pleling the sale lie had initiated, ex cusing himself from blame on the plea that he was led by the Lou'icil. Still, he proves his consistency by, the very first day on which he again is placed on the Treasury benches, bringing down a proposition to repeat this mistake of the past—a mistake that he condemned when it suited him, last year. Con sistent indeed! "No public works can " be carried out. without such sales." What a fallacy is this ! If an indivi dual owns 500 acres of freehold, can not he raise, at easy interest, within a fraction of its present value?—much more can the country do so. Land is rising in value at the rate of about 50 percent, every three years—lan lis the best security capitalists can be of fered,—yet we are told that it must be sold to the pastoral tenants, at what ever th?y choose to give, to perpetuate our immediate public works. Better than that would it be to suspend the Provincial works altogether. Supposing the Council were to be so guilty of their responsibility to .their constituencies as to agree to this pro posal, what would follow ? Why, sim • ply this—tli it the way would be paved for the acquisition of all the interior land by the present pastoral lessees. We have before shown the fallacy of (he statement made by Sir V\ 0. Bell and the High Street clique that they do not want the agricultural land: " Let the poor man.have that;" " sell us the pastoral land, otherwise in self " defence" we have to buy the other." Now, a great po:tion of the interior so-called pastoral land is, as we have reiterated over, and over again, very good second class light agricultural land on a friable loam subsoil. This land will gradually be opened for set tlement, and the success of such set tlement will altogether depend upon the offering to the holders, under, pub lic competition, of small blocks of pas toral leasehold—we meanbonafii?pas toral, i.e. unploughable, land. If fat i lities are not given to settlers to keep stock it is impossible for them to take more than two or three crops off the land, which would speedily after be abandoned as unprofitable—the final effect being that the pastoral tenants, then under Messrs. 