New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-03

The Census-The Great western kulirOau
Company Reject the Gauge Of the Ameri.
can Line with which IL Connects-Cow-
hiding an Officer Of the British Navy, &c
Correspondence Of The N. Tribune.
TORONTO, Wednesday, April %, 1852.
The Census of Canada is completed, but
no fun statement of the result has been published Tn
oxyna de Quebec which has doubtless had access to
many Of the retuns of Lower Canada, sets down. by
way Of estimate the numbers for that section Of the
Province at 100000 The population of Upper Canada
viii certainly not be much below this number; that
will be pretty safe to set down the entire population OF
Canada at 100000 There are still living who
remember the time when, except few Jesuit missions
and the little knot Of Frcnchmen they had collected
he margin of the waters opposite Detroit there moi
another settlement and scarcely farm in all Upper
Canada. But this Is point Of time to which the mem
oy Of no one but of the Oldest inhabitan" goes back
Except the settlement at Detroit part Of Upper Can
sda was settled till 1854 The disbanding of some Pro-
vncia dragons that date formed the nucleus of the
drst Upper Canada settlement with the exception stated
The American Declaration of Independence In l776,
caused considerable numbers of those who adhered
the British standard to cross the Lakes and take
up their residence In Canada These emf
grants consisted chiefly OF Buffers Rangers and Royal
xorkers who loyal they undoubtedly were TO the
Old regime preferred fight TO hghung At that time the
population OF Lower Canada could not have been much
ess than $4,000. of whom about 10000 were French.
AT the conquest OF Canada in 1863 the French popula-
uon amounted TO 5000 souls, and in l764 the
whole number of British in the Province was only 800
oesades women and children. 1t took something like
M OF century from the conquest to give to
ne Biltash population numerical superiority the
treneh. Whether the entire population contains
lory o" Anglo Saxons Mr. Robinson might very well
G,pue, he could find any one having the temerity TO
viii turn out that the Professionals and Nothingarians
have slight numerical majority over the Roman Catho-
nea While Lower Canada 10 mainly Catholic, Upper
CsnadA mainly Protestant the exception consisting Of
oae portion Of the Irish emgranrs and their descend
ana Wlatc years. however, the increase Of Catholics
10 Upper Canada has been much faster than that Of
ppIosssssne For instance, we find that while the
ffosestsne population doubled itself in the eleven
ye.n nom iSS to 1850, the Catholic population
ueo'ed. And nov permit me very respectfully to
sSvevey through The Tribune 10 HIS Holiness Plus
cn important secret, the acting which will enable
- MAKE Oil Canada Catholic Ofcowse shall ex-
S~atsnnnsis hat In return II 10 this Turn the
nc o. Cashoc emigration that 10 running from Ireland
we oo'scd States upon the shores Of Canada and the
ss done IL effects nothing 10 mix shsm up ,ns
emnanisy OF republicans. where their numbers count
sncshtng. Bring them al into one fold Depend up
,nM is the way to go to work. But how b
~ 3 donef Cause the public lands In Canada to DO
accessible ON easier terms than those Of the
ssaso stes, AID the thing 10 done.
SHer su the Great Western Railroad Company have
1doeed their intention to adopt q gauge that win
49, WIN any American line with which IL will
sSss.sss ihe Provincial guags Of Eve feet 10 to b
ladeed, believe the Railroad Commission
s.S ye breed them into this course with threats Of
Soans The governments guarantee
u0osr.y horcewhipped Broughsm in the lobby Of the
- Lord. and somebody, or rather several per.
vspped Bennett But where 70 the precedent
~. @csceontt whipping officer Of Her Nsjessy's
~ sssimens through Kisgss, Torontoi Mr.. Lyons.
0sseeonist here, has veasured this dangerous TN.
49, ne was noe man seeking noesrieeJ, but an
veader q cisars pissails and every other
r. zoo Of ksleigh's hverte weed, SEEKING payment
t1ss debt His frequent opportunities - the
S,.s - brought ous The spirh Of puppyim In The
S-ss =. Of the 7lse Rssimest N. Orsl. and he
ne veader II ciQrs who kad The inpods.os
1S seasinss vfA unpaid billa, oas Of he hall
SSS aood wsitaG Nsxt day The unpaid and In
IN nan esnShs Her hs)eHs oeSeer u the
- Se1s n taa ssrsea ~ coWhi1sd him fer sboul
@ed y.sd4 = " We sssenpanisd By u.
os.{enio.A Teroiss Maglsssls We Sansd
- na1ws ed - 1xsd hs pEise al oew'
~ = ~, - = s0esr e the British Army r he ssb-
-" mnv within ~ rsseh q noa ~ u