A Weekly Hournal of Politics, Literature, and Slews.

\

“"Dhis is truce Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak trec.**---Euripides.

New Series.---No. 23.

Ae gy MeN a RNR eq: “men.maee emcveten games Wiis att a : f a eee

Vol. X. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Eshand, Tuesday, June 1%, 1860,

= a om a re em LE _ SSS

pot only the citizens of Charlottetown, bat the inhabitaats of | by parties petitioning concerning them, meme rs, instead of voice, and have such acknowledgments made in their justifica- ito be more thana village, This House does not “intelligent and independent a constitzency as any member ia. the several electora! districts throughout the Island,—had, | being fluenced by the statements and menen of petitioners | jor as, from the first, were due to their honest in lependence. Alen om deprive Prince County of a borough; the of this House. I do not approve of hon. Mr Coles’ propo- i oa by large majorities, concurred‘ ia waking choice of Queen | een — — “ ee a 8 A _ own a aa ae campainataatemmene question 1s. whether ‘Summerside or Prinesiowsn we ae wares ag hp ete _ that Princetowa : : ivi hi 3 knowledge 7€N {hey POsseased i, OF 4 , t= | Ano'her mosts us objection to Mar Oo; : sie ; ' » 2 on. Square as the most eligible grouad on which to select a site ae ee ora ih. 41.2. nablie ob gudtinnn bias neba’ e ao Ge = offal wd. purrid rt offensive | entitled to the privilege. 1 think on account of its| Mr. SINCLAIR—Evidently the fate of Princetown is hereon to ereet th proposed new Market-house. He might | i, Kast Pornt, or some other remote quarter of the Island. | alice to both sight and smel!, whch, accumalaing thereon,| population, and also from its position, Summerside | sealed. Even the leader of the Opposition seems to be of be rold, and justly told, that considerations of private iaterest praying for a grant to eff ct some local improvement ia (hat | created a filthy auiiead ¢ pestilential atmosphere in what ought! has a superior claim It has increased the lust few | willing to aid the majority in this movement. He, how. et bad influenced many of those who hid decided in favor of a quarter, were before the Legi-lature, it would be highly proper |i9 be the cleanest, the tost healthy, and the most ornamental | years at a rate perfectly astonishing; and is calcu- | ever, is in favor of allowing Princetuwn to retain one re- 4. rf site on Queen Square. Weil, that that should be the case | sad just that members, unacquainted with the Jocatry, should ‘part of the town. Bur of this most serious objection his Honor | lated still further to rise in importance, I navel presentative, and giving the other to Summerside, But € ; ae aaa ara cane or body St en Soe tats bj | Not wo, however, when every meter afte Lovitare knew Colonel rate?) Fat guit i very en way-, He bad toll withthe hon. member, Mr. Haviland, that it will pro-| antes coeeot f any alteration, wlubast Get ensuling i ¢ s ‘ ; Wot suv awe e 3 e Lev 2 2 it ir honor atin London, , a ‘ Ts. “ x e . 4 “f ' when @ mao, or even a class or body of men, = that, by ee ne ae at the petitionses either did | a aed and in other countries, the pubhe Markets were | ably soon outstrip Charlottetown. The hon. mem- ion, are acting very unjustly towards the peuple uf ao q rsuing a certalo course or scheme of action, they wou Ga, lor could do; and the matier then before their Honors being generally situated in the very centre of dense populations ; and i ber for Murray Harbor appeared to take a very €X- | town; because a large uamber of these exerted themselves i} in all probability, be uble to advance their Coe Peover | acho one, it was, he thought, their duty to refuse to be in- | yet they were not fouad to vitiate the atmosphere or injuriously | traordinary view ofthe case. His argument seemed | to support the party, and if it were not for them it is very ‘os interests, without doing any injury to those of their neigh- | duenced concerning it by the views and statements of petition- \affect the health of the surrounding populations. Kigorousand|to be that since the inhabitants of Princetown had |doubttul if sume of the supporters of the Government 7S bors, or of their fellow men in genera), it was right, wise, ers, rather than by their own judgmen , de Isberately formed, scrupulous attention to cleanliness, throughout and around those | made no application to be disfranchised they should | would occupy their present position. i a and justifiable in them to pursue it. He, therefore, felt} on a faire revision, im their own minds, of all the facts and cir- jmarkets, mizht, and doubtiess did, tend to the pacers of not be interfered with. I wonder if this principle Me. McN&ILL—I am sorry to hear hon. members Oppose 7 bound to aay, that they who, for a number of years, had cumstances e »nnected therewith, as md pattie’ = — the purity of the atmosphere and the healih of ihe oe | was acted upon when the famous bill was introduced ond tga govd oli town. | would say of at, R qui- owned real property contiguous to the Market on Queen | W hen it oe ns abve ow the ee cdeedammeiaia | around ears woth would be ne 9 age iyi oaks | by which the representation of the Colony was in- ; M "eras I ineli : 5 z Square, and experienced an enhancement in the value of | ie “anf eee Seed aa bes geared soe oo ro me Prt They were |creased and Lot 15 aaded to Princetown. J] never = as ae nde neetinsies mee the resolution +E that property in consequence of its proximity to the general | a saaatiions of the Legistature, those members were in | newdene permitted becauce : would be next to an utter impos-| heard that the people of Princetown petitioned for | than Princetuwn. Itisthe Seouiiens eel a 2 meat and provision market; and some of those owners of “4 position to vore on the question independently of the VIEWS | sibility to remove them. ‘lo make clear and open areas around the change. No, Mr, Chairman, it was contrary to} which prevents it from rising. Is nye in the come i. real estate and others who bad long successfully prosecuted | 444 statements concerning it laid before them by petitioners ; | tiem, to wn extent suffic'ent to render them perfectly inaucuous | (heir wishes. If an alteration could be effected in | the county, and is nut so conveniently situated us oo ' mercantile business, or profitably fullowed mechanical trades and that was just hos position with respect to the Bill or ques- | ang nnobj-cuionable, would, in London, require an expense of | their representation then when there was no applica- | side for trade. I du not see any injustice in the proposed Hi thereon, had certainly a much better right to demand and tion then before the House. He», therefore, — eaten 'miliions of money ; and it was quite certain that they would oe ‘tion on the subject before the House, surely it can | change. , § expect that the Leg'slatare would take no step, with respect inany way slighting = views _ memes dy — bs ore be tolerated where = - ser oe wn arn ea be done with much more reason now whenthere isa| "en Mr. = weer erage sagen allow me one ob- if the sclction of ite forthe proposed naw Maret bos rt neh Hissar, sim duc regurdtothe nteretact yee Tcda mae aston suuraayte pecoree poe enrr|Peation on the table from Summerside. and vicinty certain, with rogtd to the han. the Specker Met if which would be prejadicial to their private and invested | the community at lorge. The first objection to the placing of | fee fram the polluting effects of general public Markets, they | In favor of the resolution, We have a right to ac- pears that when Lot 18 was as i ae = i - interests, or injuriously affect their business or trade than | thé Market-house any where but on Queen Square, was that | had never been appropriated to such purposes. Fer instance, | cede to the wishes of the people of Summerside, pro- | thought it was done with the intention of depriving holm of f= others bad to pray or hope lor a favourable consideration Of | tne country could not afford a vote of £2000 to purchase a site; jn London, Regent’s Park, Trafeigar Square, and other squares! yided it is a more suitable place for the county town |his place. I introduced the Bill vy whigh thay ok oem oF : their propositions or Viewe, prompted as much by considera. and that, tt was gard. was the lowe-t sum at which it was esti- were kept for ornamenta! plantations, promenades, and other|than Princetown. I would be the last person to rise | was made, and can assure him that in promoting the change, ’ - tions of private ioterest as those of the former; but with wated a suitable sice could be purchased. oe a ey 7 _congental purposes; and persens occupy ing the Rewses built in this House to deprive any town or district of a re- { had no personal views in the matter. The bill was put this difference, that the latter sought for profit at the expense consi ieration, it appeared that honorable —— - = /around them would never, he felt satisfied, consent to ther presentation to which it is justly entitled. This pri- poy aero: — oo and I feel certain the hon. f of the former, and proposed other sites for the proposed new | sizht of real a ays = ae a ee <b teeaa'e being converted into public Market places. j vilege belongs to no place on account of Govern- = an ae paella A pitch — of Lot i= Market-house, which, if selected for such purpose, wou!d agit oadiated ances hel the anbabitante of Charlottetown, | Hon. Col. Swasey—Those squares were private property | ment land being there, but as has already been pro- Chere is no individual of his party don Ren oa = enbance the value of their property, and enable them to} it ake believed, ay of ind:ffernce, as respected market a ee eee ae perly remarked, it isa trust which can be given or | see in this House than himself. [ will add my coainomee : : speculate thereon, by the erection of new bui'dings and other- | . ven ence only, Whether the new Market house should be | (To be continued.) taken away. Princetown it is admitted on all hands|to what be has said respecting the intelligence of thecs : wise. Now, to him it appeared that their Honors could ‘alaced on Queen Square, King Square, Pownal Square, or | Se Yessed) Resecter is no further advanced now than it was 28 years ago. | wom he represents. I do not think there is @ community & adopt the views and decide according to the prayer of those | Reddin’s Bog ; bat he believed the inhubitants of a _— | . D. NG, tep ' | visited the place about that time, and saw only one |i? oc nes rs nee them in this respect. This ; E who desired thus to speculate at the expense or depreciation | 110n of Queen’s County, onthe sou h of the co —_—_______+ wee + house in what is called the town, The number, } ye a th a i 2 mS 8 geen which they have built, Cn ee eee ocak cltccah aanadtitntion « pak ie tos sien. a7. eerpepratly vad womersee” | HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. believe, remains the sametothis day. Where,then, | The public spirit, which. they have- dice ore stam | the positive duty of their Honors, with eoageey to the 5 dase. etan nelouee a the block Tae Jota, in front of Town } aa can be the injustice of disfranchising such a place? } them worthy of the privileges which they enjo a oo 4 . and contradi -tory claims of different sets of petitioners, con- | Lots Nos 21 and 22, extending southwardly from the breas'-| Tuunspay; March °9. IIo. Me. WIGHT MAN—There is no stronger proof | astonished to see thuse who voted against adding P. 18 ta . cerning the selection of a site for the proposed new Market- work of Major Beete to the channel, as in every way surtable | eae 7 | needed in favor of my argument than this petition from the | Prineetown, now become a party to its politieul extinction. i house, scrupulos ly and minutely to weizh the statements | tr the purpose, and as being especially recommended by the ELECTION BIL. Royalty of Princetown; (he here read a part of it). Con- I shall record my vole against the regulation. : = and reasons severally adduced by them; and then to decide | fact, that to prepare it for the purpose no expense or outlay | Atte sidering the prayer of this petition and the number of sig-| Several hon members having objected to the preamble in favor of those whom they should consider to have the! would be necessary, except what migit be incurred by levelling | : . natures to it, I think the step we are about to take is a | of the resolution reoeanedy nei Se. paaly Brel are ren + vatest amount of reagon and justice on their side. The | it with brushwood, &c.; the plot deg then In the possession | Mr. DAVIES—I believe that the proper place for | very serious one indeed. The resolution, I believe, was ) for Princetown, Mr. Sinclair, it was alvered by Me. Pope toe 2 sa those who desired that the West end of Queen of the Government. Jt was also stated, i oe peat an os. capital of Prince County is Summerside; but it em bhi 2 up — a —— for so wae. meet their views, and is as follows: — rs ‘ , . antageous from US proxim ae Se ‘count ofa statement made 2@ hon. member r. Sin- S . Square should be the site of the proposed new Market-honse | wore SMa tee a cna afford bed facility | is not to be wondered at that og En aes clair; but that gentleman should not gratify hie feelings at one ae oa for the oe Towa of Prince Coanty was appeared to him to be sustained by more weig hty and sub- | 1 persons from the souch und east of the fillsborough, whilst) town are opposed to the PeRewee. i say, | the expense of the people of Princetown. a a. r S oing ; e — ae the County on the . stantial reasons than were, or could b6, advan ced bo support ‘those from the north and west would, by the change from Queen did ona former occasion, that Sameneras e ot re | fon. Me. YRO—The hon member, Mr. Wightman, has sana ie aie ciate re we ey to ; of shoe eutentalngd Pi ere ei, wag Nag ee ee ae. ‘a deuan t0-thete an | -geetniany conn - es ie will ne . 3 mt | never been at Princetown, or be would not for one moment Royalty; and whereas at the present’ ties io a hs have it plaved ou the edge of the water, King Square, flills- | (hey did not then experience ; and ta ros von ohen became.a place of impertanes; sis Ge mpy think it say that its representation should be continued. There are| number of sahabitanis residing in the said Town, and the lini f borough Square, or Reddin’s Bog. As respected the indi- | tages, ihat if the Market-house were og d cod a eek atl will outvie Charlottetown. ; It is perhaps more coff- shipyards all round Summerside, and it isa place of cun-| ted amount of business therein transacted, the said ‘Town of & iduals. many of whom were men of wealth and substance, | on the centre street of the city, And he doudi Market- | Veuient to the railway in New Brunswick, but when | siderable business, but at Princetown there is notevena| Princetown should not be considered as the County Town, i * ™ . Eust end of th | those lota were to be velected as a site for the new Marke the tae i ympleted from Halifax to Pictou, Char- | shop, unless it be a blacksmith'’s forge. Ido not think} more particularly as Lot 17, couprising the flourishing Towns ¥ whe desired to bave the sarker-eans = a ae |house, paramount advantages would be afforded by ir. In) the tine ts comp | edie rhe e if | any person should complain with reference to the proposed | of Summerside and St. Eleanor’s, is near the a of said . City, he ihoug it that they would find ita very profitable winter it would be equally convenient to all parties ; bu’, in| lottetown will possess equal a “~ ages. fe the | ehunge. County, and from its position, number of inhabitanta, and ex- (oa speculation, wer: they to expend and invest some of their | summer, it would be more sdvantegeous to those residing south the ae is on: tet See Me. COMROY=-2 gen enepstied to bev the change which pe aoe as from the faet of the Coart House 4 é floating capital ig the erection of a separate Market-house. ‘and east of the Hillsborough, as would save them the nn people there will be prepared to be y has come over some hon. member's opinions in a few day»; oe fairt P 4 ae ings os stare therein, entitle it to te Their doing go could, he thousht, be proluctive of nothing | of truckaye, meurred by haying their tn agama hema] taxation which may be occasioned by the change. Sar Weed inst, Getididl. ai ieee miata sctitnies ce eat as the Coauty Towa, and to ail political ; but good, for al! admitted that competition was the life und wares carried fram 7, ie ee nee in enaid yarn | Mr. BEER—A grand mistake was made when the | question was first brought up as they now have. It ap-| Resolved, therefore, That so muchof the Act of XIX Victoria, 3 sou! af business ; and, io such case, it would not anly benefit | Square, la point o . eT eee ed o- Queen | site tor the county town was chosen onthe north | pears Princetown was laid of for a town a number of years| Cap. 21, as relates to the Towns, Royalties, and Commons, ; the speeglatars, but be productive of great and very desirable | nothing 7 ae hatically, to place wtthere would not! ide of the Island. The harbours there close up | 8°, aed the right was given to it of returning two mem-) andto the divisions of the Electoral Disiriets in this Island, : ie , tha’ tahebilante-ef the city generally, and | Square, He said | we ’ be couniry peo le ; and, | ghee ag cama hinds tamtien wedihs alka | 8t%, of whieh privilege it is now sought to be deprived. be su amended that Let 17 be taken of the third Electoral Dis- ts advantages to . : rs lbe a canfersing of any advantage on the ¢ oan much earlier in the seasoa a 1 am acquainted with several of the inhabitants of Prince-| trict of Priace County, aud be eutitied to retern two members i especially ta thosg of the Mastern Seotion of it, He saw OF sithough some might Iqngh at and deride the eae! Justice qught new to be dene to the County, and the town Royalty, and kcow them tobe respectable people. | to this House, and that in fiew of Lot (7, Lot 18 and ieee t rr reuson why that should not be cat ried into efieet ; and indeed would maintain that, asre-pected the convenience of the _ r | representation given ta a place better adapted forthe |] cannot see that they should be deprived of a privilege; town and Royalty be added co the said third Electoral District ; % % he hoped it would be, He supposed it would be gbjected ta | people, Reddin’s Bog would be a more ee > purposes of trade. Summerside is clearly entitled to | which they have so long possessed, as the place ia at least| of Prince County. : i ft the proposal for placing the new Market-houge upon the | Queen Square. [tis ee oe many on Lot | the privilege, as it poggegses, besides advantages for | not retrograding. I fear the resolution was only proposed| The division on this resolution and Mr. Coles’ amend- te West end of Queen Square, that, if so plaged, it would not | neuple of anf ae.) vd ie Cou rather that the new) commerce, a numerous agd enterprising population, | 09 account of something expressed by the hon. mewher for| meut hae been already published. ' i he in the centre of the city, aa it ought to be; but, he would | e none ould OTe Reddin's Bog than on ‘The resolution shalJ have jay support, Princetown; but he should not thus be made the object of Davip Lain, eer. if ; answer that, if placed there, although it would not be in the Starket-ho Repor a | i - 4

Provincial Parliament. ~ ERGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

NEW MARKET House.

~~

Tucrsvar, April 5, 1860.

Hon. Col. Swaney, on r'sing to move the order of the day, —the second reading of the Bill to authorize the City of Charlottetown to appropriate a certain piece of land as a site for a public Market House,—be gone into, said he did not know how it had fallen to his Jot to make the said motion, | except because he had presented to the House a petition of divers respectable inhabitants and owners of real estate in Charlottetown, requesting their Honors not to sanction, in any way or under any pretext, any measure galculated to bave the effect of establishing a public Market for Charlotte- town on any other site than Queen Square, and praying them to concur with the House of Assembly in passing an Act authorizing the Government to make a legal and vaid trans- fer to the Civie authorities of 2 portion of Queen Square for a site for the proposed Market. Another petition bad also been presented to the House, signed likewise by s great many respectable inhabitants and owners of rea! estate in Charlotte- town, pointing out, as in every way suitable and most desirable for the purpove, the block of Water Lots in front of Town Lots Nos, 21 and 22, extending southwardly from the breast-work of Mejor Beete to the channel. It thus appeared that the citiz-ns and others having a direct interest in the question were divided in opinion concerning it ; and it bad, therefore, become the duty of the Legislature to decide between the contending parties. Oa a deliberate considera- tion of the statements set forth in each of the petitions, and after having heard from several intelligent and respectable individuals, on each side of the question, whatever they had to advance in support of their peculiar views respecting the choice Of a proper site for a new Market House, he had been induced by force of reason, to adopt the views of those who petitioned that the site might be upon Queen Square; and he wou'd endeavor to shew what considerations had caused him s> to decide. When the opinions and interests of one holy of the people, respecting any public question before the Legislature, were directly opposed by the opinions and inter- es's of another body of the people, both of whom were equally entitled to the respect and consideration of the Legislature, it became the duty of the Legislature to decide between them, without any undue bias. I such a case, perbaps the opinions and interests of the larger body might be entitled to the most favorable consideration; yet he would not say that their Honors should then be influenced, concerning the measure before them, by a mujority out of doors. The majority outside were, however, certaiuly in favor of baving the Market-house upon Queen Square. That such was the ease might, without regard to the petition which he bad pre- ecnted the day before, numerously and re-pectably signed as ét wus, be very fairly inferred from the fact that His Worship the Mayor and the Common Council of the City had previ- ously petitioned the Grovernment to have assigned to them a portion of Queen Square for a site for the proposed new Market-house. The Mayor and the City Council were the choice of a majority of the citizens; and, therefore, it was fair to suppose that uxon al! questions affec:ing the rights of the citizens. Tis wascertainly most probabic, with respect to the questiou about to be discussed by their Honors ; for it could scarcely be su; posed that any of the Common Coaneil- Jers had failed to aseertain the opinions of the citizens of his ward on that important question ; and neither could it fairly be supposed that, having ascertained that which was most widely entertained, they would run counter to it. Toeir Honors, therefore, he thought, might justly conclude that it wus decided!y the wish of the majority of the citizens that the site of the new Market-houese should be upon Qneen Square. A geatloman (George Beer, Esq.,) who had lately been choses ta represent them ia the House of Assem)!y, had | also given his voice in favor of a site upon Queen Square. | In those facta then there wag a strong prima facie evidence that the majority of the electors of Uhaslottetow. were i+ favor | of having tae new Market-house placed upon Queen Square. This thea, so far, it might be said, that the whole people, — |

| Square, he had not heard any good or valid reasons adduced. | wails of the Merket-house.

rproposed vew Market-uase might be yoon tae west end of private interests clashed with cansiderations of public conveni

centre of the city, as respects the buildings and extent there- | Queen Square. Were the Market-house to be placed on Red-| Hon. Mr. WIGHTMAN—I never was a t of it would be in the centre of the population, and such diu’s Bog, the country people would derive miny adventagzes town, aud am consequently not in a position fully to his constituents.

centre ought to be accounted the real centre of the city. He | OM US being so placed which were, of necessity, withheld Was not aware until he s ! titi the manicipali

we tt _- - he “ the petition of the municipality room and convenience for the exposure for sale of all their more relative thereto, | rat the Government bad no power to grant | bulky articles of prodace, such as hay, straw, turnips and pora- a portion of Queen Square as a site for a Market-house; and, toes ; whereas, on Queen Square, they were limited, tied ap, in fact, he was not yet convinced that they did not possess | and fettered by restrictions which kept them within a compara- that power. But, at any rate, as doubt was entertained as/| tively sina}! space ; and as the population end business increased, to whether they had, or had not, that power, it was quite | ‘Hey would, stuid the Market continue to be held there, be . . . } . ; ) > i t right and proper 10 apply to the Legislature, that by their | ms ad lacommoded oe a oe re whieh : action they might put an end to all doubt respecting i, | Towle bo Gecessary: to oxtablich Gnd tare grester Ceuts

A wainst placing the ed Market-t 2 Ad j which the police would be called upon to exercise over them ; Against placing the proposed new Market-house upon Queen | aad their secammodations would extend very little beyond the For those reasons he felt convinced Those which were based upon sanitory considerations were, | that, if the question as to choice between Queen Square and he thought, the most forcible ; but certainly too much weight | Reddin’s Bog, for a site for the Market-house, were fairly pur had been attached to them by those by whom they had been |'o the country people, they wou'd great'y prefer the latter. advanced. His Honor then proceeded, in support of bis Again he demed that just meee of ene vere views, to state that the principal Markets in London, such ag @vee4 the Legislature so far to determine that the Marke

: i /should continue to be held on Queen Square ; for a petition had

Leadenhal! Market, Newgate Market, Ficet Market, Ham- been presented to the House of Asean sraping tdi bad cena mersmuh Market, end Covent Garden Market were all in Market house meght be erected on Hillsborough Square, and the centre of dense populations ; and yet were not found to | accompanied by a subscription list amouming to £1450, ready affect, in any way, the salubrity of the city; and if, on the to be paid in aid of the proposed undertaking, and as good and score of health, these large Markets, in an immense city like ?safe as if it were inthe Bank. Indeed a gentlemen, a capitalist, London, were innocuous, was it not too much to assert or | had told him he would be willing to gaarautee the papement of suppose that, in a small, open, airy city like Charlottetown, ot oe of it. W atte with oe offer, om eae the placing of a Market-house in a spacious and elevated | .’*'» Defere them, parties ha ae et ae ee piaciug & markey t | tations of the peutioners and subsenbers, and decided that the square would tend injuriously to affect the health of the, best site for the new Market-house was on Queen Square, there inhabitants? ‘Tbe assertion or supposition was untenable. | was very great reason to believe that they bad been induced to The Market, under due regulations, and with properly en-| come to such determinaton by deeper reasons than any based forced atiention to cleanliness, could not prove injurious to/on considerations of economy. His Honor who had just sat the health of the citizens. It was said that the state of Queen jdewn had labored with much ingenurty ta shew that their Square, on Market days especially, and frequeutly on other | Honors should not be guided by thé representations of ae days an well, was diasracefial to the city. This, toe cortsia duals evidently seeking nothing but the advancement of their mer OF t ve eee no or . | Own private interes's, or rather, in reality, according to his con- extent, was certainly too oftea the case; but the city authori-_ clusions, that their Honors were to be influenced, with respect ties should prevent it, if they were invested with the power to the question before whem, by a progeetive regard for the

‘rom them on Queen Square. ‘They would there have amole |

judge of the advantages or disadvantages of the ‘situation for a town; but think the step proposed to be taken is a very summary one. For my own part J will lend my support to nothiag of the kind, as Princetown has made no application fora change. The Colony is certainly retrograding if we are going to disfranchise one of our boroughs. In Canada they are granting privileges to new towns almost every day. Instead of disfranchising Princetown we should foster it by all the means in eur power. The people there are, I believe, as intelligent and indus- ‘rious as at Summerside. We have heard it stated to-day that the place is unsuitable for a town; but all must admit that it is admirably adapted for the fishing trade, which probably ere long, will be pre- secuted to a much greater extent in the Colony. The | hon. member Mr, Sinclair proposed that the qualifi- cation of electors in Princetown should be made 40s a year, in order that those who own land there might be under the necessity of improving it before they vould exereise the privilege. ‘This might be well, but to disfranchise them altogether is out of the question.

Hon. Mr. PERRY—I almost consider it my duty

t Prince-| attack since he was only wishing to secure the rights of

| hie Nothing has fallen from him to justify | this course of procedure. I shall vote fur Prineetuwno re- | taining its privileges. | fon Mr. COLES—Hon. membors appear to argue as they wish to vote, and not according to a sense of right. The supporters of the party in power must nave a fing at the late Government as well us ut the member for Prince- town. From their own showing the late Government acted properly in the case of Princetown, for if it is right to dis. | franchise the place now, it was right then to add Lut 18 to \it. True there is no shipbuilding there, but the people |have to pay heavy tases, and the place may yet rise to im- portance if the fisheries come to be more generally prose- cuted. I move that the representation of Prineetown and Royalty and Lot 18 he reduced to one member, and that one be given to Lot 17. If this motion is lst, I will pro- bably vote to disfranchise Princetown altogether.

Hon. Mr. POPE—I entirely disagree with this motion, for I du nut consider that Princetown is ir, any respect en- tied to # distinct representation. [¢ has been said that the people there have to pay heavy taxes; bat so also have the people of Summerside. A law was passed last year to enable them to tax themselves, and they have dona so to the amount of ahout £59. The member for Princetown says Summerside is not yet far enoagh advanced to entitle it to representation; but there is not a place in the Lower Provinces which has increased so rapidiy. When 1 went there to reside not wany years ago, there were only a few houses in the place, but now they number upwarda of 200.

to support the resoiution, because it was partly sug- gested by the hon. member for Princetown himself Perhaps the people there feel the taxes burdensome. The population of Princetown has increased very Jit- tle since I first came to this House, while in the same time that of Summerside has nearly trebled, and it would have increased more if the place had possessed a separate representation, I see a great number of my constituents have signed a petition in favor of the

to do so; and, if they bad it not already, it onzht be confer- | private interests of a certain clasa of indwiduale, rather than by red upon them, {Hou. Mr.“Uurcsixson: They have the considerations of a more genera! nature. [His Honor the} power.] Well thea, if they bad it, they did not exercise it. | Paestognr: The rights which he sought to protect were | It was also objected, by some who opposed the proposition vested rights | His Honor (Col. Sembaps hed said, that nd for placing the intended new Market-tiouse on Queen Square, rashes shewis be reneees Sam: Snare Wy Sener

at an os ‘altel > s ; " part of the city, the private interests of the owners of property, that the m jority of those out of doors who wished it to be | and of those who carried on business around and in the reigh- |

placed there were induenced, with respect to it, by nothing | porhood of the Square, would be materially injured thereby si] but desire to promote their own private interests. That, to | and that the cunsiueration of the i jury or loss which, should * certain extent, they were influenced by a due regard to such a change be made, would consequently fall upon euch their own interests, was no doubt true; but, to no less an | individuals, liad influenced hin in opposing the remoyal of the extent, the same was true of those who desired to have it! are =. a Sq are SO Seer es et be ened tin « ee . . oe eee vl, Swabey) almost amoun adin seme te a other ral we = - ore rec [allowed himself to be induced, as a legislator, to pay more re- ney. DOwever, whose representations were, he thought, dest | .. +4 to the intereste of the owners of private property than to eatitled to the favorable cousideration of the Leyislature,| those of the public at large. He (rhe Hun. Mr. Palmer) had were those whe bad inves'ed capital in property sur rounding never, s.nee he became a member of ihe Legislature,said or done Queea Square, or situaied in its immediate neizhbourhood ; | any thing, in bis levisiative character, to prejudice private rights, for the removal of the.Market from its present site would | By the constitution the private property of every British subject generally very much depreciate the value of such property ; | one fully protected 5 it was, indeed, in @ manner held sacred. and, in some instances, to an extent which would be almost | 3ut occasions had arisen, and*would, no doubt, again arise . e jwhen, in the British Pariament, it had been held to be, not | ru'nous to the owners thereof. Indeed, if he spoke truly, he | ;

: ovly expedient. but just, when private interests stood in the way | would have to say, that that eonsideration—more than ony | o¢ pudlic mterests and public improvements, that regard for the | other—had induced him to fayor the proposition for having | jauer ehou'd prevail over any partial consideration for the for- | ibe Market oa Queen Square. | mer : and the case then under the consideration of their [fonors |

waa exactly such a one. The piece of ground which, by the |

Hon. Mr. Pacstern rose to say a few words on the subject, | Uill before thetr Honors, was inieuded to be made the sive of a |

alhoush he was perfectly sensible that his desing sv would be | permanen: public Market, bad for the last eighty years been | a together nmeavalling to induce a change of oF inion OF deter- freely enj syed by the public as an open street or thuronghfare i mination, with respect io it, in the minds of the m jority of their ind to appropriate it for a Market place merely because duing | Honors, who, he believed, were already fully and decidedly so ught be likely to prevent the depreciation of properiy in resolved how they would vote upon tt. Ue thought itthe duty of | pat uanediate neighborhood ; and, on that account, to refase (iovergment to protect (he rights Of the Capital and atl the privi No transfer tie Market toa place which the finger of nature eves theres Concentrated ; although, unfo.iunately, even in evidently pointed out as, in every way, most suitable for all

his posttian as a member of the Executive, he had not been able |p, purposes of a public Market, would certainly be giving mos

to establisi: his views on that heat, wilt respect to the rights j Wadue regard to private futerests as competing with thuse ot | of the ert zeus in the public equares of Charlottetown. Refer-| ing public. Loere could be no public questions with regard to) ence had been made to the yreat numer of those who had su5-| winch uw more became lezialators to act in a spirit of pure in scribed pe itioas te the Legislature, proying that tue site of the | dependence than those respecting which considerations ot |

Queen Square; aud his Howor whe had just sat duwa had ence and benefit; although mt might not always be must agree- | scknowle iged that the fact that a large majority of the inhabi- | able wo the feelings of individual legislators t> do so. If haw- tants of Charlottetown had petitiened the Legislature to that ever, levisialors, on such occasions, would encounter the | effect, had influenced hum tn his acquieseace in the proposal tO) ydiculty in a fair and manly spirit, regardless of any censure have the new Market-louse placed upon Queen Square. He] y ty which they aight be visited on account of their having | rusted that he was as much disposed to respect the general | gone so, all wou'd be found to come right in the end. Cuviilers |

lupiniona uf his fellow ciizens, and as much inclined io pay jamght find fault with such independent action, and even heap | jrea-onable deference to their wishes, as his Hunor (Colonel }abuse upon the heads of those who had pursued such a Course ;

| . } > ; ‘- | Swabey); but it was decidedly his opinion that, on all subjects | ou: if sustained by the consciousness of the rectitude of their |

}or matters concerning wh.ch members of the Legislature had motives, they disreyaraed al! such clamor and calumnies, they |

as full and correct a knowledge aa was or could be possessed | yo)4 in the end be exonerated from all blame by the public |

resolution, and If feel it my duty to carry out their wishes.

Mr. SINCLAIR—The hon, member says that he almost feels bound to support the resolution because I suggested it. He must know that I] made no such suggestion; what I proposed was quite different—it was to protect the privileges of the people of Prince- town, Summerside, with all its advantages, has not very many more votes then Princetown; and the Royalty of the latter place is much more populous than the Royalty of Charlottetown. It is only on account of the Court House and Jail being built at St Eleanor’s, and the traffic between Summerside and New Brunswick that these places have increased. The hon. member, Mr. Beer, stated that the harbor of Princetown is closed up earlier than those on the south side of the Island; but this is not correct, for vessels leave that harbour as late in the seasun, as from almost any portin the Colony.

tlon. Mr. LONGWORTH —I have listened atten- tively tothe opinions of hon. members, and I must say that notwithstanding all the arguments advanced

The hon. leader of the Opposition, | am giad to hear, ia disposed to adhere to his word. If his own motion be lost he is willing to support the original resolution. Tae hon, wember, Mr. Sinclair, said that the proposed change would Jessen the value of property in Princetown; but if it be true. as he formerly stated, that the lots there are worth onty from Is. Gd. to 2s., they cannot much decrease. Uhough by changing the representation to Summerside the eighteen penny lots of Princetown were rendered utterly valueless, the loss would aot be great. Oue jot in Sam- merside is worth nearly the whole in Princetown. I have heard no argumenta yet aguinst the resolution.

Hon. Col. GRAY—Mr. Chairman, I eannot jet a matter of such grave importance as removing the shire town of a county pass without expressing my opinion With refer- ence to the remark of the hon. member fur Tignish that some hon. members had changed their views, I may say for myself that 1 have not gllowed my judgment to be biassed, for Leutertain the same opinion now as I did when the subject was first brought befure the House. I disclaim being influenced by anything which the hon. member for Princetown may have stated; ne blame ean be attached to him for the course which he has taken to defend the inter- ests of his constituents. Princetown may some day become a place of importance; but St. Eleanur’s has beep a long time the capital of the county, and should have a represen~ tation. I have been there, and was so much pleased with its appearance that I have almost a desire to become a citi- zen of that place. With respect to Summerside, [ think it will in a short time vie with Charlottetown. To i!Justrate how it has improved, I may state that I was offered @ lot ia the town six years ago for a very small sum; and [ sup- pose [ could not purc'sase the same land now for ten times the amount. The railroad in New Brunswick has done much for it, and will be the means of making it a place of