FOURTH SESSION OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, APPOINTED TO MEET FOR THE DESPATCH OF BUSINESS 9TH FEBRUARY, 1882, IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. THE SENATE. Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 9th 1882. The Speaker took the Chair at Three o'clock. NEW SENATORS. THE SPEAKER presented to the House, a Return from the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, setting forth that His Excellency the Governor General had summoned to the Senate, THOMAS MCKAY, Esq., of Colchester, Nova Scotia ; ALEXANDER W. OGILVIE, Esq., of the City of Montreal, for the Alma Division, Quebec ; JAMES SKEAD, Esq., of the City of Ottawa, Ontario ; Canada has been favored with a year of great prosperity. Her farmers have enjoyed a plentiful harvest DONALD MCINNES, Esq., of Hamilton, and remunerative prices. Ontario,-and Her manufacturing and other industries have THOMAS ROBERT MCINNES, Esq., of been and continue to be developed under favorable New Westminster, British Columbia. auspices. The following members were then inHer trade and commerce have been steadily. troduced, and having taken the oath pre-increasing, and peace and order prevail within scribed by law, took their seats :— HON. JAMES SKEAD; HON. A. W. OGILVIE; HON. T. McKay ; HON. D. McINNES, (Hamilton.) The House was then adjourned during pleasure. her borders. For these various blessings we cannot be sufficiently thankful to the Giver of all good things. The Chief Magistrate of the United States has been cut off by the hand of an assassin, and it is fitting that the sorrow of our people for a loss which was not that of our friends and neighbours alone, should be here adverted to as another instance of the sympathy which unites in brother. |