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".5&"_:.\.'*" >g. A > "uk . in .\ i yc F P NJYA :d it 4 4 ' 7 S R ~ O en ie give prominence to the matter in the House, | B o. fnissioner of _ Crown Landsd, was a fair and | _ ~ _ W 0) he would have an opportunity of correcting f ie f impartisl judge, and never waited to ask or i| = _ him there. 'The circumstances of the case --C i t think when deciding between claimant A or were, as well as he could remember, and he | _ $ -- claimant B. whether one or other was a .R.o- ' bad refreshed his memory by readiag the re-- B R _ former or a Conservative. In | England ports on the subject, these:--In the election the Lord Chancellior constantly -- dis-- 4 case under litigation the House would re [ {;:na of matters that come from the courts member that the sitting member was charged § ' low, and yet it had never once been sug-- with corrupt practices of various kinds, and P J © t'E'eJ even in the stormijest times, when po-- {for the first time it was charged as a corrupt 3. § t Eitical sentiments ran highest, that gfi.g practice, under our stringent law, that a por-- i U . k furctionary ever forgot his justice, or had zon should, by in/lammatory appeals to k /o ever been swaycd from the duty he owed to Orangemen in reference to the Sceott resolu« R n bis God and his country by political feel-- tions, and by making inflammatory appeals to P ing. If in England no such question Catholics of a different character, endeavour ~A M j s bad ever been raised, were we any worse in to secure their respective votes, At the } P € f this country; was our code of morality lower; | close of his, Mr. B's, address, the learned | [ t were we to be told that judges were not t(; , judge said to him "But you h'nve not met | 1 ' read the public prints, were to close their | Mrz. Harrisqn's argument in reference to this tA i eyes and their cars to everything political, I man Skifiin." Slflin was a man employed | P 3 f to have uo fecling, no sympathy? He felt to canvass the Orangeman, he being an ; ¥ sorry that the hou, member for East Toronto Orangeman and knowing 'their seatiments F § | skould, with his high standing in this House and feelings. He, Mr. B, then proceeded to f . 4 . ard at the Bar, have thought fit to commit argue that, according to our law it was not v $ ' 1: 'mself to such an opinion as that the sanc-- a corrupt practice _ What they were then 15A | B 1 tity of the Bench was affected by the depar-- | discussing was the dry _((iuestlou. of law, and Es ; a | ture from it of a jrdge _ Another point was in argument he had said that it was quite > | that, in the administration of justice, the legal to, employ a party man to canvass $ 4 | Attorney.--General should be of as unsullied those of his own class, and he cited worth as one of the judges of the land. _ H« | English authorities to prove that statement. A ccoupies much the same position as the Lord | He had said that it was manifestly impos. | t «bancellor does in England ; be recommends -- sible to canvass an Orange hody by sending ', the appointment of all the magistrates, prose-- | to them a Roman Catholic, that it was ne-- ,',. + cutes all criminals, and naturally has great | cessary to.oeud among them an Orangeman f e j veight with the judges, and he (Mr. B ) folt | familiar with their mindsa and thou?hta; and 9 s sure that all the judges on the Bonch felt ; he applied the same reasoning to the case of P $ gratified that one of their number had been P Roman Catholics; but he now denied, most | 4 chosen to fill the office of Attorney--Cieneral | dustinctly, that he ever argued the question : '. i ¥ He had considered that there should be 1 , as to whether it was right to inflame Ro-- ) ; W , strong expression of the opinion of the House | man Catholics and Orangemen agzunn't each | f in reference to this matter, and therefore he | other, _ The court was not the place to e . f bad spoken thus fully. (Applause.) There | | discues anything but the legal view of the f was another subject which he was sorry to | | case, and that was all that he had done. f cotice the Covernment had not seon their | He was not a member of any secret society. \ j way to deal with this session. They hail | He was, perhaps, as good a Protestant as , \Vs certainly given the House a large bill of | «n¥ ?"Pgem'"'; but be had enough charity ' fare, considcring the very short time during | and feeling towards Catholics to prevent hits j which the Attorney--Ccneral had been at the | from hurting their feclings in any way. In | «h head of the Government; but he was sorry ; his own county he had had Dr, Masso: /8 | to see that no notice h:d been takon of the | Bel_'an!bulatmq the country telling his co--re-- | * 3 . subject uf sheriffa' compensation, and he mon-- | gionists that he (Mr. B.) was "a bloody ) tioned it in case it had not occurred to tho | Orangeman," whilo at the same time Mr. } : Frst . Minigter, _ That hon. _ gontleman D'Arcy Boulton was equally busy informing A -- -- Maeust bhimself Euow the valug of the his friends that he was " a blondy L.fi,st, | s * services of _ that important -- class of (Laughter.) He had never before this has @ persons. Thers; was not in the an opgortunxty of giving contradiction to uh § country a class e persons better entitled to what had been said of him by the reporter, $ @ tE f considcration at'the hands of the CGovern-- no doubt by error, and he now gave it an un-- U A ment. Owing to the passage of the Insolvency qualified denial, (Cheers ) | ; & ( law and to the general prosperity of the On the 10th paragraph re'atiag to the pro-- I f J 3 enuncry, the salaries of these gentlomen had posed ertablishment of an In--briate Asy. 1 ) * tallen to nearly nothing. . Skeriffs who had lum, ; + ¢U formerly been in receipt of upwards of $3,000 Dr. CLARKE (North Norfolk} rejoiced to .. M ] > a_ year now only got about $100 or -- find that the Government were about to es-- } f C ££C0,. _ Of course tlt was gratifying \\ tablish such an institution. With regard to um 3 io krow that the country was in such a pros-- the speechas a whole it embodied a number of . M perous cendition, but they must remember important questions, and so far as the polic : I [ 3 that sheriifs were a necessary class, that they | of the Government was disclosed he hel;ortil; C m amust be gentlemen of standing and credit; approved of it. He regretted that more pro-- -- | Ne F iC .. could ask how it was possible they ] ress had not been made in the settiement of $ h a | sLou'!d maintain anything like the position in | %he division of the debt between Ontario and { P [A | soct iy which their office demanded of them | Quebec, He considered the proposition to f i \ \ , tpow calaries so wretched* He knew ons increase the number of Normal Schools J "P ! ve», respectable sheriff in this country--no somewhat premature, He hoped to sco an ooR d ubt be was 'A(D('/v"!l also to the leader of the amendment to our Assossment law., in con-- ' Ea e f , GCovernment--against wrhose character not & nection with the consolidation of our muni-- | { k :« woid bad beon heard, _Avhe uow was so poor cipal laws. ;Uoder the present law F3 $s | that be could not kepp a bailifl. and hardly the assessor was frequently appointed | | | ma: aged to keep orse, and he hoped the by a party, and sometimes discharged 's s | Government wonld enquim into the matter hig dutiecs in the inferest of the party ' 2| | ard deal with it, He was very glad indeed that appointed him, and bogus votes were ; | \6 $ | that the Government l.'u'l' seen _ their in this way made. He believed that the | N way to dealing with the Surplus Rand true cure f)t,)r many of the evile conzected /o W K ! {Lese _ was _ no . question -- on which with our assessments were the ballot and | td | the rcople felt so strongly, Each municipal-- manhood suflrage, both of which measures | I). J | ty fil; that there were many ways .a which "he approved of. He would even go as far as } OA / 0 | it could with benefit dispose of some portion to support universal suffrage.~ He trusted 1 l4 | of the money, No Government could exist that there would not be any delay in settling l N | bey ond the session that did not dispose of the North--west boundaries Delay lost us ; B 4 that matter ard the Municipal Loan Fund. Maine and San Juan, and it was to be hoped | t i9ge Hc felt very glad that it had ftallon to the we would not suffer similar disasters in con-- | / | lot of the present leader of Government to do nection with the North--west boundary. Hs | I d | so, although he himself would figrhap' have again expressed his hearty approval of the (~A> '} NB beon %ladly relieved of the task. BoSore he proposition to establii h an fnebriate Asylum, ¢{ sat down he wished to make a glorloml and he would also like to see a further stop | E " | explanation. The member for South Cirey, taken, and the traffic in intoxicating liquore | | ts a | }v:'im, lu!a wud sorry :oh see, was r;ot hin abolished. t 3. j (it M | is _ place _ darin e _ course o is mvy . -- { , | spe ech.,, had refe%red to an expression I'w. BdAI\%-' "-'z' 81';"11 to sele thak it was _ t $ 7R | which he said bke (Mr. Betbuno) had F§°P§i'° to lqu;a "fi? ;purp us and setile i j '% ___| used in the argument of one of the election flaa npmik ad oo en mdebwdne"'. He 6 "a M l cases in a court of law. It had been said had promised, his constifuents that if the |-- / J 2 __| that Mr. Bethune bhad used some tarribly a Government dld.'m' llnd.emketodo justice | | ® $p _ | strong language in reference to exciting to the old counties in this matter, he would l «l (: P | Orangemen against Catholic6; and Catholics not give them his support. He was told ' ©3 sgaingt Orangemen. A good deal had been | then by; an opponent that no Government . f 180 said in the press about the matter, but ha would dare to undertake that question; but F ; had not felt himself called upon, lawyer as he was glad to find that the Government were | R . he was, to defend any utterance he might bold cnough to grapple with it. He held a -- B a . M have made in court, although he had been very high opinion of the late leader of the i | § } . Yao misropresented. -- Although pressed at the Government, Mr. Blake, but he rejoiced that & * time to make a correction of the misunder-- he had been succeeded by so able a man, i ( 4 \wf _ standing, he allowed the matter to pass, be-- whose return to public life was a source of / } | D \,_i cause he know that if any gentleman chose to gratification to the whole country, He i # P ; * \ ae ¥ * *' l l e e i n i o o t i . s e 1 i im