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The Labrador and Western shore herring sich Decessarily rendered it unbinding on all par- | with the runaway segro slave of the South 2 whieh Iie will thus have thieillicit Re-| Where is the parent that will not recoil at | ment;

@ries are just now creatin 2 considerable witentrou;

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! : ‘ | . : j , ote . a selves, without the Queen's permission, to lave we become so void of those higher prin-| wars so cear us, it might be difficult to re arbitrate in the case, and dictate an Award, ciples that we are forced to resort to these ?ivive the

Virtually stulufied the whole Report, and| Must the white man of the North be arrayed

ties alike.

gume enthusiasm again.” He should explain the *‘* untoward events

gave ** put a damper’? on the move- but instead of doing so he proposes

nad this branch of indusiry promises to become | port, in so far as it favors his own interests, | the idea of having a son placed in the rank | several ‘* expensive’? plans to give the torpid

teportant se far as Newfoundland is coucerved Net lees than su, barrels Were taken at the | Labrador last seasen, the whale of w hieh, with. the eaceptiion of & few thousand barrels retained for home consumption, ware shipped to the States and Canada. During the past six weeks 60,00 barrels have been purchased at St. Jobn's, and ex

made the permanent law of this Island, but! and file with the black man?” whatever does not suit himself he will utterly | repudiate. Lovely man ! genuous creature be is! Now, why did ‘it elected a Demoerat, he says: ‘ Cannon, Master W. Hi. Pope allow this glaring piece | Union candidate, was elected »”> he id quite f inconsistent audacity to pass uvreproved ? jright. Mr. Cannon, war or Union Democrat,

So much for Kentucky and Gov. Bramlett. | What a disin- | Of Delaware, after denying my assertion that and time

lthiog a ** resuscitation.”” : Ile states that the drain on their pockets ' certain amount of coolness towards the !movement,’’ and he’ feels usshred that unless | his propositions are adopted, ** many of them

pected, chiefly in American vessels, the prices | lad he just * bearded the tion in his den,’'! (the terms are synoynmous) was eleeted by, would’ prefer a swinging militia regulation

ranging from Os. te 7s. per barrel. It is feared | the codfishery at the West has bee a failure | Sipee the fiest of Janvary the export of fish | slows au excess of nearly VU,UU0 quiatals, com pared with that of the ame period fast year, | While ia seal oil an excess of about 40 tons is) beted, Le the expert of coal, vil and salinon |

there are deficiencies, iu the Hest of 250 tons, and |

the latter. nearly 7UU tiexoes. At preseut the | market is quiet, the state of the coast preventing the arvival of vessels, and thus tending to check operations ta articles.af export. It is ytuted that the large shipmeuts of Codfsi since Lae beginning vf the year bave reduced the quantity now v1 | band cousiderably below that held at the same | period lust year No sales of importance have | been made since last mal. Recently a consider- able nerease in the imports of bread, flour aud pork have taken place, but botwithstanding this, | prices are firm, with an upward tendency. The | very great scarcity of mulasses enabled holders to | obtain the bigh price of Ys. 6d. per gallon for smal! quantities. A earve of the article arrived from | Matamovras on the 2ist wit, which, te some extent, | dissipated the anxiety respecting extreme searci- | ty, and the price at once receded. The cargo sold at from 2s. 4d. tu vs Gd. per gallon. The Merilia from Halifax teok tv St Jola’s 150 ony chevus on ber last trip. lo the Howse of Assea: ly a petition from mer- | chants, avd the inhabiiants geverally, ot Harbour Grave and Carbonear, hea been presented, pray- | ing the House to conserve the present Reciprveity ‘Treaty with the United States. A school-heuse, belonging to the Episcopalians | et Leng Voud, sear Topsail, was destroyed by | Ere & short tigye muce. _ —ee --- Matancmouy Accipsst at Sea — It is with | great regret we have to report the untimely | death, on board the ft. Charles BD. Major, Esq, late of the house of

I. 3. Canada, ot |

und come home at once, as any honest man 110 majority. In speaking of the elections,

would have done, the people of this Island [| stated distinctly, eleetions for Governor ; | teers are not becoming such desperate feliows | wil] remember that the “ proposals.” suggested

might have thought something of him. Pos-| the last electiun held in New York was not

sibly Sir Samuel fele his digmty a little am- for Goverior; there was no political issue,

peached, as our wise Delegate uppears by! save in a few countics ; it was for men not | his owD Blory to bave refused consulung with , measures. Seymour, a staunch Demucrat. ts | He would the present Governor, and was elected by

im personally from the first.

vply eee the Duke, but she Duke showed) over 10,000 majority. And thus 1 might

| Very little melination to ‘* return Ais visiés.’’ | proceed, takiog in turn each State spoken ot

Now all this is perfect twaddle. Mr. Pope may have been consulting with of their officiul returns), showing my stute- Sir Samuel it is not for us to tell. Two heads, ments to be true, to the unbiassed and un-

are generally better than one to concoct any | prejudiced, beyond the shadow of a doubt,

new scheme ia the world, and if Mr. Pope, not aiter the manner of the Weedly, offering did not consult with Sir Samuel Canard, or | assertion for proof, and conjecture for certuin- any body else he had # mind to, when home| ty. ‘he first principle of the Democratic im Rogland, we al! know as well as himself it | party is the abolition of slavery, but not as must have been his own fault. We rather | the Republicans would do it, by issuing pro- doubt that the consulting part of it was not | clamations, regardless of law and order, in- both tov long and too reeiprucal on both sides | citing insurrections, encouraging the slaye to fur the special benefit of the people of this) rebel aguinst his lewful owner, but rather Island. Perhaps Messrs. Pope, Palmer, Sir) Sy compensated emancipation ; togive to the Samuel Cunard, fe. &c. &e., may be a fine slave owner something in return fur the pro- sample of boys to consult together on the, perty taken from him. To give you an idea land questivns of this Island, but fur our part of the sentiment of the Republican party, | we should greatly prefer trusting such mat-| will quote from 4 speech made in the U. 5 ters in Jess portentous hands. Time will tell | Senate by the Hon. Joshua Giddens, of Viiv, whether we are right or wrong. gentlemen are not all identical, they are na-| ourty.

He said: ‘*[ hail the dawn of a

turally in danger ef playing into each other's political milleniam, when the negroes of the |

hands, And if this new Proprietors’ Bill; South, armed with British bayonets and does not reflect the combined skill of those | officered by Northern men, shall be led on very gamesters, [ should like to know what | against their masters, and drive them even else it can possibly be discovered tu indicate ?, into the Gulf of Mexico.”

But the teoautry are beginning to take the) The Weekly, if we give credence to what

, hint at long last, and this new Bill is likely | he says, has - closely wate ed the course of

ere long to fulfill some people's destiny | American events, civil as well as military,”

ase it, gentlemen, if you like, but you need land finds that Mr Lincoln’s popularity is

”

not do it with your eyes shut. Sign your|* greatly on the increase. I have also had own ** death warrant,’’ if vou please. We) an eye to ** American affairs, military as

iow often in my first communication, (as Ll bave a list,

If such @ very prominent member and leader of the.

to the present system.’’ I trust the Volun- ag theit champion would lead the publie to suppose. But let us turn to his proposals, spirit of Esprit du corp.”’ He proposes jeach company, and provide the company _with statiouary ; that the Goveroment shall assist to clothe the volunteers; that inspee- tors who have seea actual service shall be ‘employed; that the Government shall defra, the expenses of drill rooms, lights, &. ; that there shall be country shoutiag matches,

more prizes, ke. ; that the Adjatant General |

shall be allowed a suificient sum for & clerk ; all of which proposals, together with the ex- penses of Drill Instructors, would cost the , Colony aboat £1500 or £2,000 annualiy. Your readers, Sir, will doubtless consider

that if the correspondent of the /slander does | lne of the lands.”

not use ** irony *’ in his composition, he at

least exhibits an inordinate share of brass, wore especially when they learn that he bus the effeontery to sign his reckless adyocacy for squandering the public money, ** Pro Bono Publico,”’

which he alludes) are quite friendly, will in all probability continue sv.

nu fears of Americano invasion, but if 1 bad

they would subside on reflecting that, from

the manner in which he murders French and English with his pen, he would be invincible by himself against all or any invaders of our | cure from their iarus a sulliciency of food.”

CLVIs.

virgin soil. March 12, 1864.

Mr Epiror—Six:

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which are to give ** resuscitation” to the |

that the Government shall pay the clerk of

I may aay in conclusion that the relations of the United States with Great Britain (to | shews that, on Sir Samuel Cunard’s estates, on | : ” “11 | copter

er i er ie | Townships 44, 45 and 46, the majority of his by the enforcement of quit reuts, and also with | vepted throngh the rT of dire HeCeRRIty, on

L have tenants do not raise from their farms more that | respect to their assertion, coupled with the above | the other—are completely binding inJaw, We aly

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Cunard asked 16 years Fargned, upon what we believe to be only reasou- | solemn acknowledgment,” said te

have

15 and 16) years purchase a for all—there appears to be a slight difference be-| able assumptions, that, as the Imperial Parlia- |“ made by tenant Legislatures and individy tween them as to the modes of payment; but it is} ment, in 1933, did net bold themselves exonerated | tenants,” being “ sufficie al

| t ut to account for t quite evident that the proprietors asked very little i from the duty of redressing the wrongs of the | situation of those who are tenants and the : en

negrocs, either on account of the great lapse of tuilment of the payment of rent “pen them ang

ng the Proprietor,

account, since the acts uf

more than the Delegates were willing to ive, be ' . ‘fore @ word was written about the remissiem of) tine — 237 years during which they had been their pesterity, without chargi | Quit Rents or other favours to the proprietors. | sanetioved by Imperial authority ; or on account | with any blame, on that “i 4

is making the Volunteers * feelay Now, weshall make three short extracts from Of the ianmense sacrifice of money required to} their forefathers and themeelves have caused jn

| Mr. Pepe's letter to the Duke of Neweastle, of| effect it, a0 neither would.the Imperial Parlia-|—the assertion is most extravagantly

the 18th December, to seeshow the) will contrast | ment of 1364, were the wrongs of the people of | The facts of the case are, indeed, tar Ober wiag with the proposals cootained in the joint letter of this Colony to be fairly brought before thei, ag rhe serfdom of the great mass of the people ig the Delegates of the 13th October. Our readers) fuse to entertain them and make provision for directly attributable to “ the ricions Sratem” of

their redress in a manner less generous and mag- landlordism, which had its origin in, or yanimeous than that adopted by their predecessors | which eas instituted by the unconstitutional

for the emancipation of the slaves im the Britisi \anade by the lauds of the Crowa; he

l who were io arrears for reut only eae year sbouid | West Indies. The conclusion at which we have hitherto been sustaiued and supplied with Victing have the privilege of purchasing at 15 years, and arrived on this head is, that, with respect to the | to its grinding tyranny through the he

| those who were in atrears for a longer period | (enautry of Prinee Edward Island, a responsibi- | which the most culpable laxity of the Impey

| should pay the Miyears ; but not ope word was) lity, ou the part of the Lmperial Parliament and Government has afforded proprietary lhaens, ‘said us to “ diflerences” in quality and value of ; Government exists similar to that acknowledged zfiret w deceive and practise upon the

jland. But this appears to have been an after-| by them, in 1833, with respect to the negro slaves | of intending emigrants in the old country, by

that the tenautry: should beallowed to buy their

farms at 15 and 1G years’ purchase—that is, those

: al ‘ ‘thought with Mr, Pope. He says in the letter of | in the British West Indies; and that, if it be pro- highly colored and wost inviting

the Iéth December :— perly urged upon them, they will honorably ac- | tions as te superior advantages and great “J respectlully submit, wy Lord Duke, that it | quit themselves of it, Such an uppeal, however, peculiar privileges enjoyed by settlers in pe

the leasehold tenures of Prince Edward Isiand | jo pot be expected from a proprictary Govevu-| Edward Island; avd then on the arrival im thy

afe over Se ba avenevien tate Sroshalda; Sain ond went, such as that which now rules, this Colony. Colony of the parties so previously

will not be accomplished by any Act which fixes | ’ ' peion : _ red, ty

an uuifurm rate of purchase, Without recoguizing | Even were they to undertake it, it would never, | take advantage of their necessities, and Linge

the differences which exist in the quality aud ¥a-| jp their hands, be prosecuted to a happy issue: upon them as tenants whatever terms ang

if directed by them it would prove nothing but | ditions they have thought proper to preg

“a delusion, a mockery, and a snare,” | That persons siguing leases, paying Peat, or by cs Inthe fourth place, with respect tothe admission avy other act attorning to auother as their land, | farnis, let us see what Mr. Pope says on that sub- | wade by the Royal Land Consuission, “that the lords, cauuot dispute his title, we koow very we.

| Now, as to the ability of the tenantiy to pay | 15, 16, or any amount of purchase money tor their

ject. Io the same letter, at page 29, we tiud the | grants were, at one time, liable to forfeiture for | and that leases, even such as tl on following paragraph :— | breach of the conditions with respect to settle-; question, although based on usurpation and

wigwe egrey &: Uh Llataamamninese dine SSPpee ment, and might have been practically anwulled traud, oo the one hand, gpd entered into apd gy.

| barely sufficient to keep them frow starvation, and ‘ ; ag PRES ithis, tov, on the assumption that six and a half admission, “that the lands,” had the grunte been basi 28 dedi’ ty ite persons can be supported vu seven shillings ster- so anvulled, “ could have been seized and sold by | ‘aw : wou ‘ nable any © 1e to escape from the jling a week; and also that, taking the tevants | the Crown, at various times, without the slightest | bondage so imposed upon him, but would throughout the Island, forty per cent do not pru- | impeachment of its honor”: We have, on good | vend to its confirmation, yet escape frou it ie by se ae 2) we have. ihe picture.of the and sufticient authority, asserted that “this valu-| #0 means to be despaired of In a court of

i age 30, we hav ture : ete ee / as ws : . ‘able Island, wou by the valor aud enterprise of | ne agreement which it could be proved had been jtenant’s distressed condition more pathetically on ‘ | aheline : ’ | . . : | British soldiers,” cought, from the first, to have } efivet yY wneans of talse or fraudulent represey. } drawn in the fullowing paragraph :—

But although no process in a

Beckwith & Major, of this city, who died at,

ea on Soard that vease! whie on her passage from Liverpool to Halifax. on Tuesday last, from tue effects of an accident which oecurred to hiw on the day previous. From what we can learn of the circan stances attending this truly distressing occurrence, it appears that the deceased gentleman, while playing with Some other passengers cn the salcou deck, missed his footing, and bemg thus violently vcipiteted to the main deck of the steawer, arm was broken, and his head coming in contact with the beiwarks, sustained a severe fracture of the skull, which undoubt edly ewused bis death. He, of course, re- ceived every attemiou that the skill of the ship's surgeon could aRord, as well as kind sympathy trom his fell.w passengers and ali oa board, but the injuries received were too severe to admit of his recovery. The re- mains of Mr. Major were broaght hither for interment, and they were accordingly Lauded over to his friends noe alter the arrival of the Caneda in port. We deeply sympa- thize with his bereaved widow and little family, and his numerous relatives and friends in this city.— Huljfax Reporter. _—_—

CORRESPONDENCE, THE PROPRLETURKS’ NEW BILL

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To rue Eviror or rox Examiner.

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Will you permit we to ask the Leaders of |

our Government what they mean by present- ing the above Bill to the Tenautry of this Teiand?) =Do they imagine that we are all a paek of nstural-born fools, whom they can lasult with impunity at their own option > Why did they not quas!) the wretched thing at opee. without allowing it to see the light

‘ ul Gay aVe Dot the th a eady

suficiently outraged with proprietary auda-

city to merit no such new ind ciion ct wauton |

cruelty as this? Do the late Delegates ¢,

| if they don't dos

bave beard of kings and queens doing so be-| well as civil,’ uot frum a point in the Gulf! fore now. Our country members bad better of St. Lawrence, bat at the scene of military vote for it too. We shall like to catch | operations, at the capitol at Washington, , them try it. ) and in some of the principal Northern cities, | The Monitor of last week is very consi- 24 in my observations it has been shown derate about the matcer. It expects that the ime, and most conclusively, that Linevlo s ‘new Bill will not be passed by Governwent | Popularity is on the wane, Buta tew days’ | with all its rigorous terms mmtuct, but that it| *8°, be Was furiously acacked im Congress ;will be melted and swelted, and ran over jon his scheme of reconstruction, by two of. “again by our untiring Legislators, watil 1¢ x | DIS Party and former supporters, the Ion. ‘ready like a hage suow-ball to be once more | Heary W. Davis aod Gov. Boutwell, men gy onose this on reading the notices, particu- | 4reund tur six mouths in the year, and where the | cast in the teeth of the Duke of Neweastle, | that wield as much influence as any two | jarty as regards the publicity given to them. | CW, that supplies milk to the poor yw Rana | and thas kick up another whir'wind to divert i onus in ne ranks ot | papaseenee | For instance, a new bridge is required across | be housed and fed for seven wouths of the £25 an ; * . } a . uvis aC : sche 2 Si : ‘ . -¢ : i > ate . | oe peeve ul the people of Prince Kdward | © 4 ree Asche Lena. sande see td nies Crabb 6 Mill Dam : the advertiseurcnt is dated | perish or become dependent upou public charity.” sland a little while longer. The Moraior| ; P weaves ©) the oth., but the Royal Gasette dues not ap- | jcomplacently enough assumes, on the back oo rk | of the people of the United States. 4 pent until the aiteruoun of the 9th., and the | | uf slus piece of popudar information, that the | 1438 be boldly said 1 Congress, and nv one? gay appointed for receiving tenders is the | | people will never get tired of their present | was tound to reply to his erene incul pation, ‘rulers, no matter how long toey aay thus} reiterated in a variety of forms, A New "persist in provoking their patiznce and good | York journalist “* who standa at the head - temper. We fuily agree with our self-com- | his class, says of reeonstruction ; * It 1s | plaeent periodical io this assum ption, since we | Printing outin bold relict the growing dis- can honestly assure him that the vast ma- | °2t8facuion with Lincoln 8 plan, in bis own jority of our people have got tired of theiy | Ps received at first by that party with present rulers already ,aud hence never expect | acclamation and. eulogy ;, it has yruvoked to have todo it again. Possidly if he and | dissent in proportion as it has beeu examined, some of his contemporaries keep ranting | “Ott the body of ite defenders grow small | ‘about Religion in the disgusting wanner they | by degrees and beautifully lees.” Not satis. have been domg for sowe time past, the most | tied with his niste presentation of McViellan | of our people will get even u few degrees |'" his first article, the Week/y in his second, | Grederol both him and our present rulers than | places himself on his audacity and calls him ue shell like to discover wher too late for)! favour of Southern independence.”’ The ‘them wod him to retrace their steps. Such | ‘tea is preposterous. Docs he or any one jlow bred artifice, he may depsnd upon it, | °'* SUprose MeCiellan could hold the Qom- | will nof much longer divert the peopte’s at-| Bion he now holds—Maj. General in the tention from their own proper reciprocal | reguler army —and favor Southern independ. interests. As for the new Lill, the Govern-| °"°°: The Ist Regt. \-Y¥- cavalry. at the | ment may save themeéelyes the trouble of entering seriously epon any new large in re- lation to it. They had better lay iteguigu. and set themselves to work a: Gnee to do sumething for the local Rene lht of the people

eipetbing good precious son.

Much has been said Jately respecting) “ My at ae ee tendering for Goyernment work, which has | presume, be resorted fo. fu Prince Leward ts tended i m the eves of 13 residin land many poor people, in various parts of the

deg 40-Open. We. Cyos Os Perens. Fe 2 eylony, have expended their youth aud strength out of the city. I perceive by the last). 7".

> den .

Royal Gaactie, and tormer numbers of that) od by their grown wp sons, who vaturally paper, that tenders bave been called for by | sejuse to unprove laud whichis charged with ar-

: i + | rears rent, im many cas tite equa ; the Government for a variety of purposes; {rears of rent, in many cases qtite equal to its and it would uppear that some few persons | treehold salue. These persons, with wives aud would I:ke to monopolise the greater portion | helpless children, are dragging out a tuiserable for themselves or their friends. Lam Jed to) «xistence in a country where show covers the

The same story of distress is repeated in Mr, Pope’s second letter of the 1th January. That | ww reach any of the country districts. Again, | Gulonial Office while Mr. Pepe was in England. there is the notice for steamers on the Hills- |He got no auswer to either one while there borough and Elliot Rivers, hurried through |.” weg a in the shortest possible time—a ten years | Sfter he returned to the Island, the Governor's monopoly bartered away at the stort pyutice Private Secretary wrote to Mr. Pope to say that ot five days, public are concerned, is not a hage humbug ? |

} I am, yours respectfully, A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

‘ this, forsooth, ts oneof the communications which

Che Examiner, Charlottetown, March 14th, 1864.

ODO PNA NNN N | “<7 have already e in my letter to his Grace the | Duke of Newcastle, of the Ith of December, re-

Fpression on the wind of the Colonial Minister. But let us see what he says in his letter about the

,

, wide-spread and “ abject poverty’ of the Isiand

tenantry. We read as follows at page 32:—

to New-York, and having re-enlisted, were re : io ‘ident! i the estate of Sir Samuel Cunard in Prince Eed- officially reviewed by the city authorities, on | Some friends of the Government, evidently | ward Island,” laid betore the Commissioners, aud Thursday the l3th ult A collation was pre-

pared fur them at Jefferson market, and | scheme, and desirous of shielding the Delegates

| alter refreshing themselves at the tables. us much as possible from the odium which the

ashamed of the barreu results of the Delegation | by them attached to their report te bis Grace, | troxa which it appears, beyond all question, that op sone of Sir Saniuel Cunard’s estates the ar- jwears of reat due are equivalent to upw ards ot

| neither they, nor the Monatur weed ever ex | #preches were es by distinguished at juilure of their mission bas generally evoked, | seven shillings an acre, tor every acre leased, as- | pect to humbug the country into the Oper [present. A. T. MeReynold, Cul. of Pred pretend te attach cousiderable importance to the jsuining that the tenants are equally indebted ;

wus inter-

| Regiment, and in U. S. service : rd | . , : who | communications which were wade to the Colonial

i and from the report of the Copiuissioners it: fur- |rupted in bis remarks by a private,

tolly of tolerating them a great while longer J ‘ 5 ' ther appears that the majority of these tenants

, > . | Such an act of generosity ov the part uf the

in clearing the forest, and ave wow, in old age, de- |

| they cannot be thrust out into the highways to | tionally granted away the whole Island, in a single

12th at boon, not giving time for the paper aud the preceding one were addressed to the

calling for tenders, as fur as the general Pope's) letter, but his Grace remarked that the

| are expected by Mr, Pope to make a great im-| jts prosperity. Titles would be insecure, because,

expiration of téetierin of service, returned | THE DELEGATION CORRESPONDENCE, | ferred to the evidence afforded by the * Synopsis | |

‘heen considered as absolutely fixed in the people ; tations, or the agency of constraint, would be jand that the grauts made of it by the Crowo | pronounced binding on the party aggmeved: and | were an unwarranted and direct violation of the | even in a court of common law, in sh ease | people's rights; aud, further still, that—supposing generally, we believe, the decision would be js faver of the party aggrieved. However, it iy neither to a court ef conmon law, per tos evurt of equity, that we advise the e te peal for their emancipation frem the boudage imposed upon them by unjustifiable landlordisg, but to that power from which alone they eau a. pect to receive it, on such free conditions as they have a right to demand it—to that power whi not ouly owes it to them, but is able fully and

j shat the grants had been practically annulled by ithe enforcement of quit rents, and that thereon the lands had been seized aad sold by the Crown —such act of sale would bave been an abuse of the trusteeship vested in the Crown quite as unwar- ranutable and indetensible as that of which the

| Crown was originally guilty, when it unconstitu-

\ day, “ in buge blocks of 20,000 acreseach.” Had

“the grants been so annulled, the only constitutioual | freely to grant it te ther, the Imperial! Parliawient, disposal of the jands which could have beer. made | — /« the secenth place, with respect to the tena would have been by commencing a distribution of | or conditions of emancipation offered to the them, as public lands, in small lots, among the | tenautry by the proprictors and our proprietary people, subject to a suvall tax or tribute, payable Goverument:—We have clearly shown that “the tu the State, but pot to rent. Loon,” as they presume to eall it, and whieh they In the fifth place, with respect to the QUESTION | 8° boastfully proffer, would be no greater than that

Who will say, after this, the | the Duke of Newcastle had received his (Mr. or Escuray, and the opinion thereanent enun- | Wich is frequently conferred upon negro slaves

elated by the Reyal Laud Commission, in the | by their masters, when they concede to them the

{letter did net appear to be one which “ called tor | following words: “If it were believed that such | PYiVilege of purchasing their freedom by the frvits jany comment,” ‘This was beautifully cool. And! 4 principle existed in Prince Edward Island, or | f their extra labour—the privilege of purebasing

could be enforced, it would be utterly ruinous — that to which they had au niberent right; and: their title to which they could lose oaly either by

with few exceptions, the forfeiture would apply | Yeluutary sacrifice of it, or as a forfeit for erimes to every towuship and every subdivision of a | Committed against the rights and well being of

township ip the Island. No particular lot, no{ their fellow-men. Our joeal Goveramest may

narticular proprietor could be selected; the law | pretend to oppose the views of the proptietors ; but ‘would be general iu its application, and must fal] | W00 ean give them credit for sincerity ia doing fon all ahke — not solely on the representative of iso? Are they not a proprictary Government ? the original grantee of 1767, it any such there be, And as such must not their views be coineideut | but on the purchaser ot yesterday, or the orphan | with these of the proprietors in general? There | whose inheritance ‘fell to him-the day before. | may, indeed, be some htthe seeming difference or Die destruction of the primary tithe would earry | ¢@¥uling between thein and the proprietors as te pweh it the titles of the small freehuiders, who | the ore termes to be offered to the tenantry, jhold under it, as well as the improvements of but the views of both wust of necessity ted tothe the temante : same end — the holding, in a spit of rappeity, We have shewn— sustamed by indisputable | the tenant to Lis bond, or else agreeing to eangel

|

Britain suppose that any tenant among us| people would be worse than suicide. can command enough patural patience ty sit)

pendence through? What a blessing this) repudiite the proprietors’ claims altoyether

new Bill would be to be sure! If once made | Perhaps the sooner they do so the better. Fur) 7! ; the law of the land, it would give our poor taking such a step they have both ample and George B, MeVlellan, has honored you with Bat il they ever take this step,

tenants—what? A right to buy ticir farms | just grounds

[tis very probable, Mr. Editor, that tue down and calmly read their reported corres-| peuple of this Province will yrt be foreed to

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’ } boys,’ the Cul. continued with: ** 1 bave

‘the, honor the great pleasure tv announce to |

Mr. you that the noble, the matchless chieltain, '

Pope himself seems to be uoder the impression (see Islander, March 4,) that his commanications

duct to be thatot a very oppressive landlord.

his presence.’’ The tumult of cheers, repeat-

}ealled out, ** Gea. McClellan is commg in, | these communications are very severe upon Sir

) Sainucl Canard, and that they shew up his eon-

at 16 years purchase, payable ia 5 years,— it must be done solewuly, and concertediy

ed and re-repeated, subsided as Gen, MeClel-

will have a wonderful effect on the mind of the

| Jumped upoo a table andin a stentorian voice | Minister by Me. WoT. Pope. We are told that jare in abject poverty—thait they do not produce | jegal and cousututional authurity—that, “cousdi- | Mealy on the payment of the largest amount of

trom their faruss euilieent to procure them food! —. . : a : and clothing; and from the same report, if aise {tutionally a Court of Escheat has vlways existed

appears that, taking the whole teuuntry of the | —that escheat is incident to the power of the

Colony, there are forty per ecut whe do vot raise | Crown in the adminstration of the public domain from their lauds a siifliciencs of food.”

money which can be wruvg from him by meawe of chicanery, cajulery, or threat.

The terms and conditions of emancipation er self-redemptioa offered to the tenautry by Sir Samuel Cunard’s Bill are, as we have stated them iD @ previous nau ber :—

- _ |—that it required no particular legislation to put With these extracts we must close our review the machinery of escheat in operation; and that

Pin, oe —> nee E >, a as i- > . : > of the Correspondence. Lf Mr. Pope has uot |i |uone is required now”: and, further, that Es-

aod even this right could not Se exercised | and without any tumult, and without any

lan rose. le spoke as follows: ‘* My

| Colonial Miuister, and be the means of “ inducing

| belled the tenantry of the Island in saying that

| cheat, as incident to the power of the Crown in

Ist—The right of texants holding leases over d®

wotil they had first promptly ‘* forked over” | dinching. The tenantry must all, without friends und comrades; [ came here not to rent, which, to! acres of lund, | would be £30. Now this, tugether with the

the last six years’ standin all owing it aod holding 1

yearly rent wad present interest of money as wack: mnstalment would proceed, woald just do

about what—enable eac!) poor tenant of this |

|} make a speech tu you, bat tu welcome you _ + te ~ eats vy ee to - / 40 per cent. of them, or nearly one half, are sank Luey have hitherto consented to do anything | home and express tu you the pride [ have al- | ee eT re ' at aud everything but what is for their own in- | Ways felt in watehing your career, put only would deen reasonable to ask for, assuming them terests. They have always suifered them- | whep you were with we, but since L left the | ty be in the position Which Sir Samuel Cunard has army of the Potomac, while you have mene |

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exception, act together, and act as one man

to procure a sufficiency of food and clothing—

then, we must say, it is a huge mockery to pro-

selves to becume split up into adverse parties | “°F by designing politicians. Whether they are| fighting battles under others aud your ol : 1 congratulate you on the

in “ abject poverty,” and that they are not able taphdent tos the

{torial rights and revenues of the Crows was hitherto represented.” There are ouly two com- | POs* that people in suck a woe-begoue Shpfitien made to it; and that, should they at any time munications from Mr. Pope in which be attempts | should purchase the frechold of their farms at 16 | i

{ pl : . > | the administration of the pablic domain, became

power of our local Goverument in 185), when the transfer of the casual and terri-

years to purchase at 106 years reni. The whole purchase money to be paid at once. No rents to the value of one farthing to be Jeft unpaid since 1355; bor can the tenent purchase for any amount ef money urless the andlurd shall be willing to put in operation the machinery of a Court of Es- sei.

2ud—Rents due previous te 1858 to be forgiven.

Province to buy vut bis 1) acres by paying | ever going to unite and do something tor! commander. them-elves, remains yet to be seen. ** Union,

down 30 odd pounds yearly for the next five

years? We leave out the tact that nu dis- | Union,” be their watch-

must heucelorth

erimination would be made even with these word, and all ranting partyists to the |

hard terms between the man who muy have dogs! There is one thing, at least, which | slready paid iu reut dou ble che walue of hic! they should now do, and do at oace without farm awd him who has never paid & cent. | woy furtherdelay. They suould meet among | Now, bow many of ovr poor farmers are | themselves in every section of the Island, for this ~- how many of them are | aod appoint some delegates of their own to able, within any given five years, or five | hold a Congress in some central locality —to | more to the back of it, t) purchase 100 acres draw up a set of conditious between them- at the rate of £150, or 4120, or even, if you selves andthe proprietors. ‘Those conditions | like, £100? Js not the ching a well-known | should embody just what the poople them- impossibility? ds it wot sbeurd? But this selves want—wiat they will be all willing to | is wot all the blessing awaiting the tenantry, | sudseribe, aud what they will be fortheoming | shuld our legislators be crugy a3 to give to perform. They would, in a word, just | the proposed new Bill effet. It would, be-| comprise the people's own terms. ‘These berws | sides, demand of them w voluntary surrender! they should sigo, publish and conscientiously | of all the little advastage which they now adhere to. There would then be no further | possess over their landlords, without su mach | danger of any Government concocting of | usa struggle. The * quit rents” aod ** pri-| their own accord any maladministrative Biil, | mary right of Escheat,’’ whieb, after all, | or earrying any positive measure to the de- | evidently cvostitute the oaly two rods which | triment ol tbe tenantry. Every local Go the proprietors are still afraid of, must be | verament would have the people's as well as forever relinquished both by ua aud ourchil | the proprietors’ terms before then, and woe | dren. This w bat too cleerly tit only de- | be tu the party who should undertake to set) sign of the Bull now in qaestion. What a them aside. The Government would thus be , win, w be sure, we would bave of it! placed in the right positivn ** between two | ‘Puis Bul once