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& "o hu I 7 1 \ would be connected with it by | + $11 Hon, Afr. MOW AT.--The mattor. reforrol T:Zn:s' of railway coramunication, | Bat thlz j f " to in this .lueuionis still nader. considera-- road would be a valuablo provlncitl under-- [ 14 e tion, * | taking for another reason. [:;' :'h"t !n::nde(: <4 ' | E: r $ fa¥. . i to reach the Ottawa river, and that, t00, 3 iR E: vICTORIL RAILWAY : t oee srhero conetiorable Iambering opern: \ af Mr, McCALL moved for o:fla of all px | tions were at present being carrled on, and D e pers, documents, and communications had or | which constituted the vyery centre of these. | is f""d between the promoters of the \ ictoria ; «operations. It was unnooeuag for him to . tailway with any one or other of the Minis-- point out to tha business men the Honse } t a¥t tmgr{)ornmentaofthe Government. In the importan:e of reaching that district, | J s l' doing so, he pointed to the large sums spenS where operations of such a valuable charac-- 1: i% F2 for &. purpose of aiding the various railway ter were being carried on. -- A largo quantity 1| i€ E: enterprises of the Proviace, to the fack that | of prov-isiona and other articles was consum-- | 1 4 besides private capital, large municlgd| ed in connection with the lumbering, which g 4 grants were continually being made for | the business men of this Province could not ; _ | % | & ~~| railway pnmu, and also to the circnm: ; rupply by any other means than the | t stances in this comnesction, whic'y compolled | romd ' propored. Construct that . road, ' | + I the Government to relinquish & large propor-- | ard the trade of the Ottawa, both in articles 1 | f tion of municipal indebteduess, . He supplied by our mershants and the produce W 6 f-- the P'l 'g %)6' | | B t pointed to American railways, and the large of the country, would be secured, besides || | & grants of land which had been made to some osenlng up the country for settlemont, The || M # | of them, and showed that from the failure of advantages would be in favour of the coun-- U h | F ons {irm in New York, which was brought try thus opened up, as woell as the trading | A t about by its connection with these railways portion of the Province, for we would be able | || M & had arisen one of the groatest commercili to supply all the wants of the population in | 5{ & panics that had ever swept over this country. | the back country at a much lower rate than (| f No doubt many of those who wore now in-- | they could possibly have them supplied by || & vesting their capital in railway entorprises pretent, sources of communication, If it | 1M 1 were much more carefal than they formerly conld, be shown _ to the satisfaction of the 10 were, but this case showoed tho nscessity Adminiabration that there were no other t F there was for being vory carefal in monn' than those afforded by such a l : such . matters Bs thougt it was * c as this for opo":ilng up that country } l '{ a~question for very serious consideration :V';th"e&"mg on o to this' Provings . how. far we. could snovnrape such Gaber-- in the next 80 or 100 years, it would be i D prises as the Victora Railway, asd as-- worth' k« whlle. t ho fak 1t was done, i4 ff f zerted that there was a very strony feeling in :'::lyl xfltato':;ao 2:%: ',:mfi'\',e?;dfléfi.'fm' "Z * | + thad / 4 d * o mem our | } | ahe mmclsa;; a ll::ge portion of the people supply of timber from present sources was ' l | gainst placing largo grants of land in the ra becom' hausted \ 1 | hands of corporations, . But, on the other t»hfn z:ailv;'ay v'v:ge ozon:t!m::t:)d m;d neif | t hand, if it conld be skown that such corpo-- and rich -- timber district 14 : | 1| §A rations had the true interests of the countr made available. Th y ~ 12 t f at heart, if their opsrations were likel ty ties of blrcla: e'd for Ries mb in ths favour the settlement of free crant lnr;dsyan?l. fil;st;cts wlxi(::ll;1 w::{lderb}'gibhmm io S provide labour for immigrants, it put a very railway. -- 1t was well kn t\;hry_ to this | i different complexion upon the matter. All this tfl'soriptim could n ?;: b e t{,"'b" n ' § these points &ould be taken into considera-- by water, and as a c(mseo -- noy onnck i tion in dealing with this question, anl be of this vaiuable wood w:nenoe ;xlo. y El'twk U f had therefore much pleasure in moving { for manufacturi prpsently. svalabls 1 Tthe bapers named ~ § i0or id ""rlé purposes, and a very con-- 4 t % A ( pape -- bll erable proportion of it was bring yearly OA ~ M Mr. BOULTBEE said if he understoad the onlioohh Oy the devastating --fires (which \I e | position taken by the promoters of this rail-- Jlom ft ime to time visited our forests,. If, ! & | i 5y sobomie, they stked rhor a Byde uns l ?re 1:ma, it was desirable that this l i | rubsidy_and' a considerable graut c! land, No Oe ouiiainies Aotaiihonntige »should A In 'dealing with _ this subject, it would be a fsopencd 'up----and ho. did/ not think t neceseary for the House not to shut its eyes ::}Y' one would deny its desirability-- ' f to the fact that the large mosey surplus left -':kl'? was a good case made out in favour of M f f by the old Government had been pretty ! :hb Sg 1': o umsl'l grant for the purpose of | 18 a nearly dissipated. and in consequence they | g: w ]1? bfi it That proposition conceded, i * { must consider with care and prudence what { nei':, came necessary to consider th: | 16 ¥ they woere about _ They all knoew the gene-- !{ropr ety of making a grant'of land. ; As to f i ~ ral' desire which existed to aid by eve Mn one en o ol Mist f C means in our power railway enterprises, n:g wol d be a matter which would more pro-- 1A > they all knew how mucg the country had Pcrybc_ome under the oomxder9tion, and J 6 lt:eenh advanced in its best interests l?xe(::xtigzt t81t2:1 Ncomngendlut-_im, d('f the t | y these enterprises Nothing showed the % f TMreo' a . simpid Jsf nt L ? wonderful wisdom of the old Government would not |b° sufficient to mb_le * é?m- | | 4 % y more than 'the grovilion they had made to ;:ny to puild a road of this description, and | M E> 'neek the demands of those enterprises, but B e matter of a money mbli% would have to 0 | we must take cars not to advance too fast be dealt with very carefally, 'The time 8 As he understood the matter, there was not was come, in his opinion, or at any ' | . much more than a million and a half of the rate rapioly coming, when we would not be i ? $ surplus left; there were still many public able to give any direct money subsidy. to C ¢ works to be carried out, and many railways ;;xlw'ay #; but it would be worth while for , o to be aided, and they must not {e carried F: e Government, the House, and the -- coun | uo $s" away by the imvfibrhnoe of auy work which . b'y ?'; consider whether rallways could not | 1 § was not a provincial necessity, so far as to y aided in another form, that was, by guar-- o _ | make any grant to it which would involve | aniovice intersst upon.a certain Antouut of = + any great oxi)enditm-o of money. With regard | their bonds. _ This was merely a ll\é'gentlon, j S ";'5""" ef land, that was a msttormoh which he made in view of the fact that our ® + | could be dealt with moreeasily. Heunderstond "l}rpyma was very nearly exhausted, and & 3 the idea of the promoters of the railway would not much longer be available for the § in question was to leave Toronto or some purpose of direct payments of money There M j point near it to the east, and running in the was also another proporition which he had NE f direction of Lindssy, Peterborough, |Wenelon to make in comnection with the road. }: c § walls, and far imnto the north--cast cquntry, which ko Umufi'ht it mighs hbe woll finally touch the OttawaRiver, . Thisgoad, to s consider, The country would have i1 sik4 % it was at once apparent, must be considered a claim upon it far greater than if it wer» p § in a different light from most other roads,. meroly aided to the usual amount of &4 000 um s Hehad looked cursorily over the route pro-- a mile, and we would have a rifiht to impose I s posed as it appeared upon the map, and some I_eatnotlons upon its working after it d :/ could see at once that its hopesof su: "oss do-- was bilt, ao ar te make it of the greatest pos | 8 pended ufon its yetting a grant of land. He | !lble 2"".'"'8" to the whole countr;, He i - 5. was of opinion that where there was a large L im g n boen consatted by the properts. f * 'ection of uninhabited country which could . bolders of "cterborough npon this point, and n § be opened up by means of such a grant, fc.; had discussed with hlm the propriety /J § and _ would otherwise _ remain . un-- of making such "l'%g!&fions with the Com-- 1 ; &A | cultivated and _ unsettled, .the grant {:' ty as would onable the towns and locali-- e ought to be made. The section of country ( ;5 acclohtisnoxu to the road to participate in ) through which the proposed railway would t f'"t'ges' The proposed routo tauched uy Tess pass was equal to about one--fourth of the ?' enelon . lalls and Poterborough 1| d csreg size of Ontario, and unless a rallway were Vik me?t'md!"?:' a roal to _ mect tghe 6 " 1 built, there would be no means of reaching Bave the line _ at this | polut, would 1 e"| it for, perhaps, the next hundred years; un-- ave -- lC ame advantage as to rates of car-- V 4 less we brought it into spoedy communi-- | ;'}38".;'15 the town were situated upon the | M cation with the front by means of railways, | "l':h't;'{'. Ho had discussed this proposal 4 : there was, in fact, no means of opening it u t | with the promotors, and they leomeif to look 4 at all. 'Thore were in it vast rgric:ftunr | ufc l.lldlt with favour, The Government . w wuineral, and timber resources which could | powi f tain within their own hands the | Mg not be reached for scores of years, whose tl'lvz;e}"o compelling the Company to cs 3 value, if developed by means of a railwa u;a tcea out in a,fair spirit, If they afiy M would be incaloulable to the Province, arzi np?]') 't'fi"l'? be conforring & valuable boon | especially to such portions of the coun-- o country, 'The principle ence con: j Th ® $