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(From our Special Parliamentary Corres- pondent, ) Orrawa, March 7. While Parliament is adjourned over Ash

Wednesday, the only topic is THE CRISIS IN QUEBEC.

It is now known that Lieutenant Governor St. Just diemissed his Cabinet.

Phe assertion that he did so after much de- liberation, not only with the Hon. George Brown, the Irresponsible Leader of the Grit Party, but also with Lesponsible Ministers. of the General Government, is pretty clearly es tablished.

‘These two facts are so important and alarm- ing, that they seem wholly to engross the at- tention of politicians m this city. Free. Re- presentative Government has been assaulted m the very citadel of its power; and Federal institutions—in violation of fundamental prin- ciples —have been subjected to the secret, col- lusive influence of independent powers in the State. The freedom obtained by centuries of struggle has been denied the people of Quebec in order that a certain party may obtain an ad- vantage in the general election.

The DeBoucherville Cabinet may not have been born Legislators. Quebec is pre-emiuently the best represented Province in Dominion Parliament. All her best public men are in Ottawa; and it is not likely that those left be- hind to take care of the Provincial Govern- ment, were any better than they should be. Still they possessed the confidence of the Legis- lature. ‘Lhey were sustained in their acts by amaiority of twenty-five. And there is no provi that they forfeited the confidence of the majority of electors who placed them 1a power. Itis said that they squandered some $509,000 ofpublic money. But this statement is em phatically demed. ‘the only excuse offered for their disinissalis, that they submitted for his assent two acts, which, in the Lieutenant Governor's opinion, should not pass. This ex- cuse is very much too flimsy. It is felt that the extraordinary and unconstitutional man- ner in which the prerogative of the Crown has been stretched by the Lientenant Governor of Quebee entirely without pzslliation.,

But by far the gravest part of this business, is the part attributed to members of the Do- minion Government.

he Provincial Government is, or should be, free from any influenc¢, whether secret or open, of the general Adtuinistration,. Yet it is stated that not only the Honorable George Brown, Senator,and rea!, though irresponsible, lea ler of the Dominion Government, exercised his inuenes upon the Lieutenant Govornor ; but also that Laurier and Pelletier—-sworn members of the MeKenzie Admin strition— did so too. ‘he statement would be astound- ing and incredible if unlawful collision were not known to exist between the General and some Provincial *Governments.~ The. state- ment calls up irresistibly the manner in which the leading members of the Government of Prince Edward Island were transformed from mere spectators of the contest between Messrs. | Pope and Welsh into the most active of par- ticipants. ‘The confident manner in which the | infitience of the Local Government of the Is- | laud was brought to bear—only a few days ago—for the purpose of obtaining a postpone- ment of the Dominion: clections, 1s also borne in mind ; aud the suspjcieus way in which official appointments succeeded the exertions of the Government of Nova Scotia in the election

fthe Minister of Militia is not forgotten. All these, and many othor circumstances, serve to show that a secret understandiny between members of the Dominion Government and the Lieutenant Governor, St. Just, is quite pos sible. It isknown too that St. Just was and is a rank Grit partizan; and that he has lately been closeted with Laurier’ and Pelletier. These facts are rendered additionally suspicious by the expressions of leading Grit organs re- garding the existing situation in Quebec. The correspondent of the Hamilton 7'imes—whi-:h shares with the Globe the organship of the Grit party—-says :-—

‘The dismissal of the Quebte Government is the talk of the lobbies. ‘he Tory members are gathered in groups and discussing the situ- atiou—-which is most grave. They condemn the action of the Lientsnant Governor. Their fear is that the new Ministry will cause their names to be announced to-morrow in the House, and the moment that is done have Par- liameit prorogued, THIS WOULD GIVE THE NEW MINISTERS TIME TO FERRET OUT THE RAS- CALITY Of THE OLD CABINET, AND MAKE A FULL EXPOSURE OF IT WHEN THEY APPEAL TO THE countTRY, WHICH WOULD TAKE PLACE AT ‘THE TIME THE DOMINION | ELECTIONS ARE HELD, AND WOULD GIVE THE LIBERAL PARTY AN UN. USUAL STRENGTH IN THE PROVINCE.” | This is, undoubtedly, the mid of the Grit | party, with respect to advantages to result | from the unconstitutional action of the Lieu- | tenant Governor of Quebec. And the fact of the collusion—the secret understanding— charged, seems to be established by a strong shain of circumstantial evidence. ‘The feeling existing here is one ot extreme anxiety for the institutions of ous country. If Provincial Legislatures and Governments are to be fet- tered and controlled to suit the views or inter ests of the ruling party of the Dominion, fare- well to Provincial Independence. If Repre- sentative Governments, commanding the sup- port of a majority of Parliament are to be dis missed at the pleasure of a Lieutenant Gover- nor, farewell to those constitutional liberties which we have been accustomed to regard as the glorious heritege of the people of the Do- minion.. That these considerations weigh upon | the minds of the public men assembled in this | city is evident. Wig Q #4 |

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Sir,~-For some time past a great deal has been said by politicians and newspaper writers with regard to the direct taxation which has been imposed on the working populatiqn of this Province by o r present rulers ; but these men have, in a great. measure, lost sight of a very heavy item of taxation which, although indirect, is much more oppressive than both the poll tax and the property tax—I mean the expense of providing for our schools the series of books preseribed by the present Managers of Education. It must be really gratifying to dealers in books and stationery to see their brs ‘ness swelled far beyond its usual limits in the midst of the financial depression which everywhere prevails; and let others think.as they will, booksellers will, no doubt, look with a favorable eye on the present arrangements. If the school books now introduced were an improvement on those formerly us:d, no one would have a right to complain ; but when, jn nearly every instance, the present séries is decidely inferior to the former, itis time that every taxpayer in the Province should know whether these changes have been made in the interests of Education or for the benefit of book publishers. Among the pew books prescribed is one said to be published by Collins, Sons &~ Conipany, London and Glasgow, and called Collins’ Geography. The author (if it had an author) with a modesty refreshing im these days when humility seems to have fied from earth, keeps his name carefully concealed from the public. lt is hard to conceive how a book can be written without hands, but it is quite evi- dent that the work in question has been writ- ten without brains.. lt contains 104 pages, about 70 of which treat of the Dominion of Canada, and the remainder is all that is left for the rest of the world. When we consider that part of these 34 pages might be called a haad- book of Paris, London, Dublin and Edinburgh, and that Scripture, unauthentic history and fie- tion are often introduced, we can see that the knowledge of geography obtained from. this book will be very meagre. That it is of the utmost importance to know the geography of one’s own country minutely, no one will deny; but few will admit that two-thirds of a pupil’s knowledge of this branch should be confined to Canada. Even the small compass left for Gen- eral Geography has beeu filled up, not with valuable knowledge of this subject, but with matters of such small importance that no geo- grapher would think of mentioning them im a comprehensive, much less in an elementary work. ps

The.xnthor commences to treat of the West- ern Hemisphere ly an imaginary trip across the east coast of North America, and although no reliable writer ever treated the voyage of Eric the Red further than as an Icelandge legend, he lays down the course c¥ that navi- gator as positively as if he had taken it from his log-book. There is such a striking sim- ilarity between the account given here and ‘in Harper’s History of the Maritime Provinces that I am inclined to believe the same person is the author of both. He ‘proceeds in fancy |

the coast of Nova Seotia, but here his nauti

| skill seems to have forsaken him, as he finds

his way into Holifax harber not by his log book, chart or dead reckoning but by the smoke arising from the city. He instinctively secks the upper part of the town, whence he can see the principal buildings and the ime portant part of the province—McNab’s Island. He again puts to sea, rounds Cape Sable, ex- plores St. Mary’s Bay and repeats the enter- taining little etory about the loss of Father Aubrey. He follows in the wake of De Mouts for some distance, but ‘‘ the thoughts of home rush on his nerves,” and he proceeds up St. John harbor, passing in his course Partridge Island which ‘‘stands prondly insular on her steep shore,” lighting the way of the adventurous mariner. He patronizingly accompanies the stranger in the eharacter of guide and points out the places of interest in the city, the post office standing on Prince William street, the suspension bridge and the Victoria School, ‘‘the largest in the Prov-

inces, rising high above the surrounding buildings.” He does not tell his companion

that this was the scene of the labors of the historian John Harper, for is not the in- formation found on the title page of that gen- tleman’s admirable historical work ? Having finished his trip he turns his attention to the United States and gives one page toa de-

scription of its towns,*butas to the ressurcesof -

the country, its form of government, its éxtent and population, he fails to inform the student. About another page is devoted to a description of Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America, and then the reader is expected to shape his course towards the Mastern Hemis- phere. The author next. commences what, at first, appears to, be a scripture lesson, bub which gradaally changes to aa imaginary Eure- pean trip. He passes through London, sees ‘Ye towersof Julins—London’s lasting shame” —and sheds a sympathetic tear as he thinks of the many illustrious Englishmen who have been immured therein, ** to whom the goodly earth and air, were banned and barred—for- biddon far.’ Then he takes a view of the Pil- lar, whiclr ‘‘iftsits head and lies,” the statutes

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ped by Johnson, Reynalds, Addison and Dickens. In the same way he “ does,” Paria, Dublin, Edinburgh and Lisbon, which last

city greatly displeases him, both with regard to its architecture, and the state of its sweets. He tinds the same fault in Naples, the account

eseemsto have taken from Mark He makes the astounding statement that Lisbon has the longest bridge In the world; but in the same sentence he calls this 18-mile bridge an aqueduct. I> must confess that hitherto [have been ignorant of the fact that these two words are synonymous, |

Two pages are then given to general geo- graphy, and the «uthor returns to Cz sailing up the St. Lawrence to Lake St. Peter, where he discovers an archipelago: are told in the introduction, is “a sea with many Islands in it.” No other book in exist-

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