The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-09-27

AFFAIRS IN CANADA.-Turn then TO Canada,
and mark here the change In public sentiment on
many snb but yesterday that the trade with
neghbourng States, the admission Of their
we To- ADMIT s Of
dusy and enterprise equal footing with those Of
the mother country Nor has this change In oom-
mercsl policy been uuacccompanied with correspond
ing enlargement Of friendly relations In social fabric.
marked Improvement is here perceptible also which
must from the nature OF the case continue to increase
Many Of our young and enterprising Canadian nsr-
chants have taken up their abode in the Great Metro
polls of Commerce. and continue branches Of their
firms In this city Self interest the touchstous Of all
human action, will thus epgeDdsr reciprocity Of good
commercial intercourse old pr.judicss will be worn
away aud In their stead relations Of friendship and
grees, and almost imperceptiby will the connty Of
commercial relations OF necessity work change In
public sentiment and within few years he who lives
to see 1t, will confess with stonshment the inroads
which the Universal Yankee Nation" will have made
customs, tastes and attachments 1t Is hardly
necessary to remark that progress Of events such
the Sc, q country bordering q thousand miles on
people who thus by dint of superior enterprise and Skill
subdue such obstacles must frxught with portapt
issues The question will likely be asked How do these
Americans thus become the usurpers Of trade and
in some instances actually come into Canada purchase
material, and 1t to ufsctured pay
ing duty both ways and successfully competing with
own producers Nor will any answer to this query
plain others less perpexng-how land side OF
latitude 10 remain unsaieAbs At nominal price Of
o. to los and right opposite the other side
demand at AZ many pounds per acre. Our villages too
exhibit less striking contrast of adversely and power
frontier Look at stanstead and Derby Line Prescott
and Ogdensburgh, Queenstowp and Lewiston, the two
sides OF famed Niagara Chippewa and Black Rock, Fort
Erie and Bufaocr0ss over here to this latter City OF
the Forest.n and gee the contrast Railroads by the
thousand miles In rapid extension while to solitary
famed fourteen miles between Lapraire and st. Johns
not added mile of locomotive powe. In full
Grafton for twelve years But think hear the
reply to such reflections Oh the people Of Can
ada have enterprise the Americans are 60 ahead
people" Yes, they but there is effect without
a They have within themselves tn. elements OF
their enterprisethe free adoption Of laws which
regulate their charters Imperial interference In Canada
has checked enterprise. Our Governor sane
structons and home authorities have intimatsd
that will be granted unless 10 per cent Of the
whole capital Is subscribed before the Introduction Of
the bill Let the boosted American enterprise be tram
melted by such conditions as these In country where
capital has many Of employment, and see
England where capital In abundant such legislative In
reference may be right and proper but here, where
with the best of stock have actually TO solicit sub
scriptions how perncfous Its effects must De ana %
the same grounds, think every disparity we have
alluded to can be explained. Do We want bank, our
charter passes both houses but to go home, Ike the
Merchants Bank charter, and add one more TO the
dusty sheved Canadian charters In the Colonial Once.
And all this is not tyranny oh, no Is only polite
way our Imperial masters have Of saying, Don't you
wish YOU NAV get IL, gentlemen ~ But, TO be serious
we do say that under circumstances It requires but
u partial endurance Of such conflicting despotism
loyal people We say under any circumstances 70 and
how much more under those we have detailed, when
coupled with the impediments and miemanagement
which seem inseparable from our colonial system at
home, aud TO which, lament to add the sordid and
debasing administration Of affairs here, which for the
years has stained the history Of the colony. and
obstructed the Development Of its energies
Pilot, Sept. 49,