Excerpt from The Journal of Agriculture: July 1849 March 1851

Nova Scotia Question, with observations geogre hieal and statis tical - Historical Summary of events relative to t e Baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia - Roll of Existin Members - List of Charters, and Opinions of Counsel 2d, To su mit, on behalf of the Order, that, in heu of all territorial claims, a consolidated grant shall be made to the baronets of acres of the vacant land in New Brunswick, upon the line of the proposed railway between Halifax and Quebec (which line will ass over three hundred miles of unsettled territory); and, 3d, 0 place in the hands of her Majesty's government a formal protest against the sale, grant, or concession of any of the vacant territo within the province of New Scotland, as originally bounded, pen °ng the set tlement of the claim of right now urged by the baronets.* Further, since the commencement of the last session, a petition from Sir Richard Broun was presented to the House of Commons by Lord Marcus Hill, M. P., settin forth the steps taken in the matter of the Halifax and Quebec ailway and Colonisation project, and pra ing that all the documents and reports in the case, together wit the memorandum placed in Earl Grey's hands by the bare nets, ma be referred for the consideration of a select committee.

Lord Iarcus Hill presented the address to the Queen from the House of Commons two sessions back; and in the expectation that the committee sought will be granted, we shall conclude this article by some 1general remarks, grounded so far upon the details already given. T is an old saying as regards agriculture, that the man who can make two blades of grass spring where one row before, is entitled to be considered a public benefactor; an we see no reason why the efforts of a committee formed for the purpose of addin two-aud-a-half million acres of land to the temtorral sur face 0? Scotland should be regarded with public indifference. Already we have adverted to the institution, by James I., of the Irish Se ciety of London, to aid and advance the Ulster plantation. In the recent work, Ireland; its Scenery, Character, by Mr and Mrs S. C. Hall, it is stated, that for above two centuries after the establishment of the plantation, the Irish Society were as utterly unacquainted with their estates as if they had been situate in Kamtschatka.

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