The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-26

he as firmly believed that IL these provinces remained
ssparAie as they we're ., present they would gradually
be found who really imagined that Canada alone could
maintain an independent rational existence. For these
he had made his mind TO advocate union OF
the provinces and should be prepared give his hearty
uppoIt 10 any government party who would sustain
such policy he had described; and he happy 10
tell them tina, the number Of those who had entertained
sentiments similar to his rapidly increasing In
the country, and he had good res'on 70 hope, that
number Of members would be returned prepared con
tend for such lice Of policy as he had delinested
Now are these views generally participated in In
Canada? The spirit Of them Is, but not, perhaps,
the mere form. Upper Canada, which il prospecting,
as you showed in recent number Of the HERALD,
beyond what the people themselves even seem to be
aware Of. and which IL adding twenty or thirty
thousand Americans to its population every year, e
not In favor Of taking any more bad partners into
its government. Lower Canada is obviously drag
upon 1t at present Whilst the Great Western Rail
read in Upper Canada l. paying beyond all expecta.
ton, the portion Of the Grand Trunk Railroad from
Richmond to Quebec, in Lower Canada carries pas.
sengers ct cost TO the company Of eight pound. or
thrtytwe dollars, head-that IL, there are few
travelling over IT, each one costs eight pounds and
pays ten shiilings, or two dollars This il sliding
scale downwards with vengeance. Nor IL this the
worst bill Upper Canada has to foot up in 80 tar az
Provincial credit has been pledged for the Grand
Trunk road. Piers, costing about five hundred thou
sand dollars, were built at the public expense on
tie lower -. Iawrcnce-that u, below Quebec
for the use and benefit Of the agrculturasts OF the
parishes and counties adjacent 10 them. These
piers have now been in Use for two three year,
and they have yet paid the first dollar towards
even keeping them in repair. The necessities OF
the parishes adjacent 10 them have never 30 much
a. called for a storehonse at any one Of them.
gentleman who visited them all in q steamer, last
summer told me- in Montreal, that the only articles
Of produce which the vessel brought back we're few
| moose skins from Ramouski. Not even a dozen OF
| eggs OF bushe! Of potatoes did they get. The
| finest piers on the continent u America are there
| for nothing or rather TO keep i've folly by the
necessity Of keeping them In -epi ir.
/ Now the great trouble with U per Canada il that
for every thousand pounds her progress requires ex
PENDED by the government, Lower Canada-her
national Iartner-requires another thousand spent
| within her territory 70 balance IL; and hence the
folly Of these piers: hence the folly Of the Quebec
and Richmond Railroad; hence other foes. till
Upper Canada can no longer bear the monstroas
absufdities.
| am inclined 70 think that the lower provinces
mean Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. dc.-wouId
be introducing but 70 many new hands 10 milk the
| Upper Canadian COW. Canada has little or no
trace with them, either; and the little she has. she
can better carry through the United State. than
In any other way. Meantime reciprocity u making
Upper Canada the garden and the wheat growing