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edto show that there was an indisposition to confer this franchise. It was quite the reverse. Sir C. Napier, then governor of the Cape, in a despatch to Lord Stanley, dated 20th Dec., 1841, had recommended that thig; should be done; Lord Stanley had pointed out objec-| tions to the course, and expressed a wish that they might be removed. Lord Grey’s attention was called) to the subject in 1846, and in a despatch of the 2nd of November of that year, he stated that the government entertained the strongest prepossession in favour of the representative system, and would promptly avail them- selves of any opportunity of extending it to the colony. Sir H. Smith, in a despatch of the 8rd Dec. last, stated that he should shortly make a general report as to the remodelling of the government on a representative principle. His hon. friend said that the colonies which possessed representative assemblies were governed more cheaply than those which were under the immedi- ate direction of the Colonial Office. He was not con- vinced that the statement was correct. His hon. friend based his calculations on the most uncertain data, for he confessed he himself found great difficulty in obtain- ing correct accounts, whether of population, of finance, expenditure, or the cost of government. (Hear.) From New Zealand and New South Wales they obtained such information with great minuteness, but the case ‘was different with regard to the West Indies, His hon. friend estimated the expenses of government by the population, but when 40,000 persons emigrated toa colony in one year, it must very much alter the estimate. With respect to Guiana, the total expendi- ture including that of the military establishment was 270,000, The mother country paid for the military establishment only; the remainder was paid by the co- jony. But 100,000/. of that sum was expended on im- migration and procuring labourers. This could not fairly be called an expense on accnunt of government.

Sir W. Moresworts said he omitted expenditure for emigration from all his calculations.

Mr. Ramen said that his hon. friend did not mention any amount as struck out on account of immigration. His hon. friend also said that there was an extravagant expenditure on account of Hong Kong. The last report from Hong Kong was dated the 18th of March, 1847. in that report Sir J. Davis said that the revenue had risen from £9,000 to £22,000, and that in the present year it was £27,000. The expenditure had been dimi- nished by £6,170, and the military establishment had been at the same time reduced. It was not always fair to make the military establishment a part and parcel of the colonial expenditure, because if they were to carry vn trade in distant seas they must have a military and naval force for its protection. (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend alluded to Ceylon ; but he was now able to inform him that the whole fixed cost of the establishment in that island was now placed under the control of the colonial council. (Hear, hear.) Headmitted that great reduction might be made in the cost of the colonies, that the expenditure on their account ought to be regarded as one capable of great diminution, without at all im- pairing the efficiency of their management. (Hear, hear.) Great complaints had been made of the cost of Mauri- tius. With regard to that colony, he begged to inform his hon. friend that in September last, instructions had been sent from the Colonial office to the governor, desir- ing him to reduce the outlay to the least possible amount. The probable pressure that was coming upon Mauritius had been foreseen, and it was in consequence of this that those instructions had been sent out. They were gow in the receipt of the reply of the governor, and in consequence of the instructions issued, there was a re- duction of taxes to the amount of 65,0002. (Hear, hear.) He had shown that there was every disposition to esta- blish loca] self-government where the colony was in a position to exercise it, and with regard to the dimjnution of expenditure, he had shown, by the instances of Ceylon and Mauritius, that the Colonial office had not been idle. He denied that there was any falling off in the extent or importance of the colonial trade. His hon. friend said that for every pound’s worth of goods which was exported, Ga, was paid as the cost of colonial government. If that statement were accurate the charge would be indefensi- ble, but he would diminish it at once by 4s. 6d., because his bon. friend had omitted altogether from his calcula- tion the amount of imports, and it was on the total value

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- of both that they had to determine the cost of colonial

eavernment. The value of the imports for 1845 was 5,100,001, and of the exports 13,460,000. What were the fruits of British colonisation? The colony of South Australia was a pet colony, but there had been such an extravagant expenditure of money on public works that it would have been bankrupt but for the interference of the Colonial office. It had received 2.000,0001. at first. It was transferred to the Colonial office, and from that moment it became one of their most flourishing colonies. His hon. friend spoke of the hard- ships to which the colonists were subject on account of ihe regulations respecting the royalties of mines. Those veeulations had been established after great care and elaborate investigation by Lord Stanley. But this dis- advantage attended them—that they applied only to some of the mines. Representations had been made to his noble friend on the subject, and though his ewn impres- siop wes that a tax on ore was as fair a tax as could be imposed. his novle friend removed the royalties. (Hear, hear.) Their colonial policy was by no means 60 Un- snecessfil ashad been represented. Take the colony of Port Philip, for instance, and see how marked was Ms

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progress.-In 1845 the revenue of Port Philip was 89,0001. ; in 1846 it was 96,0001. The imports in 1836

| were 205,000/.; in 1846 they were 315.0001. In 1836

the exports amounted to 842,000/.; in 1846 to 425,0002. In South Australia again, the revenue in 1840 was 30,0001.; in 1846 it was 52,0001. The expenditure in 1840 was 69,0001; in 1845 it was 36,000; in 1846 it was 49,0001.--The amount of the copper ore alone exported in 1844, 1845, and 1846 was £75,000. He admitted that discontent existed in some of the colonies, and discon- tent would always exist with respect to particular ques- tions. They were all agreed on the policy of establish- ing a colonisation fund from the sale of ;the colonial lands, but it was a difficult question to determine the exact price of this land. Ifa high price was fixed it would create discontent in the colonies. There were some questions, therefore, in which imperial] interests would be at variance with the supposed interests of the colonies. He had spoken of the Australian colonies: he would now speak of New Zealand. He did not know any instance of a more successful colony,

An Hon. Member—That was not owing to the Colo- nial office.

Mr. Hawrs.—New Zealand owed a great deal to the Colonial-office of late years. It had granted a loan toa considerable amount to the New Zealand Company. Since then the progress of the colony was of a striking and marked character. In September 1844, Captain Fitzroy, writing to Lord Stanley, said that the state of the colony was unprecedented—that the difficulties to be surmounted were great, and that nothing but paper money was in circulation. Recent accounts, however, showed that the state ofthe colony was very improving. His hon. friend had alluded to accounts which were upon the table of the house relative to the colonial ex- penditure. When his (Mr. Hawes’s) attention was first directed to them, he owned that he thought the increase of that expenditure remarkable. On examination he found, however, that neariy the whole of the increase was in three colonies—Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, and Australia. He had come to the conclusion that the ex- penditure might be considerably reduced, but at the same time he did not think the result would be preduc- ed by creating a greater number of colnial legislatures. It was said that there was a constant interference by the Colonial-office with the internal affairs of the colonies. Now, he found that last year there were no less than 912 acts of colonial legislation, of which the Colo- nial-office only dissented in any way to 55. He knew that the Colonial-office was a very unpopular depart- ment. He did not see why it should be so, yet he scarcely anticipated that it could be otherwise, seeing the number of schemers and applicants who daily ap- peared atit. He denied that the Colonial-office was, as it was said to be, the seat of a despotism. He be- lreved those who filled the high office of Colonial min- ister had conferred the greatest benefits on our colonial empire. This was all he had tosay. He had no ob- jection to the hon. gentleman’s motion. It did carry out the principle they had for some time been eiming at, and its tendency would be to strengthen the hands of the colonial minister. ‘There were many of his hon. friend’s plans with which, of course, he could not agree ; and which he feared, if adopted, would weaken the ties which bound our colonies to the mother coun- try. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. I. Scorr moved the udjournment of the debate.

The question was then put and carried, and the de- bate was adjourned for a fortnight.

SIR HENRY HUNTLEY AND HIS ENEMIES.

The communication in the Islander of Friday, signed “ A Subscriber,” and the editorial notice on the same subject—both evidently written by one hand—are proofs of the most malignant spirit and despicable cowardice, that we have ever known to emanate from any public journal. A paragraph is inserted in two places in the Istander—purporting to be an extract from an English journal—in which it is said, that Sir Henry Huntley was heard as an insolvent debtor at the Maidstone County Court: hereupon, “A Subscriber” writes a column of abuse, which none but a miserable poltroon would indite, and none but suche “man of straw” as Ings would publish, If Sir Henry Huntley has had the mis. fortune to adopt such a course to obtain relief from liabilities incurred in England, he has violated no law, and is no more deserving of censure than hundreds and thousands of other honest men. It would be well for some of his detractors to look at home: They are not all in affluent circumstances ; and, perhaps, if their books were fairly balanced, and their creditors pressed hard, they would have as much need for an insolvency court as Sir H. V. Huntley. “A Subscriber” attempts toshew that Sir Henry did not state the fact, when he said, on his departure from the Island, that “all claims against him were discharged.” Sir Henry made this assertion in reference to rumours then afioat, toe the effect, that he could not leave the Government because he was too

to be false, and staied that he had not only paid all

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claims against him—(meaning in the Island, of course,) but paid them with his o1en money.

Really, the Islander’s revenge is mean and pitiful. An honourable foe would have ended his enmity with the retirement of the Governor; but honour and man- hood belong not to Sir Henry’s enemies, and especially

those who have only ability enough to expose through

the Islander the blackness of their own hearts, and the shallowness of their intellects.

The Honorable James Warburton arrived in Town on Wednesday last, and attended in his capacity of member, on Thursday, the usual monthly meeting of the Board

of Executive Council.

The Honorable George Coles left Town on Thursday for Bedeque, whence he will take passage in the Packet Oregon for Shediac, en route for the United States and Canada.

DALZISYS GLO Wt. Three Mile Run, Royalty of Charlottetown. HE Public are respectfully informed that

the above MILL has been for some time in opera- tion.

This establishment will be found peculiarly adapted for the despatch of Mixtures and Wool Blues, to be Fulled and Pressed or Fulled only.

PRICES :

Mixtures & Wool Blues fulled and pressed, at 6d per Yard

« “ fulled only — Blanket stuffs fulled and scoured. - OS ix Cloth fulled, pressed and dyed Green, Is 2d

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Fromthe recent improvement effected in the Machin- ery, the suupply of Water is equal to the demand.

J. D. therefore hopes -his Establishment may become proverbial for the dispatch and careful finish of ithe Cloth committed to his care.

AGENTS in CHARLOTTETOWN, Mr. New Ranexry, and Mr. Grorcr_ Bere, jyn. JOHN DALZIEL. September 4th, 1848. (All the papers 4i.)

Charlottetown Fair and Cattle Show. HE Annual FAIR and CATTLE SHOW,

under the direction of the Committee of the Roya Acrt- CULTURAL Society, will be held on the Market Square, Charlottetown, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th of September next. By Order, CHARLES STEWART, Sec’y. August 28th, 1848,

ALLIANCE Life and Fire Insurance Company,

BODO Yo

CAPITAL FIVE MILLIONS STERLING POLICIES continue to be issued and renew- ed at my Office.—Attendance daily. The Company do not take Assurances on Buildings or the. Contents,in which CAMPHIN is used. GEORGE BIRNIE, Agent for P. E.Isiand

Charlottetown, Nov. 13th, 1847.

Leasehold Interest for Sale.

TERM 999 YEARS.

very valuable and beautiful Farm of 50

acres, fronting onthe Brudenell River, about < miles from Georgetown. It has a front of 9 chains, an: there are about 30 acres in a state of high cultivation: besides a fine Spring of water within a few yards of the House, there is ah inexhaustible supply of very valuabic Marsh Mud in the front of the farm. Apply to H. D Morreru, Charlottetown, or to JOHN STEWART on the premises. September 4th, 1848. (3 w.)

FOR SALE.

NEW substantial VESSEL on the Stocks, 2*

Wheatly River, (north side) Rustico, now piankec will be ready to launch on or before the 15th October next. Length of Keel 65 feet, Beam, extreme, 20 feet 8 inches, Hold J0 feet 6 inches, Tonnage 130 old, anc 113 new. She is intended for a fore-and-g/t Schooner and well adapted for Foreign or Coasting Trade—w:' carry 50 tons mpre than registered, For further parti culars apply to the Subscriber, at Mr. J. R. Bott's Rustico, or to Mr. W. R. Watson, Druggist, Charlotte

town. ! FRANCIS GAUDIN Rustico, 28th Aug. 1848. 4w

Summerside Hotel.

(HE Subscriber begs to inform Tray eliers and the Public generally, that he has socently Opener, ' House of Entertaiument at the Wharf, Greens eer i? deque. The House is spacious and well adapted for the pul

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deeply in debt in the colony. He proved the TUMOUS| Share of public patronage.

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May 1, 1848. WILLIAM J. TAYLOR

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