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I _ l - "Sessmcnt. The result, however, of taxing _ t r vincial police torcc. ne alleged that in re- - . ("ms and mrksljust " they would other cently appointing a number of magistrates I',roper.trywould be that the inhabitants of . in the county of Essex the Govern. J h the cities would have to go by train to ' ment had selected Reformers only, country placcsin order to get a little fresh _ some of whom were not fitted _ Mr, and that would be a. state of things much for their positions. while others whom he to e, dcpiored. Ile agreed that the salaries had recommended were rejected. There was " of Govetttment employees, judges, etc., anecestsity for the appointment ofnnmvis. l i should be taxed; and when a. measure trate there who could speak French, as ' . was brought down for that purpose he would there were a large number of French rcsi- .- _ i support it. (Loud checrsp dents in the county. In conclusion, he said l [ i Mr. LYON believed that educational mat.. that he shouldhaveliked to have8een the Ile. , i tors in the Province Were in a very sntisfac- form Government prove true in one of its , ' tory condition since the late changes had profmions at 1cast--uat of economy-by A been made. The programme of lessons was conlining the Administration to tive mom. E: well suited to rural schools, and many of hers. ' the subjects being optional parents and l n ' . teachers could agrce as to iire"suTjii'iiai to he ' th I'tte Whit", and 10th paragraphs were r, taught. The regulations Were also in the ' en came . . ' Interests ottcachcrs. He was sorry to hear On the 11th, , V q the aSpcrsions which were cast on the inagis- I Mr. CAMERON said the report of the In- ' [rates of the country. They had been as fair specter of Prisons showed that crime instead on the average as could he expected irom i of decreasing had increased under the tem.. the material from which they were perance law of hon. gentlemen opposite, and , r selecttd, and thcre was perhaps no he argued from this, and quotedtigures from other country which had been better the report in support of his argument, that . rl served by its magistracy than the it was lamentably established that what had Provinco of Ontario. (Hear, hear.) lie been done for the purpose of serving the l ' expressed his satisfaction at the establish- cause of temperance had not accomplished ,2 ' "N ment of County Model Schools, believing that end. He related an incident of live.. ' that they were lurttcr calculated to produce manity on the part of the guards which 1;;- teachers u'cllsuited to rural sections than had witnessed recently at the Contact h ', ordinary Normal Schools. (Cheers.) Prison, and pointed out that the Warden of I', Mr. PATTERSON said that neither the that institution had referred inayeryw . T', lumber trade nor the timber trade had im.. ' proe.er manner to tue.actiou of 3 judge st " _ roved. The late reports of 'iifii'iil',i'iil sending acertaln prisoner to ilie Centru' ' CSI, spoke in a vcry dcpretssing tone Prison. " i of the former trade. If the Government had I Mr. MOWAT said, with reference to thy. ( made the slightest enquiry they would have cage alluded to by the hon. gentleman . _ found that there was no ground for the I the close of his speech, that there was ro ' stutcnu-nt that trade had improved. doubt that the judge was more likely t: tr ' , He did not care to a<sign mo- l correct than the warden. he was glao to I tin-s, but It ccrtainly did look as l perceive the candour with which the, ro. ( though Hwy Wtu't,' intlurnced by some ultc- 1 member had described the incident w, an . .- ' rior motive in inn-rung that statement in j came under his notice at the Central l'rls'un, the b'prsch. lie was glad that the Govern. l notwithstanding the bittcr virulence, of MS mcnt had Minn up the suhjl-ct of the dis- i attacks on former occasions with regard to ' , posal tst' tho surplus. Ill this connection he the management of that iustitui.io. said that 1.1" at injustice had becn done to The observations the hon. gentleman made the (in-at 1iustcrn and Canada Soulhcrn founded upon the increase in the number Baldwin's hy'thc aid which was grantcd to of commitments showed rather his and .5 the l'mnt \allcy llolway, and he could an'uinst the Govcrnttwnt than his logic, , onlyattrihutc tin; granting: of that aid to , 1.30",de knew that crime arose from ' tho grant prcmmrc which had been brought to many caries. Drunkenness was one Ct ti IP, I bear ul"m the liovtTin,tcutt.. He did not ofcrimc but only one. The causes, ludvrd, . i '3 agree that the colonization raids ol \'.'iricdlro1n your to year undthc fact that , the i'rrtvincc. Ihu't'tt m a satisfactorycondi- there had been more LiiiiLiiifGrd, for , a tion. He. WIt.R ini1)yyu.t.het. the greatcst drunkenness and kindred crimes duringlast F - , iobbcry "M cotmuctcd with 1h.yu, and that Ycar had arisen from the tnctthatthelaw had I T everything was made suhsnimry to the t been executed "itha vigour surpassing that r , r,,' f , political objcwts of the .y'evierytttcirt. He brought to bear on tulir other law. (Hoar, l , hoped the l'l't'l'llfvf'd HI ticrvine measure , hear.) The great complaint made by the ' t" would be a real rclorm. l crsons usually 1't?- lcmocranco people was that our ' r . caved appmrilmmts because they wow I law; had been lukewarmly admin- , - (trends ot mcmlwrs of the Cabinet, a state of , istered prcviottsly and the purpose (ii things ulnch,l:c hopco,the new law would of the Governinci'it was to provide a y r." render i.tnporcjutlc. '1 mm were. also crrtnm machinery which should be effectual for the I iit, anomalies 1vrtl.t. 1,ig:uy, to rialarics T hich future and the figures the hon. gentleman, 1 should PL: rehmwd'. "m. salary u.up De- had qdotcd demonstrated their success. It r, puty blilllnlt'l' or hducation, for instance, seemed to him, and he thought the House ' was-he did ttot know for .what retuion 1 would agree with him, that the observations , ' _ -reduccd ti? ly? "futult was ,I'OW _ of the hon. member Were rathera eulogy smaller. than it "an ten years ago. lhat of the Government than anything else. gentleman dcscrrcd great praise for his (Cheers ) _ eiiorts in the ("low of cducsttion in the past. I , . _ P, ", Mr Flt tSEl's-Wluu, was his salary re- I The 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and lath para- . duce d ? ' graphs were. carried. , F , ' _ On the 16th , . 'A'i"1'Ell8 s-, Rntt 't'cr'nu' ' 8:13?st I Vi 11 L50 I tt mt prepared to 1 j,),'Ji 'il-eil/JI',,';':,'];,?, (Simcoe) said,; with i . N , , , . _ . rowan to tie oumary t uestlon 1 was ' _. Mr. rli/'s)/1l':'l'.s..-r.Y,1u, {133% ' I" "d to a dittlo singular that we wit-re no 'nenrer a " charge this hovUrmuent w: l . solution in 1878 than We were in 1871. The , Mr. 1'A'1"rEl'syioN said he only called, Government had undertaken to leave tho ' attention to the fact. There were other 1 question to two arbitrators, and an Act had . ofticers whose salaries required to be ad. I I been passed which had not yet received the ' illSLvd, and notably Ctuat_of the gentleman I necessary sanction. For himself he pro- N in the Crown Lands Departml ' who hsted against the important question of " _ , had charge of tho Indian Mm", tt the boundaries ofOntario being settled in - l charm: MIMI rcally "cy 'to bclorg this manner, as he feared it would turn out i F to the Ottawa Governmeni". he regt'tstttu'. disadvantageously to the Province. The ' . l that the Gyeriun.e.nt lad not oalled thc. Government had been derelict in their duty House 1ogctlter carli.T. It would for a cop, in this matter, and had placed in peril an ' siderablu time be tiittiteconcurreptly trith interest of the gravest importance the House of C',rejeoy'itu!puyiereen,,?itt to the people. The question could would be withdrawn fry" the form, 1r. 1'his, not be satisfactorily Settled in the, was belittling this r,anur. Ho preferred manner proposed; it would have to go 3 ' their meeting in Novg'hber, as ms."tusrly: In to the highest tribunal in the Empire if the referring to the §lle'ct of magisurateie, he dispute continued, of which he had little, attempted to justify tus statement of the doubt. For one, he would not be tsatisfied leader of the Opposwn that man): of "ttl with a decision which gave us a " could not rcad,and no advocated B Il,')', magistracy and the eeytuy.mmtnto" ro- e " as!