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l FIRST $GtM--rllm PAilllimiil. I ----e---- To as DAY, Feb. I, The Spokes took the ohnir st 11 o'clock. The House set with closed doors ior s con- sidershle time. THE LINCOLN ELECTION CASE. ':, Mr 'nllMlDi'rRrntdtut heltadttttentrivntt ( tonnderstsnd that the report of the judges in I the "cook ossehsd heensent yesteusj " 1 new to tone tMitter ot the House. It. MOWAT! sold he supposed " wee re- t eelv.d in due oouree. Br the law or " stood new no notion by the House wee required in ( such mstters, the Spesher simply issuing his "not es s mutter of course. THIRD READINGS. The iollow'inq Bill wee reed the third time sud tred.---To extend end detiae the limits oi the inocrporsted village ot Arthur. tn the county oi Wellington-- m. McGowan. ELECTION or SCHOOL TRUSTEE} IN TORUN 1'0. [ Mr. C AMERO'I still he had been putting oi the third lending oi his Bill to smend the Bot relsiing to the election ot 8glrrd l'rue- trcs in the city of Toronto, to we wont or one would be token by the Government In reference to the Bill ot the member for We it Enron, rerpmtlog the election ot whorl trustees. Mr. MOWAT esid the Bill of the member for Wat Huron wss s most import mt one, sad in view ot the oontempisted chsnaes in ednuiic uni matters, sud considering the [slums of the serslon, he thought " could not now he put thumb the HUNG. it Wes s messure for whim, st nlleventn, the Govunment should be hell tespcneihle if " pused " all. Mr. CAMERON moved the third resiing of the 8-H lilpbO'iog the election ot SJhJOL Trustees in the city of l'ononto. The motion we: carried end the Bill rend the third time. PAYMENT OF CROWN WITNESSEE. On motion of Mr. MOWAT, the House I went Into Committee on the reenlu'ions re _ epectiug the psymeut oi Crown witneaees. The nsulutlor s were reported without nmendlneui. clue arred in. end referred to ; ' the Committee on the Bill respectl og the I phyla: nt ot Crown witnesses. It being one o'clock, the Spether left the chslr. MATTERS oft ADMINIS l'RATiUN. Aiter morn, _ 3 On the motion of Mr MOWAI', the II ~nee _ went into Committee on the B..l rap gazing oean ndminietrntive matters therein reier red to. .V Mr. DE \CON moved so smendment to the third clsuse exemp'ing trout the coitroi o' the Government sdvertluments in woioh other gmrtism then counties were intereeted Mr. MACDOUGALL lsid tint in this Bill, as in noat other meters " legielstur ', the most otrhot " the Government seemed to be to incrr he their power nod pstronege. ll ' clslmed that there hsi not been n single measure ot real reiorm introdu sad by the Government this union. , . Mr, FRA'iER esld it osme with very Ind -_ - from the mtmbu' for thush Simone t I stash " he had so frequently done sho it Government pstroosge, when he won the E hmraentUman' who in times pest had written t to nowspspers telling them that if they didn't eupport the Government they would so; no psironsge. The Bill we. giving more power to County Councils then they hsd ever had b.f 'ro-tutr, hosr) - whercts the Bill which the hon. member for East Grey had brought in virtudly took the power ' ut of the heads ot the County Conu- cils, sud pieced it entirely in thor, ot Chi-ks of the Pence he quoted theepdecner ot the member for South Simoo: in Etst Yuk North York, end South nimooe, to show the: hon. gentlenun'e hsosnahtanar.' Mr MACDOUGALL chslleuged the Corn. lljsrioner oi Public Works to meet him or n public pistic rm, and justliy the unhalv " snce to which " hsd been n petty. Il the I lender ot the Government had to e )esider T Mr, Frsscr and not the hon. gentlemen in the position he occupied. he would not he in "soo twenty four hon re. (L tad cries ot "Wrong ") He alleged that there wee free-