New-York daily tribune., 1849-04-27
The Riots Mt Montreal.

Several telegraph.c dispatches announce that
on Wednesday asst, 10 Consequence Of the Royal
Assent having been given 70 a bill passed oy
very large majority in the House Of Assembly Of
Canada. and agreed 70 10 the Legislative Council
avpropristing 100000 toward the payment Of
losses and injuries sustained BY individual, during
the troubles in -37 and -3s body Of the Tory or
Orange party. under is chiefs, some Of whom are
said % have been since arrested for High Treason
s,pesred in front Of the Parliament Buildings
which they injured with stones and set fire TO- de-
stroving the whole Of the journals and Records Of
the legislature since 1921, and one Of the most val
liable Libraries ~ America n ioss which is' IN
many respects, ,rreparqbiel. also' the splendid
pictures, furniture, Sc.
Many years since, one Ogle X. GoTan' who
had been connected with what is called in
lrelard the Orange Society, came to Canada tnd
Organized hundreds Of Lodges, with oaths, Signs
pass words. degrees. party meetings songs ban
uers. music, Sc. The Legislature tired = Pot
down bv law an association calculated 70 perpetu-
ate religious strife, many Of whose proceedings
were wantony insulting TO the Roman Catholics,
and which was likely 70 be entered by the fac
tious and unpHncipicd in politics and bent to
serve their selfish purposes but the Governor
and his advisers encouraged Orangeisn, and the
Colonial Minister approved Of ais conduct 10 80
doing.
The Onneemen. Or Tories, did much 20 provoke
revolt. and much 20 pot II down The Irish pro-
tostants are loysl TO the crown oi England, hnt
those Of them who are associoted as Oranscmen'
though individually well meaning, are, hy the very
nature Of their organization, the blind instruments
Of few ortiul politicians, some Of whom may
prefer British supremacy, while others are rea'y
70 use them as machinery for the annoyance OF
political adversar.cs utterly regardless OF public
interests. It by no means improbable that iaen
ofthe most opposite views "A to politics, including
perhsps traders and others Of desperate fortunes,
may have been secret movers in the Montreal ont
RACES of last Wednesday night How far Messrs.
stevenson. McNab. Gugy, Prince, Sherwood Bade.
lev. and others of the minority who proposed when
ia power the measure which they have since, os
minority excited their reckless and deluded follow
ers violently TO oppose, are morally responsible
for the swift destruction this day recorded we
cannot say but If It be- true, las We are told 1t is
hy those long and intimately acquainted with
Canadian ailars that civil officers, guilty OF the
most violent and outrageous condact have been
upheld in Office continued in it, and promoted
aud that many such are still so continued, W bat
other results than such recently occurred
nj Toronto. and as now disgrace and disturb Mon
treal, can be reasonably looked for
After the occurrences last month at Toronto,
which were SO much calculated TO retard Canadian
by frightening away sober and steady
emierants it might have been expected that some
signal examples would have been made elter
prompt inquiry. and this as means Of shaking
the mad career Of faction for the future aud qsick
ening the officials to a sense OF their duty Moth
ing has been done however the dignity Of the !
law il altogether lost sight Of and band Of J. 500
drunken rufians, under very appropriate nnglead-
ers. have msuted aud injured n peaceful commu
nifty, seemingly with entire impunity.
The Montreal Tories saw all this and their un-
leaders saw, too, that by obstructing
and deiying the civil authorities, they would be
bringing the country nearer toward the anarchy |.
which they covet on the "rue or ruin principle /
whenever they are ousted from important c'hces /
which Tories have seldom filed but to the injury
of their country and the degradation of commOni- /.
", whether IN the old Colonies or in the new.
\ msiority of the citizens of Montreal are OF
French Canadian origin. We DO not perceive /.
that any OF this class, or OF the British, Irish /
or Anglo Canadian reiormcrs, took any part IN the
riots, so insulting 10 the Governor Legislature I.
and people, and injurious to society. To the best /
OF our recollection, all the tumults, outrages and
riots connected with politics in Canada, from lsl9
to Is3e, have been the work OF one small faction I
or instisated by its worthless chiefs who were /.
pampered when they ought to have been pun +
ished
When will It be otherwise
NORTH CARoLINA-The Election for Members
of Congress in the Ola North state takes place on
the n.si ThnrsAaN In Aucnst nn,I ~. N nail