New-York daily tribune., 1849-04-20


dians legally condemned and If their property mad
been destroyed 1t sssurediy ought not to be re-
placed 10 them from the general revenues Of the
loyal people Of the two Canadas.
OF the original Family Compact, Henry Sher.
wood, late Attorney y-General, and who assisted in
throwing my types into Lake Ontario, in l-2G.
and his iatser, the Judge, with Geo. Sherwood,
n J. Boulton, SrJ CobOrne's Attorney-G enersl,
W. b. Robinson, q. 5. Boult0n, John Macaulsy,
and A. Mclean, are all that now remain IN the
Legislature J. Crysler, !. a. Macdonald, w.
Cayley, Sir A McNab. w. II. Merritt and J. Cor
don were cions grated on the old tree Of abuse
Breakers ahsad-Col. John Primer.
The galleries were ihialy attended at first, but
by half-past seven they were filed 70 overiowing.
as was also the bar, below which there were pres
ent a sprinkling Of well dressed women While
remained, the most perfect order and decorum
were mantained-yet mad been warned that az
ternoOn thai a row might be looked for
Col John Prince IS an English lawyer-large,
tall aud wei formed. with something sinister 10
his countenance. as some say, though | never
could see it. His hair formerly black Il now
gray his OmplexiOD is dark, bis carriage bold
aud erect and his age may, probably, be about -.
Many anecdotes Of his bravery are related not the
least Of which was his capture on the ice, Tar from
land in 73s, of Sutherland, the rebel General, and
Young Spencer, his aid-de-camp, both Of whom
were stout men and well armed but he IS charg-
cd / fear too truly, with rashness and cruelty.
Sincerely attached 10 British Tory Government,
he is believed TO be the dupe OF more cunning men
than himself whose only idea Of Government is
that il should be n cOnye nent machine, by means
Of which to plunder and pillsge the honestly in
dustrious. He possesses ability as speaker, but
appears 10 be unsteady politician.
Col Prince went several times round the House
that evening, aud looked with great earnestness
Mt me where sat in the gallery, but said nothing.
Had taken my seat on the benches reserved Tor
ex Members, as the Tories expected l would,
have since understood that he would have striven
% put me out by open violence. This, OF course,
you'd have ended IN not, and 10 doubt would
have there got my quietus. 20 violent were even
the servants Of the Old faction, that an aged man
of the name of Webster, who Is Post once Mes
senger 10 the House. and whom did not know
even by sight, burst out next day or the day fol-
lowing. before amuititude of persons, with the ex
clam alton Of" You rebel, you murderer the
blood of rnyso and the blood Of young Fitzgibbon
is on your head. and then vehemently threat
ened me with a speedy and violent death openly
in the ball between the two Chambers-thus en-
deavoring 10 organize a riot. True, had nothing
more TO do W ith the sssemblace at which an accl-
dent. alluded to by " ebster had happened 70 sew
eral persons at a Tory meeting IN Toronto, on the
eve fthe Cholera OF 1884 than the babe unborn
but the unprincpled leaders of the unpopular FAC
tion thus contrve to lash their followers into Jury,
careless oil the means
Larger Gugy-TRe Elements Of Harmony!
To Mr.. Boulton succeeded Col. Gugy, son of
former Sheriff Of Montreal, tall and on the whole
cood-lookng, seemingly not over 40 years OF age
though in reality beyond the cold north latitude OF
So He seems a sort OF evergreen. w e met for
moment at Quebec IN November, l-3J-and this
pleader in peace and leader in war, looks none
the worse for the wear OF the intervening thirteen
years. His speech, begun IN French, but conciu-
ded in English, lasted just "a minutes, and before
he had spoken five minutes half the seats were
vacated. He argued, iorcbly enough that the act
of amnesty had reInstated the discontented party
in all their rights and privileges, as II they had
never taken up arms, and asked how the Govern
ment could refuse 70 pay them their losses, be-
cause a Court Martial had convicted them. Oh
course he did not thus vote but went With his party.
Mr.. Baldwin, chief of the Upper Canada Liberals,
said few words. He has lost the delicate and
almost sickly complexion he had in early lie, and
8 much stouter and seemingly more robust Mr..
II Sherwood spoke before hm' next alter Ooi'
Ciugy. and the war OF words was kept up till long
after the midnight hour BY ten, however, was
in bed and asleep
have read storypf two remarkable Irish
men who had grossly llbeled each other, were
both found guilty, and coniined for many months IN
Dublin jail, in the same cell, where they got along
very pleasantly in each others company. The
them. In one House, deliberatlng together pro
bono publicO or looking on, were seated Mr. Scott,
for whose arrest $4,000 were paid during the
troubles: the gallant DR.. Nelson, who cost the
Colony the same sum in the same way Speaker
Papineau, for whose apprehension Lord Gosiord
had offered 1000 with his friend DOminck Daily.
who had been the active instrument OF those III
authority from 1878 and downward Gugy, whose
lsurels bossomed alOe-ke, at s.. Eustache
Sneaker Morin once arrested and held TO bail on
suspicion Attorney General LaiODtane, thrust
into iail by Colborne, IN company with l.. NJ. VI
ger now Receiver General; Colonel Prince, the
fierce sssailant Of Theer, &c. II. Sherwood the
prosecutor of rebels 20 the death, but now OF the
annexation faction McNab, the hero Of Fort
Schlosser, and his opponent, who hailed from an
adjoining island and now draws these rude sketch
es: Robert Baldwin, Heads messenger - the
Yonge street rebels and Commissioner Puce
.Baldwins Price, as he once cal ed himself at
Belleville my old cOniede rate aud comrade IN
ticklsh times long gone by
With such materials as these, promlscuously
thrown together into the political csuidron, tn
wonder isnot that the evidences Of perfect harmony
and mutual good will were not visible, but tnai
amid the din of contendng factions, riyal leaders
and would-be leaders, the confusion oi tongues
al d the "reminiscences OF times gone By, the WORK
of legislation got on at all.
There must have been great moderation some
where, and | do hope that those who can ana DO
exercise il will receive the reward they Will have
so richly earned by their iadicous, welltimed Tor