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Colonial Legislature.

Tuurspay, March 29.

: COURT OF ESCHEAT. (Continned from Kzaminer of April 23.) Hon. Mr. Waugeuan.—Are these petitions from your own con- stitaency ?

Mr. Lainp, whether these ate orare not, I can tell the Eon. people, and the rest of the despatches have been to renew Country, for the prosp

Member I would net take advantage of the lee side of the bush as/ he did. (Roars of Laughter )

Hon. Mr. Moonty.—I agree, Mr. Chairman, with the Hon. Mem-| Sovereign to pass an unjust Law. Therefore a clause to| we have never known, und such ae I hope we never ma ber Mr Laird, thet when responsible Government was granted, et- | investigate the titles had to be inserted in the Purchase Bil!,/ know. [do not intend to oceupy more of the time of the

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|Lord Glenelg he said it would be hard to toke the len? from clared bad, all claims, under them must fall with them. | (loud cheers). When was the time when our Senate waa 'persons who had held it so long. [ pointe! out the indulgence Consider for one moment the confusion which would en-| not inspired by her orators?) When was our literature not

‘of 1816, to show that the Tenantry o) it to

» pettiod in sure from such a state of affairs. Sorry as I am to differ

\freehold at ten years after the indulgenco was given. He, with some Hon. Members with whom T generally act, it is

appearance, but it could not be acted upon; consequently,

and uphold the deception. But although Minsters deceive the people, they must not deceive the Queen, or advise the

evaded the question, until it was repeatedly pressed upon right that | should plainly and candidly give utterance to : amet: : his attention, when he said they could not act upon it.| my opinions, and not ‘keep the word of promise to the ear | not know that the brightest page of British history is only Now, there is an indulgence sent to the colony—a Minister's and break it to the hope.” How much soever I may be | the record of Irish valor!—(hear, hear, hear, and cheers.) dispatch to change the conditions of the grants to all! twitted by Members as to my being anxious to o'»txin office,| And in these days he must be a bold and bad man indeed,

I can truly say, that I never have, and, I trust, scver shal’,

escheat would bring upon the country mischiefa such as|

pectations were forined that in all watiers the people were to have | and to show with what care the Sovereign is advised and | louse, as my object in addressing it was merely to let the

the control of their own affsirs, and [ have always thought that the | extension of the franchise gave the people power to bring down the | highest from their proad position, and that a seat in thia house was the greatest honor that could be conferred ou any man, It is for the people wo say whether any Hoa. Member has been unfaithful to his irust cr not, and the argument drawn by the Hon. Member, Me. Montgomery, from the hand bill he has spoken of, comes with a bad greece from him. ‘Lf can answer for myself, that I never gave any pledge to my Constituents, except the general one that if elected, | would do the best’ I coald for their interests. Batithe reason for the attacks that have been made upon the Government this evening, itas cleat enough, proceed from the disappointed expectations of certain gevtlemen, whe have been kept out of office longer thau they expected, and we all know that hope long deferred becometh sour. Now, forsooth, they argae that Members are in a pretty fix. That they cannot be fuittfal to their constituents, and all because soma han@bill which nobody owas appeared before the last election. | Now, Mr. Chairman, let us take a retrospective glance at some of | those to whem these allusions have reference, and [ will begin with the Hon. Col. Secretary. Herepudiated the idea of escheat | in 1848, avd from that time to the present [ declare LU have neVer | heatd bits express an opinion in favour of it, but he has always | advoexted the policy of turning leasenolders inte freeholders, on the tindinies of the Laad Purchase Bill. ‘Take the Hon. Member, Mir. Whelan, | have known him long, and have been a subscriber t@ his paper, and I newer knew him ia coaversation or in his journal *eupport escheat. The Hon. Col. Treasurer in 1847 stated that he would support the interests of the tenantry as far as fixing the amount of reut they were to pay aa sterling money and securing to them long leases, but that he would never go fer escheat. | know that the tlon, Member, Mr. Wightman, never was an estheator; and not to mention others, { will only name the Hon, Mr. Speaker, whe was always opposed to escheat. Now, Mr. Chairman, when such men as those, whose opinions on this subject, are well known, ‘ove been frou: time to time reterned to this House, why harp yot their haviog held eut false hopes tv the people? Ly the by, é ia the Hea Member for Belfast, Mr. Douse, he, I believe, : get in in spite of the electors. (Laughter.) And [ must sot wot Me. Yeo, and the Hon. Members for Charlottetown New, es uot the f ct of their having seats here prove that this agitation «useless? I would be willing to go for escheat, if I thoug tt i Ll be @bteined, but Lam satisfied that it cannot be. The Hon, leaber, Me. Cooper, has charged the Government with having pitted to investigate the titles to the Morre'l Estate before they purchased it { cantell hun thatthe fon. Attoraey General wos six days in my office, inepecting the titles, and { said to myself that I vould not care about being the Attorney General if Me. Pope had

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mach luad te sell. It is true that the Ilon. Member, Mr. at gomery, comes out as an eacheator, but he knows that no good will result from ogitatiog the question. fF am notin the babtt of acting

in that manner. Lam ready and willing to resign the office [ hold, and vacate my seat ta this House, whenever my constituents cali

upoa me to do se, and go buck to Flinty Glen and follow the Funneces-ary to advert to them in the foregoing abstract.”

plengh. Thank God, P have never been upbraided by my consti- tuents fora single vote I have ever given since I became a Member of this Elouse, and L am prepared to answer for my vote on this occasion, and if they censure me for it, it will be the firet for which I have been blamed. | recollect, Mr. Chairman, when Responsi- ble Government was being intru@uced, the Hon. Member for Charlottetown, ton. Me. Longworth, stated that there ought to be a distinct understanding that the land question was to be considered na seitied then and forever. Hlis collvague, the Hon. Mr. Palmer, can not vote for escheat, he is eo very consistent. But the Hon. Members, Mr Longworth and Mr, Montgomery. though they come out as escheators to night, ceuld and did impose 2 tax on the poor tenantry, of «ix pence on every 100 acres, to bay Sir Donald Camp- bell with £500, while the rich nien of Charlottetown, Princetown, and Georgetown, were exempted from the tax. I shall not Mr. Chairman, at this late hour, detain the Committee any longer, but before [ sit down I must wish the Hou. Member, Mr. Cooper, much joy of his new allies and supporters. ;

‘lon. Me. LonGwoatn, a not at all surprised, Mr. Chairman, at the tenor of the remarks which we have just heard. Iknew, be- fore this debate commenced, that we should find Members of the Go. verument and their supporters. scratching each other— (Laughter). I do not think that two years ago the Ilon. Member who has just eat down would have opposed the establishment of a Court of "Excheat—but now times are changed with him; he is bouad hand and foot to the Government. It is no longer Robert Mooney but £200 a year that votes,—we have had an abundance of old des- patches read to night, and the Hon Member Mr. Whelan, has taken 43 authority to coutrol our action to night, one nearly 20 years old. Ile may find it convenient to consider that cenclisive on us now, bat if the totrodaction of Responsible Government were the ques- tion, | deabt whether so antiquated a docament would have equal weight wut him. [ deny, Me. Chairman, that Lord Grey gave give us Responsible Government; it was obtained by the Act of thia flouse, in settling the civil list Bill—That Hon. Member saya that [T never previously supported a Court of Escheat,—! defy hin to shew where I ever opposed it—as I have said before, it was never asked for. Several yeirs since a Bill passed, regulating the proceedings of a Court Escheat, and I cannot see the alleged Injustice in asking and obtaining such an institution, which the other Colouies have long had. Why then should not the Island have one aleu: As to the reanlutions stated to have been carried at Morell, T dy not ce@ What they have to do with this question, bat when the Hon. Member T2°s8 1 his place and states that they were passed by a,maj rity, j av inclined to doubt his assertion. It is tree | speak from hearsay, Dat of course it suited the purpose of the Hon. Member to arrange about them with the Chairman when he got hiv tito his Sleigh, aud then tw represent them as the opinions of the matory. :

ton. Cot. Secrerary,—Mr, Chairman, I am surprised that the tion. Member will persist in the assertion that he never voted against Escheat, when his name is recorded in the journals on the division which I read before and which I will read again.

‘The tou. Col. Seeretary read the division alluded to.

Twill just remark on the statement made by the Hon. Member, Mr. Metutosh, that it wou'd take £400,090 to settle the people as! Freeholders. Why Sir, ifthe Lands were escbeated, the people | would still have to pay for them, and the Landa which were. excherted some years ago. were not sold to purchasers 2! 8 lower priee than that at which the Moreli Estate is eifered. About one third of the Island i¢ now free, and it wil not cost more than £250,009 of £260,000 to make it ali free. J) can be purchased at a reasonsble tate, as measures are in progress which will have the effect of inducing the proprietors to sell at a low price,

Mr. Coorer.—I can inform the Yonorable Member for the second district of King’s County, that I reesived by post a series of resolutions come to by bis constituents, at a pu'lie meeting upon Township 42. The resolutions are any thing but complimentary to hun, his report

the note addressed to me, [ was requested to hand

‘s sie logs for publication, but as [had not been in| ‘ounieation with the publisher of the Islander, I ad-, viet with my colleague as to the propriety of sending, thm to an opposition joarnal. We had not decided when tyoo. the men, who had been at the meeting and agreed & ‘te resolutions, came into Town, and the resolutions w ve given up to them to be published where they pleased. ibe Members of the Government exult greatly in the Minis- ter’s dispatches, as if they were the laws of the land. ‘Tse

dispatches were sent he i le, but itis. me that eae kfeenoh. Lnoe shee dae | deadeiens *eeumnude <i

time that they were better informed. I own that | was deceived with the indulgence of 1816, until I went to

saved from committing wrong,I shall read the proceedings of giving the Royal assent to the Purchage Bill. ** At the Court at Windsor, * 2ith day of October, 1853. PRESENT: “The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty ; ** is Royal Highness Prince Albert;

‘“Lord President, Earl of Clarendon,

Lerd Steward, Lord John Russell,

Duke of Newcastle, Sir James (Graham, Bt.,

Duke of Wellington, Mr. Chancellor of the Ex-

Marquis of Abercorn, chequer.

“ Wauereas the Lieutenant Governor of Her Majesty's Taland of Prince Edwaid, with the Council and Assembly of the said Island, | did, in the month of April last, pass three Acts, which have been transmitted, entitled as follows, viz: —

} public know my opiniou on the subject of Escheat.

On the Hon. Mr. Wautan’s resolution being reported, Mr. Cooper moved his in amendment, which was lost on the following division :

Ayzs.—Hon. Mr. Montgomery, Messrs. M‘Intosh, Cooper | and Laird,—4.

Nays.—Hon. Col. Secretary, Hon. Col. Treasurer, Hons. Messrs. Wightman, Lord, Palmer, Mooney, Longworth | and Whelan. Messrs. Perry, Haviland, Muirhead, Clarke, Haviland, M‘Donald, Dingwell, Munro.

lion. Mr. Longworth’s motion was then put and lost on

the same division with the exception that be voted with the ayes.

* No. 888.—An Act for the Purchase of Lands on behalfot the | Government of Prince Edward Island, and to regalate the sa!e and | management thereof, and for other purposes therein menticued |

** And whereas the said Acis have been referred to the Committee ofthe Lords of Her Majosty’s most Honorable Privy Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to ‘l'rade and Foreign Plantations, and the said Committee have reported as their opinion to lHler Majesty’s special confirmation, Her Majesty was thereupon this day pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to declare her spectal confirmation of the said Act; and the sume is hereby specially confirmed, ratified and finally enacted accordingly : whereof the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being, of Her Majesty's Island of Prince Edward, and all other persons whom it “— concern, are to take notice, wud govern themselves according - y-

“WM. L. BATHURST.”

Such is the guarded and solemn course adupted for giving the Royal assent to a Law, and beforeany land can be purchased under that Act the fifth section requires. —

** the Commissioner of public lands shal! investigate or cause to be investigated the title to such lands, and he shal) wike «@ report of the result of such examination and iavestigation to the Govein- ment.’’

Now I shall read the report of what has been called an investigation of the titles ofthe Worrel Estates:

‘The original grants of the Townships cootain the reserva- tions (except 66) of Fishery Reserves, (the soil in the Crown) but a good deal of the land fronting on the reserves, is in the hands of Freeholders.

* "The vendor has agreed allow 600 acres to the Government, asthe amount of Fishery Reserves estimated to exist in front of the lands tendered.

** The conditions of settlement in all the grants are the usual con- ditions, and being known to the Governmeni, | have deemed it

According to this report there appears to have been an investigation of the tranfers from one party to another, but no investigation of the titles ; and to purchase land without an investigation of the titles is illegal ; therefore, instead of purchasing the Worrel Estate according to the Act, the Government purchase forfeited land, and shelter themselves with Ministers’ despatches, and by what one man said and what another party did yearsago. Although I have asked for a Court and a trial of the proprietors titles, | have never said the land should be Escheated. without any compensation. [ never was opposedto an equitable adjustment between Landlord and Tenant. If the Worrel Estate had been for- feited on a trial of titles, and if it had been ehown that Worrel had an equitable caim to 3s an acre, there is no ground to show that a forestaller was entitled to 3s an acre

: q . a . . se teteletit cae - wh more.—£13,000 for a job for which the people muse poy, | cept those nothing was missing — not a ribbon or a flower. ww. They even restored her withered boqnet, in which successive

because the titles were not investigated aceording to Therefore I say the titles of the land must be investipated by a Court and Jury, and the Government muet have tie Escheat in the one hand, and tie compensatioa in the other, before they can make a purchase of the land that will satify the people, and settle the Tenantry. If the people had been offered the land at from 3s to Is 6d an acre, according to quality and situation, as they expected from the purchase bill, it would not have been in my power (if I bad been so inc.ined) to get up an agitation. [ Here] the flon. Mr. Lord spoke of the arrears of quit rent. 1 am thankful the Hon. Member has put mein wind of the large amount of arrears of Quit rent due to this colony, and | ask the members of the Government how much they deducted from the price of the Worrel Estate for the large amount of Quit rent due from those Estates.

After a few unimportant remarks the Committee divided on the amendment proposed by the Hon. Mr. Whelan, as follows :—

Ayes—Ifon. Col. Secretary, Hon. Col. Treasurer, Hons. Messrs. Palmer, Whelan, Lord, Mooney, Wightman, the Speaker, Messrs. Dingwell, McDonald, Muirhead, Clark, Perry and Munro.—l4.

Nays—Messrs. Cooper, M‘Intosh, Laird, Hons. Messrs. Longworth and Montgomery.—9.

After the Speaker had resumed the Chair, Mr. Haviland, who had occupied the Chair of the Committee, rose in his plate and addressed the House to the following effect :—

Mr Speaker, having occupied the chair of the Committee, now fur seven hours, and listened tu no less than fifty speeches, I feel it my duty to express my opinion on the question, as it is one on which I should not like to give a silent vote,—more especially as I have been twitted by Members of the Government with having changed my opinions with reference to Escheat, and it has been insinua- ted that I have become an Escheator, influenced by tre prospect of obtaining the seals of office. This idea appears to have had its origin in the support 1 gave the Hon. Mera- ber Mr. Cooper, the other day, un his motion, for the con- sideration of the petitions being taken up by the House in Committee on the state of the Colony. I supported the mo- tion for that Committee, as being a more solemn and important tribunal, and therefore more appropriate to the

devision of such a question as. the present. But dir,.

in doing so, I did not change my opiniors on the

erself on the subject, she replied, “I have not been so long

The Hon. Mr. Waexan’s resolution then passed, the Hons. Messrs Montgomery and Longworth, and Messrs. Laird M‘Intosh, and Mr. Cooper voting ugainstit.

Gleanings from late Papers.

TH RUSSIAN SECRELr POLICE.

The secret police of Russia is apparently organized to de- tect plots against the sovereign, but throu zh itsagency a most terrific system of espionage is estab.ished in all circles. A sub-delegate of the grand master, without any other mark than the livery of the secret pelive, if he presents himself on the darkest night before a fortress of the frontier, or the place, governor or noble, must be admitted — the nuptial chamber or the bed of death are not exempt from his visits. He can arrest any one without assigning the least reason. The family and friends of the delinquent are obliged to keep strict silence on the subject, and when he returns, if he does return, they say, “ he has beer absent on business in the country.” Ofien he is himself ignorant of the cause of his banishment, us the following case will illustrate :—A lady, still living— was stepping out of her carriage in her ball dress when she was arrested; her destination was Siberia. When she ar- rived there, she was lodged in a hut which contained two separate roums each leading to a court some feet square, sur- rounded by a wall which admitted only the light from the sky. A sentinel stood always on guard without; her jailor laid down her food without speaking. When she had been two ycars thus immured, the court door opened, and a second prisoner was thrustin. He was a noble looking Pole, who had long inhabited a neighbouring cell, and whom they dis- placed to make room for another. In this chamber, or rather den, she remaine] twelve years with her unhappy companion, One morning her door was opened, and a voice called her number, which was the usual mode of accosting her on the few occasions when she was spoken to.. She went out; the door was shat before she could take leave of her companion. She was led to a vessel which was in readiness, made again a pilgrimage of many months, and one night found herself at 5t. Petersburg in tae beaureau of the grand master of police. From a little closet was now taken the bail dress of which the functionaries had dismantled her on the nigat of her exile. The ornaments were gone, but ex-

generations of spiders had lived and died. She was then set at liberty ; but never learned the cause of ber punishment or er pardon, When asked if she had not sought to enlighten

in Siberia without having learned discretion.” “ And what said they to your appearance?” “ Nothing.”

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AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. Dusty, March 28, 1855.

The rew Irish governtnent bids fair for popularity, —that is with those who really constitute the Lrish public.—and who really desire the prosperity of Ireland. But already are! marshalled against it the extreme factions. At the 72nd; Anniversary of “ The Benevolent Society of St. Patrick,” | held in London on the 17th, the Earl of Ezlinton, who pre- sided, and who was Lord Lieutenant uuder the Derby Administration, declared that in appointing Lord Carlisle | “ Her Majesty’s Ministers had done their duty to Ireland.” At this meeting Mr. Horsman, the new Secretary, spoke as follows :—

“ During thelong period of twenty years for which I have now enjoyed a seat in Parliament, 1 have seen many changes occur with respect to Ireland. At the outset of my public life I remember that Ireland was a country disturbed by political agitation, and | now see, from one end of that Island to the other, that country remarkable for its tranquility and peace—(cheers.) At the time I have mentioned | remember that Ireland was torn by religious dissensions ; now religious war is at an end, and we see nothing like religious contentions in the country. Formerly the population of Ireland was iniserable and poor, and starving; but latterly we have seen the population well emp/oyed and the miseries which resu'ted from the former redundancy of its population altogether dis- appear (hear.) Bat the change which I think has been the greatest and most important of all is that which public opinion has brought about in Ireland, where you find that the minis- ters of nugland, to whatever party they may belong, acknowledge this great responsibility, that in dealing with a

subject. They are the same I bave always mainwuined, and I fear not to express them. Escheat has never been

tho speeches on both sides, and nothing that | have leard to-night has induced me te alter my previously conceived opinions. I haye always thought, that the time had gone by in which it was desirable to establish « Court of Escheat, and I believe such Court, if established and is operation to- morrow, would be a perfect Pandora’s box to the Island. Suppose, Sir, that it was established, and the originai ts should be pronounced invalid, and ine lands couse- quently forfeited, whom would such decision principally affect? Not the original proprietors, of whoim perhaps there are not three at premans in existence. But- small frecholders wi.o have honestly

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time, money Bogiead om the proseat questiva. La mz intervien mith] would be the sudenear. For if whe original titles were de-

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, ‘of a viceroy to act upon the principle which guided the Kar! - ‘mooted since I haye had a seat in this House til! to-night, o: Derby, and which has been followed by Lord Palmerston, | of che proceedings of the meeting at the Head of St. Peter's ' and I have listened with all the attention I could appiy to, that of selecting a nobleman for the office not merely on account

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generous but sensitive people it is their duty in the selection

»of his high position, and of his great character and abilities, ‘but one who, combining firmness with moderation, can show

‘enriched by her poets, and when were our armies not led to | victory by her noble generals ?—(great cheering.) Who does

'who, going to Ireland us its governor and viceroy, and rea

it was for no other purpose but to deceive and defraud the’ sacrifice what I honestly believe to be for the good of the! membering its history, its adversity, and its calamities, does

. : S “oO ar | . . Be pd nd gat ange ee — a ne trace them to their real cause, and who, knowing how pre) page ele sete Cla ag Pi pkg hearst. 5! political turbulence has retarded its advancement, and bow

religious bitterness has prevented its prosperity, does not feel that in these days a great opportunity is open to him, and that his first duty is to devote every energy, every effort, every thought and every hope to promoting the advancement of the nation whose resources are at present too imperfectly developed, and whose character has been too frequently mis- understoud ?—(loud cheers.) Whatever may be the party differences which exist between public men—and differences there always must be—still, in this one point at least they will agree, that at least as regards Ireland, their first duty is, laying aside party differences, to do all that in them lies to make that country one of prosperity, tranquility and peace— (cheers).”

There is litte doubt but tne fair and impartial administra. tion, which the Eaglish government intend, and the Irish government mean to carry cat, will meet the cordial support of the great body of the Lrish people, Roman Cutholic aud Protestant clergy and laity.

LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. New Yor, April 15.

The steamship Northern Light arrived at this port this afternoon.bringing dates from San Francisco up to the 24th ult., about*50.cabin passengers, and $170,000 in specie.

The Niearagua steamship company have discovered a very valuable coal mine about 26 miles from San Juau Del Norte, and witain about one mile of the coast.

The rains have ceased, and the weather had become un- usually hot for the season of the year. The miners were generally doing well, though owing to the great scarcity of coin with which to purchase the dust, little gold was com- ing forward.

The Kern River has disappvuinted expectations, and many wero returning disgusted and discouraged.

A large invoice of’ cigars, worth $80,000, which has beer smugzled across the Isthmus, were receutly seized at San Francisco,

A prohibitory liquor law would, it was confidently expect- ed, pass the Legislature during the present session.

A lump of gold weighing 187 ounces, and worth $3366, was receutly found by a miner in Triuity county.

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Hostrze Arrirrope or tue Amenican GOVERNMENT TO- warps Cusa.—President Pierce appears determined to bring about a rupture with the United States and Spain, if we may ercdit ihe leading journals. The ostensible cause is the stop- page of American vessels approaching Cuba, for the purpose of ascertaining their real character, and thus defeat the de- signs of the fillibustering party in the Union, whose attempts to revolutionize the island have been so open and unceasing, The president considers the examining of American vessels in the same jight as that of the search, and is determined to prevent it, ifhe can. For this purpose, he has sent out Com. McCauley with a force to capture the Spanish war steamer guarding the Cuba coast. The New York Commercial Advertiser therefore concludes that it is tolerably certain the President is determined to involve the country in a war with Spain. The editor justifies the course pursued by the Span- ish authorities, and considers it just what any power deserving to be recognized asa sovereign nation would do ina like con- dition of things. It is not exercising the right of search, which we all know is a very different thing ; but simply ex ercising a police right, to prevent a piratical ves-el landing armed men upon the coast, under color of a friendly flog. When at amity with a nation, whatever its form of govern- memt, we ought to be prompt and generous in submitting to half an hour’s halt, ina vessel’s voyage, to enable the nution to protect herself against piratical invaders.

So great is the feeling occasioned by this high-handed act vf the President, that business has becn sensibly affected by it, and stocks were tumbling down at the prospect of a Span- ish war. The papers generally, however, argue that Frank- iin Pierce is not so foolish to go to war without any adequate

‘iaeans to carry it on. In the first place, he has no provoca-

tion, and if he bad, he should take care to provide an army and navy befure commencing hostilities. But he has dono neither ; and it is on this account that the people do not be- lieve there will be hostilities. The Boston Atlas eoncludes an article on this subject as follows :—

“The country will not permit a war, dcelared without cause, and carried on, as such a war would be, without Success or ability. The safety of the nation is in the imbecility of the Cabinet. If it invokes the devil of war, it will be the first to run from the demon of its own calling. If its blun- ders create the necessity for new diplomacy, it will take re- fuge, with perfect joy, in the paper contests of protocols, The big talk of the Union cannot build frigates or enrol armies, A Secretary of War without any troops is a harm- jess creature,and so is a President without any brains,”—- New

Brunswicker.

The very high price of provisions in this and all other markets, and the risk of a general famine, if the causes which have produced the present scarcity are allowed to contioue to operate, well deserve the serious consideration of all thinking men. The cause of the searcity and dearness of the articles usually produced in this Province, such as oats, potatoes, butcher’s meat, butter, &c., is, undoubtedly, that farmers have neglected their forms, and spent their time and energies. in lumbering and trading, and their sons, and those who betore did the farm labour, have gone to the towns to become shop- keepers, shipbuilders or milimen. '

To such an extent has this been the case, that during the last two years, scarcely a bushel of oats, a carease of beef or

‘that while he is a party man, and acknowledges party ‘ties,

a firkin of butter, of the produce of the Province, bas been to

can at the same time repudiate its ascerbities and bitterness) he had, while ships and deals are now unsaleable in the

'— (cheers) —a man who, while combining firmness with

English markets.

moderation, possesses‘ at the sume time those conciliatory | We suppose that some such preference for trading and

qualities which, while they coufirm the uttachmentof friends,

will not deprive him of the respect and admiration of political foes— (renewed cheers.) Who, as un Englishman, is so 1g- norant a8-not ‘to know that in the worst, the poorest, and the most troubled times of Lreland, she eontributed largely to the

| greatness, to the horgar, and w the renown of England?—

manufacturing to farmers in other countries has contributed, more or less, to produce a similar state of things. Be that as it may, we observe that in Europe it is considered that the crops of last year will all be consumed by the time of next -barvest, and in the United States there will certain) iz be no ‘surplus this summer for export. Already in the large sities

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