THE EXAMINER.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. LL, DECEMBER 20, [858.
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INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE.
REVIEW OF THE ACTS AND MSASURES OF THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT OF PRINCE EDWARD IS- LAND.
(Conciuded.)
It is difficult, under the passing depression of the mer- cantile affairs of the Island, to recognize all the advantages which are derived by our [sand from the Treaty of Reci- provity with the United States; but whatever they are and have been, we are indebted for their completion to i's Liberal party. Probably in no other part of the North American ( lonies are those advantages more conspicuo sly displayed.
Our fish, our agricultural produce, our horses and eattle, in
fact, all the prodacts of our soil and of our industry, find now |
ready sale, without being burdened by duties. Until the
prosent depression, this advantage was sensibly felt and greatly | Dr
increased, as it will again in our prosperity. Now itso happens that if we may except the oceasional demand for flour, so that the Troaty is altogether in favour of ourselves; for Jet it be observed that the manufactured goods and West India pro-| duce whieh we get from our neighbours, all pay duties, so | that we derive a two-fold advantage—our revenue is aug. |
meated, and the market for what we produce is enlarged | On the other hand, our neiyhbours do fied their advantage | in the facilities allowed by this Treaty to their fishing trade ; but these they nearly as fully enjoyel before. Nor should it be forgotten that had we only proprietary capital applied, as it ought to be, to our fisheries, we could at any time set at nought their competition. The revenue of the gst quarter of this year wil! be mainly derived from the duties paid on the importation of American goods. But for this treaty | there would be little or none; for parties, for the sake of|
yy |
uone of the same things are wanted by us to be imported, | Balance, by Land in
i Which account leaves £12,826 19s.
‘up the Worrell Hstate.
“The Auditors. since making up the (which amounts only to L£62.044 Is. G41.) have been directed by the Lieut. Governor in Council to place to the credit of ithe Colony the amount of balances appearing i the books of | the Commissioner of Public Lands. Ou atiending at that ‘office, the Auditors find the large portion o! that balance |unrepresented by any document, bonds, agreements ef — | seeurities, and do not think they should be eredived ry them ‘as assets. The total amount o! suid balance ts £15,002 1s. 1d. | Now had the Auditors acted as it appears to us that truth
they, as well as the movers in the llouse of As- “not have failed to see that the Act called the kes not ouly the land itself, but the
ahove statement,
demanded, | sembly, could \Laod Purchase Act ma ¢ se balances, not only | due but acknowledged anew every time a deed is executed or [ostead, then, of this £15.- y better seca red
‘chattels of the purchaser, liable for tho
‘any payment endorsed upon it, |Q0z Is. 1d. being unrepresented, it is possib! ‘than any money lent on mortgage—the Act and the land
: ; : being the security—the deeds themselves and the Commis- |
But so far we have shewn
-sioner’s books being the accqunt. Sg1., but
| . . . . » > . ithe offteial debt of the Colony to te £14,868 3s. u ‘the equitable or real debt to be only £3,308 3s, 37d. We ‘are treating of realities as well as fizures, and have therelore
jto present a further account, in which we shall take eredit | for the real property of the [s!and, not so far brought into laceount; but which forms an essential item when the assets Lt is as follows :— Cr. 3g By 45,403 acres public Lands unseld, £13,620 18 0 debt due Colony, 12,826 19 8j By Crown Lands do. 1,574 5 0 by balances due on Crown Lands sold,
| of the Island are the subject of enquiry.
To balanee, £3,368 $3
1,000 0 0
£16,195 3 0|
£16,195 3 0 81d. in favour of the Government—a larger sum than will ever be required to wind So thet instead of the Colony being
‘in the desperate condition represented by unprincipled dema- 'gogues, it may be safely maintained that there is no other | Colony under Her Majesty’s Crowa which could app/y to the
Secretary of State to pass a Bill which became necessary to provide a guarantee for a loan in its favour, and exhibit such a favourable finaneia) statement; and it does seem very sulutary measure should be now im-
strange that this most acknowledgment by two successive
peded, in spite of the
adel of the islander, ata former period of his public life, will : referred to. The Bill of 1844-had the same object in vig the publie give, or ean they give, any attention to the savage . and was introduced and passed under the light which weal denunciations which he now burls against the Bill by order of pes the euhject by the then Attorney and Solicitor Genera} his employers? Yes, we are prepared to show, and will show, | of England... But what is most remarkable in « this stra that the principle which Mr. Maclean affects to view with such ‘eventful history ’’ is the fact, that Mr. Duncan Maclean—the
‘abborrence in 1858 was the object of his most earnest advocacy | present violent opponent of this measure—the man who P | fesses to be shocked at the audacity of the Government for
‘in 1844. 7 7 Most of our readers are, no doubt, aware, that the object of | daring to claim the Reserves —who thinks that the Crown or
Bill, passed on the Ist April of the present year, entitled | “#¢ Government has waived its right to them through the agency of the local Legislature, and asserts that the proprietor,
** possess an irrevocable title’? to what he modertly styles ‘that fringe of property!’ — it is remarkable, we say, thas Duncan Maclean was the foremost man in i844 in asserti ‘ and re-asserting, that the proprietors had not the shadow of a claim to the Reserves—that their pretensions were fraudulent — that their usurpation of the Reseryes was a monstroug ‘‘ swindie,”’ and that the tenantry ought to be protected } Act of Parliament from paying rent for them! In 1844 my Maclean was a member of the Assembly — he had commenced his parliamentary career two years before, and was bidding high for popularity as a grievance-monger in general, and as an implacable enemy to the proprietors in particular. On the 8th March, 1844, in the debate on the Fishery Reserves he submitted a resolution which was made the groundwork of the Bill that subsequently passed, and which will be found, agreed to by a large majority, in the Journal for that year, p. 70 His speech, in submitting it, is reported in Haszard’s Royal Gazetle, March 26, and is as follows :—
Pe Mr. D. Mactan had repeatedly heard statements tending ¥ to shew that the present Chief Justice invariably charged the ) juzy in favour of the proprietors, Any one has a right ta dis- pose of his own property, but the proprietors had sold that of others as their own. Sucu CONDUCT IN OTHERS WOULD BE CALLED SWINDLING , and no milder term ought to be appliedto this. Ag there seemed to be great difference of opinion in the House, he would beg leave to introduce « resolution :
i the 4s An Act relating to the Fishery Reserves in this Island,”’ was to prohibit proprietors from recovering vents for lands re- served to the Crown for the use of the fisheries. There is no denying the fact that such reserves were made to the Crown in ‘the original grants of township lands. Did the Crown ever) relinquish its right to these reserves in favour of the pre- No. If the Crown did not relinquish its right to _ the reserves, had it the power to transfer them with other im- perial interests to this Colony, and did it surrender that right to the Colony? By the Civil List Bill of 1851 it transferred to the local Government all its territorial and local interests, including, of course, the Crown Fishery Reserves. It was therefore the duty of the local Government to assert its claim to the Crown Reserves, and to prohibit the proprictors from exacting rent fur them. Hence the Bill of last Session. <A similar Bill passed the House of Assembly in 1844, in confor- mity with a resolution introduced by Mr. Duncan Maclean, as But before adducing our proof of
| prietors ?
we shall presently show. Mr. Maclean's inconsistency, we shall briefly notice the opinions which he has deemed it his duty to express in 1858, in conformity with those of his employers. In the Is/ander’s
leader of the 26th Nov. the following remarks occur :—
‘*For electioneering purposes, the Snatcher Government fassumed that the Crown Reserves were transferred to the Colony by the Civil List Bill, after they had definitely reca- pitulated, in the Legislature, the Crown Lands really acquired| ‘‘ Resolved, That certain lands in this Colony, original] under that Act, to the total exclusion of the Fishery Reserves. reserved for the use of the fisheries in this Island, having hook |The Crown had so ‘ong quietly acquiesced in the occupation of | declared by the Attorney and Solicitor General of England to | those Reserves by the grantees and their representatives, that | be the property of the Crown, having been claimed and in lit may be questioned if they do not now possces as irrevocable | many cases leased and sold by the proprietors of the Town. a title to that fringe of property as to any other part of their | Ships on which such are situated, it is right and proper that the settlers on said lands should be protected by Legislatiyg
taking back our produce, are willing to pay duties on their | Ministers of the propriety of the request made by the Island articles of export; and no doubt this year a great deal of} Legislature for the Lusperial sanction of, and guarantee to a
And in the same paper of the 10th December instant, the
Bob, ath? @ ww ti » Srates i is manner: and itis! Loan, in order to put a stop to an injurious agitation, which | ee : fish will find its way to the Srates in this manner; and itis| Loan, t ! ju 4 which | ose optuten:i-velueataden: felletensic:
. . ’ ° . EC . al - } 2 write y ; an ) ‘ not improbable that ultimately this course, which the trade | for years has retarded the prosperity of the Island ; and that in fish is likely to take, will supersede that earried on by | the just expectations of the country, founded not ony on | the numerous fishing vessels now employed. No doubt the| Despatches received, but on the declarations made by Lord | Treaty in which this origivates was concluded between Her | Stanley, in his place in Parliament, should be disappointed.
| When the Liberal party came into power the Revenue was
‘* As we previously observed, the Proprietors have been so long in possession of the Reserves, it is questionable if they have not, by that means, obtained a title against the Crown ; but be that as it may, it is certain that the decision of the Assembly in 1852 was conclusive, that the Colony had obtained
Majesty and the United States; but miuch of the detail off its practical working, mauy of the suggestions in which it/ originated, proceeded from the Liberal party in this Island | whilst the establishment of the same mercantile process, | namely, the reciprocal interchange with our fellow Colonists, | is exclusively of their negociation. We would ea!l on the Liberal party not to suffer them- | selves to be deluded by arguments drawn, and as stupidly | as ungenerously supplied, from the present financial state | of the Colony. Were theif enemies in office to-morrow, could they avert the consequences of the general stagnation of tat credit which is the main-spring of commerce, and without which it has no existence. Unless they can show | that the Liberals have, by operations in Kurope, occasioned | the nearly entire destruction of our timber trade and ship | building how can they attribate the present state of things | to them? Unless they can show that there has been an un-_
Peisouable expenditure out of proportion to the late very) Adju‘ant General, - + + - 75 0 0
enlarged scale of business, of what is there to complain?) Are the visitations of Providence, or the vicissitudes of trade | in other countries, to be attributed to them? But the state- ments we will subjoin and the remarks we will annex to them | shall speak forthemse!ves.
It will never be overlooked that for a series of years the +
Government of this Island was but a earrying out of orders! b j i sinall excess, which is occasioned principa ly by the necessity |Crown, commonly caiied the Fishery Reserves the House of |
reecived from Downing-Street; and those orders were the result of an undue intercourse between Ministers and Pro- prietors, the latter not regarding or understanding Island interests, and blinded by a rapacious agency from a!! com. | prehcasion of their own. But latterly for a time, and until now, that intercourse, by the introduction of liberal politics and liberal politicians, had been considerably abridged ; but we regret to say that evidence is again afforded of the un- constitutional renewal of this baneful intercourse, carried on in opposition io the legal representations of Her Majesty's |
Representative. Things appear to be so managed by some | interested clerks in the Colonial Office, that the statements of such a person as Mr. Leslie find currency in opy official documents; nor has it been unfrequent of late that
all the seerets of office have been known to proprictors before | bursed
they have been transmitted to the constituted authorities. | P jo! and fairness have no p
| i ¢ i } ss < r y li > : e B ~] * . ‘
‘either party blinduess or party malice; but uo ene, be he month after the ealeiption of the seport om. the’ Crows Lande
Lvery consideration, therefore, which can actuate man, calls } on us to assist a Libera! Government, to defeat a system so |
replete with injustice and so prejudicial to the administration | ¢¥¢ r . . . | . ie 0 No Liheral could desire to abridge the | the public of
of Co!osial affairs. privilege which, in common with himself, every subject enjoys; | but the security of all demands that all representations, not |
: .. ania? bls aaa cas “1 contained in official despatches, should be discredited till re- | ferred to the Lieut. Governor, or he had refused to forward | them. Were any other the practice, how would it be possible for any Governor cr Government to maintain itself against
of practised Assistants to remain in the various offices in case
ing, and incident to that form of government which gives tne | people power to change their ministers ; but it is shewn above that the heads of departments have given up part of salaries to meet this contingency. wise been incurred to insure greater efficiency in the collection ‘of the Revenue, and its increase sbews the wisdom of the | tracts that the definitive recapitulation, by the Legis ature, of | ineasure. ‘whieh has oceasioned an additional charge for salaries. sek the whole, the increase pa et, men the re- | Journal of the House for 1852, the year in which the Js/ander iti ! ents : ; it . at iS senses can | - sition tO | Sarena auras Gtiaiaendind os Saeed asserts that ‘the decision of the Assembly was conclusive
gence aii
22 In 1858, that is,
£22,896 Ga, 114d. (in the year 1851.) up to the last return, it had reached £41,496 23, 113d.
no right to any part of the Reserves, in exchange for assuming the payment of the Civil List.”’
estates, and perhaps a beiter.
enactment in the quiet possession thereof, (without an
ssessi y further rent beng exacted by the Proprietors of the Townships on which such reserves are; bat at the same time not interfering with any Tight the Crown may enjoy to exact rent for such reserves) until the land be required for the use of the Fisheries?™ -"
And in the course of the same debate we find it reported
that—
‘*Mr. D. Mactzan persisted in the right of the House to determine, that the tenant should not in fuiure pay any rent.”
It is alleged that the civil list has been increased. The} Now, nothing can be more absurdly fulse than the assertion inerease is very small. It would be tedious, if not impossible. to go through all the Government expenses belonging to the
civil list, &c.; but to shew the disinterestedness of the heads | '
of departments, we give the following comparative returns :— | they were nut specified in the report drawn up by the House
|
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that the House of Assembly in 1852 decided against the claim
of the Government to the Crown Fishery Reserves, because
respecting the Town and Pastare Lots in Princetown and
S851 i8d8 Chief Justice, - + - - £700 0 0 £600 OQ 0} Georgetown, and the unsold lands on Lots 15 and 55. The Master of the Rolls, - - - 500 0 0 500 0 0 | object of that report was, not to define all the property ceded Colonial Secretary & Registrar, 550 0 0 450 Q 0) to the local Government by the Civil List Bill of 1851, but, t- Treasurer, - - Sth? 480 0 0 ou 0 0 | fix the upset price at which the latter description of property Attorney General, with-fees, - 200 9 Q = 350 0 O' should be sold. But let the Editor of the Islander turn to the
i l ) Be £ | 9 . eS es 2
ans : (without fee 7 Assembly's Journal for 1851, and he will find that on the 12th which is a large saving to the public.) |
260 0 0 300 0 0 95 © (| the land, the House proclaimed, in the most distinct manner, |
| May, few days after the Civil List Bill beeame the law of
Excise, - - - - - o e
| thea oht a Ove 1 + » we £2525 0 gi right of the Government to the control of the Fishery | Less, 345 O ©
Reserves, as part of the linperial interests surrendered on the passage of the Civil List Bill. Inan address to His Excellency
eT ( oar ‘i ° : £2770 0 ¢ 'Sir Alexander Bannerman, in which all those interests are
£2770 But notwithstanding, so far as the irems quoted me there | briefly recapitulated, the following paragraph occurs : here is
; ce —— San apparent saving, such is not truly the case. ‘* And with respect to other Lands heretofore vested in the =€) Assembly further pray, that your Excellency will take such if a change of Goverument,—a practice every where prevall-| measures as will secure those lands from being hereafter i ‘usurped that they may become a source of profit to the Go- | vernment and advantage to the inhabitants of this Island, for | whose benefit they were reseryed.’’—Journal of the House of
99 %
Assembly for 1851, p. 182. | Wolithe Js/ander presume to assert, in the face of this ex-
f their
1 Greater expense has like-
The Post Office services have largely increased, | the Crown Lands acquired by the Colony under the Civil List |
Rikki i ‘ Bat, | Bill excluded the Fishery Reserves? But let us turn to the |
at so low a charge as that of £23,000. Such a sup-| that the Colony had obtained no right to any part of the Re-
osition may have place, if any where, in minds wherec ‘ «© Ye, > r © .- ‘ é ‘ nt lace, and can only be promulgated by | List."” On Saturday. the 20th Merch, 1852, less than a
andour | serves, in exchange for assuming the payment of the Civil |
“ ‘ - > @ = 1 so bi »r so malicious, can fail to observe, in all : : r so biind or ever so malicious, ¢ ‘ ; - | referred to by the Js/ander, the House of Assembly unani- fices, a despatch of business, an Impartiality 1p | eee ; ‘s « ‘ . . :* | ey ‘ v > > ‘ nmietabkanhia rags ty . every thing having its due tarn, with an intelli- | mousy agreed to ‘the following unmistakeable address to the d activity never equalled in those defunct times | Lieut. Governor Sir A. Bannerman :— Responsible Government and| « May it please your Excellency—The House of Assembly ishery Reserves heretofore | | vested in the Crown, and transferred to the Government of this |
| | Island, deem it expedicot that all persons should be warned |
its detail,
before the introduction of liberal a lininistrators of puble affairs.
THE FISHERY RESERVES.
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having under consideration the F
———_—_—_—_—_-—-— + > eea >-—- —
from trespassing on the same. With that view, the House of | Assembly request, that your Exceliency will be pleased to issue
These extracts will do our work withoutcomment. To Mr. Maclean we leave the pleasant task of reconciling the views expressed by him in 1844 with those which he has found it his duty to announce in 1858. According to his opinion, and thatofa large majority of the Assembly, in 1844, the pro- prictors were guilty of **a most infamous act”’ in taking rents { But now, in 1858, when the Govern- ment sought to stop such ‘* infamous acts,” they only are the
or the Fishery Reserves.
‘* swindlers,’’ while the proprietors are, by contrast we pre- sume, the most upright and well disposed men in the world! Well, *tis a world of change we live in, and we think there are few people in this or any other country who can beat Mr. Duncan Maclean in Ais experience of the transitory nature of
things »political. We hope the proprietors will not behave.
i shabbily, but will reward by a handsome douceur in this merry
Christmas season the new-born zeal in their behalf of their ancient enemy. We have already extended these remarks to a greater length
than we at Grst proposed to ourselyes, but we have a few words
more to say. The editor of the IJs/ander informs us that he has ‘resided for eighteen years in the Townships without being aware of any discontent or excitement about the Re- serves.’’ If we are to believe him, we must believe also that he has slept the greater part of the eighteen years, or seldom stirred beyond his barn yard, for we know of no ques- tion that has béen more constantly and perseveringly agitated, next to Escheat, than that of the Fishery Reserves. It is discussed almost every Session in the House of Assembly, and it has been a prevailing topic at hundreds of public mert- ings. But we will bring forward the testimony of the Islander itself to prove that the unsettled state of this question has pro- duced much discontent and excitement in the country. Ina leading article in that paper of the date June 7, 1844, the following passage occurs :—‘: The minds of the people, which ‘* have long, in a manner, been phrenzied with hopes and fears re- ** ative do these reserves, require to be settled ; the general good ‘* of the Colony demands it ; and, by az effect of the wisdom of ‘‘ our Legislature, we yet confidenily hore to see it completely ‘-achieved, and to the satisfaction of all parties concerned.”’ Now, will the editor of the Js/ander belieye the Islander with regard to this part of his statement?
i >< > -
THE MAILS.
ee
the secret intrigues of indivilua!ls or parties, causing all the ae C ‘ ’ Norurne could be more significant of the nature and extent |
a Proclamation, cautioning tire pubiie from trespassing on, or
measures of the Legislature to be restrained by a power un- known to the constitution,—a state of things which is brought about by the ready acceptance of all the falsehoods of the greedy agents of the Island. designed and used to perpetuate the bondage of the people for tieir ewn gains, and worked by a system of delusion towards the proprietors, regarding their own and the general interes's. .
Tbe next subject for consideration, and which must be dis ‘cussed in order to throw « ne light on the vain and disereditable delusions endeavoured to be practised by the Tories, is the actua! state of the {sland acesunts. In order to do this, we} take the aecoun's as reported by the Commitice to the Honse | of Assembly in its last sitting: Dr. Cr.
To balance against the By receipts at Trea- Colony, 3185 Jan’y, | sury to 3ist Jan’y, 1857, £22,803 14 0 1858, £41,456 2 09)
Expen.iture during the Due ar above at Pablic — } year ended Slsi Jan. Land Office, 15,002 1 1! 1838, 48,522 12 3] Balance asabove, 14,868 3 39)
£71,326 6 35 £71,326 6 3]
From an asecunt of the above nature, when used to show the actual affairs of the Island, it is just and right to deduct, not ac a book matter, but a3 a matter of equity, £11,500, being the amount of old ‘T'veasary Notes in circulation, but |
nterest, which are rather a public convenience |
| ; }
not bearing i
tuap a public debt, which would leave the accouut as uader: De. } Cr. {Treasury Notes, |Dalanee,
11,580 0 0 3,368 3. 3]
£14,868 3 3§
Balance brought dows, £14868 3 33 ‘Such, however, was tho spirit manifested by the Tory
representatives and the Tory Auditors, as if they would have
rejoiced if they could have shewn any real defect on the part of the Colony. That the former made an ineffectual attempt
be
to str: ke out of -the first above aceount, or rather not to ac- count for, the £15,002 Ls. 1d. credited therein to the Colony, a8 proceeds remaining due in the Land Office books, payable at siipalute] periods; whilst the latter, being called on to
ject of the Fishery Reserves.
jlence against every one who was favourable to it.
of the influence which is brought to bear on the editorial ma | nagement of the /s/ander than the conduct of that journal in | reference to the Bill which was passed jast Session on the sub- | While it was passing through | the Legislature scarcely a line was published in condemnation | of its principles ; at all events, no such lines as those we haye | recently read found a place, at that time, in the columneof our | contemporary. But the Bill having been disallowed, and it | being well known that the influence of the proprietary party , has contributed to, if it has notentircly produced, that result, the criticism of the Is’ander on the Biil is fieree and furisus— the indignation it feels against the Government for having in- troduced and passed such a measure, cannot find utterance in the ordinary modes of expression, but breaks out into coarse | and vulgar terms such as few people, beside the editur of whe
Islander, would think of addressing to the public. It is evident
opposition from the proprietors to its allowance — hence his -com parative silence; bat now that he finds the faction incensed against the Bill, nothing can compass the measure of his vio- He desig- ates itasa piece of ** downright rascality,’’ ** a most infamous Act,’’ ‘a swindling Bill,’’ ‘* an illegal and unconstitutional *’
measure. Of course, ali this zeal, or fary, as we should call
if, is simulated to please the proprietors, or is perhaps assumed
at their dictation — fur we know that the Is/ander has ever been,
the control and influence of the proprietors—was ushered into the world by means of their contributions, and is still sup- ported by their subscriptions. Dut suppose we shew that the principle — the essential principle of this very ‘ swindling Bill,’ this ‘* most infamous Act,’’_this piece of +* downright
include that sum io their statement of essets, replied thus:— | rascality,’’ &c. &e., enjeyed the countenance and favour of the
\of the Legislature, the Government had waived its right to
;quote one part of the Journals, which may sea to serve its |
that, before the Bill went to England, he did not expect much |
from the day of its birth to the present hour, directly under |
renting the —_ hishery Seer it or in any ae occupying the | Tue first Winter Mail for the season arrived here via Capes same, without licence from the Government of this Island.’’— | T i T ” i . 3 a : | Lormentmeand Lraverse “inesday Journal of the House of Assembly for 1852, p. 124. a ” de werse on Wednesday evening last. Another | Mail from Halifax, by way of Pictou and Georgetown, was | received on Thursday last ; and again on Saturday Jast we had another Mail by the usual winter route. Little or no news of
Now, we think the above extract very satisfactorily de- molishes Maclean's barefaced assumption, that, by a proceeding |any importance has been furnished by these arrivals.
It will net do for the Jslander to al E i‘ . i | We have just learned (Monday 4 p. m.), that the English Mail crosses from Cape Tormentine to-day, and may be ex-
the control of the Reserves.
purpose, and pass over others which are much more to the ; s Bit ig ‘ , ‘ Ye shall delay going to press in order
to-night.
pect d here
We happen to be quite as well acquainted ce 1 to publish any important intelligence that may be received.
point at issue,
with the contents of the Journals as Mr. Maclean, and we us-
We regret to learn fat the vessels which were cut out of Bouree. ithe ice in this harbour during the past week have been
But we shall goa little further back than 1851 or 1852, prevented from prosecuting their voyage by the ice in the before a Civil List Bull was thought of, and we shall bring to Strait. Some of them have returned to the mouth of the |the barof Pablic Opinion, to prove our case on this question, a | harbour, and others are iec-bound in the neighbourhood of | witness whom the editor of the Js/ander ought to respect and cc
sure him that be will gain nothing by his quotations from that
' Point Prim. + oe» ~ -
| believe. —— By reference to the Journal and Debates of the Assembly | for 1844, we find that the question of the Fishery Reserves
| was discussed at great length in the Session of that year, and |
Eastern Treacnen’s Instiretret.—On Saturday evening, the 4th instant, a meeting of the above Insititete took place at Eglinton School-room, Bay Fortune After the transaction of ; ; : : the business of the Institute, an interesting and instructive | terminated in the House passing a Bill, which was precisely Lecture ** On China,’’? was delivered hy Mr. Alex. Me- the same in principle as the Bill which was sent to the Colonial Donald, Teacher.
; ; : : : The Lecturer displaved intim; : aintal i Office this year, at the disallowance of which Macleen is so | om : Lactaves displayed intimate acquaintance with the history of that singular nation. From the careful comparison
overwhelmed with joy, and so savage with the Government for | ot the customs and mstitutions of the Chinese with those of having brought forward such a measure. The object of the | Europeans, he inferred that the former were a wiser people
. i. ! + 2 . ¢ : . + meirlien stata x as % Bill of 1858, as we before stated, and as every intelligent man | than the latter, and in a more civilized state than is pene in Prince Edward Island k : ee 3 admitted. In the course of the’ discussion which ensued, e Meward fsiund knows, was to prohibit proprietors | these inferences were ably rebutted by Rev. Hi. Crawford and
Fed . ; . . | ’ . . . from exacting ren's fur the Fisbery Reserves in the Crown. | Others. The discussion throughout was conducted with much
This Bill was dvawe wn ta doutieiie es a ability and interest, both by the Lecturer and o her speakers. P onformity with the repeated re The hest meeting of this Irstitute will take place at St.
presentations of the Assembly, two instances of which we haye | M irgarct’s School-room, on Saturday, the 8th January, 1859,
| A lecture on Physiology will be delivered by Mr.
.in., which the public are Joun Caupsen, C. S.
!
already quoted, and based upon the opinion given by the | #t 4 p.m. Crown Law Officers of England in 1844 — namely, ea HI: C. McKie, Teacher, at 7
respectfully solicited to attend. the Crown alone had the exclusive right-to the Reserves a Festena, December 7, 1858.
,