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e munldpa1.'affatm of the country. m tad presided " Warden over the county f tho largest population in the country , nd he should endeavour to disbsrge his l T Lilies here in the same spirit " had se- ured Tor him tho eon6denets of the peo- l I le he had liwd amongst Thoy had,'. me hero to do a cernain duty. and he 3 r oped the; would do it honourabiy. m ", ( ould deal with every measure fairly on l he own met-lie, as it came up. m had' can scrry to hear a cry for aid already in his (lento. Gravel roads, it appeared, ere wanted in Hastings. It the gold, here was so precious, the people would ave means to make their own gravel . reads. In Huron, they had discovered __ the fiacst salt in the world; and, when . hey wanted gravel roads, they put their ds in their pockets and made them themselves. When the house came to deal with municipal matters, he hoped he would be of some assistance. The Coun~ r ty Councils were nurseries foe producing r men that would be useful here. m would not give the G0vernment any factions opposition, and trust- ed the measures that would be I' submitted would be of a character which he could support. We had got a country second to none. All it wanted was de ' veIOping , and he would do all in his ET, to promote itspeace and prosperity. . e was glad to see the prospect of open- ing up the North-west, and hoped the Crown land. within tho Province would be managed better than they had been t L heretofore. The find thing the Com. , missionsr should do was to get rid ot , three-fourths of the hangers-on, who did more to lead people astray than to Iwo- ' vide lands for them He did not approve _ ot the plan of the Government undertak- ing to clear lands for settlers. The best parties to clear them were the ; settlers themselves. After a man ' could show that he had cleared twenty acres in five years, he thought the Gov. , ernment should then give him his patent to the lot for 820. ". Mr. COYN E said he had not intended that the Government should " a general ' thing undertake the clearing of lands, _ but that it should be tried asap experi~ . ment on twenty or thirty lots in a town- t ship, and that the settler should after- i wards, when he was able, pay for the im. 'd ? provements. E, Mr. GIBBONS then referred to '/ . the Municipal Loan Fund, and . pointed to the counties of Huron and , Bruce as setting a noble example to the I rest of the country, in not being indebt- ai ed one cent to the Government at this , moment. They had raised last year 881,- 000 to meet their engagements, while this great county of York had only raised J $16,000, hating never built a mile of e. 'i gravel road at its own expense. . Mr. LYON, Carleton. was in favour of t encouraging immigration, but thought the Governmnnt should be careful not to . send parties into the woods, who knew nothing of how to reclaim the forest. Some system might be devised, by which immigrants should be engaged for a year or two with farmers in the country, before getting grants. As regarded " position in this House, he would repeat what he had stated in his address, that he was a Conservative, but that he would : support the Government, until a necessity arose for drawing party lines. m looked ' upon the Coalition as a party in which T., had been merged the Reform and Con- ' r servative parttcs. I] Mr. CRAIG (Glengarry) said he repre- ' sorted ,", a county of his birth. It was a Reform county; .., but it had not sent him here to oppe'" the Gov- " , ernment. That county, and other sq - Reform counties, had o,onfidenee in u the Premier, although he had taken in " Conservatives with him to assist him in Iii' arming on the Government. He believed tt if he had come out as an opponent of the l to - Government, he would not have occupied a , the position ho now did. m had worked I his way up, as a humble, honest farmer, ht from the position of a township Council- tl lot to that of Reeve, and Warden of the united counties of Stormont, Dundee and Glengarry, and nothing had sent him : hero bat his honest statement to the re people that ho would give this M Goveramtmt--0oaiixion though it w;