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mood, attempted to he palmed off upon | which it would be the duty of Government

rhe public, viz., that the majority of the | to advise Her to withhold in such a case. ; { am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Aasembly have sold the interests of the (Signed) GREY.

‘Tenantry, and dare not interfere between His Excellency

them and their Landlords.

Sir Alex. Bannerman, Knight. tlere ig the Despatch referred to:—

Downine Street, 12th February, 185].

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Sia; On your proceeding to assume the Go- vernment of Prince Edward !siand, I am

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THE TENANT LEAGUE.

We publish on another page, by particu - lar request, the Report of the Comunittee of the Tenant League of this Island ;—

particularly anxious to direct your atten- , our doing so, however, must not be re- tion to a question which perhaps affects | garded as an expression of our approval

anore than any other the political and so- cial well being of its commanity.

It appears to me of the highest import-

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of, or concurrence in, the principles of that Body. But though we have not

ance that some satisfactory arrangement adopted the views of the Leaguers, we

»f it should now take place, when the in- | are not prepared to say that those views nabitante of the Island are soon about to |

exercise a still Jarger share of controu! over the pudlic affairs, than they have hitherto enjoyed.

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are deserving of that sweeping condem- nation, with whieh, in some instances, If we have any

2. I allude to the subject of the Land- decided objection to the movement of the

ed Tenures, Without going into detail, it ia sufficient for me to remind you that repeated applications have been made at different times to Her Mejesty’s Govern- ipent to consent to measures to deprive tle Proprietors under the original grants of their Estates, on the ground of their having éschéated to the Crown by reason of the nén-falfilment of conditions. These applications have been resisted on grounds with which the correspondence between the successive Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward island, especially since the year 1832, willtender you sufficiently familiar, It ‘Only my purpose now fo state that Her Majesty’s Government feel themselves bound to adhere to the decisions so re- pestediy adopted by my predecessors in ihis matter, and to state that both on the grounds of justice to the Landed Propri- etore, and of the permanent interests of the community of Prince Island, they re- yard such a measure as impracticable: nor on the other hand could they consent to entertain any measure such as was oc- casionally suggésted, for buying up/ané exunguisinng the rights of Proprietors, or arly portion of them, at an expense to the Tuiperial Treasury.

&. The subsisting right of parties can- not, therefore, be altered in any other ianner than by that of equitable adjust- inet, 6nd while the law continues as at present, itis your duty to enforce obe- dience to it by the firm exercise of the xuthority “entrusted to you, and by the employment, if necessary, of the Military Force at your command. Should any extreme case occur, you may even apply to Sir John Harvey for an additional

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force to put down any attempts at resis-.

tence te the Law. <a 4.. But while thus maintaining the Law, you will also use al] the influence which

you may possess to induce the owners OF

fuand, and their Tenants, to come to an amicable arrangement with each other; and give your best assistance with a view io passing any Legislative measures which nay be required to complete such afranyement. But you will not fail to recollect, and to impress upon the Legis- lature, the necessity of abstaining from the intréduction into ‘such Lawa, of any provision which imay inftinge on. the rights of property.

5. ‘You will, I trust, experience no difficulty in convincing both the Legisla- iure and the peo; le of the Colony, that a ‘ntrict respect to those rights is required, not Sy justice only, but also a regard for their own true interesis. Jt is obvious that an influx of Capita! end Settlers, by ‘ending to raise the value of property, would be most beneficial to the Colony, and toall classes of ita inhabitants. Prince Edward Island, possessed as it is of great natural advantages, which are becoming better known in this country than former- jy, is likely, at wo distant time, to attrset veth Emigrants und Capital, if the policy adopted by the Legislature 18 not such as to discourage them. Bat nothing would read more to thie unfortunate resu!!, than che sense of insecurity which must infal- ibly be ereated by an sttempt of the Legvalature to pase f.aws bearmng onjust- ty ob the owners of Landed Property ; oven if the attempt were frustrated by the refeval of Her Mojesty’s allowance of i,

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Tenant League, it is this—that they are premature in urging principles, in regard to which there is much dread and mis- conception, at atime when the Legisla- ture are disposed to adopt any feasible plan that can be devised for the amelio- ration of the Tenant’s condition. ‘I'wo very important. measures have, during

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of the Legislature, either of which, if carried into Jaw, as we have no doubt they will be, will afford immense relief tothe ‘Tenantry ; and our advice to the League would be, to suspend their ope- rations, until the fate of these, and other measures to be submitted, shall be de- cided.

THR BRAWINER.

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encouragement held out by this Pillisa| seven and a half feet deep, and before his Bounty of 128. G."per tény upon all re- | Servants, who were at the mouth of the

Weil. iste i gistered Vieuble, fitted dot forthe proses| \s ¢i could obtain agsistance,he perished. A Mr. Agassiz was a native of Exeter,

cution of the Cod and Mackere! Fisheries ; | England, and, with his brother, came te and three’ Premiums,—the’ firet £40 on! this Island in the Spring of 1856, and the catch of not less than 150 barrels of Purchased a beautiful property of Mr.

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS DU- |

RING THE PAST WEEK.

The measures of greatest. public mo- ment which have engaged the attention of the Legislature during the past week, are, first: A Bill introduced by the Hon. Mr, Colés ‘to authorize the Government to obtain a Loan of £10,000 at 5 per cent. interest, to pay Off the Warrants now affoat, having 6 per cent. interest, and. te

“secure the payment of the Interest ‘on

Warrants now issned ‘and to be issued : the further issue to be at an annual inter- est of 5 per cent, instead of 6, as hitherto. This Bill has passed the Asseinbly, and is now before the legislative Council. The second is a Bill relating to the payment of Rents, also introduced by the Hon. Mr. Coles. The object of this Bill is to_pro- tect Tenants from any arbitrary or unjust exaction, on the part of their Landlords: stich as demanding and éxucting payment of Rents reserved in Sterling at 50. per cent. advance in currency, instead of one- ninth. This Bill has also passed the House of Assembly, and is now before the Legislative Council.. The third.is a Bill, atso introduced by the Hon. Mr. Coleg, to provide salariés for the Controllers of Customs and Navigation Lats, appointed or to be appointed at thé various Ports in this Island. ‘Uhe object of this Bill is the extending of tte privilege of Free Portsto every District in the colony, pos- sessing a Llarbour sufficiently commodi- ous fur vessels engaged im the export trade—that farmers, when exporting their produce, might have it in their power to

do sv in fercign bottoms, at the Ports |

This Bill has likewise passed the House of Assembiy, and 1s aow before the Council,

The tiaird is a Bill for the encourage- ment of the Cod and Mackerel Fisheries, introduced by Mr. Montgomery. The

Mackerel ; the second £30, on the catch of the next greatest number of barrels, and the third £20 on the next greatest number. This Bill has passed the lower House, *

The fourth is the Barrister’s Bill, intro- duced by the Hon. Mr. Whelan, the ob- ject of which is to open the Courts of this Tsland to the admission of Barristers and Attorneys from the other Provinces, who may seek such admission, provided the Courts of those Provinces are opened to the admission of Barristers and Attorneys from this Island ; and the Bill further provides, ‘that any person possessing the Elective Franchise in this Island shal! be privileged to enter the Courts, and plead and reason for others as well as for them- selves. This Bill likewise passed the House of Assembly; but on being sent to the Legislative Council, it received a very different reception from the gentle- men of the long robein that end of the Building, who, on some frivolous pretence or other, rejected the Bill, . We could hardly believe them te be so illiberal, and apparently 0 much in dread of colonial competition. '

The fifth is the Teaant’s Rights Bill, introdticed by the Hon. Mr. Coles, the ob- ject of which is to provide equitable com- pensation for improvements, to Tenants,

| who may be ejected from their Farms,

when those improveraents may exceed the amount of their arrears of rent. The sixth is a Bill to impose an addi-

tional assessment of one farthing per acre |

upon all freehold Lands over 500 acres

held by one individual ; and the objett of

the Bill is to cause the Poprietors to con- tribute out-of the annual proceeds of their estates towards the payment of the Civil

‘List of the colony. |

Another Bill, introduced by the Ho

Mr. Coles, during ‘the ‘past woe fi

agreed to by the. Assembly, created:

great commotion and Ufeasihess arifongst

‘the Obstructives of Charlottetown. This

is a Bill to convert the Old Court House to the purposes of a Flour Market: and Post Office, for which it js extremely well adapted,—and if applied only to the Jat.

‘ter purpose, te public woald be greatly

convenienced, as the Post’ Office would

‘then be in the centre of the town, and the ‘expense of rent’ would be saved to the

Revetue. -A Town Meeting was held on Saturday Jast, and after a great deal of

violent debating, and abuse of the As- sembly by some of the leading Obstruc-

tives, and abuse of Mr. Coles in pirticular—a Petition was presented by Mr. Palmer, addressed to the Legisla- tive Council, praying that House to re- fuse their assent to the Bill, A counter Petition has been get on foot, praying the Legislative Council to disregard the first Petition, and we understand that one do- cument has received about as many sig- natures us the other. The quarrel ia a very pretty quarrel ag it stands,

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Mevancno.y Draru.—Opo Tuesday jast, the 6th instant. Mr. Arthur Agasiz, Kiliot River, went down a Well on his premises, by means of a rope. and a stick tied in the cenire, for the purpose of get- ting upa Bucket, and while there, was suddenly seized witha fit—t» which he was subjeci—end fell into. ths water, then :

Simpson, Elliot River, where hé was re- siding at the time of the melancholy accident,

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Onrtuary Noticr.—On Monday the oth inst., the mortal remains of the late Mr. William R. Dingwell, only son of Joseph Dingwell, Esq., of Little River, (Bay Fortune), were interred, in the buriel ground of the Presbyterian Church, Bay Fortune. It will be remembered that as formerly noticed in the Island Papere,

this lamented young man, the onty child

ot his parents, was one of those whe were on bgard the brigantine “ Warp,” in No- vember last, when that esse) was wreck- ed upon the cvast of Newfoundland, and who then unfortunately perished. The body of Mr. William R. Dingwel) was recovered after a lapse of about thirty d y3, an’, under the kind superinten- dence of Matthew Stewart, Bsq. Sr. John’s, N. F., received the rites of the sepuliure with every due solemnity. To gratify the yearnings of his bereaved and afflicted parents, his body, however, was disinterred op the 22nd of ast month, and put on board the Brig “Spiendid Lass,” which arrived with it, at Bay Fortune, on the 3rd inst. Previously to the re-inters ment of the body, the coffin was opened and the remains of the beloved youth still quite perfect, were easily recognized by the sorrowing parents and friends. The funera] processien consisted of a large body of neighbours and friends, every one of whom we believe, deeply sympathized with the bereaved parente who had, by an unlooked for visitation Divine Providence, been deprived of theit dearest treasure, an only son—an only child, in <ve 19th year of his are—a rome /man of the gentlest manners and amiable disposition, and who had given ‘the fairest and most pleasing promise 6f being, not only the prideand comfort of his parents intheir declining years, bat of beeorhing one of the most useful and respected. members of the community thatnow lament his loss. The death of this dear youth has bowed down the heads of his parents with sorrow to thie dust; but that the chastisement may be blessed to them, by Him who sent it: and that they may séon be able thankfully to recognize, in it, the hand of Him who Joves them, are the earnest hopes, not only of the sympathising friend who pens this obituary, but Le believes, of all who sorrow with them—and they are many .— Comey sean 4: nln}

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* DIED. a! _ At St. Eleanor’s, on Friday the 2d inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Cannon, wife of Mr. George Cannon, aged 73 yeara. “The deceased was much respected, and leaves behind her #2 children, 91 grand éhild-en, and 10 great’ grand children.”

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MARRIED,

On Tuesday, the 29ih wit., by the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, Mr. DonaldsM‘Donaldwot Mermaid Farm, to Isabella, seeénd@augh- ter of Mr. Donald M‘Beathy of eftose Vale, Hillsborough, ae eee ee *

At Charlottetetown, on the 2d inst., by the Rev. R, M‘Nair, Mr. Arthur Matvey, Coveiiead, to Miss Ann MeKenzie. ~~

At Charlottetown, on the 8th inst, by

the same, Mr.Dageld Stewart, Lot 30, te

Miss Mary Campbell, > 00 Vole! gone wetter Jjhey

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In the Steamer Rose, on Monday fast —Mr. Metzler, and 10 in He steerage’

Tn the Caroline from Bermud Sine Jane L. Haszard 3 J

In the Kose, from: Pietou, ony Thurs- day evening, May Sth—Revw. Alexander Cuimpbell, Rev. Alexander | Sutheér!atid, Messrs. Robert Alston, Williain Seer,

Alexander Rose, Miss Ress, aud’ 4k the steerage.