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tr. the Hon. Mr. Mackgzvo, the petition oi . G. M3300 and when, of London, pay. has that the Bill for the construction of the Car ads 1uuehtsrngtaiidiy B: am.'a to Lindon, lay pm. Br Mr. Sinclair, the petition of Walter Main-lune and others, of Bruce, Paying for . "I t'lg mutants to the Schoo Act. ' y . Hod th lti thoConnt g'giiiiiih"ii1tr2tg,tt Il,',", 1'7th 'di sum nlitlliliEiir-rIm SESSIOI. THURSDAY, Feb. 15. The SPEAKER took the chair at "no. TORONTO. FRIDAY, FEB. 16 El): Mobs. PETITIONS. By Mr. Patterson, the petition of lelkun l Watson and others, of Weston, also of J. . lonervllle and others, of Weston, By Mr. Sinclair, the petition of Wil'iam . Alston! and others, of Paisley, may: "stanza on 'ii'iG'ff'iiid Tilda. _ "'"iri1"i'llTi7l,Tt By Mr. Monk, the petition of the County Council at Carleton, pray ing for the repeal of lab-section 12 of section 341 of the Municipal ct. By Mr. Lauder, the pet'ti m of the Tomr Ihlp Council of Proto, praying that certain lands in the hauls of norrretsidente in th M; Township may be sold to squatters at a val. union. By Mr. Perry, the petition of Reuben Wilcox and others, of Tilaonburg, paying an the Bill to incorporate the village of Tillonburg as o town may not pass. By Mr. Ardogh, the patition of Ree A Stewart and others, of Orillta, alto of John Dodson and others, ot Buds, By Mr. Patterson, the patitian of J _ Smrr. vllle and others, of We stun, By Mr. Guest, the petition of Issue lor), and others, of Mischell, Severnlly praying fer the tsMia'rluumen?, of m Inebriate Asylum. By Mr. Deroche, the peublon of John B Athaworth and others, of Newburgh, By the Hon Mr. Cameron, the posit-i 'n of W. W. Ogden and others, of Toronto, By Mr. Clarke, (Wellington) the wslci :n of W. T. Blyth and others, of Garafrax I, By Mr. Patterson, the pet/i/ara of Wiiliam Wataon and others, of Weston, By Mr. McLeod, the petition of Rev. W. tk Puooe and others, cf Bowmsavllls, By Mr. Webb, the petltlun of John F. Burman and others, ol Brighton lomervllle and other'a, of Weston; -. Mr. CAMERON raised a point of order By Mr. Sinclair, the petition of William ' that the 50PM} could not be adopted without Listen! and others, of Pauley, two darts notice. By Mr. McLeod, the petition of Rev. W. ' pr. BOULTER had not been aware of B. Pucoe and others, of Bowmanvdle, F the, and offered to thhdraw the motion, By Mr. Clarke, (Wellington) the petition ! After Home discusaion. W. I. Blyth and others, of tlaratraxs, .. The SP? AKER ruled Us. Banker's tno. Sevonlly praying for certain restrictions in the sale of spirituous 1'qaora. RESIGNATION tliRf LATE TREAS- Dr. BOULTER, chairman of the commit- tee appointed to inventigate tne circum- etancee connected with the reeigmtlon ot the late Treasurer. presented the report of the committee. He moved the adoption of the report. [the report of the committee, and the result at which they arrived, will be loud in another column ] would recollect, as hed already been started in the House, that before recess the hon. gentleman charged him with having made a corrupt bargain with the hon. member for South Brant; that ho stated tint evideme would be produced after recess; that he re- peated the charge and the statement at varl. ous beatings throughout the country ; that in moving for this committee he had not touched upon the question of proof ; that he (Mr. Blake) reminded the House ot his promise and challenged him to produce the proof; that he replied by daring him (Mr. Blake) to deny the charge ; that he did deny it; that the hon. gentlemen did not accept that denial, but moved for a committee to investigate the charge, and, for the first time, proposed to enquire whether other members ot the Administration had been concerned in the nefarious transaction with which he (Mr. Blake) alone had been previously charged; that he was offer ed the opportunity ot saying whether he charged all or any other members of the Government, and promised that if he would name him or them, the names should be inserted in the resolution, or that, " not then prepared to name them, the names should be nserted at any future time when he was so prepared. He had thought it necessary that the hon. gentleman should have the opportunity of proving the charge he had dare tomake against himself orwhioh he might dare to make against any other mem- ber ot the Government.' But, as leader of the House, ysd looking to the Lust that what was then berng done by a member of the Op: pontion might, at any future time, be done by a member of the Government, he was bound to see that some degree of regularity should be observed, and that there should be no reference to a committee of anything which was not charged. The hon, gentlemen had refused to prosecute the charge against him because he was not allowed to enquire whether any other members of the Govern~ ment, not charged, were gu ilty, m had mytuaod to "pport hh, charge, he had refused', to prove hi. charge, if he could, and he had' refused to retract his charge when he found he could not Prove it. He (in. Blake) he Jttagi, the pmaantation ot I re I PA. 830mm. of 'r,1f,',t,h,P"cyr.lhiti Mr. CAMERON said that; when the Gov. ernment took the investigation ot this matter out of his hands, they made the declaration that the investigation should go on, and thst nothing should prevent it. But the iuve sti- ttht had not been prosecuted. He had no notifioation of the meeting: of the committee except through a clerk. The com- mittee could have summoned him it they wanted him to attend. He had suggested the difficulty in which they were placing themselves by assuming to be the accuser and the accused at "the same time, and modifying the resolution which he had presented. He told them they were taking it out of his hands, and they had selected a committee themselves. When any other committee ot six was appointed, they considered it fair to have it composed of three members favourable to the Govern, ment and three favoura'oh, to the Opposition; but in forming the committee to investigate the charge contained in his re:ofution they adopted quite adiifrrent proportion. He knew they would attempt to make nothing of it, bat would just go through the fame of having an investigation, am. they must take the consequences ot it. --- w... "aMrtd we [Intonation of the committee':, report, that he had lh, all-launch g, oomplddnt, been? {if ' . qt 05, 09 Mutt hi n roan or il br' * tf '_.i_". -- _'t1h8..tt, Mr. BLAKE remarked that It had been impossible for him to presume that the hon. gentleman would have taken tho course whioh he he! chosen to take. The House 'not only to those two members, but to alli the members of the House. It must be otr ivious to members on both sides of the House 1 that the member for East Torontohsd seught to get rid ot the responsiblity resting upon him of making these charges. Having fallen Into error and taken some {also steps at first, instead of accepting the explanation and de. nial, as he should have done, he had added Insult to injury by reiterating that he had mot been fairly treated. m believed the I House would sustain the committee. ', Mr. PRINCE entirely agreed with the hon. member who had last spoken. He had 'oonsidered it quite proper; and in the power of the committee, that they should express a strong opinion of condemnation of conduct such as that of the member for East Toron. to. (Hear, hear.) He had desired that they should report; that they could not too strongly express their disapprobation ot an accusation made and not only unsupported, but accompanied with a contemptuous disre- gard of the' court of justice, which the com- mittee constituted, before which that accu- sation was to come. Mr. GRANGE, in tecondlng the amend ment, said he was not an opponent of tA mount Governm 'sRtc,tt.yt 7,3139! _Qppose tht Mr. SINCLAIR said he could not undo steed what ull this sound and fury w about. (Hear, hear ) He sold the Ellery o the Speaker should correspond with th dignity" of the oflioe. Had the lute Govern ment proposed to Increase the Speaker' sultry, he would not have opposed it. H could not see why the Speaker lulu-y shout it, less than that of one of the omcisls of th ouse. Mr. LAUDER objected to the item, claim hag, however, that the Speaker was on mus respected on this " on the other side of th House. He proceeded to refer to the Pro ton enquiry and the Committee appolaUd tr inveetlgete the resignation ot Mr. E B Wood; and oharaotethm1 them as the he mier': "dirty ioU" (Cries of "Ord er.") Mr. McCUAIG said he would vote for th increase, apart. from party considerations. Respecting the establishment of reghtry tyffioea in tidings, and to amend the regis- tration of titles (Ontario) Act. I Tc amend an Act ot the Province ct Oats. aria, intt'mled, " An Act to amend the Agri. cultural and Arte Act." To musclidatc and use d the Jamie: cm- tootlon ot gum and imitating animals in OAMO. adary at; $1,000. - we"- ---_ -"i"'""""" to the increase in the Speaker's salary, $1, 500, which he thought was 'xttatgyit'o': high. He intended his remarks should ap- ply not to the S eaker, but to the oirroe I Be thcught that E salary given is: the last Speakr r--81M0--wt" "ftir:iisnt, m moved] in amendment that the report; be not now re. ceived, but be referred back to the Commit-' tee cf the "EvAhole, to insert the Speaker'ar tion out of order. The House also received the report; ot the? committee on the Bill to further' provide for the registration of otrryr)aehiiis, aud of , other banners firma. Third reading to.mor. i row. SUPPLY. Mr. MACKENZIE moved the reception of the report of the Committee of Supply. The items of expenditure, " far " " legum- tion," were agreed to. The following Bills were read Cl third time and paused:- The House received the report of the co 11-: gafd to the Judge: mittee on the Bill to provide for the inetitu- l were much more tion of suit: ageinat the Crown by Petition: quite " ef%ient, , of Bight, and respecting procedure in Crown} of County Judges. wits. Third reading tomorrow. n no"... a. and, To Incorporate the North Shore Silver Mining C(mpany. To incorporate the Shank}: Silver Mining G mpany. To incorporare the Spencer Silver Mining Company. To incorporate the Dunkin Silver Mining Compuy. '10 authorize the corporation of the city of Kingston to negotiated loan for four han. dred and seventy thousand dollars, to con. solidate the city debt by the issue of blehen, taxes, and for other purposes. i To [Doormats the thustees of the First; Evangelical Lutheran (SS. JoU'a) congrega- tion, of the township of Ellice, in the county of Perth. To amend the ab arbor of the Ont-9,"! bon Oil Company, Hamilton, Ontario. To incorporate the International Silver Mining Company. _ fl? hcgrporate the Superior Silver Islands To authorize the maintenance of certain dams on the Salmon River, in the township of Kennebec, and for othv.r pup-3:95 icreu2 mentioned. " To amend an Act Ipuiuud, an Act to rlneor,. potato the Fenelon Falls Railway Comvaay. REPORTS OF COMMII'I'EES. In respect to the item of legislation, Mg. H]. S. MAprNéLQ tqok gxcoptjqn It uc mpary. THI RD REA DI " "s ue ot {deben- Mr. MCCUAIG moved, seconded by Mr. MCRAE, that the item of 810,000 for the Act to 'neor. Judges of the Superior Court. be struck out, , Cotneaay. because it is inexpedient to chuge the "A revenue of this Province with the proposed 1'31". payment. m considered that the luluiea :ot the con- paid to the Judges were quite ttuffieient, and the iamtita. were much more than those paid to men by. Petitions! quite 1ttm,olts,rlt, who only held the position to "wt- d oil Alter reacts, l mow The Home went into committee on th? ',, following Bills, after which they were ordered I J! " to be read a third time tomorrow '.- SECOND READINGS. The following Private Bills were-reMi , second time and referred to u committee of s the whole Home tomorrow t-- _ . C To antliglrlze St $',t,f, of 1i'i"'ii'i',tiiiii'liij, . ommon ea an oory or n n to i 'tlie,,!,,',,,,,:?.),,:!...)-?",,,","," Locum Gordo - ' To amend the Act passed fourth year of her present M l ohaptered thirty-eight, and in Act to incorponte the Credit Va Company, and to extend tht ferred upon the Nd compeny." To mend the severe! Act. r Toronto, Grey and Bruce mm: To incorporate the Toronto General Trusts Company. To enable the corporation of the City of Hamilton to clone certain etreete in the said city, and to veet the same in the corporation of the city of Hamilton. To incorporate the Trinity College School. To authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Punt, and Chancery, in Ontario, to admit Jamel Fleming to practice a mnttor- '; ney and lolloitor therein. 1 To close Rosina street, in the town of l Dundee, in the county of Wentworth, and I to vent the name in the corporation of the l town of Dnndaa. To gnocrponte the Toronto Oil Works Ar. sociahon. item, " 1.. thrkrist tiiiriii?xi'l"l"lM. neceuary. Mr. ROBINSON laid that he could not no what harm there wan in the Ministers re. dnoing their own salary, and giving M of the reduction to the Speaker. There had b em a great deal of bunoombe tttoat the motion. (Hear, hear.) The member for South Grey and his con-tummy. had cost the Ca. vernment more Tfrner-1n the time the occupied in the debate, than would PI! thi, 8peaker's salary four tlmea over. (ktat, hear,) Mr, COBBY said that It the wage: of the poor messengers and watchmen were raised from a dollar a day, he would not object t this Increase. But as matters now stood 11., would vote against it. To authorize the Cobourg, Petsrborough and Marmara Railway and Mining Company to extend its line of railway, and for other purposes. Mr. ment. Mr. RYKERT was sorry that he could not agree with his friends on this side oi the House, " to this amendment. m was (me of those who believed that the Speaker of this House should receive a reirpeatturleia. lary. H e thought that the salary ofthe Glen should be raised, for his services were mast valuable. Then there was the Serpent-at Arms, who did not get a labourers wages ; and it was a diegrace tothe lestGovcn ment that they had not raised the 2:13.; of that odio1sr. m hoped the Government would remedy there matters next session. Mr. BLAKE aid they were bound ta pay this money by Act of Parliament. It was only a matter of form putting that sum in the estimates. Mr. McCUAIG moved that the vote of 810,000 for the J udges of the Court of Error and Appeal be disallowed. Mr. BLAKE pointed out that the Referee in Chunbere performed judicial functions, similar to those for which the Domia. ion paid in the other provinces. With reference to tho. salaries of officers generally, the Government had felt that it would be their duty to become familiir with the working ot the otiitms and the com- parative merits, of the cffiamn, before prop M. ing an increase in their salaries. m did not think it desirable to propose an lncreue in the salary of the head of one branch of the Court of Chancery simply because the head of another branch had a larger salary. The amendment of Mr. Pr S. Macdonald was then put and lost. Yeas, 18; nus, iii. YEAS--hnmm. Ardagh, Boulter.Calv1n, Code, Corby. Ferguson. litzeimmons, Lauder, McCall, McCallum, Maedonald (Lee Manna, Merrtelr,Monteittt, Tacky, Weir.-. The House then went into committee of supply, Mr. Wood (Victorin) in the chair. Mr. BODGINS called attention to the dlf. ference in the ulsrlel allowed to odioem of the Court of Chancery. m hoped the G ov. ernment would see to u more equitable dir tribution in another year. Mr. BLAKE gold that the Govssrnsnec: had laid before the Rouse all the informstirr, that they could obtain. The late Govermno,u: did not get out information on thia subject till the month of May. And the present Government, coming into ofiioe at the end oi December, and in the middle of a session, had done all they could to procure every item of information possible. The House received the report of the Mill. mittee on this item. On the item for administration ot justice, $201,205, FAYtr-hiesxrs. Barber, Baxter, Bethune, Bhkwarl: tie, Clarke (Kerwin) C1arlttt (W e11iogton,) Clemens, Cook, Craig (Glengarry,) Crooks. Cmsby, Baum Deacon, Demons, Fairbaxrn. F'arerret',Fcdayann G d breath, Gibbons. Glbeon, thffsat, Guest, Hamilton Harxmgton, Tiodgins, McCuair. McKcllar, MacKm ge,_McKim, McLeanJ Mensa, Monk, Oliver. Pale The main Potion-tleg/tion), was then carried; and the report of the committee a: to the, item ot $116940 60 wu adopted. Item for Colonization Rtndtr--t79s705 4" Mr. RY KERT asked for information. Mr. SCOTT laid on the table a Iago rm; of the country through which it is prepay; to construct the roads. -. __-_-._' __-_'--, _...-v. "'41.... vAAvut. qucc Patterson, raxton, Parry, new. Ilnb1nson, mm; Mott (Ottawa) Benson, Sinclair. Smith Spriugar Williams (Durham) Williams, Gammon.) Wilson Wow, (Bx-ant.) Wood, (vtuera.y--51. It being Mr o'ehmk, the House rose, 1 Hurry-eight, and intitnIed " An oorporete the Credit Valley Railway ', and to extend the pawers can on the said company." and the severe! Acts relating to the Grey and Bruce Bellamy Company. CALVIN would vote for the 1mm. HOUSE IN COMMITTEE. to..1heiyGTi"ii'iiiUiriG;ig1't, Act Peed, in the thirty. "