So there is a check upon the Ministry, which practically deters them from lightly and. capriciously ex ercising that power. It is a power to which they ought to have recourse only in a case of fitting importance. Sir, following upon that, there is another duty, which in my judgment falls upon His Excellency — namely, the duty of accepting their resignations ; because, fail ing that, the Ministers are not dealt properly with. If the Governor can refuse to accept their resignation, tbe whole machinery is out of joint. (Hear, hear.) There are thus two duties — the duty. 6f a Minister to tender hiß resignation, if his advice upon important mat ters is not accepted, and the duty of the. Go vernor either to accept that resignation or" submit his opinion to the judgment of his ad visers. These are dutieß which appear to me to be correlative. What, then, becomes the Governor's duty ? It is his duty, I conceive, to place himself in the position of being ad vised by other constitutional Advisers. If he should act by his own authority — if he should act without constitutional Advisers— then, again, the machinery of Constitutional Go vernment is out of joint ; because if a Governor could refuse to receive the resignation of bis Ministry, and could act for any length of time — no matter how long — without the advice of any constitutional Adviser?, it is clear, then, that those .who had assumed the pdsition of Responsible ' Advisers would have become nonentities. But the Governor is not limitep in the choice of his advisers. If be holds strong views — as monarchs have occasionally done — upon the leading questions, of the day, it is competent to him to call upon other gen tlemen to assist him to carry out those views. If gentlemen are found to undertake this task, they will come to this Assembly to place them selves in relation with it, and the Assembly j 1 will judge them. They will either be support ed or rejected by the Assembly, which is the exponent of public opinion. In that way the governmental machine will work smoothly. A Ministry rejected by the mjpular Assembly is obliged to resign, and during such a contro versy intelligent public opinion is brought to act upon the Ministry or upon the Governor. 