I will be able to convince you of this presently. Tho idea of my .setting up or imitating any republic iv France never entered my mind, and nobody would have attributer l to me uutil perhaps they found it in their speech. Sir W. Fox was to have been one of tho great loaders of party in this couutry, and was even to be Premier when my Govern ment went out of office, Whit analogy, I would as>k, for a momont c m be found between the Government which exists here and that which exists in the United States ? In the United States in.ste.id of a nomin ited Governor they have a President elected by tho whole people, with tho moderate salary for S3 gront anxtiou of .-CjJOOO a-year. Hce we have a Governor, nominated by the Crown, with a salary exceeding by about one thiid that of the salary of the great Prcsideut of the United States — an lucorao which appears to rae to be much greater than is at all nececes sary, aud to that extent damages the whole community. For you may rely ou this, that if you pay your chief officer ex travagantly, requiring him to give grand entertainments to make a great .show of wealth, such is the flunkeyism of human nature that a large number of people will copy him (Uughter and cheers), for such is the example that will be set before their admiring 1 eyes. You will have each Civil servant and each petty magnate of a district trying to imitate the Governor both in tho extent and form of his expenditure. You will have a waste of money that is neither beneficial to the waster nor to those who enjoy ifc. Nothing, it appears to me, could be worse than that for the whole community. I j am of opinion that your Governor should be chosen by yourselves; he should be one who sympathises with the people of the couutry. That great office should be open to every citizen ; it should be an object of ambition for all — to the men who are fitted to occupy it ; the parents and friends of those who aspire to it. 