Unless they earnestly set themselves to work to endea vour to retrieve by wise and economic admin istration m the future the blunders and folly of the past, they would soon find (hat they had squandered away a valuable estate without any thing to show for it but comparatively useless works ; they would have valuable lands without roads, and harbors -without means of approach [applause.] Although as a new member of the Council, he could not, as he had before said, hope that his influence would have a very great effect, yet he intended to achieve whatever success might be achieved by honest and straightforward and persevering effort m the public cause, without any regard to his own pri vate interests. In a smaller spheve he had al ready taken some share m public matters, and he was glad to be able to say, that he was sure no member of the community would deny that he had never attempted to serve his own private interests m preference to {'hose of the public; and it was his intention iv the Provincial Covn oil, should he be returned, to- place the public interests first and his own interests second [ap plause.] He could not now refer at length to the evils of Provincial Governments, and the various schemes which had been propounded for the lessening of those evils. There were many theories upon the matter, but like most men, tbe older he grew the less inclined was he to pin his faith to theories, and he began to see that it was not wisest always to go m for the best thing that it was possible to imagine, but rather for the best thing that it was possible to achieve. They must be practical, and must perforce be content with a compromise rather than refuse what they could get because they desired something better, which was unattaina ble. He was not prepared to say that it was possible just yet entirely to do away with Pro vincial institutions, but he was of opinion that theProvincialGovernmentcouldbecaiTiedon at one-half the present expense and he thought that some measures to this end were necessarily im minent. His friend their worthy Mayor had a favorite phrase " Central Legislation and Local Administration," which very well expressed what it was desired to attain, and the policy thereby indicated was fast gaining ground. 