<a ae a a Se aT —_——-+ = -- o-~ TUK PICTOU RAILWAY. And eo this hopefal en as a fixed fact, Aftersh away in worse.tban idle sense pl lie eountry. has ight to have Been taken ed atthe very in mm this provitiee, Withoukl & moment tion, but which a policy htthe dese tha raicida§ has so-leng: permitted to slumber, is about to be.awakened into active aud pro- , ; ‘ < ) : fitable existence. As ham frequently been mensely gratified by the semi-sayage ** buimp- Examiner, and upon reading it he ean dycidey remarked through the co mans ot this |, | tiousness '’ of the defiant secretary's in- | whether the Judgment should be aflirmed or the ratiread to eed ee to ‘ha oe.) timations that if. England could not stop refused, ; ceded that to Windsor by many years. Toe }the privateers America would find means to As yet there have been no important pro- | tortuer is one of wise td the Prowitice at make her. The defiant secretary was thought ceediags transacted in the Legislature during | large, the : ; venvence to an inconsiderable section of the | Tashly bellicose, bat the peopie easily oardon | une bonourable member has been quite suc- | western eyunties. So long eypce as thirty ) a faalt in that direction ; j vessful in procuring the enactment of @ sta- years, men of sound judg went “declared that ** Undiplematic,’’ * bellicose ?°’ not the | tute relating to the destruction of tiger cats | & Tine of railway to Pictou would prove a least in the world. Mr. Seward aot only |—a species of the wolf animal, paying, if not profitable, investment to any SW his way olear around the corner before means friendly to sheep and lambs. The ar-| parties baving sufficient evterprise to embark he set his legend on the Downing street door, guments employed in support of this ren in soch an und ing. but, seeing his way clear, went with all)| Ll need not reer to or Comment upon, but it wass howevgr, the misfortune of the same accunimodating. secretary to floor an nary steps were irregular. The question of, English oppesitisn by stating publicly that guilt or inpocence was, of course, nut examin- | Mr. Séward bad newer uttéred any threats as ed, to what Would follow if England fuiled to apprehension are issued against tho relensed prevent the rebel privateers from sailing out | men;. but they have already dissappeared vi English ports, and by adding taat the from the city, probably from the provinee. ‘pian. ul ralenged American ninisterdid not dare to utter any | The judgwent in appeal is regarded by all s bevita: | Such threats. | parties as a most able and impartial dictum, Here in America we had been edified with and ts shortly to be published in pamphlet Mr. Seward's ** great swelling words’? on | torm. L shall have the pleasure of sending a orprise isas good fog years irittered | ialk, the common prevarled. Wht io hat and wee eomMy SI ” there at all! He waited ull England had LL PT ET FEE I TY It is said that new warrants for their! decks, if not their bacon, will be this theme. The popular feeling was im-| copy of this publication to the Editor of the|sball bring my present letter to a close. st ® mere public con.) 4 little undiplomatic, certainly, and uluost the progress of the present sedion—thuugh | science of even having committed anything and by no}, celerity around the corner, and set no legend | have ro doubt they were characterised by | years, cowe within the vengeance of the out- | —————————— bailiffs, constables,&e, will be taught, by pub- | Mdward Island Bavk Act—a Bill to restrict the lic example, that the safest way to save their) payment of silver as a legal tender to the to keep OF amount of six pounds—and a Bill relating to the western side of the County line, ee Anchorage dutiea—were the only measures, we 7? hey at panengoiown - opts a believe, discussed in the House during the past their own and other peaple’s business, accord) adh tose aie a eal ing to their own peculiar potions of mecep | Weck +. ane, Re suseme upon ™ - and suum. tame and uninteresting. We think the inhabi- Having said thus mach coneerning the! tants of Prince Edward Island might dispense administration of justice in Georgetown, © | vith the whole of them without any disadvantage must express a hope here, that the Vigilance {to their interests, Some petitions were presented, Committee at Georgetown are all men—like ‘dnd the usual papers and documents relating: to the Col. Secretary —of clean bands, whv can | public affairs were brought down by members of turn their mental gaze inwards upon then- | Government. Since the debate en the Address in selves, without being convicted by their coa+ ‘answer to the Governor's Speech, the Session, 80 ‘tar, has been entirely devoid of political interest. worthy of stripes. ee oe ‘$ OF THE DEBATES Your meee RIDDLER. | NOTES OF ee 4 a 0, 3. Qneen’s County, 31st Mareh, 1864. P.S. It is charitably to be hoped that) Capt. B. may not, during the next twenty, Arrears oF THE QuIT RENTS. The opinions of the Hon. Mr. Coles on this question, as enunciated by him, in the course of a _—— | Ri ;-| tablish such Court ipon, that having established the candi- refusal to establixh such Court, and a 4 we S + dno ‘the punctual payment ¢ all of the Act spyeeation wa the results vwunee ‘unredeemed Quit Reuts gught be rigorously Vhe House of Assembly iragain Petitionsd the exacted’; and that it will obviously be urgently | Throne, in 1836, for the establiehment of » ‘necessary, in justice to the weneral interests of the Conary of Excheat, which application was cleo refused [ Province, to the service of whieh the Revenues communicating this refasal, the Right Horor from this sonrrce wouid be applied; and in order to [rd Glenely recommended that a penal Tax upon prevent defaulters from deriving advantages by wilderness land should be substituted, their irregularity, from which those who daly | _* Your Committee would farther that as fulfil their engagements would be perctapes. ow J lain, the tax the collection of Quit rome will be . rdj during the continnance of the Act collection of these rents sh heneeforwa REL the Memeriaiietn® Four Shillings, Currency, per 1 ness lands, will ut the present rate of Sth. Hon. Mr. Coles then proceeded to shew | ou jiy exceed the amount wo whieh there | otherwise be liable by abunt Eight pence that Mr. G. R. Young, in a letter addressed to 5 . . res; and as the max tax Lord Glenelg, and bearing date 4th April, 1938, eel ~ pe gre a cael xt Fon a attempted to controvert the view taken in Mr. | the enlelaneme tax of Two aie Curre . , Spearman’s letter of the 19th March, 1838, in re-) operate us a bounty en Improvement, whieh is by wain object of the Act in question.” ’ gard to the interpretation of the terms offered by | “That views enunciated by the Hon the Karl of Ripon, in 1833, for the commutation | Coles aio a of Ca ae . ‘ut the Quit Rents in Privee Edward Isiand; that acid correct, must, we think, be quite otal Lord Glenelg referred the statements and argu- | te on . am capable of forming 7 ments advanced by Mr. Young in his said letter | ib Ti The Quit Rents were to the Lords Commissiouers of the: Treasury ; | they might forum a special revenue to be and that Mr. Spearman as directed by their |. ; : rtherance of the general interests Lordships, returned the following answer, duted | ™ he of thy of the be strictly enforced,” J (Sigued) “A. Y. Spearman. weres, on wilder. people of Nova Seotiawo bave toeir attention eliverted from what eould at any time have checked the privateers, then wrote out the |great ability and extent of information. raged young chieftain. The tomahawk, ecalp-, This session has been signalized, too, by 10-| jng knife and eel-skins of the [ndian are | the Debate on the Draft Answer to His Excellen- “ Treasury Chambers, 23rd July, 1838": been accomplished, withia theaselves, to a dreadful things he wouid do if she tailed to} dulgence in offensive personalities. giganticecl.eme, the accomplishment of which check thei, und then sent his * perilous! Majesty’s Attorney General pas, so far, car-) t 38 beyond the ability of even the combined parchment * to Mr. Adams, and Mr. Adams | ried off the first prize, io this department of | resources of the whole of the British North | kept the same ino his pocket, judging it, says | Legislation. American Provioces. The intercoionial Rail- Earl Russell, with a splendid toss of the head, | sequential little humme de la robe will, it 1s way, to connect Halifax Harbor with the ** more prudentso to do!" : LO ath! River St. Lawrence, can never be constructed Seward, knowing them not to have been’ miam for similar proficiency. Mr. obn- | save a8 @ great national work. I[u the first presented, forthwith printed therm for the stone's attack—or, as his triends term a { place, British America is not in a position delight of the Union, and by way of entreat- | his defence, was direeted against Mr. _ in, | j teenter upon such an undertaking, as the |g the British Ear! to launch the kick which | one of the St. Jobo Tepresentatives, charg | i e@natruction of a properly equipped railroad, be has now so successiully administered! | ing bim with a wilful wisrepresentation ol rubaing through stx hundred males of wilder- Can the force of pidling poltroonery further some observations made by tie former 1p the ness, and even admitting that by outside gv? } assistance the undertakiv,, was consummated, . ’ - venlied with fierfect | ' the interest on the capital invested, and the | §ivus pride of a man who might have been | liberate liar. Lhe latter replie uA 1 e aa] wt of keeping up the pluntand rolling stock, bullied-but has not been ; Burl Russell chinks | sang froid that such language was benea would swamp the resources of the United | 8 kmghtly spurs with the air ofa champion; | the notice of a gentleman ; that Provinces long before any return could reason- and all Easope is regaled with a spectacle of against the precepts of his Church, ably be hoped for. A calm retrospet, since | cheap and cheaply detected brag, > ; the commencement of the agitation of this) makes the ideal of Jetfersoa Brick @ piece the natural emanations of a ae vexed question of railways in this Province, of very indifferent realism, | blackguardism. Mr. Anglin is an co arma} can scarcely fail tocunvince any unprejudiced | - <>- - /wod his countrymen express astonis sala od mt person of the utter fallacy of the multifarious TTT E WAR IN. THE STATES. |» suff-ring such insolence to go unpunished , | eaculation of those whu bave from time tw a, t argued, from figares, that a railway TReT NEWS FR THE SEAT OF WAR. : ona Halifas to Saline would be a pay LATE MONS Oe sen | Robert Peel to offer ample reparation ee ing concer, even allowing that the capital) Gen. Sherman left Vicksburg with a force | terances reflecting upon the integrity of his) required to construct it bad been procured of about 30.000 men. He had two objects ; | Opponent. i ut the low rate of three and # ball per cent. first to desulate the country through which | A few days ago the stability of the Go- | per arinvin.. Thinking men had no hope in| be marched, and to destruy its railways 10 of-) vernment seewed doubttul, Tats aspect was) the great Intercolonial Kailway, other than | to make a rebel campaign in force impossible produced by the introduction of a Resolution | as a great national work, the objectof which during the Summer: second to go to Selma. wus to more speedily settle wp the interior | [n the first object he has succeeded ; in the se- | the building of «1 Railway from this city ad of these Provinces, than they can possibly cond he bas tailed. —But be bus succeeded 80 | the Ameriean Foundry, hich purpesed en- | be witheut such artificial aid, and the con- completely in the first, and has done his | terprise has taken a firm hold of the popular sequent exaltation of British North America) work with such unexpected and extensive | mind. But the a onieanamamaae* | into a worthy rival of the adjoining Great thoroughness that his failure to reach Selma ily, and advocated the L[ntercolontal construc: | Republic. in order to attain this much , need not be deeply deplored. The Southern! gon instead. When, however, Nova Scotia coveted prosperity, it would be absolutely | Mississippi Railroad, crossing the State at and indispensably necessary that the mother | right angles to the river, is destroyed. The country should be prepared to make very | Mobile and Onio Railroad, ranning through | nial road, the leader of our Government ao- eonsiderable pecuniary sacrifices. A trifle the easterly part of the State parallel to the pounced bis intention to submit in some | compared with the cost of even what, to the| river, has been turn up and irreparably injur- | measure to the popular clamour, ond to bring | British public, might be a little war, would |ed for a distance of fifty-six miles north and jin a Bull that would prove acceptable to the | sufSve to make the North American wilder-|gouth of Meridian. The immense supplies | friends of Western Extension. Tuis moder | nese to blussom as the rose, afford bomes to) accumulated by the rebels at numerous lated the opposition to the Government, and | millions, and consolidate British power io the | pointe on the line of these two roade bave | perhaps wil be the means ot securing its tar.) Weetern World above and beyond all pre-| been burned, and the mills, manufactories, | ther existence. Lt is proposed by Mr Tiley) eedent. But who could hope to convince the | machine-shops, public buildings—in a word, | tw give a bonus to any Company who shall) ‘powers that be of the truth of chis great fact everything which contributed to the militury undertake to construct Ratirvads from &t Tiwrefore there can be no doubt whatever) power of the Rebellion—have been anathilat- i Jobn tu Fredericton, to Woodstock, to St. | that the Legislature of this Province hasacted}ed, There are no longer the means of ‘Stephen's, to Holton, and from Shediae to well and wisely in waiving, fur the present | transporting or of subsisting any considerable | Chatham and other places in the Province. at least, all bope of securing what is upat- force of rebel troops—cavelry perbaps eX-| Should this work be commenced next sum- | tainable, and applying the credit of this | cepted—in Southern or Centrai Mississippi | wor, it will make good times in New Bruns- | eouutry to the develupment of its now hidden | Che aninterrupted navigation of the Missis- | wiek. and afford lucrative ewployment to resources. To this end the contemplated | sippi Kiver and the security o. Louisiana | chousands oi its people. eonstruction of the Pictou Railway 1s pre- from rebel invasion are results of this Expe-| Ship-building has been prosecuted on an) ewinently a step, aye, and a very long one,/dition. Between the forces of the Rebellion | extensive scale during the winter, and looks | in the right direction. Weare notsurprised east and west of the Mississippi, there can promising for the ensuing summer. | that the people uf Pietou, and the Easter heueeforth be ne co-operation — seareely any | Au reverr, 2 Counties, should have rejoieed with exceeding regular intercourse. For all military pee | St. John, N. B., 19th March, 1864. j great joy when the news came over the wires, poses the state which Sierman has traversed | : sill merino ten that the Llouse of Assembly had decided by 1s a desert—its vast territory not merely use- | an altagether overwheluung mrjority to con- | jess to the rebels, but an impassable barrier | nect the coal fields of that rich county with | between them and the region in which they ‘wan, and that he compelled the haugbty Sir) followed in the wake of Canada ,wnd abrogated | the joint contract concerning the Intercolo- To True Epitor or rus Examiner. Srr.—'There is rather a novel chronicle in | Her | terrible realities, and if Captain B. does not | cy's Speech, in brief, are these ¢ That—as not one place a vigilant sentry over himself, and keep within the limits of Georgetown proper, Mr Skinner, a young and con- he may yet have reason to rue the day ia) which be ventures to expose his athletic per- mela W hereupou Mr. supposed, be entituled to a second class pre-| gon to the tender mercy of Indian retaliation. . of the present Session, our Laud Assessment Act h. R. Mr. Waetan :— Six,—On Tuesday next the annual general meeting of the Union Bayk will be beld. a Oo Perhaps it would not be, too much to say) immense ameunt will then be due to the Colony, ‘cuurse of debate upon the ‘* tiger-cats "ball, | chat upon the decisions then will very much | the payunent of which it will be the ounden duty John Bull swells, of course, with the con- | and denouncing him as a poltroon and a de-| dvpend the future prosperity of this infant) ore Government to endeavour atonce to entoree. institution. The Shareholders, in making choice of the Directors, should not only elect duclling W488) thc9@ business men whomay be liked by their) and that) jej;,ws in town, but they should. also be fa-| commented upon, by Mr. Coles, as affording whivh | the expressions of the Attorney General Wee | vorites with people in the country ; and as | authoritative evidence of the correctness of bis a mind fall of | gyere ia much uoney belonging to the coun- | viewa on the subject, are as fullow:— try which will be invested in the new Bank, and get it into early operation, it beboves its friends in the City to make good selections ; they say that UO Donohoe is as good aa Trish- snd jt then depends on the Direetors to make | & proper choice for President—one who is a favorite wita the people, bas been some years in business, has tad some knowledge of banking, and withal knows, and is known throughout the Island generally as a person of standing and integrity. We folk in the country are somewhat timorous, and preter into the House of Assembly recommending | placing out hard earned means in the bands sixth year, of the tax imposed by the 2nd George of men we respect than in those we do nut; and trust ** a word to the wise’’ at this time will not be taker amiss. A VOLCE FROM THE COUNTRY. Queen 8s County, 2d April, 1864. - = o> o-er (FOR THE EXAMINER.) AFFECTION. More beant’ful than that rich light The sun emits in budding sprivg, Or sparkling stars of balmy might | That prompts the nightingale to sing Sweet notes of gratitude ty Nature's King. More beautiful than rainbow shade, Of mingled texture mild aud grand, Or azure of Heaven's great nrende, When clondless seeu. by zephyes fann'd, While sunsets gold aad crimsen greets the land. More beautiful than the soft ray Shed by the unassuming Queen Of Night, in fall unhiddeneway, When mourning anguish lone and keen To angel solace bows, and quits te scene. More beautiful than virgin goid Set forth iu buruislisd purity, Or littering diamond, out the cold Recesses of the Indian seit That forme and decks the'crowu of Majesty. More bexutifal than all that art, Of truth or fancy, can portray, Is that atlecticn of the henit ‘That wends to kindest soulsits way “The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration the representation from Mr. Young (herewith returned), on bebalf of the proprietors of lands subject to Quit Reut in Prince vo Island, transmitted with your letter of the 23rd April last, IT am commanded by their Lordships to request you will acquaint Lord Glenely that they have not seen any sullicrent srounds for altering the views in regard to the terms on Which tiose Rents are redeemable, which were stuted in the letter from this Board of the 19th March last, or for assenting to Mr. Young's propo- sition — the adoption of which, it appears te their Lordships, would operate as a premium to the Pro- af the Proprietors has effected a commutation ot | his Quit Rents on the terms offered by Earl Ripen, or in any other way — when, at the end shall expire, during the continuance of which, as | therein specified all claims to Quit Rents were | to lie dormant, these Rents will revive, both pros- pectively and retrospectively ; and, of arrears, an to defer the redemption of their Quit Rents to the close of the respective periods specitied in the Earl of Ripon’s Despatch of the 27th January, 1833, iu- stead of holding out an inducement to effect the same without delay. * (Signed) “Jas. Stephen, Exq.”’ 6th. Hon. Mr. Coles, in order to shew that no proprietor had effected a commutation of his Quit Rents, read from the Journal of the House, 15th February, 1838,°the following Message from the Lieut. Governor, Sir C. A. Fitzroy :— “In reply ttheir Address of the 8th instant, the Lisateuant Governor acquaints the Honseof Asem bly that no commutation of Quit Kents bus, as yet been made by any Proprietor of land in this Island in accordance with the terms contained in Lord Ripon’s Despatch of the 27th January, 1833.” The hon, gentleman then further called the at- tention of the House to the answers to certain queries relative to the terms offered in Lord Ripen’s Despatch of 27th January, 1823, for the commutation of Quit Rents in P. E. Island, transmitted by Sir C. A. Fitzroy with the above Message to the House of Assembly. They are as follow :— “ The first point submitted to his Lordship’s deci- sion” (Lord Glenelg’s) “ is, whether the Proprietors of lands in Prince Edward Island, apon payment of the compositien specified in Lord Kipon’s espatch, at the periud therein named, are dischanred from all clain of arrears of Quit Rents, aud of all eondi tions as to settlement prescribed by the original grauts. Upon these points Lord Glenely considers it hardly necessary to do uwre than to refer you to the terms of Lord Ripon's Despatch. The reimis- sion of Quit Rents was therein specified to extend only w the expiration of the Colonial Act. LL Geo. , cap. 17, Any Proprictor commuting within twelve months from that date would extinguish bis Quit Rents altogether; but if the coumrmtation were delayed antil a later period, any Quit Rent whieh should have become due during the interval, subsequent to the expiration of the above men- tioned Act, mast be paid previously to the Proprie- tore obtaining a full disehiryge. A release from the conditions of settling their lands in the proportion of one person to every 200 acres. was a boon held out by Lord Kipon to such Proprietors, as should couuunte their Quit Rents within the term for which they iad been foregone ; and in this respect Lord Glenelg would be disposed to adopt the inten- tion of lis predecessor, “tu regard to ie second query which you hve The excerpts from Despatches and Correspond- ence on the subject of the Quit Rents, read, and a. ¥. Sreanuan. Ist. From a Despatch of Lord Glenelg’s, to Sir 'C. A. Fitzroy, dated 28th July, 1838 — “J transmit, herewith, for your information, copies of correspondence/which has passed be- | tween this department and Mr. G. R. Young, | relative to the arrangement agreed to by the Ear! ot Ripon, in 1833, for the commutation of the Quit , Rents in Prince Edward Island. “The principal points discussed in this corres- | pondence are — First: The apparent departure | from that arrangement, in the collection, for a | the 4th cap. 17; and secondly, the claim of the | Proprietors to be relieved from Quit Rent retro- spectively, as well a8 prospectively, by the pay- ment, at any time within the first period of fifteen, and within the second peried of eighteen years’ purchase of their several Quit Rents. “In regard to the secoud question raised in this correspondence, I thought it right, before pronouncing a final decision, to obtain the epinion of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and 1 accordingly addressed to their Lerdships, through my Under Secretary, the let- ter of which a copy Is herewith enclosed. Their Lordships’ decision is contained in Mr. Spear- man’s letter of the 19th Mare last; but Mr. Young having, in his letter of the 4th April, cou- troverted that decision, I thought it necessary to ‘submit his arguments for their Lordships’ consi- deration, before taking any final steps in this janatter. You will observe, froia Mr. Spearman's jletter of the 23rd imstaut, that they do net see any sufficient ground in Mr. Young's communica- / | tion for altering the opinion which they had pre- | viously expressed. Is this view I entirely agree, and you will, therefore, consider the decision con- tained in Mr. Spearman's letter of the 19th March | last as a rule for your guidance iu this matter.” 2nd. The hon. gentleman read trom the said Correspondence, a letter to R. Stewart, Esquire, trom Lord Howick, dated 14th February, i833, as fellows :— “Sir: In reference to my lettter of the 22th | Government cannot undertake to make a fresh ultimo, respecting Quit Rents in Prinee Edward | grant to Proprietors redeeming their Quit Kents. | prietors, at the expense of the I rovincial Revenues, | submitted, | have toinform you that His Majesty's Colony; and for no other end or pucpose have they ever been legally available. Te appropriate them to any other use or serviee, was net im power of the Crown. Hence it follows ide came not within the prerogative ef the Crowa te extinguish or forgive them, either im whole of in | part; and if such power did not reside in the | Crown, it most assuredly could not be exercind | by a Colonial Secretary — a were servant ef Crown. By nw other means than a fair comm \tation of them—say at 16, 18, or 20 youty _purehase, according to’ circumstances — was it possible fur the Proprietors, tenants of the Crown, to free themselves from the,obligations, imposed upon them by their original Grants, to pay these Rents. But, in this way, not even by a proprietor have they been extinguished ; EP the exaction of them was to be suspended only until the expiration of our present Land Assess. ment Act, which will take place at the close of ihe present Session, the claim to them — now im mediately that of the Colony — will then revise, both prospectively and retrospectively. i To maiutaia, as seems te be done by some of the Gevernment party, alias the Propricta in the House of Assembly, that a Celonig! Minister, by a mere Despatch, had it in his pewer te grant a remission of arrears of Quit Rents to the Pre prictors, is just about as absurd as it would be to argue that our Colonia! » Mr. Pope, has it in his power te stay the collection of Land Tar, by a mere letter, addressed by him to the Treasu- rer, directing him to remit that Tax. Aud, be it also especially nated that, as only upon their acceptance of, and compliance with, the terms of commutation offered to them, ae a aver by the Ear! of Ripon, were the forfeited titles of the Proprietors to be confirmed or made ‘good, the furteiture of their titles is actually ‘declared by ihe tact of their having tailed te eow- ply with the conditions, by the fulfilment of whieh they would have been alluwed to redeem them. ‘That this is really the case they well kuow j and, | therefore, it is that, by Sir Saynuel Cunard’s pro- _pored Bill, they are endeavouring te procure a | statutory confirmation of ther tithes. i Hon. Mr. Whelan said, as respeeted the manner ‘in whieh the Government kad dealt with the ' Land Question, he knew pot which to accouut the \gteater—their insincerity or their i . | Certainly no Government so extolled by them _selvew—claiming to stand so high in the estimation of the people—aud arregating te themselves so tnuch influence with higher powers, had ever se , Completely, 80 miserably failed in the execution ‘of their desigus, and sunk se low even ip the estimation of those who, erewhile, were their most ardent aduirers, and their firmest sup porters, as they bad dene. The very men who, pst | long ago, placed the greatest Upon their | prouises—-wheo bad the fullest faith in their hateg- Fity of purpese—and whe were the most eulogisie: the capital. All honour to the men who have thus carried this hopeful measure through the Liouse. Tle,Pictou Railway is fraught with promise in the present and future of this Province ; and this is so clear to en ordinary mind that a wayfaring man, even though he were a fool, can scarcely err therein. ‘The rise and progress of New York, both City and State, afford the most illus- trious example of the benefits resulting to a whole people from the prosecution of public works. De Witt Clinton's pame wili ever Jemeain at the head of the list of those who) aspire to be public benefactors on this great | coatinent. Since is day railroads have ecumpeted successfully with canals and rivers. What railways and canals have done for the State of New York, proportionately. railways east and west will do for Nova Scotia In 1820 the ec mmerce of New York was 50 per cent. greater than that of B stun. In 1860 it was full 200 per cent. greater expected to have pursued an aggressive cam- paign. It is said that Gen. Sherman felt hintself | able—notwithstanding the iwability of Gen. Smith tv join bim—to have marched direct from Meridian on Mobile, and to bave cap- ‘tured the city. We have known befyre that the rebels expected him too and that the city was slightly defended on the land side. Pro- bebly it would have fullen bad it been attacked, but the responsibility forthe failure | dues nut jie at Geo. Sherman's dvor. ope LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. Arrival of the English Mail at Halifax. NEWS BY TE LEGRAPTN. Hatarax, March 30, 7.30 p. m. Africa arrived Wednesday foreneon.— Parlia- mnentary proceedings important and exciting. ‘the last Moxitor, of the pudlie fogging of a} | young Micmac, Louis Nicholas, for stealing {three Aannel shirts from ‘the clothes-line of ast—ot which he probably was in need—-and fadorning his “savage” person with the jother two. A few days previously, one |MeGilvray, for the erime ot beating and lrubbing a poor old man, whose confidence he |had abused, had received his ** forty stripes ‘save one,”’ in the public administration of justice. It would appear that the good | people of Georgetown and yicinity had their lappetites whetted by that spectacle for | another exhibition of the same sort; and in ‘their eagerness to gratify their morbid “cravings lor this species of gratification have | presumed to use the lash of the lictor with- ‘out the license of the law. Under any | circumstances, the punishment of a criminal |hy public whipping, is revolting enough ; und te the eredit of tallen humanity it may |be written that public flogging is not nearly one Capt. B., selling one to procure a break-| ‘Yue difference was the result solely of the Paliwerston declined to produce the opinion of n as it formerly was. There are superior public ap ritof one compared with oe J the law officers of the Crown. respecting the li Sothee canta! fe, Seoti ; Palin Ok el tl |few men, I believe, out of the capital of | the other. We, in NovaSeotia, bave loitered seizure of the “ Tuscalousa. King’s County, who will puad the scnouss 0! | along by the way, but it is nut yet too late, Party motion to refer the subject implicating a _ : | te cabet the ae time andes, Let us| Stantield, member of Cominons aa of Govern. | the Monitor's eomvapen tons “, the Sune ot construet our own local lines, by whieh alone | ™"t, in Greeee plot to assassinate Emperor | Judge Lynch and bis suppor edhe ees | the interior of the country can be improved, Napoleon, lost ; Government sustained by ten of | town, without coming to the cone usiom that) and its real resources develuped.and these eow- | * majerity. Stanfield had tendered his resigna-| the fast people of that thriving place have, in leted. th lk be n : it f : tion, but the Government refused to accept it their eagerness to save their flannel, them- eee eee ay ee Seen ape ee | Elleuborough consented to postpone enquiries | celyes violated the law which they supposed the adjacent Proviness and States unity | relative tu Danish affairs, as Russell said it was | pad been infracted by their Indian brot‘er. ‘ with oar people io sharing with each other | desirable no discussion should take place, as the | ,, Every one is innocent” in the eye of the in the general prospericy.— Halifax Reporter, Government entertained fond hopes Deumark ), a do he is proved to be guilty“ by ' March 19. | would agree to Couference, and that armistice | . ccend peel - coe Gk miami! tie ; sa be ' would be acceptable to all parties. pene: a 5 . "he ht ref. ; } eigen } SESRETARY SEWARD INVITBS A KICKING,| Announced Lords would give judgment in | JUsmess of which, with reterence ts crimina AND GEYs IT. ‘aeousations, it would be unjust to eall in Alexandi ia ease soon after Easter. | ' 2 : (From the New York World ) At Cork, nine men couvieted of illegally | question. What legal right, may I not ask, a . 7 ee ee ; : ; ; ‘ ened | practising wilitary exercise. | Mr. Etitor, had the burghers of Georgetown The ++ whitlizig of time b |P Ae — irligig of time brings in its reven- | Suspension of Mails via Galway officially }to em ower Captain --— publ.cly to flog | gee." There is no mau se ugiy who may not | announced. lone whom they designate a savage, but who. expect, if be will but persistently keep alive | Jourvals report that Denmark accepts con-; was, nevertheless, a subject of our beloved ‘ aud moving about the world, to encounter | ference without arnuistice.. Builigerents shew | Queen, and as yet uncondemned? Was the t sovther man ugiier than himself. There is | increased activity. ' | redoubtable Captain who inflicted the stripes a be ‘worban so scandalised, who, with patience | Germans vigrously prosecuting sieze of Duppel. | as we are told, with all his ** strength add ; dk >} } | Prussiaus had captured Islaud of Femeren. | Vi : and keeping her ears opes, may not hope to os : | muscle.’’ he whose property was supposed to j -hedus WorseGhings atid uf sone hapless sister, Prussians arrested all officials within that | : ca ie . If : than have ever been said of b iP And | portion of Jutland which they occupied. {have been appropriated by the savage ¢ i ro * e L en said o ts : ai nd so | Heavy firing exchanged at Sunderborg.—Sharp | 69, let me ask was he the proper person to ; wussell, after enjoying for a whole ge-| naval engagement off Rugen Island, between five | select as the one most likely to temper mercy | ; Heration an unquestioned pre-eminence as the | Panish steatuers and two Prussian wen-of-war | with justice in the infliction of the illegal | TH ost tumidly truculent of statesmen, has at |and several gunbeats. Prussians withdrew, | stripes ? To a civilized community, taking | “ last met with a more soltiy ruaring sucking- closely pursued by Danes, but reached port salely. | an itn partial view of the matter as set before ;* dove of & lion than bimeelf. Twenty years) The Pope confined to his bed, seriously ill.| 5. jn the columns of the Monitor, the Cap- | ago bie little earl was immortalized in Punch | Collision between French and Papal troops. | tain of the Georgetown Volunteers in the. for the manner and form of his graud de- | Continue. : ilies ne hie ta} monstration against the soa of Ko-| Nothing important from Poland. a ong lien. lon ig: Barre Soe gersrien, Pot teanisin, in England. All Protestant Britain | wathhiul gad sotive. Insurgents | 1 ind, Juying it on the naked back of his un- sf fortunate victim, appears to be the greater r he 4 3 t ae i | trembled to the inmost recesses Of its remo aavage of the twa. test grven-grover’s shop with rage at the au- CORRESPONDENCE, If the Georgetonians are justiOable in this ne ean ee eee Catholic | eek ea a. _.|mode of distributing justice, then, in the| ishops titular British sees. uri Kusse 1 . ge A away en- tuok ap thé insvlent cl alleage of the Vatican | NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS. | le Of ool Leeey of wil by hile and conceived a bill ol pwins and penalties tu ( From our own Correspondent.) ca hey a all its expensive concomitants, : be inflicted upon Cardinal Wiseman and his| The excitement and discussions which have and let there be one rule in the new regime | confederate. prelates. Dut wheo the bill| prevailed here for the last two months about | for the white ‘ savage’’ and his less favoured | came to the birth it was so very mild and| the Chesapenke affair have at length quite |Indian brother. If Hagh MeGilvray is to) gently remonstrant a tail tiat Punch, with ie " . oi bakin * ’ he is whipped, why in ti the applause of all England, took up the pa- subsided ; aud now the all-engrossing sbject | be tried before he is whipped, way ib be rable of his cartoon agiinst + Finality Joh” under the guise of @ swall urchin who was making bis way at hot speed aruund the eor- of Provincial Railways. You will have | be whipped before be is tried? learned before this time that the three men| It would appear, Sir, that the people of | apprehended on a charge of ;1racy and mur- ; oon se Cardinal's h ‘use after chalking up | der have been discharged from imprisonment. | County, ; P Sn ae ee against Le Cardinal's duor**No|'They are now enjoying the ** biessings of | entertain some very remarkable notions PI ‘ opery . Such terror in the successiul liberty.’" When the evidence was taken and | specting individual rights and public rectitude. urehin’s wizened countonanee—savh mingled indignation and amusenent in the rubicund "9 ¥isuge of the prince of the church looking out of the window after the offender ! And now, behold the steamer brings us news that Barl Russell, has boldly ‘boxed the eurs of Mr S:ward and tweaked the nose of the arguments of Cuansel heard before the | They are not disposed to linger any longer Police Magistrate, that officer ordered the ac- behind the age in the tardy course cf common cused to be committed and to be given up to | law, but strike out for themselves—as in the | the Federal Government on demand. This | case of flugging the Indian—snech bold and | | decision, however, did not satisfy the pirate's | at least three fourths of our citizens—though | The mhabitants of Lots 61 and 64 are des- Fane, requesting her to grant such concessions p4 4 : 7 . | . : ° . >. » ¢ 2 y » : is the mitiation of policy for the construction | name of common justice 18 Louis Nicholas tu | Vert their Leaseholds into Freeholds on just and moderate terms. her Agent, until a decisive and satisfactory ‘answer to the Memorial which we are about | the Island, in the year 1830, provided for the pay- to forward to ber, be received from Lady | Fane. Vigorous measures as must be matter of as- | pearance, the meeting was dismissed about Oo d ; | toni : i | half-past six o'clock. Counsel, and was as gall and wormwood to | tonisimenttoevery one excepting themselves! P | Juneary, ISIS, the Earl of Ripon tae es TENANT MEBTING AY GRAPAUD, LOT 29 j | A public meeting of the Tenantry on a ee wir, sky mid Heaven oe Island, I am directed by Viscount Gederich to} | * ‘I he last pol upow Which you desire informa- | : . - , r transmit to you the enclosed copy of a despateh | U0" Is the mode in which parties desirous of etfeet- Charlottetown, March, [864. 7 to the Governor, explaining the measure which -\to adopt on this. subject. | course of proceeding which is here announced atter mature deliberation, it has been determined | In deciding on the | His Majesty’s Government has been guided by a | shall be paid. jceed in order to etle-t that object. Upon thi: subject Liave to refer yeu to ihe authorities within | and as men whe had Shorumaael ven ter tae Wholly anwerthy of the trast which had beer reposed in them. So indignant, indeed, were : hich ; of their ability, were new the very loudest in | | ing» commutation of their Qait Rents should pro- | fering against them the ebharges of insi ; |detounemy them as the betrayers of the ie the Colouy, by whom the details of the plat will »| be arranged, and to whom the commutution money | (Signed) Gv. GREY. | Township Number Twenty-nine was convened | gecive to do justice to the owners of laud, and at | * Sir Charles Saxton, Kc. Xe. Ke. any of their former frienils annmg tie people at at the Crapaud East Schoolroom, on Monday | the same time to protuote, as far as possible, the the 14th inst., at two o'clock, p. m., for the generai interests of the Colony. Sheuld you be | purpose of taking into plausibility of forming a of otherwise adopting a mode of tending to their emancipativa from shackies of the Proprietary system — the | Land Comuission having failed to secure tor them the right to purchase the fee simple ol their respective lands at @ just and reason- able rate. The tenantry, therefore, deem it their combined interest to move in the anat- towards their release from the system oi Landlordism — a system which they deem ‘unjust, burdensome, and bighly detrimental to their prosperity and to the general ad- vancement of the Colony. The meeting was numerously attended ; and a banner was to be seen fluating im the breeze bearing the words: ** Vox Porust, Bare Lanp For a Free Peorine; Unirep we stanp, Diyipep Wh FALL.”’ Lhe Hon. K. Henderson, the representative of the District in the Legislative Council, and Wm. Haslam, Esq., ane of the members for the District, were in attendance, and oc- cupied the greater part of the time in stating their views on the Land Question in its pre- sent phase; and, in concluding, expressed their sympathy with the Tenantry in the sufferings they eodure, and admonished them to pursue a course of rectitude, by acting an honourable part, and in no manner bo resort to violence or unconstitutional proceedings in resisting the collection of rent, portraying to them the dangers to be apprehended from fiyrng in the face of the law, «8 Her Majesty possesses the "rer ogative of causing her laws to be respected in all parts of her duminions. The tenantry, believing that the present Government have done al] in their power to settie toe Land Question on terms advanta- geous to them, but have been incapacitated to effect the object of their negotiations by misrepresentatious and influences bearing against them at the Colomal Office, have, therefore, assumed the Yesponsidility of unitedly determining to withhold the further payment of rent, and arrears of rent, until | such measares be accomplished as may en- | able them to convert their Leaseboids into Freeholds on equitable terms, or otherwise ameliorate the present state of affairs and al- leviate their depression. | After considerable discussion the following resulutions were prop?sd and unanimously | passed, viz :— 1. Resolved, That a Committee forthwith be appointed to draft a-Memorial to Lady * to her Tenantry as may enable them to con- consideration the | desirous at once to redeem the Quit Reuts on) Tenant League, or | your land at fifteen years’ purchase, Lord Gode- procedure | rich will be very happy te afford you every tacility | concerning a the | ter that purpose, aud to lake measures fur pro- 3rd. From a letter addressed to A. Y. Spear | 4 ombly on the 3rd April, 1838. It is signed by | man, Esq., frou the Office of the Culonial Seere-|-p yr yayiland, R. ter themselves, by using their united exertions tary, and agreeably to his instructions, Mr. Coles Joseph Pope, Edward Palmer, Edward Thornton, called the attention of the House tu the following | | passages :— | “When land in Prince Edward Island was curing you, iu couformity with the inteution sig- | nified in his Lerdship’s despatch to the Governor a tormal release at the same time from the con- jlevying au assessment on all Junds iu the Island. dition respecting settlemeut.—Signed, Howick.” : Tth. Hou. Mr. Coles lastly, but especially, | the dcovptiue which they cveesked Geta |culled the attention of the "Louse te the Report eee, ‘cml ne | of a Joint Committee of the Council avd Assembly | the laws, with respect to distraints tor reut, tw Mewerial of the Proprietors, pro- | es nn by ae on he believed the testing against the Reyal Assenut’s being given to [scl acts of uulawful Fesiatanece eiaa be on : the Act of the Legislature ef P. E. Island, for | among the late friend# and supporters of the Ge vernment. The people of Prince Edward Island } The snid Report vVwis laid before the llouse of - oenetee, mar eee ee ae Pg 8p i. strix jhe 5 \. ty commmuuity apou the gicbe, te believed, cuuld ber Hudgsen, Jolin Brecken, referred to or instanced as being less prove to riet, tumult, or insurrection than they. The ‘harge, therefore, which, impli | Samuel Green, Peter MeCailum, and John 5. ‘heen made against them by ee earner = | Macdonald. The passages thereot which the | of the Government, when he anticipated the ne- } hon. gentleman deeaned worthy of especial notice | cessity which might arise of Sending for troops te | originally granted by the Crown, one of the cou- | are the following : ‘ditions annexed to the several grants was the | entorce their submission to the laws at the | tunity ot making a representation of their views payment of anannual Quit Reut of Three shillings, subsequently reduced to Two shillings, per every 100 acres. In that Colony, however, as in the Continental Provinees of British North America, it was found, during a long series of years, aluwost impossible to collect this Quit Rent; and accord- Proprictors to extinguish it by the payment of a specified commutation. A copy of the Despatch { Lord Goderich to Lieut. Governor Young, No. 14, 27th January, 1533,] in which his Lordship explained the teruns of his proposition, is herewith enclosed fer the information of the Lords Com- missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. “The offer of the Goverument” (te the Pro- prietors) “ was tautamouut to a promise, that, alter paying the local tax for five years, the Pro- prietors should be at liberty to commute their Quit Rents tor 15, 15, or 20 years’ purchase, as the case might be. “ But other questions have been raised in the course of this discussion, namely— Ist. Whether the commutation price is ty bear interest from the date at which Lord Ripon’s arrangement first came into operation until the time et payment ; /and 2nd—Whether the payment of it, at any time | within the respective periods of two and four | years, is an entire acquittal, retrospectively, as well as prospectively, ot all Quit Reut. * As tu the second question, it is maintained on the part of the claimants that the payment of 15 years’ purchase at any veriod of the first two ‘years, aud of 18 years’ purchase at any period of | the second two years after August, 1537, is a | complete acquittal of all Quit Rents whatever, “Ina matter so strictly of a financial charae- ter, his Lordship is anxious to have the advantage of the opinion of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. “ It will be observed that the Proprietors have requested that, befere any decision is adopted untavourable to them, they may have an oppor- to the Lords of the Treasury. (Signed, ) J. STEPHEN.” 4th. Hon. Mr. Coles then read and commented upon the following extracts from a letter of Mr. Spearman’s, dated “ Treasury Chambers, 19th 2. Resolved, That we, the Tenants on the, lerveade of the Southern sections of King’s Western portion of Township Number Twenty-, in common with the Georgetouians, | Dine, in the intermediate ume, withhold the | ;ayment cf rent, and arrears of rent, from | | The shades of night having made their ap- Crapaud, Mareh 14, 1864. Mr. Adams un the floor of the British House | this popular feeling of opposition is nothing | cribed, in the public priats, to be, at the! of Lords. The thing is so startling, aod the | but intense prejudice toward every occurrence | sresent time, in astate of o en revolt, It 1s | . ata nies have been to Earl Kuasell favourable to the Northern Americurs, and | Said they eceluate aioe cannon on the| antarn t ot ae and exhilirating, | ao equally blinded sympathy for the Southerr | Mink River Road, av a mexne of resistance to expense the little ft * forget at whose | Rebels. In respect to the ** American trou-| the payment of rents. [iow far * Tenant | luie's reds Sppoctautey a8 fuund ut last bis bies, a Brunswick is thoroughly secession- | Leagues " have heretofore benefited the ten- |* But onty * half? bwmpted, and the temp- ae: ne oes cae to|antry of this me i the ee of | tution nust be resisted. Karl Ruedll may tone ake y . ve a Cause. An be- | former years testify. bona ee | legitimately rejoice iv his deed of gerrin wn no nan ees C»stemp = a ene of lous men sometimes, nae ao siknown but Ateri¢ans must b!ush with shame ~ ode non vanes 2 wal prudent for to themselves, vive such counse = 18 not dignation that an Americun eccretary of am 0 pa on a we possess a Volun- conducive to the welfare of those who ignor- | iste and Gm Awericun fureign iia i " orce of, pro bly. one thousand men, anély follow it. Let as bope, Mr. Euitor, should he the + vile body-of his triumph oe equipped, well diseiplined sand ready lor that the present movement in advarce of the Hardly « month hae elapeed si my active operations.” With such a domestic ordinary methods of distributing justice may Seward’s published letters e say a r.'army fur a delence need we care then how mot serve for another illustration of the | Knocked tlie French: »pposition’ sense! hm supercihous our behaviour may be towards familiar old adage of * jumping out of the their profoapd revereutial tidolashe af y the Northern States ?—Judge Ritehie, of the frying pan into the fire.’ Ib seems pretty | least intention ov the part-of the Resceks v€ Supreme Court, granted a Aalegs corpus fora clear that it the good people of Georgetown | tean a review of the whole proceedings in the mat- gaye if inte thejr heads to back up the re- | #ovenment vf Wterfering in L eee en os any way with ter of the Chesapeake prisoners, and after a fractory tenantry in their resistance to the \ “mperor in Mex~ tuil investigation, he ordered their immediate 400 5 sud u- 8 suieeel ; bow Earl Russell is ex abled by the discharge, va the grounds that the preliagi- > ns ae ee a < | giving ap account of the proewedings of the House }of Assembly during the past week, There was nothing, however, of great public importance | transacted. A Bill to authorise the establishment | payment of rent, we may expect to see, atno and Promissory Notes—a Bill to amend the Gistuut date, tuct the whole tribe of sheriffs,’ Union Bank Act—a Bill to amend the Prizce Charlettetown, April 4, 1864. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. | We are precluded, by want of space, from Usury Laws—a Bill relating to Bills of Exehange | | Which the Tenants of the Crown wonld be permitted The Examiner. | March, 1833,” in auswer to that of Mr. Stephen above referred to, and written in obedience te their Lordships’ directions :-— “On a review of the proceedings which have | giveu rise to those questions, their Lordships observe, that the Act passed by the Legislature of ment by the inhabitants of a zayd ‘Tax, at the rate herein specified, ** duriug the“eoutinuance of the Act,” on the express condition that the Crown should relinquish wll claim: to Quit Rent during such continuance.” **After this Act came into operation, viz: inv patch, ingly, in 1833, the Earl ef Ripon proposed to the | “Your Committee would next advert to the ob- \ jections urged et the Land Assesstnent Act in | the Memoria’. he Memoralists, in the first place, assert that ‘ if the Act in question be snilered to go mo operation by receiving the Royal allowance, jit will repudiate the Despatch from Earl Ripon, | dated 27th January, 1833, specifying the terms on whieh proprietors of land iu the Colony can redeem the Quit Rents issuing trom their lauds, and the arrangements entered into under them by the said ens for redeeming the Quit Reuts ou their aids.’ The Commiitee are at a loss to perceive the analogy between a local assessment, and the re- demption of Her Majesty's Qoit Rents ; the former being a tax to be expended solely in the improve- meut of the Colony, and the litter a release from the the conditions upon which the original proprie- | tors obtained their grants, not only as regards the terms of settlement—which terms and conditions were voluntarily assuwed and takeu upon them- selves by the original grantees, on obtaining beneficial zrants of large tracts of land from the Crown. It does not, however, appear that any of the proprieturs bave yet availed themselves of the terms offered by Earl Kipon, in the Despatch alluded to for the redemption of their Quit Kents. Aud lest jt may be presumed that this Colony has hitherto by the collection of Her Majesty's wis, Your Comuiitee would bring under tice of your Honorable House the fact, that e immense accumulation of Quit Reuts which from time to time have beeome due aud payable to His late Majesty and His Royal id Lhe local improvement of the Colony. “Mauy of the Grantees finding it diffienlt to comply with the terms so voluntarily entered into with the Crown. were induced to alienate their grauts to laud wonypulists aud others, for an al- most nominal consideration. * Aided by the juduence of the few Grantees, or of their immediate descendants, who retained powsessjon of their original ymuits, these persons succeeded in evading the payment of very large arrears of Quit Rents, which, from time Lo ime be- came due to the Crown, a* well as the condition of settlement, until the year Ioi8, when they pre- vailed upou the Iuperinl Government to remit all the arrears of Quit Rent then due—to reduce the muxiimum amount to be paid in future to two shillings, sterling, per 100 xeres—to grant them a further inndulgeper of tou years for the settlement of their lands, to be computed from December, 1816, and to relieve them trom the eondition imposed by the several yrants with reference wo Foreign Protestauts. * At the expiration of this postes, in the year 1826, litthe or no progress had been made in the improvement of these dand-—in illustration of whiecs fact, your Commutice peed only refer to ‘Townships Numbers 2, 4, 5, and 6, tie property referred to by Mr. H. R. Hill; and althoagh this property embraces au area of SU,000 acres, sitnated ii une of the most eligible parte of the Island, both for settlement aud commerce, your Counnittee have Hulivrily jor stating, Uiat it dues not contain more than one family possessing any title to the soil be- yond the will of the owner; and there are reveral viher extensive tracts in the Coiony which are larly cirewmstanced. These lands, in consequence dated the 27th of that month, signified to the then Lieutenant Governor of the Island the terms upon } time, * that the agreement respecting the uit Rents | in Prince Edward Island, embodied in the i z= ' rovineial | due when the plan he had described would come into operation should be remitted, bat * that the | panciaal payment of all unredeemed Quit Kents | ought to rigorously exacted.’ ’’ * Thelr Lordships further direct me to observe, | that according to thie view of the subject, the ques- tion as to the payinent of interest on the commuta- | tion does not arise, as the Proprietors omitting or | deferring to commute become linble to the Tax or | Reut; aud no remission of such tiability would be of a Savings Bank—a Billto prevent the fraduleut granted, nor would the comuutation be completed, “marking of merchandise—a Bill to repeal the | CF the title of the Proprictor to the auevennbered property, or to the release from the condition re- | vecting location of Settlers, be perfected without ! the liquidation of all arrears of Kent. “Tam finally directed to observe, that their of the settlement of other lands ju the neighbeur- hood and the large outlay of public mouey from a re- Venue exclusively derived trom the resident popula- to redeem their Quit Rents, observing, at the same | ou, Which had been expended iu runing and opening Kouds through them, and in constructing Bridges, acquired a greatly incrensed value, and at no cost | Statute of IL Geo. 4, cap. 17, must not be disturbed,’ Whatever to the [vopriewrs, fur they still continue j und also stating, that ‘the claim to Quit Kents | ' evade the payment of their Quit Rents. The | would revive retrospectively as well as prospective. Tepeated indulgences whieh those Proprietors. re- ‘ly at the termination of the existingazreement;’ bat | Celved at the hands of the Crown, induced other | that his a was of opinion, that the arrears | FN land specniators of similar views, to embark weir capital in the purchase of hirye tracts of land in the Colony ; aud the baneful influence which such description of persons exercised upon the prosperity of the Colouy, not only in retarding its settlement, but also in frustrating aliuest every public measure calculated to promote iis advancement, because 60 serious an eyil, that in order to compel these monopolists to settle their | or to relinguish thein to the Crown, the House of Assembly in the Session of 1832, addressed the then Administrator of the Government, for the establishment of a Court Quit Reuts due to Her Majesty, but also from ihe | predecessors, one shilling bus veverbeeu expeuded | of the bayonet, and when he apoke of the blood. |shed which, consequently, might ensue, was a foul and uncalled for calumny and libel upon the character of the people. The people, when they | felt aggrieved, bad, t asalienatinadly, ne full and _periect a right to hold public meetings tor the ‘purpose of discussing their grievances, and of jadvising with ove another for their redress, as | they (the wembers of the House) had then to jteet in Session for the discussiun and despatch | of public affairs; and he trusted that uutil the abominations of landlurdism, as bow existed, thould be completely eradicated, they would uot ;cease to agitate zealously and | still with due respect to the law—for theit case pation. He did net wonder that the teuantry were now holding meetings in various quarters of | the Island te advise with one another as to what ithey must do with a view to the effecting ot their release from their bondage. As te the Land Conunission, he had never looked upon it in any other light than as one of the grossest de- ceptions and greatest impositions ever practised upon the credulity of a people. And as te the Delegation scheme and its resulte, were they bet calculated still more to exasperate the previously much abused and deluded people? The expewse of the Delegation, to be paid out of the publie purse, would probably be found te amount toe as muchas £1000. And what was the return wade to the people for such appropriation of their mo- ney? The mockery of being offered the liberty to acquire the freeholds of their farws at 16 year’ purchase! Was it to be wondered at that—thus their every hope blasted—they should be ex- ‘cited? Were they not most cruelly mocked when the Hon. the Leader of the Government told them, that the result of the measures devised by him for their relief had exceeded his most ae cacitotitionss He (the Hon. Mr rhelan) did vot represent @ tenant constituency they whom he represented were free- holders; yet he was not on that the less ; anxious for the relief of the tenantry, nor the leas disposed to repel any unjust imputation which might be cast npou their character as a body— such as that which, inferentially’ was thrown upon it by the Hon. the Leader of the Government when hviding out the threat against thes that soldiers would be sent amongst them to compel their submission to the laws, Why should tivy be threatened? They bad violated no law. They had infringed no condition of law. But it was tu be here, as it had been so often and long in the country te which he had the heuer te owe his birth. The game eo practised was the game with which the people threatened here. If they were te weet and consultations for the redress ef their griev the soldiers were te be let loose upon shed their blood, and their money or means besides, to be taken to pay their butchers. was the threat held out against a people; “if you held public meetings tor the cussion of your grievances, we shall presume are wet te concoct plans for resisting the law, we shall send the wilitery amoung you for subjection, and we shall cause your goods, youT | crops, your lands w be seized for the payment of the soldiery who held you under their control.” The bon, then, m answer to the assertion which had been wade i hen. members ov the Government of llouse, to the effect that, in 3251, the Liberals took office with the distinet i bes the titles of the proprietors were pot to be died with or disturbed in any shape or form whatsvever ; and that, should any attempt be made to resist the payment of rents, which the local autborities might be powerless to wilitary force was to be sent for to Halifax assist in quelling all such resistance. oy Ei; i 23 ‘ a Ea of Excheut—the Colonial Legislature passing an | Act, at the same time, to regulate its proceedings. | Your Cemmittee regret to state that the just wnd | reasonable expectations of the Colonists were de- | feated by the same influence which had been so ETE Was a fact, he most distinetly denied. pateb to which hon. members who had made ost erroneous assertion alluded was that which had been called “ The Bloody Despat : Despateh certainly empowered, or rather 4+ z -— Lordsips entirely coucur in the opinion expressed prejudicially exercised on former vecusions ; und a rected, the Lieut. Goveiuvr, in the event of any ae