New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-31
CANADA.

From Our CcrTespobcebL
TORONTO, Tuesday, March % 1884.
Tie Governor General is still absent the Premier
has gone to England and the Administrator of the Gov
ernment is recalled No one knows exactly waen the
Premier and the Governor will return bat there are
reasons for believing that they will bo:h be here before
NAV. Parliament cannot meet till they return AMI
the building in which Parliament isto be held, the hos
ritsl of tie Sisters Of Charity, viii not be fitted up
before sometime in May. ~
The Attorpey General some time ago, fled bill in
Clsbcery against the Church OF England rectorle. IN
tie Province to test the legality of their origin Ihey
are forty -four ia number and il is believed that the
patents creating them viii be declared invalid Ihe
facts relating tbs remarkable SUIT are oreny these
The constitutional act of 9i gave the King power 10
authorize tie Lieutenant Governors OF Upper or LOW
or Canada to erect ard endcw Church OF Eng
land TectOries in every township IN the TWO
Proyinces The royal commission to the Gov
erDors always adyerted 70 this authority, but dld
not absolutely convey il, leaving II SUBJECT 70 special
Instructions Such Instructions we're given through the
Colonial Secretary 10 MI President Smith Admins.
traitor of Upper Canada, in ISIS and not beng ac'ed
upon were repealed in l525 But still again tney
we're not acted upon. In 1886, however, sir j. Col
borne took it into bis head TO erect number OF rec
tories and he did so Just before be left the Province
He had no special uthoTay for the act, however al
though Lord Goderich, then Colonial Secretary, had
in pirate Dispatch in 1882, limited obiquey at the
desrablty Of erecting rectOres. IL Vas no express
W,
traton resolved to act upon il, and did So sir John
never reported the TO the Imperial Government and
the Colonial Secretary learnt with surprise what had
beendone The act created great Indignation the Prov
ipce The law officers Of the Crown in England hrst
declared the patent invalid and next that they were
valid Now tie question is being brought to adjqdl-
cation There is an immense mass OF eVidence but
il is all official, consisting of dispatches from Colonial
Secretaries proceedings of the local Parliament and
so On TIE patents are also believed to be VOID from
the same def ct Of form The is one OF great IN
terest and is likely to go against the recor- Which
ever way the decision may be- it is believed the case
will be appealed to tie Priyy Council in England
The 1--WE banks of MOntreal-City Bank OF Montreal
the Quebec Bank, the Bank of the People and the
Commercial Bank Kingston, show an aggregate circu-
laton Of f2796i3; deposits paying interest tol53|o
deposits not bearing interest E762754; com and bull
lion, f479957; debts owning TO them, t5,1 100
The hoax about the discovery of pretended Russian
invasion Of Canada which has appeared in the papers
will deceive none 1t would be treating the matter too
seriously to say that there is not the slightest founda-
tion for the pretended discovery.
Our I23 per cent tariff produced G969, ,7Si in the
Shape of customs duties last year, being an increase OF
f2652-e over 1e52. The public works produced
GII997t last year. being an increase OF tll4OI over
1870 L. Z.