New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-12
CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.
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Correspondence Of The Trbune.
TORONTO, Friday Augusta, 1850.
The inaliensble homestead, and poor debtors
tools and furniture saving bills, have been kicked
under the Assembly's Table by Baldwin and La
fontaine's majority with very little ceremony. Ill
take care to give the yeas and nays In heavy
edition Of Canadian Almanac for the next year.
and for the next elections in Canada, which an
compiling. Those Legislators have but little sa
eacity who neglect to provide, where it can be
DONE for extreme poverty and unforeseen misfor.
tunes in families. / fear that the bill to abolish
the jail for the debtor, except he has acted fraudu
lenily, will meet no favor at the hands OF Pn,e'
Hincks and Baldwin-but will be glad to find my
self mistaken.
The Assembly is busly engaged lao suppose
Congress soon will bel in voting the supplies, or
rather in talking about retrenchment. They may
mako little in salaries, for ss0r, but the savings
in such House as l see here will be very small
indeed. They may have head enough, but they
have no heart, for such work. Commissioner
Merritt has favored TIE Finance Committee witha
grand retrenchment scheme. Inspector General
Hincks, who is very clever in all matters OF al
counts and money has presented reply, 10 which
he handles Merritts programme without gloves.
Merritt, it seems, takes the State OF New. York,
since 1886, as his great model Hincks insists that
Canada having the collection OF her own customs
revenue the control Of her own tariffs, post Office,
wild lands, ard beng az large as ten such states
Is NewYork, 10 in a different situation, and re-
ouires a different hind OF service. | must confess
that in the wsy OF official incomes and expenditures
! we are more like to w ashington.
TO give YOU an idea of our notions OF economy,
! will mention a particular case. Mr. Tucker
| An old man but not Old DAM came here from
! Newfoundland seeking an office, and was m ade an
Executive adviser OF Dir George Arthur, the gen-
tleman sent from Van Diemans Land (Englan1s
State PRISON. to rule this country, 1888. a berth
had 10 be cot for him. 60 they dyifed the duties Of
the Secretary, ana called Tucker Registrar, giving
him a separate bureau, clerks, &c Vi course II
wts ,inecure 1t now proposed TO reunlte the
offices Of Secretary aud Registrar, and give Tucker
81 200 Of life pension till he dies, as an induce
ment to resign, because they have given him, for
the last eight years, So Goo year for doing moth
ing. cannot but agree with Hiacks that In money
matters, " look more like to w Arlington and Lon
| don than Albany or Boston.
bother them with, detail Of Official extravaganza
Let it suffice that AN able to assure you, that so
long as our large revenue is expended with prince
| ~ mae nilcence on idle, useless drones, We Will
| not be likely to rival little Massachusetts or even
| Cuba under Spain in tho extent Of our rail ways
| Canada West contains NINE MILES OF railway
Travelled by horse team, and that only for part
| of the wear Yet this is really fine country II It's
grand fnan ciers could bat learn TO take care OF
the pence" for the benefit OF the public
| Father Chinquy and his brother clergy are not
! opy working wonders in the Temperance way by
moral suksioD, but even performing miracles On tee
| Legislature. Bills, both for Upper aud Lower Can
ada are in progress, and likely TO pass, which will
! greatly abridee the powers Of bad tavern keepers
and abridge their hesdlong career, beside Kidding
the Province OF clusters OF beer and whisky shops.
| The voluntary associations for Temperance young
and old, are increasing in strength. The grand
| Temperance turn out tother day. in front OF the
] Parliament House, had a sensible effect upon the
| action OF the Legislature. Government TOOK tue
| hint aud sent dow MIR Hincks with supplement
tary supply bill, in which find $4,000 lten as a
| grstulty to Father Chiniquy. A Me- W mite, from
| Massachusetts,, lectured here. and made an excel
lent impression A bsseless rumor here spread that
| Mr.. Greeley was expected. The frat temperance
meeting ever held ia Toronto was got up by Mr.
jesse Ketchum and others, in the old American
Metho dist Meeting house, many years since We
had youthful "diviAiOn attached to the society
and great good came out Of the movement.
Mr.. Hincks, the main fnancier Of Canada, shows
great ability in raising money from the people, 10.
creasing taxation, and borrowing, spending, e.. ;
but these very high rates and the sharp practice at
our frontier custom houses the farmers country
merchants, and other importers, more especially as
$500, 600 year OF the net proceeds go oil 10 Lon
don annually, or the greater part, TO pay interest.
on our debt.
Our special legislation in the railway business
would FL a folio volume, for this session only-but
that indispensable ingredient in their artificial for
nations called ready money is not over plentiful.
| Presidents and Directors We may have by the
gross to order, but will they build the roads =
New England regularity and Yankee frugality
would help quite as much, and wish we may get
asupply.
The Legislature has been doctoriBg the laws
regulating the doctors. bat begin TO hope that their
tinkering and tightening will fail there lrsreally
fortunate for the law manufacturers az Washington
and Toronto that this Is not Cholera year.
Hitherto G silver dollar has passed for q paper
dollar and nearly two cents Ii is 70 come down
soon to level with the paper. A wise measure
that it's wonder our Solons did not see il sooner.
Bills to improve the practice Of the law are
about as thick as blackberres but fear that the
| practice Of the law will not be much improved by
their means. Like the Ner- York Herald and the
prsctcing lawyers with you, Ocks OF barristers
have a settled hatred OF scientific Qualifications Of
rules. Every Court every Judge, every legality
| warehouse in Canada is converted into a special
mandatory Of rules and standing orders. System
they don't wan;-not they. Oneof our law officers,
| Solicitor General Macdonald, has introduced bill
for the excellent purpose Of bringing justice nearer
the peoples homesteads, by providing for the set
| Element at home OF much law work that folks have
now TO 20 25 to so miles to adjadicate.
Upper Canada hiss got q new Assessment bill,
by Hinck d increasing the direct local taxation, bat
equaliziDg il much better. Lower Canada. be-
lieye, has no direct taxes. The ignorance OF the
majority Of the peop,e Of reading and writing,