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ttrKew 's, d RgSigN caw droops, if t6.
melee egg stare awed shunt thea 1 We
Seel mare tveedIsg own dangerous ground,
M/ we pet it to his Lard.h.p, no hu ellu-
giasee, in a how long that ataodard will
causes W „rtr teas• torntnrics 1(
11.$r na.t*•r ane nut bre•skt fuly.
beer ts IN eompenua with abet
Pluto. Tbe tale is •lJ, bout' Counts iis.
tree to its stbgiaes woes all weft
Sewed: hew caw the "Idjfaele"
'1 a
weir Praline 'there! to the Gov
rs whew► had remained true to the
rj.dlpoas it bad male with them in taking
them elder Its protection- What is the
remittal these faithful Provinces have found
Ai the hand+ of the Brit ith Government ?—
lett wonderful thiI they look' with waver -
sag st the tawe►d morr•ii of the ■etghbor-
1 g 1 1* '.—t' at they years for that an-
tialled dallalgangenl w Duct) would he so easy
of att.ieraeet—that they are badly con -
Me to remain, with cripple) resources and
ra a fruitless atlegeanre, a bye ward and
o,probrtuin of .ubmi.sta loyally and tame
leLIy 1—Erigrusf.
Provincial Parliament.
IIOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
MO3T1$AL. Uarc4.$8.
ream Canaria ajtaasl$YT a1LL-
It to, the seder of the day far the second
re..h'1g of the B•11 10 r.-gulete aaaeasmcn'
111 tippet Canada, bang read.
Mr. precis drew the attention of hon.
mr.nbera 10 this subject, which bad been
before that eremite .ince he lied a seat in
toe House, and Which las admitted to be
et the hat importance. When last in the
emoted be had Introduced a bill like this,
which war read a second eine; bot went no
rartlsr, in consequence of the change cf
tu'nevtry. Afterwards, Mr. Draper brought
- 10 a bill to remedy the evils complained of;
but thtt wee referred fo a select committee,
one there lost. It was not afterwards re-
newed. As to real property, it was nese.-
eery it ef,oul' bo assessed at its proper
value. lie ,night mention that in Lower
Sonata, real property was aarossed at its
value; sot as in Upper Canada where !ands
were aeeessed, if cuttirated, at J. and if
uncultivated, at 4s, !bough rho lands thus
•assesed were sometimes worth £100 or
1150 per aere. Again, it wee desirable to
hare a uniform system of assessment
threoghoat, not as in Canada a present,
whore every mnnucip•Iity had a beparato
mode of assessment, according to its act of
incorporation. The principal objection to
thu bell, was the tax on personal property.
It was said that this was an inquiritonal
tax, prying Into persone private effete —
ltet now, first be would a'k whether the
Moon would adopt the principle of aesess-
swg as laad only d If not, would it, as pro-
posed in Mr. Draper. Bill, tax only those
articles used by farmer•: as horse., cattle,
• carriages, k:1 Nue, he was prepared to
chow that no person could, from the work-
ing of this oyster', of assessment, know any -
thief of any man'@ agars. No one ever
went to as s.seument roll in' the United
Nates to know what a man's affairs were.
He would illustrate this:—a person living
se Hamilton isight own real estate all over
(he Province. Ile m ;;ht own £10 000 in
this way, ani yet by the a•aeasment roll of
Benetton net appear to ba worth a cartb-
oug. 11e might bold stocks in j ,int stock
teammate., easensed at their head offices. —
The.g'i he had all this property he might
deduct from this every debt owed, 'and a
proton, holding this, might declare that be
het no personal preporty to tax at all in
11te.ult.n. Ili. lands might be in one
place: his bank stock in another; he might
A ere notlene t" tax ip Hamilton, lie had
•'w1 sired at New York, Boston and Oswego,
eel bad heard no one object to the working
of this law. To the last named. place, he
went in company with the present Mr.,
deetiee 23ullivan t%ea greatly opposed to
this taw: they sew the assessment rolls,
and they saw the brooks of a large and well
keowo bonne—Croker k Co., we under
stood—who were hardly assessed at all fur
Person ml property, though they were men
to saoat respectaele circumstances. With
re.erd to tea item, of assessment for
w eenie and the L'rnalic Asylum; it ala
plea then nwaere a personal property were
se ninth interested, and ought l0 pay a•
tooth as landed proprietors. Ile behoved
h tn. atomisers would find, if -they threw oat
Mte hill, that ti.ey would rent be thanked by
that• constituents. The bill had been tom •
'*"d to the Inglis* act, ;end it bad beep
• d1 that assessors m ghr, nodes lt, Oa into
'ne c,, sad examine the most minute aril•
else. 'Piet was a great mistake, and he
mol 'be h:ngtish income act in Iiia hand.
( ran .h eb he woall sheer whet power the
'ex *sneerer, had there. Isere the hon.
e}-veoeher toad *event paasagca from the
E'-'i•h act, to .bow the powers pearese04
b. the Ineurne-To* Cummf.sioners in Coy -
I...4 to evening peewee on oath, axaumin-
aeJelt bo•.ke Mee., tar the purpose of
+e•r•rag tax payers. Then what hal been
'+•en's, obsoxnius in tine tax in Eegland?
it orae thio—'he tax there was an lucerne
tel; net 1'kethii a pro erIy lax. Pers.'as
we; ht•1 no to lrt there had t pty.
-
P P y t1 o P y
Kopiro to a m ie there p sawed of no'hing,
mule titres urfata hundred a year by hes
oro'esslnn, and hard talon th min wo't!,i
►v e'ru-j.d as ranch s If he p'esaeel
£10 003 In the ,tort. That was tee
ground of complaint there, and it- di 1 not
eclat in the present hill. Throughout the
ssrietenral populati .n, they were almost
usaoirtonvly for the bl'1, an 1 if the ciente(
f .r assssiag personal property were struck
out, it would erecta the groateat detente
ttetfon amen: tee farmers. The grlvere.
meet had brow ht in to b II in the .!tip"'
they tlsoight 11 eight to pees; that orae to
pot a 'ex tee *eery men's property, real and
iete.neel. it watt net a new principle, by'
bad w Hiked wall se the Uane.I State*: and
he ,nenthsned thio, beenme Mr. (3. Wake-
d►'d. fn 1et3-11 that time one of Ohs
aero tj`•l she porters of the gentlemen open„ate-1tJ fn.J'@'riottely asserted th.t the
ministry imeifed to came this minters and
toe Unive's.ly bit, by Lower Cteale votes.
Ts, bt'tr hnwever, to 7,10, was carries(' by a
esti .r%t• ref U,$)'+r Cisalti votes, Ind he be-
lieved 11 a wna4 site be iso vitriol; but he
keew tet !bee, would bre opposition from
gentlwnro barlenging to S's own parly,and if
1'4 Sir a.rel feeling among them was .g•ia
tee p.r.eMJ property clause, the ministry
greyed atiotido• a:; bet on theihea.0 of toes
geliebreeee be the responsibility of test
shandeetaNla'. - Ne well kite* there would
r1 M tj..a.ds for it, Wbicb it would
f
hm pegliHe to 1
Mr. e,�►i:7e,. Oriel/4 mete agreed
wish the oe• t»al wile :piglet fa lb., g
tall, that • great cha'ge was d•ekaW wad
necessary is the semisweet law. It wee
very actuary with regard to realoperty.
e cru.* everybody knew, that is this cam
try lad was valued srbttrardy, without ay
kind of refr.oce to its actual vales, gad
that levees appetites was dose to the «bete
poptalala ie at Upper Canada. But to tbas
pages .f Lb. mama ease Meted 10 the
s t if pommel pisgsrty, ha ass se
pp.s.i sew se he Wag to 1844 tubes
a-.itNiar emosere wee proposed by hie boa.
fn.sd-from Oxford, moose she., lee ►N
ghee ►greet deal of cesajlpgWs t•ihe
abject, and heard ibis opiates@ of may
perrusue and lug objections to to sssasre
menaced uncharged. 11e elle. pouf/gas)
represented a rural constituency, and he
knew that thio was 0..t a popular bill in any
county is that part of Upper Canada from
which he saute. lle thought the bill was
founded un a Glee priociple, that it was the
wont arbitrary measure that could possibly
haw Wes ...based. la sensed to Imo c
most strange and Inconsistes.t. course fur
the boa, member to *tend up and urge most
powerful foremen's in favour of a repel! of
the Usury leaver, 0u as to induces capital
Into the country, sew) at the same tone
heap upon it an additional incubus to pre-
vent Its being brought into the cuuotry.—
it has been said that in England the tax
was on income; and be (Mr. Euulton)
thought it would be much more just to
place the tax oo,ineame than property, be-
cause the citizen and professional man,
-whn, ey his skill or iodustry'had sequined a
handsome income, wu guile as able to bay
a small tax, for the purpose of local improve-
ment and school, as the man who, not be
ng in any -,ray in business, had amassed an
amount of property in many inslaacc. !jt,
this conntry unproduet vis, and who was
gradually escheating a portion of it every
year.' The income tax too, was only re-
sorted to in England a dernier retort to
prevent the nation being piMlged year by
yeat d eper into debt, Ile admitted that a
p;opert) tax was • jolt tax un I.:ogland, be-
cause there, property of all kande had a
well regulated value, and every one having
properly for sale from a match tip to 100,-
000 quarters of wheat could get the fair
talus for his property; nut so In this coun-
try, where there are masses of property of
real intrinsic ,aloe, tor which, under pre-
sent circumstances, absolutely nothing
could be got. Hit was a to to be rained
from the rural population for rural purposes,
he wont' not object to it, but it war out so.
It was welt known that in the remoter
settlement., they would scarce nod a man
who was worth £800, gni in the whole of
Upper CanaJs, he behead there were few,
if any; wbo were not in debt. The tax In
the latter ease, te need not state, would
be inoperative, as, if their debt were paid
they might have noshing to tar- them fur.
It was said that there was nothing inquisi-
torial in the measure, but bo could nuke
Sia more iogeisitorial system than makidg it
imperative on a man to take an oath of
what he was worth, a large amount could
'swear he was worth nothing, whereas the
honest man, would be made to bear hue owe
burden and the burden of the dishonest
man as well. What honest man there-
fore, could take an oath for this purpose
and not think the measure ingoieitorial.—
fio might matinee the case of Mr. Bethune,
a veil, worthy man, who po.seeeed the
greater part of the aleamboats on Lake On-
tario—lay that he was in a state of insul-
,e•cy and that he was brought forward to
swear botv much he was worth. It might
be cud to hi n—why Mr. Bethune, Tod
have ton steamboats and each of these
steamboats Is worth £8000, this will lay
you open to a tax on £50,000, and if Mr
Bethune did not wish to swear that he was
not in a position to be trusted for £5, he
must attow himself to be taxed for the
amount Domed. Other ioetances of a like
n ature might be given. The bill in his
opinion was an obnoxious one, and not is
the present condition of the country called
for, and taking it in all its bearings, he
thought it one of 114 most unjust measures
which could possibly have been introduced
into the house. •li had been regarded with
aversion when introduced in 1843, and the
sane aversion -would:be evinced. toward it
now. lion. members had been warned by
the hon. Inspector 'General, bot in his turn
he would warn the government, not to carry
the measure through this snsron, but let it
he over tall the country had the opportunity
of expressing their _entimeota on the hub•
j-tct,
Mr. Te ,moan./ end Chit when. be con-
sidered that bon. eenhlemen were there to
do joatice to the p.Ntc, sod not to attend
to their own interest be wag deeidedly in
favor of tae bill. (Hear.) It was a mea
sure that would have the effect of pu'treg
on a mare.iegular femme, the taxation of
I tipper Citations. amongstllehnm the poor
Loin it of ereeeet mere heavily burdened
than the ne:. aur instance the lend worth
20e an acre ora lix'd a heavily u the
land which was worth :100: lied the mer-
cbant who soli 410,000 a..: sol Pty gay
snore than the merchant «he gC d o'tty
£t,000.—(11'.r, hear, hear.)
Mr. MitaauT was delighteel to hear the
remark• of the Loc gentleman who had
just spokes, as he was precisely the per-
son from whom any mart• of approbation
weelil have weight. 11e cared Dot if capi•
nal were in lands, money, bolds or mort-
gage; it was all liedle to lineament under
any @bond etymons of taxation. It eras not
intended to MMcreae@ the taxation by one
farthing, but to mike a fair and emiel d1yi-
sinn of it. linnorable gentlemen appeared
to furget that the farmer at present pays
the whole taxation, as could be seen by •
reference to a list of articke taxable under
the law mf 1x19. There is enure capital in
the country, and he •houli like to know on
what principal ean;tal •'rnuid be exempted
trn,t tatetion ? He could wee no good rhea•
.6n «17' it .h mld not be suhj3cleJ to an
eq'titabl• tat, (nsts'ad of plotting the *hull
s•nonet of that tainting on the agrieulturiat.
Ile he' ?nerd a great deal respectingthe
iaq'ri•itertat niters of !erring the tie na-
dor thte taw, that it wooed M exceedingly
unpoplrisr. F1.1 «ae preperee to admit that
it would be nnpnputar among the Eo pasp-tputatinn, beeans° they did not lad tame
it; but on the contrite, it salad be far
among the Americas population, became.
they wield nnierataad perfectly .bat the
assenev was not to go into a man's bonus
ant valem grey artie fl contained, s the
man levtriahl ap,year.d to think.—
of that being the cam, the apes
gagli
last.*
tar te ll'k5 the vedette, from the proprietor.
That wee lee principle on which'they pre-
paid oe at, end 1t was the 'sass principle
that lila hero acted es fa yeve is lit.
Catbenen. aril hoe term@ is Canada, sad
be bad n.,t h. s Meg'. dose of sham -
faction; but ff rt) were eggrof►ed by
the sea sem 'am aha 1•e high, by
Q carter Saslow isd
oist before
sakhlw tatfhlit le MN awe% mid te the
eMt>•Z of peree•sl prepeny he was worth;
be mail sot he used fee my 1s.,sr a -
maw thee that emotional is to tree
M.. Wigan said, there was eat • toes•
ewes beta* the blouse, which wield be
sore eseseetly diaweeed net of Mese made,
then Lha sea Las befitorthein, wcseoa,i
pprromotes, «veryevert hyo
bowel:016e h .1141 wesabsp. y
Nov 011111.11111 more ease M him, omd Mate
jest ibex ibis, that wary isdteiigst is the
mn.musifir, awe* eattribols soceabbg se
Mie wase, as vltiitab1s share of welt tasa-
tice, as was Imposed for ala general bees -
6t of spit cossasity. lithos bill proposed
the feu Jieeoeer, of every end. map of
pipet taxes, it did all that emote be
for the rating of those taxa would 14 YR.
to the local authorities themselves, wall
were to say, bow much was required. and
how see\ ribald be rated. Tbat the direct
taxation of the Upper Province, with iew
years esreeptle•e, was tads for ' rsrpefsd
purely local, and by the local authorities
them/mile., ram a well understood, as
scarcely to requre notice, except for the
purpose of embracing the whole range of
the question. 'These local %aloe, up to tbn
present time, had been rated, and imposed
upon se arbiter, valoalioa or sesesuae•t
of real or pereosal property. The subjects
of assessment ad tannins—Ant attunes
and the rate which could be unposed upon
them, ss the lap now blood, might' he tithe
roneteely stated. F:very acre of arabk
pa:tore or meadow land, 20s; every acre of
uncultivated hied, 4o; every town lot, mu-
le, in . York, Kingston, Niagara, and
Qneenstor, £50: Cornwall, Sandwich,
1 Jubnatowa, and Belleville, Cie; every tow•
lot on which • dwelling house is erected is
the town of Brockville, LSO; every tows lot
on which • dwelling. house to greeted is 11e
town of Bath, £20; every house beset with
timber squared or hewn on two sides, of
one story in height, and nut two storms,
with not metro than two fire -places, £90;
fur every additional fire -plate, £4; emery
dwelling house built of egaarc or Ratted
titaber on two sides, of two stuns* in height
with not more than two fire places, £30;
and for every additional fim place, £8; every
framed Louse upder two nonce ire heirht,
with pot more than two fire-pl•eee, £35:
and fur every additional fire•plaee,£5; every
brick or atone house, of one story in bight
and not more than two fire -place., £40;
and fur every. additional tire.placi, £10;
every framed brick er stories in bight, and
not more than two fire -pleas, 160; any
additiun,l fireplace, £10; every gust mill,
wrought by water, with nee pate. of atones,
£150; every additional pair, £50; every
saw Mill, £ 100; every merchants shop
£100; every store house owned or °retyped
for the receiving. and forwarding goods,
wares or merchanhize for hire or gain, £200;
every horse kept for purposes of bite or
gain, £19; every horse of the age of three
years and -upwards, £8; oxen of the age of
four years and upwards, per head, £4;
mileb cows per head, £3; horned cattle
from the age of two years to four years, per
head, 20a; every close carriage with four
wheels, kept for pleasure, £100; every
carricle, gig, nr other carriage, with two
wheels, k"p: for pleaaure only, £i0; every
waggon kept for pleasure, £ 15. lie said
that, on no other kinds of property than
these, could any rate bo imposed—and it
naturally suggested itself to ask, whether
these things, and thea. pair, were the true
representatives of a ma'. mane t and
whether the valuation was equitable 1 The
answer to both enq'iinca appeared obvious.
The property above enumerated, regeheJ
bet slightly the means of the wealthy.—
The valuation wu originally in most in-
stances arbitrary, and from the develope-
ment u( tho resources of the country, had
become unjust. Thirty years ago, when
land could be gar for almost sskiog, it might
have been well enough to estimate It ail at
an equal value; but it could not be so Dow -
If land had been worth tmpruving at all, it
could not be of les value whet improved.
than £3 per acre, and from thiourea mteht
range to £25 in the neighborhood of our
caries. 'l'ne Government env) of wild
land was now 8s; but even ibis might be-
come, from situation, as valuable as if 1t
were improved. But by the law, even as
amended by the District Council Act of
1841, no lad could be taxed over a penny
oo the acre,—no', raeUcally, the moot re-
mote and poor settler pail as high • tax
on his land, as the most wealthy farmer in
the immediate aeighhorhood of a city or
large tuwn. By wise policy, valuable un-
improved lands, retained merely that they
Blight incemme in value, by the improve
meet of other lands about them, bethought.
eoifht to be rated yearly, al their increased
value, sod taxed accordingly,—while land
of little value should be rated and taxed in
the same way, and not by mere general and
Arbitrary value as established in 18110.—
Then as regarded personal property, no one
could gay that 11s possession or nut, of the
property aSeto enumerated, was the tree
1 enlerioo, by whleb to judge of a man's
means of raying taxes. There are some
i!dications of wealtb, properly embraced by
the bill, int other', tt whiph it gtaeped, by
no moans sustafeed those- inJ?calions, oa
the contrary they tru:e indicated a decay-
ing not a ilounsheng state of a !nays again,
col iodieated poverty with re0metltcot Morel
than aits•aenea. There wag sometu;ag
offensive perehaps In rho mode of atm opo -
ration, and ie tbi teeing powers of its ot5
cera, which ought to be modified. Theo
there were exemptions, which should not
have been male, to the extent, at least pro-
posed by the boll. On the other hand there
were sons, things omitted, which might
fairly bare ban put to the bill as subjects
of taxation. Ile bad been wields so du -
cover, why the income of profeavfonal les
should not be embraced in this bill.
Mr. llrtyxisoe went over the items on
which the axauoa in Upper Canards was
Row charged, by which he oho wed tbat one.
third of ,.bat sum was levied en personal
property, heJ two third. on lands; w that
persona l property del sol sow seeape, *ad
he thought soma wh,c't did not now escape
would do •o mailer this tell. This hill we.
copied almost verbena from the law of the
tl'ate of New York. From leas Stat, .d
New York there was mowed on 'eat
property $800.000,1100: os pbrso•a! pyuper-
ty $1113,000,000, so Ibat the latter was bot
we-tourtk; out of Se $Iiit,000,ogors
m the city of New York, eta 16*t loot of
New York Dearly 19 -40th• of the whole
bordan fell un the lard.
Ur. U.stuoe (booed wowed the de -
lade of ti@ bin ribenld vete ins shoo mold
retain. He agreed u yr
the Maio yummier
of the bill that • ;more equitable arum of
taptiwS al. durable is Upper Canada;
bet he olg•pwd to the gamma/ chants.e of
the MB. mai .**mid oppose abet eirssasia
te consi)bred that the Mil, similes te
"hie 1111rri.eed is 15111, was ow of the
plssipi.•esa of 1NSgMgt of the party
et the rowel elective iatiwsiistely after-
wards. H. knew tat the prseeat sa.ase-
sent law pressed Wavily us the poor mea,
g ad es them who heed is the lack -woods,
sad lightly es those vela lived ss frost
tow ipso And . he knew that seem
�M_ Mem Sillagag at he
ememee '1s�S ttQ g�glgobno law
tl�q obnoxious.
rersosol 1s a s.rs iia
these. Ta boas er ssenl had
refereed to As Memel, flee! York ; but be
(Mr. Morrison) did sol think we ought to
g o Mere fur our laws and lesulation, We
might eery «.11 refer to their principles,
bet we 'Mould not copy leo clearly from a
repuls:an country. 1d1 (Mr. M.) ham
that the personal classes et tale bdl were
.benstnus to the majority albs people of
Uppac Coad., Erery fetor 1w bad .eeele-
ed hes kb cowUlt@ots bad pressed upon
him the sese.slty of ealeay.wrag to pre-
vent die inesenre frons passing through the
Howse. H. (Mr. Mariana) wee glpd to
hear the 'specter -Gement say that 1(a ma.
purity of mashers fres Upper Causda were
opposed to thew personal clause,, be would
ahandoo them lath pieaasie. He believed
that the hon. member would find a majunty
of ti:a.Upper Canada members were oppos-
ed to thew elation& The bon. Inspector -
General had referred particularly to the
merchants as the parties who were to be
sexed. (Ile Mr. M ) was not there for
the purpose 'of protecting the mercantile
interest ; but he would tell the Inspector
General that the merchants of Toronto, and
the merchants of Upper Canada were en-
titled to soma rhpece ; and when they said
that floe ora a most ;ngntetonal measure
he (Mr. M.) thought ,bey were quite cer-
met. Indeed it was bat seee.sary to refer
to the bill Itself, to show that it .-as most
inmesteriel. Bet hie prineipl objection to
the bull was. that the people of Upper Cana-
da were opposed to it : and even the minis-
ter,a: press bad thought 1t prudent not to
dawns.* the measure. lie was in favorer of
the principle of the bill—notform taxation :
and he was sot against a personal property
system, but it must net bit obnoxious to
the people.
Mr. Mischa—What is your system 1
He Mr. Morriaoo had no system. He
tool 1t (or grated %be Government would
bring down • proper measure, but he did
not thick they had done so. Ile thought
th. Government ought not to have pressed
Ibis measure as a Gn,anmgnt measure;
the measure would not ova soy revenue to
the Government, and they might, by means
of a Ousels the muni,-•ipal act, have given
the Merest localities power, If tbey„tbonght
proper to adopt these personal clauses ;
but they should bare been omitted from the
geverounent measure. The hon. member
coocluded hie speech by sawlog that he
would vote fur the second reading of the
bill ; but oppose it as forcibly as possible in
Its other stages,
ler. R,ckardt
expressed himself struck
with the observations of the hon. member
for the Third Riding of Yo:k, and eras sur-
prised that he had taken up the subject so
warmly. The hon. Inspector General bad
said that he would not press this taxation
clauses if he was not supported by a ma
jbnty of the upper Canada members, but be
would have Lb. hon. Inspector -General to
recollect that although he ,night not get
a majority of member. from Upper Cies
to support him, he mida
ght have the support
of those who represented the majority of
the people of Upper Canada.
Inspector -General Hiwejcs explained that
he had said if be was not supported by a
majority of the Upper Canada members she
supported the Ministry—the Liberal mem-
bers—he would not press the clauses.
Mr. Robinson said there it inequality Un !Cr
the present law and there weal l be 'equal-
Ity under the bell. At present .there wee to
the Home D.statct about half the whole tax
i levied on personal propeary ; now that
t would escape under •the present bill, fur all
roperty under £300 would be exempteJ.—
I The hon. member read a latter from *•ge.-
tlemen who he said had iotrodneed a great
Ideal of capital to the country, but who de-
clared capitalists would not invest here if
this bill passed. Ile was matey to adopt an
.q•sitable systeoffor wild lands and some
other parts of the bill ; but there were many
details to which he must object,
Mr. C.ameroa remarked ,hot the bill was
said be to ubnoaaoes:but all those gentlemen
who had spoken an l who lived not in towns,
but among the neople, and therefore knew
their feeling., declared the measure world
be a popular one. He was glad the hon.
lm•pector General had explained the pnsin
on in which the Goveri*rnenf,anod end Le
pefecrly understood it ; -but he'hopeJ it
would not be necsssry to withdraw the
personal property clause, for if so -he could
'.net 'support it. He was himself merchant
with about £g000 invested in shipping and
village lots which were worth £25 or t30
leach. Now, if he had land in the bush he
paid like his neighbor, i8s 84 tax for 100
acres not worth more than t;3 each ; but
for the virago -lots of which be bad already
sold £6,000 worth, and was daily selling
others he paid nothing at all. How then
could he vote to tax every persosproper-
I ty sod exempt hn
himself, If there were any
clause which he wonld like to see amended,
it was that to exempt property under £300
In value, which he theught too high. 'The
;.lel embraced the four great principles of
cq,,Rite a i* 'i;on -first, that it should be
proportioned to the meaos of those who paid
and the benefit they derived ; second, that
it should be comate, and not ori::;:;7 ;
third, that it should be collected is the
mast cenverdent season ; and forth, that it
shout bo collected with the leant possible
expense. The bill would impose oo new
tax ; but was only intended 10 make the
Wel bear moreeq'arlabiy.
Ur Jolters** *epees red his determination
to vete ler the seeoed reading, although be
weld wish to ea some alteration in the
deWle, and therefore would reserve to titm-
meld the right .f voting for or against the
third reading, accerileg to tb. alb/ratios,
etb• swlios for the second realise wee
taw pet and earned is 1*. aarmatlee.
lees.—Mawr. Atitrong, Attorney Go-
ne1M Baldwin, B,antiss, Sell, So!icitot
Cabral Blake, eroltoa of Norfolk, Ban.
UMW B`arrttt, Cameron of Kent, Career,
(;'lattehon, Ohaureeo, DeWitt, Not. Four.
nese, Foerquais, (*wliee Hatt, Ilincke,
Holl, Jebel. Johnson, Attempt! Generali
Wa•au, Launn. McD.seald of Gleeful!,
McQrssell. idei'arland, Msrmene, NY.lsou,
Naasah, PelIel•a, Prtce, Richards, Stott of
Two Yenwtaiaa, Mmith of Weetworth,
Teske, Thempens, Viggteer,asd Wilsee,—l9,
Nap:--Neeeignn Eadgley, Bea nes of
Temort., VtDeeatd of I ;egaton, t Uo01,
Rebiseem. 8eysesr and Stevenson, -17.
Ta hill was rad • meld ultra, and
eosmitted fur Friday next.
RECEPTION OP IMMIGRANTS IN
CANADA.
Ws Meow bet whether most to wonder at
tint MOM *sweet of the Colosrl..t)bice
ill
sOMIMMIles, or its mbc►pvow action
While «w sit pesdsrtsg witit
040? Um Iola
• M
lie Ger malign fait thw
et the edam tliiiatetsil
o•, tritons laaiip potshots, M fetidly Pe -
polled by the bottle occaabsed by tie at-
tempt to threat convicts and a cossututioo
epos the Cape Colony. Ta whimpers to
which the loael treaty was conducted, for
extending the sway of the ferret -catchers
,s the north ween, are rendered inaudible
amidst tbe growls of the planters of Guiana,
as they tastily endeavour 10 thrust 16e Col-
onial Secretary out of the inanagemeu% of
their 1411&1L . Ta 8eoretary tee morale of
perverseoesm. He insists upon doing the
Meioses of ose•balf the world for them :
and poettiesly iateelicts (heather half from
doing a 'lb rag at a11. Now he ••bestndes
the ea row world like a Colossi'—a•J
anon, as it struck *lib cataleapy, be studs
le ea elegant pose, geeing upon vacancy.
There are defseulIies ha the way .t the
introduction of immiruts into Canada—
but di.ficulues are only recegois'd 6) iouda
of a certain order, as trials of •kill—they
are looked at, to be overcome. Brans Las
known a minister who *Io a cgs of im-
possibility was presented to him, prersug,
in the whist of his agony, his goofy foo.
upon the ground, could cry with vehemence,
"Tell him he baa to do with a mint.ter wbo
treed* epos i,apossubl,lie• 10 Bat our
Secretary is Bite to Ceara.* as w • to Ilan
melee
Theprovince suffered much incoorenioce
from the number of immovable in 18j7.—
Due the Pretext/it Goverena.at propose to
itself some large, scheme to afford them a
tatter roc.pth•• fur the finer ? No such
thug. 11..xclainaiius, is "G.•od my Lord
Gear, for the love of mercy keep those fel-
lows at home: or If you cannot keep them
there, we eanoot hay• them hen. Let
them, if they must come out, knock at the
neat door. There is plenty of room fur
them in the Stats. Our forests, it Is true,
want clearing ; but tbat will do two w
three centurlee hence. We *hall perhaps;
by that time be in the humour to snake a
oleo or two in the way of progress."
Every rod of roadway driven into the
waste, iacuaees by ea much the productive
land unite pwtiao.. Employ the immi-
grants at • feir remuneration per diem in
making these roads, and they will in a short
tune bare saved each oue enough to pur-
chase • few acres of the land to which they
have opened acccae, pitying down a certain
portion, aid the remainder of the purchase -
money by several instalments. The price
paid them by the province („r making the
road would "enable them to purellaee pro-
visions, and to mainta n themselves sod
their families untl the titre when they had
some land cleared, and had secured a crop.”
A private •peculator cnulJ thus work a
million. of acres to profit. But it steins
that Government is simply paralysed -for
want of means. Cepi,aluts are aby of to
vestment 10 Canadian schemes. "We can-
not obtain," says a local paper, as loan of
money necessary to construct a few miles
of railroad- Although a British dependen-
cy, and under British protecion, we carnet
obtain a tithe of the capital lent willingly to
those whom some hare been pleased to carni
our rival... We rnu•t awake sooner or
later to the fact that our vett is bad."
This is too bre--a dependency of • patio,y
ofeapltahst. so managed that the capital-
ists of that nation r•fero to invest in provin-
cial enterprises. We agree with the wri-
ter already quoted, that "there is evidently
so:refh+c„ wron,. n, 1 a etould be the duly
of the statesman to discover where the
error lies."—Emmigrnaf.
HURON SIGNAL.
FRIttAT. APRIL Ilk ION.
'THE MO1TREAL TRANSCRIPT AND
E HURON SIGNAL
Ova talented friend of the Trmaruyd has writ-
ten a long common -aeon article in r -ply to err
remake, on hit pot ey, in the Signal of the 23rd
Much. Now, there is. in reality, no point of
differeaes between the Tran'..: and ourself is
regard to the prineiple of paying the rebdGoo
losses: but we regret to pereei.e that onr eotem-
puary has miaosde►etood us ea this subjeet.—
IVe have sever, so far as we as swan ekefsedsd
either what Is colied iM pointy ai/ etrawi ssq, or
yet the policy of Legislation by precsdewt, sed
if ea the s.bieet sf the Rebellion Leas*. we
have written anytbieg which may bet uadentood
as a delouse of ..eh policy, we have dose so in-
adrQteatly. The True -ripe nye. •'regarded
is its' sb.Ireet char/Neter, the question suede
thee, ms it a nght aid pest thing that woe portio,
of the eommuniry shall bo paiebed for tae
wicked and Illegal ecu .1 amber peitioal"..-
And tau Editorial headed The Qesatiee ex-
amined on ire own rent•••• in the Miguel of the
23:1 February, we expt.ased the following sonti-
mentt'—
"Fee our ewe part, we am oppa•sd w
preeedeur Legislation, in every sioete tsetse**,
gad were we to eumies tlint taesties of eom-
pensatiod for rebellts Ilse* apes the abstract
principles et Jesriee, we woatil at 'nes discard
it as enema i• all ewe, and pee flarly so la
Canada." • • • •• Ws refuse to pee either
the Leyaiet or the Rebel : the country suffered
sufficiently dense the rebellion, is .o..terbel-
l.aessay rood which they hen mace droved
kern it, gad hence N. eases way of mtdisg the
Messes 1 jest se allow the pre6e gad as e
wad against each other." !• it is
eertalaly a pity of than who Ion tkeir property
and ware redacted to indtgroee en access(of the
rebellion. We feel for theea, eat raid eMa t-
fetty estribate oar humble remits to mare data
ae • vet notary aet of rieeeeiy ; bet we eertal t
ly gaieties their Witt to dorsad, er the ri t
of a leeielatan to give eesp•asassw say
eneetpl. Ma. caste M..ag•iaq ie rebasing•
hew «he bad lost kis prepsty H se*
6r.. Te eats wpenwtime as apght s•
eeerneehreset ea she nghts tai raprasisa •( the
peered* lobe:M se. t Liege a rhes
rasps*eible fm the destdasf telt bit. La.
&stela may erg. bel '1pgeed�kt�ti' w die
OAeg - bptl\aa 1e►
p►tneipie of ttpp.v
mem of ahmews
natter, eta claim ses d oetspeseai.•
free the gepele 11f ntgada, ken soy 1401
heist Ares tb. Piss ipjel Tenraq.'
Aad is smellier artielr is *same pap,,, we
send that w hard se areteas y wish as H.
LsiseiMes Iewledeme, es we regaled
the dummies el d .a/* pssaleme s he my
'paler, spesise .1 kelslatiee ere whish es le -
le 'hes1, we have not. s far a nes ass swim,
ear Mammal N of IM Pa-
in
Gas
.a11tl
IS' do sola il< illtr�-te •doth
is lis tar.lglr, viersiso ist.a�d ev gat* the
mt me reap Pa",iw dadim*. getup.
ridges the Mier want pI. is the
traders el a6. Coaser,u.. Party, It is tree
that ass kaki L eon ma,
Int see me taieiy s hie sad ei
stalest .raMtios .s las palia meed, end .tee
Seating 1s deeds sf "see eel espies mads
a policy epoch they them ehee hair lateed.eed,
had acted .n, gad bad toweled se carry set, the
tush offered to the aadetamoSegis -ant emine-
pie is eerraloly too iron to b. ward Deer in
silence. No rsa.e.able 8105 *as for a swims
sappea* that the Mammies' .spread 'pint
the itssel.tiw of Ms, Lalwtaisa la ad Him.
Willner Ceyky gad lee Maas. wee eimearei—
They were *wam tet they .batt 6d«w est flee
very measere—they haw the. ti. UpparCeaa-
ds Reb.gtes shies erre p oa ter &tries
ualer.tasdieg that the Lower Cassia slatma
shield be paid Sts►• -they were aware tW soh
a reeaara weekl, as '• matter of ewers., be
lough' isreard. sad thereto', their is.igeatius
was a mere setas. And however maul wt may
madman the p.lier .f Lazing the.wholo people
for she misdeeds or a few ioditiJaal., we feel e
m..6 deeper detestation for a dehbsu}e aid sys-
tematic attempt to gall and Malt the whole
people. We sever can hare say sympathy
. rah enemas—w.,w..ld rather be befdfy robbed
o f a paned than be gulled era peony.
N.mry dentewd pounds i., no doubt, a large
aura s( mosey to be paid for nobles ; but wlils
we wend uahesitatiagly drawees the pafnie.r
of leis sum, or of oiaety (lirtbiage iit the perdue..
of poet stat toppon, no would williegly prefer
the psym.ct of Dice rimu ninety thou. -sod
pounds, to the rebellion, and bloodabed which
the •• i.dionatiooi.t." seem to contemplate as
1 the only means of regaining place. IVs are
1 aware that dui threateoiog sad inciting to re -
bend,. was confined chiefly to each papers as
Ulf Slootrral Gazette, sad of coifs. meant
n othing but an ebullition of dt.appoioted *pieta :
still it ought ti L. severely drooeneed and its
authors hr!J up to scorn and ridicule. We lad i
• large ■meuat of this pope coarses exhibited
is Godrnch ; peat B:i, dee)aring "Ne Sur-
render," and Corea:sting to ' • [be first :" bit
we remarked at the lira., that if oar e..ragreei
tewnamro could be ,wrested hos dyiug of
Delirirra Town or of henget resulting from
iadotesee, we would become security that they
wool) scarcely perish by the swan!. Now, cap•
posing that all the threatsiop about rebellion
sod " ansexatiuu," were jut Of measieg:ete
'broom the Province, as 'they were at Goderell ,
yet, we my that seep stuffasd its authors should
be held .p to caaterp'. Bash reckless eoad.et
might pa•sitly have the eject of Idaho' to pas
tial outrage., such, for temasee, as t6e lea risk
produced ,a Toroato by the vicious i.tiamato:y
articles of the Patriot ; aol, at all *,eats these
characters hart performed their share ;of lite
labor, and incurred their mirth:t of dee. meet of
prodaciog a rebelitoi ; acid have, therefore, fur -
ceded their right to the blessings and protection
of their country's laws. But though t1..lay
stens e indignation" ineetiegashart e'entemel\tei
nothing farther than a eba of Goveie,nait,
sod the accession of the Tory parry to poser,
.e wood have felt bested to topple, and fiJe-
c.ile them, even to the fall extent of oar
Toryism has has bees the tient term of the world,
and certtlialy.is •e gorges .f the gale, ate t1•1,
traces of its withering influence trrere Jeep?y and
d.wiacdy visible than in Cuada. It has, is
fact, kept the country alms., ia fto erigiaal
edderaes state, compared site the eatediti.a of
oar prosperous and progres-ing neighbors, and
oo good man who is acquainted with the fact
that all the goad which has evn resulted from
legislation to t6ie o.aatry, has been produced Ly
Ow very mea who are Madera of tis. Hneoa
Go,erameot, would, for .n. lastest, hesitate in
paying his penport,.n of ninety the.seaapmede
rather than suffer the Prosince to be again cab•
jested to Tory seprematy. Tbis is not .14 es
tradentaad by •' political expedieoey ;•• it is ib.
policy of corrtmoa.'se—it is eSoedog the lees,
of two evils—tbs ninety thousand pound. is
heavy nim, ata.nutiae to perhaps, fumes or
IS pence a bead to the «bole pnpotate's, a abort
tis* and a Mule exertion will taab:s se to get
quit of theft/rem penes. but it is possible that
neither we ass our chili/reit might get rid of the
efets elf another Tory Govrrameat.
We iron the Editor of the Transcript will
atter earceire that we have not lest sight of ear
"moral coagtatuey end steal prlitiasl hosiery"
on this greatt.a .f the Rebellion Bowes- We
do set approve el the principle. We de au
purify t6e aet if sb. Ooy.rsm.N is the metele C
but as we ar• always iaekaed to rpeteglai jft
• Inge properties bf hamnity•. est $ w0
ep•Imgi.e for t6e eanduct of the Goveremut io
this particular iostaared car apology in
chiefly founded oo the good whish Urs parer
has dsi tad to likely to d.: besides w• have
smelt 4. inveterate dread .f Toryism, ail pool!
alert', a Canadian Temente, 7b•t lie wall*
coastal to pay syttle. wtt6a the reiieb .r
pecania..ares.at►,ttahea to ask of
nbmittiag►y rei. Toryta�ra$..er.r. U..im4..s ad
Clergy Reserves always weed yew sere s the
diedr-*aettof a'erythieg that lawmtby she sane
of raligiss, gad as the aboelate lades le west**
vetepraoeenees sod prieetly despotism. Morn -
Deer, we ha.e what the Tra.crerl beget), b
mos to M. is hi. opiaios, •' a moral-certaut
sage the Toy patty, if is paw weald
paid the Rebeltls claims @ As
Way es Mr. l.dbotalas•s `. w to
pay them. It has ossa .14...
(meat that the Tey t> the etl►.kr
Vpprt Canada eM tierof Mr. MAW
e M wwln
disgorge, ,.msr N W Steels tegeogi
is. the Ferment M the Ottfotd resets in, iag'\r
Me Nat of the egiutiee, ity Maher y,h.r.,,
h
her iMaleety's /sleet art etre
Most 1 bg. her plsegs their baptism kijimigmti
tli.agh t1p smbai. ef s Y.ni a O bei
hs w • rebel. a1 sAmwa.J. pep 1\• Intl__
ods. Ise tush peep rip. N LLL .
gnat sad •walLM.dtettw.
met ter ►ie hetes' rilaillitakzat
se.ss el by Rm. We
as we lied 16s. red me. em dm segos 15 herwd