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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1850-05-16, Page 114 ,,. , . --" TEN It li l L L IG tl t rr AAAAm t;a• e S • VOLUME III. Ipattrg. From the Americas Citizen. THE TIME TO DiE. IT OAST or - -- 010.1.. Wb.s is it 1 wires ehildho- od is fresh se4 green, Aso thesilvery lassie rugs clear, Aad die Gooey brew with ilea settee sheen Is free from the touch e( sate, Is that the dee for the eye to close Arad aha hp be hushed to its hart rote Ah as! fee a gentle moihn's grief Weald be shed o'er her early toot: Aad the Ws of that &ewer would seem toe brief Te be blighted by Death's field frost, Whea dor spirit is fres as Ma soft wiod's breath. Oh week it sot chill at the thoeght■ of death ? When alit? when rook has subdued the g!re Aad gam it • gentler toes.; Aad the dreams et childhood Mm erased to be Aod tM brow has more theugirifel grown, And aim( speaks forth is the Mimosa eye, Oh I tell roe, is this they, a time to die T Ah no ! tor the youthful heart 1s warm, Aad cold is the situ* grave : And the tempest rode, sad the wintry storm Would risere is their wildness rave: Aad assay • lip would forget to smile, If the Ivied were sleeping is death the while. Wises Is 1t? when •`e shall have dim'd the eye. Aadf.rmwed tM brow and eheek Aad the sdlv.y treks which above them Fie. O( seamy • wins. *peek: Wald Ma woes wee rest from bis labors Mee. Aad dwell w more 'raid the haus of tura 1 Ab. so! thosgk du rummer of life be put. And rime se the form hath told. There is s spell o•ee the spirit net, Whose isloesee weer grows old. Thor is se age so the berms kurt— Ob) when slaseld at alai, from its life depart? LABOUR. aT cosestea - V. ease. Hr ! ye wheat tM un- it toil, And strike the seesdi.g blow. When from the burning iron's breast TM sparks 8y to sad fro, While aesureleg te the Mmmer's rise, TtIll fire's istaieer gem — Oh ! while ye feel 'tis hard to reit Aed sweet the leas day through. Rsrm cab. it is harder still Ta have se work to do. He ! r who till tM'tsbbera sotl, Whale had bands Aide the plough. Who heed helloed' dew Demmer son, Wish burlier' .hock and brew— Ye deem dm cares adtt chap to earth From .Id.e time till Dow ! Bet whets ye ked 'tis Mrd to toil Asd !sheer all day through, Ream:ober 1t is Miler mitt Te bargee Werk to do. He ! ye wipe 'leech the see's him field— Wha ride the restl.m ware, Breda& w►.so gdlaet newel'. keel Term 111. 5 yawaiag grave, Armed whom hark the woltry wiede Like friends .f fury rave Ob ! while ye feel 'tie hard to toil And labour long hoer. through, Remembee it is border milt T. haus* wort to d.. H. ! ye epee wbaw fevered cheeks The keens glow i. bright, Where meats' toil wears oat the day Aad half the weary eight, Who labour for the Goole .1 men, Champions et trot sed right— AMhough gee feet reef toil i. hard, Ems with this glorious view, Remember it is haler still Te bars Nweektode. Ile ! all who labour—all who strive— Ye wield a lofty power : Do with year might, do with you stresgtb, Fill every (oldies hour ! The giorius pri.ikge to do Tv maa's meet amble dewer, Oh ! t. your .w • sesk's be tree! A weep wombed life is thein Wbe have se week to do. AGRICULTURE. air THE ASH OP' PLANTS. Cosdoesed from • ve- ry vateable and ela- borate article in Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, now publishing by Meters. Mackie k Son Glasgow. •' when ordinary wood, or coal, or say Plast is horsed, a certain amount eif isenm b.etible matter remains behind, cepa- dolly known as ashes. Them consist of the misers!' asterisk, which the plants forming the wood or coal have taken from the soil, and retained within themselves.— is feel they are u indispensable to the growth of the plant, as the carbon and wa- ter wbiett forms its principal bulk. With - est their aid, many of the most important eseatitwats of the plaint could not be pro dosed, and on their presence depends much of the valise of s Neil or a manure for the growth of crepe. The composition and ales the quantity of ashes is very mut- ably seeereeg to the hied of plants hem which they have been derived; bot, within email thefts, they are constant for the same ktsd of crops. It dose, Indeed, son.titmes happen that one ingredient is snbetilst.d for soother; bet he meth cats the new .ubAasees has very moeb the Same sheslee! cher icters and properttee as that whiei it replaces." The pertamelsr quo*iu of mineral Toed. whish the diflbrest kiods of plants draw Meer tis sea, are ansrtgirj Ue analy- sis of their ashes; but. "it would he of little nautical valeta Y ridgy Andy gent the mese e1 the whole put; berm** d$A►rent psty d tilt lut.ffjiAitpelly cos- �A� {W d, resoIs1 iselmSS �.. 1 cal 1 1011111 "THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO TBR GREATR8T POSBIBLR NUMBER." GODRRICH, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1850. , the tuber of the potatoe contains in it aslies re much as eighty-six parts io the hundred of the salts of potash and soda, while the herb contains only four parts of the earns basin. The herb of the potato. contain as much as fifty -eine parte of the salts of lime and magnesia, sed thirty-six part.. of alien; while the tuber enese..es only (our• teen parts of the former and none of the latter." Again; suppose • farmer has removed twenty tone of turoips from an acre of hie I int, and desires to ascertain the quentrty of mineral food they have abstracted from the soil, the simplest calculation mettles him to arrive at the result. "Twenty tons are equal to 44,800 lbs.; now s■ a hundred parts or pounds of turnips contain 0.66 of ash by one analysis; 43,800 lbs must contain, in round numbers, 295 lbs of ash. The larger proportion of wheat consists of alkalies, there being about 184 the of potash alone." " A good crop of barley is on an average forty bushels per imperial acre, though fre- queotly more, the estimated weight of the bushel being fifty-two lbs; the weight of theatre, as estimated to be, ono .fourth more than the grain. lo 2080 lbs of barley grata 49 the min. food, In 4000 lbs do. straw 159 dn. Total 808 lbs. "The produce of a fair average crop of oats may be takes at fifty bosh.le, weigh- ing 40 pounds the bushel; the produce of the straw, being taken at two-thirds more than the grain. in 2000 Ibe oat grain, SKIM mineral food. la 33321bs oat straw, 170 lbs do. ^_ Total 22e lbs. "Oats it will thus be seen extract a pro• portiunstely largo quantity of inorganic in- gredients from the soil. The ingredients are is the following proportione:"— P.ttash 9.72.•••32,54.•••42.26 Sods 1.44••••18.47••••17.9* Magnesia•• 4.24.••. 6.48.•••10.88 Lime 2.87.•••13.71••••15.119 Phosphoric Aetd • 10.65. •.. 4.35... • 14.90 Sulphuric Aetd•••.0.75...• 5.54•••• 6.89 8tliea t7.30••••82.31••.109.61 Peroxide of iroe and loee..1.92.... 8.65.... 9.27 Chloride of sodium 0.11, • • • .... 0.11 - 68.0 170.0 9117.00 Thee analyses confirm the notion Omar. fathers, that • crop of barley or bur was easier on the iaed than one of oats. • They also enable the farmer to see et a glance, what he must restore of inorganic material to the land, is order to keep up its fertility. Of courer, as the straw draws from the land by far the larger proportion of the in- organic meterial to the land, thou who are is the habit of restoring great pert of it saturated with urine, as a eon.titutent of their farm -yard dung, will require a much le.e quantity of inorganic manure than those who sell It off the land, or even con• sums it •11—as the Rev, Mr. !hatable doe.—as fowl. And, as to the rine, our or:mon to, that the most valuable form in which it can be employed as ■ manure, is when •bwrbed eo straw, chaff and what- ever debris the homestead affords; our groat aim in our own practice is sever to allow the liquid, is Any other shape, to pees the bye -door. A great object with the farrier ' Mold be, by all swam in hie power, to iserease the bulk, as well as the quality of his cereal crops: for in cooneetion with abundant green crops, this will ensure abundasee of the Mat m••rn•, whole a starved soil perpectnates attrvatron. BUTTER MAKING FOR MARKET. a 0000 WSOUTIOT. Mr. Edit.:—Yoe an aware that there ie mach dittrre.ee in the quality of the better venally sold in our town' and eines: and we who make and, a well as these who bay, suffer great injoniesaed incoaveaieoee, seating from the fact that many purehasscs are not good lodges of better, old cameos distinguish the good from the bed, and bet very few are willing to pay enough difference in price to compes•ate those who take extra pains to produce • redly nice a•tiele. Then spin butter often looks nice in market, when on trial it is found bad, and iM buyer does et kaow the sate of the maker . 'ender. Now to remedy in part them evils, would it n ot be well if each butter maker would sew • stamp by which to mark the name or the initials of the maker's same ea the rolls, and always .ole the some ',tamp. This woold excite emelt'. thee smug the batter makers; and teeert a bet- ter gsmtity of butter; sod biome would sem learn to direeimuste between them whom stamp could be relied no f. • good article of butter, old thew of doubtful sbareeter. Them stamps ecoid sully be made by •e iagmelees mechanic, If there woo • demand for theme WMt Osis\ yoga that piss, Mr. E41teel i Reapeetfslly, u., Iii. R. CHOAT. Millbrook, 0., Marsh S, 1850. Remotes —We tbiak that the wggw,lem is first rate : and Imps ermine of ewe good better makers will wart the menet, at mow . ethers will nese follow, sad Meer wbe asset . will D IN tasks • gad artiste, will he sharer drives eel ei the umbel -re Yue —Oki. Cadairearv, IMPROVEMENT OF CLAY LANDS. The change that has been wrought to the wet, tenacious clay toils of Elegised and Scotl.od, by means of thorough drooling, and trench or sub -soil ploughing is truly ma,velbss. ',twee improvements have been going on most rapidly within the last dozen years, and the produce in most instances has been doubled, ie some trebled, and even quadrupled. Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Smith, o(Deanstou, who ranks among those enterprising todividuale, that first wakened up the public mind to the impor- tance and practicability of these impruvemeats. Although is Canada, an eapeoditure so large as thee* operations cost in the old country, is not required, sot would it be profitable, yet much might be done,—sod we think meet Ire 4ea41,— in this direction, before our Agnea!ture els settle dowa ender any intelligible system ofcor- rret principles, and fully remunerate our most intelligent and spirited cultivators. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. We are happy to learn that at the College of Cker•bly, measures are about to be adopted to ensure Scientific Agricultural Edoeatioo. A firm of 54 acres attached to the College, will be cultivated on the but principles, and Agri- eulterel Chemistry will be carefully studied.— This uasgetneet we understood, is to take place from the first day of May, 1750.—Montreal Pilot. O•cma RD,—Look well to peach tree', and nes that the peach worm is not at work. Poor boiling water on the lower part of the trunk near the graved, and If a sufficient quantity be used it will cook the worm without say iojary to the tree : we have tried it fairly, and are well eo•viaced that even three gallons of bailie( water may be seed without any injury r to the trees. Maoure tree' old re:olleet that they re- gain) cultivation. Attend to preparation of . eines early and graft such trees u require it. Maeoax roe Eacrr Tiers.—Dr. Keeaieott a leade•g eurserym.a asd fruit grower at ;Chi- cago, mys for frit trees a•d especially. the apple and quince, he has fated barnyard mammy half decayed chips, charcoal and Gabes, mixed serviceable. He had tried him but without bene- fit, Incept u smell peaty spots. Yard manure alone, p•rt.e.larly for peaches, plums sod cher- ries, is deemed inpnous, and should not corse is contact with the rootofany tree until! thrones• ly rotted - LINCOLN EI ECTION. TRIUMPHANT RETURN -OF THE HON. W.H. MERRITT ! ! ! Fronds* Journal and Eapreas. On Saturday last, lbs day appointed fir the Lincoln Election, we started for St. Catbanner, to hear the speeches, see the doings of opposition candidates, ' (if any should venture eo to stultify themselves,) and jut down such matters of interest as might chance to turn up. 8t. Catharines is one of. the prettiest Towns in Canada, build on a high ridge, with t.be wetland Ca- n al creeping round its base. It possesses immense water power which is not wasted, several well-built churches .which appear to he put to good uses. numbers of neat stores which are melted by plenty of customers, and an intelligent population not at all backward in improving the extraordinary advantages which nature and art hare so profusely. placed at their deposal. The Town Hall, just completed, is a fine build- ing, and would be an ornament to a much larger place than 8t. Cotherinea. There are two newspapers printed there—the Journal and Constitutional, which are both very creditable specimens of the Canadian Press, and diffuse the usual weekly amount of puhticai information. Si. Catherine' may, without the slightest exagerailon, be termed the Lovell of Canada, and promisee yet to become as important a place, as that noted reccplicle nfall the marriageable maidens in the New England. On Saturday morning a drizzling ram ,pet in, which con• I tinued until after 12 o'clock, and seemed to diminish -considerably the numbers of the expected 'whence. At 1i o'clock W. Krwesls,Li., Esq., Sherif, for rise United Counties of Lincoln, Welland, and hist h- mand, ascended a platform erected in the Public Square, and read the Writ and Pro- clamations, after which W. Woonat•rr, E.q. proposed, andM DRAT, Eeq., seconded. W. H. MKRIIITT, Esq., and n, other canal Bete appearing, be was declared duly elect- ed. The pelting ram rendered any attempts at speaking there, • matter out of question, and it was decided logo to the Town Hill, en that the member (or Lincoln should have an opportunity of explaining his views, and those of the Government, upon the leading questions of the day. The crowd scent - Jingly made a rush for the building me•i- tweeJ, and after being opened it was speed- ily very well filled with such of the yeo- manry of Lincoln, as eared to brave the storm. We should seipjtoee that there were between 600 of 800 perones prosiest. Before giving the speech of Mr. Mu- RITT, we would acknowledge the courtesy displayed by the good people of 81. Catha- rines, in providing for the convenience of the Preto, and we cnmmesd their example as worthy of imitation, by officials mneb more aspiring, sed places poseeosi.g greater ideas of their own importance. %V. Woos- aotar, Req., havieg briefly .gots introdseed the newly elected member :— Mr. MwRUTT roue aad sad in substance 11 follow. — There were hew men more fortunate in retaining the confidence of their friends than himself, and who enjoyed an equal for- ►esrasce from opponeuta. This was the peened t1UN he bed bees returned for iria- eole, and hot felt highly the boner, but It was the first timeliest Ittihad as opportuni- ty of addrw■img hie eewelhte.Rey as a mess., her of the Oovernis.st. Hitherto be bed beim before them se • member for Limo'''. bet sow every sae fres Gasp. to B•sd- • ._ -ar ' wish felt interested in the result of this election. He did nut come there to declare that public feeling was fully satisfied—he knew that there was great diecontsit throughout the Country—he knew this be - , fore he pelted the Government at eli—and told ba conetetuer.ts so at Cie la•t general election. Bot it wad rho duty of the peo- ple to art with judgement, not to look at the airfare of 'hinge, and not to *imply say ibis or that measure has created all the IJuconient. Meng ! eserall were not in- sane, and did not oppose governoterts with- out some cause. He knew that there were causes existent in Canada, and he would endeavor briefly to point them out. The Union Act was the first came : it origins. ted without the conical of Canadian., and placed Upper Canada in a peculiar pavilion. The People of the Upper Province had eon strutted Peiblic Works at great expense, and then found another power tetertcring, and saying that 'here woe absolute neceei- ty on account of them, that the two pro, - winces .hnuld be united. The Lower Ca• Indians held the outlet to tie ocean, from the great West. and this was the primary cause of the Union. When the Union Act was brought into operation. it did not con- tain the nece..ary checks, and was iaesed in England wtih)ut the tomcat., or concur- rence of rho inhabitants of this Colony.— Its greatest faelt was in treating a large public debt. Before the Ilnior any member cound ride in his place and propose a money grant—the cen•equeoce sees that a I.rge debt was incurred ; but 1;1,100,000 were invested in gond works, with the exception of about £350,000, and that sum was wast- ed. After the Union the power of origina- ting modes' bills was conferred upon the Government. But this did not mend mat- ters, for a pressure from without secured the passage of measures of this description and the result was seen in a heavy debt of £4,000,000 now hanging over the Provence, which was really Int worth mote than £3,000,000. It was on this account that the country had to pay heavy taxer, and the Custom duties had been increased from Se to 12 per cent. to pay the interest of the debt. The Act, therefore, failed to produ- cing the necessary checks, and discontent bad followed as a matter of course. These institutions existed before the present Gov- ernment came into power, and the mischief was worked before they took hold of the rem. A similar state of things had existed in NOW York, but there the had found a 'n reedy by depriving the they of power to originate a debt, without passing an act at the same time for collecting a suffi- cient sum by direct taxation to pay it. A wiser financial measure than this was never adopted leder the canopy of heaven, and he would gladly see it copied in Canada. He ended distinctly to ingpresa upon the minds of his heaters the important fact, that the heavy taxation, of the Provence, bad tended much to produce discontent. He was anxious to see Canada prosperous, to see her hghtly.tax.d her but energies at work her resources developed, and beer the busy hum of enterprise ringing through the land. but her heavy debt must first be removed. Ile would proceed to point, out a second cause of diesatidaetion• He alluded to the corn -law of 1845. That law wan passed in 1843, and Canadians could express no opio• ton upon it until 1846. It removed all protection from Canada, but (ailed to do an act of justice to the Colon*. la oot se- curing reciprocity with the United States.' He entertained the same opinions now in 1850, that he did in 1849. He then was in favor of rcmoamg all duties between Canada and Great Britain, to establish a complete tree trade between them, sod to put discriminating dunes upon goods from the fatted States. Ile then saw that with the great public works of Canada, the free trade eastern would be much to the advan- tage of the country, and was strongly to favor of reciprocity. as the proper way of carrying et out. By raising a country to a oar with other., was the only way to make et contented. Et must possess equal advan- tages and have as good markets. To obtain these things was to make the Canadian peo- ple more satisfied with their condition and their government : until these things were obtarued they never would be atis6ed with any goverameat. Woes he saw that Great Briton reduced Canada coequal competetioo with other nauoo., and removed the protee- uoo defies hitherto meting, he was con- vinced that reciprocity must be obtained, before .be could be •nro.perous. He was not in favor of Protection in any was, man • Ser, or shape, and thought that Great Bea- ters bad as undoubted ,,8ht to remove the Coto Laws—it would have been pre•..ump- tuoua to base npp,•eed it—but she bad done Canada a gnevous wrong, :n riot roc - ding her right of acres. to the same market, as other British rubjeets possessed. He had .ser songhl eietee to remedy the error by emdesvorimg to ►nag shoot Reciprocity between this Country and the 1). tl. (Mr. Merritt hers real as extract from'? skeet' delivered by hits in the I loa•e of As•emblyin 18444)11e had replied to Mr C•yky then who said that wh at prices in Europe would sustain wires poses in Canada, that ex- perience was spinet it, and showed t1,at Canadians eoe!d not eerepete with Ru.eiane 'tale's admitted en lar,wshle term. to the Amerman market. (Read another extract coslarmeg thea' seaumests.) This was what he emoted out to 1846, and it had been realised. Cattle, wheat, pork, every thing in fact, produced her., was IoW 20 par cent lower than en .the other side. Thie Was nue element, among other*, which prodne.d dissatisfaction. Some aid that if the Americas markets were opened to Canada. it would lead to eatrangems from the Mather Cneetry. He bold mai opposite opinion. and considered that Cams da would be estranged only, by the Amer. can markets reniaening closed. He had never argued for protection on higher prices than were given is the U. S., but for an *quality of prices. WM. Cassabas* saw that their American neighbors were teesrv- ing more for their products than they, they became dissatisfied but when they saw that Hits dal#reser moos from the legislation of eau, Huy naturally directed their murmurs ardent the °overstate% twill it osodeav- • • nred to bring, or did bring, about a change These were the two abiding causes of die eatidactinn here—the greater taxation and the lower pores, than were to be found on the other side. Ile was of opinion thai Reciprocity would yet be obtained, how- ever, and troutd give his reasons for think in. an, The Americana mind to E:eglaud, defy free, fifty times the arnouet of that •evil from Canada, at a duty of 20 per cent , treat Retain can, en she is bound to do, emery nut the principles of the Navigation. Act, and virtually clots her port• to all eh,. will rine fairly reeiprecaie with her, or her ensseesir ns. The Americans would be ton seneuble to remain under such a du•Jtao rage, and would speedily agree to • r••cip runty of trade with Canada, 11e credo ark who paid this difference of price—their high dut'os—net the ronviimer, but the grower. the hard working former. ('aned% was a prodneing, instead of a consuming country, and her produce therefore ruffered under the prceent .yvicnt. He would not be snrprioce, however. to see the Recipro. city B -II peeved before tee months were neer, without env a'tempi at coercion, and he knew that the Candle lien and Briliah Gn,ernrncnts wcrc using etery effort to ob- tain it. ile was convinced that Reetpriacity must coma at en early dale either with coercion or without. Ile knew that no ad- ministration Deed expect to retain theeun6- denee of the count re, whn neglected to use every possible effort to obtain a fair ex- change of commodities with the U.S., and tie bring about this dented reciprocity. The Anglo Saxon race would not listen to ex cuses—they would ask "are yeti success- ful,' and if the answer was in the negative, they would try other men. But he was sere that the people would be aatiefied with t1ie conduct of the Government, upon this, and all other points, during the ensu- ing Session. It mutt be borne in mind that the Ministry had many difficnities to contend against last year, in addition to the bad laws made by their predecessors.— They had met extraordinary opposition, and he acknowledged that much had been left undone which ought to have been done. They all remembered the indenmity Bill—its pelissge waste crisis in the History of Canada, and of Responsible Government. It had been accompanied by an attempt of the minority to rule the majority, and by unexampled •riolenee ;• it had been debated in Parliament, both here and in England, and the result was a triumph o( Consti- tutional Liberty, not only in Canada but in Great Britain. They had all read Lnrd John Ruesel'e speech, and from it would be satisfied that Responsible Government was no longer it name, but a reality. To all intents and purposes they were now. freemen. 1( an administration did not meet the views of the people, they could I drive them from power, and put other men in their places. But they might ask "What are the fruits of Responsible Government'" and in reply he would ask "What do you want?" First they might answer, "Re- trenchment." Well, be had something to tell them about that, which must meet with their approval- An idea seemed to pre- vail, that the Ministry were opposed to Re- treochment. There could be nothing more erroneous than this. All who knew him were well aware that he had always • advo- cated cheap government—he did so still, and if he had thought the Administration to eeomnny, he .would have resigned long ago, and i1 he had supported an op- position to retrenchment, he would never have dared to appeal to his constituents again. He'had given much attention. to the subject,and was satisfied as to the result. G.,vernment must rest upon public opinion, and actin accordance with the wishes of the people. Ile had authority to declare that immediately on the opening of the Session, the .iintatry would move for a committee, TWELV1: AND 81X PENCE /IT TR MOO Or TIM TEAR. NUMBER XV. with hlin as to its propriety. He now - thought that advice was good. He had lately paid great attention to this subject, mad found that he bad never thoroughly un deretood it before. (H• thea proceeded to show throes lands were originally set apart,) By selling the lands DOW re- ns:oing at 10s. per acre, an income of 1;50,uu0 would be realized. Not an acre of the lends had been already sold, with- out investment of the proceeds in gov- ernment sceuoties. This fund was public property, and ae such under the control of iM people. Ile thought that Canadians Ivied a deep debt of gratitude to Lord John of Toronto, who had preserved that fund in its ',resert state. Under other hand. it might all have been wasted and bat. 11e contended that this fond was still under the control of the people. and he did not regard the Clergy Reserves as a settled question. [lobed always voted for the application of them, to educational purposes, and was one of those who voted against the bill for *end- ing the matter home for settlement. But he considered it premature to agitate the common just now, and he had to inform them that the Clergy Reserves would not be brought in ae a government measure during the next Somme, but be left an open question, although to bs brorght in by a member of the government. When they looked back upon the laude sold—about 115,000,000 acres—without providing for educanon, they must think it a sad sight. Ile thought that the system of appropri- ating lands bed been wrong from the very beginning. They bad established the Uni- versity first, whereas they ought to have provided for Common Schools first, then grammar schools in every District, and then the U.i.ernity. The Ministry bad endeav- ored to remedy this groom neglect, by bring- ing in a bill last session, appropriating 1,000,000 acres of public laude, for the sup- port of a thorough school system. After March 1st, 1851, no man would get an sere of Crown Lands, without the money being applied to the Common School fund. He thought the. allowance of land grants to be a great mistake, ■cad he would not wish to see a continuance of the wrong system of giving lands to the descendents of U. E. Loyalists, who lived 60 years ago. He would again express his hopes that the Clergy Reserves question would not be agitated until more important matters were n ettled. He had shown them that the peo- ple WOWS lestog none of the capital derived from the sale of the Reserves, and consid- ered it proper, that such matters as the set- tlemsot of the other Crown Lands, and re- ciprocal free trade, ought first to be atten- ded to. The Banking question, and that of Currency, he regarded as highly important, and although not likely to be brought in by the Adrnioietration du- ring the present Session, it was proba- ble that they would in the one. 11e would like to see the Banking Laws of Canada placed upon the same foot - log as In the United States. There any person wishing to commence a Bank, could do so by purchasing public securities—lists raised the 'aloe of public securities to an extraordinary degree, and in some fuel .•_.-- he knew, le per cent. premium was re- ceived on 6 per cent. stock. He would also a•sirnilate the currency of Canada, to that of the United States—he would have a dollar worth a dollar, and not be Id.— Thu would tend to make money easy.— Ile would ask why Canada should not he as prosperous as any other country? He New some around bun who were in the country before 1813. They would recollect that Canada was far more prosperous then than now. There were no restrictions In those days. Produce used to go down to Mon- treal from the West, money was plenty, prices better. and wages higher. Why was this? Because then there were so 1•rtffd to shut out American goods, and no restrictions to ruin trade. Settlers need to leave the wilderness of New York State, and settle the Canadian Districts of Niaga- ra, and Gore, and Home. Why should they not return to that state of prosperity agate, by pursuing the same means 1 Altar the war o: 1812 or rather after 1815. the re.tectivo policy commenced. Governor Gore came and determined to keep out the " Yankees"—restriction• were imposed— die•atiefactinn cornn.nceJ—the oldest end moat respectable colonists remonstrated— and countries were settled all around, with a population and wealth thus driven from Canada. 11. would not say that Canada had r of advanced, but elle had not done so according to her deserts. Ile drew the contrast to show the efTeets of the two eye- tem.—freedom and restriction. Under the one the country prospered, whilst under the other it went down. To insure the old rats of progression, they mus restore the old system of free trade. There were two great things necessary to make the coun- try prosperous—lar, Retrenchment, to re- duce taxes, and ■o allow the country to become well Pooled: and end, the finishing of the great chain of water communication to the Atlentte, and the setting sport of a find from their proceeds w illi which to pay off the debt of the country. Ile would show them how this was feasible. Some e lloatoss had be. made as Id his accep- tawee of the nets of Chief Commissioner of Public Worke. He was obliged for the tcreicrnees with which he had been treated by the Pre.., --sad a1 the same time must say that he regarded It as the duty of the Fowith Estate to deenuwrs rnua•ily what thee comae/erred wrnwg—but be would state that his only object a accepting the nAlre, woe from a Jerre to sen the Public Works completes, and made as remunera- t•ve as they ought to be. Every canal meet M made to draw 10 feet of water, and w hen this was done, it ennlel be'hewn that eremite might go from Prescott to Mon- treal is a mgbt sad a day, or over 200 melee in 94 hones. Much a navigation was not In he egnslleel en the world. The Mee- • e.irpe miirht have a rapid rn►reat down, but that enrrrwl. had to be ascended again, w Meese in the St. Lawrence there was the advantage of the cornett down, and of the 'leek water up. When the chain was pro- perly enepl.ted the bemuse would be taken from New York State in opals ofall composed from both sides of the house—in- cludins Reformem,Tories mad "clear gots" —and on which be would sit himself -,4o take up every item of income and expendi- ture to ascertain the amount of every salary paid, and to report thereon to the House for setion. ( Mr. Merrit read a resolution pro- posed by Bir R. Peel in England.) The resolution here would be similar to that, and would be one of the 6r.l motleys made on the aseernbhng of the Home. Every en- gle subject mistime to .scams sad expendi- ture, would Thee be ed, and the greatest poesible publicity be given to the *object. Whatever differences of opinion there might he as to the extent to which. Retrenchment should go, there eooid be WOW ea 10 the mode of bringing it shout and they might reel soured that the Moos vv wn.IJ do all in their power to ef•ct it. Much had been mkt about the Elective Principle, sod it was rumored that there was a majority is the eotintry deenans of neem, it earned nut. They were aware that Lord J, Russell wee about to gine an Elective Legislative Conned to the Au.- trahaoe, and if the Comtism wiahed for *itch a change it was ant ltkcly they would be oppeeed. They had now the power of regulating their eon Government, and could adopt any form they please -h. For flint they had the authority of the Prentice, and there was so ehaegw. after being properly considered, which they rem?l not eTic'.— Rut a duty devolved upon them to use this power wish jndgmr'at, and as Intelligent ?mem, they ought 001 to expect everything it owe—ft it to .ubve': everything at mite.— The Elective L.pisla'tve Council required grave consideration—ft was a Rom thing and might work well, oe might mot. It sea. a departure from the system of respom*ih I-' gnvernmeet,and should riot be hastily adopt ed. The f •►m of Government here now was as democratic, as could be drawn by man : it was lar moredemtteratic even than the Repmhlican form. in a Repeablie they elected men for a certain 1101e, and were obliged to retain thea whether they aeled rightly Of not, but here they emeld turn not a Ministry in 1a hour. He meniboeed these things to that the matter of 'elf gov- ernment might be serion.ly considered by them. He would eome now to the Clergy Reserve*. Last year he was applied to h several Committees from the Northern owsships to moss is this atter, but he And advised delay, and they bad coiserded .0