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x e o t j .. «rOINTELD ons T s '{ lawyer," the Attorney--General, but because a and one of 'the most d of French Cana-- | Clhurch had chosen to fulminate against the * w * : fat dians (Mr. Laurier), a geutleman who was an l Counservative party. (Opposition cheers.) 1t honor to Canada, when he came to the city of | was also, in part, becanse afipeals were made | Toronto was referred to by a certain portion of | to sections--notably to the French Canadians } the press as a rcl_)el, because he held certain ) --because ,)ustzce---a.pd the Attorney--General | views on the subject of the Northwest rebel-- | could not say otherwise--was meted out against | lion. 'The most violent and incendiary ;' one who had offended against the laws of thel articles were written on that subject, | country, HMe repudiated, for the Conservutivo] and it, was even suggested that his . party, | ' t!fG flh?uid 'i? "_tcml'tg:'l-"_ Reuc!; ; 3'615 n(t the J ANY DESIRE TO RAISE SECTMIONAL f ime of Lh6 Nemail crebeliion. a. Irencli| GAS4 (Dororeligtous cries.: "The whole record of the | dian battalion was first to the fore, and in the || Conservativ * was inst A §43 Te ols || Conservative party was against such a course. | Northwest rebellion the French troops shared || ~ ;. y, FRASER-- Vory mach neatnst'it. | in all the hardships and dangers of the cam-- | (La\l"l;tcr; Fxti :s Y MH 8 peign. [Choors.) Theothereleomentwhichhad U 'xv. MEREDITH said he did not deviate een attacked had been the Irish Canadians, and || ;,, + & $ s % s from the line he had taken in the campaigu. between them and the French Canadians there Thes i : nel sacbake rese matters were rather beyond the scope of had been the most cordial relations. -- In 1845, ts C in rarsuenst oo C oels Hnaile !) the present discussion, however. He expressed when a large number of Irish immigrants lay UGarty y t i e ® s 5 o l s earty concurrence with what had been said sick and dying in their ship at Grosse Isle, it || _\ °..; | Y cantp y 3 e hn h A ; about the retiring Lieutenant--Governor, and was the _ Archbishop of Quebee who [!| . red ta. vumt k es BE + | reicrred to the acceptable manner in which made an eloquent appceal on their be-- || s 3 x¥ herg o Unloncak | the hostess of Government House had dis-- half, and that appeal was generously lc.sYOIItlcd |'pensed . its hospitalities. -- Ie ioined with 4 to, The Irish Canadians were united with -c} uow PM on J l llatv 1R M E2. e ermer speakers in eulogy of the gentlieman their French brethren by many ties. He sym-- ' who it was said would succeed the present pathised with them in the great constitutional | Uicutehnant--Gover Io cordiall Pl Sed struggle which they were carrying on in Kng. | [MCUI°SNANtDovernor, He cordially endorset I oo [' Y ty n € 'ne | what had been said respecting the Queen's land, and in which they had found so distin-- « + j ° ansigh } s s o + q; _| Jubilee, and the more formal action in recog-- | guished a champion as the Right Hon. W. E. ,| ° ;,, fit whi ak Referrins | Gindstons. | (Cheers.)" The Irish people Were ' nition of it which should be taken, eferring Deaermvsgaaren s & R P agi < to the Boundary question, he said he was not ; agitating quictly and stcadily, and the day 5 f Astorner-- | * B ue uns «& § there to dispute that the _ Attorney-- | would come when England would extend to . General had fought _ dor the~ intoredts | them that privilege which she extended to the . Provi 80 e letract | | smallest of her colonies. In the history of the --| ? f ie I dtnges o M menaty l world there was no instance Oof s 3 fcat n _ from what he had done. But he desired to call | | st*;w"le Leine * carried onL \vii.l,, "";'q (':. t| attention to the fact that while the Provincial | TL o8 S q oo 1 80B 2+ || Government had been sustaived by a greater | | violence _so few _ and _ so _ promptly ! fapt ¢ -- | ! condemned by the leaders in the peaceful agi-- ' majority than ever before, it was to be borne | | Aation. * COhnelnding is sbeech \llr .]-"\'- nb %*l | in mind that in the same Province the veteran | Narreorerimeanr 6 tar'c Farh "hos 4 l $VR U leader of the Conservative Party for the Do-- | said that it would be one of his efforts to try _| [ ;. stihaoust any art@eontits iL. bu i. se breach whic i cufai _4;_, ~; | minion without any adventitious aid, but upon | and heal the breach which a certain portion of | is Dbroad Ieve=laerisive © lafiohter}--nad | the press had done its best to create between :| "i% 'TORC _ Pulloy----idetisive Jaughter----agt Pn C 4 s migeg C voke af . also been sustained. 'The statement in the | two great elements of the Canadianfpeople. He ;| _ com the "P f | Eond x | Speech from the Throne was | hoped that these cries would now be dropped, q * | | and that they would all work together to J} HARPLY THE WHOLU TBUTIL : build up on this continent a m'ighty nation 7 it was true that while there had been no | under the flag of England. (Cheers.) * formal and technical | acknowledgment by . | _ Mr, MEREDITH, who rose amid applause, | statute of the bommdlaries there had been a ! congratulated the Houso upon the addition q practical acknowledgment of the supremacy [A*VH & P 1 owieu1; 8 C P | to its debating talent shown by the speeches 1 of the Provincial authority in the ter. | which had just been made. _ He was sorry 7 ritory. We agreed that the duty was castupron | Ww 1 1 Y tnet rige . uty wal I | that the member for Prescott, while complain-- * the Dominion Goverament of seeing that proper Bimapesersmertfy, * » L Aaar A ¥ihpain | /.. PMoI | ing that his nationality had been attacked by a; ratification by Imperial legislation should be Nsb o nee s Y o hy Jmpe : i | certain journals, and while asserting that those q given that the technical rights of the Province | attacks had driveon him out of the Conserva-- , may be secured amd the question settiecd for-- | tive ranks, had not borne in mind the fract that 4 ever, (Cheers.) Whaterer credit mighs be | attacks such as he had repudiated had been | due to the Attorney--General for fighting the aoy C M e o No o S se '| made, not by irresponsible friends, but by 8 battles of the Province, as claimed, he was to | men high in the counsels of the Liberal party, }} blame for having needlessly caused irritaton , and that the Comservative imembers of the 3| in these matters, which should be discussed ! Local Legislature had on muny occasions , calmly and dispassionately, 'The Attorney-- | I M . *) (+ PSs 6 o + \ defended them from such attacks. (Cheors,.) P\ Genecral was claiming eredit for having put [ nMh s J \ [ k LVE o o ubk 8 pi | The hon, gentleman had talked of the blend. || the Factory Act in operation. But it was evi-- | ing of races, English, French, Irish and Seotch || dent in this case that the hou, gentleman had " in this country,. -- Unless they could get out of | desived to make capital out of the Provincial , their minds the idle idea of Engiish, French, || rights cory. \When the licensing power was | German, Irish and Scotch, and get into their {-\ called in qnestion the hon, gentlenian at once | minds the idea of making one great Canadian 1| asserted the right of the Province. { people, they would never fulliil the destinies Hon, Mr. FRASER--The Provincial laws | which in the providence of God belonged to [.| were already in force, ; them.s 'The attempt to create a nation within || _ Mr. MEREDUITIHH--But in the case of the { a nation must be repudiated by all who desire | | Factory Act the Government was between two | to see the accomplishment of that great end. l fires--the manufacturers on one side and the _| (Choers,) lslml', uoct follow the hon. gentle-- || labor organisations on the other. The Attorney-- | man in «ll ln_z said. Thoere will be another f Ceneral sought to got the Dominion Govern-- I opp.';'."tumty for «li.st.-u,v.».an theso maitters and [| ment to question the vaiidity of the Act, and " lxc'\.\xr. Z\lcr.«-'_lxth) would not be ashamed to it was only when the Minister of Justice asked | take the position he took before the people in I} him to state .wlmt was the reason he doubted l the contest which endea on the 28th Decembeor. 1 lll'~'_ ('0"-53!"'"0"3'")' of the Act that he decided t Hm.x._ga-ml.vnwn.upp_ositc had taunted the Op-- ' to issue the proclamation. 'The Act was in his ; position with being in a decided minority, 'The . (Mr, Mcredith's) opinion | )(X'.;"])L()llllltl':e::l: lw:u not x(nt;; m.'_.J;,rig_v i»clc:u;sh; ULH qQUITE WiITHIN Tiz rowrEr or tHis Kotsr f y secause of the viectories which ha t i6' * | been claimed for the "great constitutional | to pase, . byt 36 [was Shopeds sbyjathis