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EDWARD WHELAN] Chis is true Liberty, when Free~born Men, having ta advise the Public, many speak free ——EuRtwes. wee ee ne oom rye - => ~ S Ce RY eR a am SSA a ene SCC eo omenzere a

Vor. VIL. a ee eee a roms COME TO ME, DARLING.

“« Come to me, Darling,’’ is a love song, composed by Joseph Brennan, |

@ young Irishman, one of the exiles of 48, who died recently of Cols ula p- tion, in New Orleans, aged 28 years. Come to me, dearest, I’m lonely without thee, Day-time and night-time I'm thinking about theo ; Night-time and day-time in dreams I behold thee, Unwelcoms the waking which ceases to fold thee. Come to me, darling, my sorrows to lighten, Come in thy beauty, to bless and to brighten, Come in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly, Come in thy lovingness, quecnly and holy. Swallows will flit round the desolate ruin, felling of Spring and its joyous renewing ; And thoughts of thy love, and its manifold treasure, Are circling my heart with a promise of pleasure : O, Spring of my heart, O, May of my bosom, Shine out on wy soul till it bourgeon and blossom ,— The waste of my life has a rose-rvot within it, And thy fondness alone to the sunshine can win it.

Figures that move like a song through the even; Features lit up by a reflex of heaven ;

Eyes like the sky of poor Erin, our mother,

W here shadow and sunshine are chasing each other; Smiles coming seldom, but childlike and simple, Planting in each rosy cheek a sweet dimple:

0, thanks to our Saviour, that even thy seeming

Is left the exile to brighten his dreaming !

You liaye been glad when you knew I was gladdened, Dear, @re you sad now to hear | am saddened?

Uur hearts ever answer in tune and in time, love,

As octaye to octave and rhyme unto rhyme, love;

I cannot weep but your tears will be flowing—~

You cannot smile but my cheek will be glowing;

I woald aot die without you at my side, love—

You will not linger when I shall have died, love. Come to me, dear, ere [ die of my sorrow,

Rise oa tay gloom like the sun of to-morrow— Strong, swift and fond as the wos which I speak, love— With a song on your lip and a smile on your cheek, love ; Comé, for my heart, in your absence, is weary ; Haste, for my spirit is sickened and dreary ;

Come to the arms which alone should caress thee ; Come to the heart which is throbbing to press thee.

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THE LOVE KNOT.

BY NORAH PERRY.

Tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied her raven ringlets in ; But not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely fi ating hair, For, tying her bonnet ander her chin, She tie’ a young man’s heart within. They were strolling together up the hill, Where the wind comes b'owing merry and chill, And it blew the curls a frolicsome race All over the bappy peach-colored face, Till, seolding and laughing, she tied them in Under her beautiful, dimpled chin. Acd it blew a color, bright as the bloom Of the pinkest fuschia’s tossing plume, All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl That ever imprisoned a romping curl ; Or, ir. tying ber bonnet under her chin, Tied .*young man’s heart within. Steeper and steeper grew the hill— Madder. merrier, chiller still The western wind blew down and played The wildest tricks with the little maid, As, tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied a young man’s heart within. Oh, western wind, do you think it was fair To play such tricks with her floating hair? To gladly. gleefully do vour best To blew her against the young man’s breast, Where ho as giudly folded her in, And kissed her moath and dimpled chin?

Oh, Ellery Vane, you little thought, An hour ago when you besought

This country lass to walk with you, After the sun had dried the dew, What perilous danger you'd be in,

As she tied her bonnet under her chin.

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RECONCILIATION.

*Tis true that you and I fell out,

Yesterday ; I've no idea what about,

* Johnnie Gray ;

I only know the sun shines on, Though yesterday be dead and gone, And through the trellis at the door The light comes dancing as before—

Johnnie Gray.

The evening follow’d glowing noon, Yesterday ; And driving clouds obscured the moon, Johnnie Gray ; But night is past, and morn is here— The fields are green—the sky is clear— The rose and lilly gleam with dew— And |’ve two loving lips for you, Johnnie Gray.

— Nation.

laine Pa KIRWAN UNMASKED. LETTER I1. 7 U-mae a Ae Atlas rar ReverenD Nicnotas Mvarar, D.D.,

Dear Sir,— Of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

The merit of your letters, if they have any in the eyes of sincere Pro- testants, is in the supposed fact tuat you were brought up and instructed io the Catholie relig ton; and that your testirnony is more trustworthy, on this accouut, thas if you had been born and brought up a Protestant.

{ + * . . v: tr'ved to be so profoundly ignorant of the forsaken creed as you, Nich-

Ignorance was the only reason going before and determining your con-

| version to infidelity

The reader may suppose that in proclaiming your profound ignorance freligion, your meaning is, that you understood the Catholic faith, in

| which you were brought up, but that you were as yet ignorant of the

would be a mistake. Your meaning is, that you were entirely ignorant of the Catholic religion, as well as of all others. For this also we have your own testimony, in the following words : :

** Some book or tract, now forgotten, gave rise to some inquiries as to the Mass. [asked, What does it mean? I could not tell, though for years a regular attendant upon it. Why does the priest dress so ? What book does he read from, when carried now to his rizht, and now to his left? What means those candles burning at noonday 2 Why do I say prayers in Latin, which I understand not? Should I not know what L am saying when addressing my Maker? Why bow down and Strike my breast when the little bell rings 7 What does it all mean 2 The darkness of Egypt rested upon these questions."—p. 33.

Sever did man torsake one religion and join another, who bad con-

olas Murray, prove yourself to have been, in regard to Catholicity, when you renounced it and became an infidel. Whatever you know of it now, true or false, you have learned as other Protestants do, outside of the Church and trom her enemies.

It is imputed to our counutrymen that they act first, and reflect after- wards. I am sorry, sir, that your conduct, when you renounced the creed of your humble, but, I Lave no doubt, virtuous and respectable parents, goes so far to justify the imputation. It is certain, on your own testimony, that when you ceased to be a Catholic and became an infidel, the Catholic religion might be true, or might be false, for all you knew about it. It is equally certain that when, in 1847, you published a Series of smart, if not learned, reasons for your conduct thirty years ago, you have been again acting more Hibernico—and sorry am I that during so long a period, with the advantages of American and Presbyterian training, you have not yet outgrown the national weakness. But, sir, no genuine [rishman would attempt to justify his act by reasons which, in the order of time, occur to bis mind thirty years after the act had been perfurmed—as you have dune. A genuine Irishman would consent to be laughed at, and would join in bhgglansh with righ* good bumor, rather than attempt the trick of reversing the wheel of time, and as. signing the reasons of 1847 as the motives of his conduct in 1820,

The chronology of the events which make up a case is oftentimes very important. Previous to your conversion you knew nothing of the Catholic—nothing of the Protestaut—religion. The reasons assigned in your recent Letters, may or may not be good reasons, but whether good or bad, they had nothing to do with your change of religion. You blundered out of the Church and into infidelity, without knowing why or wherefore—and your reasons are all out of date. They might be styled with great propriety, “ An Irishman’s Motives for becoming a Protestant, arranged according to the order imputed to his Countrymen, that of acting first, and reflecting afterwards.”’

You may blame your priests or your parents, as you please, for the peculiar absence of religious knowledge which preceded your conversion. But the fact of your profuund ignorance of all religion, at the period of your change, ts the material point, and you bave been candid enough to establish that point beyond ail dispute.

You seem to be troubled with a peculiar weakness of memory—and this is a great misfortune in a Christian man who writes for the edifi- cation of the public. After what we have just seen of your mental con- dition at the period of your apostacy. from the Church, into what an awkward exbivition of yourself does this short memory betray you at the end of your first Letter, where you profess ‘to state in a series of Let- ters to my Right Reverence the reasons which INDUCED you to leave the Roman Catholie Church, and which prevent you from returning to it.” —(page 11.) Now, dear “ Kirwan,”’ we are toidin logic, that, of two prc positions which mutually contradict each other, one must be false. If your mind was “ a perfect blank as to all religious instruction,” as you assure us it was, (page 30,) how could you have had * reasons thut in- duced you to leave the Cuurch ?’—(page 11.) Have you forgotten in the one page, what you had affirmed inthe other? Now, however, that { have called your recollection to the mistake, pray be serious, and tell the public which of these contradictory statements you would have it te believe. Why, sir, your own great stand-by, ** common sense,” revults at the insult of religious “reasons” offered from a mind which, as to religious instruction, is a “ perfect blank !!”

Some persons may think that you are quizzing the public. I think not. Your memory appears to have been but puor from your childhood. And here allow me to pluck up a nettle which you would have planted on the graves of ‘* your parents and priests.” Thanks to their charit- able efforts for your instruction in the Christian doctrine, you “ knew your Catechism by heart, at the age of nine or ten years, when you were confirmed.”—(page 31.) Now I would call this a good, almost an ex- traordinary memory ina child of ten years. It had taken in and re- tained the waters of Christian knowledge which overspread the pages of the entire Catechism which you knew by heart. This was no trifle. But the first subsequent evidence of its failure is the fact thut you have forgotten to tell us of the sad catastrophe by whicb it beeame a cracked and leaky cistern immediately atter confirmation ; so that the ‘ cate- chism itself was forgotten ’ when you arrived at the jumping-off period of eighteen years.—{Ibid.) Pray, might I ask, whether it was this, your precocious talent of forgetfulness which caused you to be ‘even talked of as a candidate for Maynooth ?’—(page $1.)

Bat after all, dear sir, this memory of yours puzzles me amazingly. I turn to page 98, where having given me up, you address the Irish Catholic Laity in such tones of winning tenderness, that B.arney Castle never tipped the human tongue with sweeter. ‘* Your present feelings, as to your Church, I have had, and in ail their force. I can entirely appreciate them. I have cordially hated Protestantism and Protestants ; aud I bave seen the time when I regarded the manas my personal enemy who would utter a word against my religion. But those were the days of my youth and of my ignorance. When I became a wan I put away childish things.’—(page 98.) Why, this isqueer. You had forgotten at eighteen what the Church had taught you ; and you revember at nine-and-forty your hatred of Protestants, which she never taught you at all! You remember that when you became a man, you “ put away cbiidish things’? and ‘* became also an intidel.”? Yet you forget that y.u bad told -as before, that when you became a man, there were no * childish things’? left to be put away—that they had already sloped from your memory—that at the early age of eighteen you had “ forgotten them,” and that, as to religious instruction, your mind was a “ perfect blank ! !””

Is it not my business to reconcile these flat, palpable contradictions. I have established, from your own repeated avowal, your utter and pro- ‘ound ignorance of the Catholic religion, when you left the Church, and decame an infidel. You never came back to finish, or rather to begin your Catholic education. Like one of the winged messengers let louse from the hand of the Patriarch, you fuund more congenial sustenance abroad, and you returned to the Ark no more. In all this you may have been sincere, and if you were, in nothing of this do I blame you. But [ do blame you for assuming a character which does not belong to you.

When a man changes his religion he ought to be serious and sincere. When he does it with that direct reference to his account at the bar of | God’s eterna! judgment, which leaves no doubt as to che sincerity of his | mative, then, as I have said once before, I regard it as the grandest and most truly heroic act of which a rational being is capable on this earth. To assign the motives for such an act is equally fair and honorable. But, sir, { can conceive of nothing more disgusting to an upright mind, than to discover what is vulgarly, but very expressively called ‘ hum-

| In this Letter I have proved, on your own testimony, that you were ) utterly ignorant of Catholic doctrine when you left the Church and be- }came an infidel. In my next I shall have the more pleasing task of |tracing your progress out of infidelity and into Presbyterianism, which

; ) was a decided improvement in your spiritual, and possibly in your tem- pure evangelical doctrines which you have since embraced. But this |

porai condition. Meanwhile, I feel the same pity and benevolence to- wards you as befvre. + JOHN HUGHES, Bishop of New York.

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Colonial Legislature.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Tcespar, Keb. 23, 1858. CoLLECTION OF THE Impost REVENUE.

( Concluded.)

Hon. COLONIAL SECRETARY.—The hon. and learned member did not know, until after he had made his motion, that it would not be sup- ported by any of his friends; but, made wise by experience, he now sees it best to disclaim bis being actuated by any party purpose. Per- plexed in his attempts to damage the Government, on account of the present Message, hie has, two or three times, changed both the object and the mode .f his attack. He first rudely assailed the Lieutenant Governor; but, finding himself unable to establish anything personally against His Excellency, he turned upon the Government, and accused them of lavish and wasteful expenditure. Noi having succeeded, how- ever, in making good that charge either, he changed his mode of assault; next stigmatizing the Government as oligarchigal and tyrannical; add, finally, finding himself repulsed at every point, he’fell back, and gave way toa longing des re for the sweets of liberty enjoyed in Canada; whose Goverment, he seems to regard as nothing less than a perfect emanation from the spirit of freedom; and, if bis desire be sincere, I know not why I may not wish that he may be able soon to realize it. The hon. and learned member's motion was, I believe, out of order; for I think the Message Was received before he moved its rejection

Mr. H. HAVILAND.—I made my motion on'y that, by doing so, I might bave an oppertanity to express my opinion of the Message; for I was satisfied it would be ordered that it do lie on the Table.

Hon. Mr, PALMER.—The message is certainly of some consequence; but Iam not prepared any more than others appear to be, to speak de- finitely concerning the suggestion which is conveyed by it; and neither, perhaps, is this the proper time to enter upon any discussion of it. A day, lL presume, will be named for taking it into especial consideration; and then individual members will be better prepared to state their views concerning the system, and any alteration or amendment of it which may be proposed. As to the Message itself, I must say L see nothing unconstitutional in it; aud Iam persuaded that the hon. and learned member for Georgetown would not have moved its rejection, could he, otberwise, consisteutly with the rules of the House, have had an op- portunity of expressing himself, concerning the subject of it, which is indeed one which demands our grave ¢ nsideration. Perhaps His Ex- cellency thinks that, under responsible rule, the revenue ougbt not-to be overrun; and that the Government ought not to get into debt. He may, perhaps, see the present alarming state of afiairs; the immense amount of Treasury Warrants afloat; and the injury dene to the Colony by the incapacity of those who are entrusted with the management of public business. He may have been directed or instructed from Home, tu look more varrowly, both after the collection and the expenditure of the revenue. The Bine Book goes Home—the celebrated Blue Book— and he may have had hints that things are not going on well under his Government; that their securities have been refused; and that they are getting into bad repute: and for this and many other reasons, he inay have deemed it right to bring the subject of the Message under our immediate notice. The question arising out of it may be taken up and duly discussed when the House shall be in Committee on ways and means, or at sume other time.

Hon. the SPEAK ER.—There are two motions before the House; the first is, That the Message do lie on the Table; and the other is an amendment, ihatthe Message be not received, I shall proceed to put the question on the motion of amendment.

Mr H HAVILAND.—I have been told that, in moving my omend- ment, I was out of order; and I have, therefore, no desire to press it.

It was then ordered that Mr. Haviland have leave to withdraw his motion.

The question being then put on the main motion, it was agreed to by jhe Louse, and ordered accordingly. Rh. B. Irvine, Kepurter.

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Wepvespay, February 24th, 1858.

FORENOON SESSION.

House in Committee on Supply. Hon. Col. Treasurer in the charr.

Hon. Mr. Wightman presented the following resolution, which was agreed to :—

Resolved, That the sum of £6,375, being the amount provided by Statute as salaries to the public officers, be granted and paid to the several public officers entitled to receive the same.

Hon. Mr. Wichtman also moved the following resolution :—

Resolved, That the sum of six thousand pounds be granted for the service of Roads, Bridges and Wharfs, for the present year; and that out of such grant the following sums be apportioned to each County, for the general service of Roads,

ridges and Wharfs, viz :—Queen’s County, £2,000 ; Prince County, £1,850 ; Kings Couaty, £1,850 Charlottetown Royalty, £300.

Mr. PERRY.—Mr. Chairman, [ am disappointed to find the resolution consirusted on such exclusive principles, and con- sider that a fairer distribution could be made, by which Prince County would share in a more equal degree the money appropriated for roads aud Bridges, than it would by the present resolution. Prince County is vot oniy larger in extent, but is intersected with as greattin extent of Roads as Quven’s County, and, considering this, [ do not see why it is that it should not be eniitied toas large a share as Queen’s. Last year there was a sum of £7000 granted for the service of Roads and Bridges, of which Queen’s County had a very large proportion,

and why the same this year? l[ consider the portion given to,

Prince County untair in the extreme. [| consider it ts entitled to alarger proportion, and [ hope its just claims will receive the consideration they merit.

Hon. Mr. WIGHT MAN.—TI am surprised to hear the hon. member from Prince County, express himself in terms of so much dissatisfaction at the division made in the resolution just read. I consider the division the most fair and «guitable one that could be made under the circumstances, and so far from being in any way partial, to be of the most liberal descripuon towards Prince County. It is hard to please al] hon. members,

bug”’ mixed up in the assignment of such motives. This foul admixture is what [ charge upon your recent Letters, and what I biame. j

The American public are generous, and eredulous also, towards those who profess to write for their amusement or instruction. Being chiefly | Protestants, little acquainted with the religi.n which you have forsaken | and denounced, they would be—they have been—particularly generous | anc @redulous towards you. As an Lrishwan, it was unworthy of you to tuke unfair advantage of these voble sentiments.

It is true, thatif they read your pages with a ecld, impartial criticism, | they would see enough to put them on their guard. But your profound | ignosance of the Catholic doctrine, when you became an infide), which | you assert and repeat, usque ad nauseam, they will construe, like yourself, | a8 the reproach of your parents and priests. On the other hand, yuur |

This is, in fact, the ground which you bave taken, You speak of yourself, of your kn wledge and experience of the Catholic religion, of | ur reasons for renouncing it, from the beginning to the end of your etters. Vou are the witness in the cause ; you are the hero of the | Fomance ; and it will be impossible for me to do justice to the review, Without paying attention to the prominent personality which you have tablished for yourself, in assigning the reasons of your conversion. The first position which I intend to establish then, is, that Ireland hever produced @ peasant more ignérant of the Catholic, or of the Pro-| tant religion, thaa you were when you renounced the creed of your | fathers and became aa infidel. For the proof of this position you shall | ey witness. Turn to your first letter and read your own words : x; first became an infidel. Knowing nothing of religion but that | teh was taught me by parents and priests, and thinking that that. was the sum ot it, when that was rejected, infidelity became my only | vernative.””"—p. 11. | “On reaching the years of maturity my mind was a perfect blank as *8ll religious instruction.”’—p. 80.

“With my Mises! I was somewhat familiar ; I said the entockigzh |

‘ { wos confirmed, at the age of nine or ten, and that was the awount my religious education. At the age of eighteen years the catechism wang reotten, and ti e Missal was neglected, and as my conscience was we Ueated, and my inind unfurnished with religious principles, the only of truth left me was my common sense.”"—p. 31. ti An precisely the age at which you left the Church and became a el. Your “ mind was a perfect blank as to all religious instruc- =a In other words, you were perfectly ignorant of the religion which Were about to reject, and, if we can trust to your own language, this

** 1 was baptized by a priest—I was confirmed by a bishop—I often went to confession—I have worn my atwuiets—and I bave said my Pater Nosters and my Huil Marys, mere times than I can now enuimerate.’’— | (page 10.)

Now, this announcement of your competency to treat the subject, is) sufficiently brief, and sufficiently stupid. Barring the ‘“ amulets,’’ Vol- | taire could bave suid the same of bimself. But ninety-nine out of every | hundred of your American readers would say on perusing this—“ There, | there, at length, is a wan who knows Popery from within, from personal knowledge—a man who, with the modesty of true genius, merely insinu- ates the extent of his information, and thus avoids egutism and the offensive display of,yhis gitts.”

Such feelings on the partof the Amzrican public ought not to be trified with by you. Of your own knowledge of Popery, as you call it, you know nothing—and you have avowed it. Then you are no more competent to speak or write of it, than Ur. Brownlee was. What you know of it, true or false, you, like him, have learned frem its enemies. But there is a difference. Dr. Brownlee “never had the chance to learn and then forget the Catholic catecuism before the age of eighteen.

Let the public, then, understand that you are to take rank among those anti-Catholic writers who draw from such fountains as that mam- | moth reservoir—*‘ McGavin’s Protestant.” Anti-Catholic retailers like you may take from that source theological lore to any extent, and deal _it out to those who have a relish for it. It would seem that such persons are still numerous enough to make the nineteenth ceatury ashamed of

itself, if it were the age of light which it professes to be.

No objection was anticipated when the scale was made; but instead of the large proportion given to Queen’s County, out of last yeure appropriation as insinuated by the hon member (Mr. Perry) there was only about £400 more than the appropriation to each of the other Counties,

Hon, COL. SECRETARY.—Hon. members may be dis- satisfied with the present division of the money for the road service, and complam that the amount is sinali and inadequate to the purpose for which itis intended ; but I remember that, six years ago, the money appropriated to a like purpose was not more than £3,669. Now the amount has actuaily doubled,

support of public education has so far sw

expendwure that the revenue {although it has increased rapidiy) of the appropriared money

. Why, the Education | but they have been ; has beer unable to keep pace with it y, the ‘It is argued that because Queen’s County has more roads, that,

Act, instead of requiring only about £7000, as was at first

; 5 000. | consequently supposed, has actually increased to the amount of ar asad Poet hacks ere, oe habp-tm topdetandtnmen

and together with the amount required for the service of Roads | and Badges amounts to about £20,000. Now, the reason why |

a reduction has been made in the amount for the Road Service this siatute la

ipa ide ps 5 ‘ Pin the venue, one coun " year as‘compared with last, 1s the falling off inthe Re | scouting at the idea of Inbor on the public. roads ;"but { do not

owing to the depression in foreign, colonial, and home markets, | which has prevented the sending off of much produce, and the |

Inn portation of the usual qnaniities of gouds and merchandize. |

It is ell very well for bon. members to complain of the

er inaGequacy of the money appropriated to their several counties ; |

but if Statute Laber were to be brought more into requisition,

and enforced with rigor, it would not only render unnecessary | a3

the outlay of so much money on the roads ; but in many districts

would be the means of precluding the necessity of laying out) as

one penny of the money appropriated on the public highways. In fact, the money appropriated to the road service benefits only a few persons—the contractors while the money given for

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1858.

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good of the many. If hon. members‘will turn their attention to the state of the revenue forthe past year, they will find that £6,000 is a large sum to appropriate to such a branch of the public service, as that of Roads and Bridges, when there are eo many important undertakings to be completed. But, why will hon. members complain that the division is an unfeir one, when in the other counnies there is not one twentieth part of the travel there is in Queen’s County? Even if there were fewer roads (which is not the case), sti!!, the trave! being greater, a larger amount of money is required to keep them in repair.

Mr. MACINTOSH.—Mr. Chairman, it is my opinion that, upon account of the great increase in the amount required for education, we must levy an additiona! tax, or retrench the expenditure in other branches of the public service; and the sooner such tax is levied, or such retrenchwent made, the betier it will be for the Colony. IT have always been in favour of the advancement of our public works, so long as it was consistent with the state of the revenue; but if we continne to vote so much of the public money away upon services that do not actoally require such large amounts, we will find that the Island may become bankrnpt. Wrh respect to the preseat division of money, forthe road service, among the different Counties, I am fully satisfied with it, for the same reasons given by other hon, members, and think Queen’s County well entitled to the larger amount,

Mr. MUIRIIEAD.—The Hon. Col. Secretary seems ford of altributing motives; and in the present instance I think hia allusion to contractors for public works being the sole persons benefitted by the inoney appropriated for the road service, is uncalled for. Are the persons employed by the contractors not benefitted by such contracts as much as the contractors them- selves? And, if the money is expended upon the Island, is it not of as much benefit to the peopie as a hke amoum given for education? +Why, sir, there is nearly as much expended in and about Charloitetown as in the whole of the other parts of Queen’s County.

tion, COLONIAL SECRET ARY.—The hon. member mis- takes the tenor of my remarks with regard to contractors. What I said was simply that the money given for contracts is not so generally distributed throughout the Island as that givea for education.

Mr. DOUSE.—I do not think it is the disposition of any hon. member from Queen’s Counry to impose upon the members of any cther County, by an unequal division of the money ap- propriated for the road service. Such a spirit would not be worthy the representatives of the people, and would be shabby in the extreme. But, sir, when hon. members complain of the injastice end inequality of the grant to Queen’s County, they should remember that whatever 1s expended in Queen’s County is as much for their advantage as it is for the invabitants of the latter County. Besides, sir, the difference in tne amount for Queen’s County, when compared with those of the other Coun- ties, IS not so great as hon. members would have us suppose— it being only £150 more. [An hon. member—£450.] 1 do not include the suur ranted for the Royalty. Then, eir, let us compare the population of this County with that of the others, and the amount of travel, and we will see that the difference is nothing in comparison to what is required. Besides, the road in this Island, from the lightness of the soil, do not require any thing like the amount of labour to keep them in repair that is required on the roade tn Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In fact, when we consider that fifty carts and carriages pass on tne roads of this County for the one on the roads of the. other Counties, a grant of £2500 would be little enough, and a fairer proportion than the present one. Allusion has been made to the large and growing amount required for education; and, indeed, if some new method of meeting the expenses incurred by the working of the Free Education Act is not adopted, it will not be able to sustein itself; and for the purpose of making it more efficient, a tax should be imposed upon ali cultivated lands. Until some such method be adopted, public education can never be properly eustained, and the business of a school- inaster will not be sought after, nor will the candidate for such an office take the pains to make himself properly qualified for the delicate and arduous task of instructing youth. I have always, with this view, been an advocate of an increase of pay to, and a higher standard of qualification in, the schoolmaster ; for he is the poorest paid servant of the public, and deserves more consideration at their hands than is extended to him.

Mr. YEO.—Although | do not t:..nk a fair consideration has been given to the claims of Prince County, yet I do not object to the division of the grant for roads and bridges. Still, sir, Prince Coun'y is unfortunate in having one of the worst roada in the Island to keep in repair. [ allude to the western road, the greater portion of which rans through soft and swampy lands, and is almost impassible at certain seasons of the year. Butt do not consider the present appropriation inadequate. ft is as much asthe country can afford, when we take into consideration the falling off in the revenue, cwing to the depression in the trade of other countries. Allusion has been ide to the fact that contractors for reads have the benefit of these grants ; but I thought the money thus appropriated was for the benefit of the Country and not men, and I believe that if it is not laid out better than heretofore, it should be done away with aliogether, and the money given to purchase bread for the people. Why, sir, if the statute labor was better performed little of the money would be needed on the roads, and could be expended in the erection of substantial bridges, and keeping the same in repair ; but, sir, the statute laber is a hoax. (Here the hon. member was interrupted by cries of ‘* No!’ ** No!’ and laughter) [ repeat it, sir,—statule labor fs a hoax, and to my own knowledge, not one out of every ten men, liable to work on the roads have performed their work. [ speak from what cause under my own observation in the neighborhood where | reside. Uniess some steps are taken to enforce the performance of statute labor, it is better to buy bread with the money appropriated for roads aud bridges than have it so misapplied.

Mr. PERK Y.—I think the Western Road is one that requires more attention and money than al! the other Reads in Prince County put together. In spring and fail it 1s 80 smpassable thet persons travelling are forced to take the lower road, a resource that is anything but pleasant when we take into consideration the delays at ferries, which ere numerous on that side. And, instead of there being enough money granted for the service of Prince County, the whole appropriation would be insufficient to make a continuous line for travel on the lower road, by cousing bridges to be erected, the absence of which has been severely felt. The hon. member who spoke last (Mr. Yeo) seems to entertain a very erroneous opinion with respect to the efficacy

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was obviously intended todecerve them. Here is your bow to the public. | pow wharts and bridees, wile the amounts required for the have us believe. a y y new whart ves, elled Zs volume of | extends with respect to this matier, in my district not one shilling

of statute labor. Now, sir, I do not think the statute labor is rformed in such anil manner as the hon. member would I can state that, so far as my knowledge

has been expended on the roads ; kept in good repair by siatute labor alone,

the appropriation should be larger; but, sir, if

County, it has also @ greater amount of population, and if the > Jabor be rigidly euforeed no more wil be required by iy than another. Hon. members are very fond of

think it ought to be despised. Under proper direction it works well, and ts found in many places amply sufficient for all the purposes of ensuring good travel. Afier a few other remarks from some hon. membere, which partook more of conversation than anything else, the resolution, reported was agreed to. : The House resumed: ‘The Chairman reported progrese, and ked leave to sit again, which was granted. . A message was received from the Legislative Council, informing the House that their Honors had appointed a come mittee of good correspondence, to join @ Comsmiuties appuiuted

| education is not confined to the benefit of the few, but 1s for the ‘for a like purpose by the Liouse.

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