order, when he assumed power in 1865, -and announced his intention to choose -.at- his leisure during the recess ■ the :.inost able men of each of the principal Provinces, it was felt that a stable minis try was certain, and that the excitement .'consequent on changes was to be perennial "instead of annual. But fact did not cor respond with theory. The Stafford Minis try fell when only-.a few months old in the Session of 1866, and* the re-con structed Ministry of last August, has been xiidely assailed during the'first week of the "present Session, and is confidently anticipated to be among the things that .liave been before the second, week is over. -It is common for members to consider that nothing will be done during the first "two or three weeks of a session, and "usually that period is devoted to the ex penditure of surplus steam—as a safety -yalve to those members who have come up 'iin. wrathful attitudes. "When in, say three weeks or so, these are intolerable working ■^■order,business commences; butthis session commenced the very day after iihe .delivery of the speech. It must have istruck all your readers conversant with ■parliamentary etiquette, that the movers. -iand seconders of the Address in the Re presentatives (and in the Upper House •--also) were not new members, but veterans.: ■Several new members were tried, but for -one reason or another they declined, and ""tie old members who were selected, Mr. "Oox and Mr "Waring Taylor, did the .uioving and seconding in the most per ::functory manner. It is always supposed ■that ,the mover and seconder are wiser , -than their fellows as to the policy of .. Ministers ; but both the above confessed -■that they had not seen the Municipal Bill, and the latter lamented that the Mac -andrew case was disposed of in the two lines which stated nakedly that the papers -thereon would be laid on the table, and trusted -that Ministers would not lay "them on.in silence, but avail themselves the opportunity for justifying their "proceedings. Mr Stafford is a great lover r-of English forms;; and the time-honored ! rcustom, --which not only permits but • obliges the mover and seconder of the Address to the Imperial speech, to perambulate the. - offices and make inquiries (formal it is true), of ~the working &c. 