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work about the building, so thit he mi : + '"::fh money to take hf:'n homl:fthu: :v:figi'n::t';: usuail custom of giving dischargad convicts money for that purpose, -- This work had not occupied in all more than ten days, and at the expiration of that time the man had been discharged. Thoro was anothor man who had desired to secure the job thus g:l"."""o(/"""'g"'-?('d. and it was possible that he d heen the author of the lettar to the hon. mem-- ber for East Toronto, g Be that as it might, that hon. member would, he was suro, take the opportunity of withdrawing the charge. An objection had beon made in the same letter to the appointment of a man as a sessiqnal messenger, the expression being used that the * l'rovinciss Secretary had taken another oftheso reformed convicts from Brantford" to fill that position. 'The man thus employed had applied for the position in question, and he had been ap-- pointed. His character was thouv,{ht to be good. Though thore had been a charge of larcony against him, the bill had been thrown out ' by the snnd jury of Brantford and he had boen honourably ischarged. Shortly after his appointment had been contfirmed, attention was direcied to his formeor re-- cord ,by some of the Conservative newspapers, and on enquiry it was found that ho had been fined three 'or four times for selling liquor without a liconse. . Under these circumstances his services bhad beon dispensed with beforo any Government monoy had been paid to him, and within a day or two of his en-- tering upon the performance of his duties. 'This was 'the head and front of the Government's offending. Mr. BELTL said he knew nothing personally of the matter, baving nevor visited the institution; but he had heard this charge made against the Govern-- ment, and thought the House was the correct place for the Minristry to moet it, 1o had had a conversa-- & tion with the party who wrote the leiter, and | _ Mr, HARDY----Have you any objection to giving | his name ? | _ Mr. BELI--Yoes, at present; but I have porfoect f | faith in his veractty, Ho agreed with the Govern-- | ment that it was much bettor to give the convicts | work by which to earn money on the expiry of their | time than to give them money to pay thoir way howne, { _ Mr, LAUDER said that if the honourable mom-- | bor for West Tororto had done nothing ele | he had at least shown the mode of appointment used by the Provincial Secrotary with regard to servants of this House, That ut{emuu was reaponsible for ' the appointments muf:, and the House looked to him to seo that the scrvants ewployed about tho Chamber should be mon of good characler and re-- spectability. 'This mon, Coltingwood, was from the & | Secretary's own constituency, ana any imembor of his Committce could hava told him that the man had figured on the polics roports of that city. Yet the Becrotary had not found out anything about it until his attention had been directed to it by the news-- papers. lle would like to know if there were any more such servants employed in the House ? Mr. HARDY gtated that he did not think thero werse, 1i was strange that tho Opposition should find such fauit with a man for having violated the liconse law, for genorally their objection was to that law itsolf. | (Laughter.) Aftor furthor discussion the matter was dropnod, and the last paragraph of the Address was carricd The Address was then formally passed and or-- dered to be prosented to His Honour, THE BUDGET. Mr. WOOD moved that the Hoase on Friday next resulve itsolf into Comumittee of Supply, Carried. Mrt. WOOD moved that on Friday noext the House resolvo itsel{ into Commmitice of Ways and Means. Carried. REPORTS AND RETURNS®. | Mr. TIARDY presented the Publico Accounts for 1877 ; the annual report of Public and High Schoois for 1877 ; the report of tie Committeoo of Public Works for 1878; a return rclating to the appoint-- mont by tha Court of Chancery of guardians to hoirs ad litem ; a return in roference to the appointment otf the Boundary Commissioners; and a roturn in referonce to the Geoneral HMospitals of Mamilton, Kingston, London, Ottawa, and Torouto. The House adjourned at 4:35.