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• Dr. Hearn at The Athenaeum Dr. Hearn addressed the electors of the Central Province at the Athenaeum-hall, on Tuesday afternoon, August 20th. There was a considerable attendance. Mr. H. K. Reid took the chair. The question with which we really had to deal was, “Are we to have two Houses or are we not? Was the country to be governed by two legislative chambers or by one only? The question was one which for years had occupied a great deal of attention, but hitherto that attention had been confined exclusively to the younger members of society. The question had been a favourite one at debating societies, but though much good paper had been spoilt, and many flowery speeches made by successive generations of rising young men, he was not aware that their elders, at least in any British country, had ever very much troubled themselves about the subject. The example of England was known. So too, in America, the great founders of the constitution had declared that, in their opinion, one House was not conducive either to liberty or to wise legislation- In every single state in the United States, as well as in the Confederation itself, there were two Houses.