HASZ_ARD'S GAZETTE. APRIL 13. be dosi atcd the paper girrency Their nglfivity occurred in the ravest and as was believed the most religious o the Colonies, hlil!lSIl(‘lIuN:ll.'4. That colony was at the also time, strange as it ma a most warlike ” A in. “ The bills of credit, however, notwithstand- ing the colonial pledges, soon depricatcd and gave birth to that pernicious variety of our- rencies, that is to say, ditl‘ei-criee’s between ppr valcipps, which has not yet in men . T are are many other similarly instructive testimonies to the evil clfects of these Notes, but I will not trouble your Honors further but con- clude by moving that this bill be read again this day six montha.——(To be continued.) first exchanged. They might well of are my HOUSE OI‘ ASSEIBLX, Ir. Hacan.l.s‘y's active Lo ' lativo ounal Bill. kn (Dshse cuatiamid from Hasxard’s Gasstte, No. 21.) Hos. Ms. Cons. Had he not known that the ‘hon. member (Mr. Macaulay) had introduced the Bill, he would have imagined, from the bearing of his remarks, that he was opposed to the measure. According to the hon. membcr’s own showing, and his own ex lanation of the principles and working of the ritish Constitu- tion, of lords was an intermediate body between the popular branch of the Legis- lature, or democracy, on e one hand, and the kingly power, or despotism on the other, and its province was to kee be nce, between those extremes, even. e House of Commons, or our mbly, as the Representatives of the pie, mi ht yield to po ular clamour; but the mum of lgfldl, or our gislativc Council'_ as existing independently of the ul_ar voice, could interpose to prevent the evi s which might arise from the submission of the House of Com- mons, or our Assembly, to clamour from with- out; as a few days since had been evidenced in the conduct of some hon. members of the House, who changed their 0 ‘ ions on account of the demonstrations made y the Sons of Temperance, their regalia, and brass hand. But if the alter- ation proposed by Mr. Macaulay should be made, the intermediate, or balancing power, between the people and the Crown, would be wholly de- stroyed: for both the Assembly and the Coun- cil would be alike open to pular clamor and importunity, and the one quite as likely to be borne away by it as the other. so that an undue preponderance being given to the Representa- tives of the eople, the democratic element would become the ruling or governing principle. The hon. member (Mr. Macaulay) says he has brought forward the measure because circum- stances have made it necessary; but he has made no attem t whatever to show in what way circumstances ave proved it to be necessary. It was true that the Council had, at times, 0 - osed acts of Legislation which the Assembly d deemed wholesome and expedient; but, in doin so, the had only exercised a power with whic they ad been wisely invested b the Constitution; for it could not be denie that that branch of the Le ishiture which was direct- ly influenced by popu ar clamour and importa- nity, was, as being directly amenable to popu- lar ‘udgment, more likely to be precipitate in its legislative determinations, than which was constituted independently of their will. Since the introduction of Responsible Government, it was, however, very worthy of notice that greater harmony had existed between the Council and the Assembly, in their legisla- tivcca cities, than had ever, perhaps, revi- ously n observable in their procee ings. But should the Council obstinately resist any measure demanded b the people and sent up to them, for their sanction, by the Assembly, there would still be found a remedy in the Constitu- tion. It might, perha , be necessary, in the lirst place, by repea elections, to prove the will and determination of the pie to be stea- dily and resolutely set u n the accomplishment ‘ of wlmt was refused by t e Council; and should that body still resist, an extreme, but still con- stitutional course might taken to overcome their resistance. The Assembly, holding the purse strings, might stop the su plies ; the Go- vernment o he Crown, as Earl ircy threatened to do, with respect to the House of Lords when they rejected the Reform Bill, might infuse into their composition so much of the po ular will as would reduce them to reas ii; or t ey might be dissolved, for they wer not beyond the wer of the Crown or an Act of the Imperial rlaiment, But, under the present respon- sible system, his apprehensions concerning any such emergency were at very small. He doubted not that the will of the people being clearly manifested, and steadly urged by their l0&l'9I0llNtlYOS, would here, with respect to the uncil, as in England with respect to the House of lords, in the and produce the de- sired cfet, and the Upper House would per- ceive the wisdom and necessity of yielding to the wishes of the people, as constitutionally expressed througly their re resenmtives in the lower House. are the uncil, however, to be elected by the people, as well as the Assem- ly, of them, deriving their authority from the same source, the power of correction, in the event of any obstinate disa cement, would be no where to be found ; and t e U per House, ing the chosen representatives oftzhe Peppls, as well as the Lower House, might, wi evident propriety‘, sit and vote away the public men which a Assembly alone could now . e Hon. member (Mr. McAulay) had endeavoured to show that the introduction of the elective lfibdm here, with res t to the Council, would no innovation of e British Constitution, because some of the Peers in the House of lords were elected to their seats there. His parallel however would not hold. The majority of the House of Iords were heridilary members, an those who were elected were Scotch or lrish Peers, chosen by the Arlstccracy of their own counlrtyato represent them in the Upper House of the gislsturc ; but they were not chosen by the People, or the Democracy, as the hon. member rc sod the Le slatlve Council should be here. he hon. mem r said that, in briu ’ng forward his Bill, he had not been induen b any restless desire for dnngziizut unless s were actuated by some such , lie (hon Mr. Colss) could not tell what cause he was mo . Why, after the ‘M08 stem (wich was in hot the resli of British sstitution) hsdbssuiutrcduce , and after it had foun so conducive to the harmonious working of the difi'sren_t Branches oftlio hire, such a Bill was introduced, unless it were allowed to have had its_origin, restless desire for change, or is more pvsrnmant; it would bshardforsnypsrsosto l|- Sill“ introduction of that system, no obstacles the course of 'slatiou; mas» h. the I I I I ‘ I I ;.*.°.-J’... .,..":';;‘;.-.;.".*.'.:s°-.:-.: -.:.::.: esced in by the Council ; and, in the present ses- sion, they had agreed to the loud Purchase Bill ——and, to the One-ninth Bill, which they reject- ed in a former session, they were now prepared to ield. ' Other measures also ofa mil re and po uliir character would likcwisc,lic had no don t, find acceptance with them; and there was now abundant reason to believe that, having at length had conceded to us the reall- ty of the British Constitution, it would hate work, through the Legislature, no less advan- tageously for the Colony, than it did at Home for the people of the Parent State. But, grant that the Council should refuse com lianee with any of the measures of the Assemb y, as think- ing them either extravagant or unmund;_m would oiil be cxercisin their constiiuti . power, an interposin t at check to popular or hasty ‘legislation, w ich it is their 00900181 province to apply; and it would be the duty of the Assembly quietly to submit to that check until, in another session, fortified in their de- mands by an expression of public sentiment in their favor, they could again urge them upon the Council for their concurrence. deed ma_- ny cases of legislation might occur, in which it would be the bounden duty of the Council to oppose the determination of the Assembly. Ber instance, suppose that House had complied with the prayer of the Petition of the Sons of perance. and had passed a Bill for prohibiting the truliic in ardent spirits, in this (klcny ; would it not have been right in the Council to reicct it, on the grounds that it would be uncon- stitu tional to pass so arbitrary a law, unless ub- lic opinion, with me ct to it, had, first, I: suflicicntly tested, an there had been, through- out tlie lon tli and breadth of the Island, the most unequivoca and irect emonstraticns, on the part of the people, in its favor? When any eat or fundamental change was to fee in society, or in its political constitution, an appeal to the people was held to be absolutely indispen- sable. V 'ith respect to the introduction of Responsible Government, the wish of the poo le had been full ascertained and made mani est beyond a doubt; but, as respected the funda- mental chnn in the constitution of the Legis- lative Council, contemplated by the Bill of the hon. member (Mr Mat-aulay,) not one consti- tuency in the Colony had declared in favor of it; nor was it su ported by a single Petition to the Assembly. but such a change was necessary, the hon. member had indeed eclared; but, in the course of a set and rather lengthy speech, he had not produced even one solitary argument to prove the existence of any such necessity. Responsible Government, on the most ample basis had been concededto us; and it was evidently working to the satisfaction of all arties. The party at present in o ition, should they become the inajori , won not, he believed, endeavour to set asi e that system; but, in all its bearings, there was, he thought, every reason to believe they would fully carry it out, as their predecessors in power had done. With respect to the constitution of the Legis- lative Council, under the Responsible System, the principles of that system were operate to the fullest extent com tible with the preservation of the British onstitution. When any vacancies occurred in that body, the Head of the Executive filled them up b the advice of his Council, who were responsible to the poo le for that advice and the consequences ofit. Could the hon. member (Mr. Macauls ) have shown that the appointments, recently made to the Le 'slative Council, were not acceptable to the people; on that fact he might have based one reason in hivour of the chan‘ . But the very reverse was the case; and the hon. member had not been able to bring forward a ‘single or ment in favor of his scheme—a scheme whic was not in accordance with either the Constitution of Great Britain or that of the l'nited States of America. In Great Britain, as all knew, the Lords were not an elective body, as the hon. member (Mr. Macaulay) sought to make our Le 'slative Council ; and neither was the Senate 0 the United Shtes of America. Should be (Mr. Macaulay) succeed, in creating or us a new nstitution, according to his wish, it would certainl be one of a most anomalous and mongrel escription. The hon. ntlemnn then concluded by moving, the fol- owing Resolution. ~ Whereas the Bill not being compatible with the principles of Responsible Government, so recently conceded to this Island, in accordance with the British Constitution,—'l'lisreI'ors Resolved, that any attempt to unsettle the present Systamof Go- vernment would be irnpolitic: and that the consi- derslion of the Bill be postponed to this day three licnlhs. Mr. Hsviusn. He was sorry to have toriss to correct an assertion of the Hon. the Leader of the Government. That hon. gentleman had 'ust said that the application of the elective princip s to the constitution of the Legislative Council, would be contrary to all precedent and constitutional usage, both in Great Britain and the United States of America. Now that was a mistake; for when Msssschuseis, Connecticut, and Rhode Isl were Colonies of Great Britain, their were elected by the people--the Charters of those Colonies securing to their inhabitants the privi- lege of electing the members of their Legisla- tures, in both branches--in the upper sswell as in the lower; and the Senate of the llnitsd States was, and had sl ways been elected since the esta- blishment of their Constiiutlnn. Hun. Mr. Cous. He had said that the costs of the United States was not s|scted—mssning that it was not chosen by the people. was well aware. composed of Senators from State. chosen by the Legislature thereof : but that was not popular slaction, such as the Bill proposed to establish here with respect to the Council Mr. Macscmv. e of the hon. the leader of the Government reminded him of the dilemma of Shakspear's smrvod spotheeary, and the apology of that character for doing that which his conscience condemned. In his (lion. Mr. Colos's) opposition to die Bill, it was his iiecessi and not his will which directed his course 0 action. The hon. gentleman Coles) called upon the House to put fai in Responsibli Government: and it was to be ad- mitted thr titwasqulte natural for him todo so: he claimed to be acknowledged the father of that system ; and it it was satuul fiir a man to support his own child. As to the c ' which the it sp 9- 5" 33.5: siofi. e hwr;i “Mfl filial; the hair. a emau to Bill ot‘Nova Scotimflsaoibjsut K the same as that of the Macaulay) had had r sltliough some or im provisions were dlsslmihr sipddtlat, havln conpiall h h‘ F‘ in ii an _ , cos c s gslast a principle in the one: when he at he was sposkiii sgssl: of thsotbet. [she I!ov YOII V. O toths c'co§d1 voles, .Ivro: hsvssd-isbu of his c ' _, if not his test obhction to the iresubbfifcde of eons tuting the Legislative Council, ns that, almost of necessity-_, it true mcipa ly composed of gentleman, resident . in rlottetown, or its immediate vicinity. Nine of the present Council were so eirciimstanced with to residence ; and some of them, he believed, were entire strangers to many ts of the Island It was impossible that suc men could have a ccmisunir of interests with the ' is in ncral; and, erefore, they were not ul qua itied to sit as their lc gislators. 'l‘ Bil proposed to remedy that fun amental defect is the composition of the Council. By provid- ing t each of the three Towns and each of " he Electoral Districts should elect one Le isla- ' ' tall shonl ' for 6 . “V9,. ‘ s their legislative services, at the same rate, and ~in_ the nuts mom of the Assembly were paid; men would be found. in the ' out sections of the country having their own interests closel identified with those amongst whom they resi d, who would be wil- lingrto accept of seats in the Council, and who, as the expenses would be provided for, would not think it too great a tax inipoae upon them for the general good, and the protection of the par- lcular interests of their own localities, to devote ir time and abilities, for two or three months n the year, to the discharge of the important and honorable duties of legislators : and thus in the Council would no lon r be found ex- rcising legislative functions on deciding con- eernin local interests of which they had little Dr no nowled The hon. the Leader of the Government ha objected that public sentiment eoncerning the measure had not been sufficient- y ascertained: but he (Mr. Macaulay) would iefiieave to remind that hon. gentleman, that re d given a full ear’s notice of his intention lo bring it fcrwa pie time ; and that, therefore, am- n aflbrded for consulting the people at large. A in, the hen. the Leader of he Government h spoken of a dissolution of the Council, in the event of its, at any time,con- tinuing obstinately to resist the will of the pie, as expressed through the Assembly, their direct representatives. Such a proceeding would, however, not only be a violation of the Constitution, but in his (Mr. Macaulay’s) opi- nion, it would be delptrilistilye 0lI;lllt1.be§(|)lC, for so arbitrar an act, s on is ’ me law, no occasion could arise ; for the Council as well as the Assembly, being directly chosen by the pee le, both would be diroctl influenced by pub ic sentiment; and the two cgislative bodies could, thereicre, scarcely, by any possibility, so ofiposed to each other, with respectto gene- ral po c that legislation would, thereby, be brought too need lock. Agpresent, as all vacan- cies in the Council were fill up at the dictation of the majority in the Assmbly, that majority exer- cised an unconstitutional control over the Upper HOIl.0.Ind,.lllBI'|5b,, destroyed the balance of the Constitution. So lon as the Council. should continue subject to such control, they could not mire. independent action a a public questions, and the majority which re ed in the Alsfllllbly wmild, in fact, rule in the other Chamber also. To restore and preserve the just constitutional balance between the two Houses of the Legisla- ture was lhe 0l)]8¢l of his Bill; and he felt persua- ded thst, to every reasoning and independent mind, it must be evidcntlhai, neither in Ihis, nor in any other colonial legislature, could that balance exist indspetlidsnilyhofilps s plicsticn ol the elec- tivs princi e to I e gi iive Council. The ecessity of) it must be quite obvious to the com- monest understanding. The Council, chosen by the people, would always be open to the direct influence of popular sentiment; but, at the sums time, as bais chosen by a class of electors whose electoral us ifications were higher than those of sAlector;lw olpould votlpl only for ipzmcbznrs of the sum y, t e won as l ‘ slitulion required they s ould bs—s distinct body, indepen- dent of the Asomhly,and‘ at all times free to tail; indepsndspt action upon public questions. on. o s. e n. mem r or Georgetown (Mr. Macaulay) had introduced his with ahspeepll;—a sprphof ho1ipily,Jcng anld u enoug to vese ema to es. 1; was indeed a most uninteresting and liiirren afliir, no information and destitute of every in l e argument. finch an innova- tion :18 bthe B proposed shguld havef been sus- tain some reasons on t e rt 0 the intro- ducer; ut he had not adduc even one reason why it should be entertained by the House. The discussion which had arisen out of its intro- duction wss, however, irregular ; for the details of this; measure bocpuld not ro rly come under cons eration ore its rinci le had been ad- mitted : the sooner, there ore, t e House should gplt out otijltho ip-regulapipy ltlllllb bvghich tlplay had a ow emse vesto , e tter. ewas phtahloss to tplolr ipmwhafi‘ lay ‘the Objflghjtfil: of e on. mem r. can to t c 's- latlve Council as it was at presdiit constitutgeld. Did he disapprove of it as being too democratic; or did ‘halt; t to it, beocdausc it vlvlasftoo aristo- cratic. s can emu it on t e ormer so- colpin: he hadopierminll be’ zkendthefmeans by wcarem con ecte;orm' it elective woul undoubtedly have a tendsnc thcrtoin than ' ' ' ra ed as adefect in its composition. But if he (Hon.Mr. Po ) understood the hon. member arigfit, he 0 jected to the Council because he ought it was only asan echo to the sombly. That gentleman who had lately been appointed to vacant sea in the Councils, were by the Government, thought to entertain politics views and sentiments in harmony with their own he was uite free to admit. The hon. member (Mr. scsulay) would surely not rnment ' have expected the Gov the Council whom the knew to be hostile to their licy. No: in ii ling up the vacancies in uncil, the Government had only acted with a due regard to e furtherance of the political princ has by which they were them- selves govern ; and as, in such cases, over vernment would act, who sincerely desired e auocess of such public measures as their pcli _~lsd Ihfi hi rsc whic the Government had pursued here with res _ tosuch appointments, was recissly slmi r to that pursued by every Britisli Admi- nistration in similar cases ; who, on no occasion, so to colhr the privilege of seats in the House of lords on an but Iieir political friends, unlsssasarswa fordistia ished a services. Nay, cars were ey to a inst the exercise of any adverse in- sacs umgsrswhsrsitmi tlisves tandencyso ctths prdysss of air polipz, that on the Govsrnmsnt’s passing from o ofouaofths two great patios inths Btals,‘ into those ofths other, it was a hot well that Hat Uajss had raq '5 clwsss,snlsstssss.iobssi ap, and the Oh Govarssrpaiddatrsacstothsrsccasiaridsti ofliis constitutional advisers. His Excellency laid before them the names of certain individu- als whom he might think eli vible to the sp int- ments ; or ihe reverse was t e case, iind t 0 re- comnicnhtions proceeded at once from his Go- vernment. If the Government objected to the appointments which llis Excellencey felt dis- d to make, others were substitute lieiii linving the approbation of his Council ; if His Excellencyinsisted upon appointingmen with whom his Government were not m ' ' , the resigned.—Tlic hon. gentleman then proceeded to say, that, if the Council were not sullicieutl independent as at present constituted, be con d not see how their being made elective could render them more so. If the two Houses of the co slature should be chosen by people, they would constitute two bodies to o the nine work; and the one would have to carry out the measures of the other; or, otherwise, the would be found cbstructin thatconrse of Is- is tion which they had been c csen to advance. or his own part, he csrtainl would not like that the islative Council s ould be a mere reflex or cc of the Assembl . could serve no useful end in lo ' tion very well known that individual members of the Assembly were often coer b their constitu- encies into an acquiescence wi or support of measures of which they themselves disavlpproved. itii the uncil it was diflbrent. hey lay under no obligation to abandon their own senti- mciits, out of deferenc to those of others; and, in nine cases out of ten, in which the Council were so opposed to pop ' r dictation, their re- sistance to it was for t ncral good. But if on the contrary, they shou d be found to be in- fluenced, in their opposition to the views of the Assembly, by nothing but the s irit of factious opposition; it would either be ound, by them- selves, that, for their own preservation, as a legislative body, it would be necessary for them to give we to the wer of public opinion; or, should cy continue blindly and obstinately to oppose it, that the sovereign would dismiss them, or an Act of the Imperial Parliment re- move them, b a suspension of our Constitution, as had been dlinc in other colonies. The Hon. member (hlr.MacaulayJ‘wus altogethermistalren in supposing that, in e provisions of his Bill, there was any thing at all anala us to the par- tial election of members of the ouse of lords. The clection of Peers, had its origin in the Union of the three countries; and the ob" ct of it was to prevent the Peers of Englan from beipg swam d by those of Scotland and Ireland; smooth w , at e same, it should provide for such a representation of the Aristocrac c an- nexed kingdoma, as should have ue reference to the national influence assign to eac kingdom in the lower House 0 the Legisla- ture. The Sctoch and Irish Peers served in rotation, use it was not convenient that they should all have seats in the House of rds at once ; but their service in the Legisla- ture was not upon the elective principle. The condition of this Colony was ver diflerent from that of Great Britain; and a per ect resemblance between their Legislatures could not, therefore, exist. The Government of this country was n however carried on by the poo le, through their re rescntntives in the Assembly, a majority of W cm regulated the com sition of the Execu- tive Council ; and the ecutive Council, so constituted, very properl filled up all vacancies in the Le islative Couuci ;and, thus, the Assem- e lo ' tive Council were as closely a House of Commons and House of Lords of Great Brimin in their separate C 1 '3 -I scle i the ici rr {Gauge ,...i thdn, if lie shoiildulln ‘dials ills ..iio.aii.:'a. that town could he beat sustained and siippiirtod by choosing from the party politically uppsssd to than, another body, and invutias lb: with equal power is the management ol their psblis concerns, he would be able to brias lorward his r inessura, supported by the ovidsscs of experience in favour of its who and bsaelcisl Inden- ciss. Ha (Hon. Mr. Pope) could act, however, hal ihasthslilclgiassadlsadssivo to spo the obstructive proceedings of the opposition party in Nova Sculls. But, if sc,ha would leave to remind the hon. member (hlr. Mscaulzg that, slihoupli the opposition is that Province was mposado man of great abilities and unliring ssa iss. they had_aoi s is the poop e of the pl’0|)l’lClfi of lbs change which they roposcd. But he ( cs. Ir. Papa) ssscslvsd imsolf to fully ylustidsd, on other grounds than t_liosa_oa which be ad argued against the innova- tion, in viewing the movement with suspicion. ln s roviucss, as wall as in this Colony, the schema was advocated by sons but man who, to Ill! Vol’! list. had opposed the extension of pops- lsr privileges, and resisted the admission of the people to a full and fair share in the management of their own ad'sirs. How could it, then, be be- lisvsd that such men would bring forward or sdvoesicauy measure which they were psrsusdsd would still urthsr extend that war-the power of the pls—which they h , to the very last, opp with uncompromising hstc and determi- uuon? It _wsI_ impossible to believe that thus was any sincerity in their declarations of a desire to extend the popular privilegss,or any hcussty ll"! their intentions with respect to that form of (xovsrnmsnt which had excluded them, as o posed _lo popular rule, from all participation in executive power. o: their design was certsinl y not to confer additional privileges u on the people, or all" more securely to establish I sir rights; for the real objections of such men to the resent order of things in the Legislature and the overn- msnt, ware pon their beliaf that the po- pular will had already too much influence over the deliberations of the one and the administrative acts of the other. The hon. gentleman concluded py saying he would up the motion for the ouse going into Committee on the Bill. _ Ma. Mcsroolnr. That the Le ‘slative Coun- cil were now elective could not denied; for they were chosen by the majority of the As- sembly. But that such an election was a con- stitutional one, or one which—although itmight e course of legislation for s time- would either continue to secure unity of action between the two le 'slativs chambers, or, in its working, tend to a promotion of the ncral interests, or secure the approbation of t e peo- ple, ho did not believe. At present it might be the means of ensuring harmony, with respect to acts of general policy, between the two bodies; because they who had been selected, by the Go- vernment, as re resenting the majority in the Assembl , to £1 up vacancies in the Council been so selected, chiefly, if not soley on account of their being of the same political creed with that majority. So long, indeed, as the at present in the majority in the Assembly shou (I continue in the ascendant there, nothing, perhaps, ‘might occur to occasion on serious interruption to the good undsrstan ‘rig sub-’ sisting between the two Houses; but suppose the result of a general election were to be ad- verse to the views and interests of the part now in power, what security could then be an for harmony of action between the two_bodies! 5' I 9- characters and independent functions, as the circumstances 0 e countr would rinit. mmish what he re r - and I c and the Council would still continue to be corn. irsd Constitution contemplated; and it wing. in use his was ili'st The operation of such a Bill as that of t e hon. member for Georgetown (Mr. Macaulay), so far from completing the assimilation, would, by rendering the Legislative Council elective, com- pletely demroy one feature in the resemblance-— thcre wcu en be no similarity whatever between the constitution of the Council and that of the Ht use of Peers. And as little, indeed, would it be a counterpart of the Senate of the United States of America. was not the direct creation of popular election. It was, on the contrary, chosen much in the same man- ner as gentlemen were here chosen at the resent tiuic, toiill the vacancies in the Legislative Council. The pic of the States directly choose the Representatives; but the ' ture, whose votes are varicusl compoun , and whose mode of election is diferent in dilerent States, directly choose the Senators. The object of the peculiar mode in which they are chosen, is to establish abod in the Legislature, by select appointment, w 0 may act as a corrective to the pro nsity of popular assemblies to yield to the sud an impulse of violent passions, or to be seduced, b factions leaders within, or driven, by the orce of popular influences from without, into intemperate and rnicious reso- lutions; and experience has ully proved the eficiency of such a body,—-pomposed, asit is, of men eminent for their talents and distinguished for their wisdom and into ity,——to afiird the necessary check upon popu ar legislation. islative bodies so co wo invariably, be found opposed to all uniustihhls ultra measures; and, on such occasions, they would be enabled to act with more decorum and dignity, than could be looked forin a pular assembly, directly acted upon by popu ferment or extravagance There had been. he would confess, a time when he himself was favourable to the groject of makin the Council elective; and a so of af- fording that body s remuneration for their le- islative services, equal to that received by the sscmbl . But, at the time when he thought it desire is that the Council should be elected it was a. notorious fact that the individual members of that bad were close] handed to- gather, not for the urtherance o the ublic well-being, but for the advancement 0 their own private interests, how much soevsr th might be opposed to those of the community urge. The necessity for such a c w- over, now happily no lon rexisted; at he was still of o mion that members of the Council shoul receive the same coin nsation for their time and services as was stowed upon the members of the Assembly ; for, other- as t -2 at w ,‘ there could be no proper rs rcsentation of be local interests of those stricts of the Idaud which were remote from Charlottetown ; posed of gentlemen, resi _ in and around the seat of Government who could have no person- al or positive knowledge of the local wants and requirements of other and distant sections of the country. Undpr the Responsible System, the Counc and the Assembly had, hitherto, worked together with as much harmony the 0 on be ver unwise to don that syshm all s ‘lair trial, by acting such s filndsaisnisl in- novation of the mode of ccuiposiu the Canal] as yhloll was now ropossd. ado the or tlIIpllI“|) , byl s on. iosuibsr for go- town r. sulsy) appeared is him (the Hon. Mr. Pops) much more ii I to pradass coafsslog than to secure unity of pa Houses ilis lslstsrs; bit, as he was al open to couv ion, he would advise mam iuauibsrtotryhisaxpsrimaatgrst apossussllsr Would not the policy of the Council in all likelihood, directly o to that or flu Assamblyl Something s nld be done now to prevent such a collisicn—a collision which could _not fail to operate most i ' riously, f0? I “M0. to the general interests 0 the Colo- ny._ _It would, in his opinion, be wise to antic:ipate such a change in public opinion as woul _ gives new political com lexion to the minority in_ the Assembly; as to provide a remedy against any serious misundsrstan ‘ g which might otherwise arise out of that change, een the two Houses of the Legislature. Such a Bill as that which had just been intro- duced by the hon. member for Georgetown (Hr. Macaulay‘) apfircd to him to be the only means b whic s al collision between the two cuses could be efictusll ' B means ofit, such a gradiia 0 _' _ _ composition of the nor , as —evan if it did not wholly keep pace with that wrought by_ the influence of ab ic opinion in the com tion of Asssmb y—would secure the regu r trpnuction of public business, and sflird s suficient guarantee that the gen interests would slwa sbs duly toctsd and promoted. Such a '11, with the sanction of the Home Government, had been introduced into and carried through theHouse ofAsssmbly of N'ew Brunswick; but it has been rejoemd by the Council. be necessity of some such insa- sure here was, he thou ht, quite evident; but if any other means co d be found to ws ad‘ such a collcsion as would, in the end, of the present mode of constitutin the Council, shonld it beadharsd to, he wc d not object to it. The only other mode, however, which coul had recourse h,inda&andan of .. abrogation or suspension of a Cons tution, whenever, and as often as such an unargeric should arise would be, as had basn dos. biz ' Canada and in Nova Sootia, to add to the ounoil such a number of new members, chosen regard lo.llIOll‘ political sentiments, as would turn the scale in the Cancel] ln favor of the views of the Assembly. But that, he thought, would be sn_awkwsnl and smiles, as wall as an smog. stituuonsl mods of rsosusilin the adverse prin- ciples III the two Houses a saoihar sosacsa also, and that a most Important one too, a obs in the mods ofoualitsliug the Legislative Conn-Ill u . E 1 w r. As at present csasutsted, th country at lsr s was not lad by it ; ssd naltliar would t be, until as tins ssita members should be rsrauusrs lbr their services aquslly with these of_tbs House of Assembly: but it was quite as certain that the people wou d song on. sssi tosllow_susli rsaniasraioas to the members of the Council, calms they were alsctsd by them. At present, there was 1-Glllllllive Council who resided at s ' Charlottetown; and those, he had has would not reasons so lt."i'i'.l ‘J. “""' "*3... ....... e at I ‘ oftlia Asssiablpp. “ -‘O Ms. hlsossv. Ha sssld tell the has. unsubst- for Prisca 1‘... (Ms. Iostgosisry) that the paopls would not soasasi to pay th mbs It’ s Iosislsuvs Coaacil, if the vi.si=s et't.h:t ill should he carried -spas; shlssum uat to ssh has to slasiivs psivllqn” ssllia vallwhhlha vlswssnbs ha. -user _ Tsws (Ir. Montgomery); and, lsdssvl, had it bass iassh worse, he vsiily hslisvsl had forward‘, 5»