ality bility e Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites nvec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de !a condition et de la nettet6 de I'exemplaire filmd, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. e shall UED"), tver Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la der- nidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbole —*- signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole V signlfle "FIN". ring uded 9 p to L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grSce d la g6n6rositd de I'dtablissement pr§teur suivant : La bibliothdque des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour §tre reproduites en un seul c|ich6 sont film^es d partir de Tangle sup^rieure gauche, de gauche d droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 2 3 6 f ^-:?// [2] tk Il»«lw»y could 'CBS fusiuii again. 1 ; and Sir Henry o stiito " ilint. the with it." Fromn ipftper, I had [mt anntry by Aiualirnina- :y, for th^rc^ itt not a i fiiUy Dciiapied So iral, i)D(l peniriiary, 'p)e of OntHrio, who T<>, a leral nianafrtr wnnid f , I hat, and tho otber account what it «a> lough to B»y, " If ni Ottawa line in hard time of it." ftc Railway nyiidi. hnsed the Qucheo and is willing to JCtion and openv- ch wdl take goodu Bti'amcrs and the ir an inch of thnir and Trunk Coni- fer tnoconsidera- bors, shareholders, sompletion of thJK make the Groat Dally live concern I et'ioan and Aiiglci. 5t time for years sower in the con- time to ohooaefor frmichises to the 1 of a beleaguered nd on the eve of merely accidental avo yotir reputa- tioney, hiivo hren misfortnne is pre- lave to quote from orgiin of tliuUon. I any agreement fo r r duty to resist \t> having largu control thi! amalgauiation; do tbiH thing, we 1 nay to make itaeU iciariea will not reap s will gain Ibeir tcin- ltd ttnck will be lu^t ii of the Liberal uf the Legi^lAtnrea .iiHay Oon.tUittfc of )tirution for any Bnch eell ahle to exiBt and r Di»y be the awallow' gorge itaelf with its eatern i-honld desire the lamb lying down ih« name strain, ^'iinada, and tho ■rupiiloTis iB their I iiioTettiunt. Sir 1) per annum was ih lit amount, would 1 wan in any sense Think you, the pillnfring f Ton rl Rive them rretlil (or 110 uiuib coinptacency. litfipircd nowspapAr writorii k»vtf Intidy lieuii quoting the amalganuition of the Northern Kail- way vith tho Jfiimilton and North-Western as proof that such iliings are doiiu, and can be done again, in Canada. Tint there ia little analogy m tho two cases. Your amalgamation, Sir, will i-otiso ijia luitagAnisni of Toronto, Paris, liondon, Gait, Guelph, Wocdstook, and the MulValo and Detroit frontiers. Tlin aiiialganiation cited as a precedent concerned only the small town of Uarrio and the oi'y of Hamilton. Tlie chief citizens of Hamilton were on tlie Hamilton and Nortli- Westem Hoard, and were personally r«sp«)ii»iblo for iidvanoes. They estricatiid thomseives from a very tight plac« by this amalgamation. Hamilton therefore was quiet, thougU undoubtedly hei- iutercata were sacriticcd to Turonto, and Toronto had no oause to complain. At) the poi)it» of contact threatened by your Roheme nothing short of a revolutioa would follow the withdrawal of the present competition (such as it is) for local business. The Great Western Company ha« a natural right to resist encroachmentti made by the Grand Trunk. The Great Western was built through the Western Peninsula ni>on the distinct understanding that it would bo tho Gmnd Trunk litre west of Toronto. Faith wa« broken, and the I'oronto and Guelph road was the first section of the present Grand Trunk system built in opposition to the Great Wosteni. What that breach of faith has cost original Great Weuteri) sharoholdeia it is impossiblo to calculate ; but now that a siniihir opposition east of Toronto is threatened to the Gmnd T'riink Kaihvay. and a chanc: is to be affordtd for the Oivat Webtern to retaliate exactly in kind, and get back some of its losses, the Grand Trunk artillerynica are bid stajid to theiif guns, and the air is full of thunder and smoke. liulf pendent of through trafiBc, the Great Western lias the best p'lying piece of railway iu British North America in their Hamilton and Toronto branch; they ha^e u. better country to pass through than the Grand Trunk, and a prospect of better times to como ; they have good and ecotiotnioal lociU miiiiagenient ; and their affairs at home and in Uunada are honestly and couecieutiously adniinisrertvl— a great change from what I can remember in this respect. Is it possible that the owne.-H of such a property should consent to be made tools of for the extrication of a few unfortunates from a serious predicament P From first to last the state of the case submitted to tbem by you and your friends has been absurdly wrong and imperfect, and has, been received in Canada with the derision it deserves- But time and space will not admi t of a full exposition ol all the fallacies ailduced. The Rome and Wnlertown Bgieemeiit is ridiculed by you as having fallen through, whereas it is notorious that Vanderbilt gave the Great Western evoi-y facility at the Niagara Huspension Bridge for making the connection, so sanng the Company the expenseof abridge atLewiston, as well as MOveiTil miles of road. Colonel Grey has it right to think this a iiuisler- stroke of policy. In furt,n,nBW route for suininoi- tiBVellers to the White Mountains and New England was oj)rnedup, ui) doubt tothe disgustoftlioGrand Trunk; and of tliii*. if vi.ii are coniiiionly honsst, it must be supposed yi.iii arc ignorant, thougli everybody in Canada is perfectly well uware of it. Quite naturally, the actual owiiorsliip of fnc shares in the company has not been suffieient induo<>meut tor yoii to make a searching examination into its business ; btjt why, then, tnko 80 prominent a part in the attempt to save it fmm destruction P You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the bounds. The hare repudiates yotir comptuiionsliip, and sus- pects your sympathy. I shall conclude with an extract from the kttcst number of the Kmnoniiet. iihvays a well-informed journal r— EfForta are being made by apeculntori to revive the fusion cry ib reapect to the lireat Wcatrru nod Grand Trnoli cotnpaniea, with apparently aa little chance of Bucreaa aa heretofore. It Seems, (hen, thiit all well-informed writers iu Ejiglaudand Ciinada agree in the measure taken of you and your coadjutors. What I have read on the subject in spme respect- abl , 11 • •.! nil >•! Mlife