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(Continued from first page.) fleets of Great Britain intead to maintain themselves, they must guard well the mouths | of the St. Lawrenee and the approaches to) the eeal fields of Nova Scotia and Cape! Briton, and that would be our protection. | And there may be large suins of money ex-| pended by Canada without being in open | warfare because they are so near the borders of the United States, and they must protect | their frontier. We have seen an instance of | this a few daye ago, and why should we have to share in the expenditure of such saws? I see a large sum was voted a few days ago by the Canadian Parliwment to com pensate ‘the Banke in Maine which had been robbed by parties in St. Albans making wu raid from Canada. There was a heavy expeneo incurred owing to the siquation of their Province; and why should we be sub- jected to expenses of this kind? I should apologize for trespassing so lung upon your time, but before I conclude | wish to say a word respecting representation, to show that it is w strong ground to objecé to the terms of the Report of the Convention, When the Delegates met in this town, the Canadians came merely as #pectators, and we iuvited them to propound their opinions of a different kind of Union from that which we were eonvened to consider—a Union of the Mari- time Provinces. And when they disclosed | their scheme of representation by pupula-| lation, I stood up on the foor of this very) room and said [ never would consent to such @ proposition—that the interests of the peo- le | represented would forbid me doing so. NS question upon that or any other details of the scheme was ever taken bere, but this we were given to anderstand by the Cana- dians, that, if the scheme of the Federal Union of all the Provinces were taken up and agreed to, the lower Provinces should each bave equal representation with Canada

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000.000 would have to come off the Colonies. | and wharve

in the Upper Chamber. But we tound when representation which we would be allowed | their report. we arrived at Quebee a very different con-| jn the Federal Legislature, and which | excitement, c

clusion was arrived at. They there gave us the number of representatives which you find | ia the report, vie: — Upper Canada 82, | Lower Canada 65, Nova Scotia 19, New Brunswick 15, Newfoundland 8, and Prinee

Edward Island 5. So it will be seen that

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the Railroad, but see what it will cost! The estimated cost is $16,000,000, and $9,- See what a position we would bein! This Isluad would be entirely ruined. Can greatly in debt already, and they are in debt at a tremendous rate. If the other Colonies—Nova Seotia and New Branswic —go into the union with Canada, perbaps we will have to go in too; but l am inclined to think they will keep clear of it, and it will be wisdom fur us to do the same.

lion. Mr. Beer: I do rot intend to occupy much of your honors’ time, for my opipion on this great question is already weil known. lL may say, however, that the resolution just submitted by his honor the Attorney General embodies my views, and not mine only, but those, I telieve, of the whole of your honors, as well as nine-tenths of the people of this Colony. I believe the Island is almost entire- ly opposed to such a union; and the more I thin« about it and try to study the subject, and look at it in ali its various aspects, the more | dislike it, for [{ believe it would be utterly ruinous to the Colony. We are told that British Statecmen speak highly of it. There is no doubt but the Colonial Minister and others do speak highly of the report; but we must remember that the late Duke of Newcastle spoke highly of the Report of the Land Commissioners, characterising 1t an ‘able, impartial and just’’ report. That was his opinion, but some of the parties in-

terested — the proprietors — thought other- |

They rawed objections to it and the Duke allowed it to go to the wall. Just so will it be with the Quebee Report. The Maritime Provinces, ic would appear, think it isnot applicable to them ; to this Island in

wise.

particular it would be rainous ; and British |

Statesmen will not erge us into what will be sv injurious to us. I would first call the at- tention of your honors to the financial posi- tion we should be placed in, passing over the

would be so unjust to the Island. I would observe that it 1s well known and admitted thas the expenditure of the several Colonies

'proposed to be eonfederated, for the year | ©

1863, amounted to $13,850,832, and nothing of that sum was extraordinary expenditure.

we will have to tax ourselves for all that we will require over £10,000 for roads, bridges 18, the sume as they do in Canada. | LT would lik

ada is| points connected with this question, but as going | our time 1s limited, and as his b | lett (Mr. Henderson) will proba k | you ut @ome length, [ will resume my seat.

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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

DEBATE ON THE LAND QUESTION, (Continued from our last No.)

Ilon. Sot. Generat.—I cannot, Mr. Chair mun, agree with those who assert that the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill, as it is desig-

nated, has been productive of no benefits to | yielded some poi the tenantry, and that no appreciable ame- | and not bave req lioration of their condition has resulted from | the rules of law ; but th The subject of the Land Ten-| way,

that measure. ures of this Island has occupied the attention of its Legislators ere the oldest now within ‘these walls was born, and it may be that the yet unborn successyrs to our seats may find in the matter materials for the manuiacture of political capital. The allusions which have been made to the Bill of last Session are as unjust in motive as untruthful in fact; and it is simply absurd to deny to the don. mem- ber for Belfast (hon. Col. Gray) the meed of credit to which bis action in dealing with the general subject of the Land Tenures fairly entitles him. In 1859 he tvok his seat in this House, untrammelled by any pledges on the long vexed land question. On dis own responsibility be tabled the resolutions which ‘led to the Royal Commission. That Com- mission comprised, as is well known, three of the must able men whom these Colunies could furnish fur the discharge of the duties dele- gated to them. When the resule of their \labours was promulgated here, one of the | Commissioners was burned in effigy, public ‘teeling having been unduly excited against But, sir, when the temporary onsequent upon the non-reali- ‘gation of expectatiuns which should not have | been fostered or entertained, shall have sub- jsided, the people of the Island, reading by heir firesides the Report of the Commis- isioners, and collating it with the Fifteen | Years’ Purchase Bull, will recognize that a

out of the whole number Canada has 147, | [t was all expended in just the ordinary way. | bovn of no swali magnitude has been confer-

aad the Lower Provinces oaly 47, thereby! ‘fo which we must add, for the future, in |

giving a majority of 100 to Canada above ali the Lower Provinces combined. Now, | when we urge this as an objection, we are | told that, **it is true, but that we have the advantage of throwing our weight into the scale when a difference occurs between the two Canadas.” That is mere delusion. We know that it is very litle weight that the) whole of the Lower Proviaees will have— | that there would be very litile ehance of carrying any weasure against Canada. And} as ty deciving any advantage from the differ- ences between the two Candas, they know | their own interests too well to allow any) measure to be carried against them by a} combination of that kind. Mr. Galt allades to this on page 10 of his epeech ; respecting the patronage of selecting \egislative Coun- cillors, he remurks:—*' So far as Canada) was ecacernea there was uo likelibood of| difieulty arising on this point, tCecause the

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/a much larger sum ; also the interest on t

| will call it 16,000,000.

case the Union takes place, the expense of the General Government and Parliament, at least $1,000,000 a year—some estimate it at he cost of building the laternational Railway,

estimated to cost from fifteen to twenty mil-

lion dollars, say $1.000,000 a year. Stand- ing army supposed to cost from one to three million dollars a year, say only $1.000 000. Interest on the contemplated expenditure for extending, deepening and widening the

| Cunals, estimated to cost over forty million

dollars, say $2,000,000 a year, and we then have the yearly expenditure of the General Government at $18,000,000. But for the sake of being entirely within the murk we

by the advocates of Union that we will have

red on our population. The recommendations | of the Royal Commissioners would have had jall the effect of an award, binding all those

who signified their submission to it, had they | not, by delegating to others an authority en- jtrusted to themselves personally, exceeded | their powers. Lad the gentlemen to whom |1 refer fixed a detinite rate at which proprie- | tors should be compelled tu dispose of their | lands, much of the dissatisfaction at present |existing would never have been experienced. | It has been said that the stste of the tenantry | i8 at present worse than it was previously to | the passage of this Bill. The converse of the | proposition embodies the truth. The pro- | prietors are in w condition very much worse (than that which they occupied beture the

Statute Book.

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| When the Land Com™ ‘court [ was retained

e to refer to two or three other | this House, shown by

onor on my | for Belfast in bly address to carry out t

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jssioners opened their dvgcate the claims of : yesince, as a member of the tenantry ; and ba Soy axtions that I did f the hon. member asking for and endeavouring hat Commission. When the ing the Award came up, | voted for it, and against most of my political friends, not because that 1 considered that the Award conceded all that the tenantry should receive, but because it would establish a legal claim against the proprietors ; and also for the reason that this House had en- itered into the seheme of the Commission voluntarily, and should abide by its deci rr hoped that the proprietors would have nts in regard to the Award, uired a strict adherence to ey would not give and as the Home Government recog- nized their right to dissent from the decision oF the Commissioners, the Legislature of this Island hed no power to enforce it. Last Session we were asked by the Government to support she Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill. have no desire, however, to censure the Go- vernment for passing that measure; we should rather strive to ascertain what more can be done to ameliorate the condition of ‘the tenantry. The hon. and gallant member for Belfast has inforwed us that probably other proprietors will give in their assent to the Bill. {admit that there might be some force in the remark, provided that all the proprietors in the Government had made themselver parties to the measure. If this had been done, the Government would bave exerted a great deal more influence on the non-consenting proprietors. It is a matter scarce worth discussing which party has ac- complished most by legislation for the benefit of the tenantry ; the question now is, can any further measures be devised to aid in eradicating the evils of the tenant system ? With respect to Mr. Haythorn’s agreement with his tenants, [ think we have no right to discuss such transactions in this House. I observe a notice on the Order Book to the elfect that the Government proposes intro- ducing @ measure to assist the tenantry to buy up their lands. If such a measure be brought in L will be disposed to give it my support. Even those tenants who are not on estates affeeted by the operation of the Fif- teen Years’ Purchase Bill should receive as- sistance, provided they can obtain reasonable terms of purchase from their landlords. In regurd to the proposition which the hon. member for Bellast said he had to make for settling this question, we must wait antil it be developed before we can speak on it definitely. But [I presume he alludes to Cunfederation, and the allowance we should receive under it, for the amount of debt in our favour. If it were possible to appropri- ate the principal of that proposed annual allowance for the purchase of proprietors’ estates, it would be no gain, for we would then lose it for other purposes. Hon. Mr. Pors.—Mr. Chairman, I was

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| not doubt the sincerit¥

question of confirm

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Now it w admitted | Bull of last Session became an Act on our | pleased to hear the straight forward state- It consists, with my own| ments of the hon, and learned member for

to pay our proportion according to popula- knowledge as agent (or some and professivnal Kast Point, and shall be bappy to have his ticn, and in that case the contribution re- | adviser of others of the proprietors, that very | support iu carrying through the measure for

quired from Prince Edward lsiand would be

| large amounts of arrears of rent bave been,

coalition which was formed between the! two and a balf per cent. of the whole, and | by the operation of this Bill,remitted. Hon.

Liberal and Consercalire parties would pre-|

clude any atlempt calculated to snjure the in-!| duced sum of $16.000,000, dur proportion of |

derest of vither.””

That is the way it would work. A coali-) tion formed between there two provinces | would be always found to exist if they were | threatened with danger by « combined vote | of the Maritime Provinces. And in the) Upper House, where we were given to un-| derstand that the Lower Provinces would! have equal representation with Canada, they | managed t) maintain a large majority there} also. If anything like a cesire to give ua)

protection, or to do us justice had been en-| Cape Breton aud the Magdaline Islands ar tertained, they would have given us equal | govd representation in the Upper House, instead | may ex} of the merely nominal representation of four) Union.

members which is allowed us by that report. | progress during the last 30 years; and I hay the United | been informed that a Revenue cutter 1s sen

The strong analagous case of States bas been viten relerred to. island, with a population

OUU, has as many representatives in the | ¢ Senate as Pennsylvania, which has nearly | nada ; nothing expended on the Islands,

3,000,000. And those acquainted with his- |

f scarcely 200,- | every summer

estimating the anoual expenditure at the re-

that amount would be £125,000 a year

And what are we to receive in return? The |

whole amount which we would receive from the Generali Government would be about £60,000 w year; rather less than one halt what we weuld have to contribute. ‘The re- sult would be most disastrous. The Colony would be ruined; it would be drained of ali its cireulating mediam, ana we would be thrown back again to

barter on, just as we were 2

examples of the condition to which we

an be obtained, and away 1t is taken to Ca-

we were upited to Canada we might expect

tory know that at the time the federal Go-| W receive our ailowance of £60,000 just so

vernment was formed there that question

arose and was discussed with great epirit. | of ¢ | Should we tail to do this—and fail we should | ¢

Very nearly one half the people contended,

if L recollect right, that each State should | —we might t!

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have an eyual number cf representatives in|

Congress, ani the only way they could com- | Colony, | also settled bere, (nis is the prin- | doing my duty, either to my coustituents,

promise it was to allow an equal number for euch State in the Senate. eiple which should have been adopted here. | For these reasons, and others whieh I might | name, | must disagree to the report of the | Quebec Convention. IL bave embodied these | reasons for disagreeing to it io a resolution | which IL will read :—

Whereas this Colony has, for more than ninety | years past, enjoyed the advantages of a separate | Government aud Legislature, aud Her Majesty bath graciously conceded to the inhabitants there- ef the managemeut and control of their own affairs :

And whereas the local revenue, owing to the | development of the agricultural resources aud the expansion of the trade and commerce of the | Colony, exhibits a satistactory yearly inerease, and promises, without imposing additional burthens von the people, te be equal tu lie requiremeuts of the public service:

And whereag the taxation per head on the po- pulation, in the other North A:nerican Provinces, i< now fifty per cent. greater tuau it is in Piiuce Edward Island:

And whereas by the Report of the said Con- vention, various exsteasive aud cestly public works, in boto the civil and military departweuts, are in- teuded to be prosecuted iv the other Provinces by the Governmentot the proposed Confederation, whieh would vecessarily Wnipooe still greater tax- tien upuo the people uf the Coulederuted Pro- vinces

And whereas, from ita insuiar position and the complete interruption of its foreign and interco- jeaial commerce for five Months in the year, the people ot Prince Edward Island, although they would be compeiled by the terus of the proposed Union to assume equal bartbeus, would not par- ticipate equally with the pospio of the other }ro- vinces in the use or adyautages of those public works, or in the large sums vi moaey expended in their coustruction ;

And whereas the subsidy agreed to in the 63d Article of the Report of the said Couvention, and the capitation grant of 30 cents per bead of the population, oawed in the 64th Artiele, and agreed | tu be paid to this Island in full settlement of ali | tuture dewands, is net a liberal compensation for | the surrender of a separate Qo verument, with the | independant powers it now enjoys, its revenue, and al! other the rights gud privileges thereto be- longing, and would very shortly become inade- quate te meet the wants of the weal Government, wud cousequeatly would peoessitate a resurt iw durect taxation to supply the deficiency ;

And whereas the supposed odvautages of inter- colyuial free trade would be were Chan couuter- balanced by the disadvantages resulting to this Colony trom the exisienge of a bigh Mupost duty on the manufactures of Great Britain aid the United States, Inasmuch as tbe trade between this Island and the other Bnitisb North American | Provinees—~which is at present very invonsider- able—does wot warragt the beliel that it will, for many years to come, bye of avy importance ;

And whereas, wile reeygoizing the obligation whieh imposes upon British colonisis the duty ot providing, a8 far as tu their power, the means of aeit-defeace, this House canvot agree to the prin- ciple, that au insulated Colony lke Prince Ed- ward Island should be required to contribute for this object a8 largely as tue inbabitauts of Pro- visees Whose geographical positios readers them | more exposed te the assault of an enemy, and wo, iv Limes of peace, are im aediately benefitted by the public monies expended uot only in the constcuction of fortifications, but alsw of useiul public works:

And whereas the privciple of representation by population would deprive this Colony of any ap-

reciable influenoe in either [iranch of the Leyis- ature of the propused Ceufecorgtion ;

Resolved therefore, unanimously, That the said Report of the Quebec Conve ition, however weil adapted in any of ite principles to the state and | circumstances of the Coutiw-utal Provinces, is 1 | no respect just or suitable to Prince Edward Is-| Jand, and would, if aocepted, prove inimical w the prosperity aud bappinese of its juuabitants.

Hon. Mr. Yxo: For my part, as far as my

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voice can go, I will oppose going into conte |

would be confiscated I feel that 1 would not be

myself, my family, or my adupted coun- try, were [ to advocate this Union. If] thought otherwise, 1 certainly would be a strange wan if I did uot vote otherwise,for if the Island prosper, 1 presume tiat I would

participate in the general prosperity. Pus- |

sibly sume of the advocates of Union may

hold themselves in readiness to strike their |

tents, or slip their cables, in case the Conle- deration is consummated ,and be off to Canada or elsewhere. Not sv with me; | intend to remain on the Island, and consequently op- aetna to the UCuluny. One of the advo- cates of Unien, whe favors vur receiving a

stutiwnary and fixed income, says that those |

who oppose the scheme must be either ‘ignorant or prejudiced ;’’ and yet this same advocate of Union, in a@ published epeech of uis, delivered at the Caledonian Club, endea- vors to wake the impression that tie people of Upper Canada are not subject to a gene- ral tax, but only to the municipal tax which they have to lay on themselves in order to get bridges built, roads tu travel on, educa- tion fur their children, and a variety of other things, which the Government du not do for them. Notwithstanding that they do all this themselves, that they huve to pay a general tax to the Government of double the wmount, which we pay, that same advocate vf Union, in the same speech, says: ** Mo- lasses 1s now far more highly taxed with us than elsewhere,’’? while the facts of the case ure that in Canada molasses is taxed five cents per gallon and ten per cent. advalorem —equal to sixpence per gal.on — fifty per cent. more than we pay oo the Island, our tux beimg only four pence per gallon. Pus- sibly that staunch aud gallant advucate of Union would not like to be charged with either **ignorance or prejudice.”’ 1 shall not charge him with either, but leave him to reconcile these statements as best be can. Mr. Galt, ia bis speech at Sherbrooke, lets the Canadians koow that the Maritime Pro- vinces are expected to contribute a8 much as, or more than themselves, in proportion to their populativun, Speaking of the Maritime Provinces, Mr. Galt says: ** We were put going into # partnership with Colonies which required our support in @ financial point of view. They bad always been able to pay their own way, and they were well abie to pay their own way now. They even brought ito the publ.e excsequer an amount per head greater than we sould cuntribute vur- selves, aud this because they were a more consuming people than we.’’ So your bo- nors will perceive that there is little chance of our entering the Confederation without

| having to pay our fuil proportion of the Ge-

neral Revenue, and, as 1 have aiready shown, it will, in all human probability, be over £60,000 a year more than we receive from them. One of the advocates of Union, | believe, states that Mr. Galt estimates that the General Government can be carried on for $13.000,000 a year. Now | would ob- serve that this eum is less than it cust the several Colonies 1p the year 1863 when there was nune of the extra expenditure going on which is now contemplated immediately on the Confederation becuming.a reality. Bat for the sake of argument we will suppose that so small a sum would suffice; still, at that rate, our proportiou would be over £100,000 a year. Some wiil say, if it is gomg ty be sv ramous to Prince Edward Is- jand, bow do the Canadians sus‘ain and prosper under such heavy taxation? The answer is simply this; it is all expended among temselyes; and if we join them, our share of the general expense would be drawn from us to be expended in Canadz or else- where. One of the advocates of Union, and

the old system of 5 or 30 yeurs ago. | perience of others ean show as baving been | 1 think it must be admitted that it has con-} e | dealt with in the same wuoner [ cannot, of | ferred us great advantages on the tenantry | But my statement is ample) as any other measure which has passed

and the bead of a family who have |

ose any measure which | believe wall prove |

/mensbers who assert that no class of the tenantry have been benefitted by the Bill, | State, either ignorantly or falsely, the reverse of fact. (The hon. member bere enumerated the respective amounts of arrears of rent | which hud been discharged under the provi- | sions of the Bull, on several estates, with the | management of which he was connected as | agentor ta his professional capacity.) These ‘figures show ap amount of some £40,000, fwhich the records of my own office prove have been given up. What amouurs the ex

| course, give

ect to be reduced if we enter this | justitication of the demal | vow give to those | through this Legisature. Cape Breton has made little or nu | Who assert that the Bill which was passed | heard what was accomplished by the Land | e | last Session has not been of general benefit to | Purchase ill; bai 1 do not hesitate to tthe tenantry. The cost of the Commission, | state that I was opposed to it, and the first) ~

Rhode , down from Canada to the Magdaline Islands | even if 1¢ had been far greater than it was, | year I bud a seat in this House I said that 1) oY 'y to gather up all the taxes that | would have been an econowical expenditure | believed £10,000 on the purchase of the | Also. se ‘of the public money, when it is recollected | Worrell Kstate would be lost to the country | Charlottetown. It | that so vast an amount of indebtedness has|at large. Aud bere after the lapse of ten

‘4 loan to the tenantry. ‘The question before the Committee appears to be the Fitteen Years’ Purchase bill, and the Proprietors and the Tenant Leaguers. With respect to the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bull we know it has been a great buon to the tenantry, even in regard aluoe to the amount of arrears of reat which it bas remitted. It has been asserted bere that these arrears could never bave been collected. This, however, is an absurd view of the matter, as the proprieto®s would have taken very good care to secure them. When we consider that by the Bull at Jeast £50,000 of arrears were swept away,

True, we have

|been removed from the shoulders of the | yeare I am prepared to repeat the statement.

peuple of this Col my.

holders in virtue of it; and if any hon. j}member will take the trouble to iofurm | himself on the subject, he will find that in the Murray Harbor and other districts par-

ties, formerly tenants, have become freehold- |

ers, and are now she independent owners of farms, well tilled, and having on them weil furnished dwellings, with appropriate out- buildings, purchased by the accumulations of their own industrious exertions, unaided by any legislative body. Such a state of facte is a sufhcient refutation to the assertion made | by the bon. member from Tignish (Mr. Con- |roy) that the tenante do oot appreciate the Bill, and will not avail themselves of the \rights which it coniers. Tue hon. leader of the Opposition, in bis reference to the notice in the Order Book, indicative of the inten- tion of the leader of the Government to introduce a Bill sanetioning a Governmental advance of part of the price of the treeholds, ang in his claim to the originality of that idea, must have had the privilege of peeping into the desk of my hon. friend, or, **like the thief of fire from Heaven,’’ he must have re- ceived bis inspiration by some meane not a | whit more legitimate. [ can assure him that be labors under a very grave mistake if he | supposes that the principles of the measure te be introduced bave been gleaned from his jopinions. The policy ef the proposed Biil formed matter of deliberation by the sup- porters of the Government last year, and ite | introduction was deferred until the Fifteen | Years’ Purchase Bill should bave received the Royal assent, as it must be evident that uatil tha¢ Act had become law any further action would have been premature.

lion. Col. Gray.—It having been admitted | that the Bill which, last Session, passed the ,ilouse, has had the effect of benefitting a

| certain proportion of the tenantry, they who

|now decry that measure place themselves in the position of those who should say, ** Be- cause you cannot benefit two, you vught not tu seek the advantage of one; because you cannot elevate the sucial condition of one hundred, you should not advance the inter ests of fifty.”’ And, Mr. Chairman, with reference to the argument that the measure which it is propused to introduce, what, 1 would ask, would be the use of supplewenting &® Bill not in existence, and waiieh wight never be in existence? [ have been paivfully conscious for years of the extent to which the minds of the tenantry, on the eubject of }the land tenures on the Island, have been jabused. But a short time since an individual |trom Seotiand aliwded to the Right Hon | Lawrence Sullivan, the proprietor of, L be- | lieve, some four Tuwnships in the Island, as |**one Sullivan, the pretended owner of some | lund bere,’’ as though he were in the babit j}of going into the torest wiih au axe on his shoulder. Sir, | may state that 1 wyself am emgnemne of cases in which the agents of pro- | prietors refused to receive payment of arrears jof rent, alleging, as e reason, the provisivus | contained 1a the Bill of last year. In vindi- cation of my own course in dealing with the | subject of the raiations between landlord aud | tenant in this Island, | may be permitted to jallude to the assertions which have been |made, to the effect that 1 bad promised the tenants any thing aud every thing they de- jaired. Sir, { made no promises of any kind | on the subject, and un one vccasion, in answer to @ question on the matter, | expressly re- | fused to pledge myself to any particular line ‘uf action, lest I might, at sowe subsequent / period, be taunted with having viulated my | plighted word.

lion. Mr. Henstey.— Mr. Chairman, it ‘appears that the same rules do not obtain in | Committee a8 when the Speaker is in the |Chair, for L have heard no resolution or mation to which hon. members are speaking. _[ searcely know, therefore, to what point |

deratioa ou the terms of the Quebee report. | une too whu receives a stationary and fixed should direct my remarks. As no allusion 1 thiek Cape Breton shoud be a warning two | income, sets down in the Js/ander a fixed al-| was made te the Land Question in the debate us, for that Island, it is well known, has not _lowance for roads, bridges, and wharves of ‘on the Address thie Seasion, I thought it had ae since it was united w Nuva Scotia. £10 000 w year; while this very year the become extinct; but the present discussion

has been been taken tu develo would be just the same with us if we went iow o uowp with Lateds. They wik sbout

years | have no doubt but £20,000 a year will be required. But if weenter the univn,

or retreat witb unpuuity.

quite neglected. Nw pains bave Legisiuture bas fouad it necessary to appro- | seems to have revived the whole subject, per- pe its resources ; and it priate £12.000 fur that service, and in a tew | haps to give it the final quietus. In this

louse | believe that 1 occupy a diiferent

| position from eny yther hop. member.

It may be said that | Therefore 1 contend that | cannot be charged | long as we continue to contribute vur share | the tenautry will not avail themselves of the | with inconsistency sn saying that the Land | he expense of the General Government. provisions of the Bill enabling them to pur- | Purehase Bill, ag fret managed, would prove | hase their holdings at fifteen years’ rental ; | ruimous to the country. en eXpect that our allowance (but I am in a position to state from my own | oue time that the purchase of Lot 11 would | As a settler in the | knowledge that wany of the forwer tenants | be self-suetaining ; but its working baw been |

‘of Sir Samuel Cunard have become free- |

It was argued at

very little more succvesiul than that of the

| Worrell Estate. Te cost of these two estates |

| was about £23,000, and taking the bonds in | the Treasury at ther face, and without tak- | ing into account the unsoid lands, there is only £8,500 to meet the purchase money. There is a lawsuit pending in Chancery in regard to a claim oa the Worrell Estate, and

| before the aecounts of these estates are closed

| 'up the Colony. The principal purchases by the present Governwent 1 am happy to think, will prove self-sustaining, and will probably assist in making up the lows on some of the uthers. But, Sir, we have beard great com- plaints from hou. members opposite as to the failure of the Award. It is due to the hon. and gallant member for Belfast to say that he did bis utmost io secure the success of the Commission; and if the Award was pro- nounced by the [lome authorities to be il- legal, the Goverament cannot be beld respon- sible for the acts of the Commissioners. But on one occasion when it was discussed in this House, the hon. leader of the Opposi- tion said that he could not agree to 20 years purchase as laid down in the Commissioners’ report, but if 15 yeare’ purchase bad been stated, then it would have been worthy of support.

lion. Mr. Coiss.—I deny the statement.

Hon. Mr. Pors. — The words which the hon. member steted were to that effect; but no dependence aan be placed on his declara- tions. He has taken credit for suggesting the scheme, tke notice of which is on the Order Book; but if the Government were to rely on his support they would find them- selves mistakes. When the Selkirk estate wae to be bought at 2s. 6d. sterling an acre, and sume other estates at 4s. per acre, he voted against their purchase rather than be found supporting the Government. And now when a weasure it about to be introduced to grant @ loan to the tenantry, though he may think it no harm burden the country, yet I cannot admit that it would be just to base it on a principle whieh would be # tax on the tenanta of the Selkirk estate, as they have

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wanner which has resulted in no loss to the general revenu2 of the Colony. The hon. and learned uewber ter East Point stated that be thougit if the proprietors who are members of tie Government were to come under the operation of the Fitteen Years’ Purchase Bill,it would influence other pro- prietors to asent to the measure. I have already stated and | now say it again, that lam preparedto place my lands under the operation of the Bul, and L believe the other non- consenting proprietor in the Government, who is a member of the Legislative Council, is prepared to do the same. This Bill would probably not have met with the approval of some of the supporters of the Government, had it not been in contemplation to introduce a meusure which would enable the tenantry by a loan to avail themselves of its provisions. But it is purposed to make this measure general in its bature—not to confine its ope- ration to the estates of consenting proprietors, but to assist tenants throughout the Island who cua wirange for the purchase of their farms. The Government is willing to render assistance to the tepantry, therefure L am sorry to hear ef the combination which has been formed by sume misguided people

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si0n, |

I believe there will be £10,000 sunk to!

procured the freehold of their farme in a)

Valuable Building Lots

IN CHARLOTTETOWN.

Ve be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, onthe premises, on WEDNESDAY, the 3lst

day of MAY next, at 11 o'clock, in the forenoon, yart of ‘ON LOTS Nose. 6 and 7, in the Second lundred of Town Lots in Charlottetown, the pro- erty of Jouwn Barecir and Joseru Francis SaneLLt, of London, Esquires.

This property has an extensive frontage on Dor- chester, Pownul avd Sydney Streets, and from its ; central and eligible poems is at present one of the | most desirable for building purposes in the City. |The Land to be submitted to competition has been | subdivided into BUILDING LOTS. | [er Terms or Sace—A deposit of 25 per cent. | to be paid down on the day of Sale, and the balance

to be secured by Mortgage of the premises, payable by four annual instalments, or one half in two years and the residue in fuur years from the day of sale, (at the optiomof the purchaser,) with interest. For particulars as to title, am CG of Plan of | the Property, apply tothe Hon. Joun Loncwortn, | Attorney for the owners | WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. Ch’town, 17th April, 1865.

uable Freehold Property FOR SALE,

By Private Contract, N DONALDSTON ESTATE, LOT

No. 35, containing about

Valuabl

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EXCELLENT LAND,

Bounded on the East by Bedford Bay, on the West by Winter River, and abutting on the Corran Ban Bridge. A large portion of the land is cleared and in a good state of cultivation; remainder covered chiefly with tencing timber. There are on the Premises a good DWELLING HOUSE, 31 ft « 38ft; a BARN 40ft « S50ft and 20 ft Post, with CELLAR; a sood WELL of WATER, together with several Ponds and Springs; a good supply of Swamp Mud, together with Muscle Mad and other Manures, both in the Bay and the River.

It will be sold in LOTS to suit intending puareha- sers, and a portion of itis weli adapted for a country Store, a Lime Kiln, or a Fishing Establishment.

Terms Liberal. Possession instant. Apply to the Propnetor in Charlottetown.

JOHN A. MCDONELL. March 27th, 1865. tf

FOR SALE.

"PuE undersigned offers for sale his FIVE TOWN WATER LOTS, near Prince-street Ferry Wharf, in such portions as may be agreed upou. Also, FIVE BULLDING LOTS in the ‘Town. MAJOR BEETE. Charlottetown, April 3, 1865. isl p 6in