New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-30
CANADA.
I The y. Y. Tnbupe.

Toronto hOurishes. Merry thrty'sN years
since / remember i. a miserable collection Of
hints and novels, inhabited by less than two hun
bred families, most Ct them poor, many Of them
shivering with fever and ague. One slow going
steanboat and only one, was seen at its wharves
but once in ten days; the country round was
dark, unbroken forest, and three wretched
corduroy paths introduced the solitary tenant OF
the wilderness TO the undrained, unPaved, niry
clay sloDghs Of despond called streets, in dirty
"Little-York."
But the elements of fortune, wealth and great
meas were scattered about in abundance; It's
barbor was the finest fresb-water haven on our
Continent; its ferine, incult rear country was e4'
celled nowhere for heayy-wooded rcn farm lana
now a plain, open, well cultivated Woodland To-
ronto has become the center or busness-plac OF
one of the richest wheatgrowing regions in Amer
lea, well-built elegant city Of some $4,000 inhabi
tapts. (same number as Rochester, on the opposite
side of Lake Ontario,) and it collects larger rev.
enue at its custom-hOuse than Quebec, or any
other port in the Cansdas, Montreal alone ex
eepttd
One Toronto Iailway-the Northern-is finished
up to Lake Huron; another will be opened this
Fall down to Whitby, and before long to Montreal
and Portland; a third railway will connect US
next November with Hamilton Niagara Falls and
Detroit and a fOurth-part Of that grand imam
cial fraud. the Grand Trunk will unite Toronto
with Guelph on or before January, 1886, and via
Guelph with Goderich and Port Sarna on Lake
Huron.
Excellent macsdamized and plank roads enter
Toronto from the east, west and north and have
nowhere in the Union seen more elegant avenue
rotfx thau txfu tnila in a
rontO best known as longest
Canada he's several thousands of miles Of rail-
,say tiihef "A her statute-bOOk, or begun, or In
progress OF finished; but, like our canals, none OF
these railways yield a proht One OF them has
made dividend, but not out of clear gains. Yet
the editors and schemers here have a new idea IN
der considerations ship canal from Toronto to
Lake Huron, entering it in the Georgian Bay
The cost some eighteen or twenty millions OF dol
lars, would be betrayed by our British friends,
who are in the humOr of lending, and make
very little inquiry TO where the money goes
There IS no knowR terminus TO human cTed"tuy
whether about things seen or things unseen.
Canada is flush of money, quite aiiuent just
now, though her manufactures are few. We Dor
row prO3igiOus sums in LOndOn-but systematic
checks upon wasteful expenditure we have none
our actual Provincial debt equals or exceeds that
of the United States Federal Government, incud-
ing the vast sums we have lent 20 our land and
which VIII never pay anybody any interest-Our
Public Works" yield mere nominal return
but our farmers are in the receipt of large returns
for their produce public lands sell very well,
and our imports being large and the foliage high,
considering our Colonial position, our banks col
lect the specie, scatter their paper very poorly
secured in the long rum far and wide, and the out
lay on 500 miles of railway now in progress aud
on other local exoterc improvements, saying
nothing Of the immense number of fine houses and
villages, and saw and grist-ms which our people
are building, is large. There is no end TO Cana
dian puffs we can't be beat at these mutations.
Ar. nincks, MIR. Cayley, Mr.. Ross, and other of
our managing decury, with their decuriOn, Sir Al
len Macnab, are in England, catching mornings
and iObbernOWs with a very ShadOpy exegeSis,
aided by prospectuses and ending in ruin aud
bankruptcy, as must suppose, to many both here
and there
The Canada Assembly voted hundred thousand
dollars last Fall to the widows and orphans of the
army of the Crimea. / asked very cautious
Frenchman how that grsnt happened TO get his
vote, and the reply was: I'VE Canadians have
"been suspected ever since 1887; some show of
"sympatby and loyalty will serve us in London,
"hep credit, help our railways, and make
"money plenty" He used the grant the fisher
man uses bait, and may have been wise in his gen.
Grafton.
The Legislature subscribed 500 900 to $4,000
to enable Canada to make grand show at the Paris
Exhibition. There, too, there was a crafty policy.
Canada was once French-part of it is French
sthl-and creditabe exhibition from Canada
would be gratifying TO country which settled Can
ada 800 years ago. Among other things prize
essays were invited, and a young lawyer here who
served his time with Sir Allan Macnab got prize
No L. Ii is an agreeable puff of this country mag
nifty ing our resources, and being well circulated in
abe proper directions in Europe, will help us to
borrow more money, and coax more settlers
hither. We have Known othings" here-no
scarcity of them-but having lands TO sell, rail
ways TO build haryests to get in, ard canals TO
dig, they are more discreet than yours. No
fowler spreads his net in the sight of any bird"
and the versatile Mr.. Darcy Melee who now
goes il strong by the side of the Row. Orestes
Brownson for a return of the happy days before
. Iuthers or Calvn's reform broom swept off the
Florentine POpe's plenary indugences, is here lee
turing, and laying the foundation of u Roman Cath
Ole immigration from the states" The head of
the Church of England is TO depend for Canada on
the Papa of the Church of Rome-Palmerston upon
Plus
The Paris Prize Essay, as approved by Sir Ed
mund Head, values the real and personal estate of
Canada West at two hundred millions of dollars
which is tenth higher than the assessments made
oath-but il forgets TO tell that ull one third of
all that real and personal estate is ovned By or
mortgaged TO strangers out Of Canada
i. The Canada Company obtained from step
mother Britain millions of acres of the finest lands
M Canada West for a song. They lease ID to ten
ants, or grant to purchasers, are ever buying and
own full six millions dollars worth of excellent
real estate.
2 Canada also owes fifty millions dollars. of
which the upper country will have to pay the
heaviest part principal and interest. 1t is chiefly
due abroad
3 There ia A LARGE eomnanv of II oan and