HASZARD'S GAZETTE, MARCH 9. living soul to care ifl die," he added, drawing his breath hard. and speaking with a great eflbrt. “ I slial be kicked out anti buried liken dog, and nobody ’ll think of it a day attor-onl_t/my wtfe! Poor soullshe’ll mourn atid grieve; and if \ou'd only contrive, Mr. Wilson, to send this little pin to her. She gave it to me for a (Inm- mas rment, rchild! Give it to her, and tell her loved r to the last. Will you 7 Will you ?" he added earnestly. " You, certainly ; poor fellow ! " said the old gentleman, taking the pin. with watery eyes and a melancholy quiver in his voice. “ Tell her one thing," it's my last wish. if she can get to Canada. to go there. No matter how kind her mistress is-—no matter how much she loves her home ; bog her not to go back—for sla- very _always ends in misery. Tell her to bring up our boy a free man, and then he wont’ suffer as I have. Tell her this, Mr. Wilson, will you? " “ Yes, George, I’ll tell her; but I trust you won't die. Take heart, you're a brave fellow. Trust in the Lord, George. l wish in tny heart you were safe through, though—lhat’s what I do.” to trust in?" said George, in such a tone of bitter despair as arrested the old gentleman's words. “Oh. I've seeti things all my life, that have made me feel, that there can't be a God. You Christians don’t know how these things look to us. There is a God for you, but is there any for us?" “Oh, now, don’t—don’t, my boyl"said the old man. almost sobbing as he spoke ; “ don't feel here is—there is; clouds and darkness are round about Him, but righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne. There's a God, George-—bclieve it; trust in Him, and l ’m sure He’ help you. Everything will be set right- ifnot in this life, in another." he real piety and benevolence of the simple old man invested him with a temporary dignity and authority as he spoke. George stopped his distracted walk up and down the room, stood thou htfully a moment, and then said quietly- "Thank you for saying that. my good friend; I'll think of Ilurr.” COLONIAL I.sIlG-IBLATURE. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Hon.'Mr. Cots‘: Btu. to enable to Govintxirxxr to purchase the TOWNSHIP LANDS. Tuunsnav, March 3. Hon. Mr Cor.s:s rose to move the first reading of his Bill intitnled “ An Act to enable the Government to purchase the Township Lands." In doing so, the hon. gentleman gave a very full and clear statement of the manner in which it was pro to carry out the grand object of the Bill—the converting of lease- holdernor tenants into freeholdera. It was six years, he said, since he first introduced a Bill for the accom- lishment of the great object which he had so much at heart, the elevating of the tenant-farmers of this Co- lony to the independent position of yeomen or free- With respect to that Bill. the House had ordered it to be printed, and agreed that the further consideration of it should be allowed to stand over. At that time, the Debt of the Colony, as compared with its Revenue, seemed to interpose a very serious obstacle to the carrying out of the provisions of the Bill; and, until now, with the Colonial Debt reduced to a very insignificant amount, and the Revenue in- creased to an amount so great as could scarcely have been hoped for a few years ago, he had not, he con- fessed, so clearly seen his way for the accomplish- ment of the desired measure, as he could have wished to do. Another riysure, ostensibly for the same ob- ject, had, it was true, been afterwards introduced; but it was of so sweeping and compulsory a character,- so compulsory. in fact, both as it respected pro rietors and teuunts,—-that he really coultl not rs e him- self that they who brought it forward had entertained any intention or expectation that it won the Legislature, They who introduced it being in the majority in the Assembly, it passed that House: but it was rejected by the Legislative Council. With his own measures, however, he could con- scientiously declare, that his intentions had been and were most sincere; and nothing could afford him more pleasure, in his ublic capacity, than to see than fully carried out; for their only object was the pro- motion of the general welfare. The hon. gentleman first ex lsinod, that he expected the House would lhy u foun tion whsrson to proceed in carrying out the details of the measure, by granting the sum of £80,- 000 or £40,000to be placed at the dis 1 of the Governor for the purchase of Township Lands. All parties, he believed, were agreed that, could such a . a measure be fairly carried out, it would be most be- neficial to the general interests of the Colony. first place, it would tend to diminish the proprietary infiuence, which, unfortunately, had almost always been exutsd with th periul Government against every measure for the general improvement of the Colony which had proceeded from its Legislature; sue measures sncrally having had a tendency to afoot the landed interest, as such measures of neces- sity would, but not injurionsly, as the proprietors bad very erroneously imagined. In the next place, it would generally inspire the tsnantry with new hopes and fresh courage to resonate tlisu labours and ex- tend their o tious to the var utmost of their power, in order tofizs. themselves rum what was almost universally regarded in those Colonies as an odious nd rncst ivo burtbeu--the payment of rent; and to the east fortunate of that class of the commu- nity—thcm who had felt themselves literally , he might say, compelled to take farms on short leases of 20 or 40 years, it would alord s most desirable refuge. If the Government should succeed in purchasing, st first, from 80J)00 to 90,000 acres of land, at be. stg., or 1s. lid; currency r sore it would be is their power to sell the lands ugiiin so purchased at about £20 per 100 acres-a rats of sale so reasonable that a tenant would hesitate to sacrifice his last cow, ' his circumstances made it necessary for him so to do, for the scquirsinont of a freehold at such a rate. If the conversion of lsaseholders into free- holdcrs could thus, by d oss. be accomplished, the change would be attend , throughout its progress, by the most desirable results, and would srtuinl afibrd sincere pleasure to every one who wis ed we I to the Colony. It would bring about an almost perfect union of interests, and completely exterminate the bad feeling which has too ' otwsen ren- ants, on the one hsnd.snd ‘stars or their agents, on the other. to the great strtment of the Colony at large. The Bill provides. if it go into law, that the Government, according to the estsntof the funds with ' the l.egislaturo,shall . B one cluuso it was provided be appointed, whose duty it would be, with proper adstuneo, to have the qap; vcrnmsut for uls, dnl ascertained certified, _snd than cl ' , totbs nature and gadlities VIII- s of the sell. and other natural sdvastsgsu tsgos, is a Ieport to be laid bsf for their information and guidance. his duty. not only to take Docds u fromtlieveadwuof the lands, butalsoto 'vossch instruments to the several purchasers ther from the Government. Hispsywculdbssorsgu ,slto but a fair proportion to thud amount oftfilnyl wl|I.Iuh he cheuld actuall rfortn: ugh‘ be a sa ry.oI' .’ 'A. small charge would be made for uses to a purchaser. and the the Treasury, to be used es-tliscesdh sltbslhud; lbr ltwusltrtcsdsd t,ss far :s.:mtblo. the sohstao should, in some measure, be A self-at ' “C any proprietor sale to the Government, he wosldbsrcgulrcdto I tsthsta_sp| ofthe estate or sstascs srsd. dytiuguislilsg tbs sottldd [III (E slit!“ and iiaineu of the settlers, the terms of their losses, and indicating the location of each. It would then be the duty of the Commissioner to oxatniiio the lands so tendered for sale. and to classify the differeiit por- tions of tlietii nccordin to their qualities and capabi- liiies.—souis parts of i turn would perhaps be valued at £25. Ionic at £20. and its other! at £10. or even loss, per 100 acres. w re the lands were settled, in reselling them to ssulers. the price was in no case to exceed that sum, the annual interest of which would he eqal to the annual rent nid by the settler under hi lesso. Thin rqululicn d special reference to such individuals us hold lsnb uudcrlesse at 8d.. «L, or 8d. an core, as not a few did, h diffe- ront sections of the Island. Unlcss under such a rage- lntiun, the oppcrtunit of becoming frooholdors would otfer them no im iute benefit. Whore clear and valuable, but nntsnsatsd farms. occurred, and in all cases of mill-sites sad valuube water privileges, it was pro that these should be put spat public sale, after due notice thereof in the newspapers should have been given by the Government. And as it was not intended that, in buying out one set of large pro- prietors, another set should be a low to rise up in their stood, the Bill provided that no individual should be allowed to purchase more than 800 acres from the Government; and, in buying from the proprietors, nothing less isn I000 acres was to be agreed for. The Bill also provided, with rss t to the vendors of the lands, that they should be ul owed when they pre- ferred it. to give Deeds of the lands sold by them to the Government in excha for Debentures. Pur- chasers froin the Government were to be allowed to good their purchase money by six instalments, the first to be made three or six months after comple- tion of agreements to purchase. When, however. the cups ts la s urchased by the Government, shoultprofer holding them as tenants, the would be allow to do for s time as yet unde tied by the Bill; but, at the expiration of that period, they would be required to become purchasers. The inducements which the scheme held out would. he hoped. befoand strong enou h to induce all to purchase. The Com- missioner o the Public Lands would be required to pay into the Treasury the moneys received by him on account of sales made by hint, once every month. and as the fund, at tirst diminished by purchases, should, by means ofsnch payments, be in some measure ro- uowed. it might be employed in paying oli'Debonturos. The five or six Towns ips constitnt' what was call- ed Worrell’s l:‘.stato,could now be pure used at a much lower rate, than the could have been when the first nd Purchase Bil was introduced six years ago; and, he believed. that, although. the proprietors at that time did not see that it would be for their interest to sell their lands at a reasonable valuation, many o them would gladly avail themselves of the opportunity which the Bill in question, if it became ‘law, wouls atfcrd them of doing so. I‘he Free Education Act, besides the ospeciulgonsral benefits which it would confer upon the rising generation, had already, there was reason to believe, cflcctod such a change in the views of the roprietors, as would be very fuvoursbld to the luudab c aspirations of the tunnntry. u to greatly to facilitate the working of the Bill, should it ecomc Law; for the proprietors, considering them- selves much aggrieved by the tax imposed upon their wilderness lands by that Act. were beginning to feel a disposition to part with tiieir estates on reasonable terms. to escape from the imposition which the felt to be so grievous, and of which they had so udly complained; but. in his opinion, without any just cause. If the Bill became law. the Government woutd be enabled to treat with such of them as were willing to part with their lands at a fair valuation. The Colony m' ht be said to bo~out of Debt; but, even if, in the e ecting of the ccntem latsd purchases of the proprietors‘ lands, a public do t, equal to that from which the Colony had just been relieved, should again be incurrod,it would giv-- no cause of complaint. Nay. ever. if, in carrying out luv scheme, the Govern- ment should have to give something more for the lands, than they could again sell them at. with due regard to the general circumstances and ability of the people, and an actual loss should be the immediate consequence, it would occasion neither murmurs nor discont;.nt; _pnd. the financial affairs were. I , in so runs a could uusli y hustuiu iiiuhlee held in his stract ‘of every clause of the Bill; and if wou easy for him to go through them all; but, as the Bill had been a long time upon the table for the examina- tion of hon. members, and as he might, therefore, fairly presume that all amongst them who felt that in- terest in the measure which its great object demanded, had made themselves thoroughly acquainted with its rovisions, it would not, he thought, be necessary for im to take up the time ofthe House by much further explanation. With respect to the details of the mea- sure, as contained in the draft of the Bill, it was due to the Government to say that they been the subject of much anxious consideration to them; but they were, by no means, so w ed to them, as to be unwilling to adopt whatever alterations in the details it might ar to the majority of the House would most o ectuully ensure the wise, honest, ofi'octual, and economical working of the measure. The amount of the fund which he should wish to have created at one timo,was from £00,000 to £40,000; and by the judi- cious expendituro of that amount, the Government, he thought, might be enabled to purchase from ten to twelve Townships. Operations beyond that were not actually contemplated by the provisions of the Bill; but it would be can to provide that, when the Government had rocoiv pa merit for the lands sold b them, to the amount of £l0.000, than the should rocesd to invest that amount in new pur- chases mm the proprietors if they would consent to sell at a fair price. The hon. gentleman sguin us‘ that the Government were not, neither was he himself strictly wedded to any one detail of the mea- sure. All would be left open to fair discussion, and amendment, ifit should be thought necessary. T Bill provides that ‘Is. Id. currenc shall be the maxi- mum ainouat per acre to be pa‘ by the Government for an lands which the shell rchasc under the Bill; and, in the Bill wh h be ormcrly introduced for the same purpose, the maximum price was fixed, by the House, at be. stg., which was the same. would not, he thought, be advisable to enable the Go- vsrnmont to give a higher price per acre than ‘Is. dd. currenc , in no case. t price, however, it to understood. was not what, in all cases, the sovsrnmont were to give, or what the pro- prietors would be justiiod, by the Bill, in oxpoctI_, aw receive. The Bill should provide that the Government should not, in any case, give a higher ice than that, or whatever other sum the House a uld agree make the maximum; but it would be the duty ofthe Govsruincnt. when purchasing, to make the v and most sdvsn cons bargain the could stcct, ro- membc ' that it was for the benefit of tbs people only thstt s measure had been devised and power iven them to carry out its provisions. ft iaight be t at the present Government, even if greater latitude were ivsn tbsni, than be won exorcise so ' connect in dischar ing the duties of the itnpwtaut trust which. by the Bil , would be reposcd in them. Itill B would bowlse,howd socvsroftholrcsnddncethe House might consider I e prsssut Government, to put it out ofthsir power to o for astray in matter. But, besides, in dutsrtnltdpg that particular of the Bill, it onghttobeboruoinnii thattbe t meat rnigbt notlast for over. and t t u long. have to retire once, and their prietary sdnosistrstisu, fer the w tltorncts it in‘ ht be determined tbsmolvss in all e -sol. ' piss allowd by the should he gives for all lash which in chase under it. In 'soni_e cssss olaluesr sod irsprovsd Townships. is which hediqcudto sell, at a fair val true I the sisstwsn prise ' would be we low; but, with S’ ‘C '7; ti sci? it E?! think that proprictusu would consider it to be greatly for their own interests to part with their lttnds. at rates even much below whstho thoqbt ought to be the utueimuui pricopor sure fixed by the Bill. Whe case an to consider (as they certainly we if the Bill uis law.) the actual act returns to their own ccforsf their estates. and took lab account the large amounts derived from them. but in- tercepted b lawyers and agents, for their own espe- cial use a bun . hos‘ arrears of rent which were regularly increasing in amount, from yosrto year. without any prospect of their over being iquids- ted. they would. be imagined, clearly perceive that they would not only secure a much more certain, but avert a larger income in the shape of interest on the amount for which they might sell their lunds,evoa although they obtained an snore than 8o.'un acre for the . The hen tleusnn than concluded by again I W made in Alta observing how VOI’:TlIGlI the people of these Colonies were opposed to the payment of rent; adding that nos-resident iotors, in many instances, be be- lieved, owiq to the unwillingness and inability of their tenants to pay their rents, as well as to the draw-backs to which he had just all , received lit- do or nothing from their estates in this Colony. furs sitting down, the hon. gentleman also said, he had been told thst,soon after his first Bill for the purchase of the Proprietors’ had been before the Legisla- ture, the gentleman in London who has the chief pow- orto direct concerni the management of the Earl of 3elkirk’s estates in this Island. told a member of the Island Legislature that the actual returns from them were so small, that he would be very glad to treat for their sale, atu fair valuation, in the way contemplat- ed by that Bill. He (hon. Mr. Colos) could not, how- ever, vouch for the accuracy of his information. On motion ofthe Hon. Mr. Coi.l:s,thu House then went into Committee on the Bi||—the Hon. J. Jan- niirn in the Chair; and, after having sat soiuo time therein. the House resumed, and the Chairtnsn ro- portcd progress. No opposition whatever was made to the Bill either before it was comniittsd or alter. Tvnsnax, March 1. Puncuass of it St-rs vvbereon to erect a Lioirr Hours or: PANIUII ISLAND.—RlGlI1'tI of the Pnoru in the Fisnxav Rssitavss. House in Committee on the Report of the Com- missioners concerning the Light House on Pan- mure lsland. Mr. Yso in the Chair. Note-—l’srutuns lst.ario is the property ofArt- cutsaw Msccotiaan. Esquire ;—tbat is, the right to the soil, according to the interpretation of the legal authorities at Home, is vested in him; but. the island is. at the same time, a F ishsry Reserve, for the benefit of the People of this Colony, and of British sub" sin gens . he Amount de- manded by r. Msctlonuld for the Light-House Sito—l acre of ground—snd the right ot' way, or a road thereto, of 34 or 35 feet in breadth and test in lent.-th—about I; sure of ground, is,(as re- ported to the House by Josnrii Wioii-riuit, Esq. one of the Commissioners appointed by the Government to select or detsinine the Sitc,) £12 for the site, Gt £5 for clearing it: and for the lload .€l7—in all£33; or for the ground. indepen- dently of clearing the Site, £90 Island Currency. A debate, in which the people at large will feel deeply interested, arose out of the consideration of the Report submitted by the hon. member Mr. Wiouritsit, a Commissioner as above stated. At the commencement of the discussion, the only uestion dealt with visa what the propietor of the slund was fairly entitled to receive for the ground required by the Government, provided it was deter- mined by the House that the Government should be empowered to purchase it. this question,- Mr. Davies said that, ifthe war to sell the round were actually vested in r. donald-— which be (Mr. Davies however denied, for the whole island was a ' the price asked wu a very extrsvagnt one; but, when it was considered that it was s, by r. Mutton- aid, for what he had in reality no power to sell. it would, he thought, he scarcely possible sufiici- to admire the extreme modesty of the de- entlyi an Hon. Mr. Psutla observed that the sum asked was not, by any means, unreasonable; particular- ly as the ground to be lilillalllllfidoxll part qt the most valuable rtion of r. u onul ’s arm. He would rscoiiiotnond. however, to the hon. mem- ber for Belfast (Mr. Davies) to move that the pur- chase money should be paid out of the arrears of nit-rent, as soon as they were recovered: as he would surely have less objection to the awarding of a proper remuneration, to Mr. Msedonuld, for the injury done to his farm, by the relinquishruent, to the Government, of the site and road in questi- on, when he (Mr. Davies) should be so fortunate as to uxmplismho recovery of those very large and mu cove srrcars. Mu. Davina thought the sympathy ofthe honor- able and learn r for Charlottetown, with Mr. Maodonsld, is thiacaae, was very nstural.He was also, he believed, in possession of sotne fishing reserves, any portion of which he would no doubt be very lad to sell for £12 or £17 per sure. on. r. Porn ironically observed, that he was not at all surprised at the amount demanded for the site and road required ; and he made no doubt, the whole project was rostl in favour with many of the people in and a ut eorgstown, each of them hoping, by means of it, to secure something for intsslf; just, as be well retnombored, was the case 5, in Belfast, when the Point Prim Light-house was about to At that time, among the pic of Belfast, one wanted to sell land for the’ li:liit.houss site. another wanted to build thelight- house, and a doaen or more wanted to take care of it; and so hot was the spirit of rivalry and conten- tion which arose out of their sovoral pretensions, that it had almost created a sort of civil war in the settlement. Seriousl , however. how question- able soevor Mr. ald's right to null might a pear to some hon. members, on. M o ,) was positively of opinion that he was enti- tlorlo some remuneration for the relinquishment of his ground ; the right to the soil, in this ,, description of Fishery Reserves, being in the Proprietor; and he would therefore move the 5.“ question of amount should be referred to the House when in Committee of Supply. .—Thoes remarks of the Hon. Mr. Porn were nude on Moods 98th. Fsb.), after Mr. Winn-ritui's Report rose to the House, and before the House went into Coinrnittes thereon. They are inserted here, together with rsinsrks which, on the same occasion, were by other hon. members. for the sake of keep- tltu whole discussion r.— sr. on. Mr. Wssaus-roa. He thought the scat demanded a very large one for the quantity of round to be relinquished. Had he had any idea sst session that so much would be demanded for a site, he would have opposed the erection of a Li ht-House altogether. hi . as one of the Commissioners inont to decide on the Bonus on ninurs Island, rose, ng the Hon. Mr. Speaker sald— Wlinhewsntto thsgacmthsrstodscide on the Site, last suminor, s was satisfied thou the position of on place tint it would not answer as a to a entering the im- porbnt harbour of Gsor ; lbr on dark aadstormynlghts lathe lofflre vessels approached that hot dishnes atw (‘nrtlignii River, Wlllt.‘ll is not it safe liiirlioiir in it dark night, or otlii-rwim-, in all [ll'0l>1ll)illi.y to run for (it-orgt-towii. If the \\'lll(l wt-re lilowitig frotit the South East, anal ll lit-uv_v ru.-it rtttitiittg, it would cause the reef to lirt-tilt itt Burn Point; and then the vessel would be in n d was position. These ooiisideratiniis caused 'm_ to change his inion t-uncerniiig Boughttlt Island, Illtl to give e preference to Pnntnure Island. And when the t-ositiniseioiit-re be its one)‘ can- uihed Pttnmure Island the ot 101‘ day, he was . then still more convinced that Pnniutire Island to sell a Fiche Becervo. or any partofitl Ho (Ir. Moons ) wou resolve the question in this way: if it roan d ofi'orcd to him for sale an article which he had reason to think was stolen, woul he not, if ho were either a prudent or an honest men, think it his ln'tho fit _ , to endeavour to ftahfim tboporssa , tbesrtlslsfoissleltsdmis "ll! he 0|’ not - go ith llflfivttlh | in ‘h Surely he would. J _ e -..'.':".a to .i7°L.-m Government ought to a loss to that diflottld dstsrduo in qo ; and th& prueud. uh nu" “"1” “mm cll qnollons d‘ a .w the - ' The Gcvcrstnut. he took case. a Iossrvss was the proper place, if the intvtidt-d Light tum". .1] mg eror ti" “:3, on.“ Pgopjfli, W“. House was intended to serve as It guide to the harbour of Georgetown, to which vessels inva- riably ran on upprouchiu Prinoe Edward Island from sea in stormy wont lt‘l' ; and, in doing so, they ran to a place of safety, as tor is deep conveiiiont to the shore ; and itiintediutmly inside the island, a vessel can come to um-hor ; or, liy the Light, could be guided, in perfect safety, up the channel to Georgetown. The Hon. iuemlier their said, he had been taunted . for changing his opinion as to the two lsliiiids. ' but better to change in time, than be u means of t‘tillrllll vessels to run on shore. As for Mr. Miicdonnl ’s clinrgo, [Sn .\‘la(¢-riu-rt! ul Ill!’ firm] of lliis Report] if llun. gt-iitlt-tiioti would ooiisi or the ( unntity of ground roquirt-tl, and that it was t it most vnluolile part of Mr. Mitt-dotnild’s form, they would not, lit‘ tliotiglit. liesitntc to pay the amount naked ; for no mviior or occupant of it fitrnt would like to lmvo the froiit of it taken itwttv, which in the iiistntit-t-, in quot-ttioii, would lit- the case. And, if soine lion. inciniicrs thought that Mr. Motetluiiultl liutl no right to the ground, l)t.‘('t|lll!t.‘ it was it portion of ii iieliery reserve, ttittl tltut, tltorcforo tltc ('lovorniuv.-til; might take post-icssiou ofit, for the purpose for Wlll(‘l| it was llll.(‘lltl('(l, witliottt his ioruiissioti; such it course, if itduptt-tl, lio cuult toll tliciu, would involve the Govorttniuiit itt ti lawsuit, the costs of wlticlt woultl ntiiutiiit to more than the sum deinnndt-d. lfn Li-,:lit wit» to lie cstolilisb- e there, no time ought to be lost in t-oitiplctitig a bargain for the site, and in oiiusittg the some to be cleared to on oxtotit suliit-iciit to ullow the contractor to lo tlt)\\'ll his imitt-rials there on the snow, as he ind give.-ti ltiin (Mr. Wiglitiiitiii) to tinderstattd ho wtslit-d to do so its sou ll possible. ll» could not think that the House would dett-rtnine the uostion itt on other way, than by agreeing to a low Mr. Mac oniiltl is fair compensation for his ground. The debate then assumed a much more iniportnnt and interesting character; and turned nltogeilier on the policy or inipolicy, the propriety or impropriety, of recognizing, in Mr. Macdonitld, any right to sell, or otherwise dispose of, arty portion of ti Fia cry Re- uroc, although the right to the soil might be vested in him, in virtue of on original Grzmt from the Crowti. Below, the Reporter has endeavored to give, in ii cotidetised form, the opinions of every hon. itietnber who spoke oti tlie ttubject—liitving llirown all the Oll- servntions of each speaker into the form of one con- densed speech. Mr. DAVIII took the lead in opposing Mr. Muc- donald's pretensions to it right to sell any portion of n fishery Reserve. 'l‘lie hon. member nmintainetl that Panmure lslsnd, being altogether tt Fishery Reserve, the proprietor, although he had it full right to use and occupy it, an by use and occupation to turn it to his own advantage and beltcof, so long its it was not required for the purposes of carrying on it fishery, could have no right to sell the land; as was quite evi- dent from the tertns of the original Grant: or, how could he sell and give a title to a pesceuble use, occu- pation, and enjoyment of it, when, at any time, utiy number of British subjects were privileged to enter thereon, for the put of establishing a fishery! lle (Mr. Mscdonuld) could not possibly sell or convey to another that which was not legally vested in himself. And, furthe (Mr. Davies) maintained that, in olferiug to purchase from Mr. Mncdonald the ground required, b them, oti Prtntnure Island. a Fishery Ro- serve, for t e erection of n Light House niid it road to it from the shore, the Government were offering to cotnpromise the rights of the people. It was well known that many ofthe people who dwelt in the It‘!- tlcments on the counts, in the immediate neighbour- hood of Punniitre island, were professional fishermen, and supported theuiselves and their families by prose- cuting that most valuable branch of itidustry rind coni- nicrce. It was quite evident, than, that the Light House to be erected on Puntnuro Island was ns much required for the good of those lisliertnen, as for the benefit ofthe general sliippin and commercial inte- rests, if riot, indeed, more. ll, tlieii,tlie l.igltt llouse was purticularl required for the service of tnen pro- secuting the iis ing trade from that quarter of the Island, was it not uito clepr that_tlte ground required for the site and roa were for fishing urposes, and for the direct benefit of a portion of our ttshermen ? lt was: and he, therefore, held that the ground so re- quired, being a rt of s Fishery Reserve, it was as unjustifiable. on the part of the Government, to offer to purchase the ground in question, as it was for the esent possessor thereof to demand a price for it when required for no other purpose than that for which it had been reserved to t to people in tlte original Gratit from the Crown—namely, for the purpose of facili- tating the prosecution of tho fisheries. Hon. Mr. oiin.—lle was very nearly of the same opinion its the hon. member for Belfast (Mr. Davies). It would, he thought, be the establishing ofn very dangerous precedent. were the Government to consent to pay for any portion uftt fishery reserve, for whis- ever purpose they might require it. ti . however, he would not wish to see any man dis sesued ofnny part of his farm, although that farm might be wholly s fishery reserve, without his being awarded some amount of compensation for his loss: but it was the Proprietors who should, in justice, compensate torrents for any loss the migltt sustain in such cases, altlitiugh the duty of tits Govsrnuicnt was certainly _to protect em as far as possi it. Such compensation, how- ever, ho would like to see provided by some other means than one which would amount to a positive compromise of the rights of the people, and the ac- knowledgment and estiiblishmont ofs right, in and to fishery reserves, which neither proprietors nor occu- tits were otherwise possessed of: and such a means, ii: thon ht, might easily be devised. Suppose, cori- tinued t e hon. gentleman, a purchase of the ground to be made by the Government, and that they had given .684 or £85 for it. and that it party came for- ward und said. “ We want this ground for the pur- pose ofcsrrying on a I-‘ishery,"—-would not the Go- vumment be obliged to yield it to them? Certainly they would; for the right to occupy it, at any time, for Isbing purfiosos, was in the people. That was his opinion. e did not hesitate to doc are it; and he hoped it would go abroad. Still, however, although he denied that it would be proper for the Government to purelisse an part or parts of Fishery Reserves, acknowledged the full right of the Government to deal with those Reserves in may other way for the bone- fit of the people. V . i.Aiv.—He was much o to the selection of a site for a Light House on Psnmure Island; for he was .rsnttded that Bougliton lsland would slford a mac more suitable one. that opinion apart, wltut he then wished to observe wits, that if what had been said by the hon. gentleman who had jun sat down were rrisde to apply at all, it would be impossible to obtain a suitable site for a Light House any where on P. E. Island; for the coasts all_ round it were Reserves. either in the Crown or in the People. Ho (Hon. Mr. Whslcn)wus persuaded (ht N . Ilscdcn s right—snd so would an other individual similarly circumstancod have—to Coll- rtsatien for the surrender ofhis rights; but the sum amended for that surrender was satrsva ant. 1'0 ad bewi privately told that on Bougbtorr Illnd thi ground required would have been given for £5. Ir. ldooiisv.-—’I‘he Itestinn imsbstc wu a doc- blu one. first it was—-line the vurarneut a visit a bl I" h it , r 2 in ls.sscu,d.pls.s.s,.lt, wmumlilwd any riot ‘U -I 3‘ O 3' lfity of the Government; in the name, and on behul: ' , the people, to take possession of_ whatever portion the Reserve in qaestiorfwss rsquirwd for the use 07"‘! P0°Pl0. or that portion of thortt, in the no" urhood of co, Q ‘ fl of of . . ‘.‘ fishing business. If thoirdoiiig up or qulorl up. quiesced in by Mr. MacdonpH,.i (g pg. , gg otice, be settled In favor or the ovtlrnineat or the people, and e inst M . M cdouald - and. through .im. pl‘('ll)llDl.y ugains.t.:il 0lK::’;I‘|t.):).l'.l-. etors in like oases. , on a contrary, Ilr. Mscdon- uld should resist the Government in their attempt to take possession of the ground so required by thuiri,ths question would have to be determined in a Court of ,l.aw; and such determination would rule all similar Mr questions. He himself was fullywpcsuudetl that . ‘Mucdonald had no r' ht to dems any thi for the rolinquishtiient of w at was not his to wit hold or retain; and, therefore, he would not consent to vote one fartliing to him on account of the required sits and ad. Hon. Mr. Cot.ns rose and said, the discussion had taken such a tun that. in the position which he had the honor to occupy, it had, he thought. become his duty to endeavour to nisks such a statement, concom- ing ' of tho I’-" as m serve clearly to show the people the only ground which be conceived the Government sen occupy in dealing with the Fishery Reserves. The in. gen- tleman then proceeded to review the whole question, from its origin throughout its progress sent titns. In dcin so, the hon. g that there are two kinds of Reserves: in the one, the right to the soil is vested in the Proprietors. rcuurving for the use and occupation of the people, when eating the fisheries, 500 foot from liigli-water mark. in the other class, the right to the soil is in the Crown, the ri ht of the people being a libort , nndor Licence from t to Government, to occupy t em for the pur- poses of free fisheries. When, some years o, the Assembly of the day were anxious to catch tab the rights of the people to these Reserves, tho Govern- ment being opposed to the views entertained b the Assembly, in least in their full extent, it wsu' stur- mined to refer the auction hoirio to the Imperial Go- vernment; and Sir enry V. Huntley. who wfl then the Governor, nccordingl submitted, by u Duspstsh, addressed to the Colonis Minister, a statement of the question as it then stood here, together with authen- tic copies ofthe two kinds of Grsnts—of one wherein the right of the soil of the Reserves is in the Crown; and also of one wherein that right is reserved to the Grantee. These Grants were submitted to the Crown Law Utiicers, and their decision was-—that, in all 3 cm-es of Grants wherein we feet from high-water‘: for the ” ' mark. on the coast, are saved and reserved disposal of the Crown, to erect stages and enry buildin ," the set’! is reserved; wherein the reservation is of " a l' Majesty's subjects to carry on a free within the distance of 500 foot rem high-watsr mark” the soil is not reserved. A wi the ' to which the term “coast" ought to be considsrsdss extending, the opinion of the Crown Law rs is, “ that generally it must be taken to apply to these places in which the sea ebbs and fiows, and that it would extend. therefore, to those portions of the Bays, Harbours, and Rivers, in which t ere was an ebb and flow of the son" and "that where the Grant of the whole of the Islands, the Reservation would apoear to up ly to t whole extent of the ‘Coasts round the Is ands that were granted and in th ofwhich this Reservation occurs." The bug man read the whole of the Deopstchos, the ion submitted to the Crown Lawyers, and their opinions concernirt them; and then proceeded thus: Now the hon. mem _(Hon. Mr. Lord. Mr. Davies, and Mr. Mooney) wb objected to the Government's being authorised to buy Mr. Mucdonald’s rights in and to the ground required for a Light House, were, he be- lieved, fully die to agree in the opinion of the Crown Law cars. which Eve the people a modi- fied title to the Reserves to t fullest extent of coast to which they had ever been claimod—thst was tosll those portions of the Buys. Harbours, and Rivers, in which there was an ebb and low of the sea, and to the whole extent of the coasts around the Islands. He would, therefore, take leave to remind those has members that. whilst the claimed for the noplo all the advantages which con be derived to t in from thst nice of the opinion of the lust sstboritiss,tboy won not be at liberty to reject t t which said the fee-aim le of the land was In the pro ' tors. The on.. r. rd had id they must beesutioss,and take care lost by their roosodiags they should'l.u‘y down grounds of serious it'gatiou at a future psr‘ -. lle (Hon. Mr. Coles) said so too, and be If both the Assembly and the Government to act. The The Government of the day, in 1844, it appeared, were not satisfied with the legal opinions firstgivcn; and a second application was made, forafurthcr oph- ion from the Crown Law 0 e . This opinion was obtained. and it fully coincided with the first. He, therefore, thought the wisest course for the As- seinbly and the Government to pursue, would be one in acéordsnee with the opinion twice given. Accord- ing to that opinion, the right to the soil, in the one case, was in the ropristors; but, ‘m the other,. wherein the soil is reserved to the Crown. the fou- simple is new in the Government of the y. fbr the poo lo; for by the Civil Lit Bill of 1861, all the rights o the Crown in and to sun cssrvul. all as in and to all other Crown Lands in the Colon . have been surrendered to the mic W_hurs t fee-simple of the Reserve was s proprietor, the Gov merit could no more be justifisd in sehi upm a portion thereof, for the erection of a Light cuss. than they could be defended for so taltin possession of a part or in man's estate or farm wbic was not a Reserve at all. But the case was very dldbrunt when any portion of a Reserve was wanted for pipnse ofcarrying on n fishery: then on ecuhl lawfully take possession. And, with respect to such portions of any lloucrves, wlisrciu the right to the soil was in the Crown, as had been sold by the Pro- rietors, it would eventually be found that .(Is- roprieiors) theiiisslvss would have to air the- Illogulity of such sales; and so also, if it _ x rut that, with respect to any ltosorvss, where: t sssvvstion was c a liberty to all Her Iaissty'IIub- ts to curry on s free ficlicry within the foot from high-water mark. and conveyed any portions . and making the said lcservutlon, the damage won in the and fall it themselves. I Illtl. by the Hon. Mr. lizd, thi such was the tlbetry given to British subject, in virtue of tho lsssrvsiics, that, ad British lsbcrtnss. if a Light House wave. I “H i ‘I rfiific it ounsnd lIO08- ’ but in all, to all H_cr should re utro the site, for their own _ they coal not be prevented from test. _ taking possession cftho ground on whic It his:-as}. To that observation he would only reply, thstasthsrc were two or three stiles of Reserve all round the Island. it was highly improbable that so fsohsh as set would ever occur. f Mr. Msodonald should rsfum to in up the ground wanted as a site for s Light llsrss. 5|!’ Government could not ' there were bars, as in Pilvflflo IN ) can be obliged, rho refuse to sell at s reaaunhb rats. to surrender tbehud at a valuation purvpss it by sworn ' . actiug.ss value. Both 0 law ought to h but as that was not the case, all they do tor under cotteulcrstiou, would be to allow at an "eiquitablo lIOI:l lfor ‘:0 H‘. was not answer to o complains chess satlfsseh a law as had Quint: A