rn | La 5 rns Se a Rg ce Se Soategn anda «. — : : 72 were to be redeemied, and no answer has been give. 1 mid [ was sorry the subject eee brought ap in this way, and not atter ue notes. Lam opposed to an iseue of irre-| devmaSle paper mony, and | @) not see what provision enn be made to redeern it. ! Hoa. Mr. Beex: Perhaps this debate is father irregular, bat his honor wishes to know how toe notef are to be redeemed Just as they are wow. They will be circu lated in paying fot public contracts, and they will come back to the treasury in the pay- ment of duties. The banks wil! not be hound fo take thea’; they may do so or not if they lesee pbs amerctants will be glad to take | . & there’will be nothing safer they can take to pa? their deties. When the time is Gey eR years, thenthe Government cen uv they 46 now. istue warranta, and, in the meah time, the interest will be saved. It i¢ tather an extreme view to tike to suppose thas @ person holding £1,000 in warrants would be required to rece:ve notes in puy- sent for ther, for they would be swallowed | up in other ways. Even if £40,000 were is- sued, and if the whole were paid into the | tieasaury, there would have to be £40,000 more in Some other money, as the revenue amounts to about £80,000. Petition lard on the table. Adjourned tilt to-morrow at eleven o'clock Fo dilitniiadielitiinninty HOUSE OF ASSEM Monpay Arrernooy, April 22. Debate on the Draft Address in answer to His Excellency’ s Speech (cor tinued.) Hon. Mr. HOWLAN.—We have, Chairman, heard much in thi8 discussion about the consistency of owrty. We would almost be Ted to believe that those hon. mem- bers could be accosed of no inconsistency Bat, what, Mr. Chairman, dif we see in 1459? Why Sir, durmg that year, and antil 1863. the aetual Attorney Geveretot the istand bad @ seatin the House, while the centleman who norminutiy held that office did not receive the aalary belonging to it. This was the belief throughoutthe (slandatthe time. The party were afraid to send the gentle nan who real- by discharged the duties of Attorney Genera! dack to his constiteents, and hence this an omaly. forward course ; we are satisied with three members on the floor, Much has been anid, Mr. Chairman, regarding the Queen's Prin- te-"* rejection by his constituents, but the hon. ureatber who last spoke must remem- ber that he very nearly shared the same fate f contend, Sir, that it 1s not right or just to introduces that gentleman's mime here since his defeat. This matter should ba left in LY. Mr. abeyance, for his ease may vet be that of other hon. members. But, Sir, the present Government has been styled » ‘ composite’ party, by the Opposition. Why, Sir, the character of the Conservative (iovernment for the last eight years has ben composite. Daring that time they have had three Lead- ers, while the present Leader (Mr. the only one the Liberal party ever had. The members who form the present Govern- ment have come from the east. the west, the north and the soath and thas far, Mr. Chair- man, it is compos'te, but not on real prin- ciples. It was the mismanagement of the Land Question by the late Administration which gave the present Government the ma- jority inthis House. It was a Coionial dis- grace to call inthe Troops, and I am glad to hear it aduitted that the civil power was not sufficiently exercised before doing #9 That the conduct of the Executive in this matter did not meet with the approval of the country. is shown by the fact that a gentieman, who was then a m-mber of that bocy, has been returned by his constituents te the bosom of his family. Mr. BRECKEN.—With al! deference to the hon. member who has just spoken, I will tell him, Mr. Chairman, that he must, in his statements before this hon. committee con- fine himself to facts. He has stated that I have iatroduced and made free use of the nans of a gentleman not now in the House. He mast remember. Sir, that that geatleman’s | rejection was brought up in discussion by} hon. members on his own side of the House, hot on ours. ection, but with reference to this, I can tell We are, however, taking @ straight | ed, then another-till finally no Government was| And the question having been put, said lett. ‘Though we are not carrying ont the De-| amendment was negatived as follows«— partmental eystem in its fullest eense, still, if our) Yeas—Hons. Havilend, MeAulay, Hender- principles: are right, no censure should be cast gon, Messrs. Green, brecken, Prowse, Owen, oo | McLennan—&, Hom Mr. DUNCAN.—I deo not think that the | last epeaker has enid anything worthy ot a reply, | eo that none as needed L must say, however, fiat the present Government have seen the errors ot their ways, as we did. We went into one ex- a 7 . treme, and ter fonr years had not au office holder | P. Sinclair— 16. ; ou the floor of this House, When we found that Several Bill were then read a third time vir policy Was wrong we acknowledged it at the | and passe d. hustings; bot the present Gevernment bas hevet Tne Bill to institate a Hospital in Char- publicly disavowed their former Departuental | poe ctuwn for sick and disabled seamen, and policy, though new, atter they have got inte power, we find them tacitly admitting that the | a iy pin .poliey which they condemned in the Conservatives | "A ‘epulidecibhe debate ensued, relative to | (that of having three officers on the floor) is the} : a ‘correct ove. But, Mr. Chairman, is it from ue-| the necessity of establishing such an institu leessity or from a desire to do what is right, that| tion, daring which discussion Dr. Jenkins, ‘they have appouted only three of their members| Mr. Brecken, Hon. Mr. Haviland, Hon. Mr. | to office ? I am inclined to think that they teared| Henderson, Mr. McNeill, Mr. Brecken and lseme would be rejected, and the case of the! Hon, Attorney General supported the object Queen's Printer shows that it might have been as! |; the Bill, setting forth the expediency of well for the party had he not taken office, though | providing Hospital accommodatior for sick | tay hoa. culleague bee tvid us that be is glad that and disabled seamen. For maintaining and supporting such Hospital, funds should > that the Conservatives, eight years ago, went to raised by levying — at a lithe hustings with the avowed deleraiaation ty | and ships entering ¢ ve or 0 yor a ' allow no office-helders on the floor, and that for) The bardships and privations endured by four years they carried thie policy out. This 1) sick and disabled seamen when thrown upon will admit, but Lam not so willing to concede the | the ebarity of strangers in @ strange land, } truth of his other statement—that they allerwards | was commented on by the supnorters of tue at the bustings acknowledged ther error. it, 1) Bij], Dr. Jenkins instanced several cases of think, was understood among the Members of the! Goath which came under his own personal ithen Gevernment that tuey were at that election | ito be silent on the subject of office-hulders; and 1} jam ef opinion that the metbers of that party | }wade no profession upon the subject, aud they | were returned without any questions betug asked | them. It is well Known that trom that time they | ‘had three officeholders in the Legislatare, ana | \ | during last session we find them bringing ina Bill! would also follow the immediate removal of | relating to Election Laws, (Par. Rep. 1566, page | sick eailors to an institution such as the bill | 52) providing for as many as eight office-holders | contemplated. Lin the House of Assembly aud Legislative Coun-| ~~ \ip, towatt, Hon. Mr. Howlan, Mr. Owen, cil. The paragraph relating tu these officers reads) troy Mr. McAulay, Mr. Green, Mr. Bell, re ae ee votiinn thet son holding the| MP. Prowse and “Mr. MeUormack spoke Loot - Geleulel oiceee ‘aac iecenenal el /aguinst entertaining the question of a hospi- icitor General, Colonial Treasurer, Commissioner | tal. such as the bill contemplated, for the lof Pubiic Lauds, Postmaster Genera!, Financial | present. Asship owners were, under Statate, | Secretary , or Collector of Impost cles aria tale | compelled to provide for their sick and Piya y Mre ) t 0 . ‘ . . . . lof Asserably of Ley slative Cenncil, who shail re. | destitute sailors, the exigencies of the ques- | sign his office, and within one vemth after his re- tion were not of that importance which re- | Signation accept any other of the suid etfices, nuder| quired the intervention of the Legislature in Nays—l!ons. Attorney General, Laird, Coles, Calibeck, Howlan, Davies, Mess:s. | Reilly, G@. Senciair, Bell, Arseneaux, Howatt, Met ormack, MeNeill, Kickham, Cameron, | gentleman was rejected. Hon. Mr. LAIRD —-The last speaker has said | knowledge in the course of his protessional practice, at the result of ill-ventilated rooms, filth and want of proper care, showing the extreme sufferings endured by poor sailors destitute of home and friencs. The preven- tion of the spread of fevers and other diseases the same administration, shall not thereby vacate | the manner pointed vut by the bill under | his seat in the suid Assembly or Legisiative Coun | ccnuidesattion The present session being j cil. : | about to close, it was c nsidered advisable to | Phe statement of my bon. friend, the member | postpone the further consideration of the for Belfuat, that he wae glad on certain grounds | i | that the Queen's Printer bad been rejected by | question unt oon Coren : | his constituents, has been made the subject of! House in Committee again resumed the jtmany remarks, The menibers on the Opposition | consideration of the Bill to amend the Act | side ef the House must certainly be very obtuse | relating to the Militia and Volunteer forces | he hen. member only said that he was glad that) of the Is'and. A very lengthy debate on the | gentleman's constituents had rejected biw if they whole Militia question then ensued. | did not believe tits profession sincere regarding | Mr. Cameron in the chair. his future pelicy on Confederation. This discus. | The object of the Bill is to render more sion has already been continued too long, but itis| °°. vaio a re | necessary to disprove the statements made re- effective - = Law of last oe |garding the inconsistency of the Government, | relative to maseeye ot detail, without effect- when such charges ean wore easily be substantiat- | 12g any materia, change in the principles of ed against the present Opposition when in power. | that Act. It conlers certain powers relative Coles) is} Phat the preseut isa true Responsible form of | to matters of discipline on Officers command- } Government is evident from the definition given! ing Regiments, and points out the several by the Hon. Attorney General ; for if Respousi-| duties to be performed on the part of both ble Government is a government to carry out the | odicers and men. The bill exempts from > at a we Any sod gt woes through their) \, ilitia duty, Fire Wardens regularly ap- epresentatives, surely the nineteen or cighteen pointed by the Fire Department at Char- tuembers on the Government side of this House | . ae ; hean form a truly reeponsible Administration. lottetown, and alvo Firemen belonging to the | Hon. Mr. DUNCAN.—Ldo not, Mr. Chairman, Fire Engine ¢ Spe of Charlottetown, | find fauit with the exclusion ef officeholders trom Summerside and Georgetown, subject to the | the floor of this House; but L wish to tell the | tollowing limit, namely, for Cherlottetown hon. gentleman who last spoke, that [ canvassed | Fire Companies, 80 Firemen shall be exempt as a Conservative, and only as a Conservatiwe— | from said Militia duty, and 20 Firemen for Hot ad an independent. I would feel obliged to each ot the Towns of Summerside and Geerge- the hon. inember, if be would tell me where the| town. Said Firemen to produce the neces- Indepen lent wembers are in the present House /sary certificates from the Captains of their Surely Independent members cannot be members Companies in proof of their good standing and supperers of a Government. They are re- I, bers of said Fire Engine Compani ag turned as Independents,aud they support a gov- | Of Mew les = fi iy: . a npanies, lernment before they are a monta old. These| _ Hon. Mr Davies objected to the principles members should, 1 think, remain dumb, when|Of the bill, on the ground that from tbe consistency is spoken ef. Hon. Mr. LAIRD.—The last speaker says he | that effective and general character requisite has always been a Conservative; surely he must! to meet the approval and requirements of the mean a converted one—for he was once opposed | Lome Government. The fact that su bjects to having any offices on the floor of the House ;| of this ¢ vlony were not, under the provisions | then he wou!d adwit three, and last session eight. of that bill, called upon to lend their aid He has also referred to the Independent members. | in the common defence of British North [ can tell the hon. member for Belfast that I : : : Piven ; canvassed on the principles that I now hold. | America, in case of a foreign invasion, irre- never canvassed as an “Independent :” and | Spective of the portion of that territory that therefore, whee I found that the present Govern. might be assailed, was, he said proof of the | others, was committed to a Conmittee of the | | limited nature of its provisions it was not of | Hon. Mr. Davies submitted the Report of the Committee appointed in accordance with a resolution of the House on that subject. | Said report recommends the placing of a sum Sufficient at the disposal ef the Govern- ment for the purpose ot entering into more eflicient arrangements with the Contractor of the Ferry, with the view of causing him to run the Ferry Steamer every quarter of an hour, from 9 o'clock a.m. to 4p. m., on Market days, and to dredge certaim portions: lof the River so as to ensure the Crossing of the Steamer at the lowest tides, and alsyv to |make other Becessary and loudly ealled for improvements for the safety and convenicuce jof the travelling public in relation to the Ferry; or otherwise, if the Government thought advisable, they might buy out the Contractors interest in said Ferry. The report »rovides for the exercise of diseretion- = power on the part of the Government relative to the matter. ‘ Hon. Mr. Davies said one of the principal entrances to the City was by the Chariotte- town Ferry. He spoke ot the deiay and tn- hy the long time allowed by the present con- tract at dimner hour; and also stated that frequently the bout, at low tide, iull oi passengers, horses, Carriages, carts, &v., stuck on the flats, thus causing. detention, frequently to the loss of the public. Hence the necessity of taking immediate action vn the subject. Dr. Jenkins endorsed the remarks of the j Hon. Mr. Davies, which from sad experience, he knew to be correct. Frequently, when hastily called upon to cross thé Ferry in the discharge of his professional dutres, he was compelled to borrow boats. In his opinion ithe time had arrived when two Ste ®mers were required on that Ferry, ‘The services of a Dredging Machine was much required. Mr. Owen said that the delay frequeutly caused by the Steamer not floating over tue | muddle ground, as it was termed, was alto- | gether disgracetal, Men and women, with their bags and baskets, were tiius detained and prevented froin getting to Market in time to Compete with others im the sale of their produce and other wares, and conse- quently were subjected, not ouly to incon- venience, but also pecuniary loss, Hon. Leader of the Government said the improvements contemplated by the report would ineur a heavy expenditure of public money; the subject, however, was of great importanee and must receive due consider- ation, liis Hon. the Speaker also expressed his desire to see better accommodation provided | to the public crossing that Ferry, relative to | which the interests of the whole Southern section of the ¢ glony was at stake. | Hon. Mr. Henderson was in favor of effect- ing the improvements alluded to, with the view of redressing the grievances so justly ;complained of by the publie relative to the Charlottetown Ferry. The principle of grant- ing 2 subsidy to the Contractor ior the per- furmence of the work required, was, in his opimion, the most effective meaus of lessen- ing the evils complained of, Mr. Howatt said the report embraced a wide field, involving an expenditure of no ordinary character. He was opposed to giving the Government unhuited power in the matter. He would Support any reason- able grant for mereased facilities to the public, but he thought an estimate of the probable sum requisite should have been submitted. Hon. Leader of the Opposition said the interests uf the people of the whole Southern section of the Island were affected by this question. He would, therefore, support the adoption of the report. Mr. Brecken also concurred with what had been said in favor of the required iw- provements alluded to in the report. The Charlottetown Ferry was an important tho- rougbfare and required a much larger boat than the one now employed. Mr. Prowse was in favor of empowering the Govermment to compromise with the present Contractor, so as to annul his agree- ment and issue new tenders for contract. lion. Leader of the Opposition then moved convenience experienced by the public, caused — another | ADVERTISING AS A MORAL DUTY! A NEW VIEW OF THE SUBJECT. Some years ago it was proposed by an Ameri- | ¢an physician that riembers of the Faculty should! ‘advertise their remedies and modes of treating) | diseases i the’ vewspapers. It wasa bold and) | manip idea. [t was scouted, however, by the} profession generally, as wfra dig. Butis there lany degradation in publicity? Is it nor rather ithe great touchstone that vies pretensions and | juniversalises the practical bevefits of alt valuable | hinventions and discoveries?) Stould not a proles-| \sion that aitus al the uitigation of suffefing and ithe preservation of life wake the weaus of attain- | 1 1‘ : ; . ling these gracd objects kuown through the fehannel of information wost accesable to ail classes and conditions—the columus of the public press? [fit declines to do so, the vatural itter ence is,either that the desire of secrecy arises from a sordid, monopolising, egotisiic spirit, ot from a lack ot fatth in its own prescriptions. Viewing the subject in this light, we way pre- sume, Professor Holloway some twenty years ago overleaped the barriers which the profession had erected between itself and the public, aud } plunged featleesiy jute the newspaper areva. He had discovered, or rather inveuled, alter years of resarch and experiments, two preparauidus which be believed to be specitics tor nearly all the diseases of mankind; and as an indication ot bis Confidence in them, and a preot of bis puilan- Ithrepic wish that, if realiy valuabie, they sould bbe accessible to the whae world, le adveriised j them wherever advertising media existed. ‘This was the severest ordeal to which he could have submitted thein—the experimenium crucis. He threw them at once, as it were, belore the sick He stated their properties, pre- hoof all regions. ‘Juiumed what they would do, and elaked repula lion and fortune vpon the issue. That issue las l been all that he or the world could have desired |The rick aud the poor, the learned aud the j ignorant, plysicians, Statesmen, woharchs, a loation of enlightened freemen, bave sanctioned, used, and extolled them. ‘They are fized facts iw pmedical history: Is not this better than hiding light ander a bushel? Is it vot better than writing prescrip- tions ina dead language, and puting weights | and quantines tito hieroglyphics ¢ If anything is worth Knowing, it is worthy of being universaty kuown., So thinking, Hol- loway proclaimed. the virtues of bis medicines through the press; and-furtune, jame, aud the gratitude of millions have been bis reward.— Gal- vesion News. fii cic iM oak ha NEWSPAPER Boasting.—This is the way that Preniice “takes off’ the habits seme newspapers have of boasting of their immense coucerns : The daily circulation of our paper—to actual six hundred and twelve thousaud and forty two sheeis. We bave emploved upon the paper five hundred compositors and one bandred aud eleven | boua fide paying subscribers—is just five tniliion } 9. An Act to enable Georye C. Stiles to obtain’ Letters Patent for the inveniion of a new and useful improvement in tle construction of Spinning Wheels. 10. An Acct authorizing the establishment of additional Smali Debt Courts at Somerset and Moutague Bridge and'for other purposes. 11. An Act relating to prattice and pleading in the Supreme Court. 12. An Act to incorporate the Alberton Masonic Hall Company. 13. Au Act for the incorporation of a Flax Compang in Prince Edward Island. ‘ 14. An Act toamend the Act of 29th Victoria, Cap. 29, relating to Trustees, and the Act relating to judyments in the Supreme Court binding Lease holds. 15. An Act to incorporate an Hotel Company in Charlottetown. 16. An Act to add toe and amend the Act for the regulation of the Militia and Volunteer Forces. 17. An Act in addition to, and to amend the Act for establishing the Puince of Wales’ College. friends on the horns of this dilemma. 1¢ thag measure is in truth a specific remedy for ail the grievances the Tenants complain of—though,. by-the-bye, it only applies to certain estates— it must have been quite unnecessary to purchase” \ the Cunard’ Estate: of two things, oneeither’ the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill was a useless, | inoperative measure ; or it ®nas Unnecessary to purchase the Cunard Estates! Which shall it be? ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. Tue English Mail, per Steamship Africa to: Halifax, arrived here on Wednesday evening Tht news does not seem to be of a very important or interesting character to persons: on this side of the Atlantic. The European: Conference was still engaged with the Luxem.- burg question, and it is gratifying to understand’ last. 18. An Act to continue certain’ Acts therein mentioned. that there is every prospect of an amicable | settlement of it; and thus it is hoped that» war’ 19. An Act to repeal two certain Acts com- iwi] be prevented, although there appears to be pelling Masters of Vessels to exhibit'a Light while in harbor at night-time, and to make other provisions ia lieu thereof, thereiu mentioned for the service of the year 1867. sisnictnisvineinineniigillaill icici We do not object to any amount of criticism on Government measures, or on the eonduct of be courteous, let it be fair. These conditions, we think, have not been observed in two leading articles which eppeared in the Islander of *viday week. Certain members of the Ex- ecutive have, it appears, been subscribers to the funds of the Tenant Union; and thisthe Js- lander considers « high crime end misde- meanor — foryetting that the late Government, of which the reputed editor of that paper wasa member—afforded the League time and opper- tunity fo strengthen and complete its organiza. tion, and for more than a year allowed the duty of denouncing its misdeeds to devolve on the editor of the Examiner. So far as we remem- er, the first official notice taken of the League y the late Government was afier the demon- editors, nine hundred carriers, three hundred mating clerks, and other widers too numerous to weotion, We Lave takes especial charge of the falls of the Obio, and use them especially for “wetting down” our paper. We have cleven papet mils in Constant operation, the smatlest of whic ‘urns Out two bundred thousand bales of papel daily. It requires seventeen nineteen story Hue's presses to work off our vast edition, and we are compelled to engage all the coal that is mined 1 Lehigh valley, as well as contraet for ail that eomes down the Onio River, to supply our engines with jtuel. Our correspondents are al] graduates of the first uuiversivies and colleges ju the world, and jare siatiotied Inevery cily, town and haimlet on | the habitable giobe. ini iia GALLANT ConpbUcT OF THE DUKE OF EprIN- | BUKGH.—A Marseilles paper says that his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, whe a few days jback wus in that port in his ship, the Gulatea, | bas earued the admiration of the inbabitants, the j authorities, and the presa, by the readiness with which, with some officers and wen, he went to the assistance of a Freuch merchant steamer, the | Dauphine, which in a gale rau on some large stones fuear one of the piers, knocked a bole in ber bot- tom, and was in danger of sinking. The prince, j IL sees, Hol ouly gave orders, but worked hard, | pulling stoutly at-cables, as the local lewspaper |expresses it,“ with lus own royal hands.” | Che PPO @xaminer, ON RR RR rr Charlottetown, May 27, 1867. eal is | THE WORK OF THE LATE SESSION. | tration in the streets of Charlottetown om St. atrick’s Day, 1865. His Excellency the zientenant Governor’s Proclamation was issuec a few days afterwards, up to which date we conceive there was no public notice that the It is not surprising that meu earrying on business like Mr. Davies, Mr. Lord, or Mr. Calbeck, with the Tenantry of Prince Edward Island for proceedings of that body were unlawful. customers, should earnestly desire the settie- ment of a question which so injuriously affects the prosperity and progress of the Colony.— Another member of the Government is attacked on different grounds. Mr, Haythorne was not a subscriber to the funds of the Tenant Union ; on the contrary, he was amongst the first to denounce its proceedings. But when his own Tenants brought him a reasonable offer for his Estate, he compromised the differences between himself and them by splitting the difference be- tween his demand and their offer; and thus, in a few weeks, completely disarmed their hos- tility. tion was about to take place, his tenants—then Two years later, when a Council Elec with a prospect of speedily becoming frecholders —selected him as a candidate, and with other supporters in the second District of Queen’s County polled over 700 votes in his favor. We see nothing to be ashamed of in these circum- stances, but rather the contrary. Moreover, Mr. Haythorne has the satisfaction of kuowin its individual members, only let the criticism | | free to join them. Hon. Mr. DUNCAN.—Then the whole Govern- ment is Independent. Hon. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.— he ben. member for Bedeque (Mr. Laira) bas him that the influence which g ves me a seat! in this House i+ a trae British political one. | ¥ have run two elections, and { owe my re-| > tarn to the respected constituency which 1 ,,\4 that, in 1863, the Consersatives gave po no- Fepresent; und believe tha: though not! tice tu tne country of their change of policy, re« more than fifty votes ahead of my opponent, | garding office-holders. What better proof could I have the confidence of my constituency. But,| the country have of the change in their opinions, Sir, the bon. member has also said that in| than the fact that they sent two gentlemen (Mr. 1359 IT was appointed Attorney Genernl Pope and Mr. Palmer) to their constituencies in nominally. This. Sir. is not true. I have | that year, while holding office. There was not never asked for an offics of any description | °"Y curtain bept belore the public, as the hon. for myself or any one connected with me,— ne I — om ag sere 1 never asited for the Attorney Generalship, | ee ore ae es ene Te SPN = when ero 1 aaa astonished, for [ loffice-bolders. ‘That clause dues net prove that Siways conside Myselt foo young @ MAN | the Conservatives were willing to haveall these to be appointed to any important office, or to! officers on the floor ot the House; but merely @ seat in the Government. But, Sir, the) provided that any person, at any future time, duties of that office [ diecharged, and the | holding any of these offices, by vacating it and ae- whole of them. and in -iving it to me Mr. | cepting another, should not thereby forteit bis seat Palmer’s name was never mentioned. For} Pbis matter bas been brought upas a delusion two years [enjoyed the whole silary of my of-) og aeaare. The clanee, toe, was aot carried dee, and had nothing whatever ‘> do with that W the Conservative party asa party measure lemon in performing ite duties, receiving| ”° all (Government and Opposition) were a gee 7 - | bappy family in passing the Bill. nO more assistance from bim than one law-| yy friend, (Mr. Howatt) the master of the situ- yer does from aryther. At the end of that ation, a8 be used to be called, objected to the in- time, however, seeing that he was serving the | sertion of the words —“ Finance Minister,” as eoantry without receiving any reward, while | that was an office not recognized in the Colony. 1, who had far less claims, war being liberai-| Hox ATTORNEY GENERAL.—There are ly rewarded, { emsloyed him to assist me,| Many views regarding Responsible Government, and paid him myself without having any) but E think that the definition given by ine al- communication with the Executive on the! ready—that a Government is responsible so long | forward that clause whieb he read, relating to | It is true that | subject. e:!, asa body, was aware thac Mr. Palmer wasemployed by me. I stake my wird of honor, that | was appointed as freely as the Present Attorney (ieneral. Will the last speaker deny the fact that I discharged the daties of the office while I held it? Mr. Palmer, andl was in whieh enabled me to do it; bot I was in no way bougd to employ him, and received no more assistance from him than the present Attorney General receives from any lawyer he pieases tu employ. Hon. Mr. HOWLAN —I[t appears to me be aw#re at the time that the hon member employed and paid Mr. Palmer. Though I do live at Tignish, [ can read the newspapers. and [ know that it waa the general opinion throughout the Isiand that the Government, when they gave him the appoip:ment, intend- ed him to act as he did. es Me. BRECKEN.I was sworn into office Without one word being aaid o averning Mr. t Palmer ; and what I did, 1 ddof my own accord. {[f [ chose to employ and fee him liberally, [hada perfect right to do so. I knew when [ held the office that of right it belonged to him. {fon Mr. HOWLAN —The hon. member ie only getting deeper inte the mire, He * ays that the Government wera not aware! when the Committee rose and teported progress House adjourned. of the fact that he was emploving Mr. Palm er. I think that had he emp! yed a gentle- man of the opposite party they would wot) SUMMARY OF PROCE have remained long in ignorance of it. Mr. MeNEILL.—Iam, Mr. Chairman, one of the * young members” but [imay, perieps, say a few words, thengh Ido net wish to occupy the time of thie Committee. I had not the alightes: idea that the paragraph now under diseussion would have been the cavse of so long a debate, fe it did not convey any censure npon the late Government for having delayed the Geueral Elee tien. I do not intend, Sir, te go over all the ground traversed by the speakers before meor te argue whether the how. member for Charlottetown ot Mr. Paliner was Attorney Ge eral in 1359. But, Sir, we have been twitted for the manner in whieh we were carrying out Resp nsible Govern ment... f would atk if the conde! of the present io, when in power, showed any very great’ degree of consistency? J well retember that jn 1s59 the hen. member for Charlottetown (Mr. Brécken ame out té Wheatl-y River to sup- af friend of bis who was running the Eleetion tbat district. Ue nude a splendid speech on oeeasion.—for, as you know, Mr. Chairman, the how. member can be very ee juent—and gl- méet the whole of it was io favor of excinding from the floor of the Honae, This. Sir, was in the dave ai the Politica! Alliance; and the reasons givéu by the hoa niem der for having 733 ? | | | conversation he asked me who was then Aftorney ; General of the Island. | Government. Thia only ahows bow different | opinions are upen this subject. | Chairman, debate here for two days without | erriving at any conclusion, All that ean be said _ Twas once conversing with a geutieman in one of | measure. jthe other Previnces, and in the course of our I told him; and be asked lt was a} me how it could be the case, since that gentleman free and voluntary act on my part to employ | did not hold a seat in the Executive, and added ¢ireumstanees| that we were not carrying out Responsible | We wmoy, Mr. fle bas aleo alluded to my el- ment held the same principles, 1 was pertectly | inefficiency of the bill, so far as it related to | the subject of military defence. Ag an Anti- confederate, he would like to see the Island, in the maintenance of its independence, con- tribute its quota of men, as well as ratio of means, towards the common defence as well as support of any and every portion of British North America, in case of foreign invasion, And as the bill made no provision tor such common defence, he did nut feel called upon to support it. Hon. Leader of the Opposition contended that a bill of that nature, affecting the mili- tary interests of the Colony, should have been | presented to the House as a Goverament measure, and not be subjected to the indiffer- ence with which it was treated by hon. members in that House. In the whole course of his reading on Constitutional History, he could find no such unparalleled procedure as that now adopted relative to the bill in question, Similar views were expressed hy other hon. members of the Opposition, expressive of |their astonishment to find even some hon. |/members among the advisers of His Excel- ‘lency the Commender-in-Chief obstructing |aad opposing the bill. Hon. Leader of the Government contended that the bill was but simply an anendment } to: some of the detarls of the bill of last | session, and involved no new principle. Hon. Attorney General, and other mem- : I ajority of ~sentativ , li , 2 majority, al red that the : neil t ’ _| a8 a majority of Representatives are willing tw | bers of the m yority, also urge ) 1e I did not even know that the Coun |Support it in carrying out the wishes of the) subject was an open question, and should | people and only so long--is the truest definition. | not be viewed as a party or Government Ite object was to amend or render | more perfect the Militia Act of last Session ‘relative to the general working of the law ‘relating to Volunteers and Miliua. It was, therefore, absurd to view minor matters of detail in the light of a vitally constitutional | question. | The debate wax prolonged until a very late hour, at the close of which the Chair- man reported progress and the Liouse ad- is that a Government, se long as supported by a| journed. i inajority, is respousible; if not, the people have j} the power te turn them out. Exception may be | rather strange that the Executive should mot} taken te this, but os we can arrive at uo satis | factory conclusion, it is better to say that both | parties have changed their views. Ali this dis | cussion has nothing to do with the ecliuse before the Committee. That clause merely says that we are willing to engage in the business of the country even at this late period. J trust that the | debate will now Terminate. | Hon. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, — iT hope, Mr. Chairman, that it will, but the Hon Attorney General must net -iny the Mattering junction to his soul that no one understands Res ponsible Goverument except those ou tis side of the Honse. In 1859 we were carryiug out Res- ppousible Government in tuifilling the wishes of the people relative to office-bolders. and the Address cent home by the Opposition shows that ey were then opposing that form of Goverument fae second parngraph was then agreed to, —oe “DINGS IN THE HOUSE UF ASSEMBLY. Wepyespay, May 15. The Bill to authorize the Government to raise a Joan was read a third time. Hon. Mr. Henderson, not having addressed the Liouse when in Committee vn the Bull, remarked ya its leading features, and review- ed the arguments that had been advanced by hon. members on both sides of the House relative to the principles upon which it was contemplated tosecurealoan. He concurred with the opinions rw by hon. members in opposition to the bil, and on the impro- priety of appropriating any ot the funds that might be thus raised to any other purpose than thas of paying for or purchasing Pro- | prietary lands in the Colony, on the grounds that it was inexpedient to relieve commercial difficulties by legislative aid. Mr. Bell was astonished at the course pur- sued by the hon. member, Mr. Henderson. It was at least unusual, if not unparlia- mentary, to introduce a debate on the merits of a bill at its third reading. When the i changed hia policy are not vey satisfactory at least. The Tenant Leag we cannot evr-' have influenced him, for that Leavne was | existence at the time. Allusions have alee made, Sir, fo our not working harmoniously | + but the Opposi ? 3 j ition must cemember that We dave pot had « fair trial. and should consider, | too, that such taunts come with a Lod grace from Governnent bat harmonioys elements. Firat, one member of the Executive was put out, or resigu- ae Pe » ey Son, bill was in Committee of the whole House was tue proper time to digeuss its provisions, relative to which no pew matter had heen advanced by the hon. member, Mr. Hender- whose remarks were merely a repetition of ideas previously enunciated. On motivn that the Bill be read a third Hon. Leader of the Opposition moved, in amendinent, that it be read @ third time that Tuvrspay, May 164. Mr. Reilly directed the attention of the | House to the fillowing paragraph in the | Summary Report of Tuesday last, viz.; ‘* Further remarks from several hon. mem- bers were then made, to the effect that it was highly necessary to exclude from all public Schools and Instigations of learning all books of objectionable character and nut on the list of books sanctioned by the Board of Kducation.”’ He (Mr. Reilly) wished it to he distinctly understood tiat Collier's History, to which | he took objection, was one of the School series of books recommended by the Board of Edu- sation for the use of the District Schools of this Island, On motion of Dr. Jenkins, a Committee | was appointed to present an address to tiis Excellency thanking him for his various Communications and Messages to the House during the present Session. House in Committee resumed the consider- ation of the Bill to amend the law relating t» the Volunteers and Militia of the Island. Mr. (ameion in the chair. Dr. Jenkins submitted a Resolution, to the effect, that fur the more efficient organization of the Mil tia, the whole population liable to serve should be ealled out so muster once a year, at a time appointed by the Commander- in Chief, at which muster the ene half of said population should be chosen by ballot to drill for a term not exceeding ten days in each year; the division so fixed upon by ballot to have the privilege of providing substitutes, such substitutes to be sub‘ect t. Medical inspection by the Surgeon of the Regiment in which they might be chosen to serve. The division thus decided upon hy ballot, should be liable to be called out for drill for one year, and the following year that ace of the population exempted by the ballot for the previous year, should be liable to be called out for drill. In time of war, invasion or insurrection, the whole population shouid be liable to serve and be ealied out. The adoption of some such sys- would tend to the more efficient discipline of the Militia of the Colony. The resolation was not, however, enter- tained. After some time spent in Committee, the Chairman reported the bill, aa amended, agreed to. day three monthe. House in Committee on the state of the to amend the report, to the effect that it is | We publish below a list of the Acts passed expedient to enable the Government to annul | | . | that neither soldier nor bailiff was employed to | i no abatement iu the preparations which Frange jand Prussia have, for some time, been making 20. An Act for appropriating certain moniesito put their military and naval powers on an efiicient war-hke footing. The agitation in England on the so-called Reform Bill continues to give trouble to the Ministry ; aud it does not appear likely that the people of England will be speedily cured of their taste for breaking up Governments on that | question. The elaborate discussions on the proposed Reform—¢ven if we had- room for them—would give no iaterest to our readers, The Fenian excitement ir Ireland appears to be quite dead. The victims of the wild and wicked conspiracy, who had fallen into the hands of the law, are being disposed of, in thé most merciful manner, with exemplary The thing whieh: | stamps with ineffable disgrace the foulpess: calmness and deliberation. of the conspiracy, and proves che utter de- gradation of the characters engaged in it, is, that and informers in the Fenian Brotherhood are only too ready to swear’ away the lives of their own brethren. Stilbjt: s believed and hoped that none of the unforta- ate and misguided men who have’ been found: guilty of high treason will be compelled to- suffer the extreme penalty of the law. a Bazaak.==We bave much pleasure in call- vile infamous \ing the attention of our readers to the adver- | tisement respecting the Bazaar, to be held on Tuesday the 11th June next, in the New Mar- ket Hall, under the auspices of the good Ladies of the Conveut of the Congregation de Notre Dame. The ebject is, we believe, to aid in the erection of a new Building in addition to: that which has been dedicated to, and used with such marked success, as an educational establishmeut, for the instruction of young ladies, far superior to any Ladies’ Seminary which this Colony has hitherto possessed, and not inferior to any similar establishment in the The Ladies of the Con- ‘vin have won such a higha reputation for’ themselves here, amongst all classes of the com- munity, as most efficient teachers of youth, ; that we fee! assured their forthcoming Bazaar’ ‘will receive the most generous patronage of the’ | community, without distinction of creed or’ class. The Bazaar will be opened at 11 o'clock, a. m.y and continued until 10 o'clock, p. m.; and will be coutinued the following day at the’ }same hours. Maritime Provinces. , _— —-— { Tue Qveen’s Birr pay.—Friday last having - been the anniversary of Her Majesty's birth, . tem as the above, he (Dr. Jenkims) thought | the present contract, by buying out the |interest of the Contractor with the view of igiving the Government full discretionary power in the matter. ment. The present boat was entirely too performance of the work required — It was high time to entertain the question, in order provided. ‘The trade and traffic of thet por- tion of the country affected by that Perry had outgrown its facilities. Loads of pro- dace were frequently leit on the Southport wharf that could not be brought to warket, because of the crowded state of the Steamer. lt was truly disgraceful not to provide the necessary facilities to the public. Hon. Mr. Howlan—'The question was one of great importance, involving perhaps an expenditure of some £3,000, It would be well to know if that House would sustain the Government in making changes of the important character contemplated by the Resolutions now before the Committee. If, said he, the traffic has grown, why has not the ( ontractor provided enlarged boats pro- portionate to such growth? If a small boat would pay previously, surely a larger one would now, with a greater traflic, be made to payalso If the Contractor would pro- vide a larger boat he would support the principle of giving a subsidy as tile most preferable course to adopt. The Resolution in question, as amended, was then adopted. Hons. Davies, Kelly and Mr. Owen were appointed a Committee to prepare an address to tiis Excelleney, in Council, to give effect to the recommendations of the said resolu- tions. On motion of Dr. Jenkins, a Committee was appointed to enquire, during the recess, into the practicability of running a Steam- boat, during winter, between Wood Islands and Pictou, vr some adjacent port of Nova Seotia, and report thereon next Session. On motion of the Hon. Leader of the Go- vernment, it was resolved that a Committee he appointed to report to the Executive Government, at their earliest convenience, the best method of improving the Highways througbout the Isjand, and that the Legisla- tive Council be requested to appoint a Com- mittee to join the same. House adjourned. Fripay, May 17. House in Committee on Despatches. The subject of Tenant League disturbances, seuding for troops to suppress such disturb- auces, and the contemplated withdrawal of the troops, elicited a lively debate, during which hon. members on both sides of the House ex- pressed the hope that a detachment of Her Ma- jesty's troops would always be allowed to remain in the Coiony. At the close of said debate, the remaining portion of the forenoon was occunied in re- ceiving messages from the Legislative Council, relative to the sanction by that hon. body of several bills passed by the House. To tHe Eprrer oF tHe Exawiver. On Thursday, 16th, about ten o'clock, a. m., the ship Wabeno, Captain Hutton, owned by the Messrs. Ritchie, of Chatham, N. B., came on shore near Sea Cow Pond, North Cane, in a dense fog, and became a total wreck; crew and cargosaved. The Wabeno isa splendid ship, copper bottomed, and nearly new—of about 600 tons burthen, She sailed from Liverpool, bound to Miramichi, with a general cargo of goods ; and we are happy to learn that the ship and cargo are highly insured ia Lloyd's Insurance office. We also learn that there has been a survey held on her, and the result has been that she is condemned, and her cargo has to be conveyed to its destination in small vessels. : Yours, CORRESPONDENT. LLL Persone travelling with horses, and stopping in strange stables, should remember that Sheridan's Cavairy Condition Powders are a eure protective from contagious diseases, euch as horse-ail, glanders, &e. During a ten minutes conversation recently with an officer who served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac, he tock occasion to say that “ Johnson's Anodyne Liniment did more good than | j i panel te thease ee medicines die- Hon. Mr. Danean supported that amend- | small, and in every way inadequate for the | that the necessary accommodations might be | | duriug the late Session. We have already given | vur Opinion on two of them—the 4th and 5th— pe a great deal more may be said upon both than we have written. With respect to | the Loan Bill, it 1s gratifying to learn—and |our information is acquired from the Islander jand from town-talk—that the Hon. | General will shortly proeeed to England, to use there his great and well-known influence with | | capitalists, to effect a loan for the very moder- | If any | ate sum proposed to be raised abroad. | One can accomplish the object, itis Mr. Hens’ey, | '—whether the terms upou which the Loan ean oe ; Ee justily the labor and expeuse of the Mission,} be effected will be satisfactory, aud such ag to |are points upon which we feel it would be rash | We believe it wonld| be better to have the Loan than to be without | |it, notwithstanding all the Islander may Say to the contrary. If it would be a good thing to have the $800,000, proposed by the Confederate Delegates lately in England—if we really waut to speculate at present, the money at all——we carinot see that it would be a very bad thing to raise a Joan on our own independent resources, And if we get the Loan, after the most persevering cannot efforts, we shall all, we hope, begin to think very seriously abuut the proposal of the Dele- gates, for it seems it will not be too late to | . . | jvevive the matter, in a year or two hence, | notwithstanding our preseut desperate hostility t» Confederation. | | i In the list of Acts given below, the 16th is one that requires much earnest consideration. | We can make no comments on the details of | ithe new Act “‘to amend the Act for the regu- | latton of the Militia and Volunteer Forces,” because we have not yet seen that measure, but we think the people of this country will will soon ask themselves the questions : Are the Militia and Volunteer Forces really requir- ed? Could they accomplish the object of their organization should a foreign foe come to attack us? And are our yourg men compen- sated by their knowledge of military tacties— —which they will speedily forget when the novelty of training is over—for the in- dustrious, sober and thrifty habits, with which teo many of them now seem disposed to part, and the possession of which they can aever resume? These are questions, we say, which will soon engage the minds of our people but it is not our present purpose to dwell upon them. The country has only lately passed through an election storm, and we are not aware ihat the question of the Volunteer and Militia movement was ever pressed upon the attention of any of the candidates for senatorial hon- ours. The Government may, therefore, feel | justified in continuing the very heavy outlay for the organizaticns referred to; and we shall not ungraciously, and perhaps, unwisely, attempt to stimulate public opivion on a matter which the public should and do understand as well as ourselves. ACTS PASSED LAST SESSION, 1. An Act for raising a Revenue. 2. An Act to revive, continue and amend the Act relating to limits and rules of Jails in this Island. 3. An Act to a'ter a certain Act therein men- tioned relating to the Revenue. 4. An Act to continue and amend certain Acts | therein mentioned relating to Education. 5. An Act to authorize the Government to raise a Loan of money for the public services of this Island. 6. An Act to amend the Act relating to Land Assessment. 7, An Act to add to the Act exempting pro perty belonging to Her Majesty and the Crown from Duties of Assessment. 8. An Act to diminish the delay and expense of proceedings in the Court of Chancery in this Island. Attorney} the day was celebrated in this place with more All the public offices, the Banks, and most of the commercial houses,. It was observed as a high holiday: collect rents on his Estate,—aud that no part of the expenditure lavished on Barrack building than usual honors. and other kindred objects, was rendered neces sary in consequence of disputes between him | Were closed. and his*tenauts, Some men—sane, sensible by all ranks and classes; and early in the day land moderate in their opinions on other sub-| the Military, Volunteer and Militia Forceswere? jects — become perfectly rabid on the evil jassembled on Rotehfort Square, from which a: doings of the League. Mount such men on a, Royal Salute was fired at precisely twelve platform and mention the word Tenant League, | o'clock, and immediately after a feudejoie they will baw! themselves hoarse in their efforts rattled along the lines of the combined forces. to prove, what every one admits, that many in- | discrect and unlawful actions were committed | rounded by a brilliant stat, reviewed the forces; by those misguided mea. Now, however, they [end every one competent to judge has spoken have become sensible of their folly; they have | in the highest terms of the efficiency displayed, long since erased all obaoxious matter trom | the occasion.—Immediately after the Rée- their constitution; and are contented to live in view His Excellency the Lieut. Governor beld quiet obedience to the laws of the land. They _a Levee at Government House, which waswei have coustitutionally expressed their opinions | attended. In the evening His Excelleney: en- on the conduct of the late Government ; and | tertained a large party at dinner, consisting: this we thick is in reality the bitter pill which | ™ainly of members of the Executive Couneil, the Editor of the Islander and his friends find the officers in Garrison aud aides-de-camp % it so difficult to swallow. We regard the third | His Excellency, besides several officers of the paragraph of his Excellency’s speech at the | civil service, which included the veneraiie close of the Session as intended to conciliate | Chief Justice. His Excellency the Commander-in-chief, .sur~ |thorne’s name in connection therewith as its | men who have been implicated directly or in- directly in the illegal acts of the Tenant League, The oliye branch, so it appears to us, is held out. It can never he intended under British rule to keep a body of misguided men for ever under prescription—to do so would be the surest way of causing them to beconie what we | feel persuaded they are not—disloyal. Inashort | supplemental article—not written, we think, | hy the usual Editor of the Islander—a certain | minute of Council is mentioned, and Mr. Hay-| | an | author. The unaccustomed scribe—like awkward thresher—imperils his friends by his random blows, more than those he intends to ridicule. Every body knows that a document adopted by the Executive is considered the | work of the Board, and not of any individual member. The Editor of the Islander culls a few passages fron the minute, intended to serve his present occasion, but has not the * manli- ness ’’ to publish the whole even of the docu- ment in question, or a fair abstract from the military despatches—knowing full well that by so doing he would emphatically condemn his friends and colleagues in the late Government. Those despatches establish the fact on the authority of Major-General Doyle, that the Queen’s troops were brought here, not to vin- dicate the majesty of the law, but “to aid the civil power in enforcing the payment of rents | by the Tenants to the Proprietors, for which | purpose alone they were detached.” They | establish the fact that the late Government | commenced building the barracks with the full knowledge that the troops would not be allowed to remain “a moment after the occasion for} their services hac ceased ;” and, further, they show that tie sum of £10,724 was expended in: providing accommodation for these military bailiffs between the months of September, 1365, and November, 1866. We think it likely that the minute of Council exactly expresses the opinions of the Board. When they were apprised of the intended removal of the troops, they warned the Lieutenant Governor that there was ng reason to expect any disturbance, unless it was caused by some act of oppression on the part of Proprietors towards Tenants ;—and the remedy they suggested was certainly the most natural as well as the safest, cheapest and most legitimate—they asked for the co-operation of the Imperial Government to settle the question of the land tenures on equitable terms ! The Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill is brought in incidentally by the writer in the Jsiander, who fails to perceive that be has placed his a ronnensneoremncmnapsilltiiiincesiansiniiinl “Twice Takex.—-An Historical Roreanes of the Maritime British Provinces. By Charles W. Hail.” Sueh is the title of a handsomety printed and elegantly bound volume, just now issued from the Boston press. With the story 'is interwoven much of the history of the settle- ment of these lower Provinces—the wars be- tween the English and the French— the capture of Louisburg, Cape Breton—the old and famous, though now vanished City which was “twice taken,” and some of the desperate encounters with the aboriginal savages which characterised those early times. Acadia, cr Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, furnish the principal seenes of the Romance; but Prince Edward island, under its old name of bsle St. Jean, and Char- lottetown, once known as Port la Joie, figure frequently in the pages of this interesting volume. The novel has the usual ingredients of a romance—daring enterprises by flood and field—Love, in whose meshes the dusky maid- eus of the forest bold a prominent place, and the foul fiend Murder is brought to give # pain- ful but thrilling interest to the tale. The whole story is kept up with considerable interest, and the style, though not faultless, is easy and flow- The author is, we believe, a sen of I. C. Hall, Esqr., of this City—he is known to many of the young people here, with whom he was a play-fellow not long ago—he is now practising as a Barrister at the Massachusetts Bar; and if the Book before us—his first public effort as an author—should be held to give promise of his future career—we imagine he will become more enamoured of the genial walks of literature than of the dull, and dim and dusty avenues of the law. But Literature isa jealous mistress; and it is only by long, and patient, and persevering devotion that her smiles and her more solid favors become the guerdon of her votaries. We advise Mr. Hall not to write too much until he has studied the English classics more. His style will be all the better for the pleasant study ; and his judgment, yet green, and his fancy, gushing enough at present, will be chastened and enriched by longer and cleser intercourse ~ with the old English fathers of Romance. ing. em eterna: We understand that theY OLUNTEERBAND will give their first entertainment for the season, on “ Hiitsporoves Park,” on Thursday even ing nezt, the 30th inst., at the usual hour. a Slanderous gossip impeiled a young lady io Michigan to end her existenee with strychnine, and te leave a letter with inatruet.vne to tell these who tried to injure ber thet they wight enjoy the privilege over her grave.