from deteat for a month or a year. He hoped t those extremes would never ariss in the Pro-- vince of Ontarlo. As regarded the mineral lands, his hou. friend ssemed to forget that there was already a law in operation, which had met the approval of gentlemen of both Boliuoal parties. This law allowed mineral uds to be soid at a dollar per acre, but in quantities not excseding 200 acres to one in-- atvidual. The plan of making large Junh of two, three, or four hundred thousand acres 1 to a company had been tried, and had not " worked astisfactorily, and the present law had bsen introduced as a uhnjluhawllh the approval both of the Reform and the Conservative parties. He, (Mr. Ferguson) endorsed the policy of the Government with regard to free grants. He had ad vogated that policy ever since he had a seat in Parliament. His colleaguse in the COs« nadian Parliament Mr. (MoConkey) and himsek -- hbad always urged _ upon the Governmeet to give actual settlers an opportunity of getting the lands held by monopolist3s, Thers had been two land sales in Simose, and at neither of them had in-- justice been done to the people ; but an opportunity was given to every man who desired a farm to purchass it on liberal } terms, In the northern portion of Simooe, in what was kaown aw the Muskoke region, a colonisation road had been openei up ; but it was too much in one direction, He hoped that the free grantse there would be resnmed, and that the coustry in that sectlon would he more geverally opened up by good roads, He went on to urgs upon the Governmeut the desirability ot providing depots of pro-- visions for setslers, and of furnishing them with a houre and a certain amount of cleared lavd, to erable them to get over the ait!. ficultles Incldent to a first settlement in the backwocds, He thought is would be for the advantage of the country, if the grants herstofore given to cities and the more gettled poritons of the country, were io & largs extent applied in the way he had Indica e4. Ho ref--rred to the action taken by the Domivion Pacliament with a view to op--uing up the Nortn--west, and said a road counl1 be conatructed through that territory, whisch would complete the means of com« wu«ication hetw--en the Atlantic and Pacific, for about £150.000. In conclusion, he ex: pressed himaelf to favour of the system of one Chamber at leart for the present, The first and second paragraphs were then agreed o. The third parsgraph in the Address having ' ; been put, Mr, PARDEE said that he was not a wirm asupporter of the Government, he was entirely opposed to the principle on which it rum{wa N ing ies A l a n 0| Cabinet placed Reformers in an exceed« Ingly unpleasant position, he, an old Reform« w