New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-20

and we were plainly told by legislative Council;
Tors that if il had gone TO their House they would
speedily give it its quietus. No doubt IT would.
You talk of the feudal tenure being at an end
doubt that but the question is too large ''f 'He
postscript of letter. will return 70 u,
A year or two since England Permlt'yo ala.a
10 pass a bill allowing the qualified electors 70
choose representatyes freely, without Pecumary
qualification. Last May French representative
of Montreal accordingly proposed that the sta'uVe
restricting the people from choosing any Assem-
b,m,n ROT possessed OF $4,000 worth OF Tree
lsn6ed est re- be repealed, and hfty members Vo'eI
ray-oply Twenty-Five in the affirmative; vi
course EscDab, spence the Tos'n'as'sr ,,, Donei
and Cameron ofTorontO, Drummond and Macdon-
r.d onr teen and cOvetous Acknowledgements,
and All others whom Sir +. Head could move,
voted nav Worse still, the Government inserted
= Glance in tie Elective Council bill, which they
cot the present Council to throw out, providing
that no Canadian be eligible unless he owned
$4,000 worth Of real estate And as 70 the short
term YOU speak Of, the bill that did not poSs gave
the Councillors a leave of their seats Tor eight
weary years
In Nova Scotia, in April, 1852, the Nova Scotia
legislative Council, whom the people wanted to
elect but did not stopped the bill for the Assem-
blypen's wages because they had voted no pay
Z" 10 the Lord" 6 TO 3d. The Executive Council,
however advanced the cash. In December, l544,
the Council of Canada asked of Lord Stanley a
sessiopal allowance" but he negatiyed their re-
quest. o
lord Brouglam, in the House ofPeers, lSl9,
thus described and that not in caricature either,
the Council Sitting at Quebec 10 lo45, at Toronto
in le46):
Their lorS ps were aware that beside the Legs-
lative Assembly there was IN Canada Legislative
Con- Gil TO which the Crown had the unlimited power
OF nomination. Sir Charles BagOt, when he was
governor. appointed FIVE. Lord Metcafe in three
wears arponted SIX; but Lord Egn in 10 months ap-
POINTED no fewer thaa II. But II would be said, no
doub, that fha. had nothing 10 do with the Rebellion
Losses bill for that this addition had been in contem-
potion for back as August: Very true. Bat there
was none whatever appointed hl January anu only
one then As the Spring approached with ITS ethereal
mdness tending to seed time and growing crops there
spraDg up crop OF peers well as crops of wheat in
Canaoa There ad already been one made, and II
added immediatey-but not all at once. They
were made by degrees and as they were wanted.
Ihsre were first three added, and the Government,
fnoing themselves still in a minority. added other sx.
al 30 on until, instead of being in minority OF
seven tley had obtained q minority of five. Hear,
henri For that purpose they sowed peers broadcast,
Lord CLIyE.-1bey drilled them, r9ther.1 His no.
bic friend who was bet er acquainted with agncultu-
raj affairs than himself sugge-ted that they bad been
drilled rather than sOwn broadcast .laugh'erD, and
probably that the better term but at all events
the crop produced not, in his estimation, very
good one whatever m. hit be in the estimation OF
those who had dibbled or drilled It."
Our whole system of government here is unreal,
nor will many months elapse before those who OBJ
stinately refuse all improvement have occasion
TO regret having learnt so little from the experience
of the past.
There is a talk here of Repeal Of the Union of
the Canadas, and it would prove beneficial to both
countries. 1t was as absurd to unite the French
men and us as it would be to unite the Executives
OF France and England, placing French and En-,
glsh in one Legislative Chamber. But Union OF
all The Colonies is a still absurd idea. Six
Provinces 2GO0 miles long, very narrow, more dis
tant than Niagara and NewOrleans What
Union Chief Judge Robinson told Lord John
Russell, when he was over in 1889 on political
speculation, that Nova Scotia, with Cape Breton
4" and New. Brunswick, never can in any stage of
Z" their Advancement entertain the idea of ascot
ating with Canada in order to form an independ
cent nation. Their geographical position forbds
ait. Their effective union with Canada
in order to defy Great Britain is an event physi
" cally impossible. The people of all these
COLONIES know full well that if their independence
"were granted to them they could not maintain it,
land that the only alternatives are their belonging
" to Britain or belonging to her greatest CONNER
"cial rival" This is so. HARRY VANE.