The Last Forty Years: Canada Since the Union of 1841, Volume 1G. Virtue, 1881 - Act of Union, 1841 |
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... speaker - though he always spoke fluently and sensibly - but as a shrewd and business - like member of Parliament . Some of his speeches smacked strongly of Radicalism , but his mind was of an essentially practical order , and he cared ...
... speaker - though he always spoke fluently and sensibly - but as a shrewd and business - like member of Parliament . Some of his speeches smacked strongly of Radicalism , but his mind was of an essentially practical order , and he cared ...
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... Speaker of the Legislative Council was to be appointed by the Governor , and the Speaker of the Assembly to be elected by its members . A permanent civil list of seventy- five thousand pounds annually was provided for , instead of all ...
... Speaker of the Legislative Council was to be appointed by the Governor , and the Speaker of the Assembly to be elected by its members . A permanent civil list of seventy- five thousand pounds annually was provided for , instead of all ...
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... Speaker of the Legislative Council ; Mr. Bidwell , the Speaker of the House of Assembly ; and the members of the Executive Council ; and as all of these gentlemen unreservedly approved of his selection to the office , I sent for Mr. R ...
... Speaker of the Legislative Council ; Mr. Bidwell , the Speaker of the House of Assembly ; and the members of the Executive Council ; and as all of these gentlemen unreservedly approved of his selection to the office , I sent for Mr. R ...
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... speaker he was neither fluent nor brilliant . His sentences were ill constructed , and he often paused for want of a word ; but his clear common- sense , keen love of justice , and perfect honesty of purpose some- times made his ...
... speaker he was neither fluent nor brilliant . His sentences were ill constructed , and he often paused for want of a word ; but his clear common- sense , keen love of justice , and perfect honesty of purpose some- times made his ...
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... speaker in the colony - but there the commendation ceased . " * Samuel Bealey Harrison was a less conspicuous figure than those members of the Council already mentioned , but he was leader of the Reform element in the Ministerial party ...
... speaker in the colony - but there the commendation ceased . " * Samuel Bealey Harrison was a less conspicuous figure than those members of the Council already mentioned , but he was leader of the Reform element in the Ministerial party ...
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Page 192 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 83 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 144 - That in order to preserve, between the different branches of the provincial parliament, that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the province, the chief advisers of the representative of the sovereign, constituting a provincial administration under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives of the people...
Page 123 - Either the governor is the sovereign or the minister. If the first, he may have ministers, but he cannot be responsible to the government at home, and all colonial government becomes impossible. He must therefore be the minister, in which case...
Page 149 - to speak out ; for, Sir, you are about to appear before a Judge who is no respecter of persons.
Page 122 - ... already done much to put it down in its inadmissible sense; namely, the demand that the council shall be responsible to the assembly, and that the governor shall take their advice, and be bound by it. In fact, this demand has been made much more for the people than by them. And I have not met with anyone who has not at once admitted the absurdity of claiming to put the council over the head of the governor.
Page 201 - Imagine my surprise on discovering that this line runs wholly south of the St. John, and between the head waters of that river and those of the Penobscot and Kennebec. In short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed.
Page 31 - The Queen's Government have no desire to thwart the representative assemblies of British North America in their measures of reform and improvement. They have no wish to make those provinces the resource for patronage at home. They are earnestly intent on giving to the talent and character of leading persons in the colonies, advantages similar to those which talent and character, employed in the public service, obtain, in the United Kingdom. Her Majesty has no desire to maintain any system of policy...
Page 197 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 35 - ... duties in the right discharge of which the character and policy of the Government are directly involved. They are intended to apply rather to the heads of departments than to persons serving as clerks or in similar capacities under them; neither do they extend to officers in the service of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.