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     CORRESPONDENCE | down the old structures, and rebuild them in 
     
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     cue ine, ae ae oes ae, and thus follow the! 
     
     ec aac | good example already set them by the Rector 
     
     TOR Uae EKACRE of the Episcopal Church, who bas rebuilt it| 
     
     Mr. Eprror:— in a much improve d style lately. 
     
     ae ase | Wher I heard that a new Court Ilouse was 
     
     The Conference at Quebec, if it has been ,. be built on our magnificent Square, | 
     
     prodactive of no other good. hae brought to) 4 thought the time had arrived when L should 
     
     light the talent and capabilities of MANY) payoan oppertunity of distinguishing myself, | 
     
     hitherto obseure persons. It has given elo-| 04 7 deew in my mind’seyea designof what 
     
     quence to the stammering, intelligence tel] thought would be a suitable building, not 
     
     the ignorant, wit to the dull, and profundity) 5, costly, but such as would be pleasing to | 
     
     to the superficial. The ewarm of orators and | the eve, und useful to the country ; and, Sir, | 
     
     fanciers that have, as if by magic, made | goarched diligently in the three leading 
     
     their appearance in the most unl kely aite-| papers of Charlottetown, which I take, for 
     
     ations, is really wonderful to bebold. The! tie notice of * tenders wanted to build a 
     
     saying that circumstances make the MAD.! Court-house at Georgetown,” but none have 
     
     never before received so striking @ verifica-|7 Vn] expected that I should first see an 
     
     tion. If the American war has not produced ‘offer made of a prize for the bent desian for 
     
     ite general, the Quebec Conte rence has/ such a building, but none has appeared: and 
     
     created orators, writers, financiers vod #ates- |» a.y | have been told that the contract tad 
     
     men by the score. Who, for eal haem already let—that the steereneas nf 
     
     have expected that ata meeting held in the) oted only in the Reval Gazette; but 
     
     eaiens on enenetnney alter ae not coedit this aah so eager ge 
     
     whlieation of the Report, that one gentle-| i+ annoar, until I (alter a good deal o 
     
     a an would deliver an ‘‘extemporaneous lec- alas found a oof thot diated af tended 
     
     ture on Confederation, elothed in eloquent) ciscaiation, and there 1 saw that such was 
     
     language, a delivered aoe “ aan po really the case ; and not only that, but the 
     
     ability ;’’ and that another would, on the 
     
     spur of the moment, make a speech ‘both the dfiee of the Commissioner of Public 
     
     huteresting and instructive, hum urous and/ works in Charlottetown ! Just imagine 
     
     witty.”’ But this is not all; the favoured) oa 4 Court-house was to be built in Pictou, 
     
    
   
   
    
     | sioner of Public Lands, and his successors in na 
     
     office, subject only to the provisions and directions pe League is the legitimat 
     
     | contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 
     
    

    
     |to the said leaseholder or tenant a deed of con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     /cumstances of any particular case; and on such 
     
    
   
   
    
     | formas set forth in sehedule (D), to this Act} 
     
    
   
   
    
     plan and s;ecification could only be seen at) 
     
    
   
   
    
     of this Act, without any entry made thereon, or | 
     
     possession given, any law, custom or usage to the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. Immediately after the execution of the said 
     
     deed of conveyance to the Counissioner of Pubiic 
     
     Lands, as aforesaid, he shall execute and deliver 
     
    
   
   
    
     veyance of his said farm, in the fori or to the 
     
     effect set forth in the schedule (C), to this Act 
     
     annexed, altered when necessary to suit the e1r- 
     
    
   
   
    
     deed of conveyance there shai! be endorsed a me- 
     
     imorandum or deteazance specifying the amount 
     
     remaining unpaid, and when and how payable, lu 
     
    
   
   
    
     annexed, also varied where necessary to meet the 
     
     circumstances of the case; and the amount se 
     
     specified as unpaid, with interest afier the rate ot 
     
     41x pounds per centum per annum, as therein 
     
     mentioned, shall be, and the same is hereby de- 
     
     clared a specific lien aud charge on the land des- 
     
     cribed in the Deed for which payment is due, 
     
     | superior to, and having priority over every other 
     
     ‘lien or charge on the said land, created by the 
     
     purchaser or any claiming by, from, through, 
     
     under or in trust for hun, Whether before or alter 
     
     the date of the deed, rights of dower or other- 
     
     | wise, and payment thereof shall be enforced from 
     
     time to time, in the same manner as mentioned | 
     
     and prescribed in and by the Act for the purchase | 
     
     of lands on behalf of the Government of Prince | 
     
     Edward Island, and to regulate the sale and) 
     
     management thereof, and tor other purposes | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ' ott . i | nares nant . ’ ] te s , net} 
     
     audience was, on this oceasion, privileged to) og the plan and specification could only be | therein ue utioued, and of all Acts in amendment | 
     
    
   
   
    
     hear a ‘*peat and approyriate’’ speceh from) .ooy in [falifax ! 
     
     one gentleman; a tew very ‘*tungible re-| think there are no tradesmen here who could 
     
    
   
   
    
     marks’? from another; ‘‘solid and cogent build the Court-house? | think they must 
     
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     reasoning’ from a third, and a speech from) when thoy keep their plans in Charlottetown, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the wnarobitions and unselfish reporter.) 5, that no tradesman from here can sce them, 
     
    
   
   
    
     which, did not modesty forbid him in dwell-| wighout losing at least two days of time, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     jog Upon its merits, he would no doubt have besides his expenses 
     
     pronounced as eloquent and as argumentative |», inspect the plan ; 
     
     as the most brilliant oration made on that 
     
     memorable evening. Now, sir, | have at- com petitor. 
     
    

    
     tended many political and other meetings in| Llow rauch easier, how much more econo- 
     
     country places, but it has never been my) ical, would it not be for a copy of the plan 
     
     luck to be present at such a one ws that des-) ang specification to be sent to Georgetown, 
     
     cribed by the graphic pen of Mr. Joseph! where the Court-house is to be built, and 
     
     Murphy. Il have heard at such meetings! where they could be seen by all the trades- 
     
     souad sense clothed in tolerably correct Eng-| won of the place who might wish to compete 
     
     lish, but I have just as often heard the most) goer the contract? I see the same sellish 
     
     unmitigated nonsense expressed in terms nei- poliey whieh the Government pursues in this 
     
     ther elegant nor correct. Indeed, at most | case is carried out in all other large contracts 
     
     meetings there ls a charming alternation of | 
     
     both kinds of public speaking, and, if | must | advertising such contracts in all the principal 
     
     speak the truth, a rather unpleasant prepon | papers; in not doing so, they are pursuing 
     
    
   
   
    
     in travelling to the city 
     
     and then, perhaps, have 
     
    
   
   
    
     but a small chance of being the successful 
     
    
   
   
    
     cerance of the windy, hi-falutin, no meaning | ¢h,4 « penny wise and pound foolish ”’ course | 
     
    
   
   
    
     style. And such, no doubt, would have| 39 course always erroneous, but more par 
     
     been the character of the major ity of the ticularly so when taken by a Government. 
     
     epeeches delivered at the famous Lot 10} 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bpirit. i 
     
     Some one who calls himself 
     
     Sense,”’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     hanger-on about Charlottetown, who may 
     
     ** Common | know from some of the officials that tenders 
     
     not duly considering the effects of | ure required ; Lutif be only gives us a good 
     
     auti-Cnion geal, has ridiculed the idea of a building, one that will be a lasting credit to 
     
     number of plain farmers talking ina stvle| the architect, and that the traveller may look 
     
     that would do credit to the most gifted mem-!| on with pleasure, and afterwards deseribe as 
     
     ners of the highest deliberative as mbly IM something worth seeing in the Architecture 
     
     the world, and has got roundly abused for) of Georgetown, he shall receive the praise he 
     
     his pains. ‘letters bave written to 
     
     prove that he is a ‘cast-off pedagogue,’’ ‘a! 
     
     eventer jaumper,”’ ** no great th &e..| 
     
     &e. Since this is the style of argument ad- 
     
     opted by the cogent reasoners of Lot 10, tw 
     
     prove themselves to be profound thinkers, 
     
     brilliant orators, and astute politicians, and | 
     
     as they appear perfectly satisfied with their 
     
     own logie, | will, for the fun of the thing 
     
     use their Own weapon against themselves i 
     
     We will, to show up the eogeney ©! such rea- | 
     
     soning, enquire ivto the antecedents of Mr | 
     
     Joseph Murphy, the brilliant historian of the 
     
     Lot 10 meeting, and the sturdy asserter of 
     
     the merite of Lot 10 oratory. A few years! , ; 
     
     ago Mr. Josenh Murphy was an out-and-out) is entitled, * Leaseholders in the purchase of the 
     
     liberal. His zeal in the cause of liberalism) Fee Simple of their Farms,” isa measure for the 
     
     knew no bounds. But J seph was one of) enactment of which the party in power take very 
     
     those politicians who look well aftor number 
     
     one. He calculated the value of his services 
     
     to the liberal party toa nicety. Ino short, 
     
     honest, unambitious, unselfish J weph had savd pounds, which sum, it contemplates, may be 
     
     his price. Ile suddenly discovered that it| expended from time to time, ia belping tenants 
     
    
   
   
    
     been will deserve from 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ J ACK-PLANE. 
     
     Georgetown, May 5th, 1865. 
     
    
   
   
    
     oy 
     
     is, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Che Cxraminer. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE GOVERNMENT LOAN BILL. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Tue Act passed last Session, “ to assist,” as it 
     
    
   
   
    
     It authorizes the 
     
     issue of debentures to the amount of fifty thou- 
     
    
   
   
    
     great credit to themselves. 
     
    
   
   
    
     wae for the interest of the Island in general! to buy the fee sunple of their farms from their! 
     
    
   
   
    
     and jor that of Lot 11 in particular that he 
     
     (Joseph) should be elevated to the magis- 
     
     tracy. The disinterested Josep! bad no Se : 
     
     personal interest in the matter—not he. The | Close enquiry it will be found to be a mere 
     
     public good was what he considered —nothing | sham—as worthless as the Land Commissioners’ 
     
     else. The patriotic Juseph was not the man| Award, and as worthless, too, as the Proprietors’ 
     
     to wait for a spontaneous reengnition of his! ifteen Years’ Purchase Bill, to which, indeed. 
     
     merit by the Government. He. with a mo-| 
     
    
   
   
    
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     desty seldom peralleled, reminded the Go-|! oo ree : 
     
     ernment thatin Lot 1) thereliveda centleman | Proceed to expose iis worthlessness, we shal! 
     
     to whose deserts the world had hitherto been! bere reprint the Act for the information of our 
     
    
   
   
    
     jut before we 
     
    
   
   
    
     readers :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Do the officials in the city | 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Government would save money by | 
     
    
   
   
    
     The policy of the Government will probably | 
     
     meeting, had it not been for the influence of | have the effect of throwing the job into the 
     
     the wonder- working anti- Confederation | hands of some needy, perhaps incompetent, | sold by the Commissioner of Publie Lands, under| sad land, created by the purchaser or any 
     
    
   
   
    
     landlords. At first sight, the measure might seem 
     
     to be a generous act towards the tenantry, but | 
     
    
   
   
    
     thereof. 
     
    

    
     X. The Commissioner of Publie Lands shall | 
     
     | cause duplicate cosies of all deeds of conveyance | 
     
     | executed by him, under this Act, with any me-} 
     
     morandutm of defeazance relating to the payment | 
     
     of the purchase money endorsed thereon, as | 
     
     aforesaid, to be made and executed; and lie shall 
     
     cause the purchaser to execute the same, and by 
     
     endorsement thereon to declare it to be a true) 
     
     copy of the original Deed of Conveyance ; and | 
     
     every such duplicate copy of any Deed shall be | 
     
     deposited by the Commissioner of Public Lands | 
     
     in his office, and remain of record therein. | 
     
    

    
     XI. The original Deed of Conveyance, and | 
     
     also the duplicate copy thereof, executed as afore- | 
     
     said, and attested by the Commissioner of Publie| 
     
     Lands, shall be evidence in all Courts in all ace | 
     
     tions wherein the title of the lands under this 
     
     Act, or those claiming under them, shall come in 
     
     question, or Wherein any proceedings shall be| 
     
     taken under this Act for the recovery of the pur- 
     
     chase moucys due thereon, with interest, aud in 
     
     all other cases wherein it shall become necessary 
     
     tu give such deeds in evidence. 
     
    

    
     XIL. The Comumnesioner of Publie Lands shall | 
     
     | be entitled to receive a fee of ten shillings from | 
     
     | the purchaser of avy lands under this Act, for| 
     
     preparing the deed of couveyance and the dupli- | 
     
     cate thereof. 
     
    

    
     XIIL. The consideration Money for all lands | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     this Act, shall be paid in the following proportions | 
     
     and instalments, that is to say, net leas than a 
     
    

    
     moiety or equal balf part of the purchase money 
     
     ‘at the time and in the manner hereinbefore pre-| 
     
     } seribed, and the remainder, with interest at the | 
     
     j rate of six pounds per centum pertannim on the | 
     
     mnount trom tine to ttwe remaining unpaid ny 
     
     teu equal annual instalments; the said interest te | 
     
     be paid annually with each instalment: Provided, | 
     
     nevertheless, that any purchaser may, at any time, 
     
     pay off the whole amount of the purchase money, 
     
     and interest, if any be due, and obtain a full dis- 
     
     charge of bis Land thereof. 
     
    

    
     XIV. Allsums of money paid by any person | 
     
     purchasing Lands under this Act, on account of 
     
     the purchase money thereof, or otherwise, when 
     
     required by this Act, shall be paid to the Com- 
     
     missioner of Public Lands, who shall enter the 
     
     particulars of each payment in his books, and | 
     
     give the person making the payment such certifi- 
     
     cate, ackuowledging the same, ou his part, by en 
     
     dorsement on the back of the deed, or otherwise 
     
     as the circumstances of the case may require; and 
     
     the said Coinmissioner of Publie Lauds, at the | 
     
     times and in manger set forth and directed by the | 
     
     Act for the purchase of Lands on behalf of the 
     
     Government of Prinee Edward Island, and to re- 
     
     gulate che sale and management thereof, and for 
     
     other purposes therein mentioned, and of the Acts 
     
     in amendment thereof, shall pay over to the Trea- 
     
     surer of this Island all such sums of money so 
     
     paid to hun as aforesaid, to and fer the purposes 
     
     of this Act, and for the use of the Government of 
     
     this Island. 
     
    

    
     XV. If the Commissioner of publie Lands 
     
     shall at any time refuse, or wilfully neglect, to 
     
     account with and pay over to the Treasurer al! 
     
     such moneys as he may reeeive under this Act, 01 
     
     to Keep an account book thereof, or to allow the 
     
     inspection thereof, and all other Books, Docu-! 
     
     wents, Plans aud Papers, by the Government, be | 
     
     shall, fer every such refusal and neglect forfeit 
     
     and pay to Her Majesty the sum of filty pounds 
     
     over and above the amount of any deficiency in | 
     
     the said moneys, seo by him payable; the same te 
     
     be recovered by Bill, Plaintor information in the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     , det a put it in foree. | our editorial article show this. We merely said, 
     
     ant League seems determine 
     
    
   
   
    
     | damage the interests of an honest and indulgent 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘of years to pay off the mortgage ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘curity of the mortgagor becomes worthless until 
     
    
   
   
    
     lof the Government advanee. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | prompt the sinall capitalist resolutely to refuse 
     
     all loans for the future. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island, to! breaks down the credit of the borrower. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     eoflspring of the Go- and still say, that the sale of the Government 
     
     vernment policy, and if it works mischief we school books was transferred fom one shop to the 
     
     think the Government are to blame for it. other. ee 
     
    

    
     Now, we see that the holder of - hundred Accent ro 8. 8. ComMerce.—On Thursday 
     
     acres of land will have to pay sown eigniy-cores night last the Steamer Commerce, of the Boston 
     
     pounds—(that is, presuming be _—— oareer™ of and Colenial 8. 8S. Line, was disabled off Cross 
     
     rent since 1858)—before he begs to think of el Island — (some forty miles below Halifax)—by 
     
     coming a freeholder; he is also compelled to sign blowing off ber eylinder-cap, and in consequence 
     
    
   
   
    
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     an absolute deed of his farnj to the Government) yt am-tug Neptune was despatched to her as- 
     
     for the advance of £41 13s. 44., being the second sistance, and towed Halifax. The 
     
     moiety of the purchase, which they have paid to freight of the Commerce has been despatched to 
     
     the proprietor; and he mud, return that SUID, | Charlottetown by the Brg Chebucto. As will be 
     
     with interest, in ten annual instalments. In fact, seen by advertisement in another column, the fine 
     
     he is a tenant to the Government, very stringently steamer City of Bath has been chartered and 
     
     bound, for ten years; avd if he be alive at the) 1.004 on the route. 
     
    

    
     end of the period, he may thank his stars that he 
     
     has become a freedolder of 100 acres of 
     
     land, after paying £128 138, 4d. besides in- 
     
     terest on £41 13s. 4d. for ten years—the interest | nesprvcrioNn OF THE STEAMER ‘NEW ENGLAND’ 
     
     being reduced, of course, by the payment of the —SAD LOSS OF LIFE. 
     
    

    
     annual instalments. It would be madness to| The splendid and popular steamer ‘* New 
     
     suppose that » Bill which proposes such terms England” was oie to = ee en 
     
     would increase the number of freeholders in the a ad ees eat cat UF ear racer 
     
     self. Sad to say, three of her crew lost their 
     
     lives. 
     
    

    
     As near as can be ascertained the fire ori- 
     
     ginated in the porter’s room, either by the 
     
     upsetting or the explosion of a kerusene lamp 
     
     —-the man being in the room at the time— 
     
     and although he speedily gave the alarm, 
     
     and the night watch man had just aroused 
     
     the crew to their morning duties, yet the 
     
     fire spread with such rapidity, and the smoke 
     
     became so thick and blinding, that ail of the 
     
     hands could not escape. ‘he second cook 
     
     named Jackson, and the third, whose name 
     
     we could not ascertain, were probably suffo- 
     
     cated and then burned. Their remains were 
     
     found in the cook-house, where, itis thought, 
     
     they made their way—probably to save some 
     
     of their things. The baggage-master, Fields 
     
     —a nephew of the Captain—bas not been 
     
     found. lie was last seen by the mate, in 
     
     one of the rooms, and it is thought that he 
     
     may have jumped overboard and have been 
     
     drowned. 
     
    

    
     The flames ascended up along the smuke- 
     
     stack, and the soldiers on the wharf—placed 
     
     to keep deserters from going on .board—saw 
     
     them and gave the alarm. Inthe meantime, 
     
     the officers and crew escaped as best they 
     
     could. It was Jow water, and there was no 
     
     way to reach the wharf but by the landing. 
     
     Ilaste was necessary. The stewardess and 
     
     her assistants got ashore in their night 
     
     clothes. One of the officers jumped out of 
     
     his berth on the first alarm, ran a short dis- 
     
     tance, and attempted to go back for his mo- 
     
    
   
   
    
     her into 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     NEW BRUNSWICK. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Colony. It will only serve to increase the nuim- 
     
     ber of mewbers in the Tenant Union, and supply 
     
     them with abundant materials for agitation. 
     
    

    
     Another serious objection to the Bul arises out 
     
     of the cumbersome machinery by which it is 
     
     proposed to work it. No jess than three legal 
     
     instrurmeuts are required,—Ist, a conveyance from 
     
     the tenant to the Government; 2nd, a convey- 
     
     ance from the Proprietor to the Goverument ; 
     
     aud 3rd, the deed conveying the interest in fee 
     
     to the tenant when the ten annual instalments 
     
     shall have been paid. The tenant must, of course, 
     
     bear the cost of all the legal seribbling, if he has 
     
     the hardihood te have auything at all to do with 
     
     the affair. 
     
    

    
     But still more objectionable than any other 
     
     feature of the Bill we have yet noticed, is the 
     
     principle laid down in the ninth section relative 
     
     to the security which the Government are to pos- 
     
     sess over the tenant's farm in whose favour an 
     
     advance may be made. It is there distinctly 
     
     declared ” that the advance mide by the Go- 
     
     vernment shall constitute “a speeifie Lien and 
     
     charge on the land described in the Deed for 
     
     Which payment is due, superior to, and having 
     
     priority over every other lien or charge en the 
     
    
   
   
    
     claiming by, from, through, under or in trust 
     
     tur him, whether before or after the date of 
     
     the deed, rights of dower or otherwise.’ This 
     
     principle appears to us to be outrageously dames barred his progress. Captain Fields, 
     
     in the clothes in which he slept, ran from his 
     
     room along the saloon, but he could not make 
     
     way through the dense smoke that rolled uy 
     
     in clouds. Hle-hurried back, pulled on a 
     
     pair of pants, threw his coat on his arm and 
     
     got ashore. lle saved nothingelse. In fact, 
     
     all that was saved was the clothes in which 
     
     individual got ashore. The highly 
     
     painted woodwork was as inflammable aliuost 
     
     as gunpowder; the curtains, bedding &c., 
     
     &e., burned like so much tinder. In fifteen 
     
     winutes from the alarm the fire raged from 
     
     stem tostern. The hawsers burned through. 
     
     and the vessel, one masy of flames, swept 
     
     swiftly down in the eurrent, barely swinging 
     
     clear of @ acheoner laden with deals. Sie 
     
     took the eddy, however, and gradaally came 
     
     back, chains were past round her by the aid 
     
     of boats, and she was fastened to the wharf 
     
     The steam fire engines were then enabled to 
     
     play upon her, but she was toofar gone. In 
     
     some places the hull is burned through. No 
     
     one who has not seen the vessel can imagine 
     
     the wreck she is. There is nothing but the 
     
     shell left, the smoke-stack has tumbled over, 
     
     the builer is wrent and twisted, the ma- 
     
     chinery is mixed ap m almost inextricable 
     
     confusion. It would be hard to recognize in 
     
     this burned and charred mass, the nuble 
     
     looking ** New England.’’ Her present eon- 
     
     dition reveals the fact that she was a boat of 
     
     great durability — probably one of the 
     
     etrongest of her kind afloat. She was bail: 
     
     in New York, and would have been three 
     
     years old in June. She cost about £30 000, 
     
     and had no insurance. She is prineipally 
     
     owned in Portland and Boston, and a few 
     
     shares held here. 
     
    
   
   
    
     dishonest, and can hardly help leading to the dis- 
     
     allowance of the Bill, if it should be noticed at 
     
     Why, 
     
    
   
   
    
     for example, should Government be allowed to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Colonial Office, as we hope it will be. 
     
    
   
   
    
     creditor, who, perhaps, tes years ago, made a 
     
     considerable advance to a poor tenant en a mort-| each 
     
     gage of his farm, and allowed him a long series 
     
     The tenant, 
     
     we will suppose, proposes to buy his farm with 
     
     the aid of the Government advance; and the se- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the claim of the Governmeat is first satisfied. Ii 
     
     the mortgagor cannot foreclose, he must take 
     
     proceedings by ejeetment, or in some other way, 
     
     to secure himself; and thus will be bring ruin on 
     
     his poor debtor. Tn short, ths section of the Act 
     
     very clearly proclaims that the tenant who has 
     
     borrowed money from any private individual, on 
     
     landed security, must never think, so long as the 
     
     security is held, of buying his farm with the belp 
     
     This 
     
    
   
   
    
     principle goes further in its misebievous tendency 
     
    
   
   
    
     dishonest 
     
    
   
   
    
     It warns the smal] capitalist to get in as speedily 
     
     as possible the money he has lent to tenants here, 
     
     there and everywhere, lest the debtors should 
     
     take advantage of the offer made by the Govern- 
     
     ment under their precious Loan Bill; and it will 
     
    
   
   
    
     This part of the Bill fills 
     
     the mind of the money-lender with suspicion, and 
     
     No 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ney, which was under his pillow, bat the | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     blind, and that it would be only ri cognizing 
     
    
   
   
    
     bumble unobtrusive worth to make him Jo-| 
     
    
   
   
    
     seph Murphy, Eeq , J.P. Stranze to say, 
     
     the Liberal Government did not see the mat. 
     
     ter im the same hight as Mr Murphy did. 
     
     Tie said Joseph then urged his claims in 
     
     terms more forcible than polite but the Go-| 
     
     vernment, fur reasons best known to them- 
     
    
   
   
    
     CAP. V. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | An Act to assist Leaseholders in the purchase of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Fee-siinple of their Farms. — Passed 
     
     April 23, 1865 
     
    

    
     Whereas the creation and continuance of 
     
    

    
     Leasehold Tenures on Township Lands in this 
     
    
   
   
    
     and for the use of Her Majesty’s Governwent. 
     
     The first great objection to this measure is 
     
     that it leaves the tenant to negotiate his sale with 
     
     the proprietor. In the cases of wineteen tenarts | 
     
     out of twenty sales cannot be effected. The Pro-| 
     
     prietors, as a class, have a very decided objection | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tenant will ever again be able to borrew a pound 
     
     upon bis lease, unless he gives a guarantee that 
     
     he does not inteud to purchase with the Govern- 
     
     ment aid—and the loans already effected will be 
     
     sharply looked after, lest the Governuweut should 
     
     have a chauce of stepping iu aad waking the first 
     
    
   
   
    
     selves, refused to entertain the modest Jy-| Island, have tended to check the progress and to this mode of converting their estates into smal!) haul. 
     
    
   
   
    
     seph’s claims. These reasons, whatever they | 
     
     were, must have been pretty strony ones, fur 
     
     there Was not at that time a very plentifu! 
     
     supply of Justices of the Peace in those! 
     
     regivns. Ill-natured people say that if Ju- 
     
     eeph bad been at all eligible, the Government 
     
     must have yielded to his uneeasing im porta- | 
     
     nity. But ill-natured people are always: 
     
     eaying what they had'nt ought to. The 
     
     unambditious and unselfish Joseph, disgusted, | 
     
     nv doubt, with the obduracy and unappre- 
     
     cliative nature of the Government, and des- 
     
     pairing of attaining bis end by their means, 
     
     looked about him to find if there was no 
     
     other way of procuring the honours he co- 
     
     vetted than by supporting the liberal party. 
     
     A general election was at hand, and the as-| 
     
     tute Juseph saw that by selling his voce and| 
     
     interest to the Tories, he might purchase the | 
     
     Ieng-wished-ior honour. Now the said Jo- 
     
     sepii, your readers must know, is a Catholic ‘7 
     
     and for a Liberal and a Catholic to band! 
     
     himeelf with Tories and Orangemen — with | 
     
     the supporters of proprietors and the de-| 
     
     famers of the priesthood, was almost to unite! 
     
     religious with political apostacy. Stull Ju-| 
     
     sepl was ready to pay any price for the, 
     
     privilege of being called an E-quire. What 
     
     were his own principles, the honour of his! 
     
     clergy and the sacredness of his Ci.ureh but! 
     
     mere ideas — airy abstractions; but a seat! 
     
     among the magistrates and an efice under! 
     
     Government, these were real tangible goods 
     
     worth the sacrifice of any quantity of unsub- 
     
     stantial, unproductive notions. The bargain 
     
     was accordingly struck, and this i 
     
     mous * Spud’ showed his reverence tor his) 
     
     Chareh and bis sympathy for the tenantry | 
     
     by siding with the enemies of both in one of | 
     
     the most bitter contests that the I-land has} 
     
     yet seen. The apostate Joseph—({ had al-| 
     
     most written Jadas)—las received the wages) 
     
     of imiquity, and yet be still has the uablush-| 
     
     ing effrontery to hold up his head among| 
     
     honest people, and publicly to prate about 
     
     ambition and selfistiness. [ dont believe | 
     
     there can be found in the length and breadth 
     
     of the [sland a more ambitious and a more | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     eeliieh wortal than this same J sepl, and one | lawful money of this Island, per aere, and is de-| of the bad would be bought. The value of Go- 
     
    
   
   
    
     that would resort to dirtier means to attain 
     
     noy object he had set his heart uyon. 
     
     THAT'S ME. 
     
     Somewhere, April 27th, 1865. 
     
     fe 
     
     To THe Epitor or tue Examiner. 
     
    

    
     Sir :—The public Square of Georetown is 
     
     naturally a beautilul piece of ground, which 
     
     rises with # graceful slope from tue lower 
     
     tuwards the upper part of the town. Art 
     
     has yet done nothing to beautify it, for it is 
     
     at presentdishigured by three publichuildings 
     
     which any man of good taste and money 
     
     would, i sufficiently patriotic, pull down at 
     
     lis own expense, aod rebuild in a wore 
     
     pleasing and tasteful style of arc! itecture 
     
     Toe beautiful forest trees with whicle nature 
     
     firet adorned this plot of ground, have been 
     
     all destroyed, and in their place appears the 
     
     Ja:] and Coart House, which resew|les sume 
     
     Lunatic Asylum of the past century; the 
     
     Academy which appears to have been pitched 
     
     vo tu the Square, (probably located at the 
     
     whim of some local school trustee), with the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     sume regard for its position as is die played in 
     
     its absurd architectural proportions, or rather \ 
     
     in its want of all just proportion, as well as 
     
    
   
   
    
     retard the prosperity thereof, and it is deemed 
     
     expedient to aid and assist leaseholders in pur- 
     
     chasing the fee simple of their Farms from their 
     
     Proprietors or Landlords: 
     
    

    
     I. Be it theretere euacted by the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor, Ceancil and Assembly, as follows: I: 
     
    
   
   
    
     shail be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Counel, to authorize the issue of Goverument 
     
     Debentures, to an amount not exeeeding Fifty 
     
     thousand pounds, of lawful money of this Island, 
     
     in such form, and the priucipal and interest 
     
     whereof shail be payable at such periods and 
     
     places as he shall think fit, but bearing interest 
     
    
   
   
    
     | at the rate not exceeding six pounds per centum 
     
     | per annum, aud redeemable ata period not ex- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ceeding teu years trom the date of the issue; and 
     
     to advance the suin to be raised by the issue of 
     
     the said debentures as an aid by loans to any 
     
     leaseholders or tenants of Township lands, who 
     
     may be desirous of purchasing from their land- 
     
     lords the reversion in fee-simaple of their farms, 
     
     upon the terms and conditions contained in this 
     
     Act. 
     
     If. For the repayment of all sums of money 
     
     borrowed onder this Act, and the interest thereon, 
     
     the surplus woneys Which shall bereaiter cowe to 
     
     hand, arising from the sale of lands purchased 
     
     under this Act, and paid into the Treasury, shall, 
     
     io the first instance, be pledged and rendered 
     
     liable: and the other pubiic funds, moneys aid 
     
     securities of this Island shall be, and the same 
     
     are hereby in the next place, pledged and render- 
     
     ed liable, subject vevertheless to any prior line or 
     
     elaiin thereou by any debentures previcusly is- 
     
     sued by the Government of this Island. 
     
    

    
     LIL. Tie total amount of the aid which any 
     
    
   
   
    
     | leasebolder or tenant of township lands shall loa | 1t may be said that the tenant in making a bar- 
     
    
   
   
    
     from the Government shall not exceed one halt 
     
     the purchase mouey that he may have agreed to 
     
    
   
   
    
     uagnanl-| pay his landlord or proprietor for the purchase of | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the reversion in fee-simple ot his farm. 
     
     1V. No leaseholder or tenant shall be entitled 
     
    
   
   
    
     to any aid under the provisions of this Act, who | 
     
    
   
   
    
     shall enter into any agreement with his landlord 
     
     or proprietor to give more than sixteen shillings 
     
     and eight pence of lawtul money of this isiand, 
     
     per acce, tur the reversion in iee-simple of his 
     
     farm. 
     
    

    
     V. Every tenant or leaseholder of township 
     
    
   
   
    
     j lands, whe has entered inte an agreement with | likely that in any sale to a tenant they would ask 
     
    
   
   
    
     his proprietor er laudiord, for the purchase of the 
     
     reversion of lis fare in tee-siumple, at a rate not 
     
     exeeeding sixteen shillings and eight pence of 
     
    
   
   
    
     sirous of obtaining aud receiving aid or assistance 
     
    
   
   
    
     from the Government to the extent of net more | 
     
    
   
   
    
     than one moiety or equal half part of the said 
     
    
   
   
    
     purchase, shall make a written or printed appli-| clearly established at prices rauging from six 
     
     cation to that effect tou the Commissioner ot} shillings to twelve shillings and six pence — 
     
    
   
   
    
     Public Lande, 
     
     VI. Upon receipt of the said application, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Commissioner of Public Lauds shall cause the | ants generally are 
     
    
   
   
    
     title and value of the suid leaseholder or tenant, 
     
     aud that of his proprietor or landlord, to the said 
     
     farm, to be investigated. 
     
    

    
     VII. If, upon such investigation, the title and 
     
     value of the suid farm shall prove satisfactory, 
     
     the said leaseholder or tenant shall 1uiuediatel) 
     
     therealier pay oug moiety or equal balf part of 
     
     the said purchase money into the office of the 
     
     said Comuussioner of Public Lands. and, at the 
     
     same time, sigu and execute an assignment or 
     
     surrender uf his lease or agreements to the said 
     
     Comssioner of Public Lands, and his successors 
     
     in office, in the furm in the Schedule to this Aci 
     
     annexed, marked (A), or in such other form as 
     
     the said Commissioner of Public Lands sial! 
     
     direct. 
     
    

    
     VILL. The Commissioner of Public Lands shall, 
     
     upon receipt of the said mviety or equal half part 
     
     ot the said purchase money, aud the execution of 
     
    
   
   
    
     | (the latter being the highest charge)—that the 
     
    
   
   
    
     freeholds, because they know that by this mode | 
     
    
   
   
    
     jonly the best portions of their land would be | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘taken and the worst and most unprofitable would 
     
     | be left upon their bands. Besides, the trouble ov! 
     
     dealing with the tenants in their new character 
     
     | of intending freeholders, would be fully as great, 
     
    

    
     if not greater, than that which the landlords have 
     
     | to encounter in the collection of rents, while being 
     
     | less advantageous in a pecuniary point of view. 
     
     , [t would be more to the advantage of a proprietor 
     
     | to sell to the Government his lands — good, bad 
     
    
   
   
    
     | and indifferent—at seven shillings and six pence 
     
    
   
   
    
     an acre—which is the maximum price under the | 
     
     old Land Purchase Bill—and have all his money 
     
     paid down, or well secured by debentures, than 
     
     to get sixteen shillings and e:ght pence an acre 
     
     for an odd spot here and there, by parting with 
     
     which the value of the whole estate would be very 
     
     seriously impaired. 
     
    

    
     The second objection we have to the Act is in 
     
     regard to the price — sixteen shillings and eight 
     
     pence an acre. This is entirely too high a price, 
     
     and would be found to be very far beyond the 
     
     means of paying vn the part of any considerable 
     
     number of tenants — certainly very few tenants 
     
     ned be able to pay it in the terms which the 
     
     | Act prescribes as to the first part of the payment. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | gain with his landlord is not bound to give so 
     
    
   
   
    
     high a price as 16s. 8d. per acre,—he may get his 
     
     land very considerably under that figure, but he 
     
     | must not go beyond it if he would desire to secure 
     
     ithe Government help. This is true enough, se 
     
     | far as it goes; but there is nu mistaking this fact, 
     
     (that the mere mention of the 16s. 8d. is a plain 
     
     | intimation to the proprietors that such is a rea- 
     
     sonable charge for their lands. It is not at all 
     
    
   
   
    
     jless, as they would act upon th: principle of 
     
     making their good land pay for the bad, for none 
     
     } 
     
    

    
     | vernment lands on the Worrell and other estates 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the hands of the Government, has been so 
     
    
   
   
    
     unwilling to give a 
     
     higher price for their farms; and, indeed, we 
     
     caunot blame them for this unwillinguess. The 
     
     Government purchases have set a value upon 
     
     proprietors’ lands which all the legislation that 
     
     cau be attempted will not be able to alter. 
     
    

    
     Then, as to the payment of the first moiety. On 
     
     3 hundred acres the amount would be £41 13s. 4d. 
     
     How many tenants are there in the Colony who 
     
     could pay down that sum, together with the 
     
     rents which have accrued since 1858 — seven 
     
     years—amounting to, say, £45 6s.8d. more? We 
     
     will venture to assert that not one in a hundred 
     
     could doit. Thatsuperlative Legislative humbug, 
     
     kuown as the Fifteen Years Purchase Bill, pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the said assignment or surrender as aforesaid. 
     
     pay over to the said proprietor or landlord, by a 
     
     cheek or order on the Treasury of this Island, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     of all else that could wake it attractive aad| {| amount of the eaid purchase money so agreed | 
     
    
   
   
    
     pleasing to the ee. 
     
     defies all comparison. If you bave not se 
     
    
   
   
    
     it, L hope you never may; and then, Sr, you 
     
    
   
   
    
     may suppose that it has at least suwe of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     external, if not the mteroal m guisites of such 
     
     @ structure. 
     
     Now, Mr. Editor, I have been Jooking at 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bat the Market-house| 
     
    
   
   
    
     to be paid by the said leaseholder or tenant as 
     
     aforesaid, when and so soon as the said proprie 
     
    
   
   
    
     €O! tor or landiord shall duly execute a Deed of con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     veyauce of the reversion in fee-simple of the said | 
     
    
   
   
    
     farm to the said Coruniss wuer of Public Lands, | paying opie wen ee specdily abolished. We 
     
     and his successure in ofiice, upon the trusts, and | buow that the Chairwan of the famous Land Cow. 
     
     and | wission—that pretty plaything which the Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the intents and purposes of this Act; 
     
    
   
   
    
     which said deed of conveyance shail be in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     these non-deseript structures for some time) @*™ oF to the effect in the schedule to this Act 
     
    
   
   
    
     past, until f determined in my discontent to 
     
     take the next contract fur # public building 
     
     here, and erect one in an uspreved style that 
     
     wight be a credit to our community, and per- 
     
     pepe also cause the Georgetuniuns w pull 
     
    
   
   
    
     anuexed, marked (B), erin any other form which 
     
     the said Commissioner may think fit, or the cir- 
     
     cumstances of each egse way render beecssary ur 
     
     advisable; aud such deed of couveyauce shall be 
     
    
   
   
    
     good and vuiid in law aud equity, to vest the be required te pay, The tenantry have generally 
     
     legul estate aud feesimple in thy eaid Cuumis- taken the benefit of the declaration, and the Ten_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     eee ee 
     
    
   
   
    
     poses to cancel ouly the irrecoverable rents that 
     
     weve due prior to 1358. Since that date reuts 
     
     have generally been allowed to fall in arrear, be- 
     
     cause the Government policy, or the Government 
     
     cajolery, for the last six years, has been such as 
     
     to lead the people to believe that the rent- 
     
    
   
   
    
     meat dandled before the eyes of the tenantry tor 
     
     & considerable time—declared authoritatively in 
     
     : open Court that ove year’s rent from the first of 
     
     May, 1°58, would be all that the tenantry should 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     This, forsooth, is the Bull which is said to be ae 
     
     great boon to the tenantry. It proposes to ap- 
     
     propriate Fifty thousand pounds to their aid un 
     
     der the conditions we have very briefly referred 
     
     to. It might as well have proposed to expend a 
     
     inillion of pounds, for all the good that will come 
     
     of it. 
     
    

    
     soviet Hh tthe 
     
    

    
     THE Protestant, of Saturday, has returned te 
     
    

    
     the advertisement controversy. We have no 
     
    
   
   
    
     desire to pursue it any further. The smallness of 
     
    
   
   
    
     | the subject, and the meanness which has char- 
     
    
   
   
    
     acterised its discussions ip the columns of the 
     
     Protestant, are admirably suited to the intellect 
     
     of Mr. Donald Currie, to Whom Mr. Laird has 
     
     very unwisely lent his columns for the purpose of 
     
     traducing the Colonial Secretary, not thinking, 
     
     perhaps, that other persons would be included in 
     
     the clumsy misrepresentations of the discharged 
     
     clerk. We shall notice two palpable falsehoods :— 
     
    

    
     Ist. “ We have it on good authority that ad- 
     
     vertisements have been certified by some of the 
     
     departments as service performed, and at the 
     
     same time they were never ‘ expressly ordered’ 
     
     by these departments.” 
     
    

    
     Here we have a clear, unmitigated falsehood. 
     
     We deny most positively that any advertise- 
     
     menta have been certified, and not “ expressly 
     
     We dare and defy the Protestant to 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ordered.” 
     
     produce his “ good authority,” or the smallest 
     
     particle of evidence to support the lying assertion 
     
     Donald Currie has imposed upon 
     
     Mr. Laird with a mischievous Lig in reference 
     
     to a small affair; but small as it is, it disgraces 
     
    
   
   
    
     above quoted, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the paper in which it appears. Now, we repeat 
     
     that the statement above quoted is a most de- 
     
     liberate and malicious Lig, and the writer knew 
     
     when he penned it that he had not an atom of 
     
     proof to support it. 
     
    

    
     The second false assertion we shall notice is the 
     
     following :— 
     
    

    
     “Mr. Whelan admits that he received £32 18s. 
     
     for Government advertising in about twelve 
     
     months,” 
     
    

    
     Mr. Whelan never made any such admission at 
     
     We defy the Protestant 
     
     lo reproduce the words that convey the aduiissiun. 
     
     it is a melancholy thing to see a professedly reli- 
     
     gious paper dealing so recklessly in small false- 
     
     hoods of this kind, that could not posssibly serve 
     
     its interests in any way, and that, as its editor 
     
     must have known, would be surely exposed. We 
     
     believe Mr. Laird to bea moral and righteous 
     
     man, and a keen one withal; and therefore are 
     
     we astunished that he should allow a perverse, 
     
     empty fool hke Currie te spoil the religious cha- 
     
     racter of his paper by the publication of dcli- 
     
     berate falsehouds. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One more quotation from the Protestant, and 
     
     we shall be done with this matter :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     any time, iu any place 
     
    
   
   
    
     “It is not true that Mr. Laird * had the sale of 
     
     the immense supply vf school books taken from 
     
     Mrs. Stamper, wilhout a fault being found with 
     
     her, and given him.’ No school books were ever 
     
     taken from Mrs. Stamper and given to Mr Laird; 
     
     he and his partner seli school books imported by 
     
     themselves, and have net, and never bad, any 
     
     Government books in their possession, except a 
     
    
   
   
    
     few of a kind that are rarely ever called for.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     We have italicised the last line of the foregoing 
     
     extract asa fine specimen of English composition 
     
     “ Rarely ever called for!” Heaven bless us! what 
     
     does it mean? But mark the disingenousness of 
     
     the writer of the foregoing extract. He wants 
     
     tu make it appear that we said school books 
     
     were taken from Mrs. Stamper by the Govern- 
     
     ment to be sold by Messrs. Laird & Harvie. We 
     
     said nothing of the kind, and the words quoted from 
     
    
   
   
    
     Several parties in St. John who bad freight 
     
     yn board, have lust considerable. Messrs 
     
     Noble, Littledale and Coram had consider- 
     
     able quantities of tish—the former $1,000 
     
     worth. A Mr. Fiavin, in Portland, tad on 
     
     hoard a large quantity of sheepskins. Mr 
     
     Bradly, the photograph artist, recently con- 
     
     verted all his property here into American 
     
     bonds, and last night, as he was going to re- 
     
     weve to the United States this morning, he 
     
     placed this in a small trunk with some furni- 
     
     ture, ete, on board the boat; of course he has 
     
     lost all—several thousands of dollars worth. 
     
     Several of the crew, including the mate 
     
     who escaped, were severely burned.—Si 
     
     John Globe. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ANOTHER MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—THREE MORE 
     
     LIVES Lost. 
     
     On Thursday morning, April 27, a party 
     
     comprising the following gentlemen left the 
     
     city to visit the country in the vicinity of 
     
     Lake Lomond, viz:—Captain James R. Me- 
     
     Lean, Shipping Master of the port; Captain 
     
     Thompson, ship Columia, Dr. Rathbotham, 
     
     of the same vessel; Captain George, ship 
     
     Hemisphere, Captain Coullard, of New York ; 
     
     Captain Mortimer, ship America; Captain 
     
     Woodward, ship American Congress. Alter 
     
     enjoying the scenery of the Lakes, and waile 
     
     awaiting dinner at Mr. Bunker's, the party 
     
     were joined by Sherif Harding, who had 
     
     been visiting the upper part of the Lake. It 
     
     was proposed by Captain McLean that they 
     
     should have a row on the Lake near the hotel. 
     
     Six of the gentlemen got into a lerge boat, 
     
     and the Sheriff, with Captain Coullard, into 
     
     awherry. The boats had reached a point 
     
     about midway between Donaldson's point 
     
     and Jordan's, when, ina consequence of a 
     
     change of seats between parties in the larger 
     
     boat, it capsized. and all hands were precipi- 
     
     tated into the water. 
     
     Two of the party, Captain Mortimer and 
     
     Dr. Rathbotham, swam to the small boat, 
     
     and were towed ashere by Captain Thompsun 
     
     who had exchanged boats with the Sheriff 
     
     and Captain Coullard. The other five per- 
     
     sons clung to the boat for aconsiderable time, 
     
     but eventuaily Captain George getting tan- 
     
     gled in the fishing gear of the larger boat, 
     
     dropped his hold and wasdrowned. A short 
     
     time after, Captain McLean, overcome by 
     
     exhaustion, went down without a struggle. 
     
     The next to go was Captain Coullard, who, 
     
     although apparently in a secure position on 
     
     the bottom of the boat, in attempting to bet 
     
     ter his position, caused the boat to roll over | 
     
     and also went down never to rise again alive. 
     
     When the boat righted again Sheriff Hard- 
     
     ing and Captain Woodworth came up on op- 
     
     posite sides, and kept it upright. In the 
     
     meantime Mr. George Stymast and Mr. Rob- 
     
     ert Grozier, having arrived from the city, 
     
     caught sight of the drowning men and put 
     
     off to their rescue, which was successfully ac- 
     
     complished, but not a moment tov soon. 
     
     Both the Sheritf and Captain Woodward 
     
     were nearly exhausted, but nothing serious 
     
     was to be apprehended on their account. 
     
     he late hour at which we received intelli- 
     
     gence of the accident prevents fuller details 
     
     in this issue.—S¢. John Telegraph. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A late New Brunswick paper, speaking of 
     
     Railway extension, says:— We are reliably in- 
     
     formed that Mr. Livesey, who represeats British 
     
     capitalists, is on his way back from England, 
     
     having completed arrangements to accept the 
     
     proposals of the Nova Scotian Government for 
     
     exteusion of railways trom Windsor to Anuapelis, 
     
     and froin Truro to the New Brunswick frontier; 
     
     and from thence to the New Brunswick live, by 
     
     way ef Dorchester, uuder the subsidy act of our 
     
     Legislature. The work is tv bs commenced ins-| 
     
    

    
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     mediately, and pushed on with despatch.” We 
     
     hope the above will prove correct. | 
     
     ; 
     
    

    
     —en 
     
    

    
     Phe steamer New England, destroyed by fire | 
     
     while lying at her wharf in St. John. was valued 
     
     at $200,000, and was insured for $75,500. 
     
     ae 
     
    

    
     Hon. Mr. Swith has announced in the New 
     
     Brunswick Legislature that it is the inteution of 
     
     the Governinent to bring iu a bill to abolish the 
     
     office of Postmaster General as a political office. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     r 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Small pox has made its appearance in St. Joba, 
     
     ei y Two cases have been sent to Partridge | 
     
     slau 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | had declined Coufederate bonds to 17 a. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NOVA SCOTIA. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Tur Legislature of this Province was proregued 
     
     on the 2nd instant. His Excellency the Lieut. | 
     
     Governor makes, in his speech, the following al- 
     
     lusion to the way in which the question ef Con- 
     
     federation was disposed of :— 
     
    

    
     “The action taken by New Brunswick early 
     
     in the Session apparently placed a decision on the 
     
     question of a general Confederation of British 
     
     North America, to which at the opening of the 
     
     Session I had invited your attention, under the 
     
     the disadvantage of leading to no immediate prac- 
     
     tical result. Iam confident that otherwise you 
     
     would have felt it your daty to have fully dis- 
     
     cussed that most important and interesting ques- 
     
     tion, with an earnest desire to meet the views of 
     
     Her Majesty’s Government, in every way com- 
     
     patible with the wishes and interests of this 
     
     Province.” 
     
    

    
     His Excellency then refers to the proposal for 
     
     reconsidering the question of a Legislative Union 
     
     of the Maritime Proviuees; and it appears that 
     
     a Conference will be solicited for that purpose. 
     
     But in the present undecided state of the larger 
     
     question, we do not see how the smaller one can 
     
     be enteitained. His Excellency says:— 
     
     “Under the impression, therefore, that the 
     
     above circumstances, over Which you could have 
     
     exercised no control, bad for a time precluded 
     
     any useful consideration of the larger question, 
     
     you have meantime reverted to the project of a 
     
     Unien of the Maritime Provinces, and reiterated 
     
     your opinion of last Session as to the expediency 
     
     of appointing Representatives of this Province to 
     
     conter thereon. I shall have much pleasure in 
     
     transmitting that resolution to the Lieut. Gover- 
     
     nors of the adjacent Provinces.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     DisTRessING ACCIDENT.—We learn from the 
     
     Picton Standard that a distressing accident oc- 
     
     curred at New Glasgow on Thursday last, which 
     
     resulted in the death of Mr. James Forbes, a res- 
     
     pectable mbabitant of that place. It appears 
     
     that the deceased was going out to his field, in 
     
     rear of the village, with a horse and cart contain- 
     
     ing a plough. He was shortly afterwards found 
     
     lying dead near a gate-way, the cart being upset, 
     
     and the horse thrown down and resting on the 
     
     body of the deceased. No person witnessed the 
     
     vecurrence ef the melancholy accideot, but it is 
     
     probable that the cart was upset either by eoming 
     
     in Contact with the post of the gate, or one of the 
     
     wheels sinking in a deep rut, and that the de- 
     
     ceased was thrown violently to the ground, falling 
     
     on his head, as, after examination, it was found 
     
     that his neck bad been broken.—Halifax Morning 
     
     Chronicle. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     CANADA. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Hon. T. D. McGee, appointed to represent 
     
     Canada at the Dublin Exhibition, took his depar. 
     
     ture for Ireland a few days ago by the Steamship 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Moravian at Portland. Previous to leaving Mon- 
     
     treal, an address, got up quite hurriedly, but signed 
     
     by a large number of persons, was presented to 
     
     the bon. gentleman, expressing the satisfaction 
     
     felt by them and all classes in Montreal that Canada 
     
     should be so fitly represented at the Dublin Ex- 
     
     hibition. It added: “ We are glad to feel and 
     
     to ackuowledge that here men of all eountries and 
     
     creeds way join in wishing you, who have done so 
     
     much to prowote the welfare and prosperity. aud 
     
     foster the growing manufacturmyg and agricultural 
     
     interests of Canada, a hearty God-speed in your 
     
     mission. 
     
    
   
   
    
     brethren of the mother country teelings of cordial 
     
     amity and our good will.” 
     
     seemed to be deeply affected at this unexpected 
     
     mark of public esteem, briefly replied to the effect, 
     
     that the demonstration, however grateful, was 
     
     unexpected. He was about to proceed to the 
     
     country of bis birth on private and public business, 
     
    
   
   
    
     uo exertions to piace the land of his adoption in 
     
     a proper position before the people of the land of 
     
     his birth. While his colleagues in England were 
     
     advecating the cause of Canada in the negotia- 
     
     tions with the ministers of the Empire, he would 
     
     be dving his best to place its resources and advan- 
     
     tages ma proper light betore the people. In 
     
     conelusion, he teudered them his cordial and sin- 
     
     cere thanks for their hearty and expressive 
     
     demonstration of their good will Mr. McGee 
     
     was repeatedly cheere< in the course of bis reply, 
     
     aod then bad to go through a severe ordeal of 
     
     band-shaKing, which was speedily cut short by 
     
     the cry of “all aboard,” the band playing “ God 
     
     save the Queen” as the train roiled out of the 
     
     station, annd the * God-speeds,” ‘ boas voyages,” 
     
     and cheers of the spectators, 
     
    

    
     Canadian papers say that navigation on the St 
     
     Lawrence is now fairly open, aud the wharves ai | 
     
     Quebec have asenmed their wonted activity. 
     
    

    
     eae NS So — _ —_ | 
     
    
   
   
    
     GEN LER'’s ARRIVAL IN RICHMOND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Richmend of the New 
     
     York Herald gives the following deseription of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     correspondent 
     
    
   
   
    
     arrival ef Gen. Lee in that city :-— 
     
    

    
     “Gen. Robert E. Lee, lately commanding the 
     
     rebel armies, actually arrived in Richmond yes- 
     
     terday aflernoon, at half-past three o'clock. The 
     
     first intimation of the arrival of the Gen. was the 
     
     call made upon Lieut. H. 8. Merril, Post Quar- 
     
     termaster in Richmond, for forage and stabling 
     
     tor Lwenty horses in behalf of Gen. Lee — shortly 
     
     after 3 e' clock General Lee arrived on the pon- 
     
     toon bridge that spans the James between Rich- 
     
     mond and Manchester, an opposite town. Here 
     
     an lumense crowd had collected to reeeive him. 
     
     aud he was greeted with cheers upon cheers, the 
     
     acclamations of the people, so generously and 
     
     heartily bestowed, visibly affected him. When- 
     
     ever he passed Union officers they raised their 
     
     caps in recognition of his great genins, no less 
     
    
   
   
    
     ginia. As he proceeded along the streets to his 
     
     residence in Franklin street the crowd increased 
     
     in numbers, aud the cheers grew louder. 
     
    

    
     * The General was accompanied by five mem- 
     
     bers of his staff, Gen. Lee and all wearing swords, 
     
     As he dismounted ft his residence, the thousands 
     
     of people who surrounded him again greeted hiw 
     
     with acclamations, and so many as could get near 
     
     his person shook him heartily by the hand. One 
     
     rebel officer, failing to catch his hand, seized him 
     
     by the extremities of his coat. The good feeling 
     
     in relation to General Lee was common to both 
     
     Unionists and rebels, aud was fully shared in by 
     
     all. 
     
    

    
     “General Lee looked exceedingly robust, and 
     
     is certainly a most splendid specimen of a seldier 
     
     and gentleman, with fair forehead. grey hair, 
     
     bronzed countenance and military beard. He 
     
     will doubtless see the military dignitaries here, 
     
     quietly, before he leaves the city again—the tak- 
     
     ing place of which later event is not now positive 
     
     ly known.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, 
     
    
   
   
    
     FROM EUROPE. 
     
    

    
     New York, May 2, p. m.—Steamship Scotia, 
     
     with Liverpoul dates to 23rd April, arrived .... 
     
     Political news unimportant... .. The belief gained 
     
     ground in England, that the rebellion was crush- 
     
     ed. 58s Breadstuffs and Provisions quict..... Con- 
     
     suls 9U§ a 91 for money. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. McGee, who 
     
    
   
   
    
     than his regard for truth and consistency in refus- | 
     
     ing to draw his sword outside of his native Vir- | 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     passed New Orleans where her machinery got ont 
     
     of order and she was deserted and blown up. It 
     
     is supposed she had a large amount of specie and 
     
     plunder on board—intended to reach Cuba... 
     
     Gold 1404. 
     
    

    
     New Yor«, May 2, p. m.—A Washington dog 
     
     pateh says the President is preparing a Proclama 
     
     tien, declaring all vessels sailing under the Con 
     
     tederate flag as pirates. They are to be purened 
     
     and the crews, it captured, hung.....Gold 149. 
     
    

    
     New YoOrK, May 3.— Advices from the South 
     
     West report the surrender of the Confederate 
     
     Gens. Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor. This leaves 
     
     Ho important Confederate force in the field... 
     
     The Government is said te have information that 
     
     800 conspirators are banded together for the pur. 
     
     pose of burning Philadelphia and other Northern 
     
     cities. Several arrests have been made... 
     
     Confederate iron-clad Webb received 17 
     
     selid shot through her bows while ranning 
     
     the Federal war vessels. She was comm 
     
     by Reid, formerly commander of the Contederate 
     
     steamer Taconey, who was captured with 64 of 
     
     his men...-- The remains of President Lineolg 
     
     reached Springfield, Lil., to day. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Yoru, May 3, Pp. m.—Fon. BR. Burton, 
     
     of Albany, was killed by an assassin at hia resi- 
     
     dence this a. m..... A despatch from Washing- 
     
     ton says General Wright, with the 9th corps of 
     
     the Army of the Potomae, arrived at Danville, 
     
     Va., from Burkesville Junction last Thursday, 
     
     having made a march of over 100 miles in four 
     
     days. Ou the route, and at Danville, he captured 
     
     a large amount of valuable property, ineluding 
     
     much railroad running stock and machinery, 
     
     taken from the Government works at Harper's 
     
     Ferry by the Confederates... .. Gold 141, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     On Sunday, the 30th April, as William Larkin 
     
     and Patrick Heafy, of Bay Fortune Road, were 
     
     looking for some cows in the woods between 
     
     Larkin’s Honse and Dingwell’s Mills, they found 
     
     part of the bones of a human bedy — head and 
     
     shoulder blades—and the remains of sume cloth- 
     
     ing. It is supposed to be the remains of an old 
     
     feeble man named Michael Ryan, formerly of 
     
     Souris, who has been missing nearly two years, 
     
     and no tidings could be obtained of him. Hie 
     
     age was supposed to be about 80 years. They 
     
     collected the bones in a box, which_they interred 
     
     where they found them. ‘There are some daugh- 
     
     ters of his residing in Charlottetown, and twe 
     
     sons in the States or New Brunswick. It is 
     
     thought that the bears or foxes must have taken 
     
     Exhaustion seems 
     
     He was from the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     away all the rest of his bones. 
     
     to be the cause of his death. 
     
     Co. Waterford, Ireland. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CITY AFFAIRS. 
     
     {Reported for the Examiner J 
     
    

    
     Report of proceedings of a meeting of the City 
     
     | Conncil, beld on Saturday last, the 29th April. 
     
     His Worship the Mayor in the chair. Minutes 
     
     lof last meeting were read by the Clerk and 
     
     adopted. Said minutes referred, among other 
     
     matters, to a resolution authorizing the City Sur- 
     
     veyor to have a platform erected, without delay, 
     
     in front of the premises vecupied by T. O'Con- 
     
     nell, on Queen Street. 
     
    

    
     In compliance with a resolution passed at a 
     
     previous meeting of the City Council, to the ef 
     
     fect that the Recorder should submst, ia writing, 
     
     a Report relative to the encroachments on the 
     
     j shore of the harbor, in trent of the lotsa sold b 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     4nd we know that, should oceasion | the local government, under the Act 26th Vie, 
     
     offer, you will not fail to reciproeate with our | C#P- © intituled * An Act to authorize the Go- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vernor to sell the Military Barracks in Charlotte. 
     
     town,” His Honor the Recorder read a report 
     
     ewbracing his opinion on that subjeet, to the fol. 
     
     lowiug effeet, viz:— 
     
    

    
     Ist. That the Act by virtue of which the lots 
     
     adjoining the harbor of Charlottetown were sold, 
     
     [doves not authorize the purchasers of those Lets 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     and they could rely wpon it that he would spare | to extend their buildings er erections beyond the 
     
    
   
   
    
     limits there stated, that is, beyond the breast- 
     
     ‘| work. 
     
    

    
     2ud. That by the memerandaom of agreement 
     
     made between His Exceilency the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor and the purchasers, the lots in questiou 
     
     are bounded by the breastwork. 
     
    

    
     3rd. That the Government were not authorized 
     
     to make grants or leases of the shere in front of 
     
     Charlottetown proper, and eonsequently that 
     
     | Col. Gray, a8 the leader of the Government, woe 
     
     not justified in authorizing the purchasers in 
     
     question to badd er make erections, either tem- 
     
     porary or permanently, beyond the said breast- 
     
     work. 
     
    

    
     4th. That the shere in front of Charlottetown 
     
     proper is, by Act 25th Vietoria, cap. 19, virtually 
     
     vested in the city. 
     
    

    
     The learned Recorder, therefore, under these 
     
     circumstances, was of opinion that it was the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (duty of the City Council to take the proper steps 
     
    
   
   
    
     to have these obstructions alluded to im his report 
     
     removed. That, however, be said, would be a 
     
     matter of serieus consideration; and as these 
     
     }cucreachments appeared to have kad the sanction, 
     
     for quasi sanction, of the Government, it might be 
     
     {considered a niatter ef courtesy te communicate 
     
     jwith the Executive Government before having 
     
     recourse to the intervention of a Court of Law. 
     
     A short debate then followed, during which 
     
     Councillors Morris, Reddin, Theo. Desbrisay, 
     
     } Alex. Brown and W. E. Dawson, addressed the 
     
     Civic Board, on the subject of the report before 
     
     them. After which, on motion ef Conncillor 
     
     | Theo. DesBrisay, the following Resolution relative 
     
     jto the watter, was inanimously adopted, viz: — 
     
    
   
   
    
     “That the Recorder be direeted to give notice 
     
     to the purchasers of Jots, formerly the Barrack 
     
     | Square property, who are erecting breastworks 
     
     | opposite their purchases, to remove the same, and 
     
     ito desist from making any further erections 
     
     } thereon.” 
     
    

    
     Councillor J. 1. Gates directed the attention of 
     
     | the Board to encroachments of asimilar Character, 
     
     jin front of properties between Cut-street and Gu- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | vernor’s Bridge, and said the owners of such 
     
     | properties should be notified as well as those 
     
     |owning barrack lots. 
     
    

    
     His honor the Recorder then explained at con- 
     
     siderable Jength the extent and nature of the 
     
     privileges of parties owning lots fronting on the 
     
     water; and also the right of the public, which, he 
     
     said, should be guarded against the obstructions 
     
     created by private indi: iduals. 
     
    

    
     The City Clerk then read a communication from 
     
     Mr. Silas Barnard, the lessee of the City Wharves, 
     
     applying for an extension of the lease for Queen's 
     
     Wherf, with the view of enabling the Boston 
     
     Steamboat Company to make further impreve- 
     
     ments on said wharf. On motion of Councillor 
     
     W.E. Dawson, Mr. Barnard’s letter was referred 
     
     to a special committee te report Uaereen. 
     
    

    
     Ceuncillor Theo. DesBrisay then ealled the 
     
     attention of the Board to the grant of £1000 nado 
     
     by the Legislature towards the erection of a new 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Market House. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The necessity of immediate action on that im 
     
     portant subject was then very generally expressed 
     
     by several mewbers of the Couneil Board: and 
     
     the difficulty of deciding on a proper site for the 
     
     building of said market house engaged their 
     
     serious consideration. Several localities were 
     
     uamed for that purpose, against all of which ob- 
     
     jections were offered, The propriety of calling a 
     
     publie meeting of the citizens was also suggested, 
     
     with the view of arriving at the most desirable 
     
     conclusion tunching that very impoftant point. 
     
    

    
     During the desultory discussion on that subject, 
     
     several pluus formerly obtained were laid ou the 
     
     table. Among those,a model ona large sca'e, 
     
     prepared some two or three years since, by Mr. 
     
     Silas Barnard) That model was a market house 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     FROM THE STATES. 
     
    

    
     New York, Ist.—The “ City of London,” at 
     
     this port, and *‘Peravian,” at Farther Point, have 
     
     Liverpool dates to the 21st... . Fall of Richmond | 
     
     United 
     
     States securities had advanced five to seven per | 
     
     eRt ine The Czarowitch of Russia was danger-| 
     
     ously ill..... Sales of cotton for the week 68,000 
     
     bales. Market opened at Il to 14d. lower, but the 
     
     decline was partially recovered... .. Flour dull, 
     
     and tending downward) Wheat and corn firm at 
     
    
   
   
    
     a slight advance eines Provisions inactive. Con- 
     
     sols 904 to 903 for money...-. A Washington des- 
     
    
   
   
    
     patch says. the U. S. Consul General in Canada 
     
     has notified the authorities that all the criminals 
     
     connected with the assassination of President 
     
     Lincoln must be surrendered up....- Jobason’s 
     
     army, surrendered to Sherman, numbers 27,500, 
     
     including Beauregard and wany other high officers, 
     
     ----Gold 145. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Ist, P M—In view of the fact 
     
     that the rebel ram‘ Stenewail”’ is afluat, and 
     
     supposed to be making ber way to this coast, the 
     
     Government has made preparations to receive het 
     
     by placing iron-clads in our harbors, The “ Ro- 
     
     ancke” aud other ron-clads, besides a torpedo 
     
     boat, are in readiness in this harbor..... The 
     
     Tribune’s Washington despatch says: Harrold 
     
     has made a voluminous confession... .. It hav been 
     
     ascertained that Jeff. Davis and party have not less 
     
     than $300,000 in specie with them. .... There isa 
     
     rumour that Davis and others of the bogus Con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     i miniature, 160 feet long, 45 feet wide, andtwo 
     
     slories high, besides the cellerage—and Was ine 
     
     tended to be erected oa Queen Square—one end 
     
     trouting on Queen Street, and the other (iowards 
     
     the Colonial Building. A building constructed of 
     
     wood in accordance with that model, it was 
     
     estimated, could be well finished at a cost of 
     
     about £1,500. , 
     
    

    
     On motion of Councillor Theo, Desbrisay, the 
     
     following gentlemen were then appointed to take 
     
     the subject of selecting a proper site for a new 
     
     market house into consideration, and report 
     
     thereon at the next meeting of Council, viz:— 
     
     ‘ ouncillors Thee. Desbrisay, W. E. Dawson, 
     
     James Reddin, Alex. Brown and John Morris. 
     
    

    
     After the transaction of some routine business, 
     
     his Worship the Mayor adjourned the meeting. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Letters which have been received in Mad- 
     
     rid from St. Domingo represent the state of 
     
     the Spanish army in that island as most de- 
     
     plorable. Disease is almost decimating the 
     
     wretched remains of the Spanish forces, and 
     
     the insurgents, taking advantage of the con- 
     
     dition of the army, have succeeded in inflict- 
     
     ing fearful punishment on the already w 
     
     ranks. The accounts justreceived, however, 
     
     contain a new feutare in this sanguinary 
     
     conflict. Discouraged by the fearful effects 
     
     of the climate, by the indifference or ob- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     federacy huve been captured .... $260,000 re- 
     
     ward is offered for the arrest of any accomplice | 
     
     of Booth... .. Gold 1414 } 
     
     New Yorw, 2nd May.—Advices from Raleigh | 
     
     N. C., state that the Army of Tennessee and | 
     
     the army of Georgia, (Sherman's veterans, ) will | 
     
     take up the line of mareL for Washington about 
     
     the first of May. The corps would remain to! 
     
     garrison the cities captured. The Army of the | 
     
     Potowac is also expected to proceed to Washing- 
     
     OO cos It is expected that the Federal mil.tary 
     
     force will shortly be reduced to 100,000 men... . 
     
     The wilitary Commission 18 engaged in investi-| 
     
     gating the assassination of the President. A large | 
     
     number of arrests have been made, Proceedings 
     
     private... . The iron-clad rebel ram Webb pro. | 
     
     ceeded down the Mississippi from Red Raver, and, 
     
    
   
   
    
     stinacy of the Government at home, and by 
     
     their imability to suppress the insurrection, 
     
     the Spanish troops are deserting in large 
     
     numbers and joining the ranks of the Do- 
     
     minicans. 
     
     eanhecontioliMiimese th ta 
     
    

    
     DisarreaRance or 4 Mounrain.—The Guor- 
     
     nale dt Siclia of Palermo states that a few 
     
     days ago a solitary mountain near Motta St. 
     
     Anastasia, in the district of Sieli, suddenly 
     
     sank down to the level of the plain, leaving 
     
     no trace behind except a few trees which 
     
     stood on its top, and are still partly visible. 
     
     This strange phenomenon is attributed to the 
     
     voleanie action of Mount Altna, though the 
     
     distance is considerable.