liberties of this fair Province of Ontario ere not founded on the bodies of our triotlo dead and camentad by their blood ; t while in every land that had risen from arbariam, the lives of the'ir best and braveat are sp.asd a pathway to liberty, our ad prlvllosu have boen the free gift of fatherlaud, glven with no spamiug or iggard haund, but in the spirit of rtornul cence--libertics which were brought t by agss of pro?teu. asd which aro des: to remaln forever. He conoluded | , d applauce. The SPEAKER then put the question on first paragraph of the address, h Mr. BLAKE ioquired whother it was the intentloz to conduct this debate according ts the nsual practice of allowing members to speik on the whole Address, on each parsa |-- graphb, without confilaing them strioctly to the | m particular paragraph that was boefore the chair ? b Hon.J, 8. MoDONALD sald a msmber might reserve his spsech on the general ques-- tlons before the Houss for any particalar | 4 ph. He presumed thers would be no | © ml:y in that reepect. The Houss would bo willing to lsten to all the spesrches which | hoa. members might thlok it necsssary to | 9 make, be Mr. MoKELLAR said he wished to offer a 1 few observations before the motion was put. He thought if hon. gentlemen opposite had pol reason to congratulate themselves and the thi country on our assembling here in this I'? Ts lature of Ontario, the hon, gentlemen on his ds side of the House had still greater reason to He congratulate themselves and the country on | ,,, w\b'"' ; for we felt lhthwo owed the lat n we now ocoupled, in meeting as a Lrglalature for the Province of Ontarlo, hay-- ::1 log the full control of our own local affuairs, th to the peraistent and unceasing efforts of the Reform uz of Urpu Cznada, _ (Hear, | 88 hear). go 4 not rise to offer any hoatlle w opposition to the Address which had been | _ submitted to the Houso. He thought there -- was nothing in it _ which a they could object to, and, on the contrary, was delighted to find prevaliing in it the | P prinolples and the views of the Keform party. | _ (Zear, hear). Ho could not, however, let | ; this debate pase over without making a few observatiocs with refereace to thse events which tracsplred during the recent elestlon,. He consldered it was due to himself, due to the country, and due to the great party to which be had belozged, and atill belonged, to make those observations. _ He _ referred | ; particularly to the course taken by the Attorney--Goneral, a gantloman who had