New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-24

low Wae our credit and % reauced were we fof wan.
Of money that we were shSged 10 issue quantity OF
6ve-dolsr debeuturrs which We forced on wTetehei
ofce.holders, and obliged them TO take these when
thew could not exchange without discount OF some
where from 10 to 20 per cent. II could have fore
seen q, that time that the day was coming when, N
he nresence of this enlightened commercial CON-
munity, i should have been able to point 70 these
same discredi,ed Canada securities as having nighef
premium in the market than any other Ameflcan
security whatever and TO point 10 the proceedings oil
Parliament showing Canada to BE- regarded in tscon-
stiiution as model dependency-f could have lore
seen the day when could have pointed TO these facts,
should have borne a lighter heart in my bosom
when ! went shivering through the sno" 70 TAKE up
that viceregsl scepter which had proved 50 heavy IN
the hands Of our able-t men. But ladies' and gentle
men. pass from what Is purely persenai IN tns con-,
pIment TO matters of higher moment, and trust
NAV be permitted to infer, from the notice you are thus
Ia take OF humble services rendered in distant
colonies that the affairs and interests OF those remote
dependencies are beginning Ia engage, TO greater
extent than heretofore the attention OF the people Oh
this country IL is. gentlemen most interesting tact
that while our despotc foe IL compelled to double the
forces statoned the remote frontiers OF his vast I'm
pire as a protection both against aggression from
without and disorder from within, our eonsth".onai
monarch strong in the affection of her subjects, Is en-
abed to withdraw from her outlying territories those
garrisons retained in time ofpeace. know well there
are people in this country, perhaps not 50 many now
as many years ago-but know there are persons IN
the country who hold the opinion that the colonies
are a useless encrmbrance; and so Tar agree Win
these persons that it is possible 80 TO govern tnese
colonies rs TO render them an mtolersole burden
brt believe il possible by the adoption of wiser
poicy-by freely and frankly conceding 10 our ieiow
subjects in the colonies those rights and privileges We
% dearly prizeby treating their feelings with e'pec.,
and their wishes with consideration 80 70 aacn .el
to the mother country to render them source OF
strength Well have only 10 say that during the whoe
Of nv public life have been engaged in various spheres
of duty in the humble sndeavor TO solve this problem
and TO work out this result. present myself 70 the
inhabitants of Glasgow a practical man. do not
even presume according to the fashion OF the tne 70
nut myself in the professors chair L do not AK You
10 receive from me one single rule, or pnncple, OF
MAXIM upon Colonial Government which nave no,
myself tested, and OF which have not verified the
r.sut by experience. Now, gentlemen, speaking IN
that capacity and Of what found from my own expe.
rience, make bold to say that most anu
material change has taken place OF late years IN the
principle on which the Colonial Government u con-
Quoted. 1t change, not 10 much III the form Oh our
continental constitution, but m the spirit. SPEAK
more particularly of Canada not only because know
more of than of the other colonies, and have Deen
myself responsible for the changes that have taken
place but also because it is the effect OF changes that
have taken place III that colony that have wrought au
imnroyement in the system in other colonies. In our
relations with the colonies have substituted for pol
lev of disrust and reserve policy OF confidence Now
we NAV with great propriety and advantage inquire
what the results of this system have 6een ana whether
,bey are such as TO Justify Us in endeavorng 10 per-
petuate and extend il. Now would ask, III tine INST
place what have the effects of this system been on the
moral prosperity of Canada DO not wish to encum-
her Won with mass OF statistical details, but among
writers of all descriptions political statistical and news
Dap.r espondents who have treated OF the atars
of North America it would be impossible to ma one
who writing before 1885, does not aver that the con,
trast presented by Canada one side and the United
States the other Is most unfavorable TO the erer
most Encouraging 10 those who prefer nonarchcal to
republican institutions. Well, since 1850 there Is a
| m,aUimty almost a. remarkable-and the Lord Pro-
yost has adverted 10 that-the other way. Ii would
| be impossible to find one, think who does not adj
NIT that since that period the progress OF canada has
been in all respects most satisfactory, equang, net
surprising, the most favored parts OF the Union No
people have been more frank in declaration TO this
| fact than neghbors in the United States.
need not say to YOU that there Is no subject upon
which the people OF the United States are more
proud than they are reference to their system Of
iional education and they certainly have very good
reason To be 3d. necause while we are in this country
proclaming yocferousy our Eeal forpopular education
and proving sincerity by uniting to 0vefwhclui
every specific plan that is Produced there Is actually
in that country in operation system that is eevating
the intellectual standard of that people to an elevation
| never before attained by any community. Al the
! meeting of the Education Board in NewYork, pape'
was read representing the system of education in
| Canada as equal to that in Massachusetts, or New
| York, and the President recommended the system
| adopted at Toronto, Canada West. do not think 1t
undo sirabe that the population of Scotland should
know that there Is a country not two weeks SAILING
| from Glasgow possessing a fertile soil and genial
cimate-possessing population very much resembling
what YOU find in any ScottishScounty, sharing our
views and sentiments all questions, moral, social
political, and, above all religious, with the means OF
attaining elementary education free of cost, and on
conditions that do violence to no principle, on con-
dtions attainable by every child in the community
and where every child OF talent aud industry may goo
the higher school, where superior education gwen
on the same terms, and from the superior school TO
the University. Now If any lady or gentleman in this
wants to put the question, If we can get all these
advantages by going to Canada, why we cannot get
them without going to Canada, l impore that they
will not expect me TO answer II. came here expect
ing to have an opportunity of debating and discussing
great questions of Government, but this is so large an
assemblage, and especially there are so many OF the
fair sex present that am really ashamed TO enter on
such topics. The last occasion which made
similar appearance, certainly not in city so large
as Glasgow, nor among community so influential,
but in city which is the capital of state in which
very great moral and social experiment being made,
of which the issues are still doubtful but which no
pbilauthropist watch without interest, mingled
with anxiety and misgiyng. In Portland, in the
State of Maine had the honor Of being received "a
am here to-day and, having been introduced by the
Mayor to the Citizens the band struck up God Save
the Queen and both to my surprise and delight the
whole audience stood during the whole time the air
playing We had dinner after the meeting and at that
dinner practice was adopted which hope viii this
evening be honored in the breach raherthan the OBJ
seryance. We had nothing 10 drink our toasts to but
water Among those sentiments-for they are too
wishy .washy to be called oasts-we had Success to
the allied armies. have always considered that the
most serons penalty we could pay was any bad feeling
in the United States regarding American c0onies
and | made it of my irst duties to endeavor to
reduce that risk to the minimum. 1t is fair TO say
Cuba is very i'll governed and 20 long that state OF
things exists YOU ct prevent some of the American
people from sympathizing with the dsatfected. Had
we governed Canada Cuba has been governed, we
would have found her thorn rather being, as she 49,
a rose After the Revolutionary War We committed to