New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-03
CANADA.


To Legislative Council ms AZ ''-s'"
"a rights. and sbo~n thai 1t inteo's u M coo-
.,a.rsa . living bran n OF Paf,'men'. IL kss .
elected an, Soooy bill, account ~ Ia oeAsrin
s,a AN il. m Of S2OO,0c0 toward 'ha sr,ct N Of
f,ov,rnrpeut buildings IN Qoebec 10 veS o. making
TIA. c;tv the persnar eDt seat Of Ghvern n@ut The
over Hou.e discussed the qacstoo If the seat OF
S,ov,,,71 EFT scr days wnetacs should be Fixed or
s,,e,patns h.tae cen two cites, snt If II should o.
6Yed permanently in ose city which city should De
seieeted- but 1t did not thipk 1t worth wh,ie "
consult the Lexisssive Council on the suoJec''
The question To- strictly speaking, ole OF pferosa
tive: and. therefore, if Parliament IS 70 ASSUME
it, settt ment, ,sne House has as much rght 10 I've
say In the matter as tie oher. lno ~ sisi"@o
Coune have r. sented the slight they suheieu ~ 'o
msst marked manner, BY stopping tpe saPpnos
At the sasre time they passed les1u"on eo." r
Inc TINT they w"uh not entertain the dues"on VI
ths Ou.bec BuiNioes appropriation again TINS
ses,I.w. The or3y thing tho Government can az,
nnasr the circumstances IL 70 pass new supply
S;,I r;,bo,it the obje etonsbc item. THIS last aot
ef ne Lee,slx.ive Council is about the last It VIA
perform a. an exclusively nominated ceamoel'
Before it ". cts sgsin It will contain ~ lease as
nsny elect ed as Crv~nno,irD ,ted memoors. ny
Ap;nfon ia decidedly tiyat if the Council had pre-
vionsly "a this bold inslDer, asserted 'ts ren::.
and thewn a detereinatioD 20 eBfOrce tnein
would have undergone no change IN us con,"c
zion. But when il became mere bureau 80,
registering the DEGREES Of the other House ~ va
deser7edly despised; and when ~ nau .s aarson.
itself to be degraded; thefe ~efo Pi0' y
to trsmple upon IT. hoe,a Oh.
On spother question, but few days beiote' the
y.o;slst;ve C,,.,,cl showed strong opposition 10
the will Of the Government ana tne oecisions VI
the other Hosee. The question was on tno aPPro,
n,;.tion of four millions Of acres OF iahd toward
r. of nj
.nns hundred miles above the City OF Otta va, oa
a.. liver .,f the same name, to Georgian Bay. Inc
C.unc;l was equally divided On the questions and
tb. ,ppr,sp.iatiOn was only carried by the casting
vote of the speaker. This railroad, which In
wolves an extension from ArDprior 10 quebec, a
distance Of four hundred miles, will be one hund-
red and sixty miles in length. The country
through which it IL to run is unsettled In the
region which it will traverse there are sixty mil
ions of acres Of. lands not yet surveyed or OUT
very partially, and of these only twelve OF
thirteen milliOns are reported mt tor set
Element According to SEINE caicuianons,
OF an official character, it ID capable OF
sustaining population Of eight millions. Each
Alternate on either side Of the line, is TO be Sc
lected where practicable The difference OF level
from the Ottawa to the Georgian Bay s l. loo ieet;
No appropriation of land for the four hundred
miles below ArnpriOr has yet been made but It
in understood that the principle OF giving such
kind Of assistance being once conceded, there VIII
hereafter be an appropriation for that more ex-
tensive section. For the four hundred miles from
ArDpriur ~ Quebec ten millions of acres Will De
required Oh the Lower Ottawa; which Will make
a total appropriation of lands for one railroad OF
fourteen million of acres. The actual aPpropri-
att, will give twenty five thousand acres for each
mile Of road.
The Government have carried their scheme OF
aid to the Grand Trunk Railr DAD by considerable
nsjorities-never less than about twenty II
obliges the Company, they raise the eight NIL
hons Of preferential bonds which they are en-
poyvered to raise and which b. that extent will
displace the Government mortgage, to continue
their line eastward to Trois PistOles-which IL
simply nowhere at all for a railway terminus
The line will no doubt be ultimately extended TO
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, or the lower portions oil IL
must forever remain unprOductiye. No doubt the
onpnnl protectors of the line had in view this ex-
tension, although it was not deemed prudent to
sa, much about 10 at the time. Perhaps as much
wal fever may be got up out OF the Champion dis.
Inissal aud the Central American difficulty as VIII
induce England to undertake the extension OF this
line Ia Halifax as a military work. Ii 30, and II
matters stop there depend upon 1t We Canadians
aha have no Oblt ctOn.
The ordnance lands, till now the property of the
Imlt rial Government, have just been handed over
to the Canadian authorities. They are Of very
great value indeed; being situated in n arly all
the prominent places Of the principal frontier
towns aid cities What condition Great Britain
has exacted, or whether any, or whether the sur
render is nee from any condition whatever is not
publicly known At one times me year aud
hall sgO-sir Allan McNab, who was then Prem
Ter, stated In the report Of military commission
that these lands would be surrendered on cOndi-
ton that the Province placed the militia on GER
tain footing; but be afterward denied this state
ment on the door of Parliament. What is certain
is, that the militia has been organized and armed
With very excellent weapons; aud Immediately
that this ia done by the Provincial Government
the ordnance lands surrendered to tho
Province.
Aswith you, people here indulge in occasional
speculations as to the possibility Of war growing
out of the present relations between England aud
the United States. The shipping Of ammunition
to Canada has, 1 believe, NO other object than to
replace the stores taken hence to the Crmea In
the exigency If the moment when It ~as found
that il could not be manufactured fact enough for
USE The sending there Of military seems also to
be only the replacing Of tbs troops which, in the
same exigeney, were withdrawn. SO for the war
vessels that are being sent to the North American
station from England no doubt some OF them are
requir. " carry the ammunition which Is being
replaced Besides this it is no ms after Of surprise
that, when sn immense feet of war vessels has
Just been released from war, some of them should
be dispatched 70 the different distant possessions
Of the stats to which they bel2Dg. This in our
simplicity, 10 the way In which we Cana
dams generally interpret the mayements which, to
some eyes might present verg warlike aspect.
The other night, upon the receipt Of the European
news, .sn indiscreet member Of the Legislature
proposed to make some declaration upon the cub
ject Of the differences between England aud the
United States; but he was not listened 10. There
is no doubt that at this moment the Canadians are
quite as loyal to the mother cOuutry rs they ever
were at any previous period OF their history