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P 1 , -- Lordship's comments and find y g aA UE "| *4A have beon entirely unwarranted., _ f KAvIGATIOXN OF THE GRAXD RIVER, * The ptru laid on the table of the As--| © sembly relating to the Grand River naviga-- tion contain a very earnest appoal to thol \J Government from the municipal corpora-- ' . | tion of the Village of Cayuga for a grant to | aid in reviewing the navigation and water | * _ power between Cayuga and Brantiord. This matter was taken up by private enter-- | prise so far back as 1832, when the Grand ' | River Navigation Company was incorpor-- | ated, whose works in due course fell into the hands of the Haldimana Navigation Com-l' It was set forth in a petition to the mwt-uovernor that the nuavigation of the .giver was. now practically ended. for want of means to keep up the works, that the water power formerly existing was for the most part destroyed, and that the , industries that formerly _ existed were now _ nearly extinguighed. _ In view of the necessity for keeping up the works, the petitioners asked that His Ex-- Bellency would eause to be placed on the estimates a sum of money to aid in the completion and maintenance of the works. In suoport of the petition it was pointed out that the Government had granted simi-- lar aid to Railway Companies and to other ; works of a like nature undertaken to assist in déveloping the resources of the country. The correspondences scloses with a lettor ' from Mr. Lumeden, the Assistant Becretary, | to Mr. Jacob Baxter, M.PP., intimating | that the subject would receive the consider-- ation of the Government. THE ENTOMOLOGICAL S0CIETY, The twenticth annual report of the | Entomological Soviety of Ontario, which has been laid on the table of the Legislative Assombly by the Minister of Agriculture, | contains the report of the last annual meet-- ing of the Society, when the officers were | elect--d and other business was transacted. | The President's address and the papers on economic and general entomology aras of t much interest and value to all who are | | intelligently engaged in farming or agricul-- | ture, The Society's monthly magazine, | The Canadian Entomologist, has completed | its twenty--firat volume. | RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS. The Government gave notice of the fol-- lowing resolutions providing aid for rail-- ways :-- Mr, Ross (Huron)--On Wednesday noxt-- That this House will on next re-- solve itseif into a Committee of the Whole to consider the following resolutions :-- That there bo granted out of the consolidated resoerve fund to the undermentioned Railway Companios for the consiruction of the portions | of railway hereinafter mentioned, that is to i say :-- t (a) To the Ontario& Rainy River Railway a | cash subsidy of three thousand dollars ($3,000) ; per mile for the construction of thirty miles of said railway westward from the point near Sand Laxe whore the fifty miles terminate, for which aid was granuted by chaptor 35 of 52nd Vie., entitled "An Act respecting afd to certain railways." f (b) To the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway,. from Egansville to a point in the Township of Sherwood, adistance not exceeding thirty miles, a cash subsidy of $3,000 per mile, ' That all the provisions of section 2 of chapter 35 of b2nd Vic.. respecting the option of sub-- | stituting half--yearly payments for forty years in lieu of a cash payment, and all the condi-- tions provided by section 3 of said Act, shall apply to the grants hereby mado. Frovided, that any arrangements made be-- | tween the Rainy River Railway Company and the Port Arthur, Duluth & Wostern Railway Company providing for the expenditure of any part of the aid hereby granted in the construc» tion of any portion of the line of the Port Arthur, Duluth & Western Railway shall be subject to the approval of the Lieutenant--Gov-- ernor in Council. ¥ Phat for the purpose of forming a subsidy fund there is hereby set apart so much of the lands of this Province belonging to the Crown as lie within the disiance of ten miles on cach side of those portions of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway and of the Rainy RHiveor Rail-- ',a{ to which aid is hercby granied, or on _ --| @ach side of that portion of the Port Arthur, Duluth & Woestern Railway upon which, by |"'rean-ont. between the Companies, any por-- tion of the aid now or heretofore granted may ' be expended, which land shall bo sold and dealt with in the same manner as provided in soctions 4 to 10 inclusive, of the said chapter 35 of b2ad Vic, NOTICES OF MoTion, Mr. French--Inquiry--Has any vacancy occurred in the Protestant chaplaincy in the Reformatory for boys at Penetangui-- , shene ? What is the cause of such vacancy and when did it occur * Have the Govern-- ment made any appointment, or do they intéend doing so ? Mr, Ross (Huron)--Bill respecting aid to certain railways. . Mr. Balfour--Ingquiry--What action, if | any, do the (Government propose to take | towards settling the claim of the Town of j Amherstburg and Townships of Anderdon and Malden to consideration under the Municipal Loan Fund settliement on ac-- count of bonuses granted in 1870 by those municipalities to the amount of $45,000 in t of the Amherstburg brauch of the > Southern Railway ? e N k