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«_--__ot@ee icz TMHRD PARLIAMENT----SECORD SESSML sorommma@ponnmmeise. WrpxEDaAr, Feb. 15. The Bpeaker took the chair at 3:10 p.m. PETITIONS. The following petitions were presented :-- By Mr, Wileon--Petition of the County Counctl of Eigin, praying that carta'a kinds cf property m y be exempt from taxat.on, Bhtho Attoraey General--BULl to apply '§be Muntolyal Law to certain Townships in the Districk o' A'joma, THE MASTERY AND SERVANI3®' ACT,. f Mr, O'D noghue introduced & Blll to Rmend the Marters' and Servanta' Aot, which was read the first time. INDEMNITY OF MEMBER3, Mr, PATTERSON (Eszex) oalled attention to a list published in the Mc@il newspaper purporting to be a list of the members who voted on the motion to reduce the indemnity in Committee, He regretied that any mem:-- ber should deem it seemly to {arnish such a lst, Ho want:d to state that the list was * Incorreot in many inatances. Mr, RICHARD3ON considered 1t a breach of Pnnmntnfl etiquette for any member #o aupply auch information, :s Mr, CURRIE said it was well known to the House that the list was incorrect, He Py say member sf the Houe is Draged y any member o oure. He ioonl{nthntlon to the fact that when the resolution recommendicg the indemnity at ©$800 was report:d from the Committes of ' Blzrly. it was passed in the House without a dissentient voice, Mr, CAMERON raid he did not think it eculd be reprehensible to pubilsh the list k oo-'zhlmd of if the reporter could hear it j In the gallery, He could not find fault with a member givicg such information a~ long as he gave it correctly to the best of his knowledge. There was no evidence ho weve: | Sbat the iloformatin was obtained from a : member, He was out of the Houts when She indemnity was concurred in, and had he ( been present he would have taken ccomtion | \ / to divide the Houre upon the point, ; C TRBIRD READINGS, * The following Bilis wore read the third tixe and passea :-- To in to the Metropolitan Street Rallway of %oronio-- Mr, Onnz:uon. To Incorporate the town cf Selleville as a |-- O"'--Mh wm'a To extend and define the limits of the town of Orlllia.--Mr, K ean. To encourage culture, hortloulture, arbs, and muhol"flm--m. Wood,. ' FARMERS' SON»' FRANCHISE, 4. On the order for the third reading of the Bill to give the righs of voiing to farmers' zons in certain cases, & Mr, CAMERON moved in amendment, seconded by Mr. MAODOUGALL, "That | all after the word 'that' béomitted and the M.lowlng:lb:tlhtd :--While farmers' sons, from their intelligence and partonal Tullfi- cations, are as we)'! ent'iled to the cl:otive franchise as any other olass not possessing She'requiaite property or lucome qualification, 'nil\ to oo; fer upfa: ugmn tb's prlvfl:.:l l:'l:lhy n % of their ra' proper| * eum qualifications that wonfl entitle the | sons of any other of Her Majesty's subjects | Seeuet Pivilegre aple . Them, "ase t mole l rlvileges u em, | ulmlnu:o M.E:un :f&.::n omu of th; people ocntrary t> e us on apirit of the (I.m!tlm\lnnS end _ in derogation of the equal r:ights of all." In moving the amendment, he said that the Bill was one of the work desotriptlon, inas: | much as it tended4 t> leglalate for a class, | The Blil itseif would ts injarlous to the farming community, although it professed t3 ' benefit :hca 'I': :!;'iouoih endorsing, as it were, the o a prim turc--a | Tuny which he Snd mepporey 2 slaeinsts, at | mll events, had cast int> oblivion years ago. It was a principle to which ih.z exprarsed §hemeclves opposed during the agitation that led to the abolition of the right ofurl-qod- ture. _ Hecould not see in this Bill anytaing olse than an attempt to introduce it aga!n: He proporsd to tike the case of a farmer holding twoenty acras, which constilutsd a farm according to the B!'l, having two sons over the ago ol twenty--one Tgo value of the farm was not iufficlent to give three