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phstil powers of many person to on object but also on the other items wind i have enu merated and you may curry the principles laid down with the requisite variations as to mode and manner into every governmental de partment in existence your observation said my friend appear just and rational and it is perfectly true that they who actually produce wealth have in general imi a small share in ils disposal and tfdjojmeiit and i now see that as the world ir srttmitvdj this very inequality is followed hy good hi de tail tq a vast extent the ingenious and the enterprising give employment and brad 1o those even who enrich them ami the abundance of the wealthy hardly ever foil of relieving in 5ome shape the necessities of the indigent an equal distribution of property or of the profits of pro ductive induslrywould not only paralizeiindustry but reduce us to the state of savages nothing great could either bo attempted or effected let us said i use this twoedged sword in a another direction lei us apply it to the popular doctrines concerning legislation the right of which you republicans place in the majesty of the people do you suppose a good government of more easy construction than a steam engine does it require less thought wise contrivance and judicious arrangement or if h requires alteration who is best fitted to euch a work the man of leisure and intelligence or the common labourer the man who has studied the history and policy of nations and obtained a tolerable knowledge of the living world or the working men and then again how well is universal wisdom ami pnutrmi or ium eutly mum trial cob nf the day and thts edneulum i u hi nhiatnrd at the inlvunt there an ire uri- ntao the harm d srieiitfcs and professions iuu t tlij p- ie divinity jrography astiunoiuy v all t koillivl 1 tint wfll briny t a slat tin suit- cwl nf v inch actually titun upon thnoprriitiverlas white in the ay natuieof things f hi ucluscrf uiv precluded auto the possibility of mtppirfcg ihrmsrues with the ffenerttl benelta llowing from i win except by ihe vonrntabtiut iiuiimkioi payine kit llniii in the manner i iwvis uinted nut kvrn llic fine art and the elrgtiftt luxii lies of life which inysl and will follow in the train of civilization and lelhuinent and which have their share in producing them arealomip- pnrted hy the hands and the feel of llril body po litic war with us immense and numberless cx- peusci comes in also for his enormous poition of the hmra earned wages of the suns ul toil and i should add too the vast numbers ul ser vants and domesiic wikmi manual lalkus produce nothing to the general slock i will dossovei the vast fortunes made by tralfie bank ing insurances c which yet in truth might be added in their meaiuro to the burthens ol the laboring classes and what does all ihisammint to in the theoretical scale of liberty and equality as we find them dwelt upon by the modern ad vocates of the people and the limitless exten sion of their native and inalienable privileges why truly that if a man as a member of civiliz ed society desires to enjoy the benefits ufit he must in a manner cast all his earnings into a vast public storehnue from which half a doicn nrders of unproductive aristocracy arc supported in various d grces of abundance and many of them much belter provided for than himself a clear view nf this matter on onefside is eoough 10 drive a thinking man into hatred of humao society nay out of it aod to convert him into a savage but wheo we reflect that this is the order of provi dence aod the only state of things under mn haven tendency to check that j sullcrmg mmtjrdmn underdid fireaofunmltin spirit of innovation nud intrigue a rabble their agency i i the rejection ofiln would restless which isuuw growing up among would soon inspire repcelholti for the pol for it suffrage adapted to a judicious selection of men fitted for the arduous dutiesof legislation how shall a fool judge of the capacities ot a wise man as readily as the man who carte iron or coals to your shop can oversee the construction of the most difficult of your articles of manufacture and in fact the people properly speaking have but little to do in your state matters f it is done to their hands hy your caucauses and such like and the people follow their leaders or their de- ceiversas the case may be but let these things rtvlhy will ihe multitude must pay for and support government by the hardest it is un avoidable those who know least of the secrets of politics contribute nearly all of their expen ses and this too in addition tosupporting all the rich of whatever description proper v must ori law year priest ruler he is in gin ate in the hands of those who have the least ofitscontroul and those must submit to govern ment who least understands its nature and who act upon it only as they themselves arc acted upon fby superior intellect and management and i think you will not far dissent from me when i say that the right of suffrage as it is call ed cannot be of public utility in the hands of an ignorant and dependent majority- the more ignorant they are the less is it a real privilege- for tho men in general have an indistinct re cognition of abilitiesjsuperior to themselves yet the world is so full of deception that they must in a great measure take them on credit you have seen fit to ridicule a class of paupers i as you term them who exist in great britain at the sole expense of the laboring poor the no bility now ft merits of the matter lie in a much smaller compass than vou imagine a certain number of porsonr arc privileged to live on the public without the necessity of la bour or other employment except the manage ment of their estates deemed equivalent to their support or these persons live on property which they never earned well here in the united slates of america where nobility is a dicament with the british nobility especially the possessor obtained it by gift bequest or heritance such a one never paid fur it and he lives by its rent he ia as clearly a public nui sance or a national pauperif you please ns the british peerage so is every man who lives on money at interest the man who borrows the money actually pays tribute for the privilege of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow that the property of the british peerage is in in- tail and cannot pass out ol such branches ofihe family is to be sure a different feature in the case but it is circumstantial merely ond not essential the principle is as decidcdlyacted on in the leasing of one acre as in that of all the lands of a kingdom and the difference surely is not very material if such a number of persons in a country live without actual productive labor for the time being whether they succeed each other by primogeniture or by other means at all cventsleisure i dont mean idleness can he found only with wealth and mental cultivation with leisure respectability and weight of character follow in the same train and measur ably integrity also- i should observe too that the owner of a manufactory who keeps operatives in his empoydocs it exclusively on aristocratical principles and he makes his wealth out of the labor of other men as to prolligacy and the squandering of wealth and the vices that follow are they peculiar to aristocracy by no means how many instances of the kind will jyou find in america enough to convince you that they are vices common to man the temptations to which are not confined to a hereditary nobility ah said my friend you will pursnade me lhat we republicans are saddled with many of the facts and realities of hereditary aristocracy wiih- outany ofits political agvantages in our govern menu even fio said 1 and the advantages flowing from the aristocratical principles which you do enjoy force themselves upon you by the neces- isties of our common nature in defiance of the political bulwark you have raised to fence them out men cannot so far depart many times from truth as they would wish without abjurim so ciety and running out of the world and we need not be enamoured of savage independence we see not only the constitution of tin world adapted to ihu aristocratic principle but the di versities also of human intellect- all mankind must derive their support from productive labor but all aru not equally competent to economize and take care of its product government is essential to the well being of all hut all cannot govern those w dig the earth ac being the sole originator of the means of subsistence and national wcatih must therefore siippini those thai govern a degree of nimal cultivation much in advance of the common herd nttwn i which rational freedom oho bo enjoyed aod our persons io various ways protected we submit to it cheerfully and mil ami plod along with thankfulness ihrn our lot is so good ns wo find it we pay our taxes cheerfully wo envy not those who are ac cumulating wealth which our labor actual ly produces we look not with the eye of a demon ou ao aristocracy of education an aristocracy of wealth no aristocracy of power an aristocracy of religion mul no oligarchy of government we know that that universal anarchy and desolation would he tho immediate result and we may thus learn that where a man sets up fur himself in every thins when ho conceits lhat he ought to be his own schoolmaster doctor taxgatberer and supreme a fnir way to become an atheist or a high way inno or perhaps both all the professions must in fact he aristo cracies and they ivitt drink up the resour- ccsof a nation in defiance of all tho pa triotism of the age the beauty nf the thing is to have the vast and complicated ma chinery of human society nil moving in or der regularity aod harmony each man knowing and hntnhy keeping his place a ud since you are fuud of quoting scriptnrc let us have a text to the point now there are mnoy members yet but ooe body and the eye cannot say uoio the hand i have do need of thee onr again the head to the feet i have no need of yooi nay much mote those members of tho body which seem to he more feeble are neces sary and those membersof the body which wo think to bo less honorable upon these we bestow more abuodaot honour and though any unprincipled and profane scoff er should contumatiouslyassert that this ne cessary constitution of human society en dows patrician ignorance aud imbecility and leaves plebian genius uncultivated and unrewarded lhat it pamprrs wealth nud oppresses the poor drinks up the resour ces of a nation to eotail upon it the vices nppffinti nfi poutt pmtitarttfrti 1 more ubuodaut honour given by si iaul in those parts upon which he pours the blast of slander and maintain with ihe witty fabuliittthal a body cannot live with out a belly nor hands and feet without a head to direct than a head too that uevcr was iotended to perforin their proper office aod functions dorto yield to their usurpa- tious on alleged grievances there should bono schism in the body bonce my friend i conclude those mischief making demagogues who make a iradu of disturb ing the public mind and armiog ihe feet and bands against the belly and the head ofdcstroyiog all docility burke says in ihe minds of those who are oot formed for finding their own his m the labyrinths of political theory and arc made to reject the clue and to disdain the guide of encouraging doctrines which tend to make the citizens despise their constitution which the wisdom and experieoce of aes have consolidated aod proved and which tho tongue of eulogy has beeo proud to extol as the object of wonder to an adrai sous thus jnduwed willi mute abundant honor and for that order of things uudcr which the honours are couferrcd and i may mu it would encircle us at borne with au atmocphcro of consequence in the family circle of the empire which we do uot aud caobol enjoy till such uldll he the ease ieak however with the proviso that that empito is oot reformed to its dissolution- as to the public burthens likely io follow i such a measure i flatter myself that this enmnmuicatiou will show that any appre- hentiona on that score ore perfectly ground less there will soon be rcnisenougb paid iu tho province upon leased landstn main- two or three peerages in a sufficiently re spectable style 1 cotrfd now name several gentlemen whose incomes from fast pro perty would enable them to maintain all the necessary dignity iu their establish- meots aod the oumber will increase great- iv id the present state of the country 500 atiniial income would as i conceive he amply sufficient id this however i may be mistaken hut then their estates should he secured iu their families by entail the same ns at home but here our republican dictators i am thinking will turn up their noses in profound contempt and perhaps ihe extreasury bench my renew its labors for tho complete nbaudouraeot of british principles upon this point- let them then do their worst they will hardly etect the stars and stripes for a year or two to come aod theycao say nothiug worse than they have said it is high time the friends of hriiislirule nnd briushprinci- ples which mut stand or fall togctherpre- sented the case to the administration ai home nod called its attention to a question of such vital importance both to the colo nies and the mother country ifwe are to inherit ibesiamina of her political and mo ral crcittoosa wc must inherit also her in stitutions aud be founded upon tho rock o her prosperity and her glory the opposite system is before us just begin ning fairly to operate in its true spirit niuilo produce lie irnim io lie expected fromnitcha tree hut i forbear i have giveu the bint aod i should wish to see it pursued hy those much more competeot to the task than myself and io cooclusiooi have ono small request to make to the knights of ibefyj in this provinco who feel friendly to british principles that is that they will insert this article into their respective papers and oblige sin your obdt servm one of the people p s i have ihe means of knowing that several persons who feel ioterested in the replication of my letters are fearful that ther will not bo pruned they will ho pruied aod the letter of tho 6th august lasiwill ho the last but one of the series and that one is out yet compiled but will be shortly there will be a short appen bill is recorded in tile inuifractioiwot every pub- be meeting their disfranchisement i loudly demanded the l votes lley gave ayaiust the measure would hae earrird it the question whether ilisliops should bo legislators is no longer considered doubtful and the next qato- lion for public consideration we ore fully per goaded will be ought tin established chinch exist t we have given a debate in ihe imperial parlia ment upon the canudus to which we refer our readers for tome extraordinary sentiments attii- bnlcd to sir george murray the late colonial secretary and lest the flattering unci ion should lie loo closely to the souls of some we arc enabled to urnish the public with the exact words of the pxsoctrlary which will be found as far as regards the indiscriminate divi sion of the clergy reserves among all sects diametrically opposed to tho version which we copied from thcaibion altor a few remarks up on the petition sir george concluded with this rocky barrier along the northern coasjof lake huron the land becomes good and fitlbr settle meat the impediments to navigation at ni agara having been obviated by the wellarrf canal wc see nothing to prevent vessels descend- ountrylyin hetwccnuhe orpainzed parts of ling with cargoes fiom french river or the and the sources of ihe river otta- muskoka to kiriemon this is undoubtedly k circuitous navigation but it is still practicable it would seem however mure desirable to con nect the navigation of ihenottawasaea with the river credit or to make a rail rend from york to the nottawbisaga kiveror to lake simcoe and from lake simcne to lake huron there is besides these another plan to open for settle merit ex pre ssion lie diftirred fm the rijfhl honor able member in one respect for he thought all the sects ought not io be let to provide for their own preachcrsbut that the government ought to make some provision for each of the important sects in the country this wc believe to be a correct report of his speech inasmuch as we ex tract it from a dublin paper uf the 22d oct dixto the letters chiefly documentary as prwfs and practical illustrations of the po sitions and argumeuiscoutaiued in the let ter i have had iu view ever siuee tho republication was cootemplated to bring the thins into the smallest compass compa tible with justice to so fcreat a cause and i have cu out as many brambles and thorns as could convenienlly be spared i could wish the substance of the foregoing to form a part of the pamphlet but i fear to increase its bulk and expense the jvafl1 if in- i if kixgston chronicle months by the welcome qmval of ihe packet of thcs4lh conveying to us those items which will he fuund in awthcr part of our impression and which w hopth to hfivc cncrcascd by the arrival ofwcdncfttlavs american mail but which from some circumstances most probably connected with the state f the weather as well as with be day of general thanksgiving which that nation most properly and religiously observe and which we would be gratified at seeing establish ed in this country have not as yet reached us in the articles we have selected of course the most interesting will be found the detail of those effects which were produced upon the pub lic conduct by the rejection of the popular mea sure in the house of lords they were consi dering so unprecedented an excitement but fc and chiertydirectcd agaiust some of those indivi duals who shone conspicuouslyin their opposition to the question an assault upon the marquess of londonderry an attack of a mob of rapged boys upon the duke of wellingtons houschich ring world such meo i say i regardas in a probability was fomented by the gentlemen the worst enemies of mankind aod who i the city and the burning of theduke should be scouted from that sphere of pub- 1 of newcastles residence at nottingham arc the licity which they have dared to invade chief results of this public disappointment as while foisting their uncalled fcunwaraoied might have been expected these occurrences services upon the dunes ot their imposition j i l i i i i i produced some warm debates in he house of 1 shall remember your observations said t my friend nod when i hear british insti tons previous to he pwrogaiton but the tutions reviled aod tho component parls 0 confidence of the people in ihe unequivocal a- the pressure of foreign and domestic intelli gence with which our columns are this day crowded restrains us from taking that notice of president jacksons speech at the commence ment of the first session of the22d congress so important a document isr ntitled to amongst other interesting fralurestl u markcdas the sub joined extracts will prove by ihe most friendly dispositions tward great britain and by an anxiety to continue and cultivate the most ami cable intercourse with thai nation on the sub- jtali ifililh f u uuvummun and release of the american citiiens the presi dent touches but slightly toting that the final decision of the subject will remove allgronndsof collision the continued ani encreasing prospe rity of the united states is strongly depicted the improvements of social td the securities of political life are recommend in a strain of simple and unaffected piety as a cause of grati tude for the bounties of proidence and an en couragement to meritthat pivnle favour under ihe blessing of which that ountry promises to become not inferior in mom as well as political greatness to any other the amicable relation which now sub sist between the united states and great britain tho increasing iitercourse between their citizens and the nil obliteration of unfriendly prejudice to which former e- veuis naturally gave ine concurred to present this as a fit period for rcuewiog onr endeavours to provje agaiost the re currence of causes of irritation which in the event of war between great britain and any other power would inevitably en danger our peace animated by the since- rest desire to avoid such a state of things aodpeacefully to secure uoder all possible circumstances the rights and honor of the country 1 have gives such tostructioos to the minister lately stot to the court of london as will evince tiiat desire nd if met by a correspondent disposition which we caonot doubt will fut au end to cau- o tifftdliftn wjiirb yitlmttt nrivants6 ecssary to speak further lhau to sty thai the state of things to which their piosecu- tinn aud denial gave rise has beeo succee ded by arrangements productive of mutual good feeling aod amicable relations be tween the two countries which it is hoped will ont he interrupted ooe nf these ar rangements is that relating to the colonial trade which was communicated to cou- gressol the last session and although tho short period during which it has been in force will not euahle me to form ao accu rate judgment of its operation thero is e- very reason to believe that it will provo highly beoeficial- the trade thereby au thorized has employed to the 30th sep tember last upwasds of 30000 loos of a- mericao aed 15000 toos offoreigu ship ping in the outward voyages and io the inward nearly an equal amount of ameri- cau and 20000 only of foreign toooage advantages too have resulted to our ag ricultural interests from the state of the trado betweeu canada aod our territories aod states bordering on the st luweuce and tho lake which may prove more than equivalent to the loss sustaioed hy the discrimination made to favor the trade of the northern colonies with the west todies we rcccnllv ujhrcd a few observations on the pamphlet f charles shirrillksnmrc and expres sed our earnest wish that a party consisting ol persons suitably qualified should he despatched at the pubficjcxpenacto explore ibujcxtcnaivo tract the province wa which we hacliithrlo lunkrd upon as virtu ally urra incojniw- wc have indeed so consider ed it because we arc not aware that it has yet been examined by ay individual with the ex ception that will be hereafter noticed for lhat spe cific purpose afldj though it has long been tra versed by the enterprising partners and agents of houses engaged in the fur trade wc well know lhat such persons have been ever wholly intent ou the great objects of their pursuit peltries and following only the main course of the waters which afforded the speediest communication with the interior posts devoted no part of their atten tion to the character of the soil or its capabilities for settlement and agriculture even along the routes which they most frequented we have been always curious about the geography of the ca ntulas have read with great interest whatever appeared in print tending to enlarge public know ledge on that head for this reason wc are pleased with a late debate in the house of as sembly of lower canada on a motion for appro priating of the sum of 500 to continue the ex ploration of the uninhabited parts of that pro vincd towards the noith or north west and we have extracted from it and placed in the columns of this number of our paper the speech of an drew stuart esquire supporting the moiion- in this speech he furnishes a succinct account of what has already been accomplished in that way by the legislature of lower canada and it re dounds greatly io ihe credit ol that honorable and enlightened member that he has always been foremost in promoting measures for acquiring satisfactory information respectine the vast in terior regions of onr sister province where though rocks and ruggedness may generally pre vail there yet may exist many fine tracts of country to which the swelling tide of emigra tion might be piulilabty tlirceleu since wc invited the attention of our readers to mr shirrifts pamphlet we have been highly gratified by the perusal of a very interesting ar ticle the production of his son alexander shir- riff esquire entitled topographical notices of the country lying behveen the mouth of the ridcau and penetanguishine on lake huron which ap pears in the second volume of the transactions of the quebec literary and historical society in this article mr s minutely describes his lour from bytown up uw liver ottawa to thcltapide des deux rivieres at which point heforsook the ottawa and pursued his course across the coun- trv to penctanguishine he details all the in formation he could gather as well as the result the inviting table lands in the vicinity of the muskoka ptken of by mr shirreff it is said lhat one of the hranchesof lhat river stretch cs eastwardly through several considerable lakes toward the head waters of the trent it there fore seems feasible to create a nobiejline ofinland navigation extending in this direction through the heart of the province again then we say let this country be enref idly explored by an intelligent set of persons were no oiher object attained to use the words of a writer in the book of the quebec literary soci ety hy sending out such a party ihe additional ceogiaphical knowledge which would be the re sult would amply compensate for all the labor and expense employed on the occasion the cause of poland is irretrievably lost and that by the basest treachery a revolt in rus siaa circumstance by no meansimprobableisthe only hope for that brave but unfortunate nation the cholera had reached hamburgh and was hourly expected in england according to the modern discovery of a remedy for that alarming disease the people of scotland were comparative ly at ease on the subject a theatrical notice appears in our paper to day bul owing to the differences nf opinion that exist in the public mind upon the propriety of such amusements we forbear from either at thy present or at any future period making our pa per the vehicle of those sentiments which must inevitably attend a discussion of the question we leave the public to act and think for them selves upon such disputed points indeed did r vv and few leisure moments are too precious to de vote to matters of that nature a very important alteration is recommended in the third report of the english law com missioners regarding the trial by jury in refer ence to civil actions it is as follows jury not to he kept in deliberation longer than twelve hours unless at the end of that peri od they unanimously apply for further timeat the end of that time the concurrence of nine to he a verdict and nine not concurring the case to be a remanel to corresponpents u one of the annoyed and a subscriber in answer to enquirer it from blackwood i t in last patriot arc unavoidably postponed till next of his own actual observations respecting the week for want of room also the continuation navigation of the interior waters and the quality of the soil and the timber of lhat immense wilder ness and calculates the distance from bytown to matawowen bay on the ottawa to he one hundred and eighty miles and from thence by the petite riviere lake nipissing and french hirer to lake huron the common route of the north west voyagers about one hundred and fifty thus making the total distance from montreal to the outlet of french itiver on lake huron at four hundred and fifty miles we are obliged to restrain our desire to give liberal quotations from mr s in consequence of the press of local and foreign matter at this peri od hut wr lrtm ww lwreflr fffvn ti tl british civil society arraigned as io part useless or pernicious i will say in their be half that their oppugoers had better under- vowal of the king in his speech in which he is pledged to stand by his cabinet and the certain ty of the bill in perhaps a modified form com- stand them before they denounce them j ing in december before the house have inn here we arrived at tho steam boat hotel i e a confidence in the public winch wc hope may not be disturbed the interval will be de- and my friend took leave of me aod returo- ed home permit mo now mr chronicle to haz ard a seatimeut which i baveloog aod se riously entertained i mean in regard to a canadian peerage i am fully coovioced of its absolute political necessity if this pro vince is to remain ao appendage of the british crown- we see the daily influx of levelling democracy and a fierce spir it of insuhorjiuatioo which are nourished and encouraged aod disciplined by the po litical leaders of rerlgious sects who spare voted to arrangements that must require the ut most ingenuity to secure genrral approbation a compromise between the ministers and the anlu reformers will in all probability occur but the success of tho bill the whole bill and nothing but the bill is now beyond a question impossi ble the bill has certainly fallen but he mi nister5anrf5und will stand ad infinitumuntil he frightens the old bishops into obedience and thcobstinate peers into submission one of the ccraarv tc t no pml5 io grind intotheirsfnllnwcrs those former has bren burnt in effigy a much democratical and antibritish principles a- long with the moral aliment of their religi- ousiostructioo the longer this engrafting of a british peerage into a transatlantic soil is delayed tho more serious will he the con sequences of sued ft criminal neert and if as the subjects uf great britain we have mosl imcert and uncourteous treatment a right to claim all the advantages of tier hi newly acquired mitre could sustain never ittilioa wo live n v rlaim upnn i perhaps had i vd dignitaries more rea more harmless punishment than was inflicted upon the unoffending prelate of cork of another per suasion the mob mistaking him fur his episcopal brother of thn same see whose vole against the bili they were determined to stamp with the we are now enabled to state upon tho autho rity of letters from several mernbera of the house of assembly that mr mckenzione of the members for the county of york wag on monday evening after a discussion of c days solemnly expelled from his seat in lht house by a majority of nine mr mckcnzie was ar raigned upon a breach of privilege contained in the colonial advocate of the 24th november headed state of ihe colony we understand ihatpetilions are preparing address to the lieutenantgovcmorand thatarffrjofuo- of that body is loudly demanded a new writ has been issued and little doubts exist but that jhis con temptible incendiarist will he again returned to disgrace that house by ihefilthythreahj and vulgar exhibition of those sans addle manceu vres which he exercised during his def which we undersland were considered hy the speaker as perfectly ccnifetem with pqrliamcn- lary query where usage answ sand wich islandsorotaheite e n vid jiim with ihe uliithvi munm i r rli- hui it on m txcw since thursday night wc have had rir unin terrupted snow jitorm attended with considera ble cold our fingers aic fairly frozen i j tessant operations of the quill and ou temper consequently soured by that as well as 0 innumerable vicissitude attending ou editorial nolo kpirtpri than when fepntwbiliir t v r shall wiinaiuv nprrmifv wvji i arutu uc lutiiiu ul uur interior ujnuues amply sufficient f the location of multitudes of emi- aralin2familic9wotnaythrn lished ask why the whole of the country curso rily examined by mr s should not be immedi ately explored in a complete manner not by merely following the courscof a few rivers where perhaps the features of the country may present an uninviting aspect but by traversing it in ma ny directions it is clear that very little land comparatively speaking remains tinconcedctl within what has been heretofore considered the bounds of probable settlement during the pre sent age mr s however shows that by fol lowing up the muskoka river thirty or forty miles from penctanguishine wc may reach a fine country abounding with hard wood timber and tracts of good arable land besides the nu merous places where he discovered a fertile soil along ihe course of ihe ottawa river and its tri butary streams in order to render these regions accessible to settlers improvements are requisite in the navigation and some of them may he dif ficult and perhaps costly nevertheless the object to he gained is of immense value to the future wealth and power of canada and would justify no inconsiderable expenditure for its at tainment the project for uniting the navigation of lake huron w the ottawa and enabling a vessel from lake superior to descend by the ot tawa to quebec is certainly gtand in its con ception and may be found when the route by lake ncpissing is scientifically explored not on ly practicable but comparatively easy of execu tion the distance that would be saved by this route to ihe ocean is certainly immense limit ing however our view at present to the con sideration ol what may appear advisable to be done by thegovernmentof uppcrcanada when the peninsulaof the lakes shall have been set tled even to the ultima thule beyond cabots head and when all the lands susceptible of cul tivation in the rear of ihe home and newcastle districts and even in the rearofourown which by the way appears strangely neglected shall be occupied by the overflowings of the popula tion of our parent country we would ask whe ther this event is not in all human probability so near s3 to require that the settlement of our northwestern territory should bo held in view by a provident government and legislature both anxious patriotically anxious for the accelera ted growth and prosperity of upper canada should they not cause the country between the river muskoka and lake nepissing to be im mediately examined with all due care and alien wc inadvertantly omitted to insert the follow ins in our last weeks paper mr chronicle the obstreperous epistle of jamks to tho herald of last wednesday ia certainly a singular curiosity as decided a case of fcto ie se as 1 have met with since reading the il confessions of jean jacques rousseau he assumes gratuitously that he is himself the iden tical hero of the good storypcads total ig norance of all circumstances which could distin guish the lime and place of ils occurrence from anv other time and place and then as gratui tously charges a person by name as being the author of the story for no apparent reason but the opportunity it aflhrds 1 hem of gratifying an l i l w wow trimii kui init have wished a belter opportunity for hitting him in the mortal part x our obedient srrvant one of the people for the chronicle lines on the death of a p prtt wheo the full orbm moon isshiniog at the sacred midnight hour when the nightingales repining in her solitary bower when each starou high is glowing with a meek aod melloivm ray aod the full hearts overflowing with a bliss unfett by day then my miod in faocy stealing oer the long and foyful past back with melancholy feeliog llrings the hour that could oot last tis then the hours wove past so late in all the raptures of delight that makes thy sad aod mournful fate rise regretted to my sight we little thought when last we roet thy days so near their end or that thy suo so snoo would set and rob me of my friend that heart where generous feeling glowd shall never warm again that hand which freely all bottowd to sooihanothers pain that eye which lit with social glee or wept at others woe aud ever warmly loukd on me but live in memory now thus thus the lioks which bind the heart are severd one hy uoe till all earths brightest things depart till all her flowers are goue ion li ppcers that after ponelratmg the for the chronicle sfie gave a little bit a id op hair shegvve a little braid of hair the sole memorial of ihe past a silent token of despair when every hope bad died at last it was a bright luxuriant tress as ever gracm a soowy brow such brows of light and gentleness aj win the uofurgotteo vow tis strange and yet that cherished tbiog which hovers round me day aod oigbt seems as some fair imagioiog some visionary form of light but when that little braid i see- that fondly treasured auburo tresi then tbeo agaip she enmes to mo ail perfect io her lovelioen h