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‘ require to be kept under the strict ' W11 so other at the Govsra- and I are sorry that the "Mid" is liltst superintendent. be able to report to to pass without any action being taken stats of these to carry the. late afoot. and seyetber roe reconnect! that it the riot thick proper. the usslvvs into a sort o

was. we..- .. , -- . (alfiludfinat first page.)

looted by means of sot-ll a limited expound tars oven-t as would well warrant the in- fluenza: the system to an extent. a: “fit. a. at to prove. in the course of t no or three years. uln-ttn-r it might be salcly

b In itttu operation 't'ltt.'f:lll '. through- elm Island. L 9

“ In regard to the expediency of a law to pursuit the inhabitants ol ct'l‘lzlllt tlcllttvtl districts. or divisiuuattf Counties. to elect float flmonfllllt‘ltlrlt‘t'fi, a Board. for the management of lligltwtna Vtithllt such Ills-

w trivia. m‘lh‘ptlllt'l ile embodied in the Int- perial Statute of the ‘L'btlt tttul ‘Jlitlt Vic- toris. Cap. 0, loaltlelt l't'l’t'l’t‘lll’v is nonh- by the said lil'pltl't. your t‘txunuittt u t'uttritlt'l' that I system of this kind would he attend- ed with many .tll’lllllllgs'l-c—llllttflg'sl others. that of "lit-titty: the Ilnnso of Assctttbly from a great t-It‘ltl ofthe businefie which at present occupies it. in apmiprlatlor tlte moneys granted for the lit - ways, nail dis- cussing local preferential clouds in the dis- tribution oftht-rn: but. unless a s3 stem ot this kind Were likely to be very generally adopted throughout the Island. its ndvan~ taxes would be uncertain.

" Your Committee. in conclusion, trust that the sulject ofan improved a) stem in the making and repairing of the Highways. will be resumed at the earliest period at the neat Session of tlte Legislature. when the Legislative Council will most readily concur in the passing of any .Iit‘l.cl't|l bleasnrc. having for its ol'it'vt. the permanent int- 'pflll‘t‘utt'nt oi the Highways of the colony.”

Ilou. air. MacDmttw: Ircgret that lwas not present when the House was last in Committee upon this Report, for I had not the advantage of hearing your honors’ remarks; but I must concur in

I I think that is very desirable. lor besides “5.000 or £20,000 a year are to be ex- bbeingthe. tnail roads, they urethe roads pend...) um... um roads, there is no lntl’cl’ ttpon which the greatest .ptttnltly of pro- w”. [0 “3” um. I...“ m.“ by Increasing

iilllt't‘ islttken lotlmtkcl. It is. therefore. | tesirable that they should be placed under some other sttpt‘rt‘lhitttt than tlint ' of the present lload Commissioners tor a . large amount at public money will have . to be expended upon them. tllltl it would ecouottliue our means to have competent supervisors appointed.

pot ution.

selves for the some object. own roads. by taking corporate powers

likely to be under the system now in force. \Vith regard to statute luhuttr. l

cllicient.

he ttdvnlorctn dttty. Then, in a low

years. we might expect to ace sonic int-

irovetnettl; but to talk of carrying out his twhetne without money ts stltlply ircposlerotts.

Ilon. .‘llr. IIAYTIIOIINR: Ilis ltottor

Then the com- from the city made some statements res- mittco suggest a cyst-nu of local manage- pet-ting the great tttility of good roads. "will. by Whit-ll the people in certain which, l mu puns. unug will be disposed tlifilrlt‘ls. by applying: tothu llovrrtlluoul. to deny, for a country having no means could form lllt‘llleclvea into a sort of cor- of communication may he said to be lit a They could then apply to the semi-savage state. In lwglrhtlttre for and receive grants. of neighboring Colonies, though the popu- mouoy in ttid at the improvement at their letter) is thin, and the soil poor, tltey yet rmuls. and they could also assess titular contribute large some for the construc- 'l‘ltttt system tion of railways.

is adopted in Canada, and if any district ly as the railroad here would undertake to look alter its would he found to any that tlte money

some of the

In Nova Seotia, cost- is. I believe none

was thrown away. and they would be

of‘that kind, I believe they would soon mutual to so back to the old system. I he in a more cllleieut state than they are believe we are in it better position in some respects than Nova Scotia. attd II

we once commenced a system oi blac-

hnve always been of opittion that a direct .ulumimtiou, the cry would b.) [or are“. poll tax would be preferable and more glou. l'enple tretptently go npottthe good sound system of road making has

The great cotnplnittt is. that tt

roads under the pretence of working. but often in reality more tor a frolic than have Macadamized, there has been it anything 6180- (Mr. Painter—"0“): great waste of maloriule, out] the young They put in their time, bttt if they went out to do a day’s labor. they would re- seen good roads made. when he sees the ceive more as wages, than Would pay for piano “mag p...“ the lion. Mr. Long- all the statute labor they perform, and worth's, he, no doubt, comes .‘I the cott- tvould have rt good deal of lime to spare. almion that if that is the best nystem up- I believe. therefore, that it Would be on which rottdscan beconstsuuted. batl is

better for tho roads as well as for the the beat.

not been carried ottl. On tho parts we

Prince Edward Islander, who has chcr

Still. it is true that. though it

one observation just now made by his people themselves. If they were to pay is a, mug]. Finer, of road, ya; it i. am“. honor from the City, that is, that in or~ I a tax of Is. (id. or 2s. instead oi work- able for tmvolliug upon all times of the

tier to carry out the suggestions contuiu- ing a certain number of hours, there year.

The reason it is so rough is, that

ed in the Ibrport. we would require a would he more work done upon the roads the Mucatlamiaiug system was departed

much larger revenue than we have at than there is at present. In this small Colony, and to think that the system proposed by the than would go through a two-inch ring,

present.

I am inclined from,

The stones should not be larger

where our resources are proportionally Committee, is too cxpcnsivo for the prc- but they are three or lotll'llllltll that size. small. it is difilrult to make roads equal said state of the finances of the Colony ; The Committee, ill rmnamber right, had to what they have in larger and older but at the same time, it our revenue Watt tho Laloment from [he Commissioner,

countriet; particularly as our soil is ol_sulllcicnt to enable us to carry out. that

that a much larger quantity of stone was

a very interior description for road ntnk~ i system, I have no doubt Illll it wouhl and upon unit mad than was necessary. ,iug. In some oli'tc other Colonies theyiconler a very great benefit upon the Quality“ allows the uneasily at having have abundance of hard stone just beside I Colony. It would be the mcansof saving mm, to superimou .1... work who “my.

their roads, but our soil is so soft audio vast deal oi time to those who have to "apply understand the tymcrn.

Some-

light that it is dillicult to make substau- take their produce a cousidcrnle distance thing has been said with respect to the

tie! roads with it. An experiment has to market ; but the question is whether use of Ialuudsloue.

I know the Island

been lricdinthe neighborhood ofGeorge- the cost. under the proposed system. is not, so destitute of good materials lor town with Island stone, and agood piece would not. be greater than the benefits mad-making nsmme imagine.and though

of road has been made—one which I be- which would be derived it'otn it.

fliers will remain good with very trifling repairs for many years—at an ex endi-

lslaad stone is not so well suited ior roads in general,“ ltdrd stone, yet, I

not" M" D‘R‘iwr‘u‘: I w” “0‘ PN' have no doubt but it would he a benefit

m" op £100. 0,. h”, per mum T m. i, sent. on account of indisposition. to hear m many Mn plwes u n mm, carcmny a very much less nmounttlmnitwill cost "w “Imam °‘ y°'" "M?" "9°" """ laid on. One otyotir honors alluded to a to construct road-upon tho alumnae!!- ‘“"j‘?°‘ °" “ '“’“‘2'°°°“°'°"' "‘1 l "' piece of road in the Royalty. and ntllte cd or recommended by the Committee. “I” n "'y “me.” "I m“ "0" under a present titne, it is like u dyke, with the

I give the Committee full credit for huv- d‘sn‘l"‘m“3°°

- o . “1 ‘0“ y t .h Iabor,.l think. and havethought for some . "mg no 0. gr“ an mm” m 2 years. that it should be abolished. I OWNMMP

have thought for many years that, after

preparation of that Report. They hav spared no pains to produce a very able

Ilut as regards statute

water on one side. just ready to burst Macadam’s first principle was to drain the road properly. and when principles are tints Sci nt defiance,

.lud “lune” Dowmcfll. lull l 'mtnol “m “mi”, limkmgfords 1M“: \kcfil’mfi. you have no riuht to expect lgood results. “I ""3 I Wren with all the conclusions ‘L'em 3° “Pg I“ WW". of i '? u‘ "f "I " Therefore. before any heavy expenditure they have console. Our roads are now ‘ ° l”°l""”'°"’ " w“. "m m I”), is undertaken, we should ecu that we

hp. up “an “pendimm up 136.000. 0,. should still he called out to labor upon £7,000 a year; though last year, inclnd- "'em'

(Mr. ilaytttorne—l low.) I

have the means to lay the money Olll propctly, for it would ho a pity if this

in: bridges and wharvcs. I believe £ll- “09° um“ "‘“s‘m’ Wm l” “was”! '0 poor Colony should have its resources ex- 000 veers expended. But for the road "med? l'rm "i" If?" 8°m°llycazs it?” pended in nu injndicions manner, which “"506 lion!» 1‘10 DOl illka “10 tnnual “mm” M not ‘en mm" M i‘ has been the case on the road I rcier to.

expenditure. upon an average. £5,000. or £6,000.

“c.ch fortlte people are dissatisfied with it. Now. I do not “"1 “my °vade " m "we" as may mm‘ a piece olrottdlttid with lslandstonc, and

I have been in the habit of travelling over

think We have less than 5000 miles of u i‘ “r” ‘now'd ‘0 b” d""° "Ppo’im '0 I lied that it is dry earlier in tlte spring

roads in at. Island, thntis, including all their?“ WW?" . . to”). upon which public money is up early in the sprtng, I‘llnnlt it would be a om“ pm“. uded. Therefore. I think that when “mp in a“ "gm d'rccnon'

utl it it were performed

and remains dty longer in the fall than That convinces me that tlto

mm" m use at Island stone might be attended

that “lent 0" PM!!! 1' common“. in con. "'7 “"1” u“ in haying “ "mm m “m with good results. and I would not hesi-

nection with the amount expended for keeping them in repair, it must be admit- ted that. under the circumstances, they are very good. I am only just giving my own opinion. for I have not made any calculatiou as to the extentof our

summer when the ground is dry and hard, for the fall rules come on soon after and they are then worse than before. It the men were allowed to perform the work

322;;‘h3|°;pr::fidflpp:;?°"33:,“0‘2: considered that rather beyond our pro- t

tale to recommend it in many situations. Some of your honors thought the com- mittee sltould have gone more ittlly into the financial part of the subject. but we

vines, as we were appointed to report

roads. but I do not thiuktltry are less mm)” to I” can“ “Ya-y to wbemmr on the best means of nnprming the

m.“ 5000 mu”. 1. ;. m“, "m, in me the overseer chooses to take them. I "W‘s.

Ilad we gone into the mode ol

neighborhood at the towns, during the 'Pl‘m' 0‘ a” "339mg in ""3 "33°": raining money, we would perhaps have lastlew years,thcrs has bccnagood deal lmn Prop" '"penmen “ms appom'e ‘ been laughed at. but we made such

of money expended, perhaps from £50 to two per mile, and yet. the roads are not such as we would wish; but I am afraid that the revenue of the Colony is not such as to enable us to carry out the recommendations of the Committee. The proposal to import stone and astouc breaking Machine would entail a very heavy expenditure. According to the calculation made. it would cost £3000

to Macadamia six miles oi toad. and I “

think that is as much as we could expect to have macadamlud in any one year. tor a machine breaking six toes of stone ' I' hour, as stated in the report. and al-

wing it to work six months in the year. would break nearly 10,000 tons.

tor we mneot expect a Commissioner, for the paltry salary of £10, to spend much time in looking aitcrtlte roads. Some change is called for: and it the proprietors are determined to large tracts oi land, they should be made to contribute something towards the re- Ido not think there is anything unreasonable in that. for it is well known that the people have made II the roads and bridges in the Island. with very little assistance front the pro- prietors, and it is tlte people’s labor which has made the propiictors’ estetos

pairs of the roads.

Ilon. Mr. LORD: I quite agree with time.

That his honor who has just spoken. with ro- town. (Mr. MacDonald), raised the ob-

sttggestious as we considered practicable and not much beyond the present means of the country. I believe there would not be any serious objection to the appro- priation of a moderate amount for the importation of a machine for breaking stone. \Ve see that men Who have a large quantity oi buy to make, do not hesitate to lay out their capital in the purchase of mowing machines. for they know that it is good economy to do so. and I do not see why those sensible men would object to the purchase of a stone breaker, for they know very well that good roads would economize horses and vehicles as well as Then his honor from George-

hold

is about the quantity required. according gard to the proprietors. but it every man jcction that only a small amount of

to the calculation made by the Committee,

had to keep the road in front at his farm

improved road could be made in one

Io macadsmiupix miles of road. Now, in repair, it would be a heavy tax, though year—that a machine would only break

It must beacon that if we intend to car-

I d". Mfr "IO mall! V’OUIJ be kept in stone enough for six miles—hut we

ry out that cystetrt. so as to be a general better repair than new. for you may tra- would not want the road eighteen feet

bsnallt to tboveountry. the taxation would vcl from here to Cmumpec and lied have to be considerably increased. for all nearly the whole settled. the other reads would have to be kept up sider Statute Labor oi so little value as there is a large amount of trallle.

wide except near Charlottetown. and

I do not con- perhaps two or three other places where

Then

at the same time. I believe the country his honor from Bay Fortune does. and it he only allows the stone break 'er to work would not have any actions objection to a poll tax of five shillings were exacted six months in the year. but I believe it a slight increase of taxation for the im— it would not keep the roads to as good could work much longer. perhaps all but

proremeut of the highways, providing it repair as they'aro now. When eight or

two months or so. Something was said

wsroso expended that the public would too men goto work upon the roads. they respecting the appointment at superin- rsesive a general benefit: but I doubt generally do a good deal of work in a tendants, and I am of opinion that it is whether lg? would not tied great fault day. I agree, in the main, with the Rs- one of the surest means we can adopt so

too. iacu ng the expense of importiu stone to macadamia a few miles of res

pends. Ie‘eaotbsr paragra h of the re- port. in which the defects 0 ‘ the present

port. and I think the Committee deserve as to have responsibility resting some- credit for it. but it is like many more is certain places.“ the report recom- such documents: they recommend a goodsystetn. but unlortnnately. they did and it is intended that they should kee not come to the point. that is raising the a daily record of their proceedings.

where. The committee recommend the appointment of such superintendents,

II are pointed out, it is suggested money. True. they do speak of laying attach importance to that record, for it

the control of a Board of

think that course is very desirable. The shillings, and one shilling and six pence liable to censure. That would Prince County. (Mr. Lord). appeared to

goal of such a Board has been felt by

'50 highways Oh"va laced under no a

for every working horse.

laud tax at three shillings per would show how their time was employ. orks, and I hundred acres, or a poll tax of three ed. and if it were wasted they would be

That! his honor from

bury Government that has been in raise a considerable sum. and I would me to have lniaapprehentlatl one of our

motions“ tins past

. We have a not object to ate: at that. kind, for then suggestions.

It was thought advisable

Us“ natty important mic works, such we might expect to see some improvement. that a certain number at townships should

as bridge»: wbavvss, t has". a...

‘sstotttis

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t

Of course I will rots for the resolution. heat liberty to groupthsmselvsstogethsr, there are good suggestions in the report, and be allotved to appoint their own

That system obtains in In a great part of England. where a given

The Contth number of parishes. perhaps too ortwsuty, people iu a form themselves into a district. and it has

may form been found to work well. Ills honor

corporation. spoke of the system in operation in Can- aadalsss the inhabitants fortbs repairs ads. and I suppose it has been copied of threads, but I would like to know from Italian . that preposth would be rescind would be better to place the manage-

It is thought it

lattices- boa

fiflfluh

. I wosld say,“ thatis to meat of these roads in the hands moral more. last of the people themselves, for none are “whale Bk“ be divided into mosl— so much interested in them. and it would '9" “VIM 5' "'0 " "I'M- tbs sans way as Canada. If be a guarantee that any grants of money

THE HERALn, WEDNESDAY,

made by the Legislature. would be judiciouslyexpended. Ilia honor from llny I“t!l‘lllll0 (Mr. Diugwell) thought it would be better to let the Statute ldthnr be pct'lortt'tcd by each man in front of his own l'artu,ttud I must admit that there is Htttlltttltlttt; very- plausible in that idea. but I do not think it would be Iottnd so practicable as might be supposed at first sight, for some who have large propcrltes have small fronts and rim n-rsu. It would fall very light on mysell, as l have only six chains of front. while my neighbor. who only occupies sixty acres. has thirty, or air times us much as I have. who eccupy 260 acres. It you in- vestigate this proposal, yott will llnd tttnny such objections to it. llow Would you provide lot- a man who had near- our lot, and would have eight or ten titnes as much road as his neighbor. who perhaps had more property? I think his honor mttst have overlooked some of these tnattersf. With regard to Statute Labor in gnoral. the Committee did did not speak in favor of it, but they saw that as long as the roads rt'tllttittctl as they are. mere trucks. ret Hiring a large amount of re mire at. once. die ' could not recent- mend having it abolished. Some of your honors spoke of having the Statute lathur performed early in the Spring. and the Comnnttco were fully aware of the ntll‘lttl» tages of adopting that. course. but they wcrcalso aware that in some plat-cs the frost is not out. and in other pieces thori-

MAY 27, 1868.,

{I'l'om (ht: .New York Tubch]

. 'I‘llthAH lt'AltCl‘ Mctllllt—llls auutttcan we I ltl‘llill.

It was in the autumn of the memorable year _of IBIS that the sulijt of our hitt'lt‘h. with his wife and an infant dough- tcr. lauded again on American soil. in the geometrical city of Brotherly (Love, ultere the young exiles made warmuap- prct-intive tilt-ads. .ltnt two weeks after, the Nov \ork Notion made ll-t npprttrnnee. with 'I‘lltllnlttl‘ I) .lrt'y bit-lice an editor. 'l‘ln-t-ut-i-ttof tltttlpapcr was bracf and brilliant as the meteor that llttaltt'e through the midtttght sky ; of all the rumoutinur of our led It’lt'lltllfi prol'ttic mind, what be u tote for the New York Nation 2.. the It nat pleasing to us ; national it not. intensely no. but by an error common to the young t'ltlltllniaatu of that nlltl‘ulltt-l‘ tumult. to some extent. plat-rd nationality above religion. Stunning under the keen u-Itsc oftlefvnt and tlisttplutintncnt. our young ctlttor was led to throw the blame of the recent ftttlttrc In Ireland on the chrg and hierarchy of that country. who had undoubt- edly Illlvl‘ targed their dot v to their people by rcprcsettttng to theta the absurdity and folly of any attempt. to overthrow lltitislt power in Ireland under existing circumstances. . The dcfmee of the Irish clergy was taken up by the late enttucnt Archbinltop Hughes. whose strictures on the rash and int- prudent attit-leu in the Nation. although severe. were just. as Mr. Netti-e, llllllrt‘lf freel ’ admitted in after years. bone more than he regretted the course he tlttn pursued. find whether in public. or in private. to the last day of Itts life. he tlct‘cl‘ shrunk from acknowledging that prove error of llltl ardent youth. ()ne trait. of his generous and noble nature was ever a willingness to admit himself wrong. if wrong he had been. The mistake. howt ver, was fatal ltt‘lllc New York Nation, and in June. 18.50. it cutth to two. Ilte lluhlln Notion worthy that time revived, and Mt. bit-Upt- would have returned to (labial bls fraud. (Iavan Ilttlfy..tn its management. Were it ttol that he t'llulll olitntn no satis- fttt-toty tttlatt't'l from the ('nsttle otlictnls as to whether he was to be ptnwctttrtl ur not. An answer “"00 at length from the 0 Home tlllii 'c ' to the ttl't-i t that no attllictcnt “ case had lit-tn llttttlt‘ out against him." Ily the time this nttnwer