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|that, if we originate and agree ta any thing which may be | respect, be able to retain his seat at thia Board? If he do, | adverse to the view or particular policy of the Government, we | what will then be saidto him? Why this: you have acknow-

‘ - « ‘ ’ . | : ‘ Provincial Parliament. sc , shail be sent about our business, as unworthy of the honor of | ledged the declaration of this House of Assembly against the

rr tr trent errr rte pereen at this Council! Board ; and that we can retain our seats formation and character of the Legislative Cocunil, and you sitiatiiae an vane | here by no other means than inplicit compliance, on all public | now quietly gi w i st upon LEGIS LATI\ KE COL NCIL. ‘atolls with the will and ae of the Governatsnt. Were | it. . FNS OR eee ee Farivar, March 30, 1860. we, factiou-ly and upon unjustifiable and untenable grounds, | Hon. Col. Swasey—Certainly representations militating to oppoee the Government and obstruct their measures, we | against the construction of this Coune:l, and particular a!lega- Hor. Col. Swasey, in reply, again read the Message con- | should indeed be most unworthy, of the honor conferred upon | tions derogatory to its character, embodied and distinctly se: cerning the Despatch received by His Excellency in answer to/ us by the Royal Commissions which have constituted us inde- | forth in an Address of the House of Assenrbly, to Her Majesty the address to fier Majesty of the House of Assembly; and. | pendent members of the Legislature. But we have never dis-| the Queen, have been Jaid before Her Majesty ; and an answer proceeding to comment upon it anew, declared that no sophistry | graced ourselves by conduct so unworthy and nothing that we to the same has been duly received by His Excellency the could make it appear for one moment that it did not contain a have done or said can be alleged asa jusufication of the pre-| Lieutenant Governor ; of which answer, a part, containing a threat. The Government and the supporters of the Goverument | sumption evidently entertained that we may do so. On the | very significant intimation—in fact a threat—to the Legislative might tell them to go on with the business of the country with- contrary, if fairly judged, with respect to the past, it will be Council, has been made public ; and, because an honourable out troubling themselves about what the Despaich might con- | found that, in all deliberations and resolves, we have acted with | member thereof, keenly and indignantly sensible of the most tein. They were thas urged and encouraged to proceed in a single eye to the public good ; and I trust that, so long as we | unjustifiable attempts which have tea made to degrade the the discharge of their legislative duties ; and thus they would shal| continue to act in our present legislative capacity, scorn: | hovorable Board of which he is a mouvver, first in the estima- be encouraged to procerd thererm, so long as they should agree ing every other aim, we shall, as heretofore, make the preserva-| tion of Her Majesty, avd then im that ef the whole people of to everything sanctioned or proposed by the Government or the tion of the rights and privileges of the people aud the advance- | this Colony ; and, deeming that mingle justice it is due to Government majori'y in the other House. But, should they | ment of their social interests and general welfare, the sole | this Council, that the whole answer to that Address shou!'d be venture, on Whatever ground, or how conscientiously soever, to | objects of our legislative labors. ‘hus conscious of the recti-| laid before them, has thought proper to express his indignation oppose any measure which had been so sanctioned or 80 pro | tude and purity of our legisiative principles and actions, it is | at the injustice thereby done to the Council, and to declare that posed, what were they to expect? His Excellency had told) wost natural that we should seek to justify ourselves, before | the proceeding now proposed (an Address to His Excellency, them what, in his Message. If they did not work harmoniously | ihe public, by a manifestation of that spirit of independence praying thatthe whole of the Despateh in question may be with the other tiouse,—in other words, if they did not bow | which is ever the ruling principle in the breasts of hovest and| laid before us) appears to him to be the only action to which their necks to the voke of the Government, or of the Govern-) honorable men; and as we are now circamstanced, the adop-| the Council Can, at present, have recouree, with any likel:hood ment majority in the House of Assembly—His Excellency ion of the address submitted by his Honor Colonel Swabey | of obtaining what they desire—that is, the means and an op would exercise the power which has been placed in his hands seems to me to be the only proper mode of procedure which is} portuaity to justify themselves from the disparagement and so make such an alteration ia their constraction as would insure | open to us for the obtaining of the means by which to prove to | aspersions which have, most catselessly and unjustly, been their working harmoniously wiih the other Llouse, that is, in| the people that we are not that spiritless, humiliated, and | cast upon therm,—that hon. gentlemen has been told by his other words, as would insure submission on the part of the degraded body of men, which mach pains have most unworthily | Honor, the Leader of the Government, Mr. Palmer, that, by Legislative Council to the control and direction of the Govern- | been taken (o prove we are, and which gross gn srepresentation supporting that Address, be, with strange inconsistency. ment taajortty in the other House. His Honor Mr. Palmer has | of our character has, | ain very sorry to say, found acceptance! willingly subscribes t> the dectaration by which he thinks endeavored to show that all that has been said to the disparage- wiih a very large portion, if Bot the majority, of the community, | himself degraded, whilst at the same time, exclaiming against meat of the Legisis:iwe Council, in the address of the House as if it were an established fact, and with which some of us| the gross injustice done to himself and other members of this of Assembly to the Queen, and their therein prayimg for a re- | have actually been individually taunted in public, Before the | Honorable Council, by the statements contained in that decla- construction of the Legislatiwe Council, has been provoked by | opening of the present session, I was myself frequently taunted, | ration.

Now this deduction or conclusion of his Honor the ihe address of the Legislauve Council, and that the Despateh | and, [ mus: confess, seemingly on good grounds, with the) Leader of the Government is ceratinly one of the most unwar- in answer to the address of tae House of Assemb'y, whatever | power which has been bestowed upon ‘its Excellency to dis-| ranted and illogical that | have ever heard made. A gentle- it might contain, was directly traceable to the same provecation | jjiss from this Ceuncil all who should be obnoxious to fis con-| man emphatically and distinctly denies certain allegations or cause ; but he has failed to make out avy real connexiou | stitutional advisers, the Executive Council ; and I really did} whe’ between them. ‘The Legisiative Council, in their address, bad | pot know, until the opening of the session, whether I snould, |

vilified or assailed their characters. [tion | services would not again be required at the Legislative Coun- may have received In a Certain quager of the highest authority, | accused them of having violated the ec] board. [ am bere agam, bowever, and unchanged in| as way eoable him and lis colleagues to gend forth a justifica- | were not satisfied wih the mode in) political principles; but bow long I shall be allowed to remain) tion of themselves : t was formed, and they gave reasons for) here L know not. The first reason assigned by bis Honor the charged with subscribing to his own degradation. That was a public question ; and there- | Leader of the Government, Mr. Palmer, for the withholding of opinion, his Honor Mr. Walker feels,and has spoken, as, in

they hid not Mr. VPaLMER — They They which the Goverame their dissatisfaction. : ( fore one in which they were entitled to their Own opinion, and |the Despatch im question, 8 that it would be impolitic, 1nexX-| (he circumstances in which he 1s placed, it would become any one concerning which they had a perfect right to set fonh their | pedient, to communicate it to us at present; and the next, the! man of honor and spirit to feel and speak ; end, instead of being opinions, as they did, but those opimons had nothing to do with | only one besides, but that on which he seems chiefly to rest his | degraded by his support of the Addrese ander our consideration, |

constitution. } | | | the character of the House of Assembly, or with the future | jusification of secrecy, on the part of the Government, with) he will thereby gain additional estegin and increased consider | | | i |

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views or action of the Legisiative Counci!. His Honor Mr. | r-spect to it, is that it is a secre: and confidential Despatch to} ation in the minds of all right thinking and indevendent men. Palmer had said the oddress of the House of Assemb'y was Hie Excellency. ‘This is a posvion which it is impossible to) His having been contented to allow the whole matter to remein

sent Home in their own defence. sustain. If the Despatch is and has been regarded by the unnoticed, and made no ground of any defensive or exculpa the case, fur they had not been attacked, As te Despatches, | Government as secret and confidenial, how can they a | tory action by this Council, might, perhaps, with some show of | they knew that His Excellency could withhold them when be | their having allowed so inuch concerning its substance eee | justice, have heea consirued into acquiescence in the truth of | thought it proper to do so. But, although he (!len. Colonel | nature publicly to transpire ? But that ought to be teguedes | the charges preferred ngainst us; bur, by bis indignant oe Swabey) had, for severa! years, been a member of the Execu- | as secret and confidential, | posvively deny, and can, | think, | of those charges, and bie warm Support of the proposed Ad- tive Counei!, never di ring the tune that he had been so, except | ve ry easily prove. ‘The Despatch 18 an answer to an address | dress, lie has evinced, insiead of a soirit of slavish submission in one instance, had anything hke the wiiholding of a Ves-| to Her Majesty the Queen of the House of Assemb Y, the! and degrada ivn, the feelings of an honorable and independent patch occurred ; am’, in that instance, it was not a whole chosen representatives of the people, openly agreed oa ae i ll 7” sa Sra espatch, but merely a part of one, which had private reference | published to a ] the world ; and the answer to euch on = ess Hon. Mr. Horcamser— t eer ole truly ” a oe to the Lieutenant Governor, that was withheld. That corre-- |—an address of the people to the Crown, for so it must Col rat anythuog degrading to _ ern ot inis Hquse. Ane ‘ > pondence between Governors of Provinces or Colonies should, | :utionally be held :o be—ouzht not to be, and, in fact, er fact, What has been advanced by the House See im at times, be strictly private and secret, no one wio had any- | with any show of right reason, be accounted, ghee wy a their Address to he Qoore. Soma ee sg se 09 thing like » just idea of the position of a Governor of a Colony, fidential. The publication of euch a Despatch ts justly due ¥ ings of this Council, am sole, if righ oe - aoe, © not ving or the difficulties which would be found occasionally to lie in | the people st large ; bur, for reasons of the meet cogent Rature,) more than = ; that, because we rejecte "CG _ en - his way, would deny. Without such privilege his appointment which, for the present, have, howe ver, been sufficiently caer Postage Bill, a measure approwadiet by the epeeraien at, 2° would be almost useless. But, with respect to the Despatch |i is especialiv due to this Council. His Henor, after having | 1o be inferred we may, out of a fac yous ont 0 ~ a or rey et in question, a8 had been very justly observ: d by his honorable | briefly adveried to the rejection of the err ay nem of the other Goveramont measures, Ow re pace ae using " ~~ frend Mr Haichinson, either the whole of it eught to bave | pc sage Bill of last session, and having shewu eh eet the pon Caen My ee ae ed ruekions. caiboed | been published, or else no part of it should have been comimu- for doing s@ had been acquesced in by the Home | eereeee came before Usy me eaves 1 See nn ieentie ae nicated to the public. The interpretation which had been made » concluded by saying that the edarges’ prapused es ya “ . fiom wou concern = : * ae ve T : ene a ni —ne only interpretation which they could put upon tt— Col. Swabey, and the prayer of Ut, were, he believed, im &C-) \Vinistry ; and, at this Session, modified to suit o r known—ihe Only interpr y he Legislat-ve | cordance with the seatiments and wishes of the mejority of the | fas been again submitted to our consideration ; and we have wae degrading aod humiliting in the extreme to the Legislative | cordance wi even should it be met by 1 cannot see that, with respect to any evysatd | '

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hie : x that ssed it. - lly gave igtt—a right which, Board; and that he did not think that, | pa Council, and it undou dtedly eure cg . e wuld exercise—to | nothing but a direct refusal, on the part of His Excellency, the! whether a Government measure or otherwige, we have ever > < 2 ‘* e ‘ i tS ing > B ' a in aes ee ek ae ; ch s id be id, thereby, be placed in a worse position than they | decided amiss, or done wrong. Before any threat was held out ask, he might say, demand, that the whole Despatch should be | Board would, theredy, ps ’ ; ff B, Be =! 3 7 . th ei T atnrive Council | then occupied against us, we acted ere ; “e have done 86 since | laid before them. vad been said thatthe Legisiz M McIntryreE—In consequence of what has gyne and | trust, we will do so now. ne Despatch which has been | rad a constitutional right to ask for the answer to their own Hon. Mr. McInrTyre He ; si . : f Assembly i on a “fight whatever to ask for the |abroad throughout the whole of the Isiand, concernirg tb? | received in answer to the address of the House of Assembly, | iree ’ aw t i ‘ - ? ‘ é - } address, but that they ae GP Og ‘eas biys In ordinary | Despaten which has been received in answer to the address Of jast Session, may contato the threat of a remodelling of this | * ar ' ; ie Asse! f> 1 OFuihary m¢ } ate 7 F : te answer to the address of the House of - - t jt was certainly | the House of Assembly, to the Queen, last Session, we have,| Council, as, indeed, we have been plainty informed it does ; | —— . 7h Peae . y terte 3 Asse v, B } ’ A ce a pe Mies st C. cil knew that | in the estimation of the people at large, lost our character for!) by: I am inclined to think it contains something more of a dif- false im the present one. ‘I he Legislative a aa of the independence The people really beiseve that, by that Des-| ferent character ; and perhaps our own address to Her M ijesty > taluwgy 7 > ' 3 s t D e + i - 2 - : their vitality was affected by ere pies 5 ht to ask to be! patch, we have been deprived of 11; and that 89 contemned, | may have had its effect in causing through that Despatch, such p . ( 7 s ou 5 é a 3 P s \ ‘ | other House, and they had, there wre, a just rig uld be no In- | des yieed and degraded, we are satisfied to sit here at the mercy | a check be given to the Government and their party in the other | am $0 eo a sean the indepen- | of the Gove roment That this is not the case, | am proud to} f{ouse as has induced them to abandon, with respect to us, r duce ! - . } um tentiton, on the part of Se : ines to President : | tind there is spirit and resolution enough amongst us !0 prove. | that tone and bearing of arrogant assumption which so strongly dence of =~ Lagiet ine senate — a th ap ointment if we adopt the proposed address to His Excellency, og [ trust ‘characterized them fast session; for now there isa marked | They can’t do it! Yes, it could be eg te t ae sul we shall, we shall by such action, shew that, conscious of the | change in the manner in which they speak of thie Council, and > } the ’ : “ ' 2 ' ; . | S . ee peagendeellagt Ages eee gneegens ; u ; rity rectitude of our conduct in our Jegisiative capacity, we are pre- | eonduct themselves towards us, fut for the intemperance dis- ~ ~ 3 i aie ; i : “ . i ficient to swamp the neeppeenase of r ext a C 7 re ared to defend it, and practically sustain our legislative inde-| played by them last Session, perhaps some reason, besides their | 7 be vis! ; ‘ as Te é “ j . ‘Tt’ a (falecly called the obstructives) te igh “y oa osition of eth whatever may be kept secretly in reserve to be) qigsatisfection with our independence, may be found. _ They ee eee cette : : a th Solem ead ugon us, as a punishment for our presuming, 8 leg's | were, then, just come from their triumph, flushed with victory, es oe peste ee ange gaat ‘to jud af ublic affairs and public measures for our-/| and intoxicated with success ; and thetr extravagances and in 32 —not, he said, by the creation of | Jators, to judge of pudiic afar , : pitorgy handnd Bill, in 1832, was overcome,—notl, Pa ting of | selves, and to act upon ont own judgment, independent'y of | diseretion were, whilst they were in astate of such high excite Seer Deetel peep. bes in comegeess = eile et dale th , ‘ws and wishes of the Government. / ment, not te be so much wondered at. as if they bad so demean- t ‘ fer- it views ~ : : r ' themselves from the Ilouse, at the critical season, ( . a “re at > Mr. Watxer—lI should like the amendment proposed | oq themselves after having had time to sober down into hk : ; [ ’ on. Mr. _KeER— ; ; ; le ' : ’ - : ence to the we!! known wishes of the King im favor of 4 : Mr. Palmer very well, if it bad not gone forth,| propriety of speech and action..ixcept with respect to the by the Duke of We ington and other peers, holding the same | oo eee Se oe 7 f+} Island, eas: and west, f Postnge Bill, we have no', in any way opposed | y ot His H conc!udes by saying: | throughout the length and breadth of the island, e ?| pre-payment af Fosinge ’ : eye 7 political creed as his Grace. 1s Honor aniaal t in consequence of the power which has a Government measure; but heve disposed of all public ee y t ting of the Legislature on the | north and south, thet in conseque 7 rey ‘ We are told that, since the meeting ‘ r" the two || conferred upon Hie Exceliency the Lieutenant Governor, | negs which has come before us in an honest, impariial, anc | ere on bee gee orn ial at vs for ia nodel this Council, in case we oppose any Government) independent spirit. The two Houses are now in BATON? | 1adow oO reason ft r el a sl ’ i ’ : , : r Liouses, and that eee os orks doing, last session, | measure, or dissent from the views of the Government majority | proceeding with the business of the Session ; and I should 7 complaining, a8 we 7 oa ide hon aanitenes towards us, |in the House of Assembly, we are completely deprived of an | sorry to see any thing arise to drive us into a - : e of any want of FeEpect OF Guamans it majority in the | independent voice in the Legislature; and must, if we world | Government and thetr majority te the nanan 'y- ry, the ler Wee ee ponds > Acapa t = rm of pus- | retain our seats at this Board, submit to be, as it were, driven | prayer of the address to His Excellency now under our consider- 7 : > storm 0 1S- retain Oo . ’ ; ; : ; House of Assembly. ‘This ial! very true: the raged A er land ridden under the influence of whip and spur, at the will Of | ation should meet with a refusal, | cannot see. it is proposed sion which agitated some of the hon. ee 0 _ mala = lili nt. and of their majority in the other House l to ask His Excellency, in the most courteous manner, by the . . wn: but perhaps Oniyv as ithe Govern ont, bites : s , a : a a Malic én ee Se ee ee d by the Leiuanee of opium, | The inf-rence, that such is the degrading position In which ve | address, to lay before us the Despatch containing t aneah paroxysme of delirium are ee ote y ct to the prayer of | are placed, lias, we cannot deny, been fairly enough drawn) i 9 reconstruction of our Body ; in order that - may, thereby, ‘ espe 4e { oa: , r ' srepre- suddenly to be renew ed. i ut, _ ae thet, if presented to | from what has been communicated, respecting the Pespatch 18 | jaar how far, and on what grounds, ve have — ne “e. z this address, | hope, uay, aluost * 4 swichetnnting the | question, to the public through the columns of the Islander, the sented to Her Majesty and the Home Government ; an . eir E His Excellency, he will comply wit Be - age yi sea fn hin Government, and what has been stated concerning | <4 informed, have it in our power to justify our _— . a strong assertions of bie Honor (Mr. —— his Shanes wafer lat by his Honor, the Leader of the Governsinent, Mr. Palmer, yet free ourselves from disparsgement ; and ame or an Sor. men 8 nenne na : Hhis Excellency on | tye late constituents. And should we, knowing it, quietly and | 4 believe that, if the addrese be pee “ang Ce Pe be . . 4 WAC veo > ‘ ‘ -ithh ir ’ s “He from K ; but I think it very prebab 7 ae .e reason (o change ltamely allow ourselves to lie under the imputed degradation, | he will persiat in withholding the -Pespate : era seriously reconsidering the subject, may see ey y so would amount to nothing short of acquiescence, The question of concurrence having been put on his his opmmion with respect to It. ‘

T —the House is | our doing 7 | ie . ae ooe take (on our part, in the justice of the charges which, by the House | yy Palmer's motion of amendment, aa hereindefore given, the bomiltating position, ud e e » ? placed in a very care not to continue in tt.

A ase have been p ‘e ag tus; he eor: | e ded: a , a! rred avains! oe: and in the Honse divi : e oved i j t te . a a conceit arrived of by the pubhe gt neral!y + | CONTEN s.—Hon. Mr. almer, H 8 Honor the residen : \ ne neo > rectness 0 ne cone ’ y 2 P P

on. Of. PaLmMen then rose and moved in af sham er a. t Ie. ts of the Hon Col Swabey, ‘0 strike out all afier the | that we are reduced to a stite of bondage fn , ‘ of

~ e or of v seal d p atin | Hons. Mr. Foroan, Mr. Jotinson, and Mr. Simpson,—5. ence ¢ * ove p siority in| ‘a! n p e Governmen! and the Government major y word ** Resolved,” aod suds! rote the following $ |} dence upon the wernt

Non-Conrenrs.—Hons, Col. Swabey, Mr. Dingwell, Mr. le for the interests and welfare cf this | the House of Assem)d'y. What was advanced by the Hous» Of O-gawell, Mr. Walker, Mr. Mefntyre, and Mr. Hatchinson,—6

se FT d svene bie tor 2 ” - oe : ; Catia dino’ La y should at all tenes exist between the | Aasembly, las’ se8s100,

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and, fur se doing, he is, oddly enough, |

derogatory to the character of this) And it pawsed in the negative. ‘ basi i Col 1 ’ “foundation ; but how far it may) — ye qnestion having been put_on the origina! (Ion. Colone fA biy and the Legislative Couses!, and that this Couneil, wa whwily without a 9 q Phe questio - wa sen . - } . “Pp. ” ne He Brench g f . e ia ature entertains no apprehension thal, i: | have found credence with the Tio ranch oO me he

Government, we have, as | Swabey’s) motion, the House again oe 1. Mr. © , . pret - atin wae ’ Sur r Dingwe r. Cras- : ‘ly ascertaining ; and, therefore, as) Conrenrs.—tlons Col. Swabey, N g : coed e imeure that | yet, had no means of positivel) : hove rik , thinson.— pursuing such mea-ures ae will be most | : 7 a dignity of si reepect ond desire to have in our hands sagt a ee well, Mr. Walker, Mr. Metniyre, and Mr, Uutchinson.—6 i, it jer have -O! compromise . ‘ ; rt the address which | harmony, 1 will ever have rea-on to is carol irgelves, it ia our duty to suDpO ; 1 -t and independence which apper- }jue ily our any ;

ae ae ness —— ” has veen sub mitted by his tain to th ’ .

Honor Col. Swabey; and, keenly attempt which has been i j antly sensible as [ acm of the 4 , tion of amendment. and ind:gnant!s Hon. Mr. Forgan seconded the mo Ne eee apes’

bis Couneil, aa at present) ! Hon. Mr. Bagxact—By the prayer of the proposed address Te | heonily. approve of the

dent, Hons. Mr. Forgan, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Sunpson.—o. And it was resolved in the athrinative.

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but this 1 know, that, if | thought! should be transferred to them. But while I would de-

JUSE OF ASSEMBLY. jerstand that unless we od course ; for, if we do, whatever HOUSE O ns, we are plainly enough given to an¢ open od Whaat -oadnaliber fh nae CROSS IE ES ve thing desired by us we shall aitain,— | a - way . etd vet oe a co oply with t—on = ‘ ’ : : . > { { 2S | ti ° in the Chair. Discussion resumed on the resolution in to us ; fur hie Honor the Leader of the Government (Mr, Palmer) tae susposed 10 beve BaBome, and © ae TS he tes Hon. Mr. POPE—I presume there willbe little op- us. House of Assembly, to whom it »@ addreased, and to whom it hat His Excellency 18/| p.. ied teeth 1k icaionnl thet &..oheue Une dth t satisfactory to us also especially since we island, east and weet, north and south, tha Princetown himeelf a p prised that it 1s not satisiacto ’ . the estimation of Vien th : ee ene Oe ae eee ene aa rail ed was granted to Princetown, it was intended to be the Had the address of the Hous ? this House nothing to do either with it or the answer to it. But when the | grading to ’ ( i would be very sorry to. continue a t f it asked for nothing lese than a reconstruction of | professes to helieve it is, | woul pn he formation and| will then be are the people of Summerside willing to inst the for | tains sundry complaints again have to ask to be made | ston, con have positively a be ter right than they e not only brooking it by his sup=| taxed, many of them having to pay 15s. on their houses, 1 ‘ e } é us ina very humiliating position before them; and we have a fe ed yee os de | to His Excellency, hin Hig| merside. I believe th. in a town and royalty there opportunity to tree ourselves from it. The impression made

Le ddres His | propose d address to f P ' greased by some | eet we ack for suthing vet whet #9 sre — ae a Exeetleacy, and fully concur in the one me uaareale catia to. By the Message, which has been accidentally delivered te of your Honors, that our daly to ourselves tinpe . jority i F ? i ddress may be: a freely harmonize with We peo emgsa " — an or ay be the ee ee om —e = oa refuse | ELECTION BILL. ¥ IX onpoce™ pF pong ~enal ixcelleucy, ras : peel ae of errno exireandsaasy = eon EL che : id House again in Committee on this Bil—Mr. J Yeo o : > > that we are not tie) . > is not addreased to us —neither does it ap the making it evident to the pubiic t ead coe ea ome nm ene aed that any such mesBace saeels Se ee cs deena aa servile legisistive body which by many, reference to transferring the political privileges of a - ’ ’ g : . : : ) veire to make | town from Princetown to Summerside and St. Eleanor’s. has informed us tha’ it was through mistake on his er » snah tanaen tn eememnoat sincercly desire to make | town fro . ci 4 f d us that the , des, informe scare OO cae Mr. Panmer—tlie Honor who has just sat down fancies | position to the resclution before the Committee. It eae I aad f oughout the | was ay say sted by the hon. member for has been delivered as an i eae s ak a. is cum | Wont because, as he say, It has gone ft wih throughou was, I may say, suggested y : ee re quite satis ; y sion, to the Queen, are q 5 ioe nee oo coaedsl tie Clan should be find it —— has only some 200 votes should have the power to re- have received a direct answer to our ea ara valens for the purpose of producing harmony of action between if an Fn hele ‘mauling te thi tbeel, Widen this privilege j in his opinion, was all we had @ riz C jesty, which, 10 ’ essed by the public that v = — heir own separate constitution and distinct privi- | the public. iow the Bee en ee cies’ ehoaid meendsh| engdtel of the cousty;’ betes Se Risaaae’s al mt eae Lis oe likely, have properly had lutle or d in- | it is, | eannot conceive , ess contained nothing but allegations an ! Social . ow pane insinuations —against this Council, and | thia Council was, Ys ine lity ovthten bt meld a eee «B that , ioonll 1 member of it. His Honor Mr. Waiker hee om ee also be relieved from all extra taxes: The question our body, we certainty have quite as much right a8 a ee Addrese of the House of Assembly to Her Majesty, a Ce é borne by Princetown upon their of Assembly,—nay, as matters now & rook the stigma|take the taxes now borne by : : wer to it. What has | character of this House, and oo yt And ye', with) shoulders? 1 maintain that they are already heavily coy oueeiued See a toate nature has placed | with which it is thereby attempted to already yone forth !o the public respe , : , t esented . em ai — sitive right to ask that, by having the Despatch fully com <p I will ask his Honor how, if this Address be ay with | “ere adopted there, it would ie @ifadvantage to Sum muniested to as, we my be affurded the means and allowed an | Naw, and His Excellency declines to comply i ; afely assure : : ; le at large by what has been made jtie pone P Hi ‘ a ar eon wih vail show of self-jare about 4000 acre, 55 the whole of Lot 17 might upon the minds of the people at larg ,how wi i pes, known concerning ‘ne substance an

d nature of the Despatch, is Excellency wi

> . * Non-Contents.—Hon. Mr. Palmers His Honor the Presi-

His Excellency 16 ae his Honor Mr. Walker has aeserted | merside now virtually hold that position, the priv@ege |

so humiliated and degraded as he prive Princetown of representation as a town, I con-|

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| Prince County did not prove a judicious one.

nm, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Enripides.

very well be brought in with Summerside; but I would not give it the advantages which Lot 18 now has, that of possessing extra elective privileges without any ad- ditional taxation’ The hon, Jeader of the Opposition stated that he would support the resolution if the pre- amble were amended or struck out, I am not particular about the preamble, my desire is to aid the hon. member Mr. Sinclair to disfranchise Princetown, as well as to do justice to the thriving village of Ssummerside. The people of Lot 17 knowing this resolution to be before the House, lately held a public meeting, and got upa petition in its favor, because one in opposition to it was being sent in from Princetown. I think every person ought to see that it is reasonable Summerside should be the county town.

Mr. SINCLAIR—The hon. member for Bedeque seems to think there will be no opposition to the reso- lution. It shall at least receive what I can give. He insinuates that [ desire to disfranchise Princetown, though he very well knows that I never expressed any- thing of the kind. When hon. members come to con- sider this subject calmly, and aside from party feeling, they will, I think, see that it would be an act of injus- tice to deprive Princetown of its privileges. It is well known that it is a place which has been laid off fora town, and that the Government holds a considerable quantity of land there. True it has not progressed very rapidly, but other places are nearly in the same position. Georgetown has made very little improve- tment,—in fact Charlottetown is the only place which has arisen to any importance. But this is not to be wondered at, as the Island can not be expected to sup- port many towns. Ido not see that Summerside has become so great a town that it should claim the privilege of returning two members. The Government possesses no lands there, and though it has improved rapidly the

have been made against his own character and the body | last few years, no person can tell how long this improve- generaily of which he isa o@mber, and desires such full in- | ment may continue,

certainly said a good jeal about the House of Assembly; but | or should not, have tt officially commumeated to me that my | formation concerning the acceplance which these allegations privilege it should be ina greater state of progress—it

Before it can have a right to this

should have a population sufficient to entitle it to be- come the county tewn. The hon. member has ex- pressed his desire to include the whole of Lot 17 with Summerside, which goes to prove that he him- self thinks it is not far enough advanced as a town to warrant the proposed change. The people of Princetown have fora number of years paid very high taxes, and several new roads have been laid off in the place, for which they have had to pay besides. Certainly then it is unjust to treat them as proposed by the hon. member for Bedeque. Princetown, I believe, will become a town at no distant day. Its situation is such that whenthe population of the Colony increases it will be built up. When our people turn their attention more to the fisheries it must rise, as its central position on the north side admirably adapts it for that trade. But while there is plenty of land to be obtained, we cannot expect this branch of industry to receive much attention, and probably some years may elapse before Princetown beconres a place of much importance; but that it will

ultimately be built, few I think, will deny. I believe there is a petition before the House frem St, Elea- nor’s and Summerside in favor of the resolution,

which the hon. member says was got up because

there would be one sent in from Princetown of a

contrary Tature. “The people ef Princctown vever

thought of the like until they heard what was dving

at Summerside and St. Eleanor’s; and though they

immediately started a counter petition, the time was

so short that fewer signatures were obtained than

would otherwise have been. If it is considered that

Princetown should be deprived of representation, |

would like to hear upon what grounds Summerside

has a better claim.

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND—When this matter was first brought before the House, it took me rather by surprise; but having since given it mature consider- atioa, Lhave been led to the conclusion that the ciaim of Summerside and Lot 17 to representation is much greater than that of Princetown and Lot 18. The hon. member, Mr. Sinclair, appears to think that the franchise is a kind of property, and that to take it away would be like depriving persons of their houses or lands. The elective privilege should never be looked upon as property, but as a trust; and because it is such the Legislature has power to transfer it from one part of the country to another. The Legislature acted upon this principle in 1856 when it annexed Lot 18to Princetown. The mem- bers for that place ought no longer to be called the members of Princetown, but of Princetown and Lot 18, Ifthe people who hold town lots there have had to pay high taxes, they have possessed the peculiar privilege ofvoting. But ifthey areto be deprived of representation as a town,the taxes may be changed, and made the same as on Township lands. The hon. member for Princetown argues that Summer- side is not far enough advanced to be made the county town,since it is proposed to take in with it the whole of Lot 17. But this Township may be said to contain two towns, Summerside and St. Eleanor’s, which circumstance gives it a much superior claim to Princetown and Lot 18. St. Eleanor’s has been the capital of Prince County for a number of years, andel believe if that county were canvassed to-mor- row, a large majority of the people would be found to prefer it to Princetown ‘The principle on which the resolution is based is that the franchise should be taken from towns which do not increase,and given to those that do. 1 do not see what trade is ever to make Princetown a place of importance. George- town has slowly, no doubt, but gradually improved. The first time | was returned to represent it, I ob- tained only 67 votes, whereas at the last election, | received 140, more than double the number. It has now many respectable buildings and a considerable trade. But Princetown remains the same as when laid off by the Surveyor General, which shows that a grand mistake was made when that place was selected for a town. It is not in a central position. I would venture to say that hundreds in Prince County have never seen the site where the town was proposed to be built. Summerside is the best place that can be chosen for the county town, both on ac- count of its position and extensive trade, When the railway in New Brunswick is completed, Summerside will no doubt rapidly increase; and I would not won- der, but I might live to see it the largest town in the Colony.

Hon. Mr. McAULAY—I generally agree with my hon. colleague, because he displays so much com- mon sense; but we differ a little on this subject. I shal! advert briefly to the history of towns. People are divided into two great classes, agriculturists and artisans. Artisans are led to collect into one place on account of the facilities-which are thus afforded for carrying on their employment; so that in all new countries, and in those emerging from barbarism, towns gradually arise. Following out this principle, and to make provision for what might naturally be expected to occur in an increasing Colony, we find thatin this Island a number of years ago, three places were laid off for towns. Bat the wer

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e . Wg ; P,.; | sirange inconsistency, } g3, but subscribes to that declaration. | —onsequently if the principle of taxation at.pcetown |