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fore Government in 1863, and urging it & that time. Iu 1864 a portion of the money was distributed--the amount duse, he believ-- ed, up to the time the order in Council was revoked. Thp difficulty that presented it self was that it was a general measure--one that affected the wholo Province--and Government did rot feel at liberty to single out the cazunty of Bruse and give it what the rest did not get. But he wcn%d sey that so far as the people of Bruos themeolves were concarred, thare was no clazs of settlers in Carada deserved so well the considcration of the Government, It would be in the re-- coliection of many kon. gentlemen that that aection of country was setiled, and ocouplet from one end to the other in a few years, The land in the county had beon altozeber sola to actual seitlers--a most lmaz:;unt corsideration for the hon. the Commisaloner of Orown Lands to bear in mind, In 12 years tima that county produced 666,000 bus}tels of wheat ard added to the wealth of the of the ccuastry upwards o' $10,000,000 thear). Now, bearing theso facts in mied, if the Goy, ment could posaibly make the scetilers in this distrlict an exceptlon, so far as this fund was concerred, is ougbt to bs done, Hs belisved he could produce fgures to corroborate all ho had atated anud m gsou deal more. Mr, BLAKE malatalned that in jaitlce had 1 b;:n ;!um "em"t; ard thn;',o though 4 oy com of was a po ot a g'lnol:!onnufl of the Provinapot Oznth--- who had taken a particular polMoy respestlog the Westeru Penineula -- 1t wos not thsrofore to bo assumed to be satisiaciory, or one that ought to be adopted. Hon. Mr. RICHARD3 sald thst the provision enablieg Goverrment to deal with this fand was contained in a former Crows Lands Ack When the atatutes were being conaolidated, the person baving charge of the Mir. HAYS hoped therse would bo no ob« j:orlon so add Mr. Gow's name also. Bothnames wore addod4 to the committee. THE ESTINMATES, Slr HENRY SMITH, before the Public Bills and Orders were callcd, destred t3 ask a qusstion of the Government. The question of the Estimates was one o!f great import-- acrcse, ar it afforsted the amount of money Crown Lends Act and pat it under another head, _ Sabsequently, that policy was changed, and when theCrown Land Aoct o' 1860 was passed It was suppored that this provisiona wart repealed ; but, a1 ho had intimatod, it was fousd to have been sbifted. _ Now, Inasmuch as the provision in the criginal Aot was llm:ly per-- misaiva, the Government of the day decided, by an order in Council, that fnstead of piv-- ing this money to the muslolpalit'es in that wayr, they would in faturoepend 1t on colost-- zation roads Mr, LAUDER moved that the rems of ths Hozp. John McMurrish be sdded to the Hosyital Commitieo they would have at thoir disposal for all public grants, chearltable. educationra and otherwico. They also affsoted the ro-- mnssration of gent'eman on the Treasury Benches and members of the house. He wished ta know #f the Treasourer could in:-- form ths hourse when he would be prepared with the estimates for tho yoar. Hon. Mr. WOOD informed the kon. g5U> tloman that they wero making rapid progrees with the estimates _ Of course, it took asoms tims to print them--information bad to be preovured from various points, But he ex-- pested that in a short time--in the coursecf & couple of week:--ho would be able to bricg them dowr. Mr, BLAKE sald they wore hopirg to ad: joura by that time. THE REGISTRAR CF BRUCS. Mr, BL AKE referred to an address he bad moved for some time ago with referance to the dirmi{ssal of Mr, MoClay, the registrar of Brucse. He had been informcd then that the pspers wore at Oitawa, and assumed that the Government would have sent for them. There sppearc1 to him to be a good deal of unnecersary delsy in the matter. If the departments belonglirg to the Federal Gov-- ernmcent were not courtsouns enough to fur-- nith at tho earliest moment the information required by the Provincial Loglitlature--an expression of opinion from this Government to the Herds of the Dspirtments would en-- surs more speedy tranemission of returus. This particular return was one of considera-- ble importarce with reference to the subj The motion was then withérawe. idation ablited that provision from the H<SPITAL CoMMITTEE, matter of! a bill of which the hon. the Attor« pey--General had given notics --and he hoped the Government would make a representation in the matter. Hor, Mr. CAME&@ON sald that under the Confederation Act the Province was only entitled to receive auch doou-- ments relating to this portion of the Domlinlon as the Governor--General saw fit to give. The Government had certain orders, srapsmitting to them certain documents, and others had not yet come, but information bhad been sev$ that they were under the con-- alderation of the Governor--General in Council at presert. | INTZEREST ON ARREARS CF CROWN LANDS, Mr. LAUDER inquired whether or nok settlers going upon and occupylsg lands that have beon abandored by former settlers, with or without the consent of the Dapart-- mernt, will be charged interest ufion the purskate money from the date of the first occupancy or firrt agresmont made with the Crowr? " Hon, Mr, RICHARD3, la reply, said ke would merely stato what, he bslieved, had been the prastloo in the Crown Land Depart-- ment. If a perion purshated land--pald an instrlment or two, and then abandoned it-- that land was supposed to be bis in the 05e of the law, subject of caurse to the payment of the balarce of the purchase money. If the conditions of sale had not born complied wiih, the Comm!ssionoer of Crown Lands had the powser to cancel the sale OL courre these -- sales were all -- Hablo to forfeltaro, when the purochaze money orintorcat was not paid up, but before forfsiture, due notice would be given by advertising. With rospeot to tho ro--sale of theso lands after: wards, ho would state that whire a perton was found in postession of a lot,aud had made Improvements th:reon and desired to ssttle there, the practices of the Crown had been to give him a pro empstlon right, The Gov-- erumsnt had cancelled several salcs where the parties takinrg the lots had rot paid up, a~d where a porson went in and made !m-- provemests on euch lots, they hai been sold to the aquatters, If the person who wert on ths land was thore as the teprozent: ativo of tho firsst purcharer, he was treated as an assignee and called on to pay up. But whils stativg this much he did 1ot desire to encourage persons to go on theae laads in that way at prcosont, He would not with it _to be underatood _ that bosause a party thus went on the land he #ss to be entitlod to pro emption, Ozly in these cases woere partles had gore on there lanids and made improvements--cleared a mnuaber of acres--amed wore in porsession several years--were Government disposed to grant pre--emption rights, They ware shortly absut to doal with she wholo Crown Land | policy and did not therofore think is ad-- visablo to encourage Put!u to g'o on Crown Lands at prezent in expestation of pre: emption rights, Hon. J. S. XcDONALD moved the third reading of the tlll respectivng Prison In: apectors, Xr, CUMBERL AND said he rogretied his absence on a former occaslion when this mearure was before the house, It was pro: ;oled, he understood, to remove the present rizon Inspectors. Hon. J. 8. McDONALD exolained that theso gentlemen were now cfficers of the Domivston, and as the Government of the Province were respotsible for Prison disclpline and the administration of jeatice, they deaired to appoint persons over theso inatitations who would be urder tha control of the Provincial Government. Mr, CUMBERLAND sald that his object in rliing was to expross rogre'; that offisers to whom the Provincs h-fi been Indebted for valuable services should be relleved from their duties without some teatimony to their efficiency. He held in his hand a report cf the Imperial authorities with reference to lunatic asylums, prisons, &o, in which special reference was nfade to these Institu-- tions in Canada, and this testimony was borne to the results of the labour of Canadian priszou inspectors. 'The report says that "all Janadian institutions of this kind are under the control of a central bsard, to whom be: longs the _ oredit _ of _ the great Improvements _ _made ia there es« tablishments, The system of visitation acd reports now in use in Canada canro' be improved on." In arother part of the report it says--'"'All thesoe public hospitals, asylums, &:, are more or less under the control of the Board of Inspectors, and the reports cf thesa cfficers are clear, comprehensive, and practical," He (Mr, Cumberland), cc PRISON JINSPRCTORS--