The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-16
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Tuesday Morning, July Is, 1857.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
FOR G0yERNOR,
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN
r.s OF BRUNSWICK. s-..f .
The Deminiou of Canada.

The Dsminion of CANADA.
Inc government machinery of the new Do
minlon does not allmove with perfect smooth
ness as yet. Indeed, there are symptoms of
Internal disorder in the Cabinet arising out of
Jealousy, and break up, even before the
meeting of Parliament, Is not at all innoss,.
BILE. 1t Is very much doubted whether the Cab.
met can agree on the commercial policy to be
pursued. An Ottawa dispatch in the Toron.
to Globe, which 1t should DO remembered how
ever Is the bitterest of the Opposition papers,
paints this gloomy picture:
The overthrow of Mr.. Rose in Montreal, who
sustained Mr.. Galt's financial policy of last
session, Is looked upon as ominous. Then there
are the Lover Provinces to deal with. 1t
Is said, know not how truly, that Mr.. Gait Is
going to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick be-
fore he returns to feel his way on the tariff
question. Everything is in frightful chaos
here. The Government have organized none
of the departments. The clerks are in a state
Of great tribulation, not knowing to what
branch they may be transferred. OF course,
Mr. John A. Macdonald is too busy preparing
for the elections to think Of looking after the
business Of the country. Parties who have any
business to transact, had better stay at home.
A ring of railway contractors has been form.
ed who are Bullying Mr.. John A. Macdonald
for contracts on the Intercolonial Railroad
He is of course full of promises, for which he
has always been celebrated.
4 AS a general thing the announcement Of
the new cabinet has been .eoldly received
The number OF members, thirteen, Is deemed
excessive, and 1t is asserted that in order to
find duties for them, or pretence of duties, the
actual business of the country Is cut up into
infnitesimal portions with most absurd re-
suit. The superstitious object also that thir-
teen, or, as 1t has been. profanely styled, ''the
devils dozen," has been from time immemo
rial an unlucky number. The Cabinet has
probably been made thus large in order to Sc
cure votes at the coming elections, but there
Is discomfort in view of the want Of economy
in such an arrangement.
! We find this complaint Of disregard Of
economy not confined to a single feature Of
the new government. With a Salary of $780,
900 for the Governor-General, and thirteen
Cabinet Ministers at $1,000 piece, ard eleven
others for Lower and Upper Canada, the expen-
ses Of the Executive, under the new system,
win more than double what they have hither-
to been. Add to this military scheme which
proposes standing force of $50 600 men, and
we have bill of expenditure for these two
items alone which may well justify the elamor
OF the opposition, and which would indicate
that confederation IS likely to prove costly
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,T-4 ~, THE COMING CONTEXT. i.s.a
Tremendous efforts are being made by the
Reform party to carry the coming elections
against the existing Government. The To-
ronto Globe, the chief organ Of the opposition,
processes to hear everywhere the most favor
able reports of the canvass According to
that journal the result Of the Catholic Con-
vention has decided the fate OF some counties
previously in doubt, in favor OF the Reform
party. The Globe says: b.5,., .ag
Everywhere Reformers are active and con f.
dent; everywhere their opponents are hesitat-
ing and Indifferent. One more month of effort
and the Government Of the Confederation, as
well as of the Province of Ontario, will be in
the hands of the Reform party, and we shall
no more see before US the ffightful prospect ofa
Cartier-G Galt-Macdonald Government with
three millions sterling on hand 10 be expend-
ed on a railway. 5uW
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS AND THE GIRLS
Public sentiment in the Dominion ishardly
so advanced in questions relating to education
as, at the first blush, 1t might be expected to
be. There is o very good system of common
schools, tits true, but the institution Is far from
being the sane In value and importance as
the common school, systems in the United
States. The exclusive spirit of class and caste,
which is nearly unknown here, comes In to
injure the usefulness Of Canadian schools to q
very considerable degree. The common
schools in cities, are indisputsbly confined to
the children of the industrious mechanic and
tradesman; exclusive, on the ons hand, Of the
Weather merchant aud professional man, an6i
unfortunately, on the other hand, to some de-
gree. Of the children of the poor and vagrant
classes, who stand most iu need of. the free
education they supply. While wealthy and
cultivated New Englander will send his own
son without hesitation TO the common school,
in Canada not even a few of the class OF
tradesmen prefer paying heavy school-fees to
accepting the excellent education afforded In
the free city schools. This simply on the
ground Of greater gentihty. In regard to the
education OF girls, too, there Is very notice
able difference between Canadian sentiment
and that existing among US. A recent report
of Rev. Mr.. Young, Inspector of Grammar
Schools for Upper Canada, pronomces very
decidedly against the admission Of girls into
these schools. Mr.. Young admits that SO
far as he can see mo evil arises from having
little girls and little boys taught in the school
together" But when 1t comes TO putting
agirls Of is, 16 or IT years into schools with
boys Of the same ages" he objects to the
practice on the ground ofits moral tendency q!
In this connection he says: s,5 .5.-.....
f3 In schools conducted by teachers possessing
weight of character, / have no reason to be-
lieve that the general moral tone of the pupils
is ipjurlously affected by boys and girls being
taught t9gether. Perhaps, on the sontrary, me
But, out ofa hundred grammar school teach
ers, there will necessarily be few who do not
possess weight of character; and, under their
rule, there ia danger of grown-up girls suffer-
ing, as respects the f0fmaI1On OF tnelr moral
character, from attending school with grown
up boys.
That is to say because some teachers are
not what they should be he would deprive all
the pupils, male and female, of Canadian
Grammar schools of the benefits Of system
which, he himself admits may, II properly car.
sied out. be advantageous. If this be not con-
ssrvatism run into the ground we do not
know what to call 1t. The idea Of remsdying
these accidental evils by reforming the char
scter of the teachers does not seem to have
occurred to him, aud so the girls are left 10 the
chances of such means Of education as may be
provided for them through few private SEM
inaries or in the nunneries Of Toronto, Mon.
treal and Quebec.
Maior-G ensral Sisted was sworn In as
Lieut. Governor OF the Province Of Ontario,
on the eighth instant Hon. John sandfeld
Macdonald has been charged by General Sits
ted with the formation Of Provisional Gov
ernment for that Province, and has accepted
the trust. In the Province of New Bruins
wick there Is evidently some little hitch in the
Government party. Mr.. Fisher and Mr.. Con-
nell are hardly satisfied with Mr.. Tilley's new
o,,l npnnsi Nom