New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-23
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TORONTO, Tuesday, Sept Il, 1857.
Last Winter, during the sittins Of our Leglsh-
ture specisl Committee wss allowed to inquire
into the alleged misconduct Of the managers Of
railway located between Woodstock and Port Do
yer. of which the notorious Gov. Hinck, now OF
Barbados, was President in 1854, and bis friend,
the Rec .ver General (Monisonl some time IN
1857. /. was found to be so shockingly corrupt
that even the present Legislative Assembly ad-
dressed the Executive. unanimously urging GRIM
ipal prosecution Of the Directors BY the Attorney
General.
For less tlan 20 miles rear the margin OF Lake
Erie this road vas to be considered part of the line
of railway extending from Suspension Bridge
Canada side) to the Detroit River, no part OF
which is as ye. made. Mr.. Isaac Buchanan had
acquired, in way Do, unusual IN Canada, the sup
posed control of the charter Of a hundred miles Of
this Southern Railway when Mr. Arthur Ran
kim legislator for Essex on the Detroit River,
threatened to introduce in Assembly an opposition
charter for the whole rOuts (220 miles), unless
SlC0 Geo were paid him IN lieu Ofcertain profits he
might have made under contract for part Of the
linz allowed him for his political interest by the late
S. Zimmerman.
Receiver General Morrison, for I.mmernln's
estate, offered Rankin $50 600; but he refused it,
and introduced the draft Ct new charter Tor what
will vet be the grea. Travelled road to the West. The
Railway Committee loaded the bill With S>OO,O0O
bribery money for the most part), added the
names of a majority OF unworthy spectators -
not for the purpose Of locating and contracting n
the best way for its efficient and economical com.
petiop by the most direct route, but that it might
be made to few a corrupt, gainful monopoly. The
measure fai ed. Nothing was done; and ynster-
DAVIS Leader afirms that Mr.. Buchanan and friends
have sold their hundred mile charter (if worth any
thing to the Grand Trunk Railway Company
whose lire extends from Portland, in MaIne, via
Montreal, TO Straiford, 100 miles or more west of
Toronto and that it will speedily be united with the
Great Western up at London. Mr.. b. first pro-
posed to sell 10 the Great Western, then to carry
through an iDdepeI dent line, and now makes
ever bis route Gf he has the power to the Grand
Trunk, which, were the road thus made, woald
have one line on one side the Great Western and
another on the other side. Money is scarce, how
ever, England at war, Canadian railways pay
poorly and the sale may end in nothing.
An independent line however, along the north
shore of Lake Erie, could it be completed, would
almost destroy the value OF the Great Western Road
for it would command the through traffic, and be
the best shortest most level and easiest wrought OF
all possible railways connecting the Great West
with the Niagara frontier. There Is fall OF nearly
500 feet from Suspension Bridge to Hamilton and
then dangerous rise of 200 feet, beginning at the
DesjardiDs Canal where so many suffered last March
18th, on the Great Western. This fall and rise
nearly 800 feet-the Lake Erie line would avoid.
Ii should be laid out as straight possible without
reference to rival village interests. Buchanan's
amalgamaton, however, if real, would only cross
through the Great Western at London, ending at or
near Amherst burg, opposite Michigan, where it Is
: IL NJ. h. AnAH fa
of LEVEL LINE from the Niagara would still be
wanting.
The exposure of the briberes corruptions and
palpable frauds of railway managers here made
deep impression upon the minds OF the people OF
Upper Canada last Winter; but it is almost as Diff
cult to get the HindoO and Mohammedan, and the
several castles and armies Of India to unite for their
common beUet, os to get French and English Canada
til unite, except it were their small managers for
sharing the spOls.
KOuH Chancellor, Mr.. Blake has been amusing
himself in Ireland for many month, or perhaps he
is sick. IL is said that he has resigned, and that
Phil. VankOuehnet, Minister of agriculture, was
offered the place recently and refused il, which may
or may not be the case.
Our new Church and State Bishop (Cronyn) is
permitted to be icons crated at Toronto SO say
Lord PslmerstOn and the Primate of England, and
ParsOn Fuller, regular speculatOr in stocks lands
and gOdliness, here and at Wisconsin, &c, is
actively eectioneering for the tO be vacant rectOry.
He has issued a pious handbll 10 the electors,
Offering to pay the expenses of his clerical voters.
The berth is worth nearly $4,000 year. He uses
Bishop Strachans name bis authority for thus
electiOneeriDg, &c.
Our Governor (Sir +. Head) is still amusing him
self in Europe, and the military officer in command
in Canada ia spoken of as likely to go to India. If
Sir +. Head actually comes back, it will indicate,
think, fear of future dscord with the United
States and an enmty to peaceful reform. He is of
all public men the least friendly to free institutions,
and is of moderate capacity.
Some of our journals praise our armed militia
scheme and are warmly in favor Of sending two
loyal regiments to help in India. At Montreal, very
recently regular foot regiment, which expects to
be sent to India, where it before stationed lost
many men by desertion. The privates broke the
tables and windows of their barracks, and were
quite riotous and disconnected A lieutenant who
went privately out armed to check runaways, killed
young Irisbman, of quiet deneanor, by mistake;
anc the regiment, which was confined to its quar-
tiers for a time, is away to Quebec.
The discomfort here is very strong, and hard times
will increase it, zee but one remedy-a change OF
policy; but perhaps that is not now possible William
of Orange may have wished to stop the torrent OF
corruption which he found in English politics in
1855 He was unable to do it, Such changes,
even with ADLER, better men, are waste OF time