The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-24

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Condition and Government Of Canada.
Prom ths London Times, March 81
Compare the state things disclosed in the speech OF
the General to the Canadian Chambers With
tte condition Of Canada only years ago. and consider
by ~hat and by what influences the mighty revo
luton that comparison viii svince has been brought
about The Governor General congatulstes the colony
on the final settlement Of the question OF the Clergy
Reserves and anticipates an equally speedy sett eent
Of the equally yexed question Of segnOria ,enarss He
copgraulates the Parliament, with grea. justice and
reason the opening Of $50 miles Of railway and an
eipates that ESQ more win be opened in the course OF
the nomSsssa into an ssssd legislative coas
Ct steam ers between the s.. lawrence and
rtduc OF cuty from the recprocty treaty with Anne
rics is conpsnsatei by the increase OF commerce Nor
does he it to express IN o ns on. 81 MIS-
hearers whether OF French E glish gin, hearty
sympathy In the and ervent wish y It's sue ,ess-
full termination. Such Is the speech OF the Governor
Ger srsl Of Canada.
Can this Csrada really be the same Canada. the
lard Of endless ciscontens and merics that burst out
into armed e than twenty years ago, and WAS
only prevented the sternest acts Of military repression
from throwing itself toto the OF he American union
this be the Csnada whose Assemblies were for ever
stpping the supplies, impesc-ing their Governors,
passing putinous and even tesson mai addresses,
the mcst empty and most furious OF demagcguss?
Can this be e Canada poor and desert without capital
and without cr,dit-wnose scanty population ured
army to keep them downwhose foTtresses could not
be ntrusted except to British troops-xhose councils
must not beEswsyed ex,ept by British statesmen The
land is the and the people tho sAme the de
renee Is in ,as-n rules OF actcnin our laws add
system of government. step by step has the liberal
opposition he liberties and privileges which have
her happy great and prosperous The act for uniting
the provinces ard constituting single Legislature
fer DO soorr OF many Of its most vsuaole pro-
vops by the tory parry OF that DAY. and Parliament has
ever since been employed in concediDg, piecemea,
rights which ough. never for a moment to have
been withheld. Inc power Of dealing with the
Civil List was conceded in 1Siz, bat it
only sf er long and eager struggle that Parliament
could be prevailed grant me much de.irsd right
o. dealing with questions of religious eudowments accord
ing ciorisl rather than imperial IDEAS involved in
the passing Of the bill to the clergy
1t is ore cf The many blessings which attended Lord
Derbys exit FRI power that prevented the tsas smis
all hope OF dealing with what they justly considered
co ouiA and not imperial property With equal dficul
modify the Canadian cOnstu ion wrupg from the grasp
Of the English tories 1t may, indeed be doubted
whether this last measure will be carried ao effect. for
tie has tasted The sweets of absolute power,
ard will mot be resdily induced to substitu for the
weak check OF nonina edtchambsr the efficient
done well in coneesipr he right whether tn rent he
media,ely exercised or not.
Tins then it has to pass that wealth and pros
pery have fixed sheir abode in Canada ana that CO.
vernon, who is escorted by native volunteers speaks in
the name Of her Msjesy to the Parliament with force
army could never have conferred upon him. Here
have the most signal and decisive instance of the work.
which The Legisla and the country divided 1t
seems hardly credible, considering the fability of hn
man nature that enc party should have been entirely
right and the other so uniformly and psrseveringly
wrong. And yet the men Who would, had their blind
counses been listened TO- have prevented all
this happiness, have perp tuated all this misery and
surest ally and our strongest suppor-s rank among
the leaders OF party still form and govern public opinion
among large of men, and neither discrsditsd
BY their own ncapacity put to shame by the mani
fest and dsgTacefu failure of their Eng
trust Lord by ard his ms again the power
that he has used t her commerce ALLEVIATE her
colonies, to check every liberal impulse and the
progress OF every enlightened measure. Nay, nothing
daunted by the uniform Ill OF the past the spirit
OF ancient tory ism to b. again alive and rampant
busy in the attempt to petuate and in
capabilities and Illustrate, the frivolous grounds
the most useful and enlightened No country
l. e.,td good goverlmen that Will submit to bad
and England if she rense be taught by tbs experience
OF Canada may possibly learn those truths at her
which have fully demonstrated her at
the cost If her dependencies
FRENCH TRADE WITH CANADA.
From the Paris Constitutional March 81
Cansda, that ancient colony of France which a.sed
into the snds Of England BY cession ever to be re-
ed with regret has seen its population increase
SaDs hs shs o. thirty T. She
y 700 COO OF French origin. Her progress in every
Circumstance has increased beysDd what might have been
anticipated from the times and has not been less rapid
than tie increase Ct The population She is endowed
with coube system OF communications BY land aud by
which not surpassed in the world Not only Is
the ST. Lawrence LavgAbe for large ships Que
bee or $50 leagues from its mouth alone vessels
of $50 tons proceed evea 60 leagues further up to
to Montreal but Wide and deep have been formed
places where the river becomes
top. On the other hard the country is covered with
net work Of splendid roads, which are gradually making
way for railroads and these will uni AL portions If
territory which has an extent Of four hundred leagues
by ons hundred.
THY OF Car adam produce Canaos, her SIDE
our gooos Indirectly through England the United
states 1t estimated that our mer chandise hamperei
with duties, COMMISSIONS &C. costs in Canada On adj.
tional 100 per cent on its value in France. 1t may
therefore, be seen how advantageous would be direct in
tercourse between the two countes The consumption
of French goods ia Canada would increase hundreofyd
and should obtain at cheaper rates the produce of
that country The recent DEGREES relative to the pur
chase Of foreign vessels win permit to turn our ewes 20
tie admirable dockyards of the st. lawrence, where
excellent snd swift ships constructed, cheaper
taneo by the siance with England is that French
flag has been perm tilted to appear river from whence
had been sp there Sy Our bers IN syrhe o,1oa
against that English people which has fought by
our rides in the East for the triumph of civilization.
Well now, flesh struggle, in conformity with
time and sith the actual sentiments the two ma
tons may arise in Canada struggle of friendship Of
activity labor aud commerce. These conssts cost nei
thcr blood tears and the combstaots are ever hap
pier and more wealthy. 1t would be fine spec sacle /,
see our commerce reconquer for France in Canada
top, at leat OF the advantages usually drawn by the
mother country from the colony We should then regret
less the scion of this colony cession which By time
and iharks 70 the adma ole spirit OF English govern
ment, has obtained for it a neutrality-suspicious..
Correct History OF the Capture or the Presi-
cent rrieaGe.
correspondent who speaks advsedy o. the scene of
the war OF 1872 having served in the navy that pe
ROD tends US the following the true If an
event that of recent histories school books
relate very one sidedly and incorrectly
There was no one during the late war that
seemed to affect the public mind generally more than the
capture OF the President Being she era sh ship
OF our navy, snd commanded oy Decatur mpossbi,ity
vas almost expected from her and singular case that
could bear to hear the circumstances attending
her capture mentioned but alone, to inquire whether
there was any honor los, Now it Is q fact that
there not action during the ia which our su
periority the more conspicuous ar tna