New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-08

ing tho Ministry responsble to the Legislature, Do
pst An opDo.ition. Which only en1si in the ca.s'-
troDhe Of 1873.
Nov. all ttis is changed. Since lS4l the Pro
vino al Administration has been required 70 COM
mard q mslority il the legislative Assembly; and
with the exception already D0ls1, tle forms OF
constitutional government have no. been openly
violated. Tie Governor General no doubt pos
sesses slmo,t omnipOtsnt power in the choice OF
Ministers, ard can 90 much to assist aBy psrty IN
whose favor bis influence may be cast in periods OF
DO ticsl crisis. To great extent the machinery
of the Government moved By external Influences.
In Lombard street the Csnsdss are looked upOa as
q field for the exploitation Of tue capitalists sad
usureIs Of the mother country No direct roTe-
nue. can be ra,ed from them, IL ia true, but their
Government may, to very great extent, DO
carried on for the benefit Of English money brokers
and stock. jobbers The influence of the latter is
very grea. in England, where the moneyed sristoc-
racy Qutes with the landed aristocracy to control
tie Government Mr. Kinks, who was FRS. Min
ister IN Canada, from 1851 10 1854, we have it On
unquestio1sble authority owed his appointment ss
Governor of the Wmdward Islands, in 1855, 10 the
influence eXertsd il his favor in Downing street. by
tho BsIiDgs the financial agents Of The Province,
who, doubtless, had their own for this scs
Of practical gratitude. Another financial Minis
ter Mr. C,yley, was rejected by MS old con'tt
uents, in one Of tie vesternmost counties of the
Province, in the Winter Of 1857; but orders
coming out from Lombard street, from
the House of Barring Brothers, that he
must be retained in the Government, another con-
sttuency had to be found for him. Rejected ia the
west, he found q refuge in the extreme east of
Upper Canada, where pl.sble and obliging MEM
Der Of the Legislative Assembly was induced to re-
sign in bis favor If any financial emissary was 70
be sent from England to the Csnsdas-if there is
any chisseling" as our Canadian neighbors term
il, to be dOne-he goes strait htgay to the Govern
ment House and lays his plans before Sir Edmund
Head, or whoever may be the occupant of the
eubernatorial Office for the time being. Thus did
the last representative from England Of the Grand
Trunk Rsllwsy interests; and, in the quetest
way possible, he succeeded 10 obtaining the defer
ring Of the Government lien, which was then the
first mortgage for some Sl4000,000 upon the
road till after all other parties interested stock
holders and bOndholders, shall get ak per cent on
their investment.
But the greatest stroke Of financial policy which
has yet been attempted in British Americs is now
in the act of being effected. The Federation Of
all the five British American Provinces our read
ers are aware, has been proposed. Such scheme,
one would naturally suppose originated IN consd.
eratons arising out of the future welfare Of the,e
Provinces. Nobody would suspect that the pro-
ject originated in desire t. give value to certain
railway stock; that il was neither more nor less
than stock ,jobbiDg operations that the future OF
British America was to be msde the pliythlng OF
the holders Of Grand Trunk Railway stock and
bonds Yet, that such is the case we have the
authority Of gentleman in London, who is fully
cognizant of the secret springs of the movement,
for saying 80. The ease is this: The eastern
section of the Grand Trunk Railway-all below
Richmond, opposite Montreal-is Improbable;
and, as things stand at present, must forever re.
main So The portion of this section which lies
between Quebec and st. Thomas hardly earns
sufficient to purchase oil TO lubrcste the engines
Sometmest is open and sometimes closed. 10 make
the matter worse, this proftles, section Is being
extended IS far as Trois Pistoes; and when it is
completed, the keeping Of the road open between
that point and Richmond will impose a burden
upon the paying sections of the line which must
rel der the whole stock Improbable and leave but
a slender chance for the bondhOders. 1t would be
master stroke of policy to get rid Of this section
of the line. But how is it to be done' BY con.
structinp An inter colonial railroad connecting
Canada, New Brunswick and Nova-Scotia. In
that case, the burdensOme section of the Grand
Trunk, below Richmond, won't serve for link in
the intercolonisl line; and there would thus be
chance Of the present proprietOrs getting rid of it.
But an nter-colonia railroad is not required to
connect Provinces whose settlements do not
approach within hundreds Of miles of one another
and between which there are scarcely any
trade connections. A preteXt for the construction
of an inter.coonial railroad must, therefore, be
found; and what 8, good, for that purpo.e as .
Federal uniOni Such is the secre. history Of the
proposed federal union Of the British American
Provinces; such the way in which the fate OF five
Provinces is proposed to be made subservient to
the interests Of dealers in railway stocks and bonds
Among the parties thus interested are several well
paid officers, ready 70 give to the British Govern
ment the most satisfactory reasons why, on mill
tary grounds, the proposed iDtercolOnial railroad
should be built and consequently why its construct
ton should be aided BY the British exchequer. Sir
E. B. Lytson has nothing to say agains. the project;
but money is scarce in these times Of Indian insur
rections, and he has the Address to get rid Of the