New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-18
CANADA.
v.-- e., Or Correspondent


TORONTO, Saturday, April Ia, 1885.
70, come lme past the proceedings ie 2 'riis'
ueLt have 5eel excessively Sol. and ins'p'd
ssesticn Of the power Of tie Provincial Psfh.
NJ bt has been rs.sed, and referred 70 tde C'ofI
for deeision. II 10 OF this nature, and Arose Ia
tih wise: In the Parliamentary election rr 'oe
Counties Of sseuepsy and Arsenseu.i the grew
cot irreeulsrltie. occurred, with the connivancs
O, the deputy returning officers. Thousands OF
s,i.a.i vo,s. were entered on the roll books the
20. of ch;Ie rem of nom existent persons, and
.thsr voters. historical or biblical characters
Hs;.a frsudulebty inscribed. The guilty parties
were brought before the House, aud treated, IT
seems 10 me, with leniency not at all behtung
the GRAVITY of the ofense-none OF them being
sentenced 10 more than ten, and some of them 70
only one or two, days imprisonment. The scoun-
drels. however, have the audacity to turn
round and question the authority OF Par
hament to punish them at all. They con-
tend that Parliament ia mere Corpora
NON. and cannot imprson any body for breach Of
privileges. because it does not possess any of the
Attributes Of the Bouse Of Commons. This has
often before been alleged; but the objection has
never before been seriously taken with view TO
test the matter. Should the Courts decide-as |
think they will not--that Parliament has not the
mower 20 punish for a breach Of its privileges,
there lie no doubt law will be passed declaring it
possessed Of the necessary authority 70 infct
punishment in such cases.
1t is not always that the Governor Generals in
structons see the lights but those Of Sir Edmund
Head have Just been laid before Parliament. BY
these instructions the Governor General is EN-
powered to dismiss or suspend his Councillors;
but be must record his reasons for doing so. lie
nav refuse TO accept the advice Of his Ministers;
but any Minister may record at length, on the
minutes of the Council, the grounds OF his advice
These instructions are OF more extensive charac-
ter than are generally supposed. They embrace
some salutary regulations, and some the reasons
Of which are not so apparent Among Otner
things they direct that the Governor shall not az
sent 10 any bill affecting the property OF indlvid-
uals. without making provision for securing those
parties in their rights. They prohibit him sane
tioning any divorce bill, give good many dlrec-
tons about the sale of the public lands, and also
directions concerning the presentation TO bene-
6ces-directions too, strange to say, which are at
variance with statute passed by our Legislature
in 1861. Altogether, they are good deal OF
curiosity.
The fate Of the ProhibitOry Liquor bill in the
Legislative Council is not certain. According to
some, it will be defeated there; but have seen
NO reliable calculation Oh the subject.
A proposal to abolish the rectories created by
Sir John Colborne came very near being success
full in the Legislative Assembly-the vote standing
81 against AZ The question of the validity of
the patents creating these rectores has for some
time been before the Court of Chancery; and had
it not been for this circumstance, the rectories
would have been swept out of existence by vote
Of the Legislature. Many, who believe that the
result of the Cbancery suit will be to declare
them illegal, preferred to let the judicial contest
take ts course to cutting the GOrdian knot by
Parliamentary vote. .ft.-