Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT BDCKKIREPING,

It was ordered that copies of Tract XXII., jest ifseed,
should be sent to the leading members of the Admin'str .tion,
and to such members of the House of Comm-ins as may be
suppose I most likely to pay at-ention to the shameful abuses
therein exposed, with a view to remedies for them, of which
the most effete ive will be, tie appointmeut of a standing
Fin itice Committee. These parts of the tract referring to the
report of the Public Moneys' Committee, and the gross mis-
mauagement of the Duchy of Laucaster, and the Crown fro-
party generally, were mentioned as deserving of particular notice.
THE NORTH AMERICAN GAME-PRICSERVA.
Extrac'e were read from the Canadian papers, re pelting the
exploratory expedition to he Red River settlement, showing
that its accounts of the country, described by witnesses called
before the committee of the House of Commons, to bolster up
the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company, as barren, im-
passable, and wholly unfit for colonisaiion cr the habitation of
civilised human being., are of the most sad-factory character ;
and that there exists, betwein Lake Superior and the Red
River settlernen,, an immense tract of magnificent count y,
admirably timtered and watered, and in all respects edapted for
settlement ; whilst the route, instead of being impracticable,
affords every facility for opening ho h land and wa•er commu-
nication, and that at an inconsiderable outlay. As an instance
of the fertility r f the soil in the neighbourhoo lof the Dog
River and the Lake of the Woods, it is stated by the C median
ein'orer,_that,-hnr.43.oraViln;-wrrust the vegetation and the
nature of the soil gave additional evidence that the labours of
the husbandman would be abundantly blessed in such a region.
In regard to the great swamp, or savanne, over which Sir
George Simpson, the monopolist Governor, said it was impo-
sible to carry a road, it has been discovered that the whole of
the tract, occasional), covered with water, can easily be com-
pletely drained, at very little expenditure of either money
or labour, by cutting through a slight ridge, which would
enable the waters to form a deep channel for them-
selves, and leave the country, not only dry, but
io the state beat adapted for the plouh, and likely to yield
the richest harvests of any p rt. of ihe corm ry. The suicidal
folly of leaving such a country any longer in the bands of a
private trading company, whose interests aro notoriously and
avowedly opposed to settlement aed colonisation, and whose
object it is to keep the whole of it, as far as pos-ible, in a state
of nature, and the absurdity of tries inn to its representations,
were commented upon; and it was observed that, under a
proper system of government anti settlement, the half continent
which a handful of private speculators are now allowed to keep
locked up as a game preserve, for the sake of a paltry revenue
of some half million a year, would become a source of strength
and countless wealth to the mother country for ages. The
secret of the continuance of such monstrosities as the Hudson's
Bay Company and the East India Company, lies in the facts
that both the monopoies are London ones—both are socially
and politically powerful rhere - both have neenf-ers of Parlia-
ment amongst their directors; and there are profits and pick-
ings, of various kinds, vvisich are exclusively centred in the
metropolis. Hence it is that there is little or no opposition
to either monopoly in London ; that the London papers, with
one or two houourahle exceptions, amongst which the Mernzng
Star stands prominent, have not a word to say against either
whilst the limes throws its shield over them heel,