~~ wwewsatubhs Monpay, April 14. ~“—_—m* Honse in Committee on a Bill relating to elee- tric telegraph conmmaunication wiih this Island. Hei. the PRESIDENS—There 1 ouly one Observation which | wish to make with regard to The Company are bowed by tins Bill thia Bill. tw bave the Cable in working order on the Ist of July. Now, | ihink that ix Wo seon—they should have a little more time. The cable. it is true.has been ont of order when it was most required, es- pecially daring thie winter, when the mails could net cteas the Straits fer three or four weeks ; bus that is their misfortune, net their fault. And as this Company has expended a very large sum oft money 18 erreting this line, it weuld be unfair to bind them down te the Ist of July. Lau aware that they bave net received 2 per cent. for their! outlay. | believe it is the intention of the Com- uy to lay down a new cable, and that can only ¢ dene ander peealiar cireuaisiances, in order te be successial: the weather in June might toe sivrmy te lay it down, and when laid the first cable mig at not be anceessiul, They have already luid two cables, both of which bave become de- fertive, and they must have cost 4000 or Suu dollars each. | thik the clause is rather stringent, aad [, therefore, move that the werd " July” be struck out, and the werd “ August” substituted. | Hon. Mr. ANDERSON—!] agree with lus ben- or de President. L tink the time shyuid be ex- tended ty August, and in the me wilune it need pet slacken tavir energies in getting the cable laid Hten. Mr. DINGWELL—I would leave the whole management ef it in the hands of the Go- termacat. We do net require the cable so much in the summer asi the winter. [ do not think tiey should be tied down to yay particular tine; aud by Dixkng them dewn io sucn a stringent manner We may be deprived of the cable ulio- gvticr Hoa. Mr. PALMER—The object m fixing the time at tie Ist of July is to stinjulate the epera- tiens of the Company ia restoring the cabie to working order; for [ believe the tact is that ii mays the Company so badly that they feel very fous interest m it There is nothing to urge the Company te put terta any efforts to restore the cable to work- wg ordetT, Covsiderable Inconvenicuce ws ex- pereegcoed during the last autuayn and winter tor wart of tue cabie, and it ie likely to continue so For this reason L apprehend the Legislature las thought proper net te allow the Cowmpaay a greai sevpe of tia ay Willing to believe that the site er posttion ef tie cable is susceptible of im- provemest, and if T thought it was the intentiou of the Ceupany to attend to it and put itina better place, | would be willing to extend the time. tHowever, | de net see any great objection to extending the time te August, aud leaving it in the haads of Tie Government to give 1 or not as circngscances may require How. Mr. SIMV?SON—If the Company any eifuria te put the cable in working before the first ot July, I would be willing to ex- tend the tiwe; but if not the contract should then cease. Tae question of coneurrence was then pat on the amewdiaeut, and it passed ia the afficuuative through the Bill, the Howse was resemed and the chairman re- ported the Bill agreed tw with 3 certain amend- mneut. The Apprepriatien Bill and a Rill relating te steam! navigation were then severally read the second time, passed through Committee, and re- ported agreed te. Toe Bill to render the Legis- ative Council elective was read the third time, as aincaded, and passed. Hon. Mr. @alwer moved that the Honse do go jutv Connnitier on the bili to give effeet to the Report of the Commissiovers on tie Land Ques- diets ‘fon Me. DINGWELL—Though I should stand alone I will rae my voice against passing that Lili at the present tue, as [understand that ti Cievernment have writteu for documents con- nected with The Report which are net here, and which should be beture us beteore We go to legis late upeoo the Award. The reportof the so catied Spy is net before the House; and, from the high teram in Which he is spoken of by one of the Cow- missioners, | think his report has had a good deal vt influence on the decision of the Comjaussiouers As that Report is net betore us new, aud as this Commission bas been brought through withour the sanction of the couutry, ior the country has never been tested ape if, theretore l think we are legisiating very bastily, and hasty legisiation le aiways dangerous. Lejere we go te contira an Award witelt fixes the price of land at may le. But I trust | immorality of Catholic countries, may be permitted to support his hon- Hon. Mr. PALMER —Yes it may; but that) exist elsewhere besides in, Catholic countries, } should not induce us to hesitate one moment in} one can deny that England is at the present day The people might not} great and glorious in many respects, and there are thank us for uot confirming it when we bad the/ few who are pronder than your humble servant of | | endeavouring to make his mission an odious one,| cltiely interested in the tower, must present mach that is repulsive. . bad the most uahounded coutideace in them. Theliry to a degree of ignorance, want and misery, peaple considered that no mau could be found ia} which must tonch every heart not made of stone j | }them, and they iit this Island having popular} , pal Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON—Yes, till the secret | ring with guiety, and dazzle with pomp and un get that adajission trem an hen, member of the} Opposition. Well, what was the next thing pre- sented to the mind of the Lieutenant Goveruor ! One day a stranger presented himself to His Ex- celency and gave him a letter informing bim that the Cooimissioners had seleeted that man te ob- fain information oa such particulars as they deemed essential in order to make an Award ; and that they had sent him to his Exeelleacy, net io ask his epuuen, but te see whether the Island Let me ask you would any Governor turn reund, under these cireum- stances, afd say, No! we will not receive you! Waat would be the votce of the peope 1 mney were listening! Would they not say 1¢ was tolly tor the Goveraor to reject bin!) Would they noi say it was anu iusult ty the Comutissioners woo sent him! celleney but to say this Isiand would bear the e pense. His Excellency was enjoined to secrecy. tle was at liberty to cousull wit eve his Geverament with regard to the egpense, but JYhen, who is to blame that the Com- seat that man here? I suppose the man followed his instructions. When the British Gevernment require a diplomatist they select a man of shrewdness him to read his instructions aloud wherever he goes. He just lis among the people aud watches public opinion and publie sen- uiment, and keeps his Government pested up in Therefore, 1 do not see that there is anything so very extraerdinary in the course pursued by the Commissioners or by their secret agent, This man could fall in with proprietors as well aa with woall beur ais efpehises. Libersnndvery’ aah no more Hitsslouer’s one . ney do not tell vllows instructions; he goes tenants, and if his mission were known they would | cram him with imformation which would be pre- udicial te the igterests of the tenants: it was bet to make it known, The Ge- vernor had no discretion to twtertere further than to get bis disbursements; and L think the Gevernment bas done all that any Government | having (he good of the country at heart could do. 'Mr. Whitman done his business well, for he was away from the Island betore avy member of the Goveruwent but myself knew that he was bere. i hope I shall not have oceasion to rise again to answer any objections te that person which your levers have caught up trom persons outside. Hon. Mr. HUTCHUINSON—His bhoenor has stated that it was necessary that Mr. Whitman sheuld Keep his business secret; but I think he cou d have gone to cillereut places and to difier- parties, aud asked the price of land, without keeping his business so very secret. No person of a neste mad could have acted as he acted. But what astouishes me most of all is, that the Commissioners could not have come toa proper i) ter, theretere, ne! him eut decision Without sending such a mai here at all. They weat throngh the ditferent Counties and then retnrued to Cuarlottetown — their court was me, and could take r. Wittman could. and wiy could they not come to a decision without sending bim here’ When he was here I went into the Treasarer’s office one day and seeing wa strange man there Lenqnired who be was: L was told that Le wis a tmansent here by a Firm to establish a Fishery ou the Island, and he is leoking through the dvcuments to asce n where he ean zeta good place Now, I thiuk the buve dove withont seuding that open and free—they had ample ti evidence mach better than sf Co Hihissioners man here; be has caused a great deal of agitation throughent the Is laud, and if be hus net giveu fulee iuforwation, the poopie believe he bars. } Hon. Mr. DINGWELL—I was not prepared to hear his honor the leader of the Governmeut take this man’s part, or to justify him in going Mroaygh the country to condemn the evidence taken betore lone Commissioners night | tthode who may differ frou myself in religion, but - |‘ purlour'—for there are Tiuvre was no alternative tor his Ex- to bring before the public a few facts regarding the respecting it? Of this I have very little doubt, al- thonuh they may have unwittin social and moral condition of millions of Kuglish—|iayg benefit on men, not for the purpose of hurting the feelings of | in order to show that ignorance and tsamocnthyy aso her bizh prestige and free institutions—the result not of her Protestantism bat of that glorious British Constitution wrested from tyrannical sway in the good old Catholic times — yet that there exists amongst the ameses of her people an amount of j rnoranee, immorality, and beastly degradation un surpassed in any country in the world, is a tact which L presume no one will attempt to gainsay, and which shoald canse British Protestants to blush with shame at the violent attacks which are made on Catholies abroad, when they themselves bave such air immense amount of beatbenism and bru: | tality to remedy at home. That such is the case 1] shall prove from the nmiost respectable Protestant | authorities. Dr. Channing, in hie * Duty of Free } States,"’ as quoted by J. Kay, Esq., M.A., Travel ling Bacuelor of the University of Cambrid suys =— “Toa man who looks with sympathy and bro therly reward on the mass of the people, who is | | classes, Eugland | .e The eondi- } tion of the lower classes at the present mouient js a| mourn*ul comment on Enylish institutions and eivi lization. The maltitude are depressed in that coun ge, | In the civilized world there are fewer sadder | starva tion of thousands and teas of thousands, crowded | into cellars and deus, without veutilation or light, compared with which the wigwam of the Indian is ace. Misery, fuinine, degradation, in the vejgh bourhood and presence of stately mausions which bounded profiwivn, shock us us no otter wretched ness does.” (Lue Social Condition and Education ot the People, by J. Kay, M. A., vol. 1, p. 374.) Mr. Kay quotes largely from ‘* Lord Ashley's audi rable apeeet Om pay euile destitution, delivered | inthe Ilouse of Commons on the 6th of June,} S48," and from which [ will vive a few extracts Itauppears thatin London alone there are thirty | thousand young persous living in * lodging houses,’ | which Me. Kay ealls © hells,” and of whieh Lord Asiiley gives the following description :— “TL will give a description of the lodying-honses Many of then which Lhave seen were abomiuable ; but tue statement F will lay before the House was} yiven on the authority of a City Missionary, whe} had been appoinied to iuspect and report on the | subject. It ds not un exaggerated description of those places, where hundreds aud thousands of the human race are congregated. ‘Tne City Missionary, speaking of a lodying-house, and referring to the i many enploniogs teris to be upplied—said:— The parlour measures 15 feet | by LO. Beds are arranged ou each side of it, com posed of straw, rays aud shavings. Here are 2 aiale and fewaule adalts, and 31 children, with seve ral dows ; t | ; | in all oS human beiags, ia a contracted deafrom which light andair are systematically ex claded. It is impossible,’ he suys, ' to conveys a pust idea eft their state,—tie q ianuiies ef vermin are | amazing! I have entered a room, and in a few minutes L have feit them droppimg Gn my hat like peas.” * They may be gathered by handfuls,’ wrved oue of the inmates. ‘Lcould fill a pailina few minutes. Ihave been so tormented with the itch, that on two ovecusions I illed my pockets with | stones, aid Waited Uila policemay game up, and then broke a lamp, that TI might be sent to prison, ere be cleansed, as is required before new ‘Ah! said another, standing ob comers are adiyjtied.’ Iy confe a the opportonity of squandering £ 1,000 sterling: is paying three or four values for their own lends and those of their friends. The Col. Seeretary expatia- ted last year very largely on the benefits likely to accrue to the tenant fron: the arbitration clause ; but he has been discreetly silent on that point since the appearance of Neweastle’s despatch, throwing cold water on the atfuir. The climax of the Land Commission farce is the Tories confirming the Award, knowing at the same Ume to a certainty that the Dake of Newenstle will not stualtify himself by recommending the Queen to confirm au Act the contents of which are directly contrary to bis in atractions, But what do they care so long as they can suneceed in deceiving the tenantry, Their fate is now sealed—political humbay, charlatanry und jagglery will now avail nothing, | pe * ‘Kuowing that their rale of deception is coming to a close—anticipating the storm of indignation that will burst over their heads at the eppreeshing elec tion, W.H Pope, who appears to be their scape goat, tries to play bis card by the effect of religious auimosities. fle leaves nostone unturned to excite BP. otestants against Catholics ; but his efforts will fail. Protestants and Catholics are bere uuited and they are detersuined to uce their united strength to lexpel from office a deceitful, hypocritical, tyranni cal clique which has deali so shamefully, and ty such un extent, in deecit and political cajolery. | Protestants in this directionare ashamed of tne part played in the rame of Protestantism by that |** hated’ individacl who-has been publicly acensed of having been couvicted of a very immoral action, and is very genevally believed to have the bank ; and they have very serious doubts about the sincerity of a £00 religion, and the orthodoxy of an individual whom theysbave good reasons for re- garding in no betier light than us ‘ta big potatoe infidel.”’ A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY. -- ore FOR THE SONGS I LOVE BEST—THE SWEET SONGS OF THE SPRING. Dame Nature, exultant from death's cold embrace, Comes fresh ou the stage with a smile on her face ; And dushed with new viger, I hear her now sing Lie songs | love best, tae sweet sous of the spring. THE EXAMINER, The snow-laden tempest no longer I fear, For a vertical sun now softens the year, And curbs the wild Bear of the North in his speed ; Wiile the mild South'rn Lawb frisks tame o'er the mead. A rich carpet of grass sprouts green o'er the earth, And the wvood$ and the plaius all vocal with mirth, Revive my sad heart, a8 in tune forth they sing Phe seugs L love best, the sweet songs of the spring. The shrill creak of the door encased by the frost, And the click of the axe in the forest.are lost ; Wiuiile the robiu’s gay nate, at moratag’s tirst dawn, Lutorms me that winter, cold wiater, lias gone. The bleat of the lambkjn oft strikes my ear now, Audthe shoutof the swain, atthe hilter bis plonyh ; | Yes, each light zephyr on iis bosou doth bring Soute sound T love best, some sweet song of the spring. E’en ye May-tlower, just blown, in majden-like b oom, Sings, syiph-like, in silence, of life from the tomb,4 Township Lands uientioned in the Schedule to this ' And bids us look forward in faith to an our Wien manu from the grave shall spriag up like a flower. . Then come ye with me to the forests and fields, Aud list to the music Dame Nature now vields; For all flashed witt uew life, [ hear her now sing | Lie songs L love best, the sweet sougsof the spring, by. ‘you can get a comfortable snooze and serub | : 7. = we e there’! (pp. duyand 400 | New London, May %h, 1862, * Here,’ says Lord Ashley, * is a statement made | ————~+ane—_—__-—~ by a medieal man :—* La a piace, where these public privies exist, scenes of the most shocking character | are of occurrence, It Ww ill scare ely be be lieved, that these public privies often stand oppo site the doors of the houses: modesty and deceucy are, therefore, ther impossible’ But, in a private house, isthe b Vv exposed to better intla ences than inthe lodging-house ! Very ofien seve ral families are found in eue room. It is a fortunate family which has one room for itself. Everything | is transacted in that room. Cleanliness is impos! sible ; it is a scene of filth, misery and vice.” (pp. ial Thas it appears thata large proportion of those who dwell in all the larger towns * of the British empire are crammed into reyicus of filtirand daiktess, the ancient bul hot solitary re iga of the newts and teads.”’ (p. 4il.) «Did one-twentieth part of the sickening abomina tions which Lord Asaley brought to the nevlice of the House of Commons exist in [taly, Spain, or Austria, what eloquent Popish abomination sveec! would be delivered by “* Ministers of the Gospel ‘ he length and breadth of the land! It is ny Wonder that so much viee and degradation ex ist htuony the common peuple of England aud Wales, for it we ure to believ® the most respectable Pro iestunt authorities, they liye and die ina state of heathenism. Mr. Kay aavs :— Of the Operatives in Lancashire, and of the workmen in our great towns, there is not—and I speak after considerable experience and namerones aaily a alt aoe es throughout t To tne Epitor or THE EXAMINER. Sir,—The writer in * Ross's Weekly’ of the Sth inst., in his remarks upon the misapplication of the | word * transpire,’ may rest assured that he is per fectly correct in bis eriticisin. , is certainly eutitled to respect. and among Americaus itis probably decisive; but with educated English- men, who may be snpposed to undersiaud their own langaage in its simplicity and purity, it is quite an- other thing. Dr. Johuson, our best lexicographer, in his se- condary deiluition of the word * transpire,” viz: “to escape from secrecy to notice,” observes, that this rendering “is an innovation from France, wit! out necessity ;”” and if this got nutisnal acceptation of its meamag be foreign and needices, wiat are we to think of that unauihorised one of Webster's, which not only confounds the meaning of the l H af t at COPSEPUCTION seid, actually ehe from transitive to intransitive tuges Ils Very It is evident that he who styles himself “ One of the Moderns.”’ . | ++} he Modern he Lith has not studied the vernneniar to mach nx ivunt te +t ‘ : €- in the monitor o or be would uot have adventered upon the defence of so palpable a solevism ’ * Waether Vielation of suid Lo traue? "i!)) Thisis all mere jarzon t wiaspire ft li fhe the Subbath can be j To eqyuires the exertion. of a diving aveiut. obeervation of the Sabbath isa divine command, the breach of which is not onle ireejpnent, but note rivus, aud does not adit @f perseptiication by any ; 6 5 inquiries —TH RF: £ IS NOT ONE OUT OF EVERY TEN) role of rhetoric. : WHO EVER ENTERS A Cnuncen, and stil fewer It would be well for our medern fiend te know attein vis - - t ’ 4 . who attend regularly vol. 1, p. 416.) LT REPEAT that thy purest akd est ngNsh was written and THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PROPLE IN spoken in what has been terined the Angastan age FHE GREAT TOWSS oF THIS KinGpomM HAVE No RELIGION vol. 2, p Sil.) Perhaps I may be permitted most respectfully to sugvest to Mr. Laird and the other religious gentle meu of Charlottetown, who seem to take such a , deep interest.in the couversion of the heathen, the propriety of establishing a society for the conversion of the poor. heathens of England, who certaiuly petand in as wach need of the Gespel, and have as} Was not prepared, I say, to) bear him attempt to justify either that man or the | Commissionefs in sending him, becanse he descend- | ed so low as to take advantage of the poor and iguo- raut to their injury i say such w Mali cCumnot have the feelings of a gentleman. Should a Judge in any Court, I ask, after hearing the evidence, take evidence frow oue party privately ‘ wand language sviiciently strong to express n IT caunoy cou- detestutiou of such proceedings; and if iis honor, | | the leuder of the Government, knew the ieelings « 1 the coumtry on toe matter as w ellas Ido, 1] question if he wouid attempt to justily eituer Mr. Whitman or the Comtuissioners. | Mouse adjourned Tvurspay, April 15th. | A‘ Bill for investing all estates and property oc peapied by or for the Naval Service of Great Britain aud Ireland, ia the Lord thigh Admiral, or the | Coun for executing the office of Lord thigh Admiral for the time berm,” a“ Bil relating ' fo electric Shoners telegranpl | ne communication with this Is- | Are we bewud ty cootira: tie Award when we! land,” and a iit to appropriate certain moneys} fre bet luruisued Wilu the papers connected with it!) By eoutirming the Awacd, 1 consider that We are sauctioming the proceediogs of & man who his goue through the country as a spy deciving tie people, Tae Award winy be fonuded on false etuteuients; thereture J coutend tit it is not eemistent for the Legislature to sauciion at. The Attatr about the apy is so discracetul tuat it should { Lut be tolerated ta any country. Hiew. Dr. JUUNSUN—We tiave nothing to do with iat; We have to do with the Award aa it is, and we are bound to confirm it. Hou. Mr. SiMPSON—His boner appears to | thus thac we should have all the evidence betore | Us to make another report. Dees bis boner ex- peet us, alter this * pais taking report,” by com- petent men, te sit dewa bere tor three or four betas months te examine all the evideuce, and wak anetuer report! The Commissioners have exe tinted the evidence aud bere is the result. As to the so called spy, 1 coasider it a reflection on the gentiemen Whe seat hiay bere te call him a spy W hese fault is it that tue coautry has pot bee consulted ou the Award! Ut the petitions, about which we heard se mach last sumer, bad been sevt ia, dare say the people would have had au epportamity ef expressing Lauer opiuions, As to tee deiay Ul the other Jill comes, if this Bill is pot passed we will not require auotuer. that the debate on the principle of the Bill was closed ow Saturday. lL save objections to being called upou to repeat my observations on the Bill, Jt ueiteer interesting to the Colony, nor tor th: advancement of the pulbe business that 1 shouia du so. But L believe the arguments and observa- tions of lis howr, Me. Vingwell, are intended te ‘ ge torii ty the world, and L should be very sorry \ te let them go without being auswered. auy ot your houers. Now, Sur, is boner would base us to wait Uil we obiain the evidence which ! the Commmsioners acted upou, aud he appears te tuink that this evideuce is very essential! tor the | iaiwormation of the Legiviaiure betore passing this Mul. Now, Sur, you are aware that an applica- thon has beeo sade to the Colonial Office tor this juatior, and the answer is before ug Appheation Las alse been made to thy 4'ounnissiovers tor it, aud the auswer was that they possessed ny printea eupy aad it would take a great deal of time, and entail a good deal Oi expedse, to copy it, as it Was avery voluminous ducument. Now is it neces- eury torus to wait aad risk the loss of this mea- sure beeause We bave not tis appeudix before us ! li is not our province to examine the materials trom which the Commissioners drew their deci- * tivu, wed Wo say that their decision waa wrong. It Wodia OF Sioisting the compact which exists be- tween the Colony and the otber parties concerned iw the Commission. We would be periling the Testnt of tie Couuission, and lowering ourselves, were we to de se. | would not do so jf I had the / appendix in litters of gold. 1 cauread and appre- f ciate the Award without the evidence on whieh it : founded. I have wo objection to the country | seviug it: but L look upou it as a document whica y ‘ has intuing w GO Waa site “progress of this Bil theouge the Legisiature. Hic honor also appears fon. Mr. PALMER—I thought, Mr. President, | I dev nei vise With the expeeiation of changing the minds 0; | te tuick that, notwithstanding the power given to the Comuissoners, the Awara should be submit- ted to Lhe beture it is co. ficmed., Hoo. Mr. DINGWELL~I1 ou y said we should to the people, jiow. Mr. PALMER—~Por w! at purpose t Hou. Mr. DINGWELL — To test tucir minds on the Award. Hon. Mr. PALMER—That i: what I call sub- wmitting it te the wore returned » Mr. Py sideat. And if) tions dissolution | therein mentioned, for the service of the veur of mr Lord isoz,’’ were severally read the third time und passed lmissioners on the land question,’ was then coth- mitted and agreed to without any amendment. On tie question being put, “shall the report of j the comunitiee be received,’ the House divided : Coxtestrs—Hon. the President, Hons. Messrs | Simpsou, Kamsuy, Haszurd, Andersou and Jotinson —— | —Now- oNTENTS—IJons. Messrs. Hutchinson and | Walker—2Z | So it passed in ihe affirmative. House adjourned tor one hour, . AFTERNOON | Hon. Mr. PALMER presented a Bill to explain certain parts of tne Act for the establishment of the | Prince of Wales’ College. It is somewhat doubt i ' i SITTING, il, said his honor, whetuer scholurships can be se- ected from the College, or whether they can only be taken fromthe District schools. 1 believe it was originally inteuded that they should only be taken frow the District schools, but the Act is not suili- j eiertly explicit on that point ; \ Bill © for raising a revenne,” anda Bil) “to | facili the operation, in certain particulars, of the ) Award or Report made by certain Commissioners appoiuted to seitle and adjust diilereuces respecting j some of the Township lauds of Cus Island,” were severally read the second time, passed through com- mittee, and reported agreed to The Bill relating to Ste.m Navigation in this Is- land was read the third time and passed. Louse adjourned. df | CORRESPONDENCE, | MORALITY IN PRUSSIA AND IN ENGLAND. No. 13. i To rue Evrrork or THe EXAMINER. Deer Sin—It has been the yim of certain parties, | with the view of advauejug their own political and seliish interests, te make Catholics and Catholic | countries appear as low as possible in the social aud | moral scale. In endeavouriug to remove some of i the odium heaped ou us it is necessary sometimes to give statistics and extracts which may be a litle | disagreeable to many friends , but as this is done in | self defence, of course it cannot be attributed to the | desire of giving the least offence even to the most | sensitive. I have already shown the deplorable | state of morals in Lutheran Sweden and especially jin Stockholm, where, xecording to the testimony jof a distinguished Seoteh Presbyterian traveller, | more thay one third of the population are bastards! \Lshall now give from the writings of the sume | gentleman an extract from whieh we may forin an ' idea of the meralitv of Protestant Prussia, the coun- try of Luther. Mr. Laing asserts in reyard to this jcountry that chastity, the “Index virtue of the moral condition of a people, is lower than in almost any part of Europe.” (p. 173.) Iu proof of this he says:— “It isno uncommon event in the family of a respectabje tradesman in Berjjn to find on his break. fast table a little baby, of which, whoever may be the father,he bas no doubt at all about the maternal grandfather. Such aceidepts are so common iv the class in whiel they are least common with us—the middle ciass remoyed from iguorance or indigence —that they are regarded bat as accidents, a8 youth- ful indiscretions, not as disgraces, affecting, as with us, toe respectability and heppiness of all the kith and kin for a generation.” (Lvid.) This frightful state of morals is vot at all sur- prising ; for in no cogutry in the world should we expect the doctrines of Luther—* Si nolit domina, veniat ancilla,” &c.,—to be practised to such an extent as in Prussia, and, as a wutter of course, it should be * no uncommon event in the family of a respectable suman in Berliv to find on bis break- fust table a little baby.’ and such “ accidents” should be regarded as mere “ youthful indiscre- bt When innumerable British Protestants are endea- wok (pra we the oven Wwe we oould not be vouring social agaiust Cath lies, by" freqeently ng em the ignorance and The Uill “to give effect tothe Report of the Com | { | | | | | British Colony. strouy a cliim on British charity us their coufreres the beathens of Erromanga. I have the honor, &e., | A. McDONALD. St. Danstan’s College, May 15, L5v2. —_-—_--~+0e- —--—— FOR THE EXAMINER TO MISS O Lassie, ye hue gaen agley wi pride an nneo foun; Ye ken it was a heaveril thing For sic # lass as you. —_—-— Ye are na like the bonnie ross— Your birth’s ua bigh ava; Your tocher is no muckle, luse; Your wit is vera sma. Guid suke what are ye proud about? Wir haud your head in air, | And winna look at decent folk, As guid as ye and fair! Ye hae a silly fashion, lass, When wi some hanglity friend, To gang your auld acquaintance by, | As tho’ ye never ken’d. Thae “upper crast,”” wha’ baked themsel'es jineral or political! | strawa, and sinking Tories have no tegard either of oui history + # period tuat dates bic kK bearly two hundred years; and still more, thatahe authorized version of the Holy Seriptures, mad@ in the days of the Ist James, is and will ever rewmin the test of the best Enetish composition, all additions and fan cied improvements by moderu tyro€ to’ the crutrary BOOW Ith slang ONE OF 22d May, 1862. ee A NEW TORY DODGE. Hox. Mr. WaeLan—S:in—The Tories are trembling fortheir Governm widhave recourye to the most odious and ignoble nieans to retain their pos.tion. Finding that War. MeGilil, Exqr., is likely to be returaed at the coming election by a Protestant coustituency, they wish to represent that gentleman as the tool of Catholic Priests; and tor this purpose a late * Moniter’ calls public attention to his being often seen tete-a-tete with Priests. No one acquainted with Mr. MeGill ever thought. that he was anything else than a cousistent Protestant ; and Lhave no hesitation in saying that the assertion regarding bis been tre- THE OLD SCHOOL. | quently seen inconversation with Catholic clergy- | men is a contemptible, malicious lie. And even li he did speak to Catholic Priests, is that a sin, Drowning men eatch at to hoaur or truth to support their tottering cause. | Mr. MeGill’s political aud religious Opiuions are too well kinowu to be much misrepresented by the ‘Monitor. I have never seen Mr. MeGill walk- lig arm in arin with a Roman Catholic Priest ; 1! have never seen him put his arms on his shoulders Vhae c.kes o’ high dezree, jin the House of Assembly; [I bave not seen hia Thae a o’ birth, an’ sense an’ gowd, | visit Bishop Melutyre’s residence about two or Just laugh, puir lass, ut ye. | three Cimes a day for several weeks; but there }is aman high in office in the Government whom As thae apes ape, sae ye maun ape The unco high and braw, Yotw a’ ae woof o° senseless airs, Na geutles lass ava. Think na sae mickle o’ yoursel, ' fis mental wastrie a’ ; ! Get na on stilts when wi’ big folk, For pride maun hue a fa’. Toom headed lass, just ken voursel, The keek your pains maun pay, Syne ve shall fuad puir pauglty ane, Ye'r nought but common clay. KECK TUE REDE, | Charlott+town. * — ee POLITICAL JUGGLERY. Hos. Evwarnd WHetan—Dearn Str—The cen- duct of the Tories respecting the Land Commission | is the greatest piece of political ja: slery in colonial | legislation of which I have yet read. It is evident that the sole object of the proprietary clique, who have plunged this Islind into a ruinons debt by their reckless extravagance, in serving their politi “al partisans, has been the contlirmation of theirown | doubtful titles as well as those of their friends. Had they been in earnest they wight have settled | the Land Question forever; Lut instead of doing this, they tave made matters ten times as bud as ever they were. They have made large prowmises, | raised anxious expectatious—buat they bave per-| formed ryhing. Lad they desired the Commission to be bene cc’ Lto tie tenantry, they would have atlorded every facility for making an inquiry into} the state of the land tenures, by giving public doen- | ments, &c., and pleading the cause of the poor op-! oressed tenants. Butthey did none of these things. | Drerythion they done in the way of giving docu ments appeared to be done aguiust the grain; and, | far from intereeding for the poor and the oppressed, | U:ey actually pleaded the cause of the proprietors. | Witness, for example, the conduct of the Colvnial | Secretary. I believe that one member of the Go- | vernment, for the purpose, perhaps, of deceiving | the unwary teuants,by appearing to be their friend, | attempted to say something in their favour, but he | was svon * gauged.” The most infamous thing connected with the Land Commission farce was the employing of a Sry,who, ii appears, was favoured with an office in the Pro- vince Building, and furnished with all the docu- ments which he required. This is, I believe, the | most disgraceful thing that was ever permitted in a This Spy went through the coun- | try on false pretences, deceiving the people by | speaking about fisheries, railroads, &c., to induce the poor people to pat a high price ov their lands. The Government party has defeuded this procedure which no language can render calicloutly odious. Our Tory Spy detenders sball soon learn how we | regard the disgraceful manner ju which we have | been iinposed on. The only portions of the famous Award, viz :— the arbitration Clause and the recommendation to borrow money to purchase the Jands from the pro- prietors, which were likely to be of any benefit to the tenantry, have been, I muy agy, protested against by the Duke of Neweastle. At this we cannot be surprised when we consider the influence of the Tories—an influence of which they so often boast—at the Colonial Oitice. It-is well known that Mr. Palmer and bis Government are averse to the policy of a Loan. ‘This is evident enough from the snabbing which Mr. Palmer gave the Editor of the ‘ Islander,’ alias the Col. Secretary, who had to make a most ignowini de honorable for bis recommendation of a Loan. Is it to be supposed that the Tery faction did not use their ollsenes against the recommendation in the Award, and benes the opivion of the Duke of Newcastle | which I see he is ‘and the West. | but simply to give to New England and Pennsy!- i vania the mouopoly of the markets of the whole | country for their special productions ; and conse- | quently the burden of the tariff falls upon the | consumers of the goods, have seen do these things, and that is that dis- | tinguished supporter, nut of Protestantisin, but of | Tory-Orange-Lrotestantism—W. H. Pope, Col. Secretary. Yours sincerely, A HATER OF HYPOCRISY. Charlottetown, May 17, Inez. —_— A #60 oe To tHE Eprton or tue EXaMIneR. % Sin, — In Parson Sutherland's new Geography, reddling iHlegally through the Webster's authority | verb) lust ,! The Examiner. Charlottetown, May 26th, 1862. ee el THE PROPRIETORS’ LAND SET- TLEMENT BILL. We copy from the last ‘Royal Gazette’ the following despatch from the Colonial Minister, w ith the accompanying draft Bill seat out by the Pro- prietors’ to supersede the Bills passed last Session, relating to the Award of the Land Comuiission :— Prince Edward Island. | No. 103. Dows1nG STREET, Sth April, 1862. | SIR—I have been requested by Sir Samuel Can- (ard to forward to you tle enclosed Draft Iill, ea | bodying a pe for yiving the Teuauts in Prince | yfe William Candall, Proprietor of part of Town | Edward Island the power of purchasing their hold | . . \jnes on certain terms there laid down. | Cunard expresses to me a confident hope that these | terms will be found to satisfy tie expectations ot | lthe Tenants, and will be well received by the Le | vislature [have not had time, since receiving this doeu } ment, to exainine the full bearings of ive proposal ; ner in any ease should L pronowuce a contident opi- nioa on a matter depending so much on questions of local detail. But I need hardly say that u willgive me great pleasure to tind Sir Samuel Cauard’s anti cipations are well founded i : Che Letter in which the Draft Bill was first com miunicated to me was sigued by Sir Samuel Cunard, Mr. E. Cunard, Mr. L. Sullivan, and Sir Graham mery, Who therefore may be taken as having un- questionably eovenrred in it. } tne Bill—L don’t know on what authority —« Various other maues, i the gentlemen whose names I haveabove given. 1 should have littl doubt, however, that tie other ventlemen named in the Schedule to the Bill, are in| lact consenting pauruies, although it has not been practicable to forward their actual signatures to the Colonial Otlice. I Lave the honor to be, &c., &e., | Siyned) NEWCASTLE. Lieut. Governor Dunvas, &ec., &¢. A Bill for settling differences between Landlord and j e Tenant, and to enable Tenants on certain Town- slips to purchase the Reversion of tneir Farms. Whereas, by a certain Address of the House of Assembly of tois Island, pursuant to certain Resu lutions passed by tue said Houre,it was praved that iler Majesty's Governinent would be pleased to ai rect a Couiuission to enquire jute tie exicting re lations betweea Landlora and Tenant, and to nego- tiate with the Po oprietors for abatement of Arrears of Rent, and also tur terns to enable tue Tenants to purcuase the reversion of their farnis. Aud whereas Sir Samuel Canard, Baronet, Ed ward Cunard, Sir Grahan Moutgomery, James Mouigowery, the hight Honorable Lawrence Suiii- Vai, Mauuicl tiodgsou, Wiliam Cuudaill, Joun Rouch the Honorable Tiiomas Heath Uavilaud, John A. MeDouald, aud the Honorable Edward Pal- merand Henry Paluer, proprietors of tie several! bourke, ; Act, marked A., did agree to the issuluz of such um. And whereas a Koyal Counuission was thereupon issued, which is as luliows :— | (L.S.) “Vicronia R, j** Vicrorta, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom ot Great Britain and Lreland, Queen, Defeuder of the Fuith. Vo all to whom these Presents stiall come, greeting. “Whereas We have been moved by the Assembly } of Our Ishaud of Prince Edward, to appoint Com } missioners ty inquire into the differences now pre } vailing in our said Ishund, relating to the rights of Cou | latdowners and tenants in Our said Island, with a view to the settiewent of the same on just and equitable principies: And whereas tie said Assein- bly has further, by a resolution dated the Lath Sir Samuel | Montgomery, for himself and Mr. James Montgo- | But the Schedule to) yitaliis al I think that if the Bill was) a few words as merely preliminary to the many THIS SUMMER? to be passed by the Legislature, the only Proprietors) tengthy comments whieh the Proprietors’ Bill will | on Wior it could be made at once coupnisory, are i dav of April last, set forth its agreement to abide ea Numbers Two, Fourteen, Twenty-one, Thirty-two, 3 Forty-four, Sixty three, Sixty-four, and of halves | Grafted in this Island, and retit to Rip of Townships Nambers Twenty, Forty-five, Forty | Cunard ; and if Mr. Palmer is the six, Forty-nine, and parts of Townships Eight, ; : | Forty-eight, Fifty-four, and Sixty-five ; also one- | ™easure, or if he was cognizant of j | third part of Township Twenty-seven. _ | he involves the whole Gov , Mr! Edward onadh Proprietor of Townships | Sins ‘ ' ernment in the Numbers Four, Five, Six, und half of Township |® concocting such a Bill, or consenting ty No. Que. 7 | coction, at the very time, no d ‘Right Honorable Lawrence Sallivan, Proprietor | qeletere here. oa bh aa me when | of Townships Nos. Nine, Sixteen, Twenty-twe,and | Sed o , under the direction of Mr. | Sixty-one. : j and Col. Gray, were enacting the : | Sir Graham Mouteomery, PrSprietor of the One- | re iui two Bin = SPCUBIVE tom, | third pascs of Townships Nos. Fifty-one, Fifty-nine, | . ~ 2 two Bills to confirm the A land Tuirty-._ ar. : : which Mr. Palmer and his collea Honorable Thomas Heath Haviland, Proprietor fore made up their minds to ewes had long he, of Township Number Futty six, and parts of Town- ‘ Oppose, and x shins Numbers Forty-three, Forty, anq Hight. _| they knew would be rejected. It inust be Henry and Edward Palmer, Proprictors of half e 86 their bat to suf. } nough to the patience of Township Namber One. : | " . . patience af any People to Mr. Daniel Hodzson, Proprietor of part of Town- | affairs mismmanaged, as they are now ; ship Number Tweuty-three | fer quietly the additional wrong of being l ahin Member Turenty. and deceived by their tulers, under the Mr. Jotn A. McDonald, Proprietor of parts of on the part of those rulers . | Townships Numbers Thirty-five, and Thirty-six. | J : ers, of Promoting the ge Mr. Join R Bourke, Proprictor of half of Town. | neral welfare, requires the exercise gf a degree of ship Number Thirty-seven magnanimity which the haman eh | Jumes Montgomery, Esqr., One-third part o , nibited: end wht eeacter {Townships Numbers Fifty-one, Fifty-nine, and | rarely exhibited, and which would be q Thirty-four. disgrace to even a half-civilized community | We had nearly come to the conclusion to say | We have stated t os we would offer only some | preliminary remarks in our present No. We | shall, of course, return to the subject in our | dinary documents, thinking, perhaps, it would be | : ., | When we will reprint the Bill; | well to let our readers recover frou: the fistenisa-| 7°" ™ eprint he Bits ant fully ©Xpog ape i i 3 \ the arbitrary and impracticable proyisi ) ment and indignation with which they will peruse | red I cable p isons Of ity . : ; .. | several clauses. | them, before adding one word of our own to excite | i=} — ~~ — | their feelings; yet, we cannot refrain from saying WILL THERE BE A NEW | |be very certain to call forth from ourselves and | THE impatience of the people to get rid of the | present proprietary Government is fully showy jin the frequener with which the above tion is asked. Country people especially ate very | earnest and very persevering in making the ep. | quiry whenever they come to the city, beenuse = Sutbor Of the 18 cone the La nothing this week respecting the above extraor- | some of our correspondents in succeeding numbers. | Our readers will perceive that the despatch is | dated the 5th April. It could not have failed to (have arrived here between the 15th and 20th of i that month, probably before the closing of the- thoy deune'en thie Gatien : | Legislature ; it was not published until the 2st 4 4 1m Charlier chau , ., | town does, or should, know the movements and May—more than a mouth after its receipt. Why | . . . ’ ‘ : * intentions of the Gorerument with regard t, 5 was ali this delay allowed with regard toa matter | Ai Y a i date Laer general election; and the questioners almost jp. of so much importance, or why are the docurfents | : ae : , | variably couple their interregatory With a remark, to the effect, that when the election shall take plac, the country will be fully revenged on the Governn ent for the deceit that has been on them with regard to the Land Question, ava the injury dene to the country by the enermous. inerease of the public debt. It may seem strange that we, as one of the Opposition, should give publicity to a statement of this kind, ag it canugt luil to alarm and distress the Government, and induce theip to postpoue, if possible, the period at : which a general elvetion shall be beld, so that there But let us consider the painful and humiliating may be time for a generous oblivion te hide ecu ke seun we learn from as proprictory dictativn. | of their sins, and enable them to devise, out of the We have two Houses of Legislature, and all the | fyllpess of their capacity for deceit, some treach- machiuery of a Government, supposed to be inde-| erous and mischievous project for still further in pendent of any power but that of the Crown. To | posing on the credulity of the people, But we sco carry on this Government costs us many thousands | there is no use in keeping seerecy on the matter - >. sf ° of pounds per annum. For the last three years jf jt were in our power to do so. The Govern- ; the machinery of this Government has been exer- | ment know—and they will be made te feel it, be- cised, at very great expense, in devising some published now! They were withheld, we have good reason to believe, at the instance of the Ex- ecutive Council, because that body had not the | courage to brave the public indignation which the | Proprietors’ Bill wid be sure to arouse ; and they are published now, we believe, by the imperative conmmand of Tis Excellency the Lieut. Governor, | who felt, no doubt, the full weight of his responsi- | bilityte the Lanperial authorities and considered that further concealment would not be safe or judicious for hii. means of eradicating a great chronic grievance. | they are the most unpopular set of men thatever We have had resolutions, and speeches, and acts) ruled the destinies of this country. The Old Fa. by the decision of any ench Coumissioners, or the} of Parliament innumerable ubout it—magnificent | pily Compact Gorernment — the much sipned luajority of them, aud to concur in Whatever inea- ' ‘ ; decision: Aud wieress it ts bi nly desirable that | the suid diflerences should be adjusted : “a Our Royal consideration, are graciously picased to nominate and appoint, and do by these presents howluate aud appoiut, O ir trasty and weli-beloved Join Hamilton Gray, Esquire, Onr trusty and well-beloved Josepti llowe, heqnire, und Oui trusty and well-beloved Join Wiiliam Ritchie, Esquire, to be Our Counnissioners for inquiring inte the said ditterences, and for adjustlug the suine on fair and equitable principles. “Given at Our Court at Backimeban Palace, this Reign. “ By Her Majesiy’s commend, * (Signed) NEWCASTLE.” And wheress the said Commissioners, by their Report, did find and de« > suid Tow: Lip Lands were not lable to forfeiture in comkequence of any Omission lo perforni, or any non-performance Of auy oF the conditiousia the origiaal #irants tuere And also that no arrears of the Quit R ; the said wranty reserved, are now due or are thal able fromthe Proprietors, Teuauts, or Ocenpiers of such laids ; and also tuat the Proprietors, their Pen- auie, or Ovenpicis, shoald be quieted in their pos- sesslun of certain parts of the said land, called or kyown as “The Fishery Reserves,” and did also declare and Award that all arrears of Rent which weerued due to the suid Prop rictors in respect of any loft the said Lands, pres ious to the——-, Laos, should he remitted w t feuants, and did also fix ce:tain rates at which they should bavea right to parchiase ‘| the reversion of theirfarnus And whereasthe suid | Commissioners did also, by their Report, direct and } provide thal, in certain Cases, the value of the lands | sould be uscertained by Arbitrators, ty be uppoint- ed by the Landlords aud their Tenants, ia making which last direction or pr Wision the suid ons sivners exceeded the autiority intended to be given them by the Assembly and tie said Proprietors, and the sume, if contirmed by Act, touny disputes and much litigation between Laid lords and Tenants, and saco direction or provision cannot be aliowed or contirmed. And whereus it is, neveitheless, expedient for preventing the Ten- ) ants being deluded by the agitation of impracticable | projects, based en certain questions ealled, in the said Resolutions, * The Escheat Question,’ “ The wight vive rise to , Question,’ as well as for seeuring to them the be- retit arising from the remission of Arrears of Reut, and the right to purchase the reversion of their farms, that the declarations, provisves, or directions relutive thereto shoald be contirwed in the manter and under the provisves hereinafter mentioued. | ' And whereas the said Proprietars huve agreed, during the several periods hereinafter mentioned, to adopt the rates of commutation fixed by Her Ma. jesty’s Government for the Commutation of the Qait Rents, us the rates at which they will permit tueir Tenants to purchase the reversion of their re spective farts, and which rates are more advanta- geous to the Tenants, than the rates fixed in the vaid Award. | 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Go- | vernor, Council, and Assembly, that from aad after the passing of this Act, every Tenant of any of the Proprietors in the said Schedule named, having, at the time of his desiring to exercise the night of pur- chase hereinafter given, au aubexpired term of not | less than tw enty-one years, under writien detiise, jin any of the Yownship lands of such Proprietors therein mentioned, shall have a right or option to purchase the reversionary interest of such Proprie- tors, bis beirs, or assigns therein, at the rates here- inafter meutioned, that is to suy: daring the first period of tive years, from the Ist day of May, Laue, every such Tenant shall have a right or option to | purchase sich reversionuary interest at fifteen yerrs }parchase of the yearly reserved rent; during the | next period of tive years ensuing. such Tenant shall ' sures may be requsite for giving validity to their Now know ye, that We, taking te premises into Fishery Reserve Question,” and * The Quit Rent | | promises were held out by the party in power thai against aud sinning Old Family Compact—never | the disease would be expelled from the body po-! ysed their power so disastrously for the incerests litic in less than eight monihs from the time the | of phe people as the present domiuaut faction. The cure was applied; and we were positively assured | giq Coupact were a respectable set of despote— that all the long suffering tenantry of this Island they acknowledged themselves as despots — they would be tuade happy and prosperous beyond their) planned and carried out their measures m the face of day—they scorned the idea of being responsible tlemen at the head of affairs in this Calony, with to the people, and treated the people as serfs, aa Col. Gray as their guiding star. Then we had | 41) pigh-handed despots do. But, witha first con public meetings by the score, and addresses by gjderation for their owa immediate interests, they ' . * . | most sanguine expectations by the patriotic gev- wuth day of June, Lo0¥, in the Yath year of Qur | the cart load, at, and in which teadying to men | did their best, we believe, to heep the country in power was doue in the most approved fashion; | from going headlong to ruia—koowing their bread aud thousands of people clapped their hands aad) and putter depended on its prosperity—knowiag, flung up their hats when they got the first glimpse or_believing, that their power was net of a four of the Queen’s Commission, delegating high but years duration, but that of w liiedeng tenure. undetined powers to three distinguishet Colonists, The present Government, on the contrary, who were hastening to settle, in the saost delight-. knowing they will not be permitted to continue in ful manner, and aecerding to their own judgment, office, atier a new House of Assenibly shall meet, all the vexatious disputes that have arisen out of are reckless of the ill consequences of their adui- the leasehold tenure. The House of Asseussly uistration,—they had a majority of only one at the undertook to pledge the good faith of the Colony | just general election, —chieanery, bigotry, and mit that its inhabitants would abide the deeision of | representation preeured them that majority,— the Royal Commission, whatever that decision they ineveased it by two more in expelling irom nught be: and it-was fondly believed that the the House two members of the Liberal party who British Government and certain Proprietors, wha were, we believe, legally and coustitutionally were joiat parties to the Commission, would also! elected ;—and ever since, they have carried on— accept any Award that might be given. Then | as if it were natural to them—a system of decep- came the Koy al Commissioners, in all thvir pomp | tion the most shameless and stupendous that was and dignity; aud the lawyers with their stuf and | eyer practised in this or any other Colony, as their silken gowns, to spin out learned arguments in -policy with regard te the Land Commission very favor of the tenants and proprietors respectively ; clearly proves. We caunot suppose, therefure, and there were Secretanes and Reporters teshed | that a Government which can be so characterised to the uttermost ends of the earth the light of wilibe inahurry to consummate theirewn destruc. knowledge with regard to tenant rights aud ten-| tion: and w ws asked if we think there will be ant wrongs in this Island. And “their Excellen- 4 new election this summer, we have expressed cies” baving opened their court, |our belief that there will not be one, as we think | * Ab! then and there was hurrying to and fro » Ger . iad ented on » | the Government have not courage enough to face of Delegates from all parts of the Island to give a! fair account of the condition of the tenantry, | Which “their Excellencies” duly noted in their 4), “ : ir dependents 10 office. books. And then came the Spy, with his budget | That there should be a general election this of ties, and his pen, ink, and paper, to falsiiy leverything which the Delegates had said. The | reqular sessions of the present House have been scene Was then shifted to Rothsay, where the’ heid at the usual and ordinary seasons; and ab great Convention of Commissioners took place, to though the election law states that the Parliament | examive all the evidence that had been taken by | shall continue in being for four years, it was never , "contemplated that more than four regular Ses quires of paper and many bushels of vysters were | sions should be held during the existence of any consumed in preparing the wondertul Report. | House. We do not think that any ease can be It is unnecessary to describe any more of the | pointed out, showing that that number has been farce. exceeded under any one Parliament. It may, i to our readers—from the sending of the Report to | deed, be necessary someties to hold aa extra England, where, after the formaiity of getting it session in any one year that has witnessed a rey _ printed, it was shot into the rubbish hole by the | gular session, when some extraordinary and spe- Duke of Newcastle, down to the egregious fully ot | cific object calls for the intervention of the Legis. passing Bills in this Colony, to give vitality to the | lature; but no general business is transacted in miserable bantling that was strangled as soon as | such Session. Yet, the Government may — and | the Spy and by themselves, where a great many All its scenes and incidents are well known Island, he states that the Wood Islands are 2) have a right or op tion to purchase such reversionary | lL had seen the light of the Colonial Office. The} we believe some of the Executive Council have “barren rock.” Now, it is generally said by all rity of the Board of Edacation, for the thingappears to be patronized by that body; and he suys he in interest at 18 years purchase of the said vearly re | those who know them that there is mo better land) served rent; and during ull subsequent periods jon the Island or Main La id. The owner und oceupier, Thomas MeMahon, is | | very wrothy at such a statement going through the Island in such a way as wight be suid by the atthe-| ale ays, that in uny cuse Where the saideyearly rent, , Count the expense attending the Tenant shall ave au right or option to | purcuase suc h reVersionary interest at twenty years’ | pureluse of the suid yearly reserved rent. Provided l every such | during the first portion or years of the term, snali be jess than the yearly rent rekerved duriag the resi- people know, too, or ought to knew, that all these} declared an intention to that effeet—so construe area al yr iceedings have cost them about fif ecn | the law as to enable them te eke out their politi- hundred pounds of good money — taking inte ac-! ¢al existene> to the very last month of the four passing of the | years, so that theic dependents in office may live _ Bills of last Session—to say nothing of theanxiety, at the public expense as long as possible. If we | tends to enter an action at coumeu law aguinst the | due of such term, the amount of the purehase mo- | vexation, and disappointment they have endured. gonsulted the interests of the Liberal party, with. Rev. Peddler for damages, as his’ appellation of *barren’’ applied to the Wood Islands would have the eilect of damaying the sale of them considerably in the estimation of all those who do not kuow of their extraordinary fertility, as it is very seldom they require the application ef manure, being naturally good. " By publishing this yon will cohfer a favour on Mr. MeMahon, and also on, Yours, &e. May 17, 1862. : TRUTH. East AND West.—The foliowing little article from the Chicago “Times” indicates the beginning of a somewhat ugly controversy between the East We have long foreseen that some such difficulties would arise :— “That the interests of the entire producing West are sacrificed for the benefit of the maunacturing monopolies of the East by the existing republican tariff, needs no argument to prove. It was mt designed toe produce the largest amount of revenue, The pringiple of such a tariff is not only wrong in itself, but, from this time forward, will be doubly oppressive upon tle producing West. The West must pay into the pockets of the East an amount equal to the tarifl upon their articles of consumption, or the tariff upon the imported article. Aud as the tariff was designed tor protection and not for revenue, the remainder of the means necessary to pay the ex- penses of the government, the war debt and the war open must be laid directly upon the people by direct taxation. These points were ciearly set forth in the preamble and_reselution rejected by the House the other day by a strictly party vote. The facts in the case were presented clearly by a Washington correspondent of the ‘Times’ in Thursday's paper. The North-West will get rid of its mania for black men after a little, ond a its attention to the protection of its own rights.” A gentleman who has travelled around the world states that he found a volume of Lallah Rook in {ney shall be compated by multiplying the maximum jor full rent reserved Curing such residue of such term by the number Of years purchase at which such Tenant may, under tie provision aforesaid, be en- titled to purchase. 2. Be it further enacted, that the hereinbefore re- cited Declarations or Award of the said Commis. sioners, respecting the [escheat or forfeiture of the Lands, and the Arrears of Quit Rents, and the Lauds called or known as the Fishery Reserves; and also concerning the Remission to Tesants of Arreurs of Rent, which have accrued due previous to the day of ———— 1808, and which are now unpaid, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, valid and binding at law and in equity, 3. Be it further enacted, that in any action here- after to be brought by any of the saik Proprietors, their heirs, or assigns, aguinst any sach tenant, for the recevery of rent which tay bave accrued due previous to the dav. of , 1858, under any such demise as aforesuid, this Act (as to so mnech of the demand as relates to rent accrued due previous to such last mentioned date) shall be a good defence ander the general issue, without the same being specially pleaded in bar thereto. 4. That nothing in this Act shall be constrned to entitle the Tenant of any farm or lands, comprising any will site or water-power, capable of being used forthe driving of any saw or grist mill, to retain any'such remission of arrears of rent, or a right to purchase the reversion thereof, as aforesaid, o. That this Act shall not extend to any lease er demise where the unexpired term shall be Jess than twenty-one years; nor to any lease or demise of any farm of lauds baviny, at tte time of the granting thereot, any houses, buildings, or other uuprove- ments of that description thereon unless such houses, buildings, or other improvements shall have been erecied or placed thereon by such lessee, or some person from whom be may have received thereof vefore the granting of saci lease. _6. That no Tenant shall be entitled to claim the right or option to purchase under this Act, anless all arrears of rent, and which may be recoverable by action, shull be tirst duly paid and satisfied. 7. That in case the Tenant shall desireto pur- chase between the periods or days on which the rent }falls due, the same shall be upportioned, and the portion there found to be due, added tothe purchase money, payable by such Tenant under the provi. sions of uhis Act. That ne in this Act shall extend to any e : lease made after i f this Act. . ee rcey Poy gue —— of = ‘Poems on| y. ‘That no Landlcrd shell be compelled 10 sell edition of Chi mera, an American | under the provisions of this Act, unless the whole ‘hilde Harold ov an island in the Pacific | of the ase woney be tendered or offered to be They know, likewise, that the landholders have been more oppressive in their dealings with their _tenautry than ever they were in former years; and_ | instituted ruinous actions to recover old arrears” out reference to the welfare of the whole Island, we should not be sorry_if the Government carried out this intention, although the country might suffer in the meantime; because it would sbow of rent, which some of those landholders thought | that the Government themselves regard (heir pros. “might be swept away from them by the Award; | pects a8 extremely gloomy, and believe their po- ;W hile the tenantry were waiting and hoping for litical fortunes to be in a desperate condition. Be- | the promised relief under that measure. | Sides, this stretching out of tiue, for the sake of | Now, the farce of the Land Commission has | official lucre, would so fully imbue the public mind , come te a conclusion at last. We felt assured ali with disgust at their meanness, that nothing which | along that it would disappear in a very ignomiui-| they éan do between the present or ensuing summer? (ous manner from the public stage; but we did not | and another session could save them from an over |expect to see a few of the proprietors cowing | Whelming and crushing defeat. They have pot forward and avewing that they had destroyed it, done one good thing for the country during the and offering to substitute an ugly abortion oi | time they have been in power,—every day serves | their own. | to exhibit in more glaring light than was visible | Bane cy ang ns LeMans = previous day their niggas — regard to c proprietors, the Land Question—in fact, they have not one rag | for they have broken their solemu agreement to of political reputation left to cever them, — and , abide by the decision of the Commissioners, and they are sure to be beaten whenever they come thereby humbagged the House of Assembly and to the hustings, Deisying the election for a few people of this Colony; and we regret to add, that! months will give greater force and eclat to the Mer Majesty's Colonial Minister Las countenanced triumph of Liberal principles, and add intensity the violation of faith, and become a party to it. | to the hatred with which the people now regard 2nd — that Sir Samuel Cunard and a few other. propnetary domination. landholders in England and in this Colony can ee ee override our Government and Legislature, and) WE are in receipt of the April numberof the wake slaves of our tellow colouists at their will, | Londen Quarterly Review, from Messrs. Leonard Lf our tellow colonists will consent to be slaves— | Scott & Co., New York. We have not had time oo SCHEDULE A. .-. - that the Bill was framed himeclf «: po) “Sir Samuel Canard, Proprietor of Townships supervision—we have apheresis. hy iore another year, at most, shall pass away—that - the constituencies while they are so exceedingly unpopular, and while it is a matter of se muchia~ portance to have another year’s pay seeured for summer, there cancot be a shadow of doubt. Four if they will not assert their independence at the next election—let it come soon or late — they de- serve to suffer all the punishment which the most odious tyranny can iutliet. Nor let them torget that the Leader of the present Government, the Hon. Edward Palmer, is a conseuting party to the iniquitous Bill now before them; his name figures in the preamible,where it is distinetly stated that he agrees to the arrangement proposed in that Bill; and his name again appears in the eche- due. There is very little doubt on our mind to peruse the whole of the contents; but “ Dor- set,” “ The Lite of Turner,” “ Stauhope’s Life of Pitt,” and “The Merrimae aud Monitor,” we have read with great interest, and we have ae doubt the other articles will equally repay perusal, —-