The scheme was admittedly meant for Great Britain; but there was no analogy between the condition of the people of Great Britain and of this colony, and he thought the proposal was likely to do a great injustice to a number of young people here. The people were paying for themselves now, and the scheme was simply designed to shift the burthen from property. He regarded the speech of the Hon. Colonial Treasurer as a most dreary one —in fact, he had never spent a. more dreary hour and a half in his life than m listening to it. (Laughter.) There was one bright spot in it, however, and that was when the hon. gentleman referred to the land fund a*, the property of the people. The land fund, if it had been let alone, would have been sufficient to pay for everything. Poverty was. threaten ing the country on account of the legislation of those who were interested in great estates, and that was why we should have to deal with the problem of poverty in the future. Would it be too much to say that these large landholders should bear a large part of the burthen, by the imposition of a land tax ? He thought the effect of the measure would be to destroy the independence of the people of this country, and to break up all the societies which had been formed by men who had banded together for the purpose of protecting themselves from poverty. The whole tendency of the plan was to strike at the independence of the people, to destroy the respect of the child for the parent, to aim a blow at Christianity itself, and to make every individual part of a great com munistic body. In many cases young people would not be able to pay the sum demanded, and their parents, if they had to pay it for them, would be kept in a state of poverty. The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer had spoken of the benefit of a first saving, but this law would absolutely prevent saving, for the word saving could not be applied to money that was extorted from a young man or woman by taxa tion. 