New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-11
LEGISLATURE OF CANADA-A NORTHERN
FEDERAL UNION-THE TORONTO
NEWSPAPERS.

From AL Occ.siopal Correspondent
TORONTO Feb. Z, 1Sj9
The Legislature of Canada is again in session;
there has been speech delivered from "the throne"
with very little in it; papers have been sent by Sr
f. Head to the two Houses relative to aqnarrel as
TO where our seat Of government ought TO be ocat.
ed, and concerning federal uuon of all the colo.
MES, by which the customs revenue would probably
be applied to defray the costs Of the new mac hlnery
Of senators, congressman, collectors OF customs
revenue, mar shals, federal judges, attorneys &c,
with lord-lieutenant to be sent over from Europe,
whose chief duties would be-as The Times tells us
the Irish lord-eutenants principal employment is
to bribe, to corrupt, and exert himself, through
seen and unseen agencies TO make colonial interests
subservient and secondary to those OF the ruling
class or caste in London.
At the commencement of a session il is the Gus
tom to discuss Colonial politics generally-every
conceivable topic almost is in order while debat-
ing what answer shall be sent to the Governors
speech In England, on the contrary, the Queens
speech is delivered and answered by the two
Houses the same day. =,
The ministries, as they are called here, usually
composed of heads of departments, are all coal
tions. Bolingbroke said in ITO, when the Tory
faction of nobles had displaced the Wings, that
Eve came into power in the same dispositions AS
"all parties have done; that the principal spring
"of our actiOLs was To have the Government OF
"the State in our hands, that our principal views
"were the conservation of this power great en-
"ployments TO ourselves, and great opportunities
" of rewarding those who had helped TO raise us,
and of hurting those who had stood IN opposition
Ito u.s." 1t is SO here in 1859, with the exception
that Bolinebroke and his friends governed an lnde-
pendent State, while the ministries here are, IN the
main mere instruments to carry out the views oi
the Sir Lytton Bulwer of the day, and his asso-
ciates or their successors far away IN Europe.
Nothing can be duller than the legislative de-
bates thus far There IS no session TILL evening" al
3 o'clock; at & an adjournment till a takes place;
then they meet again and wrange TIL III or IL al
night and will soon do so till or IN the morning.
Their discussions seldom involve any principle
whatever. Take up their three leading newspi.
pers The Gi0be, Leader, and COiontS and you VIII
seldom find principle clearly in controversy III
their columns. Read few pages OF their heavy
d. bates and you find perhaps bundle oi savage
and brutal personalities scene like that which
prostrated Sumner for his able argument against
Slavery, We have never known; nor are great Prln,
cipes advocated here he plead for and defended
them when at Washington.
We seem as colony to be approaching the great
gulf of public bankruptcy. One part OF our people
are Protestants of many shades; another, perhaps
the majority, belong 10 the Church of Rome, nom
inaly or in full cOnnecticB One.thrd ot the people
speak French: and in manners, IN customs, III the
notion of what is right and wrong, and III their
feelings, seem 70 be- almost the anilpodes OF
| very large party speaking English. Assoclatons'
presses legislative discussions, and rival priest
| hoods unite with the government OF the DAY III
| tanning the fame of civil and religious dlscoro'
until the settler begins 10 imagine that Canada 10
| literally the Ireland of the new world.
A full third Of the legislative speeches IN both
| Houses is in French which the other two-thlrds'
.ny 40 ~ uuHprsfau1.
The Holy Allies could not keep Holland ana
| Belgium under one Legislature-England VIII ian
TO hold the Ionian Islands which belong OF night 70
Greece-and there are few who believe that Cansds,
| from below Anticost in the Gull, up ~ beyond
Lake Superior, can long remain united govern
ment.
! The factions here (for they do not deserve the
name Of partes) have each their organ 10 Toronto;
| endeavoring 10 sway the multitude, and gio ana
! clever At unsaying to-day what they may have as
serted yesterday, if an object is TO be thereby
| gained To give the "0rgans" fair chance,
| there is no domestic newspaper postage levied IN
Canada-the public chest defrsys all charges OF the
mails; and for FIVE or six dollars yesr, net, with
one-third OF 10 retailers The Globe, Leadfr, ann
Coloast, cleyerly edited, are sent DAILY all over
| Canads.
Look at these journals. The Leader sheet Is
about feet by a feet, with 4 great deal OF read
| ing matter-ssy about-the size OF The y. L.
| TRIBUNE. The other two dailes are almost as
large. Neither is at present well supported Win
ral advertising and, unless there is unseen prop
the proprietors, in city of only IS 900 inhabitants
! ard selling TO the whole country on unlimited
! credit, mast be losing heavily These newspapers,
| however, serve, in part, TO divide, distract ana
| wesken the people; and there are many more sucn
of less note all over this colony.
Mr.. Brights geat hoyeDeDt IN Enghno may "