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* " f ¥ $ .'.-.L § .'. * -- y 3 4 " ¥, a :smA of the hon. member for North Hastings, a8 Select Committce to enquire into the mode 4 such a course would do away with any of punishing prisoners in the Central Pri-- jealousy among the rest of the municipal son, with power to send for persons and pa-- * representatives. pers, to be composed as follows :--The Hon. ' Mr. BETHUNE thought it would be Mr, Wood, Messrs, O'Sullivan, Creighton, better to appoint the Registrar than Grant, Coutts, Paxton, and the mover, [ the Warden. He also t'hougln it a@vnsable Mr. Gibson--On Wednesday next--Order d to add words to the Bill to make it clear ; of the House for a return of all corresponad. , that the Board should have the power to ence between the Government of Ontario #& E : act upon their own| knowledge, without and that of the Dominion as to the Land { going to the expense OIf collecting evi= Improvement Fund, more particularly as 8 dence. to that portion which has accrued between | _ 'The Bill was read a second time, and re-- the 6th March, 1861, and the 50th of June, | ferred to the Select Committee on the Mu-- 1867. | nicipal Act. Mr. Creighton--On Wednesday next-- s : | LAW REFORMS. _ Bill to amend the Voters' Lists Act. | } | _ Mr. MOWA'L moved the second reading Mr, Bishop--On Wednesday next--Order f ' of the Bill to make certain provisions re-- % of the House for a return of the decisions oi specting the practice of the Courts, He | the Court of Appeal upon the cases sub. ' explained that the Bill proposed to make -- mitted to them under the Act of last session > the expenses attending the management of to give finality to voters' lists, $ the suitors' money and securities in the ' Mr. Miller--On Wednesday next--Act to ' f Court of Chancery a charge upon the sur-- | amend the Fiee Grants aud HMomestcads 1 plus interest fund at the disposal of the | Aot s > 1 Court. It also proposed to give a judge | Mr. Paxtoo--On Wednesday next--Fora f power to limit the time for a plaintiff giving return showing all correspondence and security for costs, and provxdefl that no aflidavits filed in the Crown Lands Office in iands should be sold by the Shoriff in the reference to E. Lepard'sfapplication to pur-- District of Algoma except between tho chase the south half of Lot No. 14, in the & months of June and November inclusive, 12th concession of the townsifip ;,f Marat $ The Bill was read a second time,. also all rulings of the Commissioner ot" | INDUSTRIAL REFUGE FOR GIRLS. Crown Lands respecting the sale and <issq. Mr. MOWAT moved the second reading ing the patent for sad lands. ' of the Bill to establish an Industriai <a « Refuge for Girls, 'The Bill proposed to set ' apart a portion of the Androw Mercer Re-- | f f , formatory for Females for the reception $ , of girls under the age of fourteen. & \ 'The classes of girls for whom the institution would be open, and who would be liable to -- | be seut there, were those found begging, \ | vagrants, destitute orphans, those over | whom parents had lost control, ind those \ who from their circumstances were likely \ | to lead a vicious life, 'The Rofuge would . e | entail noadditional expense to the Frovince, Wws f |\ as the managers of the Female Reformatory \ % -- | would supcrintend the institution,. 'The in .\ tontion was to keep the girls in the Retuge x t k lentircly separate from tho inmates of the N y Reformatory . it Mr, MEREDITII poinated out that the Refuge would unavordably partake of the 4 character of a penitentiary, It seemed to i him undesirabie that the classes of girls . whom it would be necessary to reform 8 & should be surrcunded with the associations & P that would be necessarily connected with f 8 . such a building, and thought that this fact s i would do away with much of the good that \ | E might otherwise be accomplished, \ Mr, MOWA'T felt that there was a cer. tain force in the remarks made by the hon. | Cl member for London, but said that it was f 3 & just a question between the plan the Gov. 3 | ernment had adopted and the destruction ; | of the girls. The evil his hon, friend had referred to undoubtedly existsd, but he 6 considered that it was a less evil than the f ' t utter loss of the classes whom the Refuge 1 § was intended to save, & | | Mr. BETHUNE asked if the Bill was in-- f tended to include newsgirls who sold papers on the streots, 'The result of in-- | < quiries that had been made among them was | l that at a very carly ago these giris, almost ' & without exception, took to a very vicious | & life. l & / Mr, MOWAT said that the Refuge would $ be open to them also. 4 i Mr, BETHUNE said that it would be ' S well if a provision were inserted into the f ' Bill prohibiting the employment ot young | girls in selling newspapers, as the invariable i ' rule was that they were, evemat the ages | of ten and twelve, lost beyond all hope of reclamation., Mr. ROSS said that while he sympa. thized with the objects of the Bill, he thought the effect of it would be to reclieve the city of 'Toronto of the burden of pro-- viding for the classes proposed to bo re-- * lieved, and to throw it upon the Province. Mr. BETHUNE said that that difficulty 'ould be met by enabling the Government ; i0 recover from the city a sam equivalent to the support of the children sent by the city to the Refuge, | The Bill was read a second time. | Chgr.being 8ix o'clock, the Speaker le(t the } nfleirriee | f J NOTICES OF MOTION, | ' ( Mr. O'Donoghue--On Wednesday nex{-- l & d