Daily evening mercury, 6 mai 1882, samedi 6 mai 1882

[" pr 8TH YRAR.\u2014NO 106, QUEBEC.SATURDAY.MAY 6, 1882 ING MERCURY.SIX O'CLOCK EDITION PRICE ONE CENT \u201cANOTHER LAND COMPANY.A New Departure.| mpany le nl present being el in Mcntreal ani Loon, Kox, for the purpose of ennbling the industrial p pulation of Great Britain who bare 10 enpital tu emiyrule to tho grat Northwest.The Company pro 8 to *dvanco Lho amount require d or the journey in part or in whole a» s loan bearing six per cent.interest ; the Company alro proposes (0 breuk ap not less hum ten acres for wheut crop and to propsre (wo acres for ser d potnioes, otc., provide the ne- œuwn1y weed for twelve pores, build à wouden house end \u2018provide\u2019 the family with foud for six months, also to sup- ly » yoke of oxon, cow and cull, pigs.\u201cabvep, poultey, plaugb, «to , 60 tint the settler will at once.begin funming operations.Preliminary arrangements pave born made for the purohnse ot 1,000.000 xcres of land, and the com- ny hus Teovived assurances of sup= pi fiom the Government.Mr.Seath hns set oùt fov-Enyland to flat tbe Compuny on the London market\u2014 Sar.SUPPLEMENT RY BNTIMATES- 1882-3.The supplement 7 entimates for Lhe ear 1062-1 werv brought down at Ottuws Thursduy cveuing by the Finance Ministers Theo total amount required is $2.002.072, the principul tiems being ar follows: \u2014 81.Vivount de Paul Ponitentiury \u2014 To privide for increase af salaries and three trade instructors from Ist:Jaly, 1882, to 3uth June, 1883, $480,000, Immigration \u2014 For col ecting and compiling agricultural, industrial and other statistics in Manitoba and the Northwi st Torritory.and aleo fur acquiring and compilir-g ruch siatistion ele where, 824,000, and to Montreal Women's Immigration Society, 81.000, Militin \u2014To provide for the pur- chuse «f four guns, with 4 000 rourds of smn unition, from the British Guvernment, $2,000, Balwyn nnd canals, chargeable to wapital-Intercolonial = Ruilway, St.Charles branch and ferry between levis und Quebee, $536,000 ; extension to Hulifax, $47,800: Prince Edward Island Kuilway rolting stook, $65,000 ; Cope Traverse Rulway, $189,300; Welland Canal, construction ofa race way between tne fooder and Chippowa River, Willamsburgh \u20acanal, construction of new weirs, $40,000; St Anno's lock and canal, toward déepeniug.the chutnel abov tho lock, $15,000 ; Trent Biver navigation, for eomstruction of locks ard the improvement of nuviga lion beiween Lukeficld and Balsam Luke, $280.000 ; River Tuy Canal, for tonslruc in of worka, 850,000.Public works chargeable to income \u2014l\u2019ublie Buildings\u2014Quebec-Grosse J-le quarantine tation, $3,000; St.Yincent de Haul Ponitentisry, 8750 ; Mortreal Drill Shed, new roof, &e., 826,000; Montreal Pont Office, 35,600 ; Bary Drill Shed repaire, 30.060; wartridge f.otory, Quobeo, $2,700 ; Hall bunt Ofc and Inland Roveuue offices, sdditional amount for grading site, $20, uracing Manitoba\u2014 Winnipeg Pont Office.$.00.000; Immigrant buildings, west of Brandon, $10,000 ; Nurthwost Tertitorics, new gaol and look up.$10,000 ; new publie \u2018buildirgs ut crpital of Northwest Territories, 820,00 |, Mircellancoun\u2014 Hydrographic eur- vey River St.Lawrence, Quobos to Cap la Ruche, 87,500; mail subeidies lu wom eommunication between Haliux, Canso and Georgetown, P, I.1, 83,000; for steam communication between Cumbolliown and Guspe and intormedinte ports, $4,500 ; miscuil- Anrong for crestion of mounted polioe bar: acka, 830,000; to cover uxpouses lu connection with obrervations of the traimit of Venus, 88,000; to cover SEponsus in connéctiôn with the inter- sational fishery exhibition London, 810,000; to nasiet in promoting the bürpesvs of the international cireum- polar ubsecvations By eontributing Wwnrd the expeuses of trausporiing tbe British party from Halif x to the Jud-on Buy station of Ureac Slave Leke und return 64,000.* u Youra Max eufforing trom early indiacre- de lack beaux: noi.narre foree, Mack's wagnetic Medicive, advertisrd in anebuer (lumn, supplies Lids want and thus oures ben sll other preparations fail.Bold in & es by LaMoche à Co orem Post ) sud J, J.Velden, | da eg Ua.THE RAILWAY QUESTION, In the Assembly last evening tho sale of the enstern ection of the Q.M, O &0.Riilway, wus rend # Lhird time and passed, À cluuxe regarding the balance of Quebue's sutwcription hus been introduoed, to the off ot that if the oity, within three months, re linquirhed its claim La juint proprietor ship in tbe road, the Governmont will forego ite cluim for the balunce of the million dollar sul seridtion, but pi tuin the amount.already puid vy the city, and oumplete Bi.Andrew sirvet, the extension of the railroad to deep water, Ue During the debate, Mr.Stephens made » most vigorous und practical speech aguinut the sale.The essence of hia arguments were that the debt of the Province was 18 millions of dollars, involving $900,000 of interest to be met annually, There was ulso $500,000 defoit annually, He eontended that it would be necessary Lo s\u2018cure à prise giving a capital of $9 000,000.He doubted if wo were to get $5,000.000, or even fire or afx millions.The Gv ernment sro selling the rosd to-sharp wen.One very sharp man wus.Hon.Mr, MeGreevy.Mr.MoGreevy had u claim of $2.700,000 agains: tte-Gove ernment.It was probable arbitrators might award Mr.McGreevy $2 1100, 004, which would have to be d-dacted from the prios received for the road.The Syndicate was also givon lan | to the value of 8650,000, sapplies $144.- 010, and rolling stock $698,100, Ho gntlhered from statistio: that in Europe railways cost to build $160, 000, par mile, in England 88-04 per mile.and in this colintry some $40,160 to 850 000.The price per mile.for which the Western Scotion bad bean wold was abont $28.000, snd for the Rntern ¢18 640 per mile, allowing 214 miles to the road.It was a nator for surprise that the road should be sold for bulf what it is worth, but it wus more surprising to well one end of the road for $10 001) Jess than the other end.Sclling a proporty for 84 000,000 upon whieh there ure claims amounting to 85.000.10 seemed to be nothing but a give way, unle 8 the property was indeed but 8 very rotten owe He obj -cted to giving the road into the funds ot those with wham we have disputes, and.ssid the Province was exposed, by such à line of uotion, to huve the rosd thrown \u2018buck upon its bunds eight or ten years henou, pretty well worn out, at the termination of lenghty and expensive law suits Speaking of the question of supplies, he raid people travelling on th lire could not but observe miles and miles of ties; wbich, he supposcd, would af er the sale le taken up and shipped to othor p aces The amendment with reference to the Quebec subscription did not make things any better; it merely improved the condition of the city by $410,000 and made the total amount payable for the roud 82.806,000.He contended that by scciion 27 of Lbo cortraot rovision wus male for taking ack the sond in n delapidalod condition and repaying all the price of it.le showed the largely ingroasing recoipts of the road, und contended that the profits would have been large Lad the running expenses been confired to T1 per cent instead of 85.Thu sue should bave been properly advertised with its mileage aud the amount of its r ling stock.und better offere wzuld have bven received than that which was now before the House for adoption.He contended that there was at nll events no present n'ucssity for the seule, but was convinced Lhat inu very few yours railway property would be agsin worth ns il wa« before the depression, 827,000, $40,000 and even 850,000 per mile instend of 816,000 as il was now being sold for.Following close ow the e of this \u201cappeul\u201d com» the défeat, by a vote of 104 to 38, of\u2018 resolution allowing Ca:ada to make hor own commer- cul treatice directly and not through the British foreign office.Sir Johu Macdonald declared that the adoption of (his resolution would distord the relations between Canada aud Great Britnin.All these efforts, ruccosdtul or otherwise, which tord toward ademand for greater privileges in government, foreshadow the complute independence of Cunadu.\u2014 Springheld Republican.Adie.gr titi A British soldier hus boc convicted EE \u2014 CETEWAYO.Cotewny o's prajocted visit to Eng=- lund ut tno expouse vf the tuxpasers bus caused some grumbling.The Standard cav 8 0 no guod reuvon for setortainieg the royal captive.is of course supposed,\u201d it saym, * that the king will return impressed with the m-ght ot Britain, nud anxious 10 devote Lhe rest of his life to cultivating the friendship of such powerful neigh- Pa, whother the theory will Le borne out by the result, Again und again has this experiment bacn tried, and again and again it had failed, Suvages are hard to impruss.Their brains are not sonsilive, and their powers of ratio= oinstion lémentably feeble.They look at all we havo to show and take all we ofler them, and return neither better nor wiser than when they set oat Indeed the mont ruthless of \u2018the native wars in North America and New Z -aland have bven instigated!and led by petty chiefs who were pertectly familier with the pale faces and their might.Pepple, king of Bonny, usd to bu à lion ul English ton parties, und \u2018made teetotul *prechee of much animation.But Popp'e fell from the tuith, and divd ns be had lived - much uddioted to rum and \u201chomictde.\u201cAnd so it will be with Cotewayo, whose curiosity it is unnccensury lo gratify with sy vague hopes of his tuture reform: Sull lessen his visit de