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EDWARD WHELAN]

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OURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERAT

This is true Liberty, when Free-born Men, having to advise the Public, man speak free.——zvRiPiDEs. ‘TEDITO

CH\RLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1859.

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THE WOODS OF SUMMER.

BY THOMAS FRASER.

Wraprep in fragrant flowers and foliage ,— Lovely are our summer woods,

Waving o'er the mountain dingle,—

Dangling where the streamlets mingle With the meadow-margined floods.

Elder, apple, wildling cherry,

And its mate, the scarce hawthorn, All their wealth of sweets displaying, Up the rude steep banks are swaying

In the cool fresh breeze of morn.

Still, and solemn in their silence,— Regal solitude’s domain ! —

Deep old woods, where once the Indian

Crouched beneath the oak and linden, Stretch away o’er hill and plain.

Rich. in all their shades of verdure, ‘Tree with tree blend kindly now : Voving-like, the light-leaved willow,

Drapes her tresses o’er the pillow Of the swarth eli’s burly bough.

(iraceful birch and feathery maple, Round the thick dark chestnut twine ; «And the sycamore, though hoary, j wirls bis laughing leaves in glory O’er the grim unyielding pine,

High among the wild nut fruitage, Gay birds skim from twig to spray ;

Brigtt-eyed squirrels. .alf in-hiding,

Here and there, are lightly gliding Where the broken sunbeams p!2y-

Rillets, with their rippling music, Scarce enough to thrill the calm, Tinkle down through hidden hollows, While the low-voiced echo follows

Singing an incessant psalm.

Slowly through the wider valley, Sweeps the river deep and broad,

Bearing onward as it passes

Lilies, leaves and withered grasses, Just as time bears us to God.

Mossy nooks, so softly sleeping

In their flower-gem'd robes of green, All o’erhung with vine and brambie, Lure the wanderer in his ramble,

From their glossy sweets to glean.

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Hon, Mr. HAVILAND—It is amusing to hear the hon,

‘member lecturing the Government, and instructing them

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\ticn. If he was siuvcere in his present opinions, why did

Well, they reported in favor of the purchase, and Mr. Ball received from it when final] + por > ° . : ll = A wound ; i Loan Bi got his £250, and Col. Swabey his £300 a year, according would, if in operation, Slawp asada oa See _

| what principles they should adopt in settling the land ques- to promise, and they have been benefitted if the country has Merchant, the Mechanic and the smal] Pereeree apon the

, . roprietor. not. I would not object to the Loan Bill, if I could believe|__M?- COOPER—Measures of various kinds have been pro-

jhe not advoeate them when in power for so long a period ? that its operations would be self sustaining ; but with the ex- Peed, Dut nothing but a court of Escheat will ever have the

Why oppose the hon. member Mr. Cooper's motion for the perience of the Management of the Worrel Estate to aeliie ates of settling the question.

| establishment of a Court of Escheat ? _ Hoa. Mr. COLES—Wise men sometimes change their | views, | Hon, Mr. HAVILAD—And fools jump Jim Crow ; but | of all the instances of such performances I have ever known, {the present course of the hon. member is the most glaring. ) Tn 1855, when he had a ready majority at his back, none | Were so vehement in his denunciations of Hscheat as the hon. _member; but now that he is no longer in the Government, ! when his political stock in trade is exhausted,"he finds it con- venient to change his views, in hopes of again deluding the people. A maa who, like the late Sir Robert Peel, changes ; his policy while in power, and by such change forfeits his high position, is entitled to respect; but the ease is reversed /in this instance, and the hon. member can claim no credit for | his present advocacy of Escheat. | Hea, Mr. COLES—Look at my address before I left the Government.

|} Hon. Mr. HAVILAND-—Yes, that address appeared | when the hand-writing was on the wall ; when the sceptre was about to depart ; when the miserable Government was doomed. I shall wllude, without more than a passing reference, to the last dying speech and confession of the ex-Chuneellor of the Exche- quer, on the subject of the wearisome Worrel Estate. I am content to take the last report of the Commissioner of Public | Lands, from whose figuring it appears that there was a sum }of £122 ds. Sd. against the property on account of interest ,and working expenses. If such be the case, it is idle to | predict the time when the purchase money will be realized | from the land, the most valuable portion of which has been : sold, and the residue offers but little prospect of settling so long as better soil can be obtained, After the experience | of that property no one should regret the loss of the Loan Bill; “r if the management of that petty property had been }so uafortunate, what would necessarily have been the result |of the far greater operations under the Bill.. Besides there

; Was an inherent injustice in the principle of the measure, |

whieh should at least haye made each property coming with- in the sphere of its action, primarily and solely liable for its

own costs and charges ; for it is unjust that the man in King’s Will the hon. leader of the late Government dare to say that

County should be fiable to pay for the property of him in| | Queen’s; or that ether should be burdened for the bevelit of | the resident in Prince County. It has been truly character- |ised as a tax upon industry for the benefit of idleness. ‘The | refusal of the British Government to guarantee the Loan ; | ‘has been stigmatised as a breach of faith. It is nothing of}

Numerous and grievous

we . wrongs have heen infli jmy judgment, T can come but to one conclusion, that the grants provided pret pr wtalee be pod erg i Loan would have been ruinous to the country. The accounts; protestants. Now foreigners could not hold lands eae

‘connected with that property shew that up to the 3lst Janu- British dominion, save as tenants

- 1 dom , ; and therefi ary last, the end of the financial year, but £6022 145 104d | 2ct of injustice to deprive British subjects of their birth-right, had been received on account of lands sold, the loss of land ts 15 and 55 were settled in freehold, and why has not-the tax, interest, salaries, &e., amounted to £6630 6s 84, thus. ele the of things been realised elsewhere. In New South giving an excess of expenditure over receipts, of £607 11s “pecone Precholdenn” after the expiration of their ‘Udd. If those figures be true what have we to expect but | iiaenh idee rue, © eiiaes « joes

: | settlement is b : : that in a few years the whole purchase money will be sunk ?/ and the spendaveat a em sonesvinted drlbenal,

; ; ; if their case igh need [t might suit the objects of the late Government to have it in| the result of an “ppea! to such a piae een ae

their power to compel the votes of the tenants on this estate| Hom. Mr. YEO—1 wonder that the hon. member did not in their favour by threats of ruin, if they did not sustain | 8¢t#le the question when he went to England—his trips cost them in office; and the same corrupt results were expected * good. deal of money, but all ended in smoke. I have sold from the Reserve Bill. I would ask, too, on what grounds| goodsland for £35 per 100 acres, taking cattle or any produce

» a ; in N2yme . 2 ‘ | the charge of breach of faith on the part of the British Go-| his TON ea nt to know how a man who cannot pay

: ; \his rent, can pay for the purchase of hi | Vernmeat is based # The late Executive Council sent home| prove of the Gdeionenmnd rend their saeserbientet oes

‘false and dishonest statements, showing a balance in favour | jobbers, for while pro rieto i i | of the Colony of £6000 or £7000; and when our actual posi. | Properties, the expense of Government management will cer | tion was shewn, and the Colonial Minister found that he had | UP # the property.

‘been deceived, he promptly gave the reason for withdrawin {the Bill from Parliament, viz: the unsatisfactory state of our ‘finances. In the statement of our assets sent home by the; ee ee ores grun late Government, the public lands were estimated at 4s stere Gleanings from late Japers

ling per acre, equal to 63 currency. Now, sir, find a large : . proportion of the Worrel Estate, no less indeed than $6,800

o-wremmencuanymenenmniouensuteninstiiiiiaii esti aitaeniR a /acres were purchased by the late Government at the follow- HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.

ing rates :

(To be continued.) W. M. Howe, Reporter.

' ARRIVAL OF THE SAXONIA AT NEW YORE. 6,800 acres at 1s currency 25,000 * ds .

5,000 « 4s ‘“

£3,400 0 0 6,250 0 Q|Sarvrvta Reroses to Recatn raz Granp Doxgs.— 1,000 0 0| Prepmonr Rervses raz Conreperacy wiru Avsrria.—

Positios or France, Avsrrta, ano Prussra,

_ The Steamer Sazonia arrived at New York on the 17th inst., bringing dates from Southampton to the 4th inst.

The London Times says ‘a telegram from Paris states that the war vessels in thedifferent ports are being disarmed, 11,040 0 QS! those in the roads are being ordered back to port. Dis.

armament had commenced at Toulon, and all sailors who bad £390 0 | Setved five years were discharged.”

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. The I we correspondent of the Times says the Sardinian he put the true value of’ the lands in the statement he trans. the French ae ee ae ae mitted to the Colonial Office. when he knew well that the| the wisbes of France so far as to naks aie t - aon c hest of the land has been izken up by men of substance who (rand Dukes recalled, and that it would +e tins sea s have paid their instalments, aud that it would be wise to give expect Piedmont to do so contrary to th ea and i : the residue to any who would settle on it, as it will never | terests of Italy. . oe iewxpnepil

pay the expenses? That hon, znember has argued that the} he Paris Constitutionel of Wednesday has an article

£10,650 0 0 | while taking the fictitious valuation of the late Government—

36.800 acres at 4s stg., equal to 6s cy., would amount to

making a difference of

Above, beneath, around, beyond us, Lavish nature spreads her dower,

Gorgeous, without stint or measure,

Ruby, green and golden treasure,

ithe kind, for it will be seen that no express prowise had been | Opposition of the propriators had defeated the Bill; and asa given ; Mr. Secretary Labouchere merely suggested the possi- | proof of his assertion, stated that they had got up a petition bility of some such measure, when he was informed by the against it, but admitted that the Bil was lost befure the peti- late Government that great irritation was experienced at the ‘ton got to England. But what was to be expected from

from M. de Cassagnae, entitled “ Ingratitude of Italy,” in | which the Italians are reminded of the immense obstacles which beset the empire at the beginning of the war, but

Glistening leaf and sparkling flower !

Sule may weli be here uplifted,

And the heart on joy-wings swim, While our thanks, in strains of gladness Sailing high o’er realms of sadness

Heavenward raise the raptured hymn!

All the world’s cold looks forgotten, All her ilis and gloom and wrong,—

Here, with spirit furmsshope-laden,

Like the pure thoughts of a maiden, Musing fancies round us throng.

Dreaming what earth might and should be, Could we but remove her pain ;

Could we but restrain the greedy,

Guard the weak, sustain the needy, And let God in justice reign.

Evil, erring, all that’s haman,

Yet there’s wondrous good in man— God that might be all resistless, Were he not himself so listless,

To fulfil creation’s plan.

Would that man, to man, would act as Earth’s great Maker acts to all;

Love in every look expressing,

Jaily breathing round him blessing, Be his life's sphere large or small,

tiftener, then, upborne by blessings High o’er all the world’s gross pelf,

Man would rise with angel duty

‘| urough the conscience lands of beauty, Blessing otbers, bless himself.

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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

DEBATE ON AN ADDRESS IN ANSWER TO GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. ( Continued.) Hon. Mr. COLES—As my bon. friend Mr. Whelan has prepare! an amendment to the paragraph, and as he is nos nt to move it himself, I shail perform that office fo him. {The hon, member here read the amendment whivhr has been published.] The amendment indicates the only equitable and feasible mode of settling the question. By submitting it to the proper tribunals it will be finally dis- of. If from such reference the tenantry get nothing, they must be satisfied with their lot; and if the claims of the proprietors shall be sustained, they must be supported. As to the proposed arbitration, it is all nonsense. Let each party bring his legal advisers, and let the Court and Jury decide their relative rights, as was done in the in- stances of Lots 15 and 55, where twelve freeholders gave their verdict on the evidence submitted to them ; from such decision an appeal would be to the Court of Chancery here, or to the English tribunals, whose decision would be binding on all parties. The government should adopt that pian, and as they have a majority at their back there will be no difficult y in disposing of the question in the manner | have indicate.

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}loss of the Reserves and Rent Rol! Bills. The imperial | guarantee was to be contingent upon the sufficiency of our ‘financial affairs to repay the Loan, and when they were found to be in such a state that they afforded no security for | ‘that purpose, the ministry naturally and properly withdrew | the measure they had introduced. It has been asserted that | |the proprietors had opposed the measure. Such is not the j case, for it would clearly be their interest to receive Govern- | {ment Debentures for their lands. The true reason of the loss} | of the measure is to be found in the fact that Lord Stanley | | was wisled when be stated that we were out of debt, and) (had a small surplus; and had the late Government been | honest they would have shewn that not only were we in debt, | ‘but that the debt was annually increasing. The Journals) |shewed a balance against the Colony of £29,800, and it is | ‘therefore unfair and untrue to charge the British Government | | with a breach of faith, because they did not act on state- | ments the falsity of which was at length brought to their | | notice. Hon. Mr. COLE3S—The hon. member seems indignant | that a breach of faith bas been imputed to the British Go- ,vernment. Mr, Labouchere’s despatch contained a pro- mise to guarantee the Loan; and a subsequent one stated that the Lords of the Treasury would negotiate the Deben- tures. Lf these were not promises, what can be so consider- ‘ed? [am not to be deterred by the hon. member from c¢all- | ing things by their right names. I am as loyal as any man, | ,aud Her Majesty herself is accustomed to the free expres- | ‘sion of their opinions by her people at home and abroad. | ‘The hon. member commenced by saying that [ advocate,

; Escheat because no longer in power. Last winter, when a} majority of liberal members was expected to be returned to | the House, I stated that if the Loan Bil] should be Jost I, would go for Hscheat. I repeat that the Biil was opposed | in consequence of misrepresentations as to the fiuances of |the Colony ; amongst others that the expenditure excezded | ithe Revenue by £15,000. Lf it was for their interest that | ‘the Bill should. pass, why did they run over the country | getting signatures to a petition againet it? The Bill was, | however, withdrawn before the document was received in. England. Hon. Mr. POPE—I am anxious to have this long stand- | ing question settled, but would not endeavour to hoodwink ‘and humbug the people as the last speaker has done; nor ‘am L of those who would, while paying my own rent, urge others to refuse to pay theirs, as hax been the course of some. | As so much allusion has been made to the Worrel Estate, 1 will shew the committee the reasons which induccd the late Government to purchase it ; and | think they will agree with me that the intention was not so much to benefit the people /as to provide snug offices for some of their party who stood in need of them. The reason why so high a price was given for the property, was that Mr. Mooney was becoming very troublesome in his application for an office. To pacify him, the Hon. Col. Swabey had to give up his situation of Hegis- trar, with the understanding that when the Estate became the property of the Goverament, he was to be the Commis- sioner of Public Lands. Mr. Joseph Ball was also tote installed as Surveyor General on a handsome salary. My brother bought the estate for £8500 sterling, and suld it to the Government for £17,0U0 sterling. Now, who were the Commissioners appointed to value it? Joseph Dingwell, whose relatives and friends are numerous on the property ; Joseph Ball, who was to receive a salary of £250 a year, and William Swabev, whose annual salary of £300 was de- pendent on its purchase by Government. Is it likely that they would report against their own interests? They were the Commissioners to apprise one portion. For the other part, the Hons. Messrs, Thornton, Beaton, and James Ding- | well, (a brother of Mr. Joseph Dingwell,)

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such a Government as the Jast? Who but robbers or mad- | reminds Italy of peter ne rae fs banter de 7 men would estimate as worth 4s sterling, land that had been | need be, the evormity of forgetfulness. If the Emperor valued by their own apprisers at but 5u sterling? The hon. persisted, it would, he says, have cost tedious sieges Fresh ex Chancellor of the Exchequer has expressed his willingness battles, new loans, immediate war on the Rhine wweahies in to go with the present Government. I give him every credit | Central [ndia, insurrections in Hungary and eleowhese which for sincerity, for I believe if he could yet a seat in the Ex. | it would have been necessary to permit and even to encourage. ecutive Council he would sapport the present or apy other | [nq word, it would have cost the abandonment of the princi- Government. ‘ples of order and the adoption of revolutionary principles, Hon. Mr. THORNTON—I shall brie@y give my reasons for | agitation renewed for the present, without speaking of a supporting the amendment, alth-agh 1 have been and still am possible reverse of fortune.

a non-Escheator, if any other feasible plan can be adopted. The article concludes with the following menace :—IJ tal y [ have been an agent tor several years, and am at present 4/ ust know well that if ¢ fi | h 8 hich i ) trustee of lands, and as such it might be more for my interests ip r 7 ” pareve and, which is extended personally tu keep as such the tenants of whose landlords’ pro- | ors moment aree at, is withdrawa, neither the fine speeches perty | have the management. But I say that the sooner the | Of the English Parliament, nor the sterile sympathies of the whole tenantry of the Island are converted into freeholders, | liberal party in Europe, would hinder Austria from domi- the better. As allusion has been made to the report of the | nating again in Italy, and this time from Turin to Messina. Commissioners for valuation of the Worrel Estate, lam quite! [t is again stated that Piedmont formally declines enter- prepared to justify it; and the reasons there assigned for the |

ing the Italian confederacy if Austria forms part of it, Government purchasing the property operate as strong'y as! 7

¢ ; } Ts = , ’ cei (ever on my mind. One great result of the Land Purchase Bill lo The Vienna correspondence says the Prussian note of the

» = > . is the reduction of the price of land. The purchase of the | 72d August will probably put an end to the discussion be- Worrel Estate by the late Government had the effect of in- | *¥eea Austria and Prussia, as it is pretty clearly proved ducing proprietors to lower their prices, as they could no | that the Emperor Napoleon made a statement at Villafranca longer get 20s, 30s, or even 508 per acre, while the Govern-| which was not perfectly correct. ment would sell at rates so much lower. There is one strong! Tne Journalde St.Petersburg also declares itself empowered

argument in favor of the conversion of leasehold tenures into! tg state that not only were no bases for a mediation agreed treeho'ds, which has been overlooked in the debate. I allude | fo, hal nol oven disnned, Tha ect ii on hood tu the large amount of money which would be retained in the| ° oa. ; <a h d Werner aces ‘oat, hassng Island, but which is now remitted to absentee proprietors for | made the experience that he was eceived at Villafranea, the rent. On the same grounds as those on which 1 supported the | Emperor F rancis Joseph may probably come to the conclusion Land Parchase, I was in fayour of the Loan Bill; but with | tbat it will be better in the future to leave diplomatic affairs reference to the latter, it was never contemplated that the | to his Minister of Foreign Affairs.

whole amount of £100,000 would be drawn at once. It was

only intended to be used from time to time in the purchase of i —

properties, as they might be offered to the Government. The | Patwerston.—The New York Times gives the following great bulk of the people can only become freeholders under | pen and ink skeich of Palmerston, the British Premier :—

the operation of some general measure, and not by the miser-| ++ Of Lord Palmerston, the Premier, it is almost needless to able system of the purchase of 4 little bit of land here and) speak. Few foreigners have ever so much as glanced through there, while the great breadth of the soil is held by large pro-| the doarway of the British House of Commons without carrying prietors, at high prices. As an agent, [ have had ample op-| away a menta! daguerreotype of his fashion and his face. True portunities of knowing the difficulties of collecting rents, and ,as the dial to the sun, the veteran Viscount may be seen each the embarrassments under which an unfortunate season places | day as the hour of assembling nears, marching down St. Jemes’ the already indebted tenant. In many instances, unless the | Park and Whitehall Gardens with a vigor and gayety of stride Landjords relieve him, his energy beeomes paralyzed, and ‘that would become the boldest boxer in England. Though

| paupérism stares him in theface. Although as I said before, | seventy-five years old, he retain all the buoyancy and vivacity

{ am not an Escheator, yet I shall support the amendment, if | of youth, and with bis gallant air and graceful dash of dandy-

no other means can be found available for the settlement of | ism, looks a sort ot masculine Ninon de [’ Enclos. lie is said

this question. As to arbitration, I have no confidence in that to possess that capacity of threwing off dull care, and that free-

as a practical solution of the difficulty. The award of the! dom from stupifying peimciples which make up the secret of it-

arbitrators would be made subject of appeal, the legal genile- | exhaustible politicsi faith. Hie chief popularity with the masses

men would take care of that, and the poor tenant would | js derived from their stout faith in his undaunted English pluck.

realize the fable of the wolf and the lamb. This is a quality of immense value with a nation so stout and Mr. DAVLES—All has been done that conld be done on the | daring as England always has been, ia and alwayd will be.

subject of Escheat, and all had been without avail. The hon. | As was said of anuther great English policeman,

mei ber Mr. Cooper had been twice a delegate to obtain a) ‘« Even at the feast his pluck pervades the board,

Court of Escheat, and both his missions had been fruitless. | And dauntless game-cocks symbolize their Lord.”

The hon. member Mr. Coles had denounced the agitation as |

strongly as any one could, and it was too late for him now to say that it would be conceded. The recent desp=tches are | contirmations of the proprietary titles under the original | grants. Much has been said about the Worrel Estate. In iny opinion that property has never been worked in such a manner as to make it self sustaining. The first duty of the | Government after purchasing it, should have been to have calculated the first cost of the land, the interest on that, the | loss of land-tax, the expense of managment, the comparatively valueless area of swamps, &c ; and then have fixed their tariff of charges at such a rate as would cover all these items and provide a sinking fund for the payment of the purchase

money. > There exists no pros;ect that the future purchases |

and payments will be better than the past. As had been said by Huw. Col. Gray, hostility has been tried long enough, and it is now our duty to take the despatch in the spirit in which it is conceived, and endeavour to stop further agitation of the titles of proprietors, which has the effect of preventing the in- yestment of capital in land. I do not mean to say that the Worrel Eseate will produce nothing, as some hon. members

Every village ale-house echoes the belief that the Premier ‘Pam’ eats nothing but good Southdown mutton, and drinks nothinz but good English beer ; and as he centers along Rotton row or down Piccadilly there 1s something pleasant in the pride with which each passer turns and says, ‘ there goes our Pam.’ At home he is the delight and stay of the social circle.

“ Nor gout nor toil his freshness can destroy, But time still leaves all Eton in the boy.”

In the conduct of his administrative department he is despotic and severe, and cannot brook fora moment the smallest contre- diction or control. He is troubled with one or two singular prejudices. For instance, he wii! not permit sinoking in any portion of his office, or allow any officer in his department jo write with a steel pen. Asa speaker he is, except on rare occasions, clumsy and confused in the construction of his sentences, and hesitating and * haw-haw-y’ in their delivery ; and few who listened to him for the first time would believe that this was the statesman who claimed for every Englishman the defensive glory of the old Roman ‘ Civis Romanus Sum.’ Lord Palmerston has no legal offspring. His wife retains all

were appointed. ' have argued ; but I certainly think that but very little will be! the charm of physical and spiritual jovenility which belongs to

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