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Lands Departmeat. Some of them, however, he belleved ware well founded. Thzre wers Uhree great intsrests affectsd by the manage 1 ment of the Crown Lancs--the agricul;ural interest, as represented by the sottlars --the timber futerest, as represonted by the laom-- Derer:--iard the lnlnlng laterest, az repte souted by the miaers. The resolutions now sabmitted, had reference morae to the agr{-- ealtural, than to thnlnmberlngor milatog 1 intereats. 'l'hu: latter th:m olverlnme:t to make mare oularly the nbiooi of oou!dontloll: at _ anotker { Hime, So far as the timber and mining interests were coscorned, they were referred to in thore rerolntions msrely bs-- cause the free grant system could no: bo brought befors the House, without to a csr tain extsnt referring to the interests con-- nected with the lumberiog asd m'siog branches of induastry, fTho tirst resolution affirmed the principle that i* wes desirable that free grants of the public lands should | be given to actual settlers, on certain condi-- tlons, to be embodi:d in regqulations by the IAeutsnant--Gsvernor in Oounot!, not inson: slstent with the resolations before the House. He did not thiak theroe was much differonce of ar bo the correotness of this p rl«y, the late clectlons it had beon ganecraliy assented to threoghont the cuntry. He wud there was not a single mamber of Hr ase, during whose canvase the ques-- tton had not been ralsed, Ho believed the | Premler, at varlous plac:s, durlog his zqu.ullou, promlnntl{ presented before country as one of the chicf features of his , the system of granting portions of the lands to psrsons who propssed | go on them as actual sattlers, and of | snmexilog to the grant, as an ezcour' | agement --to the sottlor, a homestead |, u-pfl?'rofldon. In the nsighbouring eountry, inducements of a porerful charac. #er were held out to immigrants, and also to the young mon of this country, to go ia and sottle on the lands of the Western States, The setiler went upon a lot, ard, having made afidavis of contlouous reridencs for five years, ho had the laad conveyed to him in foo, That was the effoct of the home: stead law in the United States With such inducements, it was not a matter of rurprise that immigrants from Earope,aud also young men from this country, naturally zought * homes in the West. Lt we desirod therefore, to || rebaia our ::ul men in our owa country, or | to attract to it any considerable amouat of feamigration, we must hold out InGucements, as far as the clroumstances of tiie country w admil of 1t, equally favou:able with .'"runhd by the Usited Sintes. The I resolution relerred to the localities, | in which it was proposed that the:re frso | ; grants should be given. It was intended to |/ gh.flnniotlu newly survoyed lands, | old townships would be exciaded from the operation of these grants--and for the ; Lfollowing reasous. In the firss placs, in | the old townships, there were comparative: f lh' laads which csuld bs made| subject of free grants. What was not |-- yet taken up was comparatively refuse lards t Becondly, in the old townships, there wore " facilities, in the shape of roads, &0 , for get-- | a to market, which psople could not ex. | to enjoy for a number of years in a new | , eountry ; and there was not, therefore, avy apecial inducement required to get people to 1 go into those old townships. Another reason was, that there were now large sums due the J Government with respecs to lands sold in