New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-24

duced-The EIgin Associatiou-A Co1ored
CoIoDy-Free Banking-Terrible Tornado
and Loss of Life-Immense Water Spout.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
TORONTO Monday July IS
Notwithstanding its usually very large and
manageable majority, tie Government has sustain
ed defeat on q motion 10 fix the Postmaster
Generals salary at $4,000. An amendment, sub
shutting $1,000 was moved by Nh Boulton OF To
ronto and carried by the casting vote OF ths Chair
man-the House being in Committee ofthe Whole
MIR. Scott, of Two Mountains, whose vote was the
death of the last two preceding administrations.
The defeat is not Of kind to render resignation
duty on the part Of the Government. II defeated
on the principle of BILL there would be no alter.
native but resignation The sum proposed by them
for the salary Of the Postmaster General can
hardly be looked upon as excessive; and the
difference between 1t and that voted by the
amendment, only $500, il so trihing that people at
distance may wonder why it should have been
considered Of sufficient Importance to bring about
defeat OF the ministry. And In fact i: was not
that mere difference Of amount that produced this
result The ministry had acted with the worst
faith in the whole question ofretrenchment and the
temper ofthe House had been tried too far by Exc
cutve trckery. The Finance Minister, Mr.. Hincks
as member of the retrenchment committee, had
taken down bis forces and produced q reversal Of
the whole pToce edings OF the committee. The con-
sequence was the report was merely an expression
ofthe will ofthe government. The question Of the
salaries Of the members of the government was
eyaded altogether, and the governor generals sala
~ left TO be named by Earl Grey the uncle of Lady
Elgin The minority Of the committee offered a
report but the rules Of the House did not admit of
It's reception 1t was this conduct of the govern
ment, through its organ the finance minister, that
put the House out Of temper and led to the defeat
cc h. II W ha
waking up to q of its true position aud it is
rumored that in a few days they will come down
with scheme of retrenchment. They will pro-
pose 10 fix their own salaries at 5000 year;
which is deduction OF $500 from the amount they
now receive lfthey be defeated on this proposal,
Il think they will be bound to resign | think II
doubtful that they will propose any scheme OF the
kind.
There is great trouble in the Cabinet just now.
Two caucuses have been held this morning. The
Lower Canada members demand some change in
the 4choo bill, for that section OF the Province,
which has led 10 so much rioting and difficulty, but
Mr.. Lafontaine refuses to yield to their wishes
They also most anxious TO get home, bo. two
or three motions for morning and Saturday sittings
have been defeated
A new School bill, copied from the obsolete law
of the State of New.York, has been passed. In
some respects it differs, however, from any Of the
| School Laws that have been In operation IN your
! State. 1t establishes a Council of Public In,truc-
not specially authorized by this body, in any Of the
| Common Schools. Believe not that this is done
merely for the sake OF uniformity. Ii is copied from
the practice Of despOtic Prussia, and American
books have been excluded and are to be excluded
| from fear that they would instl Republican prin
cipes into the minds Of the rising generation. Toe
first occasion Of excluding American books was
statement In an American geography that the
| American Government is the best IN the world
This despotic provision Of the bill was passed over
| without scarcely a remark, while the Superntend
! ents salary Of 81 600 was debated stlffly fur
nights, at a cost Of many thousand dollars. For.
| eign teachers who have hitherto been excluded
| will be permitted 10 exercise their art ia
Schools, under certain restrictions. The principle
OF " Free Schools" existing in many States of the
| Union, bias not been embodied in the bill There
was good deal Of discussion on the question OF
permitting the establishment Of separate Schools
for colored persons, which was finally settled by
the adoption of an amendment permitting the es-
| Enlistment OF such Schools whenever they are Pc
titioned for by twelve heads Of families, for whose
benefit they are to be esta bished. The sane provi
| sion extends 10 Untarians and Roman Catholics.
The bill to reduce the tax on emigrants who
come through Canada to the United states 70 IS
cents esch, has finally passed the Lower House.
A bill To incorporate the "EigtS Assoctdti0H,
for forming colony Of coored persons in the coun
y Of Essex, opposite the State of Michigan, is be-
! fore the Legislature. The Company has subscribed
|
| There is one petition against this scheme, but
suppose the bill will pass Mr.. Sherwood, OF To-
ronto stated in the House the other night that he
considered 1t ofimportsnce that it should be known
in other countries that colored persons in Canada
will not be treated in way inferior to the rest OF
the population
The Free Banking bill has not yet been read
a second time, bu. it has been very well received
by the country, and will, think, pass both branch
e. of the Legislature.
A few days ago terrible tornado passed overs
part OF the country some thirty or forty miles not'u
east Of this city, carrying before il forests OF TIN
Der, the growth Of centuries, asd doing en- immense
deal Of damage TO farming property. SeEeraihves
were lOst by the falling Of buildings. Fortunately,
| the tornado did not strike any village or town II
| il bad the havoc would have been awful. Az 20
bourg the waters Of the Lake receded several ieer
and then rushed back upon the shore 20 feet above
their usual bounds. At Lake Scugog several mics
north of Lake Ontario, an immense water spout
was observed to carry up stream OF water 'ne
siTe Of large river. The tornado extended 70
other parts Of the country destroying the gro "ins
crops eveing the forest and unroO6ng or oyerturn-
| lne bnildings and doing other damage. L c.