retired allowances to the various Clergies and civil officers of the government. The heads of the several departments are all in subordinate stations under them, and hold their situations only during the pleasure of the Crown. It also embraces the judicial establishment, the nomination of one branch of the legislature, the appointment of its speaker and the other officers, the selection of the officers of the House of Assembly, the control of the Indian department-the colleges, the twelve boards of education, and the direction of the expenditure of the public monies in aid of immigration—the selection of the executive council—the uncontrolled management of millions of acres of public lands-the appointment of 1,500 commissioned militia officers the sole control of the military and naval forces—and the expenditure of a large annual amount of local taxation, by appointing the magistracy during pleasure. ́

"The Crown also appoints the members of the court of King's Bench; and the judges of that court regulate, at their discretion, the tariff of fees to be paid therein by suitors. These judges are dependent on the Crown for such retiring pensions as it may see fit to award them, and enabled to look forward with hope and expectation, to the enjoyment of other offices and situations within its gift, by themselves and their families.

"The Canada company, and the several incorporations for banking, canalling, &c., nearly all unite with the local government, and steadily strive to increase the influence of the Crown.

"The Post Office, with its hundred deputies, and contracts, are all under its sole control, while the surplus revenue is transmitted to England. No detailed account of its receipts and expenditures have ever been laid before the Colonial Legislature, though often requested.

"The salaries and emoluments, paid to civil and judicial officers, appointed by the Crown, extend to £50,000, or $200,000 a year, (exclusive of the clergy grants,) the whole being raised from the people, and not one farthing derived from England.

"The yearly salary of the present Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Colborne, with his other public sources of emolument, is about $22,524. And his private secretary gets $3,232. John H. Dunn, receiver general, $5,776. P. Robinson, surveyor of woods, $6,884; with all other officers, from the highest to the lowest, receiving salaries in the same proportion.

"Arch Deacon Strachan's income cannot be easily ascertained. The application of the house to look into the 'blue book' or official statement of the pecuniary affairs of the Province, as sent to England, for the years of 1824, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32, the Lieutenant Governor refuses to comply with; and every effort of the committee to obtain the particulars of the Arch Deacon's income, for a few years back, by questions put to himself, has proved unsuccessful. But as far as we have been able to obtain evidence, he has, since 1826, received $51,312, which we presume falls far short of the gross amount.

"Within the last eight years, there have been paid to eleven individuals, in the form of pension, out of

the Provincial revenues, but without the consent of the legislature, about $122,000.

"There were paid out of the Provincial chest, without any vote of the legislature, in 1832, 33, and 34, to the established churches, $161,764; of which, $61,136, were paid in 1834;. and 23,905 acres of public land have been set apart as glebes to clergymen.

"Accounts of expenditures, for immigration, of $126,917 70, under the Crown Land Commissioner, the Honorable P. Robinson, have been presented, mostly unattested, and sometimes with evidently false vouchers. These accounts are like others, of Mr. Robinson's a specimen of the imperfect mode of accounting for public monies, which prevails in U. C." This man subsequently became a defaulter to the government in some forty or fifty thousand dollars, but still retained in the governor's councils, by the power of the "family compact."

A great cause of complaint, is, the appointment of the sheriff's by the executive, with full power to select all jurors from creatures of his own-the consquence is, packed juries are not unfrequent, which result to the discomfiture of proper justice, when a litigant happens to be branded with the epithet of "radical."

"Little respect is paid, even in subordinate matters, to the wishes of the house;" and, as peculiarly shown, "by His Excellency, in the measures he adopted for the second Leeds election, at variance with their known wishes. The returning officer, in his evidence, under oath, before the committee, declared Beverly, where the first election was held, to be an unfit place.

It had always been the scene of disgraceful riots, destructive of the freedom of elections, of life and of property, and was in the vicinity of those violent partisans, [Orangemen,] of Messrs. Gowan, [grand master of the Orange lodge,] and Attorney General, who were the authors of the former riots, and remote from the district town where any rioters might be confined. The returning officer was judged, by the committee, under oath, to be destitute of firmness. Yet the same returning officer, and the same place, was selected by Sir John Colborne, for the new election, which was ordered to take place at so short a notice, that it was scarcely, possible for the freeholders of the different townships to be apprized. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising, that renewed riots occurred at the second election, which has, by another committee, been also set aside," from the same cause as was the first.

"Among other complaints, embraced in the petitions referred to this committee, were the neglect of general education-the delays, costs, and partialities exhibited in the administration of justice-defective jury lawsinconvenient polling places at county elections-an imperfect state of the representation in the House of Assembly-the primogeniture laws-the Crown and Clergy reserves, and the large Provincial debt, which is daily augmenting.

"The legislative council forms a part of the patronage of the British Government; they are the nominees of the Minister of the Colonies, who can add to their numbers at his discretion. In continually rejecting the many valuable measures earnestly prayed for

by the people, they may fairly be presumed to act in obedience to the authorities from whence their power was derived," as their answers, in the examination that took place, plainly show.

"Capital may be carried into any country; but, under an arbitrary, imprudent, and irresponsible government, like this, it will be impossible to retain a large share of it. Notwithstanding the 'pretended' encouragement given for immigration, the population of the Colony has not increased beyond the natural

rate.

"Governors, like other men, are individually liable to all the infirmities of human nature; and in their political capacity, when left without restraint, they, no doubt, sacrifice, occasionally, the interest and happiness of the people, to the gratification of their passions and caprices. They, with the British Ministry, hold the sole dominion of the country, and leave the representative branch of the Legislature powerless and dependant.

"Mr. Stanley, [now Lord Stanley,] in giving his opinion of the executive council, says I do, however, think, that something might be done, with great advantage, to give a really responsible character to the executive council, which, at present, is a perfectly anomalous body, hardly recognised by the constitution, and effective, chiefly, as a source of patronage.' Its dependance is strikingly manifested by facts stated in the evidence of the Hon. Col. Clark, and the Hon. W. Dickson, members of that body, before a select committec of a late Parliament. It appears that several