Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 17 février 1859, jeudi 17 février 1859

[" ÜOHÏiïiîAL MEK'AU) SIMM BOOKS JOB PRINTING OFFIOE S».4©9 aotpe SSame Sitreet, (Near St.François Xavier St.,) MONTREAL.f ftHE Proprietor of this Establishment begs to I inform his friends and the public in general, that having ENLARGED h iSTOCK of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES-.&c., he is now prepared to undertake every description of Printing, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Insurance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posting Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, Steamboat Bills, Circulars, Invitation and Funeral Letters, Druggists and other Labels Military Forms of every description, &c., with despatch, and at the LOWEST CITY PRICES.£3\u201c Business Cards neatly and promptly executed.JAMES POTTS Jan.26.\t22 IMPORTANT \u20190 ALL WHOM IT MM CONCERN.T HOSE who are desirous, in these ha^ times of Saving Money, should visit thp S T O B.H 1Ü3 Notre Bame Street/ To Persons having large Families and expenses, one shilling, or even sixpenc in a yard of goods, makes a very in economical item at the end of the year, larly in the following articles :\u2014 Black Cloth, for Ladies\u2019 Cloaks andMïÇht\u2019s Dress Suits Black Doeskin Fancy Doeskin VELVETS of all colours, suitable fq# Millinery and other purposes Petershams I Mohairs | All first rate materjfl for Witneys }- warm Overcoats.Pilots\t/ Sealskin, Deerskin, kc.\t/ Together with a large assortment at SILK VESTINGS, each artic%J)femg marked in plain figures, and at prices unequalled in Montreal.The main object which induces the P/oprie tors to sell at these very low rates is, Simply to carry out a large business, and give full and ample satisfaction to those who, once having purchased, may not only repeat their visit, but have the satisfaction of knowing that they obtain articles worth their money, which at/ince^ proves that this is no common puff got the purpose of enticing the public to ' their money on worthless articles.To get all you can out of the purses of/the public is bad policy\u2014because it not only onuses them to purchase rarely, but actually deprives hem of making purchases as often a/ they would wish ; consequently the goods (herein advertised are open to the inspection a£all, who, without purchasing, are invited to vn)t he establishment and satisfy themselves the truth of the above statements.183 NOTEE BAME STE Nov.30.ST Perfect Substitute/ SILVER./ ELECTRO-PL ON NICKEL SILYElv.for ORIGINALLY inlroduced by PLEY into Canada, over since, and has been found to satisfaction, at the following REDUCED PRICES SHAR-rteen years Ive general Fiddle or plain Thre:\t\t\t\t-Kings\t \tPattern.\tPath)\t.\tPattern:\t\t \t1st 2nd\t3rd 1st\t1st\t/2nd\t3rd \tQhyjQhj\tQity- [Qlty\tQlty\tQity\tQiy \t$ ! $\t\t\t$\t$ 12 Table Forks.\t10,00 7.5C\t4.80 10.50\t13/OÜ\t10.5U\t7,01 12 Do.Spoons.\t10.00 8.0L\t4.80 12.00\t15,00\t12,00\t7,00 1 2 Desert Forks.\t6.50 5.01\t3.50, 8,01\t/9,00\t8,00\t5,00 12 Do.Spoons .\t6.50 5.50\t3.50i 8,50\t10.60\t8,50\t5,60 12 Tea Spoons\t\t3,50 2,50\t1,751 4,5C\t6,60\t4,50\t3j5ü 2 Ftrg Spoons f Gill\t'\t/\t\t\t B.owJ J\t\t2.40 1.50\t1.50 3.00\t4,50\t3,30\t 2 Sauce Ladies .\t1.80 1.10\t1.10 2j)0\t2.50\t2,00\t 1 Gravy Spoon.\t2,50 2,00\t1,25; 2150\t3,00\t\t \u20222 Salt Spoons [Gilt\t\tI\t\t\t Bowl] \t\t0.80 0,50\t0,50 1,00\t-Y,50\t1,10\t 1 Musiard do.[Gilt\t[\t\t\t\t Bowl] \t\t0.40 0.25\t0.25 0,50\t0,75|\t0,55\t 1 pair Sugar Tongs\t0,75 0,60\t0,50 1,25\t1,25\t1/00\t 1 pair Fish Carvers\t\t\t\t\t [in Case]\t\t7.00 6.00\t5.00 6.00\t7,001\t\t 1 Butter Knife\t\t0.90 0,75\t0.50 1.00\t1,60*\t\t 1 Soup Ladle .\t4.501 2,50\t1.25 4 00\t5,oqJ\t\t 1 Sugar Sifter .\t0,90 \t\t\t! 0,90\t1,2*\t\t \t58,45 43,hO\t30,20 65,65\t82,lb\t66,70\t Discount lor Cash\tj\tl\t\t\t 5 per cent .\t2,92 2,18\t1,51 3.28\t¦u\\\t\t \t55,53 41.52\t28,69 62,37\t78,14\t63,37\t AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME LI.MONTREAL, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1859.PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.Monday, Feb.14, 1859.The SPEAKER took the chair at three o\u2019clock.\u2014^\tKEMOVAL TO QUEBEC.Hon.Mr.DeBLAQUIERE said that the Attorney General having announced in another place that it was the intention of the Executive Government to remove for a period the Government offices to Quebec, he was induced by a deep sense of the duty and respect which he owed to this House, to give notice of the following inquiry for Friday next :\u2014\u201cTo enquire if it is the intention of the Executive Government to remove the Seat of Government to Quebec in the present year, notwithstanding the decision against such removal given by the Legislative Council and communicated in an address to his Excellency in reply to his speech from the throne ; and if so, to enquire in what manner the funds necessary lor the purpose, and for the other great expenditure connected therewith, are to be supplied ; and whether the consent of the Degislative Council to these appropriations will be required previous to the expenditure of the same.Also, to enquire if the Executive Government will take the necessary steps for carrying out her Majesty\u2019s decision in favor ol Ottawa by proceeding immediately with the erection of the requisite buildings.\u201d The hon.gentleman hoped that the Administration would consider well the subject of the enquiry, as the answer involved the rights and privileges of this House as well as the constitutional rights of the people of Ca-nkda, \u2014- MUNICIPAL DEBENTURES.Hon.Mr.ALEXANDER introduced a bill to restrain municipalities issuing debentures beyond a certain amount.(Hear, hear.) The bill was read a first time.AN ELECTIVE SPEAKER.Hon.Mr, MORRIS enquired of the Government at what date the address of this House to her Majesty for power to elect its own Speaker was transmitted to her Majesty, in compliance with the prayer of this Home tnJnsJüxcellencv, on TheTSTFrAïjrii lustTand whether any answer to the said address has been received by his «Excellency ?Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET, in reply, laid the following despatches before the House : [No.121.] Quebec.September 18th.1858^ Sir,\u2014I have the honor to enclose, for the purpose of being laid at the foot of the throne, an address to her Most Gracious Majesty from the Legislative Council of Canada, praying for permission to have the option of electing their own Speaker.Under the existing state of things, this functionary is nominated by the Crown.The address was carried unanimously by the House, the Government offering no opposition, but, on the contrary, thinking it was right that the House should have the power of dealing with the question of electing their own Speaker, or leaving it to the nomination of the Crown.I have, &c., (Signed,) Edmund Head.The Right Hon.Sir E.B.Lytton, &c.Downing Street.9th Oct- 1858.Sir,\u2014I have to acknowledge thereceipt o?your despatch, No.121, of the 18th ult., enclosing an address to the Queen from the Legislative Council of Canada, praying for permission to have the option of electing their own Speaker.I have to request that you will state to the Council that 1 have laid their address before her Majesty, and that her Majesty baa been pleased to receive the same very graciously.l nave, &c., (Signed,)\tE.B.Lytton.Governor Sir E.Head, &c.The hon.gentleman [Mr.V.] said he felt it necessary to apologize to the House for~tDe de-laywHtUffTiad occurren in forwarding the address toTfer Majesfyl It was carried somewhat early in the session, in April, and the document was transmitted as usual under cover to himself at the Executive Council office.It was placed on the table together with some oilier papeYs, getting mixed wi~tK~^1rtUlr might be accomplished.\"What was the object of fixing the Seat of Government of Upper Canada\u2014a policy which had been that of the Imperial Government since the time of the union, and which has been stipulated forby the Imperial Parliament at the time ?It was to allow Anglo Saxon influence to predominate.(Hear.) He must, however, say that if it did.Canadians were responsible, as they had voted for the proposition to have the buildings erect ¦He^dmlreTThe honesty of the member for Ottawa [Papineau] who could not sacrifice the interests of his constituency, but he thought the members from the districts of Quebec and Montreal who had voted for the Government would p-egret their conduct.(Hear, hear, and oh, oh.) He then asked what would become of Representation by Population?A majority of the Upper Canadians were in favour of it; the Lower Canadians were unanimously opposed.Even the majority of the ministers were in favor of it.The Post-Master General was in,favor of it.The Inspector General had spoken last session of the \u201c legitimate rights of Upper Canada.\u201d He had menacingly told the Lower Candians that the Protestants were in a majority, as well as a majority of English speaking members.Mr, GALT\u2014That\u2019s no menance, it is a mere statement of facts.Mr.BUREAU\u2014It is a menace.Mr.GALT\u2014It is not true ?Mr.BUREAU admitted it was true, and said it indicated a desire on the part of one race to rule over another.Mr.GALT\u2014No, oh no.Mr.BUREAU proceeded to remark that the views of the Inspector General and his desire for a Federal Union, based on the principle of that of the States, would be repudiated by three fourths of the people of Lower Canada.(Hear, j hear.) He might talk of checks\u2014we had had checks here\u2014but we had lost them.Tiiere had' Been a two-thirds clause in the Act Aif Union rerâtingfo~cBangés in the constitution Yetit The above Goods are Warranted to/be of British Manufacture.R.Shaupley begs to call the attentioii of the public to the advertised prices in London of the above Goods, of the same quality : LONDON PRICES : Fiddle Pattern.Thread Pattern.KiiigsJSat\u2019rn £11 14 6 stg.£14 11\t6 stg.£1?14 6 stg MONTREAL PRICES :\t/\t, £10\t7\t7 cy.£15 11 10 cy.£15 16/10 cy.R.SHARPLEY,/ Crystal Blodk, Notre Dame StreëïT) December 7.\t290 / \\ 0T1DË.JUST RECEIVED, direct from HAVANA, the undermentioned favourite Brands of CIGARS : ACIERTO LONDRES, J.M.VICHOT LONDRES, JENNY LIND REGALIAS, LUZ.DE AMERICA CCQUETAS, ACIERTO CONCHAS, ANTIGUIDAD PANATELLAS, NAPOLEON LONDRES, WOOD VILLE LONDRES, CABANA LD'NDRtsS, PERLA CUBANA REGALIAS, MIMDO NUEVO CCQUETAS, ACIERTO OPERAS, ANTIGUIDAD GALENAS, NAPOLEON CONCHAS.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 50,000 of FINE FLAVOURED CIGARS, of different brands and superior quality.\u2014also,\u2014 Just received ex Steamer \u201c NORTH BRITON,\u201d A fresh supply of the CELEBRATED CRYSTAL TUBE and the MAGIC or WASHED MEERSCHAUM pipe, to colour in one smoking ; CIGAR CASES, FUZEÏÏ BOXES, MEERSCHAUM BOWLS, plain and silver mounted ; and numerous other articles suitable for presents for the APPROACHING HOLIDAYS, At G.LEVEY\u2019S, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.Dec.7.\t290 CHiAS.ROBERTS©^ m CABINET MAKER, HAS REMOVED FROM NOTRE DAME STREET TO HIS No.5(i ClUIG- STM», Where he has in his Capacious Show-Rooms a Large Assortment of FUKHITUHE I FOR SALE CHEAP, COMPRISING : Sets of COTTAGE FURNITURE, DRAWING-ROOM FURNITURE, DINING-ROOM FURNITURE, BED-ROOM SETS, kc.kc.kc.Parties should call and see his Stock before purchasing.They will find it for their advantage to do so.His prices are suitable for the HARD TIMES, and offer great chances to persons with money, which they should not neglect if they are wise.lieHiember diaries lioberisou\u2019s, So 56 Craig Street?November 19.\t'\t27 W7 BOUGL AS, FIRST PRIZi COOl RfcSHOI MIR, 2ST3- 81 nZTQIM) S\u2019SP.ïCEÈBïP, REGS respectfully to call tha attention of the public to his present assortment of BOOTS k SHOES of every kind.They are manufactured from the best of material and made by the best of workmen that can be had in Canada ; for utility, finish and style, he is justified in saying his work cannot be equalled in this city.N.B.\u2014Strict attention will be paid to all work made to o-der on the shortest notice.\u2014 Good fits on reasonable terms.First Prize for best display of Boots and Shoes Gent\u2019s Dress Boots Gent\u2019s Walking Boots and Shoes Gent\u2019s Dress Shoes Ladies\u2019 Dress Shoes Ladies\u2019 Walking Boots jand Shoes do Strong Working Boots.November 30.\t3m-284 PUT rtrawer-_ The usual plan was to send such pa-pers as the address to his [Mr.V\u2019s.] room, and from thence to his Excellency\u2019s apartment.\u2014 This course had not, in this case, been taken, and it was not until after the House had risen that, having occasion to look into the drawer.he~discovered the adtlfeisi He was astonished andsüri)riaed~at finding it there, but took the 'hole responsibility, such asit was, upon him-peTf.Onthus nuding the papers, he immëdi-ately proceeded to his Excellency, who was then in Quebec, and requested that it should be sent to England by the next steamer, which had consequently been done.INDEMNITY TO MEMBERS.Hon.Mr.DUCHESNAY gave notice of the following motion for Monday next:\u2014\u201cThat taking into consideration the present state of the finances of the Province, this House considers it to be its duty to give an example of economy in the public expenditure, aud that in consequence the indemnity granted to each member of this House be limited to three dollars > j>er day.\u201d The house then adjourned.ir Do\tdo Do\tdo Do\tdo First\tPrize for Do\tdo Do\tdo ST COD STORAGE X Bond or Free JuiyJlO, m N and CELLERAGE, w HAVILLAND ROUTE & CO.), 162 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.Monday, February 14.The SPEAKER took the chair at three o\u2019clock.ME.BROWN AND HIS EXCELLENCY\u2019S DESPATCH.Mr.BROWN rose and said\u2014Sir, I observe in the Colonist and Jtlas of this morning an article in reference to myself and his Excellency\u2019s despatch of the 1st of August, There is no misunderstanding as to facts.The Attorney General [Mr.Macdonald] alluded, in the debate on Friday evening, to a conversation between his Excellency and myself on the Saturday with regard to a dissolution.I merely said the words referred to here were expressed on Thursday and not on Saturday: But whether the conversation took place on Thursday or Saturday is not of the slightest consequence.As I stated on Friday evening, the words were coupled with other explanations which might not probably convey to my mind the impression which they did to his Excellency\u2019s; and I was not desirous of raising any issue on that point.As to the words not having been communicated to my colleagues, I have to say that they were fully communicated, accompanied, of coarse, with my impression of those words.PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW.Hon.Mr.MOWAT presented a petition from the Council of the Township of East Whitby, praying for the passing of a prohibitory liquor law.MONTREAL AND CHAMPLAIN RAILWAY.The SPEAKER laid on the table a statement of the affairs of the Montreal and Champlain Railway Company for the year 1858.MR.ROBINSON AND THE \u201c GLOBS.\u201d Mr.J.B.ROBINSON said\u2014Before the orders of the day are called, I wish to take this oppor tunity of explaining a matter of a nature person al to myself.I see it is stated in the column of tne Globe, of which paper the hon.member for Toronto is the editor and proprietor, that I left the House on Friday eveuing for the purpose of \u201c shirking\u201d the vote on the question of the removal of the Seat of Government to Quebec, previous to its permanent settlement at Ottawa.I risé to say that that statement is wholly incorrect\u2014that there is no foundation for it whatever.As the House will remember, I was one of those who spoke against the removal to Quebec, and I intended to back up my speech by my vote.Unfortunately for me however, owing to a case of sickness in my family, I had to leave the House, and it was impossible for me to get back in time to record my vote.Not having a newspaper at my command like the member for Toronto, I may be excused for taking this the next best means of making known to my constituents the true facts and the unfounded nature of the charge contained in the paper to which I have auliuded.(Hear, hear.) THE DEBATE ON THE ADRESS.The order of the day for the further consideration of his Excellency\u2019s speech at the onening of the seseion, and.of the address in answer thereto, proposed by Mr.Dufresne, and of Mr.Bureau\u2019s motion in amendment to the said address, was then taken up.The discussion was then renewed by Mr.nURBA.U, who said the speech mentioned the Federal Union question, and he was, therefore, warranted in speaking of that subject.For his part he would say at once that he saw with fear, with regret, with apprehension, that the Government took the initiative in preparing ^çhangê'TnroûF-constitution.-Yhe people had not pronounced on the subject, and tfiSLowiFCanadians fiâïTTncIeëcrTbnnd fault with that less extensive union\u2014the union of Canada East and West.The disposition, the passionate desire of Upper Canadians to rule Lower Canada had existed since the union.He could prove it not only by the speeches in the House, but by historical documents.He then traced the history of the union, and said that it would now be the aim of the Anglo Saxon race to bring abouta Confederation of the Provinces, for the purpose of subjugating the French race of Lower Canada.Lord Durham had advised the union of the provinces first, and that of all the colonies afterwards, in order that this end had myileriously disanneareïïT It was said thil was the'wüirk of the Imperial Parliament.He thought not, he knew too well the liberality of the English Houses.It is said hv our Ministers there was no corresnoniîëïïëë on the siih|eet.\u2014 If_ there was na__nfIiciaLcorres[)ondence there were private despatches.[HearT hear.] He now wished to ask what advauFages'could be gained from the Union of the Provinces ?The small provinces he supposed would be entitled to send as many senators as the large ones.\u2014 Even with Prince Edward Island, whose population was smaller than that of Montreal and Quebec, this would be the case.How would that satisfy the people who even now cried out for Represention by Population ?How would the revenue be divided ?He would not attempt to solve the problem he proposed, he would, however, say that Lower Canada would never consent to sign its own death warrant.[Hear, hear.] He regretted that there was only one representative of the French race on the Ministerial benches.Was that just, when people are talking of a change in the constitution ?\u2014 [Hear, hear.] He wished to draw the attention of the House to another subject.Complaints had been made that of late years colonization in Lower Canada was neglected, so that Lower Canadians were compelled to emigrate.Mr.Chauveau had pointed out very clearly the causes of such emigration.Properties were in the hands of large proprietors, and they prevented their occupation.[Hear, hear.] He was glad to hear the member for Montcalm saying hear, hear, for he hoped that was an indication of his knowing the intention of the Government to treat the poor colonists with more Justice Another authority\u2014the writer of the last report on education\u2014said the concession of vast tracts of land to individuals or companies, was the cause of the emigration.\u2014 Now, in the very last Gazette, he saw an intimation that whole townships might be bought up, on certain conditions, at $0.50 per acre.Relative to the squatters, ho read the regulations of the Government, and proceeded to express great commiseration for those unfortunate people, who, after having expended labor and money upon the lands they occupied, were liable to be summarily ejected.He went on to show that the system pursued towards these people had had the effect of compelliug many of them to leave the country, and this would account for the large emigration into the United States.He quoted the report, and recommend-, ed that free grants of land should be made to/ persons willing to occupy them bona fide, as! calculated to counteract the drain upon the population of Lower Canada.Referring to the' figures of Mr.Galt, he contended that the taxes hacTriot clîmïnTsïïed, but increased-] Be w~tmld shatr thaX by compâTfmrttie'^monëv expended., enlargeif~revénue, \u201d the Goveramea-t\u2014had not been abTAWSo wlfEout borrowing, but Ead enue, ______________ Ttg~wTIEoüt borrowing, largely increâsêiTthe i^rovincial debt.vv _____________________ _____ ______ He believed that the system of commercial reciprocity with the United States had been a benefit to the Province, as he would show by the imports and exports between the two countries, and he would resist any attempt to change it.He then went on to quote copiously from Adam Smith relative to the prosperity of nations in spite sometimes of large imposts upon their importations, and went on to condemn high taxes as militating against the success of trade and imposing painful sacrifices upon the people.\u2014 He had heard of a proposed retrenchmeut in the public expenditure, and was much pleased at the prospect ; but he had found that 1854 the Crown Lands employed thirty-four clerks, whereas now he found there were fifty-four, which was rather a novel mode of retrenchment.Now as to the Seat of Government, he thought his amendment would suit excellently the views of the Province.Three weeks would suffice to have the buildings got ready in Montreal.He thought that was the most advantageous place, aud it would finish by triumphing.Pie hoped his amendment would be strongly supported and finally carried.Col.PLAYFAIR said the hon.member for Cornwall said the other eveningThat he was not a prophet, but he would undertake to say that the Government would never go to Ottawa it it went down now\u20191 'tô-'Quebecü IFTs evident that the hon.gentleman is not a prophet ; and it is also evident that there was not a prophet in the Cabinet of which he was recently a member, or the prophet would have told them that there was a trap laid for them.But he [Col.Playfair] would put more faith in his Lower Canadian brethren than he would in the hon.gentleman\u2019s prophecy.He would say as General Lavalette said to General [Sir Robt] Wilson\u2014\u201c My name is Lavalette, and I throw myself upon your English honor.\u201d He [Coi.Playfair] would throw himself upon French honor, and he was convinced they were as willing to keep faith with us as we are to keep faith with them.The Government of which that hon.gentleman was a member seems to have been a secret society, and he really thought that, like Hamlet\u2019s ghost, every one of them was forbidden to tell the secrets to the present House, for they bad never been able to get a hold of tbeir policy, unless they were to have Representation by Population, with checks and something about grappling irons, or grappling with the great questions of the day.If they had a policy, they keep it secret for this reason, that if they explained it the Government would steal it.The Government was accused of stealing their measures last session.They must have been good\u2014they must have been the quintessence of wisdom, having been prepared on that side of the House, for these gentlemen opposed every one of them.It was very likely their policy was secret, and would remain so, for they have very little chance of coming to the ministerial side of the House to carry it out.The hon.member for Toronto said last session that any member of Upper Canada that would vote for the Queen\u2019s decision would never be returned to the House, in the event of a dissolution.Was it at all likely that one-half of the members of Upper Canada would be thrown out of their seats because they voted for the Queen\u2019s decision ?No.He had a far higher opinion of the loyalty, good feeling, and wisdom of the constituencies of Upper Canada, than to think that they would discharge one half of their members for doing their duty to the country, honour to the Queen, and to the moral standing of the country of their adoption.Again, the hon.member said the other evening that every member in Upper Canada would vote for Representation by Population.He [Col.Playfair] was astonished at such an assertion.The hon.gentleman might have known by the debates of last session that such would not be the case.That hoh.gentleman told him [Col.PlayJair] that he was a traitor because he voted against Representation by Population, that that was one of the planks of his platform, and that he had dropped it.He \u2014Col.Playfair\u2014would say that a deputation from Drummond waited upon him prior to his election wishing him to put that plank in his platform\u2014but he replied, they might leave him at home, or they might return him,but be would not support that question.\u2014Hear, hear.\u2014Representation by Population would put his hon.friend opposite on a high horse, and he hoped that his Lower Canada friends would not hold the stirrup while that gentleman mounted a Pegasus, that would ride from Upper to Lower Canada.It would enable him to carry all before him, for he well knew the power of a majority.He could well remember the tender mercies of the Western peninsula to the Eastern part of the province before tne Union.While they were expending large sums of money upon roads and whatever they thought proper, the people in the Eastern part could scarcely get an answer to their petitions.If he was against Representation by Population before, he was much more against it now.It was now Representation by Population with checks, but he had never understood what these checks were.If they were checks upon the provincial treasury, he could understand them.He had been at a loss to know what these checks were, and had heard the question asked several times, but still no answer.He would, however, tell his hon, friend of one check to jthat question, that he did know.True, he had not 300,000 men at his back, but it was a check hon.members opposite seemed to know nothing about.He meant the check upon Representation by Population of the Valley of the Ottawa.The people filling up that valley would soon be a check upon that question.When he went down to his constituents at the close of last session, he held a publie meeting, and one of the charges against him was that he had voted against Representation by Population.But when be exolained the question to them, they immediately said they did not want it if that was the case.Some of them said they thought it would enable them to swamp Lower Canada\u2014for they had been told that Lower Canada was swallowing up the resources of Upper Canada.But when they saw that it would destroy the Union Act \u2014if Upper Canada had more members than Lower Canada\u2014and that the only effect of the measure would be to throw all the representation into the large towns and thus swamp the back country, they said they wouldn't have anything to do with it.He was sure if there was a motion on the question to-morrow that Upper Canada would be against it.As this amendment was simply to put off the main question, he would say [hat fm intended to vote for the original motion.Mr.McKBLLAR said it was not his intention to have occupied the time of the House on this occasion, but he thought there were many good things that could be said in favor of continuing the discussion for a few hours longer.He really thought that by this same the Government ought to have come down to the House with some of the measures they intended to submit for the benefit of the country.But if they were to judge of affairs from listening to the discussion, they would still think that the Brovvn-Dorion Government was in power.The hon.Postmaster General seems to have devoted himself to the study of literature of a certain kind during the recess\u2014and the hon.Commissioner of Public Works seems to have been equally industrious, but he thought it a matter of regret that both hon.gentlemen had not more attentively devoted themselves to the discharge of the duties that devolve upon them in the positions they hold.Instead of giving the House information as to the course they mean to pursue\u2014they read scraps of paper\u2014some of them a quarter of a century old\u2014for the amusement of the House, It was to be regretted that they indulged in this course, instead of trying to allay the prejudices that exist.He thought that their whole stock in trade for several years had been the prejudices of the country.These prejudices, he was happy to think, however, would ere tlong be removed.The hon.gentleman regretted that so much time had been wasted on the Address.He was satisfied the Opposition wefe prepared to have taken the vote upon it on the first night of the discussion, but the Government were not prepared, because they had to do a great deal of whipping in.It was the duty of the Government to press forward the business of the country when they considered the expense of the ^legislature.The hon.Inspector General stated that the expense of last session was £160,000, which by a calculation he (Mr.McKellar) had made was £900 a-day.They had thus been discussing this question for ten days at an expense of £900 a-day, while at the same time it was a fact that within 100 miles of Toronto hundreds of industrious emigrants who have gone into the County of Bruce and adjoining counties are in starvation.They had already spent as much as would keep these people in the necessaries of life for months to come.He could name a dozen of members of this House who were returned in opposition to the Government who dared not stand up at a single meet-, (ing and say they would support them, but when they came to the House there is sort of influence brought to bear upon thsm which com-l pletely changes their opinions.The hon.\" member then contended at some length that the Government had no policy, and that they ought to be got rid of.He said he would willingly vote that they should change sides, for then only could they expect to g,et the great measures carried which the country so much needed.He was against going to Quebec and would rather go to Ottawa at once, as he was assiired/they co'uld at the present time beas well accommodated there as at Quebec.~ Mr.GO WAN said he had not intended saying anything, but the speech of the hon.gentleman who had just sat down was so extraordinary that he could not help saying a few words.He spoke of the government delaying the time of the House at a cost of £900 a day.Now, whatever might be the opinion of gentlemen that were tied to the tail of either side of the House, he thought there was scarcely an independent man, either in parliament or out of it that would deny that, at least since last Thursday, the time of the House had been occupied by the Opposition.it Mr.FOLEY\u2014The hon.gentleman forgets that the hon.member for Terrebonne occupied three hours on Friday night, and that all the other speakers were Ministerialists.Mr.GO WAN said it was true the member for Terrebonne spoke the time stated, but he was not aware that the other speakers were Ministerialists.Could it be denied that the speech of jthë hon.gentleman who had just sat down was not to question, but was intended to delay the proceedings\u2014that, in point of fact, he was speaking against time ?Yet he was the gentleman to charge the Ministerialists with wasting time.r-t Mr.McKELLAR\u2014I beg to correct the hon.[gentleman.I did not speak against time, I (spoke against the Ministry.(Laughter.) Mr.GOWAN\u2014The House will judge of that.He would tell the hon.gentleman that he might lay on the lash as long and as heavily as he liked, but he would not succeed in lashing inde-pendendent memberslto the tail of one party or tîürôTEiif.J [Bear, hear.) The hon.gentleman stated \"that the question of a Federation of the Provinces had been stolen from his party.Could he show a single written or spoken sentence ou the subject by any member of his party prior to the British American League ?Certainly not, but it would be found that Mr, Edward Afurney andHon.Mr.Vankoughnet made a long report in favor of such a scheme.[Hear, hear.] Mr.DORION said it was our duty to look to the interest of the country before we looked at those of any particular city or town.[Hear, bear, from the Ministerial members.] The reference of the Seat of Government question to the Queen was a deliberate understanding of oth Houses, while the understanding iu regard o going to Quebec in the meantime, was a mere >rivate arrangement between the Attorney General West and the Quebec members.The legislature was not bound to recognize this, and as no other reason was assigned for the proposition to go to Quebec, he could not assent to such a wasteful piece of extravagance as the proposition involved.But he had another reason to urge against going to Quebec.It would ïvEôlê the clerk to prepare aud read the list, just as if it were provided for by law.Atty.Gen.CARTIER said there could be no objection that the lists should be read as they i Bower Canada party (Mr.Dorion) seemed to were read last session.\t|j prefer the popularity which flows from bowing to local prejudices to the real interesls of the country.He seems to think that if he can achieve a party triumph and a temporary popularity, they are better than the real interests of the Province.\\';It was said the other evening that he should have followed the course of a distin- meu would have bee i as clamorous in regard to say he had abandoned his principles or altered to it as they are now in regard to Ottawa.He /bis views.It was very true that he had been one was satisfied that the recognised leader of the (of the first advocates of Ottawa as the Seat of give oceasion for the ie-opening of tEe question of the Seat of GovernmentTand The question wouETBelfebatea'over and overagain.Not But that he believed this would be tne case also at Ottawa, should the Seat of Government really be taken to that city.The inconvenience of the place would then be felt aud attempts would be made to have it removed.There was no doubt in his mind but Montreal would ulti-mateiy'-be~STecre-d as the Seator~5'overnmiat.He \u2018TvonhipttreTefore] support the movement in favor of Montreal, and in order to bring that city distinctly before the House ou its own merits, would move an amendment to the following effect :\u2014\u201c That this House feels gratifi-gcffor the interest displayed by Her Most-!?^ cious MajestyTm acting on the address ot this House on the Seat of Government question ; but while bowing with all due respect to that decision, this House considers it a duty to early an-proachUër MâjësTy with the assurance that the circumstances under which that vote was given no longer exist, aud that in the present state of the \"public finances it is the opinion of this House that Her Majesty would best consult the intsxeatalïî5®^3;\u201c^a^~f\u2019eolr^S-®UI5i?ou'uS her Parliament to meet at Montreal as soon as the arrangements are completed for that purpose.\u201d The hon.member was proceeding to speak in support of this amendment when the House rose, at six o\u2019clock.ELECTION PETITIONS ACT.In the evening, Before the debate was proceeded with, Mr.SPEAKER drew the attention of the House to the fact that the 45 section of the election act of 1851 provided that the clerk should read a list of the members called upon to serve on election committees or claiming exemption therefrom.But this provision only related to the first session of every Parliament ; whereas in England, the similar statute applied to the first and every subsequent session.The latter words were omitted here, he thought inadvertently.But the 60th clause provided that the House or the Speaker should carryout the unprovided intentions of the law.Thé clerk had not read the lists this session, but he (Mr.Speaker) thought he might ask the House to allow him to direct Hon.J.S.A1ACDONALD thought the Speaker could not supply such an important omission as that ; there must be a special act.to remedy it.Atty.Gen.MACDONALD said the rights of the electors njusf not be ignored.Hon.Mr.ROSE pointed out that if Mr.J S.Macdonald\u2019s reasoning obtained, there could be no proper tribunal to which to refer contested elections.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD\u2019\u2014That\u2019s true, there is a mistake.You cannot carry out an act jn which thepe is a mistake like that.Hon, Mr.SICOTTEJ disagreed witlj the member for Cornwall.He thought the House should not direct the Speaker to take any proceeding.It could not direct him to do anything whatever, in relation to this matter and he thought the speaker would be within the law if he directed the list to be read at once.Atty.Gen.CARTIER.observed that the Legislature had guaranteed the right of contesting elections at any session of Parliament, and that therefore, it must have intended that the means of contestation provided should apply to every Session.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD said the House .could not interfere vrith the law of the land except by passing an act of Parliament for that purpose.Hon.J.A.MACDONALD said that the Ifst was good for the whole Parliament.Mr.DORION said everything must be done to prevent a failure of justice.Op.the suggestion of Atty.Gen.MAODON-ALp, the list was read ;jro a, and it was agreed that a discusion on the point should takp place next day.DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS* The debate was then resumed, Mr.DORION continued to argue in support of his motion in amendment to the amendment, repudiating any desire to catch votes by the course pursued.He believed Montreal was the only place which could command a majority of votes.The people of the country were very indifferent as to what place was selected for the Seat of Government, and it mattered little to members themselves whether they had to gq to Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa or Toronto.But no body could doubt that the Seat of Government ought to be placed in the most central place for the largest number, which was unquestionably Montreal.His motion left the question of a temporary removal to Quebec undisturbed; it merely affected the question of permanency.Mr.ROSE pointed out the incousistency of the senior member for Montreal in now submitting this motion and disclaiming that of the member for Napierville, which distinctly affirmed that Montreal was the Dest place for the Seat of Government, and his want of straightforwardness in stating that that motion was simply intended to catch votes, while it actually appeared, from the original copy of the motion, which he (Mr.Rose) held in hand, that it had been drawn up by no other person than the senior member for Montreal himself.[Hear, hear.] Also, it further appeared he had intended to propose it himself, but had changed his mind, struck out his own name and substituted that of the member for Napierville.[Hear, hear and laughter.] Mr.BUREAU said he had asked the senior member for Montreal to draw up the motion as be did not understand the .Englisli language sufficiently to do it himself.Mr.ROSE said he hardly thought the senior member for Montreal would simply have acted the part of a scrivener, when his name appeared as the proposer.(Hear, hear.) It was strange that the hon.gentleman should now repudiate the motion.Mr.DORION\u2014I have not repudiated it.I distinctly declared that I would vote for it.Mr.ROSE said this was another species of the \u201cgrappling\u201d which they had heard so much of from the other side.One amendment was intended to eatch the votes of Quebec members, and the other those r*Y Western, members- His hon.friend had fallen into an error, for he thought it was admitted on all hands that there was a motion brought before the House by the Hon.Provincial Secretary, affirming that it was the duty of the Government to carry out the understanding to go to Quebec at the end of this session.\tv Mr.DORION\u2014No, no.Hon.Mr, ROSE\u2014fhe motion was moved by the Provincial Secretary, seconded by the Hon, Mr.Lemieux.Mr.BkO WN\u2014It is not on the Journals.Hon.Mr.ROSE\u2014It was before the House and could not be withdrawn without the consent of every member or the House.Mr.SIOOTTE\u2014The motion was never put.Mr.BROWN said he remembered the circumstances very well\u2014the Opposition looked upon it as a good joke.They thought it was a very comfortable family arrangement the Attorney-General was making.Hon.Mr.ALLEYN here read from his notebook the jottings made at the time, to the effect that he moved the motioa, and that it was only withdrawn upon the distinct pledge from the Attorney-General West that, at the end of the four years, the Government would remove to Quebec.I Hon.Mr.ROSE\u2014It was competent for any hon.member of course to have taken an adverse vote upon this motion ; but, by consenting to 'its withdrawal, the House pledged itself to go to Quebec.[Hear, hear and laughter.] Mr.BROWN\u2014Not at all.He did not think the motion was ever put into the Speaker\u2019s Jiands.Hon.Mr.ROSE was satisfied from what was said the other evening by the Attorney General West, and from the language used in his Excellency\u2019s despatch, that it was understood unmis-takeably that Parliament should go to Quebec at the eud of this session and the large majority of 37 members of this House who the other evening recorded their votes in favor of Quebec did so upon this understanding.His hon.friend opposite, however, seemed to say that they had not seen the end of this question yet.After the decision of her Majesty, a decision solemnly affirmed by this House\u2014hé seemed to throw out some dark inuendo that this agitation would be kept up for a couple of years more.All that the Quebec members desire is that the same good faith they wish to Upper Canada may be given to them.Before sitting down he would refer to a matter which, although personal to himself, he could scarcely pass over.He had been accused of seeking to preserve his office and position in the Government at the price of the well-understood wishes of those who sent him here.He had been accused of accepting a fee from both sides as if he were selling the interests of his constituents merely for the temporary possession of an office, which hon.members would admit entails_ipore saenfig^Than tne Uenelits it gives wm,repay*^He should noTJlaYA noticed these accusatîôus|v if they had not been hurled at him by one who occupies a place in this house ; nor if it were not because it was a charge against a member of the present Government, a Minister of the Crown, who had purchased his position at the expense of violated pledges, and at the expense of his constituents.That hon.member (Mr.McGee) amidst a great deal of declamation said that he [Mr.Rose] had no right to a seat within this bar, and that he loves abusing the power his constituents gave him.But he would venture to tell that hon.gentleman that the city of Montreal does not desire to purchase the advantages Montreal would derive from being the Seat of Government, at the ex-pnseqj3t the gppd faith of the representatives of the country.HA ventured to say, after some twenty ye'ars experience of Montreal that they would scorn to purchase the advantages flowing from being the Seat of Government at the expense of the good faith of the Province.Montreal does not depend upon any such advantage.She depends for her position upon the industry and energy of her merchants\u2014upon the skill and enterprise of her mechanics, and upon her own unrivalled position for any advantage she may desire.If he felt that he was trammelled by the mere considerations of local advantage, or that they might think he, from his position, would have had some influence in bringing the Seat of IGovernmen to their doors, they would have been conferring upon him an~ïïôhor he would have disHàmed to acne-ptj but that hon.mem-ber, in^alleging that Montreal would desire to purchase such an advantage at the price of the good faith of the country, totally misrepresented the true position ot her citizens.It was said also, that he had obtained votes because it was presumed from his position in the Government he would probably bring the Seat of Government.He denied the assertion, and he ventured to say that no one could pruxeut.The fact was, that it was made a charge against his hon.friend [Mr.Cartier] and himself, that they were members of a Government pledged to carry out in good faith the decisionHer Majesty might come to, and, that being committed to this, they were not the men to elect, as they would not care for the interests of Montreal, but would carry out whatever decision Her Majesty might think proper to make.So far from ueing elected with a view to help to secure the Seat of Government to Montreal.The very position hé occupied in regard to the references, although in no way responsible for it, was that it ought ta be cartied out in good faith.If that reference had resulted in favor of Montreal, hon.gehtle- guished statesman m England, who felt that he was no longer representing the wishes of his constituents.He alluded to Sir Robert Peel, at the time when he felt it bis duty to assent to the bill which w*s intended for the relief of the Catholics io 1829.He resigned his seat at that time, and he (Mr.Rose believed it was almost the only case in England where a member of the English Parliament felt, in consequencee of the change in his opinions, that it was his duty to resign his trust into the hands of his constituents.That case was cited as one for him to look to ; but the hon.gentleman who referred to it must have been egregiousIyUgnorant'of the which led to Sir R ,bert Peel\u2019s resignation ; or singular!Ainaptjat comparing the different posi-tions of the parties.What was Sir Robert Peel\u2019s position?He had been elected in 1817 as the extreme advocate of what was generally termed the fanatical pa ty\u2014who were opposed to any further concessions to the Catholics.He had opposed the defender of the Catholics, Canning, and this was the test question upon which he was elected\u2014Canning on the one side, and Peql on tbe other.The one the advocate of relief to the Catholics\u2014the other what was termed at the time the fanatical mouth-piece of the extreme Tory or High Church party.Bat when some years afterwards he thought it was his duty to vote that there should be some relaxation of the laws then imposed upon the Catholics, and seaing that his opinion was due to his own extreme opinion^ upon tflat question, he did resign hig seat fop Oxford.But is theie the slightest parallel between that case and the present ?Not the slightest.Even in that case, although he owed his seat to his opinions and had changed these, what did he then say ?Will the hon.gentleman who cited the case, without apparently knowing anything ofjjs inappïicability-^will he be prepared to ac-ceptTSir KoDert Peel\u2019s definition of a member\u2019s duty to his constituents?(No, no.) Thesimple fact of Sir Robert Peel\u2019s resignation may suit him to refer to in the House, hut that is all he seems to look at.Sir Robert Peel said upon that occasion, in writing to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford\u2014\u201cI cannot deny that in vacating my seat I was acting upon the impulse of private feelings, rather than upon a dispassionate consideration of the constitutional relation between a representative and his constituents.I will not seek to defend the resolution to which I came by arguments drawn from the peculiar character of the academic body, or from the special nature of the trust confided to its mem?bers\u2014Still less w|ll I contend that rpy example ought to be followed hy ethers to whom may be offered the same painful and alternative of disregarding the dictates of their own consciences or of acting in opposition to the opinions and disappointing the expectations of their constituents.I say no more than that my position was a very peculiar one, that I had painful sacrifices to make and that it would have been a great aggravation of them if it could have been said with truth, that I was ex=rcising an authority derived from the confidence of the University to promote measures injurious in her deliberate judgment, either to her own interests or to those of the Church.\u201d These were not the views of a man desirous to raise the price of a few vacant lots, as some gentlemen seem to be looking after, but a matter ia which the University of Oxford, the embodiment of the High Church party at the time was deeply interested.So far as his (Mr.Rose\u2019sf position was concerned the good of the country would be his study.He would now read what Sir Robert Reel had said to Lord John Russell when the Emancipation Bill was under debate \u2014the substance of which was .that a member was not so much to consider the local interests ot his constituents as the general interests of theooun-try.He (Rose) was prepared to follow that course, and as he considered that the good faith of the Province was pledged^To sustain the Queen\u2019s decision, the removal to Quebec for four] years', Eô would disclmrga his duty in those respects, whatever might be said of him by the junior member frr Montreal.Mr.McGEE\u2014The hon.member, from remorse .qt shame, alter having been reminded that he [Government for United Canada.(Hear, hear.) He was glad to hear the venerable member for [Quebec City cry \u201cHear, hear.\u201d (Hear, and laughter.) When he had advocated Ottawa, the Attorney General West had derided the idea, and told the country it was a mere trick to take the Seat of Government to Montreal.Nobody believed this, because no one in the House or the country ever knew him (Mr.Drummond) to resort to a trick.(Hear, and laughter.) And when it came to a vote, he voted for Ottawa, and against Montreal.The Attorney General West had afterwards voted for Quetec as the Seat of Government.He (Mr.Drummond) was in the Government then, and if he mentioned what had happened then, it was because he had entered the Government on the condition that he should be free to act as he chose on the Seat of Government question.He was then the only advocate in the Government of a fixed capital.The hon.member for Vercheres, who soon afterwards entered tbe Government, was of the same opinion on that point.A majorit hers wore in favor of Môntrëa NUMBER 40 believed that the Government were sincere, that it was their intention not to press the Federal Union, he, wishing the Seat of Government to be at Ottawa, should have given his vote for that [City-.(Hear, hear.) But when he found them coming down with the silver shield in one hand and the golden shield in the other, when they urged the vote for Ottawa on the one hand and urged Fed-ration on the other, how could he believe in their sincsiity ?(Hear, hear.) Their moaljntimate fr.ends went to His Quebec alatflct saying the vote was a mera sham \u2014only to save appearances^^thâTÔttawàvreuld never be the Sea f of G o y e r niïi e n TrTH >£ n iVp~ and that it will be their duty to carry out tha understanding which existed at the time when the reference was made, by which the Government will be transferred to Quebec lor a fixed period, until the necessary arrangements shall have been completed \u201d The result was as follows \u2014 yeas Alleyn, Archambault, Brby, Bell, Bel-.ingbam, Benjamin, Buchanan, Burton, Camp-bed Laron Uayley, Atty.Gen.Cartier, Cook, nn L \u2019 uP?,0U3t\u2019\tDubord, Dufresne Dunkin, Fellowes, Fergusson, Ferres, Foster, I «hTi161! Ga l\u2019 GlU\u2019 UowaQi Heath, Holmes, Lmb ue\u2019nLaOOSte\u2019 Ma,'betlb Atty.Gen - ^\t^ mo ucn,w U1 uoyernment.mat they would ggjo^ijaebec, and 30 preB3 the FederaTTfTTrnn thajjhejjeat of Federal Go~vernmënïalôüig be ihere.\u2014HeJjeTieved these~~3eclaraliQna~ônKei; smiled in fAyôF\"on.Xuebec borrow a 5\t5 \" friends, He^IievgrtBaUafthe nrese^U^gnt.i tfae^eaEQxoyernment was permanently fivarll nxed-ai-Qiinheci (Hear, hear, and oh, ob.j~ If the Government had been sincere, why had they submitted the Seat of Government question at all to the actiun of the House?Why had they come down with that tba,t cowardly speech?(Hear, hear.) Why bad they not gone down and 0Llhe_mem-] built at Ottawa at once?(Hear.) If he (Mr J?r\u201cmra?DdY had exPressed himself in favor ol -Hussl?He.wnald - t-«-.Federation it was because he had looked at the ^eSt\u2019 Ve8tion \u201c a national point of view, and thought ^a little bîgngffimmggery.How that Ottawa would unite conflictinginteres.sfas it could be said to be neither in Upper nor Lower Canada, and that there legislators could look to the great destiniesof/he cguntry withouthaving to trouble themselves so much with questions of race or religion\u2014(not because he owned a single acre of land there, which he did not, although some members of the Government coulTrwtrr 84y~-6g__giucfa)\u2014but~~when he~saw Federation broughtwïïEin a few~years, thaTthaGovirnment werg_gmlling It.althoWh t.h^~lïàirT^fcK-ft 11 nrtn tl ira *v-.r* r.1 .*.\\ _-t TV-4\t.4 .1 - j ¦ ¦ 1 1\u2014-¦ ¦ - - did the GoveFnfoent get round that vote ?ML* Oartier~Erad insisted on having in the Supply Bill an appropriation of ïAo^OjinqFj^ubile'Fui'Rlings at Quebec.~H(T(Mr.Drummond) Tett The Gov-srnment at about this time.The supply bill was passed in the Lower House, but in the Unner.a man who o wed hjs.pqlmcal existencetothë member\"\" -\tHingston, rose ap'd\" proposed that, thgjwiiQle buFshould be thrown out because ot that £50,000 appropriation: \u201c\u201c .\tThe Government he then peTüetYecT, had a policy for the House and another policy \"for the Council.[Hear, hear.) And tne ffttme'tbing was the case at pre- had betrayed the interosis of his constituents, had made the speech the House had just heard.If Montreal lost the Seat of Government it would be due to tbe action of that hon.gentleman, for if he, a member of that city, did not support jts interest?, of course, the country members in the vicinity would not feel under the obligation to do so.If Montreal shoui teel that her claims had not been duly considered first aud above all, she must lay the blame at his door, for he had not only abandoned his const uuençÿljiïjnïâïï^ In the former debate he had almost ignored ihe laws of Montreal, and now he denied that hs had controverted the wishes of his constituents.He must have forgotten that at the time of his election it was argued there that if three Ministerial members were elected, that city would stand a better chance of being chosen as the Seat of Government than if the Opposition men were returned.He would ask the hon.member to say whether it had been known in December that he would vote against Montreal, whether he would have been chosen?He asked him as a man of honor to answer that question ?Or did he now suppose he would ever corns again to this House?if his constituents had foreseen this line of conduct on his part they never would have given him the .opportunity to pursue it.He was not at all surprised at the extract he had read Lorn Sir Robert Peel, for if he bad not a leeling of public honor in his heart he would find a difficulty in sustaining his position.His own (Mr.McGee\u2019s conduct aud tfcut of the senior member for Moatreal had been neutralized by that of that hon.member (Mr.Rose.) He I (McGee) insisted that the general duty to the country did not relieve a member from first pay-i ing attention to his own immediate constituency.' To be sure the case that hon.member had quoted (was not exactly parallel to that in question j fneither werejhe~menP!yet it was sufficiently sol to iüdicdtê\u2019 the course the hon.member oUght to have~pursued.He'would now ask the hon.member for Chatesuguay (Starnes) whether it was not perfectly understood that he\u2014who was' a candidate for Montreal with Mr.Rose\u2014would go for Montreal as the Seat of Government ?A VOICE\u2014He is not in the House.Mr.McGEE\u2014Well, he had the authority of that gentleman to answer the question in the affirmative.The hon.member had not referred to two Canadian precedents he might have sent.W^nTthe G .vernment sincere in pretend ingThat they wished to carryJbgHeat of Govern- m^LAQ-Djlawa ?Hg_.oontended they were not.(Heai^hear^and laughteryjThè~7acküIl laugh of the_hoQL.Attorney GeneraFEast was not ar-gument.(Hear and laughter/) What could 1 hey know?They c oUl cT g 1 e anTrom the reports which were flying about that their conduct was a mere sham ; their friends knew th.9,t they might vote for Cttawa^thaLtlxelGoyeinment would go to Quebec, aqd that when once there, the mem-bers of the Government would urge on theTed-, eration question, when, of course, Çuebec mustl become the~\"Seat of Government, (dear.) In! reference to the federation scheme he might say he had always been in favor of it, not, that he thought it would be required iu a short space of time- Years ago, at the time of the iXnion cf Upper anff Lower Canada, fig had said ilTwould betbe seconinrtep towards the independence of justified in fixing Bytown or any~other place as the~Dei> mahent Seat off Goverrimfinf.iin'ifovriror.Qri\u201e these Provinces.But he must gay that during the last session ti;e eyenlg which occurred had nduced him to believe that the time of the Fédéra] Union had been accelerated by 10, 20, or 50 years.(Hear, hear.) He was glad to hear the Inspector General suy \u201c hear, hear,\u201d because he looked upon him as one of the few men capable of embracing the future.(Hear, hear.) But would it do to go to the Lower Provinces and tell them the real reason for which ihe Government desired Federation ?Would that tend to bring about a good result?(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The honble.member for Sherbrooke laughed.The hon.gentleman said the other night he (Mr.Drummond) was accustomed to (iqdges.What was the dodge?That be had joined the Brown-Dorion Administration\u2014that he bad joined the old reformers with whom he had formerly acted, but from whom be had been temporarily estranged on one or two points.Was there anything stfange in this ?Cerlainlv not, when tbejr object was to settle the differences agifa'ing the country, instead of making them a means by which they retained power, by exciting prejudices between Catholics and Protestants\u2014between Upper and Lower Canada.(Laughter.) Aye, he defied them to prove the contrary.The hon.gentleman had not dodged on several occasions\u2014no, not he.He eou d remember him a staunch tory ; but when it appeared that Lord Metcalf\u2019s reign was coming to an end, and the reform side of the scale weighed down, he dodged over to that side.But when he found that Lord Metcalf\u2019s Government man agea to maintain itself, be thought ft better to retrace bis steps.What did tbe h_»n.gentleman say tbe other night of the hon junior member for Montreal ?That he was unworthy to take a share in tbe G vernmeut of the country.Did not the hon.gentleman go to Sherbrooke, after being two years in Opposition, and issue an address in which he led them to believe he was a Ministerialist, and afterwards go to Montreal and give his vote for the junior member for Montreal?That was anoiber of the hon gentleman\u2019s dodges.But was it not a monstrous thing that the junior member for Montreal should be so denounced\u2014a man who always stood forward to defend the rights of .the people.(Hear, bear, and great laughter.) The Inspector General smiled; he must say ho liked to see the hon.gentleman smde.and he should always entertain a feeling of friendship for him.He had said, and/ be repealed it, because he f.dt it.to he so, that, the wbo'Iè~policy~ôf the Government was to carry onleveryttnug by dodges/ Much at least, every person must admit, was iLq ease in regard to the Seat of Government.The Government took credit to themselves-for the courage they had displayed.It was the courage of the uniortunale wretch who found a highwayman in his way and to whom he was compelled to deliver his purse.Let them see what was the courage displayed by them when the despatch came out.They had the law requiring them to construct thè~PafïïîU ment guilding at the place selected by the Queen, and if they had bad any desire to carry oilt the decÎ3iôïï~tljcy would, within' ted Hays, hltVe signed the contracts.(Hear.! tint they thought keeping open the nnestion was the last refuse to main tain themselves in power, and it was only at the end of eighteen months that the Governor General was instructed to say that he had Tlls-covéfëcTïhat the (Queen\u2019s decision wasrinudihg.A more disgraceful declaration was never put into the mouth of a Queen or Potentate.It was one of those things which the hon.member for Kingston know how to avail himself of.The hon.gentleman was wonderfully happy iu small things\u2014(laughter,)\u2014in what would elect great administration in the street conjuror, but not in a statesman.At the the time the reference was made, he was absent in England on the business of a dear friend, and he was amazed on his return to find that this was one of the leading measures of the sesssion.He did not until a recent period understand the nature of the Address, for he had not, he confessed, read the resolutions and Address.He was under the impression that the Queen was asked to exercise the Royal arbitrament, not the Royal prerogative.So, when the question came up last session, .\t, he ^\tlooked upon the motion of the member for Ber- qnoted,viz., Hon.Mr.Harrisou\u2019s at Kingston/ tbier as simply a declaration in regard to tbe who objected to go to Montreal, aud resigned hia nature of the choice, and accordingly voted to seat in tbe Government1 and also the example oft sustain the Queen's decision, believing them, as Mr.Moffatt who resigned nis seat for Montreal] he believed still, that Ottawa, was the best place rather than vote for it.He had been asked by 1 for the Seat of Government.But there was the ho u member (Mr.Rose) whether he would J take Mr.Moffatt\u2019s opinion, but he preferred to take his example.Tne hon.member said that the city of iVlontreal did not need the Seat of Governmeut, and he (Mr.McGee) admitted this, yet that was no reason why he should deny to that city its rights.True, Montreal had sent no one here to lobby, and no money to induce a vote in her favor, but that Montreal was not wounded by the unnatural conduct of her children, no oue could say with truth, and he believed that when they returned thither they would find that what he said was true.The senior member for Montreal had said that the hon.member had sacrificed that city to the interests of party, a.d that was true.If that hou.member had himself tried Montreal, or voted for the motion of the member for L\u2019Assomption in its favor, he might with some grace have iound fault with his senior memoer tor not doing so, bus how could he ventuse to do so when he himself had voted against it?_jlis majesty the member for Vercheres will doubtless allow the St.L.iwreuee to flow on ihits bid channel, and Montreal her mountain to occupy its old situation, and, while this was the case, he could not prevent the majority of the people of Canada from seeing that it was the best plucefor the Seat of Gove.nment.He thought it would be the workshop where Upper and Lo wer Canada would be best welded into one, where a nationality could be torged.But it had been betrayed by the hon.Commissioner of Public Works, aud he had seduced others to follow his example.i (Hear, hear.) Mr.DRUMMOND said it was due to himself to make some remarks explanatory of his position.(Hear, hear.) He had always attached great importance to the question of the Heat of Government, but not merely in reference to the place where it might finally be located.He had once exposed himself to some ridicule wuen he had declared that the Heat of Government should be located at Amicosii rather than it should be made the means of corrupting the people aud the politicians of the country ; rather than it should be made the means of eoutiuuiug a feud between Upper and Lower Canada, or ot enabling corrupt Governments to carry out their corrupt views, by arraying oue set of representatives against another.(Hear, hear.) He regretted to find that in this lengthy debate, no member of tbe Government had risen to enunciate great principles; they had conhned themselves to viliifyiug aud attacking tbe Opposition.(Hear, and laughter.) They had gone back ten or twelve years and searched through Mr.Mackenzie\u2019s slanderous records to find weapons for this species of attack.(Hear.) A good deal of obloquy had been cast upon him, and, if the Ministry shoxld not last the session, would hereafter be cast upon him by the organs of the Upposidon, because he was said to have abandoned his principles.(Hear, hear.) Now he had not aoan-doned his principles.(Hear, and laughter.) The first question most directly before the House was that of the Heat of Government.That was, he believed, tbe only one on which any man dared something to be considered as well as the decision of Queens and Potentates in Government.There was the decision of the representative of the representatives of the people, uninfluenced by those means by which the Governments sometimes obtained votes.What was the course adopted Gorerumeut ?Did they make, a declaration which led every man.-.vzoman and child to believe that they had repudiated the Queen\u2019s del, cision, an/risa returned to their seats for the purjüÿê^rtJcrwtmg-to the will of the représenta-lives oTthê people?~'i'he~wôrü3 ot the pseudo leaderoF the Government, the member for Ver-cheres, who, as every body knew, was no leader at all, but a mere puppet in the hands of the Attorney General West, v?ere, \u201c The Government felt themselves bound to carry out theTàw ot the land in reference to tne Heat of Uovernment, buj, in theTâce oFThe recenracTon the subject, the Administrtion do not consider themselves war- ranted in incurring any expense un*il Parlia- ment.has.hatLaaatber ounortunitv of ennsiderinpr the wholSsufciëct^TâAii.its begrings.11 They poke of tbïs'posîtion in the past tense.(Hear.) T hey hud fe/fthemsel v es bound, but they felt so no longer.UniëssPtBëy came down with hypocrisy on their lips, it must be felt that they had abanTToh-ed the Qilegrr\u2019s decision¦ - Their own journals have)3Irmed nothing else; they-suBmitted totîîe reproache3lff_th_eTournais in England.If they had not abandoned the discussion, they met the House under false colors ; aud it would not be the first the hon.member for Kingston had done this, Mr.Drummond then related at some length the history of the session of 1856, ending with the retirement of Sir Allan N.Macnab, and the re-appointment of Hon.Mr.Macdonald.He said that some had asserted the,hon.Attorney General West had got rid of him at that time.It was not so; he had got rid of the Attorney General West.(Hear and laughter.) He shook the dust :\u2019rom his feet and left the Government whenT he ottadjhat truth and policy were not iu them.'Hear.) Some had said that he had left them because he could not have the position of leader of the House.(Haar.) This was not so.The h m.member for Kingston had resigned when there \u2014 accidental tipper Gamidian majority of 1 n ?T.H P.a lia upi.l ha Vail l\u2018h.p nap.mànent Seal orLmyCTumentlor United Canada.(Hear,\u201cEëîF.) He regretted exceedingly the vote he had been obliged to give on the question of Ottawa as the Seat of Government, but if he could not justify it on other giounds he would do so on the score that he could not support a Government that had organized a regular sj stem of corruption.ThaFGrôv^rnmêmtmtTuhrnïrtëd and would submit to be called the shabby Government, provided they were allowed to retain the reins of office.They had availed themsp.ivp?of tbe letter of the statute and it^g-wptriK^tf the letter in the law was in their favor, for pia h , >\u2014pp-u, oinj.otbu.Macdonald, McCann, A.P.McDonald, Meagher, Morin, doiri.on, Ouimet, Panel, Papineau, Playfair, Pope, Price, Roblin, Rose, Richard W.Scott, Wm.Scott, Sherwood, Simard, Simpson, Sin-cennes, Sidney Smith, Talbo , Terrill, Tett, Turcotte, Webb and Whitney\u201459.\t\u2019 Rr^yS\"^AikeDSA Beaubien> Biggar, Bonraesa, Brown, Bureau, Gauchon, Chapais, Cimon.Clark Connor, Desaulniers, Dorion, Drummond, Foley rortier, Gaudet.Harcourt, Harwood, Hebert Hogan, Jobin, Laberge, Laframboise Langevin Lemieux Loranger, J.8.Macdonald, Mattice McDougall McGee, McKellar, Mowat, Munro Notman, Patrick, Walker Powell, Robinson q'hSh\u2019fa!jCOtte\u2019,Somervllle\u2019 Starnes, Stirton, Tasse ihibaudeau, Wailbridge and Wright\u201447.Majority for the paragraph\u201412.The following paragraph was then agreed to : ibat any correspondence with Her Majesty\u2019s Government which His Excellency may be pleased to lay before us, will receive our most careful consideration ;\u2014that we are prepared to recognize the selection made by Her Mijesty at our own request ; aud ihat we shall not tail duly to acknowledge her gracious compliance with the address which we ourselves caused to be presented to her.\u201d Montreal, Feb.12, 1859.J\tr-tT8 38 UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF COLONEL COLE.C.E., AND THE srriaBRS of kie MR.RANGE, Bandmaster of the 17th Regiment, has the honor to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Montreal and vicinity that he purposes giving a CONCERT, OF Vocal and Instrumental Music, IN THE MECHANICS\u2019 HALL, 031 WEDMSDAV, 23HÜ MSIAST, On which occasion he will be assisted by Miss A.SUTHERLAND, Messrs.C.B.Williams, Prince, Torrington, Fowler, Pyle, and the BAND of the 17th REGIMENT.Pianiste .\t.CHAS.D\u2019ALBERT.Programme in a future advertisement.Tickets, 50 cents, to be had at the various Book and Music Stores, and at the door.Doors opened at 7 o\u2019clock, Concert to commence at 8.Feb.14.\tr 37 A THE PUBLIC AEE RESPECTFULLY ISVITED TO A GRAND MASONIC BALL.UNDER the auspices of the MASONIC FRATERNITY OF CANADA, will take place at the ST.LAWRENCE HALL, ON Thursday, February 24th, 1859.TICKET, to admit a Lady and Gentleman, $2,50.May be had at the St.Lawrence Hall, and of any of the Stewards.C.L.Levey, P, Henry, F.Dettmers, STEWARDS : E.\tHimes, W.A.Bovey, F.\tBarnjum, D.\tMoss, T.F.Dutton, E.\tReuter.LISTON\u2019S Celebrated QUADRILLE BAND is engaged.Members of the Craft are expected to appear in Regalia.DANCING to COMMENCE at NINE o\u2019clock.C.L.LEVEY, Secretary.Feb.8.\t32 Church of England Association for Young Men of Montreal.COURSE OF LECTURES FOR 1859.THE Sixth Lecture of the Course will be delivered by J.C.BAKER, Esq , on MONDAY EVENING, 21st inst., at the Bonaventure Hall.Subject :\u2014\u201c The English Church and the Establishment of English Liberties\u201d Chair taken at 8 o\u2019clock P.M.Doors open at half-past 7 o\u2019clock P.M.O.B.SANSUM, Chairman, Lecture Committee.February 16.\t39 TA OR SALE by the Subscribers\u2014 y i Choice Butter, in Kegs Prime No.1 Leaf Lard NOAD BROS.February 15.\tr-38 M ESS, Prime Mess, and Prime Pork\u2014 Prime Mess and Prime Beef No.1 Tallow.NOAD BROS.February 15.\tr-38 B iRIGHT MUSCOVADO SUGAR\u2014 No.1 Split and Round Herrings Prime Table Codfish Preserved Lobsters in 1 lb.and 2 lb.tins.No.1 Bass, Cordage, Pipes Brandy, Port and Sherry Wine.MONTREAL OfEAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY.THE Steamship \u201c INDIAN,\u201d Captain R.Borland, will sail from Portland for Liverpool, on SATURDAY, the 26th instant, immediately after the arrival of the Train of the previous day from Montreal.RATES OF THROUGH PASSAGE FROM LONGUEUIL.Cabin, according to accomodations,.$72,50 to $86,50 Steerage.$35,50 Steerage passengers provide their own Bedding, and eating and drinking utensils.For Freight or Passage, apply to EDMONSTCNE, ALLAN & CO.February 16.\t>1-39 $ E w liTU 53= JUST REPRINTED AT HALF-PRICE, LINLEY\u2019S BEAUTIFUL BALLAD, BONNIE JEAN.\u2014Also, \u2014 KISS ME QUICK, Polka Mazurka.HENRY PRINCE, London Music Store, 145 Notre Dame Street.N.B.\u2014First-Class TUNERS at this Establishment ; and all orders from Town or Country promptly attended to.Feb.15.\t38 I^EW _MXJS10.SONGS FROM BaLFE\u2019S NEW OPERA SATANEILA.The Power of Love: Ballad\u2014Soprano O, Could I but his Heart Enslave: Song\u2014do.In silence Sad Hearts go: Ballad\u2014do.Sultana Zuleima: Song\u2014do* Our Hearts are not our own: Ballad\u2014do.No Prize can Fate on Man bestow: Song\u2014Tenor.An Angel Form: Romance\u2014do.The Glorious Vintage of Champagne: Song\u2014do Oh 1 would She but name the Day : Song-» Baritone.Rovers, Rulers of the Sea\u2014do.American Reprints of the above Songs, together with a large assortment of New Music, just received by J.W- HERB SET & CO., 131 & 133 Notre Dame Street.38 Feb.15.IWIUS S.T.PIERCE\u2019S, 19 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET: Jamie, song by Linley.Three Fishers.New Caledonian Quadriles.Les Caledonians\u2014Quadrille, with beautifully illustrated Title.Iu Press, aud will be published in a few days, Dolly\u2019s Quadrilles\u2014on English aits\u2014[with Portrait of'Doily], arranged by Smith.13\u201c Orders for tuning from Town and Country promptly attended to.Montreal, Feb.12, 1858.37 Gardeii, Agricultural aud Flower Agricultural Warehouse, ST.ANN\u2019S HALL, Over St.Ann\u2019s Market.Montreal.THE Subscriber has now received his supply of SEEDS for the coming Season._ His Stock is extensive and complete, comprising every variety suited to this climate.Catalogues may be had on application at the HaU'\tWM.EVANS."]