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    of the many wrongs to which the province has for so many years been subjected . —Pamphlet , p . 37 .

    We have already stated in former articles , that the chief means adopted by the Assembly to enforce the reforms they demand , is the stoppage of supplies . The great object of the Executive is , of course , to obtain the said supplies . Before the " untoward" disclosure of Sir Francis Head , the town Canadian Governor had made some progress in effecting this object . It was stated to one of the most powerful members of the Assembly by one of the Executive

    authorities"That if the money were given , the Commissioners could recommend , with some chance of success , all the plans of reform proposed by the liberals of the Assembly ; that the Commissioners had already sent their first report upon the finances of Canada to England ; and that this report was in everything favourable to the demands of the Assembly . " —p . 38 .

    A Supply Bill was accordingly proposed , such as the Executive would accept , but which was still not likely to satisfy the Legislative Council .

    " It was then asked by the members of the House of Assembly , " How will you get the Legislative Council to accede to this Bill V * Mark well the answer of this high functionary , " Oh , if they will not pass it we will do without them , and will receive your money , upon your Address . Vote by Address that which you would have voted by Bill , you pass by the Council , and we will receive and distribute the money cheerfully . "—p . 39 .

    This determination on the part of the Executive (< marks in a significant manner the exact estimation in which the Legislative Council is held by the existing authorities . "

    < When the House , after the discovery of the Instructions , voled only supplies for six months , inquiries were made to know whether this diminished supply would be received according to the former agreement , on the Address of the House ; nnd intimation was given , that the Governor would rather that the question should not he put to him . It consequently was not put .

    " Thus it appears that the present Executive would , for the three years * arrears and a years' supply , have annihilated the privileges of the Legislative Council , but that they thought six months' supply a price insufficient for such a concession . 4 t

    The House ol Assembly having discovered the real nature of the Instructions given to Lord Gosford , determined at once to refuse all the arrears due , and to vote only a six months * supply , attaching to that vote the conditions I have above mentioned . This Bill was lost in the . Legislative Council .

    * ' The Legislative Council , on this determination of tho House , resolved to do all the mischief they were able . They refused to pass the elementary school bill , thus putting a stop to education all over

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/3/