cet teste ts sere CORRESPODENCE, | — re eee ee, lo tus Eprror or tas EXAMINER. Deak Sias—A few days ago [ forwarded | the following to the /era/d for publication. | The thing who has the management of that | eheet finding it rather pointed rod outspoken | did not deem it expedient to com ply with my} request, but ordered one of bis Uv, dey See | rifart s to return the communication to me) with a short aute, nol pust pad of course. | Mr. Reilly thought he was giving me a} murdervus broadside when he advised me to | send it to the Little Joder. Although the} subjectot my communication to hiun--Edward Rieily—is one peculiarly adapted to the co- jamns of the Lattle Joker, yet | do not feel | disposed to gratify he morbid craving of | worldly honor by allowing him to figure in| itscolumns. {shall give my communication pubiieity in another paper, where its con-| tents shall net be considered as jokes, but as | facis which should cause any man, even the | he weuld fill the vacuum inthe Executive Council | geration would seeure a splendid market and to hide his face | of this Island. publisher of a Vindicator, trom publee view. I retaain, Sit, yours trul IL. FLEFCHER | Orwell Mills, Jan. 6th, i865. For Ts Ueracp. Mr. Retity :— some time ago I received a number of the Herald, forwarded * with the compliments of the Editor, W. W. Sullivan.”’ Sinee then L have learned that you are its Editor and not he. As t have received six or seven copies regularly since that time, without the ** compliments of the Eaitor,”’ A may fairly presume that 1 am one of your subscribers. I would cheerfully continue a subscriber to your paper for several reasons, among others, the arguments you have urged against the Union of the Colonies are, in the main, in accordance with my own views upon that subject. But [ have a strong reasen fur dwcuntinuing your paper, and it is this; Reason— You have deviated from your ex- preseed purpose of continaing the cuotroversy without descending to thatabsndoned practice vf personal abuse. You were to vanquish your enemies, if { andeestood you aright, by sound argument and effective lugic. But you | bela of the state, it would be exceedingly grati- tying if the Honorable Gentleman's modesty would | sold atlower rates to the econsumer and at } To THe Evrrok ov THe Examiner. | disposition of the products of nature pro- claims the interchange of commodities as the design of the Creator. Scienee and art faci. litate such exchanges, and why should man, himself confessedly interested in them, make the transactions more complicated and difficult than they otherwise would be? Passing from the abstract question to its conercte realities, let us enquire in what way Free [rade would be likely to operate within the domain of Confederation? Despite the heavy opposing tariff of the five Provinces, the jvalue of the manufactured articles now im- |ported from England and the United States Beer, as a most reliable and persoually disinter- amounts ennually toa very large sum of mo- ested statesman ; nay, a patriet whose country’s | 2°Y- Very many of them could be manu- good is the sule fuleruin of his action; and as all | actared im any of the Provinces. They are velieve that he is the man to hold and direct the | Mow Sold at @ profit. Under Free Trade, in the case of local manulactures, they could be IMPORTANL ULTIMATUM. Sir ;—The Honorable George Beer has been pleased te announce im the Islander of the Wth instant, the conditions upon which Ae, on behalt of Prinee Edwagd Island, would. enter the pro- posed confederation of the British North American Colonies. This ultimatum of the Honorable Gentleman is matter of much general satistac- tion, as fixing the action P. E. Island wil! take in the all absorbing Union question. And in this ultime.tuin, the publie voice declares that the criss has produced in Mr. Beer the man equal ‘O statesmanly acquirements to the occasion. All eyes are fixed upon the Honorable George permit huw to inform the public upon what terms | greater profit to the manufacturer. As Fe- la re ive price, i PCL EsGss2. |e remunerative price, in a country lightly - tere [PoR THE EXAMINER. ] SUMMERSIDE TOWN TALK. , lin favor of Free Trade. The providential —_ he moderation of 1t8 —after referring, « pounds, shillings and pence ew us diseoutses Upon the question mn e spirit with which it ne in a recent article, to | questions a the mere the subject, th the large and statesman lik o be regarded :-— P ke bus cavil about a few cents per head in a question where #@ Many important Inter- eats are involved, aot where the results are ‘calculated to affect w vitally the future of these Nerth American Colonies? The matter should be regarded from a higher stand point than that of a few additional cepts per head of indirect taxes. The signs of the times portend an early change in the position of these Provinces. What that change shall be is within the power of the people themselves to determine. Admitting, as all will, that we cannot muchlonger remain in our present isolated conditia on the Confines of a warlike neighbor, will different tariffs, different ‘laws, and diffrent currency, there are but two alternativs open for us, one or the other jtaxed, as compared with others, whether! of which we ust chuose at no distant day— European or American, and in which food is we must eithr drift into **the maw of the | Comparatively cheap, manufactures weuld be| great democney,’” or we must become a |@ sure result of Federation, ‘They would at- | consvlidated government, acknowledging al- The talk is now for and against the Union | tract local capital ; they would attract Eng-| legianee to the Sovereign of the British lof the Colonies. The talk is about the} lish capital; they would attract American }meetings which took place in Brown's Hall, | capital, for material interests carry the day j}to discuss the merits of the Union. The | John Bull may experience a shivering sensa- |talk is that the silly **Lown Talk’’ in Ross's | tion as he thinks of the frost and snows of | Weekly is only fit for the columns of the | British America; the American may prefer) | | Little Joker. The talk is that when the) the new life of a great Republic to the histo- | Weekly relers to meetings at Summerside, | Tic associations which constitute a venerable ihe ought to have something better than Town | constitutional monarchy ; but let it be made | talk for his authority. | clear to the Euglishman that he may have The talk is that the people here have in-| ample seeurity and ample profits in the new telligence and independence enough to talk } smpire, and to the American that he can good common sense, without any assistance | enjoy, under the British flag, nearly all the jfrom the Weekly, the Little Jeker, or the | advantages which the American Union af- ) Seeretary. |forded prior to the war, with only a very The talk is that the Seeretary knew no! small portion of its burdens, and the Eng- more of the meeting here than Ross does) lishiman will forget all about the cold of New about the man in the moon, srunswick and the American give up the stars That the gentleman alluded to as the | aad stripes, and both will be found entering ** Prince of Merchants” did not eountenance| into a trading partnership under the aus- the moeting; that he is an anti-Unionist, pices of the new Confederation. and that every pryprietor on the Island is} It is wlmitted that the political and com- against it, {mereial union of the Lower Provinces, by —er whoever may be the Editor—have utter- iy lost sight of this wise resvlatioa. The example taught you by the fate of the late Vindicator should have been ampty sufficient to sutisiy you that no journal can be accept- wble te the reader, and consequently long. lived, ualess it disclaims meadacity and vili- fication, and adheres to truth and justice. 1 evusider that | would be doing wrong in sup- porting the Herald or any other paper that would drag such men as Whelan, Ilaviland and Gray—men whose names you well may eavy—over your editorial arena, and there | abuse them to the utmost of your feeble might, | believe that the proposed federation of British America would prove injurious to P. E. Island, that is, according tu the con- Tbe talk is that that being the case, how increasing the market for manufactured could Palmer be in fayour of it, seeing that | goods, would give an immense stumalus to ; tenantry. There is some further talk about Palmer’s| Canada will, indeed, sell to us, but we shali | inconsistency. also sell to Canada. The ramifications of ‘The true talk is that the people in general trade are truly wonderful, especially as re- jare in want of information upon the **Union | garde the lighter wares. ( ee ; and the latest talk is that those | ago standing for a few moments in a whole- — n want of knowledge will receive very little | Sale boot and shoe store in New York, we! jim Ross's Week/y or the Little Joker, and | saw cases of goods dispetohed to some of the ‘chat the Little Joker ought to be called the | most distant cities of the |** Great Humbuy.”’ | swered by a young gentleman from St. John,) | Che & xyaminer. {we learned that the cost of transit by ex- |press would only add a very few cents per ~| pair to the cost of a pair of boots, leaving a Vi jand, on enguiry (an enquiry which was ap-| ditions contained in the Report uf th 3 Quebee Charlottetown, January 16, 1865. Conference. Yet, 1 do not, and cannot be- | lieve that either of these yentlemen would |” —_w™~ as. hs Sh Allene eis — country. I believe them to be consistent io ' its aly Swall and narrow minds | COLONIAL CONFEDERATION. t minds that would think little of selling our i —e ye rights aed liberties for a mess of pottage— | NEARLY all the Provincial papers, ofall shade z are the oaly vues oon of harbouring such | of politics, clerical and secular, continue to devot ¥ ‘ an evil sespicion. No honest persoa would large portions of their space to the discussiun of | way carriage. by wacquivical testimony. It is really am-| previously opposed to it, in Nuva Seotia and New j large margin fer profit. Foreign capitalists |in selecting a locality would naturally pre- fer & maritime port to an inland city ; they katowing!y sacrifice the interests of their, P{J BLIC OPINION ON ‘would choose Halifax and St. Joho in pre- lference to ** semi-annual’? maritime | cities of Montreal, Quebec, or Toronto. The _|inerease of manufactures implies the in- *|ecrease of wealth and population, and also © | increased need for shipping, as well as rail- L¢€ duties shall be imposed on the dream of the thought unless it was supported | 11,4 ruderation question.—Journalists that were | Ships’ materials, as New Brunswick with a them to do so we leaye time to determine.” ; swnall tariff against ber own excels Canada é : 2 ' a FA tee SES Se, ss eit usiag to hear you accusing others of being | ‘so very venumous mendaewus and un- Brunswick, are now rauked amongst its ablest scrupulous.’ It forcibly reminds one of the ~ Devil reproving sinners,” Notwithstanding the assertion of Vormice- like—Palmer-o{ — Toronto-Dejeuner ~ consist- eney, to the contrary, bas been the unflineh- }° ing supporter of Tenant's rights. He has had @ large share in introducing and secaring | conducted with ability, which every one must al-| interests will pot suffer. tu ua many of the noblest reforime and cher- | low, aod commanding a certain degree of iuflu- population in the commercial centres will | ished privileges which we possess. He has been battling with our Island Dormice for boons which we now enjoy, while you were scampering over the streets alike regardless of our ** rights and liberties,’’ and the suc- at the head of the movement in Néw Brunswick | The eess of the measares for which he contended, To him you owe, in a great measure, the swettering knowledge of pulitical science | whieh you possess. Our best measures were wdvocated in his press, and defended by him ia Parliaraent. Lis brilliant pen, his effective oratory bas been cheerfully brought to bear against existing abuses that cried loudly for redress. Yet, torsooth, this isthe man whom you, the publisher of a paper universally de- nominated * the foul-muuthed sheet,’’ have dared to denounce as a traitor to his country ! Thie is the man which your ** envenomed °’ | [sland included) — was also amongst those jour- | peo has cautioned the country to beware of!! It appears, Sir, from the general tenor of your writings that you are not conscious of having vilified Mr. Whelan. You appear tu imagine that you are at liberty tocail others whatever your vocabulary of cuarseness may suggest. Yet net ome sharp word must be | given in retura. You cun tell an bonvst man | that he is guilty of ** equivucation, eliuffling, | misrepreseatetion, and inconsistency,’’ and | all this, too, without a shadow of proof. Yet! eathing must be said in reply. /f pure | Paes prompted you to tuke the anti-| Joion side cf the question, you at least! would be expected to use argumentative lan- guage and truth, and not ridicule and dog-| matiem. What have you gained by telling the world that Mr. Whbelau assured |i1s read | ers that be was just about beginning to study | the subject of Confederation? What nave you gained by intorming your readers that Cul. Gray signed the Report on Sunday? You heave gained such a notoriety, that, no} matter how true may be the general part of | your editorials, peuple will nut know whether to face the quesiivn of sel{-defence, w hether | to believe them or nut. lin ship-building, with that odds in fayor of or jadvocates. The whole of the religious press o Mr. W helan— | Halifus is in favour of the measure, and the secu-) without the duty. } | same side. r is n@arly similar. The only paper ia that city lence, which offers strong opposition to Confede ration, is the Freeman. imore than he does Confederation itself. | Globe, of St. John, was at first strongly opposed to it; but it is rapidly toning down; the Telegraph, of the same city, was alsu a strong opponent; but its able editors are daily giving abundant reason ito believe that they will very seon become the }most entivsiastic advocates of Confederation. | The Colonial Preshyterian—a journal which influ- ences the opinions of a very Jarge portion of the inhabitants of all the Colories, (Prince Edward |uals which, at the outset, teok an unfavourable lview of Confederation. The Colonial Preshyte- rian, Whose editor wields an able and skilful pen, lis now oue of the ablest advocates of the measure. Iu an article recently published by the Presbyte- rian, eutitled * Federation in its Financial, Com- mercial and Political Aspects,” the editor alludes to the fact that the Delegates hitherte have been merely acting on the defensive, and dealiug with sectional questions, leaving undiscussed the broad and comprebeusive aspects which the whole sub- ject presents. The Colonial Presbyterian reme-| the efforts, blight the hopes, or quench the | Government of the Colony. ‘dies this defect in the discussions by the fullowing | 8pitations of futare freemen, well written observations :— ** We are, by supposition, giving up what way be calied a certainty, nawely, our ever increasing customs’ aad vther duties, for a com parative uncertainty, namely, the benefits of Federation, reserving, however, ao allow- | ance sufficient fur present purposes. Yet, it should not be forgotten that if it be necessary at the instance of England, or moved by the The Hon. Col. Gray aad Mr. UB wiland danger of cullision with the United States, have also come in for a fair share of your fuyourite weapon — abuse. Both these | yentiemen the country believes to be consés- | teat advocates of Union. Ask the most! bigotted liberal on the Island who he believes | to be the must cons stent, the most Lenuur- | able, the must sealuus friends uf the people on the conservative side of the House, and he will at once tell you Gray and Haviland. Yet, with you, these men are inconsistent, aod altogether unworthy of public cuniidence. Strange that Mr. Pope escapes 80 well the) ire of your bitter pen. Whether Whelan, Gray, ilaviland or Pope are right in think- ing the Union a benefit to the Island or not, ons thing at least must be said in their fa- vor, and that is, they acted honestly and straightlorward throughout. They told the Cacadians what they thought of their coun- try, !aws, customs, resources and advantages, aad of the contemplated Union; and what they told the Canadiaus they would do, they are now doing honestly. This evaduct eon- trasts beautifully with that of anotber indi- vidual who pretended that he loved Canada, that he admired Ler people, her greatness, her megnitude, ber intellectual ascendancy, aod vb | how he would urge upon the gs euple of bis own loved Isle the vecessity and wisduw | of throwing in ber lot with such a wag niti- eentevuntry. But lo! the tune is changed. | 1 yot what I wanted, | got myself filled with | wiae, with the good things of this lle; i} have been Lospitubly entertained, aad had a | lorious time of it. Canada, go to the dogs ; | Fass new home, and can live without you! Will oot Canada Suange cvasistency !! ery aloud— * Hie lowe was last, his friewdstip all a cheat, Jlis siuiles hypocrisy, Lis words deceit.” Mr. Puimer may talk about review ing his | political acts aod measares, which have cun- | ferred so much benefit upon the a ee ad weighing them against Mr. Whelan s fie may save himeeclf the trouble. We know wel enough who it was that opposed the | greatest boon ever conferred upon the ten- | uotry—Pree Education; who it wos that) oppused every measure the least uplavorable | #y the landlord; who would have denied us| the right of self-government; who assisted | an thwarting the pasasge of the ‘Tenants’ | Compeveation Bill; and who was ewer ready — to ery aloud that the ‘time dad not arrived” whee @ reform was bout to take plaice, .. Mow, Su. fur the present d «nclade. Whee d shall have received the Mexad for a quarter, you will farward your bill, aud dis- | eyounue sending it any lounger, But,| would Tather tat i were stupped at once, for | eaonot bear to eneourage a papersthat would Siacken and vilify the character of the fejond of the people. 1 will clowe by invite isg your attention to the good old at Latio | truwun——"Cancs tevude vehementeus litrane.”’ Yours as ever, J.H FLETCIER. | @rwell Mills, Dee. 20h, L864. we ean hardly call anything certain se lung as this question of sell-defence is nut settled. We notice this matter, at present, only in its fiscal and commercial bearings ; we miyhé be better off, as regards defence, under Fede- | ration, and we could not be worse than at! present. What, then, would be our financial aod commercial prospects ander Federation ? would there be any likelihood that we evuld deal with our debt more easily, and thus have movey for local improvements, or that the! volume of our Commercial transactions would be so increased as that we cuuld afford vur | new establisument? To the first question we way reply, that should the Conlederate Go- vernment be established on a firw basis, and be able tu impart a feeling of security to Eu- rupeaa capitalists, 16 might deal with its fi- nance in a Way which seperate Provinces evuld hadly expeet tu de. surprising to see Mr. Galt convert the six per ceat debentures into five per vents, thus getting rid of a sixth of the entire interest, and eventually extinguishing a proportivaate principal sum. Nos only sv, but the Govern- ment, Whose rightful prerogative it would | be to deal with the currency, and whose ere- dit ought to be as good in its own dumain as in foveign countries, might, in a few yeurs, greatly reduce the debt in a perfectly legiti- mate manner It might make its debentures the security basis, under a uniforw system of banking (saving all existing interests), and thus give a curreney of uniform yulue tu every curner of the Confederation ; and since the State would have as goud a right to the use of its own eredit as any Company deriv- ing its right to issue notes by a charter from the State, it wight supply 4 certain propor- tion of the currency absulutely required for commercial purposes, and so far as it might do sv, it would either virtually extinguish so much debt, or provide fuods fur the de- velopement gi the Cuatederacy. Lt is con- fidence that :s mainly needed to float a cur- reney, and make its redemption not desirable by the holder, und we could neither ask nor obtain better eecurity than that which pledges Uae revenues of the State fur the pay- ment of doe interest on its debt. It is only the wast and utterly disproportionate issue of Uuited States currency, consequent va the almost uuprecedented waste of war, that tus caused its deprecittion. As it is, in the hands of men of we yrity and ability, at the bela of affairs, that curreney of uvilorm va- lue may yet prove # yust oational boon When the state is gone all is gone ; aud while it remains all is secure ; ite debts are spe- eially secure, if the State aa obtain capital dzeely for the development of ite material re- sources, without imposing iatulerable bur- dens ag the peoyle. To the eeeond quesuun we answer, generally, that the wisdow of the polieywf Free Trade as aguinet protec- tlun (opposing taritis being virtually of a protec me character), is nut now an o qguest.ea. VE Cheese Cree erpanty ~ | ‘ar press, with one or twu exceptious, is on the | build ships under more favorable cireum- In St. Joha, N. Brunswick, the case | Lut we are inclined to think the Editor of the Freeman dislikes the men lt would not be | ise ll the latter, she will surpass her, when they ‘}are placed on equality, whether with or No other nation can} If manu- | faetures increase, and ships can be built to| jmake a profit, the farmer can see that his| The increase of | Stances than the Confederation. give him more customers, and at better prices, for his butter, beef, perk, grain, po- tatoes and everything he bas to sell: he will | undoubtedly pay more taxes in course o! | time, but if bis real estate becomes more and more valuable; if he can, as tens of | thoesands of farmers will, hear the sound ot | the snurtings of the railway horse, as he courses between Halifax and Bangor, or be- tween St. John and Quebec, at no vast dis- | tance in miles from his dwelling, may it| not be worth his while to pay for bis intro- duction to the privileges ot civilized lile, in- cluding taxaciva itsell ? lo a political point of view every one will admit that, other things being equal, union, | unless physical and geographical considera- | tions hinder, would be desirable. Now it eannot be denied, and no candid reasoner will deny, that in Federation we should have to! eontend with serivus physical difficulties, | but it mig&t give the ability tu help to ++ an-| 1 |nibilate time and spave’’ and make five} | Federated provinces **happy.’’ Defence} }must gain by centralization; if must gain| by Britieh co-operation with colonial spirit} | and manliness, and, if need be, sacrifice. —- | We have a country which we should pre- | i }serve from anarchy within, or aggression | j . : ' , without: we have a noble free-hold domuin, | > | }in which no hereditary burdens need crush ' This inheri- | ce is worth the price of insurance, even if that should be high. The millennium | bas clearly not yet arrived, so we must in- sure, be the cost what it may. We do not | know thatany power will ever attack us; | we are not absulutely certain that we could, even with British aid, repei all attacks with- | out fearful loss and damage to our cities and country, butit surely will ot be found easy | to smite down, and keep down, millions of | patriotic men, resolved to repel invasion, in ) & country walled with gunboats and ships of war, with an old, rich and powerful nation at their back, fighting in self-defence, for | ‘bational existence. On our own account we | should at least make the attempt, on ac-) count of old England we should do so.—| Chose who tell us that she is ready to part| with her colonial prestige may represent a} certain portion of English sentiment, but} there is no reason to think they represent | | the views of the British Goveroment. Eng-| lish statesmen are too wise not to reeogulse | |the fact that British America, shielded in) its youth, might as its millious increase to | tens and twenties, and upwards, be able tu) jrally to the defence of the old flag, should} the despots of Europe ever combine tu tram-| |ple it in the dust. Here the navies, the | armies of England might find men and ma- terial resources, but if no spirit of sel{-sacri-| fice can now be evolved, we would be of lit-! | tle value to England, and do little credit tu) ourselves, ; i We have not touched upon the political aspects of Federal Legislation. We can! only, at present, note that it would be mani- | festly untair to assume that the design of | the majority would be to crush the interests, of the minority. Party government and | natural combinations would be a check upon | such a pulicy, if attempted. We should | jrather iofer that the central goveremeat | would find its account in tustering all the) /members of the Federation as wuch as possi-| | ble, so that they might yield a Sourishing revenue. 4t might also be expeeted that. ‘as susall countries make small men’’ the wider political sphere weuld increase the in- ducements to accept a higher style of educa- tion, and produce a more elewated class of politicians, lawyers of Cuniederate reputa- tiou, lecturers who will undertake engage- | ments all the way from Quebee to St. Joho, and preachers whose name and fame will be as well knewn in Halifax and St. Joho as in Montreal and Toronto. Tue lvcal legis- lature (under proper safegaards) may bring to light men of great and unknown capacity; their aspirations will be towards the Federal Parliament (with its big salaries and wide field) and this will supply a motive power to their intellectual encrgies. These ure sume of the more favorable aspects of Feder- ation: we frankly adduce them and cun- front them with the ease va the other side, which we have also wade as strung as we evuld, though hardly as sirung, that 1s, we have hardly made Federation as weak as some of its advuates have done, and it is for the people t+ say whether they will accept wt reject Federation, We are inclined to think thas its advantages surpass its pruba- ble drawbacks, and that its acceptance will best secure and promote the commercial | rosperity, and social and imteilectual well- ing uf the Contederated Proviuees. The St Juhu Courier—the oldest journal in New | federation in the Islund, sulkily blame Mr. | one whe says one thing in Toronto and the l realm, whos virtues we 8o much revere, and ito a goverment beneath whose agis the ‘rights and iberties of the subject, whether | ‘| peer or pewant, are jealously guarded. So circumstamed, there is little doubt as to ‘which of me two alternatives the people of these Prownces, whose loyalty is proverbial, }and whose respect for British laws and Bri- itish customs is unsurpassed, will make ehoice, ard there can be little question as to which of the two conditions would be most to our advantage. A few cents per head in ‘addition to the amount we now have to pay will be but a drop in the bucket compared }with the weight of responsibility and debt we would have to ber if annexed to the Re- | public, Having thea signified our preference ‘for Union amoung cirselves rather than of annexation to the States, the next point to consider is the kinl of Union we should | adopt. This is an important point, but it is | one which the carefu student of past history land the thoughtful observer of present real- ities wil] find little dficulty in deciding. A ithe time ** Aad not arrived”? tu relieve the } trade, but the greater union will include | Federal Union such +s is in operation in the jand extend the advantages of the less.—| States, where the powers of the Central and i the State Governments clash,and where there ‘is no Executive responsibility, would not | work harm niously ; nor woulda Legislative | tent of territory and among people whose in- terests are so diversified as thuse of | British Provinces. What we require is Western States, as) Union that will give to a Central Govern- they used to be sent to the Southern States,| ment the control in matters of general inter- | tably ; that the tariffs should be equalized througb- est, and leave to the Local Legislatures the | out, as far as it was possible to do so. | power of regulating matters of a purely local |character; the former body to take cogniz- lance of all new matters for which special | This appears | provision has not been made. ito be the kind of Union which is developed lin the Ounfederation schome, and it is the |one most likely to meet the approval of the 'whole people. ‘There may be sume defects in the details, there may be some inequalities | which will require rectifying: but shali we | neglect the scheme on that account? As yet | the opponents of the scheme have not pointed | out one better or more equitable; whether a ,further sifting of the question will enable } } +<<>P> MR. PALMER AND CONFE- DERATLION AGAIN. We alluded in our last to the fact of the Protestant, of this eity, copying an article from the Halifax Citizen,ip which an attempt ‘is made to excuse Mr. Palmer for his deceit- ful speech at the Toronto Dejeuner; and we | thought, and still think, that our coptem- porary bere was not actuated by a spirit of fair play in declining to copy from the Morn- ing Chronicle the article in reply to the | by one of the Nova Scotia Delegates. public care. The questionjfor as to consider, is this; We believe it does, and our readers will be able faithfully state the facts of the case? to decide that question for themszlves pre- sently. 'a feeble and paltry way to dispose of a dash- ing article in his paper, which seemed to call fur a reply, by saying; ** O, this is of * po account,’ it contaius nothing but ‘ the | ravings’ of Mr. David Laird.’’ But let us give the Citizen's article, upon | which Mr. Laird bas set so much value as a defence of Mr. Palmer. It is as follows :— ‘+ Confederation is killed in Prines Edward Island, but its inflaenee has broken up the Hon. Col. Gray and Hon. J. C. Pope have resigned their seats in the Cabinet, ostensibly on account of | Majesty's Government. the personal conduct of Hon. E. Palmer, the Attorney General, but really because that gentleman, with a majority of the Govern- went. has strongly opposed Confederation. Mr. Palmer and Uon. George Coles, the able | leader of the Liberal Opposition, were in a they have suffered from Mr. Palmer's lips. bably tovk up their residenee here. /minority among their brother delegates from the Island, in opposing Confederation, and | accordingly they accepted their position as | 4% minority, by signing the report of the Conference, not as approving but authenti- cating it. My. Palmer alsy accepted his po- sitiun when called upon at the Toronto banquet to speak for the Island delegates. by uttering the usual compliments and desires for better acquaintance among the Colonies, and that general approval of Union in the abstract, which is very different from appro- val of this peculiar scheme. Mr. Palmer felt that he could speak in this way safe from all chance of misconception by his bro- ther delegates who were fully aware of his uncowpromising hostility to the measure. When, therefore, Mr. Pope, his co-delegate and the editor of the Jslander, tried to make the people believe that their delegates had unanimously accepted the seheme, both Mr, Palmer and Mr. Coles denied the statement. Col. Gray, being an extreme advocate of Confederation, having, it is said, a notion of the person who would likely be governor of the Island under the new arrangement, rush- ed hotly into print, and got the worst of it, Mr. Palmer, in the minority at Quebec, had the majority at his back in Charlottetown, and both the Colonel and Mr. Seeretary Pope seeing, as the organ of the later con- fesses, that not one in ten is in favor ef Con- Palmer for not aiding them to thrust it on the people, and have tried to force him out of the government. Unable to no so, Vol. Gray and a brother of the Secretary have resigned themselves. Jheir plea is that they cannot sit with hovour in the eompany of reverse in Charlottetown ; and Col. Gray ie’ ridiculously apologetic to the Mayor and citizens of Loroate tor the outrage,be asserts, they have suffered from Mr. Palmer's lips. Bui the At*orney Genera! is master of the situation ; most of his colleagues are with! him, the leading men of the Opposition are with him, and, what is more to tke point, the country is with kim. Reeonstruetion, or may be condition is necessary to the Is- land; but Messrs. Gray and Pope will svon tind out that that their Confederation policy and their resignations were fatal mistakes. If they stay out of public life as long as the Island will stay out of Confederation, their final bow is made." Wecannot stop to point eut all the errors in the foregoing—they are quite numerous, and will be apparent to every intelligent reader. We must, however, eorret two very palpable errors. Ist—lt is said that Mr. Palmer and Mr. Coles signed the Report of the Confe- rence: Mr. Coles did not sign it—Mr. Pal- mer did. 2od--When Mr. Palmer expressed at Toronto his approval of Union, he did not fur one moment let his audience believe that it was an *‘abstraect’’ proposition he was re- Citizen, simply because Mr. Laird supposes Does the article in the Chronicle We ask Mr. Laird would it not be! shall give the Chronicle's reply to the Citizen, can offer. After quoting the Citizen's ape- logy for Mr. Pulmer’g deceit, the Chronicle says :— « Let us first understand Mr. Attorney Ge- neral Palmer's position. Ile was there as a Crown officer and a me nber of the Executive Council of P. EB Island, with its honor and its character in his keeping. For aught that appears to the world, to the British Govern- ment,and will appear to all posterity ,he may have been the most active uncompromising supporter of the entire pruject. The Colo- nial Minister has already adopted the plain common sense reading of the Report, and Mr. Cardwell, speaking of it, states that they (the delegates) ‘thave conducted their deliberations with patient sagacity, and have arrived at unanimous conclusions,’ &e. Now that is true or it is false. If true, the state- ment in the Citizen is indefensible. If un- true, then Mr. Attorney General Palmer has deceived the British Government and every person who heard his remarks at the Toronto dejeaner. ‘The editors of the Cifazen contend that be did not deceive his co-delegates—and that they **were fully aware of his uncom- | promising hostility to the measure.’’ This assertion on the part of the Cit:zen editors, we haye the highest authority for stating, is as gratuitous as it is unwarranted. They ‘ean have no authority for their assertion, unless it be that of those who already stand convicted of having deceived the British Go- vernment and all the world besides. Mr. Palmer or Mr. Cules may have differ- ed ia opinion on various puints of the report, as others undoubtedly did; but what apo- logy or excuse can be offered for the Attorney General of a Province who enters no protest, files no remonstrance, during the entire six- teen days of the session, nor at its close, ac- cepts the hospitality of Corporation after Corporation as their guest, sits af the same table, hears his co-delegates commit them- selves in the most unequivocal manner to the scheme,makipy no sizo of dissent or disagree- ment, and eventually, in returning thanks following language :— “ They were asked to join in this union. Canadian friends came over to them, and they -lis- tened to them, and they were proud to hear them, They resolved very soon that there would be a union, | as far as Circumstances would permit, on the model W hile, not long | Union operate satisfactorily over a wide eXx-| of the British nation. The Provinces were unani- | mous on that. They next resolved that each co- the | lony and each Province should ‘preserve its privi- a | leges and free institutions. In that they were all | unanimous, They next agreed that the trade of the | whole colonies should be dealt with fairly and equi- They next agreed that whatever necessity might require them |to fix the tariff at, as regards the outside world, | they would enjoy free trade among themselves. (Cheers ) The Islanders were a careful and think- jing people. Perbaps they were a little doubtful at hearing these propositions at first, because they Were at present as happy and contented a peopie as any under British rule. Yet he would venture to say, whateverfthe community might be, the delegates representing the Island would not hesitate to reccommend to ther Government that great union which he hoped soon to see accomplished. (Cheers.) Speaking then of Canada, the hon. gentlewan expressed satisfac- tion with what be had seen, especially with the schools, and with the skill of Canadian meebanies, as proved in the apparatus they constructed for those schools. He concluded by expressing a hope that the union of the Provinces wiuld soon be consume. mated, and resumed his seat amid loud cheers When Attorney Generai Palmer addressed the people of Toronto in this language he had not signed the Report. The paper, we dnderstand, had not been engrassed. He signed it on a sub- sequent day, and whatever bis mental reserva- tivuus may have been, if he then had any—it is unfortunate for him that ne reeord remains of the fact. We deeply regret to be compelled to make this exposure, aud but for the fact that the dialifax Citizen, the Anti Uniontsts’ organ of this city, have taken Mr. Palmer under their protee- tion, and made Common Cause with him by justify- ing bis Genduct, we should not have considered it | necessary to have held his case up for public dis- | approbation. But, it appears, in addition to whatwe have al- ready exposed, that betore he made his speech or had sigoed the report, he was playing donble with ” that the article in the Chronicle was written | his colleagues and the Couference, and a private ‘ af We | correspondence conducted with the editur ef the Island Monitor, sivee published, proves it. Upon do not know or care who wrote it, nor do the this subject, Colovel Gray, in his letter contamung (his resignation as leader of the Island Gevern- jupept, bas the following :— | *5¢ is apparent, from a pernsal of Mr. Palmer's i speech at Loronte, aud bis communications ta the |** Protestant” and‘ Monitor’ newspapers, and the |} extracts from lis private letter to the editor af the | latter journal, which have been pablished, that at the time when Mr. Pablwer spoke at Toronto, ou the | 3d Novewber, and expressed his desire to see the | Union of the Colonies accoumphshed, and the wany | strong reasons which should lead the delegates to recommend it to the Government or people of this | Island, be was, in facet, hestile to the whole mea- | sure-— #0 * disgusted’ with i, to mse the words of his own Jetter, that ‘he would sit by the waters jof Babylon and weep, did he suppose the people of | this Island could be taken in by it.’ j A ‘ ° . | History, we think, wilh be ransacked jn vain to find anything so unpardonable as the eondwet | of this Minister of the Crown, and we shall not | j be a little surprised, no iatter what comes of | Contederation, ia the Island or elsewhere, if, | notwithstanding the Citczea’s high approbation | of his conduct, Mr. Paluier’s conduct is not, soon jor late, marked by the disapprobatiova ef Her | Maj The Citizen continues in a strain of triumph as follows: for the Government he represented, uses the Their tone in discussing publie brought under his notice at Quebec. But we state, and to judge from his own observ:tion lars annually ! whether a anion was desirable with her or view Of which is more effective than any remarks we not, The gentleman to whom we allude is | Mr. Livingston, of the St. John Telegraph |—who is now in Canada, forming bis judg- ment of that country from personal observa- tion. A few months ago he could not bear the thought of any connection with Canada : who that, reads from bis pen the following glowing description of Canadian wealth and greatness, will say that he desires to shun connectiva with her now ?— ‘‘Canada contains about three hundred and sixty thousand square miles of territory ; has une hundred and sixty millions acres of land, of which furty millions are already granted and eleven millions are under cultivation ; and has bas a coast line from the Galf of St Lawrence to Luke Superior, of over two thousand miles. Canada pow possesses over two thousand miles of ra:lroads, traversing the country in all direetions, and adding immeasely tothe value of water commuoi- cation and private property. These rail- ways cost one hundred millions of dollars. One bridge alone cost twelve millons.— Canada bas four thousand five hundred miles of Telegraph Lines, which transmit three quarters of a maliivn of messages every year. Canada has two hundred and fifty miles cf Cunals which cost sixteen millions of dollars, and Jast year carried over three million tons of freight,{rom which the Provincial Govern- ment received tolls amounting to nearly four hundred thousend dollars. The rivers of Canada are numbered by thousands ; three of them, with their tributaries, alone drain one bundred and fifty thousand square miles of land. Five or six Canadian Lakes cover eighty-four thoasand square miles of surface. {be Mail Routes of Canada embrace fifteen thousand miles of wagon Roads. On these are two thousand Post Offices which distri- bute annually eleven millions of letters, to say nothing of newspapers, maintaining the Post Office Department is itself three quarters of a million of dollars a year; nevertheless the income exeveds the expenditare, The Mineral wealth of Canada is almost fabulous, and only awaits the imtroduction of British and American capital to astonish the world. The Acton copper mine in Low- er Canada is among the richest 19 existence, although the operations of the present pro- prietors have been partially paralyzed by attempts to do too much. The Lake Supe- rior copper bas already beeome famous for the extent of the deposit and the value ol the ore; while Lake Superivr and St. Maa- rice Iron need only to be mentioned to ar- rest the attention of practical winers. The iron deposits of the Lake Superior eountry are believed to be inextaustible. ‘Phe gold diggings of the Chaudiere and Gilbert rive.s in the Eastern ‘Townships baye turned out well within the last two years. J have seen the meu who have handled the precious metal in that region. Americans have taken up immense quantities of land there, and are preparing to invest largely in mming opera- tions next year. Some haye leased blocks of land of from one bundred to two hundred square miles in extent each. A new Com- pany has just been formed in New York with a capital of five millions of dollars, to upe- rate on the Chaudiere. The capital of eom- The cost of The Canadian Goye has received and disbursed in that pal probably one hundred and thirty million dullars of revenue. The income tor the pre. sent year is probably sixteen millions. | The imports of Canada last year footed y | forty-six millions and her exports forty-two | millions. Of her imports twenty-three mil. | Home were from the United States, and of these nineteen millions came in free under the Reciprocity Treaty. Canada's importa from Great Britain amounted to twenty mil lions. The import duty culleeted wag over five millions. Of her exports (forty-two millions,) seventeen millions went to Great Britain, and twenty millions to the United States. For instance: the States took over three hondred thousand dollars worth of copper, iron ore, scrap iron, Stone, a oil, und one hendred doilare worth of fish and furs; nearly four and a half mil. lion dollars worth of phente, boards and other descriptions of lumber and timber ; over four million dollars worth of horses, eattle pigs sheep, butter, wool, hides, vheep's pelts ke 7 &e; nearly nine million dollare worth of barley, oats, wheat, flour, meal, peus, &c &e. ; and over balf a million dollars worth of tobacco, cottons, hardware, leather, sugar boxes and other manufactures Lon coin, bullion and other articles yalued at neurly two millions more. Among the larger items of Canadian exports to all parts of the world in ’63, 1 may mention the following : three hundred and two million feet of plank and boards; eixty thousand standard of deals; nine hundred and tweaty thousand tons of hardwood, pine and tewarac; ene hundred and fifty-six thousand eurds firewood ke , &e.; seven millions Iba. butter, two and a half million Ibs, wool ; one million barrels flour ; nearly twelve millions bushels wheat, oats, peas, barley and rye: over a million ibs. tobacco; one hundred and fifty thousand head of horses, cattle, ewine and sheep > nearly two hundred and fifty thousand ewt, of fish, and about a half million gallons mis neral oil, The receipts of flour and grain at Montreal in "62 equalled twenty-five and a quarter million bushels; the exports were pear seventeen million bushels. The storage capacity of the Moutreal warehouses is over a million bushels wheat, and a half million barrels of flour. ‘The tonnage of vessels that arrived at Mostreat ip ‘62 wus over a quar- ter million, exebusive of river eraft. One hundred and seventeen sea-going vessels have been bying im the port of Montreal, and over three hundred iw the port of Quebec, at one time. The grain earryimg capacity of the craft comneeted with the inland trade of Montreal is equai to two million bushels, I need not pursue thax subject further now. I thnk it is made perfeetiy elear to any persop of common sense that the develope- ment of trade in Canada has been something wonderful For my part, 1 am prepared ty admit that until recemtiy } knew little of the resources of this eountzy or of its trade. But knowing what I know now, I can easily un- derstand why Canada should deew it impor- tant te preserve friendly relations with her Great Republican neighbor, whose trade with her is rapidly making our sister Province one ‘of the first eommereial powers in the world.’” it —_-— ‘MR. PALMER'S OBJECTIONS TO ) CONFEDERATION DISPOSED OF. Tue Toronto Glods of the 23th ult. hasw | panies and private individuals now engaged | very able article im answer to Mr. Palmer's there is counted by millions. The trade re- turns show that ** the produce of the Miuves” exported from Canada last year amounted to nearly nine handred thousand doilars.— Probably as much more went out ef the country in private hands, besides what was retained by persons belonging to the Pro- vince. The Oil Wells of Upper Canada are still flowing ; the region embraced by these !s some ten thousand square miles in extent! The Militia of Canada is being placed on an excellent footing. It now nnmbers nine- ty thousand meo. The Volunteers alone namber some thirty thousand. Four bun- dred thousand pounds of powder has been manulactered at Haunlton for their aco thie year. ‘They require about one hundred and twenty drill instructors. ‘Three hundred companies received eluthing from Govern- went last year, and the payments to Brigade Majors avd for Drill instruction alone amouuted to seventy-five thousand dollars The cost of the Militia last year was nearly a half million. Phis year Military Sehools baye been established at great expense, and Company and Regimental drill has been more trequent; the whole expense ean scarcely fall short of three quarters of a mail- lion of duilave. White | write, arrange- ments are being made to send a considerable furee uf Militia to the Ameriean fronticr to prevent the crimping of Canadians tor the Federal Army, as well as the raids of South- erners into the States from Canada. There 8 yreat enthusiasm ip the servioe, especially since it is known that the Government in- tend to appoint the Drill Instructors for the Mihtia from among the young Canadians who have graduated at the Military Schools. But passing from the Militia—| find ing arms Dumbers nearly a balf million. that: in Canada there are neamy three baodred | absolutely nothing. ee eS newspapers, employing probably two thou-| chief points is that his Province is to h ive. but objections against Confederation. Although we have already given more space and atten- tion to that gepilemam thaw he deserves ; stil, as his sly objections are repeated by other people; # refutation of them may serve to prevent bis delusions from spreading. The article in the Glade is as follows :-— MR. PALMER'S OBJECTIONS. The Charlottetown Monitor, of the Ist instant, has a long letter from Mr. Palmer, Attorney General of Prince Edward Island, Stating his objections to the Vanlederation scheme = Like the ox Atesemey Comoral of New Brunswick, whom we quoted the other day, Mr. Palmer makes out that his parti- cular Province would be the especial loser by Confederation. He is disposed to insinuate that the Canadian Ministers hambugged | nearly all the delegates from the Maritime Provinees—the astute Mr. Palmer, of course, , excepted—but be thinks those of Noma Seotia jand New Brunswick made pretty good bar- ‘gains, Mr. Tilley of the batter Province as especially sharp when wouey wus in question, ‘These two Provimees get the In- | werevlunial—or, as Mr. Palmer smartly puts lit, the Grand Trunk—Rasway. So, if they jare to be heavily taxed, if they are to be ‘swaljowed up ty Canada, they will have }something to shew for it. But poor Prince | Edward Island, of all the others, gets poth- }ing but the prospeet of a handsome tagution. | Sbe is to pay out large sumsof money for puar- | poses actually detrimental to her integeats ; isle is to pay a tariff of 25 per cent, in place of 10 as at presept; ber brave sons are, in The population of Canada capable of bear- | the event of war, to be drawn away (rom, her }own territury to fight in defence of Canadian soi; and in return for all this she is to get One of Mr. Pulwer’s * Their plea is that they cannot sit with honor in | sand persons ; there are also three thousand | & wrembers in the Lower, and 4in the Up- the company of one who says oue thing in Toront? and the reverse in Charlottetown, and Colonel Gray is ridiculously apologetic to the Mayor and | * citizens of Toronto, for the outrages he asserts | and Montreal alone, one-third of whow pro- j But the Attorney Genera! is master of the situation ; | must of his colleagues are uith him, the leading men of the Opposition are with him, and, what is more to the point, the country is with him.”" Perhaps so, But what is it to be master of a} situation uader circumstances like that? Henor, | probity, self-respect, public respegt—all gone ; and yet “ master of the situation.” We confess | that we are not a little surprised that anybody | could be found in a British Province to make! common cause, or attempt the defence of one | who for any consideration could stoop to the jn-| dignity with which Attorney Gepergl Palmer's coaduct stands forever stamped, Mr. Palmer may proceed to conduct the Go- vernment of the Island in all but open, undis- guised hostility to the British Government and its policy. We euvy him not the task. Go- veruor Dundas is directed, by Mr. Cardwell’s despatch, to take immediate measures for sub- mitting the Report of the Conference to the Island Legislature, and the British Minister ex- presses his hope that “ they will sanction and adopt the scheme.” Will Mr. Palmer mock Her Majesty's Goverumeat by submitting the project and using his best influence in Parliament, as he is dving out of it, to defeat aud destroy it? Per- haps the editors of the Citezen will aid hin with their advice and counsel how best tu continue his double-dealing, and pilot him through the rocks and shoals of the Bay of Duplicity, where he has anchored his reputation. Who, apart from the Citizen, envies him his renown, or would covet the faine he will have acquired among the leading statesmen of all the Provinces, among Englishmen the world over, or with the British Government?) We shall look forward with some interest to see what attitude he asumes towards Her Majesty's Government, and what the [w- perial reward will be for one who has attempted to betray his colleagues and deceived mankind. Mr. Palmer has, it seems, thought fit, in ad- dition to all else, to publish a statement that, until the appoiutmeut of Governors was decided upon, the operations of the Couference was slow aud difficuit, and immediately after that all weut on rapidly, or to that effect. "We have what we consider the very highest authority fur donuunc- Jug this statement as entirely unwarrauted, and tbat so far from such being the case, there was vet a word of discussion nor a difference of opinion expressed upyu the clause, and that it paesed sub silentio. it 3s with deep regret-—and we repeat it—that ¥ feel called upon to indite this critique, but the actup of the Auti-Univuist organ here makes it all but imperative. WEALTH, RESOURCES AND BUSINESS OF CANADA. The opponents of Confederation in this Island are anxious to make it appear that Canada is @ miserably impoyerished country —that she hes a heavy debt hanging over her, without apy means of meeting it ; and that she desires a union with the Lower Provinces, in order to keep her out of her difficulties. Nonsense of this kind is con- tinually repeated. Now, we have the testi- mony, on the other side, of a gentleman who went to (anada with a large stock of ferring to, bat he spoke with direet reference dt hes been triumphantly settled Brusewick, and one which is always remarkable to the ** peculiar scheme” which bad been see whether she reall prejudice against that country—he went to jand girls. Clergymen. migrants arrived at the ports of Quebec The Government gives a balf million dollars for Educational purposes, ap? the municipalities and people rawe pearly two millions more. | One University in Canada has eost private individuals from two te three hundred thou-! sand dollars for the buildings alome! An- other bas an annual income of fifty-five thou- sund dollars. ‘here are over eight thousand sebools, of all descriptions, in the Provinee, educating nearly six liundred thousand boys Over twv million aces of land ure appropriated to the aid of the Collegiate Institutions of Lower Canada. The Manufactures of Canada are conducted on & most extensive scale; as far as | can ascertain in this City, Mr. Lawrence's qao- tations of prices are pretty near the mark.— Quebeg, however, is not a manufacturing city. To commence with the manufacture of lumber, Canada contains over two thousand saw mills, and ip one year cut nearly eight hundred million feet of lumber! She has over two hundred distilleries and breweries, which last year produced over nine million gallons of spirits and malt liquors, yielding an excise duty of over seven bundred thous- and dollars. ‘These breweries and stills con- sumed over One million six hundred thous- and bushels of grain and malt. There are at least one thousand flour, grist and oat mills in this country ; two hundred and filty car- riage factories — perhaps igore ; quite two hundred foundries; one hundred and fifty carding mills ; one hundred and thirty wool-. len factories, and five hundred tanneries ~) Other and less important factories are | berless. In speaking of the crops of Canada only millions can be used. Canada produces | annually between twenty-five and thirty | millions bushels of wheat; twelve million bushels of peas; forty million bushels of oats; over a million aud a half tons of ha i thirteen millions bushels of buekwheat ; twenty-eight million bushels of putatoes ;| nearly twenty million bushels of turnips ; kills thirty million pounds of beef; shears, five and a half million pounds of wool; kills) four million pounds of pork ; and maks furty- two to forty-five million pounds of butter. The cattle, milch cows, borses, sheep and pigs on band number eonsiderably over two millions. This 18 something like farming. Lime would fail me vo give anything more than an outline of the products of this Pro- vince. Of her Fisheries, however, | may say that they produee annually about one and a half million dollars. Lower Canada alone has twy thousand five hundred fishing vessels. The Magdalen Islands, which be- lung to Canada,own two buodred and seventy fishing craft. The Banking Capital of the chartered Banks of Vanada is some thirty-three million dullars—much less, | should judge, than the necessities uf trade require, ‘The Province paid seven hundred thousand dollars last year to secure the ** Administra- tion of justice’’ alone ; while the cost of Le- gislatiou amounted to over six hundred thou- sand’ dollars wore. The Board of Works From 1829 to 1864 one million: Pe? Chamber of the Federal Parliament, and that she two Canadas will in the Fedpral Assembly bave a majority of 100 ovep all the Maritime Provinces together. He thinks | Representation by Population would do ig, a _ single kingdom or state, but “when one of “the territories or provinces invited to, go '**into @ federal union possesses the adyug.- ‘tage of a separate and complete govexs- ** ment of its own, the surrender of that ad ** vantage entitles it to additional represeg,- ** tation, over and above what would be dug ** to its relative proportion by population f ** it were merely a section ora division of any * province.’’ We confess that we do not see any particular force in this argument. If is were a conclusive one, we should pessibly have tv split Canada into thirty Jitte pro- vinces to mateh Prince Edward Island. Doves Mr. Palmer think that such a deviee would ensure to us any greater representation ? W hat greater value io the Confederation will Prince Edward Island possess on account of its having ** a Separate and com- plete government ?’’ It will not contribute any more revenue, nor will it furnish any more soldiers or sailors in the event of a war. The counties of York and Peel, in Cunada, are more populous, and probably more wealthy, than Prinee Edward Island. They have not a seperate and complete govern- ment, but they have a muoicipal council which might possibly compare with the Legislature of Mr. Palmes’s ; rovinee. York and Peel, exclusive of Toronto eity, will probably have but five members in the Federal Assembly, and certainly lese than four in the Federal Upper House. Why should we not raise a complaint here because these two Gounties are only to have such a nominal representation? To our notion, it would be quite aa reasonable as Mr. Palmer's com- plaint. The majority of one hundred members which United Canada is to have over all the Lower | Provinces is, eccording to Mr. Palmer, to work wisehief ju this way :— [Tf statesmen of the Canadas, holding on some subjects yery opposite opinions, can be found to coajesce, as gt present, for the common interest of their two Proyinces, they will be found to do so in the Federal Legislatures where tke interest of the Maritime Pro yinces conflicts with tacir own.”’ Just so. In Upper Canada the grumblers say that Lower Canada and the Macitime Provinees are to have a majority of thirty over all Upper Canada, and that if the Central Cenada members go with the eastern epd of the Confedera‘ion, the majority against us wil) be sixty. Wheo we get down to Ottawa, they tell us that Central Canada, with fifteen members or so, will have no influence in a House of nearly two buudred, and that the West and the East will combine te rob aud ill-treat the Ottawa country. When we get tu Lower Canada we are told that that Province is to have but one-third of the members of the Federal Assembly, and that the “ British” of Upper Canada and of the Maritune Provinces will ryle Lower Canada with a rod of iren, Descending to particulars, the Preneh Canadians tell us that they will have but one-fourth of the Federal Payiiament, and will never be able to take care of their Jaws, language, “ and institu- tions.” The Lewer Canada British are vastly worse off— they will be but a handful, and nyé worthy of the consideration either of the East or the West. Completely submerged in the local was ina hope! has disbursed, un an average for the last ten nearly one m Parhament, they will be of uo account in the general Legislature. From the Maritime Prov- lll