The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-10

Nclson, Mackenzie, and Co., are now revealing in
the phInder of the tories. We are very sorry to
dsappoint that love Of the marvellous and the
dreadful which can feel sort OF pleasure even In
the cuamlties OF nerltorious men. Blank and I'M
interesting as the announcement will be, truth COM
pels say that thus tar there Is no real ground
for the panic which has suddenly seized portion
| of The public en- Canadian affairs. No act has been
Imesed there is even bill before the ColonialPdr
lament; there Is not even deihite scheme OF com
pensation; there is not a single name, or single
| claim actually admitted by the Legislature the
have abolished them in this State with all their Incl
whole yet n. nmbbus It Is true there has been
a tremendous and mostnolsy ncubatlon the Lower
| House at Montreal has held an almost continuous
| session for fortnight, the opposition have made
speeches by relays, and but tor vigorous effort
| and little strategy, would have been speaking at
this moment but we assure our readers, lnCredl-
bic ms il may appear, that the origin and result OF
row which has almost assumed the form OF grand
loyalis rebellion may be comprised IN this short
/ and simple resolution, moved by the Hon. Mr.. La
| Fontaine Attorney-C ;eneral-" That this House do
now resolve itself into committee, to take INTO
| consideration the necessity of establishing the
amount of losses incurred by certain inhabitants
of Lower Canada during the political troubles OF
1887 and 1898, and of providing for the payment
thereof"
Whence then all this ferment! Why is Sir Al
Ian Nab working up the loyal population to fury,
and why does Upper Canada talk of {. annexation"
with the hated g stars and stripes?' Why are
Durham, Sydenham, Metcalfe, and Elgn now pro-
claimed traitors in disguise Why is England
Because this was the first time this question has
| been agitated No such thing Claims have been
continually sent in and compensation has actually
been given. In Upper Canada compensation to the
| amount of f40, 900 has long since been awarded.
| AS for Lower Canada, claims came in SO thick
that in 1916 the government of the day. being itself
unable to give them due consideration, appointed
| a commission TO receive and investigate them.
~{,,, of tba ola
| ants were the gentlemen who had themselves done
the mischief by taking part in the rebellion, asked
for further Instructions, and received them, to the
effect that every claimant should be admitted, ex-
cept on legal proof of reasonable practices. The
| commission was not judicial body, and had no
! means of deciding on questions of guilt, except
where there existed conviction In court OF law.
So matters stood before the present ministry came
in and under the very persons who now head the OPP
position 1t it evident therefore that nothing can be
objected to the present resolution which could not
equally be objected to what has been done long be-
fore under very different auspices What, then, is
| the peculiarly of the present case First and
foremost comes the unpalatabe fact that what was
the disafiected and rebelous party in 1887 is now
in power, and commands a majority in the legisla-
ture. 1t is, therefore, sumised that the bill found
ed on the present resolution and the whole course
of action arising therefrom, will show an eyll bias
in favor of the rcbelsthat their claims will not be
'royalst "party is discouraged at the fact Of this
investigation and award being conducted Mt such
time, under such government, and such commits
sioners as are likely to be chosen.
do good deal of mischief if the powers that be are
not restrained by conscientious considerations
The list of claimants which we must beg to re.
mind our readers is not anew thing, put published
in the appendix to the journals of the Canadian
Legislature for 1916, contains l76 names, and the
total sum claimed is E24l, 975. Avioent partisan
asserts that nne-tenths of the claimants are OF
French Canadian origin. Most of the claims are
for nronprfv DESTROYED but some are for casual.
speculative or imaginary losses. Among the latter
sort are caimsfor loss of time while in exile or IN
prison, claims for presumed loss OF business In con-
sequence Of the disturbed state of the country, and
demands for the repayment OF passage money from
| Bermuda to Australia. One of the most impudent
demands, says the colonial iourna! we refer to- is
that for sum OF E327 l2s. Cd. taken from the trea
sury of the church of St. Cyprien forcbly "enter-
ed by DR.. Cote, against the will and remonstrance
of the churchwardens," the fact evidently being
that Dr. Cote and the physical force of the parish,
being Roman Catholics and unhappily also rebels,
applied the purposes of the rebellion the funds of
their own church, and now demand that the
Colonial Legislature shall make good that sacri-
lege and so reimburse to the rebels the costs of
their rebellion .Igt ~
That these claims will be met in partial or an
indiscriminats manner is only matter of surmise
That they will not all be granted is evident from
the above resolution, the House very speedily
limited the amount of the intended grant to .el00-
0OO which, from the fact of some payments in an
ticipation, is only new grant of 100000
We continue of opinion, therefore, that at pre-
sent it is quite unnecessary we should throw our
selves into an agony of Indignation at the conduct
of the Canadian cabinet The province, of course,
is in a terrible excitement. Sir Allen M'Nab is
out of office, and has nothing to do so to sa-
tisfy mind of more than common energy, he has
taken TO agitation, and is flashing the whole colony
into foam. But happily we out of hearing, and
can think of the matter at our leisure We conf
| IDENTIFY hope that there will not arise an occasion
for the of Her Majesty's veto, as Mr. Gladstone
and some others appear. to apprehend The debate
the ministerial side in the Canadian Legislature
shows great moderation Now, though modera-
tion of language is easy enough in the victorious
party, it is also pledge of moderate conduct
Even the terrible DIR. Wolfred Nelson, whose mon
ster claim is the subject of such angry comment
has declared that he only maintains it because by
surrendering it he would prejudice the similar
claims of many poorer persons. A letter by Mr..
Hincks to-day gives the ministerial view of the
case. The reader will also gather from it that the
question has gone off into many more issues than
we have ventured to take up. To infiict on the
British public an interminabe squabble about the
local appropriation of the colonial revenues would,
indeed, be an unnecessary addition to the existing
miseries of British life. .u.. t
The Critical State OF Affairs I'm Europc-Thc
Attitude of Russia--Thc Possibility OF
European War.
From the London Times, March H.
We advert with reluctance to subject which
threatens not only to add serious cause of dis
al.