New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-10


coo 600 had 10 bs expended 10 repair British mill
tary credit. Saying nothing Of lives l0st, religion
dishopored or treasure wasted, England has united
India TO Der empire, assuming az hers debt OF
nearly $500. OCO0O0. Where a nation thus ac-
cepts a vast responsibility, her power ought not to
be trusted 10 inferior men. 10. HUME.
T. S.-We have two railways below Toronto
which run parallel, a few miles from esch other.
The Sheriff has closed one of them-the Cobourg;
the Other Port Hope) is declared unsafe by the
Inspector The Northern, the Brockville and
Oftawa. and some other rsilWayg have stopped
payment Of the interest their bonds Due in Lon
con, which does not bep the credit Of our specu-
lstOrs there. }. II.
PF-ExECUTToNs-THE sICKLEs TRAG-
EDY, ETC.
TORONTO, Msrch 7, 1859.
An order in Council hiss passed for another re-
movsl Of al the Departments Of Government, with
the legislative apparatus, and Library Of $1,000
volumes, clerks, messengers, Qaeen's printers,
&c, TO Quebec. They are to start, Governor and
all, on the opening of the navigation-ssy 500 to
1000 persons-perhaps more distance $40 miles.
When Canada il annexed 10 the United States,
there viii perhaps be an end TO such costly folies.
A new and still heavier Tariff is proposed by
Government, While changing all our specific duties
into ad yalOrems, except whisky, and lowering the
taxes on strong liquors.
BoOts-free now-sre TO pay 10 per cent; Re
fined Sugar, 40; Raw Sugar 30 ga with you,
thinlS: Tea and Coffee, free with you, are 10 pay
20 per cent: and if bought in the States, the value
is to be cslculsted from the price current at the
place where the purchase was made. Leather
manufactures, viz: shoes, harness, saddlery, are
to be taxed % per cent; and the book printing
abd news printing paper, IL per cent. There is
table Of free goods, and all articles not found there
H. or mentioned under OTHER heads, VIII be charged
90 per cent.
The sooner we do away with all Custom-H Houses
and Tariffs between Canada and The Crest Repub-
lie, instead OF barrassing our people with heavy
burdens 10 keep up miserable, dependent, transi-
tory colonial system, the better it will be for all
parties. Meantime, the smugger viii prove too
powerful for the iinancler.
am glad to see that Ohio has wisely returned TO
per cent legal interest rate, and repudlated the
10 per cent law, on trial. Unlimited usury is one
Of The curses of Canada. We are actually gov
erned here by English brokers and money changer,
who always stand ready to turn political insti-
tutiOns upside down and inside out, if they can but
hope 70 IDase money out of the operation.
Two murdereTs were executed here last Friday.
did not 60 10 see them executed for / dislike
such spec'ncles but l am told that II, 600 persons
at least. were on the ground! All classes were
greatly excited. The daily newspapers are said TO
have sold is, coo extras containing the details OF
the scene, which they wouldn't have been able to
d. even If aided by the news of al earthquake or
battle in Europe.
Mr.. Sickles, whose Sunday homicidal movement
creates remarkable sensation even here, was -
years old in the spring of lSi7, when in Assembly
at Albany, is of Dutch and English extraction, and
was then rather under the average weieht-say
1j6 lbs. lie was a strong partisan, confident and
forward but seemed rather superficial as regards
the attsnments essential for the position he occu
pied. Your Correspondent, Washington, February
y. speaks of the attachment Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sic
lies ne dating from their infancy. "As boy and
girl they loved" &c. He is now 81, she acarce
20. When he was "a years old. she was almost 3.
A very similar homicide took place at Port Hope.
Canada, not long since. lawyers wife proved
false to him: the sdUlterer having reused the hus-
bands wrath, by hIs insulting manner, he shot him
dead. Sir John Robinson our Chief Justice
charged the jury at the asszes strongly in favor OF
verdict Of murder; but they acquitted hun amidst
the paudits Of crowded Court.
Our late Finance Minister, Mr.. Csyley hiss ac-
cepted an office suitable for his abilities, at
SO, 600 year-tbat of an assistant Cashier or Ac-
countant in the Bank of Upper Canada. The
banks by the way, stratened for cash just now.
One of the latest sosp.bubbles blown in Toron-
TO- from time to time, is the " Canada Landed Es-
tate Company" chartered by Act of Parliament
last August, with goo 900 Of capital, but of which
scarce SO, 500 are as yet paid up. IL is to lend
money 10 the farmers, taking their land in mort
gage. Several farmers applied last November, and
were told that the association wouldn't begin TO
lend money for months TO cOme-and that when
they did lend they would give preference to their
own sharebolders-thst is, they, the lenders, would
lend to Themselves Only 1000 shares were re-
served for England which was very modest, as
England is much favored in that respect. The
Canada Landed Estate has "a imposing array
of officers and shareholders. Most of them, pre-
sumo will be borrowers.
1.-The Landed Credit" thus far, have not got
much TO lend, but like our other borrowing ma
chimes, they exhibit quite Formidable array Of
names of directors, stockholders, &c. Could you
but see the worthless to whom our banks and other
"borrowiDg" machines lend the funds they are en-
trusted with in majority Of cases, the sight would
astOnish you.
The Welland and ST. Lawrence Canals make
very poor returns, except in political sense. Be
yond the expenditure, they do not realize, on the
average the fourth Of one per cent on the gross out
Law as managed. Our Governors home and Legsla-
tive halls, from which our State managers are about
10 deeamp for Quebec, where they have to hire
Parliament house, have cost about $500, 600 within
a short time. Only think OF Congress moving every
now and then, between Portland NewOrleans and
Cincinnati
Spies, hired, and well paid, too, are employed to
watch our people, mix in society, and report 10
London. weekly. what they hear aud see. Some of
these persons have been 10 the public Offices in
Britain. One, at least, OF them, has u lucrative
post here. }. ii.
FROM PENNSYL FiNLA.