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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1848-12-22, Page 2Bost, and I have the moat perfoet codes is its practicability. But before deeeribr 11. which t shall do as briefly sett will re wit, and as accurately u 1 can, I mull 1 you that chi, plan a nut new; nor aur I t Inventorthw Lwor of ILn laibeutiv0 Lel.sag to an Bonner In Engl.ad who.. name esca e4 my tuoruory, and apo made a r . , 111rugtt a mons*; by that mesna, when had been lust thought i.aprselicabfe make a road, which was said when cu plated to be one of the best roads thee that put of the country. The meter that be used for the foundation of but ro was Baru, what to Scotland Is call Whine, which he got bundled up like fa gots, and 1 believe laid either gravel sand un the top. You will say that webs so wbus,,or broom, or heather in this cou try; admitted, -but au have as good if n better, for road making, and that tuu in gre abundance and quite handy to all our road Now for my plan fur making the Ilur Road coutplete fur fifty years, with trieli repairs. You laugh, but stop till you he it, and as I ani doing it for no hire and par ly with a desire to du good, you may l rgi me if I err. Plane.—The road should dug to the centre where pract cable, to t depth of one foot, fur, ear one rod or 1 feet, or If you will 23 feet in width, my e timate supposes the latter. The sutfa levelled where dug, then bare ready pr pared bundles of Brushwood, put up bunches 8 feet long, 3 feet round, or abo 1 foot in diame!cr, there bundles are to llrtnly waked with 4 wither on each, a laid end to end across the road Isyi solid oo the ground, and as close to ea other as possible; they are to be made fresh twigs or wattle, cut in a green growing state, and may be in size from on half inch to three or four inches in circut ference; when laid they will hate the a pearance of Brushwood logs all of the am size, which two men can beadle with ea either in losdiog them on slays or wagons take them to the road or lay them in it, a when laid, the interstices between the should be laid with a little donee brush, an then the ,tuff that was dug out should b laid upon them and a little more from th sides, till there was at least 18 inches the clay or mud covering the brush -log and so excluding them from the action the air, which -if properly managed, woul insure their lasting I think for the -time stated, 50 yearn. The road made on th principle could not at any time be very we for you will obeervv that the brush -log makes a perfect drain below; nor would waggon wheel ever risk farther than th brushwood,juntil it wore it through, an that would not be easily done whilsi it wa kept in proper repairs by gravel or sand.— It is not my province to ay whether or not the District Council would have the powe to collect toll on such a road when finished but if cot, the District would find mom other way of paying the inane cost — trif'uag I must call it, for several reasons Fist, because it would allow fink and sal and many other articles to come from Gode rich at all times and for half of the coat 0 present carriage. it would give the forme the chance of sending his estreat and potash to Goderich instead of Hamilton if ho pleas ed. It would raise the value of all the land for many miles on every side of it from Nil mot to Goderich. In short it would be the meta of making the Huron District in reality, what it has of often been termed, and seems by natural advantages designed to be, the garden of Umer Canada. If i should be considered for the present tha one rod wide of 164 feet would do for a trial, my estimate of the costa would be re duced one-third. I have calculated ,every bundle of itis brush, say 8 feet long, 3 feet is circumference, and withed with 4 withes, and piled up at the side of the road ready for laying, to cost .C18 13 4 per thousand or 4d. currency each. By the narrow gage, two length', would be n.ffcient, and 32 of them would complete the square; one rod in length one rod in width, and the cost of brush would be 10s. 8d. per rod; and say 320 rods per mile at 10s. 8J. per rod will be£170 13 4 per mile, which would amount to £10,240 for the material for the founds tion, iso the supposition that 60 mile. were to be done in that way. Preparing the road, and laying the brush -loge and cover- ing them 18 inches deep with the stuff taken out of the foundation, and from the sides of the road, and cleaning out the water run or ditches on each ode thereof, can be got dose, I Ibiok, for tis. currency per rod, and for, es. -110 miles, 320 rode per mile, 19900 at pet rod, 44800; is whole for comptroller, the road for 60 miles, excepting Bridging as above stated, for the sum of £16,040, or a small fraction over £250 per mile; which, if 1 am erectly, informed would not near half pay for • plank road of the mune breadth and 1.ngth, end which for durability, i am not ashamed to sate even to you, Mr. Editor, to whom judgment even in road -making, 1 am willing to pay much deference, that with the same amount of tear and weer, it would outlive four Plank roads with leas repairs. i fear you will think that I have already trespassed on year patience and the columns of your valuable journal. The only prospset of re- ward I can at present hold out to you is, that if through your publishing such com- munications as may lead to enquiring, and talking about the best means of laying out lad saving public mosey. by doiag work in the proper time and in the proper way, that through such enquiry and talking, we may get good roods and bridges is the Heron District, and when these valuable blessing. are once obtained population aril rapidly And fur every subscriber that sou bite now you may then hate three, and begin to l.lk about panting by steam: I volt now, alt your leave, return fur a utile, to a tart..er couedet•hun cel the Dis- trict Council wet, and hope you will Igoe with we when I *y, that I am lolly cel opinion that loweship Councils such as was rutended when the moot of the preempt Nintatry were formerly io o®ce, would he less ex;M'nave, lees tioublesoue to the people generally, and equally useful for all purposes of the present law. But should the same men be sow of a different opieton, and should oilcloth still to continue Dtetncta and Councils as they are, v z: the spirit and letter of the law and the s.ae ul the Districts, obliging those who hive buainese to do a theCounrls as well as members to travel, sore uf tbcut at least 50 •.r 60 miles, which I sincerely hope they will not, then 1 think the law ought to be amended with regard to the pay of members of the District Council.. I thick they uugbt to be allowed 7s. 6d. per day while attood- ing Council, and 6d. per mile f r traveling ezpeosea to and from the Cuuoetts. I never will advocate the principle of giving too high salaries to the set -ratite of the public ebalever may be their rank; yet I will maintain that those who serve the public in any capacity ought to be paid for their serve• cis a reasonable price. - 1 think that the District Council act should require the appointment of, say three commissioners or superintendent, of high- ways in every township, to assist the Coun- cillors of the towaehip. 10 apportion the Statute labour, and to expend such monies as may be odered by the District Courted for the repair* of roads and bridges in said townships, and to account for the same to the Council through and by the township Clerk. The Councillors by themselves ex- pending the money that was by themselves assessed, by settibg jobs or contracts on tt,e road., is open to the surmises and sus• picione that ought to be prevented. These superintendents should be nominated by tbe people at the township meetings, and appointed by the District Council. I was happy to see by a newspaper report (the Colonia) of th. February Sessiooe of the Home District Council, that 'Commissioners had been appointed, for expending all tbe money appropriated for the repairs of roads and bridges amounting to some thousands of pounds, in various parts of the said Dis- trict. 1 hope the District Council of Huron will do the same the next February session, In the hope that at least some uf the things that I have stated, and which 1 think would be reforms, may soon come to pass. I have the boar to be, Yours respectfully, A HURON SETTLER. TWO COUNTIES FOR THE HURON. TO Tnx EDITOR or Tam sour ■OLIL. MOUNT VIEW, F.LLICO, lith Dec., 1848. Sea,—I observe in your last Niguel! of the let current, that there is a notice as to the townships of Mornington and Welles- ley, which include a portion of country, previously reserved specially for the Dis- trict of Nitron by the Act I, Viet. c. 26.— As the authorities there quoted have taken some by surprise, inasmuch as they were not generally known; therefore, to, con- vince myself and some of my Waking neighbour., 1 went to Stratford and ex- amined the Acts of Parliament referred to, and find that the reservation of the range of land to the north of the District was acts - ally given. And, moreover, that it did woiw interfere with the District of Wellington, as that District was originally planned; and besides, I found that a division of this Dis- trict into two counties was also reserved. In•making my researches, ■ piece of in- formation was given me, which 1 had sup- ported would not have occurred with the Hon. Mr. Coley, the present M. P. P. fpr the Huron. Namely :—that although be had brought in the Bill before the house of Assembly on which the Act 9, Vict. c. 47, (1846) was passed, to prevent farther en- croachments on the tercttory to the north of Huron; he had not made himself aware of the claim by the llurou District to the land where Mornington and Wellesley are, and apparently appeared ignorant of the same till it was pointed set to kim. It did appear strange indeed, that he a Member of the house, bringing in such • measure, would not have been at the pains to hare compared the Acts of Parliament, bearing en the relative division of the Districts of Huron and Wellington. But either or both of the Magistrate/ asd Distriet Coun- cil at their eesstona, were equally—nay mora—remiss, in not representing the mat- ter to the county member at the time of the said Act 9, Viet. 47, being passed. They were certainly supposed to be better ac- quainted with the claims of the District than the member. The nicety of obis/not- ion was not even shears in judicial proceed - Inge, for those poneaed of the means of knowing, allowed suits or executions to be proceeded with against individuals without the District. What an 'emirate knowledge they had surely of the finite of the Huron ! Again, the above Act of 9, Viet., only gives the right of civil and criminal jirf.- Lie/ioe to the Huron over the northern tee - miry, No other right ia glees—not eves tbo right, that wises a township ass sur- veyed is it, its ishakrtasu ware to have the privelege.f vetieg if they were qualified.— How few words would have dose this.— • With what castors, y welt pnvil.Be ►eo hitherto bees granted ! Verily, Mr. Cay - Iey, your liberal notleas were very scrupu- b us ! Nor un 81.. Carley DOW urge that an alteration thee, mould be an un .ecceaart aterfereoee Wills the Act 8, Vic*. C. 7, (u to fiw11. of 11) all recently passed as in 1813; for, In same seanlun of 1846, u the 8 Vict. c. 414 was passed, red rhe eery act before ift'ehap. 48; there is an al - titration of the counties of Carlotta and Grenville, the limits of which were stated in the 8, Vict, {j, 7. There Is thus no excuse for Mr. Ca)ley, for nut getting ap- propriated to the county of Huron, what should by preview sights have belonged to 11; and ought to bare beta inserted in the act of 1846; lied" fur the very glaring oris sioa of not srCae q the righte m✓ voting, ID any newly surveyed township. But the main object of my 4ow address- ing you is, to awaken some attention in my brother settlers to the cost of the Dlarict, to the contemplated beneficial measure to be brought in by she members of Corers - meet at the next session of Parliament, to iacrcase the repreie tatioo of the Province by creating new electoral divisions ur counties, with olsrnben fur each. Aod 1 Went thaLib.to measure will not ..cape the notice of the Division Committee at Strat- ford, so as that sly of sur rights now ex - may not for the time. be neglected. Perhaps it is a matter of,superarogalion in Inc to refer to the matter at all; but I sbculd like the fact, in a inure public manner, to be stated, than it ever yet has; as it is un- deniable that a res.rvatto' for the county of Huron to be divided iwto two counties, was made in the Act I have before alluded to; and what division reasonably can be thought of, other than the sepdratiow of the eastern portion (with Mir northern addi- tiune) from Me western. Who, then, will be looked toss our mem- ber 1 Farmers .f the east—there aro cer- tainly some amoaget us from Fullerton to South Easthope, wbo are capable? This is no idle question—the separation of the District being granted, as it is most justly expected; will be the tocsin for a movement among the would be Conservative.. But itis hoped that it dormers will know and do their duty. If it can be summed that the members of the Executive, End out to a certain extent the feelings add wishes of the inhabitants of the various localities of the Province, by the means afforded by the public press, 1 trust that the allusions and statements made by me, will not escape their notice—and I think there is one among them, who from his shrewdness lad kaowtedge of this Dis- trict, ia able to 'hew that he is aware of our position. Wishing you eery success in the ad- vocacy of the right, of the farmers sod settlers, 1 am, sisopectfully, Sir, A. B. C. HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, DECEM.$EA as. lime. OUR DISTRICT AFFAIRS. We had intended to say a great deal about road making, but our Fallutoa correspondent " An Old Settler," has said s seed more than " • great deal" ea the subject, that we are al- most at a low for aythieg to elm. We certain- ly admit that good roads ars desirable, that they are use of the first essenti.ls to the comfort and prosperity of the District; and we would almost go the length of saying that the improvement of the roads should have the first claim in the die- tribntioe of the taxes. But unless a di&reit std a better method of improvement that that hitbrrra permed, is adopted, rhes a far from giving it the first claim, we. would hesitate in goring it any claim at a11. if it is not ■ spoiling of roads, it is at least a„ squandering of money. We do tot wish :o attach blame to any party in this matter ; we are willing to believe that those also beet the maaagemeet of our District rade t et for the best, according to their judgments -- Bat after visite( that we have little faith in Iarepikiegelay roods, or in burying crossways with mod, we may be permitted merely to hitt that if such is to be tha mode of exploding the taxes in future, it would be much better to per- form the whole of this hied of road -making in the latter part of Mar ud thebegisaieg *(Jia, s that the clay and mud might be h*drned by the *meati'. draught. Whoa this Mor Is de- layed till the month of Septeibee, u it has been this year, the heavy fall rains redoes the clay to the consistency of ihi• mortar, and a large por- tion of it rune back into the side ditches from whence it was taken, rod the the labor is, io a greet seamen, last. And at the season when the beae6t of the improvement is most needed ibe road becomes impassible. We *demand that between three and four tkoussad pounds have been expended es the reeds of the District this year, led we think the universally admitted fact, that the roods are ie a nuch worm eoedi- ties them they have ever haus at any prior period, should go far fa staying the elanwer for gondi.g the noire local taxation ow ouch a 'To- tem el read -madder. The idea that we will reap the lesr8t .4 abs improvements. welt simmer, a felleci..a Tba reeds 8..e got se nisch cut sp that it will regain a groat deal of labor i■ leveller, to resider Arm oven passible ie em- rsev. 1r w far as the imp.omeness etionsts in good dela re earry the waver away free the side' of the reed, the edemmgs will lie (.1t, het the rest of the labor is. se say M least of 11, .f very i.e.sodernble ►.unfit. With respect to Me piss of taeplktag a reed with sky ted thee eovrrlar it witb ravel, we umlaut .truer doubts 01 its wisdom i Autry. W. shish the graved *mid be visible ao leapt than the clay got felly *tamed wttb raia, aad • kw imagoes pseud over It. We bare seen it tried and peasepe nor 101101141 rosy be er,oueoes, hat •t all mots the e.peo.e a( eke eapenutcem atould suggest Me propriety •( iryug 11 uo • null seek ' t kali The gsestioa d a Pet Caart how* has created stub ialuiet sad dt&i*aee of opieteu And .0 keg u it lay bosoms swag the room in the goal. aad baiWieg a sew see, it might be re garded as • ammo of opi.we is oar lucid econo- my ; ban the question no longer retaius that form. The Spend, we believe, ban decided that the room la the goal ahall not m future be seed as a Court home ; soil tit• gammon now as whether we had better build • Coen house or want • Court house. We already pay about fury poued• a yes for District Oases, .u4 we must mow pay, at lent, forty more fur some temporary Court home, aad perhaps an smsse- diue outlay of two kuadred pounds to render It suitable for the propose. Thus we may safely cakulate o• at least ninety pomade a year of out- lay, fur fu worse accommodation than would be supplied by • Ceara house at • cost of twelve hundred pounds. It meat, therefore, be obvious to every unprejudiced arcs that as • mailer of economy—a saving of poa.ds, &Litany. and peace—i: would be expedient to build • new Court house, even though the amssat necessary for rise purpose •hoald be .borrowed at legal in- terest. We do not oak whether the DulriCl- dividiag populatioa of Stratford are willing or not willing ; we do net ask whether or not it would be doing justice to them ; but we say that al- though the District were divided to -day, though the people of Stratford should pay one peony towards it, if Goderich is to remain a dis- trict town, we should, oo the principle of econo- my, build a new Court house. We du consci- entiously believe that twelve hundred pounds of the sum eapeuded in tarnpiking crossways with niud this year might hare belie profitably expend- ed in the erection of a new stone Court house.— IV. most here pay an honest compliment to the people of Stratford and the east end of the Dis- trict; by telling them that whether we vete for • division of the District or not, we will at lent vote that they shall have a Court house and Goal fur their own accomrnoJatioi, and then 'very limited premises will serve for the prosecution sod punishment of crime •1 this cod of the Dis- trict. There are many little items pleat District ex- penditure which might very honorably be dim - pealed with, and which would aid cocaiderably it paying the interest of the sum necessary for the erection of • new Court house. And first,we world ask seriously and solemnly is it true that James Morgan Hamilton received roars pounds • year, for being what is facetiously called " Sur- geon to the Diaries Goal 7" We bare no ob- jectinss to ay man being fairly remunerated for the services which be renders to the public. We bare so objectious: that the jrieads of Mr. Hamilton shall pay biro forty or forty thousand pounds* year if they think proper ; and we have even no decided objeo;ion that Mr, Ilamil- toe shall fill any public sfice for which he may be qualified. But we have a decided objection. to Mr. Hamilton, or any other man, receiving forty pounds, or forty pence of the public money without doing public service value for the salary• unless tAe sad salary shall 3. gives and received es cAarity. With Mr. Hamilton's qualifications as a member of 'the Medical profession we have nothing to do, but we have to do with the feet that be receives twenty pounds • year for his attendance at the District Goal as Surgeon ! and we think this is the best paying part of his prac- tice. He also is allowed twenty pounds • year I for medicine to the prisoners ! sod we will vett- ture to affirm that there never was twenty pounds worth .t medicine within the walls of the Dis- trict Goal since it was first built ! We do not look upon this as a Job at ,the public expense; an iniquity is only called a Job when it is out of the ordinary *our* of iniquities, but this •p- pointment of Mr. Ilamiltos to • salary of forty pounds a year u Surgeon to the District Goal ! is in strict keeping with the general procedure of the Tories, when entrusted with the public funds;—they have no sympathy with the " great uncultivated public," and therefore, this waste of the public funds is not a"Job. We merely mist est the abstract t Anshan sed ebsaadikp endesvori•g to coerce the peculiar relit mediae of any urau, however eat:rine or mosey slat thew eouut.e may be 8.cb coerc,oa absurd, became belief is au a muter choice ; it be out a volumes eat of the will. It stimulus bout c.artellea, aoJ CVO rlcuw mei Alam ee.4.ece. if a alta has beer tight believe di&reutly hew you, your perserutioa his ianh mimeos alter tits kith, bus.... it ewe el pistae i sad Wa ark 14444411, +viler (w rte illi" e tern smertwg, that whet a ane t iowu, whetb.r is Scotland, or in the Duuicl of Bathurst, of Drlbur.ae, er Illiroo, our general character ef thewgb aur perfectly pew—will lo* •utht.g by — beteg comPered with that of "A Lyme. 1. Gartland is sus .ey. . t• of snow!'..,rte, a snow11SAYB roA LITTLE Doti". soleal z• You have a right to demand • moue fee every shies you are vitae(' repaired to do or believe , ablestlet se nae deprive you of thin right. It is the ablest swirliest your Creator has bestowed upon Fos, sod 'robust Foe extreme it, yea will not suly fail is fulfilling the highest duty of you wbuilt wiser, but you will lose the bilt•f'early all tie choice ble..iogs that your Creamer has placed mule within your ule Eves the is.etirea►k blue- iag of Di,tua revelation may be a dead letter to roe except yea exercise your retst epos it inducts ( Of all klwts meriting the exercise of ream., religion is the chief; and u you advance to e wards manhood, you will discover that mankind have all but prohibited and discarded the nae of t reason on this important subject ; and you will further discover the tenible effects of this nun ✓ duct. 1t is false philosophy, and it has conge- ✓ monody produced evil. 1 wish you to remember . that 1 am not addressing you u touchers of the Popish Cheich, nor the Epi.copaliaa, nor the Prr.bytetian, nor any other Church. I ant addrvwaing you as little Boys. alwgtther irrespee- live of any peculiar religions ootiona which yew ntay have learned. i ant aware that you oil:, every one, learn the peculiar ontioe. of his reapectite parrots ; and !hare neither desire oar authority to advise you to the contrary. It is ' not my tnlentioO to teach you religious opiuioeu; for this I am not competent. 1 merely wish to iiuprrss your minds lith the duty and ueceut,- . ty of exere:Cog roar reason on every subject, mot on none more than on religion. Year reli- -guo ails be either rational or absurd, either booming or dim lonoring to God,—ia proportion heat r. jour couclusiocehave resulted heata.prour exercise et your reason. Your conceptions ant a Dairy, of his moral government, and of your own dvuro•nd destinies, will be esahr elevated sod roblr, ver droveihng, and suprratitioas, ac - ml alter hos ea ertctloes . rust yrresswrwa ane him, •t *eidetic* of your cruelty and premum toot, but it is eo evidence that ban COSY IC Lon rue tale/. You may persecute, •ad proscribe ■od malign, and iojure biro. You may punish and torture him till the terror or agari of podia tire#in iaduce• him to say p yup ..y, and to worship a you worship ; but ,hough you should break him on the wheel, you can never coolie hitt think w yea AMA, till mute ruu Lave disused his co.victioe•—and this can only be done b bringing the proper evidence before the orisd.— But, sesta, pesecutioo, tbr opinion.' sake, u mast la every possible instance ; because, 1 th. member of stie Popish Church has *sight t ✓ ejwt the creed of the Episcopalian, sad tit Episcopalian has a right to reject she Popish creed, std the Presbyterian has • right to rejec both,—then, coneequeutty, • fourth person has an egaal right to reject all three ; and the mor you multiply the number of different sects, ah stronger is the right of rejection. So that be O'• M T111 axsacut u► ■cele•. fore any man can be justified in persecuting another for heresy, be mus: first establish, by principles of demonstration, that is orljwduzy. The present de6nitioos are all arbitrary, and limited by the views and opinions of the police who bring them forward. It is true, the site u persecution, so called, has goat by. There is n ow no thumb -screws, nor racks, nor breaking OS the wbeel,—nor faggot and stake applied as remedies fur heresy. But it is also true—and lamentably true—that the spirit of religious persecution has still a readente among wen ; and it may he token for granted that the man who would rain you and your family, by aruus- iog the religious prejudices of mankind against yon, who would seek to destroy your reputation and influence in society, by iusiouations about heresy or infidelity, would also consign you to the stake or the a heel, only th.t he is prevented by the purer philosophy of the age. ° We may here observe that the word-iiifIdel does not mean a man who retests to believe what other people believe.—in ibis score, every mac it the world would be ae infidel. You don't believe as 1 believe, and 1 don't believe ae you believe, consequently we are mutual infidels to each other;=and so it is lith all mankind. But that man only n an iuflJrl wLu does not believe what he himself profraaes to believe, in other word+, the man who is uofaitt.ful to his own protcseion is a. infidel. We must, howe- ver, for the honour of religion, state that howe- ver far good meth may harp been influenced byi :eel without knowledge to persecute and puled what they called heretics io bygone times, no Christian of the present age will ba•LtZef persecution even to the extent of trjuieg a man'. reputation. The iosioeatioos abourhaa- I.7 and infidelity, and the nu ligoing of character ! on religious grounds, for the last twenty years. have been confined ea.into to bad nen, who is their hearts " neither Isar Go] nor regard man." ' Men totally destitute of all principtesof religioot and morality, whose assumed sanctity is only Inluatilejn their own estimation just *fust it mrres to dusk their rillitay,—tae. woo, ,n short, are err:! Infidels, and like our Arreiend Inc.]i":t [omen," are is'se ao:l sa,il.lest to their own p:..nrs-fun. Our Reverend friend seems very eaiioss t, teesitce his readers that he entertaus so hue - tile tidings towards us ;, sod at we here charged him already w,:h et 4ioil'dur•gar,! U :-side, we shall endeavor to wbataouae our charge by ron!rasting a few elf his friendly proles on* wi-.h a few c( his cowardly ineinnau• Oe. In his printed production tit the 1.3:h Septettiler, he says, he •• attended the lecture with thy! most charitable feelings toward, him, and with a desire to obtrn bosh pleasure and iufsema- t tion." In a former article we informed oar read- 1 en that he did not a:teed the Lettere, either 1 with " charitable" or with any other "fertilise" —Le did not attend the Lecture at alt.! He, was not within the walls of the Church that evening ! This fact we wish to be conrtantly t borne in mind ; Ior If it is oolr recollected that ' the ■othor of • croicism, founded oa.,8. as -1 samptions of religious heresy, igtredseeu hu atrietures with a deliberate !ie,—consequently, I 1 the lie and the relgious profess:on pint inaettler a forma •1r eapoeeot of the woos, ,, and go far to ' neutralise all his future statements. In hi. pro- ducnoo of the 13th October, he say, "i have no unkiodly feelings towards Mr. Macqueen— am not ,personally acquainted with hinm. 11 refer to it as one of the numerous instances of Tory iniquity which the people have to support without knowing it, and we trust the the M.g- iatracy will take it into consideration -at their next meeting in Quarter Sessions ; and if it i■ thought necessary to have a Surgeon to the Dir trict Goal, we trust they will have no objection to adopt the same principle of economy that has been adopted in reference to the Disniet Print• iog—Por it to n4 Offer. And Ihosgh we are always willing to site a preference to superior professional qualifications, yet it is quite pori- I ble that we may get a Surgeon to the District e Goal whose professional knowledge and obit;- ties will suffer nothing by being compared with the 'ointments of Mr. Hamilton ; and we veo• • tare a conjectsrs that at least twenty posed. a N year may be saved by the change. .11...r This most not be lest sight of t "A LAYMAN." a Ameng the multitude of atrocities that have R been perpetrated in the name of religise,•the h moa wicked sod desolating has been that of tb perecetios for option's ask. ; that i., the is attempt of one mw, or one party, to control the o opinions of otiters in w.ttwe qj faith. The et progress of wifaee asd civilisation bus bees more ohetrseied by this spirit of ietekrot presump- or Imes, than by all other cane.; the adeaeeement di of tree rebgioa has bees retarded by it ; human happiness has been dimieiahed, and human wretcbed.fes lad suffering have been loelder- l.bly aggranwd by ,t . and, in short, its records are wduee is chanters of blood in every century where the Christian renews has been promdpted. To expose the 1,1.1117 of it, se- thisg more is necessary than a bore statement et the feet, chat after matey ages of gross cruelty sad operewoa, practiced oe meakfad, with the istenli.s .f pre...clog a seiformity of belief, there is as thin roonw.t • greater diversity .I plains is matters .1.peeelatle, faith, than ever vxteesd at tasty prow period et ser history. We have not the slightest utei..a of enter• taiaag ear readers with a pokaleal d'.quiefties ea all se may of the ,hausesd meow as dogs* .f .psuslauv. 'Orgies with which whisd have mitered seeh sth.r. Ws wish merely ely es cor,iing as your frescoing posters are exercised nn the volume of Retelation. ' Tbts volume has ' Leen in the possess:un of warikiud fur eighteen hundred yearn, and yet there are few u( as d..c- ' Lines upon which nuokind are agreed, and their differences on these doemoes are the foulest 1 plague -spot on human society. Religious sec- taiuuiam is not eo'y the heaviest borthen, in a peruoiary point of view, which society has to Liar ; but iria'miso the must bitter and implr- 1 cable spirit that takes pnesesvios of the human mind. It may be honestly Ieggrded as the a -arse of the eirili:rd leurld. 1t was first iotroikeed by a perversion ora.glect o1 the powers of ver json, lad it is perpetuated by the same cause. There was a time when the esercise.o( resin , iso- relgious aebjects wit entirely prohibited, sail that prohibition was chericterired by whet i has Leen rmphaiicsily c.I1ed the •• Dark Agee," 1 when what wan denominated rel•.gion, wait no- thing more thee a emetic ma.s of corruption, mental prostration, super•titioo, and mystical ' ebominatioas. This degraded slam of society I might be rrguded se the pesalty of by ' Dome Goodness to the neglect of the highest faculty of our eaterr. The *roe error, io • less nti..nel•f inrnl. p re, •des the Ifilglaue w•.,W at t:.i• Vorn•..: ■n.! :1r penel'r is: sefn ,n The h•t- :-r sn.nloei::^f,,: too -term :sin to which I :.s.. a:,a;rd. The Mal.olnetas iu•trmets his children So eke deetriees and duties of the Aleoraa, and an..,,. them that these are divine truths, and that they have no right to dispel* or reason upon then ; Met most lust receive look believe them In.pikitly, or incur the penalty of the Dittos d,spteasure. The nwrnber of the Popish Charch, the English Church, the Scotch Church, sad the other nrioua sect*, instruct their children in their own rr:pective versions of Christianity. Each one tells his sou that Illiterate the correct, the evangelical views of the Divine recur) ; and tbongh he does not exactly prohibit his son from exercising his reaeno upon the .al jeer to a cer- tain extent,—yet he insinuates that ouch exer- cises is useless if not positively dangerous ; std elle him that these yiews.re absolutely correct because they have been cherished as sacred Ly multitudes of good and aloe mea (or many this is the argument of the Popish Church, of be Presbyterian, of the E.iseop.lian, and of linost every other church, and I doubt not 8 is advanced aith equal eincerity by ails L would be not only uncharitable, but •dao unresoaable to suppose that any man would be insincere in ruching his own children doctnues that were o effect their weli•being in eternity. Re must, herefore, give them all credit (or the sincerity of heir conduct while we unhesitatingly deny the propriety or the Millet -Of it. The fact of your fathers knowing the evidence by which their peculiar religious notions are supported, is no evidence to you; neither have you any meet mit believing troth upon moth evidence, more than if you had believed error oe the same ground. Yoe are believing on the teetimony of your fathers ; and the children el error are clinging to their errors and believing them to be true on the very lame species of eridsace.—semely, the icetimony of their fathers. As 1 formerly ebwreed, this probibition,e( the ee of neon, oat religious *bjeen, is (*1.. phitoaophyxercis; and so lost a it is tottiaued, ,trot will be perpetuated: and the religious world will continue to exhibit the *me anomalooe aapeet,—the same sectarian ittollerasee, jeal- ousies, htatberninge, and bittereee, which it exhibits at present. in feet you elation knew the difference between the greet truths of Cbde• tient', and the gross rorroptisea ■td erases of the Church, except through the exercise of ass reason. You cannot eves kaww the differs,* between the value of tha Christian Santora and the rales of the M•heaeme sesiptsres eaeept by soMa ng them, sled by .empor(.t the respective es' *nee epee whish they set.,. ally rest their claim. to dries origin. 11 la not aely your right, but year ditty to **arch, sad esaesiue, ad ssralinise, ant sly the partiedee doseri.m which aro offered for year adoption, hot al* the Sanctum from which thaw de*ops.ts are rake Yes did net wlm*es tMINr reced- ed ,a thine &rapiers.: u04, tk.1.0.1 is ie your duty to exam,* the •r.deetseetpan WWI Toe are required to believe term. 1t is se sem. ' outman repo.! be tette, if u a disriwrtias 1 need s or Corel ! " Among the multitude of rillians t who bare .,.graced the name of wan, ere have Tway. regarded Judas lscariot as the chief. of exactly becade be betrayed his Muter, hat because be did it with a fir. Our tonnory does af, at pretest, furnish es with the name of any chertnsfcaion of malignity with which we ansa, eraf..tely, compare "A Layman" s the same of Jades Iscariot. Our pions and everend friend here offers as the Liss by saying e has no unfriendly feelings towards us, and en he bequeaths ss the traitor's nab, by tell - g his reader. that if common report be true, sr aegeeiotance is a distioctios not to be cov- ed ! fled he raid that we had killed some. body ; that we were a thief, a liar, • drunkard, a gross blasphemer; h.d he charged a with *honesty in our dealing., or with practical wickedseas in ser conduct; or had he made any distinct accaellon against ss,—we might have bees able to refute it or give an explana- tion ; at ill error., the public would have had an oppottnnity of considering the probability of its correetnes.. But "A l.ayinan knew we were comparatively • avenger in Goderich,— he had tie 41.1 .ct charge to prefer, and hence his malignity suggested the cowardly imlina- tioa af'• Cowmen report." We hare lever glee ourself net sea paragns e( piety or morel exeellesee We have 160.11, fathers, bet they are sot hidden—the, are well kewn to every man mid woman .8. ksows the man . end they are * well knows le Goderieh se is an, other place There is at tie particle of the beide", meet►, white -(seed hypeeritieel sesasdrel in oar w►ek eampeition We have alway..radied to keep ser kelt* da the fere-grsaad of sear rhsrerter'.