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a Ae - -e i -----v ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. - ---_----- Fourth Parrnmarit--f'irat Setreitm . ---.------- Tuesday, Jan. M. ' The Speaker took the chair at three _ o'clock pm. i . PETITIONS. . d'..?? following petitions were prooat- Mr. Ltudtsr-ttt the township Council of Oriltia, praying that the Bill now be. fore the House respecting the Midland Railroad may not pare, . Mr. Cook-Ot Henry Caldwell end i l others, of Holland, praying that the town- ship may not be grouped with others in the granting of aid to the Toronto, Grey, , and Bruce Railroad ', Mr. Neeton--0t the township Council ', ot Watt, respecting the proposed route ot l the Ontario and I?aoiilo Junction lair.. way. FIRST READIHGS. .The following Bills were read stint time '.-- To incorporate the Sunnis and Petrolia Railway Uompany.-Mr. McCraney, An Act respecting County and Public School Inttpeotors.--Mr,. b'aliaaryao. l APPOINTMENT TO A COMMITTEE. ( Mr. WOOD moved, seconded by Mr. l'Al'tDl'lE, that the name or Mr. Walter- fworth be added to the Committee on Municipal Amendment". Curried. 'lHE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Mr. WOOD moved the second reading ot the Bill to incorporate the (httario School of Agriculture. 1Iesaid that the institution was no longer to be considered usau experiment. It was an institution in which great interest was when by that \ class for whom it was intended-ttte 't tnrmera. This waiahown by the fact that _ they had to refuse over 100 applicants N l, during the last year. L was due to the Miieers of the College that they should N know that their positions would be per- l mnnent during good behaviour and viii. l creney. During the last year several \ thousand persons have visited the College front dillereut parts of the country, many of whom were leading agriealturists in their several districts. In addition to that the (hangers, it large body, non-political, visited the College, and they, through their Dominion orange, have strongly urged upon the Government the necessity elite incorporation. We are not at all ahead of our lriends across the great lakes l so tar an agricultural colleges are concern- l ed. Under theirAcrof 1865 they have 29 col. I "sires,,otuiowed with menisci laud amount- !mg in all to l,463,b05 acres. The most letliqiont of these Was the Michigan C i. i lure, but so far no turn: work was con- cerned the Ontario College, would compare favourably with that at Lansing. The Bill provides tur the subjects; which are to be studied by the boys, also llyalilWS for regulating the duties of teachers. Pro. viston Was made tor affiliation with the University of Toronto. Some objection had been when to that clause, but when it is considered that this institution has re- ceivedsontuclt support from the farmers of the Province, they Were surely entitled to any honours which the university could bestow in connection with agricul- ture. By the provisions of the Bill the 'president and the agricultural professor , would be members at the Agricultural and 1 Arts Automation, so that they would have {the benotit ot the views of the leading agriculturiirt8 of the Province. Itelcr- onco wa-i made to the retiring president, _to whose labours much of the present ('etticiener ot the College was due, and it Ewan contitleatiy hoped that the nit-titu- I tion would retain its present high standard {under the able management; oi his one. 3 CeSn'Ot. . i Mr. LAUDER said he was sorry to bear l {of the retirement; ofthe triucipal. 'l'hel I College had been untortunate nnd under a cloud. lie was glad to hear the Trent surer speak in ndiliereut manner trout ,what he had done some few years ago. He hoped the new principal would be it success. But the position was a Very hard