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-"""-e---. I LEGISLATIVE ASSEMRI Y. Toronto, Jan. 12, 1878. ' fThtfo11owing is the concluding portion I of Friday evening's proceedings, the Order 3 of the Day being the debate on the Address F- Mr. BRODER mini the country was beginning to foal that the great fault about our legislation was that there we. too much of it, There was too much machinery, and the art-at ileum of the people Wit-ire: simpliticition audit-sit oxpvnzo in the adminisfaution of the affairs of the Province. It was [Hauling to that . ride ot the House to hear the Minister 0: 1hiit:ation aim». in: an uxoum , when any fault was bond with the educational system, that tho grit-Vince existed lit-lord the present hall. .istrnliim of ill" iiupar. went. This Minister, he contended, was anointed to pro- perly administer our school system, and ho should be livid responsible for all dcfcets therein. There haul been a disposition to elevate the system above the people, And he sincerely hoped that in future more attention would be given to the want: and desires of the pubias With rrgnrd to the qualifications, of ma- gistrates, which hurl been brought. up during the de- bato, ho was not diepmrd to find a great deal of fault with n-Lenf :immintm-snls. Wlril" mum of them re- ticcted credit on the irverpmeutt/vtltcrs uirdot1'ytndly were very discrvditat,Ie. If we were tn have l magis- tracy which siiuuhl be u credit to any Govcrnmon, l he contended that there should be some qualiiicatisn for the oilice. (Hear, hear.) ' Mr. MILLER referred tothe subject of immigrs- lion, and expressed the opinion that the has: men to induce to sittln on tho free grants were Canadian funners' soul. ttrear, hear.) All that could be done to prtwent our native population from leaving i for tho Lnitod States would be den", and the more , ootoniatuion roads and colonization railroads that : could be built the better. Union thorn \.--re roads I by which to give settlers employment for the first i yearor two of their settlement, there would either ( have to be a direct appeal to this Home for nsrist~ ' once or else immigration to the new district: would be very thin. He had some statistics with regard to the condition of the lumber trade. and after etudyingthe nibjoct for the last fortreight hours, he felt hie Honour wss more than Justified in what humid, the lumber trade lining improved I during the past year both at home and abroad. in the United State: in 1803 there was about ' ooo,- 000,000 suprrtieiiil feet of lumber consumed. far, 1863 to 1873 the increase was about ten per cont. per onnmn, Do that in 1873, the year of the depreeaiiin, i there wss between seven and eight thousand million' fret consumed in the United states. From that tune to the present, the amount had been somewhat Mueller. If there had both in increue to 1677 in the some retio as before 16h, there would have been about th'2rl0r0po,000 feet of lumber consumed in the Republic during that year. Although the trade had oonstuntiy diminished from 1873 to 1876, the eco- . aumption in the United States during 1877 was in new. of that of 1878. The trade had increased par- ticularly in the Saginaw Valley and Chicago. In the Ssginaw Valley in 1873 there was produced 183,500,- 000 feat,in.1860 340,707,884 feet, in 1809 623.500830 Got, in 1873 610,860.00: feet, in 1875 581,558,000 (not, while in 1873 there was 030,106,000 feet produced there. In 1512 there was imported into Chicago 1,200,000,000 feet, and in 1873 900,"00,L'-00 while in 1877 there was 1,150,000,000 imported. in" ot this amount only was consumed in Chicago, the other half being distributed throughout the prairie country, of which tint city was the "not diszriin or point, nnd the stocks there were now very low. '10 say that the bank: but assisted the lumber trade was A fallacy, for tho banks in Canada had not money enough to be of service to that extensive trade. There ind been morniumbar shipped from New York to tho West Indie: and South Americas during the put your thou in any previous year, and there had bean more consumed in tho mailing of boxes, I we to which lumber wss wry extensively put. He noticed in n newspaper that Uni. Show, the American consul here, had reported to Washington that Can- sun had exported 2,600,000,000 feet of lumber to the United Stet", the (not being that there was wily about ton per cent. of that amount sent them. This statement it left Peoutrayiitrud, would create on tet, iiitii,iiit,i vary injurious to Canal. in cover: our roe tacit n ou' en- temdtnto. I P r 'sgotiati0ttatming I Mt. PABDEE "id he hind ottteiattr called the at. tention ofthe American consul to the error, and it we- immdinteiy set right.