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Excell weyvs Npeech (co ri d ) ‘ \

How. Mr. MACAULAY —I Bir. Chatman, te pede the progre given by any factions opposition to an Teesanre Ube may p Wilhetanding the terrifying definition form ef government by the Pheer, At ral during the progress of this debote, when pronounced Respite Gevernaent ta be ( ether and niwre “a qu rareneia! } despotisur, 1 ebrink wet. although | aim i the niinerity af thid Homse, trew the trce atterance | ot wy sentiafewte frdey the dread of hia ive ¢} neither do L wieh Wantently te proveke the wratl of bie parte > tat a eeate of dety pipet me te draw your atteiition te The extraerdinaly deeu | Incuigetitet iorws the subject of thir debate. My justiteatioty in see doing ie tht tlhe destinies et | the people are eo entwined with the acta of the} : oer ett tare frente or marred by the acta of the other; | wed, as the dugumen® belore you will appear on | the Journal of thie Hegase, and aa you bave al readvedeciited to send copes of that Journal te! each of the ad}ecent Betish Colowtes, specia care shonkd be taken that the peoples money should net be apent te publish te the world aes

raiter that ny tend te thes diseredit, Ll do ne juteud to offer any amendment ter ually te the}

The paragraphs ot | proper to approve, fener The } , with your!

stilutt fe a short, gertie, Crib |

have no desire as of the Sea sulishactors

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given ot ou

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concise W ords)

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Addcess, or any part of it. whieh you have themghi are bevond the reach of any Cianse woder consderation, howeve peeve unissiet, i wi eal esalvais, leaving Ure matter therealter tm the hands ot the Government themselves tor subse- gient amendment awd reversion, This cours ] Purpose to pursue, because bie mojorily esinec i determivation to support every cicusure they |

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eorgginate, be it beneficial or iejurians to the Cou wtic, they would studiously endeater, while

Professix te benetit the people at heme, cot te | degtade tiem abroad Hew far tie document | Delore you ia calculated to do the env or the othe et these, ia prebiematical. To aid ty the solution | et thie questien, L clam the priviege of making | the paragraph betere you the subject of a tew re-

warke. On reading it, [ wetie the lollowing words: “* We have observed. in commen wilh} Your Excellency, the general desire evineed by the tevantry te obtain the tee shople of their lends, | by the purchase of their farnues "To copy thes words inte the records of this House withert re- | foark, world be brandimy the whole House with | fie atigwa of iobeedity. Why not after that) MiawhisW sertevers and say in plan) words that} we Know the leaseholders ef thes Colony are desi ' read of becoming treeholders. Bat, Sir, such a plain statement weuld bat al aceord with the twaddie that characterizes the whoie Address, ne part of which will bear the teuch ef criticism. 1] will give you auutier example, viz: “ And we fejeice to learn that Your Exceilenury’s efforts Wili'be continued to be directed towards extend. | fog the operation ef the Land Purchase Bul.” | Here we have the full portrait of that vanity and | cuneit, ii wot dissimuaiation, which have marked | the past career of the party whe gave birth te this Adidress,—a party which will be methorable | ior tte vanity and weakuess. Through the thin gta hut ¢onceals thet purposes, i can be seen | thet they play with the bopes of the people. as an | etigive tu retain that power, whieh, by the sate | inatromentality they lately obtained Why not) #ay, Ya plain and unambiguous words, that the | t-nliitry of thie Colony owe to His Exeelleney a | debt of gratitude for having been the instrument | éf making so many of the former leaseholders of this Colony the teeeholders of the soil whieh they formerly bed as leaseboders?) Such a sentimen! wonld be ill-suited te thetr purpose. They pre-| ter to hover about the subleet, rather than strike at the reet of the evil et 6.¢e and abolish i ter. |

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‘ . : Cush ta the

12 hUUU to begin with

if itean be had, than go abroad to ral’ funds: If there isan actual necessity tor sectring a loan then I would ge abroad, previding it con be ob- taiued on reasonable terins

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Bat Laoret opinion | ww wrnnnnnwer wer

that the Celeny, in matters of tinanee, ic ina very |

youd atal®, for there is te the etedit ef the Col- ony the following sai, vizs—

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In the Hank of Peinee Edward bdand, £7556 4 0)

Union Bank, Preasury,

Banos

oh Live

In over due And ju bonds not die,

\mounting in all to Pais wii leave £15,019 192. over. after paying the money that will be dee on the Cunard batate tp te wud on the Istlot January, Lois. That estate has already realized £11220. other Estates last year LS US: und all that will have to be

paid ow (he Cunard property willbe in daly next, |

£iu7o, and in January, west £07000 Aties hat time there will be ne further demands agaist

the Estate, except the interest, autil

become due in ISTG, which leaves seme ron ter) the Foreizn S

the present Government te werk upon. ‘They, Sir, wust be very extravagant ndeed 1 they can-

vet carry on the Goveruuout with a balance ef | Coutiheat—especiaily in France and Prussia—

Beat lL have not heard

the Bonds | Coaterence—for his part in which Lord Stanley,

wal interest they expect lo pay on Lue Conleus |

plat ed loan.

Che hon and jearned Atturuey General said

; 3X per cent.

liva. Me. isked for @ loan howe a copy of the Royal Guzelte, and waen the Colonial Minister saw that the Colony

DU NCAN — When the

Some

party

betore, person seni

iwaa in debt to the extent of £25,000, while

avert it. France and

lfon LEADER OF TUE OPPOSITION —|} before trany months elapse, notwithstanding | |

} such an enormous cutlay in preparing for

the despatch they sent home with the Loan)

Kill showed a

| Colony of L000, the result was, that assvon }as the Colonial Minister noticed this diserep- iney, the loan was droy ped at once. Toe cause | tt e present d “pression of trade in thes com. | ploy ment to the vast, weil-armed, and weil toenwealth.- If the Government were tridy path munity ts pot to be attributed tu the perchase | liscip ined legions which have been collected Lt is tu be chargea to},

ut the Cunard Estate. ther Causes,

unsold, and aniess toey sell ata bester price |

than have tiey done reeentiy, ship- builders had better cose op their business than go on and luse money. Another reason is thac there were Jarge importations bast year, and sales have taken place at a runious loss, while a large amount o property yet remains oo hand unsold.

fion, Mr. HOWLAN.—When was that Batik statement taken to whieh you refer.

Hon Mr DUNCAN.—On the first of April The Government, us shown by the state- iment I gave, have only £21,000 to pay on the Cunard Estate, which, considering

Many ships are lying at home |

balance to the eredit of the;

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inspired to promote the cause of peace, Even ‘the Crown Prince of Prussia and his amiable princess are expected, and in the interchauze | of civilities between the representatives of the war spirit of the tinge the last spark of hostility should beextinguished ; but nvtwithsta ding the civilities and ¢ izratulations, the banquets and iliuminetions, the eourt recepuuehs, aud ail the other hovwours paid to royal a id distin suishee excellént | persons, princes and statesmen who make aad jinar the character of the mes, there is ai

! lere . fe ‘ heacoet: Toaped any Our latest dites fom Eagiand ave to the 25th} uudercurrent of sullen dsconteat, HI Bpea|

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Charlottetown, Fune 10, 1887.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. | Tas

Sunday niszht, 3nd inst., after an

Steamshio Cura arrived at Halifax on

pilssa le of somethins less than eisht days.

3 of s reech ouly cuolteal a desire for M. de Cassa zuaty #1 euthusiastic im

howe!

ult. The Porei ge European news is not of very {1 ,¢¢te

much imoortanee. It will be seen by some ex: | periatist, makes no secret ol his rerrets at the

tracts given below that alihoush peace has beeu | "4 uF ¢ ot ee : , ofa semi-ollicial paper, ie ays, the Kaaperor’s ldisavowal of a design upon Bei sium, as Pratice is thereby deprived tor the present of tue object i The court a

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pacific turn of atairs ; butlamentsin the columus apparently secured by the labours of the London

eretarv, has been praised im-}of her lezitimate aspirations,

} splayed towards the King and Queen of the | ht »™ . . . i Belgians by*the-Emperor and Earpress, is very | strony marked, yo Opportunity of mauifesting |

Seige lost; the manifesta

mouseiy——still the minds of the peoples on the

favour and esteem tious, indeed, have been SO Osteltatious us to

are far fron being pacifie in their tone; and

| the fear is entertained that war may yet ensue N yer lusplre a behef that-there mugt be a reason for j them, which is uot avowed, Beisium may be | regarded as a toy ia the hands of France, vo be | its on

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° ® ' s — . | Peussia have ineurred| plaved with, or otherwise treated, as su

the | convemence of the tine. . : : doubts of France, and dread arbitrament of war, and have inspired | + } {

Piussia expresses , . ‘ > . France believes that Prussia has still desi vg of |

— aes feelin } nseiy warline feeling among then

such aa late arzrand.gemenut ia contemplation that it would The Journal des Debats aud other papers, represent that the anutagouisin ~ | between Pranee and Prussia must last for a lon s until |

DE HEE RY? to resist.

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peoples, that it will not be at all surprising it t countries

oeess of dicarming in’ both

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should be extremely siow and reluctant, time to come, and untill it ceases france must

‘ontinue her armaments “in the inte:ést of ier OWN Security.’ j

some new excuse can be tound for giving em Lord Stanley’s fiieudiy

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pressure fora disarmament will not prevail while

such thouyhts as these exist. © The nations

on Ro. » ‘ Tuileries are shown wpon a magnificent stale, sowings Che GAME, vould the nace of the eeasion be

. oe , ltined at Eunis, in the

os re ensed on ther own reco fuisances, and it Is |

“annot fail to be brought oi rapidly. The like weathér to that we have had here has heen experienced on the continent, but its effects

lhave wot been uniform.

The Limerick Chronicle states that out of seventeen prisoners i the county vaol ¢harged wits being engaged inthe reeeutrising, uo less than Qirteen have volunteered to inform #zainst The Crown has selected six will have the privilé ze for

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their Comrades. ot the velunteers, Who witnesses at the commission FPourteda Peaian prisouers, couuty gaol, have Leen

atacting as

Limerick.

understood that the Crown will forego the pro-

}secutious, except ln a few cases.

OF THE PROVINCES.

is the text of Her Majesty's

E UNION

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Tue following

Proclamation for uniting the Provinees of

'Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, peb-

tished by authority iu the last Loyal Gazette. The Union will take effect on the lst July

j/ucxti:—

BY Thik QUEEN. A PROCLAMATION Mor uniting the Provinces of Canada, Neva Neolaa, and Brunswick, Douanion, under the name of CANADA,

New ilo

Whereas by an Actof Parliament, passed on

Ithe twenty-ninth day of Maich, one thousand

eizht huudeed and sixty seven, in the 30th year of our reis ‘An Act for the Union of Canaday Nova Scotia, anc New Brun-

by DHMTEs d

swick, and the Government thereof, and for jus DUSES connected therewith,”’ alter divers re citals itis enacted that “it shall be lawful for ihe Queen, by and with the advice of Her Ma

jesty’s Most tovorabie Privy Council, to de-

ry the lately hostile Powers to settle the com | sentiment does not think itself humiliated,” | ciare, by progutmation, that onand alteca diay

| paratir ely small question regarding the Ducly | Says the France, “by the conditions of the [therein appointed, not bein yr more than six of Luxemburs. af lreaty of Pardo and by tae houvuraible , ou ji mnths atter the passin s of this Act, the Pro Fears for the safety of Maximilian are very | ae ig page hey Ovarnas ane thang yi ee “ Canada, Nova Scotia, and New brun-

. . ? | its duty fo make to the pacihe mtervention of | swick, shail foma and be one Domimnen unde

justly entertaiued in France, and the popularity | the great Powers. But publie opinion is in althe name of Canada, and on aud alter that day of Louis Nap yeou has not been increased by state of inceititude. It looks towards Berlin those three Provinees shall form and be one

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the | credits bequeathed by the late Government, |

will leave them about £16 000 to begin with ;| therefore, | do not think that they should |

borrow any money atall. Phe Land Pur- chase Bull was carted throagh the Legistature when the Hon Mr. Coles was the Leader of the Government, but it was supporied by both parties. put forth the ideas, and they worked them out. The purchase of the Cunard Estate, it

jwas beliewed at one time, would occasion a

considerable loss to the Government; bur judging ffom the amount of receipts already come in—over fourteen per cent of the whole purehuse money—and thuc there is a large quantity of good land yet to sell on the estate, F think the loe® will be tur trifing, perhaps waboat £5000 or £6000 With respect to the purchase of more lands, did not think the present Government would

require any tundsfor that purty ose, asl under- |

jappreuensions aie entertained of there beins|-

Stood that some of the bon. trembers who supported that party had propounded the

The late Mr. Duncan MeLean!

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| Stanley, proud of his suceess in the Luxembury

im doubt; it beheves that there some @riere pensees iu that quarter, and that immoderate threatens

his abaudonment of the cause of his brother

Emperor. We have ho reliable news From ambitious “ure nourished which are Mexico respecting the fate of the uafortunaie | for the Ifere is thinzs.””? The two great military Powe IS OR PLEss | “As for Prussia,” says the Debats, “azainst whom, we confess, we eutertain a geud re, we thiok thot both she had But bot! suntries will find that out wheu they find what

future, the real state of

Prince. One of the telegrams reported that : a - ® ears of each other, he and all his superior ollcers were shot by

We

hope there is WO towadation for this report,

order of the victorious Republican chief.

rrance Ought fo live on good terms.

wthourh the Republican anarchists have been ; : a it costs to qerrrel, and to make that discovery accustomed to do stransze and savage things | they uth’ aren”: «When ; powers ave fuily armed, they alsv find that thes must fizht; and unless some intervention more

effectual than the friendly pleadings of

must miarreisome

i a inh Mexico.

Lo.d| 2-.u

The fearful scourge of yellow fever in the

Mauritius is the most painful feature of the

Stanley shonld oceurythere will yet be fichtin:

European news. An account of this

great} between Prussia aiid France. Prussia wauts calamity will be fuund amongst our extracts. vhat is not willing she shall have, and the

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NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL,

rHE ARMED PEACE.

No thoroushly official contradiction appeared to a report ortzinating with a minis terial paper, that the British Government, in its anxiety for the preservation of peace in

can only have the effect of implicating countyy in transactions of a dinvrerous charac: ter, and which the British Goverument ou rht to keep out of.

has

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AUSTRALIA.

the urranzemeuts agreed upon at the Tate:

Postal Couferenee. A considerable jinevease is shown in the vo'd returns. The gold to Ea gland durins the mouth amount to 80,500 oz.

tive ex} ediency of a general disarmament, and | : : colonial

some devree of truth in its and that Lord

shipments of

further interference of the British Government |

eser. The sentente feet quoted docs not include

doctrine before the election that the terantry | S$ the absurdity in the Address. In the same

could procere free lands without the assist-|

strain of inexpressive Quibiguity, are the follow rg words: © We trust the remaining proprietors.” Does this mean the propriciers thatare yet living?) { Laughter.) Certainly the dead and gone do ret remain. [Laughter] Bat, Sir, bam weary ot feview ing tins silly decument, and I will cease | provoking your risivilities by further criticising & preduction that should create im us all a feeling ot hemility, when we consider that it emanated fromn persons who constituted thetuseives the Gov- eruatent of an intelligent and eniightened com- monty —a community whose inte ligence will be.ettunated abroad by the acts of the party whe, by political fate, sways the destinies of the Col- ony. Sir, tis my sincere desire to dee all our peevie happy. preeperous, and progressive, and trymg to equal, if het surpass, heir surrounding reighbers, und te Cause the fame of thei excell. | #uee to extend as tar as the pame of the Colouy is known. But the Address under review is nei caledlated te promote the desire; and, as it is bet iy intention io offer any amendment thereto, fer reasout aleresard, Lo ohepe the Government will withdraw tt, or get some competent person to revise tt tor them, betere it goes abroad to the weld. [Applause ] ‘The Hou. Attorney Gene ral téemes to faver worsueeg a lean tn the Beitish

ne tons fy think (hat money wall breed | toe @* File toll? exceptinder very exticme | étretistances, tor this country to go inte a tor-| eign @erkéet for money : because the Interest will | lave to be paid out of the Colony yearly, aud) finaliy the principal alse.

Hon. APTORNEY GENDRAL -If the doe.) trines laid down by the bow. member are right, | then itis a pity that he has not given the world | the benefit of bis counsel, He ought at once te! be sent on an express te Englund, to prevent | othe? Colonies rug themselves by contracting , heaGe, for most of (Lem are doing su at presenr. | Let bias be appointed general Colonial Finance | Minister, and tet a teiegrau: be at once sent to) London by the Atlantic cable, te let the world! know that he is couning; and then let him ge te:

Seutk Australia, Canada, and elsewhere, to ad-: vine their valfous assemblies on findncial meas-

ures. Ror. Mr. HOWLAN.—Send him to Van Die- | man's Land. Hon. ATTORNEY GENERAL —No, I would | wt iet him ge to Fan Diemaas Land; | respeet | hum too mueb for tht, Lacey borrow mouey iw Australia and other countries, and why cannot} we safely dose tho? Now, i the Government | can berraw money To purcliase oul fhe rematuing | estates oi the proprtetors, 1 will be wise te de se L quite agree tuat a loan suould not be contracted, | Unless the moury can Le ebtated ou terms that! are reasonable, and wuder circumstances that the! cottgspouding advanieges will be au equivalent | tier the interest. Without referring to what has) tukety place w beds, b eaunet express the hope of | ear, Wow gettiig a guarantees trom Wie Turperial | Gotgruthent; we must depend npon our own | eredit and teseurces ‘0 raise the meuev in Eng-| la try at preeetit, bdo think we would be justified | m endeaveriig—nay, indeed, that we ought te | endeavor—te obtain a loan, We xce that the, securities ot Nota Scotia stand at 97, in the que-| tativns of the British market. Surely, then, it} weuld be nothing téery ohjectionab.« or disreput-| abiadn us te Legisttte te order to effect we haat | they have cone in Neva Scotia. It would net at! least be anything very eS Craerdinary for the Gov-, eroment to adept each a polley Nutwithstand-| jugeall tbat has been suid by the ben. member for} tieeeyetowrs te whew Ll listened wiih pleasure, while disetiseing the financial aMatra es this Colony, lL have vet yet heard any idea advanced by bia. | erany ether ben. member, to Show that wu is Wwreng tor any party to come te this blouses and | ask tor 6 intericrenee to relieve tlie Heenelary | presmare eaisiing at the present Kine. Thereasen tur going abroad ia thal, in view of the £42,000) ty be paid July, on the Cunard estate, and the | further sam et £12000 we Janwary next, wuless: renet baw be given, Liese paymetic wii greatly | tuereuts the pressure, aud ereate niany dé feu j ues with will preveat the Banke trou diseeunut | dug, a6 Chey Must neon prepare to ticet tiese for: | eau, demands, We moet reeellect that, wet-! withetabding a!l the tmouey we Lave inthe Treas | ury, dur predecessors have lett us many debts ty! pay, and We have to look to the payments to be| uede mw the téture. My ewn mdicidnal views | nse that, ita tuan can be bad, we should endea-} ver, te obiain ove. |] am eceriain that, unless! euine geeat change in the tnereantile world takes | pisee, that When the instalments TD have relerred | te ebail have fe be pmid by as. the conamunity | will-be placed iv adiflicel postion: cousequentiy, 2 alean can be etteeiedar, say avon. O per cent, Lah it would be an advantage io this Colony. With respect fe what has been said hy the other bem member tor Georgetown, Lwill only remark |

» be. j hold if they wish it, at ‘cost amd Charges’; but it

| £7 10s. rent of iuterest in cash,

ance of the Government.

lion Mr. UOWLAN.—Mr. Chairman; we:

have been told that the Land Purelase iil

ter now; nor is it necessery, as the subj c

iwas pretty fully discussed bere last year

Bat t will read a quotation from the ‘slander of 1853, whieh shows the opimions the Con- Servative party entertained about the Bili wt

the time :—

* SweeeisG Meascre “—Trrk Land Purcuase Birt —This is emphatically the greatest broout, or lending humbug of the Session. It is just Cofes’ old Bil, authorising the Government to purchase Township hinds at not wore than 7s 6d. currency

per were.in lots not less than 1000 acres. if any |

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proprictor be willing to sell within the limit Royal Gazette, of the 7th inst , furnishes an epitome of the Act. und a verv confused affair it seems to The Government to settle the teuantry in free

did dot orginate with the Liberal party. 1) shall not go into the consideration of that mate}

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Conterence., is extendmeg lis practice in the arts of diplomacy with w laudabie desi.e, it may be, to complete the work of pacification upon | the inauguration of which he bas been com-! pitented both in Kaskhind and France. The} organ of the French Guveriment has aecknow ledzed the great ability of Lord Stauley, who| presided at the deliberations of the pienipo tentiaries, and whose enlishtened and impartial | attitude was in keeping with the disunity aud | interest of Ensiand. Kut as if acceptance of} the compliment was not desired for more than it was worth,the Moniteur concludes by assert ing that since tye commercial treaty or 1866, | “no nation profits more than Eicsland by al} guarantee which strengthens the peace of ‘the continent.””. It waS in a ¢enerons spirit that the Government of Great Britain with its good oifices for peace ; neverthele ss, Our netshbors are in- | structed that there is not a litéle selfishness in| our part of the transaction; and seeing that |

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appears that those same * cost and charges’ may | We are m st largety benefitted by the restura- |

amount to. but wet exceed, * that sum, the annual interest of which would be equal to tle anuual rent paid by them nuoer their leases.” Redreing our contemporary’s explamilion to a perspicnous statement, it means thift if a tenant pays £7 10s. rent in the prodace of the farm, bre may have to pry yearly, to the freasury, notil he be erfabled to hand over £150 to the Government, for the freehold of the same How the * charges’ should amouut to such a lizure is the mystery. :

Our quotation cannot mean 31 rent per acre, and under the equivalent of net wore than £5 sterling purchase, tuere being nove leased go low vu the L-taud, we believe.

* Bat the Bill is not simply an eléctioneering hum!hag—itis something worse. Unless lund be in the position of the Worrell Estate. owned by a very aved gentieman without heirs, ve proprietor will

sell for four or five years’ purchase, with titles |

The!

better thau they were 10 or 20 years ayo Lill, nevertheless, provides that Debentures —od

| ligations for borrowed mouey—shall be issued by

the Government to the tane of £30,000, which, with the £10,000 already afloat, needlessly, will forma pablic debt of £10000, bearing av annnal iuterest of £2,000 Ye * Family Compact Govern- ments! hide your divtinished heads; ye were but novices In the art of corruption

* Some years ago, Pope purchased a tract of land |

neres, we believe, s-ld fora trifle, bétause it was not considered worth paving the land assessment for, We have seen and read a Freehold Deed ot 100 acres of similar bow land to Pope's; inthe same quarter, for £10, or avout ?a 2d per utre.-—Now, we don’t doubt that the parehase of Pope's swamp ix one trata object of the Bill Will the pabtic con- sent to coutinue ty be represented by a pack of fellows who needles-ly impose high duties on tea

sugar, des. to obtain money to squander on any | oue at Strasburzy one at Besancon, and three

sneh purpose ? Now see the downright corruption und theabsolute irresponsibility, of what is decep- tively called Responsible Government. Pope aud

fon or near Lot tl, amoucting to upwards of L000}

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Warbartou—who. we understand, has also abtuid- ; anee ef bog land for sale—and their clique in the} first shock of bLattie, but from the various |

£30,000; to be expended in the purelase of sach land as the Gottrument nay choose. But Pope Warburton and their clique colleagues form the Government, and may thasdraw from tie Preasnrs a price for their vtorthless land of move thau ten or twenty times its value.”

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Conservative party, at that time, was. ‘Phere is, air, a differenee between the way the Revenve is raised it, Eogland and the way in which it i# raised bere. In Great Britain, they raise a darge inland retenue from the income tax, while our revenue is derived almost wholly trom tue duty laposed upou our ioports. The qaestron new before this bon Committee is not, properly speaking, one which re- ates to trade, but it is closely allied to it. It is Liand than will barely pay the business of the coun try There may have been too much trading; but when, by an arrangemeut entered inte by the lite Goveroment for the purchase of the Cunard estates, should not the G verniment attempt tod» someting tu remedy the evil? At the présent t tie the trade o! the country is se curried on, that merchants, to a considerable extent, do their business through the Banks, For exanpie, tuere are a great many aue- tion sales) A quantity of goods way come from B eton and a large sale takes place. Dealers make purchases at these soles on a credit of three months and thew paper gocs intectbe banks; and if the Baulks cann t give exvhsoge, os a watter of course the gelu is drawn out. IT am weil aware that the Government cannot regulate trode; but it is the duty of tue Government, tor the time being to pay some attention to tue positon of the trade of the Colony, With respect to the remarks made by the

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hon. wember for Beltast, thatthe Canard estate will | be vear y sell sustaimog, [ will only sav that it may |

be sos tut T still belmve that there will be a cou-

sideratie loss upon thet parcuase Tie Com niasion-|

er’s Keport showed wn anticipated loss of £30,006,

but he now thinks it may be ne more than £10,000,

; : i fiod no fault with the late Government tur pur- tit Mote easy to find fanit. We are mneb |" ; b elit ttle inc. andraxeting te Cnlighivn. es! chasing that estate. 1] am glad th y did so, out, at

with respect te composition. Nu donvi, te will! Set bevewarded by berg at the bead of a gov. | ernerent. thd Whew be ik, we will hove the satia.| faction of looking fee perty that wri hase an Ad drove tree trom ali grammatica! erroes. ln re ply te what has been saith about the Hon. Col Gray, J cau_otly state Wet T have alwoys ackuows | ledurakany belief thal be wos actuated by a nincety | desite te advance the Weillare of (be country, Vite be brought forward the Lend Coumypsion metsare, Bat Lthink it will be nduntied that ei the sehemes introduced for the settlement te Lénd Qitestion, the Lend Jurcbase Bull has teen te bes! aod mont suecensti!, _ en. Me. DUNCAN —With regard to the pre. jected nan. Mr. Speaker, 1 thina it cau be provi. fed ter bere. Hf it is intended te aceoummodate the meteantile eomounity, then Tsay that the eejeet in view ix a wistaken poliey. Trade ia lies water, if left to iteeif it will ed ite own level. di merchents cannot get money te meet bills, or procure exchange, it is ans vidence that Shere has bees evertrading : and it shows alse Ghat thehalaiee of trade is against the Colony. Mut, Sir, 1 would sooner burrow awuey wt home,

the same time,every gentieman eugaged in business teels the pres-ure vcvastened by the withdrawal of so much exchange from the country, Whether the lute Government acted wisely or mot, [will vot say; tut the country teels the effects of their arrange- went witi respect to that purchase the hon. member will agree with me that tue re- cvipts at the Treasury will tall below those of lasc year; but if, io next July, we bad £18.00 exchange tu offer the Danke, rnstead of drawing that amount from them, it would put quité a d ferent lace ou the vusicess of the country. Unless a joan can be pro- turea by the G veroment, I fear the present state of ofairs will seriously # fect the trade of the Gulony.

J ersons traveling with horses, acd stopping in strunge etables, should remember that Sherdan's

I believe tiat!

jarranzements made in France, that she could

tion of amicable reiations between Prussia and | France, it is insinuated that there is no vcca- | sion for extensive gratitude on the part of | either of the reconciled Powers towards us. Che first display of feeling is accompanied with this qualification; and if things should not proceed so sus pothily as i$ expected, the doubts of England’s disinteresteduess may be more strongly expressed. We had m szivings with réference to the interference ait the first, and we thoroushly disapprove of that rene wed | pressure upon the continental Powers for a| disarmament whieh the ministerial papers | have described. Advice, we are informed, is| tendered im “ the form of a friendiy communi- | cation,” and more especialiv to the French and Prussian Goveri:ments; but friendly com- munications to angry persons sunretimnes pro- voke untriendly rep ies; and Lord Stanley should bear in mind the old adage in this country about the misfortune tat: generally attends such kind'y intentioned individuals us imprudently in quarreis interfere,

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France and Prussia are not yet reconciled; nor, although appearances are pacifi¢; is eithei power satisfied with the negociated peace. Prussia was well prepared for battle; and it now appears Uhat so expeditiously were military

have marched one great army upon the Rhive

ina week, and tHiave had another ready a fort- . . ,s ev . RR

uight afterwards. There are four divisions at

Chalons, five in and around Paris, one at Metz.

at Lyons, in ali fifteen divisions, containinz each 10,000 infuntry, besides artillery and cavalry This force would have borne the}!

* And, Sir, looking at the stale of the coun-| Assembly, pease a bail involving a pabiie debt of) towns a second army would have been collect-

ed in a very short period to repair any mis- chief occurring from the impetuosity of superio: numbers on the other side. Great dissatisiue- tion the camp of Chaions at the} termination of the Luxemburg diliereuces | without a battle. The svidiers are represented | us sitting in the cpenings of their tents or| under the shady side ef the canteens, ¢rumb)- | ing furiously #t the melancholy news that|

exists in

peace was sighed, and that they are not going | to fight the Prussians alter all; at least not for a few months.” Aud “the officers are as gavage as the men.’’ Men in such a state or|

jlully, carrying off its victims by

1931; Rio

AWFUL FEVER AF MAURITIUS—UP-. | WARDS OF 13,000 CARRIED OFF.

Letters have been received from the Mauritius announeing that the yellow fever had broken out on the Island and had been raring dread thousands. The official returns from the 10th of February to the 28th vave the deaths at 2,061 ; in March, 6,435, and trom the Lst of April to the despatch

}ot this notice, viz: the 17th of April, 5,070; |making a total number of 13,564.

The mol tality in the various towns during the latte: pertod, viz., Ist April to the 17th, was as followa:—Port L mis, 2,879; Paimiemousess, du Rempart, 316; Piaeg, 97 5 Graind Port, 73; Savane, 49; Black River, 407; Piaines Wilhems, 146, and Mora, 172. Hap. pily achanze in the temperature took place on the [4th April, aiter heavy rains and stro

breezes Varying from the south to east, and since then there has been a deerease in tly number of sick, which there is every reason lo Such a frightful uioctality is without precedent in any country, and it wil! be for the Government and the publie to woite

} oi) . hope will contmiue,

‘in order to improve the sanitary condition ot

THE LONDON “TIMES” ON THE * SITUATION” IN FRANCE.

Tn vie'w of the warlike preparations of France, |

it may be interesting to note the feeling in Eay-

land.

that before indulging in too much self-conzratu-

lation, it would be better to eonsider a little in

what state Europe has been Teft by the con-! ference which has just finished its labois. This state, it concludes, may, so far as the contineut is concerned, be best described as a state of armed peace. Tu the same article, the Zimes continues :—

“ Even now, while everybody is rezoicing at the fuvorable termination of the conterence of | London, the most considerable jouraal in France miailitains the necessity of coutinuins to prepare for war, and there is but too much reason to | fear that itis only arguins da support of an ae cepted conclusion. If this be ture, we should | he robbed of half the advantages we aad hoped to | derive from the auspicious settiement just eon. | cluded; fur if this race of armaments is to co: tinue, Kurope may come to think ut itself a preferable alternative to the protracted | anxiety and ruinous expenditure it entails. | Nations will fizht, not because they have any | Just reason or any large poliey, but to anticipar those who would othervise attack them. Mueh has been done in the last two years to ove:tirow | these jaws of justice and mutual conciliation | whielvonce jonmed the unwritten compact of Europe, aad we have only to go on a little | longer im the same course, and we stiall arrive ata poiut where nations will make war, not because they ouzsht, but because they can.”’

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Consideisb'e anxiety is felt in certain classes of French society concerning the fate of the Emperor Naximilian, respectin s whom nothine | definite is yet known, Jt is said that the Em- peror of the Preveh: when about to recall his army from Mexicos urzed the Emperor Maxi-

Be : ae t as ; eee : : : welt knoWn that there ie pet more money in this) Nd as this are not likely to regard with| milian to return also, but the Austrian prince