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into the form of a hy-- n Council on the 15th .. The composition of the 'year was nine Protestants €atholics ; this yvear it is seven stants and six Catholiecs, The by-- f confirming the understanding hich is altogether disclaimed. by the {epponents of the bil}) having -- hbeen passed,. It is necessary to come to the Ef hesislature to have it c0l firmed. The t proposcd distribution of the assess nent € is that 30 per cont. shall go to the Sep-- A arate School. n dollars what is in dismite ai ints 1 134 a rear for ton years additionsal revenno for the Sep speeches which were mudie it was claim & _ E:A th Separi + ., l dveacates ) g thai t aof the Cat sar.< Y ti0n f the town v : oobtai I for th wat »l_" us by--laws on the grourd of the un W derstanding that without the '"agree-- [# 1 ment.'"' as they regarded it, the by-- R laws would not have been carried, Mr. & / Blake caustically characterized the al-- leged understanding as an intrigue, and as the price for which the Separat®e School supporters sold their votes. Mr. Cr--eiman pleaded eloquently for his / clioents, and effectively presented the arguments in favor of the committee ki sliowinz the Town Council of Cornwal t to keep faith in the manner it was seek-- | ing to do. i flon. J. M. Gibson summed up the sage in this wise :--The understanding ' huad not, in his opinion, been made out 'J&-flhat clear and definite way which 'wovuld make it binding upon all part-- ' concerned.. But even if that had ep done, he thought there would hf fifliculty in getting the bill througlk @here was always great danger iIn-- ~ |volved in interfering with a general f ® in such matters. To press the 'bilf rouid be a qdeparture which might -- 'resultl in the committee being asked to: ke Separate Sehool law for town® -- all @¥er the Province. He thought that 'would . be opposed to public & {polity. The vote resulted in the defeat *" of the bill by 27 to 8. The attendance at the committee was larger than at | any other meeting this session, A fact / 'which evinced the interest which the qucs=tion aroused. The division list was: --Yeas--Messrs. Rennett, Dana, Field, Harty, Loughrin, _ McLean (Wuron), O'Keefe,Truax--8. Nays--Messrs.Camp-- bell, Caven, Chapple, Crawford, Currie, Dynes, CGamey, Gurd, Hiscott, Hobbs, Kerns, Langford, Little, McCallum, Mc-- . Laren, McNaughton, McNeill, Mag-- wood, Matheson, -- Meacham, Pardo, R+eid (Addington), Reid (Durham), Ry-- erson, St. John, Taylor, Whitney --27. A MINING POLICY. Mr. Conmee bas given notice of the following motion :--*"That in the opin-- % . ijon of this House the mineral resources x / of the Province warrant an active pol-- icy for the advancement of our mining and metallurgical industries, and if would be of advantage to the Province : -- should the Government adopt such measures as may insure to all classes of our people, desirous of obtaining the same, a scientific and practical course in mining, engineering and metallurgy in a Provincial School of Mines, fully equipped to impart such courses, and | take such further steps as may be | necessary to insure the more rapid de-- :| velopment of mining and the establish-- 'ment of metallurgical works for the | treatment of the more important econ-- ' omic minerals of the Province."