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Resolved, That the following Address be presented to His

L r a l i il { i al L a Y i i a nt t tt t ¢ | Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, viz:

a wenn To His Excellency George Dundas, Esquire, Lieutenant jn the last Session, the Executive Council have, therefore, _~we ~~" ~~ eer RR RTT < ;

vo * \OUNCIE Governor, &c., §c., &c. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. | May it please your Exeelleney,—

Tavrspay, Mareb 29,1860. | The Legislative Council respectfully request that your Excelleney will cause to be laid before them the Despatch received by your Fxcelleney, in reply to the Address of the House of Assembly which bears dute in their Journal, May

PETITIONS. A Petition of divers inhabitants of Orwell and vicinity

l exceeded their constitational authority in giving such advice to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor.

HIon, Col. GRAY—It was not to be supposed that the

Lieut. Governor bad not ample correspoudence to justify the language he had used, and it was not customary to discloxe correspondence pending the negotiations of preliminaries

was presented to the House by the Hon. Mr. Forgan, pray-| 6th, 1859, and which. contained sundry complaints against | Such correspondence might involve the names of individuals,

ing that the fisheries of this Islan may be fostered and encouraged hy the passing of an Act authorizing the forma. | pears to have been duly transmitted to the Colonial Office. tion of companies, that a liberal bounty may be granted to) ‘The Message which your Excelleney has been pleased to fi-hermen, and that such steps may be taken as will render | order to be laid before this House appears intended to give the fishery resources available for the same object. ‘the substance of the reply to this Address; but it neither

Ordered, That the suid Petition be referred to the special | stareg of what the Lezislutive Council is supposed to be Committee appointed to report on all petitions relating to guilty, or the nature of the consequences of the threat which miscellaneous subjects. it implies.

Ifon. Mr. Forgan also presented a Petition of Emily) qTyey respectfully, therefore, trust that your Excelleacy Harrington, teacher, and the same was received and read, | »i}) be pleased to furnish them wiih the information they praying for a grant of half year’s salary. withheld on aceount | sock on these points, by causing the Despatch to be laid of a deficiency in the average daily school attendance re- before them, on which your Excellency’s Message is founded. quired by lnw. Hon. Mr. Palmer moved, in amendment to the said

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the special | moti in, to strike out all afier the word ** Resolved,” and Committee appointed to report on all petitions relating to | substitute the followiag :—

Education. _ © That it is indispen-able for the interests and welfare of CHURCH WARDENS this Colony that harmony should, at al] times, exist between

Pursuant to order the Bill, int tuled ‘ an Act to alter the the House of Assenibly and the Legislative Council, and Act ineorperating the Charch Wardens and Vestries of the | thet this Branch of the Legislature entertains no apprehen- Ciurch of Eogland,” wes, as amended, read the third time. | sion that, in pursuing such measures as will be most likel,

Reso!ved, That the said Rill, =s amended, do pass.

Pursuant to order the Bill, intituled * am Act to amend | promise the dignity of their situation, or that respect and the Act for the purchase of Lands on behalf of the Govern- | independence which appertain to this Council, ment of Prince Edward Island, and to regulate the sale and} The motion having been seconded by the Hon. Mr. Forgan, management thereof, and for other purposes th: rein men (and the question of concurrence put on the proposed amend- tioned,” was read the third time, iment, the (louse divided ;

Resolved, That the said Biil do pass. Contents—Hon. Mr. Palmer, Hon. Mr. Forgan, TNi-

: " | Lionor the President, Hon. Mr. Johnson, and Hon. Mr. Farpay, Mareh 30, 1860. ' }

3i upsen,—9d. ; PETITIONS. ' Non-contents—Hon. Col. Swabey, Hon. Mr. Melatyre | |

the formation and character of this House; and which ap-

AND VESTRIES BILL.

The following Petitions were presented to the House, and) Hon. Mr. Bagnall, Hon. Mr. Walker, Hoa. Mr. Crasswell _ and Hon. Mr Elutchin-on.—6.

So it pas-ed in the negative.

the same were received and read, viz: — By the Hon. Mr. Palmer, a petition of divers inhabitants

extending Southerly from the breastwork of Major Beete’s | House again divided : os property, to the Channel of the Ihilsborough, whieh Lots| Contents,—Lon. Col. Swabey, Hon. Mr. McLotyre, Hon. are still in t to the City. as a site for a Market House.

By the Ilon. Mr. Walker, a petition of Robert Mooney. |

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Non-contents,—Uon. Mr. Palmer, Ton. Mr. Forgan, His

{to insure that barmony, it will ever have cecasion to c m- | Justment. t if any, must -be free, and the Governor said that no wish

oo by any means ynprecedented,

could have waited so lung. sponsible Government was to settle the Land Question, while it was but vine months ago that he had prepared the s resolutions, and good reasons could be assigned for the delay | the Commission should be confined exclusively to the particu It was necessary that the proprie- | lar subjects alluded to in the resolutions of Charlotte‘own. praying that Water Lots Nos. 21 and 22.) The question baving been put on the original motion, the | tors should be consulted, and they and the Colonial Minister result from the Commission being invested with the most on had good reasons to be cautious in dealing with any measure | amp'e powers ; and it was absard ‘0 charge the Government emanating from the Island. The correspondence on the sub- | with nullifying the act of the Legis'ature. The Government ac

which had taken piace.

| Hon. Mr. Hutchinson. —6 | PF ceed with caution.

and its premature publication might materially retard the progress of the question. i Opposition to take up the time of the House in making speeches about the delay in the appointment of the Commis- sion, but if he consulted the interests of the people, as he did his cwn, he would show bis patriotism by not obstructing the efforts which were being made for the substantial benetit of the people. ead, Opposition from proceeding with any measure in lteu of the Commission, there might be some ground for complaint ; but what did he propose to substitare for the Commission 4 Eseheat, which he had proved long ago to be impracticable. The hon. gentleman had referred to the despatch of the 6th December, relative to the objection of the Colonial Minister to the House fertering the Commission by their resolutions. [t was the intention of the House to provide a court to en- quire into the relations between landlord and tenant, with a view to ameliorate the ccadition of the latter, without inter- fering with the legal rights of the former, and to propose what they might consider a fair and equitable mode of ai-

It might suit the Leader of the

If the delay prevented the Leader of the

The Duke of Newcastle stated that the enquiry,

Esquire, lace Rezistrar of Deeds and Keeper of Plans, pray-| Honor the Presideut, Hoa. Mr. Juhusoa, aad Hon. Mr. | our own legislation and purchase of the Worre!l Estate

jog the House to grant him the sum of £10, being the Simpson.—d. balance of his salary as such, for the quarter ending the 50th Resolved, accordingly. June, 1858, which sum was withheld by the late Qovern- Ordered that the said Ad-lress be engrossed. ment on the ground that petitioner had left the work of his Ordered. That the Hon. Col. Swabey, Hon. Mr. Cras- office in arrear, and that the siid sum would be required to| wel', and Hon. Mr. Hutchinson, be a Committee to wai detray the expense of bringing up the said work. apow [lis Excellency the Lieutenant Governor with the said Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the special | Address. Committee appointed to report on all petitions relating to | miscellaneous subjects. A Messave from the House of Assem5!7 by the Hon. Mr. | Longworth :

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Hovse or Assrusty, March 50, 1859, Tvespay Arrennoon, March 27, 1860. LAND COMMISSION DESPATCHES.

HOUSE IN COMMITTER.

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to join a Com- mittee of the Legislative Couneil, to prepare an Address to Her Majesty the Queen, praying that His Royal Highness} the Prince of Wales will be graciously pleased to visit this)

course of his contemplated visit, in the ensuing summer, to ;speech at the opening of ul “ these North American Provinces. jthe [louse lust year warrant the statement made by [lis

Ordered. That the Hons. Messrs. Longworth, Coles, | Exceilency in his letter to the Dake of Newcastle, to the

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sabject of the desired appoi Hon. Mr. COLES objected that the despatch did not con-| And whereas, a though, from unavoidable causes, therein re- Tler Majesty's loyal Colony of Prince Edward Island, in the | tain anything to justify the assertion in His Excellency's heres at, at Pe Sate - the wie Any euch progress had

Jest} J ae Session, nor did the action of |"et been made in the matter as this I ouse had hoped for : | Resolved, nevertheless, that sufficient therein appeirs to war- | rant this Committee in entertaining every confidence t at Uer | | Majesty's Colonial Minister will give efoct, at tae earliest |

/thaut he would do al) that lay im his power to obtain favour- jable terws for the tenants; and when the bon. member, Mr. Sinclair, stated on a previous oecasion that he would not ask favors of the proprietors, he eould have stated that ne Would ask from any party boons to ameliorate the condition jof the great body of the inhabitants, if lowing .esolution in amendment, he might add that he had

Whereas, by a Despatch from his Graee the Duke of New

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1e possession of the Government, may be granted | Mr. Bagnall, Hon Me. Walker, Hou. Mr. Craswell, and | ject of the Loao Biil had taught the Colonial Minister to | were anxious to carry out the views of the Legislatu e. He had told his constituents that the | Opposition might endeavour to create the impression tha! proprietary titles were good, and had been fecognised by |the Government had sought to practise deception towards | the people, but he was not afraid that they would be sus- pected of baving withheld information from improper

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astie, bearing date Oh September last, in answer to the | Address frum the House of Assembly, on the appointment of | | Commissioners to enquire into, and report upon, the Land | Tenures in this Colony, his Grace was pleased to state shat he had opened a correspon ienge with the Proprietors on the at of séch Commissioners.

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Thornton, Ilaviland, Gray and Perry, be a Committee on | effect that it was not intended to adhere to the matters of | period that the circamstances of the case will admit of, tu the |

the part of ‘his House to prepare the said Address. | relief on which the address was founted. The speech told | ; : * : | 7: : ORE acd ep re ST jaly Arpive y ‘ | QO. dered, That the said Resolution be communicated, by ithem that the adress had been graciously received, the de

spate said that tie Colonial Mini-ter could not advise Her |

message, to the Leg'slative Council. Pp g g The address had bee

Ho. Mr. Patwen—I move that the House do agree to, Majesty to entertain the application.

Assembly to prepare an Address to [ler Majesty the Queen, entertained that the question shi uld be settied, but the Com- praying that His Royal Highness the Prince of W ales w.ji | mission w ald effect no good if its action was not founded on | he gracious! y pleased to visit this Her Majesty's loyal Colony | the resolutions of the House. If the ee had the | of Prince Mdward Island, in the course of his coutemplated right to sanction the appointment of the Commission, the | visit, in the ensuing summer, to those North American result would be merely the confirmation of their titles. The | Provinces. This is a question upon which there can be only | Secretary pereeived that it the reso'utions were assumed as ove opinion. We mast all cheerfully recognise the propriety | the basis of a Commission, it would be eqval in e ect toa of uniting with the House of Assembly in their proposed | Court of K-cheat; so it was deemed prudent to get rid of Address to {ler Majesty for this purpove. We are all wel them by the plea that they would fetter the action of the aware of the deep concera which Her Majesty, the various | Commission. Had any subsequent despatch been received, members of the Eoyal family, and [er Majesty's Govern- \ it should have been submitted, He bad delayed going into meut feel and manifest for the welfare, prosperity, and good | Committee, having heard that the Leader of the Govern,

pressed in the speech.

Government of the British North American Colonies; and | ment in the other branch had stated that such was the case- our duty, as Her Majesty’s loyal and devoted subjects, calls but a contrary statement was made in the House that morr- upon us most cordially to unite is seeking the opportunity | tug. : Ife repeated that proprietary induence would render which the contemplated visit of His Royal Highness the | the Commission nugatory, for the Jouruals of the House Prince of Wales to these Provinces may afford us to manifest | showed their constautly repeated protests against measu:es our loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty's Royal person jofa character re:nedia! of the position of the tenants. The end family. The more we are known abioad by personages | delay which had taken place in the appointinent of the Com- of rank p wer, and influence, the more are we likely to be | mission had caused a great dea) of dissatisfaction, and the benefitted from abroad, by the encouragement and ass 8 ance | hon. member for _Beltast, Mr. Douse, had been told, in which we may thence derive, to arousc our encrgies stima- answer to his appnentions for rent, that although parties bad Jate our industry, and urge us onward ina course of social the money in their possession, they would not pay until the improvemeut aud general progressive prosperity. The | question should be settled. fle had prepared resolutions Provinces all around us have had. not only their loyalty, but | which he would rewl, and although he did not expect that & proper sense of their own intere-ts, reawakeued by | the majority would support them, he would submit them as by the promised visit of the Prince of Wales, the heir ap- | expres-ing disapproval of a Commission on any basis other parent to the British Crown to Canada; and have all con-| than that of the address of last year.

earrel i» inviting tis Royal Highness to honor them severally with a visit, thereby to affo.d them Opportunities to expre-s their loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty, and thei regard for the Royal tamily in genera!; and althouga we are, as to extent, population, weaith, and resources, the least of these Co'ouies, we claim to be behind ncue in loyalty and devotion to our belove! Sovereign ; and I trust there- fore, that we will, with the utmost usanimity aed cordiality of feeling, follow the example which has beeu set us by our sister Colonies,

Vi herea:, the present Louse of Assembly did, on the ninth of May last, agree to an address to Her Majesty the Queen, Which wos transmitted in the usual way, accompanied by a series of resolutions, introduced to this House in the form of a Government measure, recommending the appointment of a Comission, to investigate the long agitated question regard- ing the Land Tenures, and to settle the same to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. And whereas one of the principal objects of the Commissian aforesaid was to secure, through amicable intercession with the Land Proprietors, a remission of the arrears of rents, wiere they appeared to press heavily upon industr'ous tenasts ; as well as to determine the ratesat which tenants might be enabled to purehase the fee simple of their farms, and ty give time lor eormpleting the purchase, without causing meonvenience or ew barrassment to the tenant. And whereas iis Excelleney the Lieut. Governor was pleased to inform the House of Assembly, at the opening of the present Session, that the Address and Resolutions, as aforesaid, had been graciously received by Her Majesty, and that arrahnge-

Hoa, Col. Swanerv—I second the motion with the greatest pleasure. It would «almost amount to ap insult to your Honors, were 1 to enter into any argument to shew way we ought to agree to the motion which bis Honor, Mr. Palmer, has just made; and, therefore, I sba!l use none. We are u!! equally loyal ; and we must all be convinced that such a visit as we unticipate—a visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the Britisn Crown— | is calenjated to draw closer the bonds of union between us ‘diately. ard the Liritish Government; and the knowledge of Prince | oi. dated 6th Septemb-r, 1859, that Her Majesty's Govern- Eiward Island which, by such visit, will be acquired by His ment disapprove of the action taken by the Government of Royal Highness and the distingu:shed personages who, to a) this Island with regard to the appointment of a Commission, certainty. will compoee his suite, will, undoubtedly, prove &) as aforesaid, his Grace the Duke of Newcastle expressing his | source of future benefit to the people of it. But I am certain | conviction that thers 13 no prospect of a benehcial resn!t from

Bas i » | the labors of a Commission if its action were fettered by eon- hat no suck a future benefit is necessary to induce | the os that no n prospect of futu ‘ y | ditions such as those proposed in the Resolutions adopted by

» all ees ated hee ail , i sewbly in : : us all most heartily to unite with the wes get t . this House ; and his Grace further states that he «6 cannot | an Address to Her Majesty, praying that Mis Koyal High-| oa iee Her Majesty to entertain the question’’ thus raised. ness the l’rince of Wales may be pleased to visit this Her

And wherees it appears by a despatch from Her Majesty's Right Honourable Seeretary of State for the Colo-

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prayer of the Address. flon. Mr. WHELAN —The resolution of Hon. Mr. Co!es | as based on an incorrect statement of facts mide by the |

: ' j ; ; "| head of the Government with the sanction of his advisers, to 2ppoint a Committee to join the Committee of the House of | carried almost unanimously. beowuse a general desire was ly

1¢ effect, that the address had been © graciously received.” |

What

That misrepresentation he charged uson the offi:ial

The Colouial

If the Government were in pos-

The House had been asked to wait for the arrival

zen received since the commencement of the Session, and

not a syllable had been received. The Leader of the Govern. ment had stated in the morning that they had nothing more to submit on the subject.

Hlon. Col. GRAY denied having made such admission. Hon. Mr. WHELAN—Then it-was to be presumed that

they had more than they had brought down, and it was ua- fair to the Hlouse and country to withhold it. Tue amend- ment states that a correspondence had been opened by the Duke of Neweastle and the Pioprietors. there was a letter from Mr. Merivale to Sir Samuel Cunard. but there was no evidence that the latter had deignel a reply to it. The House would stultify itself by voting for | the amendment when they are told that their resolutions riust be set aside, or the application eannot be entertained. The only result of their legislation last year appeared to be that the Goverament and Hou-e had been snubbed, and the ments were in progress for instituting te ¢ ommission imme-| amendment asked to lick the hand that had struck them. There was nothing in the despatch to warrant the amend- ment.

It is true that

Mr. COOPER was of opinion that a Commission should

be unclogged, if a settlement, final and satisfactory of the Land Question, were anticipated from jts labors. The Crown ;could wppoint one Commissioser, and the proprietors and The-e parties should have full power to| ener at large iuto the whele question, in all its details, and

Majesty's loyal Island Prince Edward in the course of his | opinion by the Dake of Neweastle, it appears doubtful whether | #24 sanctioved by Parliament.

Qo motion of the Hon, Mr. Palmer, seconded by the on, | Her Majesty ; and it isevident to this House that Her Majesty | |the Queen is not yet advised to listen to the suggestions of the People’s Representatives in this Colony as detailed in their Resolations of last Session; and that tie action of this. House upon the question Las therefore, us yet, been rendered nugatory.

Whereas it appears by a Despatch from His Excelleney the

visit to these North American Provinces. | She Address and Resolutions of this House were presented to 1

Col Swaley, it was then unanimously—

Kesolved, That a Committce be appointed to join the Committee of the House of Assembly, to prepare the said Address to her Mujesty.

Ordercd, That tue Hon. Mr. Palmer, Hon. Col. Swabey, end Elon Mr. Bagnall, be a Committee, on the part of this

House, to prepare the said Address to Her Majesty. Newoeastle, dated the 3rd October, 1859, that the Executive

DESPATCH IN ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS OF THE House oF could be further from the wish of the House of Assembly than

ASSEMILY, LAS? SESSION, WHICH CONTAINED SUNDRY Com- ok ta ee free oe ae eee the |

‘ . Jom mission,’’ as his Grace seeme think wou 1@ Case

FLSINTS APALHAE IRS. FORMAGIOS SUP ORABACTRE OF._50E if the Kesolutions of this House were tu be regarded as the basis of the said Couymissien :

Resolved. That, as the Liouse of Assembly has rot author-

ised the Executive Council to_give advice ta the Lieutenant

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Hon. Col. Swabey moved that the House do come to a Resolution as follows :-—~

flon. Mr. LONG WORRTH—The Qppasition sought to

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| There was inthe documents before the House nothing to | justify the statement, and the resolution goes to show that The Leader of the Guvern- | jment had stated that the delay was not unreasonable. He (tlon, Mr. Whelan) did not complain of the delay. | he did complain of was the misrepresentation mad: six weeks |

ago, that the matter was in a course of sa'istactory settle- | ment, advisers of [is Excellency, and they had practised dee:ption | upon the House and country. Jespatch did not just-fy the entertainwent of the hope ex- ‘The despatch p!ainly showed that the | Colonial Minister had turved the back of his hand upon the, resolutions, and ‘* would have none of them.” said that he would not advise Her Majesty to entertain the application, because the Commission would be fettered, were they to find in that language a justification for the statement | that Tler Majesty bad graciously receive} the address ?'| True, there might be other correspondence, but with that the {Louse had no concern ; they could only deal with such por- tion as was before them. session of more correspondence on so important a question, they should produce it, aud he believed that if they kad re- ceived a single line holding out the hope that their policy would be practically adopted, they would have produced it | long ago. of successive mails from Kogland, each of which was expected to bear the important communication; but three mails had

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Governor, such as that which is referred to in His Excellency’s| that the address had been graciously received. It was not | were rendered necessary hv the state of several Despatch of the 3rd October last, with respect to any devia-| to be supposed that His Exce ition from the spirit of the Resolutionsagreed to by this House | pont which believed that when he penned the paragraph containing the passage referred to, that he was in possession of information which fully justified the language which he used, and it was! yvernment for atv more than £55000

not the province of the House to pry into all the means of | judges of what the revenue could afford. information which His Exeellency might possess, The letter | more could not be given to the roads

ileney would bave made a state- os . he was not warranted in doing, and it must be! Poplar Island bridges were instanced as out of repair, being

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Mount pinees whenre large quanties of produce were exported it was necessary that they he pat in proper order.

| Mr. MONTGOMERY —It was nonecessare to ask the Go- They were the best

He regretied shat fle had received pe-

of the Lieut. Governor to the Colonial Minister had beer | titions from his own district, but the people would rather

strongly censured, as superseding the resolutions of the House, and the Opposition say that the Dake of Neweasfle On reading the prayer of the address, that Minister considered it im- politie to grant a Commission with fettered powers, and having taken this common sense view of the matter, he stated the objection to the Lieut. Governor, who replied, on the

positively refused to sanction the Commission.

| forego the benefits they asked, than have the country p'unged lin'o deht ¢

Mr. SINCLAIR had hoped that a larcer sum would hare heen voted for the roads, and that special prants would have i been made. Ue had expected £200 for Princetown wharf, | hut if the Government thought that en additional! thensand | poonds could ner be granted without invo'ving the country in debt, they should either not vote it, or if they did, should

responsibility of his constitutional advisers, that the object of | Come ont honestly aod impose taxes sufficient to meet the ex-

the Assembly was not to fetter the Commission, so as to imn- pair their efficiency, but that it was hoped that the remedial measures suggested would receive their favorable consider- The Minister did not refuse to grant the Commis- sion, oor did he at any time intimate any objection to their [le terely said :— “IT cannot advise Her Majesty to entertai.: the question. unless it is fully understood that the Commission are at liberty to propose any measures which they may themselves It is a correct opinion that the Commis- sioners should be at liberty to propose any measures calcula- ted to effect a final settlement on terms matually beneficial The hon. Messrs. Coles and Whelan said that the Government and the Commission should be bound by the details of the Address ; but the hon. mem- | ber, Mr. Cooper, himself objected to that idea, and said thar | was ente: tained to fetter the action of the Commission which | the Commissioners shoul. be untramelled. They had been ‘¢ hoped wou.d kecp in view the objects suggested by the told that Sir Samuel Cunard had not replied to the letter House. The de'ay which had takee place was not extreme, | asking him if he had any suggestions to offer on the subject The hou. member, Mr. | of the Commission. Cooper, had been promising the people Kscheat for, be hardly |h2 hal replied to it. could say, how many years; and it was a wonder how they | letter ‘n-onsistent with the facts aud objects of the Address. Kight or nine years sinec, Re- | The resoiutions pointed out certain evils which it was desira- be to have removed, but they were not considered as binding | It was not to be supposed that the powers of

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recommending the measures proposed.

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mouyes. (To b continucd.) : W. M. Lowz, Reporter. Sarvurnpay Arrvernoon, 24h March. SUPPLY RESUMEL Ion. Mr. HAVILAND inirodwced th oad Sesle for tie curceat year. Le proposed to graut £000.10 be appor- tioned as follows, that is io say—

Queen’s County, £1.700 0 0 King’s County, 1.550 V0 0 Prince County, 1.5500 0 Charlottetown and Royalty, 200 0 0

£5.000 0 0

Mr. CONROY meved the reconsideration of the Seale. [is distract weuld require a special grapt of £200 or £390 for a Bridge at Ca-cumpee, 2 whieh some £1200 or £1300 had been a'roady expended,

Ion, the SPEAKER was opposed to reconsider the scale. £5000 was as much as ihe revenue could afford for the ser- vice. When the division should be agreed to, the members of each County should meet and decide the apportionment to the different districts. When @ particularly larve outlay was required tor any one district, 1 was usual for the rest of the County to contribute proportionally from the general funds. Asio the bridge spoken of, the Government ougliar hot to appropriate any sum until iis legalitv aud the benefit to resuit ion from the public were ascertained,

Hoo. Mr. COLES~—Tie members of the district should asceriain the relative cust of removing the biidge to auother site, or of finishing it where it is at present located. Lad the right of way tothe bridge been viveu?

Mr. CONROY—The bridge eou'd be finished and the rigiit of way secured for £250. Le bac no personal or poliiieal interesis to serve in the matier. ‘The fact was, the bridge would accommodate, principally, bis political eppocents. His only motion was the advancement of the interest of the district.

Hon Mr. YEO had always been opposed to the present situation, but tis lae colleague, hon. Mr. Warburtoa, had settled the matter, and there was no use his offering opposi- tion to that gentleman atthe time. Le had himself subseri- bed £10 towards it.

Mr. OWEN—Political considerations should not interfere with the distribution of road inoney. The bridve at Munta- gue, for instance, would require a special grant this year. Parties from all directions resorted to it with produce, and the public interest required that it should be put inte proper condition wuhoat delay. He thought the seale ehould be re- considered and the maia vote reduced to £4000 and then bave special grants to the amount of £2000, tw be applied where c.rcumsiances rendered them necessary.

Mr. HOWAT would not alter the scale. £5060 was quite enough in view of the state of the revenue. Jt exceed- ed the road appropriations of last year; anda large auount would involve tie necessity of an increase of taxa lon,

Hon, Mr. THORNTON~—An increased grant was re- quired for the general road service of the whole Island. He suppesed Mr. Owea’s praposal would not be carried. Last year £4000 only were appropriated.

Hou. Mr. POPE—The amoaut expended last year was £4,700.

Hon. Me THORNTON—Yes, because the Government found that bridyes were tambling dowa, and the ex'ra amount fur repairing juem woald have to be deducted from this year's appropriation, Le had not the sligutest wish to embarrass ihe Government, but the improvement of ihe roads woud have the effect of augmenting the revenue and promoting the general welfare. ‘There was vO reason to anticipate an increase of tagation, for Jast year the crops were so abundant that the amount of exports last fall exceeded that of former years, and the case would be similar this spring. Tuese facis jusufied them ia askiag more. Besides, the bridges re- ferred to ai Cascumpec, Cardigan and Heltast bad a- strong claim for aid to a locai work of great importance.

Hon. Cot. GRAY—The grant included nearly £1000 more thau the state of the reveuue would justify, it they were tu aveid the eharge of extravagance preferred agaiust ihe late Goverament.

Mr. BIER did not anticipate an increase of revenue. Last year the Importations were greater than usual, ¢ msequenily they would be less during the present, and the revenue would be paportionaely diminished. He was apposed to recou- sider the grant. £5000 was as much as we could afford.

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make the people believe that the majority had practised fraud | (Oa the pu'lic—that the Government were not sincere ia the | course they had pursued in this matt r—that they had | deceived the tenaniry for the purpose of benefitting the pro: | prietors, There was nothing to warrant such inipressions, aud it was unfair in this early stage of the negotiation to Lieut. Governor of this Coluny, to his Grace the Duke of|muke tie char.es whic: had ben adduced against the Government, The arrangements would soon be completed, Council unanimously assured His Excelleney “ that nothing | and the Commission would be in Operation before the lapse of many months, This re-ult would reflect great evedic on the hoa. Col. Gray, who was animated by a sincere desire to | alleviate the condition of the tenants as far as could be dove consistently with equity, and his promises to his coustituents bad been carried out with good faich,

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Mr. OWEN only asked au increase of £1000. Le was as anxious to retrench as any hon, member, but the greater the faciities of commanicatiof, tie greater would be the amount of trade and the larger the revenue.

Hon. Col. GRAY—bid the boo. member reeommend a course Which would bring the country to the siate in) which i was last yeu, or did be wish an increase of duitesto 10, l2 or 15 per cent?

Hos. Mr. POPE—Thiie discussion was bot a waste of time, Ti had been decided in ihe worming that £50U0 was as auch as could be allowed.

Hon Mr. COLES—This subject always gave rise to dis- cussion, and the original vole was freguentiy reconsidered, ‘The main argument against any increase of the vole, was the alleged dett of the Colony, wine was not worth taiking about. For the improveu ent of roads aod bridges it was but fatr that sueceediag generations, who wou'd participate in the DeneGts of ugproved facilities of commanicativa should bear a portion of the cost, aud a moderate degree of public habiliy was a tas serious an evil as seme inight imagine. ‘The national debt of Great Britain had a great influence in attaching the people ww thei instimtions. He approved of Mr. Oweu’s suggestion that £4000 be granted for the gene- ral service, aud that £2000 be voted for special gran, which

It might be sufficient to answer that | er no improvement. There was nothing in the Governor’s

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pendiiure. He wes opposed to the expenditure being allowed to exceed the revenue, highly as he appreciated the benefiis accruing te the people from improved communications.

Hon. Mr. LONGWORTH—Mr. Sinetair’s views did credit to his judgment. Jt was as unwise in a Government as in an individual to exceed their means and get into det, The national debt of Great Britain might have the effect at- tributed to it, but that would afford no grounds for a emall and poor Colony kke this to incur heavy liabilities, We could not raise money in Britain en our public credit, and we would have to meet our engagements by taxing ourselves. The principle advocated by the hon. Mr. Coles, of devolving the burdens on sneceeding generations, had been illustrated by the State of Pennsylvania, where the succeeding genera- tions repudiated the obligations*contrac'ed by their ancestors, a by so doing, degraded the credit and character of the

State. ° | Mr. COOPER—Taxation for reads, if properly sdminis- tered, was not objectionable. The money raised for such purpose was expended in the country, and the people got the benefit of the expenditure and of improved roads. Ia coun- tries where there was little or no taxation, there was litle Ile was opposed to an increase of the Tarsff. and advocated the principle of an income tax as heing the most equitable mode of providing for the public wante.

Phe questiva was thea put on the motion to reconsider the scale.

Aves—Mesere, Owen, Thornton, Conroy, Doyle, Suther- land, Sinclair, Kelly, Coles and Perry—9.

Nays—the Speaker, Messrs. McAulav, Pone, Douse, / Ramsay. Yeo, Montgomery, Gray, Beer, John Yeo, Long: |} worth, Haviland, Laird, Howat and Holm—15.

| Hon. Mr. THORNTON then proposed to apportion the j sum as follows, viz: —£1800 to Queen's Coanty, including | Charlonetowa and Rayalty, and £1600 for Prince and King’s | Counties, respectively.

, Ton. Mr. LONGWORTII thought the resolution Was un- just to Queen's County. Charlottetown required an expen- | diture on the wharves, and the amount the C ty contributed | to the revenne gave her a claim to their consideration, ‘The | wharves and bridges near Town were Jarce and ina dilapi- | dated state. Sw far from approving of the motion, be cor. sidered hon. Mr. Iaviland’s seale as too low for Queen's County, which would not receive justice by it,

| Mr. BEER wos of the same opinion Tha population of | Queea’s Connty, exclusive of the great amount of travel over | is roads from the other Counties, entiled it te a more faves | rable consideration, The whole Island was interested in | keeping up the wharves and bridges in the Couniv, and Pow- jal wharf, whieh was almost exclosively devoted to the sere | viee of the Mail Steamer, was on that accouat entitled to ap allowance from the public funds.

[lon. Mr. POPE would support the motion

Members for | Queen's County complained that they were aot cet ag fair | play. They seemed to have peculiar ideas of the im aniny | of the words. [n Queen’s, as the oldest sented part of the |} Island the roads and bridges had been all made, bot in eer

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miles. As to Pownal wharf, the City bad ne cause af com- plainton account of that, for it received it as @ gilt from the geweral Goverament, ani its eecepation by the mail steamer was inere than compensated by the wharfage or goods depwai- } ted from that vessel. Lf members for Queen's bad br eo satis. | fled with the same proportion as they received last, he might | fot have opposed it, bat he would resist th# spirit of eneroach. ment which was being moni‘ested, | Hon. Mr. PERRY—One woold almost suppose, judging | from the remarks of the hoa. Mr. Longwo:th and Mr. Beer, | that vo person tived out of Charlonetown., True, Queen's | County paid a large portion of the revenas, but it should be ; remembered that she receives the benefit of the othieial sala- ries, Prince County required several large appropriations. Tie public wharf at Summerside reguired repaivs, and a bridge in his district would take about £60 or £0 The jae road must be made passable. Me wou!d therefore }

| support the motion. lion Mr. HAVILAND.-Whar had the people of New | London, Belfast, Crapaud and other places in Queen's County, }to do wih the expenditure of official salaries? They sheald | not do injustice tw Queen's County, and although he was the representative of a King’s County cunstitpency, be fionestly j considered Queen's County encitled to more ihan was prope. |; sed for her, Mr. CONROY would not be satisfied with kes for Prince | County than the sum proposed by hen. Mr. ‘Thotaton. | Queen's was an old and well settled County, while, as had ' been stated, the western road was unsetiled and unfiatshed. | If members from King’s and Prinee Counties were uyited ou