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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, i8M.
THE TWO SYNDIC4TR8,
Sir John A. ?ifscdoiakl says the new
Syndicate aro political plotters, and his
organs allude to them as "disaffected
Grits
The H ,wlanda were both supporters
of Sir John. Mr. Gibson voted for Sir
S. L. Tilley in the last election. Mr.
Hendrie is a prominent Conservative.
Nearly all the remaining members are
Reformers, but is it a crime for such to
tender for a public work f
As to character, Sir W. P. Howland
was knighted since the Conservatives re-
turned to power.
Sir John A. Macdonald, who was an
unseated candidate, and narrowly escap-
ed being disqualified, should hold his
peace when the matter of political moral-
ity is being discussed.
The "Como along, John" taunt hones
with bad grace from the man who plead-
ed with Sir Hugh Allan to "Send me
another ten thousand. Last time ofcall-
ing. Don't fail Hie, but answer to -day."
The leading member of the mild Syndi-
cate, George Stephen, was turned out of
the Montreal Harbor Commission by
Sir John A Macdonald, who said he
Wasn't fit for the place.
Of the wealthiest member, Sir John
once said on the floor of the Commons:
"That fellow Smith is the biggest liar I
ever knew;" and the present Minister of
Railways shook his fist at Donald A.
Smith as he shrieked, "Coward! --Liar!
-Coward:"
The Conservatives should cease trying
to belittle the new Syndicate. The fact
that they have in the banks, ready for
instant deposit, some $1,470,000 is
proof that they mean business. Abuse
is not argument.
The offer of the New Syndicate is' in-
comparably ahead of the original one.
THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIUAI J AN U Alt 1 21, 1881.
Ws regret to anowunroe the *entre
illness of Hon. Alex. Mackeuzil. He
bas been curtained to bed fur several
days, and Mrs. Mackenzie has been
summoned to the Capital.
Tis Loudon Adrertiser puts the wlso)e
thing in a nutshell when it says: " The
Syndicate that will give terms most
favorable for the country is the Syndi-
cate that ought to get the ountract.
THE Senate has just passed a bill
prohibiting prize-tighting in Canada.
Now that they have disposed of the prize -
ring, we hype they will endesvor to
broth up the railway ring that is at pre-
sent IvnnIng the Government at Ottawa.
Mit. Roy, of Owen South, the rvtir-
ing utembr of the Council of the
Agricultural and Arts Amoeiation, is
again in the field to represent this dis-
triet in the Cyttneil. Hie re-e'c.:aion is
conceded, as but hes of the uelefiates
will go lack on Old Roy :
Ho,t. EDWARD BLAZE to the House of
Commons on Tuesday :-"Yet a aaNDe
ARS NOT TIED by anything that has oc-
curred. You may suppose they are, but
I warn yuu that THE PIMPLE WILL
NOT ACCEPT ANY SUCH PRE-
TENCE.
Tim plea of the Goverment that they
" moat delay no longer in the Synth -
caw buailu,ss is all buueorube. At the
very most, the old Syndieete, has the
start of the new one by only four weeks,
end the delay of • month in ownnrencing
or completing theis nothing in
comparison with the wrlliuns of dollars
yved to the country. If the Cuneens-
tires are really patriotic sinoere in
their endeavors to see t line built
quickly and in the best interests of the
country, let them turn in and support
the latest and best offer. Were the
House so disposed, the new Syndicate
ouuld get into working uperatiun as
quickly as the more expensive one.
Time Hanlan-Laycock boat race has
been postponed until tomorrow, owing
to the Thames being impassatle with
ice. The bare idea of &cullers rowing a
race '•peeled to the buff," or even in a
sleeveless guernsey, is enough to send
a shiver down the the broadest back.
THE Finance Minister stated in the
House on Tuesday, that at the next elec-
tion he might not come back again. Sir
8. L. Tilley is not the only Conserva-
tive who will not sit in the House after
an indignant people have an opportunity
of pronouncing upon the Syndicate bar-
gain and sale.
House, and is nut to include any land
nut fairly fit for settlemeut. l
L By the Aot the lend not to be
tumid roar the railway is to be appro-
priated at other places to be determined
by the Govereinent. By the contract
the uoutractutl are give, large powers
of selection of the laud.
5. By the Act the Government is to
have control of the rales of two-thirds
of the land grant. By the oontract this
power is taken away.
6. By the Act the subsidy and land
grant are to be payable in proportion to
the value of the work done as compared
with the estimated value of the whole
work contracted for. By the contract
the subsidy and land grant are to be
payable in amounts wholly dispropor-
tionate on the prairie section, whioh is
the easiest and most profitable, and is
intended to be earliest completed.
7. Under the Act the property and
capital stock of the company remains
liable to vomtase», Provincial, and
municipal taxation. By the contract
Such ppropetty and capital stock are per-
petually exempted from taxation by the
Dominion, new Province or municipali-
ties therein.
8. Under the Act the land grant of
the Company remains subject to taxation.
By the contract the land grant is exempt-
ed from the Dominion, Provincial, and
Municipal taxation before mentioned
until sold or occupied, for twenty years
from the date of the grant.
9. Under the Act all the materials
required by the contractors rennin sub-
ject to import duties. By the contract a
ep dart vi 040 materials is exempted
Sia Joint MacOola&v js a joker, after
hie owlrfashion. lath, where he anti
Sir Samuel Tilley spoke last summer, he
stated that the Canadian Pacille Rtlilwt7
we(tld be built, " witb',ut costing the
t.ountry A cant." Well, the Syndicate
bargain is not going to cost the country
a cc,.t, but it is going to cost 825,000,000
cash ; 25,000,000 acres of picked land;
$35,000,000 worth .�f Government rail-
ways, surveys, &c.; immunity from tax-
ation for rolling stock, roadway and
buildings forever, untaxed marketable
real estate for twenty years, and nA
duties upon imported materiel used in
constricting the line, notwithstanding
the fact that the N. P. is still in exist-
ence. Oh, no ! the line is not going to
cost the country a cent --nothing so low
as a cent.
THE telegraph wires inform us that
Col. Prjevalaki will arrive this week
from his travels in China and Thibet.
CoL Prjevalski is the right kind of man
to travel from Thibet to the'tand of the
Celestials. When he came to the Great
Wall of China all he had to do, if the
gate was closed, was to throw his name
over and use it for a scaling ladder.
THE London Free Press is hard pressed
to find a footing upon which it can stand
and defend the Syndicate contract. As
a last plea it says :- " We have to take
into account the honor of the country
already pledged by the signing of • the
e iginal contract." The ' • honor of the
country " sounds well ; but what did the
country know about the signing of the
original contract ?
THE WABDEIV'88IP.
The County Council of Huron will
meet on Tuesday neat, and an important
event will take place on that occasion.
We allude to the election of the Warden
of the County for 1881. Already specu-
lation is rife as to the probable successor
of Mr. J. T. Garrow, who so worthily
filled the office last year, and a number
of names are spoken of in counection
therewith. Of these, perhaps the most
prominent so far is that of Mr. A. L,
Gibson, Reeve of Wroieter, and for
many years a valued member of the
County Board. Mr. -Gibson is in every
way qualified to discharge the onerous
duties pertaining to the position of
Warden of Huron. A successful busi-
ness man, an old pioneer of Huron,
possessing that practical ltpwwiedge et the
requirements of the Cotmty, which "teen
only be had by one'who pile had long ex-
perienci at the Council Board, and
having in addition a large shareof strong
common sense, • full debating power,
and sterling integrity, it would be
difficult to find even in so select a body
as the Huron County Council a gentle-
-man who would so well discharge the
duties of and reflect credit upon the
position. The haute of our respected
Reeve, Mr. F. W. Johnstn, has also
been mentioned in connection with the
candidature of the position, but when it
is taken into consideration that that
gentlemen is comparatively young in
municipal experience, (although we ad-
mit that during his term at the Council
Board he has made rapid strides under
the tutelage of Mr. Garmw), and that
Ws do wish Baroness Burdett -Coutts
would hurry up and do that little busi-
ness with Mr. Ashmead BaKlett. The
eld
l has been
the
world ron the rack f r a longcivilized
timenow,
and patience on air part will soon Leese
to be a virtue. If she is tough and can
therefore stand the " hope deferred "
business, she should remember that we
are young and impulsive, and are anx-
ious to see her " settled down." The
fpllowing is the ,last bit of gossip about
her and " dear Ashmead," but as it is
from a London (Eng.) correspondent we
won't vouch for its truthfulness :-" I
learn that the Baroness Burdett -Coutts'
marriage will undoubtedly take place in
a day or two at a certain little chapel
not a hundred miles from Piccadilly.
The exact day is kept a profound secret,
and the place is only known to two or
three persona
IT is a curious fact that the most emi-
nent preachers care least for the prefix
" Rev." A young minister, fresh frora
college, always expects the title, and
feels mortally offended if he doesn't get
it at all times and in every place. Spur-
geon, it is said, once declared that he
would not open any letters addressed to
him with " Rev." prefixed to his name ;
and he had good grnneds for his resolve
We could never understand why men
assume a title given only to God in the
Scriptures. It seems teens to be just on
a par with the fulsoiae dedicatory para-
graphs that ushered in the revised edition
of the Bible in King James' time. Every
quack who has a vile nostrum to impose
upon the public calla himself "Rev.,'
and so the thing goes en fr.orn lad to
worse.
A PATRIOTIC ACT.
kr. Blake's Comprehensive
Amendment to the Govern-
ment Motion.
The ?we OtMrs Clearly Contrasted.
Sons of our Conservative brethren
are getting facetious on the subject of the
new Syndicate, and have dubbed it the
" Corte -along -John " and " I -bet -you -
Cook " Syndicate. Now, it is litt le trouble
to coin names, but that is not argument.
For instance, we might call the Sir Hugh
Allan bargain the " Send-me-another-
ten-thousand--Last-time-of-calling" Com-
pany, and we might call the Angus -
Stephens monopoly the "Tupper -nail -the
Bag -to -the -mast, " - " Give -away -the -in-
terests -of -the -country" Syndicate, but un-
less we showed how the Government of Sir
John had received the " thirty pieces of
silver" in 1872, and was again bargain-
ing for a betrayal of the country's interest
in 1880 to a ring of foreign capitalists,
years of active public life are yet appier-
al- calling of names would avail but little
ently in store for him, we have no he
tation in stating that from our knowl- -
past, he Txx Veil, and the Government organs
edge of Mr Johnston in the p
will no. press forwent on this occasion generally. are making a joyful noise over
against a candidate, whom he and the the reduction in the number of failures
other members of the Councils of past reported in Canada during 1880, and
years so thoroughly respect and esteem. arta with triumph that the commercial
lieaides, we in (kiderich had the honor of failures in Canada during 1880, se shown
q oleoresin* the Warden in our town past i by the mercantile report of Dun, Wi-
year, and in Judea to the other muni- man # C", were only 907, lisbilities88,
•',polities we are willing that the po &itieon i 012,783, while in 1879 the total nuntiber
should not be withheld from them when of failures for Canada was 1,902, with
their turn meow• A cry has gone •breed liabilities of 89,347,987. Is 1878 the
that (ilaunch always wants tohave the "big • nnmherwas 1,679, with liabilities of
end of the stick," when the question of 84;i.908,677 in 1877, 1,992 failures,
position arises; hut this is not the CAMP in and $21).1511,91V1 liabilities Rut the or-
chis indene, and we feel assured gens (10 not tell the whole story They
that our friends In the country will have d" not state that since the repeal of the
title cause t, o(wnplam of the aeUAnn of inr4vent Act there u no stated channel
-he (i.xleneh mpeea.ntatives at the through which reports of failures now
wasting on Tuewtay, an far as the War come, and that consequently many are
not heard "f outside. of their creditors
However a ,nest b.onntiful harvest and
good motes hare t.etaded make times
toed. despite the " P
deaship is nrnteerned-
n a await kir Ilbewsw's vote •n kit
/flake • amendreaN
(ipso•, Jan. 18.
The following comprehensive atnensl-
asset to the Government motion on the
Syndicate bargain was moved by Mr.
Blake, at the conclusion of his apeesh on
Tuesday evening, Mr. Glen seconding:
from u'ntort duties
10. Under the Act Parliament and
any new Provinces are in no wise hind-
ered from authorizing the construction
of other railways as the public interest
tray require. By the contract it is
agreed that Parliament and any new
Provinces shall not fur twenty years au -
3. The contract provides for the a vary large portion of these Staten oun-
giving of $9,000,(410 and 11,260,000 mists of rough
lauds unlit for cultivation,
acres for the prairie 900 ,Hiles The as is evidenced by(t the
swbwlt has heart
ro
offer ppcmas t, accept 8tp,t,t cask little
otet tee iny,n,vml wo that the Syndicate will
have Awry than double the amount of
amble bends contained in the six States
rarreda
to, nd on which there was a
ulat)ou of nearly four and a half
hoae, as s estimated by the last a -n -
sus. The large and int purtattt State of
New York has an area o thirty ruilliens
and eight thousand acres, of which there
has been improved a little over half, or
16,8117,206 acres. It is fete to estimate
that the Syndicate lands are capable of
ptuducing twice as much foram se could
be produced in the State of New York,
yet New York has • population of 5,183,--
173.
,183,-173. (Witness
and 9,000,000 acres for the setae work,
snaking a saving on that part 01 12,400,-
000, and 2,260,000 acres, or a total
saving un that part, at the 41.ternnent
estimate, of .9,666,000.
for the
4. The contract provides
giving of $6,000,000 and 7,600,000 acres
for the western 460 utiles to Kamloops
The offer proposes to accept 95,400,000
cash and 11,750,000 acres for the "eine
work, matting a saving ou that part of
.000,000 ash and 750,000 acnes, or a
total saving on thin part, at the (i„vettn-
went estivate, of ,9116,000.
5. The contract provides that the
Government shall permit the admission,
free of duty, of all sttwl rails, fish plates,
and other fastenings, spikes, bolts and
nuts, wire, timber, and all material fur
bridges to be used in the original on,.
struction of the .auwav and .of a tele-
graph limo in connection ...wry?,
and
all telegraphic apparatus requirwt for the
Ent equipment of such telegraph line.
The otter proposes to undertake the ob-
ligations without any exemptions from
duty, thus etfectiag a further large gain
to the country.
6. The contract provides that fur
twenty years from the date thereof no
line of railway shall be authorized by the
Dominion Parliaiueut to he constructed
south of the Canadian Pacific Railway
from any point at or near the Canadian
Pacific Railway, except such lime as shall
run south-west or to the westward of
youth west? nor te within 6µceu utiles o1
latitude 4:t, and that in the establish-
ment of any new Province in the
North-West 'Territories provision shall
be made for continuing such prohibition
as to such establishment until the expir-
ation of the said period. The offer pro-
poses to undertake the obligations with-
out any such restrictions, thus prevent-
ing the creation of the legislative mon-
opoly in favour of the Company provided
by the contract, and preserving to Par-
liment and the new Provinces, unfettered
by the contract, their freedom to charter
railways and to create competitive pontes
as the public interest may require-, and
by this means blotting out uuo of the
most objectionable features .1 the con-
tract.
7. The contract provides that the Ca-
nadian Pacific Railway and all stations
and station grounds, workshops, build-
ings y-anls and other property, rolling-
thorize the construction of any railways
running certain directions which might
interfere with the Canadian Pacific Rail- -
way.
11. By the Act the Government has
unrestricted power to regulate from time
to time the tariff of tolls. By the am -
tract the power of the Government to
reduce an euteblished tariff is limited to
the case in which the Company is snaking
a net revenue exceeding 10 per cent, on
the capital invested in the construction
of the railway.
12. Under the Act the Government
would have power to prescribe from time
to time the acconimudation andthetraina
to be provided by the Company. By
the contract such power is not given to
the Governneent.
13. Under the Act the Government
would have power to aoquire the railway
at any time the public interest (night
demand. By the contract the Govern-
ment has no such power.
14. By the Act the grades of the
railway, and the materials and manner
of constriction, and the node of work-
ing, including the description and capa-
city of the rolling stock, are to be such as
may be determined by the Governor in
Council, and it was formerly the declar-
ed policy of the Government and Parlia-
ment that the grades should be very
low. By the contract the Union Pa-
eific Railway, as first constructed, is fixed
as the approximate standard, and the
grades are very high.
15. By the Act no power is given to
the Company to build 'leash railways,
save one to Georgian bay and one to
Pembina. By the contract power is
given to the Company forever to build
branch lines in various parts of the
Dominion.
16. By the contract divers other im-
That the said resolutions be not now
lead s second time, but that it bare -
solved, Thst the late Government invit-
ed tenders for the construction and
+working of the Canadian Pacific Railway
tender the Act of 1874; that no tern$rs
were received in answer to those invite -
ono; that the policy of the present
Government, approved by this Hous in
in the session et 1879, was to Obtain :jnt-
1yd wards the work; ibat tine
d Tpeaied Gor*nmaltnt'ap-
proved by this House in the session of
1880, was t, construct the railway as a
Government work; that it •appears that
during the recess the Government de-
termined to attempt to make a contract
for the construction'iand working of the
railway on wholly new conditions; that
the Canadian Pacific Railwey Act pro-
vides that the works on any section or
sub -section of the railway &hall not be
given out to any onntractor except after
tenders shall have been obtained there-
for; that the Government did not invite
tenders on the basis of the said new
conditions, or at all; that such new con-
ditions were not made known by the
Government at any time prior to the
making of the oontraet, nor until the
night of the 10th December last, when
the contract was laid on the table; that
the said new conditions, not authorised
or contemplated by the Canadian Pacific
Railway Act are of the most vital im-
portance, and amongxt the same are t he
following : -
1. By the Act no power 's given to
the Government to agree with the con-
tractors to construct for the benefit of
the contractors sections of the work to
be handed over to the contractors. By
the contract the Government binds itself
to complete the unfinished sections, to
begin and finish the heaviest section now
unlet, and to hand over to the oontrac-
ton for their own benefit the works, in-
cluding theme now in operation, and
comprising over 700 miles of railway, of
whieh the Pembina Breech alone is
yielding nearly 870.000 a year net reve-
nue.
2. By the Act the cash expenditure of
the Government as principal mosey to
be paid to the eontrsetnrs is to he $10,-
000 a toile, or about 827,000,000 for the
whole line, apart from the eon • 1 sur-
veys, whteh might or might not form
part thereof. By the contract the cash
expenditure of Government as principal
money, of which the contractors means
the beneat, is to be, in cash and works reespvteta •
to he wait! over to the contractors, at 1 The ntne trovides fer a cash Masasrhneetbi t t.51.361 4.11110.1110 1.7114103
IOWA .53,000,000, apart from the tint ..f subsidy 4 $26,000.600 d a land grant (o.n..uc■t ar.sat s.ett.als t.ete,tae
and Rh1 }lapel . "17.313 sumo mew
surveys, which does not form part there of 25.000,000 acre's. The offer proposes I Ti_eev n,,,i psbite 310.300 1Ai tMt AfffS,j
e>I. t.. •crept 824.00(1,0121 and 2'i,(Mt0,000 *esu Jersey NEW v nuns t,r)e.t?.
3 R the Act the land ,t is to be acres, maki a saving .4 10,000,060 in
Meteev,..leeteel tern.
Report of the state of the weather for
the week ending Saturday, 10th.
Jan. 9th -Wind at 10 p.m., North-
west, light, cloudy. Wind travelled in
24 hours 193 miles. Began to snow at
11 a.m. , ceased at i; p. m. 2i inches
fell.
Jan. 10th Wind at 10 pmt. , East,
light, clear. Wind travelled in 24
tenure 248 miles. 2 inches of snow fell.
Jail. Ilth Wind at 10 p.m., South-
east, light, clear. Wind travelled in 24
hours 271 miles. Mock sun at 5 p.m.
Jan. I2th- Wind at 10 p.m., South-
east, fresh, clear. }Wind trnvelled in 24
hours 4t15 miles
?;,ii, ••'u,1 at 10 p. in. , Notth-
weest, brisk gale, dear. Wind travelled
in 24 hours 445 miles. Been ennwing
neatly all day, d inches fell.
Jan. 14th Wind at 10 p.m„ South
east, calm, clear. Wind travelled in 24
hours 424 mills.
Jan. 15th --Wind at" 10 p. in. , East,
light
Snowing- -7wrono lunar. Wind
travelled in 24 hours 741 miles
0 N. MacuugALD, Ohaerver,
Gtderich, l7 th Jan., 1881.
MOMS.
Erre', In Mullett, on the 1•AL inst.. the uifc
of R. T. Frratt, of a daughter.
Wene-1 At Manche ter. on the 15th Inst.,
the wife of Orwoad Wenzel, of a daughter.
1 a fits O.
Dawson Green At the residence of the
bride's father. Win. Green. Esq.,late of
Colborne. by Iter. K. J. Thompson. r. John
Dawson. to Hannah 11. Green. all of Camel
ton. Iniac of ceremony. Uee. 15th ltleU.
.ass:
McCaig on Friday. Jan. 7th. Neva, daughter
stock and appurtenances required and of W. James and t;arah K. McCaig. aged .t
months and 15 days.
used for the construction and working JJ
thereof, and the capital stock of the 4 Jaana�n ti lie icit daugin htt rtuf Mr. 1t15 J
Company, shall be for ever free from megrim aged four weeps.
taxation by the Dkoniinion, or by any
Province hereafter to be established, or
by any municipal corq'p,ration therein.
The offer proposes to undertake the ob-
ligations without any such exemption,
thereby effecting A great further public
gain.
The contract provides thetthe lands
of the Company in the North-West Ter-
ritories, until they are either sold or oc-
cupied, shall oho be free from such tax-
ation for twenty years after the grant
from the Crown. The offer proposes to
undertake the obligations without any
such exemption, thereby effecting a great
further public gain, and removing • most
serious hindrance to the development o[
the North-West.
9. The contract contains no provision
giving to the Government power to ac-
quire the railway. The offer promises
that the Government shall be entitled at
any time after completion to acquire the
railway .n terms to be settled by agree-
ment or arbitration, thus enabling the
Government, in case the pnhlic interest TT\UF.R AND BY VIRTUE of
shall be found at any time to detuand lJ Ibwen of sale contained is • oertaln
rnortgagr made b Jana MnUen to the
G. WIDDOWS, EX-FRANCIS-
CdV MONK.
Will lecture in the Victoria Hall, Oodertek.
on Friday. February 4th. lel. Door opp�ena t7:
lecture to oominence at a p. in. Salaam -
"POPISH Riors ,N DUNDEE. AND THrta RE.
eU LTs."
Mr, Widdows bas just returned from • tour
of two years and • hall In the Old Country,
where he has met with remarkable ssoeam,
having lectured •rad preached east leas than
3116 times in Dundee. Scotland. receiving many
flattering testimonials and valuable present,.
and on MS return to London, was received
with fiend and Hansen. and a torchlight pro-
cession, and an address of welcome. Dont
fail to hear him.
Tst•ttT
LRnERS Est HEAT4
15
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MORTGAGE SALE
of
VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY
in the
'Townships of Ashseld and Wawanosh,
in the County of Hardt.
privileges andpowers aregiven that ate to acquire the railway with a eO
portantp ages p, q )' doi•t� which will produced at the time of
to the Company not authorized or con- view te its being dealt with as those Male, and in payment of which default has been
templated bythe Act. views maythen require. reale. there will be oflbred for sale by Psblic
p ! Auction at Whitely's Hotel, in the Village of
That each new conditions wholly alter
10. The contract provides for thepass- l.ucknow, on
the basis for tendering; that no nppnr- ing of an Act which would limit the ou�ay, 15th. Feb'y. A. D.1881,
tunity was given to Canadian capitalist,, power of the Governor in Council to re-
ur to the public to tender for the work duce tolls once established to the cane in at 1•? 0', lock noon the following parcels of land
which the Company's net shall ex- vir: -The South hall of lot number 12. fa the
on the basis of any of such new condi- profiteleventh concession, (iaRers Uivfslon of the
tions; that by the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Act it is provided that no contract
made under the authority of that Act
ceed ten per cent. of the capital invested Township' of Ashfield containing los acres
in the construction of the railway. The more or leas, save and except i of an •arc,
offer proposes that then shall be no such herrtotore Bold to Daniel Ferguson, of which
about 90 acres are cleared and about 70 tree
for the construction of any portion of limitation, and that the previsions of the from stumps. Thr soil is good clay loam- and
General Railway Act shall apply, I vin "^ the lands arca g frame house. wood
the main line of the railway shall be E p y. 4! •Led and simmer litehen attached, large
bindinguntil it shall have been laid be- the Governor in Council uarestrict frame Lam, frame stables and shed ►ata a
suer to regulate the established tills wood orchard of baring freer the fences
fore the House of Commons for one 1?o arc good and the lands are .heated on • toed
month without being disapproved, un- from time t.. time as the public interests
less sooner approved by s resolution of
the House; that the contract now on the
table does not come within the provis-
ions of the said Act, and is of no force
unless legalized by Parliament; that the
said contract expressly provides that the
same shall be binding only in the event
of an Act of incorporation being granted
te. the projected Company, as set out in
Schedule A to the contract; that Parlia-
ment is free to reject such a Bill; that it
is now proposed that Parliament shall
legalize the contract; that this House is
under no obligation to do so, and it is its
duty to refuse to do so, unless satisfied
that the public interest requires such a
step; that the conditions of the contract
are extremely onerous and disadvantag-
eous to the country; that it now appears
that terms much more favourable to the
country can be obtained; that nn the 14th
day of January instant, only five weeks
after the said new conditions were made
public, an offer which is now on the
table was made to the Government by
Canadian capitalists of high standing
and ample means, credit, and buainesa
ability, comprising Sir W. 1'. Howfand,
H. H. Conk. A. R. McMaster. Wm.
Hendrie John Stuart, John Proctor, P.
8. fttephenson, John Walker D. Mao6e,
Pelee Howland, A. T. Wood, Allan
Gilmour, .T. Carruthers, K. Chisholm,
A. W Roos George A. Coe, P. Larkin,
W. D. Levitt Barnett & McKay, .lames
IlleLareen, and Alex. Gfbscn, to complete
Rose parts of the railway to be huih by
the contractors, and to equip and nisin-
Min and work the whole railway from
Lake Ripveting to the Pernik Oman. and
in perform al the obligations under-
taken by the oestrsolore ..n terns far
leas onerous t tate country in the follow -
ma regi:tre.
11. The contract makes no provision
for the allotment of stock in the Com-
pany in the several Provinces, The of-
fer proposes that the Act to be posed
shall provide for the opening of stock
books in the principal cities of each Pro-
vince with a view to such allotment.
That the said offer besides its proposal
fpr the whole line, contains certain alter-
native proposals in case the Government
should desire to withdraw from or post-
pone the construction of certain parts of
the line by the contractors; that the con-
ditions of those alternative proposals are
not such u should be accepted, but the
refusal to accept the same leaves un-
touched the offer for the whole line,
which stands independent of the said al-
ternatives; that it appears that the said
tenderers have deposited in chartered
banks of Canada over 81,400,000, which
is held by such Tanks as security that if
the tender is accepted and the charter
granted the million of dollars to be de-
iced with the Government as security
for construction will be deposited as pro-
posed by the tender; that it is not in the
public interest that the contract accord-
ing to the terms of which the 825,000,
000 and 25,000,000 acres of land are pro-
posed to he granted should he legalized.
taad •howled tun. ayadlease.
In order top give our readers • better
idea of the immense extent of territory
which it is proposed t, give t. the Syn-
dicate, we shall compare it with • similar
extent of territory in the Eastern States.
The 5 -Wowing is the area and popu-
lation of the mix States named, as given
in the eewsu• of 1870;
Pleas- Total area Tonal scree
Name of Qtate ta►ow. 1 . derma Improved.
y gnu or in eaah and 3,
taken, so far as obtainable, along ,000 acres. «hieal, at the
the immediate vicinity of the whole lone Government estimate of Ei 18 pe' acre.
of railway to the Pacific (levan, and is tc. to 8'9,540.000, or a total saving .•1 812.
be .t "fair average quality, ' thus ear 641,000 ..n this head
bracing a large proportion of land not tit 2. The erten-set j.rnvxiei as a stan.l
for settlement :By the contract the and the ('nom Pacific Railway, as fine
land is all to be taken in the North-West contracted. The offer er.opeeee that
Territanea between ROI 't ., a 'ear.-aitwae as in isle
That ammo ieataate Ireton
We hare need the cameo returns of
1570, as the congas taken last aumw,er m
pot yet complete Fi'otn this it appears
stone road and about 24 miles from Lucknow.
Alen the South West quarter of lot number
13 in the 11th (oncewslon of the Townshipof
Wwano&h, containing 30 acres more or iss.
of which about 30 are cleared, and nearly all
tree from stomps; and there are some valuable
cedar, ash and pine timber on the property.
TERMS: Ten per cent at the time of sale.
fifteen per cent within rine ,month thereafter.
and the balance to be secured by
with interest at 7 per cent, yearly. or if
additional security he given no cash need he
paid. or terms may he varied in any reasonable
way to suit purchaser.
For further particulars apply to
JOHN THELMAVAN.
Asctio•eer. hackneys.
Or to
BlITNt-Ns, MO..., FA 1(ON&alnas & HOYLE
Vendors Solicitors,
Toronto.
1770.
Dated 13 January, 1sa1.
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SATURDAY. JANUARY 18th.
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that the area of thane Os States nese& I.One 01 T row R A NO AIR*
the amount to lee given to the Ryndieate O O ltd li A w I) till le
b7 only ono million air hundred and 8. 81-4 0 A NIC .
eighty acre. Rtr1 it is well known that Hamuton 4,'.et. 7ldeeirk ilea