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Do the times mend 1 Are we equally prosperous, with our free and enterprising neighbors ? Do we see our path any clearer yet toward an era of good government, and its usual results, wealth and comfort I Have our provincial elections, our 13^ union „^ parliaments, our crafty or crazy governors, and our nmck ministries — 1st, Draper, Daly, Day and Killaly — next, Ogden, Hincks, & Co. — then Sherwood, Hincks, Ogden and Draper — after them Sullivan, Morin, Hincks and Killaly — and again, Draper, Cayley, Morris and Daly, followed by Sherwood, John A. Macdouald, and W. E. Robinson — then Lafontaine, Morin, and Hincks — next, Hincks, Morin, Drum- mond and John Ross — afterwards Macnab, Cauchon, Cayley, I^emieux and Chabot — and lastly, Macdonald, Cartier, Druinmond and Lemieux, succeeded by Cartier & Co.; have they liettered our condition ; have they not rather cheated, undermined, and deceived us? The Wkekly Messagk can't be spared just yet. It believes in party when united upon great and good principles — it despises the Canadian ins and outs, and their leaders worst of all, for their vile scrambles about oflice, always the badge of sycophancy and sliabbiness in a Colony like ours. It will hold on steadily tor a year, and its editor has a right to ask your prompt, energetic and efTicient aid in extending his influence thro' its circulation. What's the picture like 1 Tens of thousands of our very best citizens and most desirable settlers are fast emigrating to other lands — either removing the means they have or driven away by want, poverty and starvation — hopeless, as they may well be, of the future of such a divided, spiritless people as we surely are. The Tories in England are out, and Pal- merston and the Whigs in. What care they for us, except it be to hire us out to .some needy noble or blackleg railway jobber, like a farm held on shares ? In many parts of Canada, people are starving for v*ant of food, or the means to buy food ? Many persons even in Toronto have not a shilling to pay for a loaf of bread or a meal of /ictuals for thr ir miserable families ; beggars throng our streets ; and it was only on Friday week that a very respectable inhabitant of Toronto, who had vainly tried for years to get employment of any kind, or at any price ; when asked by his wife for money to buy the humblest niorsel of food for his four children's dinner, as they were faint for lack of aliment, sick with huna;er, perishing in the midst of official plenty, kissed his babes, borrowed a neighbor's gun, and in a fit of hopeless despair blew his brains out. We pay our legislators $6 a day for plun- dering US ; hosts of idle officials eat up our substance, as the locusts did in Fharoah's time. Whigs and Tories, alternately in power, despise our pinckless servility, while leasing us out to their needy underlings, like so many Sepoys or Coolies. Bankers and brokers squeeze the very last dollar from distress and embarrassment, thro' extortion and usury ; land is unsaleable means of payment of debt ; law costs are fearfully accumulating; the licensed harpies i. profession know no limit to their extortions ; one Mr. Gamble, a pampered To: Jilt ji.ler Las just broken down — the third of that family within a short time — owini;, !. hear, about $80,000 to the Bank of Upper Canada, $50,000 to the Bank of B. N. Amer ca, $40,000 to other banks, and unable with all the " facilities," to keep upon his legs in tiie.se times. Editors, Legislators, Barristers, go to banks for " facilities," and sell their tongues, pens, and vptes to those who thus enslave them. You are my bankers, and ro politician ever drew money more moderately than 1 have done from you. Do you uo longer nerd the Mkssaoe ? Is well timed triitb not to be boldly told.' What hare your imported turkoy-oook govornori) and peddling pnrliainnntH ever done for you ? Didn't rodngoguo Draper double I'npiueuu's tariff of taxation 7 And didn't liepiiblica n Hincks double Draper's ? And didn't (Joyley double Uiuckg'g, and then Hinokg double Cayley'g again, and Cayley play ditto once more, nnd, lastly, did not Annexationist Gait step in and give the taxing innohinory one more terrible A(|ueeze. And wont he got a governorship frotn Pani for so doing ? Instead of $30,000 n year paid for taxes ut the port of Toronto iu 183(5, Slippery Spencu boasts that he will draw t820,0<)0out of our pookets in 1859. Instead of $14,000 whioli carried the first Toronto city government thro' in IS.'M, Wilsoi. ';'."'. will not fail to extract $314,000 in 1859. Montreal seems almost ready for insurrection against her greedy leeobes of tax-gatherers. OVERNOU HEAD is preparing to depart with bis heavy bag of spoils, wliilo his cabol and their foul-smelling legislature are skulking oft' to thecoldor region of Quebec. Never beforo wore Molasses, Tens, Coffee, and American Cottons so dear. Never before hadour people loss means to pay for them. The Freuohmen, after lOU yours of Uritish rule, can neitnc V read nor write. Sir £■ Head, lest they should learn their A. U.C., has imposed the heaviest tax on imported books known tm this continent. Then as to our Crops. Lust year the Wheat Crop was a failure. IS THEUE NO HISK OF A PAKTIAL FAILURE THIS YEAltT Whore are our Home Monufocturcs ? Where's the wealth the Usury Law Repeal was to bring us ? Where's the rich and enterprizing Emigrants wo invited and expected ? Aren't they off to the States T Where's the money wherewith to pay principal or interest on the eighty millions of dol- lars we are due in Europe as railway debt, public debt, loau fund debt, city, country, and all other sorts of debt ? Where ? Even our postages are thrioe as high as thoso of America — distance considered. I hoar of many other failures besides Gamble's. What's [to be done about them? Hove you hopes from a change of Governors ? Do you look with confidence to a u«w Legislature, to assemble far away, at Quebec ? Thn Governor that may come next, will soon mend his beggarly fortunes out of your abject misery ; and if you grumble too loud he'll pocket your phantom constitution, and hiing uid shoot and banisn and imprison you by the thousand, just as Arthur and Colborne did. As for our Cr/lonial Legig- latures — they are usuafty nests of unclean birds — dunghills, reeking with perjury end iniquity— the very goum and dregs of Qod'g creation. Plaoe no trugt in the mughroomt they nouriab. It were folljr. Bat for the Pnsi, sod our near nelshborhood to the United States, we 'Canadlant woold be oppreeaed ud trampled on, irnr*e even than are the miserable p<>ople of Auatrian leaiy. '■ Vfu \njt tht Timet, London,) U a horrlhla and raroltini Uiln( i hnt It hai hacn rmer'-Ml for Auitrta to (how the worki that IhU which Uio ladlfanan of mankind allowiito paM for ppncn mav be yet more hnirtSlo anil innre rpvolrint The prewnt war would bare boon impoMlble If all thai la geaeroua and lolellifeni In Italj were ni>l atrercl ilml ilpath nn thn hmilrnrlil U hotter than life apeBI In a tomb. Aiulrla haa oeen at war with Lombard j and Vaalc* for the Inat t,t tvcm pilcbetl hatllei, letl Into n lervlce you dete*l. In which anybody nwn the corporal upwarda may beat yuu with Btlck *, whilo niili'Mly can glva yiiu proinntlon ; t"»i would he enroUetl with turol;inera- tod lent to ferve In Hunjtary. If you bad opfnlnna unfavorable to the i(uv.irnini>ul, and oa'irojaod tiiein, you oilitht avoid tliU fate, and bn ■hot." Momirii Gait, Hnlton, DnWitt. licdptith, ClartcHon. Robp, Moliion, Sc Co. told you the truth in 1849. Independence is our only remedy — the power is wiiuted of framin)]; our iiistltutinna, ohooninfr nil magiatrutfM, and entering into such alllanoes or confuileraoiim an may be for our permanent interest. With our debt uniT government, an angel would fail to Bpouro general proapdrity. The drudgery ol n periodioiil |>rass I have over hated, and 'Vi years' oxporienoe tells me how very hard it is to up- hold, in a Colony, by Botunliiryiam, a free, outspoken, really useful newspaper, speaking tlie sentiments of an honest, untruinineled editor. " To work fi>r nothiiii; and find yourself ' Is n-i spur to industry. Of late I have written but little, having warned my rendora not to look for rnsiilnr isauoH. But «vil times are upon us, and thro' the press only oan I bi. of service, therefore will I tiika hold of the Messaqr. ttnd issue regularly for the next twelve months. Flowers fade if not watered. Those who think that my experience may bo of service, and have little faith in our political insti- tutions are invited to canvass with thosbcircilnrs, and thus Increase my circulation. Wasn't I RIOH T, in ld'.27, in advising rosistiinoe to the Alien bill ? RIGHT in I8'ii, on the reserves question and Canada Co'y litiid jobbers F RIGHT in opposing the Loan Fund men, tho' the reformers deserted me to a man? RIGHT in inovini; year by year tho repeal of the unloti, tho' our opposition place-hunters, and Frenchified offiniali always voted me down ? RIGHT in voting against enorimius tiixiition ? RIGHT in striving for economy 1 RIGHT in resisting the waste of milliims upim popish and protestant statti priesthoods, and upon the oonvers'on of Frenchmen's farms from leaseholds into freeholds ? And when the legialaturo became a sink of iniquity was I not RIGHT in retiring T Three thousand of thu inhabitants of Toronto, chiefly inuohanlos, have loft it within n month, mostly for tho United States; and alike proportion to tho whole population, have left Cobourg. Lord Elgin, as Colonial Secretary, will be made to feel the terrible olf,«ots of his JAsuitical couduot while here : but for Canada there is a glorious future, if her people prove true to one another, and cease to confide a second time in those who may have once betrayed them. I regret that I chose a home 40 years since in tho distant dependency of a power beyimd the Atlantic, instead of settling In an Independent English speaking Slate of the great republic, as the English, Germans, Irish and Stotch are now doing; but at my age whore elso on earth than among Canadians could I now feel myself at home T Weekly Message office, Toronto, Juno W, 18,59. W. L. MACKBNns. POSTSCBIPT. Thote who tro retlly frieadly to my viewi on qnoitiona nf Uovorninenl, will bu pleated to remember, that allho' no man id Caiitda lilt lafferad more and longer for the cause of f'rtedum, or bean mors triio and faithful to Oanada't beat interest!, 1 will liavo to contend with the aaverity of tho timoa, tho enmity of the raiirs bigutod portion of tho Urangoiuuii and Papiati, the hoitility of government officials, the secret alaoiiora of place-huntini; h/pocritea woAring theffarb of patrintiam, tho projuilicos of that numerous, aliallow, auperflcial ciaas, who do Dotroaaon or reflect, tho blanket slieet Joarnnla, upheld for evilpurpoaca by aiitlmrity, and sold on any credit far under their coat, and the re* collections of many that the Afrafldf^ehaa attimea hoeniiauod irrugularly. Thcao couaiderationa will doubtloaa in reaae the activity of_my friends in circalattng thla subacriptton Itat, to tho luccess of which tlio harvcat aeaaoii ia very unfavorable. I aee it atutoil that aecr«t meetings ■rs being held here, at Onelpb, Jtc, to consider relative to armed revolt. Thoao who attend them may Und hired tpict in thnae they leut suipect. Open, manly ditoassion ii, thua far allowed— and it will, I truat, yet prove aulHcient in the Just cauae in whicii I have to long and so ardently been engaged. In the midat of banks, brokera. government expenditurat, law coartt, wealthy capitaliatt, and a line country, Toronto ia tmw in great miseiy. Iforetaw thiaatateoftblngi, when my namewaa mentioned laat year aa a ctndiiinte for reelection to the mayor'a office, and to atated. Tboutandi of ratidentt of thia city arelitora ly itarving, or in a atuteofi;reat poverty, altho' wo have four railwaya, a tin o harbor, and mticb aabatanos in the handa of a lew. It ia not to at thia toaaon in Albany, Tr,>y, llochoater, llufialo. Brooklyn or New York. Latt Monday, onr excellent, hamane mayor, Mr. Wilton reminded the City Council of the diatreaa prevalent among our mechnnict nndlaborert, and he night have adtled othera \/ho are athamed to tell of their necettitioa. Heaaidthatit waa nut maraly aaoaroity, it waaabaotnte Settttntlon wbieh ha.d to 1^^ provided f,,r. Oar proapucta of alleviation, had been diaappointed; our citizena were now tuSering more real hardahip than they did even in winter. He could not be far aatray in affirming that about one half of onr inechanict, iaborera, clerka, acconiitanit and copyitts were wh^y without employment, or the adequate meant of ilailysubaiatonce; and it waajuat aa far removed from true economy as from soand morality to lioard whilo starvation meeta ui in tlie face everywhere, and balance the livot of our people agaiuat any email addition which may be made to our debt. It it not at a time liko thit. then, that my J--r-.'. -'.lonld be manfully upheld, and the political diteaae and ita remedy carefullv contldered 7 In tome eoantriet the law cam|>elt manicipalitiot to maintnin the pauper tick and the deititate. In certain parts of Cai. lus, the law delighta in pampering the dronet of sticiety ; leaving the poor to beg or starve. — M. The TonnsTO Wisklv Msss«ns ia pnlillahi.-d by WiLLitH L. Macksnzis, on Siiturdayi, at two dollart a year. Ten fl(>|iict, to \Jdrt'ta of nni:li aiiliscrilier, one year. $in. — TriiCn|iiet to one Addrets, ime year, tU.— Tliiee Copies, one year,— $5,— Kive Copies, one ve«r. $8J— Twenty Copies or tnore, one year, to ouo ntldrets, at the rale of $1.34 each copy.— -Terms, always caih ill advance. 17 The paper to be ittucd regularly. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO " THE WEEKLY MESSAGE," WITH THE SUMS PAID. NAME AND RESIDENCE. (post office.) DOLLARS. CENTS. 5U^