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could not, as he had before said, fall short of one hundred. And, so far | were they from approving of the policy of the present Government, that | an office-holder who was present, and who moved a Resolutirn, expressive

Y AUCTION on TUESDAY, the 2nd MARCH, 90) One nee | of confidence in the Government, could find no one to second it.

« Glynwood,” the residepoe of Henny Loxaworta, Ksq., the fol- i 8TOCK, vis:— 7 ——- 1 MARE rising 8 years old, good roadster,

1 HORSE do 6 years, excellent draft, 1} FILLY do 2 years, 1 Yearling COLT (by Eclipse,) 2 Fet COWS, (Prime,) 6 Fat SHEEP, 2 HEIFERS rising 2 yeara,

—ALSO—

1 Milch COW, 6 Fine Liecester EW BS,

100 Bushels excellent two rowed Seed BARLEY, in lots to)

» suit purchasers. Tsaxs.—Ali sums under £10 Cash, from £10 to £20 threo months, gror £20 four months Credit, on approved Joint Notes of Hand,

Ch. Town, Feb. 22, 1858. WILLIAM DODD, Auctionser. — §ale of Horses, Sleighs, Wagons, Ploughs, Carts, &c- &c.

— be sold by Public Auction, on THURSDAY, 15th

March next, at 11 o’clock, at the

SOUTHPORT FERRY HOUSE,

the residence of Mr. Witttam Jaxemay, the following Stock, &o., viz 1 superior MARE, % good HORSES, 6 sets Wagon Harness, $ sets Cart Harness, 2 Ridi ridles, 2 liiding Saddles, 1 Pair Tandem Traces, Torrett and Whip, 2 Double Wagons with Poles and Straps, 1 Light Wagon, 4 Light Riding Sleighs, 1 Box Sicigh, 8 Wood Sleigha, 1 Second-hand set Blacksmith’s tools, 3 New Carts, 10 New Ploughs. The above articlos are all in good order—the greater part of them quite new. : A credit will bo given until the 18th of Ostober next on all gums over £10 on good Joint Notes of Hand. Feb. 22, 1858. WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer.

Freehold.

HE subscribers will sell by Auction on TUESDAY, the 2d day of March, at 11 o'clock, a. m., in front of Grant's

6 Sets Bells,

4 Halters,

4 Surcingles,

1 Truck,

6 Sets Harrows,

Hotel, Cascumpec, in lots of 96 acres, section No. 7 of Town- |

ship No. 3, comprising 960 acres. This valuable block of land has many natarai and local advantages. It is situated at the head of the Kildare River, one mile from the Main Western Road and six from Cascumpee Harbour, in the neighbourhood of a flourishing settlement, in which are Saw and Grist Mills, and convenient to the best fishing coast on the fsland. It is well wooded and watered. About 60 acres are covered with cedar, the remainder with hard and soft wood of every variety ; the soil is also rich and fertile. To persons desirous of ob- teining freehold farms this is a rare opportunity. Also 800 acres on Lot 11, in lots of 100 acres each.

Ygxrus—One-fourth down, the remainder in three equal an-

1 Gig with apron, 1 Fly, |

| HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

Taursvay, February 18, 1858.

GOVERNOR’S SPEECH. ( Concluded.)

Mr. HW. HAVILAND. —He would not allow the hon. member to sit down unanswered, with respect to the inputation of un- | thankfulness to the-giver of all good for the blessing of the late harvest, which, he thought, he had wished,to cast upon him. The harvest, he (Mr. H.) thought, was neat; by an means an abundant one; still he was thankful for it, aud would have been so even had it been much less than it was. They who pro- ;nounced it ‘‘abundant’’ were premature in their judgment. | The time was not arrived when any truthful! man, resting on the ; evidence of facts, could pronounce it abundant. When the ‘crops shall be in the ground next spring, and their healthy appearance shall be cheering and encouragiug, and we shall at | the same time have, of the produce of last year, sufficient for the | supply of our own wants, and something besides to spare, then, but not till then, the last year’s harvest may safely and confi- dently be pronounced to have been abundant. ; | Hon. COL. SECRETARY.—Tnhe argument and deduction | of the hon. and learned member were not, he thought, quite ‘logical. If, in the fall, farmers thought it advisable to convert al) that they believed they could safely spare of their produce, into cash, by exporting it to the United States, or to any of the neighbouring Provinces, or other places, in which they knew there was a ready money demand for it ; and should, after they had committed their seed grain to the bosom of the earth in the | spring, find themselves necessitated to buy imported flour or cornmeal, for bread ; tlhe latter circumstance would certainly ;be no conclusive proof of the insufficiency of {he previous harvest, although circumstances such, as the high prices of flour, &c., might, very possibly, be such, as to shew that they had speculated imprudently, and would have done better had they kept more of the produce of their fields for their own can- 'sumption and use. In such case the fariners might be blamed |for improvidence, or taxed with a want of furesight ; but i | would afford no grounds for saying that the previous harvest had been a poor of an insufficient one. The jasi year’s harvest was certainly an abundant one, and as soon as our own wheat and flour were brought to market, the price of American flour fell at once. Hon. and learned members might cavil and carp as much as they pleased about the word alundant as used in the Speech ; but, taking the meaning of the word io be what men of common sense understood it to be, that was not sufficient merely, but more than sufficient, the propriety of its use in the Speech was fully established by the direct evidence of facts. It might be very trne that some farmers might be found whose harvesta were so insufficient thet they had not produce enough for their own use ; but, were strict enquiry made respeciing

nual payments, to bear interest at 6 per cent. from the day of such individuals, it would, he felt certain, be found that, with . .

8. ARTHUR RAMSAY, Rose Hill, Feb. 15 1858. ARCHD. RAMSAY.

Extensive Sale by Auction at RINGWOOD AND THE WARREN FARM,

On MONDAY, the 22d March next, at Li o’clock,

HE subscriber has received instructions from Joun Lyatt,

Esq., to dispose of the whole of his Household Furniture,

ts, Beds, Bedding, Crockery & Crystal ware, Stoves, Fen-

ders, Fire-irons, Knives & Forks, Plated ware, &c. And also

the Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Carriages, Sleighs, Farming Imple-

ments, Wheat, Oats, Hay, Straw, een om &e. &e., of which

farther particulars will be given in Catalogues and Handbills,

to be obtained of the subscriber ten days previous to the day of sale.

There are four different varieties of Wheat, viz: Haszard’s prize Wheat, Tea Wheat, Golden Straw and Red Bald Wheat ; three kinds of Oats, viz: Common Blade, Tartarian and En- glish Tartarian, imported three years ago. All well worthy the notice of parties in want of seed. ‘The Sheep are all well bred, and mostly pure Leicester. ‘I'he Horses are valuable for farming purposes, one a young horse rising 4 years old, another & mare in foal by “* Waxwork,’’ the others are both well adapted for the farm or carriage.

Terms liberal, and made known at sale. No reserve. Sale positive if the weather will admit. :

W. T. PAW, Auctioneer.

N. B.—Allclaims against. Mr. Lyall to be sent in forthwith, and those indebted to him are requested to pay the amount of their accounts immediately to save expenses.

Persons wishing to purchase Turnips or Straw can do so by applying at Warren Farm any time previous to the day of above sale. Feb. 15, 1858.

STEPHEN O’MARA

EGS to inform the public that he has a choice and ex- cellent assortment of British and American GOODS on hand, ae of Dry Goods and Groceries, Fancy Goods aud Toys, Leather, Boots Shoes of Island manufacture, Soap, Candies, Tobacco; also, Confectionary in great variety, Woodenware, Crockeryware, &c. &c- North side Queen Square immediately opposite the Market House. _ February 22, 1858. tf.

To Let,

Ringwood and Warren Farm.

HE subscriber is prepared to treat with persons desirous of leasing ‘or a term of years, either or both of the above valu- Mele properties. The present tenant, Jobn Lyall, Esq., will surrender the possession on Ist May, 1858. For plans and ee apply o

Ch. Town, Pebruary 22, 1858. (Isl., Pro. & Mon. tf.) ,

Four Business Mon wanted, 4) good ualificattons, to act as TRAVELLING AGENTS roughout the Island. For further particulars apply at the People’s Journal office, or to WELLS & MILLER, Ch. Town, Feb. 22,1853. tf | Marble Establishment.

¢ Aaa. — An persons found trespassing on the late re of Charles S. Hunt, Esq., on Lot 55, whose bou ies are defined, now the property of the subscriber, without written authority from him through Mr. John Cahill, farmer, of said Township, will be prosecuted according to law. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Goose Pond, St. Peter’s Road, Lot 34, Feb. 22, 1858.

Rare Chance. | Country Dealers, wait till the carly part of March.

Auction at the Store of C. B. Smith. A the remaining STOCK of GOODS on hand, will be

SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE, consisting of TEA, Sugar, Molasses, Soap, Candles, Boots, Shoes, Nails, Cloths, Cottons, &¢. Further particulars next week.

: Notice to Farmers. ON HAND, an excellent assortment of Cooking and Frank- lin STOVES, for sale, payable in produce in October next. _ Feb. 15, 1858. C. B. SMITH. Fish! Fish! pre Labrador, Newfoundland and Magdalene Island

Herring and Codfish, in “e- for Pork or Cash, by |

W. LORD & CO. Charlottetown, February 15, 1858.

scarcely a single exception, they were men, in the older settle- ments, who had obatinately refused to be benefited by the inodern practice of real scientific and practical agriculturists In such settlements, in which the farmers went plodding ob- stinately on in their own o!d unscientific way, complaints of the unproductiveness of the soi! were being continualiy made; it was said, and truly said too, that their crops, were not so abundant as formerly, and that frequently they had neither a sufficiency of grain nor of hay. The reason was that the soil was exheusted, and they had not learned to renew its fertility by liming and the use of fertilizing manures. ‘The sew, the virgin soil of the Island, was remarkably fertile and productive ; and, in neerly all the new settlements, the crops, last year, were luxuriant and the harvests abundant. Wioitbouta scientific system or course of manuring, the soil was certainly liable to be quickly run out; but not only was anything like sterility always successfully obviated where real scientific practical! farming prevailed, but, generally speaking, the crops were healthy and Juxuriant, and the harvests abundant. Some hon. inembers had taken occasion to speak disparagingly and con- temptuously of the measures of the present Government, and had seemed particularly to trimmph in what they termed the re- jection by the people of the Municipalities Bill and the Board of Works Bill. Their triumph was, however, he thougiit, based upon a vety narrow and insufficient foundation ; for it appeared to him that it chiefly rested upon such demonstrations against these Bills, as that which was lately made at New London, when six men and a half—six men and a boy—assumed ihem

selves to be the people of Prince Edward Island, and autiorita- tively declared ‘* We the people of the Island’’—six men and a half—six men and a boy—* in the exercise of our Sovereign power, do veto and reject the measures of the present admiais- tration, by which it was intended to establish Municipalities and a Board of Works in this Island.’’ [A laugh.] Sach and so insignificant, he believed, were most of the popular (if they might be go called) demonstrations against those Bills which had been made. That they had not been more ta number, and more numerously attended, had not been owing to any lack of misre- presentation on the part of the political enemies of the Govern- ment, for, by the effect of incessant lying upon the subject, the peopie had been so mystified that it was inpossible for them to obtain clear views and correct notions concerning those Pills. But the time, he ventured tosay, was not far distant when the mists which now obscured their mental vision would be blown away, and they would clearly perceive the great advantages which would rest... directly to themselves from the insti‘ution of Municipal Corporations ; and in a few years, he doubted not, they would petition for their establishment. ‘The longer their establishment should be delayed, the edvanteges which would result from their establishment—their necessity —would become more and more evident ; and the people would be able to realize, in their minds, how much better it would be for them, in their several localities to have the power to regulate and manage their own affairs, and direct their own local improvements, than to be deperdent, as it were, on the general care and somewhat precarious provision which might be made for them by the Assembly. The Biils are before the public; and, in the end, judging of them dis- passionately, they will judge of them aright. On all other points, however, it eppesred, by the public meetings which had lately been held, that the people were perfectly well satisfied with the policy of the Government, which they were persuaded was in perfect harmony with the greet principle af responsibility to themselves, both on the part of their representatives and of the government. Withregard to the meeting at New London, he had (ridicale of its mock importence apart) certainly been told, by a respectable man from that quarter, that the number composing it were not above a dozen; and, coupled with its insignificance, it ought to be remembered that the great gun of New London himself had expressed himself strongly in favonr of the establishment of Corporate Municipalities, although it now suited his purposes to oppose the institution of them. He (Hon. Col. Secretary) was, however, quite satisfied that, in the course of a few years, they would become law.

Hon. Mn. MONTGOMERY.—What the Hon. Colonial Secretary had stated concerning the mectingat New London, was not correct. The hon. gentleman had said, that he had been so informed, by a respectable individual from the neighborhood of that place: that be (Hon. Mr. M.) did not dispute; but he did not hesitate tosay that the hon. gentleman’s respectable informant, if he pretended to have had an opportunity to estimate the number of individuals who constituted that mecting, had told a deliberate falsehood respecting its number; for he, (Hon. Mr. M.) having been present himself, could safely affirm that there wero at least one hundred persons present; and he knew that, bad it not been for the state of the roads, which were at the time vety bad, there would have been many more present: amongst others, the Hon. Colonial Secretary | himself, he believed; for he had been informed that he bad intended to be presout at it, but was prevented from attending it by the badness of the roads. Asit wis, however, there were several individuals present from Lots 52, 51, and 20; andthe whole number comprising the meeting

DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS IN ANSWER TO THE,

Hon. the SPEAKER rose to call upon hon. members to keep a little | more closely to the question than they were doing. From the considera- | tion of the question which was merely—Did facts justify or authorize | the use of the word abundant as applied to the last year’s harvest, or not?—they had wandered off to review the merits of nearly every | measure which had boon either carried, or proposed, by the responsible | party, since they first came into power; and, not satisfied with that digression, it seemed as if they were disposed also to review all that had | been done or said, or was alleged to have been done or said, at evory | public or political meeting which had been recentiy held in the Isiand. | With respect to the question immediately before the Committee—and to l the simple consideration of which he thought it would be well that hon. | members should then confine themselves—he was himself of opinion that facts, which were well known to all, and which had already been dis- tinetly stated in the Committee, fully authorised the use of the word abundant, in the Speech, as applied to the late harvest.

Mr. CLARK.—He porfectly agreed with the Hon. the Speaker, so far as his remarks applied to the digressive mode in which some hon. menibers had been debating not exactly upon, but rather beside the ques tion. But with respect to the harvestof last year, he did not think that it was exactly abundant, although many farmers had had much reason to be well satisfied with the returns which had been made from the seed which they bad sown or planted. Could the large exports of grain and other agricultural produce which were made in the fall be taken asa certain criterion by which to judge of the late harvest, it might certainly be pronounced abundant, for those exports bad assuredly been very large; but he was not certain that ail the grain exported was of last year’s growth; and, as was most justly observed by the hon. member from Three Rivers, it ought to be remembered that the amount of the exports was not altogether voluntary, but, in all probability, in some measure compulsory, from the pressure of commercial difficulties; and time might shew that their extent had been beyond what the actual amount of grain and other agricultural produce in the country, at the close of the harvest, would of itself have justified.

Mr. MACINTOSH.—So far as, from actual observation, his own knowledge of the extent and quality of the last year’s grain Larvest was derived, he could truly say that the barley was abundant, and that the late sown wheat had made a ten-fold return. He was, perhaps, not so well yersed in the science of politiea! economy as the hon. member from Three Rivers, and therefore could not so speciously modify his opinion as that hon. gentlemnan had done his: consequently, he could merely say, that so far as his knowledge of the quantity and quality of the harvest extended, it might very justly be called abundant. He bad been much pleased, and not a little amused by the very honest exposition which the hon. and learned member for Charlottetown had given them of the difficulties which he had had to encounter in his attempts, as ‘ The Speech’? maker, to please everybody; and he thought, with the hon and learned yentleman, that the less was said and the fewer the indica- tions which were made im those productions, the loss discussion they would excite, and the more easily they would be disposed of.

Mr. YEO, ia a few words which the Reporter did not distinctly hear, said—that for the House, in their Address in reply to the Speech, to assert that the last year’s harvest was abundant, would be an act of deception, which might in some measure aggravate the distress which would fall upon many through the scarcity which he apprehended would be experienced in the country, before we should be blessed with another harvest.

Hon. the TREASURER.—With regpoct to the returns made by the last year's barvest, om Lot 11 and Tignish, that of wheat was certa‘nly more than an average one. Asrespectoed the harvest returns on Lots 13 and 14, he could not speak so precisely; but he knew that large exports had been made from that part of the Island. He thought, but he might be wrong, that there would be no need for importations of four and Indian meal on account of any sedrcity likely to ensue this year, in any quarter of the Island. The oats were large and by no means difficult in quantity; and he believed there would be onough and to spare. Gene- rally, speaking, the harvest was certainly abundant.

The Chairman then put the question, and the paragraph was agréed to without a division. »

The third paragraph, as subjoined, was then read by the Chairman, and, ne remarks being made thereon, on the question's being put, it was agreed toe nem. con.

4th Paragraph of the Draft Address.

‘ We regret that any circumstance should have arisen to prevent Ller Majesty’s Government from proposing to Parliament to guarantee the Loan for the purchase of Lands in this Island; but we trust that the measure will not be delayed beyond the present session ef the Imperial Parliament.

‘ Any Despatch bearing apon this subject, which may be submitted to us, shall receive our attentive consideration.’

This paragraph having been read,

Hon. ff. H. Haviianp rose and said, It could not be ex- pected that they, on his sido of the House, who had stren- uously and consistantly opposed the passage of the Loan Bill, from the first to the last, should concur in any expres- sion of regret that that Bill should not yet have become law. Were they to do so, they would, in a manner, ignore their firmer votes against the Bill, and stultify themselves. Le | had, therefore, prepared a modified amendment of the para- graph which had just been submitted, which he would read. The Hon. gentleman thea read his amendment as follows, and moved its substitution for the origina! paragraph; the Hon. F. Longworth seconding the motion.

‘We will give due consideration to any Despatches which Your Excellency may seo fit to submit to us, explana- tory of the cause which prevented Her Majesty's Govern- ment from proposing to the Imperial Parliament, in the Tast session, to gurantce the Loan intended to be raised for the parchase of Lands ia this Island.’

Mr. Perry thought the amendment conveyed the same meaning es the original paragraph, and asked why, (such being the case,) it was proposed to alter it.

Hon. T. ii. Haviland.—To avoid, as he had already stated, the expression of regret, in whieh he and his friends around ‘iim could not, with any regard to consistency, con- cur.

Hon E. Wuarrian.—Yes, the object of the amendment was to avoid the expression of regret. It was intended to he an answer to two paragraphs of the Speech; but it most certainly was not such an answer as those two paragraphs ought to receive. This House-the majority of this Llonse-- represent the people; and, as the people's faithful reprosen- tatives, they had been, and were imperatively cidjled upon by the voice of the people to procure the passage of that Bill, the objeet—the aule object—of which was to raise the tenantry, from a state of degradation and serfdom, to the statue of independent freeholdera. [t was then not only the provinee but the bounden duty of the House to express their regret that any circumstances had occurred to prevent Hier Majesty's Government from taking those preliminary steps which i¢ was confidently expected would lead to Her Majesty's sanction and confirmation of the great measure of

‘justice which the Bill,as law,would confer upon the people

of this Colony. le thought the least the representatives of the people could now do, with respect to the Bill, was to expesa their regret that circumstances lrad oeeurred which neceasitated the postponemnte of the consideration by the imperial Parliament, of the proposal which was to he made to them by Her Majesty's Government to guarantee the Loan intended to be raised for the purchase of Lands in this Teland. The expression of regret would certainly, of itself, afford tha oppressed tenantry no substantial relief, but, as an expression of sympathy with them io their distress, it could not fail to be gratifying, and, in some measure, also consolatory to them: whitest, on the contrary, ehould the House adojit the amendment just sabmitted, they would sadly fail in the discharge of what was due from them to the country. ”

Hon. Cotoniat Szcrerary, The reason, no doubt, why the guaranteeing of the proposed Loan was not proposed, by Hor Majesty’s Government, to the Imperial Parliament, in their last session, was the great anxiety felt by the Gov- ernment, the Parliament, and the people of Great Britain at large, on account of the mutiny and lamentable distur bances in India, which, almost tu the exclusion of all other considerations, claimed the attention of the Government an) the Parliament. ‘That it should have been postponed, _ however, even under those circumstances, was much to be régretted indeed, on account of the great disappointment which the postponement Lad caused toa great body of

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TS struggling tenantry who anxously looked forward to the completion of the measure for emancipation from their pre- sent state of thraldom. The postponement hag had a very injurious effect upon those tenants, by unsettling their minds and turning them away from the prosecution of their pro- per suits. A large section of the eountry, of which the pace. in compliance with a Petition addressed to him, y the Tenants, had intended to make an offer to the Gov- ernment of the Island, was now being offered, by that pro- prietor’s agent, for sale on terms equivalent, he said to those on which it could have been offered to the tenants, by the Government had they purchased it, and this land was now so offered, the agent stated in his advertisement, because the Government were not in a position to effect the pur- chase of it under the Land Purchase Bill. That the Gov- ernment were not now, although he confidently expected they soon would be, in a position to effect further extensive purchases of Lands, in addition to those which they have already made, from proprietors, for the benefit of the ten- antry, he did not pretend to deny; but that lands would be offered, by proprietors, to their tenantry ov terms as advan-

tageous as they could and would be by the Government, should the Government become the purchasers thereof, he could with the greatest safety most positively deny. The truth of that proposition was made quite evident by the determined opposition, made by proprietors, their agents, and their friends, to the passage and final success of the Loan Bill; and members of the opposition,and their friends, it was well known, were speculating, and seeking to specu- late in proprietary lands,effecting, or endeavouring to effect purchases thereof, in the whole or gross, at a cheap rate, to sell again, in smaller portions, at a dear one. That this state of things, with respect to proprietary lands in the holding of the tenantry, should have been brought about, to the harassing of the tenantry with doubts and perplex- ity, by the temporary postponement of the measure intend- ed for their relief, was indeed much to be regretted; and he regretted it the more, because he was of opinion that, had ‘the attempt been made, the measure for guaranteeing the proposed Loan might bave been carried through the Imperi- a; Parliament, in their last session, notwithstanding their attention was so much engrossed by the consideration of the momentous struggle then going on in India. The tenantry who were 50 anxious to convert their leaseholds into free- holds, most earnestly, desired ithe complete passage of the Bill; and so, he felt certain, did the majority of the House; the expression of regret at its postponement, contained in the paragraph then under consideration was, he therefore believed perfectly in unison with the sentiments upon the eubjoct of every real friend of the tenantry in the Com- mittee.

lion. E. Patwer.—Ile had observed when last upon his legs, that he was not disposed to quarrel with the Retooh: and, in the main, he certainly was not. But when he came particularly-to consider the paragraph of the Address which was then immediacely under their consideration, a strong | objection arose in his mind to the use made, in it, of the word ‘ regret.’ That word, he doubted not, had been sig- / nificantly and artfully introduced, for the purpose of en- | snaring, if possible, the opposition into something like a | disavowal of their former sentiments touching the Loan | Bill, Though at the first blush, it did scem to him to im- ' port much; yet, on having his attention directly drawn to | the consideration of the word, as it stood in the paragraph, | he became convineed that the chief object of its introduction ; Was insidiously to draw from the opposition a pledge for | their future support of the Bill,and acquiescence to its prin- ciples. No doubt it had been calculated that by the insidi- ous use which had been made of the word, a pledge ef full | unanimity of regret, on the part of the House, that tha | Loan’ Bill hed not yet been guranteed by the Imperial Par- lament, would be obtained. They who had so ecaleulated were, however, destined to have their expectation on that head frastrated. The hon. member, the Queen’s Printer, had claimed more for the majority than he was justified in | doing, in saying that they, the majority, represented the , wudle people; for he (Hon. E. P.) believed that a majority j of the people were directly adverse to the Loan Bill. The lon. Colonial Seeretary and the ilon. the Queen's Printer, did, no doubt, fer reasons of their own, sincerely regret that the Loan Bill had not yet become law; and he was not surprised at cither the one or the other of them raising, on | that account, a wail on behalf of those whom they chose to | designate the distressed tenantry. A portion of the peaple also, he believed, regretted that the Loan Bill had not he- come law; but they who did so were ‘not a wajority, for popular regret on that score was confined to four Townships. Surely the inhabitants of four townships were not to be ‘ealled the people of P. E. Island. fe could name four, nay | perhaps four times four Townships, on which the people, either did not at all desire the complete passage and confir- mation of that Bill, or were directly opposed to it because they knew, that, if it were to go into operation, they would eventually be taxed on account of it. His Excellency, it was to be observed, expressed no regret, in his Speech, that the Bill had not yet become law; but had properly abstained from the avowal of any such sentiment on te part. The amendment which had just been submitted by his hon. Wiriend, was in perfect accordance with the prudent caution observed by Lis Excellency; aud were the majority to adopt it, it would be a due and full response to the intimation of His Exeeileney, which called it forth. The amendment went quite far Gnough: it did not pledge the House to and ‘specification, or to any particular views; but if adoptey would leave them to act in fature, with respect to the sub- ject of it, as facts and circumstances might determine them todo. Should he agree with the original paren he would be bound to go the full leagth with the Bill, and for that reason, he would safpdrt the modified amendment.

Hon. Mr. Waueraw.—Ue was not at ail surprised at the

-|opposition made by the hon. and Jearned member for Char-

lottetown, tothe original paragraph, for the measure to which it had reference, had been opposed by him, from the first, with all his might; and it was perfectly reasonable thet be should now give his opposition to any expression of regret, on the part of the House, for its postponement. He only wondered at his ob(useness in not at once perceiv- ing*that the ase of the word ‘‘regret,” in the paragraph, was intended strongly to mark the sentiment of the Heuse, , or of the majority of the Bouse, with respect tu the disap- | pointment caused to the people by the postponement of the |yreat measuro to whieh it had reference. dt was indeed autural that the House should express regret at the pust- | ponement of a measure upon which the people had set their | hesrts, which, by their repeated representations of the evils, attendant upon the tenant system of the Island, and by \theirbitter, but too well foanded complaints against the oppression and tyranny of proprictors and their agents, they had, in a manner forced the Legislature to adopt. It was nataral indeed that the true, the faithful representa- lives of the people should express their regret at any post, ponement of such measure; and it was equally natural that the hon. and learned member for Charlottetown should op- pose such an expression; for fis sympathies were not with the tenantry, but tended in a direction quite contrary. The hon. and learned member had said that should the Commit- tee agree to the original paragraph, they would pledge themiselves to the support of the Land Bill, should it again come under their consideration. Exactly so. Truly the:

who had supported the Land Billin ite p e throug

the House, would doubtless support it again, should it be again brought under their consideration; and, if the hon. \and learned gentleman should succeed in turning the tables ‘upon them, they would doubtless regret that be had been

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