The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-30
Affairs In Canada.
OUR QUEBEC CORRESPONDENTS.

QUEBEC, April II, 1854
Tas Steard Kihel Railroads-Judge Ayl,ciu
and the Bar-Narigation, dc.
The HERALD rightly estimates the value and importance
of the Mitchell Co. Canada invasion movement The
only effect produced by the announcement upon the
Lower Canadian, whether Of English, Scotch Irsh or
French extraction) momcntary elevation of the
eyebrow It is about senseess . scheme as was ever
concocted and will tell you why The PLAN it appears
il to stir the Irish in the Province to get up rebel
lion Now, in the first place. however clamorous that
party from sympathy and old recolectons may be for
repeal in the old country, they have such excellent
fresh butter to their bread in Canada East, that
they will see any amount Of free and enlightened Hber
mans id before they will the risk Of being removed
from the hoghth Of good living to which they have at
tanned The fact is incontrovertiby that there is no
spot upon the face Of the globe where the Irishman
politically socially and individually is as well of to use
common expression, as he is in Canada. You him
ruling the Province in the person Of the Inspector Gene
raj (Hncks) you find him in all the rat Offices he is the
chief municipal officer of the seat government al
leyn, the member for Champlain a. locality which
10 the Avernus Of shipmasters being of the
hgious faith IS Jean Bapste, he is counted and made
much OF by that gentleman particularly when they COM
bDe against "the Protestant interest" In the
Of any rebellious or annexationist movement
receiving favor from said Jean Baptiste He
mas an that in his most ardent aspirations he has longed
for he has obtained responsible government rules the
Province as he pleases and is content that S7 and 3S
should be forgotten and be essentially Of the past He
has no desire to change his lot and looks with equal in
difference the bees of the third Napoleon and the
stars and stripes Then again the Anglo in
cs though often ter Rebellion Losses bill is
loyal and heart and would not yield an inch to the
who sought set his foot the territory OF
his beloved Queen There is disconnected class or
race within the whole Province and therefore the thorn
which the chvarous Mitchell holds ready to thrust into
Englands side must be directed to some more tender
part Here England is impenetrable.
The Quebecers ecstace at the prospect OF soon
having railway communication with the rest OF the
world In some thing less than three years 1.-THE con
tracts having taken by very responsible parties the
North Shore line will be completed, connecting Quebec
with Montreal by the north bank OF the St Lawrence
QsO miles) and in August next we shall have direct
communication with Portland via Richmond, but very
small portion Of the ne-the termination at Point Lew
opposite Quebec-yet remaining to be made.
tative Of the Attorney General at Montreal and two OF
the Judges the Court of Queens Bench and limited at
the probable of Of the Judges in ques
ton The Of Quebec has since met and passed reso
lutions calling upon the government, In the most
emphatic language to institute inquiry into the con-
duct of these two Judges and no doubt
that the executive will be compelled by public opinion 70
order the inquiry called for. The result must inevitably
be that most able man, perhaps the most
speaker In the Province will soon find himself faiien,
fallen fallen from his high estate"
We have hopes of having the navigation open here
before the first week in May The pot still holds though
the ice Ia very porous vessel with general cargo that
arrived out late last fall and was obliged to put in at
one of the lower parishes has just come the river,
but cannot get to the city. "