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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1850-06-13, Page 1TIIE BALL -R0011 BELLE. IT OLOLOa e. - ao•Rts Tho moon and all her starry tem Were (admit Irma the moaning sky. Whits home the ball -room bei. sesta Leterned, "rim throe:mg pulse and brain, Flashed cheek sal 'meal eye. Ile p1... that danced atw,v• her brow, net rem that sparkled in her soar, The meatier spangled basest hough, Were lad made —they marked her mew, Whet desolate and slum. Thal eight how many Manu she won The reigoiog b.11e, she coved set sur, Det, ilk, the planets rowed t'.e son, Her niters loflowee—all but .oe- 0.. .11 ih. world i, her Aad she had lest him !—inervel sot. That lady's eyes with tears were wet ! Tbo.gb lo.e by one is woe forget, 11 ae.ev yet wss womaw'u let Tn to.e sad to forget. THE CUII tY BL PETITION :—ITS FAILURE. The piratical erpedi- 'ion thatailel. from the United States tinder command of Con. Lopez, upon the Island of Cuba, has had a emit run and an'geomtmnns tem', ation.— It i!Spears that Lepez landed at Cardenas, a small town on the northwest of the Eland, about ninety miles from Iiavies, nn the 19-h testate, with Meet 500 men, and took pos- ....ion of the town. The garrison, accord• leg to Bente accounts, consisted of only a- bout 60 men, en! after making a .light re• sistasre, wttb two or three killed,-.urrcnder- *J. The Count of Aleny, Governor Gee. of the Island, inured a -proclamatino deelar- tng the island in a state of siege, and a'1 the Mande and adjoining waters in a state of blockade. Some little excitement among tb• mercantile community of the I.tanJ and movements of troops followed the landtog of Lopez ; but this waa not of longduration for Lopez was soon but too happy to escape, leaving some of his deluded adherents in the hand. of Spanish justice oe revence. The planters of the Island, however tired many of them may be, and doubtless are, of the dominatinn of Spain. have too mach sense t0 hazard their fortunes end !twee by neen'y sanetieniag so miserable and crime,!'. pr'e- Jeet as that of Lopez. It appear. that there were 5000 regular troops at Porto Ren, and t0,000 at Cuba. Altogether 50,000 armed men coull have been brought tnto the field if necessary: nue hell' of them being well disciplined ani liera. To expect that a handful of foreigners eonld do anything a- gainst tech a force would ind.e,1 he n•epn.- teront. Lopez rimmed in Ute Creole, In which he had "stied from New Orleans, to L.wanhah. The rendeerems of the ewne,5tinn were Iwo .mill islands named the I -le of Cnntny and the fele of Magete., near the Nnrth- eatero extremity of the pentn•,lar of Yuc- atan. nratan. They left the former of these trine+. on the Ieth, nailing for Cardenas. which u almost its a direct line, *here they landed three days after. i. the skirmish with the Spanish euthoritiee Ibe invaders loot two moo killed and twelve wounded. Captain Logan, one of the wounded, diel next day. The invaders do not appear t., have'made any attempt to penetrate In1n the e-ra'tIry Out the, took- light lamest immediately af- ter landing, and earrnwly escaped being captured by the Spanish man of war Stray Pizarro, whreltthey were chsaed into Key West. The Collector, it 'seem, wised -the Creole for a violation of the revenue hero, and the men were apsigned to rho United States barracks Inc emitter.. The eltpeditron it generally denounced by the United States Piero; altbough it is like- ly to turn out that mome iodividauls in New York subscribed money for and otherwiife Interested themselves m the enterprise.= Thea parties are Likely to be called to ac- count by the United Stat.s authoritic•.— The editor of a Spanish joor.al, La Verdad, ▪ blished in that city has been arrested.— Mignsl Teube Tokio, the Seeretiry of the junta in New York, has elan been arrentnd Inc a breach of the neutrality laws. The editors o; the Sun newspaper too are •rime bow Implicated lo the bueioe.s, and have bees summoned to answer for their cnndict. Thea parties will probably be tried forth- with before the United States Court now . it W j .—Erawise i . FROM CALIFORNIA. The Alta California of the 20th u( April, prepared for traaemia.ion by the steamer syc— Biace the eaihag of the last steamer, but Iitl ria. traaspirsd of airy very psrtteular interest, dsmaeding any special notice, ether thee has been given from time to les et is our columns. Tea election for cocnty officers which took plate on the 1.t of April, exhibited the tact that lltbougb, party lines ham been drawn they tare not trees drawn with •ss!'tetrameter a to protan t the people from esereisiag Omit own oprnrope. The ticket Seated exhibits • fair admixture of wbig tt•d dumeersti. principles. The election /sea most etreitUag one, sad eoodueted intik apish. bat Pow( feelteg. D01isy Ube early poruoe of the month, ti•Illincimar moist of the discovery of Tri- ▪ pp, sada safe harbor 71st.,... Leis psi sad lb* Celawibis. creative .tock ex- t%tame.t, sad produced • Lary prima degree Alf opeetitwe avid intermit. remiss were jorresd, vowels fitted mit, aad all were /gK• for the ser LI Dorado. Ile -My has Woe dlwmuuzsdi a is.dge(.R*et.d, sad ac- dlaadmr to rr lust aspoanu. dee.rah liarrrf.hr.j Metas we. aprieviee 00 apes }�► books of ape reow I,. it is thoaght lbalhit ,pmt will be Daly ese.ad to the 11Mp d-iM Paa.mom, aad will prove Of the .twee{. aimitagc. aa as easy aad jrzpands of ert..ai.meaitios with Lk. reg... Zero. aJl wo tea Isere. k ie net a safe harbor at all limes, ase wm klevoled. of Na Le.t. W pe ipet vo 10 *dB - 4000•1 elerega • *oleo epee'ne Wester*. The fete "THE GREATEST POSSIBLE 6000 TO THS GREATEST POSSIBLE HUMBER. 11 GODERICH, C41TNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1850. Bache. Browning and Peoples, attendant upon Its settlement, u • most atltc'.log and eluemy iscedent. A moth' g of merchants has berm held for the purport of regulating the price of gold dust, adsanctog its value from S16 to SI7, and endeavounog to establrh it so a currency. They .so deterinioed to reject the California coins and quIckerlver gold in - trade. The former pro;.ue tine kis been recewsd with general disapprobation...— The moreantile coulnuatty are adverse to rhyming Its Pofawal value, or considering it other than as an ariclo of ierekandtee. The view wh ch this paper took was lire same, sad has been roost generally .0.tain- ed. fleetness generally, •I though still dell, hits materially unproved ensu the wiling of the last steamer, and the prospects for the spring sad summer train ars must Batier- tu The mines have continued to be exeee'd- ingly productive wherever they have been worked, and extraordinary yields have re- warded the toil of many. The rivers still matinee high, and, upon the Sacramento, se great a ries IA/ occurred that serious apprehensions of another overflow bars been eoterta.nsd. A merrhsnt•• exchange and reulisg room has been estabhr,be4 by an aaoelattoo of merchant., who have also determined to form themselves Into a Chamber of Com. memo. Another exchange tied reading room be. also been •t d by • copartner- ship concern. The awe y of the birth day of Henry Clay was e.l.brated with appropriate honor' by a festival. The weather is now fairly settled, and we look forward with eonfiteece to futoro prospect., The uncertain state in which Calamine elands at Washington, n the only thing that creates any mementoes in •Lt State. The Pacific News of the same date re marks ; 8uee the issue of the last steamer edi- tion the rates bates ceased, and minimum. cation with most of the mime has been ful- ly re-established. A very perceptible revi- val of buetneas is the coosegne.ce. Tnere a no material variance in our late memento (rom•tho muses from theme of our lit dates. All who work, and work under- .tandtngly, make fair wages even for Cali- fornia, though they must certainly labor Nader great duadvaotagr r, until low water tunes. Emigrants s re., pouring into this city. and to the mires, in • constant stream and we trust and behave that all their 104 - 0004511 anticipations will be realized to the full. - The Daily Alta of California of April 12, ave : The prospects for the spring business ars growing more and more Coloring every day, eel alt the signs of the tinier undic..te that every branch of trade trod industry will receive • fresh impulse in the course of a very. few weeks. Preparattous are mak rang by mercantile house+, hitherto dung an extegpIve bunneer, for • 'CI larther display of energy and enterpnee. Merchandise of every description •psceilly ordered is ex- pected every dry, fad Targe coasugnmeati are sear at fired. Trade will be of a different character from hat year, the mercantile community_ have generally de:ermined not ter trouble thomraltre with aff.•re of the patent Jig- ging, d.veg casing aad trading ai.ricutien which -. c'stor.ed them so much trouble and eo little profit last year. Large ware- hot•r• have recently been erected or are now to the process of erection Ior the one palton of old firms end new. The cheapness of lumber has 'educed hundreds to build, a1 hough rents ham ae'pted them•etves proportionably to the actual value of real estate and r •t of betiding. Mechanics of all kinds find ready employ- merit at termer richly remunerative, while the common laborer readily obtains work to consequence of the ezten•uve mmprovemeot' now being made by private ento•Eriec.-- There le no Stggsg on the part of our enemas. and property holders are daily im- proving their possesses'. The city ie extending 'Itself into the bay, and to the right and left with most surprs:1g rapidity. w harem, piers and docks beteg commenced and erected epon the most extensive scale. As these -piers are exteo.ied the land Is fill- ed in, and as it M' been is oar Atlantic cites where a 'hip of the largest clam could at one time eotsr, will only be mark ed by some tall and commanding edifice at testing the pride and condition of com- merce. Several respectable merchant' have in- formed us that their business ha increased beyond their expectations watts the Ia.t two weeks and that they look fuuward with buoyant hopes to the spring busies.. The great number of up river towos which will aII be marts rf mors or lea' importance, will look to Sao Francisco to supply their waste and will create • constant activity in the market. The rich products of the mioee will coon be peering down upon us, and our confidant and entorpreing merchants will bave the satis(aetioe of receiving liberal re- turns for their investments. Mucst.a.at'nom—There war a fire at the city of Sacramento on the 4th of April, which destroyed seven or eight buildings, sed about fifty or city thousand dollars worth of property. AS a characteristic incident if the go -a. - head spirit of California, it may M mentioe- sd that no the same day the {re occurred a building was commenced tie oar of abs Wm. rano/mad ad opened to its customers 5 tbe same oveneag. Ci.aa,cal. Anicoots.—Aa old clergy- man wasin the 11, as Soon u be got io- to the pulpit, of plseisg hie s.rmeo is a crevice nldor the amities, where he left it during thi etegipg of the aseueteeaed psalm. On Roods, be peeked the sermon book too far iota the er.vige aad lost It. Wino the psalm was eventuated, h. Balled tee clerk 10 bruit hoot a Rble. Th• el.ik. somewgpt astonished at the yawn' request. hreught ,bis a Bible as he desired. The Clergymaa opened 11, aad rhos addreeed kis �teagrr♦r- pUos--i'l Yy bt•t ami. I Ballo l ity]iN ,pee fl tebet i trill d pea V i tion► W of it." Prom the Glebe. TORONTO AND GODERICH RAILWAY. LLTTaa VS01 ■R. eweera. To the Henora/(a Wm. Hamelin Neerve 1. P., Clem/ C.wmnwioasr elf Prides Werke. Xlru SiR$LT, May 27, 18.50 Me Demi Sia,—Year app,iattrwat to the office of Chief Commteoieaer of Psblic Works, ioduees me to bring ■gsio wider yo.r eens,dera- moa the sobteet of • railroad from Toroot 0 to Lake llama, through the wane Crows Leede. North of tee Huron Tract. 1a my letter to yos of the 27th February, 1849, 1 eade■rored to poi■t eat the very great Mae6t which the cra- nr.etio11 of the Tomato and Gaderieb railroad world cooler epos the Province. As an iastrumeat in promoti.g eolouilatisu sod a • mode of deriving • very esasiurable from the Crewe Laade fee eds.-aural •od other purpow., east project still appe■rs to me to poises' soperior sd•aatages, which entitle it to the most f..orsble coonderatioe of the Goverameot and the Lesulature. Not ha.ing been placed in poawssioo of the reasons which induced the Government to decline granting the prayer of the memox,al of the Directors, ..king for an •ppropeatio• of hood. es coaiempl■ui by the Act loeorporatieg the Company, I are esa- ble to offer a7 .rgumet in answer to ouch ob= j.euoni ee may ha.e iofleeseed the minds of His Eacelleacy'e advisers in rejectiog the propoai- ti.e. It i• moodier that they may have been redeemed by a that the Cumpaay world be converted from a Rulroad iota • Lead Company. There is so person who could be more averse than myself to such • malt taking place, aid most wdeebtedly every security alms Id be takes ageism the possibility of such a meek. The publte.mi.d is daily becoming more mid more alive to the impentance of • railroad from Toroo• to, which would command a fair share of the trade estriel on betwees the Easters and West - en States of the neigbboerteg Uniou; .sd 1 trance bol think that •poo a cowparloea ei all the routes which bay. been suggested, aad of the re.peetive advantage. belongtog to each, we shall find abundant reasons for adopting the opinion of the Ccmmimee of the House of As- sembly in the Session of the year 1844 and 1845. referred to i• my former letter to you, alluding to the very lime projected by the Toro•ter•ad Gode- rieh Railroad Company—namely, that a Rail - real from Toronto to Goderieb, is • work of such Provincial importance, "that it nigh to is aad ,taken and eouaplrkd, as • porgies .f the Public IVorks of Ilse Province." We have, within the lost twelve mouths, .b- .rve1 several of the Maaicipal Corporations of the Province e•iacing their o oics of the 'aloe of Railroad communications by expressing their desire to M enabled to issue Debentures to aid is their construction, upon the security of the respective loealutits through which they have been projected. The city of Morten■! has, io the clearest manner, evinced its minims u to the increased value which the Mootrea' and Portland line will attack to property within the city, and has issued Debenteres to secure the completion ol the road. The coy of Tero.to is, i have no doubt, is like merrier prepared to ex- press its approbation of rai'road commumestlone, in favor of a line projected upon sound ptiocip!e• and in a proper direction. The experience of the United States upes the abject abundaatly @hews the propriety and *extern of Cooperate bodies p,rdging the security of their real estate MI a mode of raising the necessary capital. Io fact f Jo not think that there is cow to be foxed' a ;.erson who will not admit that in a sew coup- try like this, the increased value attached to real estate by • railroad, would be auffictent to pay for its construction between any two plates prompting any of the elighteet u,ducemtau for their being thus united. It seems thea to nee io be too apparent to require any argument to prove, that the public revenue would be viery materially isle:eased by the construction of a Railroad through the waste laod•lfethe Crown, in the d:reetioa suggested, a direction which fur the summer traffic, (which is the traffic ol the eneotq), is admitted by most people to be the best Inc securing rho trade between the F.+etero and Wasters States, to pass through Canada.— W. Wave, as you are aware, still left upwards of 1,500.000 *tree of Crows Leads is the direc- tion of the Toronto aad G.deneh Railroad. 1 do rot think it earner numb to expect that at least one-half of this q..rity or 750,000.eres would be directly affected bemeecialy by the •oatroetia of the proposed road. Taking into eea■;deration, village sites, mill, mites, and the faeilit-e-a for farmers ad I.mbermee to carry sheer proems and lumber in market, the avenge value of those 750,600 serge meld at be lees thea 30s per acre, en the completion of the road. In the pretreat eeodiuea of the country thew - head. arm dear •t 8e per acre; the country, there - (ore, meld, upon tee eoenpletioe of the road. derive • benefit sat of these 750,000 aeras ala., e the •teat of £l'15,000. 1. it exp'd'eet tet the poblte should eesrriMs towards being - lag 'boat se beatifies! • remit? Aad whet emtri►5Usa would M real o•bls sed proper 51 - dee web i Sorely dee-fo.ih e1 ties estimated i.esra.ad vales .f the Mads world set be tat moth. i Wald it, i ask. be irriplilic Ile Ibe Legere. tom to ;toe .,.deet of £400.000 to Lid is tbe ns.etne,iee of a read which • teed. immediately epee Int eeastroetion, pat into 10e p*blie eo%ta, • altar ant profit of £695.000 be be dsmeled u these immerse of .d.eetie• in aid of which 1Ye LegWetered.aeg last seaside, set ammo them Crew Lase? No aerie .cern to my read by which a remoter 1ef edseetloal ee 6•7 "et perpna, me erre be *rived free Mew bels, .re.pt sbrwgb As *edam of • wiksrd M I prMop, trot jt M year *veil. Few*. L o.t k is.MObesaissisedis ei .vary pallia moa ref/robot It is .N 1Wsary r were? say ear. phis income from thew Crown Lands, mires • greet rado,ad comnwuicatua be co.suected tbrnegh teem to increase their virtue? 1f Ikea it is reelected it would be impolitic e set apart 500,000 acre1 es contemplated by the Act rseorporattog the Toronto and Godench Railroad Company for Oka benefit of the -Snook• bolders in that Comp.ne, n eurely cannot lee conseered impoht:c for the comity to aid that project by lee issue o1 debentures to the meow of L200.000 sed by rakteg nock thereby lei the, amouat. As regard. the 11.11., ■ed Quebec flathead, it has not been coasiJered impolitic to devote the (frown Lamle to the Company red to my £90,000 per annum out of Provincial food. is aid of that work. and yet 1 do sot Where that soy perms anticipates that the public chore' will defies ay direct benefit from that appropriation Wherein then can consist the objection to ea ap- propriation from which the public cheat woold derive • direct profit of £400 per tent i We will justly be chargeable with erimioal indi0er- roce to our ioterests if we hesitate any longer in seearl.g a cummsatcatioS from which merest • publie benefit may reseonahly be •eueipated, bare sock is not the only benefit which the public chest would denve from this work. Any nae who has observed the gigantic stride. which the trade between the Eastern end West- er States has take° wuhte the last few years— who contemplates ibe vast eate.t of territory sweet of Luke Michigan •ed the effect which the I tide of immigration flowing ism those port. men have epos the trade of this eostinen' =ire readily coaster' although it is impowrb!e der him aocar•telty to catheter or Ib.roughly to appreciate, the tmparta.ce to Catt.da of beeom- itg a partaker in the meatless b.aeete which would entree opera its being made the channel for the tnnspnrt of even • pnrtioe of this trade.— We can easily perceive that the public would be increased by the energy. the vitality end the wealth wbieh, soder the tafl.ence debts trade, would be eateaded throughout the Pro- vi.te. Let us sosaider then for a moment the advantages which the proposed line peswases for participating is this trade. It is almost a straight line from Oewegn throogh Toronto to Godench: one hundred and sixty miles of lake oavigatioo ■nd one hundred and twenty miles of mlread communication will unie the shores of Lake Horne. in • direct hoe westward, with the foot of Lake Ooerin. Wilkie the space of twenty-four hops, goods and passengers might be conveyed, during the period of the navigation, from Owego to Lake Here., mad by this lice a trivia( of distance ee the roots ,o the *eat of about three hundred miles would be effected: It is the shortest, tied at the tame time the cheapest route, for the transit of goods or pamenger., between the Easters aad Western States, which can any- where be loom'. Ca Ilene thee be the slightest room for dnoht, that during the period of savies- tion,'the tnosit of goods and pa.•.egen by Ibis. route would be great 7 Some objectors ray, " true, but it is only dortng this period that this traffic woold exist and we ought to construct • hoe to command the winter travel." In answer is tbisohj•etion, it surely isnot to be lost eight of, that it is doting the period of the navig.tios that the immigration to, and trade with the Western States is now and fni years most be carried on; and that in order to enmtreand winter travel. the extenuated consequently the cost of the Rail- road most be immesserably iocrea.ed, so that it may be said, net namely, to these *he object that the Toronto sod Goderieh Railroad weeld only command the winter traffic, that their ob- jection' is °eerasooible, in•smnch as to secure wetter travel tbey would increase the cost of the communication in a inverse site to the extent of the trade. Is It not the true question, whether that amount, if received within the period of the navigation, would pay • reaseeahle -interest open the capital expended in the eou- stscuen of the road? Our eaab pay nothing except daring the same period of nevi/oboe, •cd yet it would be rather a simege objection to • cad which paid £10 per cent. epos its coat. that pard o•ly daring eight ronaths of the year: and i confess 1 e.n me no more strength in Ibe objection a. to • Railroad, if within the period of tAe trade of the eorntq being esnied en, it should pay £ 10 per eeot. upon its emit. Where so many di&Neat projects, based upon differre.t principles. are saggested, it becot.es • point wormy of estquiry, which, if sided. is morn likely to be promptly proeeeded with? in this revere', as is all other respects where the comparative merits of the Tomato aad Godeneh Route, and of any other route, are viewed. i appr.heod it will be found that the Tweeter and G.derich Road is the ear moat fueled to public support. Armored that the Lmg ola.re .hood reoce've, thin the p.blie demi. to he affected by this road wetted Minify the Provincial Government im tak- ing stock. in the manse? ()meagre, to the amount of £200,000, it i, but reasonable to expect that OW city of Tarawa would, for this menet, will- regly take meek to the amour of £73,000.— We amid thee, •eeeed,sg to the estimate' which has Mea weds of the eam of the reed, have to Preside £598,006 from private etoekhnlden.— Stock bag .treed, bees .ebscr'bed for, la the books of ib. Compaq. by parties reeidisg es the Iles, to so amaat exeeedeg £ 13,000. Then rat this sternest • tampon, • matins. is E.glead, (weed be me is ih. pear 1843. whom deed of ons1a.e.t yarns to a reed from Tomato re O.derieb. sad to .air with this eswsp.y, pewee if given to the Tweet. sod Oedrilch R.Ilresd Company by the Am iseorporating the lame La ties Eagles\ C.rmpay, the deed ie oneeeeed by ab,atwl re, to a merest ex- emediwg..sse i•g a the twee of Nay remllee1.a. tW,010 seeeth . The eteekh.Yen to that tempos, wo.ld. I hero se teat, I.awdl.sely toile with tee Toe..• sod Ged.r'eh Re(/nrd CggtNy i. Abp ea.tte% K 'bet Coep..y was is a maiden le ire, 'hat der Pr".lseial (Seven - meat waa prepared to aid the protect to the Ca - trot of £200,000, as proposed. 1. this mem, t5r capital would be immediate. ly farther:sung; but seeming that the parnrs is England might, which 1 40 sot however an- ticipate, hesitate for comes • f-c'ing the mnne' market, le unite with the To,on•o •sd Guderch Railrund Company se the medium w enable them . to earry eat their on■teal intention• in suheeeib- ing to the work •• rejected to tete; teems' mom have .hewn the: there i+ • di•pn•iunn in porter• rr.i.Loe in Cie i'rtt.d Stairs In emhar► cspir.l to !tailroad cnmmuniea'inn. in Canada if eneoursg.ment be gi.en by .uleicu.it tweeter etihin the Pro.inr• to prstify them to take el' the phi jeer. Ws are told, and 1 believe there is no doubt of the feet, that the mummer Oswego. B.oloo, New York, and other plass in the States are prepped to rad is the e,netructins of • Railroad from Toronto oothward to Lake Heron. machine Lake Simeoe, if £1511.000 be secured by the Debentures of the Menieipalitie•, parable in 20 years. It cannot be questioned bur tip throe same paries smut I be much more whine, as it would andnubtedty be more to their interest• to aid in the construction of the Toron- in aad Goderich road, which is so much more in the line for the trade between the Eastern and Western States, and is eo mach betty calculated to wears the ehj•et which the citizens of Oswe- go, Boston. New York and the other piaees have in view, if the Provincial Go•ernment•shnttld be prepared, as I submit, it es their stroked iererwt to he to aid the prnj•ct in the menet suggested. When I failed in procuriog thenoetioe of the Covera..ew to the memorial promoted to it, by the Directors upon behalf of the Company. in the month of July lest, i, and the gentlemen associated with me in promoting the interests of the Company, began :o deeper of being able to effect our purpose, at lent for sometime; as apathy to poblte interest appeared to prevail, which, nntwuhnandiog all our ole fnrn, we were unable to nvercorn,—the sure of affairs in Europe affecting as they did the money market, ard tending to agitate the poblte mind .poo grave and donbt(u1 matters rendered u seless soy attempt to raise eapit+l in England. Of late, however, there appeared to be in thio count/ a different tone in the public mind as to 1 pretests of this saute, and both to England and I. the United States a greater ad more intelligent desire to embark money in public works wi thin this Province: and convinced, as I am, of the superiority of thin project and of ice vast impar- ranee to the Province •t large, in preference to W m other, I have resolved to make one further effort to .enure its construction. The project was originally set on foot upon its public merits —it has ever been mrd still o 'detested upon the • same grenade—it waa the fist to reeei•e favor i. England• aid it .till maintains that favor un- sullied even by • shadow of suspicion—it wants only • releaable rapport within the Previoee to tonus its completion, it being the only road, to which the principle of support through :he medium ofthe Crown Lads could by possibility 'apply, gave it. promoters just grounds, as they coeeeiv.d, for hoping that it would meet with the cordial support of the public and the Govern- ment. From the public it received that support by their 'sectioning the .pproprioliun of the Crown Lends in the manner eonlemplateJ.— The Provincial Onverement having, however, for no assigned cause, declined to sanction thin appropriation, checked the: operations of the Company. i trust that the mode which I now merest for raising the capital, in substitution for the lied appropriation may meet with more favor and emcees in the quarter where ■id is moat eeeemary. and when the puhl c .interest art, properly, most con.idered. 1 believe i n- ever' the seotimentsof all parties who have woken any ioterert in the •.tali eshment of the Com- pany whom I raye that, as oar object has ever been tb eremite the public interest, .o shall was at all trines be ready to assign the Act of Ineee- perarion in such meaner and to such part:ems my be best calculated sod most able to promote the public interest by effecting the ecoompiieb- meet of the work. i shall esteem it a favor if yea will let me know whether I have so far succeeded is erik- •iocing you of the valve and importance of the work a to 10,11t1 700 ie promoting it to your capacity of C.meiwiwer of Public Work., and in recommending it to the Legislature during eta present Sessien fnr aid in the manner i propose or in any other manner. Believe me to be, my dear Sir, TWELVE ANI) SIX PENCB •T Toa IND 01 TES TSAR. NUMBER ILL Provincial Parliament, LE:111u.ATIVE ASSEMBLY. MONDAY, May 112. PROPERTY 0► DRUNKARDS. Nr. NOTMAN oohed Pare to introduce a bill to provide for the rare of the property "oaf druukerda, 11e pointed eel f. reihty sod teehegly the evil. indicted nit their fats lies •y drunk.►.'a old the neat.• Ito of prevent - ;ng them 'men disposing of their property. Cul. Gt)GY 570roved cif the course of the member for k1i4Jlerex, so der ire it went, Mit dewed to see more efficient measures taken 1• r the suppreisrnn of .n'efl pence. He referred to this repent of the committee ool■st y,•ar. \lr. CAMERON [Kent.) hearty ap- proved el the B:11, and was glad to see the •hinge 'n public sentiment ; when he bed introduced • similar Bel, a nnniber of years .go, he we. laughed at, but now the mea - pure w es received with favor. He desired that he it,i1 should txtend to 1.ow•r Caosda also, Mv. DRUMMOND said that the Bill was not required for Lower Canada, as the common law there provided for the rare of persons unable to take care of their own property. Mr. DitWiTT, Mr. FLINT, ted Mr. II. J. BOULTON,declared tbemseves to favor of the BPI!. Thr 18.11 was pa.sed to a second readier, with the andel-weeding that it should be revised by a committee. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Mr. ill NOES lard upon the table of the House the public sceounta of the past year. They wortlJ be printed in • day or two, for the use of members. LAW REFORM. !lir. NOTMAN asked leave to introduce a Bill to make certain changes in the prac- tice of the corium of law. Ile proposed that there should be no fees, except for dis- bursements to jury, crier, •herd, Ice., al- lowed to Attorney, except 'vett sums •• m ght be agreed on between themselves and their clients ; to repeal the Dew rules of pleading, and revert to the old •y•tem of pleading the general issue ; the present was ton finely draw: a System of legal ar- gument, and would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to understand ; to abolish all write end summons into court, and substitute a simple declaration. Ile furtber proposed throwing open the profession to all the world : any person should be allowed to conduct his own cause, or to •utlinriee airy one to appear for him to ince he juri'• diction of Division Conri. to £100 in unde- fended eases end in disputed aecnnets to £50, with right to call $ jury in all came over a certain sum. Ile would make land- ed property (table for judgment in the Dit•i- sion as in the superior Court•. Ile pro- posed to abolish the clerkship of Assize— the duces of which could bo performed by any one who could read and waste, and ought not to cost the £2,000 and more which they did at present. He would pay the clerks £i per day for their services, and fund the fees which they had hitherto receiv- ed. The cost• of tete court, the feed"( sheriff., jury, wiinevsec, Lc.. should be paid by losing party, but the feet of the at- torney and counee! •huuld be paid by the el;ent cmpinving them. Mr. BALDWiN considered it one of the meat important ditties of the Ministry to watch the progress of the measures propos- ed in the hotter, to see that no principle waa introduced which would prove Mitt tions to the interests of -the people. He had not expected that the honorable member would have introduced his kill until the Govern- ment measure mentioned in the Speech I had been brought in ; tf the Government measure dill riot meet the views of hon. members, they were then at liberty to in- troduce others. Pte hoped that he hon. u and learned frilled would postpone hie bill !until that time. Ile d,d think, however. ['that her hon. friend had entered upon an unvest:ga:uon of %b,. subject with rather more haste than deliberation. More than once the hon member had said that he wish- ed to make every thing simple and plain in the practice of the courts. Now he [Mr. B-) contended that amorg a ewtimed people where transactions were complicated and attempts involved tmportaet, it was Impos- arhlo to secure the same simplicity in these sff.ure as among a nation amaze.. The arrangements of .many of these dusters most be difficult and aompliested, and he had observed that in endeavors to make plain, people bad atm • ended in making them more complex. They were not con- tented to b •ar patiently their difftuul'ie.. „Years very truly, but .lritggled as in • net o%le]r In become JOHN W. GWYNNE. more entangled. W.tb referrP}lee to the new eyneni of the 1tat• of New York to which the hon. member embed to aaimtlete ours. he believed the' it had not lees. tied Ithe difIenitiee or 'official.. of the proceed tog.. ( Phe hon. memher then quoted front a pamphlet of the hon. Mr. imam. Edmonda, nl New fork to snpport of As statement.) 1f Ih.y arm. to change the entire .,stem, a new r0 t eider -tritons •ml authorities would have to he given end ap pealed to, and We *reed net r.d..re the •x peeper. There wss• no d•'u5t that it w e• snort de.,rehle fnr the !mint that the ea penes shmdd be fitted seri not 1.n to indi vuduslu, so that the motera.I 'Mite be rm poem/ no, and he wee mere sore that the lawyers would be in6ntrniy better peed '1 They were hitt to make what bars in they pleased. As to Mer weer nfs the proPs- w•en to ate, 11 wee iswpownit a by dote, a., In do away with lawyers : pre 'meld .re metro do withe.t them than eintent e.?- ehanr. ; ft wee neemeory to employ 'loch men and to pay them .eeerding i., the nal - ent employed, to the eteresey of the pre- cecdmga and to the ...rent at stake. He thought, however, Mat it wooed have a teedeeey to lower IM eharseaer of the pro - !'e smote, which by its respectability to sl. - estrous sad eaedIng assisted to matstaiMee a reeve* for the law. aad lave the pm*. eeordroee 'e the power they prweaeetl of V,o.AN.—A writer to a large Review speaking of the Rofhan wnmen, and their influence during the existence of the king dn•n, say.:—" From the time of the Sa bine, to Theodora's congneet of Jeest,nian. women seem to have been at the bottom of almost all the memorable events of Roman History Lucretia, Virginia, Fallon. the wife of D,erouu., who became at bcr instigation the First Plebian consul, are tln•triouu examples of this : and whatever may he the changes of manner or opinion., is Dome has well remarked, all nation.. with one accord, point, for the ideal of a virtnene matron, to the dauehter of Seilvie. and the mother of the Grscchi." eVho, then, will doubt the inflame* of wont n 7 Ma. Cnftorlict —The P,fnt emu that IN Freelleney the Governor General ha trans- mitted by Col. Renee his Secretary, the tom of le to the Semen CatPellr Rishnp of Mo•lral, M • co.en►u'tnn 1n the fund for the aq.istanes of the Rev. Me. Chtnignv, whom Defamer! ember ?moment'. have been esees.inned by .d,rrts on behalf of temper - NOT R.1 .—Rby Is a *oldie? teem tired in Aprf1 than is any other tertwth 1 1s. main the hoe t.et had a Morel' of et 489..