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he enforcement cf their pay substantial benefit to the

avee, referred to the

re of ret, mance t enki rewelt im nent W

tenants anid the country at

ed Report of the proceedings m the lute

aud, in support of his

pink that the Quit Rents \ ill revive, both pros | o :

pectively wad retrospectively, the Land Assesament Act of [5 the aloee of the present Seenion, quoted, from that Repori, the following dechiration, relative to the question, of Mr. Thomsen, ; New Branswick retained b» the Goverumen', on behalf of the tenautry

© T maintain they are da * pot time to ge into statistics! inte © point Shoald Your Excellencies decide upon * allowing proprie™ “ they claim, J hold ' ae * whieh are josily dae by them should be deducted

* from that eam « | chiak such must be the result of your decision.’

at the expiration of 48, which will be ai

that the amount of Quit Rents

Bevond the shadow of a doubt, | ei The Hon. Mr. Lougworth —in his endeavour to | refute the argument of the Hon. the Leader of the | Uppesition, tonchiug the liability of the proprietors tw the exuction of Quit Renis, both prospectively aad retruspectively —te all appearance atfors the House a jpood deal of umosement, mingled, per haps, by not 4 little surprise, when he declared that that opinion of Mr. Thomson's, on which the Hon the Leader eo! the Opposition seemed to place so

. teuch dependence, a» affording a confirmation of his

views with respect to the claims of the Colony upen the preprietors for Quit Rents, was merely an assertion, made by bim, (Mr. Thomson) in the dis charge of his duty us Counse! for the tenautry. and was not, by any means, a declaration of a leyx! opinion, ou which he would stake his character as a lawyer ; and if that wentleraan, as a bowyer, were to be requested to give his opinion in‘ writing,’ concerning the question of () vit Rents, and should consent to do so, it would be found, he (the Hon Mr. Longworth) believed, t

ic , te i ; shew | : of that to which he gave utterance in bis capacity | eults, on the

of Counsel for the tewantry Lefere the Land Com-

learned yentleman, in substance natintained, of every lawyer who uudertook to plead a cause be fore a legal tribunal, to advocate the cause which

he was retained to assert or defend, to the very ut. |

most of his vatural and leu! ingenuity and ability ; bat what he, sometimes, in such cases, advanced in support of the views and iuterests of his clients might differ very widely from the legal opinions whieh be really and traly the questions and puiuts in pect to whieb it hud been his duty, merely as counse! tor the party by whom he was retained to speak in

eutertainued concerning outreversy, with res

Court. The declaratiors und ussertions, made by |

lawyers on such occasions, were uot always to be takew as genuine expression» of their legal opinions lt was very different, however, when a lawyer gave hie opinion ‘in writing.” An opinion so given was an opinion ou the propriety aud justice of which depend bis professional standing and repu

i Island. be the very reverse |

| ment, mixsioners. It was the buunden duty, the Hon. and!

rebuked by the Hon. Mr. Longworth for having

had the temerity to indulge in language so com

pletely opposed to the courtesy prescribed by par. | liamentary usage Mr. Conrey said the question before the Commit. | tee, he apprehended, simply concerned the poliey | of the Government in sending the Delegation to England. He did not approve of the offer whic" had been made by the Delegates, to buy the pr prietury lands at 16 years’ purchase. The tepantry | were unable te comply with such terma; and would |

he able counsel from | het be willing to pay at a higher rate for their |

farms thunthat at which the tenants on the Selkirk

land for some six or eight ehillings an nere, while tenants who bad paid up their rents were called upon to pay sixteen shillings. Who could wouder It was the strangest reasoning imaginable to argue that tenants should get credit, not for what they had paid, but for what they owed. It was stuted in the Deleygutes’ Report, that 4@ per cent of the tenants were unable to procure the common neees- sarics of life; and it was, he believed, an adnitted fact. Such being their pitiable condition, did it not appear strange that they should remegin in the country, especially as they are within twenty-four hours’ journey of a country in which the hard-

| Working and provident mun is sure of earning a

comfortable livelihood ’ In referring tothe United

States, the hon. yeutlemnan took occasion to observe |

that there, it was suid, his countrymen were sub- |

jected to insult and ridicu'e.

waa expedient that the Delegates should be sent to England ;"' for that would involve an approval also of the proposal which they carried with them, and submitted to the Duke of Newcastle for a set- tlement of the question of the land tenures, of

cussion, he could not agree to it, and say “that it | interest, may be, found in science, literature, |

j morality, and religion. While they are the ac- knowledged represeutartves of certuin principles in polities, they’are far from being grossly parti-

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_—a position which would enable them to discuss At Sydney, Cape Breton, on Sunday afterncon, 4g HE HULL and SPARS of which he certainly did not approve. The Duke's | great questions of governwental policy independent | the 6th metant, Charles Rogers Ward, Eequire, aged a VESSEL, 51 Tons uew, and

| of party trammels. 75 youre. 85 old measurement. Dimensions

scheme was prefe rable to that proposed by the De- legates, although that too might be improved ; and bad the Government and their friends, or the Dele- gutes, taken it up for the purpose of effecting an improvement in it, it might have been made the means of facilitating the settlement of the long-ngi-

| Estate had been allewed to purchase theirs, which | tated question on terms at once advantayeous to the and I am sorry I have | he believed wus vo higher than from six to nine | tenantry and acceptable to the proprietors. mation on this shillings per acre. And what superior claims bad any diiferenee between the two schemes or propo- | Tory leaders quake, and the very threne tremble. those people? He had beard the gentleman who | sls with respect, as it was asserted, to the one’s | It is still conducted with much vigor and ability.

As to

ws asam for the lands which | had been the agent for that property state in that | being obligatory, and the other's not being so, be | House, that the tenants thereon owed, on an aver- | could see nothing of a more binding character in jage, IR years’ back rent; and yet they got their | the one than in the other. Au Act would be re-

| quired to make the one binding, a8 much as it | would be required to make the other so. But as | the question now stood, it was quite ae far from a

| At the unsettled, dissatistiad state of the country 7| settlement as it was teu or twelve years ago.

| Hou. Mr. Thornton said that, in 1859, he voted

for the appointment of the Land Commission, being | persuaded that good for the people could not but | resnit from the enquiries which would be prosecuted under it. In that expectation, which, he believed, |} was entertained very yenerally throughout the country, both the country and himself bad, how- ever, been grievously disappointed ; and now, after the question had been in the bands of the Govern- | ment for four years, the settlement of it was ‘arther otf than ever. Few of the teuantry were in such circumstances as to be able to buy the fee simple | of their farms at 15 years’ — of their annual | rents; and proprietors would not sell to good paying j tenants. As the scheme was not compnisery, no | wood tenant would be allowed to purchase ; and a | poor one could not. Sir Samuel Cunard’s proposal i was not worth talking abeut ; and neither was that of the Delegates. The Government price for 100

Perhaps they were } acres — Crown lands—was £60; but the value ef

vecusionally ; but he thought there could not be aj the fee simple farm of 100 acres, at 16 years’

| country in which the com:uunity to which he be- |

longed were more wantonly insulted than in this He did not believe that in any other coun- try of whieh he had ever heard, sach wanton in- part of the first officer of the Govern- to nearly one haif its population, as the Colonial Secretary of the Island was in the babit of making on the tloor of the Assembly, would be wlerated. That gentleman could s areely speak for live minutes without yviving utterance to something insulting to Roman Catholics. In the course of the debate the other day, when arguing against the

vieWs entertained by the Hon. the Leader of the |

Opposition on the subject of Quit Rents, he (the Hon. Colonial Secretary) endeavoured to illustrate bis argument with an anecdote, quite foreign to the mutter in question, of some alleyec improper behaviour of certain Koman Catholic Sishops in

Ireland , and which, it was clear enough, was in-

troduced for no other purpose than to give offence |

Sucb insulting and unwarrantable attacks would net be indulged in by the Hon. the Colonial Secre- tary. were he not well convinced that they were

agreeable to his culleagues in the Government; and |

therefore they were us much deserving of censure

oe

~ Was quite certain that not one of them would con- |

| Fentof £5 11a. 2d. per annura, fer 15 years, would | in their League, and should any of them

_ is. Bd. ~=Now any man, said the bon. gentle- |

+ Putting it out at an interest of 74 per cent., whieh | The Lon. gentleman coneladed Lis statenents con-

tation ; and if he had either, it was highly impro hable that he would imperil it by giving an opinion which he was couseious would not bear the test of strietly independent aud legal scrutiny.

The Hon. the Leader of the Opposition, with

who composed it —und to the cerms of

j the unenfranchised tenautry w » willis sowething of sarcastic playtuluess, observed, with | pay more for their casi oc aaueks eas = reference to this declaration of the ‘hon. and | be given by those on the Selkirk Estate “or theire learned gentlewnan, Mr. Longworth, that certainly | and he himself, as a tenant, would much notice | he had never been very foud of law, or been, | to pay rent a8 useal, and trust to time and the force either on his own account or that of others, a) of circumstances tor redress, than to agree to terms promoter of law-suits; bis sentiments ou that S? "et as those which had been proposed by the score having always been tinetured with a certain Delextes, and a comp iance with which by the degree of jealousy and He had U#!try was actually impossible.

hitherto, however, had only one eye open as te

suspicion. i : Hon. Mr. Kelly, with respect to the assertion |

; ; made by sume hon. members—he partie rly | the turnings and windings which it was possible a ae ae oe en ed, we believe, to Mr. Haslam and Mr. Duncan—

for awyets te take; but the candid conicssion of —— ¢ a _ | Hat Chere is no disturbance or excitement in their the hon. and learned genticvaan had opened his | gist,

lets respecting the measures or steps which other eye, cnd he would, for the future, take |

ave been had recourse to by the Governinent, for care te keep both open when any of their be- | the settlement of the Land Questiva, and the com

plete failure or inatility of those measures or steps ; The Hen. Mr. Heusiey gave a rather different “od that the reports, concerning the ex stence of |

Wildering practices were gerug on before hin.

éxplanadian of the practice and duty of an ad. *"¢h disturbance and excitement, have originated verate orbarrister ina CourtofLaw. According “ith and been spread by members of the Opposition, | tu hia view thereof, the duty of the lawyer at the solely with a view to the embarrassment or over bar, ev far as it concerned Lis cliente, did not re- throw of the Government, said: If such was really quite aither the eteaising of any points f law or Cee the Goverunians and their friends, he gai wreeedents, er avy Murse of pleading, | ’ re the hon. Commitiee, that they would by which justice weuld be impeded or tured | wider a Very serious mistake. wide from her proper course; but simply that he! tye expectations of the tenantry concering sub. should lay down the facts of the case, so far as! stantial reliet from the lubourand A wardol'the Land be wus in possession of then), sustaining them ads Commission, having been signally heeheuld be able by whatever evidence might be of their tutal want of confidence in the delegation | ut bis disposal; and, having done so, he had fully | scheme, it was # fact that much execitemeat and dis- | acquitted himself of his duty to his client; and it | “isfaction prevailed in many districts of the Is- | theu rested with the Court and Jury to dispose | lund, and much nearer Charlottetown than either | of the case, both as respected tacts and law, con-| 2¢ Sable or Murray Harbour. Several large and |

cerning which it was their province sloue te} tinontiel meetings had lately been held in Lot 48, | ooh. | part of bis own district, aud iu Lots 49, 5), the dis- i

How. Mr. Kelly, with reference te the assertions nae a reg ae ee Vietnam, | made, in the Howse, by howerable gentlemen, ne aera ao Sea ae seliy)} 1 0 attend and assist at, by several yen- | ether mewbers ef the Goterument, or supporters | tlemen from the said Towuships. But, when in- | of the Goveriwent, to the cilect that liberty tw! f-rmed that the intention in calling the ineetings | purchase the tee simple of their farms at 16 ur | was to organize resistance, by every lawful meane | 15 years’ purchase would be a beon or a beuetit | within their power, to distraints rad executions for | to the teuants generally, declared that such asser- rents, unless the proprietors agreed to allow them to. tions were altogether untenable. In the District | PUTChase their farms at rates similar te those at whieh he had the honor to represent, in which which the tenants on the Worrell and Selkirk es- | ide cen: ota dd tenants hel tates had beeu euabled to purchase theirs, he de- clined ty attend, and told them that, by sueh |

| combinations they might go a little too fur, and yet | 1

some of their friends locked up f. lo u in | any such cate. By caleulation, he found that the | igo igell gp Beer git

| Some of the jails of the Island. Iu reply, they as- | pirehase of a farin of 100 acres, at the common | sured him that there were already many hundreds

eventually fiud themselves to have been labouring S|

In consejuence of

disappointed, and |

sider it to be a bewn to be allowed to purchase at

be so un- Mnuunt lo £383 7s. dd.; and for 16 years, te £89 fortunate as to get into jail, for anything they did

in pursuance of the principles of their cou bivations, wan, whe could purchase his farm at that rate, | they would assemble rescue the victims could surely turn {sia money to better account by | iu what jail or jails soever they might be: confined.

could now readily be obtained for the-wse of money | cerning the meetings of whieh he had spoken, by iwahnort every quarter of the Island. Atgthat | further informing the Committee that the gentle. Tate, fur the first sum, ag a loan, he would receive a b invited to sttend and

afsist at them w str. e * suneally, £5 5s.; and, fur the eecoud, he would) *” * ad m0 asian nace of the Go Teeeive £6 Sa. ‘Le would, therefore, like t Moyapacacadgen Temagandhen-tutedrres

eee: SR, Sr © | the Government candidates who had opposed him-

on account of them, as he was.—The hoa. member |

concluded his remarks by suying that he was op- |

posed to the sending of the Deleg ation—co the men | cvttivment, povsesibed ty, the oughunl gvaetn, i

purchase | pp proposed by them. He did not believe that any of |

tof

of Seren | eretary or Th

know whe would be the fuol tu teres £39 Ids. 8d. |

self and his hon colleague at every election since

& tyrant landlord—for such surely he would be | (858; and that another of them was a brother of

Who would expect m-re—when euch tenant might be a gainer uf at least 23s. 1d. annually by con- tiauing to pay his rent, and putting out at interest the amount fur which he could purchase his farw. On the other hand, observes the hon. gentleman, , the tenant who ia unable to pay hie rent, and has tallew heavily into arrears, cau never purchase bis farm for 15 years’ purchase, aud. therefore, if the propusal of the Delegates were accepted to- wortuw—but it never will be aecepted—it would Prove nothing but « delusion and a humbug, and | be ueeeptable to no party.

Mr. Howlan, in commenting upon the declaration

one of the best paid office-holders in ¢se Island; therefore, said the hon. ventleman, hon. mewhers may find themselves much astray in their caleala- tious that no excitement or discontent pr2yvaile. Hon. Mr. Hensley, with respect to the alleyed retrospective liability of the proprietors to Quit Rents, said that he had formerly given his opinion upon that question; and, having in bis own mind seen no reason to change it, he still adhered to it. It was, thut the claim for the arrears bad been abandoned long sgo; but that the enrrent Quit Rents would revive at the close of the present Ses- sion. Hedid not blame the Hon. the Leader of the Opposition, or those holding otherviews. for taking

the Hon. the Leader of the Government, that in| another course; but a vust responsibility would the event of its being found necessary, through the | rest upon him, holding such views as he did, if he

ees of the usual annual rent, would be £90. |} On Lots 61, 63, and 64, yery few of the tenants | paid up their rents. A geutleman, who was both }a merchant and a farmer had told him a short time | ago, that if it were optioual for the tenautry te buy | the fee simple of their furms at 10 years’ purchase | many would try todo se, although it would necessi- | tate considerable straining of their means. He (Hon. | Mr. Thornton) had been an agent for upwards ot | thirty years; and from his experience of the half lot which had been under his management, he knew | that very few of the tenants on that property were ) able to purchase at 16 years. | Hon. Mr. Coles, in support of the views enter- | tained by him on the question of the Quit Reuts |} —of which views the leading teature is, that at the expiration of the present Session, they (the | Quit Rents) will revive not only prospectively but retrospectively — read trom the Juurnals of the House, and commented, with much acumen, | upon different Despatches ef Colonial Ministers | concerning thew; fully and clearly establshing, _ we think, the correetuess of the opinions enun- | ciated by him on the subject. | The conelusions at which the Hen. Mr. Coles arrived with respect to the question of arrears of Quit Rents, deduced from the statements, de- elarations, and decisions set forth in the Des patches and correspondence reviewed by him, are: First—That no commutation of Quit Rents has been made by ary proprietor of land in this Is- land; and that neither has any such proprietor been discharged, in any other way, from al claim of arrears of quit rent, and of adl conditions as to

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lu the second place—That the remission of Quit ents has been specified to extend only to the period during which our Colonial Land Assess- ment Act should be in foree—that Act providing for the payment of a Land Tax, at the rate therein specified, “ during the continuance of the Act,” on the express condition that the Crown should relinquish all clair to Quit Rent during such continuance.

In the third placee—That the Proprietors having, one and all, failed to avail themselves of the terins of commutation of Quit Rents offered to them by Earl Kipon in 1833, the claims upen them ter

| such Reots will revive at the expiration of the

resent Sessivn.

And in the fourth and last place—That as, at the end of the present Seesion, there will be dee te the Colony by the Proprietors an immense anwunt of arrears of Quit Rents — which Renis were, trom the first, intended to be applied to the advancement of the general interests of the Co- lony—it will be the bounden duty of the Govern- mient to institute proceedings at law for their recovery. That, from a simple consideration the faet that the Proprietors employed Mr. G. R. Young te endeavour ta negociate be- tween them and the Crown, for the sule purpose an admission from the Colonial Se- e Lords Commissioners of the Trea- sury, to the effeet that, in virtue of a writtex tender or coutract offered by the Imperial Go- verninent te the Preprictors, they were entitled to @ remission of arrears of Quit Rent antecedent to the date of such written tender, contract, or agreement, it is quite evident that they themselves were well aware that they were eutitied to no

) such Yemission unless they fulfilled the terms of

commutation within the term or termes specified

by the Earl of Ripon for the effecting of it: and,

further, that the decision of the Lords Commis-

sioners of the Treasury, in July, 13368, which was

a direct negative to the proposition of Mr. Young,

and an explicit declaration that they had seen no grounds fur altering their views with regard to the remission of arrears of Quit Rents, was a final decision; and by it the Propriétora were coun- | pletely shut out trom all hope or expectation of the realization of the claims to remission of ar-

rears of such Rents which had been preferred by

their agent, Mr. Young, and further that unless

the commutation was paid, they would not be

exonerated from the conditions of their original

grants with respect to settlement.

The incidents of the Session which, in addition tu the foregoing, we intended to lay before our

‘readers this week, but which—from the great

length to which our notice ofthe Hon Mr. Coles’s review of the Despatches, &c., bearing upon the question of arrears of Quit Rent—we are obliged to bold in reserve, are Hon. Mr. Whelan’s ex- posure of the weakness of the Government and his refutation of the assertion that Respunsibl+ Government, as aceepted by the Liberals, iz based upon a recognition of the titles of the Pro-| prietors — Hon. Mr. Warburtou’s strictures upon the most infamous atiompt made by the Tories tu straugle our Constitution, in the time of Sir Donald Campbell; and ene or two rather amusing “ passages at arms” concerning alleged vioiations of “ parliameutary courtesy.”

arcane ee THE SHAKESPEAREAN TRI-CENTENARY.

“A correspondent in the Examiner of the 7th inst., proposes that the citizens of Charlottetown celebrate Shakespea ‘centenary by Ist—A Public Holiday. 2nd—A Public Breakfast, or Dinner in the Colonial Building. 34d—A Grand Concert of the sungs of Shakespeare. 4th—A General Ilumination in the City. If any thing is to be done in this matter, it is time, we think, for the admirers of the immortal “ Bard of Avon,” (and whe does net adiwire him!) to bestir them-

| selves, as the 23d of April wali soon be upon us.”

— Protestant.

We agree with our contemporary in saying that if the Tri-Centenary of Shakespeare is to be celebrated here, it is high time that preparations were commenced. We observe that the most extensive preparations are being made to honor the day in the mother country, and also in several of the cities of the neighbouring Republic. Whilst we think that the suggestions ot our correspondent # Romeo” might be carriedout in Charlottetown, yet we fear there are not a sufficient number of admirers of the worke of Shakespeare in this place who have the influenee to get ap a celebration

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, es of age at least, is first on the list, FEvery-

In body knows that it war established by Jeffrey,

combating the ruling Tory-power, which was carrying everything before it with a bigh hand. | Sustained by a teres of brilliant intellect, and up- | beld by a strong public opinion, it carried on its | contest single handed, uutil its voice made the

THE LONDON QUARTERLY Was established to meet this bold and daring |

Southey, Seott, Lockhart, and Wordsworth en- listed as its contributors. It still represents con- servative principles, but its pages are by uu means coutined te their advecacy.

THE WESTMINISTER REVIEW Belongs to a more liberal school of politics. Its position is a step in advance of the Ednulurgh, and ite views come nearest to the American standard. It devotes itself particularly to the topics most in teresting to the people, and denounces boldly and tearlesaly exclusive privileges, hereditary rights, kingly prerogatives, and all the abuses of feudal- ism. Asa literary and progressive periodical it now stands unequalled.

THE NOKTH BRITISH REVIEW Made its appearance as a special advocate of

Brougham, and Syduey Suith tor the purpose of |

At Grove Park, Mill's Point, Lot 18, on the 4th

| February last, after six

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children of Win. T. & Awelia Mill.

The sale of the Plantation Bitters is w thout pre

cedent in the history of the world. ‘There is no

champion on its own ground, and such writers as | secret in the matter. They are at once the most |

speedy, strengthening henlth restorer ever divcoy- ered. It requires but single tris! to understand this. Their purity can always be relied upon They

carilla Bark, Dandelion, Chamomile, Flowers, La- vender Flowers, Wintergreen, Anise, Clover Buds,

Orange-peel, Snake rovt, Curaway, Cvriander,

| Burdock.

S.—'T.—1860—X. &ec.

They are especially recommended to clergymen, public speakers, and persons of literary habits and sedentary life, who require free digestion, s relish for food, and clear mental faculties,

evangelical religivu. It was founded by Dr. | Chalmers, and since his death bas been under the editorial charge of Dr. Hanna, and inore recently | of Prot. Fraser. For some tue past it has been | less evangelical than in its earlier days, but it| has now got back te its first faith, and is conduet- | ed on the same principles aud with the same vi- gor which characterised it when under the care | ot Chalmers.

BLACK WOOD'S MAGAZINE Everybody knows to be the embodied genius of Toryism, yet its witching rhetoric, protuund dis- quisitions, slashing yet brilliaat criticisms, poetry, biography, historical and fictitious narratives, render it the most readable woothly iu the world. —[ Bangor Transcript.}

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‘THe Easter Beer.—'The beet exhibited at the Easter market held on Saturday last was ameungst the best, if not the best, ever offered for sale in the Charlottetown Market. The stalls of Mr John Blake made the largest and finest display. He had three carcasses of beef, the lurgest was a cow, fattened by himself Its live weight was 1,620 lbs., dead weight 1,114 lba., and contained the extra- ordinary amount of 203 lbs. of tallow. The next was a cow fattened by Mr. John Hohwau, the live weight of which was 1,380 Ibs., dead weight 889 Ibs., tallow 128 lbs. The other carcass was a heifer, fattened by Mr. Blake, its live weight was 1,235 Ibs., dead weight 81s lbs., and contaned 125 | lbs. of tallow. The quality, fatness, and work- man-like manoer in which this beef was fitted for market, were the subject of much conversation and attention, and deservedly reflected great erdedit upon Mr. Blake. ‘The whole three car- casses sold readily at one shilling per lb. Some very good beef was also exhibited in the stalls of Mr. John Burris and Mr. MeKiver. Mr. Burris had a cow, the dead weight of which was 918 lbs., Mr. MeKiver’s weighed 850 Ibs. Though the beef of Mr. Blake brougist the price of 1s. per lb., the general price, with country butchers and others, ranged trom sixpence to ninepence per Ib.

- ——_—_-—_ -ogpo-— a CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN’S LITERARY INSTITUTE.

Mr. A. MeNeill lectured before this Institute last Wednesday evening, on “ A Federal Union | of British Awerica.”” He first gave a historical! sketch of each of the Colonies, treated of their svil, climate and productions, aud shewed their capabilities for commerce and agriculture. He then spoke of the Union scheme, and of the ad- vantages which, he believed, would result to the Colouists in the event of a Federal Union. He would have the form of Government a Federal Republic—the Colonies to be divided into fifteen provinces, and the provincial representatives to meet at Quebee. ‘The lecture was prepared with great eare, contained agtore of historical, statis- tical aud geographical information, and was de. livered with Mir. MeNeiil's wonted force and spirit. In the discussion whieh followed the lecture, the & eXpressed them ® strongly eke kind of Union the Colonies.

On next Wednesday evening, the Rev. Azade | Trudelle, of St. Dunstan's College, will lecture ou * The religivus seutiments of Napoleon I.”

W. W. SULLIVAN, See’y.

March 24.

wince alia aise Grain SHow.—This attuir of the Royal Ayricul- tural Society came off yesterday as announced. The samples exhibited were not so wumerous nor so yood us ou some former vecusions. ‘The list of prizes awarded wero as follows :— Best Wheat, Edward Woolner, Rustico,

Red Clover, John Stewart. Hope River,

Un ha dee codecs s oesee 10 be sag Clover, Jolin Lanen, Travadie,....0 15 —Po.

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— + -—-—ws — - QUADRILLE Parry. — This entertainment, under the auspices of the City Amateur Band, we will remind pleasure-seekers, comes off to-inorrow night, as will be seen by reterence to an advertise- ment in another coluwn. As it proinises to be a pleasant affair, and has a worthy object in view, viz., to raise funds to procure additional instru- wents, we hope it will be well patronised and tay prove successful.—Com.

Delicate females and weak persons are certain find in these Bitters what they have so lung looked for.

They purify, strengthen and invigorate.

They create a healthy appetite.

They are an antidote to change of water and diet.

They overcome effects of dissipation and late hours.

They strengthen the system and enliven the mind.

They prevent miasmatic and intermittent fevers.

They purify the breath and acidity of the stomach.

They cure Dyspepsia and Constipation.

They cure Diarrhw, Cholera and Cholera Morbus.

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Letter of Rev. E F. Crane, Chaplain of the 107th .

New-York Regiment : Near Acquis Creek, March 4th, 1863. Owing to the great exposure aud terrible decom-

prostrated and very sick. My stomach would not retain medicine. An article called Plantation Bit- ters, prepared by Dr. Drake, of New York, was prescribed to give me strength and an appetite. To my great enrprise they gave me immediate relief. Two bottles almost allowed me to join my regiment. * * * * Thave since seen them used in many

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Letter from the Rev. N. E Gips, St. Clairs- ville, Pa, : GentLewen ;—You were kind enough, on a former

tion Bitters for $350, My wife having derived much benefit from the use of these Bitters, I desire her to continue them, and you will please send us six bottles more for the money inclosed.

I an, very traly, yours, N. E. Gicps, Pastor Ger. Ref. Church.

So.piens’ Home, Superintendent’s Office,

Cincinnati, Obio, Jan. 15th, 1863. i * * * * © | have given your Pliantution Bitters to hundreds of our noble soldiers whe stop bere, more or less disabled from various causes, and

the effect is marvellous and gratifying.

every family, in every hospital, aud at band op every battle field. G. W. D. Axprews, Superintendent,

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« Witvarp’s Horet, Wasuixetoy, D C., May 22d, 1863. }

Geytieuen:—We require another supply of your Plautation Bitters, the popularity of which daily increases with the guests of our house.

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days illness, Wiliam Thonn, aged 2 years and 4 months, and on the 9th of March, Philipa, aved tl years and 9 months, after 9 dave illness of Diptherin, the beloved

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March 28, 1864.

CHARLES BELL, Merchant "Tailor, QUEEN STREET, Charlottetown, - - P. E. Island, Hus on band a general assortment of

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NOTICE!

To the Tenantry and Settlers on the Estates of James Montgomery, Esq., in Prince Edward tsiand.

TT! FE, Subscriber having been appointed by

power of Attorney, bearing date the Twenty- seventh day of February, 1864, the Agent and At- torney of James Montgomery, Esquire, to manage is Estates in this Island, the Tenants and Settlers on the said Estates, comprising portions of Town- ships Nos. 34, 51, and 59, are hezeby notified to pay all urrears of Rent and other sums of money due by them to the Subscriber, without delay, he alone being duly authorized to receive aud grant dis | charges fur the sume.

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LOTTERY.

WING to the returns from many per- sons not having beeu received, the LOTTERY for the SLEIGH, in aid of a

Temperance Hall and Farmers’ Club. now in course of erection). has been postponed for a short time until the necessary arrangements can be satisfactorily nade. Persons bolding tickets for sale will continue to dispose of them, us the amount will be guaranteed by the Committee, and due notice will be given of the day on which the drawing will take place, and which will be con- ducted by a committee of disinterested persons on behalf of the ticket holders. Shoald anything oc- /cur to prevent this drawing, the money will be returned fur every ticket sold.

F. W. HUGHES,

JOHN ROACHE,

Sec'ys to Committee. _ Ch. Town, March 28, 1864. vin

Benevolent Irish sSocicty. T the Annual Meeting of this Society the following office hearers were appointed for | the ensuing year, viz: — Mr. 8S. W. Mitchell, President, (re-elected); Mr. O. Connolly, Vice President; Mr. J. Reddin, Assistant Vice Presi- dent: Mr. J. A. McKenna, Treasurer; H. A. Bennett, Secretary.

Committee of Charity—Messrs. Francis Me- Carrea, Peter Mullins, Edward Ryan, William Walsh, Michael Trayner, Willian O’Brien, and IL. A. BENNETT, See’y. Charlottetown, March 10, 1064. vin 1 in.