The prison gang has been set to work on the site of the new Lunatic Asylum. Other and varied works are iv operation, both in town and country. Provincial Govern ment officials are regalarly paid. Formerly looked upon by General Government servants as a sort of poor relation, they can now meet on equal terms, free from, the fear of being tapped on the shoulder by the butcher, baker, tailor, or shoe maker, with a request for the settlement of some long over due account. The patient and long-suffering "bobbies," in addition to being paid punctually, have had new great coata served out to them, as a protection for the winter — a luxury not enjoyed by them, at Government ex pense, for some time past. But the questiou of paying for al^ these good things is being rather warmly Jiscussed in some of the country districts. Provision has been made for as fair a distribution of the expenses as is possible with present re presentation. All persons are pretty well agreed as to the desirability of the policy of the Provincial Government being carried out, but lew cm be got to see that they are not iv some way or other un fairly taxed for it. Large land owners want to see the wording settlers taxed in preference to themselves ; small holders desiro that run holders should pay heavily in order to break up lsnid monopoly, while run holders look upoi it as only right that those persons who hod the laud should pay the taxes, and are unable to see the justice of tolls. Tlb next session of Council is likely to be i stormy one. A great deal of alaru appears to have been excited in the ether Provinces in respect to the ship ' Eiglatnl,' at present in quarantine in Wdlington harbour. There was a considerabkstir here for a few dnys, but as the Government set to work so energetically to makvamends For former negligence, the alarm subsided, and the vessel being so far awaj from town, dis pelled the idea of the possibility of the disease spreading. Tha-e seems to be no disposition on the part «f the authorities to release either ship or passengers until the scruples of the uios) fastidious shall have been satisfied. 