New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-15
Canada Debt and Goverpment-Keciproc
In Trade-ILe NeH.Io npdIa nd El.heEIes.

900 Tor rebellion 0sEes, II rcss s lJeD. and flzrr
sJ6sl40 Of Treasury Notes, vii exceed $4,000
600, sud the investments 60 MT pay per celt
Bat for our drawback system, and the revenue
thence derived. added 70 'osns from Europe tie
whole financial machinery would stop IN a week
for their er-ravsgsnce in money matters almost
equals that Of Jamaica i'ssf
Until sir Francis Head aud bis advisers briDed'
bought. corrupted, and through their creatures a.
judges o. elections destroyed the Reform majority
ia the legislature Of 1851, there vas 10 Court
Of Charcsry ia Upper Canada The tribunals
they had bad proved such scourgo . ths and
owners shat 10 RIAL House Of Assembly woad
have consented 70 add the complex machinery Of
the Eogiish EQuiTY scheme, SO called probably 10
iestJ with Us masters, examiners s1d chancsl-
lors, endless SUES AID sti more ilterminable
bills Of costs.
With "ths bread and butter Parliament how
ever, as the people called i, came this huge mon
ster Of the law and although Assemblies have
since voted 70 sweep il away as a. intoleraole
nuisance, IL is neither reformed nor removed
The lawyers make fortunes out Of It, and they
have recently passed a bi. at Montreal meas
IRE Of Baldwin, MscNab, Blake, &c--'or extend
ing its powers, giving it additional Judges, AID
placing these Judges, and those Of a new and sn
old Superior Common-Law Court, aide by side, in
a new Court Of Appeals, from which the mex. aP.
peal is D. learned folks At London.
TIE salaries Of some Of the Judges ia these
Courts are 5000. ard others $4,000, and their
pensions ior life from 1898 70 g Coo per snnUm.
The T0ronf0 Er0miaers Montreal c9rrespon.
dent ~ sure that the Crown Land Commits I0ner
lPncel has resigned and friend from Toronto
advises 10 that Price is heartily sick Of the hypoc
nsy and deceit Of pretended reform CABINET
Malcolm Cameron, a tiff Tory Assembymao, who
turned round, in appearance, 70 the Rsiormcrs,
for place, when he saw them IN the majority aud
likely % keep So, Will, 1t is said, succeed Price
The Governor General will probably stay at Mon.
treal, and from recent appearances be has been
instructed o. adopt the policy Of Sir Francis Il al
and Lords sydenhan and Clarendon, Of governing
by corrupt, selfish men, and eyadng those poPosr
aud Just measures that would be conducive u the
permanent welfare Of Canada
Mr. Hamilton Merritt went % Washington last
June, and while there u stated % have expressed
himself in very friendly terms upon tie subject
Of annex alton. He and his family natives Of
this State. and he holds at present the oihce-not
Of President Of the Executive Council in Canada
bat Of President Of the Committees Of the Coun-
eli, place with no peculiar duties, but which
serves as an apology for paying somebody $4,000
year or more.
when 81 Washington, Mr. Merritt discussed iu
formally with men 10 place there the Reciprocity
question: and was asked what were tho views Of
brunswick and Nova scotis. and What the
fishermen Of Newfoundland thought Of re-
ciprocity that would inc ude equs rights to Amer
leans on their fishing banks
InAugustlast. Messrs. Lafontaine and Merritt a.
tended meeting Of members of the Government
Of Prince Edwards Island and New-Bruns wick To
consider the reciprocity question, and supposed
that the result Of their united deliberations was TO
ask England to take what stops she can to obtain
free entry for Provincial products into our mar
kets, or allow the Colonists to retahate if they
know how.
Messn. Laiontaiue and Merritt were ia this
City Tor a short time on their return from HALIFAX
aud through them it is probable that the Com ~
Eng Of Sept. 10 IS informed that New ioundland
land, seemingly, Nove-Seota refused % take
any part in those Free Trade deliberations, and
will not abandon without Pm effort, the nigh shore
fishing protection.
The law In Newfoundland Is based Convention
between this Republic aud Great Britain, which was
signed 20ih October 1915 by the provisions of which,
America ne have the night 70 take u sorts of sh on the
coast of Newfoundland from Cape Ray 10 the @uirpon
Islands round The Nj, dslcn Islands on the Gull of IT.
Lawrence and also in all coasts, bays harbors and
creeks from Mount Jolly, on che Southern coast Of La
brador and thrOul the Straits Of Belle Isle thence
NurfhWaTI along tho
dice 20 exclusive rights of the Iudsons Bay Company.
With regard % the curing OF the nsh caught our fisher
men have the rghtt0 and and dry and cure sh n any
of the usssd bays. harbOrs ami creeks O the South
era coasts Of Newfoundland aud Labrador but not IN
any settled part of the countryiors soon as the dry
ng ground becomes seit ed, the rgh ceases without
previous engagement with the inhabitants who have
the power give 70 refuse leave ~ they deem tit
Nevertheless citizens are admitted into s bays for
shelter, 90 repair dsmaecsto obtain wood water or
provisions, under restrictions. To other places not
specified in TIE above localities our fishermen cannot
approach than within three marine miles Of the
coast
The Conference met on the 80 AMI lth inst.
the Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax and
consisted OF Messrs. Wilmos and Partclow for
New Brunswick, Heusley aud Thornton for Prince
Edwards Island, Laiontaine and Merritt for Cana
ia. From Nova SCOTS and Newiound.aud 10 is
said TIA, no Delegates appeared.
NOya-Scota and New ioundland, It appears have
interests at stake adverse 70 those OF other parts Of
the Colonies. and it is probable hatihose who de-
sire Annexation, aud to get ril Of British pow er
| an1 influence in America, will not oyerwork them.
| selves Try ing % lessen difficulties
Toe Courier ~ Enquirer learns that Merritt
| wrote 70 Lord Pslmerston pointing out the evils
uuderv hch Canada shored 10y mol enjoying equality
ID or markets and that Great Britain did NOT exert
hcrscll % obtain 10. stc must md.t hy tu mind O. Nt
graai rtsHif 81 f.s loss ~ Gee Clogy. Aud learn
| through The same channel that Mr.. Merritt further
enclosed ior the approval OF the Foreign Secretary OF
Great Britain oct which % iwp0ss 1afG 0a all
Amo caa podlcs until Canadian produce was admitted
| free into the Union.
| Mr. Merritts bill, which We have not seen, ere
| Il enforced 20 morrow, would merely rCestabish
that wholesale sys stem OF smuggling OF American
goods into Canada which prevail Ell unit. the pay
ment Of low duties became the lesser risk
| When American newspapers copied approx
ngly the seiuioa spouted by the Canadian Tory
journals last Spring, The Tribune told them that
O. Loyalty" hsd>sways taken that mode Of raising
the wind or forcing more plumber from reluctant
England Pspiaeeu, NigcT, and the other ell.