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, n# / 7 s eS "CH P . I when was the firat note of progress, Tt 86 [ | aliver was dirosvered th:re ; and then this | monster Crown Liads Dpartment come 6 down and seys that not au acre must be sold [ | Now, there were parties engaged in surveys and discoveries thero--parties who fulfilied all M | the conditions of the patert--but the rights i | of theso partles had been injured. Trae, tho [ | polloy of Government in stopping the sale C , | was the best one under the ciroumatances, 1| But matters must not be allowed to lis lorg | ) as they aro. An carly dovelopment of the; Goverzment policy in the matter of mineral ' l lands was an absolute necessity, and the country would be content with nothing less, As to royaltiles they were in his opinion'«! behlod the ago. They were inconsistent Q with the Goneral Government policy; and he | hoped that therumours respecting Govrnment i. lotantloas on this pointiwould bave confound. | ed. (Hsar, hear). _ In respect to mineral lacds as agrioultural lauds, what was need. ; | ed was, that they should bs thrown opan to , | all comers. \ Was there to bs libsrality for |,! , | the men who worked on the surface, and t y | uothing but royalties, exastlons, and rerer-- , | vations for those who worked at the occupa: l', tlon of extracting the mineral riclhes cof the lands, -- To cxramplify tha results cf the i pollcy he would desire to see pursusd, he | would s1y look at the south shore of | ( Superior, where on both the north and south $} shores attenpts at settlemect had boon made ; about the same year, in 1845, and to--day, the popuhtion of the south shoro was || 30,000 ; while the Yopnhflon of the north ' shore was amifliclently indicated by his elec:j, tion retarna _ Ho had been almost unaul | j mously elected by the people of the north Jj shore, and their number was 14! (Laugh: ' ter). . Agal, seo the value of that south d shore. The ompital there, at the latest ' returns, was ralued at $40,000,000 ia mining, aud for othe guvpoul $10,000,000. -- Thel land sold amd subject to taxation was upwards of '$4 000,000. _ The taxes were $250,000, In1867. the valus of the export is set down & $1,200,000. . On the watersd L of the lake, thero were 27 steamers owned), by Amerlcass, and one solitary Cauadian |, vestel ; the Amorloan tonnago was 17,877 f tous, while ite Canadian was on'y 562 tons. | The totsl tonnage of [the Saul;s omnal in | 1866 was 45,853 ; and the number of Am-- || erlcoan vesiels was 1,008, which Canadlan |, bottoms orly numbered 18 _ Again, 13 358 Amerloan passengers pasied through that caral in 1866, and 709 Cavadians. In the | j seme yeat, the tolls collected reached $22 303 on Amercan commerce, asd b1t $36G on Canadian -- Yet agais, ho would ask their || attention to thereturns from the other cutlet | | ofthls reglon, the North Western Railway. In | | 1866, the exports of coppoer by it were | ' 9,267 tims of Amsrican yleld ; of Canadian, | / nose. The quantity of bar fron carried was | | 347,784 tons American ; Canadiar, none ; of Eg fron, 11,654 tons ; Javadiav, cone. Wish | | batrela--American, 724 ; Canadian, 601. | ;, And 1 rimilar state of thiogs provalled with | : regard to the imports. In 1866, thero wers 48,911 bris. of Amerioan flour imported ; 150 | v orls, Ceoaiian; 6,549 bris. of Amerlocan pork ; 130 bris. Oanadlan ; 4338 bris. Ante-- | * tlosn becf ; 2 bris Oanadian ; 1,677,124 los, | * of American batter; 100 Its, Cavadian; ard so on Now, ho woeuld say, that it this | -- | prosperity of the South Shore aroze entirely, or neuls ao, from the land systom of the ¢ United States, then it should bs their .m' I 10 bepefit by exn:kn., and hope for <|j las resalts. Ina oplnien, there ough$ to be a close--aye, a slavish {ollowing of the | { syatem which built up the South Shore. ] Mr, BEATTY concurred in the remark s 0f °)