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his is trne Liberty, when EPreeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides.

Vol. X.

Literature.

HOW STRANGE IT WILL BE.

How strange it will be, Jove—how strange when we two Shall be what all lovers become— You, frigid and frithless—I cold and untrue— You thoughtless of me, and I careless of you— Oar pet names grown rusty with nothing te do— Love's bright we) unraveled, and rent avd worn thro’, And life's loom left empty—~a hum! Ah me, How strange it will be.

How strange it will be when the witchery goes,

Which makes me seem lovely to-day ; When your thought of me loses its coleur de rose— When every day serves some new fault to disclose, And wonder you could for a moment suppose

I was out of the commoa-place way —

Ah me, llow strange it wil] be!

Mow strange it will be. love—how strange when we meet With just a cold touch of the hand! When wy pulses no longer delightedly beat At the thought of your coming, the sound of your feet ; When your dear loving veice, now so thrillingly sweet, Grows harsh in reproach or command— Ah me, Hlow strange it will be!

How strange it will be, when we willing)y stay Divided the weary day through ! Or, getting ren ttely apart as we may, Sit chilly and silent, with nothing to say, Or coolly converse on the news of the day in a wearisome, old married-foiks sort of way ! I shrink from the pictare—don't you ? Ah me, llow strange it would be?

Dear love, if oot hearts do grow torpid and old,

As so many others have duae,— If we let our love perish with hunger and cold— 1f we dim a!) hi'e’s diamonds and tarnish its gold—- If we chose to live wretched and die unconsoled, *fwill be the strangest of all things that ever was tol!

As happening ander the sun !

Ab me! How strange it will be.

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GRAY HAIRS. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. Gray hairs {—1 marvel why they strike Such terror and dismay, No mark of wickedness or shame Or foal disgrace are they. As silently aa summer dreams Steal o er the cradle down, They weave their sparkling silver threads In with the black or brown.

Gray hairs—the waning beauty shrinks Before ber wtrror’s face, And forth the humblest invader flies

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Tuesday, Jane 26, 1860.

| armor, and afterwards suceee'ed in reaching the remarkable idepth of one hundred and fifty-two feet below the surface of | the water. This was on Lake Erie, and in bis endeavars to ) Secure the safe of the \merican Express Company, he found the boat entirely clean, apparently as if she were at her dock. He experienced much difficulty in moving abont, so great was the pressure of the water, and as the air-pump used was not powerful enough to keep his ermor properly

inflated, the rush of blood to the head caused sparks of various |

hues to fiash before his eves, and he had a constant tendency to fall asleep. Mr. Green attributes the inconvenience felt from the pressure of the water to the armor. In diving to the depth of forty-two feet without armor, he experienced no inconveuience whatever, and this is the experience of other

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end of the town, were undoubtedly influenced, as respected

e v oY i n ( i a | - a v1} i a mn t N t * \the prayer of their petition on that head, solely by a con-

Soa oe oe of their own peculiar interests. By a regard for Bk : their own interests especially almost all men were natural! LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. influence?, and when such vediil was not, with respect to mace. seesitan Ein aay public question, urged to the prejadice of preferable ; interests and vested rights, upon those whose immediate pro- (Continned.) ince } : Se iat | . vinee it was to decide thereon, it might, no doubt, often be Tuorsvay, April 5, 1860. | found justly entitled, on public grounds, to the most fayor- Hon. Mr. Patster—But if it were found necessary to able consideration. But when vested rights and interests, “permit such nuisances in the heart of an old and overgrown | '#F™onizing with those of the public, came to be put in com-

city like London, it surely wag not necessary that such a petition with those which were only prospective, and had, in

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‘nuisance should be established aud perpetuated. by law, in so small a city as Charlottetown, and which afforded a choice

fact, to ke created, reason and justice would, he thought, dispose independent men to give their voice in favor of the

divers.

His theory is that where the body is unprotected,

the water which is admitted into the system through the numberless pores counteracts the pressure of the water from withont, and the two equalizing each other, the body does not feel the weight. When water proof armor is worn, the body has to support tons of pressure; at thirty feet below the surface it would be ten tons.

The armor employed by divers is usually composed of a metalic head piece for the protection of the head, and a rub- ber suit for the rest of the body, made large enough to admit the three suits of woollen clothing requisite to maintain the warmth of the body. a signa! line, and a head line, by which the diver is drawn jup. Ove of the tubes conneets with the surfuce, and through it fresh air is forced to the diver, by means of an air-pump. The other tube is fur the escape of the foul air exnelled from the lungs, and is furnished with a valve which immediately closes tf the water rushes into it. The supply tube also con-

tains a valve which instantly closes and prevents the air |

from passing out. Many divers have lost their lives from not having these valves on the air tubes. To sink the diver. weights are attached to the feet and waist. It ts necessary

}that divers sbould be careful about eating before making a!

; 5 descent. ‘doing down directly after a bearty meal, rendered 'Mr. Green a cripple for life. They should also descead slowly. The sensations are thus described :

“ Oo lowering he will feel a pressure on his lower extre- }Mities, Which will increase as he proceeds on his downward

‘course until it reaches even the chest, and causes a rush of

{blood to the head, which gives a sensation between the eyes

as though needles were piercing there. A sharp snapping

sound is also produced in the head from the same cause;

singing sounds are heard in the ears, which increase until the diver reaches the bottom, and ob:ains a yertica! position, or an inclination of about twenty degrees forward—an angle of the bod y necessary to move about at any considerable depth

When in ether of these positions, he is a) most entirely re- |

lieved of these disagreeable sensatious.”’

* When the diver has worked for some time he will be- |

come dizzy, and symptoms vf nausea wil! follow; and if these symptoms are Vivient, he sboujd be drawn up at onee, }

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(for these disagrecable sensations arise from foal or jusufficient

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When an armor is perfect the diver can remain down from thirty minutes to noe hours, according to the depth of j

ithe water, bat four or five hours is the extent of prudence.

*water breaks the for

Almost every kind of work may be executed below the sur- face except chopping, whica cannot be easily done, as the

Attached to this suite are two tubes, |

former, As respected the petition which was supported by

of eligible and unobjectionable sitaations for a market, with- Dee out any invasion or lessening ot the rights of the people to |, S8¥scription list to the amount of between £1,400 and

the publie squares for purposes of exercise, health, aud orna- | £1,500, he looked upon it as little better than an attempt to ;ment. The argument of his Honor (Col. Swabey) based on | bribe their Honors, by a bag of money, to decide in favor of | ‘the existence of large Markets in the most populous districts | ‘"© Pet uouers. But he hoped and trusted that their Honors, | ‘of the old and extensive cities of Europe, was of but little | with respect to the pending question, as well as with respect | |worth. He (the Hon. Mr. Palmer) thought the measure | '® every other which might come before them, would submit _was not too far gone to prevent their Honors pursuing such | °° 9° influences but those of strict justice aod right reason. a course, with respect to it, as would entitle them tothe; His Hon. tae Prestpenr—He did not wish to give exactly ‘grateful respect of their descendants,—the preserving of/a silent vote. The matter had been one of serious delibera- | Queen Square from further misappropriation, in obedience to | tion in Charlottetown ; and, if put to the vote of the inhabi- | the dictates of common sense and common prudence, and | tants generally, a large majority, he was fully persuaded, ‘from a regard to cleanliness and to the bealth and recreation | would be found to be in favor of having the Blarket-boose | of the citizens in general. and, in that respect, even for the | placed on the west end of Queen Square, as by the Bill! benefit of those who clamored for the permanent establish- | before their Honors it was proposed it should be ; and in the | ‘ment of a general public Market upon Queen Square. There | other House a large majority, including the leading members, were several places, any one of whieh, if selected for the site|had decided in favor of the Bill as it then stood. The of the proposed new Market-house, would afford as great | public question then under their Honors’ consideration was | | facilities and conveniences for the hold'ng of a general public certainly one respecting which it was their dpty to defer to | Market thereou as Queen Square ;-and, although it was his | general opinion. They ought to look to and be influenced | wish to preserve all the public squares for purposes of public by a just regard for the general interests of the inkabitants | | health, exercise, and pleasure alone, for which nurposes they jof Charlottetown and of the neighborhood; for, whahaten |

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were originally intended, he could not but view with some | interest the rest of the country had in the matter, it was| degree of favor the proposition fgrthe erection of the pro-| much less immediate and much less in amount than that of | _posed new Market-house apon Hillsborough Square. If con- | the people of Charlottetown and the neighborhood ; and they | \siderations of economy had really bad anything to do with | —doubiless the best judges of what would be most for their the desire of those who wished to see it placed upon Qeeen | convenience and advantage,—having decided in favour of the | Squsre—had not consideratious of a quite different character west end of Queen Square, as a site for the proposed new biased and warped their judgment—when they saw that the Market-house, he hoped their Honors would, as the other objection raised by them to the placing of it anywhere | House had already doue, acquiesce in the propriety of “that | except upcn Quees, Square, because the country could not decision,

Iadeed, should they gainsay public opivion, and} afford to purchase a site for it, was met and rendered of no | reluse their assent to the Bill as it then stood,--- appropria- | weight by the subscription list accompanying the recommen- | ting, as it did, a part of the west end of Queen Square, as a| dation or request that it might be placed on Hillsberough | site for a vew Market-bouse, it was very questionable whe- |

| Square, they would at once bave seen and have acknowledged | ther they would be able to procure any site at all for such a that the placing of it upon that sq@are would be less objec- | purpose. His Honor, after having in very strong terms | tionable than placing it on Queen Square ; and that, for that denounced the ordinary state of those portions of Queen

choice, oljectwn be though it would be, their posterity | Square immediately surrounding the Market-house, declaring | would have less reason to blush tyn if they had placed it | their general condition to be a disgrace, not only to the city

upon Queen Square, the chief and most valuable square of | but to the country at large; and after having asserted the. the city. Aud not ouly wasa site wpon Hillsborough Square | absolute necessity which existed for a wholesome improve- offered for the purpese; but also another site upon the | ment and well-arranged extension of public Market conveni- water's ede, in every way stitablewod in the possession of ence in the city; at the same time giving it as his opicion | the Government, was pointed out as attainable without | that, even although the eligibility ef the Water Lots in front, difficulty, and as being easily prepared at a small outlay of jof Towa Lots Nus, 2 and Z2, for the site of a public Market, | mosey for the required building. And then again there was) were to be admitted, it would be impossible, as respected the Stewart property ov the bill, pot a pistol-shot from the |p cuniary resources, to procufe their approbation to that. could be obtained at\ purpose, for he felt convineed that, te convert those lots into |

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set forth his objertione to the appropriation of anv part of Queen Square for the purpose of a public Market, the Reporter trusts his Honor will not think he sustains any Injustice, with respect to the oublication of his opinions, by having the pubhie, without a further extension of them, finally referred to them na summed up in bis: Protest. With respect to others of their Honors, whose opinions on the same question have, in this present report, been very much condenses, the Reporter hopes that they will freely pardon him for such condensation ; convinced as, on reflection they must be, of its necessity, end besides, remembering that. in the report of the debate which took piace, (Thursday, 8th March, 1860,) on the presentation to the House, by his Llonor Mr. Palmer, of the Memorial of the Mayor and Common Council, relative to the erection of a new Market- house, the individual opinions of their Hauors were given with much care and fulness. }

The Order of the day was for the second reading of the Bill to authorize the City of Charlotterown to appropriate a cerisin

| piece of land a8 a site for a public Market-hoase ; and the same

having been read, anda metion having been made that tha House go into the order of the day, a debate thereon, #8, in condensed form, above given, ensued.

On the conclusion of the debate, his Honor Mr. Palmer moved, in amendment, that the furiner consideration of the said Bill be postponed until next Seseon. and that om the inean tune it be published in the Royal Gazette and Examiner Hews \apers, respectively, for public imformanon. The ques:ion of concurrence hav ng been put thereon, the House divided :

Converts :—lon Mr. Bagnsa!!, Hon. Mr. Johnson, Hon. Mr. Palmer, Hon. Mr. Simpson,—4,

Non-Contents :-—His Honor the President, Hon. Colonel Swabey, Hon. Mr. Walker, Hon. Mr. Hutchinson, Hon. Mr. Mclotyre, —5.

And t passed in the negative.

The question of concurrence on the origina! motion Having been put, the House again divided :

Contents :—His Honor the President, Hon. Col. Swabey, Hon. Mr. Walker, Hon, Mr. Hutchinson, Hon. Mr. Mclatyre,

Non-Contents :—!lor. Mr. Baguall, Hon. Mr. Johnson, Hon. ate. Paimer, Hon. Mr. Simpson.-—4. :

And it was resolved in the affirmative, a read a second time. ae

The House then went into Commitee on the said Bill; and, afier having sat some time thereon th: House was resumed, and his Honor Colope! Swabey reported that the Commuttee tad gone through ihe Bill, and had agreed to in without any amendment.

A morion having been made, that the Report of the Commit- tee be received, his Honor the President having observed thet he doubted w ether His Excelleacy would assent to the Bi)! without a suspending clause, a short discussion ensyed, on the termination of which, bis Honor Mr Palmer moved that the following Section be added to the Bill :

* Nothing herein conained shall bave any force or effect until Her Majesty's pleasure therein shal! be kaown.”

The qnes ion of concurrence having been put thereon, the House divided :

Contents :—Hon. Mr. Bagnall. Hon. Mr. Johnson, Hon. Mr. Palmer, Hon. Mr. Simpson, —4. .

Non-ConrEnts:—His Honor the President, Hon. Colonel Swabey, Hoa. Mr. Walker, Hon. Mr. Hatchinson, Hon. Mr. Mclotyre,—5.

And it passed in the negative.

The question of concurrence on the orignal motion having been put, it was resulved in the affirmative, and ordered ac- cordingly.

On motion, that the Public Market House Bill be now read the third time—

ttoa. Mr. Bagnall moved, in amendment to the motion, to

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' ‘ i proposed site ov Queen Square, mee, Uprooted from its place. ft: Oh, lady. stay that lily hand,

If one such guest should fall, They say a dozen more will come

ve of the blow, and it is with great diffi: | a Tessonable rate ; and if shgeed got be found or thon ht a Jevel and firm foundstion for a \uilding suitable for the leave oui the word “ now,” and at the end of the question heulty that the least gash can be made. Sawing, Prylug. sufficient for the purpose, the property adjoining it was aiso| purposes of a public Market, would require an outlay of insert * this day three months.’’

moving bodies, and lifttag are easily douse ; Tiftiag cao be ip the market, advertised for sale, and cou'd, he had reason | £1500 or £1600,—a sum which, for such a purpose, could! , 4nd the question of concurrence having teen put thereon, dove easier under water than out of it. Bodies apparently | to know, be also obtained at @ like reasonable rate with the | oot by any possibility be procured,—said that a new Market- | the House divided as on the above last orevious division. So

To attend the iuneral. a ‘ adeuh nid Oho an 3 ; . ‘ it passed in the negative ; and the I sink as oe m one hun lred aud fifty asin fie feet of other: and he could not think that the country would find | house of proper construction, erected upon a portion of the. tea com esaiavaie i? ake ea having been read the Gray hairs'—I saw the Queen of France rn the woliog that they May attan a Certaia gravity | fait with the outlay of as much meney as would be required | west end of Queen Square, would rather be an ornament than. , ee Arrayed in regal state, ; ore reaching a great depth to the coutrary uotwithe | for the purchase of the two properties. a disfigurement to the Square; that, under proper regula- Monpay, April 9, 1860. Receive the elite of the land, standing.

The titled and the great.

And whil+ her dignity and grace Were prais‘d by every tongue,

Tne long, white ringlets oer Ler brow lo fearless clusters hung.

Gray hairs !—when eprinkled here and there {a beard and whiskers too,

Inspire respect and confidence More than the youthful hae.

Of knowledge of mankind teey tell, Perchance of serions thought,

And joss at the expensive sehool Of sage Experience taught.

Gray hairs!—I think them beautiful Around the ancient face ; Like pure unsullied snows that lend The wiutry landscapes grace ; V hen in wisdum’s way they crown With wealth’s exhausiicss sture, A prelude to that home of joy Where change is known no more. A DIVER’S EXPERIENCE—SENSATIONS AND SIGHTS UNDER WATER. Of the various methods resorted to by men to obtain a

livelihood, one of the most unattractive would seem to be |

that of diving, even where goodly pearls reward the diver for the great exposure of his life. yet the praciice is almost as old as history, and the art of searching in deep waters ‘or concealed treasures bas a cvarm in it sufftcient to overcome, in minds of a bold and adventurous nature. the aversion wiih which it is generally regarded. Exciting and uovel expe- riences characterize the life of the diver, and if these am- phibious individuals would communicate to the world the varied incidents of their submarine lives, not only would ther books prove very interesting rea ling, but oar stock of know- ledge concerning * life beneath the warers.’ would be vasily increased. In pursuit of the bazardous profession of divers, our countrymes bave obtained a distinguished pre-em hence, as evinced by the success of the company now engaged in raising the sunkea Rassian frigates in the harbor of Sebas- topol, and by the exploits of Mr. J. B. Green. Mr. Green, who has become a cripple in consequence of imprudent cx- posure while diving ou Lake Erie, has published a narrative of his experiepoe a3 a diver, which contains many interest- ing facts, and is worthy the attention of all who would add to their gtore of information on aqueous matters. — Mr. Green's pamphlet is entitled, ** Diving with and without Armor,” and trom it we gaher that he early posse-eed a Jove for the water, and could swim and dive with aucommon io diving for some trifling articles which had been lost over- board, led him to adopt diving aud su jon—a profession as ell Race he followed the business without the vu of armor, going to a depth of forty-two fee, and remaining at times three minates uader water. not oaly recovered a large amount of property in and about the harbor of Oswego, but also many persons. Un one oc- casion he was successful in quick) y recovering the body “* young lady who fell overboard trom a steamboat, so that she was reauscitated,and he received from the wwerjoyed father a reward of five hundred dollars. In this connection Mr. Greco states that in almost every case where be went down after bodies that did not rise, be fourd thom giinging to some object at the bottom. Although the buman body sinks readily when the breath is first exhaus'ed, it a-sumes ee position when decomposition commences. The gases Whis it coutains gradually expaud the body in the water, = s coming lighter than the water it begins to rise. | Lhe limbs, and especially the legs, do not expand as much in proportion as the trunk. and therefore incline the body in the water

unti) it assumes an almost vertical posture. Says Mr. Gree, |

Mr. Green was at one time employed by the Boston Wrecking Company to seek for the treasure in the British g Sovereiga, lost in L772 on the “ Silver Banks,” in the West Indies, but the treasure, cansisting of eigtteen tons

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'of Spanish dollars, was so overgrowa by coral that the at-

|tempt was a failure.

His deseription of this coral bank and fish which inhabit it is so interesting that we copy it almost

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+ Qa this bank of coral is presented to the diver one of the most beautiful and sublime scenes the eyes ever beheld.

'The water varies from ten to ove hundred feet iu depth, and

i smooth as a marble fluor; in others it 1s studded with coral ‘columns, from ten to one hundred feet io height, and from jone to eight feet in dumeter, the tops of those more lofty ‘supporting a myriad of pyramidal pendants, each forming a

and the success he met with at Oswego, N. Y., one day,

be found it a very lucrative one. | hatched. ne : 7 se | five feet long, and I should ibink would weigh from 400 to) As to what his Honor the Leader of the Goverament, Mr.

Daring this period he |

ig so clear that the diver cau sce from twe to three hundred feet, when submerged, with little obstruction to the sight, The bottom of the ovean in many places on these banks is as

His Honor the Presipent—Did his Honor mean out of the revenue ?

Hon. Mr. Patwer hoped their Honors did not believe that, because country methbers were opposed to granting, or reluctant to gragt, anythiag out of the general revenue for

ithe purchasing of a site for a new Market-house, the country |

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would be opposed to it, if they fuund that, in consequeace of the refusal of such a grant by their representatives, the -mueb required erection was likely to be deferred from year to year, to their yearly iucreasing inconvenience. If matters ‘respecting the Market were to be left as they then were, and the question concerning it were to be referred to the people, they would, he doubted not. express themselves in such a mauver as would justify their representatives in agreeing to

tions, the holding of the public Market thereon would, instead| His Honor Mr. Palmer,—aoi having been present when thie .of being a nuisance, be a public conveuience of the greatest Bill was passed by the Legisiarive Council, on Saturday, and importance ; and that, for 50 years to come, if properiy con- 4@¥i9g Must strenuously opposed its progress throughout us ducted, it would never be found productive of any injurious | PTEV}0U8 Stagrs,—clained the privilege of recording bis Protest effects to ‘he health of the population. | against it, as having previously, whist the Bill was under dis-

. - | cussion, intimated to the Tlouse his intention to do go: es é ; , ‘ > and his Hon. Mr. Jounson said that, whilst he adbered to the ciaim to such privilege having been acquresced in by the

opinions, with respect to the question then before their | {ouse, he gave ine Protest, which, under this date, ie ) Honors, which he had expressed when it was first mooted recorded upon the Journal of the House. ” }in the House, he would confess that he felt himself a little} Hon. Mr. Jolnson expressed a strong desire to enter a similar more embarrassed concerning it than when he first rose to Protest, or to unve with the Hon. Mr. Palmer in his ; but as he speak with referene> to it, He cou'd not but admit the | "44 Sot, whilst the Bul was under discussion, intemated any intention of recording a Protest against it, the House decided

| justice of the remarks which ha ative to the! ed . eh d been made relative to the | that such privilege could not, cons:stently with a due regard to

depreciation of property surrounding Queen Square, and in| ihe established mode of proceeding in such cases, be conceded its immediate vicinity, should the Market be removed from | ty him : and ut was accordingly withheld * o .

a grant sufficient to purchase a site, in an unobjectionable situation, for a new Market-house ; and should they then re- fuse to make it, they would have their constituents abont their ears to some effect. He had merely risen to state his

: rd : PY, : reasons for objecting to the placing of the Market-house upon \myriad more, giving reality to the imaginary abode of some

water nymph. In other places, the pendants form arch after | arch, aud as the diver stauds on the bottom of the ocean and gazes through those lofty winding avenues he feels that they Gli him with as sacred au awe as tf he were in some old Ca- thedral, which bad long been buricd beneath old ocean's wave. flere and there the coral extends even to the sur- face of the water, as if those Jofuer columns were towers belonging (0 those stately temples pow in ruins.

regarded as a melancholy fact, a blot upon the taste of the Qolony ; but be evtertained no hope that anything he could say against it would induce a change of opinion on the part of any of their Honors. The question had been decided out of doors by a portion—a smal! portion—of the inhabitants of Charlottetown. The inhabitants of the country had not | been consulted ; and, of others, many of those who kad been induced to sanction the proposed invasion of public rights in There were countless varieties of diminutive trees, shrubs | Queen Square, had been, he believed, wheedled and deceived and plants in every crevice of the cora!, where the water has |jnto compliance. For himself, however, he would have the depo-ited the least earth. They were all of a faint hue, | satisfaction of entering his protest against the passage of the owing to the pale light they received, although of every shade | Bij): the satisfaction to koow that, thereby, when hs bones and euticely differeat from plants [ am familiar with, that! should be soft in the grave, it would be scen by posterity that vegetate upon drv lund. Que in particular attracted my | one native of the Island, at least, had strongly opposed the attention; it resembled a sea-fall of immeuse size, of varie- | intended desecration of the square. It remained for those gated colors, and of the most brilliant hue. who had resolved to support the Dili us it stood to justify Tne fish which inhabit those Silver Banks, [ found as their resolve to the country as they best could. For himself, different in kind us the seeuery was varied. They were of he wouid take no further trouble about it. Had he cousulted all forms, colors and siz s, from the symmetrical goby to! his own private interest and convenience, he would have been the globe sun-fish; from tho-e of the dullest hue, to the jn favor of placing the Market-house upon Queen Square : changeable dolphin; from the spots of the leopard, to the there the Market would be nearer to him for the purchase of hues of the sunbeam; from the harmless minnow to the vo- meat; and his clients from the eoumry, attending the Market racious shark. Sowe had heads like squirrel:, others like | for the sale of their provisions, would be brought nearer to eats aud dogs ; one of the stall size resembled a bull terrier. his office. However, would the placing of the Market-house Some with short blunt noses, others with bills provruding there have been ten times more advantagecus to him, he several feet beyond their heads. Some daried through the would have thought himself destitute of public principle had water like meveers, Wuile others could searcely be seen to | he eoncurred therein, | move. Hon. Mr. Hurcutwson—The west end of Queen Square The sun-fish, saw-fi-h, star-fish, dolphin, white sharks,’ was the proper site for the Market-bouse. Since the question ‘ground shark, blue or shovel nose shark were often seen. had been agitated he had seen handreds of the country Another fish was spotted like the leopard, from three to ten | peop'e, and they had assured him that they would sooner ‘feet Jong. They build houses like the beaver, in which they hawk their produce and other Market wares through the

bmarine wrecking az a Spawn, and the male or female watches the ova until it is | streets, from door ts door, than attend the Market-bouse,

1 saw many specimens of the green turtle some | should it be placed lower down the town than Queen Square.

000 pounds, Palmer, had said about his clients fiuding it more convenient ln diving here we were often surrounded by sharks. They to get to bis office if the Market were to continue to be beld would swits cautiously towards me as if to ascertain what [| on Queen Square, than they would do should it be removed was, and J found it necessary to wear hoops of iron, for just | to another quarter of the town, his (Elon. Mr. Hutchinson’s) the opposite purpose of that for waich the ladies wear thew opinion, was, that the generality of litigants knew the value vat the present time. attract them. These hoops were only necessary when ascend- | oyr, wheresoever his residence or his office might be located. ‘ing or descendiag, ag uo danger was apprebended from them, Bat the case was very differeut as respected sbop-keepers and except while in motion. The shove! nose shark is a most ‘tradesmen ; the extent of their business was, in a very great terrible aad powerful enemy to encounter. Its jaws are meusure,dependent upon the number of people which, through ‘furnished with three rows of very strong sharp teeth, almost other and more pressing inducements than the necessity of transparent, the upper and under sets when closed forming | purchasing at merchants’ or tradesmen’s stores, frequented | seacly a solid mass of bose; so accurately do they fit each | the locality ia which they had established themselves; and ‘other aad of such tremendous power that one we caught | should the City Market be removed from Queen Square to snzpped off a white ash oar 80 suddenly, that 1 came to the some other part of the City, the removal would be very conclusion that one of wy legs caught in the same situation detrimental to the interests of those merchants and tradeswea would be of Jittle aervice to me in future. ; ‘who had so long carried on business ia the immediate neigh- We were oftea obliged to defend ourselves from this ra- borhood thereof, It would indeed injure many who, like venous fish with our pikes ipstrumeat with two lances— himself, bad straggled bard to build their houses and get

Queeo Square, the agreeing to which by the Legislature he |

It was to protect me from sharks, not of a good lawyer, and, when in pursuit of one, would fied bim |

jit. Still, however, although he knew his doing so would be

‘useless, he could not, in justice to himself, refrain from again | insisting upon the very great and very evident impropriety | |of further diminishing the already too much diminished open | ‘area of Queen Sqaare by the erection thereon of a new) Market-house. That square, and other public squares, should | be preserved free aud open in all respects, as ventilators or | lungs for the preservation and circulation of pure air, and as | | breaks or interruptions to the progress of conflagration in| eases of fire, so very likely to arise in a town nearly the) | whole of the houses of which were chiefly composed of wood. |

Hoa. Mr. M‘Iyrrae-—He had given the question much | consideration, and the conclusion at which he had arrived, was, that, if the public Market were to be removed from Queen Square, the doing so would not only be an act highly | injurious—in sume cases, perhaps, ruinous—to the interests of those who owned property or who carried on business) {around the Square; but it would be an act of injustice to people from the country as well; for, were the unoccupied portions of Queen Square to be reserved for purposes solely ornamental, they (the country people), on coming to town, wou'd fisd themselves shut out from and denied the exercise of common rights and privileges upon the most conspicuous portion of public property in Charlottetown. Now, said his Honor, a countryman dees nut koow that be is in Char- tottetown until he gets into the Market-square ; and, if he is | to be excluded from it, tt will appear to him almost as if be

were quite shut out of the city.

Hon. Mr. Bacyatt—He was perfectly disinterested in all that concerned the question, aud had no especial interests to serve ia voting either against the Bill or for it. It did not appear to him to be so much a question of to-day, as it was 'oue With respect to the fulure; for, wise and proper, as to him it appeared to be, that Queen Square should, for pur- | ses of health, exercise, and ornament, be kept free from | further encroachments, either by the erection of new buildings, | or by the enlargement of those already erecied thereon, the | ,wisdom and propriety of making sach a reservation of it) /would, when the city should have increased (as it certainly | would) in magnitude and population, be still more evident, | | whether it should then be practically acknowledged or not; | and as it should then be decided, in the one way or the other, | so would posterity have reason to applaul the wisdom, fore- | sight, taste, and indepeudence of their ancestral legislators, | or have cause to blush for their blint and selfish stupidity.

fNote. As itis now become absolute'y necessary that the | Reporter should, a8 far as possible, contiue niunself,—as to what yet remains unpublished of the debates and proceedings of the | Leyislaiive Council,~—to a simple expression, or mere indication | of the views and sentimems of their tlovore, individually, on | questions debated or discussed by them; im order that such | views and seniinents may be published before, from lapse of ‘time, the public generaily stall tave ceased to take an interest | in thea: he (the Reporter) has felt iuneelf obliged 10 condense | thos debate juio limits much Narrower than those whicn he has! assigned to any previous debate of the Session; and to still | narrower,—alinough be (rusia in a satisfactory manner, —must | he confine those Upon which he bas not yet entered.

With respect to ihe foregoing debaie, 1 18, he thinks, now, oaly aecessary for hum, after the above statewent, to observe, | that their Hunors Culone] Swabey, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Palmer, |

R. B. Irvine, Reporter.

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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

Monpay Arrenvoon, April 16 COMMITTEE ON WATER PRIVILEGES.

The House in Committee on the subject of granting water privileges. Petiions and correspondence eu the subject baving been read—

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND explained that it rested with the Hcuse to take such action as they thongin fit in the matier, which was of great importance, as affecting the rights of owoers of lands fronting on navigable rivers, to erect wharty or breastworks in front of their properties. Grave doubts were entertained as to the tight to fcenee such erections. Summerside was the only locality where it tad been done: bul the prinespie involved affected the country generally. A question had occurred in the district represented by ihe Hon, Messrs. Laird aud Longworth, and petitions bad been pre- sented 10 the House expressive of the diswatisfuction of the settlers at the alleged interference with ther privileges, Wharves were essential 10 the mercantile progress of country, and 1 was necessary fur the Legislature to decide whet powers should be given to the owners of water fronts. The questivn was not invested with 3 party character, A former Atiorney General had given it ws his Opmion that the sanction of the Legislature was necessary for the action of Government.

Mr. MONTGOMERY asked if it were intended to givea general authority, or to limit itt the vicinity of towns. Countey localities might be serious! inconvenienced by wharves being run out inte the rivers Jo low water mark aa they would prevent the farmers coileciing sea manure. 7

Mr. BEER saw no objection to granting the privilege of erecting wharves in the country, whieh cogld be constracied with open Spaces, 80 48 to admit buals 10 pass under 1 gather sea-weed. fle was in favor of sauctioniag the wharf ai Rus- ico, which formed the sabjecc of some of the petitions, if a were built $0 as not to interfere with the mavigatiwn, by pre- venting the collection of sea manure. At Summerside there was already a long wharf, than which no greater obstruction to the free navigation of the space beiween high and low water mark couid be construcied, and, therefore, he saw no harm in allowing erections of @ similar character in that par- ticular locality. Iu other paris of the country the case wae widely different.

Hoa. Me. COLES—The question for the louse te decide was, not the particular situation of Summerside, bat whether the public had or had not the right freely 10 use the *pace beiwees high and low water marke, fur tne evilection of sea- weed, or tor anyviher purpose. If i: was admitted that they had, no Goverament had the right te grat! sites tor the erec- tion of wharves any where. Tne right io all below high water mark was vesiedin the public, and the wharves in Chariotietuwa below that mark had been built on land special- ly granted by the Crown, which right had been trausterred to the Assembly by the Civil List Hill. He boped the quesuion, as far as it refereed to Summerside, would be settled in a tanner beneficial to that rising own, which might require peculiar privileges, Whee he wasin the Government be had reserved the rights of the pubitc tw the free sevess to the side of the public Wharis, that no obstiaciion should be pre- senied tu tue appruach of vessels to discharge or receive freight, or lo be repaired. Parties had applied for a licence of occupation of the space he alluded ta, bu: the Government