New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-16

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TORONTO, Friday, + 81, IL 1859.
1,.rector General Gal. state ,,,t nigh. IN
Assembly that the authorities ir c,nads possessed
Information from which they drew the Inference
that the British GOyernmf .t would. next June
aIregate ali the right the Ruesen's Bay Compsny
have 10 an exclusive trad ~ monopoly within the
vast regions they oceu ~ or control. Mr. Elise,
the mo,t influential ID e-nber Of tae Company, was
west, 10 Minnesota, &c, last sumGer, and mass
have seen that n attempts TO perpetuite the
monopoly Of that ,ssamerco would be incertiSes to
frontier troubles. easily created bu. dincalt to
alIsy.
Mr.. Gait % 70 made iosncie statee:eot: ard,
being our 81 Hresary Of the Treasury AID Control
er, and ha Ssng recently been slrge railway con
tractor ar director, president Of a lard company
dealer in scYiss, &c, he knows how matters stand
A few esupdsys since, in the Free Church here,
ssant y psrson-Nr. Gray Of Orillis-prayed fer
vent y: 80, Lord teach our Senators wisdom
"orr Legislators honesty" Mr.. Gait must have
he< N edited. lie was toe only lawgiver and state
manager present and the suprbcaton TO the
Throne Of Grace quite sprcpOs.
The Inspector General thought it was time to
sAs,p borrowing (ip Europe). Perhaps John Bal
~ 10. 80 wiling to lend to Canada as ~ Indis from
which the money lent comes back again in the
shape of enormous salaries and contracts. usurious
Interest, SC. He admitted that Government had
spent, in 1867, three and half millions more than
the provincial income, but blamed Dir. Brown for
telling that the public finances 10 most impov-
.orished condition, with bankruptcy staring us in
the face because such statements would hinder any
Ministry from getting along. The great item of
cal expenditure was three milcns year
Ito ElrOpe) as interest on public debt beside
heavy sum for defaultng municipalities. Mr.. Gait
was unable TO disprove Mr.. Browns statement that
the annual expenditure from the consolidated fund
had risen from "a, 100000 in 1854, to $500 600
in 1857. You borrow, at Washington and thus
slave off economical reforms. We borrow in To-
rontO, and 90 ditto. Ultra TOryism and extreme
Democracy have sort of uniformity their finance
movements; but Mr.. Gait, while intending to en-
courage cOntraband entries by heavier tariff, pro-
poses to take lower tax from importers of coffee,
tea and sugar. good idea if carried out, as it
probably will not be.
Last August majority OF l3 in Assembly re-
pudiated Ottawa as the seat of Government; last
night, in a House from which only five members
were absent, the vote changed to 81 for Ottawa
and So against it, Their next squabble will be as to
TILL at the expenditure of a million, TO be borrowed,
palaces are built at Ottawa for those who rule.
In 1870 the seat of colonial rule was fixed at
Kingston, to which the Quebec and Toronto Offices,
clerks, records, &c., were brought. Three years
thereafter to please the French, Kingston aban-
doned for Montreal where the politicians abused
each other till their mob caught the infection,
burnt up parliament houses and library, pelted
royalty through its representative, with bad eggs,
and drove "the seat of Government up to Toronto,
from which in two years 1T Travelled once more
down tho st. Lawrence, 500 miles to Quebec, in
1850, where was bought and repaired palace for
royalty at $3.50, 900, and the lawgivers got burnt
out OF one Legislative hail, while another set on
fire and DESTROYED Just before " Parliament " got
into it. The next move was back to Toronto again,
and the next to ask Queen Victoria, through her
colonial clerk, where they should CO. That's the
question now, and million or two has been spent
in moving about while it is being settled.
Meantime, Canada, in many places, is suffering
the penalties of scarcity even famine. In many
ncighborhoOds not bushel of wheat is left. 1t is
even said that the Hon. John Young has bought
$1,000. barrels of -four in Liverpool for the use of
the people of Montreal The fly the rust, the
locust or grasshOpper, have united to destroy most
of the crops of 1857 and 1858. In the country, 60
miles below Toronto, grasshoppers have appeared
in myriads covering even the face of Lake Ontario
and devOuring every green thing. Beggars crowd
our streets, manufacturers are discouraged, taxes
are high, money and work scarce, yet our gambling
lawgiyers do not even dream of real retrenchment.
In the Senate or Legislative Council there are
6fty-fou members, half of whom have been placed
there for life by Governors and Ministers, while
tother are there by election none being eligible
unless possessed in freehold, unencumbered, of an
estate of the value of $S,00O The Senate is really
good looking body, and holds its sessions In
handsome apartment with very big throne IN IT..
The members get So day each, and employ host
of officials, yet they rarely investigate any matter
of Importance; seldom appoint working commit
tees upon questions Of general interest; but meet
five days in the week, at 3 p M, hear prayers,
listen to a few notices or motions, and adjourn 10
fifteen minutes. Last Wednesday, however, they
named Committee on Insolvency and Bankruptcy,
who have wide field to work ill., and may rival
Brougham in their measures if they don't fall asleep
Mt the first sitting and forget 70 arrange second.
The Assembly have no chaplain, no prayers; Tom
rises up and tells Dick of great many inconsistent
things he may have done and said in his lifetime;
Dick retorts; Jack and Gill chime in; the debate
wakes hot; sharp remarks are made all round; lob
bies, galleries, the space below the BAR all are
filed with people from town and country listening
to the assembled folly of 1885, and their action Is
about as absurd as their talk.
One of the most re charitable signs of the times is
the unanimity with which all classes in America
have recently done honor to Bums's memory.
Only hundred years had elapsed on the 18th ult.,
since his birthday aud but one man do find at
any anniversary ON this continent who well remem.
bers him. Adam Ferrie, aged more than 80 years,
and now an active member of the Cansda Senate,
was intimately acquainted with Robert Burns and
recites many interesting anecdotes of him. A
nephew of Burns, DR.. Begg, resides in Canada,
about 100 miles above Toronto; the Lapralt family,
70 one Of whom poem was Inscribed, live IN
Calf; nephew of Burns's Highland Mary has his