It was with some diffi culty, for instance, that the co-opera tion of our own Government was secured for the preparation and publica tion of a return showing the amount and value of grain exported from the province monthly. Tet the value of such a return ought to have been obvious, even to official density, and also the necessity of making it public with the least possible delay. In speaking of this particular return, we are reminded of its incompleteness. It gives the quantity and value of grain exported from the province accurately enough, no doubt—at least we have every reason to believe that the ex ports from all shipping places are in cluded —but it might just as well say where the grain has been sent to. This would entail a little additional trouble, but the public have a right to expect that their interests will receive the best attention of the ser vants whom they employ, though offi cial comfort may be somewhat dis turbed in the process. We are not, it will be understood, making any complaint against the Go vernment. On the contrary, it affords us un mixed satisfaction to be able to say that they have on the whole carried out the wishes of the Provincial Council with commendable accuracy, and, latterly, with business-like promp titude. The Council asked for a return which would show what quantity of grain had been sent away from the province monthly, and the Council gets such a return through the recog nised medium of the Provincial Gazette , while the public enjoy the same pri vilege in the colnmne of the news papers. There has, therefore, been no laches on the part of the Government, unless we are prepared to admit the revolutionary doctrine, that Govern ments ought to be occasionally guilty of a little originality in promoting the

mtereita of the public, and not mere machines for carrying out the wishes of the people aa expressed through their representatives. It is not mfloh that we now ask for, and we trust the, Provincial Government will see their way to the improvement we have suggested in the grain return issued under their direction. It would be as well, also, to have the return always made public as soon after the end of each month as possible. 