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ret Chet Sart! slakoe ca Wael ib Wed vaseed by the other branch | brought tous. fo will not travel ever a!l the arguments which waggons Over by hand, ‘Thus the Commission were neurly

of the Leyi- “” ur

Chauve in @ V wieieTial pom men occupy muen fine tone of thie Llouse. Itt necessity whch | enierrained then stull actuate me. | does net props: to ¢honge die prine:ples of the eivetive fran- chi-e ; of seleyuards to oreveut fraud, Rieal pestis lave Leen practise dat eler trons. ad your flowers

A’ present e aware, the elective tranche extends to al peraone lable co p mena ate ure labor, and ever siuce that Act came inte operation great frauds have been practised by pers Os volley omore than once; aud yrest temptations have been Geld oG! (8 persons te count pe jury. ‘The present law Is rather woceriaty as to the res deuce which would eatiile per- rous to vote Wo cial the priviue re on account of having per: formed stature jator, and thatis prepare! tt: be remedied iu euch « way 8 lo give no cause te complam =| will nottroube the House at preseut with ouv furtoer remorks; bataf | hear any o jecb ous woos a ihe Bul L will tawe the iiverty of re- p ving.

Hn. C 1, SW A BEY—His Honor the Leader of the Govern- wens bes pfermes us that the Bill conteros the seme prvisions asthe one which wae before us last s ssn, and therefore he cannot expect me to supporé un. L cannot, however, in justice to myself give & 3 ent vote, because it Contains some provisio 6 which [ must oppo-e. fn the fiest place I think this Bill will have at odency to abridge constituencies very much ; some will way that i caeaot do so because there is the sume qual:ti- ca.iou, bul whea you coue to consider the details you wil! findgteat 1t does, sod on that ground | will oppes2 the Bill. If it was c lcuiated to correct any reasonable amoun' of abuse | would support it; but | am apprehensive that there will be more pers ns sworn than there were be'ore ; and i think it wil! b- impussible for the poillny to be got through in one day, be ause certificates will be disputed, and Overseers will be called into prove them and it appea sto me that the matter will be end ese. for a certificate; | think it was quite sufe enough as it was be- fore. § was oppes d to the Bill last year, because | thought it would dim nish the ceustitueacn 3, and I au of the same opinion eull

H.o. the PRESIDENT—Whoer this B.1 was before this I] use las sessic yn the; rineciple of it wes fully admitted ; there- fore it cannot be ©) considered as it would be under other cirrcumiances, But your Lloy ors wil remember that after the principle wos adwitt d this House, by a majority of 8 to 3, decided thar it should be published, and further discussion de- layed! till thiv session. | obj ¢ ed to some of the detuls of the Bill 'a b year; the privcipal one was that it was goimy to dis- flanchive a cetain people, which should not be done without their sanction; anc asthe Bill has been published, and tuere has not been a sinyle penton agaist it, my objection i re- moved. If were gomg to wke away a pewilege f om them they should have ptuioned against it; but as they have nob dune so we are bond to cong der then sarisfied.

Hn. Mr. RAMSAY—Did they not petition against it last

Yrs

Ho. the PRESIDEN T'—Yes, but not this year. | have sili some obj-ctions to the deta:is of the Bill; bat they will be dcussed when the House is in Committee. The principal objection is, that an elector is required to produce a certificate from the Road Overseer. Many of the Ove veers can n-ither

| do wot see that there is any great necessity |

las! #eone, CO lala g oe few provision of might be acduced, but will inerely say thet no man wholly une | ubothilated thro’ bad bridges.

than Princetown. It may De very true that Princetown cou- tains moe tahablauwe; buttaat Lkely to comione to do se?

jvanitural position, beng so edjscent co the tevminus «f th } great railway at Shed ac, which makes tt a plac: of ba-iness and twill keop tse. Che hoe now eg avlished between Sb. John end Shed oe will bkely be beld tn perpetuiiy, avd os long ait is, Saawnerride will increase in import noe. ft will be the chie? trown of the Coun y, Whether Princetowa exests or wot; onl tis an acknowledged priverple that the convenience of tae few should give way to that or be many. It has been ssid thar Princetown has p-ifa higher r.te ef texation; but if tiey have they have had a privi ese which was a com eos - ten for that as long as they held i; and as is vothing more then an avriculiaral dis met, | have wo d sabe that if the inte- bttants apply to tie Legislature they will get t.euw taxes re- duced ; for their clan would be unons«werabie, and if teat was dewe their mowhs would be supped. Lo will support tue meague unless | s@2 sume sifunger objectioas by it than | do at p erent,

Ilo. MW. RAMSAY—If t e Government had passed this Bill when they removed the Coor House and Jal, Princetown would not have Srimnch to complain of; bat if cts passed now, after thew have pad sucha bigh price tor ther land, 1 think they well have just cause to complain.

Hon, De. JONSON —If Pine town -s destined to go ahead thes Bib will not hinder i

_the place, but merely t+ change the representaton. Members are seut to Parliament to represeat people, net j-lices, ard there

are no people in Princetown to represent, and it the people in|

the Royal’ huve pad a higher rats of taxwicn they have had COr C8 po, ding prev le g 8.

Hon. Mr. SIMPSON—The censna s' o vs that from 1848 0 _1855 the popula iva of Princetown dee ered 42 and +s the land is all under cult-vation, and ot is likely that it wil be throwa twto larger farws, -t will decrease sil! more. Many places are far in advance of Princetown, and are therefore beter entiied to town representation. Whea the census was tuken om 1855, Lot 1¥ cont ined 1060 inhabitangs more than

Princetown and Royalty, and Sua mers.d2 hes grown yp since |

then,

Hor. Col. SWABEY—T would be very sorry tp disfranchise any district, and if this Bo L had been intended tu give a repre- atin to Sanmer ide without taking ut from Princetown | would be better s.tished ; bur f woul! like to know why the p ople of Princetown have not pet toned agaimst i; | de not think they are ex reve y @ixXivus tu retain their privilege or hev would bare doe so.

iles. Me. HUPCHINSON—f decided'y di-ap rove of Prnesiewn bemg disiranchised ; if that place was allowed to retain one Member the Bill wou d nat be sv objsecuionsble: but to deyr ve them of bo h and give thew 'o Summers.de, s quite

unfair. | The qnestion of concnirence was then pat on the clause, and it passed m the affirmarive. | House res ined. Message froan the House of Assembly by Mr. Howatt, with

pa Bill to a.ter and awend the Act io meorporate the Crapaud |

read nt write, being men of straw; and vy ong Overseer re-, Dredging Machine Company.

fusing 20 ceriticat:s the Gevernmen$ might be up-et ; there- fore | think it is a improper authority to give to any Overseor.

Hen. Mr. AND’ RSON—I think the certificates would be the mesas of get'ing more woik dene on the roads.

Hen. Dr. JOUNSON—1 cannot see any impropriety isi the Bill; it does net Iwit thove who are entitled to vote; st only requires the un to certify that they are entitled. prt il-ges he has duties to perform ; and if he degrS to vote, ho ow ol coms with certificate im hand prepared tw prove his vote.

If a man has |

Acjourned for ove hour.

ILIOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. ; Fatpay Arrennoox, March 15, ROAD SERVICE. Hor, Mr. TAV{ILAND, by comeriad of His Excellency, presented to the Hoase the Kstimates of the expenditure of

} a pove of the Bill,»ecauss | think it will lave a tendency to (

pr mote honesty. Hon, M-. GARDINER—TF an Overseer

: pint cann -t write how is he going to make bigoretir,, > “Tihmk there cannot bea betrer

ProvisiGa’E ian such a cer iticate, or % beites wey to sutisfy the

neturning Offi. e¢ that a mon ts entitled io vote. Hon. Mr. SIMPSON — 1 1s an acknowledged princip'e that

the Government fur the eurrent year. Tue House then re- solved itseif into a Committeo of Supply—Mr. MeNeiil ia the Chair. moved tha following resolution :

Resolved, That the sum of £6,000 be granted for the ser- vice of roads, bridges und wharfs, for the present year, in-

wo person shall yote who has not performed statute jabour or cluding all specia! grants, and that the same be approprisied

paid commutation money; this Biil is on that principle, and | du not see any reason why it wjil nor work well. There ere tvo reasuns why i will support that clause. As parties will have to perform t.cir statute labour before they can get trerr certificates, | timnk inore work wili be performed on the roads ¢ sud as they will have to produce t er cer iticates, there will be fess chance for then to practise fr.ad. Lis H nor the Pres.- d-nt gays Bat many of the Oyer-eers caunct write; but the

most intelligent mea jn the districts are generally chosen for Do.

Overseers, aud [do not think that there any necessity now to appoint men who cannat write; besiles, the Bull provides that they sh-!l Se furnished with printed forms.

Ho . the PRESIDENT--I do not object to the certificates, |

but tu the perroug whe are te grant thew. the author tv io the Road Commissioners it would not be 80 objectionable; but \o give it w the Overseers is tu me an ebeurdiry.

tion. Mr, 10 PCUINSON—D: is easy enorgh to produce a certificate im town; out im the coun ry it may not be sv @isi'y done. The person who goes ta vo e should gatisfy the Return- ing Officer that he bas performed bis staute labour or paid his tax. Wheu the House isin Comattee L intend to pr pose an amend.vent to thet clause, asf thnk it is necessary, tor if a

pe-dor cannot vet hea certificate be should not be ‘deprived of

the privilege of voting. Wh regard to the disfranchisement of ?aneetown, if parties lave not come forw rl and pep tioned avkinst t.¢ Bill it werely shows that they have negiected to do se, 8nd that is ho revs u that they should be deprived of their privilege. [do nut mend w offer any factious opyositioa io the Bil.

Hon. Mr. PALWEX—T will s:y a word or two in reply to o!j eti na made by bis [oaor Col. Swabey to the principle of tee Bil tle says tiat it will abridge the privileges of the electors, | grant the tt wil abridge what they have heret - fore prac ised ae privileges, but wat their rights, that is, where they tke the primale ve vl voting two or three times where they are oly entitled tu vote once 5 and this is the only way the Hill is intended te int rere with such privilege. 1 cxnnot see auy other way te which it restricts the r priviege. Every man whe hed a wite betore may sil! vote, and itis in ended that he shawid vote. Iie Loner siys that every elector will have

to produce a certifies'e ; but that is not the case ; none will be | the roads and bridges were kept in as good a state of repair) Haviland then replie required to produce cer iticares but those whe vote on a sta ure | as during former years when thousands of pounds more were |

Sabor qualification, and of them n ne but suspicious characters ; tha being the cage it is no abridgment and no persun can com- plain. (D+. Johnson---llear.) in the-@ respects | an iappy te find that the ebjectio.s tu the principle of the Bill have dwindied down to «a very triflag affair. I quite agree with his Honor that the Bil would bs more unexceptionable if it con- tained a provision fur the regi-tration of sores; but perhaps

tere ig. a good reasen that it dees not. You coutd not have 1 | eXtravagant that the Governor and Council could not think tax No Govern-

on any principle differing mater ally from that in qperation in Hrivain; trere wou'd have to be Registering or Revi-ing Offi- cere af character and @ ucation, and you cannot expect to get thera in this Colony un'ess they are adequately paid, which | would require a larger sum of money than we cau at present | afford. But bis Hoowr will recotiect that the statute labor cer- | Ufieate is one step to cards registra‘ion.

Hon. the PRESIDENT —Yes, if there were pyoper officers to carry out.

the Over ers. affected by the partislity of the Overseers; but they are 6» bound down thyt they csunnt use any influence or partiality whieh could aff-ct the election. [) a man performs hie sia-ute jabour he can demand his certiticate as a right, and the Over- sect is liable t» a fine if he refu-es it many of them cannot write ; bul that nesd Dot prevent them

trom granting certifica’es ; because they can count money and |

they can connt the numbers on the roads. plied with printed cert ficaies. good jurywen too, whe could not wrive. 1 ant not apprehen-ive that there will be any difficalry in that respect.

The House then west into C Oumpitige Qu the sad Bill. Hon. Mr. Forgan in the Ch vir.

On the second clau-e being real—

Hon. Mr. RAMSAY rose and said—II's Honor th» Prosi. |

deut and his Honor Col, Swabey are of epimion that, s nce the | allow important public works to go down by giving such a

rohahitints of Princetown Royalty have no: petitioned agains: this Bill that they are wi'l ng to be disfrancuised; vut | can asaare your EH mors that such is pot the case. m the other end of t.e building that Princetown is ouly 4 paper town; but | would ask your Honors if you consider Privectown Royo ly a parer Royalty? Ls contains 450 or 500. eng tt acre luis, a] in» beg state of cul ivation. It contsins hore horses, more ipiab: an's and more mlependence than | Su wnerside. if you '» ke rea! and personal estate in 0 account, | aud pat them im ene sca'e ard Summers de im the other, you | will find that it will weizh down Summers de with another tuwn kke it. And when we look at the burden which the in- nab rants of Princetova Royalty have sustained, by paying £12 10s. for each lot, together wih an anuyrl tax of {taking the town lots into ace unt) »boy £} per hupdred acres, while the tewnelip lens only pay Gs, 8d., 4 appesys to me to be such au Unjust measure to deprive them of tho pr:vilege of sending » represen'atwe ty the House of Asegubly tuat | cannot syp- port Ido not deny ‘ne right of the inhabsiaute of Summer: ride to Fepresentation , but I du deny their right to naye it at the -xpenee of Prineetuwn.

llon, Mr VALMERK—I am sorry thit this clause does not tueet the approbation of tia Honor. ‘here is no doubt that soy communiry, however amall, having @ privilege would make & struggie ty rel ia it, wed of course the staaijer the community the greasver the privileve. Lean pretry well undegstand that hin Hone, beng fran the uerghhourioud of Prineetowa Rays | aity. etd bin Bh efeB's bermg bound up with those uf bs frends | tere, the Mom Gu be wataral (Or bins Wo take exeepron to that pertottie Bil, Bat natwitustandiy ail that has been wad, 1 de vot think & ere i suytlong ia bis Honor’s arguments to | Causs uso lurego ue provielwus of the Bil which aoe

It you would give |

Tt bas been siid tivat |

Thoy will be sup-| being too sma!l. I have seen many jurymen, and | ,

It has been-a d}

ito each County in the following order :— (Queen's Courty, including Charlotictown and

| Royalty, £1500 0 6)

Prince County, 1100 0 OU

' King's County, 1100 0 0

| Special grauts for Queen's County, 800 0 0

Do. Prince County, 650 0 0

Kiny’s County, 630 0 0

' Loudg opened under the Cowpensation Act, lu 0 0 ,Guntingent expenses of roads, bridges and

| wharfs, to be equally divided between tae

three Count es, 20) 0 0)

| Hon. Me, COLES ssid he thouzht the amount was no ‘sufficient ; that there was scarcely a suin sufficient yotel to \fiil up ruts in the reads. He then referred to the number of petitions befere the House, which prayed for grants fur i bridges, some of which were falling down, and remarked |that if they were allowed to go down, it would take the re

| venue of cne year to put them up again; and he considered | \it would be better to dispense with some other expenditures | that a large amount might b> appropriated to the service ol |

t

roads, bridges and wharfs. The sum proposed, wh-n divid d

tion to each, and if no more could be obtained he woul pre- | fer expending the whole amount on bridges and wharfs, as these large publie works should not be allowed to go down. Mr. Coles then asked what had been done in reference to the Maia Pust roads which last year were to have been let iby contract,

| Lon. Mr. LONGWORTTH said he agreed with the hon. |

|member who had just sat down, when he spoke of t! |priety af keeping up the public works of the Colony; but ‘they should be just betgre they were geuerous. Before put- ting their han‘s in the pyble purée they should ascertain how much mouey they bad at their disposal. ‘The sum voted |iast year for the services just mentioned was £3000, and

| granted fur these purspo-es than the sum proposed this year. , lu reference to the Main Post roads, Mr. Longworth thea ‘stated that tenders were advertised for, but that the Lieut, ; Governor and Council were expressly directed not to encer

into gny contragts ynless they considered it expedient to do

,of allowing the Statute to go into operation. ;ment having the well-being of the country at heart woud ‘have actel othei wise,

throgghout the Island last year, he heard no complaints, so} fore the C

there was good ground to resume, or farly to ass

they were kept in good repair. Cuns dering the large amount

Which was granted for Rducation—and the Ef Jucationa! grant | | Was increasing—be thought a much larger sum could not be, Hoa. Mr. PALME iL —No ovher officers will be reqnired bat! appropriated to roads and bridges.

it hes been Baid that the Goverament may be large sums were necessarily drawu from the Treasury during |

| For various purposes

the present year, Tho purchise of Proprietors’ Estates and |

ithe visit of the Priuce were two of these which might be | | noticed,

Hon. Mr. THORNTON next addressed the Committee | and complained of the amount placed at the disposal of the | Lezislature for the service of roads, bridges aud wharfs. | Ile then referred to two or three very im-| portant bridges in his District, one of which quire £150 ; aud they had commenced a very important work which it would be impossible to complete with the small sum which | would be apportioned to the District. He thought it would | be fay better to curtail expenses in other resyects—such, ‘or. example, as giving £800 for Government House—than to

)sinall sum to keep them in repair, and which was quite Ine |

adequa’e to what was required,

Mr. CONROY spoke to the same effect, and allyded to! the bridge at Cuscumpec, saying be would prefer having that | bridge fiuished before having a Steamer calling at Caseumpec, much as he desired the latter. It would be of no special | interest to himself, bat the bridge was absolutely uecessary_ for a large District. £1200 or £1300 had been already expented upon it, and tor want of £200 wore it was lying. useless from year to year.

Hon. Mr. LLEN3LEY next spoke against the inadequacy of the amount, and iu answer to what fell from the hon, member from Queen's Couuty about complaints being made in reference to the state of the roads, would say that he (Mr. Hensley) himself complained in writing about the matter ; for tho’ he had only travelled two or three times on the pub- lic rouds duridg the summer, he met with a mishap on each Occasigu on ageonut of bad bridges. One oecasion was going to Geurgetowa; when eros-tig a bridge it gave away, and bad it gone down uil the Lawyers in Caurlottetown be believ- ed would have been killed —not excepting the hon. member trom Quegu's Coyaty, (Mp. Longworth,) which would have beeu a great losy to the Island. Laughter.) On another Occasion, and shortly afterwards, Fa geing to St. Kleanor’s ia company with Mr. Thompson, while they and other im- portaut persous belonging to the Commission were Crossing a bridge, the burses fell through it, und three miles farther on they were com, elel to lake ie bowwes out and to puli the

After making a few remarks, Mr. Haviland |

among thirty or forty districts, would give but a small por-! 3 z I

: , | sum spent ou Governiwent House was nearly sufficient to have 'so; and that tend rs were received. but that they were so'

As regarded the state of the roads! make remarks upon them. He

\ - . ' . . ume, that) Bridges, and not the amount of the expenditure occasioned

that they would not say too much money was expenied for | of it. Toough nearly £3000 were spent, and though it wag

_teason wou d say that they should not have invited His Royal

On another occasion the

; and, boerefore, L hope it wil interested could res.st tre @onciusion that Lot 17 is mo el kely Chairman of the Commis-ion took a: short drive out into the The optaivns of ,to be, and more worthy of beings made the capital of the County |

country, and crossing a bridge it b.oke, he was thrown out und his legs nearly broken in consequence.

; le 1. atthe or: . 1@ as Fivien! 2 but 1 esis die those pracivies. by adopting a variety | Summerside was unknown ti'la few years ago, and it is not. ples showed that the graut lust year was not sufiiviently large. Experience has shown that) us mere nawber of inhabitants thet vives it a stimulus; but} 'Te was aware, however, that the finances of the country for

the present year would not admit of a large sum being appro- priated for the service of roads and bridges. sma!luess of the grant last year for the service of roads and bridges the Lawyers in going to Ge rgetown were nearly all i killed, and bad such a catastrophe occurred he supposed the ‘country would not have shed many tears if the hon. member from the East Point shou!d have escaped, £6 0UU was per- haps anu amount too small to grant for this service, but it was neeessary for them to adopt the tailor’s rule, to cut the gar- ment according to the cloth. According tu the Kstimates brought dowa by the Government, no Jess than £43,000 were required to meet the necessary demands of the current year, and he would defy any hon. member to make a lower estimate. A few pounds might be shaved off a few items, but it would be very trifling. Last year the revenue was ‘about £43,000, ani before the present se-sion of the Legis- lature closed probably they would dispose of the larger part of £90,000, He thought the House could not vote a large ‘sun. If bon. members on both sides would come forward

; it does net propose to distranchise | boldly and say it was necessary to increase the taxes, and |

would support the Goveroment ja raising them, then he would

Hon, Mr. THORNTON.— No!

| Hon. Mr. HAVILAND.-~The hon. member says No "| pro ession to eclebrate the auniversary of the Battle cf the |

'—he is will'eg to ran us down bill full gallop, but when it cones to tugging up hill be piefers slipping his traces and strolling off to faiten in better pas ures elsewhere. He rises in his place and would make the country believe if he had the he'm of affairs the shiy of state wou'd soon be jut before ja favoring brecze;—he would grant all that was nece-sary | for roads, brides, wharfs and everythin, else besides. More than one-third uf the revenue of the Colony was devoted to | ducation, for which amount for auch a purpose there was not a parallel in the civilized world ; and he (Mr. Haviland) was in favor of fostering education for an edueated pevple Were more easi'y governed an] knew how to cherish their

rights, abd hon, members should cunsider the liabilities and | \

resuurecs of the Colony.

liou. Mr. WIGHTMAN was ia favor of placing an addi- tional tax on land, both wiiderness aud clear. Hie would go to the extent of 10s. per hundred acres for all lands, and in his opinion that was the only tax of which the people would not comp'ain. Mr, Wightman then spoke of the public works in his Distret which needed money, and said be thought no Jess jthan £7,000 would keep up necessary cominunicatious for | abother year.

fou. Mr. YEO said he thought £6,000 was a sui quite jas large as the country could aflord. Peiitions were laid bc- | fure the House from the hon. member’s part of the country | praying to be relicved from paying reat.

lion, Mr, WIGHTMAN —The people -weght vucerfull y pay tsxes, butarcamwilling t6 pay rent.

Hon. Mir, YEO —Where wre the taxes coming from il rent is not paid? That was very uureasonable, If the sum proposed for the road service was too small, the defi leucy would have to be made up by statute labor. Anything put on to raise the revenue, such as an advalorem duty, was ~poken against ; and indeed it would be not much to projose to du so in King’s County, where it appeared there was so much smugslag. (Laaghter.) But, judging from the Cus- tom House returns, it was just as bad in Piince County. | Speaking with justice or reason, the sun voted was as large as could be wffuided, unless hon, members wished to see the country run headlong in debt. Le thought the rouds were as goud last year as they were two or three yours before. Llon, Mr. TUORNTON—No! no!

Hor, Mr. YEO—Yes, Yes! yes ! from the North Cape to the Hust Point.

Mr. OWEN said he would have boon glad to have had / £12,000 voted for the road servicer, but where it was to come froia he could ut see, The sum proposed must suffice for the preseut year. Lu the District which he had the hovor jto represeut much would be required, as they had a lorge ‘bridge to fisist. Last yeur they bad only theiy proportion out of £1700, and out of the movies apportioned wo three roads disiticts, they saved £126 for the new bridges. Tue amount this year would be sufficient to enable them to g ve £100 to cach of tietr districts, after whiea they would hiv £090 lett for special grants fur the Couty. Lie thougl.t £0.U0U was sufficient for the preeut year, aud that the roads were not ina worse condition thas they were in last year.

| Hon. Mr. THORNTON gail he had no objection to offer io the division of the mevey, but o'jected to the amount. fie then referred to the advalorem duty pat on some articles last year, and to the decrease made in the pay of Schoulma--

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jters, and said that only for the boa. wember from Tryon (Mr. Howat). who proposed £45, their salaries would have been cus down £1000, and the money taken to defray the ex- penses of the Government. Lie was opposed to taxation, and the only tax to which he would consent would be an ad- ditional one on wilderness land,

lion, Mr. COLES addressed the Committee again at some

| length, and referred to the effects produced by. incieasing

j

j and to the Gnancial state of the Colony.

| Hon. Mr. HAVILAND spoke again, and referred to the |“evideat” that Mr, Fraser did ieceive from the Government | derstanding with Russia, and the official journal has repudiated -

‘hon. member for Saint Andrew's Point (Mr. Wightman), who was always very anxious for large votes ; but who liked to abseut himself from Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. 1 to the remarks just made by Mr. Coles Mr. CONROY addressed the Committee. Relerring to | Some items in the Kstimates, he mentioned the sui expend- ed ia making preparations for the reception of the Prince of Wales, and said he considered it was most lavish, cunsider- ing the resources of the Colony, He thought, too, that the built a new oue. in his opinion the mention of iucreasiug catign would be most unpopolar in the country, lion, Co!, GRAY said that it was not the proper time just thea to take up the items in the Estimates seriatim, and understood the question be- vinmitice was the amount proposed for Roads and

by the visit of the Prince of Wales.

Hon. Mr. HAVLLAND sacd he did not imagine when he moyed the resolution in relation to Roads and Bridges, that hon. members were yoing to enter upon matters connected with the visit of the Piince of Wales. He, however, was under the impression that whatever was spent in that way, there was loyalty envuzb in hon. members to indyce them to concur, and tbat pone would say the expenditure was “ most lavish,” unless it could be shown there had been something grossly wroug in the manner in which the money was expend- ed. It was hymiliating to think that British subjects would complain, and that any oue should enleavor to make politi- cal stock out of the circumstance of a few pounds, shillings aud pence being spent in making suitable preparations jor the reception of the Leir apparent to the British Throne. He helieved the m»jority of the well-thinking people—of the boue and sinew of this country—would be weil satisfied, and

that object. Tue manner in which he was received was an aonor to this small Island aad they bad reason to be proud

# sum larger in proportion to the revenue than the £5000 ex- pended by New Bruaswick ; sti!] common scnse, or common

Highness, if they did not purpose to give bim a suitable re- ception, Surely no person expected that the Prince would have been reguled with a potato and herring. Yet because they eudeavored to eutertain him ia a wanuer which accorded with the diguity of the personage, the expenditure is called * moat lavish.” Ou his account £1,300, or £1.400 New Brunswick currency were expended on Government House in Feederiction, N. B., and £1,300 on a house in 8, Jobn, that the Prince might sleep in it one night, and £400 to bring the Volunteers to the City, that they might do him honor. Lt was quite impossible that a smaller sum cguld have been expended in this C.louy. A pity it was that some hon, members did not go outside the Bar last year, whea a sum was voted for the reception of the Prince of Wales. Adjourned till 10 o'clock tosmorrow, J D. Gorvoy, Reporter.

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have 0 ue reason to give way and to go fur increasing the yote. |

“lence tu this mater.

Correspondence,

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To rue Epiror or ruz Examiner.

| Sra—In your number of the 221 ultimo [ notice a com- ‘munication purporting to be from Mr. D. Fraser, of Belfast | Gross Roads. La this communication Mr. Ff aser admits that ihe is the person alluled to by ‘ Loyalist,” in his letter of the 25th March last, and published in the Lzaminer of the Sth April, as having received instructions fiom the Government (to procure 100 men of “the right sort” from Bellast to settle jon Lot 54, for the purpose of securing the return of Mr. | Owen at the next general election. Mr. Fraser's grounds for making this admission are, that as he is the only Cum- | missioner of a Small Debt Court in Beifast who received the loffive of J. P. from the present Goverument, he must, as a “matter of consequence, be the individual alluded to by “Loy- dalist.” But [ confess [ was not aware of the fact that Mr. Fraser is the only Commissioner of a Small Debt Court in | Belfast who received the office of J. P. from the present | Government, until enlightened on the subject by himself.

|did think that one other Commissioner of a Small Debt Court ‘iu Belfast, at least, had received the office of J. P. from the present Government, Tlowever, L am not going to quarrel ‘with Mr. Fiaser upon this pont. ‘ As the cap fits bim so |well, he may wear it” — with this additional feather, that | Mr, raser is Clerk of a Sina‘! Debt Court in Belfast as well as Commissioner. With this oap, thus decorated, and so ladmirably suited to his “manly brow,” Mr. Fraser will make

|quite a respectable appearance at the head of the Belfast Urangemen on the Lach July next, when they will walk in

| of peopie’’ of Belfast, at five shillings per acre for the best ‘of the jand. fu that “ Loyalist’? made a small e:r0r, a8 ine ‘letter which he, Dantei Fraser, read in his own shop, Ye \to be from the Governwent, it stated that they would peat best land at four siill.ngs per acre; and, perhaps, it ig is'ight error which makes hia sey that * Loyalist” BCCHRGd hig “falsely” and * deceptively,” as in his letter ia a late jhe says: ** Whatever I have seid ubout Lot 541 have done ag without any Government authoi'y for domg so,” a he could make free, it seems, with be Governmen lands y ' Lot 54, when he dared to mak» so bold as to offer i ay Bich y sacrifice, ** wi hout au hority so to ds”? But, VET INDS, he hag been ordered to make the olfer by same meuber of the jment, but not offisially—the svme es Col. Gray did befure the Royal Commi-sioners, when he appeared before them “s08 | private individual end not +6 a member of the Governmen » | It s@+me it mart be mm that wey that “Dan Fraser,” of | Cross Reoa's, got hs outhority asa Depn y Land C snasat-sionep, | Liars shou!d have good memories and make all their fo pager. When Mr. PF. donned anything at all concerm the | transiclions, ne should have carried the falsehood through the | whole of tis letter, and not make such a dav aging edu ;as the quo ation given abo e from his own ‘etier, fr tae | alluded to ab ye he did read to numbers of people—iet 4 be hig ) own production or not, Bue he surely con'd not be #0 vem | foolish as to write to himself, ond then read 1 te people fur ily purpose of shewing them the esteem in which be is held head querers. His adai-8 os seems ‘oO imply that much, but | the t ing looks too foolish for any sene man to do. 1 foreng can seurcely believe it, for I thiak Mr. Fraser Las surely taupy | o.mmoe sense than that, Ad to Lis statement, that “*he not a imas’er of an Oransze Lodge,’ it does not amount toe | when he dees not mike a clean breast of it and deny t lis an Oren_emoan altogether, as he might be exen-ed for Orangemen bolding their Lodge mins building. Bath itis a great plea-ure to see by tus letier, that he is to acknowledge being ax O:rangeman; and at is to be

| Boyne, and to “worship the wemory of the ph'egmatic | thot a great many more will follow his exampl +, and show

| Datchman.” ‘of “equivocuting insinuations to make it appear evident that 'he was the person whom be meant.” This is rather strange logic of Mr. Frasor’s. I never knew equivecation to be em- ‘ployed in making things to appear evident: I was always! tanght to believe that ‘eqaivocating insinuations” were only employed to conceal facts, and not to make them appear more evident. I think that as a reward for this strange discovery lin logic, Mr Fraser ought to receive the appointinent of Professor of Logie in the Prince ef Wa'es College; and this’ woald ba adding avother feather to his e»p. But the great and uvperdonable sin which, in Mr, Fraser's ‘opiuion, Loyalist has committed against Azs person and dig- Jnity is, that he attempted to expose the netarious intriguing schemes of the Government, aud A/s (Mr. Fraser's) readimess to beeome their tool for putting their wicked designs in prac ‘tice, without putting his real signature to his communication. | Now, I hold it to be not only the privilege but a'so the duty ‘of every good subject and lover of eveu-handed justice, ou | reeciving iufurmatiun that the powers that be are complotting egaiust the interests and privileges of a certain class of Her Majesty's subjects, with a view af prelonging their own ty-

Mr. Fraser accuses © Loyalist” of making use| shame of being coanecied with sach an ex raordinary dike

association, lv being the en'y association in America that

capab'e of in-ulung the eldest 6-1 of our beloved Queen :

the heer aoptrent tothe Br tish throne, in ali ha travels through

bohthe Unved States and the Biitieh possessions, tf My,

Fraser thinks proper to answer th.s, be shall bear again from Your's, &c.,

LOYALIST,

Belfast, May 8, 1863.

P, S.—Jost as | wes cong to enclose thie, a person cane iq who tuld me that 1). Fraser bad se: t sway the paper in which

jhis letter against me was published, to has ( lerical friend iy

Nova Scotia, to eusble hun to * graduate’? on hie, Me. F's, “ eoistolary correspondence.”? Mivut | ask him also to forward this to the same address. at hie earliest conveuience, 28 it might perhaps help to enlight-n that graduating luanary. O° OO —

To Tue Evirok or THe EXaMINeR. Sir,—In case you should f-el yourself in the least compro

ence toa lever you published fur me inthe Examiner of M

last, 1 beg leave to say, that Mr. Ings positively refused to pring the letter, as i: appeared im your piper; though he quairfied his refusal by adding, that if a ceriain pas-age—containing @ very short extract from a epeech once delivered in the A

| ranuical sway over the whole population, immediately to bring |the matter to light, in order that the parties inte.ded to be jinjured may be on their guard against such wicked designs lof the Government. Such information was received by | | Loyalist” from a very respee*able authority, and he had good reason for believing it. That the proscriptive perse- | cuting policy of the presevt Goveruimeut since the commence: | juient of their administrative career in this Colouy was quite | |s ficient to justify ihe belief, is a fact which cannot be dis- |