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\__Mr, PRESTON charged the (:overnment with bhaving gerrymungered the constitu« encies in their Acs of last session, and sald that notwithstandiog this the Opposition + had been strengthened. Reforring to the . proposed changes in the management of edu-- cational affairs, he szid he was of the im-- pression that the appointment of a Minister of Education would result in making educ»a: tion a partizan matter. In the Province of Quebec thsy had tried the plan of having a Minister oi Education, but now were thak-- ing of doing away with that systam and plac-- ing educational matters in the hands of a commission, Mr, MoMAHON said he had at one time cousiderel the ball--t un Biitish, but he _ would state in reference to what the member for East | Toronto had said, that if he (Mr. Cameron) | was satisfied with the action of the ballot {n West Toronto, he (Mr,. MoMahon) was ually well satisfied with its effect in North %entwo:th. (Laughter ) The membar for East Toronto had charged the Hon Commis-- | sioner of Public Works of going electioneer, ing in South Victoria and arousing relisl.oul animosities, but he thonfi:\t he (Mr. Cam--« ' eron) was the last man who should make a charge of that kind. _ He had once heard the | Minfim of Public Works deliver a political address in Woentworth, and he could say that it had contained not a single reference During the contest in North Wentworth, | some five or aix gentlamen wers required to | act as scrutineers in his (Mr. McMahon's) interest in various parts of the Riding. A gentleman named Ross was sent to the pol-- CGovernment, it would be becoming in the present Government not to make any ireten tious claims, but to plainly state that what the Province now required was simply an up-- r'cht and honest adminpistration of its at-- fairs, _ The present Government had not in-- augurated any public institution except the iné%riate asy lum at Hamilton, which was not yet completed. _ As it would baneft very few of the community, he hoped the building would be converted into an insane asylum, The Province bad expected the intro. duction _ of a _ measure for cousoli-- éating the assessment laws, and swaeping away all exemptions from taxation,for public opin{on was favourable thereto. Ho still hoped the Attoraey--General would introducs a Bill with that object. He was ltrongly of opinion that at least all real sstate should hear its share of taxation. With raferense to the boundary boetween us and Maanitoba, ha remembered, upon the formation of the Mac-- kenzio Ministry, having a conversation with its members, and he had understood Mr. Mackenzie to ug that we were entitled to have the boundary the same as that of the _ old _ Province of _ Quebec, but it now seemed, between the Governmont at Ottawa and this one, they were unable to get at the boundaries. He clatmed that the Government had brought on the late elections uencies as they would all return C:overnmoant earlier than thoy should,in order to strength-- en their positions on the Treasury benchos. Ee referred to the Bili for the redistmbution of the scats, and said that the reason for n»t changing the emall constituerncy of Csrawaill was not the ons the Attorney--Cancral bad arsizzed at the time, but because of a Ist}o: wiiten hy & cstroog Government fupp=ts», urging him nof to cuargo the Hasters eorchit was not the ons t: arsizgred at the tim wiiiten hy & stron; urging Lhim notf to ; agreed with the hon. fe ntleman who had just spoken as to the adivisability of using whe present Inebriate Asyluam at Hamilton for a lunatic u{lum. He believed that the people would object to assistance being given to railways in the older parts of the country, and he hoped the Government would con-- zider this in framing their railway appropria-- tions. _ He appreved of the proposed change in educational affairs, and said the gentlge- man whose name had been mentioned as the first Minister of EKducation was one in every way admirably fitted for the position. (Hear, hear.) He l»elyieved the measures of the (GGov-- ernment would be brought forward with energy,. Mr, Baxtrn: dieputed the statement that immigrants were better used in the Wostera States than in Ontario, It was contrary t> the evidence befors the House, for they Province tit for settlers, and the inducements: offered to immigrants were strong ones, Hs to religious matters. (Hear, hear.) As it might be of some interest to the House he would explain exactly what he knew regard-- ing the keeping of one of the polling places in&orth \'\Pen:worth closed to alate hour. valuasble lands in this '"FPastorial Address To The Faith{ul,--Dear Children of the Hu(lf' Apostalic Church, be always on your guard against the schoming intrigues of our Heritical enemies who has worked for generations to sap the foundation of our Holy Religion. We have through the Blessing o{ CGod made rapid strides for the recovery of the lost Power of the Church the last few years, we have our Convents, Cathe: drals, Churches, and Schools agresd like a network throughout the vast Continent of America, in Canada our sons who has been elected to fill Legislative Halls 'have stood like asolid phalnex for the elevation and support of our Holy Church and great bless-- ings has been the results, we have Convents and seperate schools established in every town and city in the Dominion that our children may not be Contaminated with the soclety of the Heriticks whose goisonoul doctrines drags them down to par-- ition, you have now an opportunity to add another support to our cause, by electing to the Legislative Assembly one of our sons of the Church, who will use his utmost ender-- vors to overthrow the Tgranical Power of our Scotch enemies who has for generations tried to trample our Holy Religion in the dust." (Loud laughter ) Perbaps the member for East G:+ey would ray "Your side issued that,' but tke House would hardly believe they would do arything so sulcidal. A man in the Ridin g.wrote & letter denying that he was the author; and the next day wrote another let-- ler seying that what he wrote on the first day was a downright fa'sehood, and he was tie author, (Laughter and cheers ) The night before the polling that bill was soat-- tercd through the township of Beverley, where the electors woere mostly Scotch and side, he swallowed the look and went out with a Protestant gentleman. The one would go to a Catholic voter and say--**You are not going to vote for McMahon, are you? He is about to be excommunicated (laugh-- ter), he is without the pale of the Church, he is married to a Protestant"--forgetting to state that he was bimselt married to two (laughter)----*" he is a freemason," forgetting to add that hs was one also. (Laughter and cheers.) The other would go to a Protes: tant and say--'** You are not going to vote for that Dogan McMahon, are you* (Loud laughter ) You are not going to disgrace yourselves in the North Riding of Went. worth *" But the result was they played it tco far--(hear, hear) --and three days fv)e(ore the polling day they made one desperate at-- tempt to place the county once again in the hands of the Tories. He (Mr. McMahon) had n:ver been alawyer and a Minister of the Crown receiving the public money, and going intothe courts to defend prisoners, hs had not ev--n been an emigration agent and received *he funis of the Dominion of Can-- ada t > the amount of $10,000 or $15 000 for sendiig a few emigrants here, and transla-- ting good Scandinavian into bad English (hear, hear, and laughter), but a pastoral ad-- dress was got up against him, a copy of which he had in his hands, This was what the dirty rag contained:-- the poll, and used no threats of any kind, At 11 o'clock, when he (Mr. McMahon) re-- ceived imformation of _ the matter, he procceded to _ the polling--bo>th and _ found it closed, the deputy returning--officer having fig;ono to Hamilton to consult the returning--officer. Referencs had been made to the introduction of religilous cries, and for that the mamber for East To-- ronto was as much responsible as any ons in the Province. From the time of his nomina-- tion in North Wentworth everything wont smoothly until within a week of the opening of the campaign, and then what was the course of the followers of hon. gentlemen opposite? They hounded him from one end ol the county to the other. Nost an election had been held in the county for twonty--five years in which there was so much malicious-- ness, vindictiveness, and animosity display-- ed, The hon,. gentleman's followers hunted in pairs, (Laugbhter) Not a halt, perhaps not a third, of the Catholics in the Riding were clear Grits, One gentleman was talked about as the nomines of hon. gen-- tlemen oppo:ite, but when he found he would not Ee taken up by. the Conservative ling--place in West Flamboro', which adjoin-- ed the residence of Dr. Miller, his opponent, who was present at the opening of the poll. The returning--officer was a Conservative, the deputy returning--officer was a Conserva-- tive, and the poll--clerk was a Consarvative, (Hear, hear ) His sorutineer objected to the validity of the commission sant tothedeputy returning--officer, aud said if he improperly opened the poll he would be liable to a pen-- alty of $200. He did not forbid him to open <*. H