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reap al! the benefjrs from it which they suticipate, then he! would take the other side, and quote his speeches to prove that be exvected eash would be the result. It would be much better for his consistency of character if he took one straight forward course, and arranged himself on the one side or the other. wheu they exme into power repudiated the Loan and Par-

ehase Bills, ‘ui iv as polite a manner as possible I wish to.

coutrad et that assertion. [ honestly admit I Opposed the| Loan $iil, and will from time to tiwe reject such bills, be-

lieving we should rely upon our own resources; but the Go- the Goverament showed a good deal of diseretion in selecting | mine veeument as a body did not throw cold water on that mea- | Aa regards the other bill, the purc'iase of Lot 54 and

sure S.ik rk H-tate is the strongest proof that they did not repu- | diat the Laad Purchase Bill. ebj-ctinn to the Ilouse going into Committee on this question, aol debiting oo it for a week, to give that hon. mewber an | op) ttunsty of convincing the House of the necessity of pass- |

iog & Bill such as he desires ; and of satisfying them that it which Eapplied for infoomation, it was not withheld; and I _thies for Italy, and of his desire that she may surmount the will reve've the Royal asseat without a suspending clause, feel it to be my duty to make this statement publicly, before difficulties that may arise out of an event so serious aud £0

wot if it does, that the Qourts here will act upon it afterward. | Li would have been better for the hon. member, however, to Wave keot back some of the arguments on this subject which | he employed when on the debgte on the Address, til the pre- tout Occasion, and thea they would bave had more appearance of origing ity,

Hon. Mr. HENSLEY.--I have not yet, Mr. Speaker ex-| p essed my opinion on this question, in order that [ might gaia as much information “om the House on the subject as pevsible. | have not yet had an opportynity te express my views on the Land Question, byt | have read the speeches wiade by hon. members on the subject in ag earlier part of | the Session. IL fvel that | caugot yive a silent vote on this watter, not only on account wf the petitions laid before the House, but also cn account of the capacity ia which I acted, a4 a professional wad, in relation to the Jjand Question last year. Had L beep present when this matter was debated be- fore, and been asked to express au opinion in reference to the Jiaud Commission, | would have said [ approved of it high- ly; aud though valiticians do got frequently get eredit for siacerity, still [ hawe not any reasog.to change my views in refereuce to that Commission. A good deal has been said arsut the keeping bac< of the bill passed to give effect to the Land Commission ; but I bave no wish to charge the Go- verument with having done so for any sinister purpose. At

as they did uot step out of the ordinary SOurse-—kKnowing as they did that the Duke of Neweastié was coming out to these Colonies early ja the Siiamer—and forward the bill with the Tequest That it might receive immediate attention; and it that request hud been favorably entertained, parties would wot bave had an opportunity of petitioni. g against it. think, too, that it was imprudent in the Government to bave ellowed the Commission to come here before they knew the fate ot the bill. It is to no purpose to say that it was of no eonacquence whether it bad passe! or not, for had that Act goue into operation it is evident it would have been much more eXteusive than if it had been disallowed; ia the former ease their investigation would have extended to the whole Islaud, whilst in the jatter, it is obvious that they weuld have | been limited simply to the Lands of those who signed the re- | ference. Under these eireumstances then, [ thiuk they should not have been allowed to have opened their Court here til! the fate of the bill was known. It would be absurd to say that they should come here, make investigations, and then give an award which woald neither be coufirmed by a Statute wer be withia the seope of the question referred to them. | ‘The Commissioners came, however, and the Government eailed upon we, for the purpose of getting me to appear at the Court ou behalf of the tenautry; and after conferring with the Leader of the Goverument—Mr. Palmer—I com- plied. I do net now wish to keep back anything in relation | to the Commission favorable or unfavorable to the Govern-

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it would rece've the Royal allowance. The Court was open- ed, and, as is stated in the Report, I appeared for the Go-| vernment on behalf of the tenantry. : [Mr. Hensley then read an extract from the Report, of his remarks made at the opening of the Commissioners’ Court respecting the brief which hw aod Mr, Thomson held from the Government. | Though a delicate matter, T must soknowlelge that I think

one not belonging to their political party, to advocate the in- terests of the tenantry before the Commission. Another ques- tion has arisen, respecting the information conveyed to Mr. Thomson and myself in relation to the subjects which we “brought to the notice of the Commission, It has been stated that information was kept back, but L think the parties stat- ing so are in error. I[ may state thatin any instaace In

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llon. Mr. WHELAN.—The information was not volun- teered.

Hon, Mr. HENSLEY.—LI don't know about that, a'l I say is that I reevived that for which Lasked. With respect to the questions brought before the Commission, I may state that they entered into all points in dispute between proprie- tors and tenants. At the closeof their Court we know they made a recommendation couceruing one year's rent, and, since that period the Bull which was to give effect to their award has been disallowed. The question now arises—— What action should be taken in reference to arrears of rents ?— But, before passing to that question I may say that ia my opinion it was impossible the Royal assent would be given tg the bill; for L state fearlessly that [ think no bill ever passed this Leyis- | lature which interferred so plainly with the rights of property. [Ut differed from the Tenauts’ Compensation bill, which was ‘limited to one particular point, and that Bill did not contem- plate taking away the rights of the proprietor, It was limit- ‘ed to compelling him to give compensation to a tenant for | his improvements, and there was a right of appeal to the Su- preme Vourt. But, on taking up this bill, for the confirma tion of the award, I find that certain parties had agreed toa

reference ; and it goes on to state that i-shall bid every |

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the same tiwe [ think the Government is to blame inasmuch | °° 2° Owns an acre of sand ; and Alpe yoke bind not only

those who signed the refereace but a!so all who owned Town-

ship lands. Tuis, therefoie, was a general Act, and there

{ was no right of appeal to any tribunal; therefore, I say, 1

am not at all surprised it dit not receive the Royal Assent. At the same time | am satisfied that tbe Bill was brought ip

l by the Government in accordance, as they thought, with tbe} It is now a question |

suggestions of the Duke of Newcastle.

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measure on the petitions in regard to arrears of rent. think the only Act which could have been consistenly passed | last year would have been one to suspend the collection of | arrears of reat pending the Commission. That, however, | was not done, and the question is—shall it be done now?) {laud the Commissioners possessed power to have suspended | their collection, 1 be'ieve they would have issued an order | aceordingly. In passing a Bill, I do not sec, under the cir-| cumstances, and with any prospect of its passing in England, | that we can go further than to make it affect those who sigo- | ed the reference to the Commission. I think a Bill of this|

, SRNL A BEE SR LT — maT — _— ne : : could not receive that attention at home which it would | Administration at Turin, the results already obtained by the | English traders to negotiate with the natives. if he were present ; but, notwithstanding, he felt useured that | pegociations entered into by the deceased minister remain in- |

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the request refused, but the slave traffic supporting Monarch |, without undue colosring,”’ the * inf, nm tRicating . . t ich Mr. Foote had ™ Se eS ee ‘tact; and that Kiag Victor Hmmanuel’s Government has re- rashly fired upon the yessel on board whic boa aoe . he may i,

rece. ved for the Commissioners, that is a matter whieh nature of his report 1ust determine. Weshoulg ue much better than the Js/ander pretends to know Mr. dey befure we can pronounes an opinion favourable to hig bitagy sel{-possession, fidelity and aceusacy of statement, Pe however, eay that this ebaracter for fidelity and mui, statement is not like that of Caesar's wife, aboys Snyd F wheu we remember that Mr, Whitman gate an “a louring’’ to the character in which he stood befure his ® We do not think there is much chance of Etiag eorrect valuation of land by sending an irresponsible . apparently clothed with no official authority, theaghe rural districts, asking a farmer bere and there wha} A

| taken up his quarters. The British fleet was

bombard the town, which was completely a 700 ‘natives being killed. No casualties to the British force are ‘reported. A splendid slaver, the Nightingale, has been captur- (ed near the mouth of the Congo River y an American war vessel. The Nightingale was a Boston ship, and sailed from Liverpool.

Finance anp Taape —There is no apparent improvement in the state of trade. The great constituents, and abundane of capital and cheap food, co-exist and all that is wating ts the return of the full measure of confidenee, without which it i¥ impossible to carry on an active business. As we have previously had oceasion to remark, of the various influences which are weighing so heavily upon the financia) and — cial interests of the country, we believe that searcely any has so great and unfavorable an effect - the ee qd — .

ich i in all branches of trade, a 1@ evi ' sok of eoueee tepaine the feture. With an unprece-| sell his hundred acres of land for—what price be paid tet dented abundance of available Co manifest’ what price his peighbour paid for his—what bie aeigit, treble caution in all their movements. eir whole eouree is) eile : Beighbay, , marked by hesitancy and distrust, and the long established) land is worth—and what price land in the vicinity principle of exte : , ; community in their daily transactions would seem to have that a great railroad or tramway was toby ; been very materially deviated from—for the loaning of limit- | construsted thea,

ceived an express assurance on that point in recent despatches ‘from M. Vimereati. It was stated ix the Legislative Body, ‘that the Emperor had invited Prussia to join him in reeognis- ing the new Kingdom of Italy. The correspondent who | transmits us that report does not believe it to be correct, but | he asserts that M, de Thoyvenel hag officially made known | to the Courts of Vienna and Madrid the reasons that deter- the French Government to accept Victor Ewmanuel as | King of Lialy. This information comes from a good source, and agrees so much with the rest of our information as to ‘bear a great look of truth. The Turin Jtalie bas the follow- ‘ing ; —** We are assured that the Emperor of the French, in | consequence of the immense loss just suffered by [taly, bas ‘hastened to express his regrets to the King, assuring him at |the same time of bis good and kind inteutiona, of his sympa. |

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the settlement ; or extensive ishing establich be icasoli tion of th Ministry. and |ed amounts at enormous rates of interest can scarcely be we-| eae enNAD Ss ee ere ant “arpa auatinnen counted ** aecommodation.’’ The accumulation of epeere from at the sea shore, half a mile distant, and saying thet ory emg IY a od ‘di } : £ dut Af ahem Misahe dit the large receipts from Eng and and California combined, | of grable land should be turned into pastures for sbtep, ag fabg, ihad yielded to a sentiment of duty, After baving di i contributed to an easy money market for loans on call, at lous prices would be gives for these ani Me the immense oss sustained by Italy in the death of Count | 60, 5 to 6 per cent., but the money is not loaned at these rates ee : avimals. That - Whig. | Cavour, he continued, ** No one has bent under this misfor- except on the most undoubted securities and to the very best man made represent«tione to this effect cunnut be deme. The ‘tune, nor have we lost our faith in the destinies of Italy.” | firins, of which ye oe fow a _ neues Islander admite that he travelled in the capacity of es } ; y tabi ilibe! It ld seem that to large an influx of capital fro 4 : . 7 : Agree oe nan aa jer of Sou ' ema eu ‘oun aided - he ieee amount ie Binks at the commencement great Fishery Company, which, we believe, has juss ecb ag ae : as att ‘a. anited chien with dee ‘The |of uur troubles, would have caused money lenders 'o relax | apocryphal eharacter ss Captaip Sleigh's canal (rom the | Sinistes seatuedionn that Italy had 2 right . constitute her- | — et sana une Sethe roe ee to the Hillsborough, or the erection of « splendid sity a4 a . : . : it ° re stability to : : : . self asa united nation, and said — The basis of the new. en sees: ae in lieu of thie, rates of interest continued Fortune, founded ven enterprise and genive, where enj. | Ministry will be respect for the constitution, respect for the | ruinously high, while stagnation avd distrest prevails in grants from the Old Country would have the best . ‘laws, and maintenance of public order. ‘The first care of the | nearly all departments of trade their own price, and become im ty sich in om hast | Government will be zealously to continue the arwament of —_——— re shiy shest apace of time. The ht i moevacsiy. oe ‘the country, and, at the same time, to develope the ecouomi- THE SECKET LAND AGENT. ace adaa i a Pa ’ ae decep ‘eal forees of Italy, and to establish the equilibrium of the | =o gue it was Do more harm Ms. W bitumen te ‘revenue and expenditure.” He coucluded by expressing his! Ir is a matter of no great consequence who ew ployed Mr. | represent himmelt rw the agent of a fishery establishment, thas | full copfidence in the support of Parliament, and in the good | Whitman—-whether it was the Government of this Island oF for him to have passed thovagh the eountry under the commen | Sense and patriotism of the Italians. tin Geeied ia no sma shioutd ber em ployed im) daceyniton or SIF, Suaith oF Mr. Fhomeos. if Dir. W SETTLEMENT OF THE LEBANON, the service to which his time was given without the know-| pe been ce for ae might, perhaps bene : ee i jection to hi tion of the won de guerre, ’ The Moniteur announces the settlement of the question of | ledge of he, local Legislature. But what makes the thing) aes oe wind eee us the Government of the Lebanon, and gives the fuilowing de- | look #0 bad is, that the secret Agent appears to have an nee ” being such ap tails in addition to those already known :—Tbe Governor of | engaged to entrap the people of this Island into an oxtrava-| could not fail to give ovety igh eviouring to the infurmativa the Lebanon will! have the rank of Machir, and will reside at | gant valuation of their farus by exciting fallacious bopes of | he, received for s public object, sud therefore deceptions, sie Der-il-Kamar. Order will be maintained “e mountains | now and undeveloped sources of wealth in their midst. The! conduct cannot be justified on the principles of the most lag 7 oe aa recruited coreee a Sent ae | Islander’s laboured defence of Mr. Whitman's agency | morality. And yet this is, fursooth, the gentleman whe is ig pee Are getty Sec we . | quite sufficient t> condemn it, if we had never said a word on | correct ail the defectsof last summer's investigation, and who, e i the subject ; and our contemporary has been wonderfully suc- in the language of the Is/ander, is to enable the Commissionsrs EXPECTED SPATE OF SIEGE AT WARSAW. cessful in presenting to our view the whole business of the | to “see through hie’” unerring ‘*eyes—as they were prevented It is stated, and generally believed, that ihe city of War- | Commission, so far as it has proceeded, in « far worse light | (rom using their own "’’ ; saw will shortly be declared ip a state of siege, in consequence | than it has ever yet appeared to us. The Islander, with conscious shame of Mr. Whituen’s of representations made by General Soukhozauctt, the new Woe are gravely informed that the investigation before the mission, labours to exculpate the Government of the loland ior Governor of Poland. Commissioners last summer—an investigation from which 80 any complicity in #8. Tho editor of the Government SPAIN AND MOROCCO. much was hoped and promised, which cost thie country many mays, in two or three different places, that thie seeset Agvos The Spanish Admiral (Pinzon) bas received instructions | »ndreds of pounds, and which produced intense nr was not employed by the Administration herd, bat by the to the effect that if the Ewperor of Mororco should not cou- | throughout the length and breadth of the land—was infinitely | Commissioners, and that he was accredited to. the biewt. tg sent to exchange Tetuan for Mogadore, the Spanish squad-| worse than useless. The Isiander says the Commissioners’ yernor alone, “privately and coufidentially.”” But it appears

nding «+ accommoda ion’’ to the mercantile | sold for at Sheriff's sales—a/ter communicating the intel! " 7

vature wou.d not interfere with the Commissioners, but wou'd | ron is to take possession of the latter place by foree, and d's-

rather preserve for them the subject matter of their Commis- | embark there the troops now encamped on the coast ef Aragon. sion; and | do not think any proprietor could feel himself! e AUSTRIA.

aggrieved were such w Lill passed. [ am of opinion that the | The Polish and Czech mombers of the Lower Hovvw have

oS . * - . oon . Commissioners when they give in their Report, will go into | ali questions; and as they are Lawyers and Leyislators, and | made a proposal that the Emperor should proroguge the sit- gentiemen of high standing, that Report will no aount be tings of the Council of the Empire until a representation of very valuable, as containing their views on the questions | «he whole monarchy be obtained, and that be showld imme-

were not only not able to obtain the information they sought [dis Excelleney found the secret too heavy te carry it by him- in this Colomy, but that they were grossly imposed upon by self, and ‘‘ entrusted’ one perzon’’ with it. Whether this the tenants and the proprietors, as ** the information that had | favoured ‘tome person” is Premier Paluwer or Secretary Pups, been furnished them had proceeded from deeply imtorested we have not bees informed. Both ase, however, very sevibus pasties, and, as was natural, each bad endeavoured to make advocates of what are called * proprietary rights,’ and itie the best of bis own side of the ease, and such i the weakness) not to be presumed that either would neglect such ma opper-

; “*h eame +] ie i af ment, but shall make an impartial statement. Before I ac-| which came under their notice. 1 think, too, if they do so,

cepted the offer of the Goveroment, I wrote a letter to the Leader, sayivg, | had been requested by the Government to appear before the Commission va behalf of the tenautry, but | ih.é L could not assume that responsibility without written | instructions from the Government, aod | refused to serve till 1 received them. The letter | wrote to Mr, Palmer was as

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Cuartottsrows, August 3ist, 13860. Dear Sir;

When you called upon me yesterday to offer me a Ketainer on behalf of the Government to act as a Counsel for the Ten- entry befure the Commissivners, appointed to carry out the provisions ef the Statute of last Session relating to the Land question, [ rsquested from you time fur cousideration of the proposition before accepting the Retainer. A feeling of the responsibility which must necessarily attach to the position | of a Counsel for the Tenantry va this oceasion, induced me to make this request.

{ have since referred to the Statute in question, and observe

th.t a decision of the Commissiuners onder it will probably | the Lmperial Government, and the other merely originat-d/ the news is tha activity in the Military department in England |

he binding and conclusive on the whole Tenantzy of this [sland on such matters conn-eted with the vencral question of the! Land Tenures as may be submitted to them.

Now ** the Tenantry”’ are nut a const’tuted body, and I can | hardly ventore (without having some such body to refer to fur instructions), to come forward as the exponent of the views and wishes and rights of those with whom [ have had little or ny communication whatever on the subject of the Commission, much less, on my own uninstructe? responsibility, to sabmit any point to the judgment of the Commissioners, when their deci-ion upon it misht more or less affect every Tenant in the Island.

The House of Assem)ly may, perhaps, for this purpose, be | regarded as the representati¢os of the Tenantry, and they again are reflected in the Government, who —being the intruducers of the Statute in question—must be presumed to be in a posi-' tion to know the exter.t of the powers intended to be conferred eon the Commissioners, and the puints te be brought under their notice.

Tiverefore, whilet Lam willing to accept the Retainer by yor, and desire, to the best of my ability, to promote the inter-sta of the Tenintry on this occasion, it must be on the elear understanding that [am retained on behalf of the Go- vernment, and am sv far to consider them as my Chients as to be entitled to look t> and receive from them precise written instructions as to the course to be pursued by me on this oc- easion as a Counsel, and the matters to bo submitted from time to time to the Commissioners, and the various points on which their Award or Pecision is to be sought.

This being 9 matter of some importance, I have to request

that it will have the effect of compelling those proprietors | who did not assent to the arbitration to agree to it as well as! those who did. (flear.) That is the point to which my | hopes tend. I shall wait patiently for the award, aud what- | ever it te [ trust it will have the cffect of forever termina:- ing disputes past and present.

Hon. Mr. LONGWORTII—I do not rise, Mr. Speaker, | to find fault with the speech of the hon. member from King’s | County, #hich was very clear, and contained a fair and can- | did statement of matters connected with the Land Commission. L think it showed that the Government acted in such a man- |! ner as wou'd render their conduct unimpeachesble iv | reference to the whole affair concerning the Land Cowmmis- | sion. If the hon. member would reflect for a moment, however, [ think he would perceive that there is no parity | of reasoning between the Act relating to the Commission, | passed last year, and the Tenants’ Co nj ensation b Il. for the | one Was in »ccordance with the instructions received frum |

ia this louse, on the supposition it had power to pas< a law of that kind. The Howse assumed that it had the inherent | rizht to pass a law without the consent of the parties to be bound by it, and it was on the ground that they had no such right that the Rent Roil Bill was disallowed. But, in re- ference to the Biil passed last Session it was different. | Assent was given by the [mperial Government through Ler | Majesty's Secretary of State to principles and proposals made to this Government, in reference to the land tenures of this Island, and certain parties assented to the principles ew- bolied in Resolutions passed by this Hou-e in regard to the same subject,—the questions in dispute between landlord and tenant by these parties were referred to a tribuual, to be) decided by a body of gentlemen mutually chosen to act as| arbitrators, so there was a great difference between the two! cases. Iu the latrer ease the House bad the assent of the |

offered | Pat ie3 to be affected by the Bill. The hon. and learned ‘the fact that ia the Northern States more than 200,000 men |

inember thiuks the Bill should have been sent Home at an! earlier period, but I think that if it had it would not have} made the least difference, and that it would not have influ- evced the decision of [Ter Majesty's Government in the} slightest degree. Lf not received, then the Commission would | not have met here; and in that event, whether would We | have been iu a better or in a worse vosition than at present ?| To my mind it was a fortunate circumstance, and av argu- | ment in favor of the Bill not geiog Home. In the recent |

troops need not (says the Morning Post) excite the slightest |

| neighbouring republic.

place Quebec and Kingston in a state of security.

‘of human nature, thet in the majority of the testimonies! tunity of strongly urging the elaims of the proprietozs. Tims } oMered, trut’s wae sometimes Jost sight of, and sometimes so pot only were the two gentlemen mentioned cognizant of Mz. TERMINATION OF THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. peeivetes und perverted a to be slncst equivalent to falve-| Whitman's mission and proeeedinige, but sessral oti ia Metoourne, Avgit 25.—The war in New Zealand termi-|»00d.”” ** Instead of being impartial witnesses they’ (the Chazlotictuwn, is a faet of wirich we Lave sestasiy seosived

nated on the 19th of Mareh, by the unconditioual surrender | Pe7#0n® who gsse evidence before the Commission) ** were | courviucing tratimeny.. ‘Phe How Ms. McAuley, iv the sourse of the natives. — one and al] prejudiced advocates.” The resder w Ml of ope of the debates lust Sessién, alluded indizectly ww the =a ee NEES oLyerys thet the significant words herein quoted aze the es-| presence of the pub-Uommissioner,—be was knows to oteapy @ @ h ¢ & x it itt i i ry jact words ered > the slender. Now, i the name of examen room in the Ovhuial Building adjoining De. Pupe’s elles,

¥ ‘gense jet ve sek, if tho enquiry of laet ewnsmer bore gach evil where be eoakd perose the public records at bie leisure ; aad

| fruite—if the Commiseiunese were decerved by it im ouch 2) bis business wae well known teosome private indosidusie im, vow wholesale manner—if 3t eabidited the mova} charaster of bhi community. M, therefore, theze Bas bo vieja) ammount: mend | Island so utterly degraded that out of our whole tewant pop*- | of the secret to the Excewtise Council, we must repent what |lation and the proprietary body scarcely « man could de fuend | =e oni Bess week, that there is wry littl evohidense between | to tell the truth to the Cucomimioners— whet seamen war there, the members of that Bourd. * Sia

Tux English Mail by the Steamship Europe arrived in Hali- for all the glorification we hays been compelled to bear in the, The Is'ander saye : * His Exeelle gave Mr. Whitm a fax on Tuesday morning, 25th, and reached here on Thursday, ‘Legislature and out of it, regarding this famone Enquiry. facititive for acquiring anformation thas were devised, aud keys

Liverpool dates are to the 15th June. The principal feature of i which, according to the Is!ander's present teetingory , hav only hip secret ; aud iw ey doing he neied with thet pr 5 » di ¥ : o : : served to cover our fellow-cslonists with infamy ao bege cretwe apd right-mandedness wich has gain sned him the couti- to reinforce the garrisope in the British American provinees, batel of liars? ©, what incalculable beneSte, we were it | denne iain 1 opinion iv worth basing.”

Orders have been received at Chatham for six steam gun | id j sand chidal ° : Pal Ww vessels to be placed in the first-class steam reserve, and to be | OU 8cerue to the toneatey from the patien ee ae ihe lnle Sy a ae y oe oom dispatched immediately to the ovastof North America. Each |¢nquiry of the Commission! What an immeuse debt of gra- them to point vet the fire grammatical construction of the 3 ones a = eae ee on board one 68-pounder titude we owed to the Lieut. Governor and Col. Gray, sided sentence. Besides, this part of ows contemsposary eo editesial is vf 9 - and one 32-pou . . Ai . e.°'i ‘ete diet h*

Sin Geddmdainn eee Oe liad Eastern for the PY *he seven other eminent gentlemen who give sweet counsel 8 ipyolved, thal we cannot say whether it is Mr. Whituew conveyance of troops to Canada. She is to sail from Liverpoo] to His Excellency, for their patriotic exertions in getting the or the Lieut. Governor that ie praised for kee ping the wonder-. about the 24th instant, for Quebec. The circumstances which Commission established! What a blessed thing it was for! fal * secrst,’’ aad for the great “ prud-pes, discretion and have induced Her Majesty's Ministers to dispatch this body of 4 : i " a rs 7

the tenantry to havesuch rulers! And how the Government rght mindedness whith has gained," de. We understand,

apprebension either in the minds of our military economists at Péjoieed at their own prescience in not sending heme the Bill however, that Bie Excellency gave Mz. Whitman * Sasilition’”

home or in those of irritated and i i i i : . : : st : : : : : ’ our The enees etree friends in the which was made the basis of the Enquiry, until that Enquiry for pursuing hie avocation ae & Spy cand m. doing so we must

The 3000 men now about to sail will only be sufficient to | *** closed, five months after the Bill had been passed here, say that His Excellency did = very improper thing. MoGe- .

St tine aan oa . But whilst | ‘* because,’’ said they—with @ profundity of reasoning only vernor should give @ free use of the pubiis seeorde ia 0 clan-

the loyalty of the people of Canada is undoubted, no reason- ir—** j : TE Gti

aids tess, elite i thie seenladiaie Siar denhainn datas “equal to the result of the whole afuir—* if wo had sent the |destine manner to any man, mo matter by who be is Bill home as soon as it was passed, tho Commissioners would accredited, whether confidentially or mot ; nor should be give

are in arms—men who misinterpret the neutralitty of England, | not have extended their enquiries so far, as the Duke's des-| hig guthority for makia equities touching public ques- and who would, if it suited their pleasure, just as soon make | : ee rs 7 os we a raid inte Canada as invade the Southern States. It is to |

diately convoke the Provinoial Diets,

or ee

Charlottetown, P. E. L, July 1, 1861. NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

re aa nevertheless not altogether impossible) that the | Commission made any investigation at all, if the testimony | we}} mperial Government, in compliance with the request of Sir | i i i i

Fenwick Williams, has determined to station is Geol an rg aan — SR eegreApa “— oe army sufficient to garrison ite fortresses and to protect ita ex- ee manos apes: Che covede-at posed and extended frontier. ‘This simple measure of pregau- Sttended the Commissioners’ Court. tion cannot be construed, even by the perverse ingenuity of

: people whe} Mr. Whitman's mission from the Goveroment to Mr. Dundes {f the investigation has and the Commissioners, yet every momber of the Couseil is,

patch, hanging up the Bill, narrowed the sphere of their gion without consulting bie advisers. Those advisers are - | meet contingencies of this kind (contingencies not very pro- | Perations.”’ Now, it should be deeply regretted that the responsible for all Lie sete that relate to publie adairs bead

as for their own; and although the Islander makes & clumsy attempt to shift the responsibility of sommivance ob

the favor of a written answer. | Despatch of the Duke, he does not find fault with the action | 1 am, dear Sir, of the Commission ; and they went into ali matters affecting |

Yours truly, ‘the rights of different parties, and [ feel persuaded the result |

Josara Hester. | of their investigations will bave a beneficial effect, and pro-

| mote the interests of this Colony. We have vow a clear ex: | pression of opinion on the part of thé Imperial Government, | that though the award will only legally bind those who ) assented to the Commission, still, that it will have the effect, | when it goes into operation, of binding all. This is expressed | in the latter part of the Duke’s Despatch of January the 2d. |

The lun. Edward Palmer.

Ty this letter [ received the following reply :-— Cuartorrgrown, Sept. 3d, 1860.

Dear Sir ; [ quite perceive the necessity you have felt in expressing yourself as you have done ia your Letter of Friday, in answer

tho New York press. into a menace to the Northern States. The policy of this country, both in Canada and in England, is to preserve a position of strict neutrality ; but this objeet, ina province which lies next door to the acene of civil war, | cannot be attained unless Canada has to rely upou some force | better disciplined and organised than her active volunteer | corps or sedentary militia. The sympathies of Canada are so strongly in favour of the Northern States that we belicge a recognition of the new Confederation by this country under any circumstances would be eminently, not te way dangerously, unpopular in the provinee. These considerations show the wisdom of the determination at which the Government has

tomy personal application to engage your professional ser- vices, in conjunction with Mr. Thomson, of New Brunswick, ve behalf of the Tenaniry before the Land Commissioners.

[ believe, with the hon. member, that the Commissioners con- | arrived to place Canada in a position to repel foreign aggres- sidered the Act of this Legislature as the basie of their Com- | sion, and to enforce that neutrality which it is the obligation mission; but [ must disagree with tie hon. member in of every British subject to observe.

I agree with you, that, in consequence of the Tenantry not

bgen of the worthless and damaging nature described by the Government paper—if our people are to be set dowm as a race of lisrs—if one man, a perfeet stranger to us all, comes here

ac a sub-Commissioner, and pursues his evocation more in the praiseworthy one—if it would confer any advantages om the

character of a spy than apything else, and his testimony is ,, 3 , | Colony, why should th it? avd

to be taken ia preference to that of thoussads—there can be | sh a the Paes - ee re - ae

no doubt that the sitting of the Court here last summer was. the Government had nothing = do with it, and that ne ees

% great misfortune and disgrace to the Colony. We cannot! gure ought to be east upon them in eonnection with it? Ia but sincerely regret, therefore, that we have not been spared | fine, the editorial of the Government

the expensive folly of sceing a Court opened at Chariotte-. bably, town, St, Eleanor’s, and Georgotown—bringing a clever law- yer from St. John, giving him @ retainer of £150, with

for a defence of the eepionage practised by Mr. Whit- | man under the patronage of His Excellency—ia @ iamentable

organ—intended, pro-

| and will be held, responsible for all that Lie Excellency has ‘ done in the matter; and, therefore, the Council oeght to i have Leen consulted. But if Mr. Whitman's mission were 8.

being a constituted body, it would be difficult fur you to be- come the exponent of their views, wishes, &c.. without having s «ne person to refer to fur instructions, who fully represented their common interests. ‘The same difficulty would, of course, intervene, if the Government attempted to act or to be guided by the opinions or views of the Tenantry without there being any person properly constituted to represent those opinions or views; and they, therefore, feel bound by the opinivn of the Mouse of Assembly on the subject, as set forth in its address to the Queen, passed on the 9th May, 1859, as well as by what is expressed in the corresponden e on the subject of that ad- drews which ensued between the Cylonial Minister and the | Lieut. Governor of this Island, and which is pubii~hed in the | JJouss of Assembly Journals of the last Session. As occasion requires, | shall be happy to communicate tu you such written jastructions as the Government may deem necessary for your guidanes on those questions which they conceive are within the scope of the j:rmdiction conf-rred on the Commissioners. | in the meantime, | beg you will, at your earliest convenience, evnfer with Mr. Thomson, and endeavor te put into some pro- minent shape those vaime which you think if w.J] be most te) the iuterest of the I'enantry to advance. 1 remain, dear Sir, Very truly yours.

Epwaxp Patura. |

Hon. Joseph Hensley.

After receipt of this letter I agreed to act, and with Mr. |

Thomson immediately called upoa the Commissioners. The | Commissioners on that ogeasion stated to Mr. Thomson avd | myself that they conceived they derived their powers from. the Statute, and accordingly they called our sttention to its | wording, sod remarked that they thought it gave thei full | power to deal with all parties, [ was aware at the time, thou & { bad wot made avy particular inquiries, that the Act, bed uot as yet received the oyal assent. [ afterwards men- tioned to ome of the Government that much confusion might ative if the U unuission sat, and the Act to give effeet to their decision should be digallowed. Ile replied “y saying thaton s cust ut che Deke bug wbout to visit the Colonics the sub-

ers, and at the closing of their Court, where tenants puid the | current year's reut,in accordance with their recommendation ?

Why pass a law to bind parties—to prevent them from com- |

|tion of their arrears of reut, before it came into operation.

celerence to the view which he takes of the measure he pro-| Ricavoli for the present is thrown into the immense breaeh poses this Legislature should pass. Of what avail would it be to pass an Act which would only bind those who have | assented to the Commis-ion, when in no instance have these | proprietors violate! the recommendation of the Commissicn-

[t is evident the Act, if it were passed, would be a dead letter. |

mitting an act, which hitherto they bave not attempted to commit? The absurdity of adopting such a course must be apparent to all who are able to reflect. But in my opinion, were it passed it would have an evil effect, inasmuch as pro- prietors would probably resort to harsh measures in the collee-