New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24
CANADA.
Trunk Railroad Loan and Survey-The Desii-
tuition i'm saguenay-Steam Communication
betyeeu Quebec and Liverpool Bishop
Hughes and Corporations. &C., &c.

tutiou i'm ssaguenay-Steam Communication
between Quebec and Liverpool Bishop
Hughes and Corporations. &C., &c
Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune.
ToRoNro, Friday, April It, 1852.
Accounts from England state that MIR.
Incks is likely to succeed in obtaining the s2S,OOO-
coo Railroad loan 1t does not appear whether the Der
by Cabinet be willing to guarantee the loan; and 1t Is
hardly likely that they would feel themselves warranted
in doing till general election shall have given some
prospect of permanency to their power-provded al
ways that it does send them to the rghtabout Mr.
Hincks has had an interview with the
Colonial Secretary, but the precise nature of
il has not TRANSFERRED In the meantime it is asserted that
there will be difficulty in obtaining the loan even ii
the Imperial guarantee be withheld but in that the
terms would no doubt be much less favorable. sur
yey of the line is at once to be obtained 1t seems now
probable that attempt will be made to obtain suiii
cent loan to carry the work west through Canada In
deed it may be questioned whether the new Canadian
Parliament would sanction any scheme that did not pro-
pose carry the line west OF Quebec, at the JOINT cost
of the Provinces for if Canada should be left to make
the whole of the portion west OF Quebec, she Will nave
enough TO do The estimated cost in works of this
kind generally exceeded, and would probably be SO
in this that in the end we may have cost OF
fifty instead of twenty eight millions OF dollars AS TO Its
being Immediately paying concern the number OF skep
tics on this point abundant The truth E England sees
that the United States have several railways termna
ting on the Canada side of this territory, by means OF
which immense numbers Of troops could be concen-
trated at any required point in incredibly short space
of time; and she wishes to provide herself with some
means of equal facility But 1t may well be questioned
whether one railroad would be reliable means OF commu
nicstion in time of war. Could not halt a dozen men
with as many crowbars, render railroad useless And
it must be remembered that in colonies there Is always
more or less of dsaecton, and individuals will ever be
found who would prefer to fight the side OF the Amer
lean Republic rather than OF the mother country from
whom they conceive that they have endured
and unredessed wrongs. say nothing OF the correct
ness OF ideas but OF their existence
there can be no doubt Suppose an army were stopped
in the middle of forest by break In tne railroad,
MIGHT almost suffer starvation before il could reach any
adequate supply of stores to say nothing OF he prooa
bic injury that such stoppage would occasion 10 ue
men In the United States the Is different because
instead of railroad there are now hve or SIX termi
mating on the OF the Canada frontier They run
TIN rough settled country their number and situation
would almost certainly protect them from serious INJURY
For these reasons any certain utility in the
Halifax and Quebec Railroad as a military cork, for
Which alone it Obvious that England desires its con-
stiucton .
The Government has refused loan to the petitioners
in saguenay who represent Themselves as in state OF
destimiion.
Whether the Imperial Government intends to CO.
operate with the Provincial in establishing line OF
steamers between Quebec and Liverpool, or whether
they intend to act independently, cannot say; but
they have followed the example of the Provincial Gov
eminent in advertising for line Of screw propeers for
this purpose Between the two, we shall be unfortunate
il we do succeed in obtaining this increased facility
of communication with Europe.
Ii is a remarkable fact that while little or nothing s
said in New.York respecting the bill introduced INTO
your State Legislature some time ago tor creating bshop
Hughes corporation sole, ana conlerring the same
privilege on all his with power to hold prop
ery without limit believe the question Is here the
theme of many of secular papers Perhaps tnat
the taste have had OF the same sort OF thing here not
well re!ished In 1916 Legislature passed law, the
sight of which would do Bishop Hughess heart good.
1t created each of the Roman Catholic Bishops OF Kings.
ton and Toronto corporation sole, with power 70 thein
and their SUCCESSORS to all eternity, and to all Roman
Rislcps of dlOCeses, when sucn sitll DC
cent here by the Pope TO hold, purchase acquire sen,
or exchange property real or personal to any amount
in both Canadas whether Tor educational ecciesia'ucs,
or charitable purPoesthe soil and reeno as wen as
the fee of all lands and enements held by their church
and the freehold of all churches and chapel-chapeis
in the dioceses to be vested in the bishops respectively,
deeds of deathbed requests to be valid when giving
wealth TO the church and the statutes OF Mortman 70
be void as respects said corporations years ago
this law passed with little or no opposition, out now
positively frightfu to listen to the noise made ABOUT
RELIGIOUS corporations OF this kind. II Is dirty
kind of subject that decent man hxes 70
touch hut if we are to believe all the stories that are
told of the means taken to acquire property under he
sanction of this and similar laws, the noise-nusance as
it is and must be-On all subjects ON which the rengious
prejudces Of the people are enlisted Is, II must DC a.,
lowed necessity There has lately been great dcai
&C elimination and recrinnaon this very subject In
Quebec but the facts tgated that II - dicu 10
say on which side il most exaggeraion Inc story Oh
expectant nephew whose pcsy uncle was 10. ho
take biz departure from this lower world IT. that his ne
unce's) fellow priests got around him few days before
his death and induced him cancel will in favor OF SAID
nephew and transmit his gold to the church 10 whcn
i replied the part Of the worthy Bishops OF Quebec
that the will made long ago., and that at any rate
priest cannot by the Of the church. give to secu
lar purposes the wealth which he acquired by the as
BY the nephew the amount is stated at $4,000 and on
the part the Bishop this is described as fabulous
sum, and is pared down to very formidable dmen'
sions There is another similar case, in which 1t de-
MED that the dying priest who is said to have been sim;
arly tempered with got his wealth by the altar and
successful speculation in wheat, during the war OF ls2
il pointed the of the profit Such are the
themes that occupy an usual prominence in the Cana
dian press. L-C