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hstroduced Bill to extend the jurisdic- ttita it! in union of Small Debt to some

‘ manila; Ten Pounds—Second reading on Friday.

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. I UNCIL.

I Salary—(helium Mr. Brecken in the Chair---

,the facilities aforded by steam communication were the means of bringing many of rank and respectability, some in pur- sult of , ot crs to seek homes on this side of the water, and who, i they did not rticipatc in the hospitalities of Govern- mat Raise. wou lootr u it themselves as slighlcd. Even thc'coclcty of Charlottetown .ad increased three-fold within his moon. All this tended greatly to increase the Governor’s cap-sea. As a matter of policy it would, he thought, be wise to m the o‘er, ashe considered it as amounting to a commuta- tion ufthc Civil List—care being taken that the additional Salary should

cease whenever the country was made to pay its own Civil List. It is true the lifeline couldkrliotoriginue in this Much of tho leg-lat‘ m, at there can be no impropriety in the Council «pressing their ’nion upon it. After sortie timber observations he conclud by submitting the following Resolutions:

Mount, usastnovsu, That thisCommittL-e concurs in the opinion

w by the Right "movable the Governor General and Lord John

, u conveyed in the Ilcapatch from l_.ord John Russell, to His

. My the Manor-or, dated the lGih day of November,

mo, H b Mulry of£lm, Sterling, received by the Lion-

but Governor ofthia Colony, is inadequate to enable him to maintain the «ity cfhla 0.00 an Iler Majesty's Representatdi

lasocvan, usasiitousu, That this Committee will rt-silily join the llotisaof Assembly in any measure which will secure in' His Excellency the [WW such an addition to his salary as will enable him t. m the my ofhis 05cc as Her Majesty's Representative —Provtded-eI-caeurc shall cudndy a clear and express declaration or tuition, that such additional Salary shall only beltorue and paid by th'eCchaysolcagas the present Civil List of the Colony shall be de- hycd by the Government.

The SOLICITOB GENERAL rfectly concurred in all that hill el‘luu from the Atmeyugneral. We were now called I bouadto carryoutt measure recommended in the DIS-M. It had been requested by the parent country, and la acquiescing la the request it was but a small matter iii return for the fostering care she had bestowed upon us as a Colony. look at the blood and treasure she had expended in defending her Colonies from foreign aggression ; and this island was more highly favored tha’u any other Colony, by having her Civil List 'd from borne. in 1825, when the Revenue was only

a year, a former Governor was allowed an addition of £t00 per annu- to his income—now it was £17,000 a year, and we were only called upon to do a little more than was done spontaneously then. Were we to refuse to respond to the call, there can be little doubt but we shall be saddled with the payment of the Civil List; he for one would be sorry to have that to answer for. in fact it was driving a most advantageous bargain, and a aimrdly line of policy was in this instance the worst that could be adopted.

Mr. YOUNG concurred in the observations that had been tirade by the two previous speakers. He always thought the Lieutenant Governor’s Salary too low to stipport the dignity of hiaotlco. lie did not look upon it as a personal favor to His Excellency, but what was due to his omcc as Her Majeslt"s

‘ tauve, he considered it much better policy to grant the can that was asked, than to have to pay the CiVil List, inns- much as it was easier to pay £|000 sterling a year, than to pay firhap £3000. He was prepared to vote for whatever stint lhc

cuss ofAssenibl might agree to give.

.Ma. MACDON LD hoped that every Member would express his opinion upon this question. Their sym thies and sense of justieehad been appealed to. He was a loyalnsubjcitt of Her Ma- m. although no way connected with Government, and he this-

that every loyal subject would feel an interest in supporting the dtgutl 'of Her Majesty’s Representative, when called upon by Her jesty so to do. It must be evident to every body that the salary received by the Lieut. Governor of ‘

support , and it is unfair that the Governor should be obliged to put his hand into his pocket for such a purpose, he Mr. hiacdonald) would be willing to go as far as the meanso the country would allow.

After some further remarks by the Solicitor General and Mr. Young, as to there being no intention of interfering .with the rights of the other branch, the Resolutions were put and carried asst are.

On the House resuming, Mir. BRECKE N, in presenting the Report, remarked that when the House was in Committee be had no opportunity of expressing himself, having been in the Chair; but he now to state that he concurred in every syllable _ the Hon. Members who had spoken. At the tune Governor Ready received the addition to his salary, he ya: also in the receipt of military allowances, which made his hat was now asked. The House of Wick had recently voted the Lieutenant

hadpreviously been £3000 or £3500 with

a_ society almost, if notequally limited with the prowl“ so-

:hiecty of Charlotlegwon, lthey gored that it should take effect from commences”, _ ’ : Isa inn t ‘ . '

to" . an in t is noon The sum now asked

of the R country hto cfisideration, was lessfllmme and trade or the

. n WI granted In 1825, and he did not doubt that ifot‘liemprlbgl

war «1...... "masts. ~

ociva introduced in the diu'crem 0; first reade-

mfimfi. 'ritauc.

' iner we received the repor B, m. Stubs House of Commons on . _ hem. It ts, in our l whatever may on the den 5 a manuracmrfl; 105' not that ' to , cdnsider it as the best you cou - ' ' s stem. 7 _ v aynd 225. 6d. on foreign tim would be greatly benefited,

required cottage.

' from its “lacs. tile rate it would in amount be higher, tie Sa ' '

' timber.

.ter value on foreign . gre‘l’ould not,that change be prej -—-I think not, ifyou take a.er with which we shackle their . "d had an oppor-

hur- price ’9' ink ‘ slim“ timbef- fluid the r

' ' tin res on foreign ' gm lowering the duties or '39. timber,

upon all colonial timber,

2' . . ‘ t, (0rd"; sale“ elm, cqllla'r’ antdlllgnpzfr’ cubic feet of measuremen 033, ship-but mg, a |. . ’ comma.” or! 'dence heard by t including' deals and states, ' the iuctpal m I a racontent of rest importance, ' of the doctrines it recommends. “in from the source it as we. tacos g the names of the comr'iiLttete t of mercantile cc 3 rt y, "a, "lamb" attention ti) this branch of ' k to ot fail, sooner or later, we thin ,

influence on the future destinies of

thoqht ofsomo

W or tilli 0, who has de-

voted particular economy—it can exercise I PM!!!“

siib'ect does, such a vast field of m- it.i.s intelition to confine ourselves to tut: report and evidence only which relates paw ticnlarly to British Americabu'ith which iii_terests ue

' ' i te . n‘d‘ldmmfllllerllxizzlas a reconsideration of the whole system of differential duties, pnd adds the: sossion, that the difficulties of modifying the (1|! or which favor the introduction to the motlipr coping if British Colonial articles would be very much it 3rd“ the colonies were themselves allowed the benefits 0

' a the world. . . I u"'ll"fie“::vhidellice on which this recommendation is gilvepl and tltis opinion expressed, apd to which we Rite cliicflv refer, is that of John Mcbregor, Esq, (“bile 0D :1- joint Secretaries of the Board of Trade, and of r. e con Hume, of the Board of Trade and the well known author of the digest of the Custom

tunity of judginng

. a ‘ were raised on an ' . the British North American Colonic that if we remove our restr possessions, we shall not

5‘ a 6

our colonial restrictions,

These high authorities assert that the differential duties on colonial and foreign timber amount to :i pr:- tcction on the former of 450 per cciit.,_tvhicli is exsec - ingly injurious to the manufacturing interests, I? hine- directly, to navigation; that the modification o_>t.cs would not be injurious to the colonies, ifthe restriction; on their trade are removed, and this remova is urge even to the extent of abolishing all lmpertal Custom

Houses in the colonies.

a w mercanti e muses in uebec and

Montreal. ' That the pursuit of it is morally pernicious and injurious to agriculture, and that the mercantile navy of England would not be affected by its curtail- ment, because the navigation of the colonies will be quite its applicable to tlte su - with seamen as that oftlie mo In regard to the shipping trade from America, it is assert by vessels that have been found useless in more impor- tant occupations, and which are employed simply be- cause they are of little value, and that it is the most shipping that is used in the

., with the Desputch partied it, recommending an addition to the Lieutcn.

ThcAflOBNEY GENERAL said, he had turned the matter ' and the h thou ht ofit, the are c . .

'“nhn mud, mm c g “in pply of the British Navy

tlier country.

employed in the timber

ed that it is all carried on

worthless part of British American titnber trade. It is admitted, however, that compensation should be made to existing interests, which would be should the proposed change take place, but that i be for better to make this sacrifice at on tinuc those induced by the pre With great confidence it ticularly by Mr. McGrcgor, British Provinces, that their in a free trade the greatest boon extehd to them. As far back ple of tho Cnuadas expressc ” rem0vc these restrictions and legislate as you think wise an

is maintained, and par- tvho has! resided in the liabitaiits would consider the mother country could as l834, he says, the peo~ d the opinion distinctly, prohibitions, and you may d fit in regard to the tim-

"are indeed is a vast field for reflection! Our aim go in it, but simply to call the ects in the Provinces to topics rent, however, as are the pro- e have alluded, they sink into with the alterations recommen- anncls, in the whole mercantile system of the United Kingdom. These are no less than Ition of all imposts for protection, and par- regttrd to which it is sotight of duties, and in their stead ty or an excise duty to be

wevcr is not to indul attention of our fellow stil vitally affecting tliem.—G posed changes to which w insignific‘ance compared ded through the same ch

occasionally for employment d

settlement, has been injurious to the agriculture ofrt country. '

ticularly the Corn laws, in to abolish the sliding scale establish either a fixed du levied on Flour at the Mill.

One word more upon the question, whether the re; ' prohibitions in the Colonies have benefited ountry’! Mr. Hume says, " my y is, that those restrictions have checked of the colonies, and thereby have been or front the result of ex- 0 space of years from the con- portion of our North American Colo- that the portion ofthcir

or injured th opinion certainl tlic picsperity injurious to us. pericnce, within a moderat version ofa large nics into iiitlepend trade with this country, out rtny protection, ha freedom of trade on ‘t goods, than the whole power ofcommanding it.” in conclusion, it may be distinctly under-

pinions we have hitherto often taken - . . pre“. in favouronhedifibremialdmieson given, and those restrictions which have been laid on

the. colonies, have actually been, detrimental to the co- lonies as well as to England?

I. will give; the colonies are "king up the subject at a" was to :lnglC pound often from the United States ofA

ut tney either get their tea direct from this co e so by smuggling from the United States; another example is, that they end vessels from the colonies to

It is very clc

be part of the consumer of our e was when he had the

stood, that tl occasion to ex thelTimber trade ofthe colonies, spite ofthe arguments adduced rig we have attempted to give in t Our chief object in i call to it the nttentio terests involved in it, scarcely conceive Far state, will seriously entertain tircly to destroy the long est of tlie empire—New-

remain unchanged. in nine! them, and which he above brief sketch.

n of those who have such deep in-

glt, at the satfie time, we can l'aamenl, in its present divided propositions, which nblislied merca York Albion. '

db. McGrcgor’s fourth examination be on the 00 House of Commons, 1 regor is one of the .loi Board of Trade]

The differential duty on timber is 5s. f and 105. on pine and fi

nt Secretaries of the

or hardwood, r, from our Colonies, . upon timber from foreign cou protection of 450 per cent;

_u to make upon that? Myo at duty upon foreign and col injurious to the inanufactu ttvigation, inasm g, in return, those to lures, which they woul proportion as we took their t tions which the

ring interests,

and indirectl uch as we are

prevented from supplyiu tions with our nianufac about'the name their other prodttc Does the high difl'erential do and others who use t

reign na- Whelming the astounded Persian with d take in while, in his usual rapid mode of ask imber, or mation. The Mussulman found it difficul

replies suitably; the various topics beincr Persia, Mohamed and the Koran, Eu 0 to pay a high in sacks, the vaccine, military

y have. to give oblige ship-builders

imber i't En

m i ‘ 'nds- of ' timber l—Certainly,ft)r .all ki I'lOf . j be. ' even‘ue be affected eif d lonial timber were equaliz inion co olizing them, my op equ ow derived from £2,500,000. d fix the duty

k, leaky

In what way w

it ld raise the revenue thattyv‘lflclllg $1,603,194, to at least

houl‘ ' ct thzit’.’---I S . How Would 1°“ efie with the eitceP“°"°f 03

and other wood requ fifty adding five per centllpi for revenue, as being par y wer the duty upon foreigt I considerthis the bes , ld do, under the

. 'd. er load 0" I would prefer gagthcifi all classes

timber Wing“ so extensively

' f l r man s

in all kinds of buildipgs, dpugtogiisptrligss Other

' so man ' imp emeln s I n at :lllle r((ltritv were) to be. leVied adpalorcm, eve

stoves, and I should lo

udicinl to our colonies? the‘useless restrictions

' the Canadas,a . dlllttmtlie effect would be if the duty

' ' ' ed in all da timber ?——%_l}il:v;:y§fpinion is, aints upon the trade of our be long required to continue liatever; but while we continue we shall be obliged tlo COIIali‘lilLl'l'c

' s- we having, by our egis . , sowfedfililgli‘li:fifgeactldmdtliers to embark. in undierttalging; fli‘eir capital, which it would be Ullljllsllllzi 1::- y other legislation, except upon equitab e pri p

0 what restrictions I . I me to Thur admitting timber into England at this lower r

Have you not resi

niiy protective duty w

' ' ' ’ t to our —- tattoos are chiefly in respec ordmy’ The ms" to certain limits of trade and

confining the colonies

navigation. I Would you recommend that those rest

' ' 7. you have mentioned be withdrawn. would remove all British

venietice or disadvantage can arise from that cause.

Then are the Committee to understand that the change you propose in withdrawing the restrictions from the British North American Colonies, and in reducmg the duty upon foreign timber coming from the Baltic, would be beneficial both to England and the Canadas'! —I think so; the province ofNew Brunswick alone, from existing circumstances, from the labour and industry of the country having been directed so much more to saw

mills and timber cutting, than to agriculture, would

experience inconvenience and loss vvhich ought to be guarded against, on the principle ofequity, for some time; but none of the other colonies would to any serious ex- tent experience injury. .Some individual houses would ;

but it would be economyfor this country, and it would

only be justice, to reinunerat‘e them for their losses, provided it effected a change which would give us at

least an additional million of revenue, with far greater advantages to our manufacturers, shipbuilders, and to

,our' whole population.

Mr. Villier;s.—Do you consider that the timber'trade

is ofgreat importance to all those colonies l—Oiily to the colony of New Brunswick, and a few mercantile houses at Quebec and Montreal.

Have you ever considered the policy of encouraging

them to employ their capital in‘the timber trade?— Morally I have considered it pernicious; but I would never think of restricting industry or enterprise.

Have you ever observed how far it prevetits them

from employing their capital in agriculture ’l—Yes; and

consider that entering upon the timber trade, except

Chairman—Without entering into the details of all

the differential duties in tlte_list you have given in, will you state, in your opinion, how far colonial produce in general should be protected ’l—I must repeat what I have stated, that while we continue those restrictions upon the colonial trade we shall tections something equal to those restrictions towards the colonies; and in reference to British ships trading with British possessionspit will be found absolutely ne- cessary to let those who build them, and who fit them whiQh we are sure to have M”). out and provision them, do so in regard to the materials .9 become greater in the state of Offlinslmcuon' me more? and prov'slol's.’ w'tho'ft those

restrictions as to the duties and prohibitions which pre- vent their being constructed and fitted out at something

much nearer the expense of building and fitting out ships in foreign countries.

be obliged to continue pro-

Theit you consider that protection which we have

—Certainly; one example not allowed to import one merica, untry, or

adeira, and other ports, with fish, but they cannot

bring back wines direct witho t ' ' ' duty of £7 105. u paying a differential

Auccno'rn or NAPOLEON Roxanna—While about

to enter upon the famous Polish campaign, the Emperor was one day playing chess in Berthtcr, when the Persian A {is requesting an audience. ascompared interesting crisis, and Napoleon ntries, being It to be suspended than would C vvhat observa- his chess-board when the Turk pinion is, that down his house in Bender. B onial timber is Ambassador to be shown in, and M. was commanded to the presence as

the Tuileries with Marshal mbassador was announced,

would no more permit harles of Sweden leave 3 commenced batterina D

onaparte ordered the ‘Amedée Jaubert . I interpreter. The mperor continued his game with Berthier, over~ questions all the mg to gain infor-

stern liarems, wives discipline, and ten

i

tiers. . W ‘ V likglbyfeslb skilful dipldmafl k

the igx‘lleilgofl’izlfland dwell especially upon me ll. 5 ’ "if Ispalian as

Nupolcotleé’; the son

dor conuantly I

the charge! judgment

_. I

- r lllS "ed {0 tr There 60“

of Europe were "09 in as {he intcr Napoleon laug the sentences IIn said u Te” him that

' 9 Jaubert to rep Y:

him a little 6‘3 Shaw and quilted t

chess-game dorincr Over the s . I .’ f0 ls=ue certain ' _ “am m.“ x “ml lizhilw arts the in.

ceii rtt a bodies of horse so

in his hand-

' vas played I, 10’ till: gaff)ll‘r‘etich cavalry defile bcfore N A saw efsian envoy, in all the glittering pom"

decoration. _ . Moscow awaited t j 1

FROM PAPERS BY THE BRIT, ‘ MEETING OF PARLIAMENT, Jain: “

My Lords and Gentlemen,- I have the satisfact assurances of thcir finer: I. ' to maintain pend. I ’ “ de’sll‘li: posture of affairs in the Levant had ' cause of uneasiness, tranquillity]. t 0 once of t at stae ‘ . mom concluded with the Emperor of Austria, I

” ieror of Russia, and the Sultan, a . lglldeltlmlo effect a pactficatton pfltheolgvnn: ity and independence 0' 1 ie the t , thereby to afford additional security to _

I have given before you.

do vmi allude as a counterpart

rictions that Entirely; I Custom Houses from the

——-t

colonies. the mercam_ .ct would that have upon ,Jlfi- What em, a, s res nations would be no