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Woo. Mr. Uewvan.—I told bim we could do with-/ whele country; but uofortunately such is not the care in- out it, and chat we would iet the matter <peuk for itself | Printe Edward Island) When the lands of this Island | Time bae told the truth, if be did not. The Governmen: | were given to Lord Melville, and others, in the manner | would have borrowed £50,000 ut Sve pet cent loss ||| they were, an injustice waa done to this country. What they had made s bargain. The proprietors know the | claim had they upon any lands here? If they had claisus state of the Colony pretty well, which is shown by ther Upon the Home Government. @ great injustice was done | unwillingness to sei! their estates. If the Governmen: | & this country when the public lande were given to them |

id £500 more for Miss Sulivan'’s estate than it was! '!0 hea of those claime. ‘he Act of the [merial Govern | worth, it would be hetter than borrowing money at suc! | ment at that time has been the cause of one continous | a high interest. They would have to pay a premium | svurce of trouble and annoyance in this Island, and the | besides, if they had borrowed the money. Are they | tratial source of much irritation, it led to our ei ight this year, becauee | was right last yenr? |trouble, which caused our Barracks to be built, and |

Hen. Laaper or tue Goveanwenr.—If the proprietors |ereated a stute of affaits in the country, that led to other had been :nciined to sel|, the Government could not have | large outlays of muney 1 know that the late Govern- purchased without draining the money from the Banks | ent Were in trouble at that time, and | bave no wish to | which would have bad a depressing effect on the com- make capital oat of their difficulties, but when | hear an | mercial interests of the community “Ol! you used to say that uncer Re- |

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I have seen farmers, | hon. member say, who had very good security to give. complain that they sponsible Government you coald bring in any Bill you | could not get money to borrow lastsummer Therefore, | pleased, and have i¢ carried independently of the Home | parties who wished to improve their farms, could| Goverament.”” with other strange and ludicrous asser- |

net obtain money under twenty per cent.; many of those }tione, which | would bave thought no bon. member would who have money wil! not lend to leaseholders

We should | bave yiven utterance to here Hot injure one portion of the community for the henefir | Hon Mr. Duxcan —lI never for a moment thought that of another

It the Government were to absorb all the/ the Hon. Atty General or the Government thought so ; Goating ce pital, parties requiring & few bundred pounds t hut I very strongly suspect that some hon. metwbers oa the | would not be able to obtain the money. The Attorney | Governwent side of this House, thought so | General had instructions trom the Government to borrow | Hon. Arrorner Genera —I éo not wish to fix any- nv money, unless th re wasa good prospect of parchasing thing upon the bon. member tor Belfast. but when I hear | land. If he had borrowed the money, they could bave j hon. members toaking such atatements and then say Ine that | obtained four per cent. for it incase it was not employed jit wasxonly @ politica: attack, I cannot but say that all such in the purchase of Lands. They might have enlled in the jetatemente amount to an absurdity, because they do not} Debentures und Warrante afloat, and used them ; but this} meet the merits of the case. [ think this is one of those | was no reason against raising a Loan A portion of ir/ cases in which the public rights of the people require that | would have been ewployed in buying the Debentures, and | the private ones should give way, and having seen, in this warrants, which are out. One member hus etated, that| Case, what the value of the private rights is, [ think the | there were ten thousand pounds paid from the Cunard | law has a right to step in, and for @ proper compensation, | Eetate. and that Mies Sulivan might take debentures for| cause the one to give way to the other, [t 1s uveless to | her estate. I! we want to buy land cheap, we must pay | **Y that these matters have not created trouble in thie | the money. These Debentures are liable to be sold by | island; they have, and the final settlement of them is an . those who have money in the Bunks The Government | mpor'ant duty which public men have to meet. | would prefer to bare gold in euch cases. ‘There is no} tion Lrabes oF THE Upros!Tion —Mr Chairman, I did | security that the Debentures would remain in the hands | 80% S4y. that the course adupted by the Government, which |

of the proprietors till they were redeemed by the| the Irarned Atty. Genera] bas mentioned, was unjust; Government {f said that it was novel. Nor am | aware that such a|

leourse hae been adopted in any other Colony baving | | Responsible Government. This House was

Mr. Camsnon.— Mr. Chairman, the hou, member has j x5. betore a Speaker wae elected, an event which never aid tuat 2 tried to wash my hands clear of the tenant tok place in kngland. It may be advisable for the union. I can assure the hon. member that | made no learned Atty. General to adopt the course he has, but | statements relative to that matter but whut the facts of || am far from thinking, that it is wise to be going, cap | the case would justify and that 1 was prompred by uo such e oe to cee Soe 2" oo if oo. —

: ; 8 Introduced Delore we Out . yeare realy desire os that alluded = by the boo. member. I cote ecoccsitated to do #0, then all I can say is, that our that I bad been accidentally present at one of their!

: jertustion i8 different from what | have understood it to | meetings, but that L was not a member of that be. I know thatwhen Mr. Mooney was in this House be | Organization. The hon. member for Beltast

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(hon. | introduced a Bill for to compel the proprietors to record |

Mr. Dunean) bes also said, that although he yave me their titles, but Lieut. Governor Bannerman sent down |

credit for sincerity, that still I bad not admitted that 1 a message to say, that the Bill was unconstitutional, and |

did not get into this house by means of the influence of 9! course the House did not proceed further with it. Phis |

that body. That some of the tenaut union people sup-, 1 do know, that the ue. eee s ne es

potted me, I do not deny, nor um I ashamed to ac- General was at one time the rule in Ireiand, which was! oO

: : known as the Poyoing Law, when every measure, belore owledge it; but perhaps { received as much oppositiod | i, was announced, had tu be sent a crose the Chanpel and |

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ae support from others of that organization ip other jegve asked for its in:roduction inty the Irish Parliament,| er of the Opposition, and to the sonorous periods of ine bon

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quarters? I would not reply to the remarks of the bom | before it ovuld be submitted to that body ; aud we know inember were it not that a sense of justice compels me that the arrangement was very unsatisfactory, and to do so as I deem i: unjust for hon. members op; osite,| productive of no good. 1 warn the Governweut not to sttempt to proscribe so lurge a body of people, many|'? *t & ae oe they might be ashamed of whow are amongst the mst intelligent and reapect- | 2! afterwards. Although Ll awa proprietor myself, yet,

; Wi he Fif [ admit it, and do so freely, that this question fas been able in the communiy. ith respect to the Fifteen jade too long « political stalking-horse tor public men, and

Years’ Purchase Bull, some of the tevantson Lot Twenty-| pence has been too long used as a question to enuble pub two informed me that they could not purchase their farme!jic men to say this wan done wrong, and the other done to any advantage under its provisions, avd that) wrong, in deaiing with this question; and, therefore, the were they even provided with the means to effect @ pur-| svuner IC 1s settled the better for the peace and prosperity chase they could otherwise invest their money more of the country. ‘The hon. member for Tignish (hon. Mr. profrably. Ido not deny but that a few may have taken advantage of the term~ whieh that Bill provides. even opposed any measure which | considered would bene- aod to such it may have been a benefit, but to the §: the country; wnd | believe, I can shew as clear a bal- country generally it has heen comparatively of little ad- ance sheet, as a representative of the people, as the bon. Vantage. The objections to that bill are, that it set to membercan. I never, Sir, awekened tactious hopes, that high a value upon the land, and thereby led the pro- were never to be realized, or opposed any measure | con-

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} question, and upon it T think I cau say the Government are | sound upon the Goose and will not deceive the people. There

Howlan) said that] waa an enemy to progress; but | can | a ; pagers plage oe henge a ure hi that l a not, nor can it be shown that I roverninen represe ntuing 6 Vi 8s aud reiecting the Opiilor 8

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P | In thie respect, the effect upon the proprietors will be, to a certain extent, compulsory, and will ultimately force them +o well at much lower rates than ie laid down in the Bill; but the present Government party raised euch & dust, and to such an extent, against this Bill that to this day the Tenante do not understand ite priceiples. Were it oof for this, | there would nut have been so many objections to the Bill, | and many more would have benefitted by it.

Mr. Cawesoy.Mr. Chairman, | have to tell the hon. mewber (ur Marray Harbour that the people of Lot 22} were quite weil aware of the merits and demerits of the Fiiteen Years Purchase Bill, quite as well sir, L beleive, as the hon. member is some of them bave made stute- | ments to me on the subject, and they have shown that if their money wus deposited in the Banks upon interest, IC) would do them more good than to purchase under its provisions, I believe they understood the prnciples of the | Bill quite well, and consequently did nut Pequire any ex- planations. |

Hon. Mr. Henperson.—-If so, then they must have | known, that there was nothing in the Bill to coerce any one to purchase under its provisions .

Hon Mr. Davies —Mr. Chairman. thia Bill has been brought up in this discussion and has been kept betore us all day, and we have listened to the hon. member tor | Murray Harbour very patiently. The hon. member has} attacked the Government several times for not uccom- panying Miss. Sullivan in her tours through the country. | I should like to know if the bon. member called apon her himself, and represented to her the principles of tbis bill, and the diificulties of the tenants ?

Hon. Mr. Henperson —Mr. Chairman, the bon. mem- ber bas over stated the question. IL simply state w hat | bave been said to me; my word has not yet been question | ed. Some of those who complained the must gave very little support to me at the late election. What they | considered unfair was, tuat when this lady travelled | through the country and seen it in its best dress and seen | it when it could be seen, the best advantage they thougit |

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her to have given her to understand what the disadvun- | tages are which the poor have tu contend with. Mr. Rety.—Mr. Chairman, 1 do net rae for the purpose

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| of entering the arena agaiust the principle gladiator of the Op- | posilion, who, for a quarter of a ceutury, bas wielded the poli- tical mind with much skill and dexterity. My object is simply tu reply to one or two points advanced against the Govern- ment side of the House by hou. wiembers of the Opposition.

Whilst [ believe ia a healthy Opposition, and consider it necs sary to prevent or restrain corruption in a Goverament, yet, ] do not believe that bon. members opposite, were justified to day in indulging ty so great au extent as they have since tus debate commenced, in diseussive fights, having [little or nu bearing upon the subject under cousideration; aud as 1 am an econo- unst of time, L do net purpose tollowing them im their wauder- ings. The paragraph betore you, Sir, reads thus:—

“ Although Your Excellency has not as yet deemed it de- sirable to proceed with the Loan, yet the provisions of the Act autborizing it stil rewain available, in case any proprietor shall herealter, as we trust they will do, see the advantage and propriety of weeting the views of Che Goverumeut, by accept- lug @ fuie price tur their property.”

Now, Sir, it ia amazing to notice the variety in detail the Op- position has raised against the Goverument from this para- L have, before vow, listened with pleasure in the gal lery of this House to the rhetorical flourishing of the bon, Lead-

wember for Chorlottetown (Mr. Brecken) and then, as now. thought they lacked in logie what they made up in oratory, The Opposition have denied to this side of the House either ability or respectability i the management of the puplic affaire of the country, and have even charged the Government with sacri- ficing their principles. But I waut to ask you, Sir, it the Gov- verument have shown any want of pubhe spit on the question of Coutederation ?) That, Sir, is an an uuportunt and vital

is also the question, shall the country be governed by military rule or by public opision? Stall the couotry be overrun with soldiers, whose duty it shall be tu euforce the bebests of those who have libelled the country; or shall we be controlled by a

of the people? These are highly important questions which bave been practically met and auswered by the present Govern- ment, to the entire satistacuiou vf the country. When last night, 1 heard the hon. member tor Caveudish reading Mr Dodd’s letter trom the Jouruals, I could appreciate tis warduith, tor I hesitate not to say, that in that letter the people are un-

prietors to believe that they were worth this price, or sidered a good one ; nor bavel, asa member of the Bar, the late Government would not have placed such a value upon them, and @ repeal of that act pow would) make no amends. It will be necessary to go & siep!] really considered that it would benefit the Island further, and if possibie divest the minds of the pro-| When the true Liberals were in power, 1 was one of the

or of this Houge, ever allowed my priv: 6: views 6) influ- | ence me in dealing with public questions, or family con- | siderations to induce me to vote against any measure, if |

justly and grossly hbeiled. While 1 respeet Mr. Dodd as a private individual, IL hesitate not to say that he could not bave understeod the force of the language he employed when be penned such a Jetter. 1 do not thiok that any one will say that there is a Tenant Umiou wan in the district which L have the |

| honor to represent; and 1 can theretore speak dependently | . 3 3 . : : ; . | OO this question. prietors from the impression that the late Government Committee appointed to report upon the Petition praying | .

I have the honor to represeut a large por- tion of agriculturalists, a class Sir, whom | am proud to have

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ever placed upon our statutes any bill as use ul sod lor the introduction of the Free Education Act. LT agreed) the honor tu represent. I found out long age, that if the important as the hon. member would bave the country that report; and, afterwarde, when that Bill was in-| agricultural portion of the community do not du well, [ cannot , troduced, I gave to it my sincere and bonest support, and | No matter what the position or occupation of a man in this

, ‘bt . ’ ° Beate believe the Fifteen Yeurs Purchase Bill to be | im that vote dune what many othere would not have done,| Colony is, be be a clergywan or a lawyer, & merchant or a Hon. Mr. Duncan.—Mr. Chairman, if none of those supported & measure which placed a burden upon my| mechanic, he success mainly depends upon that of the agri-

who objected to the Fitteen Years’ Purchase Bill, had own tather. This the hon. member may contradict if be | cultural classes. 1 promised not fo Lrepass too much upon your teken advantage of its provisions, there would be con- can. [supported that Bill, when some of wy friends con- | sistency in the opposition which they have offered to it. sidered it their duty to vote against it. | introduced and The Bill provides that the arreare of rent due om apy alterwards succeeded in carrying the Bill which made the | farm, prior to 1858, ure to be struck off, i! the tenant pur-| Legislative Council elective. When I first bronght thar chares, and if he bae paid any rent since 18538, it 1s placed | measure forward, there were very lew in either party who | to hi® credit. I know of some who have bought under! were in favor of it; and, when finally carried, it was in that Bill, who bad very little to pey tor their land when great measure owing to my endeavors and exertions.

they bought it out. Ili they repudiated the Bill, and yet! Hon. Mr. Davies—The Legisiative Counc: Bill was! took advantage of its provisions, they acted inconsistently. suggested by the Duke of Newcastle, and the Tory party | Will the hon. member (Mr. Cameron) admit that before went cobbling at it.

| observe, is not new in his place, but whose eriliscisma bave won

House,” and who assumes as much authority in loat direction

time, but you will alow me Sir, to reter for @ wowent, to the | rewarks of the hon wetmber for Georgetown, who | regret to

fer him the honorable appellation of the * Graumarian of the

as if be was fully aware of the importance of bis selt-elevated position. jut with deference to such authority, it will be seen that the objections of the bon. member are based upou a | grammatical fallacy. Phe bou. member took exception this | toerenvon to the words * proceed with,” and wished to kuow ii | His Excellency was to proceed to Abyssiuia if the hon.

member was present I would ask biu if, wheu be was @ lad in |

he came here he was aware that the Government could Hon. Leaper or THe Opposition. —Will the hon. mem- ber say that the Bill originated with the Duke of New- | castle? The hon. member has not the political manliness

not pass & compulsory measure to force the proprietors,

to sell their lands ?

Mr. Camweron.—Mr. Chairman, it would be unwise on the part of wny individual to make positive assertions be- foreband as to what any Government would do. We had, Sir, a precedent of such folly on the part of the late | Government, in their insuring euccess to themeaelves in their efforts to carry the Award of the Land Commig-| rioners into effect, though, finuliy, that scheme proved a!

failure.

Hon. Attorney “enrrai.—Mr. Chairmaa, in this matter the question has been raised by the hon. member | for Belfast (Hon. Mr Duncan), in a very unbecoming | manner. Which, I ask. is the best course to pursue? to bring in @ Bill that would excite the people with expecta-| tiuns, which might pot be realized, as has frequently) been the case. or to ascertain, in the first place, ii euch a measure would be likeiy to receive the ussent of the Hiome Government? Would it be wise to waste the time ot this House in legislating upon « doubtiul measure, which might raise hopes among the people that might not be realized? Which, 1 aek, ia the most fair and honest course tu pursue, to first ascertain the views of the parties who have without doubt to be consulted sooner or later, or to run heedlessly into legislating upon 4

school, and bis teacher tuld hum to proceed with his lessou, and he were te tura reund aud say, “de you mean sir, that 1)

| h d tk . Pie 1 | sheuld proceed to the United States?” [think Sir, in such ease, | to acknowledge that it originated with me. 1@ hod. | be would receive a reply trom a birch rod. If the dratt address |

member for Belfast talks about cubbling ; there never way! has no greater errors than that, it must have some merit in it. a greater political cobbler than the hon, member bimself.| We have spent two days in getting through with two para When the Lill went Home certain matters of detail were | graphs. | am not very well posted upto pariiamentary walters, objected to, but the principle was approved of; but that| but I think hen. if members would coutine themselves to one or Bull, Sir, originated here, wod not in Downing street. two speeches on each paragraph, we would get along much

Hon. Mr. Davies —The principles of the Bul origin- | better; but if each hon. member is to iudulge in twelve speeches

E upon each parayrapb,as the hon. wewber tur Murray Harbour, ated in London. | (Mr. Henderson), and the hon. member for Charlottetown,

Hon. Leapgr or Tax Opr sition. —I am replying; and the Lon leader of the Opposition, who, I tink bave each to the hon. member for Tignish, but if the hon. member) spoken that often, have, and if this Is to coutiuee upon each for Belfast, wishes to enter the list, | aw prepared | paragraph, when will we get through with it? In 54 days, to run a tilt with him. When | was quite a young man, | by an hon. member, (laughter.) One hon, wember of the |

I introduced a Bull which prevented the seiming of & man’s| Opposition has gone back to the days of Aristotle; while

goods, and taking bis body under the same execution ; | @ether has confined buuself to Millon; but had the hon member who referred to Aristettie, goue back to the days of } the neble * Graceli,” of Rome, he would bave gone to the

| days of the very origin of this quesiion, and trom the history of | that period, might have drawy ideas Mure appropriate to the

this measure was asked for by p-tition from the people, |

and it recerved my cordial and active support. | also in troduced the first Bank Bill, with others which | might

name, and merely quote these to show that T have not been Land Question of this Island, than avy which be bus advanced an enemy to progress. If the hon. member will take the | Surely the learned leader of the Opposition will uot say but trouble to look, as be should have done,defore he made such | that tue mission of the hon. Attorney General to England was (a broad assertion, he will find twenty-one Acts among our| the teaos of saving £5,000 to this Country. The Opporitivs Statutes which have been introduced by myself, one of | may say, in answer to this, that they wemoriaiized the Lu- | these giving facilities to married women to obtain their | penal Government for a remission of this clauu. But, Sir, I

rights, when deserted by their husbands. 1 trust when |

0 } bl ‘ ae, Oe oes Pe Serres «1 peew Sat Same wy hon. triend (Mr. Howlan) is in the House as long,

has been attached to parties, who have brought in bills! here, which were aiterwarde dieallowed at Lome. 15/ ‘hat he will be able to pomt to as many useful measures hee been said that they did eo to awaken an interest in| Which be bas introduced, and succeeded in carrying the country to serve hein own party political purposes |! When the hon. member for Cavendish was on bia feet he when they knew. at the time bie they were only deceiy- | Stoke harshly about the lawyers, and the bon. member | ing the peuple. Ti fair and honest way in an important) tor Bedeque (ion, Mr. Laird) that all lawyers who took wnatter hike thie. ie to aecertain the vir ws of the Home| (e# irom the proprietors, tovk the wages of iniquity ! and Government Gret and if objections exist, to ascertain | te ben. member for Cavendish endorsed bis opinion their nature Not only to oon in the first pluce that, When L beard the bon. member expressing himeelt as be

boit was # species of that political clap-trap ht, but to know also, that we can put ip did. I thoug } ! p| nocd Le al I de id see bho the i which was brought to bear against the hon. Mr. Long- | shouid be twitted in the manner that has been attempted | Worth at. the Inte electivns, and as the hon member by hon. metubers oj posite for the announcement which | succeeded so well in the cage of that gentleman, I suppose bes been made relat ve to thie matter. Such av absurdity. he has thought it would do equally well well, also, to ae that put forth by my bon. friend, the learned leader | kill myself, the hon. member for Charlottetown, and ny | 01 the Upposition, 1 never heard of.

EB ne) t — : ” . General. that, and | learned frind ¢ e Hon. Atty esponsible Governu ent, we could ia oar Tieiile el fon. Mr. Howian.—Mr Chairman, a severe attack has . ’

; : | been made upon me, because I said the hon. member was § | choose, and that if tier Majesty should reiuse her assent 1 am very glad to bear that the

. ’ | tO progress. to it, that we could con pel her to do eo. Who ever *° enemy } : ef aech oo an ealeeiia assertion? I am reaily hon. member has succeeded in placing sv many useful surprised and astonixted, when I think that my learned | MOSsures Among vur Statutes, bat I am surry that he did friend should have given utterance to the strange asser-| "9% lollow it out when the genientl Sem of cur enerenes , he hus made here to-day on this subject If, Sir with that of the other Provinces was introduced to the il Lich nus Bebcheblel, 46 odb ‘bd plication at ‘Home, 9 Sotice of the House, at tle time that the Hon. Mr glen Leet oe ha ae by that House to the | U- Davies was a member of this House. The bon. mem- ak tiheende hs i. subject In the {mperial her for Georgetown, (Hon: Mr. Haviland) spoke in favor Guvernment, as we oll know, the proprietors have con-|2! euch # Bull. and was appointed a member of the Com-

siderabie influence, and it ie not at al) impossible but | wittee that had to report upon the prayer of the petition ;

thas they will oppose any such legislation ; and bence | tr having twelve months to decide the matter, he

the necessity of proceeding in a prodent and cautious | Ustroyed it by moving that the Committee be relieved manner, in dealing with such on important question. Ithas | [om reporting. Now, I think that this was one act that been said here to-dey that the Fifteen Years’ Purchase | ¥"* oppored to progress. J would have thought that any Bill was compuisory: It is quite clear thet the Home| man of progress would have used bis best efforts in favor | Government did not consider it to be such, for to the| of such @ measure, especially as the hon. member is such) Hon. Mr. Pulwer, and the other consenting proprietors, |# great admirer of everything in the New Dominion. | the question a pat 3° Dovgoe Wabee to thie?” and not }um very far from thinking that the hon. member has not 7 1 . hie?

: ; iven attention to mang usetal measures, or that bis in- t new that every signature of the consenting | = ’ ; ; oun Mey . 7 «| fluence has not heen exerted at times on the right side.

i ae ‘To Se eee I have frequently lietened to the hon. member with inlhenied by the learned leader of the Opposition, would | pleasure, but oxill I think wee vege member who has be to awaken an ondue expectation among thie people. been twenty years & mInember o this douse, should not create discussion that would be unprofitabie, and, | have so far forgotten naane and his antecedents in perhaps, lead to dissension with the Lome Government > eg of rd oe ee a poe -”- as a OF course, if the Government merely wanted to SONEO | cos honing POT rolleve

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Ce oe ert re i och 0 course Hon Leaps oF THE Orposition.— Ae the hon. member ia | be an honorable, or « justifiable one, for this, or any other now a member of the Government he can carry this Bull, Government to pureue? The attention of the country . = oben = _ aa re _ litical ed : ie fixed more upon this question than apon any other. eRe PLA -~ Dy Cee Cae tay penton SoneNE and the minds of al! our public men, if-they wish to ac: has cost the country a3 much as that of the hun. member, a woe and faithful part toward che people, should be U may be able to do so.

directed toward it also, and party considerations should} Hon. Mr. Henpgexson — Mr Chairman, if I understood not prevent avy public men from lending his sid|thehon membertor Scrathalbyo (Mr Cameron) correctly, to put forward any good measure tor settling this long) he said that some of the people on Lot 22 told him that vexed queetion ; es cially should this be the case, when | they did not understand the principles of the Fitteen Years’ bon. members on both sides are very well aware thatthe | Purchase Bill, and that others suid it was Rot a measure present circumstances and futur- proeperity of the country | that could be of any genera) benefit. I need not tell this | depend tu much upon ite final settlement. ‘Coming asldo! hon. Co-wmittee the reason of this. Alter the failure of from the old country, there ie no question which | would, the Award of the Land Commissioner, tne later party used @pproach with more cate, but when | heard my hon | every effort, to secure the next best measure for settling friend (Mr. Laird) way that it was taxation which caused | this question, and that Ball, wae the best they could @0 much trouble in the old. country, and when I knew that) obtain, The Proprietors do with their lands. pretty much the rent ie considered as @ tax bere, avd i« even viewed | as the merchants do with their goods, they endeavour to with more disfavor than any ordinary tax, |.could not bat obtara as bigh a price for them as they can, and when the feel the juswrees of hie remarks, and a desire that aifival beet of them are sold they dispose of tie remainder at a @ttlement of thie question was aimed at L huve aiways | lower rate. And this will be one of the effects of the 15 held, that where land ie held o# it ie an this country. that) rears Purchase Bill tuo, the best off fa: mere will purchase sit ie held as itehould not be. Te eat of a country ehou!d | out theirfarms ander it, this will r duce the value of the -be.vesied in the Government of that country, aud when remainder, eod.imduce the proprietore $0 sell at lower rates

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say that the Government of which the bon. the leader ef the Opposition was a member, bad agreed to pay the Imperial Goveruiment those expeuses, at least, so I andersiaud, the despatehes. And for them to turn round afterwards aud «ay that they were not prepared te do this, was, to say the least of it, &@ very poor afiair; and I do beheve, that had net the | Attorney Geueral gone Home, we would have had to pay for the | expenses of the troops while employed iu this country hunting | the tenants, like partridges in our furests. fou. menibvers have endeavoured to twit the Goveruwent for vot dealing wore promptly with the Land Question, and tor not anvouncing the principles of tae measures they intend te bring torward = No doubt Eler Majesty’s bon. Opposition would like to bave this | information in advance; but 1 think it is aa well ter thei te) wait until the preper time. I fee! an interest in the Land | Question, and when I look at tie Oue Ninth Bill, and the | Land Purchase Act, beth measures of the Liberal party, Lam led to the conclusion that the Liberals bave proved themselves | better friends of the people than the Conservatives have ; but as both parties have eudeavetred to induce the absentee pro- prietors to acceed to fair Lerms, aud as either party have wet with much success, | am inclined to agree with the learned Attorney General and the hou. member tur Tryon, in saying that if the proprietors will not yield to the proposals made to them, that some other means must be resurted to: and I do hope that before the close of this session, if they continue to refuse the fair proposals made, that a coercive meusure may be introduced. The Government, I think, would be perfectly justified in bringing forward such a measure. On the othe side of the Atlantic, where se much agitation and trouble, bas, from time to time, arisen out of the land tenures, and where the rights of property are held so sacred, they have come to the conelusion at fast that they will, by legisiation, have to interfere with the rights of the proprivtora. The lands of this Colony were bestowed upon those who bad ne just clan upon the soil of the country; and if they refuse a fair price, a coercive measure should be tried. Iau no Fenian, Sir, but | say 80, tren a anmple sense of the justness and propriety of | such a course. [ doubt the correciuess of the arguwents of | the hon. the leader of the Opposition, aud the bon. member for Belfast (Mr. Duncan). when they state tbat there 18 80 much mnOney in the Banks which could be bad tor the purpose of purchasing the estates of the proprietors | They bave said that there are £24,000 bearing interest at 4| per ceot. in one bank, and £21,000 lying as a deposit in | auother, which could be bad; but will avy how. member say that anything less than £80,000 or £90,000 would do for the purpose for which a lwan is required by the Government.

Hon. Leaver OF THE OpPposrrion —I never raid that there | was money enough in this Colony to buy all the estates of the | proprietors. I said the Government should not go ontside of their own borders io borrow, if they could get money te hire at | home.

( To be Continued.)

NOTICE!

LL persons having legal demands against

the estate of the late Jamxea Ropertson, Roselyn Cottaye, St.Peter’s Roud, Township 34, Ks- quire, deceased, are requested to furnish the sume, auly attested, to either of the undersigned, for set- tlement; and all parties indebted to the said Estate are required to make immediate payment ] lo ALEX. ROBERTSON, JOHN STEWART, Jr.

} Ex ecutors.

Lot 34, Nov. 29, [867, tf Grain! Grain! Grain!

“pas highest price given for BARLEY and VATS, at Coles’s Brewery and Distillery,

i Constavtly on hand, at prices cheapertban can

be purehased in the market,the best of Kam,Brandy,

Gin, Whiskey, and a anperior articie of Malt Wbis-

key. Aleo—X, XX,and XXX Ale. Charlottetown, Jane 20, 1867.

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