New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-16
CANADA.
THE NEW LEGISLATURE.

| co,,.,popd.rse Of The y. y Tribune.
| TORONTO, March IL, 1855.
think your telegrspher unfair where be charse.
terises Mr.. Darcy McGees speech on the Addres.
| in reply to Gov. Heads Message as violent /
think never heard an Grafton which was more free
from violence delivered in Q Canada Assembly.
After an acquaintance with Canadian legislation of
about forty years. am able TO say that this House
recently eleeted) appears 70 have greater ssgre
gate of talent than any former Assembly, and tina.
Mr. McGee's style of oratOry (well known 20 MANY
| in the United States) was the most chaste and
faul,less of that Of any speaker who has yet adj.
dressed il. His speech was the speech Of the ses-
| sion.
Mr.. MCGEE never saw till be came up here the
| other day in his capacity of member from Mont
real; am not his countrymsn; do NOT profess
his religion; but like fair play.
This is the sixteenth night of the session, and We
have done nothing whatever but talk about the
speech. Several motions in amendment 10 the
address proposed by the Ministers, in answer to
the speech from the throne" are under discussion
and the adoption of any of them would cause
the whole Cabinet here TO resign, or occasion
reconstruction that would bring majority of the
Assembly into harmony with Sir E. Heads Council.
The prominent difficulty appears TO be ss follows:
At the late general election, Upper Canada re-
turned a decided majority against the present Ad-
minstraton; Lower Canada returned still more
decided majority in its favor
Lower Canada has the smaller aud the less pro-
eressye population; provides less than onethird of
the customs revenue, and not one-htth OF the land
revenue: yet Lower Canada rejects the idea of rep
resentation by population; rejects, practically, the
modest proposition that when the hve members of
the Cabinet representing Upper Canada consttuen-
cies shall have lost the confidence OF the represen-
tatiyes of Upper Canada they must retire aud give
place 10 some five members from that section who
can command majority of their colleagues; rejects
a dissolution Of the Union. In short, minority of
Inner Canada Orange Grand Masters, Orange
Brothers, High ChurchmeD, &C., unite with a
French Catholic majority from Lower Canada, force
Roman Catholic sectaran schools upon Upper
Canada, expeDd Upper Canada moneys, borrow
heavily in Europe for purposes Upper Canada dis
claims, and waste the means OF the country, not
even permitting finance committee to examine or
audit the public accounts.
Canada is in great distress; her lumber trade is
in very bad way; her produce is worth 30 per
cent less than it was last year; British land COM
panes and heavy taxation drain her citizens of their
means: her banks have curtailed their discounts
six millions. and withdrawn five millions OF their
notes from circulation; law suits for debt are pushed
through by the thousand and ten thousand; We
have to pay millions in Europe for interest upon
public debt; our cities and towns owe large sums;
our railways, on the average yield no prott; much
of our bank stock is held abroad, and dividends are
sent abroad sut of rather apocryphal profits; and
there seems no way of checking a corrupt and
wasteful government for the Governors sent from
Europe seem to think it their duty TO check all re-
form, and to oppose all real progress.
While write g p. n.y. the Attorney General,
clever ScOtchman is bamboozlDg the House
in fine style; his name ls Macdonald, and he
is a leading Orangeman doing his utmost to spread
through Canada secret society which has proved IN
Ireland an unmtgated evil. The road to power here
is through the intolerance Of our Orange Lodges,
while in England her Majesty has ordered that no
Orangeman be admitted Justice OF the Peace, and
the House of Commons, almost unanimously, ad-
dressed the Crown to cause the society to be abol-
ished as dangerous to the public. ls this not neon
sstent with the fact that the leading member OF the
Administration here is al agitatlDg Orangeman,
voting for sectarian schools for Catholics only
The Postmaster. General, just elected, is the son
of all American settler from the Northern States
He was once Liberal but wheeled round for Office
the other day, and instantly petitOned to be adj
mitted. and was admitted, member of an Orange
lodge. His name is Sidney Smith.
Another strong Administration man, fat and oily,
il Jew, turned Christian. He was Grand Master
of the Orange Lodges a few years since, and did
his best OF course, in the grand cause OF dlsc0rd
herein other words, of - annexation" Our So
Tcitor. General-ultra loyal nOw-was the author OF
the grand annexation manifesto of l-49.
A motion was recently made to inquire into tie
merits of "a sort of Kansas affair." the Quebec cleo
ton and into the mode Of voting Several persons
were killed, others were injured. There are only
50, coo people there, and about 5000 electors, Of
whom not 1000 were allowed to vote; while row
dies and rogues put down ", 600 names, OF which
Il, 900 were false. The Judges of Election swore
TO i, 600 fairly taken votes, though one man voted
20 times.
The House here refused to make any inquiry
whatever into these election frauds-the three
members from Quebec voted down all inquiry into
their own elections and the Speaker, in the very
face of British practice, allowed their votes.
ROGER SHERMAN
P. SO p. MIR. Macdonald ia still speaking
We will have no vote on the address TINS week.
Not less than thrty-two seats are contested RS.