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chafe under an industrial existence, and would rally with alacrity at the first bugle-call.

| This active warlike element would greatly assist in tormenting the popalar disposition to quarrel with a Poreign Power, and the natural tendency would be toward a collision with Great Britain. Our people cannot forget the insidious acts by which the Bri- tish Ucvernment encouraged the discords between the sections; and, in fact, by its agitation of the slavery question was mainly instrumental in bringing about a rupture Nor is the South upmindful of the perfidi- eus policy that Great Britain has exercised toward that section; prompting secession ip the commencement ; urging it on during the first years of the war with express cus of sympathy ; interveation, and making them worse thao valueless by procrastination.

But the day of subtorfage is past. Great Britain, at last, is conscious of the war-cloud darkeniog over her own soil. Selfish beyond ail consideration of the merits of a cause, she delayed the recognition of the Coniede- racy to avuid the expense of entering the arena. But now that Ler Parliameat has begun to meusure the risk and count the

cost of war, and knows it to be inevitable, |

a wore decided and open policy may be expected. i os ENGLISH TREPIDATION. When the tale of our misfortunes was | wafted across the Atlantic, we well remem-

|ber the unconcealed joy with which our| supposed fatal catastrophe was hailed in| ment, as standard household curatives, may say |

Kngland. We shail none of us soon forget

, “he pirate ships, and the “Confederate loan,” | | We believe in being fore-armed against disease | might as well say that 00 person shall sell Some years | any quantity without the consent of the in-

ind ‘ae other expedients by which the re- bels were furnished with armed vessels and norts, When not a sea-worthy

sailors and sea e ship could be bout, armed and sent out

} from their owu waters. | Eng ish merchants, a . wthe tiled orders” of

giving out vague promises of|

> andthe * fine old Eng. |

AN ARTICLE FOR THE SEASON.

INTERESTING TO EVERYBODY.

This is the season of poetry. Sentiment thaws out with the snow, and expands with the early flowers. The press grows eloquent on the tender grass, the unfolding buds, and other vernal vege- tables. But, with all this elevation of the spirit, there are many afflictions of the flesh. Appetite, over-stimnulated by the stringent cold of winter,

subjects the weak stomach to dyspepsia, and the |

liver to an overflow of bile. The blood is over- rich, and among the consequences are biles, erup- tions, and other external disorders. Ill health is a sad drawback to our enjoyinent of the glories of nature, and therefore it 1s as well, in advance of the tervid heats of summer, to purify the ffuids of the body, give tone and energy to the digestive powers, and remove from the superficial vessels those acrid humors which soraetimes produce a species of effluresence, much less agreeat le than that of the orchard or the parterre.

Under these circumstances, we cannot better serve the dyspeptic or plethoric reader, or, in fact, jany reader who is out of health or has had a pre-

monitory warning of coming sickness, than by |

advising him (or her) to have recourse to Hollo- way’s famous remedies. Whatever may be the source of the difficulty, in whatever portion of the system the seed of disease may be entrenched, HoLLOWwaAy’s PILLs will assuredly reach the lo- eality, and extinguish the disorder in its element- ary stage. They are peremtory messengers that will not be demed access to the most intricate windings of the iuternal organization, and which no principle inimical to health ia any part of the | buman wachine can successfully resist. This may seem a sWeeping assertion, but there is & mass of authentic testimony to fall back upon which | Will fully sustain it. Itisa familiar aphorism that | what everybody says must be true,” and it is be- | yond controversy that the majority of christendom } use and praise Holloway’s remedies. War de- | mands his Ointment for its mutilated victims, and | Peace requires it for her chapter of accidents.

| with Cato, though ina different sense— “Thus am I doubiy armed.”’

| and casualties, as far as possibie, |) ago a wan was | Surray Zoological Gardens, in London. A pre-

paration bad been provided which was said to be

“ The high-minded | a certain antidote to the poison of this serpent; |

but it was not at hand, and the poor fellow was | dead before the remedy could be found. ‘mention this fact to illustrate the necessity of

He who keeps by him both his Pills and his Oint-

bitten by a cobri di capella in the | habitants.

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they take their bottle outside and drink it, and then go in and get another, I think many of those stores are a public nuisance, and [ would not allow them to sell less | than two gallons.

| Hon. Mr. Lorp: I do not speak against ' this amendment, and pint license may be an ‘injury in some cases if people will take ‘bottle after bottle and drink it; but, sup- pose a little brandy or wise is required for ' sickness, how would bis honor like to have to pay for two gallons, as he would have to do if there were no store license granted ? | Perhaps, if he only wanted a pint, he would have to pay £3, for you cannot get good brandy for less than £1 10s. per gal- lon. No doubt, the benefit intended to be derived from store license is often abused, but still, there is a strong argument in favor ‘of pint or quart license, if there is any good jin the article at all, and I think there is, for { have had a very fair trial of it.

Hon. Mr. Gorr: I think it is a very ne- cessary feature of the Bill. Sometimes it /is necessary for medicinal purposes, and the stores are the only places where there is any probability of getting a goodarticle. A person would not like to go to a tavern for lit, where they generally sell bad, adulterat- ed stuff. There is a store in Georgetown, and I never heard of them drinking over the counter.

Hon. Mr. McDonato: By that clause, a

'man has to get the consent of two-thirds of

|the inhabitants before he can open a store. |The regulations in regard to stores are al-

|teady very stringent, nd if it is to be the

case that a man has to get the consent of a | majority of the inhabitants of a district be- | fore he can sell less than two gallons, we

Therefore I do not feel dis- | posed to support that clause.

Hon. Mr. Gorr: I think Georgetown land Summerside should be exempted from

1 / the operation of that eiause. ‘ : . I consider it absurd

a Bill to repeal the laws now in force es- tablishing and regulating the rate of interest, and to make some provisions on the same subject, and a Bill to alter the time for hold. ing certain terms of the Supreme Court in the several counties of this Island.

MERCHANTS’ SEAMAN'S BILL.

The House then resolved itself into a Com- mittee of the who'e to take into further con- sideration a Bill for the regulation of Mer- chant Seamen, and the Hon Attorney Gene- ral proposed the following amendment, which was agreed to:

Folio 32 line 4,—Leave out “in any part of the Island,’’ and insert “ for the County in which the owner or part owner of the ship resides ; or, in case the owner or owners reside abroad, then for the County wherein such ship was last in port.”

The House was then resumed; and the Chairman reported the Bill agreed to with several amendments.

BOARDS OF HEALTH.

A Bill to amend the Act for constituting Boards of Health, was then read a second time and committed—Hon. Mr. Beer in the chair.

Hon. Mr. Lonp: I observe that this is merely an amendment to the present Act, and [ suppose the intention of it is to save the Health Officer a little trouble. We had a Similar act in force a few years ago, and many atime the owners of vessels had to pay the fee without the Health Officer seeing them at all. The law is not so well carried out now as it was some years ago. In nine cases out of teu the passengers are ashore and get their dinner or something else, be- fore the health officer is on board. I think the Health Officer must have friends in the other end of this building or we would not have such a Bill brought before us. I would like to know what sized vessel it re- fers to, or whether it refers to Colonial as well as foreign vesels ?

Hon. the Prestpenr: It refers to all ves- sels suspected of having sickness on board.

Hon. Arrorney Generat: [ very much that kind, though it is limited to the city.

sent against having the city overrun with those low taverns, is, that no person shall ob- tain license to sell liquor, except store license, unless he has the accommodations required by law fora tavern. I do not know any reason why such extreme facility should be afforded to obtain licenseg in the city: but, on the other hand, I see very great objections to it. If such a law were passed, every shanty about town would be a * licensed tuvern.”’ A man may write a sign over his door in the finest giit letters, and then say he is entitled to a license to sell spirituous liquors. He may call it a shop, or a saloon, or whatever he pleases. We would soon have a nice nest of shops if such a permission were granted. Black Bill may go to the City Council and say he has opened a fine saloon for the accom- modation of ladies and gentlemen, and will be entitled to a license.

Hon the Presipent: [t would also extend to private boarding houses, and I think the city authorities have sufficient power in re- gard to granting licenses already.

Hon. Mr. Besr: At the present time no houses can be licensed unless they have the accommodations required for a tavern, and the authorities desire to have power to li- cense saloons and boarding houses to sell li- quor. But I must admit that there is some weight in the objections of his honor the At- torney General.

Hon. Mr. Henperson: Iam much of the same opinion as his honor the Attorney Gen- eral; | am confirmed in that opinion by the painful recollections which I have of the effects of gin palaces in England. After a trial of two years, their effect was found to be so demoralising that they had to be puta stop to by an Act of Parliament. What I have geen is sufficient te convince me that they would have the same effect here and in other places. Unless we can presume on the morality of the citizens of Charlottetown, we may conclude that it would lead to de- gradation.

Hon. Mr. Ramsay : I do not think Charlot- tetown is badly off for grog shops. I would think that if a Bill were introduced to reduce their number, it would be a greater benefit than to increase them. I certainly would not consent to a Bill to open more of them.

Iu visions granted, oft we see ithe realm greitly enjoyed our trouble, and | having Holloway’s Pills and Ointment always Hon. Mr. Watnc®: ‘ ; i : ; So The very clouds that never throw | hoped aati aan pode to die with de- | within reach. ‘That they are specifics for niue-| to require the consent Ny two-thirds of the Hon. Mr. Losp: Well, I consider it an There might be some reason in giving a Their veils upraised for mortal sight sent resignati : But they are themsulves' teriths of the diseases of the huwan race seems to| inhabitants of Georgetown ane Summerside | ¢xtreme hardship that owners or masters |iittle more liberality to respectable boarding on ee - - " ' oa - . cen r signation. ut ¢t rey e oa ve be a fact established by conclusive proofs; and if bef 'd 7 the very of smal! coasting vessels—perhaps ovly TuD-/| houses, but as the same privileges would ex- ta eae ee ae j learning something. It is now their turn) so, the propriety of keeping them where they may | 0©/0F€ @ Man could open & eee "sre, | ning over to Nova Scotia—should have to | tend to all, and would ba likely to lead to MeBected trom the glorious lig | to be troubled. The millions they Lave in- | be always made available on the instant, must be | Same as tavern license. I would, there:.** nay the health Officer’s fee at the Custom | immorality, I cannot support the clause. Beyoud the river j vested in our ruin threaten to return no in-| vbvious to the head of every family.—Cincinnati | oppose that clouse. re 4 before they could get a clearance Amendment withdrawn. . .- is Y ; ° * And gentle airs so eweet, 40 calm j terest; the ruin is more likely to be theirs '* os —inmenstiiosin Hon. Mr, Hexperson : I do not see why | Hous. ‘ants, there should be something to The House was a and = nr ; thar ws. They » the awia i . r sry "7 ; to without any amendment. et ln ate cheartaen tee | ed piece They pies that Davis ce es | Tt appears that the imports from Nassau | they should not be put upon the same foot-/ At all ev. Health Officer had really vi- eee — ow 4 easel The mouruer feels their breath of baln or, aad there rises the vision of the reunited} she Saunt of the bloekade- 1rs—rose| ing a8 tavern license, ‘There is no end to) show that the - ‘or fe ld b cahot eg! OC i ’ ip ' ; the “aunt of the Kade-runners—rose | | © . h tage esal Sefore the fee would be} assembly, by the Hon. J. C. Pope, with a And soothed sorrow dries @ tear. Republie, afier having put down domestic } from L274 AS4. in 161, to £4 295.816 in the extent to which those store licenses have | site e vesseis, » Bill for raising a Revenue. Sab dliaei Side et os [treason, turning ber arms against foreign! 1963. ‘he vaine of land in the city and| been abused, and, therefore, I would be} demanded from them. “. does appear to Entrancing sounds that hitl s | foes —and agaiust whom seover thau! syburbs has risen from 300 to 400 per cent |sorfy to see that clause struck out of 8 ve the ar a ‘d Jeave his ee, eee ere 1 Phe echo of a diatunt strain | England 2 fa ee al + ' "| Bil 2 >» iti ich it is}me that the Health Officer shou... . .| On motion of the Hon. Attorney Genera 1 t strain | England ? . _ | aod in good business situations much more, Bill, If there are localities to which it is} m stoi aaa aaa Fy, 10mt8s |. ieee aspend tee lew oes set eae Of harps and voless, blending notes, | The London Times sounds the warving! . Pl alias | not applicable, let it be shown, Wecan'jaccount 74h the Collector cf Gu. te. | 2 Bi re Saaciouns pas pcg thee 4 Beyond the river hat our Government bas “claims” on which} The produetion of the mines in Prussia | 9°t use the same arguments in favor of the | otherwige how is that officer to know w. ~ | tory words ani =

WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

(From the New York News.)

The critical condition of affairs in An r- | rica is at last develoy ing the poliey of Euro-| pean Goveruments,and revealing the purpos as | anu expectarions Of the transatlantic enemies In the British Parlia- ment, the probabilities ofa collision between

of repub leanisn

(reat Britaio and this country are discuss:-d | that d-monstrates the existence of much anxiety upon the subject, aud suggests that, in the estimasion of at least a portion of that legislati¢e boby, toe bour ts not far distant when a rapture b-- | tween the two Governments shall

Wilt af earnestness

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| whom the

| guilty conscience jus? fies its own fcars.

| a war way be prelicated. We may attempt | to satisfy our demands by seizing upon the | British fof the Crown deelare that they see no

Awerican Colonies. ‘The Ministers ground for alarm. Never have they bad more pacific assurances from the American Gioverament than they are now receiving. | Gut alarmists are not to be quieted by cffi- vial bushiog. The truth is, that those for Times speaks know that they have wronged us, aad that we have just | reason to resent their treatment of us. <A)

But, afier ail, there will be no rup‘ure between as, unless it is made by “our Bri-|} tisk brethren’’ themselves. It 1s true that | we have “claims” for indemnity, which we

jwas 86,292,215 tons.

in 1864 was of the value of 79 millions of do'lars. Coal and iron furn‘ehed consider. } ably more than one half, while the gold| product was only worth about $150. 198,-| 832 persons are employed ia the mines and | Miving works, { i" 5 iia

The collieries of Great Britaia number 3.160 The amount of coal mined in 1863} Over one-fourth of | this amount is obtained from Durbam and |

| Northumberland districts, one-eighth from |

Scotland, and but little from Ireland. - eS a The Rev. C. W. Vining who has safely retarn- | from ajeurney in the East, thoughtfully brings us, |

among other curiosities, some of the newspapers

stores which have been used in regard to the taverns or houses of accommodation,

Hon. Mr, Ramsay: If Georgetown and Summerside are exempted, why not exempt St. Eleanor’s and Cuascumpec, and other thickly populated places. If we make any exemptions, [ think it Would be considered elass legigiation.

lion. Mr. Dinawett: There is some force in the arguments on both sides. Ifa man wants a little good liquor, he would go to a store fur it, where he would be most likely to get a good article; and, on the other hand, it is often considered a great nuisance to have a store in a settlement. Persons will go and buy a pint and just go ou'side and drink it, and perhaps drink a

published in Egypt and Turkey. four languages. French, Turkish, Armenian, and |

shall, doubtless, assert and press. We shali | They are in| at least insist on a fair consideration of | Earl Russell baughtily declared that our demands were inadmissible, and inti- | mated that he wished never again to hear | contents, and the materials of which newspapers | f such pretensions. But we shall expect | are made up in the land of the Osmanlis. Our| to be heard. We shall expect that the ra- | American enterprise is well represented: stoves, vages on our commerce by British vessels, wiil be examined into, and that, if we have | no indemnity for the outrage, we shall at | least have some better reason assigned than merely that Mr. Bull don't choose to pay. One thing our “brethren” may profitably | conside Ts \ ars are oftener caused by the | abroad, but publish the certificates of the Mussul- Vervensioe. : ; collisions of Perr than by thove of imtere | men rulers themselves, to the cures which those | mons the members of all parties seemed ‘o| &>t- lt is but too manifest that tkis coun- a ef oS ey : | . ' ; ‘ | medicines have made in their midst. The Rev. souff the battle from afur. Even Mr.) try is an object of special hate to many | iihtiedaen toleoue ne ett tee whale of the 4 Bright, the devoted champion of the Fed .| Eoglishmen. Lufluential British periodicals, > : eee * moore rai cause, could not deny that * the question are babitually employed in teaching their | eontiel. sas eee was at once important and delicate.” “ It| readers to bateus. ‘To this end we are tra- | from Hurage et Amarins, an they gocsens n0:tae-7 was perfectly well known,” be said, * that | duced, misrepresented, caricatured, beld up: ‘ there was no power whatever in the United|to alternate ridicule and reproach. No} confidence themselves. Kingdom to defend, successfully, Canada | accusation against our Government or peo- | ideas which pervade the buman family, but almost against America. What would the people | ple is too gross to find credit and currency | all that is useful in art or invention must be car- of England have suffered from the Alubame 7 through those publications. Now we sre} ried back to these, the earlier settlements of man- Bat Mr. Bright, confiding in his own not likely to declare war against the Times. | kind. —{Lyun News. stiacts of sympathy with the fanatics who | or the Saturday Review, against Black- | ; bold power ia this country, was unable or | wood or the Quarterly. It is no part ot | uowilling to realize the danger cf a colli-| our policy to oppose sabres to pens, or to ; : sion. lhe bellaged- there wee 0 War|ccad tetmeled Moshord for the admonition | Y pian, the well: behaved being raised to| party in America—the Irish party—but lof saucy talkers. But when one nation | the rene of eer cad ne Mr. Bright has good reason to acknow- |! difficult for them to fall into collision. | *4°9 : ,

i iffe in ot! ! ote . ledge that the [rish people, whetber in their | pe of = at that 7 . rh me According toa Russian custom, the wife own land er self-exiled, bear, as a race, a) conditions would Oe harmice?, May tuen 0! ofthe late Duke de Morney cut off her hair deep-eeatel antipathy toward the Govern- | deadly harm. We shall not be in baste to/ and put it in his coffia, as a pledge not te ment that has overshadowed their nationality, | 8h into war. It will be well, if at the) marry egain.

But he errs in attributing to them a movo- ar of thirty years we shall have recovered |

; . Kaolin aslalll . . . | An Oil well has been lately struck at Pe- ra eqns "Srtek Belem ie) ~ be cuheustion of thie terrible. oii! | troleum Centre, Penn., which is said to be this country | conflict.

: : 2 2. = ofc 5 | aoe Even that faction to whose | But the rawness of our wounds, | ,5w fowing five hundred barrels daily, al- ety ial! | inflicted d ‘. is . : y

interesis he bas so often signified his devo- | espect@!'y those tnilicied under the guise ot |though its yield is estimated at a higher tion, number among its adherents the mcs - mock neutrality, me make a nity ee | figure by many.

. ‘ 21S 7 . ‘ 2 a - bitter, though, just ow, for the sake of ex- | sensitive to Injustice than we shou e My pediency, the Jeast demonstrative, of the sound and whole. It may require only a) enewies of Kng'and. Owen Lovejoy, more | ™oderate application of abuse ard insult to) impulsive thao his co-fanmatics, exhibited ore us forgetful of rye bat our) ‘Tennessee Lesgislature on the 5th inst. Ten plainly the aoti-British sentiment of the | STOPES and the impulses of resentment. | nessee ia the twentieth State that has adopted Abolitionists, when, in the Liouse of Repre- | We would suggest to our friends across the | the amendment. seutatives, io the spirit of agother Adherbal, | ¥4ter, if they really deprecate the dread ne-

inevitable. Itis apparent that in France the direction of the current events is equally wei! unde:giood. * * ” But the agitation, simultaneously, in the | Freneh and British so soon after Mr. Lincoln's reinauguration, | of questions which had hitherto been stu-| dicusly avoided gives an undisguisedly war- like aspect to the relations between this country and those two selfish and intriguing | powers that, trom the commencement of | our civil strife, bave awaited but the ep.) pearance of weakness on the part of the | South to precipitate their long projected i le | i in the British House of Com- |

of

them. Greek. We cannot read them, but he ean, and |

through his patience we have been gratified by their |

legislative bodies, and

wooden and tiu-ware, ploughs, axes and touls are | advertised from this country. In each of the four | languages are heralded the virtues of the remedies | made by our celebrated countrymen, Dr. J. C.} iyer & Ce., of Lowell. They seem not to de- | pend on their home reputation for confidence |

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in those countries comes |

lical colleges or schovla in whieb they have any | There are the religious

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In a prison in Paris, the juvenile vagrants and young thieves are organized on a mili-

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The Constisutional amendment ablolishing slavery throughout the United States was unanimously ratified by beth branches of the

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|home, he can get it at the tavern, and to

‘reduced was, that it was considered ab-

he devoted bie children an? his children's | cessity of war, that at present they seem to children to an undying bosulity to Great) Britain, We can assure the English legis- | lator that there are no parties in this coun- try, and but few individuals, not, with a fitting opportunity, be eager to}

measure the strength of the Republic | from Glasgow, 26th Mareh, arrived at this |

third time with that of the mother land Nor is this feeling confined to the North.

It is, if anything, more earnest and intense among the masses of the South. Let the South be subjugated, aud immediately the popular eye would begin to east expectant giznces toward Canada, and the restless and over-exeited temper of the American peop'e would welcome the first indications of a quarrel with the antagonist of yore. The soldiers of either section, however anxious now to revisit their homes and enjoy a res- pite from the toil and privation of the camp, would soon weary of the monotony of peace. In the brief whirl of enjoyment that almost invariably attends a soldier's return from the field, the hard earnings of bis career of strife would soon be wasted, aod a foreign war would be bailed as aa exemption from the dull routine of peaceful avocation,

Out of the million of restless spirits, trained to breathe the atmosphere of stri‘e &# a oatural element, a half million would

‘bate us not wisely but too well, and would |

(to that wou }| March 30th.

115; English, 3.

affectionately advise them to try at least | be more amiable.—N. Y. Examiner, | —--- Ewicration. — The Steamship Britannia, |

port at about 6 o'clock last evening (Lith.)

She had 554 passengers, 43 of whom are des- |

tined for st. Jolin, viz: male adults, 9; fe-| male adults, 7; male children, 13; female | children 3, besides 1 infant. The nationalty of these is as fullows:—lrish, 25; Scotch, | Several persons who in-| tended to proceed to New York, have accept- ed of employment here, and will remain in the Province ; and agents or representatives | from some of the mining establishments are at present endeavoring to employ others of them who are skilled in that kind of labor.

|The Britannia lies at Reed's Point Wharf,

and is discharging her freight as rapidly as possible. —St. John, N. B., Globe. _ eo

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reserve their hair through life. Every Druggist sells them, W. R. Wateun, Agent for P. £. Island.

COLONIAL LEGISLATURE,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Saturpay, March 25. Debate on the Liquor Licence Law continued. | Hon. Mr. Dixaweti:

[ am as anxious

; as any of your honors to afford proper ac-|

eommodation to the travelling public, but | [ do not think this clause will effect any | good houses. Qu the other hand, it is a}

properly couducted, being allowed to con-| tinue—houses which, perhaps, were good |

once but have fallen. do wot copeur in| the propriety of legislating on men’s in- | terests every Session. 1 du got thiuk it is| a sound principle to leg‘slate upon indivi- | dual rights; but still, L think we ere safe | in passing this Bill, Perhaps it will not

shut up three public houses on the Island ; | Mrs. S. A. at least, not three which are entitled to the

pame of houses of accommodation, Clause agreed to —Clause relating to store license read. | Flown. Mr. Ramsay: That is a part of the Act which is often evaded, and I bave often beard it said that those stores are not much better than grog shops. Perhaps the parties

safeguard against houses which are not | Messrs.

little inside, too. I do not exactly agree with the clause, but 1 do not see how we ean improve it.

Ilon. Arrorney Geverat: I am sorry to have to disagree with some of your honors, but I do not see why a different rule shou!d apply to this from the lust evil we were trying to obviate. It has been fourd that the old law did not work well. [t is just as much abused with regard to the store license as the tavern license. If a person wishes to purchase a little to take

sel! it ia stores is interfering with the proper business of the taverns, As to the objections which have been urged aguinst the clause, on the ground that it would pre- vent facilities for procuring smal] quantities for medicioal purposes, [ cannot see any force in them, for a man can get it at the tavern as well as at the store, and where- ver there is a store there is generally a tavern within a few miles of it. IL have heard the law, in this respect, very much complained of, aud several persons have said to me that it was a pity that the license had been reduced to a pint.

Hon. the Prestpent: The reason it was

solutely necessary to allow persons to get small quantities for medicinal purposes. It would be very hard to compel a man to purchase two gallons whea he only wanted a piat. I bappened to go to a store not long ago, and the man told me that he had just run out two gallons of wine in pints for sick people. Under this clause, L be- lieve there is not one store keeper in ten that would take the trouble te procure license. I am not in favor of affording facilities for obtaining liquor, but it is often wanted as 4 medicioe, and it is no use to try to make laws to put down) drunkenness.

Hon. Mr. Henversox: I would just re-) mark that [ have frequently to do with cases of sickness, and the instances where wine or brandy is required are few and far between, And I think your honors would find that immorality has resulted from pint license in twenty cases for every one in which it bas been a benefit in case of sick- ness.

lion. Mr. Warken: I do not think it is worth while to alter the clause, for it is certain that there will be an application to alter it next year again.

The question of concurrence was then put on the clause under consideration, and the Committee divided :

Contents — Hon. the President, Hon. Henderson, McLaren, Ramsay, Goff, Lord, Dingwell and Walker—§

Non-Conrents—Hon. Messrs. McDonald and Anderson-—2.

So it passed in the affirmative.

The House was then resumed, and the of the City of Charlottetown, to license board- | g.cond Tuesday, it is a question which your

Bill reported agreed to without any amend- ment.

| Adjourned till Monday next at eleven

’elock.

Moypay, March 27.

| A Bill in farther amendment of the laws

‘relating to the sile by license of spirituous

liquors, and a Bill to incorporate the Sum- merside Bank, were severally read a third ‘time and passed.

ther a vessel has be2a Visited or uot ?

Hon Mr. Dinawett: | think that clause is rather too sweeping. I woc'ld like to pro- tect the health of the city and ot the coun- try, but I do not wish to give unnec “SS4ry trouble and expense to owners and mas°<F8 of vessels. By this clause every master of a vessel would have to pay the health oflicer’s | fee before he would get his clearance, there- j fore there is no inducement held out to that officer to do his duty. If the Health Officer is to have fees he should earn them.

Hon. Mr. Lorp: His honor (Mr. Ding- well) has exactly spoken my sentiments, and [ think it is out of the question to expect the Health Officer to board vessels and do his duty unless he is provided with a boat and two men, with a yellow flag flying at the stern. Ile cannot provide himself with a boat out of the small fee which he is allowed at pre- sent. That vessel with the small pox was at the wharf last year before the health officer was on board. [I would like to oblige the health officer but I cannot support that clause.

Hon. Atrorney Generat: The observa- tions of bis honor who has just resumed his seat are very proper and worthy of consider- ation. The [lealth Officer is authorised to board yessels in his diseretion by the Act of 1857, and vessels which are not suspected of having sicknese on board will not be boarded by him. But, as observed by your honors, the collector of customs will not have any op- portunity of knowing what vessels have been boarded by the health officer,unless he gets some intimation of the name of the vessel boarded. It will rest with the health officer himself, and I think he has the right to col- lect his fee when he boards a vessel, but if he does not do so, he will have to give some intimation to the collector. Tuerefore, 1 think the clause requires amendment.

Hon. Mr. Henperson: The law should contemplate two things, the safety of the ci- tizens, and to avoid any factious interference with vessels putting into the harbor, such as would befdetrimental to trade ; and with these two objects in view, our enactments on this subject cannot be made too pointed. But I have doubts whether what is desired can be accomplished by this Act. The health off- cer has not the means of accomplishing what is required of bim, therefore, 1 think the Bill requires amendment.

The Lon. Attorney General then submitted

the following amendment, which was agreed to:— Folio 2, line 11,—After ** House’’ insert ‘‘after notification by the health officer to the said collector that such fee is due and unpaid.’’ (Some discussion arose upon the necessity of providing a boat for the use of the health of- ficer, to enable him to board vessels suspected of having siekness on beard, before they should come in close proximity to the town. The Hon. Attorney General proposed an amendment to provide a boat, at the expense ef the Government, for that purpose, which was agreed te by the Ceuncil. but was subse- quently disagreed to by the Mouse of Assem- bly ; provision having been made in the ap- priation bill for that service.)

The House was then resumed and the Bill reported agreed to with several amendments

A message was brought from the House of | Assembly by the Hon. Mr. Haviland, witha | Bill to amend the Jaw of real property. Also, by the Hon. J. C. Pope, with a Bill to com- pel masters of vessel to exhibit a light while | |in harbor in the night time.

Adjourned titi four o'clock, p. m. AFTERNOON SESS!OK. JURISDICTION OF THE MAYOR'S COURT.

The House again resolved itself into a com- | | mittee of the whole to take into further con. | | sideration a Bill to extend the jurisdiction of | the Mayor's Court—Hon. Mr. Walker in the | chair.

Hon. Mr Beer moved that the Bill be | amended by adding the following clause:

| ** Tt shall be lawful for the City Couneil,

‘ing houses, victualling houses, saloons. and

| houses of the like description, within the li- capable of speaking upon ; mits of the city, to sell spirituous liquors, | pnderstand, 1t would be an aceeptable change. and by a Bye-law to fix the rate, and pre-| {ast year { was rather 0 | scribe the conditions under which such licen- |

'ses shall be granted.”’

'I believe, said his honor, (Mr. Beer) that ‘valuable to the jurors and suitors as the first;

there will be no objection to this clause. The City Council have found it necessary to have such houses under their jurisdiction. At present they cannot license them when they have not the accommodations required by ‘law for a tavern, and the License Law which