The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORY.

Can it be endured by sensible men that half a
million of square miles of such territory as this
should be claimed by a score of men—to be held
by th' m to the exclusion of all the world, and that
they should have the power to spread sterility and
barrenness over a land -which appears to have
escaped the original curse ? It may be said by these
proprietors of the Hudson's Bay stock—we have no
legal right by our charter .:o the possession of this
land, but at all events we have the " squatter's
claim." There is something too ridicu!ous for
sober comment in the notion of a few scores of
maurading, Indian-plundering trappers claiming
to squat upon a million of square miles of territory,
on which they have never raised an ear of corn, fed
a sheep, fattened a pig, or built a house.
But through this fine territory there exists, as
we have said, an almost unbroken communication
from the Rocky Mountains to Lake Superior. The
Saskatchewan is navigable for boats and can-es
from its source in the Rocky Mountains almost the
whole distance to Lake Winnipeg. Thence by way
of the Rainy Lake, the Lake of the Woods, and the
navigation which connects them, access maybe lt .d
to Lake Superior. From Liverpool to the Rocky
Mountains there exits an almost unbroken chain
of water communication—not navigable of course
for largo vessels, but userul in bringing down the
produce of the country, in affording facilities for
auxiliary steamers, and, above all, in pointing out
the great highway which nature has formed for
reaching the Pacific. Westward of the Rocky
Mountains flows the noble Columbia River, and its
source in these regions is close by the side of the
Saskatchewan, and, flowing westward, it bids the
advancing civiliation of the East follow it in its
windings to the indented coast and noble harbours
of the Pacific. Let those magnificent territories
remain a few years longer in the hands of the Hud-
ron's Bay Company, and they will be irretrievably
lost to Great Britain.—Canadian News.

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