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ii?fuir. M: to F a"hillli) lilll'llllllllllilll'l 0 W ' . ----_--- tMill) pNittja'itir---Tllliiil mtlir'tl, -------i-----" i, , FRIDAY, Jon. 9. J The Speaker took the chair at 3 demo!" 1 PETITIONS. l '.r. mm: 'st'.1' usruton apeei.biou rm" not It, Morton at it. ot St Cam-macs. In?" l irq for ur- Act to inmqmml" thes 30mm); l pathic CoWp. cd Physicians and Surgeons o Ontario. . . Dr, ()LARKE presented aps'vition 1'"? ing tor a murder Auk. M r. MUEC'TEI'I'H presented a petition from Henry Arderrett and others for an Act." prevent the opening deem-.3: ,fir,,j'i,t,'aa'i11f I thron ' the wounds ot the 3"" re T ' at 'it-tgd. " Also from the County Council of Middle-ex, praying for tho some. Also from the l founty Councilof Middleman tsslrirag tor murderous: tome lacunae Law. Also from the some body, whinglfor the removal of the regisi.ry milieu from Glance.) to Stratu- toy. THE ADDRESS. Mr. HARDY, in moving the adoption cf, the Atltlrerr- trusted the customary indul- - C0 and forbearance would be extended to iSi'll upon this woolen. After paying . tribute in the imbued Handing of the hon. gentleman who forvwrly represented the cnmstitustry for which he liar been roturn- I ed, he raid that -huin;; the past years law» relating to elmoht awry sulijrcf and requirv ing undivided attention, had been plagued upon the Statute book, and, therefore. it struck him that the prugrsinme would be somewhat. morgue; but. on the contrary, measures were indicated which would, no doubt, involve a good deal of discussion and severe criticism, and £01139 mount-er in the passage of which the whole gauze could unite. At all ewnts, he felt a.atisfird that w'atever measure wanll be- introduecd it would receive the serious con. f sideruticn of both sides of the House. . The i tirtrt measure refcrzod to in the Speech related ' to the School Laws of the Province. He was ' not aware whether these Bills related exclu- sively to the smendment of the law, or whether they also iavolvud cotstsolidati AI of the law as it stood. Prolrsbly the chase re- ferred to both amendment and consolidstion, but whichever it "right be, it was one of those museums upon which all parties in the l House could unite. It Wu 3 measure of the moat vital importance to the Welfsz-e end well being of the country at lar tr, and would, he was sure, receive tho 'il/tffl',',] consider- ation from every member of the House. One 1 of the complaints against the lensethey staid to-dsy wu, that they were almost un- intelligible to the trustees elected to administer the uthirs of the licality end to the proferGonnl men. There had slim been a complaint that there wars a tendency 'to centralise and absorb the powers of the , Local Boards. He would not express his' opinions on these points, but would simply say that, whether the object of the Govern. ', meat was consolidation or amendment, he hoped simplification might accompany 5 codifiation, (Hear, hear ) Iittsy were next i informed in the Speech that A Ballot Bill 1 would be introduced during the present ses- 3 sion. That law had bran in force in Eaglaml l, for some time, not through any gencnl elec- tion, but in the number of elections that bod occurred there since its adoption. He be. lieved all parties concurred thatit worked admirably. The law was for a long time battled and defeated on the ground tint it was un-British, but that argument was no longer available. The Bill was edoptcd probably by three classes of men-lira: t 1y, by honest men ' secondly, by em- l players of lsbour, who could control i a large number of votes; and thirdly. b the l professional briber, who thought it would be impossible, under this system of voting, to to bring to light his latest purchases with absolute certainty. la Australia the law worked well, end they were told it answered three excellent purposes t the prevention of bribery, the securing p630!) and quietness at elections, and it ambled every man. no mst. ter what pressure might be brought to btssr uponhim, to vaptetccordjngto the diotateaot his wavicticn. In his, opinion, it would be no