The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-06

ence II the whole arrangements contemplated
We're carried ont.
Mr.. NJ GIBSON thought that no preference
should be gwen 10 any party; the matter should
be open TO competition. He called on the gov
eminent not TO give monopoly 10 the Halifax
ana Boston Company, but to give share OF their
patronage 10 the Great Western or any other COM
pany that was IN position TO perform the neces-
sary duty.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEouEn said, in
ioSS II was publicly offered by the government to
contract for increasing the means of communion.
ton between England and North America, and
The tender OF Messrs. Cunard was taken. 1t was
then contemplated 10 have weekly communlca-
ton, but tortnigblly one was found to be sulli-
Gent AT the time. IL had since been found that
increased communication was necessary, and the
government consequently found themselves bound
TO give Messrs Cunard the preference of taking
the contract for providing the means for that COM
lnunication
Lord !. RUSSELL did not know the terms of the
existing contract with Messrs Cunard. He be-
heved that il had been well performed, but he
thought IT would be right to lay before Parliament
papers stating how efficiently or otherwise II was
performed, before new one was entered into or
signed.
Mr.. M. GIBSON hoped that the contract would
not be signed until the papers moved for by the
hon. member for Bristol on the subject We're laid
before the House.
Sir X. PEEL Gas we understood) was not pre-
pared 10 give any such assurance.
IL IS well known fact, that at least three or
four steam ships for the above service are at the
present Tune IN rapid course of construction, by
the same builders and engineers who built the
Cambria, and other steam ships of the British and
North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Com
pany; and there is not, in the minds of practical
men here, the shadow of doubt that, under the
same management the performances of these
additional steam ships will be equally credtable,
not only to the parties engaged but to the govern
ment and the country ut large-not leaving ont OF
sight the incalculable benefits arising theretrom
10 the commercial communities OF America and
England, and, indeed, 10 the world.
Affairs In Canodn--Thc Implied Threat OF
Revolution.
DowNISc STREET, June g.
your Lordships despatch No 81 of the Isth of Nav
transmitting to me- for presentation to Her Majesty
address which has been voted by Her Maestys loyal
subjects, the Commons of Canada.
Her Maiestys government conceive that the pro.
lection principle with justice be described as the
universal basis either of the general between
the United Kingdom and its colonies even of their
commercial connection. There is large and impor.
tant group OF the colonies of this country having
very extended commerce and of a peculiarly British
onaacer IN relation to which the protective system has
at no time exercised powerful influence, and in rela.
ION to which, at present il has little more than nomi-
nal existence speak of the Australian colonies And
u cannot ail TO be remarked that while these are the
most distant and therefore according TO the sppostion
OF many, the most in need of commercial preference
thus most enecually beed that necessity II is true
indeed hat part OF their material prosperity may be
from aordng explanation of the case since nerhans
the most remarkable instances of vigorous and rapd
grown among the Australian possessions of Her Ma
1esty have been instances in which penal has
altogether unknown. The energy OF the colonists has
without doubt under Divine Providence, been the main
cause oil their singular advancement; stimulated but not
overbone by distance and aided no, repressod by the
enjoyment of commercial freedom The same ener gies
with less disadvantage of distance contend against
WILL II may be confidently predicted have similar ef
RIGA
1t is not for the sake of controversial or purelv arru
mentative advantage that Her Maesty's Government
refer TO former opprehensons and 10 the manner in
cd ky tho
Prospect of this kind is calculated 10 throw clear ami
abundant light upon the real merits of the question The
iears which are now entertained have reference the
circumstance that is proposed to remove all derentia
duty between Canadian and foreign corn Is it, then to
toore in proportion TO the of such dfercntia
duty Farotherwise. The law of 1928 diminished the
diherence IN favor OF Canada the law of 1912 further
and greatly diminished the difference in favor of Canada
the law OF lSi3, which reduced the duty on Canadian
wheat to Is per quarter still left much smaller differ
ehce IN us iavoi as against foreign wheat than existed
under either OF the former laws and vet the corn
o. Sonsaa mas grown and prospered and its extern
happiness and prosperity of the people of the colony,
which the Assembly sharing in the unmngled satisfac-
uon OF Her Majesty and the British Parliament has
advancing in steady and successful progression But
this extension has taken place. not under protection
cured from change, under protection fortified by
successive incremens, but contemporaneously with a
series of changes involving its great dimuution -
IL appears to be the impression of the Assembly that
some great revolution of prices is likely to occur as
the consequence OF the pending changes in the law
remuneration for his surplus produce But the Canadian
FARMER advancing from 20 year capital and in
science and to say nothing of the great advantages he
cannot fail to derive from improved il
would sure be rash to assert probably do the As
sembly in their address intend imply that hi, industry
must be paralyzed unless he shall continue to receive
the precise amount Of average payment for his grain
that he has hitherto received for t.
am unwilling TO repeat at length the arguments
which have addressed to your lordship my despatch
No &C. of the 18th of May with respect to the other
IN umoer When however we revert to the year lSa2,
cannot but be acknowledged that this as the case of
trade peculiarly artificial as it stood under the former
law The reduction, though graduated was decisive;
perhaps in has il been so and ertanly in
no case have more uniform confident prophc
cies oil rum been hazarded by the opponents of the
change The result is, that the export of timber from
British North America to this country attained during
the more protective law o MEYER Ter reaSnea anGer
vernment therefore cannot the part of the Imperial
Exchequer share in the fear that increased freedom of
trade will have the effect of Gripping the revenues of
those important public works which designed 10 IA
citae the transit of the produce of Canada bv tho 81
Lawrence TO the sea. They by means subscribe
to the opinion that the comparative dearness of this route
is an established fact And they likewise feel that they
did subscribe to that opinion, although might
rate the propriey of the they have pursued in
suggesting to parliament the nterposon of interval
before entire freedom shall be given the trade
could do no more II could not induce them ask nor
paramen Mt to grant they certain could 1t induce
the people OF Canada to desire that market their
farm produce should be maintained by mean, of perpc
tual tax upon the people OF England referring to the
unchecked competition which, SO far British law is
concerned will be established between colonial and To-
reign corn by the repeal of the law perhaps NAV
10 mat British alone
cannot suffice to establish this competition The price
which the colonial and foreign exporters corn
lively will obtain for their grain in Great Britain must
always be materially affected by the comparative degrees
of facility which may be afforded in the country of the
and of the other for the introduction of those British
goods by which payment for the substantially
be made British goods admitted into Canada at very
low, into the American Union at very high import du
ties The effect of this is not merely give TO Br
ush exporter better position in the Canadian market
than in that OF the United States but to enable him
give better price for the commodity he purchases in
return and therefore to give TO the trade Canada
corresponding advantage long as the present tariffs
continue, over that of the United States.
With respect to that portion of the address which
prays Her Majesty to invite the government of the Uni
ted States to establish equality of trade between the
dominions OF the republic, and the British North Ameri.
colonies, commanded 10 instruct your Tordshin
to the Assembly that Her Majesty will readily
cause directions TO be given to her minister at Washn