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September, J839, that the subject matter ‘0 the said Re- nerves ghould be again referred to the, sideration ofthe Legislature of this Island at its next firm. ,

The House, on reconsidering the matter this Session, passed another Bill on the subject of the said‘li‘ishery Reserves, gnarled in its provisions in the most cautious manner, and calculated in their opinion to produce the most beneficial results to the fishermen, for whose benefit it was intended—a copy of which Bill is herewith submitted.

But the House of Assembly regret to state that the said Bill was so changed in its principles and details by the amendments made thereto by theLegislative Council, as to be rendered an instrument for manifestly infringing upon the rights originally secured to the fishermen, and confirmed to them by, the above, Dcspatches. For which reasons it became imperative'on the House of Assembly to reject ,the said mneiidiiients, and in consequence the Bill of the present Session, collated and prepared, at the special request and desire of your. Majesty’s Government, for the settlement of this long disputed question, was, lost.

May it therefore please your Majesty, if the provisions contained in the Bill passed this Session by the’ House of Assembly meet your Royal approbation, to cause same to be intimated to the Lieutenant Governor, or else to direct that the said Reserves shall, by'the Lieutenant Governor, be declared to be thrown opcu,in conformity with the bespatch of the 14th of September, 1838; and that if any

. dispute should arise amongst parties availing themselves

if the said privilege, that the Legislature shall apply such remedy thereto as the nature of the case . may appear to require.

LEGISLATIVE, COUNCIL. ' Saturday, April 25.

The following Resolutions were reported from the Com- -

mittee of the whole House, on the Bill to authorize the Crown to purchase the Lands, and to regulate ’ the settle- ment of the Inhabitants of this Island, &c.

Ruched, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the docu- ments sent up from the House of Assembly, in accordance with the Message frpin the Council, desiring to be furnished with copies of the Evidence or Documents, on which the Bill to authorise the Crown to purchase the Lands,and to re ulate the settlementof the Inhabitants of this Island, and to repea certain sections of an Act intituled “ An Act for levying an Assessment on all Lands in this

V Island," was founded—and whiéhdoouments, with the said Bill, have . i been. referred for the consideration of this Committee, are wholl irrelevant to the subject-matter of the said Bill, the object of whic ' _

up are to this Committee to be the reinvestment in the Crown, by wol’untary sale, of the Lands in this Colony.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that any‘_

equitable arrangement, by voluntary sale on the art of the Pro- prietors, by which the Crown can be reinvested wit i the said lands, so as to enable the Crown to sell the same, at a reasonable rate to actual occupiers, would tend greatly to increase the settlement of thisColon , and advance its prosperii , and would be considered asa boon, calling for the utmost extent 0 gratitude from its inhabitants.

load, That although this Cummittee thus“ far recognize the ' prinai le ofthe Bill, they cannot concur in its details, and in fact '

they earn any enactment on the subject, not onl premature, but inex‘ edient andunnecessary, until the consento the‘ Crown and the be first obtained.

Resolved, That although this Committee cannot recommend the C House to pass the said Bill, they would, however, suggest to the,

House, the pro riety of joining the House ofAsserubly“in' an Ad- dress to the Throne. should that House deem such a course of pro-

ceeding advisable, pra’ying Her Majesty to take the measure con-‘ :

templated by the Bill into her favourable consideration, and to grant the means lbr effecting the purchase of the said Lands, pro-

wde’d the proprietors shallbe found willing to dispose of the same.

0,, , ordered, that the, Report of the Commilwa

be agreed to. , _. On motion, ordered, that the further consideration of naid Bill be postponed until this day three months.

WEDNESDAY, April 29. '-

At Two o’clock this» day, His Excellency the Lieu-

tenant Governor repaired in the usual state to the Council Chamber, resence of both Houses, gave his assant to the Acts assed this ession—26 in number—to most of which we have, already referred. ' ' His Excellency then closed the Session with the following Speech , Mr. President,and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council; Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly; J The business of this protracted Session having been brought to a close, I am enabled to permit you to return to y'purhomes. Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemsn of the House of Assembly; , - ~ Ithank you for the liberality with which you have voted-

the supplies, to enable me to carry on Her Majesty’s-

Government in this Colony. You may rely on my apply. ing them to the. purposes for which they are appropriated.

Mr. President, and Honourable Gentlemen of the Council; Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemenpfthe’ House qf/Jsscmbly; ; . ' In relieving you from . further attendance upon. your

Legislative duties, I have again to express my regret, that ‘

you hare not been able to agree upon asatisfactory mea- sure,er the regulation of the Fishery Reserves; but I still: hope, that, before the next Session, some plan may be decided upon by which these Reserves may be made available to the public, in the manner pointed out by Her Msjestyfi’sfiovernmcnt. ' 7 '

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An English Mail was receivged at Halifax on the 26th ult.

The Packetleft Falmouth on the 4th tilt. and broughtLundon dates r' to the 2d. The mail for this island was forwarded by, way-of ‘

Piston. and arrived here early this morning in the Cape Breton, Stunt". Parliament I Bill for the union of the two Canadas, and also the” Bill pound in'Canada for the appropriation of the Clergy Reserves. He recommended)“ .the latter measure shall be confirmed by Par- liament. The principal features of the CanadaSettlementBill are

developed in the short outline which we have given of his Lord- '

ship's'lpoech'ou the occasion .- . i .5 1‘ ’ _ .t I I l

House or commons, Mai-ch 23.‘

Load presented a message from the Crown tbr-a'peri- .

.ig. torLord Scamp (Sir John Colbourno) for his servicesin Canada; it will be taken into consideration on Friday. The same noble manhunt ht forward the Canada Settlement Bill. The prin- cipal ligature- the proposed measures are the following :—With- tospect to the Legislative Council, or Upper House, the Govgrn-

meat and the Imperial Parliament were agreed that its constitution ‘=

ht not to be elective, and that the seats in I it ought to be for life. .In tho Ammbly, or Lower House, be pro used to give 78 memben, or 39 for each province. The duration 0 the Assembly was to b. for four years ; and the unlification .a value of £500 in band.‘. ]g was intended to restrict ll'le- Auembl y from voting any money With- out swung-from the Governor; but it would be competent to ad- dress him for that purpose. A ermanent appropriation was to be 33501:.{51'11‘ for the salaries ogthe Governor and Judges; and the duties enable under the 14th Geo. III. were to barometer from

a" “mm” M "‘9 _Le islature, and to become parcel of the Crown . ‘ Municipa Governments for local districts, with powers , 'Oflocll' “Simon! "8|! also provided by the Bill; and measure!

Revenues.

would be taken for encouraging emigration by facilitating moderate

flees. “The moi! important part remaining," said "the Noble

rd,'“wu that of the clergy reserves, an appropriation; made

reprints?” to the measure contemplated by the said Bill, Ill‘lll' ,

It will be seen that Lord John Russell had submitted to '

under an Act of Parliament, of one-seventh othl‘is lands asa proviq lion for the Church in lieu of tithe. The Legislature of Upper Canada had recently passed a bill u on this subject. Thnyliud not been willing to leave the whole oft iesc reserves to the Churches of England and Scotland, still less to the Church of England alone; but their bill had proposed to give one-hulfto these two established Churches, and distribute the other half to the uses of the various sects existing in the Colony. Whether or not this arrangement were .

such in the abstract he should have approved, be was prepared, now that he found it laid down in shape ofa bill, to advise that it should -"

be sanctioned by the royal assent, in the bcliefthnt it would restore - He was convinced that the maleontents of

Pace rind harmony. pper Canada had been impelled to the recent insurrection more by the excitement on lllll subject than by any desire of separation

fromEnglund; and this unfriendly feeling to religious uslublisll- ‘ ments was nowa very general one throughout the continent of '

America.

Aftera short discussion, leave was given to bring in the Bill.

The Ordnance estimates occupied the House for nearly the re-- mainder of'tli‘e sitting; ' '

MARCH 30. .

By despatclies which have arrived from Constantinople iii the course of the past week, it appears that the King of Persia has en- tered into an alliance with Melicmet Ali, the Pectin of Egypt—arid, iii consequence, it is reasonably supposed, by one of the articles of his treaty, he has marched a, force ot‘several thousand men upon

Bagdad, the capital of one of the most remote oftbe Turkish pro-

vinces. There is no doubt,*adds one of.the mercantile dispatches,

that Bagdad and thewhule province must imirnrdiately surrender to . :

a force of this kind. Turkey is nearly pnlsied in the very heart at home, aml much more is she cold and dead in per remote members. Unless this war he stopped it must be attendod‘wilh the ruin of tho

,Otioman empire, not only under the effect of positive conquest,lbut '

.still more under the anarchv of a general insurrection. The sure and immediate result must be that Russia will-take osseseion of Constantinople under the pretence ofprotseting it om fire and pillage, and thus the quest-ion will come at once to an issue, who- tlier We are to go to war and have the res-imposition of the house, and perhaps the property-tax, in order to save the sticks and stones, and crumbling roo of a barbarous empire, and to bear the whole burthcn ofa contest for Austrian and Prussian subjects?

The French news may be dismissed almost in a ingle sentenCc. It is now generally believedthat the new French ministry is secure. Thiers and Guizot are both ofthem honest men, and it is hoped will put an end to some of those intrigues which site prevailing in the business of Constantinople. These paper: also concur in the state.

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ment that Russia is endeavouring to throw the affairs of the East =

into confusion, and thus to produce a state ofthings under cover of which she may take apraviswnul possession ofConstantinuple.—_- Bell‘s Messenger. ‘

Mr. H. Home Drummnnd, of Blair Drummond, has been'eloctcd' _

member of Parliament for Pe‘rthshire, in the room 'of Lord Slur-1 mont, now Earl ofMansfield. ‘

Lord Melbourne has stated that the Government, as a body, will '. k

‘ not propose an alterations in the Corn Laws. , V For cashing ank'er's bills, only 5‘ er cent. continues to be paid.

The project of the canal of the yrenees, to unite the German "

I Ocean with the Mediterranean, has been‘diacrused in the French Chamber of Deputies, as one of the greatest importance to the in- habitants ofthe Southern departments.

The weather has become extremely inclementin Paris. showers of hail and. snow had occurred in that capital.

A bill for the suppression of traud‘and bribery in Ireland, has passed the House ofCommons. ' . _ _

The following ships of war are fitting forservice‘, vim—Crim- bridge, 78; Vanguard, 84 ;Rodney, 92; Magiciennefld ;‘ Champion, 24; Pearl, 24; and Pelican, with several others, and steamers. '

It is reported that the Inconstant takes out Gen. Wittingham to Madras. - '

Openhostilities have'boen commenced by the Shah of Persia against the Ottoman Porto, and by the actual march ofa Persian army against Bagdad. ' 1

Several

Every thing led to the belief that the French war in the north of . Abd-el- __ ,

Africa was about lo commence witbtha utmostvrigour.

Kader was said to have returned to Medeah. 'n immediate gene-

ral attack nfall the French posts was iii cons ence expected. The Earl of Mint!) and the Board of». Adm hue ordered the

establishment of vvnrknten in the dock-yard at Cliatham to be , ,

increased considerably. 7 m Her Majesty, we understand, intends giving a series of 12 state

balls at the new, Palace, the first to take plfie immediately after.

,Easter. ’. Um .‘I ,_ ‘ v. , , . . Ponrsmoo'rn—The Lords of_tlie Admiralty have directed that BOD-thipwrights be forthwith entered into thefloyal dockyards, in addition to the present-number; 31nd accordingly notices are posted here, requiring 200 for this yard. Increased activity is 'apparent in every department. Two new three-deckers will be launched about July next, namely, the St. George .and Trafalgar, to mount 120 guns each; and the utmost exertion continues to be made to procure

volunteers for the navy—Brighton Gazette. J We are sorry to learn that the state of trade in Birmingham still continues most deplorable. Our dependence is almost exclusively on the American market, and from Americagcome neither mono nor orders; or if the latter do come, they are such as very few wi l or can execute. The complaints of the merchants are universal.— Birmingham fldvertiser. - It appears that the Emperor of Morocco, who is in alliance-with Ahd-eI—Kader of Algiers. has declared war against France. 'The Bishops in the House of Lords are attacking the Canada Clergy Reserve Bill. They talk of Addressing the Queen to with- hold her assent to it.

Two‘tliousand chests ofTen, from Boston, and seventy thousand v

chests from New Yorlr, have been shipped to England.

The Cape Breton, Steamer, arrived here on Wednesday afternoon last, from Miramichi—abeing her first trip this season-- and sailed the same evening for Pictou. . '

The Cape Breton seems greatly improved in her appearance since we last saw her; and her internal arrangements exhibit much taste and discernment. No expense ap ears to have been spared, with I. view to the comfort and accom‘motljation ofthe passengers.

The Legislature of. the Colony ‘was prorogued by His

Excellency on Wednesday last, by a speech'which will be found ‘

reported under the proper head. the protracted length of the Session, expressed his tlinnks'to the

Assembly for the liberality with which they have voted the supplied

to enable him to carry on the government. We consider this 'cor'r'i- pliment flilly merited, as the Bill of Appropriations makes liberal provision for every branch ofthe public service. '

His Excellency, alter adv‘erting to »

The loss ofsome ofthe principal measures ofthe Session, such the Land Settlement Bill, the Bill for the regulation of the Fishery Q

Reserves, andtbeBill‘fiirthe reliefof the American Loyalisls, have produced .a string of Resolutions from the House, couched in for- cible language, the purport of which it is unnecesaary for us to descent upon, as they a pear in our present number, and W1” speak for themselves. The esolutions of the Legislative Connoil, in reply thereto, have been'ordered to be printed,and will be found in this day's.paper. . _ ‘ _ ,,

‘A Petition to'Parliament, andtliree to the Queen, all on subjects ofgreat public i'iiiportance,rvve have also inserted. V _

There is .still' a good deal ofLegislative matter which {remains to be

reported, and which we shall lose no time in supplying.

No officialintimation has yet been given of the appoint-

ment'pf’the Sheriffs for the difl'erent Counties.‘ It is, however, ,

pretty generally known that the following gentlemen have been appomtedz—Queen’s County, Solomon Desbrisay, Esq. King‘- County, Peter M‘Callum, Esq. (re-elected.) Prince County, Tho- mas Hunt, Esq. (re-elected.) ' " ' '

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- HIGHLAND Somme—The adjourned Annual Meeting ofthe Hi bland Sp'cie't was ‘held on Monda evening, the 13th ul‘t., the on.‘ Donald"- acdonalti,“Presidento the Society, in tho C.h‘air. .. , V, i . ...' ,._ ' .. .

“A‘Report of the transactions of the Societ ,VslhiCe its-formatmn, together with 3 Circular, addressed by'the O educators to gentle- man in the Scottish Settlements oftlie‘ Island, inviting them to form auxiliary Societies,,were ’ read, and ordered to' fie'pnnted. The dish: of“ an Address from the Society to Her Mb esty, on the au- spicious,event of, her marriage, wasalso read, _ H a Committee

"pointed to wait updn His Excellenc , for the purpose or“ request-

fig His Excellency to forward the Ad rest; to Her Majesty.

‘Tbe following gentlemen were then up ointed Office-bearers for the onstiing year :‘-—Hon. Donald Macdoua (re-elected) Premdent; Charles Young, Esq. Mr. Alexander Brown, and R. C. Macdonald, E . Vice Presidents; Mi. John'M‘Gill‘, Treasurer; Messrs. John M‘ Oil and William M‘Glll, Societaries; Ma’or C. D. Rankin; Andrew Duncan,;Jam‘er.Purdie,‘Patrick Wal or, Donald Benton Ind Kanmlh M‘Konzie,Directors. - w ‘i r w ~ —-»~

The attendance at the meeting was numerous and respectable. All seemed to be animated with astrong desire to advance the interests of the Institution, and at the conclusion of the proceedings, a number of new members Were added to the roll.

To THE Quaan's Mosr Excunanr Mascara. Most Gracious Sovereign; ’

We Your Majesty’s faithful and loyal subjects, the Highland Society ofPrince Ed ward Island, constituted by Charter from the Highland Society of London, humbly beg leave to approach your Majesty, to offer our sincere and heartfelt congratulations upon the suspicious occasion of your Majesty's marriage Willi His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg and Gutha.

We beg to assure your Majesty, that we partici ate in tliejoy and satisfaction which this happy event has produce , in common with

all others ofyour Majesty’s faithful subjects, the Inhabitants of this .

Island—an Island which bears, after your Majesty's illustrious father, the honoured name of Prince Edward-and we trust that the connection which has thus happil commenced with your Royal House, will be continued and con must] by your gracious Majeiy.

We sincerely pray that the divine blessing may follow a union of so much importance to, your Majesty’s domestic happiness, and to the welfare onour Majesty’s extensive dominions.

[In the name and on behalfof the Society, signed by the Other:-

bearers.]

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An Inquest was held on Tuesday last, on the body ofa. new-born male child, found concealed in a basket, in the bed-room ofa young woman who had been a servant in the house ofa gen- tleman in this town for the last five weeks. From the evidence

taken before the Coroner, and the post martem examination of the A body, by two Medical gentleman, the jury returned a verdict of. ~

wilfulmurder against Louisa Whitby, the mother, vtho has been committed to prison on the Coroner’s warrant. ‘

allot t of 611i arlottetoinii. , * ENTERED.

Schooner Good Intent, Landrey, Arichat; Ballast.

Courier, La Vecbc,.do.; do. Nancy, Flinn, St. John’s, N. E; 203 bls. pickld. Fish. Lady, La Vache, Arichat ; ballast. King William, Le Blane, do; do. Trial, Macdonald, Pictou 3 Goals, 5w. An clique, Horton, Canso; Ballast. . Vigilaiit, Farrell, Pictou'; Coals. - “ cmuiuin.

Schooner Sarah, Clark, Miraniichi; 900 bus. Potatoes, 350 do. Oat]. Angler, M‘l‘ijillan, Halifax; 117.00 bus. Potatoes, 150 do Oats. » Eleanor Archibald, Sutherland, 60.; 1500 bus. Oats, 1500 do. Potatoes. Defiance, Stewart, do ; 300 bus. Potatoes, 300 do. Oats. King William, Lo Blane, do.; 1900 bus. Potatoes. Swan, Bishop, Pictou 3 700 bus. Oats, 4 M Shin les. Marmion, Rice, StJobii, N. 3.; I40 bls. Oatmea , 1000 bus. Outl- Angeli e, Horton, Canso ; '700 bus. ,Potatoes.

Betsy, urhoe, Fishing Voyage.

arrivals.

At Halifax, from P. E. Island—April 14-, Mary Ann, Campbell; Provi- "

deuce, 5 Q5th, Annandale, Wightman; 26th, ‘preculation, Wood. Kingston, (Dublin), March 23.—Arrived,.Souri‘s, elsh, P. E. Island.

Martian, At Do Sable, on Thursday the Hill: A‘p‘ril, by W. B. Wellnor, Esg. J. P., Mr. Robert Inman to Miss Judith Farrow. t amc da , at Crapaud, by the name, Mr. Samuel Miller, to Miss

‘ Catherine A ‘Fadyen.

A: Lot 49, on the 23d inst. by the Rev. Benjamin Scott, Mr. Robert Jones, to Miss Jane \Vood, both of the same place.

Etch,

At Halifax, on Manda ' the 20th inst. afler a long and very pain-

ful illness, which she en ured with pimis resigniitiou to tho divmo will, Sarah Elizabeth, eldest daughter of David Starr, Esqr, aged 27 years.