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Hal J. S. 3roDol1Hr1-r-rprrm, whr it V ' 1Bl ll .- T a .aseI _ a" " [tii Ea lllriiaiaii ' " . - f) - " iEll2illall SP, - "M " t '., S... . '. _ not! Ikgisieture we 'd have to deal with was the public Put. main. He oorcuned to some extent in that i view, and regarded the Commissioner of c. Crown Lands as the most important pah'lo functionary in this Home. It, was to him we (. numbers ot this House would hero to !.cok in; the redress M the grievance: cf many of . their constituents. and be trusted the hon. ' gentleman mould endeavour to mom himself thoroughly acquainted With the prettiou o! ', the poo-pie in one newer parts ol the country. l (Hear, Ural. A: regarded future legislation r as to tho Crown lupin, there was a strong J, ieellngthat something might ha dtmer-.thtst" l we had been lceing by the bad character M our siren the surplus population ot Europe, . M w ah we should have had our share. The practical working of our Emigration Depart. , l mot. also, had been of n nature to drive smi- grants irons our country. A gentleman had been employed hero at A large salary as omi. graticn agent, who, in addition to writing " wart». fitNlStra'tl,'sraNl,tthit,tt?. but d'rsct the stream of emigre a "on on to Chicago and the Western . Staies. The member for South " Simone had referred to Government ' land sales which had taken place at Barrie; , His (Mr. L's) 1ntortnutioa was that those sales were very ttnproper--that lands had been sold " a few contra an acre, and bought a almcat entirely by speculators. He was told we they had been ohUfiy bought by gentlemen . fl in this city. who then went to Ottawa, and ' got the influiu, of their political friends to r" procure patents for them. e Mr. FERGUSON said the shtement ot the , hon. gentleman was to a certain extent Vary true. What he (Dir. F.) had ohutV referred J f to was the sale of isms in settled townshipr. . As regarded the back townships, he regretted r , 'toayagrestdsalot land haduenio1dto . ' specqu at as low a price as ten cents an c, , acre. The Government had hadunder cou- " t ghuratloat-art iact. the cancelling ot those . . sales; but they had found that they could t not set aside the conditions of sale. ' , Mr. LAUDER said a similar rain had been V t advertised to take place at Owen Sound, but, ' ' fortunately for the interests of the country, d i had been stopped. He thought, also, the . i Home should net its face auainst all grants s ' I of lands to corporations. lie "tarrod to the w I purchase by a company oi a hoot of lend - , north oi Thtttrtsom-Ltor whom a gentleman [) ' occupying a political position in this Province TI t had acted as egcnt, receiving, he believed, . a large sum of money for his qrsrsioor-.-atsd , said the position of the settlers there would E /q be the same as that ot the nettle-la under tho . Canada Company, men who grew grey with . b out being able to get their land in fee simple. , (Hear. hear). m had been somewhat aston- i ished at the way in which politic ai matters u had turned during the last twelve months, t more especially with reierence to the forms. . tiou oi the Government of Ontario. th . He did not believe that It the issue was put t clearly boiore the people of Ontario at the , late election, whether we should vote for one whowas opined to Confederation or not, they would ave supported the honourablc 1 gentleman " the head oi the Government. t here was a strong feeling in Upper Canada 0 that the arrival ot Coniederathn was the t time to throw away a great deal of the f bitterness that used to exist dart he said we a might depend upon " that It more was nuy- th ' thing introduced having a tendency to weaken th ' the influence oi the Local Legislature, the tt Government would find that the people or would not sustain them, They are too much an airaid oi the old days of shit; to permit any It