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cUurDs.' _ " / ~ > Tke House went into Committee (Mr,. Lount in the chair) on the following motion of the + Attorney--(ioneral :--To authorise the deliv. ery of certain Registry Books in the county of Essex, to the Registrar of deeds of Wayne gounty in the State of Michigan, ove of the :United States of Amsrios. Hon, Mr, CARLING said that t»3 report would be la!ld on the table early mext week ; also the report of the departments of Immi-- gration and Agriculture. WAYNE COUX}'Y"LRHCBIGAN ) RE-- Mr. BEATTY introduced a Bill to enable the trustees of the Stanford Prosbyterian Charch to sell certain lands held by them for congregational purpores. ST. THOMAS. Mr, LUTON introduced a Bill to extend the limits of the corporation of the town of St. Thomas, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. Mr. BOYTD aaked the Hon. Commissioner of Public Works when the report of his de-- Ertment would be brought down. The ouse had now been in session for five woeks, and it was highly desirable that the Hovse should be put in %oueuion of this re-- port at the earliest possible moment. ELECTION PETITIONS. Hon. J,. S,. MACDONALD moved the House into Committee (Mr. Eyre in the chair) on a Bill to amend the law relating to Elec. tion Petitions, and for providing more effec. tually for the prevention of corrapt practices at elections for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The Committee rors and réported the Bill withon:' lm'?ndments. Third reading order-- sA Inr Mandaw ed for Monday, CIFY OF LONDON. Hon. Mr. CARLING introduced a Bill to enpclose a part of Church street in the city of London, and to invest it in the corporation. BTANFORD PRESBYTERILAN CHURCH. coNsUMERS' GASs COMPAXNY, To. RONTO, Hon. Mr. CAMERON introduced a Bill to amend the Act incorporating the Consumers' Gae Company, Toronto. MUNICIPAL INSTILUTIONS$, Mr., RYKERT introduced a Bill to amend shap. 52 of 290 and 30 Vic., relating to Muni-- cipal Institutions, THE ESTATE OF JOHN FLANNIGAXN, Mr. CRAIG (Glengary) introduced a Bill to relleve the estate of the late John Fianni-- gan, in the county of Glengary. _ Mr. RYKERT presented the ninth report . of the Committee on Standing Orders, ' STREETSVILLE AND PORT CREDIF RAILWAY COMPANY, Attorney--CGeneral MACDONALD presont. ¢d the sixth report of the Standing Commit. tee on Railways. The Committes reported the streouvil'ie and Port Credit Railway Company's Bill with amendments, PRIVATE BILLS. Attoraey General MACDONALD pre-- . sented the report of the Standing Committee en Private Bills. © J Ne ment Law. Mr. Beatty-:from the County Council of Welland, for an amendment to the Assess-- Frinay, Jan. 13. The SFPEAKER took the chair at 3.15 The following petition was received :-- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. The House then went into Committes on the Bill to render the Benchers'of the Law Society elective by the Bar thereof. (Mr. Fraser in the chair.) --~' On clause 5, feferring to the election of imembers by the inner and outer bar, Mr. BLAKE said he was not aware of thel' exact number of members within and with--| out the bar, but there was no doubt that the . former class was much less than the latter. 'The silk gowns had got their privileges al-- | read& and should trust in their merits for : election as benchers. He should deeply re:| gret to see that the endeavourto remove a | grievance of administration of the Law So-- elot¥ should be accompanied by what he must consider a fresh grievance. He was | quite confident that if the silk gowns trusted', to their merits, they would have ample re-- presentation. 'The clause would make a 1% © _ % ccl o Hiek Several verbal amendments, almds$ inaudi--, ble in the reporters' gallery, were made in the Bill. ; On the motion that the commitbee rise and! report progress, ; Attorney CGeneral MACDONALD | said | that out of the thirty benchers who would be elected by the bar, eightsen would be ; elected by the outside hbar, which was, he "thought, a fair proportion. He thought the | arrangement would be generally acceptable, and would be found beneficial. At any rate ; they ought to give it a trial, The class of i silk gowns ought to have some representa-- . tion secured to It, which probably might not -- be gained if the whole election were hrown i _ Mr. BLAKE said it was a source of: com :. siderable satisfaction to him that some of the various recommendations he had made in his Bill had been considered worthy of adoption, It was, however, a circamstance of surprise to him that the member for Welland (Mr. : Beatty), who had stated before bis constitu:. ents that he could not vote for that I'Sjlll be' enio Day HQ GUObRse MR t & C » cause the details were so bad, could find nothing in this Bill of the Attorney.--Cener-- al's to which he could object. (Hear, hear.) The committee rose, reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. BENCHERS OF THE L&W SOCIETY. r. En SPECEEE ETT EETIICC Emall class corporation, and he hoped the Attorney--General would agree that the clause should be struck out, He would move that this should be done. Mr. LOUNT said the object of the Bill was to break up the Association. But the clause five, which the hon,. member for South Bruce had complained of, would cer-- tainly have the effoct of creating a close cor-- poration, | The opinion of the profession was against close corporations, There was no reason why the Queen's Counsel should have any special privileges in the matter of eles tion, --He shared the views of the hon. m«» ber for South Bruce on this subject, (HMear, hear.) open. Mr. RYKERT said he could not follow his leader on this subject. There were Queen's Counrsel who had not attasined that position through their merit, but throagh the exercise of the patronage of the Crowa. Mr. BLAK E--Hear, hear. Mr. RYKERT said that the Bill had for its ubject the elevation of the profession, aad if go it would not create these class distinc-- tions,. As soon as a line were drawn be-- tween the outside and inside bar evils would be sure to arise. No man who had a desire to elevate the profession would select a re-- presentative unless the representative were & man who held a distinguished position ia the profession. He was fully persuaded that if the bar were permitted to exercise their in dependent judgment, it would be found that a large majority of those who would be elected to the benches would belong to the Queen's Counsel branch. He hoped the At-- torney--General would look to the large nam-- ber oythe profession outside of the bar, andi endeavour to meet their views, and thuas prevent an antagonism between the iaside and the outside bar, He hoped that the Attorney--(ieneral would plase all the bar on an equal footing. (Hear, hear.) Hon,. Mr. CAMERON said they must not forget that they were legislatling members out of oflice who were elected for life. The Government thought that it would be on'y fair to give an opportunity to the silk gowns to re--elect these gentlemen. He had no doubt the hon. momber for South Bruce wiou!d be elected a bencher of the Law So-- ciety. Mr. BLAKE sald he would much prefer being elected by the outside bar. (Hear). Mr, CAMERON said that individually he had declined to be a member of the society because it was a close corporation. He would himself be rather elected by a wider _ constituency than a nat owed something to the members of the society. Mr. PARDEE replied to the remarks of Mr. Cameron. He said the present meimn-- bers of the society had not baen elected be-- cause they were Qaeen's Couasel, but on account of _ their _ eminent qualities. They were not: legislating against the men, _ but against the system. If they Cid away with the system, he did not see why they should not re--elect some men pot membera of the inner bar. They should all stand on the same footing. The principle of the Bill was a good one, and is would be a misfortune if its good effects were hindered by the adoption of the claase as it now stood. Mr. COYNE said the men were there, and if the system was bad, it was no reason why something like the proporal of the Bill should rot be adopted. He thought that a plan like this might be carried cut--that a cer tain number of the present members of the bar «ho wore silk gowns should be re--ap. pointed, and the remainder thrown open to general election; eveatually the whole elec-- tions misht be thrown open,. «~Mr. BLAKE said that this proposal was not cquitable since there were members of the Society who were nok within the bar, who would nct be provided for under such an arrancgement. The present members were elrcted by themselves, and composed a c'lose corporation. The offices ~were not ones of emo'lument but af hosour, and the presen members had no room to complain, lsted between . subject bg::& &s 1o VAC DOBY INVUC UL WU--LAMIC: jng the elections, Mr. BLAKE suggested that there should be some provision for a simple mode of nomi-- ration and that the nomination should be ta wiiting, notice to be given in the G« :' a month before the election, * Kt thing, however, was done beyond ex-- ' punging the fifth clause, The committee then rose, reported progress | and asked leave to sit again on Tneufly. TORONTO, SIMCOE AND MUSKOKA JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. CUMBERLAND moved the third reading of the Bill to amend the Act passed in the thirty--third year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty, and intituied * Au Act to incorporate the Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Rall way Company." Mr. BLAKE said that though he happer-- ed to be a resident of the city of Toronto-- a city which had strong feelings on the sub-- ject of the Bill--he adhered to his old opin-- ion, that the legalising of these by--laws was a wrong proceeding in former cases and was wrong now. Hon, Mr. CAMERON sald he did n>t think the Bill carried more than a few cents on the dollar. Mr. CUMBERLAND said that he object-- ed as much as the hon. member for South Bruce to legalising by--laws ; but the object of the present B:fl' was to correct a clerical error as to figures in the Bi'l of last year. The Bill was read a third time and passed. GRANXD JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-- PANY. Mr. GRAHAM (Hastings)--Bill to enable the Municipalities along the line of the Grand Junction Railway Company to grant aid thereto, and to legalize certain by --laws granting aid to the eaid company, was read a second time and ordered to be re ferred to a Committee of the Whole on Mon-- day. Hon. Mr. CAMERON moved the adjoirn-- ment of the House. Mr. BLAKE confi.tulstod the Govern-- \ ment on the manner in which they had acoe!-- érated business, It was now twenty--iive l THE EDUCATION BILL narrow one. -- Still, they 'he men who were now