New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-17

small debt and vet be in great poverty. On L ady
Day, 1915, the national debt Of Ireland was just
fl6lO6 but the country, fertile though It was, was
wretchedly poor. In 1893 says Plonden, Ireland
owed but 1871 ,3l2-in 1850 the debt five millions
OF dollars, As bribery was the mode Of governing
after the volunteers achieved independence the
bOrouehmongers had increased the debt 70 sos
$4,000 at the L MON Of 1900 ennchng then
selves and their families with what they lad boz
roWed in the name Of the nation, multiplying J1os
an offices teniold. Then came the remedy and
Earl Grey, father Of the present Colonial Secretary
tells us, that No means gould hare been more cor
Tupt than those by phich the JaioH pas caT['ea'
The system see here forcibaly reminds me o.
Irish rule Had the debt OF Canada been incarred
for use .ul provincial undertakings and wiseiy e4'
pended | should find no fault but ai1hoogn our
Army and Navy and Diplomacy cost as nothing'
the bulk Of the Revenue Customs duties lnSlIs,e'
Is souandered. or worse, and debt incc1rred where
the ANNA savings could have made every canal ana
railroad in tbecountry twice over. One OF the items
NJ exnence ia bringing government from Mon'reai
M Toronto. is S40 600 for packing boxes, In Phs-
Pensions or packing boxes 1t IS oil one % tne
people. ..u..,;o,i - A,,o,o.
hl1 hes failed for want Of two thirds vote.
think the Government and its opponents desired It's
failure Last year they never once dreamed Oh IN
wiling England to repeal the absurd two'thirds
clause, nor have they new. Beside, tney couId
eoualize the constituencies on the principle OF pop
ula,iop. by mere majority votes, in both Canadas
each OF which contains about an equal number Oh
people; but they prefer 50 voters in one petty VII
tsge sending a member, $500 voters 10 county OF
so COO sending another member-the Irish pocket
borough system in America in 1850!
/ think that in so doing they act in entire unison
with Lord John RusselIs policy; indeed his Lord
ship said, not long since, in Parliament, that when
MIR. Baldwin was in England, In 1896, he was
agreeably surprised to find that they entirely
agreed az TO the true mode Of managing distant
colonies
Law Reform here is on the backward track
Out OF "a members, we have As attorneys and bar
risters 4 notaries, 10 merchants, aud but NINE
farmers 10 make laws for an agricultural people
The result is an incorporation Of the lawyer trade,
bet 10 CODE no incorporation or organization OF the
laws.
Scarcely a word is spoken here about an honest
Jury law. We adhere firmly 70 the system against
which Massachusetts rebeled in l775, and were
lsuded by the Wing peerage for 80 doing. Our
Sheriff. are pensioned instruments of the Execu-
tivef and remain in office during its peasure-they
choose our grand and petty jurors, picking them
where they please or as they are ordered by the
crown. This reduces the trial by Jury 70 mere
form-a sort of screen. The Judges, TOO, are all
on one side. 1t IS no wonder that emlgrants
shun our shores. Lord Elgin in his message last
May promised Jury reform bat bic advisers have
not yet brought about any reform whatever.
A member Of the name of Bouton, following in
your wake at the humble distance of twenty or
thirty years proposes to carry through bill 70
abolish imprisonment for debt, except in cases OF
fraud. A very humane proposition but | DOUBT
whether Baldwin, who leads the majority, will let
such bill pass The abolition Of the jail for power
ty is popular here and Boulton is a rich attorney
seeking popularity He kept one Jonah Brown IN
prison for debt six or nine years 10 this city was
volen, Tory in office; hoped to be made judge
last Spring; failed and now goes to the extreme
Of Democracy, though no Democrat. His bill, and
many OF his other measures, are very good indeed
The money dealers are again defeated in their
effort to follow British practice, and abolish the
laws agaDst usury. As society is constituted, these
laws are an essential safeguard TO the many against
the few though less efficient than could wish they
were. They talk here Of closing up our Halifax
currency Of 81 to the I, and Il pence to the shll-
ling, and adopting, in lieu thereof your decimal sys'
tenn OF dollars and cents. This would be 8 real i'm
provement and put an end to the shaving process
on paper money, whereby our banks clear large
revenue at the expense Of the people on both sides
of the great lakes ROGER SHERMAN.