receipts and expenditures for the year would be laid before the
Assembly, together with an estimate of the probable expense in the
present year of those local establishments for which the Assembly were
bound in duty to provide. He trusted that the whole financial accounts
would be brought to a clear and final arrangement. He was convinced
that the Assembly regretted that the progress of the public interests
had been interrupted. And without dwelling upon the past, he would
earnestly recommend them to consider the incalculable injuries which
had been accumulated on the province, while the executive branch of the
constitution remained disabled from exercising its just and legitimate
and most useful powers. The Assembly were pleased to learn that the
imperial parliament had suffered the measure for the union of the two
provinces to lie over until the opinion of the Canadian people had been
ascertained, and indeed they fairly echoed in their reply the speech
from the throne. A call of the Assembly was ordered for the 21st of
January, to consider the union question. The Upper House, with the
exception of the Honorables John Richardson, Herman W. Ryland, Charles
W. Grant, James Irvine, Roderick McKenzie, and Wm. B. Felton, were
decidedly opposed to the contemplated union. The Assembly believed that
the union of two provinces, having laws, civil and religious
institutions, and usages essentially different, would endanger the laws
and institutions of either province; and that there would thence result
well-founded apprehensions respecting the stability of those laws and
institutions, fatal doubts of the future lot of these colonies, and a
relaxation of the energy and confidence of the people, and of the bonds
which so strongly attached them to the mother country. The resolutions
of both Houses were embodied in addresses to the King and Parliament of
Great Britain. Those to the King the Governor was requested to
transmit, and those to the two Imperial Houses of legislation were
forwarded to the delegates of the anti-unionists, Messrs. Neilson and
Papineau.

[34] To-day an agitation has begun for a repeal of the present
Act of Union.

A message was sent to the Assembly, officially informing the House of
the arrival of Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Burton. The message
contained another bit of information to the effect that it was
necessary that a residence should be provided for His Excellency. It
stated still fur