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The Graminer.

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LAND COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Cuantorrsrows, Thursde y, 20th Sept., 1860, Eide nce of the Hon. Heath Haril nd, M P. P. and E. Couneil.

The How. Unxarn Havitanp, M. |’. P. and M. E C., as the proprietors,

STIs - Te ee ee ie = = aay onlin tarts SoS a Bled

SPU ET OR oe — a ‘ towards the Island re- District School for a while, he must first, if you ple

J : ; he aame : } mal School for five months, although, at t

a as no to the Normal Schoo ; > ae ae

venue? Elon. Mr. Havitanp, If a proprictor h sends. ho. tight vbe.atile: te tages Master thereof for five

"3 no taxes Ther : oe ' ,, (Wilderness lands upon his estate he pays no sr’ a ‘| years. ‘The same may be said of the pupils of the ee M. questioned by Cows. Tuousoy respecting the Bill by means | Jin Mr. Edward Palmer or his Government imagine ¢ . of which it was proposed to impose a Rent Roll Tax upon | (. tholics will allow themselves to be thus verse A insu one Mr. Haviland said the scheme was most po oes he con ider that street w alking. vee mane the sa ; pe anplated tax was to be im-! of th formal School drilling a lot ef little chiidren, consti- agent for Sir Gruham Montgomery, Baronet, next eame | in quitous, Inasm wh as the contemplated tax wast 3 ha ay a . om rae . point ieatens, be compared ag S ‘ ; ; ; > ji j ' ay 3 } i Pi : aul, ¢ ° ¢ forward, for the purpose, as he sai, of laying before the posed upon the tent Roll, and not upon the amount 0 aa = a - ae Cached trong aie wht een vealed de the >! Sour t % f Si srabam’* le to his! received by a proprietor. Coun. Thomson. Lf you thought! to th wot tT in which they not only re- Hovworable Court an ubstract of Sir Grabam’s title to bh received Dy I ? iN. : or iene Oollese aad Convent respectively, in whie y . a roperty in this Island. Sir Graham Montgomery, he said, the scheme iniquitous because it imposed a tax upon the hen coivera literary education far superior to that which is given Me riaBu,. 51 ake . . 7. a. . ‘ ‘ Ra ee = d as von | “ a ; . : oe sai . s one of the proprietors who had given, by his signature, | Noll, aud not upon the amount of Keut received, and #8 YOU! i the Normal School, bat also their moral and religious ree bie =i an za to the estab!ishu cnt of the Laud Com-| were a member of the House of Assembly at the time the | ing is reg ded as an integral, an an park. at ae jin Writtle ns ¢ sav. i ‘ : oo Nag a > “g | } o . ve > es reson sis religion whi mission, and who would, therefore, be bound by theiraward. | proposed measure was under the consideration of that ms mace | daily eemaetiee a — ray By that persons ataus in § « . ‘ ‘ 7 9 *F ’ eo - ? 7 . ’ . ‘ a ‘ e e . i r ieho ‘ ‘ : . ( Fi ‘The Lots partly owned by him were Nos. 34, 01 and oY, of the Legislature, why did you not et an am i ! S sag, poictality, at apeen Revel oe mewctyennsrtor: * . : si e . 8 ie in 0 ites initiate 3 ir. AVILAND. yas/ the Ne i ocr : 8 a : r and Boughton, and Rustico Island. 1 he hon. gentle i oe rOtmestion of the iniquity as a - policy wosnot/and as honest in the discharge of their important duties a = rene ee Seb ae paves) © member af the Nt iis ag ea dt ? Coun persons educated in the Catholie Institutions already es ‘ : . ‘ . ‘ while ” ; eK ,0U} - : lve oo te . done so, he observed that, as regarded the question of the} to assist the Government to which I was ae j| 1 believe not. Catholics consider themselves re rae , = é * lf Md . 1 ee Tees RY "yr oO ‘ si ; 4 Ea ae settlement of Lots 34 and 59, that was conclusively avswer-|Trromson. You say that, cven were an Op; oi y ‘4 wreat injustice,—they have pore i — —_ TE amas , i i , rou act < prietary agent, to) | : 0 , sd if the n rem de ; : : D ) Use | th ny > ove hom you act as proprietary ac ernment need not be surprised i y t , pn ee aot ry yr scan < i lon see tte i em of thelr farms, it w yald be d ficalr, nit to te imposed on aude longer. They trast also that their of Asse in U i be whole on the State of the) purchase the fee simple of their larms, It wo: : A mUc g z ee ae ef Assembly in venetian of the w por “ i ined that in - xt impossible, for many of them todoso. Mr. Havitand. | Protestant tellow citizens are not so utterly devoid of every peck ees => ce ee . Vc aie ad Sty ee a portion of the tevantry on) sense of justice as to refuse them fair play. consequence of the non-settlement of many of the Townships | [ said so only with ee ee S ent, though! In my remarks on the Normal Sehool it has not been my the peo sress of the Colony was great'y impeded. The Ke-| Lots 51 and 59, a majorty of whom are in lnuilierent, thous intention to ins.nuate anything against the moral character t ? i. hg : os, statcd thé Yos. | improving circumstances, eae, Wikies soMiion, howeter, amongst other things, stat dil at Nos. jMaproving ciroumstanos swerved by a Journal 6f the| of Mr. Webster. 13, 17, 28. 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, $3, 34, 35. 36, 37, 38, 39,) Coun. Parmer. You discovered by ¢ viet 10. 4a 43 47 48 49, 50, 54, 50, aud 59 were settled | Mouse of Assembly that Lot. 51 was uot ee iets) November 23 aN, ’ ’ ’ -—— a " 2 1 ie Bees ' t! e grant 2 r AVILAND., ee ee ; j : itions he original grants; and that,| according to the conditions of the grant’ 2 wre to the ecnd trons of the origina 5 ; Zhen °° : rete } - ae ae agen Nos. 7 al 12, half of Lot 30, and Lot 50, were; Yes. Coun. Paumex. Are you prepared to give it up on | For THe Sei. ca ie ; : : sty : j 7 wv 7 TON Tr v r © r r EST E.. Ki 7» Chief Bi account ? | TO THE TENANTS ON THES S | 2 hereof, Chief Baron Montgomery, | that account / | stiled, the proprietor thereof, g : ; a. be es ; : as ‘ not se oded ei ree sums of moncy in the settlement of} Hon. Mr. Havrtaxp. The title to it is as good as that) Gxyriewex—As proposed in my last qpmmunication, I am had ex pesde arge ; ¢ . : ie » other Lot in the Colony : ‘xhibit and prove to you by fatts end figures that the ; to Lot 51, every blade of yrrass is let—:he whole} to any other Lot in the Colony. : ‘now to exhi! ! fat See on others. As to st ul, every land upon it. Mr. Douse Coux. Haturenron. Do you believe, from the present | | ices exacted by the Government scheme for the lan 2 of the is settled—there is no a a hcideeiiien I M ate f ! C lony, that it is pow easier for tenants to pay Selkirk Estate are extravagant and indefensibly high, and was acent.for another of the Montgomery my. : He (Mr. - ee mee oe er rs ago 2? that the scale propounded by myself is more than ample to > £ ‘ . g > mee > mee ~ har t ré 3 s i ea *) $ ? : u “ . e Haviland) represented 10,000 acres oa Lot $4, Se pent OF | Chote rents than 1 wee sore J ceral rule it is easier, al-| mect every contingeney of the purchase and sale. which, and of Rustico Island, was £590. The average} Hon. Mr. Haviranp. As a genera rule it on Merl bear stg 16 Bqaencre cee Seo gd rye oy nee. 3 oar TE Saieat receipts for several years had been £630, and the | though to many it is still a matter of great difficulty to pay | mean number, | have't certainty 6 62000 acres; Which cost - ; A ma : r . 5 ; ‘ ob arrears were daily becoming less. Un Lot 59 he represented any rent at all. ages ate. Havilacd | the. Government £7000 sterling, or £10,500 this Island cur 7,000 acres, the rental of which was £309, and the average| Just before the evidence and examination of Mr. Havi 7 ‘reney. ‘These facts es ablished, [ submit to you~ - aa £150. On Lot 51 he represented 8,750 was conclude!, Cou. ‘Tuomson observed that, although the |“ Sates of lands by Government seale of price, allowing six ee oan hich £362 5s. 44, and the average |drain upon the ficances of the country, occasioned by the | years for the disposal of the Estate : aeres, the rental of which was £302 o: : peta ges | darian nap Bre shetntee croniistore did not iivalidate, | mprmE oY -. p9'695 annual receipts £160.- Boughton Island comprised GU | remitting of rents to absentee proprietors “or es | 5.250 aéves @ 200.< .s 04 sangice ane . o q ce wal a aa 3 " . estates > an : " Ce 32 seres, of which 541 acres were leased : the reatal was £30 or in any way injuriously affect their titles to their estates 5a 6” Wakes eee 2, ,

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—they eontribute not one farthing

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A LOVER OF JUSTICE.

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: “5 |i I: it affurde ‘niable proof of the evils of 35,780 © i Bhsicecnnecsescathonseee Zs. Od., and the average annual receipts amouuted to £25. in the Island, it ey proo : +5 750 oo | gees ent ne Ns 5906 The condition of the tenantry on thuse propertics was de- the propriciary and leasehold system, 15208. ae ae ements 1500

Cconcce coccco

cided!y improving. Some years ago, in King’s County, on (Tu be continued) Lots 51 aad 59, very few or hardly any rents at all were — : = are A collected. Tue chief cause of their im»rovement was doabt- | & ores yon il cHce | 62,000 acres. Gross amount of sales, £23,518 15 0 Jess the relinquisbment of arrears of reut to the amount of | eS} q . | Cost of Estate, &e., via:

between £2000 and £3000, The fic elom which that boon rr nai ——* 64,000 acres cost £7000 bestowed upon them was an incentive to greater exertions, | | , ster ing, OF mb) 2 which, coupled with advanced prices fir their produce of al- | > ee Med bs ee Rin | Ave tse

5.000 54 Be GE. Pik cewicsecves oseseeee

EDUCATION. £10,500 0 O Currency.

most cvery kind, have placed them in a state of comparative |

; Be a . “ j stem of education is.| at£350 per annum 3,300 0 0 prosperity and independence. In soMe cares, to give them Sir—Few persons will nr that our 7 m ~ ae is, eos - at » ee land noe for 6 years > . - i > points jus i defective, and loadly calls for re- | -Average loss - . , anted on the original terms 19 many points, unjust and dele ? ual) : ee : & dresh start, new leaes were gr 5 form. Considering our resources, we pay 4n immense amount at £L,o per annum, 450 0 0

ef GJ.*per acre, per annum, at a gracaal advance until the Allowance for bad or unavailable lands

annually fur educational purposes, bat without receivins : ot scene ubout 4000 acres at 6s.,

farms sjou!d atiain to the full rent. In some others, = corresponding benefits. To corroborate what I have said, 1 Which the lands wee bad, the reuts were permanently fixed will select the Normal Sehool. ‘This Institution has been in | ie . . ut Gu. or Od. per acre, per annum. The better prices which, operation some four or five years, and I would now ask its i i i Jaited | warmest supporters : riends of what use has it been to the ' in consequence of the reciprocity treaty with the United warmest supporters and friends o le} matt I ’ per a Siates, the tenantry had een enable: to procure for their Colony? It hos absorbed a very large share of the public es with the a ans cme es been, i alvati : slg svenue, and has not been, as tar asl can see of the least and contingencies against the Lstate—i g a ¢ manner, the salvation of the Island revenue, and b , oe f , ‘ ; a ae neaih produce, bad been, In & : es " those Siates being, possible utility to the general cause of Education. Itisa dispose of it, and casting away as barren ratio name -~—our free commercial infercourse will ose Siales erg, hone piece of imposition on a poor people, and [ will be as- 4000 acres of land, the sum of L7808 los. beyond ali cos's trou cur promkaity to ape, of macs ge v Valeo to us than tomished if the inhabitants of this Island will continue to pay and charges would be unnecessarily, unfairly and cruelly tur similar intercourse with Great Britain, On Lot 31 hund:eds of pounds yearly for the supportof an estab ishment drawn from the sweat and toil of your labor, and pocketed 3 : inest 5 i in ini rmany persons, the cause of by the Government. were Stanhope and Covebead, two of the finest settlements | wich bas been, in the opinion of many persons, the cause of by the i PF AS5 ; : . bce ead hal 7 ore . 2Ae t » esult in the island. According to the Census returns of 1804, more harm than good since it was opened Do the inhabitants im now pentane ers nae rae io ~ ; . , : ‘ tle bry . * rh i are tanachte i i ie sche at » . 1e ete . ic thers were on this Lot 14,452 acres of arable land, and the! of this Colony generaily know os —~ What are —_— . of ee ne naan ania ina = s Ti av Mr. James Robert-| the Normal School? Do they not think that it was established | propoun ast ; g crops wee very large. ‘The other day Mr. James Rober J e of a Depatation from the } ot, t r the s Poti, one of a Dep : pe ae te 1. (and he d,a|Sebools? that, supposing the propricior’s title to be good, (and he dic not dispute it,) he cousidered Lis faim to be worth 20 years’ | purchase. One of the Leases was also the other day pro-

1200 0 0 - £15,450 £7,868 15 0

Net profit on sales,

—_ . * -. P ol.a onl om = } irices Kut what will be their astonislinent when they final accomplishment of the sale, which assumption the prices

eupied in teaching little children, belonging to Charlottetown,| Sales of lands by my seale of prices :

E Spelling. & 5,250 acres @ 73. 6 £1,968 15 the mere rudiments of English Gyamiar, Spelling, &c., and 5,250 acres @ Ta. Gd. 50h 05. eons £1,9 15

0 , : , k OF . i Gs. 6 706 duced in Court for the purpose of shew Ing that the tenants showing therm how to march and countermareh through the 5,200 : @ = Fg yy ee pam co ; ; were nop at liberty to cut timber upon their own farms ex-} sechou]l room! It isa very well known fact thata great number 15,750 = @ oe - owhbsisdupeaeee oie. eo cept for eertain parposes specifi.d in their leases. It was | of the candidates for the teachership, after spending some ye : : 53. Gd. eereeeereeees. oa 2 E a ; 3 ietiy ' months ¢ he Normal Sehvool, listening to little urchins bel- OD. ah DSeeeereeseeeeseeeees OJOT true that the icases contained such a restrictive clayse, but months at me a seh oo “7 Re taeda gl ae «eee. i. = 6 it was altogether a dead letter, and bad never been acted lowing, yelling and (ramping, are obiged to go to some othe G * ‘ co

{2,000 acres. Cost of Estate, &e., viz:

§2,000 to 64,000 acres cust £7000 sterling, or—

Average umount of interest and working expenses for 5 yeurs, at Loo per annum,

Average lose of land tax for 5 yrs., at 475 per annua, 375 0:0

Al owance for bad or unavailable lands, about 4000 acres, at a.

| . school in the City to get themselves qualified tu pass the Board. ~upon cr enforced. The Montgomeries lease all their lands, | Are those who are paying so dearly for a Normal School aware iwcluding the fishery reserves, and receive reut for them. | (at a large number of our district teachers, upward of one Ou Lot 34, in the first grant the reserve was in the Crown; | hundred, perlaps,are actually indebted to Mr. Edward Roche's but in the second it is reserving to Her Majesty's subjects | tuition for enabling them to pass their examination before the the right to ereet stages, &+. for the purpose of carrying on| Board? This eo Ogg eee oe case oats the fisheries—the right to the soil or fee simple being there- | might call a Normal School, | mayo yaa 2 gmpeggh amped . : ; f the Lot. lu the grant of Lot 5], | tink the public are under an obligation to Mr. Rocue for the fore im the proprietor of the Lot. re a ot 92+! seal and assiduity which be has exhibited in preparing candi- these 0 0 er bat no water; & a which shewed what dates io pass their examination, and he is undoubtedly very an extraordinary knowledze the Brit sh Government mast) justly entitled toa good share of the money which is now have had of the nature of the 1eserves which they were aid fur teaching senseless marching in what is called the . die t 5 5 pane making. On Lot 59, the reserve is also that of a free) Normal School. Mr. Webster, the teacher of this school, is, fishery tozall Her Majesty’s subjects; that is, the fee simple ‘I powers, a civil gnome pe h 4 gga _ veme. tatae il isi i $ he ease i 30 t! »| furmed, he is neither capable himself to pass the Loard, no is ; : f a. ae of the soil isin the propoictor: and the ease is also the ee is he able te qualify on to do so. I have no desire tu) The Government, under this scale, gentlemen. would gain with the reseryes both on Boughton Island and on Rustico, injare Mr. Webster in any respect, but I regard the Normal and wrest from you £2063, or looking upon it from another e 5 Sa P . ee * . . . . re -*”) i ™ Island. As tg t 34, he was certain the Montgomer:es School as public property, and its teacher a public man. It point of view, the Executive would have £2953 to meet any could sell ewery were they owned of it for 203. Tue leases is my humble opmion that the teacher of a@ Normal School further possible con ingoney that a ane = one eee were al! for 999 years. fe had had, within the last three requires some qualification more than the recommendation of establishes beyond all doubt, that = ee. oe or four years, many applications mace to him for the pur-\ the Rev. G. Sutherland, or his frien Is,er of any individual ee sare agains ae —— vd oo spusing chase of farms on the property of the Montgomeries; but who may be unchristiac ani fanatical enoagh to defend | of the batute al the pester set forth y oe ee bad acee j blicly Orange processions, and ‘* the wretched frippery and 1 have now succinctly placed before you, gentlemen, st: e <— been _ ° mt — s aepaien apply: em - ” Gece a hs I odace ” and the “barbarous Orange ments which L be ieve are more liberal towards the Govern- mip. Sue Tet pg nha eee pence waded horde’ + i had the satisfaction of having done their best ment than the facts warrant; bat I have done so with the they did so the best wou'd be selected by purchasers, and S tenadé tas WG Coote.” s | the worst would be left. Ie, however, believed they would ~ ypj,, object of a Normal ~chool should be te give a thorough | liberality, even at your cost, and thereby guard and secure be willing to sell the whole of their lands at once, on fair and literary and moral training to those who desire to embrace | the Colony against loss. usleetaee al reasonable terms, Qn Lot 51, some 3\) years ago, they sold | the important prcfession of a teacher. It is the very height If, on sifting my statements, you shou = my g : i i a3 infi surdi agine for one moment that the Institution | based on truth and justice, and carried out with integrity to large trac : he had b form-| of absurdity to imagine for one mome u t & large tract in 9 wilderness state at (us be bad been inform- | of al aceianl sd the Normal School, has ever or will | yourselyes and to the country, you must concur with me in ed on eutbority) 10s. an acre. That tract was then | 'n nage snag” ae cemgey aye ls i l S ! | : de ning the Government scheme as unfair, indefensible cajled the Big Wood«, but is now called New Perth ; and | °ver elect this 80 The — . a eee Se —_ — emning ind faa tone moe ag hors : floes alae 3 don ie | w e name, should all board in the same house, and and oppressive ; an ee rei istice is, perhaps, the t district in the I-land. They had not, ake cea 2 sugules course of discipline ; which would siamllie amongst yourselves, as one man, to reject it alto- sold any of their lands for the last six or seven years. On) custom them to habits of industry and regularity. But our | gether, and adupt my scheme, as the fair and more oqnlanite Lot 34 they did sell a few farms; ove of 72} acres for £89 | Normal School, instead of traming up young persuns in Jearn- scale, based upon public integrity one ce 8 ne ts ; - ha., which was at a rate of more than £1 peracre. Every ing and morality, is, I fear, only a suare that is highly caleu-| if the Government Dra aan ys a =i — settler on that part of the Lot, 10,000 acres, which he re-| lated to be a stumbling block - the —_ of the young _ 7 a and cole baedieieadanane sees cegg i art of ich | pe hs-xes who frequent it. oung man comes | their finge i ( e pee. — oe rey ey - oe bee & ie wish | penn a 7 r ive ; at the Norma cormindenen, coolness and composure which must eventuate in to Charlottetown, to spend five months at the Normal | pe seedy he Sige cee ina gall 19 0h Noreen pebsewae qed School cnnttliien to the requirements of the law. He was) your end being obtained. The Government is disjointed, and the tenants were very poor. Ile knew that some of them cvarcely ever in the City beture, sad was in bappy ignorance notwithstanting the reckless arretien o o wilt. mete seriqve were-as much as £30 in arrears, avd would willingly seil |uf its many viecs. In a few weeks he is quite a cuanged per- | in the Monitor, styling himself A Cale a - their leasebolds and their improvements for the amount of | gon, [Je wears his cap on the side of his head—uses an an- | Executive are not d.vided, I bid cred bere — eration their arrears and a small sum of money besides. On Lot) usual quantity of hair oil, sports a-white handkerchief, smokes I tell you buta — an ee — ' ne "= m A 34 thore were tenants who, not many )ears ego, had not in- | cig»rs, spends ow of the Baht nent, ans 2 in ey ies nines néoln® amaot eee: - cada on ivi , i i i skets; but w inner man with an occasional draught of alcoholic poison. | 8s membe g x dividual a sixpence in their pockets; but w ho now were ‘Ades a month or two he muy be seen perambulating the public policy, one among the number being the prices‘of the each worth bundreds of pounds : they bad fine farms, and | streets arm in arm, “ith more than doubtful characters—he | Selkirk Estate lands; and another the retaining in or dis- money besides vested on interest. Lic believed every man | comes home to his lodg ngs at a late hour, and gets into bed missing the ¢enants foe, Mr. Pope, from the Office of Colonial would like to be a frecholder ; und be would like to see every | 1 ore sike a beast then like a Christian young man attending Secretary. These and other questions of oe eter one a frecholder. If be had had leave to do so, he could |, Normal School ; he sleeps till eight of nine in the morning, uncunningly breathed by we ae _ 0 oe have sold most of the land belonging to the Moutgowmerics, | and gets up only in time to hurry off to the — ne te J tell you, gp nm may a ade on ich i i 0 ots | i ir. Webster putting his little urchins through their death is spreading its ¢: ci wdily, a oe 5 re te tout . hy ed poh dy Soak a : : é | surely rapping their v. tality—the hour of the Proprietary Go- ARMA. so i on pecoh a I : tle-| { understand, also, that young men and young women attend vernment’s dissolutiva draws towards culmination, —~ the byt u large majority oft diffieu wae ie b ; oa eat” together at the Normal School. If this is true, and if it is | coming session of the ye ryan my, saeeeony, wean = ments they found it very difficult to make both ends meet ; also truc that pot very long since a teacher was accused of fall, and see a vigorous and popu ar administration formed, but if au opportunity were allowed them to purchase the ublicly reading and explaining before a school, composed of to which you, gentlemen, me the ee ae oe fee simple of their farms, they were willing, he believed, 10 yates and females, some of the latter being grown up, passages | look for that sympathy an eee a wee bre done as much as 10s. per acre fur thea. Qne cause cf the! of the Buble, something like that about Lot and his daugbters, wrongs excite, and your several positions as : ; ireu settler i ly | is fi heer lubricity, in the name of everything that | to you, in a common but emphatic phrase, ‘+ Bide your time, jndifferent circumstances of some of the settlers, particularly | and this ~— sheer —e yyi eer culenitn nar [oak cpa tise Sepusitien Gf ameirens Metecintet: iiteniip. i ‘ me is decent, chaste gnd Christian, haw ca C aye | ¢ ne overt of the Scotch and [rish, was that whey they ¢ rhe me ~ we either moral or efficient tenghers? The whole affair appears | gentlemen, it is a matter to you of no yital import who the country they were m oe aged men with large oe | to me to be a public nuisance, a disgusting aLomination, to | writer of these letters is and although se A Caledonian.’’ in had settled in the w They were not out of difficulties | which an immediate remedy should be applied, I understand | the Monitor, wise In his own opinion, attributes the author- yet; bat they were getting more land cleared, and would be | th.t the public is fast losing confidence in the Normal School, | ship, yet with his cute surmise you have little to do; but I fsce from embarrassment in time, (un Lot 59 the settlers) . 44 indeed it igno wonder. Lf we must have a Normal School, “ask you to consult the matter contained in ee ‘were both Seoteh and Irish. On Lot 51 they are [rish. jet us have one wort y of the name. It is too much to expect premises in the erucible of your unbiased judgment—and i hae shasi oC | : rill, i > hiags, send = you find in them the golden gems of reason, truth, and honesty, h r, of such settlers purchasing the fee | that decent parents will, in the present state of thiags, y g £ In the way. Jaa h t diffical: If he had their ehijdren to the Normal School in Charlottetown, where | give them your confidence and aduesion, whatever be the name, - gimple of their pee ' a agar r oo ens’ had | they are almost certain to learn all kinds of vice and rascality. yccupation and circumstances of bia? desman the books he wiped off, and yho wore Nowed Z basis anew| Moral instraction should apeationes oo portion = oe TENANTS ND. pheir arrears Wi ; poset ee mal School training; but in the Charlottetown Normal | j now two or three years in arrears. He ; his ve essential portion of educational training is | : pi Gl. 98 ot ver ; School this very essential portios : S| For tus Examiner. : o happened. Some of themselves) |), ire glected. I believe that a portion of the | : 7 aoe pag | A oaie they hal what they call weak ee without any omens. Every) Mr. a a eae semongl te oe m i “Ww ye sestanding will very casi sreeive that this | tenants are so inimicy i gs t sfamilies. Howeyer, he wou d say, Wait a few aor person of oneeers ae sa See part of | of the Editor of the Islander, Mr. W. H. Pope, and his pro- even these would have got over ther difliculties. hen | teaching is quite : en : i oY se Riser pitt oto cary comnpaamn, Seen aitnseedeabiane of thak root uestioned by Cou. Tuomsos, Mr. Haviland admitted that | the Aataaeet eeaiekaaaiae shitmaives tenahed Gee? unjustly hegMr. P., gradgingly permits Lady Fane to wear the honor a . # ! > . » ™ © * | >. : J he had issued some four or Sve Writs On ssecust OF Srrpare ; 7 ae each x die and as far as 1 am aware they have no of her noble behest to the tenants on her Estates, in the re- of rent dye on Lot 34 te had done so becuyse they had | Shaeiel ait the Nurmal Selivol, or m the system upon | ducement of rents to sixpence per acre, and quittance from . = Fr al o Nc : : , ‘te im at his office to make iin an he heed’ not had the politeness to eal! upon him a which it is based.

£10,500 0 0 currency.

2,750 0 0

1,209 6 0 «-—£14,825 0 0 Net profit on sales, £2953 15 0

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he bad been four years in the agevey, aod had giver them | them for seycral months on heavy expenses, . easy terms. Ile bad writted six ; have bought out their farms at 20s. an acre. QO - ject of thé remitting of rents to absentee proprietors, | Haviland #814 common sense would gay the more of the mouey

/Roeche, ur some other Teacher, to prepare them to pass the | pat money in his purse, collected om account of sents that ean be retained and spent

| Board ; and, moreover, when these candidates are qual fied to

were spent in it. wpect.ng the payment of taxes, taxes wee paid by the leusuts, ih quit rent due ou Lot 24, and paymect of thew be enturced, fuse ioe tevants will Lave to pay them ot of their own pockets. Mack a mote of collecting them has teen legalized by an Act

vot, 1 presume, tamely submit to be thus very materially his own paragraph. wronged cf their rights. ot tue dvland Legislature. Coun. Tuomsons Thon, out ot | S -

;

ase, go | should be charged sixpence only.

Here, gentlemen, it must be evident to = that, dealing |

a : : » specii vose of sparing teachers fi ur Distriet| prices, and assuming five years instead of six years for the | ld their Excellencies | 'or the special purpose of preparing teachers for o i } ’ g y

learn that the teacher of the said school is almost wholly oc- | warrant. | /

Gross amoung of sales, £17,755 15 0 | eyes open, believe a lie, whilea few moments’ research would fice 7” “* Nothing,” says Mr. Pope ; bat the cuwotry can

retest |

| desire that the Executive should have the entire benefit of tl.at |

\t present they are obliged to send their arrears of rent; but he in toto tacitly denudes oa ladysh or eyes uplifted, that ifshe had told us any untruth, she wished

i ; ! justice ¢ it of furnishi harge. This ’

i j ars, although , a dillia ‘hg ee > they must keep | the justice and credit of furnishing leases free of charge.

any settlement with him oa account of their arrears, although | sons and daagltere to Charlotwetown, ponee ay ee an sort ng however, is a sore subject for her agent, Mr. Pope, who

; : aj al | we ely arrested in his benignant attempt to extract

but four of the six could | strangers from the meer ren the risk rf it their — | See ne aneail el = le are hn dade,

Qa the sub-| character contaminated with vice,—and alter keeping th i : b der the auld in- r al Se hie avi axe | gently endeayoured to foree upon them, under th in

Mr.|at the Normal School, for whish they are heayily taxed, the | gen k A

woud souiieed by cen they must again send them to Mr. | fluences of wrtls of ejectment, if they would not comply and

The straight intentioned Mr. Pope, in one line of his edito- . . . ss 7 ari °° ; : - in the Isiand, the better it will be for the Islaud in general ;) 46. they ran the evident risk of being rejected by Orange- | rials, d-nies the statement of “ Veritas,”’ but ee _~ — the country would e-rtainly be move wealthy if the reats| nen, Catholics pay their quota for a Normal Teacher, who | a a edna before cra he pate ae ; i ‘ io on ach the ing rezarding thei vi d | Ladyship did, on Lot 53. and in some ot 29, , Wheu questioned by Coun. Tuomgon re-| is unable to teach them anytuing resarding their religious an . : que Mr. Haviland said all the woral duties, from the fact of his being of a different religion | the rent to poe oe we See wn yet 5 be {; higsself, and thus are they most unjustly deprived of, or re-| Now, this is just the substance of whe e ly poping Lagat minty d the most important portion of their education. They , nothing more and nothing less ; yet Mr. Pope charges him n her, very justly amet this as @ great grievance, and they will with false statement, and contradicts himself in the course of | of those communicatijons,) many of whem accordin

I would now add to the facts given in my first letter, that : ; injusti : ics | Pope knows that Lady Fane was anxious to relieve in-

Auvther great abourdity and manifest injustice to Catholics | Mr. Pop os , t

the rene pepeived by Sir Graham Montgomery aud other | eonireected with our system of Edueation, is the fact that | capable prea a alto et oe er

abseu..¢ pr yb e— ihege rents bein s seutuutol the couutry | should a student of Suint Danstan's College desire to teach a tenants on her es, unable pay & pe E

This, Mr. Editor, was her Ladyship’s lotty hamanity—her sublimated feeling ; and ir | her wish and desire be not carried out in the spirit and letter | of their conception, then Lady Fane’s Agent, Mr. Pope, must

bear the blame. descredit and mhumanity, of thwarting her| P

|Ladyship’s benign pleasure, and of rivetting oppressive bur- ‘dens upon her tenants.

VERITAS.

POLITPICO-CLERLICO CONSISTENCY,

To rue Epitrur or tue Examiner.

Sie —

Ilaving recently formed one of the audience of a certain peripatetic preacher, the following politico-theologico remarks were teflicted on my dissentient ears ;

‘My beloved hearers, | wish to diaw your special attention to Thank-giving Day, which is to be on Toursday, the 22nd inst. I trust that you will strictly ovserve that day as a holiday. You feel some surgrise at my reeommending to you go urgently to observe Thanksgiving this year, because I used tu pay so little attention to similar festivals a few years ago. My reason

for my change of conduct this year is that I believe the Govern-

ment which has appointed the day to be itself a God-appointed Government. ‘They bave pul us in possession of a Free Bible They have caused as many copies of it as were required to be ‘placed in the chief Lastitution of learning in our Colony, the Central Academy, whence it had been excluded by their pre- decessors. Any one might have easily observed that the bless- ing of God descended on our Island almost as soon as this G.d-appornted Government was introduced; so that [ feel bound to respect its appointments and submit to them.”

L felt constrained, Sir, from the above address to infer that the preacher did not believe that the Government which had prececed the present were appointed by God. How can such la belief be reconciled with the declaration of that inspired |volume, from which the preacher pretends two have learned his Creed! The aspired Apostle, St. Paul, writing to the Cnris- tans in Rome, sflfirms that the Government which then and there existed, though Pagin, was appointed of God, and urges on the Christians to be submissive to it: Rom. 13: 4. But our | would-bc-wiser modern itinerant cannot feel the obligation of submitting to a Christian Government, even when requesting of Lim to perform ano act of devouon, afier his own mode. Ex- emptary conduct in the leader of the devotions of a Christian (community, very! Put can you i.furm me, Mr. Editor, whea j was the Bible nog free among us? And if such a time cannot | be pointed out, why thank the present Government for a boon which we had already in our poss: 83ion? ‘The only prohibition of tts use in the Central Academy, or any other school which ever existed, viz: that it should’at be used by the children of pirents who disapproved of such use, is as actually ia force as ever. In any instance where it was nut used by the children of parents who wished it tu be used, the fuult should be ascribed to their own negligence, and not to the Government or School Acts and Regulations. t

Let me now turn a few pages back in the sermons of our political Parson, where we may fiod a delightful illustration of iis consistency! A little more than three years ago he de- clared from the pulpit, in my hearing: ** 1 do not approve of the Scriptures being taught by the Schoolmasters, and as far a3 my iufluence ean go, I will oppose such a course. For, granting that both teacher and parents are Protestants, yet should the teacher be a Calvinist, and the parents Arminians, the business would soon be found iapracticable, in Consequence | of the religious instructions imparied by the teacher conflicting with those given by the parents. ‘I'he case would be just as bad where the tescher would be a Methodist and the parents | Presbyterians ; and still worse were the teacher a Unitarian or | Universalist and the parents Presbyterians or Methodists. But where the teacher is a Roman Catholic, and the parents | Protestants, it seems to me utterly unjust and tyrannical to re- /quest him to teach from a version which he believes to be in- jcorrect. From these, among other considerations, | am op- | posed to all human ensetments respecting God’s Book, Lf the Bible be G.d’s word, He will take charge of it, and protect it. |We ought not to be afraid to trust it to Tis protection, and | Jet it stand or fall by its own peculiar or divine influence. ”’

‘*And now, Mr. Editor, for the informetion of him who sigas himself ** Robert Gray,”’ I have to say, that my situation in life is such, that ! haye something of more importance to attend to than any more of his communications through the ress; but if he wants more s:tisfaction, let him either seek it in a legal way, or come to Murray [larbuur, where he will yet find sufficient living witnesses to substantiate all that has been said by or on belalf of, the Guernsey people, respecting hia grandmother.”

(Signed) “ Joun Winxvson Le Lacurvr.”

“ Murray Harbour, Dee. 4th, 1837."

The foregoing is, I think, sufficient to shew that the Guern- sey settlers were never promised land on the Klhot River-by anybody. and that, if they were ** deluded,’’ it was most cer- tainly . neither ‘John Corin. nor his “ father.”’ {t is difficult to understand why Mr. Bartholomew Lelachear, or indeed any other person, professing a decent charseter. should thus wantonly insult the memory of a man whose ndme will yet, I think be mentioned with favourable reminiscences by some of the oldest and most respected settlers in the Colony