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{fiterature. WHY THUS LONGING?

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing, For the far off, unattained, and dim ;

While the beautiful, all around thee lying, Offers up its low, perpetual bymn?

Wouldst thou listen to its gentle teaching, All thy restless yearnings it would still,

Leaf and flower and laden bee are preaching, Thine own sphere, though humble, first to fill,

Poor indeed thou must be, if around thee Thou no ray of light and joy cast throw ,

If no silken cord of love hath bound thee To some littie world through weal and woe ;

If no dear eyes thy fond love can brighten, — No fond voices answer to thine own ;

If no brother's sorrow thou canst lighten, By daily sympathy and gentle tone.

Not by deeds that win the crowd's applauses, Not by deeds that give thee world-renown, Not by martyrdom, or vaunted crosses, Canst thou win and wear the immortal crown.

liuily struggling, though unloved and lonely, Every day a rich reward will give ;

Chou will find, by hearty striving only, And truly loving, thou canst truly live.

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[From Blackwood’s Magazine for August, 1859.]

THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me oue day, ae if between jest and earnes!—* Fancy! since we last met, | have discovered a haunted house in tue untdst of London,”’

‘* Reallyhaunted ?—and by what 7—ghosts ?”’

-CH\RLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MO

‘How long is it since the house acquired this sinister character ?”’ / "Phat I can scarcely tell you, but very many years since. | The old woman I spoke of said it was haunted when she rented | it between thirty and forty years ago. The fact is, that my life has been spent in the Kast Indies, and in the civil service of ‘the Company. I returned to England last year, on inheriting the fortune of an uncle, amongst whose possessions was the hause in question. I found itshut up and uninkabited. | was ‘told that it was haunted, that no one would inhabit it. I smiled at what seemed to me so idle a story. | spent some money in repainting and roofing it—added to its old-fashioned furniture /some modern articles—advertised it, and obtained a lodger for (a year. He was a colonel retired on half-pay. He came in _with his family, a son and a daughter, and four or five servanis : all left the house the next day, and although they deponed that they had all seen something different, that something was jeqgually terrible to all. I really could not in conscience gue, for even blame, the colonel for breach of agreement. ‘Then I | put in the old woman I have spoken of, and sne was empowered \to Jot the house in apartments. I never had one lodger wio stayed more than three davs. [I do not tell you their stories — | to no two lodgers have there been exactly the same phenomena |repeated, It is better that you should judge for yourseif than | enter the house with an imagination influenced by previous narratives ; only be prepared to see and hear something or ‘other, and take whatever precautions you yourself please.” ‘Have you never had a curiosity yourself to pass a night in {that house ?”’ | Yo" Yes. | passed not a night, but three hours in broad day- jlight alone in that house. My curiosity is not satisfied, but it lis quenctied, & have no desire to renewghe experiment. You ‘cannot complain, you see, sir. that [am not sufficiently candid ; }and un'ess your interest be exceedingly eager and your berves ‘unusually strong, | honestly add, that f advise you nof to pass la mght in that house.” | * My interest as exceedingly keen,”’ said 1, “ and though only /a coward wil! boast of his nerves in situations wholly unfamiliar

to hin, yet my nerves have been seasoned in such variety of | of us then was touching, opened quietly of rself.

, danger that | have the right to rely on themm—even in & baunied

' house.”’

| Mr. J—— said very little more , he took the keys of the

‘house out of his bureau, gave them to mne,—and thanking him cordially for his frankness, and his urbane concesssion to my

| wish, | carried off my prize.

| Impatient for the experiment, as s90n a { reached home |

| summoned toy confidential servant-—a young man of gay spirits,

NDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1859.

tinued to gaze on the chair, and fancied I saw on it a pale blue misty outline of a human figtre, but an outline so indistinet that [ was quiet. “ Put that chair opposite to me,”” said | to iF ; * put it back to the wall,”’

F-—— obeyed. “Was that you, sir?” said he, turning ab- ruptly.

“ |—what!”

‘“Who, something struck me. I felt it sharply on the shoulder——just here-*’

“No,’’ said I. ‘ But we have jugglers present, and though we may not discover their tricks, we shall catch them before they frighten us.”’

We did not stay long in the drawing-rooms—in fact, they felt so damp and 8o chilly that F was glad to get to the fire up- ‘stairs. We locked the doors of the drawing-rooms—a pre- caution which, | should observe, we had taken with all the rooms we had searched below, The bedroom my servant had selected for me was the best on the floor—a large one, with two windows facing the street. The four-posted bed, which took up no inconsiderable space, was opposite to the fire, which burned clear and bright ; a door in the wall to the left, between the bed and the window, communicated with the room which my servant appropriated to himself. This last was a smal!

| landing-piace—no other door but that which conducted to the | bedroom f was to occupy. On either side of my fire-place was a cupboard, without locks, flushed with the wail, and covered with the same dull-brown paper. We examined these cup- boards—only hooks to suspend female dresses—notbing else ;

we sounded the walls—evidently solid—the outer walls of the | building. Having finished the survey of these apartments, warmed myself a few moments, and lighted my cigar, | then, still accompanied by F , went turth to complete my recon- |noitre. In the landing-place there was another door ;. it was closed firmly. ‘ Sir,” said my servant in surprise, * I unlocked i this door with all the others when I first came ; it cannot have | got locked trom the iside, for # 1s a@- ”

Before he had finished his sentence, the door, which neither We looked af each other a single instant. The sane thought seized both '—some human agency might be detected here. I rushed in

first, my servant followed. A small, black, dreary room, with- out furniture—a few empty boxes and hampers in a corner— # smal! window—the shutters closed—nvt even a fireplace—no ‘other door but that by which we had entered—no carpet on the floor, and the fluor seemed very old, uneven, worm-eaten, ' mended here and there, as was shown by the whiter patches ou

room with a sofa-bed, and had no communication with the |

there would now be four elected members in the Coungil, and in six or seven years probably not more than one or two of the present members would hold seats there.

lion. Mr. HAVILAND could not agree to that opinion. There might as well be no Bill introduced for rendering the upper branch elective if they had to wait for death vacancies or resignations. It was true that an unusual number of vacancies had occurred during the last six or seven years, and those contingencies had enabled the late Government to cram ‘the Council with their supporters. The probability of similar opportunities of changing the composition of the Council during the ensuing period of the same duration was against all the doctrine of chances. It was not to be ex that the present Councillors would fall like aset of nine pins.

Hon. Mr. COLES was last year inclined to add three elec- tive members to the present Council, making 15 in all. He repeated his objection to the introduction of twelve new members constituting the whole body, as it was impossible that their inexperience of legislative routine should not cause inconvenience ; but his prineipal objection was that the Council would not sanction the measure.

Hen. Mr. McAULAY—There was no connection between sound reason and the scheme propounded by the hon. member. If the nominee system were and beneficial to the country it should be retained ; but if otherwise, if the members of Council did not hold their seate for the benefit of the country, for whose advantage where they there? The Lient. Governor represents the sovereign, but if the Council bears the same character, there would then be two aristocratic influences to bear upon one democratic branch of the constitution; and thus the liberties of the people might at any moment be crushed. Asa rpms ter te good men and true, he would not submit to-such a state of things. Our gracious Queen desired that her people should govern themselves as they wished : and against the will of the people the parchment titles of the Legislative Councillors would be but dust in the balance.

Hon. Mr. THORNTON deprecated the introduction of mueh irrelevant matter into the debate. The question for decision was the immediate or gradual alteration of the con- stitution of the Council, the principle of election having been sanctioned by the House. The intelligence of the country had decided in its favor; and it was not the part of a wise man to pun counter to public opinion unequivocally manifested. The common object should now be to make the new body as pure as possible. The proposed apportionment of the representa; tion he considered very unfair, for while in the House Prince and King's Counties had respectively an equal representation

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“ Well, | can’\{answer these questions ; al! | know is this—six | fearless temper, and es free from superstitious prejudice as any | tne wood ; but no living being, and no visible place in which a

woeks sgo land my wite were in search of a furnished apart- ment. the houses a bill, * Apartments Furmshed.’ ‘The situation suited us; we entered the house —liked the rooms—enyaged them by the week—and left thei the third day. No power on earth conid have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and | dun’ wonder ut tt.’

‘+ What did you see 7”

‘Excuse me—! have no desire to be ridiculed as a super- stitious dresmer—nor, on the other hand, could I ask you to accept on my affirmation what you would hold to be incredible without the evidence of your own senses. Let me only say this, it was not so much what we saw or heard (11 which you might fairly suppose that we were the dupes of our own excited fancy, or the vicums ef imposture in others) that drove us away, as it was an undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed the door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard anything. Aad the strangest marvel of all was, that for ence in my life [ agreed with my W >, silly woman though she be—allowed, after the third night, that it was impossible to stay « fourth in tuat house, Accordingly, on the fourth morning { suromoned the woman who kept tie house and attended on us, and tokb her that the rooins did not quite suit as, and we would not stay out our week. She said dryly, ‘i know why; you have staid longer than any other lodger. Few ever staid a second night; none before you a third. Butl take it they have been very kind to

you.” “ They—who ?” { asked, affecting to suule.

“Why, they who haunt the house, whoever they are. [)

don’t mind them; | remember thera many years ago, when l hved in this house, not a8 @ servant ; but | know they will be the death ot mesowe day. | don’t care—I'm old, and must soon die enyhow ; and then I shall be with them, and io this house still.’ The woman spoke with so dreary a calwmess that really it was a sort of awe that prevented my conversing with her further. I paid for my week, and too happy were [ and my wife to get off so cheaply.”

You excite my curiosity,” said 1; ** nothing I should like better than to sieep in a haunted house. Pray give me the addrees of the one you left sv igaominiously.””

My triend gave me the address; and when we perted, | walked straight towards the house thus indicated.

It is situated on the north side of Oxford Street, in a dul! but respectable thoroughfare. | found the house shut up—no bill at the window, and no response to my knock. As | was turning away, a beer-boy, collecting pote at the neighboring areas, said to me, “ Yo you want any one at that house, Sir ?”’

“ Yes, | heard it was to be let.”

“ Let!—why, the woman who kept it is dead—has been dead these three weeks, and no one can be found to stay there, though Mr. J-—— offered ever somuch. He offered mother, who chars for him, £! a-week just to open and shut the windows, and she would pot

** Would not ?—and why ?”’

+ "Phe house is haunted ; and the old woman who kept it was found dead in her bed, with her eyes wide open. ‘They soy the devil strangled her.”

“ Pooh !—you speak of Mr. J——. house ?”’

Yes.”

‘- Where does he live 7”

* In G—— Street, No. —.

‘+ What is he ?—in any business ?"’

«* No, Sir—nothing particular; @ single gentleman.”

{ gave the pot-boy the gratuity earned by his !iberal infor- mation, and proceeded to Mr. J-—, in G--— Street, which

Is he the owner of the

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was close by the street that boasted the haunted house. I was’

lucky enough to find Mr. J at home—an elderly man, with intelligent countenance and prepossessing manners. .

{ communicated my name and my business frankly. T said { heard the house was considered to be haunted—that I bad a strong desire to examine a house with so equivocal a repntation that I should be greatly obliged if he would allow me to hire it, though only fora night. | was willing to pay for that pri- vilege whatever he might be inclined to ask. ®' Sir,”’ said Mr. J——, with great courtesy, *‘ the house is at your service, for as short or as long atime a8 you please. Rent is out of the question— the obligation will be on my side should you be able ta discover the cause of the strange phenomena which at present deprive it of all value. I cannot letit, for | cannot even get a servent to keep it in order to answer the door. Unluckily the house is haunted, if [ may use that expression, not only by night, but by day; though at night the disturbances are of a more alarraing character. The poor old woman who died in it three weeks ago was a pauper whom J took out of a workhouse, for in her childhood she had been known to some of my family, and had once been in such good circumstances that she had rented that house of my uncle. She was a woman of superior education and strong mind, and was the only person I could ever induce to remain in the house. Indeed, since her death, which was sudden, and the coroner’s inquest, which gave 1 8 notoriety in the neighborhood, | have so despaired of finding any person to take cherge of it, much more a tenant, that I would willingly let it rent- for a year to any one who would pay ite ra'es and taxes.”

Passing a quiet street we saw om the window of one ol;

one | could think of. iwing beg could have hidden. As we stood gazing round,

+ F ,” said I, * you remember in Germany how disap- | the dour by which we had entered closed as quietly as it had | pointed we were at not finding a ghost in that old castle, which | vefore opened : we were imprisoned, i Ww : . , was said to be haunted by a headless apparition ?—well, | have | #or the first tine | felta creep of undefinable horror, Nor

| , ; ; lheard of a house im London which, | have reason to hope, ix | 80 my servant,“ Why, they dov’t think to trap us, sir;

'decidediy haunted. | mean to sieep there to mght. From | could break that trampery door with a k ck of my foot.” | What I hear, there is no doubt that something will allow itself

ito be seen or to be heard—something, perhaps, excessively the vague apprehension that bad seized me, * while | open the |

lhorrible. Do you think, if take you with me, I may rely on | shutters and see what ts without.”” | your presence of mind, whatever may tiappen 7” '" «Oh, sir! pray trust me,” answered F-——, grinning with | back-yard b have belore deseribed ; there was uu ledge without, | delight. nothing but sheer descent. | the address. Go now,— select for me any bedroom you please ; | Hones below. ‘and since the honse has not been inhabited for weeks, make up} F

feandles es well as fuel. Take with you my revolver and my force.

| dagger—so much for my weapons—arm yourself equally well ; far from evincing any superstitious terrors, bis nerve, Come |

‘and if we sre not a match for a dozen ghosts, we shall be but s | posure, and even gayely amidst circumstances so emraordinary | sorry couple of Englishmen.” } compelled my adimwation, and made me congratalate myself on | | was engaged for the rest of the day on business so urgent} Having secured @ companion in every way fitted for the oc- that | had not lesure to think much on the nocturnal adventure | Caston. { willingly gave him the permission be required, But ‘to which [ had plighted my honor. 1 dined alone, and very) tn yuvh he was a remarkably strong nan, his force was as idie ilate, and while dining, read, as is my babit. The volume || as his milder ¢ fforts ; the door did mot even shulse to his stoutes! ‘selected was one of Macaulay’s Essays. | thought to myself} Kick. Breathless and panting, he desisied. | then tried the lthat I would take the book with me; there was 80 much of | coor myself, equally in vain. As | ceased froumthe + fort, again ‘healthfulness in the style, and practical life in the subjects, | that Creep of horror came over we ; but this tine It Was more ‘that it would serve as an antidote against the fluences of cold and stubborn. | felt as if so.ne strange and ghastly exha- | superstitious fancy. ry lation were rising up from that rugged floor, and filling the at- Accordingly, about half-past nine, I put the book into my mosphere with a venomous influence hostde to human life. ' pocket, and strolled leisurely towards the haunted house, | took| The door now very slowly and quiet!y opened as of its own | with me a favorite dog--an exceedingly sharp, bold, and vigilant | accord. We precipitated ourselves tnto the !unding-place. i bull-terrier—a dog fond of prowling about strange ghostly | We both saw a large, pale light—as large as the human figure, | corners and passages at night in search of rats—a dog of dogs} but shapeless and unsubstantial—wave before us, and ascend for a ghost. the etairs that led from the 'anding into the attics. | followed | It was a summer night, but chilly, the sky somewhat gloomy | the light, and my servant followed me. It entered. to the right land overcast. Still there was a moon—faint and sickly, but|of the landing, a small garret, of which the door stoood open sill a moon—and if the clouds permitted, after midnight it || entered mm the same instant. ‘The light then collapsed tnto a , would be brighter. | small giubule, exceedingly bri liantand vivid ; re<ted a moment

| reached the house, knocked, and my servant opened with} on a bed in the coruer, quivered and vanished. We approached a cheerful smile. the bed and examined it, a half-tester, such as ie commonly | ¢* All right, sir, and very comfortable.” found in atties devoted to servants. On the drawers that stood “Oh?” said |, rather disappointed ; ‘* have you not seen or | near it we perceived an old faded silk kerchief, with the needle still left in a rent half repsired. The kerctnef was covered | with dust; probably it had belonged to the old woman who bad

heard anything remarkable ?” | « Well, sir, | must own I have heard something queer.” | © What ?—what ?” ‘ , ‘‘ The sound of feet pattering behind me ; and once or twice } room. | had sufficient curiovity to open the drawers ; there ' smal! noises like whispers close at my ear—nothing more.” | were a few odds and ends of female dress, and two letters tied ‘© You are not at all frightened ?” | round with a narrow ribbon of faded yellow. 1 took the liberty | «J! not a bit of it, sir ;”? and the man’s bold look reassured | to possess myself of the leuers. We found nothing else in the 'me on one puint—viz., that, happen what might, he would not | room worth noticieg—nor did the light appear ; but we distinctly | desert me. | heard, as we turned to go, a pattering fuotfal! on the floor, jusi | We were in the hall, the street door closed, and my attention | before us, We went through the other attics (m all four), the |was now drawn to my dog. He had at first ran in eagerly | footfall still preceding us. Nothing to be seen, nothing but enough, but had sneaked back to the door, and was scratching | the footfall heard. I had the letters in wy hand : just as I was and whining to get oat. . ‘encouraging him gently, the dog seemed to reconcile himself | faint, soft effurt made to draw the !etters from my clasp. I | to the situation and followed me and F—— through the house, | only held them the more tightly, and the effort ceased. ‘but keeping close at my iieels instead of hurrying inquisitively [To be con‘tnued.) i. advance, which was his usual and normal habit in all strange | places. We first visited the subterranean apartments, the; ——— | kitchen and other offices, and especially the cellars, in whieh | ‘last there were two or three bottles of wine still left in a bin, |

Provincial Parliament. | covered with cobwebs, and evidently, by their appearance, un- |

PRALINE NONE IN ‘disturbed for mary years. It was clear that the ghosts were |

| not winebibbers. For the rest we discovered nothing of in- | ILOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

‘terest. There was a gloomy litle boat 20> with mers high | “er i‘ f this d were very damp,—and what, id ¢ reece Beni 20 whieh Wit dio: debt ead biboke ON THE ELECTIVE LEGISLATIVE COUNCLL BLLL.

{ Concluded.)

Mr. CONROY was in favour of the principle of election. That opinion he had formed before coming to the House, for

| with the damp, and whet with the dust and smoke-grime of the DEBATE ‘pavement, gur feet left a slight impression where we passec, | And now eppeared the first strange phenomenon witnessed by | 'myself in this strange abode. | saw, just before me, the print) ‘of a foot suddenly form itself, as it were. I stopped, caught | hold of my servant, and pointed to it. In advance of (hat foot | ‘print as suddenly dropped another. We both saw it. ‘vanced quickly to the place ; the footprint kept advancing be-| ‘fore me, a small footprint—the foot of a child ; the impression | was too faint thoroughly to distinguish the shape. but it seem- ed to us both that it was the print of naked foot. lt non ceased when we arrived at the opposite wall, nor) *P beopryeene itself on returriing. We remounied the stairs, | lottetown, an ‘and entered the rooms on the ground floor, ‘emall back-parlor, and a still smaller third room t

f the apportionment of the representation. At

| _ i death. ‘probably appropriated to @ footman—all still as | ‘then visited the drawing-rooms, which seemed fresh and new. | ome ae

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‘In the front room | seated myself in an arm chair lighted ‘be carried, and he trusted that it would be framed in such | fested, as each member would sider ! ‘manner that it would be permanent. He was in favor of re-| his seat, and the evil day of abdication would come to bis ducing the qualification of candidates to £500, and equalizing neighbour sooner than to himself. The only other way would

placed on the table the candlestick with which he had

‘us. I told him to shut the door. a he eas do a a chai te to me moved from the wall quickly and noise #°ss- aad aie tell about a yard from my own chair, im- | the representation of the several counties.

| mediately fronting it. corr ae - Why, this acted than the turning-tables, said [, with | P

"Try firev if it will open to your hand,’ said fT, shaking off |

1 unbarred the shetters—the window Jooked on the little

No man getting out of that wine | | * Very well,—then here are the keys of the house—this is {dow wonld huve found any totung till be bad fallen on the

, tneanwhile, was vainly atterapting to open the door.

la good fire—air the bed well—see, of course, tha: there are He now turned round to me, and asked wy permission to tse And | showld here state, in justice to the servant, that. | :

i last died in that house, and this might have been her sleeping |

After patting him on the head, and | descending the stairs I distinctly felt my wrist seized, and a

peared that all the talent of the country centre in Char- | d in that House they found that all the wealth | bability that the Council would agree to it, and the best way a dining parlor, a | and jegal knowledge were arrayed on one side ; 80 that, if, | would hat had been | as the hon. member, Mr. Haviland, had said, Queen’s County If it were provided that one-half should retire now, and the

We_ had not a fair amount of representation, her inhabitants were | remainder in a few years, it might meet with the a proval of nsated by their preponderance of wealth and | the Council. If the seats to be vacated were to be decided by He had no doubt that the Bill would ultimately | Jot, it was probable that not much opposition would be mani-

with Queen’s, it was pro to give the latter six out of twelve members of Council. Ile would prefer to have the Council to consist of 14 members, of whom King’s and Prince | Counties should elect four each, and Queen’s would have six /—a numerical preponderance which would be quite as great jas that County could expect.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—It was the bounden duty of hon. ‘members to give effect to the wishes of the people, and none

‘could entertain « doubt that the public mind bad Lecn strongly ‘impressed with the conviction that the elective principle must ‘be applied to the Council; and that beneficial results were ‘not to be anticipated from its action, so long as its present }eomposition continued. While such was the state of public | opinion, there could be but little cause for hesitation as to the propriety of effecting the change immediately, or by the pro- tracted system of gradually supplying vacancies occurring 'from time to time. Under the latter system, it would be im- possible to say how many years would elapse before the Council would be in @ position to co-operate with the majority | of the House in measures of general interest. A strong remedy | was required to cure the evils resulting from the anomalous | situation in which the Council stood relatively to the House ‘of Assembly—a situation to which no other Colony could |show anything analogous. If the present composition of the /@ouncil justified the hope that it would harmonize with the House after the lapse of a reasonable period of time, he might | be disposed to allow the change to be gradually introduced ; | but, constituted as it was, no such expectation could be enter- ‘tained. The House would not be justified if they allowed the | Council to continue on its presené basis, or postponed the a plication of the admitted remedy. Although the Bill should not pass the Council, its sanction by the House would show the nearly unanimous opinion of the people's representatives. and ite publication would have the effect of eliciting the ex- pression of the popular wish on the subject, which would be a guide for their action next Session. As to the remarks which had been made: relatively to the apportionment of the representative Councillors to the different Counties, the proper time to discuss that aad similar questions of detail would be when the different clauses came up im Committee.

Mr. SINCLAIR—Adwmitting the necessity for a change in the constitution of the Council, did not agree with the opinion that it was so obstruetiye a bedy as some had characterised it.

The people, he believed, condemned it as not being obstructive a i ‘enough, as in fact a mere echo-of the House. He agreed with | ion. Mr. Coles that it would not be expedient to introduce a

|total change at once, as inconvenience must arise from a | Legislative body composed entirely of inexperienced members. | He did not, however, approve of the suggestion of supplying iby election vacancies which might from time to time oceur. ‘He would prefer the immediate vacating of one-third of the seats, and another third to be declared vacant in three years, and the remainder of the present incumbents to retire in three years after, by which means a total change would be effected | within a reasonable period.

Mr. DAVIES was in favor of an immediete change of the constitution of the Council. It would be too long to wait until the present members should resign their seats or die. As to Mr. Sinclair’s observation, that the Council was re d as a mere echo of the Assemblf, and consequentiy not o c- tive, he could not perceive the foree of the argument—as if they were an echo of the last, they must of eourse be obstruc- tive to the present House. He trusted that the Bill-would pass, as the change was desired by the people, and the prin- ciple had been adupted in other Colonies, and would receive | the sanction of the [imperial Government.

| Mr. COOPER—Th@ Council ought to be obstructive to any rash and precipitate measure of the House; but there bad been nothing in their conduct hitherte to justify the appella- ‘tion. The Government might desire to make them obstructive by passing a Bill which they knew would be rejected by the Council.

Mr. OWEN—It was generally admitted that a change was |mecessary, and the only difference of opinion was as- to the

| ad-|under the present system of appointment to seats in the | mode and time of effecting that change. If an elective Council | Council, a change of Government four years hence might | was deemed desirable, the sooner we had it the better. He |cause the majority of that day to make the same complaint | was in favor of sending the Bill to the Council this Session, a8 as the Government now made. He did not, however, approve | he thought the country would be dissatisfied if the measure resent it| was kept in abeyanee lor another year.

Mr. CONROY—As the Bill then stood there was no pro-

to supplant the present mew, bers by moderate means.

consider that he might retain

| be to take them all by the shoulder, and shove them out; but

Hon. Mr. COLES said the Bill would not satisfy King’s or| he thought the more quietly the business could be done the rince Counties, on the question of the division of representa- better. ; ; Under the high qualification it required, Queen’scould, Hon. Mr. LONGWORTH—The necessity for harmony ! e-

. | | tion. : : : ‘a half laugh—and as I laughed, my dog pat back nore one her men of wealth into those Counties for election, and | tween the two branches of the Legislature was universal) y

howled. : F—., coming back, had not observed the movement of the |

He employed himself now in stilling the dog. Icon-)t

i chair. he principle.

| ° '. ; é ive . ° Z their return. He suggested the gradual application of | admitted, and the soundness of the elective prineiple applied aed If such hed been nas sod since ' to the Council had been admitted by every — ppl

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