The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-02 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have this day received Montreal papers to the sth, and
Quebec to the 3d June. The Montreal papers state that the
approaching election in Upper Canada for the new Parlia-
ment, is ono upon which much will depend—that " Sir Francis
Head is no ordinary man, and that he is pursuing no ordinary
policy.".
We have Jamaica papers to the 28th May, from which we
extract the following :
" HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, May 25.

" Soon after 3 o'clock yesterday, the Speaker took the
Chair, having acquainted the members that the House had
met agreeably to the Governor'sproclamation. Mr. Panton and
Mr. Bryden were appointed a Committee to wait upon his
Excellency.
A message from the Governor, by the Provost Marshal
General, commanded the immediate attendance of the House
in the Council Chamber, when his Excellency was pleased to
open the Session with the following speech :
" GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL—MR. SPEAKER, AND
GENTLEMEN OF TIIE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY:—

" In obedience to the commands I have received, I have
called the Legislative Body together, in order to submit to its
consideration certain measures of importance, which the wel-
fare of the colony will not allow to be postponed until the
ordinary time of its meeting.
" ' I would recommend to your earliest notice the renewal
of the Act in Aid, which expired on the 3lst of last December.
The great inconvenience which has resulted from its not hav-
ing been in force during the last four months, will, I am.con-
fident, induce you to lose no time in turning your attention to
the subject.
" The serious injury and waste of property which has
arisen from the defects in the law for regulating the Court of
Ordinary, and the imperative necessity for some alteration in
it, so often represented to me by almost every one of the
Learned Counsel who practise in that Court, leads me to re-
commend it to your notice, although the period of your as-
sembling renders a long Session undesirable. One of the
most sacred duties of the Ordinary is the care of the property
of minors, and others not in a position to act for themselves ;
it is one of the protections to which all those who contribute
to the exigencies of the State are entitled ; and such protection
cannot be afforded under the existing law.
" ' MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSEMBLY,

" ' Having been informed by authority, of more experience
than my own, and to which it is my duty to submit, that the
delivery of my Message relative to the Act in Aid, involved a
breach not contemplated, as I before assured you, of the pri-
vileges of the Assembly, I have only to express my regret of
its having taken place.
" So much of the fiscal business of the year has already
been gone through, that I am not aware that I have any ob-
servations to make to you on that branch.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL,
" Havi►,g called your attention to the several matters to
which I have already particularly adverted, I would merely ex-
press a hope that you will, in the exercise of your wisdom and
zeal, in the discharge of your public duties, dispose of as many
of the other measures which it will be the interest of the
colony to have discussed as you conveniently can.
" The all important subject of education, among the rest,
will not I trust escape your consideration.
" I have been directed to make to you certain communica-
tions from his Majesty's Government, and I will take the
earliest opportunity of doing so, in the usual manner.
" In conclusion, I would wish you to understand dis-
tinctly that, in agreeing to the Committee, on the
working of the apprenticeship system, his Majesty's
Ministers had not the slightest idea of consenting to any
breach of the honourable compact which has been made
between the mother country and her colonies ; and which it is
much the interest of both parties to maintain inviolate.'"