KEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LI TERATURE A “This is truce Liberty, when Ereeborn Men, having to advise the Pablic, may speak fveo.” --- Euripides. p(t, Amp 4g Rye CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1866. i ND N Ws. { NO. 43 ae em nen i HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. CONFEDERATION QUESTION (coutiauwed.) NOTICE. "PYULE undersigned having fitted up, since the firesa STORE in DoncnesteR StrrReer. } SOUND “St. Dunstan’s College; FLOUR and MEAL. Under the patronage of His Lordship the , 1a a fe great part of the allowanee of £30,000 or £40,008 a year think best. Because T, a8 6ne of the [sland Delegates, aa- would be required to keep up the useless parapharnalia of sented to that Seheme [ have been accused of having sold a local Government and local Legislatare. All that was | ny country, and been stigmatized by the namg of traitor. —_ rn = ; agp : in the building owned by J. D. MASON, Ese Hon. Mr. LAIRD: I do not s ist i Bishop af Charlottetown. *PPHE Subscriber has reeeived, per Schr. sichahes the Weore of erst. horeas & Wants before us th ee J a : thi ro ae carts ae ma sod Brig Hanwak & Lizzie, trom hereby respectfully informs his numerous ens efore ug that would reed us te think that we will be Oe fgulis INSTITUTION is situated on the ypw Princetown Read, a mile and a quarter porth of Charlettetuwn. The site ia peeuhariy beautiful healtey, and far removed from the 8 tracte* and moral dangers of the enty YORK— 680 Barrels FLOUR, warranted, ae. * Opa, r 100 Bags Do. which will be seld cheap for cash or ‘approved tomers, in Town and Country, that from and afte: this date the business will be carried on as here totore thanks to his customers for their past support and prilromuge, and to selicit a continneuce of the sume B.D. REDDIN. Dorchester Street, Ch'tewn, Aug. 6, 1866. Phe balls and rooms of the building are spacious, air and comfortable Phe College Grounds are large. affording ample SCiiOCOL BOOKS. LARGE SUPPLY OF— Sullivan's Spelling Books ; Lennie 8 Grammars ; Cur penter s Spelhuyg Books ; Worvcester’s Dictionary ; vd balet x Ines joint notes at 3 mouths pots tet gute Ss athi avila ce re e WM. MeGILt. Charlottetown, 50th July, 1566 sos|. OOPPONS! ” | Music, AT f studies embraces all the branelies The course of aagrv te prepare young tien tor the study «of pecesst! ‘ : rotessnets or G1 them for meres the learaee 7 a : Frenne’, Latin a Ma inatics Y eyits, auch as Histery, Geograp vy. the English il Greek Lang Hosephy, Chemisiry, d&e tages, wocal a id tuatramental—ts ziso Tat wht. | AND cat ¢ ALL SCHOOL BOOKS in yeneral ose throng! —" possesses @ hi ane rel lected s oak > os 3 e tl oughout | The Gunes | ? é large and well eeleete RR t r *arw the island, on faud, and for sale at VEKY OW ] brary, a& well a8 OH eXlemsive Piilosophy p ( ( ti¢ i | i th Cs . PRICES, at . LOW paratus ” HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE The Professors and Teachers reside in the In- : Aawast Gch. 1866 f Queen Street. : August oth, [so. t etitation, ferunng Qut Ove taunly with the students, ROBERT YOUNG'S. Charlottetewa, July 30, 1866 LONDON GOODS LANGSTROTH’S Treatise ou the HIVE, and ‘ HONEY-BEE, (PSHE SUBSCRIBER bas in STORK | Just received, and tor sale at : and hes JUST RECEIVED the following | . HAR Ik'S BOOK STORE, GOODS, per Darque Le tes, from LONDON | August b, lao. tt Queen Street. HONEY BEE, UINBY’S MYSTERIES of BEE-KEEP- ING, and aad eAcrcising & CONSTAIE SU pert isteti taverable te discipline, decerun and geod morals Catholic students are care tully and frequestly hich they are re- “Vertis lle lon insiructes in theur bey religion, w i red te ' ractiae The is paid tu the morale of all ; and whilst within the ' races seel College enclosure Uiey are constantly Under the watchful eyeot one ef (he Peachers or Peetects Pertect discipline is strictly but kindly enterced B.D. REDDIN takes this eppertunity to return .| prived of our Constitution if we do not go into Confedera- tion ; neither do [ think we bave any reason to fear such a result; and why then should we be asked to surrender it voluotarily ? For my part, [ sce nothing to induce us to go into a Union with Canada. If the Canadians take it |tnto their heads to agitate a Union of the Colonies, that is bo reason that we should do so too. say whether we will go into the Union or not. inclination to go into the Union; for I do not see what we would gain by it. Our expenses and taxes would te in- vreaced, and our liberties would be curtailed. to represent the people has nearly expired, we should Jeave the Constitution of the country as we found it, aud if the people desire a change it will be for them to say so at the next election. , necessity to discuss it at such great length now, for it is |pretty well understood in the couarry, The Resola ions /are strong; but, perhaps, it is necessary that they should | If the people wish for Confederation at the next | be $0. _ election, well and good ; but [ would have nothiag to do , with it at present. We are not offered anything to induce us to go into the Union. We would get eighty cents per ‘bead, and never to increase. All the Colonies are progress- | ing. and why should not this Is!aund do so too. We need | not, so far as [ can see, expect fair play if we go into the Tt is for ourselves to | I have no! As our time | There was nothing about this question | when we were elected; and [ do not think there is any | Stedeuta when catering must produce satis- ne = nests and half-chests TEA (Finest Kaisow) 25 Paucheous KUM, 4 Casks Pale aud Dark BRANDY (Hennessy iz Cuses de ; do : 6 Casks MARSALA, factery testimenials ol geed chatacter lrect— _ | T rovan Union, and [ will, therefore, support the Resulutions iu- : 4 ’ ’ } SODA W A ag ER troduced by the Hon. the Leader of the Government, | Mr. HOWLAN: It is very amusing to listen to the | Confederationists. They are not in favour of Confederation The College is visited regularly ence a week by | a l'hy sical | VV EAAVE RECELVED, per Steam. ship Anuamuna, one of PUFFER'S cele ee . i de Port WINE, . rages gh oe } ss PrLRMS: S de Maes brated SODA-WATER APPARATUS, at a cost of | 00 the terms of the Quebec report at all—not they. We . . . n “t 4 SK for manufacturian 4 Per Quarter of 11 W ecks. 1) Cwt. STARCH (Coleman's) ne ee | are to propose our OWn termMs—!0 Say what we will do and : 200 do Wine and Beer Corke Pure SODA WATER, | ! Beso‘ation whi Ruard and Teitim, - - + £6 © U! 499 Boxes SOAP, ivery superic ure: ' é +R. /what we will not do—but hear the Reso ution which they wiXes 2 ‘ iu Sibine or) ' ome ¢ es . . | Vee af Library, - - . - ei © 6) de do saumneninan This delicious. healthful, cool and refreshing | totroduced lust year 2 mw Povsician’s Fee, - - - oh 4 12 Dozen Worcester SAUCES | Beverage is extensively cousumed throughout the i > ‘ I es denne 12 de ’ Di cundiicen : ~ =e, | United States and British Provinces daring the hot | “ Resotyep, That the Report of the Conference of Delegates from Payments tu be made ball-yearly in advance. i ds’ Maver de | months of Summer. | the British North American Provinces and Colonies held at Quebec, and mat- eds The College furnishes bed-steads traseee : the atudents must provide their own aod bedding, brushes, basins, towels, Ke. $Cwt. PEPPER (unground) | “0 Reus MUSTARD, {Uwt. ULACK LEAD, 10 —— CONFECTIONARY (in 216. Bottles) Y) Boxes deo WO Cwt, RICE (| Arraean) +0 Dozen 3 bushel Grain SACKS, - GROCERY STORE is pleas: uteiaadlias | in October last, taken as a whole, contains a declaration of principles Our GROCERY STORE is pleasantly situated on | —as the basis of a Federal Union—which this House cousiders just to Kent Street, | the several! Provinces and Colonies, , and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the City whe | Hon. Mr. WHELAN : That is not fair. faveur us with a call willalways find a WakM re ception, aud drink of SODA WATER,| Mr. HOWLAN: It is quite fair; L have listened to The Scholastic year commences ott the firet* Wednesday iy September and ends about the middle of July Students are requested te enter u Coot said last night upon the suljeet, was merely a repetition of Even a clergyman—I will not say of what denowination— whai was urged for and against the Union last Session. therefore, say no more but that | heartily support the Reso lutions submitted by the Hon. the Leader of the Govern 1 has declared that he had been told that I had been bribed have myself nothing new to advance against it ; aud [ will,’ to give my assent to that Schene, When that rather amus- ‘ing charge was brought against me, it was brought equall against the other Delegates from Prinee Edward Island, mneot, alihough [ must admit [ see nothing objectionable in| for we all assented to the Quebee Report, and the Hog. the Kesolution submitted, in amendment, by my hou. frend the member for St. Peter's (Mr. Whelan). llouse for the last two or three days; which, he explained, ‘bad been occasioned by indispositiun. The Resulutions which had been eubinrtted by the Hon. the Leader of the Govern- ment, he presumed be had before him in the Logislative Summary; but he was not exactly aware of the purport o! ‘the amendment which, it seemed, had been submitted there- tu. He would, therefore, fee! ebliged by the Chairman's reading it for Lis infyrmation. The Chairman having, in compliance with the request of the hon and gallant Colonel, read the amendment submitted ‘by the Hon. Mr. Whelan, be—the Hon. Col. Gray spoke as ‘follows: [will eay I am glad that i have now, in my place, an opportunity to give my opinion upon the Resolutions submitted by the Hon. the Leader of the Government. It appears to me that the House in saying.—as, by the words of the second of those Resolutions, they are made to do,— ** That they cannot adwit that a Federal Union of the North American Provinces and Colonies, which would include |Prince Edward island, eould ev:r be accomplished upon }terms that would prove advantageous to the interests and | well-being of the people of this Island,” are in a most arro- igant, and alinost impious manner, assuming to themselves | \two of the grand attributes of the Deity—prescience and | omniscience. 1 must say L would be very sorry to have my name, as a supporter of such a Resolution, recorded for transmission to posterity. L do not look for posthumous | |fame ; and | regard popular applause as little, perhaps, as | ;most public men; but I regard my own conscience, and | \nothing, f trust, will ever induce me to give my saoction or | jeoneurrence to any act, project, or declaration, which, | through a cool and dispassionate exereise of my judgment, | ‘eannot conscientiously approve. | regard my own conscience | |much more than any thought of future fame or prospect of | immediate popular applause. As a parliamentary repre- | |sentative of the people, | endeavour to act in accordance | {with its dictates. On every public question which comes | before the Assembly, 1 claim the right to exercise my Con- | scientious judgment, independently of all party connexion or | i j } | { Hon. COL. GRAY apologized for his absence from the) the Leader of the Opposition (Hon. Mr. Coles), who was one of us, when—after the Conference had terminated ~publiely speaking of the Report, at the Dejeaner, at Octawa, said: ‘He thought they (the Delegates} had reason to congrate- ‘late themselves upon the labours uf the Conference. That | thirty-three men, representing the various political epimions | of six different Provinces, could have assewbled so and amalga- ‘mated their opinions as to agree upon a Constitution suited for that great Confederation, was somethmg, “be believed, ;such as the world had never seen before, and stiewed that the Delegates were worthy of the position they held. He | said this, although there was no mar more disappointed than | himself with respect to some parts of that eonstitation; bu, by mutual concessions, they had arrived at a result which they could all agree in supporting and submitting to the people ; for he held that it must be submitted to the people. They could not force it on the people; they must endeavour to shew them thal it was for ther benefit, and thus induce them to accept it.’ he foul eharge of tis having been bribed to agree tu ' *: the Report—a Report wiich was agreed to by all the Dele- zates—must apply equally to all the other island Delegates ; but a charge sv scandalous was one which they with him, would trample under foot, By a part of the Island press, it had been said that he and his brother Delegates who were advocates of the complete Federation of these Provinces were prepared to thrust it down the throats of the people. tie, on the contrary,—and he wished it to go forth to the pablie— took the very earliest opportunity which presented itself, to publish in the papers that, in bis opinion, it would be most un- just to the people to take any action with respect to the Que bee Scheme, until it should have beea fairly put to them at the Llustings. The people have not had-it before them, and | therefore what we may say now can be but of little avail, his is the last Sessiun of the House; and, at the ensuing Geacral Election, every candidate for the suffrages of the peo ple will have an opportunity of declaring bis ¢entiments con ‘cerning the Confederation Scheme; and such as shall be elected will take their seats in the Assembly duly dnstructed how they are tu vote concerning it. If [ be agaie returned to this Ilouse—lI sball, according to the instructione of my constituents, kaow how to comport myself with respect ty that momentous question. As ty the appointment of Dele- }gates to a Londoo Convention, | do not see how Bie Bxcel the College on the first day of the epening of the [20 Bales OAK UM (best Navy) | | ¢ romres et cam rT pp. i i leaaiaallll f . : : ‘ | faveured with choice SYRUVPS, manufuetured ov | the speech of the hon. weber (fou. Mr. Whelan) atten- | considerations ; and that right [ not ouly, most willingly the Premises. : ; : f ? tively, and | perceive that his views bave undergone a} concede to every other member of the House, but I most | change since last year, It is very gratifying to kuow that | sincerely desire that, on every occasion, whatever the mag ‘leney the Lieutenant Governor, as the question new stands, would dare to make sech an appointment. B-fore haat of that kind can be constitationally taken, there most an lasses % Coils Manilla ROPE wy ted size i . . ‘ iy ee a ee ‘@Qenn ss. HUDSON & WRIGHT. ber ju: taer par ticuiars app y te 7 Casha Hotied OLL. Charlottetown, July Oth, R66, A. McDONALD. sCwt White LEAD, | ; = e 1 2S PARI RUN ne a St. Dunstan's College, Aug. Oth, 1606 | o do Black PAIN . ) 7 ! i dill : DOUGLAS M. HARINGTON. | i | *he classes will be re opened this year on he Water Street, Ch town, May 21. L886 Sm i } i 6 Al Se pleabver, New Books! 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Charlottetown, he has seen the error of his ways. The advocates of Uniou desire something more this year than we would get by the Quebee Scheme. Now, suppose that a change bas taken piace, and no basis is laid down with regurd to the financial part of the Scheme, what would cur position, or what would our influence be? = L might refer .o Khode Island, but that isan old story now. It would be said. * Who are you that attempt to raise your head? A little isolared place like Prince Kdward Island attempting to raise your voree !" Some say now, ** What! do you suppose that inttle Prince magnificent Union?’ Then. why ask us to say yes or no ? Why sit bere discussing the question wher members are so anxious to get home, \thereture, We wust gointo the Union And, say | hon. members, - it you do not gO iu’o the Usion he Arty | , . - . 7 }and Navy of Great Britain wel not protect vou;’’ bat | | have higher authority for statmg that the Army aud Navy | jot Great Britain wil protece us. Mr, Gladstoue says that the Imperial Government pledges itself to protect, to the utmost of its power, every Briish subject in British North America, (Uries-of—No! No!] L say Mr. Gladsione does say so; and he ts a mewber of the House of Commons, and quire as good a statesman us any of the hon. member- jwho say * No.”? Is not this then sufficient au hority for us to say that the British Government will protect us? [- | any class in this (sland tired of our Cousiration ? There |is nothing respecting which we have vot the right to je tit on, or which we bave not the right :o ask for, why then | should we be forced to give up our Coustitution? }genticmen here who are older than my father, and who say | we must go into Confederation, any reason why we should do so? [f that is the right and privilege of British su! jects, 1 am sorry 1 am one ; bur 11 believe thar though | lve on this litre Island, L have as : H | wuch liberty as if L lived in London; and [ feel proud 1S66 Lit ERPOOL HOUSE. ISG66 that the British Goverumenut 1s inposed of men who pledge remarks made in this House, at this time, can in any way | alter the state of the question; nor can | perceive that— | | *bemecives 10 protect us with the whole resources of the pew. We are now told that we must unite—that the British Fiag will be swept from the seas unless we cO.- | ‘federate;—but | remewber that an hon, member (lon | Mr. Whelin) enuaciated very different views a few years | ayo. | sentiments—tar from it—but there ay pears to be a soit of | hallucination im about the subject ; for, otherwise, bis mind and those of some ovher hou. members, it is difficult to ae- lcount for the change whch their views have uudergoue lconcerning it. We are told that, whether we adopt the /Quebee Report or not, we must conlederate upon some Kdward Island will be allowed to stand in the way of this} Lt is said that we are only 80.000) people—that we are not able to proiect Ourse!ves—anid, | some | | do not wish to misconstrae the hon. nieuber’s | of the question at issue may be, he may freely exercise it. The hon, member from Cascumpeque (Mr. Conroy) has very | properly said, if | understuod him aright, that nothing more | | than was enunciated upon the question of Federal Union, in | | the last Session, could now be advanced concerning it. In) the lastof the Resolutions against the Union, agreed to by | |the majority ot this hon. House, last session, it is said, | i-* Tuat this louse disagrees to the recommendations of the | Quebee Convention ; and, on the part of Prince Edward ‘Island, emphatically deelines a Union, which, after a serious | )and careful consideration, it believes would prove politically, ‘commercially, and financially disastrous to the rights and | interests of its people.’? This, surely. was language strong | enough ; and its simple re-affirmance now, without the most | absurd and censurable assumption of the Divine actrivates | of prescience and omniscience, ought to have fully satistied | the opponents of Confederation in this House. On my | retarn from Canada, in 1864, 1 publicly declared that, ip my opinion, simple justice tu the people demanded that no | ‘further action, either executive or legislative, should be taken, either for or against the projected Union, until after they should have had an opportunity to pronounce con- leerning it at the hustings. That was my opinion then ; and it isstill my opiniun ; and, I, therefore, hold that this Llouse \is pot in a position to pronounce constitutionally concerning }the matter. Whether the people as yet rightly comprehend the question in all its features, it is not for me to determine. | But wy individual opinion is that they have not yet, through the labours of any competent and impartial instructers, heen jen thled to arrive at that fall understanding of it, to which, ihefore they can wisely conclude concerning it, it is Necessary they should attain. So vast a subject has never before been }submitied to their consideration ; n9 qaestioa so likely to arouse their prejudices, and, with reference to which, there ‘has been so great a probability of misconceptions on their 1 see part, bas ever befure been propounded to them for solution | | They are called upon to deal with a mateer of such gravity I Lf the ruling statesmen of | and importance, as way, according to their decision concerd- | | Canada and Nova Sevtia, say that we must unite, is that ing it, either settle or unsettle the whole balance ot our | Constitution ; and, therefore, it seems to we to be absolutely necessary that, before they form a final judgment upon it, they should be enabled to ung-rstand the weasure in all its bearings, and bave ability to look upon it with an enlarged jand comprehensive view. [| do not see, however, that any uninstructed, as we are, hy our constituents with re- gard to it—we ean with any regard to constitutional pro- pricty, take action upon it. Sach beimg my view of present State of the question, it is only in conse- quence ot the ubexampled teatures vf the which have been submitted by the Lon. the Loader of toe | Government, and which L appretiend will be sustained and | carried by & majority of the House, that { have risen to offa lany rem irks upon the subject. Tne Resolution which asserts | chat ‘+ this House cannot td.nit that a Federal Union of the North American Provinces and Culonies, whieh would in- lelude Prince Edward Island, could ever be aeeomplished ) the | House. Resolutions | appeal to the people ; and that appeal muct be first responded to by an approval of Confederation views. I believe there are members on the floor of the House who, although adverse te ‘the terms of the Quebec Scheme, would yet willingly vote for a reconsideration of it. 1 believe the Llon. the Leader of the Opposition is not opposed to a Federal Union of all the Provinces; bat he waats better terms than those offered to us by the Quebee Scheme. He wants the very best terms which it may be possible for us to obtain ; and so do Ll. lis opposition to the Quebec Scheme is based pon bis convietion that the terms which it accords us are not sufficiently favorable to our interests. —I am not much in the babic of lookimg to members in opposition for umendwents to Resolutions submitted from this side of the 1 was retarned to support the Conservative party ; and, in good faith, L have fought with them, and done my | duty in every conflict which they have had with the Oppos- t ion. doa the support of any particular policy or measure to | which the Conservatives have been pledged, | have never flinched. This, however, ie the last Session of thie House, and with it my Immediate connexion with the Conservatives will cease. At the ensuing General Election, if { off-r my- ‘self again as a Candidate lor a seat in the Assembly ; I will not do so either asa Conservative or as a Liberal; and, if elected { wiil not pledge myself to support either party. L[ will reserve to myself the privilege of judging fur myself, independently of all party considerations, The present question is nob.» Government question ; but a free and open one ; and, there- fore, im voting, as L shall do, for the ameadment submitted by a member of the Opposition—the hon. member for St. | Peter’s (fon. Mr. Whelan)—I shall not be forsaking my |party. The good sense and mod ration of that amendment, jespecially when evntrasted with the assumption, at once ‘arrogant and fatuous, of the Resolutions to which it is op- posed, so recommend it to my judgment aud sense of propriety, that [ can hive no hesitation in voting for it. In speaking against the Resolution submitted by the Hon. Premier, [ have done so ya accuunt of their binding character. As to the Resolution of amendment, | do not see how any member, on either side of the House, whatever his opinious concerning | the Quebec Scheme may be, can objeet to it. But, by the | other, we are called upon to exclude ourselves for ever from a Contederation which, in all probabiligy, is destined to be- }come one of the greatest nations on the earth. What! are we going to ostracise ourselves from the commumanity of our Sister Provinces? Are we going to stand alone to become the resort of siwuygglers. and a nest of ho:nets us the sides of the Coniederation ? Do we suppose that ler Majesty's Govera- ment will allow sacha political selecism ? Wili not our de- clared hostility to any sebeme of Union which will imelade Prinee Edward Ysland, in opposition tu the well considered and truly parental d-sire of the Government of Great Britain, he very likely so far to exasper*te them, as to cause them to | Jogislate us into the Confederation even against our will? Aste | the Hon. the Leader of the Government, | have the highest re « | pect for him, both pelitically and socially; and although voting against the Resolutions subn itted by him, I am not voting against the Go- vernment of whicn he is the Leader The Confederation question is It should be, though.J | . jupon teras that would prove advantageous to the luterests | not a Government one [Hon, Mr. Coles. THE Subscribers hereby inform th Merchants of P. Eo Island that th Bark EMPRESS, 400 tons register classed 33 11, five years in Burea Veritas, Joun Gitiis, Commander, will sail fe the abece Pert on er about the ith JULY: ane leave GLASGOW, tor CHAR | NOTICE. HE SUB-CRKLEER begs to inform the | citizens of Charlottetown, and the public zene raley, that he bas RE-OPENED his Tailoring Establishment “3 returmog, will en QUEEN STREET. two doors west of T. Dee 'LOTTETOWN, positively ou the lth SEP | Hrienv's; aud selicita—while gratetully veh now TEMBER | ledying part favers—a return of that public pat For FREIGHT or PASSAGE, apply in Gla- trenage which was formerly so generously and) gow to JAMES Ketse, 10 Uulew Street, of | estensively conferred upen bin : Charlottetown te Having aecqnired a thoroughly correct kno. les Ne 1. (. OWEN, oh July 9, 1266 W. WELSH. JOHN BELLE, \ J ANUFACTURER of Clothing in all ites branches, thankful to his frien of the Cutting Departs went, on am pure Tv urerertane vrinetple, with Practice, he prepared te compete, tor supe with anv of his profession in Tis ¢ olouy : Having alew selected Mr JOUN ‘ HRISTIAN whose name is provertiial fer superior workmen ship, aw bie Parnter, he bormw of mM LEOD & CHKISTLAN” ry am liefuetion Orders from the country proupt ly attetmded to JAMES MeLEovD. June 18%, 1866 " towether many Years sneceseful ! onrity guaruttees the ud patrons for past favors, beus leave to inforn them and the public venerally. that he is still ter be found at his Old Stanmed on QUEEN STREET, ane ke uprall kinds of gurtuents, entrust to wivg ev A tes price apre) ve Ch'tawe dtehin im the hitest etvle and improvement of | hh tewt : | SEWING MACHINES. ] OBERT YOUNG has much pleasur vitites Laamthy deota Terms Cash. Vntrinee at the side Door, Queen Street, Jniv & Peo in announcing that he has just been ap - _— seen NEW FOUNDRY THE WEED SEWING MACHINES, vy ' 7 r apebinens gyle Sub seriber res: ecttully intorma the inhabitants of Charlottetown aud vieinity epared to farnish Castings of varien: for the sule of to wail int ‘ uple how «of only and woald strongly recoun wed { iehasers, Alb lis per tion of the i ‘ “6 ’ r? mw conikient wm he ft " ut the that be tn ju + premises . ; deascriplions a hie ‘ CITY FOUNDRY, require te be seein eperntion to sappres tea D MACHINES ; : 7 hey + ‘ eee « McKINNON'S TANNERY. “hip and Mill Fanev Poeskin, Bread Cloths, Mantle Clothe, seen that Confederanon is not as appleavle fo ys as to) are better aduptese mh anv Others lh the rt) ‘ nenur . ova Whe ; sineed Mbt - * : : 2 ; 2 ' : “4 te the chinadl and tel variety of sewing re-| Castings, Theashing Machines and Mud Diggere. | Alpacas, Kussell Cord, &e, Xe. : other portions ot Bintish America. aud that, therefore. quired ina family. They will sew from one te | Ke, made at shortest notice. ee : KEADY-MADE CLOT HING—Pante, Veate.| we are nut di-posed to go into a Union on the basis o! | iwenty thickuesses of Marselles without stopping Mie HAERL RIORDAN. Youts. Shirts, Neekties, Collars, Braces, dlate, ' et K e and make every stitch pertect flevy will sew Charlottetown, May US. X66 stint Caps Boots. &c, &e. the Que io eport, from the finest ganze to the heaviest clot, une ‘ . + ta ’ SUNDRIES—Shaw!s, Paletoes, Ladies’ Hats, Progress reported and I] use adjourued at 10 minute: even to stout, hard leather, without changing the q learimme- out Maite : i Searfe. Kibbous, Paper and Linen Collars, Lice to 12 " ‘ Beedic or making any adjustment of the Miehine =~ | Walls. Hair Nets, Savle Buttons and Trimmings. Oo ifs Machine are wm tured fitted up. plain or ornate rital, wiih « Twe ditlereut sizes of the — (Qhuk Subscribers take this opportaniry | with- ; - ’ of expressing their thanks to their numerous | customers aud the public at large, for the very f generous support they beve recewed during the | out cabinets. as may be preferred These Machines have prewinna wherever they have been extilited in Competition with other Machines : Charlottetown, May oS TRG tt TO THE — BoIt mrt a oe x : “a 4 d * ‘ _ a ov Dry Goods, Hardware, and) P. E. ISLAND. Earthenware. YE Legislature during the late Session at 10 per cent discount on present marked prices | , é wits! for al) sue of £5 and under: and ier over that | the purchase of the Fee-simple of their barnes, amount 1 per cent, to Cash Custeaners, or ap- by advancing w the Tenant UNE MALE of the roved Juiut Netes at 3 meunths, payable in amount agreed apon by the Proprietor and Tenant, v . 4 ‘ ’ ‘ Charlottetown. he the Purchase Joneyv of his Farm-- } i . Soca ' lands They have alee a quantity of TRON, STEEL, Commissioner of Public hereby gives notice to all tenants ROPE and CANVASS, which they will sell at 6 rove of availing themselves of the privilege Of onthe. on approved Jomt Notes of Hand. > above recited Act, that he is now pre} ared to | They would hereby hotify ALL PARTIES owing ISSIST SUCH TENANTS inthe purchase a ow i them, either by Notes of Hand or Book Account, ia ia manner and exteut provided undet \ that they must settle their respretive amounts at FOXKM OF APPLICATION and fall particulars lance, as there will not be any dintinetion of per: May he obtained at the office of Urownu Lauds. aan made atter the First day at Ab RIL, 1866. Colvuial Building, Charlottetown. OATS will be takew at the market grees for J 3 | scouts, ee eS W. W. LORD & CO. ts ian ° + Public Lands Offce, May &, 1865, ener | Charlottetown, Jan’y 1, [S66. u | obtained the ivbent past teu years; and new as they intend Losing | UP THEIR PRESENT BUSINESS NEXT SPRING. | would miform thea: that an aud after the 2ud day ot JANUARY, 1966, they will OF SER at RETAIL | the whole of their STOCK, consisting of } having passed An Act to umeiet “Te: cere nee a“ ieee: mee terms; but | vonsider that we have just as much right to yng wel} being of the people of this Island ;"’ shuts out every " i eo specie sSteck. | ie . ; . ’ bets, BUG DOW lOVites an lnsprction oF BD ” jvall upon the other Co!onies to conf-ierate as they have to! member who shall agree to it from ever again entertaining ALSO, by above vessels and by Steawers from | 44) upon us. Lt is said that, if Nova Scotia and New HALIFAX and BOSTON : : : : , ; | Brunswick, go into the Union, we also must, for the pur ‘heats choice Conge TEA, Puns. Bright MOLAS.- | > oe f lide. Bright SUGAR SES pose of mutual defence; but we have already placed the Bbls. Crushed SUGAR, — Liverpool SOAP, iwhvle Revenue of the Colony at the disposal of the Gov- iLASS NAILS. lerpment for puiting the Island iv a sta'e of detenee, aud we SOLE LEATHER, BUCKETS, SROOMS, Ke. &e. vhich will be sold WHOLESALE and RETAIL, st the lowest prices tor cash or approved eredit. WILLIAM FULL. ,the Colonies ; but why should we be forced into Coufe tera- j tion against our will? Lt, after a general election, there ishould be a majority in favour of Confederat on, the case | would be different; but to say that we must unite with _! Canada is ab-urd. If we were ourselves,and if we haveconducted the business of the Colony | properly for fi teen years, it dues not appear reasenable to suppose tha: the British Government will now deprive us o! ‘our Constirution, Ldo vot think the people of this [sland are so wuch afraid of Confederation ; but they object to ‘being forced ite it, 10 tax ourselves as Canada bas; but, in the event of Con- June 11. 1866 New Goods! New Goods! YHE Subserivers have jus: ree sived, per L C. Owes, and Uxoixe, from Britain, part f their large and well-ussurted Stock of Staple uid Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries, &e, &e, &e. STAPLE DRY GOODS — Grey & White Cottons, Printed Cottons, Ginghams. Denams, e if Striped Shirting; White, Red and lune Cotton American Union? That Island bas the same representa: | Warp; Towels and Toweling., Table Cloths and falling, Sheets and Sheeting. Ticking, Baus and Gauying ; Searlet. Blue, and White Flauneis,; Fancy Flannels, &¢. &e. DRESS GOODS —Black & Colored Coburg of British America; grill, and Lustres, Alpacas, Baratnen, Alexandra. ¢ lotlis, Camlets, Barages, Puncy Checks, &e Xe. tion in the United States Senate as New York. Rnuode [sland is the smaties: part of the Amerieau Uuion, and | do what we ean to defend ourselves, aud have thereb, CLOTHS—Faneyv Tweeds, Milton, Black aud rhown that we are not disloyal, but we wi-b to let it be Lace aud Muslin Curtains, Ladies’ Hose, Gents’ ialf lore, Clowes, Leite Bele Ribbous and Buckles, Flowers, Feathers, Hoop Skirts, Back Combs, &e, &e. GROCERIES — Tea (an exeellent arttele) Saygar, Molasses, Ginger, Mustard, Pepper, Cloves, Kaisius and Currents, &e., &e. The above Stock will be sold, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, at their usual LOW PRickS The remainder of Stock expected daily, per Ships iv arrive. Tvespay, 8th May, 1866. House in Committee of the whole on Despatebes. Mr. JOUN YEO ww the Chair. Mr CONKOY. Sir, [ hawe very litte to say in addi- tion to what | said upon the question last Session. Lam deedidly opposed to Coufederation. Lam quite satisfi d to remain as we are and to-retaip the management of our own allairs. | bave considered the question with all the ability and att ubou L coud bring to bear upou it, aud | have failed tu discover aby advantage which would accrue ‘0 us through a Fedral Union with Causda. But winlst | am persusded that we should reap uo advantages from it, L am couvinced that, in almost every particular, it would be HEARTZ & SON. Charlottetown, May 25, [5o6. WATCHES and JEWELLERY. UstT RECEIVED, trom KNGLAND, of best quality, and for sule ata low priee— Horizontal Watehes in Silver Casem 4 holes feu’ a tins waheraneas ” ” ° highly injucious. if pot absolutely ruinous to us. Aveord- esse v 0 ing to the Quebec Scheme, we would have to give up our revenue, however great Ksamount, in exchange for £30,000 or £40.C.00 per anoum ; aad we wou!d have to surrender to strau,ers the power tO raise our duties of impost and ex- cise to any amouut they chose. We would be allowed to ‘retain our local Legislature; but of what service would the ‘machivery of legislature be to us, without the power to ap- | propriate our revenue for our own immediate benefii? A Wateh Chains and Keyes. Finger Ringe, Steel Kar Kings and Brooches, Gents’ Pins in great variety, by A. PURCHASE, Watehmaker, Smardou's Corner. Charlottetown, Oct. 31. IR04. Carlton’s Condition Powders! |are willing to pay our proportion for the general defence of | We have, at preseut, as much right | federation, will we stand in the same relative position to | the other Colonies us Khode Islard dees to the rest of the, suppore we woud remain for a long time the smallest part | we have shown a disposition to | (the question, how changed svever, and how much more | favourable soever may be the terms upon which aeceptance fut Conted+ration may be required of the Colony. Nothing lean be more preposterous than such a Resolution. We know | jnot what changes even a single day may bring forth. And fyet. asit all the events ot futarity were laid open to ou view, we sre cilled upon to decide against the projected | Caion of these Provinces apon any terms We tatk of this iis'and being eat off and separated by an immuveabls barrier lof ice from the neighbouring Provinees.Q Scieoce and art | may yet overcome the vbstrucien of that barrier.” An un- | by properly fitted Steam-propellcrs may yet be secured to us 'n j the winter season. What is the barrier which Britons cans | not overleap ? Bat, if the Island is to be bound by the Re- | sulutions in qvestion, it will indeed be more eifvetualiy cut iofaods parat:! from the neigibouring Provinces and— denied ‘(or ever ail participation in the growing strength, wealth, and and prosperity of the Confederated Provinces—it will have ‘little prospect ior the future beyond a dwarfed existence, or ‘ultimate absorption into the neighbouring Republic. The vgreat burthen of all the speeches which have been delivered will net say whether the question might or might not have been made a Goverrment question. A Government question, however, it oould not have been made constitutionally witoout an appeal to the peuple. | But I will ask bow ean the hon. the Leader of the Government now tell that bis own or other constituencies are at present opposed to Conlederation, even although he may bave had reason to believe they were so at the time of the last general election. Events of a mo-t serious Claracter have occurred since then ; and,in consequence perhaps, in some districts they who were formerly opposed ty Coutederation, may now be in tavor of it. The great obj-ction has been te the terms offered us by the Quebec Scheme; bat not, I believe, generally to Federation on ony terms Thinking men who, at first, were oppored tv it may vow take another view of it; and recognise the possibility | uf our obtaining better terms, if, through a constirutional channel, . . ry v rey . s . . ? } * r ! Joni dk Me te govern ‘obstructed intercourse and communieation with the Maintand, | we should be wise enough tu seek them. In accepting the Premier's Resolutions, the Committee will be blindly committing themselves to a rejection of they know not what. Not a member of the Comumittes kuows how the Q vwbee Scheme of Confederation may yet be modified; and, therciore, | say every member whomay now vote in faver of those Resolutions, may afterwards fiud that, by having done so, be has hound himself to reject terms of Union, which, in his own jadgmeut, he is forced to admit could net, if acepted, fail two be for the lasting benefit and welfare of tue country! Can anything be wore absurd than such a course as this? To bind ourselves duwa to rejoct terms of Bederation which, perhap-:, may be of $v favorable a ebaracter, and so advantageous to us, that, if accepted, they would, in & manner, pour dows showers of gold upon us! 1 cannot see the sounduess of the spirit in which these Resolutions have been conceived; aud I fear fin the Island, both in this House and out of i, against che sec ptance of them, by the Committee, may so far exasperute the Confederation has been that the terms offered tu us) Home Goveroment, that we may have much reason ty regret the de- }are not COmmensurate with our wants or such as our termiuation whicu they express. The hon. and gallant Colonel, then, exceptional position demands that they should be —! —reterring to the time waeu, not loag since, he had the bonor to Oil that they are not sufficiently favorable. Bat now, by the post of Retest of the Seem eee ae aad t+ the part, these Resolutions, you shut yourselves out from the | Wuich, with the coneurrence of his hou. colleagues therein, he Givn . took with a view to the accomplishment of a Federation of the whule veceptance cf any terms which may be offered, however favourable they may be. Iu declaring that a Union of these Provinces never be effected Prince Edward Islaid, you arrogate to yourselves the power jot OQuiniscience. The lon and gallant Colonel, then rif culed the idea whieh had been put forth by some anti con- ‘tederates, that, in the event of the Pederation’s taking | plage, avd Canada’s being wvaded by Fenian maiauders o any otter enemy, we would be ca led upon to send up ou Muitia or Volunteers to assst the Canadiins to defend jthemse!ves. What probatility, he asked, was there that a Provinces which, in ubcdieue: 10 a call to araia, could, with- jin 24 hours. have an army of 190.000 well disciplined men, fully equipped, and ready to encounter wh.tever foe migh: menace or asssil them, atid which, besides, had at it» dis posa! a surplus reveuue of one million dollars, should sand in need of any direct aid. ether of men or money trow Prince Rdward Island? = Baukrupt Canade ! Thetiea was | most preposterous. The hou. member then sizo ficantly ‘un ed to the Committee the very great probabity that their determination to remain out of the Luton, in oppo sitiun to the wishes of the Howe Government, might prove a c.u-e of cach irritation ag they might, when toy late, have reasou to repent their having provoked, Ae a proof thar be bad never contemp!ated the foremy of the Qaebee Scheme upon the people against theie will, be stated wvat afer bis rctarn from Canada. in 1864, he had, at a public meeting o! his constituents, at Belfast, told them that the question of Coufederation, gs» far az it was int nied to apply to Prince Kdwaid Island, was one for the peopie —aud ior (he people alone—to decide. The Jelegares ad drawu up a Report embracing a scheme of Uuion; but the people were at per- cud ow terms favourable to fect liberty to accept or reject it as they themselves should , of the British North American Proviuees and Colonies,—e*naid, he hoped that, sot only such of those hon genUemen es still agrecd with lim in opinion as to the desirability of sueb kederation, but also such of them as now differed with Lim, on that subject would kindly bear with his free and independent expression of his sc ntiments con- cerning it aud the Hon. Premier’s Kesolutions thea before the Com- mittee; and that although, as respected those Ki solutions, be shaud furward politically opposed to Bome bon gentlemen, of whum, out jung since, be was a collea, ue in the Government, he cheuld pat, or that account, bave any reasen to believe that he could not sak wicully look upou them as his friends, The Government of Great britain, eootinucdthe hon gentleman, had ever been truly parental to this [sland as well a8 to our sister Provinces, and our opposition towkat the Ioperial Government were thoroughly convinced would be tor ourlasting benefit, covld not be viewed, by them, ip aay other " light than that of a most ungrateful return tor benefits aud privi- leges, which Great Britain had most abundantly sod generously showered upon us; and we could not, thereiure, teas aably expect that she would submit to be thwarted, by that ungrateful opposition, with respect to se grand a scheme as the Confederation of the British North American P ovinces—the inauguration of another great power in the world The Mon. and gallant Colonel—after again expreas- ing a fear that the determined trjection of Contederation upon any terms, by the House, would 60 exasperate the Imperia! Goverament as to cause them to determine concerning us, as respected Coutedera- tiou, according to the practice of resolute parents when necessitated tu enforce submission on the part of refraciory and di obedient chil- dren—conclud d by saying he gave his hearty support te the Resolu- tio) of amendment submitted by the haw, wember fur St. Peter's (ilog Mr. W helan.) (1 om duded ia Supplementary sheet.) K. B. IRVING, Reporter. ———_———— ee itis expected that there will be @ famine in Bobemia, as that province bas had to maintain two enormous armies for several weeks, and in very many of its districts ‘he erops have & cu destroyed by the cavalry horses. aE nied A Chicazo colored woman set fife to the shanty in which she lived in order tu destroy her infant, which perished in the tlamcs. — erp | aT ag: ‘wit Ea iW Bg SS Ati”