ts pecuniary means.
It was hoped, indeed, that sooner or later, the propriety of permitting
the Assembly to vote the supplies, after its own fashion, would be
conceded.

Shortly after the prorogation, Mr. Papineau, the Speaker of the
Assembly, Mr. Hale, a member of the Legislative Council, and Colonel
Ready, Civil Secretary, were added to the Executive Council.

On the 7th of July, the construction of the Lachine Canal was
commenced.

In the course of the summer, Lord Dalhousie proceeded on a tour to
Upper Canada, returning by the Ottawa, in August.

The legislature of Lower Canada was again opened by the
Governor-in-Chief, on the 11th of December. He brought under the
consideration of parliament the state of the province, recommending
immediate attention to its financial affairs, with the view of making a
suitable provision for the support of the civil government. He had
adopted a course for the payment of the current expenses of government
as consistent as possible with the existing laws. He had been commanded
to recommend that a provision for the civil list should be granted
permanently, during His Majesty's life. He felt assured that the
Council would attend to the recommendation, and he would not advert to
topics of far inferior importance, for the present. The Council
considered it to be their paramount duty to adopt what had been
established in the British parliament, as a constitutional principle,
the granting of the civil list during the life of the king. The
Assembly were not so submissive. They requested His Excellency, the
Governor, to convey to the king that they had received with all due
humility the communication of His Majesty's recommendation that such
provision, as should appear necessary for the payment of the expenses
of the civil list should be granted permanently, during His Majesty's
life, as well as the information that such was the practice of the
British parliament, and that the recommendation would have due weight
with them. The Governor on receiving the address of the Commons, in
reply to his speech from the throne, was not particularly well pleased.
He assured the Assembly that until the expenses of the government were
provided for, in the manner he had indicated, that there would be
neither harmony, union, nor cordial co-operation in the three branches
of the legislature, and that the real prosperity of the province would
be decidedly arrested. The Assembly were quite indifferent as to