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" grant. Thin he connidered we: n Provincinl matter. The Common School quution was nutter of local hnportanoo, while the other, n he told before. wee of .Provlnolnl imp» twee, and ehould therefore be paid out of tho Proviroinl Euheqner. He submitted that tho when way Would u to nuke grunt- ont of the Public Exchequer in aid of then (hammer S. hook it they were in a languish- Ing crndltion. He observed that an attempt was to be nude to obtxin for the Journal qf Hlae, tiontsometegiaVtiivttteioa. l'he Cort of the publication of that paper cm $2,500 a your, and we: meleiv n mush wade paper; no fat " worth In: one ttrrrted,; If the. informtti-in it was (haired tn puhli m were printed upon nu extra. eheet of Lhe Gout, c it could beprinted for sboat $30 l, m." uve the expenditure of 82000 nnnunlly With regard to clause tH. M t , the govern mentofnew N orrnalshoohs.ho thought there was time enough for legislation in th it dime. tmn. H e thong", with rcnpect to the 'N heel 1hspoatt"ry, the G "rertvttettt h u "uken a course which would common-l itself '.. em ry gentleman in the Hun-a .tnd it Would remove the cnuao' f. r complaint which it had been consider-oi tic-ted. There Were a aara'oisr of other pm- ' "out! with which he ngrceJ. " was utter "t ititstalrle for the Government to brim; '.' en a measure which Wuuld meet with th ' nnnin nus nuppuvt f every see-tint: of. t r: ,ltqttt then The next beet thing to. the! he had pn-poeed to bring the Cannon! In har- mony nth the people had been ndopted Another "neon why the Council u, been A 'eilm'uthetwhen theAct at Mr.Nuiuld Macdonald in woman attempt Wu mngle to centralize the power. The result of that Art m tie wage of rognletione ot Canal _', ed in reference to school hm see. which pro "tied for the inspection of echo ll house, end, in the event of there not being adequnte no 'oauno,Gtiort, for t w 'eeonatrxaction of Itt', Ichool hon e. Tnin "3 I'r-und tower unfairly. In coma ia. staneo the school aoeomtutHatioa was 8" at], l-npo rior tothe accommodation in the home- of the children. He consider-:21 thst P such imbue" both cases should be taken P.to ortvsidrruiott. Ha, however, 1min tuned that the Council J Public Instruction had not power to make th. M "minions The Incubate of thnt Council nevumel p m on not v: red in them try titatato--ho did not " inrrntionalir. " wee prnroeed h -x tend the mmpulnory chase- o the Act bf 1870.r Hie hon friend aid he propovd to. alleviate them, bat he f 'dr Ethane.) couid cred it we: an extension of them. It we: not npleunnt duty for my person to become a prosecutor, and then, was nothing more dun mu. than to prouonte omN neighbour if there wee one thing more invidimu than another It unto prosecute n men for not main, iiirili'iiiiri to school._ my. comm!- not attending sound, and the lefiahtimiu this patina" had been e deed other, and he believed thin wn legialetion in the wrung (Maegan: Ttr.' law Tou/d be, it the Bill yore Iggy; impossible to lo ' lsto gain" the anthems; of the people, 3: also objected to the chute ouet:peliiDg" Cagney (2011901119) also mm: in compelling Conn? Gounod: to also mm: in "sch-cawm} gqiva. ent. fo 'het G?yerrtpttn', Ithtt that the union-hunt; mm who kept in child from school would have to pay " u , a} tyr kergipq _ his ,hihira troy Home. Immune each mm knew the neck o' todtffereut partauf the catchy. Ho tr.. nevrd there an Add be an uttamw mmla u " uly to make the legmutiun as fair M pow ' le, but duo to "who it upp'aru' far. :0 ever y section of tho community. sM,r CALI I said there Rre,e. tow qacsti My c, winch time was Bo mn h Inherent mun "trted. The peeple in his section of ttr. aountry were gum, alarms! with regard t» ugh-1.5km in this retpect, and th y 'lcsirei umndmul-t of thm law He ohisctud to CI -, using of the ataadard of the Iuhoo's. The, maple were not prepared to brin up th., Gammon School and sholish the 1§ra¢nmr School. He wu opposul to the great power: muntothe Council of Public Instruction, m1 said that in Committee he Vault! Present o memorial from hm constituents ia mder to chow what their feelings, worn Ho strongly deprecated the pulling down of school houses, and went on to at": that the .isottoo1 u, had alggdy_ killed one political p.713,- a he would quorhke to sir that 'd thin lull were pulsed, another party would he killed. (Imughter) The librarian worn an unneceaury expense to Common schools, for the boukl were not rend. Ho 3110 ohjrctod to the present system of lu, "motiongud would oppose the Bil now bs. znto the Hume. It by __fpund yam-(y o Mr. CURRY was pinned to see. the man- ter in which the Bill we! "oeived. I.1ts wotild much usher have seen I men-ere In: trOduced for the consolidetion of the School um, with regard to the Council of Public ltustrttetion, He thou ht the selective feature introduced would add to the populemy end ; oifieitmsy of that body, and he would like to i We the ieprestntytion of school teachers in- 1 creased be) and that proposed in the present Bill. He could not egree with his honourab e. friend from Lincoln. that the offset or the Bill would he to destroy our present Hm 'chool system, or that it would have the will ct of reducing the numborof High Sch-mom. Nor could he sgree with the clause ptovidiag hat counties Gould supplement the Govern- ment grant by an equal sum. because It would be 3 great burden on some counties. the We: opposed to the 25th clause, prowl tw, fur the cststslMtmettt of Wop?"'"? chases for the preparttioa of pugils for " mission to High Schools . e certainly uid not believe in centnlizmg powers that might safely be left in the heads of the people or the people's representatives. The compulsory clause he considered unmeas- "Ivy. and suggented that after twenty-ti we or thirty years teachers should _be allowsl t ' retire upon their superannuation silo no :e that: he thought that it . school teacher od a. chin}. fur salary ngninst l _ school trustee he should have more tun 1 than three months, in which to prosecute. ( He would move tint the tan last lines nt 'he 52ml clsuuo should be struck oat. H, old nut think inspectors should be allond to engage m other business, as they were well iatd for their daties in thrs "spec: With reipect to the Depository, he thoaght nhe improvement would he very well reeciv e-l Ly the country, and he Was sseured that no 'clmols lied lose lemon to comphiu of a "nut of lilu-relity than High Schools. rr, WM glad it was intended to send this Bill in i *pecisl Committee, and he trusted it w mil In LY,uauittee ho approsched in the mmuer t had been It was the sincere desire of all to make the cdmetional system the best, ley possibly could, and he truatel th it "hen the Bill came back from Committee it em 1d come hack in sum n chips that i; mull tne' t with tho cordial approval of the, House and the people. Mr IIOUGIKS thought tho scope M the Bvlhhould ooaupend INS" to the Home l'he new element proposed t , be Intro load mm the Council ot Public Instruction muld tend to elevate the statumf that b t ly. 1hero were some points with regard t ' the constitution of the Council winch he though: should be moditicd, It was ropasel to or'egt wheel teachers, who would) be enabled to ventral the acts of the Sohml Inspcchrs. the superior oth'eers of the teachers It vet med to him they ehnuld not. elect team- no or school inspectors on the Coon)". There was another element which Ihouli be mtroduoed, he thought, into the Genus". They had no representatives of the tar payxng element, and if they were to hove representatives from the County and Chty Councils, he believed it would prove tsdraa. tageons, end the oonMenea of the people would be Obtained 'to a gre "or extent. There were some of the clause: which he o'o- jected to, and one was allowing Oomvnnn School tel? to pass High School crimina- tion's. 'ith regard to other lemons of the B ll, he would defer his obaervatiotta until it was returned from the tlpsolal Crmrnittea. tt was certainly to be regretted that the Chief Superintendent of Education had en- tered into the political arena, but when his personal honour was attacked he thought that ' thcer had a right, and thnt it was his bounden duty, to defend himself. Mr. DEROCHE said that he dil not u. lieve that the time when the Councilof Pd, his Instruction should be done away with had come, elthough it might come yet. He thought that the Government had taken the but four? pguible under the 1rittsts+tstttyss. Ho had had opportunities 'of becoming u quainted with the members of the Council, and he would my for them that no body of mm cruld have luboured more earnestly, more honestly, more zealously, or more un- selfish!) for the educational intonat- of the Province than they. They ind performed 'heir duties without any. um lr a a labour 3.1: love,and he thong t they gnawed battar