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Three petitions were Eamonted in favour of e Prohihitory Liquor w. SCHOOL LANDS. Mr. LAUDER moved tint the House will, on Friday next, resolve ital! into n commit- tee to consider the (allowing resolution: - "That, in the opinion of this Home. there Is no just meson why settlers on interior School Lends should not have the some mes- snre of relief " settlers similarly situated who are oconpsnts of ordinary Crown Ludo; and that settlers on School Lends will have just grounds of oomplsint unless this House takes immediate steps to secure to them the full advantages ot recent legislstion regard. ing lends occupied by them.' m said that the subject had been' discussed " some length in the lust Parliament., and verv ltronn Mr. Gow-hom the Township Council of NoDougall, for certain mondmenta to tho Municipd Act. Mr. Finurtta--Prom John Miller and others, of Dun-Mu, for certain mamlmunts to the School Act. Mr. Wells, From the County Council of Hmoe,for certain smmdmcnbl to the Asaess- no" Act. Mr. Patterson-Prom the Township Coun- cil of Etobicoko. paying tint tho site for the Agricultural College " Mimico may not be ubandom-d. Aho-From the County Council of f :rey,for an Act to unite tho county of Grey for ragin- tration pnrpoael. gourd had been tnken by Mr. Bare sud ooe won-king with him in the direction of the motion he (Mr. Lender) now made. This View had been supported by the resent Commissioner of ublio Works. ft was argued by the then Government that they could not deal with the question until otter the arbitration between this Province and Quebec had been settled. The Opposition " that time contended that it wee merely n mutter of tytoerkasepitqr, end could be deelt with immediately, They also held that the reports of tho "laatorr, should be cent to the House, and should not be kept oaqtidtsntiale in the Crown Lands Uepnrtment. He quoted from Ttut G Lonx on editorial to chow that it y" then the opinion of the (:gguition perty that the ndjuttioation of the all for reduc- tions on School Lends wns n monstrous power which should not be placed in the heads of the Gomayuaioner of _Crown heads. Mr. Mr. Wood (Victoria) - From W. Hun-kin and others, of Unlwny. praying to be relieved trom a certain by-luw. Mr. Scott (thi-Prom the County Coun- oil of Gmnregpeotitsg the distribution oi the nurplnn. t?ttrporating the Toronto Gd Nipiuing Railway. Mr. Wood (Victoria ---F'men Trustee- g. tk Noe. 2 utili, (lic,')?.",', for oeetattt annulment: to the School Act. Mr. Baxter...- From L. D. Hugh and other; of Toronto, for ttertainarnkuimertt. to the Medical Act. Mr. Deamnv--lhmnGrand Lodge of L.0.L. Aarooiatimt of British America, Tt ing that the Act- to inc rate the L o..' Annocietion of Eaton 'l,'l'l%'l't,','l Ontario, my pan. Mr. Baxter-Prom A. M. Dingwnll and others, M Toronto, for oortnin amendment! to the Medical Act. . Mr. Wood (vieort'a)--Prorn the Town. nhip Council of tSomerville. praying to be re. licved from n certnin by-lew raced by the County Council of Peterboroug I in favour of the Q end 0. R. Co. Also-me the Township Council of Ops than lune clfect. Mr. qrmtt--it'rotrt the Township Council of Scarborough. for certain amendments to the Act to amend the Act incorporating the T. & N. R. Co. Auo-- From J. w. Fitzgerald and others of Echelon, to the lame offoot. Blake had contended an: the Common School Ludo' Fund In not . tun fund, end should be dealt with a well u the can: land. of the Province. If the dominio- mevmmr, February 26. The Speaker took the chdr " 3 o'clock. " mTON J. Mr. f1erntrr-- From tho Town-hip Council at Markham, for and]: Meat. to {he a?! Pr, you)» limo. to may» Aptt Im MtlUEitt--ttatg 838M- Llliill8lArlllEtFaugn Hon, Mr MvKELLAR Bald the hon mem- ber for South Grey had endeavoured to show that the Government had abandoned the priseiples they had advocated on the other side ot the House. In refutation of this charge he quoted from a speech of Hon. Mr. Blake, and referred to the occasion upon which the honourable member for South Grey voted afloat the Government. as he biieved if e voted against the inter- eats of is constituents on this question he need not show himself in South Grey again. He (Mr. MoKrllar) maintained that it was dishonest for the hon. member from South Grey to gable and misrepresent a speech in the manner he had done that of M r. Blake. Be (Mr. McKellarl simply rose to show the Inconsistency of ha hon, friend in stating that they were not carrying out the principle they advocated when in (xpoeitien. He was in favour of 'dh/pi, e settlers on the eutool lands, and he oped they would be able to enter into some arrangements with the Quebec Government for the relief of those settle-re. Mr. SINCLAIR laid it wu not just that Ionic": who had telected a poor lot, and had not bun able to pay for the land should be compelled to my the valaa, tion price. He contended that settlers on mum school lands ware n am A: entitled to th reducmun as upon other iande He con. curred vuvh the resolution of his hon. friend from South Grey. Mr. MU}; 1'EI I'H advocated the reduction of the pried of taboo! lands. Mr. SCOPE (C rev) hid the honour- oble member from South Grey an! bin-aw were dee ply interested in these school lands iuun tteh u in the municipnll- tits they n presented there were large quan- titiva of the school lands. He pointed out that some of the buds in different parts of the country varied in quslity, and he thought . fair and proper reduction should be msde in the price on the inferior lands in order that the some justice might be done tothe persons Occupying these lands an UI been meted out to settlers on the other side of the line. Mr CAM EROS ssid that he hoped the hon. member for North Bruct cur. Sinclair) had been hm ning to the hon. Commissioner, sud would fellow out the rule laid down by him for the member for South Grey, and would vote for the Opposition in future. Ac cording to the theory laid down by hon. gentlemen opposite there was no reason why s reduction rhould be made " once. He did not know whether the policy of the Govern went had been expressed by the Commission or of Crown Lands, or by the Commissioner of Public lands. The former gentleman seemed to control the Government-, and he would rather sc opt his statement es the oiliriul one. The hon. Oommiaeioner of Public Work! ought to have listened to win; his colleague ssid before expressing his own Vle'lv cause he could not they rely upon the valuation of the valuatore. Whether it would be wise to reduce the price of these Common School Lend! will lower it In: for the House to decide. He was quite rep-red to be governed by the daemon of tie Home. Hon. Mr. SCOTT said it was quite natural the hon. member should try to represent the "clings of hit conetitnente. He repuduted the ineinuation that his Department we! governed by political eonudoratiott. In the mmgemeut of " Department he knew no mm politically. He tut',", there " the tmtee of the people, an he was Inlet ouring to diechnrge that trust t.aittty.ilr and honourably. The chuge ngatnet bun wan, that he was too generone with the Crown damnin, rather than too nlggerdly. If be erred at alt it was in being too gene- rous. Be explained that thou land: bed already been reduced in price oneiitth, and that Ontario's shore in them only amounted to 37 cents an ncre. They had already re- duced their share of the Common School Fund by about one-half. If the House wished he would be p~rfectly willing to lay the books of the valuatore before the House. m was quite wallmg to allow any member to go into the Department and examine any of the books ctPtidtastu1U, and give him ad. vice " to the reduction. There was great 1Pe1ty, in connection with that matter, be. s'ioner of Crown Lsnds did not spprove of all ' the vnhtationq, he should tell the" House what townships he sooepted and what he dissp. proved of, sad the" new vslnstions should be made " ohcs. Hon. (abdomen opposite had msde it an elsction cry that justice was not being done to the settlers on school lands, sud yet they now were eating their words and retraining insotive, and ststing thst tr, could not deal With the matter. m, . mitted that this was s didieult question to deal with, but that fact did not relieve the Commssioners from the responsibility which he had uudertsken. Mr. WOOD (Brant) pointed out the diifi