debt £69,000,000; but
since then it has began to roll up again, and now stands
at £800,838, 847. Since the passing of the Reform Bill
it haa increased to no less than £20,000,000, and yet
in this interom we have had the greatest prosperity, out
export trade being now more than five times: what it
was in 1833,.— xchange. if

A Roman Catholic hierarchy is about to he establish-
ed in Scotland. The Archbishop: or'Cardinal is to be
Bishop Lynch, now residing at tairs; and Father

diture, Landlord's rent is added,
ood, that small as the amount
difficulty be spared. Experience
has ehewn that the objects above described, are rarely
attained; the wilderness is geldom converted into a
homestead at any less encrifice than what may be con-
sidered the acttve period of a lifetime. This sacrifice,
settlers in Prince Edward Island have heretofore beew
ealled on to make, with uo better security than a@ lease,
and that not invariably a long one. Surely it is not an
anreasonable desire to obtain the security of Freehold
tenure, for the spot wherein a man’s most valuable—at
the same ‘ime. perhaps, his only possession—his life's
is to be invested.

DONALD
Hay River, Lot 44, Feb. 5, 1865.

VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY
FOR SALSB.

Re MILLS, Western Road, on Township No.
5. ‘These Mills are in good working order, placed on

a good and never-failing stream, with 150 acres of as

Land as this Island can affurd, well covered with e

Hard and Soft Wood, This property is invaluable to a

person of small capital. ‘There is an industrious and

thriving settlement--Bloomficld—fast improving the lands

around this property, aud Lumber always in

There is a Cottage at the Mill, a small clearance of 6 or 8
acres, with a Dwelling House and Stable, The Mill is

all these items of expen ceDONALD.
it may be easily underst

acomea,it cannot without

in the negative, and in others, inconclusive
tind unsatisfactory, aud, therefore, consider it a duty in-
cumbent on them to record their views on the subject of
the leasehold tenure, and the fatare dieposal of the wil-
dernegs lands still held by Proprietors. :

Their familiarity with the whole history of te land
question—their knowledge of the banefal influence the
proprivtory system bas exercised and still exercises on
the prosperity of this Colony—their experience of the
evile which result trom the inoreasing agitation of the
pabhe mind thereapon—all lead the Council to hope
that when the case fo fairly stated, the sympathy and
assistance of the Secretary of State. and of the Imperi-
nl Government, will not be with-held from the people

cases, bean

LEA'S RED CLOVER SEED.

Buy the Best.

ue Subseriber has on hand a supply of best
quality Red Clover Seed. Warranted free from

Daisy. For Cash Ooly.
ll. A. HARVIE.
April 1, 1868. —

THE ENTRANCED FEMALE;
on, THE
Remarkable Disclosures of a Lady,
CONCERNING ANOTHER WORLD,

t having signed a lease with

: ; t is anid, that the tenan Parkinson, aa Oxford convert,” will be Bishop of| BY ROBERT YOUNG, WESLEYAN MINISTER.
poh inant deme Nang sn awa ths Ores a ful tooetelne of its conditions, it ta rage ohigew. : ee: Price Three Pence. For saleat * ag ae ety yep gant to Mit. Rogers, on
in hon timee ; aud that Her Majesty will not = hie eugageasent ot enter ae leaoehabt system, ge-| The death is announced of Adrhiral Lord Byron, : HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE. | the premises; Benj. sa eter Herbert Bell, Alberton} or
aes he yofeae Ler ensont te 8 mostt erty whi ‘h neral discontent prevails, that vast amounts of | cousin of the celebrated poet. The deceased was born | April 1, 1863, Si to the subscriber in Charlottetown. Lc, HALL
has pee - sapohohl pers by sreun wasabi bat- arrears have accrued, ~ or ie yee 2 = bey) gs succeeded to the title in 1824, the year the NOTICE! Jukes, 101 te cr *
ity have suffered; then 1t,m . —
fled the efforts of successive Seoretaries of State up to Sesseces ahsernstive should be sought for “net supplied. Francis Train's last arrest was for a dobt of | EMILE subscriber warns all parties from purchasing any Butler’s Rosemary = cd Seed
a = day jesi ‘sclaim any inten-| No one can peruse the report of the Commissioners Pring! 4 owing to a firm in London whieh he had Notes of Hand in possession of Catherine Feehan, of A* elegant any eye — bape ma
tion to pons prop the ae no eatale already referred to, without beirg eouvinns’ hag tes employed sonre years riage in his tramway project. —— 7 tn 2 yal y ‘on —— = = pur- pemeeing | a the, lagaet Gearee. oa te
ewe soeane; thay ne eet ehieve conten Goer Oneal bee as sug apelied since| The Mexican “debt is $100,000,000, Of this sum a- | which leaves the notes of no value, * gorating qualities, increasing the oe Wa . 4
of with jealous care; er soa — ~A “om ‘chase of several Estates, bat this rather | bout $69,000,000 1s due to England, and $12,000 00 to ‘adie Mans we, 00 ea FEEHAN,. Chiy Deeg Halts: Bon th walt B.
fsoel int aoe i pote intereste, and | tends to aggravate tie evils complained of by the ten-| Spain. About $5,000,000 are owing to Prance at eee ce
come into co
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