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PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES.

Election « His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor does not see fit to
gE, declare the causes of his summoning the present Provincial
Legislature until a Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall
have been chosen according to law, but that to-morrow at the
hour of three o'clock His Honour will declare the causes of
his calling the present Legislature.”
The members of the Assembly returned to their own
Chamber and a member addressing the Clerk proposed a
member as Speaker. The question was pub by the Clerk, and
after the Speaker was elected and had been congratulated
the mace was placed on the table and the House adjourned.
On the following day the members again assembled, and
on receipt of a message from the Lieutenant-Governor they,
preceded by the Speaker, proceeded to the Council Chamber.
Te Rt iy The Speaker then spoke as follows:
i Lugs “May it please Your Honour,
Council. «The Legislative Assembly have elected me as their
Speaker, though I am but little able to fulfil the important
Juties thus assigned to me.
«If in the performance of these duties I should at any
sime fall into error I pray that the fault may be imputed to
me and nob to the Assembly whose servant I am and who
through me, the better to enable them to discharge their duty
to their Queen and Country, humbly claim all their undoubted
rights and privileges, especially that they may have freedom
of speech in their debates, access to Your Honour’s person at
a1] seasonable times and that their proceedings may receive
2om Your Honour the most favourable interpretation.”
Then the Honourable the Speaker of the Legislative
Council said :
“Mr Speaker,
«I am commanded by His Honour the Lieutenant-Gosernor
 to declare to you that he freely confides in the duty
and attachment of the Assembly to Her Majesty's person and
government, not doubting that their proceedings will be con-