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000 in 1864 to cver half a million, and after prediticg all the parties with the amounts to which éey wore cutitlad with the intorest, &bero was a large curplne arlsing from amaill sums of interest of $2 and $3 which had not been cisime& by parties, an4 had accumu-- lated dusing _ the lass claven or twelve years. The Govercmont prezrosed &o appropriate $25,000 ou$ of that zurplus, acoording to the |prao':i01 in Eng: land, towards providiag fncramsod ac:om-- modstion,. 1t was progosed to provide tast any claims whish now existed should still remain, The third clanss related to the printing of liats of convictions, and accorded with the practice of the Goversment evir gingo the clause had been introdused into the Administration of Justics Ack whlsh autkorized ths Government t> nams the offisial paper in which shorifis' advertiso: monts avd other legal and official advertize. ments should bae placed, The principal interest was folt in rogard to lists of con: victions, which had not bsen thought of when thke Aot was passed. The Goversment ropored to declars that the printing of thore gntl and any other printing g.ld for by the county skould not be considored as coming within tho torms of that eesctmont, burt should be left by the counties to let by ~utract and to call for tenders as they might *re, Hoe moved the first reading of the ba a¥!l CFR 's Com-- Mr, BETHUNE agreed with the hou. member for South Simosve that no Govern-- ment should attempt to justify itself on the mere ground that previous Governments had done the came thing. He thought, however, that the present was a case in which the discreticn of the Executive should not be Intorfered with, but that the master should be left in the hands of the Government as in Eogland, especizlly as there had been n complaint: from the surcties. Mr, MOWAT said that he had no inteation of jusfifying the present Governmsnt in auny of their acts by citing similar praciice on the part of other Governments, but he thought 1t was rather bold for the hon. member for South Slimcoe to pretend there was some great wrong invoived in this solitery case, when the Government of which ke (Mr, MacJougall) had been a'member had been in the constant practics of doing the very rame thing, (Kear.) There could not be the slightost doubt that the law held the ruretics lable for the work of the office after the Ceath of thoe Rgistrar, The Govern-- ment sccepted the full responsibility for the masrer in which the duties of the offica were beinog performed, and he might say that there had rot been the slightest hint thit the in-- tereats of the public wore suffering under the mansgement of the Deputy--Registrar of Prince EFdward county, who was a?mont eth. clent officer. Mr, MERRICK sald the difficulty in fillln% up these offices was mainly caused by politica exigeroles, and the Governmont should asct upon higher considerations than political mo-- tives in making these appointments, Why did not the Government, in the case of Princs Edward county, appoint the present deputy to the oftice, if he was so good an offiser ? He thought the time should be fixed during which such an office should remain vacant. were in many cases uravoldable by any Gov. ernment, aud ro one had made himsol! so notoricus for such delays than Sir John Ma;-- donald, of whoss policy the mamber for South Bimcos was a very strong eupporter. Mr, LAUDER thought the Ciovernmont had a political aim to sarve in delaying tho appcointment of a Registrar for Prince EA-- ward, He moved, inamendmeztto the amand. ment, that the words "One month" in the propesed amendment be struck out, and the words "Three montha'" substituted therefor, ercment In the cass montioned, he for one would not eupport them in it, He did not belisve, bowever, that these considerations were inflzonciag the Goverament, Mr. SCOTT thought that the time during which a snroty was lable should be definits« ly fixrsd, He thougius, too, that appoiatments to vscant cfiicos should4 bs made as early as porsible after the vacancy occurring. Mr., MACDOUGALL thought that the law did not hold a gurety liable ooly for a reason-- able length of timo after the death of the tn-- cumbent, _ His view of the Act was that it intended that the Goverrment should as soon as possible fill such vacancies. He ccntended that the framers of our Constita-- tion intended that whonever the discretion of the Executive ooold4 be curtailed it should be done zo by law. He (Mr, Macdougali) and others of fir John Macdonald's collesgaes bad complained of the delays which had taken place during his Government in filling offices, but they had fouud that the requisite Information for makingithe appolatments was not in his possession. He had always held the opivion--and it was an opinion he would practise if he ever had tha good fortune to a15 on the other side ot the House--that the Government should have a mau ready so as to fill vacancies whenever they ocousred, in-- astead ofi waiting until disputee and trouble arose, He was not bourd Mr. BETHUNE clsimsd that under the law the sureticn wero just as liable for the acts of a Deputy Registrar after the death of a principal and ustil the appointment of his sgecorzor as for those of the Kegistrar during his life, Hs thought as there was no com plaiat there was no necessity for the amend-- ment proposed, It war uttorly ind fenaible for sny Government to delay appoln:ments of the kind moerely for political purposes, and if hor, gentlemen opposite could establish that such purposes had Isflaancei the Gov-- Mr. MEREDITH thought that thoe law ahould x the time during which sureties wers liable, and that the Habillity should not contizrue &t the more will of the Govern-- ment, to justliy _ the _ acts of elther fir Jofln Macdorald or Mr. Sandfield Mac-- donald, and he thought no Goveramsnt should attempt to justily themselves by ap-- pealing to the practice of either of theae, Mr, HARDY said the Opposition did not