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What Lords DyffeHn, Lome and LaiisdowiKS^ scy aSsout the CaiiatSissii Nc^Hhwest. Convincing Comparisons of Cost of Wheat Production. 2B Cents 8 Bushel. THE INDIAN PROBLEM DISCUSSED. Compiled bv R. L. Ukhahdson. F '■""^""'iST XjXI./1IXEID. The LiukIh rmervert lor selection by this (\imj>any huvo all bcoii careftilly inspect i^tl ami »r. good Agricultural I^iiids. For snie, withont cultivation or setilemciu restiictioii a. I'rico JJsts cari bp seen at- the ntticrrt oi tiic various apcnts. The Coinpaay's fh.iros, which are now at a cojibidci able disconnt. arc accepted AT PA R in pajnient of landb. Th'- Company offer Lots for naU: ii» al: Stations alon^ the tnain line of the Canadian Paciflc Hail way, frdiii Brandon wost to British Cohnnbia. MERCHANTS. MECHANICS, TRADESMEN, And all who ititend niakjnp the'r homes in the ptoiarrer.Hivc Trade Centres of the Northwes; ?luiuld consider the .loi antages of the railway towns and cities, with their eonvenienct; of ' comm\iniiuui/n and prl>c!pl^cts of rapid Ki'owth and de\"elopmcnt. MANAGING DIRKCTOK.S : W, PEACOC/r EDWARDS, W. B. SCARTIi, 14- Castle Street. 624 Main Street. CDlMiUriGH. KCOTl-AND. WINNll'KG. MAN. Fanns I Hfiiiia ag Hortlwest (or Sale or to Lease ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. 200,000 Acres of Choice, Rich Wheat Land m the Qu' Appelle District Fanns near Winnlpea and prlncipH) lownn in Manitoba for =ale. Monrif Loanrd to settlers at lowest current vjtea r<> mmni in imrchasing land ut.d ."toek. For further infonnation write or apply to OSLER, HAMMOND & N ANTON, Broto, Etc, 396 MaiB St., Winnipeg. MANAOKKS, North of Scotland Can. MortKase Co. CKNKRAL AOKN'rS, Ontario and Qu'Appelle Land Co. Canadian Piiciflc Rail ^ ^ INTRODUCTORY. With the object of diKnemJnatiuj niton. ntion oonceruiu;^" MauitoVia aud th»j Xortliwcst I'erritorieHm the- Doininioa ol (Jiuada, that ahall not l>e nii»!eadinf» nmi cm be rolio , ujioq us strictly accurr.iti;, this patnplilet is published for dietrih'it'.on apacially lu couueotion ^ith th3 (Colonial iixhibiti_n, %t which the productB of Cinada aurt partiaalarly its north- t-estern torritoriea, are 30 larjrly rcpreseutod. The i.ompiler in de^jily itnpresBed with the ipsimbility of plaoiog before the people of '.real Britain and llurope facts which .:;ianot be jaioaaid ; ho is iuxious that no fil»e impressions rej^arding tl'.w marvellous oapaMIifies of Hie iJiitish American poaseftsionM may be lii'Tnsed, and he h further deairoiu; that the itendiug immigrant may baconm; thoroughly lutjaaio'.cd with the re?Durce9of the country fore deciding to etnbark for its shores. Nothioi; ha?, therefore, been selected for publi- bacion in this pamphlet, but which be'irs* the impress of truth aud reality upon its face. ''irst wili be louiid the speeches of the list tliree (^-ivernor'a-C^enoral of tht Doniinion of iinada, each one delivered after it? author hud tnivere' d the country from end to eud, and Imrnodiately after hia inspection of Manitoba and the Nnrthwe.vt Territories. The apeeohes I'ere dpiivared in VVinnipaj^ the capital of the Province 01 Manitoba, des-ignated by the lirl of Uatfiriu " tSid key stone of th*t mighty arch of sister provinaes which span the pontineut from the x\tiautic to the Pacific." With the exception of political references ?hich has-c no bearins on the capabilities of the country, the speeches are given verbatim : EARL OF OUFFERSN'S SPEECH. The first in1)rdor is the following speech by the Earl of Uuflferin now Viceroy of Itifiia, but who wa.s the Hocoud GovernoiGenoral of Cmada .since th(5 confederation of its pru ^i.ices was uccompliihed in lSt»7. Ine speech wasdelr/arod at a dej'v.jncr teudered to His ixceilency by the citizens of Winnipeg upon the occasion of his return from a triumphal jnr through the fertile territories lyifag to the west. Mi , Lordfihip said : — * All'. M'li/or, Yoitr Honor, Lndvt and Ocnt/frueic : In rising to express my ackuow- Bdgement,«t to the citizens of Winniper,' for tiuu crf>wning the M-iondly rerepfcii-n I have deceived throughout the length and breadth of Mani'.oba by so nobis an entertainment, I aa ftainfuUy oppressed by the consideration of the inauy respects in whioh my thanks art due K> vou, and to aci many other peraouB in the Province, From ui'v fi ^i' landing on your jua;, s nutil the, present moment my progress througii the country lias been or.ci eoutinua) Iciii^ht, nor has the slightest hitch or iacongruou.i incident marred the satisfafjtion of my iLit. 1 have to thank you for 'he hospitalities i have enjoyed iit the hands of your indi- idual citizens, m well as of a. mrltitude of independent commuuiues, for the taatetul and Ingenious decoratio-ia which adorned my rout(>, for the (|iuirter of a mUe of evenly-yoked S>xen tliac drew our triumphal car. [applauaej, for the uni\orsal proofs of yt)ur loyalty tfl 10 Throne and thu Mother Country, and for your pergonal goodwill towanis Her Majesty's eprosentative. Above all, I iiavc to thank you fur the "videncos proiiucod on either hand ^loni; our march of your prosperous condition, 01 your perfect ciutoutmeut, of your happy (sonhdeuce in your future fortunes, — for I need not tell you that to anyone in my situation bniiling oorufieldb', cosy homestead'", the J jyful faces of prosperous men and women, and tlm laughter of healthy children, are the best of all triumphal decorations. |Ore»t ipiiiauael, But there are other things for Mhich I ought to be obliged to you, and not the (c:-rtt for the beautiful weather you have taken the precaution to provide us with during uesiv -weeks of perpetual camping out, for which attcul\^r.i f have received J/idy Duffer In -». special orders to render ;, ou her personal thanks — an attention which the unusual jhenomeuon of a casual water spout enabled us onlv the bettor to appreciate. From its ^eoirraphioal position, and its jiucrliar chrtracteristicf, Manitoba miy .i> regarded as the ieysUmc: of that mighty arch of sister provinces which apans the ciitire continent from the [Atlantic to the Pacific, f^ Loud cheering]. It was here that '. Canada, emerging from hev Kvoods and lorests, first gtized upon iier roiling prairies aud uuexpiored Northwest, Mid leKnt by an uuexneoted r«vf>Vktiou that her hUtorioiil territories of the CwiiHaB, hor eant orn Beaboarjv fiture exerl;io;iH!iuiI expmdiiig dintinieH •he tooli a CreMh departure, rooeivcd the nfll vtns It a inon- Imjjrtriul inapiration, and felt hei'^i''f lU) lonjior a hut" sottler hIodk t,|uj baik» ci! ;i ein^lo river, but thu owufir of half a •oiitinent. and, ii' tho amp'utudi) ot tier poHJio sion, 111 tin, v/ealth of iier re.soiucs, in the ■inpws of her matnrial rr'i;,'!U, the nt?pr of r.jy pouor on the <;\ th. [tireat ohofniij,'). , In a loeuntly romarkabh- witcy ip"t)on tho Mur'tuts of Suiisbury alluded to tho geojfiuphii'al mi» touceptionsofteti enj^tjiidtTi'il l)y tlu' siinlliiOHS ol tho maps upon which the li;.;ure of the world JH dfipicl'vi. To thin oaiiae is probably tc bi; atUibntod thr. inadcfjuate idea enter taitied hy the li.!>tt oduoatt^d pf^aons ■rA tlic extent r,f Ifor M;ij inty's Noith Ainurieaii poeseE si'jiiH. P irhaps thii b'i'it way of oi>rfOtiD>; 'U''h a iini oriial misipprolnmaion would be by a aiimmtry of ;,he rivprs whioh *! )W tliroagh lem. for we kiiovv that a i poor niau cannot atf'ird to lire i'l I bi',' hom- H> a 8!»iall coi: y caai'.oL Hupport a bij; river. [Applaint- j. ffi»w to i a Kiml'SiiiD'ni or a I'Venchniiii tb overr; or thf ThrtmHs. the Same or tlui Rhone, would Rpp:ar coiigiilcr.vhlo screams, but in tiie Ottawa, a tii<;i.' ..lliucnt of the St. 'jawroDue an ^fflu.iit, morcovtir, w)ii;;hreaoho» the parent atrcani six hursdred m:\vA [/oin itH mouth, wj hi"H a river four hnndrfid ami dfty mi'.os loa^ and fou,* tiinea as bia an any of them ; but evon aftrti- bavi'^'T aaoended the.Si,. I.iwrencf! itsoli 'o Like Onti\i;io, and pursued its oairaa jicrna.s T^ake iluron, i.ho Niagara, i,ho St. Clait, and Lake Supenor to Tliuader lUy, a distari'^.i or one thousafid five bun.ir. 1 mile?, vvliori' are we.-" la thu eh'.iniatiou of the 1^/rson wno has inadj the journey, at th*^ dud of all thiuKs, i lau^thtor, | imt to iih wlio ku»w better, aoaroely at the oommo.nosmont of tho i.;reat lluvial Hysboins oi the Do.aiDJon ; for from thkt spii*", that h to rf'iy fr»m Thunder !>ay, wc aio, able tiJ ahip our aatonii^hod travel- ler oil Lii til? Kviniuifitiqui.-'., a river BO'.n--' humln-.d .iiilca i'ln;;. Tho'cico ai'iio-st in a straijjhi. Knfl we l.iuii!/;! him on to L ike Sht'b.mdow an and liiiny LiUc and vivcr— ^^hoae proper B'Attia by tin; way u "R?ne," after tho ma'i who dii.^ovcfeil it — a inagnitioent streaw three huud.red yards broad and a couple of hundred miles long, ('.iwn whoae trniujuil bosom he li/atfl into the Lake of tho Woods, whfiie he litids biunelf o-i a shuot of water whioh, though 'liminutive as compared witii the inl;«od seas w!ueh ho iias U f c liilund him, «will probably bi found siilli'dHutly o.vtunsive to render hitn friarJuliy beasick [loud laufjhterj «lttrini» hid poBsaye across it. I'or the last eii^hty milcd of his voyaj^o, howtver he will be ough a ijuoctrsiwion of I'.ud locked chaai-els, the br.ai. ^ of whwse rhilo it ro3t;inbloH, oertaimy excela the far fmu'd Ttioii.sand Islands of the St. fawreno . I'lroat applause], l-roin this lac"Ttriue p. .'aiii^a "f sylvan beauty we ara able at ouce to traDSif'>r our friendto the Winnipeg, a river who.se oxijteuci? in the very iioiirtof tl»>* continent ix in itself oue of N'-iciirti's mont fxlra ordinary miracles, [ajplause, J so beauti £iil and varii.d ar'i its ronky Oanlta, its tufted islands, so i)road, so deep, so fervid lathe ▼oliims of its waters, tho extent I'f its Idkciike e.-ip laiiona, and the tremendous power of i*8 rapids. [Loud cheerinff. 1 .vt last lot imauopo.se th.at we have landed our tj-aveiltr at tfce town of VV'iuuipe;.;, tho h.ilf way houKc ol the or/Mrinont, the oapical of ti)e prairie pro »iooe, »nd I trncit tlie future ''umbilifiua" of the Dominion. ILonp continued applause]. Rjivinc had so inuc}\'of water, havinj^ now reached the ijumo of the buflalo, like tho exten- uated ''"alstalf, he nritumlly "babbles of ,.v**n, the yatRway and hi^h -oad to the Northwest, and the starting poiat to aooth or fifteen hundred miles of navigab'« water, flowing nearly due east between its alluvial banks, [Groat applause ]. Havincr now reached tha foot of the Rocky ilounuaias OMr "ancient mariner,' tor hy this timo he M'ill bo quite entith i to such an appella- tion, jlaaj^hter), knowing ^i)at water cannot run up hill, feels certain his aquatii; rxpor- ieoces are concluded Ho was never more mistaken, [Laughter,] Wo immediately lawnoh him on the Athabaska and Mackenzie rivers, and start him on a longer tri;i ikan any ho baa yet undertaken, tlie navigation cf tiie Maokriizie river alone eAcridiug tw» thousand five hnudred miles If he s'iryives this last experience [Ip'isi'i.^ 1 w« wind «p hi" prregrinationa by a conoluding voyage of one thousand foar hundred miles down tke I'Va-.er, or If he prefers it the Thompson river to Victoria, in Vancon" sr, vvhenee, having prevsoufily provided him with a return ticket for that purpohe, ho '?id probably prefer oon:«oled by yaUmg aopiiery, 3 » longer t\\;, tkon gtitt'.iig fi'uro v!i the f;»nAliiin Pacitia. Now in ihu. enumeration, thoiic who aro io^niiatfd with th« country are uwaro tli^t lor tho muko of brevity 1 itavo omitted thou- w'iDdR ut mllee of other liliiv^ aad riveia, which watem varimu rogionsi of the Northweat, tio Qi'Aiipelle river, the Hi»lly rivor, Laitfi M.initoba, I/t ^ i Wiuiiopugoouif, Shoal Lilta, ate, etc. , along whos'"''>''"'*' riohaes!) of tlio territurioii 1 v.;feri:^d to, und the cipibilisies thuy p.is3(>as o; uU'jrditi^ '• *PPy -^ud in'ospfirouH homcH lo aUlicns of thu huinan lii'iu. [ Otafcniug jippUusf. ] Hit in coMt'Mupbitiiif; thu visit thus opaneJ to our imuiif^r.itiou v\'e must not forijot that thure I'BBUPh a (.orresponling expiin- »iou of oil ol)hV':itio:i!<. For iuatauje, unletts t?t<;at onre ii oaken, w\' shall find ..h wa move WkwiWArda. that the exi^encipy of c vilizition nay '^pnli iDJiirioi;sly with the prejudi.joa .tiid traditional huhit'.- of our ludiaa ftdlon nuhjt'CtH, [':ear, hf.ar. As Ions; as Canada was )• the woodfi the ludiau p..: fiblem waa ediiiparuiively eufiy; ill" pro^fe«9 of settlement A..a id»K ^riouRh to (j;ive a;!i;)!e tiiuc ami op.'iui tunity for arriving at aa amicable ami rautuaiiy 9«aTniiient arrari^ ;iTn.'Ht wit i oaoh tribe with whoiu m?o bui;ce88i«ely cHnie ioto couta^t k^t cacB out ii_v,)q the liiia coliniz'ttiun willa Ivauoe with far more rapid and ungovrr- aabie strides, uid it r. »'.'iot fail t-vaiitaully to interior^ with the by uo tncans inexhaoasi- bJa BUT'ply of htitl'ilo upon which so many of tli' Itiliau trihi! are now dependant. Against tiiid coijtingeuoy it ftill be our nnsb urgont and iinpred.',e'iOiouRiy intorpiotod aa lu Canadri, and as a c»n>M!'i' 11(0. inutcad of hein;,' a cuvitc of anxiety and diMtuii);i.rxe, toe Indian tiibes of the •omiuisju .irc regarded as a vjluahio adjunct to our streix^th and induyl;v. ^\''herever I kr.rc pono in the I'loviuee —md fiinee I luive been hero 1 have travelled nearly a thcuband ■lilos vvjthln you borders— 1 have found the Indiauii upon their sevctal reserves, pceter- • •Stiuj, a few jietty grievances ol a local chnr.'icttr they thonght them.-ciTes justifi. ''. ui pre f^Tinjir, contented and uat.)«lifld,upon the mo'ilfrieivdiy torma withtlieir ^vl.ite ueighburH.j.ud • ndpdcity confiding in the good faith and paternal «oU'jituuo of tiie Goverumeut. ! Appliuso. I In soma diatrictB 1 have Irarat witli pleasure that the Sioux, v/ho some years »ia«e entered our territory uivlur au(;h sinister ciroumjtanoca— f dj not of course refer to aJi!- . vi'cnt visit of SitLiat; Bull and, his people j laughter] are m-t "uly p'.'rfootiy peaceable a««i weU behaved ' ut ti;u'e turned into useiul a'iudoua applauet] who, coudiiuiug aa they do the hardihood, the enduraace ami love of tnterpriso generated by the atriia of Indian blood iu their v?iti«, with tiie oivilizition, tha intnrucaon and the intelleotual jietrer derived from their lather. -^ have preached tht; gospel of pcaue and goodwill, aud Mmtuft) reapcut, with equally beneficent results, to tiie Indian chief tiau in hie lodge, and the British aettler in his scanty. [Renewed applauej. ) They have boon the anibas»ftdori» dietweeu the East and the West, tlie interperto.ra of civilization, and its evigencies, to the iwellera on the prairie, as well as the exponeuta to the white man of the eousideratioa }«atly due to the susceptibilities, the sensitive soltTcspeot, the prcjudicey, tlie innato or&vicig for juiitice of the Imiian race, [Coatiuued applauHO j In fact, they b^vt done for t^e colony what otherwise would havt been icfc unacooniplished, aud 1. ivt intr'iJucei between the white p.jpulation aud the rod man a traditional feeling of amity and fn-ndskip which, hut for them, it might have been impossible to e-itablish. [Cheers.] Nor cau I pMQ by the humane, kindly aod considerate attention, which has ever dittlnyuishod the ■odson's Bay Company in its dealiugp with the uativ^e population, [\pi)laus_'.l But ifeeugh giving uredit to tfiose fortunate inflnencei aiaougstthe causcu that are conducing tn prodnoe and preserve the happy result, the placo of honor must h/i adjudged to that hoa-, arable and generous policy which has been pursued by etocessive Go-ornments o! < -nada Iwwarda the Indiaa, which at this moment i.i being superintended and jarried ouo v*?itk eo much tact, discretion, aud ability by your present Lieut. Govermr, [olieern] cderwhiih the extinction of the Indian title upon liberal terma uas invariably been recognized a* a necessary preliminary to the oocnpation of a single squero yard of nativf. *orrit€ry. But «UT Indian friends aad neighbors aie by no means the obly alien eooimunities in Ma^itobft which demmd the ■oHoitudt of the (/overnmeufe and e.xrito our »ytnpathiea lud curiosity in close proximity to Winnipoji;, two otlier comniuuitie«, the M«tiHonitr« and (cnliuden, fltartiDK tiotn opposkte t-ndB of I' tropy, without oithur eoro-it or uomiiitiuitiatioii, hiivt Houj«aoape fijiii iho oblif^atiuuM (jt Imv whiuh was ropuiaivp. to their uonBciuuoe. the othur brnd aa^id the hiiowb and uslii-b ,1 mi amtio voloauo, by the hopy o[ bettering; •.heir jnaterial corJitioii Although I h vvti witnosBed ii»!vny eii^htn ty oauae mt plsasuro tiiriug tuy various ptoj;[re«H through the Ojiniuion, fleldoi/i huvn 1 h«hel{ future tiiau the -MouDoaite bottlmaciit, [(Irtat applause. J \N'l',nn 1 viuitml thosr: iutoresl- iiig pcuplu they had ouiy beou two years in the I'rivinoe, and yet iu a loii^ lido J tool. acrods tho prairie, wbioli !)iit yesterday was absolutely har,-, doBolato and uivteniuiteii, tho home of the wnit, thu badpor, lud the eaxle, 1 pasied vilinge aUor village, hoiUL';i.uud after homcHtcid, furni:.eM and iu idositH of lanopeau comfort, and a •lientific iij,'rIi;uUuro, whiU on either side '\w road odrniuild) already ripe for bar vest, auii pastil re^ populoan >/ith henls of cattle, itretchnd aw..y to thi> horizon, [dreat cheeiiMK, I Iv.ou on thio coDliuent, the peculiar the.ttf; vf r.ipid ehangu und progrtas, there Iiu8 nowhere, 1 ima>{inc, taken nlace 8o inaivfiloua a transformation, [roucwtd oheeraj and yot ui your name and lu tlie name of the ti>ueeu ol Kugland I baUe t'lceo people wel- come to thttr new homca, it was not the iMipvoveinont in their niateria! fortunes that pieOi-cupied my thouijht.'^. Ulad a& I was to have thi power of appioitint; tliera bO ample a porlifia of our teeming soil, which seems to blossom it ■.. toneh, jciutiriio-ii applause* and which they wer.- I'dtivait! jj to such mauiteat advantr.ge, 1 felt intinitely prouder in being .il»le to throw over then, the ae(,'ia"o' the Britiah ooi>stitution ]loi.id cheering j, and iu bidding theii; ^re^ ly share with ua our uo'.iv.illcd politieial in'^titutionH, our untrammelled personal liberty. [Renewed oheera, | We ouraolven arc ao aeeustomod to h:eith the atmosphere of freedom that it Kearoely ocouis to eonsider and appreciate our advantages m this reiipect, It is only when wi -re remin^'ed i)y suoh ineidouls ui th.it to which i refer, ol tho amall extent of the world 8 surface over which tho priuciple.r highways. N ou cannot therefore < euts moat ncoes sary to a colonist in Canada, liat though starting at a disadvantage in these respects, you must not undurato the capacity of your new fellow-cuiintiyKion. i Key aie cadowned with a great ueal ol intelleotual ability, and a qoick iulelligenei. They are wcil educated. 1 scarcely entered a hovel atGimii which liid uet posses n library. They are v/oll i;onducted religieu.s and pea<.eable. Above all things they are doc c and anxious to learn. [ApplauRnj Nor, cjUHidering tho difficulty wnich prevails in thi.-< coautry in procuring woinon scrvantB will the aoeesaiun of sem'3 hundiL-(]a of bright, good-humored, though perhaps awkward, y'ct willinrj, Icelamln girls, auxiotib for employment, be found a diaadvantage by the resi- dent ladies of the cuuiitry. ' Llottr, hear. ' ShonUi the dii^persion of thc.-je youn^ people lead ii: course of time to tne iurmation ot more iutimuie and tendeser tic.-f than those of more neighborhood between the Camulian and the Icelandi.) colony, 1 am sale iu predicting that i!i will not ]irovti ;v nntter of regret on the one side or the other. if.aughter and applauac. J And gentlemen, in reference to this pi.int, 1. cannot help » ('marking y,'ith. 8.atie faction the extent t-y whicl^ a cwimnunity of intei-i-ats, the sense of bein;^ engaged in a com- mon nudt staking the obvious degrao in which the prosperity of any one man is a grain to hia neighbors, has amalgamated the varions seetioufi of the population or this Province, originally ao diverse in race, origin and religion, into .a patriotic, closely wedded and united whole. | Applause and cheering, j In no part of Canada have 1 found a better fe<;Hng between all classes and sections of the comn- unity. (Cheers.! It is iu a groat measure owing to this wi(Je?*pread sentiment of broti erhood that on a recent occasion great troubles hnv.j been averted, while in the present moment it is Ending .ts crowning and triumphant expression in the establishment of a University under the cmditions which have been found impossible of application in any other rrovince of C anada- I may say in any olhcr country in the world — for nowhere else, either in Europe or on the continent, as far as I am aware, have the bishop and headj of the various religious communities into whicn the Christian world is sounhitppily dividei', combined to erect an alma mater tc 'hi«i uud curioaity e« and Icfll.toden, mnuiuicatioii, havt V, though I, iMiitu. I rcpulajvf. to their uo, iiy the bopu of light^ to uaiiae me iftvi; J boheid any of un uhtoniKhiiig tt!d uutenttnteil, tho i'illigt', hoiiKa.oad huinpoau cimfort, ruad^ lipt i,jr bar K horizon, [dreat njic liud i»'ogrtBS, , [reuowtd choersj t'leso peopU) wel- |ria! fortuuos that ijj!,' them ho ample t ip^dmsit], and whooo statutes uid drgreea aro to b« rfl);(ulatnd niiu di'ip:-i under tiii> joint aonpicee n[ II fi;overiii>{ bodVi in which all tho cimrohoi of tho land aIII bf v«i.rotH;iited. An achiov" ir«'ut of this kind upoaks volumes in fa.'or of Hie wlfcdom, tilorality aj:d tnn ( .'hristiaii charity of thtao devoted ?nrn by whom, in this listant laml, tho oon»iijifn«;(>« of thf ]inpula- J^tion are li'daud <'«!iL'litened : and long may I ly \m wparotl to vw tho eiJbci of their pKortions and maunauiinom saorifico* in Ihfi kfooi' conduct md j/ratcful d>>votlon of their respective tlaclvB. ll.uiul upplnuse. j >' r, I ; m. happy to think, io this j;ood fcUowship npoii which I have ao much cause to omgrntulatn you, confined citlior wttbin tin- limit of the I'loviripo ov oven within th^s*' of the IJouiiiiiou. Kotl.iiifl[ otruck nrj more en my way tfiC'Ujjh St. Taul, in tlio Uoit«jd St ikes, than tho Hympathetio matnt • in which iuc iuhnl- itant.i ('f that, llouriahinjj city alluded to thi- f.vo;;rcHs ;)nd proi-pect.i of C.inada and tlio NDrthwest, I groat applause] ^nd oii aniviu;^ here I was ctjually «trucic by iiadinf* ovon a iiioie f x'lbcrant counterpart of those friendly seiitkinontH. | llenewod npiiiann". | The roa. .';on id not (at to sock. Quite iudi pendoritly of the geni il intercmirse promoted by neigh- borhood, and the intorj^rowth of comuiertnal rolntiors, a bond of { in line on a level front, tliat they are both engaged in advancing tbe st.indard of civilization Mcstwa'ds lap,pl.iiii!r friends, there is not the slightest fear of her adVotions beini,' f.'utroj'ppd by tho gay deceiver. i'Great laughter, I On the contrary, it is when fiho can tearccly bo brr.u(.;ht to mention his name -[''enewed la'ighter] — when ahe avoidd !,ia nfieioly, wlien she alludes to him with malice iind disparagement, that real daiigei \i to be apprehended. llproariouB lauglitcr and (ijiplauati. ] \o, uo, ("anada both ioves a»ul admires tlie Iniued States, but it is with the friendly, frank clFectiou vvldeh a heartwhole utately n;:>idcn feels for some bi:;, bois- terous, hobbldlchoy of a cou.iin, fresh from school, and elite with anitual spirits and good nature. [Langhter. | 3hc k"Owa he is strccger and mo. muscular than horseJf, lias lota of pocket money, can smoke cigars, and loaf around in public places in an ostentatious aianticr lorbidden to the decorum of her situatici.. She adnnrea Idm for his bi^fncss and strength aud prosptrty, suo lil.ea to hear of his punching the heads of r I'-er boys, jrenewed laugbterj, ahc unticipatPH and will be proud pf hi.s futuf; eulcjvp in ll?e, and l',*h likes bim and laugh,'^^ at hiir for hia aiTectiouate, loyal thoufh oov.iewhat patroniziLig fiieadship I'for lierseif li'oars of lttugh*:erl, but of no"'nearer connection does she dream, nor does hi-; bulky imago for a monu-nt liiuturb her virgiu.xl meditatioup. In a world apart, so duded from all extraneous iill (onccR nestling at the feet of her aiaj'stio inotiic<, (!anada dreams hur dream, and forbodjH her destiny — a dream of ever droadenin^ harvcbts, ninltiplying towns and villages, and expanding pastures ; of constitutional self-governmenl, and a confederated Kmjjiro ; of jiago after page of honorable hi.Htrry, added as licr contribution to the annals of the i mther t.i;urtry, Jmd to the glories of the liiitieh race 'trcmeudnus appIau.Hei, ct a perpetuation for all time upon this i .ntinent rf that temperate and well- balanced aystf-m of n.ouaicidcal governnieut, which comtunes in one mighty wlir.le as tho eternal poesesaion of ail Englishmen, the brilliant history an 1 traditions of tho past, with the freest aud most untranimellcd liberty of action in tlio future, |T,oug continued appiduae and checis.J MARQUSS OF LORNE'S SPEECH. To no (TOveruoiOeneral of Canada are ( anadians moio deeply indebted th;ia to tho "Marquis of Lome, During his term of otiice he lost no opportunity of acqU;»intiug himself with the r.'BOurces ef the r>ominion and spreading abroad the infcnr.ation he had collected for the bonctit of the colony. Nor has the worthy Lord relaxed hi;i t.'^brta in this direction [ ainco the expiration of his term as Governor-General. He has never lost an cj portunity of t#lliDg the truth about the I'cminion and pointing out for the benefit of intending immi- I : grants the advantages to be secured by choosiug their new homes in Canada, where it is i»:knowled^cd better agricultual advantages or freer luBtituticus exist, than in any country ( now •▼ftlloblo for Hhttlcnicnt. l'ioV*biy no iPmi! in better known In th.- Britith ThtM than thftt ol Ar^jyle, to thai tco tratU'tl«mii of tUo frmily, I»>ing aiile the p«r»on»I worlii of tbc MAnjiiis of liOrne, ar« miiiiclent guar^nton Utt tb»! octifHcy o! >»nv aUtumenttt the talintnu oobb'i.jan may n»ve in»(i.. Thn tostimoi'y of Mifl Moi ^uia cannot be hotter glv» n than in bi/ own woria, when ftt VViiu»Jp«g n». Mill l/jrd.-.hip Hnid :— Ml: ("UAIKMAN AM' (iHNTLKMKN.- -1 bog to thank yoii most 1 rdially for th" picaflanl itioei'tion you .'lavo given to n>n on my return to Winnipig ami for tho wnniK in which yf V propiwed my hialth an 1 hfv ( »tic branohca, open« to stPftm navi vition hei.tlemei.t4 of rapidly growi>jg imporlarce, An it .r.ia wo tiiched the waters of iho north and soutli 1 ranchis and striking soutli-westwiirdH .ivailtd ourcelves of the ./\:;ieri"an railway I'oe in i'.ontanu tor our return. It wa*! moet iiiterealin;^ to oo« pare th" aouthc-a mountftinH and jmiirics with our own, and not even the terriidc ovestH which have rtiCfently ciat 80 deep n f;loom upon our iirighbori*, iB wnll as oursclven, oo«ld prevent our kiusmon from filioviiij.: r.hut hospitality »nd con ittsy which makes r visit to their c>"<\intry so yreat u pit leure. [fjoud applause. 1 1 am more ajbtd to b. ar witri?Hf» to this C'jurtcrty in the precontc of the di5tini;ui»hcd consul of tho I'riitt'J States, who is your gufcat this evtuing, and who, in thirf city, so honoraoly ryprimenta hia country [applauBc) in niuhing more than iu this, that ho h^\H never mifrepresenUd cur own. [I.oud .ipplaHHe. j (dkc aiir.oi't lH bis compatriots who occupy by the f-ulVrage of thiir people ulliuial pjsitioai ne ha8recoEniz:pif.' and ol the I'l.ited States may be advanced tide Ly t-nde without jtaiouay or friction and that ti\o good of| the cmo is inter- wo.'en with tl.o M'olturc of the other. We have with the Aniericiiis not only o cominoB descent, Imt ^siniiUr poaition on thin contircmt and n llkf? prolinbl-;. destiny. The com (iiunity of fci.lin^^ reaches beyond the iVll.n^'^hip ariHinor from ti-jo pr.rsonal ipterfst att.'^chiag to the digT'iry of a, high < fbce hustained -vith honor, and to the reverence of the tender ties of hearth ur.d honui facried though tliree bo, for Cauadiana and Americans have each a common ai^n and acomniuu ivlcal. Though belon^'ing to very difTortut political fcohoolnand p- e- ferring to advance by '.'i>ry dilTcifnt p-jiln, we both dchire lo livo cidy in a laud of pcrfpfit liberty. ' F/Oud ch-'ciH. ] VVhca tho ordfr which ei'snres freedom is dispci'ated by the cowardly rancour of the murderer, or by tho tyranny of faction, tho blow toichr-.a more th(in one Ufe, and strike? c vera wider circle tli,»i, that where its nearer and imtaediate COn.soqiif^:',i.j3 are apparent. The people if the I u'ted States have been direrlcd into env political organization, and we aro ( huriBhiug and developing another ; but they will tind no man witli whom a closer and Tiiore living sympathy with their triumphs or with their tr»» b!c8 abide i, Ui.in their Canadian ecu, inu in ♦he Dondnion. [Cheen-. 1 Leb this be s» i« tho da5'ii of unborn generations, and may wo never have again to express our horror at tatk 1 deed of infamy as th;it which harj lately called forth in so striking a manner the yvncf ci intcnational icspocn ai.J nfleclion. | Hctr, heir, j To pass to other themes awakening n« unhappy rf.collections, y:r.i. will ex poet mo to rncntifia a few of ihe impressions made ii)»an UP l.y what wo ha.'o HCt-n during tUe laitt few weeics. Beautiful as are the numberless lakes and illiuiitable forest" of K 'ewa,tin- -the land of th^ north wind, to tho eaf> oan ul(iii« bo luokuil for, nnd ht ro [t itt inrif (•.iii|).!*i u> imagtuM rny kiuil of >*'ork which ihall not prudiioo rcKu!tii cifiinl tn tboflc bitainuil iti jny ot IIki uii-iit oitiim I ; thn worjil. Idieat nheoriti^' | L nk.iowij a iVw yi.arv ot»o i-vicpt in dorna (liffejt'iK.'fii Mhioit hud urJBOu umoiijj ita [icdplo, wc ii*.n WinDiprrj now witii a ji 'iilati';* iinaijlmdimly j.iuiiuj; ii\ happy cmiLord, !«n an tho* wiiiili Mjmiia iiiwurod to M.mitclia a'.d to Wiunipc;.', th« Hi'.irt city of our Doniinhm. [ t''i!mon.h'i:ii ohc. rii);^ T Tlio inta-.tirrltdH hukIdv*.! whi;*h ijoiitiiniicti iioro itretoh without interruption of thu goi>«l aoil w. hiH.ird to your houndury. The i'n>.in<:eiB a gruen Hea over wiiii h thf »uninii;r wind.s (.j«<< id w.ivoh of rioh ^jransi-i. and Howfro, uiid OD ihi* vast txtont it in only oa ynt nrvwhtrH Ui m mot v ith, iwiJ wliicih, &• douh^, wlion the prairit- tires art* moro our«f«lly gmrdid :i.j'»lnHt, will, whcrt'V'r thoy are w,iijttd, at ill furth»>r idoriio th»i landscape. lCi>;('r«. Th( meebt-a ff t.hii wood-netting aro never furthor til ui twruty or thirty mill", iipii't. Little h.iy swuiiijib ami oparkliuK lik'.ilot I, tot ining with wildfowl, arc alvray.^ f^losr at Ijand, auu if tho Burt',»(;o \'.at toUMoapirl. N.. wdadir tbiit iiodcr '.hcaa oi''cutnHt!*nc(>8 we bear no iiroakinj,'. (JroaktrH arc vmy vnre aniimU throughout Cauuda, it wni- reiiarkud by mrpriae liy au llrigliphjiiaii a.' lUH'omed to liritiflh j^iurnl linjjf, that «ven the frogn siiii.; iiiHteud of i.toiikiiig in (Janada, Itrc •.!. olioerini:] ami the fow lyttcrs Lhtt have appeared i^pcakinK of diaappoiutmont will he airion*; tiic raicHt aiitograplis which tho nwt j^finnalion will ohorieh in tin ir nuiaouins. Ilu! even with tlio heat troi.ji-; of the best army iu i he world you will tind a ''^w m ilij^u«rs - a lew Huulkerh, Howhvct wr!l an aclioii haf I'oeii f )ii'(ht you will iicdv '.'fliceiH who have been oiiKugud tay thut then' wen.' H»nto iiien whoae iija Heeni.'d to lie. that ir was <^aHitr to oouducb thiin-tlva na hnoaioe them at lh«. rem, rather that in the front. Il^i.igliter and app! uif!!. ' So there have been a few lone:y and hizy voicesi raised in the atrangur preaa dwollii.^ upon your dihioulties »»«( iqiroriiig your triuinpha. i'hcse have iippearod from 1t.< (.ens of men who havti fiiilod fx tJnir own Qountries .ind huve faiiiid ht.'c, wiio are horn tftiluruB, and will fail till life faiU, tboin. 1 1. wglitor and applause i Tiifty .irfxlikc the soldit ri( wlm ran a'v:;y iroin the Iniat firnjioa Booking to 'prcad rtimiomlitnre, M'n^oh exists uuly in tho^o i.himja tbiy call their mindM— I L iii(^ht(ii ] and who running to tlic city aay their crinrjulea are.defe.te.i, or If they are not beaten, thev should in tiieir opinion be s.i. We havo iouad. a.'i «e expc-lud, thiit their tales are no^^c>r*hv the cri J«-nce even of the timid. [Appl.tuho. ] Thtre wusnot cue' pnrHOo wiio liad niant'iilty faced the first (UlTieuHiei, always I'ar !i.'s.i than tb()d>. to Vta ctieo niitnred ia tl.o older piovinceB hut «ii;• liiu iuiruhase of ;i 'arm in the old pio\ iBC.-a. All that tho tjfttler in Miinitoba would seeni ',•"> rcijuire iM that tc ?in()iiM lo:«k out for fv locality wlierc the-e is goed natural drainage, and ninety nine hunf'.rtdifiu ol' the ooMBtry has thi?, and that he Khould he able readilv to procure iu W'inripeg or e!F(*vvhere, some flight pumps like thofte tned in Abyssinia for tho easy Hiipply cf \vater froui a depth «f a few tiiut below thosuiface. Alk di in '.iie water will never Hurt his eattle, aud dykea of earth and the plantia^; of tr'^es would e'cvywhere insure liin. ;iud thcin the shelter that Jii8,\' bo ri ijuired. Five hundred dotl.iiB •jhould be his own to spend on hi.? aniviil, uiilet.s aa an artisan he comes tiere, I tind that like the tiappy inasons now to be fouu'l in NVib- nipe;;, he i.au get the wages of a JUitiah Army Colonel, by putting up houses as last a«j briok, wood and mortar can be got together. Favorable testimony tc the elimato was everywhere given. The heavy night dews throughout the Northwest keep the country 8 green when everytliit'g is binned to tho south, and the nteady winter cold although it sounds fonind.ible whon registered by tho thermometer, is universally said to ho far Ies« trying than the cold to be enoonntenid at tht- old Kntrlish Puritan city of Boston, in Massa'^husseta. If it ia tho moisture in the atuxj^phcrc which makes cold tell, and tho Kngliahman who. with tli > thonnonieter at :'.iro, v, ould, in liin moist atmosphtre bo shivering, whoiild here find ono flannel shirt sullioicnt clolhini,' while working. 1 neve. like to Illlike com,)ari8ou8 and am always unwillinf^ly driven to do bo, although i', suemb to l>e the natural vico of the well travclleil KugliffLnion. (.'vor and over ag&iu have J been asked in fJanada if sftoh and such ft bay wus iiot v.-.jndorfally like the Kay ot Naples for thf. inhabitants had often been told .-^o. I aiway.-i proffssed to be unable to aec the rcdemblenoo, of crurae entirely ni:t of dLltVifince to tl-.i' susceptibilities of tiie Italian nation. So one ot our party, a Scotchman, wh( never in tlie Rncky Mountains he saw acme grand pyrmid or gigantic rock, ten or olev«i: thoiiiand feet In hcii^lit, would exclaim that the nne was the very iniage of Arth'irV Seat and the other of Edinburgh (j.istle. ^Vith tlic fcai of Ontario l)efore my eyes 1 would therefore never venture to compare a winter here ti> those of our grtateat province, but lam bound to mention that when a friend of ndn.e f ut the (|utstion to a party of sixteen Ontario mer who had settled in the western p».rtion oi Mrt. itoba, as to tli ■ cmiparative mt^rits of the cold aeaPdi in the two provincvs — fourteon of them voted for tht Manitoba climate, and only two elderly men said that they perferred that of Toronto. Vou will see now >vhat is sometimes c.iUed that veiy uutqual critenou of ritrht and juiitice, alarjje mnjority determiucH this ijucstion. Nfv although we ai.: present in Manitoba and Manitoba interest;: n-.a> dominate cur thous^hts, yet you may not object to listen ior a few moments to our cxpr>-icnce of the country which lies farther lo tli- west. To the prearut company the ipscrtion may be a bold one, but? ihey will be auili ciently tolerant to allow me to inalio it, if it ijoes no further, ami 1 therefore say that we may seek for the main chance elsowhen- tlian in Main street. The future fortunes of thin eouotiy beyond this I'rovince bear directly upon its prosperity. Although you may not be able to d';; for four f<;et thronqli the same character of black loam that you havi nere when y< u get to the rouutry br yond l''ort Ellice, yot in it", main features it ia the name risiht up tu the forks of the Saskatchewan. I dceprty regret that J. was not able to visit Fdmontou, which bida fair to rival any p)ace in the Northwust. .Settlement i« incroasini.' there, and I met at I'ltMeford one man aume who h.fd commissions from ten Ontario farmer^ to buy for them at that place. Nothing can exceed the ft-rtility and excellence of the lami alou^^ almost the whole course of that ercat iiver, and to the north of it in the wide stri]' belting its banks and extending up to the I'e.ico river, there •.viU he loom for a great popu latiou whose opportunities for prolitable cultivation of the soil will be most enviable. The netting of wcod cf vhich 1 hav-' Bpoken as covering all the prairie between VVitinipeg and Bittlefurd is beyond tuat point d/awn up upon the shores of the prairie sea, and lies in masses of fine forcwt in th^i ^jigar tic halt circle formed by the Saskatchewan and the Rookies. It is ojdy in Ruciudtd v dleys, on the banks of large lakep, and in rivei bottoms that niucii wood IS found in the far west, probably owing to the prevalence of i'a-es. Tfacjc .are easily preventable, and there is no I'^n.^on why plantations should not ibnuish there in good situa- tions as well as clsewhcro, 13 lore I lei've tho Saskatchewan let nie advert to the caso with which the 'iUim navigasio'. cl that rfver can be va.'jtl3' improved. \t prosent there ia only one boat at ail worthy of tue name of a river steamer upon it, and this steainer 'ier up dur^ns^ the nif;ht. A now company is, I am informed, new bemg organized, and ther^ ia no rea.'-!0n why, if the now vessels are propeily cijuippcd and furnished with electri. lightf', which may now be chraply }>rovideiI, they should not keep up a nighc and day ser vice, HO that the settlers at Prince Albert, Eduiuuton, and ;jlsevvhere i^y not hive, during another sc^aon, to ."utfer great privations incident to tho want.s of wansportation whici. has h-.aded the I, inks of Grand Ra;>ids during the present year witii freight, awaiting stean. transport. The t;reat ci-etaccous coal seams at the headwaters of tho rivers rising in tb/ Rocky Mcuntaii.i or iji their neighborhood, and ilowin;; tovvards. your ucor.s, rtiiould not h. fort^olti n. Although you havesome coal ia diatriots ncurtr yoii, we .should veuicmber that on the headwateis of these streams there is penty of tho same which can be lioated down to you before you uave a complete i ail way system. Want of time ;i8 well as a wish to set the less vaunted parts of the country took me south westward f'em Battle' ird, over lami which in many of the n.apa is variously marked as rjnsisting of arid plain, or as a oontiu ur.tjon of the " Anicricari Desert." 'Ihe newer maps cspecialty those containing the explorations of I'rof. Macoun, base corrected thiw wholly ':rronecns idea. For two days march- that is to sny for about (10 or 70 ndtcs sciith of Dattleford «e passed ovor land whoso excellence could not be excidled for agricultur:d purpoaes. Tlienee to tho neighbor houd of the Red Deer ^alley the soil ib lighter, but still in ivy opinion in most places good for grain — in any catc most admirable for summer ptksture, audit will certainly be ^'ooii also lor stock in winter as soon an it will pay to have hay stored iu tht; valleys. The whole of it has been the favorite feeding; ground of tb. buiralo. Theiv tracks from watering; place to waterinji place, never too f^^r apart from each other, were every .vhere to bo seen, while in very many tracts their dung lay so thickly that the appearance cf the ground w.i^ only comparable to that of liu English, farm yard. Let us hope that the mir.iu-i will nut be 9 loug beioro the disappoarance of the bulfalo on theso gccnes, is followed by the .n'>pear'»rico • ^f doTnustic herds. The Red Deer valley is espcoially romarkabb aa traversing a cuntry t^hcre, aoeordiiig to the testimony of Indian chiefs travelling Tith us, snow no^rer lies for more thao three months, and tho heavy growth ci pojiular in llie bottonm, the (luaiitity of the •'bull," or high ■ rauVerry bushes, and the rich hunclies that hutr from the choke ohf^rrit '^: showed us tliat we had coma into thft part of thf Dominion -.vhich aii-.ong the iilaii;.e upon that Paci- lie Piiilway line which will couc^^ct you with the 1 »ciGo and gi^-e you access to "tliose vast shore beyond the farthest sea,' the sliore of Asii, a good many small liords? of cattle havo been introduced within the last few years. I'uving this year a magniffcent iierd r.t between ^ix .lud seven thousand has beeu brought in, and the men who attendid tbcni and who :am.-. from Montana, Oregon and Texes, all ;»vcrred i))at their opinion ot their new rancho ivae higher than that of any with which they had b-en aocinainted in the south, Kxce?- ient crops have 'neen raised b} men who had sown not on\v in the ri^'er bottoms, but ulso upon tiie Sii-called "bench" lands or plateau abov.'i, 'Ibis testimony was ai; o tjiven by others tm the way to Fort Macb-od and beyond it, liuis closing most satisfactorily the ,3ong ul praise '.ve had heard from practical man thrcn;ghout our \vhole journey of 1,200 luiles, Letmeadveri for one moment to some ot the causes which have enaliled settlers to enjoy in such peace tb" fruits of their industry. Chief amon;Jst these must be reckoned the policy of kindness and jusctic whi'di wa^ inaugnrate(^ by the Hudson )3.iy Company iu their treatment of tiie Indiana. TJiere'a is one of the casca iu which a trader's ahsociatioa na;-f upheld tlie maxim tliat "honesty i<-- the best policy" even when you are d'-aling witii sa' a^es. The wisdom and rightecusress of their dealing on enlighiened principles, which are 'uUy followed oat by their servants to day, gave the cue to f' <.'anadian Co', rument. The I >ominion to-(idy through her Indian otKocr.s and her nv .v:d const-abulary in show- ing herself the inheritress of those traditions. 8he has been fortunate in organizing the Mounted Police force, a corps of whoso .'.rvi.es it would be impossible to speak too highly. A mere hardfu! in that vast wilderneas, they have at -11 limes shown theniselvea ready to go anywher" and do anything. They have often had to act on oct;asions demami mg the combined individual pluck and pruden( •■ rarely to be found amongst any soldiery, ').ud there has not been a single oc^'.isiou on w!ii.,'h any member of t'.'j force has lost his temper uoder trying ciroumstat-ces, or has not fulrilUd his mi.'sion as a guardian of tb.e peace. Several journ' ys iu wiiitor and dilhoult avr-.ist.^' have J-.ad !o be etTected in the centre of sa\age tribeii. .Tnd not once has the moral v restige which waf iu reality their only weaoon, bteh foun.l insufficient to cope with the diihcultios which, in Amciica, have often bartled tbe eiVorts of whole columns of armed men. I am glad of thi.- ojiporiiiiiity to n.ime these !ncn a« well worthy of Canada's regard us sons who have well maintained her njime and fame. And now that you ha\'e had the po.tieuce to listen to mc, and we hav crossed the cf;ntinent together, let me advise you asso^u as possible to got uo i^ branch hocae, situ;- ted amongst our Rocky Mountains, where, during svinnicr, your members i;;>.y form them.-^elves into an Alpine club and thoroughly enj'iy the beautiful 'jeaks aad pa^tc^ of o'U' Alps In the railway you will have a beautiful approach to the racillc. '1 he lino after travfrsuig for days the plains, will come u{ion the rivers whose sheliering valleys have all. much the same character. The river bods arc like great moats ia a modern t'ortrtid— you do not see them tilt close upon them. As in the gla<.is and rampart of a foriveas, the abot oar search across tlie two levels above the river fosses. The sti'iams run coursing along the «unken levels in these vast ditches, %vh'ch are sometimes miles in width. Sheltered by the undul.atiug banks, knells, or cliffs which form the ii .irgiu o' their excava'.od bounds, arc >r».o((s, generally of poplar, except in the northern an-i western fir fringe. On approaching the .Mountains iheir snow capn look liko huge tents encamped alocg the robing praitic I'p to this great camp, of which a length of 200 n.ilei is tnjuietimes visil)lo, the riveru wind in trenches, locking like the covered ways by which siege works y.ig /ag up to a be.soiged city, On a nearer view the camp line chaugis to ruinml marble ['.ibices, and tb.'- jugh their tremendous wall and giant woods you will soon be dashing on the train and in winter liasking on the warm Pacific coast. V'ou have a country whose value it would b: insanity to lestiou, and which, to judge from the emigration taking place frcm the older I'rovinceB, will be indissolubly litjked with them. It must support a vast po^'ulatiou, if we caku lath from the progress we iiave already made in comparison with tbem on the new areas now open to us. We have now four miilion four handred 'housand people, and these, with the exception of the compr»ratively small numbers as yet .» this Province, are restricted to the old area. Net for the list ten ye.ua our ir.crcaae baa been ovf r 1>< per cent., whereas during the same period all the New England State taken toge- ther iiave shown an increase only of 1.5 per cent. In the last thirty years in Ohio tha incioiye has been (Jl per cent - Ontario's during tliat space ol time 101 per cent, of in-rease, 10 while Qaebec has iuijreRsed 52 per cent. Manitoba in ten years has increased 2S9 per cent, a greater rate than any liithbrto uttaiaod, aud to judf{e from this year's ovpericnce it likely to increase ^o an even more wondi^rful degree during the following decade. Statistic; are at all times v cnriaotne, but are not tlien; fnll of hope? Are tb<;y not f;it'ti givi'ig just ground for th;d pride in oui jirogress which is conspicuous .imonj; our people, una arnplc raaaon tor our belief that ♦.!;« future may be alic-ved to take of re of itself. Tliey who pour out propiiesirs of change presovibing medicines lor a sound iwdy, are wasting thtir gifte and their till! i.'. It is among atraugers that wc hear snob theories propounded by destiny mnn. Wirh j'ou th;i word "annexation" has rn the kst yearg only b^en heard in connec- tion with the aunexation of mo'e territory to Muni* ha. 1 mu^t .ipologizj to a Canadian audience for tncnttouini? the word at all in any en nnui: -ion. In Aimirica theannoxition of this country i» dis'ivowed in' all respDudble Icadi'Ti, As it was H-ell oxprossed to mu lutely the best men of the Slitee dodire oidy to autiey the friendship and good wiil oi Ca;i:ida. [ Loud cheers. ] To he ^^ui-e i*< mi.y l)e otherwise witii the (.-amp followers ; tl.cy oftaa talk as if the. .swaUowiutjand iiigescion of Cm. id* by them 'vcre only a o,ae3tioH of tiras, and of rising treab'uu amongst, r.), Jl 'w fur the power ot the oamp followers ex'tends jtisnotfur uato determine. Toey aave, however, shoivii th.it they are powerful 'juough to cipturo a few lvv;iiah writers, our modern minor prophets who, in little nngjzinf, art! clos, are fond of teaotiing the nations how '.-i behave, w'nose words prea' b the superiority of othiT !«,(i»!t!ie9 to their own, aud the approximate d'smrjmberinent of itliritisb I'Jmjiin- which ha.-< toe i'loiior to acknowledge them a» citizens. They have vmii our Aine'-ioan friends of whom 1 speak, at all event? oi.e virtutj in comuiou, ihey are great epc^culatorc Iq the ci of our nouthern friends thii in no!, a matter to be deplored by iif, for American Hp'ioulatiou has b.^en of direc;'; material benefit ta Canada, and wm must regret that onr Amaricin citizens are not. conin;^; overto us , atyo, it is not to be deplored that sunb Rpecnla- tions are mide, for thoy show that ii is thought rhat CmAdi'ua would foriti :i useful though uuiuip'OrtenC wing fo;' one of tlie great pirties ; and, moreover, wiTjh propheiie:^ clothe vi; Li amusemeut "the dry bones" of dti-cussion. But it is beat always cj take men as -ve Hud t.iem and noi to beliuve that tnoy will b? did'i'rent even if a kin.l'y feel- ing, first fi^r ournelves aod ^.tierwards i>jv the:;i, should make i\f* desire to change thenri, l^et us -ather i^'dgo from thf- past aud frum the prtsent than take flights, ung aided by exp^nense, into the imiigicary vcgious of the fu';ure What do we find has tieen, and is, the tendency of the poopW.s ot this continent? Does not history nhow, and do not modern and existing tendencies •Uclarc that the linss of c'oavige amnng them lie along the lines of latitude ? Men spread from east to we«t, and from east to west the political lines, %vhich mean the lines of diversity, extend. Tne central spacjs are, aud will he yet more, tho greiit centres of p'jpul.ition. Cm it be inngined th;it the vast centre hives ©f mtn will allow the eastern or western 8c*al>oard people to come between thetn witk eeparate empire, must search in vain. Our ouar.y councUa, the inunioipal orporations, the local provincial >.hambprs, the central bcn\inton Piriiameno, aud last n>)t legist a per- fectly unfettered pitas, are ail free chunuele for the i xpreiision of the feeling.? of onr citi/.ins. Why is it that in each and all of these riHsctors of thoughts of men, we a»« nothing but '^-termioatirin to keep and develop the piNicious heritsge we h.iye in (tar own Ci-institution so capable of any /"evelcpment which the people may desire. Let us IvBar C' ; adians if we wish to speil- jr thf m. These public bodies and the puhiioprfss are the iiou'hpieces of the peoples tnind, I^et ns- net say for them what the^ never say for themselves. It ii no intention d misreprt'scntation which has p'oduoed these curious examples of tho fact ♦hat ir.diviiual {)rppoqsestions may distc't publu. proof. It rci«i»tlB me of in intcpretatiaa onoo said to have been given Ity a had interpreter "^f a Kj>ecv;li delivered by a savage warrior, who in a very digtiitied and extremely lengthy diijctirse expres'jed the contentment of his trii>e with the onler and with the good that hid bc.-in introduced against them by the law of the white min. His sj^-ec'i was loag enotgh fully to impress with its' meaning and its truth oil who took pains to listen to hint, aud who could understand his langii^ge, b'lt tho interpreter ha', anfortunateiy differynt ideas of his ov/n, and was displeased with hi.H own iv.\.divirinai treatment, when at last he was asked what the chief und his council had siid in tlrir ekxaient oartions, he turned r*mnd BUil only exolp.inied — " H^ darn displeases! '" |(>ieat laughii'i. | And what did bis ««hu- cillorR say ? '• I'tioy dam di.-plrascd ' fkoars of laughter. 1 No, gentleman, let eaeh man in public or liierary life, in both nations do all that in him K' ■' to cerr ent their friead- rhip so essential 'or their mutual welfare, liut this cannot bo cemonted by the publication of vain vatic inai ions. This great part ot onr great Knipire has a natural and warm ieol- ing for our republioan broathicn, whose fathers parted froii us a centuiy ago in anger and- u blooflehed. May this natural affection never die. It is like the love which ?« borne by i yooDxer brother to an older, ho long aa the big brother bohavca handfoniely and kindly, 1 wiay possibly know something of the nature of such nffectiou, /or as the eldest of a rcun«l li ;zen, I have had experience ot' the fraternal relation is exhibited by an unusual number tf ywangci brotivrR. Never have I. known that fraternal tie to fail, but even its etrengih has I. as its natural iimit, ^o Canada's affection may be '.ueuaan^d. None of my younger brother*", Viowpvcr fond of me, would voluutarily ask that his prospects ahould be altogether ovei shatl- f.wcA and swallowed up by mine. So Canada, in words which our ueighbors understand, wishet L? be their fri-end hut does not desire to bcjome their food. She rejoicen in the liig br(it!vu-'s 8tron>;th aud stntus, but is not anxious to nouritli it by uffrtring up her own I od;/ in O'dor that it may afford him, when ovoriiuugry, that happy foiuival he is in the hftljil of calling; a "sqiiaro nieivl." [fioud laii>^!iiueen, ;oiiwrhj, you recognize in the Cknernor-Gcneral the sign nnd symbol of the union whick liin.is tojjethfr in one the free and kindred peop)*.-^ vviioin God has cet over larnoua Islet ■J id over fertile hpa(;es of mighty lontiiient.s I have touched in speaking to you on eer- wiin vatioiuations and certain auvii;e given l>y a few good straugRr.i l,o Cvtoadians o n the iiubject hi the future of Canada, (ieutlemen. I believe that Ganatiiaus. are well able U *.fike care theuuielvea of their future, and the oulsido w'lrld had better listen tu ihe« ' '/: 'id of prouiulgating weak and wild theorii.'u of its own. [Loud, appkiific. j But how- r, uncertain aud I may add, foolish may be such foreeasts, of one thing we may b« SHIP, which is this, that the country yoj oiU Gauada, aud wiiiiih your 3on» aud ypnr iiildreu's children wiil be proud to know by that name, is a land wldidi will be a land «t power among the nations: | iheora | uii.stress of a zjue of territory favoraV'ie for (>!»« mnintainanoe of a nuiuorous and homogfuous wiiite populotion. Canada ;uu?'' to judge from 'he inoreaae in that strength during the paft, and from the many ■\nd vaf.' oppcr tiiuitios for tb" growth of her strength r,n her new \u-nvlucij!i in the future, be great :>nd worthy her poditioii ou ihc earth. Aii )rdir.g the best and aafcEt high'vay between, ,\' I aud Kurope, she will see traiho from both directed to her coisls. With a iiaud •il>..u either ocean she will gather from each for the beucfit («f her hardy millii.'cs a l).-ge shoue of »ho commertij of the world. 'I'o the east .ind to the weat she will po«r f(.>rth of her abuudrnco, the treassures of her food and the richncas oi her miaes aad of her forcstSi detnanded of her by tb.e less forfcuuMto of roauhitid. 1 esteem thost iufn favored indeed, who, in however slight a degree hav( b.ad the honor, oi may lie y(.; called upon to tai-c part in the oouncil.s of the Htatcameu who in this early era vf .■'•it;>ry, are moulding this nation.'! 'a ln.wa in the form? appr'^vcd by its representatjvea, tfif trie, I feel that I ean be ambitious of iv.i higher livh. than to he known as one wkt adnfiiaistered its fiOvernmout in thoiuugh flytnpathy with the hope! and aspr;ario»'3 «f its first 'juuuors and iu perfect conhonanee witii tlic will uf its free parliL:nlr;:l^ 'Chu'.'ra. I i.rfii t'o.- i\i bot.ter lot than to be rcrn'-'inhssred by its /.ooplo aa rcjoioiii / hi the gladuess '.cru of their independence and of their loyalty. I desire no other i"eputat!on than that which may belong to him who saeri his own dearest wisiies iu pvooe^a of fuIflUnerit ia 'iH'it' cert:un pro-jrcss, iu thfdr undisturlied peace., i.nd in tlicir ripening grandeur. LORD LANSDOWNE'S SPEECH. following the ( \ample of both his distinguiidisd pri;dcce6Sor8 in rflK.c, Lord Lansdr:w»e the pr( scut Goveruor-Genfral of Canada made last autumn a complete tour of the Norlft- west Territories imiiuding Waritoba and f^riliuh Columbbi He «.iR accompanied by L»ri Mf^lgund, hi^i distinguished military secretary, whose p>'u hais uot been tikut on tiiw capa- bilitieb oi Cauada, since itHp•).s^'.■s^'or baa become laniiUar therewith. His Kxcelleucy m.ida the tour immediataly after the completion of the Canadaiu I'acific Riilw.9.y, that gre.^t iro« highway which link.s the provinr;j8 of Canada together and biud-; morft clcsily th( t «» .•f Ctinfr-.denttiou the strength of which ha.s been steadily ocvi loping- aiuoo the iiuio;! » \H7. The railway therefore being completed His E.vcclltjncy ^^a* enabled to board his r<1Be«ii.] train ob Otta^va aud proceed without stopping \if be had so drsir^d) slcir tbroagli tf» liaf Pft'-ilic coast, travoraing the Musiioka diatric", the region north of Ijike S(ij^)erior. the 'ninnder Bay section, the fertile provinces of Miujitoba and the Northwest territoriw, the Roohy and Selkirk ranges cf Mountains ;-.nd through the for-^-ats oi British GnlambiA to the l\«cirto coant, aa approximate distance of aijout ."i.OOO miles. V-.^z with tlie anxiety of j):edeces8ors tc ace all the country poKsible he stopped at p^^iuts along th«; route, and under the escort of the Monuted PoUof, he travelled iu a buck board (that pnmitive,Ktc'jgb 12 still jiopulav mode oi prairie tiavol) over many liundrc 1 miles of bhr, moat fertile helt« o: igrlcuUnral an relation with tho gJeat Kepnblic wliieli adjoins may be of the most iutiinato and amieablc ch.iractcr. I'iVppiause. | L^t tne, too, corrobor.vte what he has aaid a^ to the action of the '-overmreui of tlie IJai!;od .Statoo during the Homewliat crJuicAl period throa>{h whjoh we paaaed daring the present KuuimciT. f am very glad that he haa givou mo this opportunity of publicly acknovvledifing our oblit;atioiia to his (luvernment ia thia reapect. i. 3t me Uao joiu wichhirn in expreasing my hf'pc ihut uhe uegotiation.s now in progress between tht> Dominion and the Oovfct anient of Washiiij^^tou for -ft renewal of commercial relations - noj^otiations whiuh I bsli^'ve have been tiitjied upon in the spirit of the utmost coufideace and good 'A'ill on botli aides -may be carried to a .successfr.l issue. Mr. Ciiairman, your eicy had already given me its fo.-mal welcome aa I w.is passing through it on my way west '.vards. No »vant of respect would have been sbown i: you bad let me pass through Wiu fit])pg a oiToud time- unhonored and unnoticed. You have, however, given mo on my return from a holiday trip a welcome whi.;h a victorioas general would not have diapis.Hl' But sir, I think your nitizeus felt that their teelinga of loyulty to the Queen re(juired soirie tiling more than those formal manifestations which usage has consecrated, and it ia for that reason that l.\3^ night and to dii.y you have met the Queen's repreaeutative with thcsu remarkable manhestations of youi goodwill. [(Treat applause. | In your kindnras to mc tbero is perhnps a jlight element of oiueity for 1 f^el enti: u!y une(|ual to tho task of sayinc unythinc to you worthy of tiie ocoaaion. I may say, in", '.that dn.ring the fe'. week.-* which have elapsed aiccf f last liad the plea.-^are of moetii.c; .ru I have travoUed over sc T?iuch firoiiud and eneonatei^ d such a number of novel expei- unoes and excitements tiiat I teel aa if I stood unre in nc?d oi the quiet rotiremeut ot my study than of an opportunity of niikint; public apeenhcd. It 'nay interest you to hao.v how we have been spending uui time since we saw yon last, and if >ou care tc listen ;. few moments to what I fear will amount to a bear and iu.ornani"nted enumeration of the differout stageaof our journey, I am 4}'vbieh ia yours. Oi;; hrat obiEci after leaving Witiaipeg ■.va.i to visit the tw\ l^ranch lines, .vhioh, lea>Mng the niain track at Winnipeg and l'.)ttuge h; Praiiie, ri'Viiectively traverse the northwestern and aonth*-i\stern portions cf this Province. We travelled tr. Mauitou by the one, and for a few miles beyond MiuDeMoaa by the other. Let me, in the tirst nlaco, pay how glad I am to bad thatthii conatructl)!' of those branch railways is prcco "ding ao satisfactorily. Brauoh liuea of railway are absolutely nrceiiaary if the re.a.ources of this '.ountry are to be properly devulorod. [Lri.' applausf^ | They are as neces.sary to the m;',).i line as iinabn are to the human trunk. Tint i-i a coneiusii.m which I tbi'ak your o^ a people have 4xpresaod precty difitinctly on many ocoasioug, it m indeeii perfectly i.hviou.j that tk»e /ineat wheat land in tJie »->r!d wid he ntxv door to valueles.s ii Its diatansje from a railway station is ho gnat as toimpcae wj.aJ ia virt'.ally a prohibitive tax upon every buahei (ii grain which ia (.arriad to market. "1 ravelling' along both of these lines and aioorer soil. A g^-eat deal of it, however, is of extraordinary richness. f rn.ay also observe that at Home points and •■•otabiy in the neighborhood of Minnodosa there is uiuoh agrieahle scenery anil undulatinc land relii \-ed by oopsewood and lake, and likely to prove attiaotivc to those who objoct as some ijotthus prob.ibly will un, to the monotony of the flat pmirie. [H.-ar, hear.] During our journey tiviough these districts 1 had tho opportunity of meeting and conversing witi/a consider ih.le number of the settlers, and was glad to find ihem, ahnost without exception, hopcfil ;i.'.iid to the breeding o! sitocks m well ay the raisiug 'A crop?, au i [ have no doubt tuat in . !ti, uhe farmerH of Manitoba and the Northwest ^'v.\ tind it possiblp to adopt a syRtcmi ci vvheut growing liy whioh they wii' coutrive to elude the c-niv which Ijhh up to the pr»sunt ^i:,aBonB, that they will alway' re-uir at the same time of the year, Wc have lately luid in the olu country four or five wet .iUinmers iu suocession, but no one believes for a ui'inient that they will continue for an iodelinite tinje. There is nu distriot in tin, world m which agriculture is pursued PubjtirC to some drawbacks, and it ia probable that in this country ihcre will always b>' a certain amount of ill] u'.y from thin particular oiiuse. The M'l.ole matter, howevci , lies within a very tnial). compass. A fortnight j, earlier n)aturity, whether obtained by tlie selection of a differ* Lt variety of grain or by earlier sowing, rt'ould, I fancy, get rid of the trouble altogoth'.r. The visitatiouR of the frost arc ah:), we vouut remember very partial in their character. We Raw many sauiples of first-rate fjuality grown on lands adjoining those where the datnage had bccn grcateat, and I have heard the opinion expressed by some ^';ood judges that, aa th.e area of cultivated land in this country niereivsee, and the subsoil boeomee more generally brfken up, w© slall finii that the Ian« •vill become drier, and consecjueutiy more and moie free from IrOHts. It is also to b« .emeni bored that in many cases the grain which has suffered most has hevu grown upon newly lu-oksu land; upon which after the seed has hen thoroughly pulverized by one or two inoie croppings we may fairly expect to t*Ge the berry . 'pen earlier than it does at prescut. ^Ve vdiould at any rate not allow ourselvco to be over fiighten-'d. [Hear, heiir. J I may say thatl think a good deal of 'responsibility rusts upon those who having been unbickj' in t! is respect at once write to the newspapers and represent this country as a frost-bitten wilderness, and yarning intending sot'lers from coming neurit. 'J'his part of the Doinin- icn has Indeed been injured scr'onsly juth by those who take a nuich too gloomy and th»s» ,', bo take a much too sar.guino view of its proapects. I scarcely know whcih doet moi-t irj^chic), the false impression created by hasty generalizations founded upon excep'ioual cases 8nch as those which 1 have described or of the over-colored acably iu>t much higher than it does at present. That, is, howevei-, a state of things which must in time pass away rh»-rjlatioDS in which the demand fo) and ihesupji'y of this great staple of human food stand to each other, i.iust intivitably tluctua>:o from time to time. Sometimes there will be too many mouths to feed, and not crough food to put into them ; sometimes, when great additions are suddenly made to the food producing area, the supply increases suddenly and iltcgether outstrips the demand. That has been the oase within the last few years. From the Western States of America and from British India enormous siipplics ot wheat grown probably at a very small pre (it have been pout od into tho markets of the world. There ire several considerations of which we should \iot lose sight, Iu the first place the number of iBonthB is always incrtasing, and for the present at all events there is nothing to show ihat the increase is likely to be arrested. The time must come, when to some extent at all cventa, the demand must again tend to over take the supply. 1 wan told the other day ujfcu excellent authority, that at the present time the United States consuircd all but i per cent of the total amount <>£ wheat and corn produced within then. The time will com» when thin part of the Dominion will be fully occupied by settlers just as in the crise of the Western States settlement followed upon tb> constri.i.';ion 'if the great continental linen, and then you will require here an annually in-icasing proportion of the cereals whicb yoB. I! 14 arc able to produce. The old world js cominn every year to depend more and more upon tbe new for its food «uppl).i8. It is.more t-sjieciaUy in the old country that the proiiortion •f imported food 8fnff« showa a phenoin.nal iiicrease. Twenty years ago wo iinporti-u wh«at und wheat flour to th« v.i'uo of /,i'7,000,000 W« no;v import it to the valtio oi /(JO 000 000. [Applause.] Twenty years aj^o wo iroportod a million and a half hundredw weiaht of meat ; we now require 8!x million huudroda weight. (Applause.) Tiie totr>; y.ilue of the fool btr.lfd iinpf rc'vl oy *i:.;at liritain in 1883 roachod the euormons tn'al «i /■171 uOO.'JOO and that ti.vait; yuit intiy depend upon it. i-3 ouo whioli will increaae rathi r Uau diiuiuisl' as th<; population of Grnac lUitain becoines larger. Those tood .^lupplieb aribout :-'U per di at, comes to U6 freii tko I'uitf'd ;S 'i.U'.a, about 10 per cent from (ijnn«uy. ubo'.it S pjr oout. from Brit-idh Indi., •wkile from tJcitidi N Kth Ainoiica wo take only alittle over :{ pyr c-nt. Takiuy th'i case ■■. wbt-at aud wheat II our alone our total impurta roach the value of ^4-1, 000,000. O! this w.- tak )';i per jcnt. only from the fanuers of t!iia con 'itry. 1 cmnot bring myself to beliov ttitt this state of l.*iiog» will uiintihue. Thsr. ar^ many i.idicalions that it, i.-i not liko'y v> ioso and thac wo will beobligti as time g033 on to loi k more and niors to the bro.u; aorea'of this coufitry for o«:r supplies of food, i Appluiae. i 1 am a little nervous i: speaking about the I ailed .Stiitey li.?fore my fri"nd Mr. (Jouaul Taylor, but unless we ar: aiisinfornicd, the soil in mauy parts ci tiio Uuited S:ste8, which vow aeoda ub our large.-' «pplica of whettl and !] r.'c.issUowing aigns of exhaueii'jn and yielding a yearly (iiiuinuhioj.- return. It now stundt; a Itfcle over I'i l-usheLsto the acre, and wo must not forgnt that uj Statca land for nothi'ij; is a rtuni,' of tiie past. If you jompAre the position of a Cjnadiai' iiittler v/'.t.n hia fivtj h^meatc..'!, Ideiniexhauated boil, and a yield which we may take, i ikiuk, wituow being over aaugi ine, ut "20 bushels to the aero, with his competitor in Ihr iiliates producioa; !>i tv/een \'l c.i \o husheln, upon laml which hai been mereili;esl;. eroppe^< l«r ft great rum >jor of years, I co not think the (.anadiun net d have mucii anxiety -is (,i.. like result. ^Louu ;ir.p!auf3e.) I have aeon it said, on whU I bi-lievo to be excellent autko: ity, that in Briti.^h India, ->vi.;''Vi stands nexl on the list, the < ropa have l-aeli' been growi. &t 1 coat which is bu.re)y repaid by the price? obtained for th; m. "-With abundance of (e- Wlo noil, with scientific appliauce for ita cultivation and with easy access by railway to tfce great centres of distribution, yonr farmers^ appear to me ti. be well i)rovia geiitkniiea. n.y ^jcjiine has got oil the rails, and I laurft rc.uune my jjuiuey or I shall dotait, you voo long. We spent a quiet day at the thriving littif^ city of ]?;iiidoi;, of toe neigh borhood of \\fhich ' i'ad y:!BtPda\ anoth'.-r opportuuicy of seeing ajmething. We then pa. ' a visit to the Uell i'arm »t Indian Head, were we spent a very pleasant a>ui Interebtiii iay, I do not think I nred intlict upon you r.n accouut of all that we saw there, liiMi koca .ISO it has »lri»;uly been deeoribed fully and accurately by many other visitora. Secondly, fceeauso I do not think that any aigumenia founded upon the cxpeiicnce of the Bell Far*, where wneat growing la carried on under conditions, aud with appliancrts and facilities for a#ceB3 to the railway, not by any ro'sana generally enjoyed by Manitoba farmera, wouW W.' worth much as bearing u^'on the general '[uestion of vi'heat raisiug iu this country. (Loud *f»plause, 1 I ihould, morei. -er, be sorry to look forward to a future for this country, ih which it siiall b.Kv"^me nothif.; better than a huge wheat iioKl upou which the humarr Ixiig^ wuald not be ni.ir> r.uuieroiis than the selfblcders. 1 s ly this, Decaeue, in the ti.'-st place, wkeat growing is not faruuno in the proper K'jese of the vord, ar.''. however great the fer sill -y of the soil, I question whether th.e !iad not missed oiT way just before dark tnd spent son-.e time in recovering it. I have often been to'd that I Hh»«li b« impressed by tuu • x:ent. ;.f your prairies, audi must own that upon that paiticalar wcaaion tiiey appeared to ba two or three ei/.es too large tor our personal convenienee. (Qreat Iftujjhter. ) We proceeded thence to Rcgina and spent a day agreeably at the capital •r the Nortii- West Territories, where we received a welconu not less cordial than that which your people had been good eaou*.'ii to extend to ua. Wc then travelled westward ■util we reached Dunniore, where we joined the new line recently constructed by the Qah Company to iiethbrid;;e. Here we made ourselv.^s avquaintei with an indostry the de^ol- sptneut of which is likely to p^'Hlut^ & very marked etfuct upon the future 0( i5 'le aeisjii Hiw part of the Domlnioc. lu the oliflFn of Lethbridge and the vinicity there app^Arg '. > stortiil a bouadloEH 8uppl> of exoellont coal, whioh would unnj< warmth ami comfort to jiOiiHands of Cmadian homes, and the diucovcry of wfiich will go f ir to meet the critl- .' .,18 ol fhoBo who ftfo iu the habjt of deeoribirig the North-wtBt aa having li clitiiate of ^;-;jeptloi)i).i severity, without the UiJcehSHry nuous of cncounteriii« it,. (r a tiBic, and oxuhangi'd car;* for what is to mo a very rau,;h jileusaiittr conveyance, a good '•^Dncho horae. During our first day's ride we had, thunka to the cou'rtPBy of Mossr!", 1. 0. !l;ht r A C*,, ftn opportunity of eeeiu;^ something of one of their hu^^e her.la of cattle and ;>; ^.iir acta of proweaa which Ihbir oowbows nro able to pinform with horn' and lasfro. We -ndiid the day with a loug and interefltiug meetiiig with the Hlood ladiiint., aud wo pitched our oanip in a delightful spot not vury far from their reaorve. Upon t)ie lollowiug day v.»; jirowBed ou, atill on horisebuck, aa far as the famoua Corhrane ranche. VVe were now wichiE Hi|?ht of the magiiilicent par.i.rama of the Rooky Mountains, aiid I wish that my powers of description wrro iiuflicieiit to i.nable me to give you an idea o!' the sight which I'll t «ur eynB, whcr., a little before suuf?' , we found gatherml before ua in a ';iad of natural ;nifhitiifc«tre Burrounded liy rolling hills, thickly covered with tin.- nulritioua grasBea of the viiritiy, a herd of uoiae 5,000 auiraali., whith had been rounded up i:i honor of our vifcvt. ')' tkese the groat majority abowcd abundant evidence of the good rteults which have fol- ;'.rvv«d from tho introduction of high claHS male animals. A number of thcEo pedigree bulla were to be seen throughout the herd, and it did notre()Uii.; an exptriinccd eye to detect thd iniprtisaion which had been left ou their offspring by the carefully Kelected bulls of Snortlioru, FoUod Anguis and Hereford brjcds, which ^^e saw surrounded by their respec- ;.tve harema. The scene was altogether a btrikiug aud romarkabic oue, the more so when .. ih rpsietnbered tha>t of thtsie Canadian rancho uattleacarcely any have yet been exported i TiHrope, the whole marketable dupply beiug r<.(]uirtd either for tho support ci the Jludiana ,. f»r local purposes. ^Loud applauoo.; From this point wo travcllod, still on horae hack, Fort MrLeod, aud thence to Calgary, a long but most int'jitstiug ride, piiisiud for ihe M,iit part within sight of the Rocky Mountains and tnrough rolling prairie auitable for •jpportinj; large heida of cattle or flo'-ka of sheep. This is a busy aud entertaining little vri>, ihtj Hituation of which i^ not '>nly pictureei|ue in the extreme, bnt owe which will i->,aever a large transcontinental tti.flic becometi established, give it very cocRiJerable uuncieial advantages. From L'-olgary we travullcd eaatward for a few milea in order to it the lUackfcet ludiana. 1 am glad to aay that I was moat amiably received, both by ■oe aud tkeir kinsmen the Bloods, and thtit I obtained from both, and especially froia ■^•*Trfoot. the Teverable chief of the Fdackfcet, assurances, oi tho aincerity of which I . -t'o no ■k'ubt; that their co>i duct would be not lets satisfactory than it )ia« been during ,'•> trying times of the auuunor through wiiiuh we have jual passed, ^.^pplausc; It is napoiBiblo to meet thest poor people, and to listen to their atutements without the deepest ' • H»g of sympathy for tlxdr pre»ent position. They are the aboriginal inhabitants of this ojiinent. They regard themselves, and not nnuatr. rally, aa the li'gitiiriato occipants of i.>» soil. We can .scarcely bo .surprised, if, -no'.v that the buffalo upon which ihcy have j,^l>aiited for so many year."? past iui'! heeonic almost completely extinct, their hearts oces- •i«i.ai)y sink within them when they S'ie, as they expreps it ^liemaeives, that the white :.ian is getting rich and ti\e red man poorer with every y;*^ that passes. It is quite unneoea- -ar_f to discnvs the question of their so called title to ihc lunds of the .Northwest. The i*tren;jt,h of thoii* title, if they have one, is not in its legal aspect, but in tho rnoial claim wkii;h they have to the moat considerate treatment ai the hands of thcsti who have brought .« to the country that irreaistabie tide of civilization before whose advance the native rai-es k,%»« dwindled and receded. I em glad that the Government ot the Pominion has never ♦'vr!ed to recognii.e its oljligation to deal guntly and humauelv with them aud that we has'e «.•>«« ti:e whole been extremely ouccessful in doiog so, lOreat applause.) Tho problem in . rr? difficult and intricate one, und rt'/.ire3 tlie greatest patience on tho part of those X ^i.ivfl to eol/o the diflluuMj of ketping thp'ie unfortuhate beings from starvation without ' neriiiing them, and of leading 4um by methrds which must neotaHarily be alow and .: .duiii and at first fii'l of disappointment, lo.-arda a civiliz.itioa which at present s xms to b« eo far l»eyond their reach. (Applause,) We new once tnore turned our faces -.vest- war^s, and scon fonnd oursolvea amongst the crags and precipices of tlvo ilockv Moun- t.iina, wbicli we a8''.:.>, 1 theniEolvea !it this stage of our journey. One of these is a magnificent spring of ••n,..jTf.l water of warm temperature and evil odor— (laughter) — pos.seaaing, i have nt/- 'o*b?,, valuable medioinal qualities, in which our party enjoyed one of the moat luxurioua ;',Li8 which 1 ever took. I have little doubt t):at the time will come whci., our ('■aiadiun invalida will repair to iianff instead oi to Aix leg liains or Vviesbaden "' r the roatoration of their health Ly those libations of aulpuur water, and by tho reapira- lon cf the pure mountain air, jrhich I have always regaidtdaa having more to do do witk the cu.-c than any oUier put of it. The ii«ciu«l point is the discovery in thia neltjhbor head of a Be»m of very high olaiw uoal, which, I Umleratand, more ologcly reHumbU-H tlit hard coal of Nova Scotia tlian that found further to the east. (ApplauBo. I We now tra> elled dowu the tdniou-j temporary gradient of 4) piT cout. by whicii the lim; doscuods tl.. western Hlopc of thi) R'K'kiita. It will porhups bo KUlFiuioat if I tull you thut wc at^:o'.. pliah^d this part oi our j >urney without oven ;» momentary iiualm, and with a nt»'adinf: and .-'br.fty of movf.ncnt which I never know c\coedfcd iu nty travelling days. Th. Rojky NJounlainH once traversed tlio uBoout of the M^ikirks begiuH. It would rvqairf tli> lantuaf^t; of a great poet or the liruHh of a great painter to do iuslu o to those. 'I his w- !a my mind the -r4ii.i.:'flt. and mowt wonderful postition of our j nirnoy. T will not attou]' the taak, and I will only tell jou that at this niyuiout my foeiingt. f-i;- ttioso who have iv seen these natural wouilerH are feelings of the dcepeat pity whioh 1 Hh.kll exchange for tli most unutlerabh. c.mtenipt, il, within a few uonih^ after the opening of the line fur trail. they do not avail thonibclvcH ff the facilities uJIorded to them for seeing scenery, vvhici; . believe vo be unsui passed in any other part of the world. \Loud applause.) At this poii; Hoon after leavieg toe Minnnit wc iig.iin left the oarp and eommeneed our journey across th< gap, the length ol whioh at thit time rauehed about 47 miles, an extent let nio say, wluih would beyond all doant have been very much shorter had nut the exvwptionally heavy raiufall or tiu' hite «ummer, in many placeH rriod down from the hillsides an almoi*. ceiieless llow of clay and gravel .ind seriously retarded the operations of tiie contractors Oar liisi r.ight was epent in camp on the banks of the (Columbia Kv/er close to the village of I'lrwell, .•» bimtling little plate of aonn 300 iahalntunts. Every house in it was lisstioyed by fire a few rnouths a^,o, but it has risen from its a-shes and is now full uf life and activity. I'h ponitiou in a tine open valley where the railw,"\y oiosseH the watora of the Columbia River, which are navigable up to this point, gives it very considerable advan tagee. It h, however, a.s a ce:..tre of mining industry that Farwell expects to aohievt greiit things. Inmii'ditely to the ncrth of the settlement lies thn auriferous region <;on tuiLiwd withmthe famouH lig li^nd of the Cjhm.bia River :» region within wiiich the presBuoe ol depotsitd of undoubted richuesH has long been known. Thcso deposita have beea alreidy worked to considerable extent^ but the immanfle diflicsultiep of transport and the prohibitory pricaa of I'.il the necessaries of life have hitherto been an insurmountable ijarrier in the >vay of the succfciisful prosecution of the eeterprise. There is every ch»n!;e that the season of ISJiO will see agreat lush of miners to these gold iields, and I hope a «r«.'at accession of wealth and propaity to the town of 1^'arwell. (Applause.) I pliali always consider myself fortunate in having been compelled to ride on horseback by easy stages over thif niOdt iuterf eting jfcctiou of the hue. New wonders aro revealed at eveiy Lnca of the road. Snow capped pinniicles of vast height and fantastic shape, great glaciers, preoipitous clifl't», raging torrent^!, trani|uil lakes, while almost thrcughout the whole leuj^th of the journey thnre liscs on ftU sidej trees the like oi which 1 had never seeu nor dreamed of, i shall never forget the. .'^pot in which our camp was pitched on the eve- ning of one of the two days whioh we spent in traversing the gap. Our tents stood in a narrow glade aurroundf^d on every side by eedirs, not the cariars which we are uaed to in old Canada, but the variety to which tlie botanistd iiave very properly given ihe. name of Gigmtea, and wldch tower t^OO feet and more towards the aky. By the light of our camp hjc it was posBibc to see these huge gi ay Etems stretching upwards till they loat them- selves in tiie daihnens, reaching, for ail ■nr. knew, to the stars, which twinkled down upon us from the vault above, and thid groxe, the trees of whioh were [nobably 9 or 10 feet in diameter, was ouiy a fair .sample cf tho forest, which compoajd p;irtly of the beautiful Douglas fir .ad hemlock, clotheu the hili sides foi' miles on either side of us. In order to realise lue importance t f these forestct wc must i^!)iemi)cr that it is iu British Columliia alone that we have still a large trace of timber bearing country, upon which aK yot scarcely any iraprcsaion has' been made either by fire or the axe. But our eventful ride camo to an end, and we found ourjcdves once more on the cars and travelling over the Onderdouk line along the \ uiley of the Thonip.son River towards the Pacific coast. We had a delight- ful cruise on the beautiful .Shuswap Likes, a veritable British Columbian KiUarney. (Applause. ) ^^o spent oiie night h^re and a second at the picture8(|ue village of ^^l^e — one of the loveliesi spots, whero almo-^t evsrytbing is lovely or interesting, and one which is, 1 think, likt ly to bo largely irequcnted by tourists, whenever the attractions of this route ccme to be more generally understood. If we wanted the poet and the painter iu the Rocky Mountaina ;ind the Sckirks, we wanttjd him not less as we flew along the mar- \ellou8 canyond of tho I'raser River, tlie windings of which we followed through scenery of marvelloi;s grandeur and wildnesa, the turbid waters of the river Bowing at our feet and directly belosv us, until, as tiie valley broadened out and revealed longer, wider stretches of cultivable land, we left it to strike the salt water at Burrard inlet, upon which tha ter- minus of the liuv. is to bo establishod. Here we took steaiuers and sailed for a few hours over the quiet v.'aier8 winch div"^- t.be main land from \'ancoa\ api'iil in viaita U) ihflTorQn!. purtiona of the ialund to KaquLnitult, whero the ^ravbig .'■■c.cU, dtiHigued to be no much i^ervlco both to oar iuiperikl and moroantile nav'ua ta making i ;M»ii pr')>(rea8, ni.il to Nftn»imo, whi r»< we itaw aoiriothius; of the coal minea ao imi'"''**"* ^' - jxrtion o! thw racifjo «oa board, and to Nkw VVeattnln«tw, th*> ploturoa'juely aUk- .ttv^ Mainland capital of thiuiidanoe by mentioning that salmojj thia aummet •j-e aclling on the Praaor 1 liver at one cent apiece. { Applause ) Ita ilelightful aoi 'lery is axki and majeatici, without '.'ternneaa and aeyerity. Ita pnaoeful inlets frinijed with «,uied foliage. Ita quiet waters alivo witli lieh and fowl. Ita genial iiod equablt* i^Umato •eaentbling tn many reapecta that of thi? Old Country, rei]U>re to bo knowu in order to be &P]Nreciated. We iiow se* O'jr facea homevard once n ;o. Of our homeward journey ■ need only tell yon that tli« aceuory 'tppeard Vi ua even finer than before, when wo aaw it f;ir tke acccmd time, and that wo founn thr. jrap redaced in length by tweu'y miles during ar ahort abaenoe. Wo travelled rapidly over the praL , apent an >i>4tecablo day at ■ajadon, and yesterday evening found onraelvoa in the noapitable uity of Winnipeg, aud oeiviog from ita inhabitanta a reception auoh an I, for one, never expected to roooiro in V. f official career. (ApplauBo. ) I hare told you, I a;n afraid in very trite aud tmimag- ■iwtive language, ti^o story of my wanderinga. I have returned from tliem with many ■ idipreaaiona which will remain indelibly impren^ed on my mind. Amongat theau ia, in t'lc &rat place, that which haa been left by the invariable kimlneaa and attention which we ' upeiicnced at the handa of all tho3« with whom we came in contact during our journey, KrMM lirat tolaat wo were received with an amount of courteay and conaid^ratiou which ;>dded greatly to tho pleaauro of oui travels. I muMt mention more e8pugh wiii > no psth, not oven a hunter'a trail, had l>een carried natil ' -J aoryoyiiik: parties of Mr. >.i^uberley and Major Rogera diacoversd thep^ paaaea — can have .'■^V kS«a ot the atupendity ui tin t.^ek. (Great Applauat. ) Ita aucceaaful completion •^.- .• well be regarded with -ride i J admiration, both for the moral courage of thoae who Ir«B th».' first never doubted the {i'-ndibility of thia groat achievement, Ahd of the enter- yrixa and skill of thoae w;io have be<>n responsible, fir^t for the location ani afterwarda for file ttonatruotion of tho line through a c>oantry preaenttng auoh ouormona diffloultie6. Well, gentlemen, there waa another thou^ m<; which forced itaelf upon my mind during my •a^Tk^ek. All thia country over which wo ha"0 been paaaing, ita natural rfiaourcea aud r.yaioftl b<.>autiee, belonga tithe Dominion of Canada. You aie entitled to wrif o tae word .^oada acroaa the northern half of thin continent, placing, if y^ like, the letter C oo *'aa»onTer'e laUnd, and the l«tt" A ou the Maritf huiiiK.. ijoinj/s witliout rv llectlni,' how ««■ arc the iotereuts of the prcMont oompired with tlifiX country. Itu Jcntijuoa ,i in yoar hiudt*. Hy the vijfor with whioh thia cuvtioiul outcrpriio tUia uationtl highw.;, over w'aich wt \\:\\. juat travelltid - is bciiiR oatricd out you 't'lvo ahowu your inttjutwu n; leavina nothing unJono for the maieriul and politienl oon^idtiation of the Uoniinion, b- the iTovIt is not I'uded, The compb-tion of tho Caiiadl>*u ;' i, ili.: lUllw.iv hae ne kfly kup Sicil a JoiKlJtiou without which that work oould not \\\\i bf-cn ourrlod out BucoMfuU/ inrodemtiou witli'jut nho railway was not worth the p'UK'i- on which tho Hritiiih Iiott.*i .imrriua .\y the uacriiico of all •ectioual inturoite, by foatii ing a n ition.tt •pirit, t« bind jwoviaco to pro^incie. oity t.) oity. If 1 could venture to ^iye you adTiuc I should say, lot uh all, l«.t the Dominicn irovurnmcnt at Otcawii, tho I'roviucial noT< -; ment i« each provhioo, the muuioipui auth;iitio« In your oilit-a, letovery citi/.aa in Kia •• jilaco, keep before thumboUea a conaoioiia.'ies.i that tho present ftoucration w not hen «rder tkat it may shape the foitunes c' the country for itc own aelti^h end: r teu>p*v:i.> itoTtnience. iGreat applause. ) Let them bear in u.ind that thry are truMitea fui tk- wlio will come aftt r ihMiii, for th> millions who will one day replace the thouHacflH u» %f*tL the soil. Th»t th ir drat duty is ao to rc^juluio th^^ii oouduot at whatever p«iav i k«n'hffs Mks public a1at»i of the nation that i>.-bfcn they aro gone their a-iooesaora m.-ir m. of tkesn that in the uarly daya of thf hiotory ot their count i y those w l»o were in she fw;- ti«n t^ mould itsi youiiL; destiDicH Mded with wisdom and fo;<' lii^ht, aud with a full aenttri • tbeir reMpoasibilittcR tho troiucndous opportunities which i'rovidence placed withi« tkeu rea■ which ho had been called to prssidc. Upon his returD, at a battjuct tendered to him e Winnipeg on the 10th of November, ISS'*. hy the citiaens, in recognition of hia diatin ^uiahed parts as a stattisniau, he made lui excellent speech, in the course of wbick k^f gjiv; ihc foUosving a.'j hiK impressioD of the country : — .\.» 10 any inipre-ision 1 may have formed, permit me to say that as 1 am not a farw-"- and inclined to noknoMledtfc of faririog they would neither be of interest nor value to ytt« It wonld be of intiaitcly wore value or n,a to give you something about th<^ impresatatfx gle.%n.;d from oi.hers and ban> d O'l thi i evpcrif lioe. 1 might say that perhaps thcro are fev aaem in Canada who htt>p ..I't-'U more of the p« .iple of the different proviiioea, esjiecially th^ older ones, than it haa been my piivilej Abiond liighw , 'our iuttiitiea t' l>(iniinton, l> < i' had ne.vrly kUf; out 8UC(!iiefttll- 10 Hiitiali liorth ?hi>'ij you oxiicrt y iiiutiiai conuia to ing a nations. nive you adTitit- uviiiuial ) thouiuvutlh a* buttivcr jwiav > 3oeH8orB m;»Y ta wera in (he «>«" Lh a full oembA • oed withia (kou 1 ExtensiT. ia ackaowledgci.' uoraole poaitic* nHive toiirj o« 'i uapaliilitica A>tt> [1( [uirtnicnt •>-■ (iered to him i n of hi3 diatix 80 of whi«r }, and hitkert*. poBsible cmk I e v^sn in a ImusI; ippreciating *a )f the oaatrr* 1 to be fouad >»> have found it iudoieut wbe ter, who is b«< [etit hia faailf Ice, and I nr liocka workiv . Ito their wtirl- \ na laoH a« thin, I thouj^jht, cannot fall to luring pioMpority in tho futuic. [t ia tho . ii>aion .)f the8«< pioplf tiiat I wuiit to (;ivo you to nijjht, ApplaunoJ Tho Impimi «ioa8 xlvf'n mn wt>r.> thott*) : firat, thut the Innt ♦)ircc or f(MU' year* havo licen ycuraot' •iidcaruinj;. That rnay ho an I'ttraoidiii.uy txpnuxiOD, but it- illaslrat.crt the condition ot tbo jicople of the Niiihwci t. Ihert wim.' rany wlio oame hirt- witii the idea m t of Urm- ,og but (.f iiiaiiufuttuiinjj -vhiMt. Thoy i ad an idea thiit thty lud only to tickle the aur- far* of Iht'He prairica ond Kmy would have an ulinndunt croji. O'.d. .iifii rdviri((4t'>ue H^id di he had to do waa to tickle the prairie in order to raisti hay He gave mo aon.< pptsei- TSfua foiir or five feet hjnf{ which he raiacd on tho pniir iea, ultei »;iirniu(( tiio old jar after year ihoro were fHiliirc8 in tho who.it crop, and it was only wlicji people began ta realize that dopondeuoe on wheat alone wn j n niistuke, and they went into stock r»iaiii>7, that tht. great proaperitv of tliB I rovinoo or Ontnrio wan attained. Tldu idfia \» now Ih>.,','im- aing to prevail 5ii the NorthwcMt, and 1 found among tbf farnnra a deaire to laino cattle, ti. est couotry in tho wor'd ♦•r f aiiting sheep, the only di(lii:rdtv being that tht y btscomn too fat. Thi« Byt^*^^<:m of change .•i going to vrodm*! aa it Heom'i to inb gro«»t progrcBS in the Northwest, The Northweot will make a great dairy country. Tho teseiiaouy ^iven me by pr&oti- ral faTHiere, who spoiie of their own knowledge, v.aa that you will get ui much battor ltt>a» two oewa in tho Northv.eat aa from three iu ( 'uturi ./. Ml you want ia to travel throa||h tkia eeuutry to bco thai you will ^et aa fine butter aaauy opicuro could deaire. Kilt people will Bay whore will bo the oi irket for all these product* ': When I aaw wkat ohaagea the tarmers had roaolved upon in the eondueb of their farnia, and what tko fan olt wovdil be, 1 folt that tho vindication of tho policy of tho preaent Oovernment in j)Te»i»inK forward tho (J. I'. R. to an early completion waa not far diatant. I am told to-day Chat half the butter consumed in Britifth Ooluiybia comes from Cailifornia. Wo uio bound lo have in the mcuutaina and Kritiali Columbia a inignificent market for these produota, imd by the opening of the C. 1'. K- we will have tliia market. ^App'auae. ) We will laast certainly have these new markets to the west opened up which we did not oaicnlato upon xa the early hiatory of the country, but which, when opened up by ;iie 0. P. K., will prove .'>f immense advant'ige to tho western portion of these territoried, ( ■Applause. ) It baa been said that th>' climate is aevere, and so f aakcd many with whom I came In aanUot about it. 1 met one medical man and said to liim. " Doctor, this iy a pretty healthy tlm^ato, is it not?" and he'rcplied with emphasis, if the clergymen present will pardon we tor repeating his expreatiion, "Damnably I'^althy." ((!reat laughter.) He aaid if it wero aot for interesting events which occur at atated inierval* in evciy houaohold, there would -■; nothing for tho doctor to do. (Renewed la)i«;hter.) 1 asked ladiod how they liked tho v!nt«jr, and how they got through with it. "We like it well," they 3did. "It is cold, bat •Jie nky is bright and tho weather cold and bracing, and we have none of that wretched ^oather that you have down east." In not one single ( ase did I find one single complaint, Aad in most caaes the utmost enthusiaftu in regard to tho climate prevailed. Now, what al)out the front. One intolligent gentleman gave me hjj experience, and sui It tallies ao closely with irnprcsuioDS received al-'iost wherever I went, I give it to you. Ho left Walkerton, Ont. , on the ISth of .March, ISSJ. fie came to this country and took up land, together with a friend, who al.40 Bocured a farm aiijoinini;. The tiist year they re*. lircd f4'^0 from the crop, &nd saved enough grain for seed. J'hia year they have 21 2 iorod to pnti under crop, lie aaid he did not mind the froat. It was never c:ir!iei' than tb? sixth or Roventh of September until thia year, when it came in the latter part of August, but it prevailed then all ovei the wtrld In ]bS'2 he sowed wheat on the ,10th of . I une, and foaped a splendid orop, averaging 3.3 busiids to the acre. Ho aaid, but for the fact of the ftaavy froat this year, and it came iu a period aiincr* unknown in the history of tiio North- west, tkere would not have been n bushel of grain frozen frcm oue end of the country U> tks other. That, gentlemen, was the statement I heard from one end of the country to i,he other— (applause) — after travelling twelve hundred miles by buckboRrd and wagon, and in one case tor forty miles in tho bottom of a firmer's sprinn^'iesa wagon, 1 zonnd a feeling of 'ijreroendoua hope for the future, I learned duriug my travels that there is at least «3 per «eut. more land prepared this fall for crop in the spring than was prcpar»^d last year or anr previoua year in this country, (Hear, hear.) When you find man whoso uoreeeand happi- aeM and proaperity and daily liTing, dependu apon the oou&vry, inoreasing the are,^ waioh Ih«y totoad to pat andAr ornp Be\l y«Mr, thni iihoviag their fftlth b^ their worka, f roiitwh to "Tvy th»t th.> poopl'j of lH.iuitob» »n I tttfl Morthwiit h»Te no owkI to h»T« mU,{iTiu»(« for th« luture, but u)»t look li>ivr»r>ntliMni*a kuown for hU mtcgrity aod Bteniai; (lualitiet. Hit long residen*;. to the North-West uud hit Intimate knowlodfio o! ilM rcs'ource'^, enable him to iipeak witi A de(.;ico ot tiUtiiority upon uuy 8!i)Ct oouneoted with ihe oouuti v, wSich few mea com loand, and by virtue too of the authoritative position he oocuj.i^B as 1'reai l»ut of th Buurd, bis utterance)) may bo accepted aa beyond quoHtino, At the Annual Meetiog <; the Board A Agriculturo held in \^ nuipog, the 17th of February, Ib.SG, Mr. Brydgea, i> uid inaugural apee.h, ;tftck dealing with louai iW'.stioQi, said : I wish now U) refer to a cjuentlon that liaH hwetofore oxi-ited great iutereit, and wbic' is itill * matter of imporLrut niuniont to tii> pi>opla of the Pi-uvinoe. ( mean the oonetrbc tiun of branch linea ut railway. \Vu h we iud Roveral reaoluticni4 tn past yoait, passed by the Board upon that nuostion, urging ihc ^'Vi-rtt importance to "^he cuntry -if having addi- tions Ln;\du to the ritilw:iv Myst<:!M of Manitoba. (ireat ditiiciiltiew aroHO frrim vanou uaaaos, the principal one being thr.t uf lindiug the iiieaua t.^ do tho work, which is not &: un'jomuion thmg in every day life. The 0. I'. U. Compuuy aaid, with a great dtal of force, that it waa lendiusr its forces to ooniplet.e tho arterial line from end to end of the Domluijr and it uoulii not lind me.'ius to extend local brauchefi, Tho amount notwitiatandingthii, tka' woa built last ytar, was on thi: original .Manitoba Southweittern (k>Ionu.-ition ICaliway, a: eiteuuiou of 40 miles, to a point known as Uolknd. The l'<.[al)ina branch, or the C. T R, Southwoatcru branch, wus ext^jnded ftoiu Manitou 81 ndloa wtst, to a pciutnot veryfiu from Whitewater Like, The .Maiutiba Northwestern Jtjiilway was extended from Minr»u dcaa to 15ird Tall Creek, u distance a»on to believe thiC in cousetiuouco of the aid Kivon by the Govemraeu' to Manitoba there will this year be a further extension of tiio branch railway system. Tl» ■ C. r. H, hA>c been enabled, dv.n-ingi.liu last !-v/ weeks, to place in flollaud a oonaiderablc portion ot their bonds to recoup themf^el^es for expenditure made ou branch linea last year Ine Manitoba Nortbwcst'Tii raiiwiy haa .\u otiicer in England at present on. loayoring tf make eut>) to go ou with the extension of the road, and I am glad to bo in a poHi ticti U) say tiiat the ud vices ^r far rooeivfit! have been very sutisfactory and would lead * to believe Chat the r'iilway w.'l this year be t;.\tended beyond tbo Assiniboino rivoi to tta norrtiwesrern confines if this Province, if the C. I*. K do what 1 believe it in thoii iDV^'dou to do, .'..jir I'eiabina Mountain branch will be fXt?*nded aerobe the Sourw Kiv»" at leaut !.o the boi iidary of thj Province during the coming Keaaoa. To what e.Tfceat tli- line which now terininittes nt iiulland station will be ejitcnded 1 cannot aay, but there i every reasonable proupeut tiiat eomo oxtension ot that branch will also -ortloD to thfl jtopuUtion. bhan aaj other part of thla eontim^nt. Ko farm«r will b.' irorit thM 20 ml!«^ froi the rtilwfty, uii tlir majority of thwrn will Le tcry mnch ten,. TVat will U>nA 'ki.t greatly to thw promotion cf •nlMemtnt by in.!u> intr new flomera t«tlt« ^roirlnw. The faot of having «uch oxc<«ll*»nt railway aocommo^lation to bring In what Jh'* vUilie to the Province, and alao for erpor'ir j; purpogta, will t«ud greatly to attrsot .V 'l-r*. 'J he 81! inilea of railway which now exiat aro cqnal to one mile for efery ' r.«i'|.l« In the I'rovlnoe at the ^ueai^ut tline, Aui if too a.cd tu«t«tiRt(oa piibliahed by th(. dominion 7ri mile* of raihray. The populalion c.f the Mjmiulon wao given at \-- iaiMi> time 4a 4 ,'W)0.'M)0, to that followlti^; out thn ««stjtnl to ho oompleted '..here will l.o ft iar;;)r\ntity shipped from tbo ditl«ri>Dt railway atatifniM in the I'-'ivinno to he: Wheat .' »*^<, iJi; buahela ; nnta, 20l,r)l(t3 buBaola ; barli'v '^7,UW7 biiBhela ; mnking n total Hg^regaU* ,;i,'pm«^iitof groiu ovor all ruilwayfl in tl.o Hrovinoo of '2,(}!'>i)A'2*\ bi'djela. I iiav« ma aao b<«^u ehipped, and there atill remaina an much aTaiting orport aa liaH ln-on Mhipped u,'^ ♦» the .'ilat of J^tiuary lait. If that is anything like a corr.-ct ntlinate, it shown th*.- ;i''ab stride made iu Mio growinf.; of grain in this FVoviuoo lant yeur, ^nd ia au fthriuianceof jat will bo reauW. in the future with regmd to our cxportatloM of >^roiti. I have reaaon w>. Volieve, from enquiry and p»r«OMil obrervatiou, that there has '•ecn au amount of land Ci»p*ied for aeeding thib aprirg, grtater by at least .TJ per cent, than it was tha ywar fwre. If that is correct it indicates that a very much larger an \ of grain will bo sown ti.!'m>«r8 will have ^r»at oauno f«r rejoicing, »nd the c-ountry gfurally will be upheld. IJt-ioro leaving thin qu» stion, I may )> >i hnpH sa^ that, from thf same aource aa the iiguioa ''.<«pectiDg the i^hipmtmt of graia iu Manitoba were obtained, were Mecurad tigarea regard - iag the movement of grain from the Korthweat Territories. Thcrt baa been shipped up tn the Slat .lannary this y«ar 101,008 busheln of grain, the principal n'l^ntity being wheat. Ther/« ave amall flgnrtis, but when we remember how very short a time it ia sluce tie ship i*^rite in Manitoba havo advanced from nothing to something' like five and a half uiii'ion \>B9ht^is of exportable grain, it is the beat evidence that ttie lerritoriea v>eGt. of ua hare alao natbarked upou a career of buccoab and progress. 1 want BOW to ask you to listen to some stateinentH ?. hioh I have been enabled to »btain Tvich regard to the relutivo ooat of growing wheat in this couniiy nud in Gcgiacd. think the consideration of that question will be important b'jcansf it will show those iu ■he old country *ho arc unable now to aecure a aatisfuctory result from farming, that tke .;i)arhtion8 eiistfng in this country, it thoy transf«»rrcd themselves and their families here, Atn Hueh 88 to produce to them exicediugly 8ati«!fiictorv rcHults. I cut out a statement .unblisbed in the London Times aouie time ago, vndcr the heading o) "Crop and 8tock f roBpccta, ' thinking it wooldlie useful for comparison. It appeared on tt.e 14th of Rep tember, 1885, when hBrveat waecomparutivfcly completed, and they fv^re enabled to asoer- n t:Ke probable reeulfs, This statement to whien I refer is one ci a ««'rie8 published in i - Ix)Bdou Timer,, ami compiled by experts whoso atatenicnta i ^A'l'.r have no^< been lUed in question, au), taxes fia. (•.im"' to fl :U), »»»jiure ;(^2 I'ifi. Od. (equal to III* 1". }, and miscellaneons, ineludiug seed, coltivation. hoe- ;:)j[, fltc, ,if3 17(1. 8d. (equal to |1^^.89). Theae fo>ir diviBi'.'ns make up a total of ,i>} I9«. ♦d, \e«|nal to $41.54). That is the actual ;o»t to the fanner. I'hey then give statemeota »' ihe rcKulta of tho p'oduota of these 8? fflrmeie m regards wheat, They .'Ato the averago receipts from grain and straw per acio as follows ; Grain r,.) Ifta. ^i^ual to t;i.1.09), rectipts from straw £1 l^. per acre fequal to |7.7B), total recMpte /'R M (' qnal -o $40.37); ehowlig a iohi^of 2 ahillingB and 8 pence (eqnal to C7 oents) aa aore, -^:'ed nn (he r.'ila price of 36 ahillinga per (|uarter. a thia momlbg'a paper I notiao a etatemoot that the pHa* of the Kei& Bagliah wkatA •2'2 y««terday wftc 29i- 6d. a iiuarter, bo yoa will see that ai this fisrar* the Iobs would be vwy much greater than th« flstimate at 3ti ahillinj^a a quarlor ihowed; in fact it would tnak« the loati /■! 5s. 3J., or $6. i;> por aero it) tho (growing, 't js not Jifficult to see that if this i« the actual state cf affaiis ou the other sidp of the Atlantic, that there must be con8\<[ erablc nrovement of the iurdilug population from one side to the other. If we oan Bhow Ih.-se people over there who aro working without any profit, how they eau auocoed if they •ome over here, !t may bo an iodiu>emeat to them to cimI in their lot with us, where they will derive jiroflpeiity from Ujeir faViniug onerationa. I Bhall probably be treading on dan goroBS ground if I venture to put before you any fvurei as to theamount it tiikeH to produce r bnshel of wheat \r\ Manitoba, Daring the various extruded journeys 1 have made through the country, I havr made tvery pofnilde OByuiry from (armfcra, and in every other pOBSibUi way, as towhat is the uorual cost'/* growing a bnehel of wheat in Manitoba. Variciip tign es navp been civen me in litieicnt partn oi the ProviocQ. 1 was told by a groar many farmeia in "-' utheru Minitolm with whom I oonvert.cd, that the actual cost to them which, of course, >ir"i not include wear and tear, interest on invesf.ment, etr., was 2,'^ contf.- a buuhel, 1 conicas I waa a Kood deal stavtle;! at tae sinalines.i of the tigurc, beeanne it ■vrrs less than hgnres 1 had p.'cvioualy heai d of. The statement was, however, midu not by one, two or tlircfc, but by a considcrabk- number cf faninu's. Other parties Jiavt^ placed the coat at a figure onnsideiably h't;hsr, A gentlemen who was largely int^resteu in California State, and who lost .^.'iO.COO in agricultural oporatious there, and who :s now engatod in i irmiot; brtween the Manitoba boiindaiy and llfgina, near the line of the G P. K,, told me thai; in California it coat CO cents a bushed to rais^ wheat. Basing hi' statement ou his txpcriouce iu the X; rth-vc?^ Territrries, he said he could raise wheat for •40 cents a tiuishol, ;ir.d cartn.inly would not exceed 45 cents a bushel, which wov^ld covet wear and tear ot machinery, ir.tercsc, etc, Jt would be safer, I think, to tiiko the large; Sgmio rather than the Binailc? . Liok at tho value cf Kugb'ah corn at /,'fl 16«. an aore, and that reprewents a yield of ;iO bimhelH to the at-re. Tli<' Bt.aistios prepared by our Secretnry Treasurer, gathercu from reliable crop correBpondeiits, reporbs a yield of something like 23 bushels of wheat to the acre. Fortl.e purpose of calculation, I think it would beWst-tet to tall i% 20 bui-hels to the acre. In presenting statements for the conBideration of peopk living at a dititanoo, I alwaya think it wise ratner to understate than overstate the cai»r (he.'ij, hear), and no ] t.-iinli we had better say 20 bushels to the aero. Ou th^t basis, the cast at 40 ocnls a bushel wrr.ld be $8 an acre being tiie prioo to the farmer f»r producing the grai:j\ and if you put it at 4b cents a bi.?h>jl it would brinsr tlie c.ont of producing to !W an -icre, or about „','J Kterlinf, Compare this with the total of .J4!..'j4 or ^S lOs. »d. per a«re for t}ie eleven KigJiish eountiea referied to. The latter, of course, iucliided ex- pODSCM. wh'eh are happily not wanted in thi^, country ; for instance, rent and tithes. Here every one uoas, or will at an early date, yv,a his laud in fee siaiple. As to taiea, aboBt which tlifr; were complaints h.>re, I may tell you that I had t,o pay iawt year, 0£ behalf of the HucNob's Bay Co., §40,000 to miuiicipalities, which means an average not oi livt shillings, but of tive ccits an acre, so that people coming here from Eiiglwd need not be af rai i of the (j'lcstion ot taxation. 'J he cost of manure is another very largo item, being $1-2.7^ an acre there, thougli heri' io is not likely to c.^me to a very large sum for a longlune, as any manure wanted will he produced by mixed firming, I am glad to find that tie qnestiou of mixed farming ht^a made great advances within a ycs'.r or two in iManitoba. \W are now able to supply all the wants of tho country in boet,^ M l;hout having to import anything from abroad, Ti.id has a double advantage, pr/j- /enting tho sending ;iwi.y of money which Is very much wanted, and .liatributing the •.?8t of the food aiuong the people, ihua aiding in their progress and development. I think tlie time will raridly oosne when lii^ire will i.e more caitie ttiau are necd..d in this country, .'ind when, now that tiere is transport to the oa^^t, we shall b« exporting them. I wish 1 con 'd say the same in r. gird toslieep; bi;t at precent wu are- importing -mutton fros. abroad. J am glad to hud that there arc constantly iacrcaaini' importations of sheep takinj; place ; and 1 hope, as there h%n been such good success, the result- will be that we shal! weli g;ii ., ..- iiu not yet IS rapidly approach be able before bjerj, to supply our own wants, and, at an early date, to exjjoit Hhf sp as as cattle. Poultry, I am^dad to find, has la-gely increased. Although we do no <|uite meet the demands of i ur own country, htill,' I ibiuk li.e time iu rapidly apprr,..„.. ing nhen we shall not rwiuirc e\en to imjort turkeys fok' our CiiristmnH dinners, (A laugh) i am satitfu d it wouid be : f considerable advantage to farmers to have a u'ood bU[)ply of poultry ; they die prof'; able, they cost very litti«C and f >r the ecg^iie of che C. P. K. u, tLf? west, coal from toe Calt uoai mines. A tail way was buiiiiastycnr ilO miles in length, from ]>unniore, on the G. I'. R., to L'^thbridge, whore the coal mines exitt. There are undoubtedly largo deposits of noa) all over the Tarritone* 23 wprt of the south branob of the Saekatcbewan, a« wall aa in the Sourih Distri.H.. Coal in row boin« workfld euccessfally at a hiiae a few milGS west of Calgarv, and distributed at iahoM points r lion the railway; aud a cool mine in the monutaine, near a pl*t;e culled [\ ril'g Lake, haa h^-oxx dlnnovero'', wh.To th«jre laij^e depoEft of anthraclt^i coal. Tlas oinc JtaR been purchriaed by capitnliHts and iu aboat to he worked. roper prioe. VISITORS' TESTIMONY. j-Dpressions of Sii Richard Temple, Gained while Trarersinj? the Country with the Bhtisli Association. It will be remembored that the British Atisociation of Scier.oe, hold its annual msetiug i Canada in 1885. After its deliberations the rnenibera of tha a°socJatiou were tcndbrad .,0 exoursion over the line of the C. F. il., which w^a then builc beyond the summit of the i. ifcky Mountains. Fron; Montreal the membtTs prooeeded by spec'al train of pnllnaa car*. \6 Oolllngwood on the (iaorgiau Bay, where one of the company's tiiapniticentfteaiuers .i» in waiting to convey them to Fort Arthur, at the head of Lal;e Superior. From P#rt I tkir the party travelled rifiht throuaih the \orthwcst Tevritories to *he Jiimmit of tbe Rockies, stopping at Winnipeg, Brandon, Calvary and many other points along tlut r«»te vtliere Hccnes of interest could be witnej>sed, and information in re£[ard to the couBtry k leaned. I'^wu the return of the Asrociution to Winnipttr, 8ir. Richard Temple, who had rdargc of the party, was requested to address a piibii.- meeting;. He complied, and ia tha cp«rflc of a very able speech, gave the following aa his impresaio^s of the i^ouutry - I beg to refer to tlie rrmarkable contrast prespiited, the beautiful country until recently i^alled " The l.'^jne Land," now being eontidered a lauil vi promise. It if but a very few yer.rs eincv i\u> places whii\'i are now the haunts of civil'./ itioii Avcre the runs and wallow- \nf places of bands of but; iloes. The country is vast. The populit-v idea in s-'iiglar.d asw 1'! '.but the Northwest of Cuiada could i*ii. ligiireof 100,000.000 ; ueverthelesa it is very pos ^;b'.e that it nii^ht be r.?ali/. il in the ii.>t very remote future. Indeed, corisideriog the . nlt,:vable ".rca of the Northwest, including both ).he Northwest Provinces and Manitoba, \(liich can hardly be less than a million Mpuxrfi rrales, and rre!;oninc; a jiopulation af 109 to :'nt: ptjUiire iiiiio. which in not a bi>rhaps the most remnrl-:i.Mo in the world, 1 do not wai.t to give ' xat/gerated i'U.a? iVople hcii^ probably t'nujk th ■ Reeky Mountainfi the grea'rest in th^ Diitish I'.mpire, out the British Knjpire is a cry large place. They aie scarcely more *,h,i,n a third -.;> " are recoiing before the face of the white man. Whtn we U-ft Wirnipeg we saw a few niilea of rcsl •rairie: owing, ve were told, to the fact that the lands were in tho hands of epecMlatatu ^pho w^rc resemng them for future use. Wh^n we i»ot beyond this limited area we reiMf saw r.o yrairie at aU lor several handrtd mileu wht i we croaaed the RaakatchewMi. i mean 'vbat we nerer passed a mile together on the plain, without seeing a home«teaJ, or ueid, or the marka uf hnm»n occupation. It wan only when we orosaed the .Snskatoke- wan thit we saw pniI prairie, aud th?u it was only so in a inodifiejd aenae. From tho mom- ent ihe homosteada end colden fields ceased, the cattlo ranches began. I understand that almost tbe whole ait^a frcin the Saakatohowau to tho foot of the monntaius is really in the hinds of the caM!; rauchcia. iieie ogain we saw signs of the Angle Saxon, in his cattle aid hia herds. The vegetation of the prairie, so far as wo were able to see it in the inter- ▼ais of uncultivated hiiJ, was not rcftiu kable, but still was very rich. Some of the m»ri'. oathnsiawtic u( tho pjirly said it was the richest wild vegetation they had ever seen, bat I tiiink thia vus due to their enthuaiasm, because the vegetation in the steppes ot Russia U <|uitc as rich, if uor, richer. Still, uhe ilora of thia country is such as to promise an abaad- ant return f.>r agricultural labor. Aiauost f very '^ Kitc^ we «aw rich soil. Most of u'^ expected that we wouM see tracks of arid waste, or tliat ir we sa-v rich soil it vpould be largely interspersed with P.iocimens of gravel, rock and »;..ii not Buitai c Tor cultivation; but this idea proved entirely false, for I declare ulthont f-xaggeraiion tliat on the whole way from Winnipeg tr> the foot cf the Rockies-- a Hiatance of 1.000 milen-thore is hardly a footof ground that did not e^cm to be capable of being turned to huniai/ use. (I'h^ers. ) Estiniatiug tbe distance to the foot of the R/;cktes at a thousc^J miics, there is for this distance one unbroken area of land more or leso fertile and oapabh: of being turned to the advantage of Uian. Moat oi lae p-n ^y are oi opinion that the pasturage is epeudid and thoroughly suited for cattle; wj arc surprised that w« did not see pjieep as well. The grass i.s not very long, and prumises a ricli reward co the hay cutter. The cattle generally seem to be quite b»«aUhy, and of very good brei^de, many of them coming from the neighboring ststea, and p-ppareutly b.-^ed from so.vie of the best stock in England. Sometimes ccjnplalnts are heard in Kngiand that Canad'au and American cattle dealers purorta- tiou of diseased cattle, and the losses in consequence have been incalculable. We enquired ft good dcv,l as to ensilage, as ihe food :oranirn.%]8 is becoming so fashionabl. ii; the United ?.t»te3 and i.iy furnished by nature is so very abundant. 1 wish toppeat: of tvvo kinds of cropu, cereals an 1 roota. Cereals arc grown upon aany farrne exclusively , ^aome of the greatest ti.rins in the country are whe.it farms alnaoat »'ntirely. We aaw in many parts of tae cout.try apecimons or exhibits of tl.-» pnj- dvLC.tn of the farm. Tliw Canadian Pacidc Railway Company has set a very excwUent CK^mpIfi by hiving model or pattern farms c'osc ■•»lw»jg th.» lino of railway, to show wbas t^c country is capable of proiucing. In iiispectincr tht ae, while we found nothin/r to c^vaI tho »ionster cahboucs shown r\X the oxhiV>ition here in Winnipeg, yet we saw good turaipa a-nd potatoes. We heard in England tiiat there would be sreat difficulty in grcwing wheat at the altituiie of this coiatry, it being too high aliove the S'-'a, )jut this idea was entirely fiilaified by what wc saw, for wheat gro'is well 2(X!<) feet abo-. e the sea-, at Calgary at *000 feet, .v)d at Padraore at o,500 feet. Efnac thtre is nothing in tbe altitude "of this country to prevctt wheat being grown on an immense scale. We iu'juired of fa'-mem rsgardmg mnny things which we have it home, namely, rotatior. of crops perimUcally, aarr in the virgin soil which accnmnlates o luany aJvantages and has euch richnvaa in Use •oil, the aub-aoii, and the soil underneath tha*, that the crops will grow without man-r^ Aa »o weeds, it ia said that there are none of coasmuenoe. We aaked about the plooghiog, and said that we had to pi'^ugh "Ciy deep in the old conntry, We were told that n*tfaing cf the kind was necewaary here, that if the gronnd were juat scratched over, crcpa wwUl 9§ grow. We were told these thingn by practical men. TIk' Tif gin soil hero ia a Tery abutidaafe iaheritanee which has coo*e down froir what might beoalloH a geological poriod, thousand^ ';! feiars havinflt 1ooL«^(a down upon these beautiful plaina. The coose^iaeDce is that fur tha tim'i irany of the old world devices, na(-b us ieep ploughing, manariug, weeding, and rofca- Uon 0* crops, oan bo diBpensod with. The want of lal)orera is a ^rnat difiiculty in the int<;rior of the Northwest, and it baa t.oJ this effect upon the farmers, that it has ooioptillod iLeai to exercine their wits and »;nsploy machinery to save labor. The agricultural machinery and implements in this .. lutitry are among the most remarkable things to b': aeen. five'y kiad of implement and (i-uhino ia there at -sroik — with iill their rough-souuding names, as SislUera, harrows, ! {.,)er8, mowers, threshers, and the tike — forming a most gratifying spectacle. Wo have BicD them in the fields at work, in the towns outside tbe shops fur sale, a.id inside tko iartoriee being repaired. The bight would make an old wcrid man first laugh, snd the* feel envious. I will give one single f xaniple. In England when we reap the grain w 5 hi»ve ':.<> stank it in order that the grain may ripen, and after that wo thrcBli it. The Northwest >\r«erdoeBnothingof the kind, fie brings tho threshing machiuo to bear upon the sbejires, iVrnished ready to his hand by the harresting machine. Then having threshfed the wheat, tie Btores it for the time in a temporary wooden structure in the field, and there ho allows the grain to remain and harden until the snow falls deep and becomis fit for sleighing. I'hen, he draws it easily over the hard snow t; an elevator, from which it ia shot into raU- >, .1/ cars placed beneath end carried away for exportation. The ingeriily, convenienco ind rapidity of the process cives the new world a great adYaiitap;e over the old world. I'he coo8c<]ueuce of thin maoliinoij and the labor-Baring appliances is tltat the average ealtiratioi) pel head in axtvcmely higli in this country, (.)ue would be incHucd to say thera rnu.ii be a great iwpulatior, judging from the area of nnltivatinu, but on the contrary th?ra re only a few thouoands of Anglo .-laxonB settled in the country. The fact, ia the averige 't acres of cultivation per head- is several times as great as io the old world, every if^ie* 'iaving many acres under command, owing to tho labor-saving appliances,. tsome of the farms are great, extending over many square miles of wheat culti.-ation Absolutely unbroken by any fence or hedge. Neverthelese we had tlie pleasuro of seeing i-nany small farms in the best cultivated diatricts. At Portage la Prairie we iinderstcoil i.kat snaall farniers owned the land and worked upqn it with their own hands. 'I'hc farm ■jvnses are well-built, well-aired, a/id I understood, vred warmed in winter ; and aro very c(i«fortable. both within and without- A to cottages, we a!>.ked for them, but really thero .vere no cottages, because there are few rr ^n so low in the social circle as to require Ihcm. '1 uo country is absolutely without farm laborers. Around the houses of the peasant pro- prietors we saw market gardens with cabbage beds, turnip beds, and the like, juf-i enough f^r the farmers' families. There is a good supply of fuel, though one might expect that oa the prairie there would be nothing but grass or vegetation. Fortunately, there is low scrubby brush suited for fuel. The soil is entirely suited fm- the m.iking of excellent bricks. 1 e the great advantage of th? farmers, there is small limestone scattered over the plaim, fr ini which excellent lime for mabonry can be obtained. The subjriot of land speculation his attracted % great deal of unfavorable notice tiirojgh the press, i liave be rd scmething ^'f it in England, and still more iu Montreal, but after all my impreesion is that th»! story li-iht have been greatly exaggerated. With a vast area, a wise (Jovernment and a wis* people enjoying popular represei* lion, you should make ]novi8iou for the future, po as cot ta allow the land to get too niucti nto the hands of individuals or corporations From the exp^'iienoe of the Old Country leading to the springing up of communism, Canada should Ixako care to prevent anything of the kind happening here. While the State is generons, i'lvint' land without stint or grudge to every good applicant who asks lor it, neverthelesa it jgbt to keep something in its csvn handn It seerrs to me that that duty has as yet beea ruirly performed ; at all events it has not been left unperformed in the way some peopla tm(«giiie. As to the land concensiou of the iJanadian Pacific Railway Company, it should 00 reuje.ttil eved that without that coaceKsion the railway could not have been constructed, t fuul that the whole of tbe lard baa not been madeover to the company, but only alternate Hooks, the intervening ones belonging to the State ; and th.-vt the total is but a fraction of ttji; 'v^t ai^a. Remarks have been made aboiU this com^iauy's concession to a great land company, but I tind that this is only a small part of the land at the disposal of the Stata to give awa} or make disposition of as it may see fit, according to the wants of the comiof •generation. Hence I shall feel bound to say in England tbwt no essential harm has be«ai lone by land concessions ; and it is only fair to the Government \nd the AdmiuistratiMi .0 say this. Ooe objection in England ugainfit this oountry is that of the winter. The summers ui* icown to be hot, but this the people are not so much afraid of as tney are of the suppoaed loogth, drcarineHfl and wretchedncsa of the winters. I believe from inquiries that this Ct 'criptioB of your winter came from the portions of country lying ander the Rocky H/>iiji- t&ins, where tbe obinook winds aiaae tha winters somewhat like those nf England, whlak are proverbially dull. In the rest of the country the wintem are rather bright and che«ry. The snow falls and bardena on the ground, and there is bright weather with blM aky over- 2(» hud, 80 that thr people walk ahont with the utmoat facility, and o» the whole have a •keerfnl timn in the wint**r. In mary parts of the country the reBidenta toll ine that tke winter is the nicest (^r-suBon they havr. (Applause.) From the very kind apj^'lansfl I iiiduB tiiat I-hc uescriptioD in correct, an«l if an it is \rery important that thif> description should be kno^n «t borne, for the prevailing impression there is doing some harm to omigratiTO, THIS TOWNS. I will not undertake to desnriho Winaipeg ; but we haTe «ecn the Taj'ious towns alang the railway, inspectiag Portarjc la I'rairie, Brandon, (Ji'Appellf, Medicine Hat, Moose Jav. aad rnl;»ary ; and I will add, Rogina and iiroadview. I am bound to oongratuiatn yoa heartily on th'^ condition of thos*,' riaiup pieces. TrtJy it Ik wonderful the manner in which these lowiis have sprnng up. The atrcits are well h\l\ ont, and the house* are oleaa and tidy and piclurosque in thtir ai<;hit«;. tnrt. Viilae art springing up in the suburbs, and vvery TiOii has a cordon of trees apriuRing up around it. We hare olwerTcd the 8ch»ola. tlic cb'.irchas, the bxnka and civic buildings, and various other institutions ; and we hatu Been alB(j the Bliops full of all the paraphern vlia o! 'nvlliyation. We hare been particularly Ktniek with the slocks of agricultural marhinftiy already mentioned. Altogether the ooa- ditioa of those placep is most aatiaiactory. We iiave observed also in many places factories, au' influence of the '.Jovornment, farm inslrutt. ^rs and Cliristian tjissionaries, have b^>co!ne civilized, and, to an almost universal extent, [^ursue .m agricultural avocation on their rese.-vcH. No daug"r ks therefore, to bo apprc hended from these Indians, who are rapidly b'^cojiing a defiirnblc element in the pcp»ls»- tion, in an much as they are giving up the chase and confiuiug themselves to fa~niing operatKus. The culy tribes, thereiVire, from whif^h any danger h to l;e f.ared iir tk*' Blood?, the Rlackfeet, the Piegana and the t'latheadn; but tht;y are mostly loo.'ited star the Kocky Mountains and north, in the .Stskatchewan country, so 'hat little opprohensi' vi ,iecd be felt by the 3tfttler, who ha.»at 1. i.vl five or six hundred ndles of territory to choose his home in, before approaching thoi. country in wlii-b any danger might be feard. Then ajv.un, it should be borne in mind that moat of the tribes referred to have entered into treaty with the Dominion Government, are iiving on their reserves, and rapidly attaining a knowledge of agriculture imparted to them by the (Government fii.:m instruolors, who rcfdde oa tke reserves for that p .rpose. Beiudes this the Christian miaaionari's are constantly ut v-ork, and fccores of tlie savages are coming under the influence of the gospel. These latter are exercising ? lovening iiifluenoe on their fellow oavai/es. The impression possibly exist* that the North-w.-st is overrun with wild b'^vagee. This, of course, is entirely enoneous, and in orrler that a correct Impression may supplant i* the fallowing cjtrait is given from a letter to the r,Tonto Mail by its special commistioner, who was sent to visit the tribee a few months ago in ordfT to guage the strength of llie Indians, and arrive at some oonoln- Mob aB tn tbeir intcntloua this spring, it beinpc feared that, following the reoeni Half-breed: relMii'ion. trouble might be expoctcd from the lodiani. The attract, which was written fruw th* Monpof tho Blaikfcet tril)e the 22nd January laht, is as follows : — " The Indians are contonterl, 80 far a« an Indiaa can be. They are well fed. Thef v.iy ikcj baro no grierinoos and ( oly a few petty wants uusupplied. But that dees ntt ic(ii«ate what tlieir feeling may be whoc t}ienno\v {lisappears and the grass be{>inB to grow. Jt Mnat be remeni beted that during tho wlutor time these ludiaua have uathing t» d«, •r at all ovcnta do nothing, and thor« is au old prorcrb, which will apply equilly to th« thi :*: w M to the while, ref^arding the rt*auin«88 with which a certain individual furnishes •jBJfdovtrient for itlle hands. 1 do uot wifjh to treate tho impression that there will be aa ««U>>«« are 200 policj^rncr at Macleod, and 200 or 309 more could easily bs brrai,vould be needed in ease of trouble. An they aay : f e bavf no fears of an cutbrrak, but here are tneso large number of idle IndiaitH, aai i" it tihouldcomri, we c;in whip them." All they ask is to be orjjanised into aiiliiiia aerps aad have the police with Ihem. Infantry wouki be of littlo u!eek, and the other being stationed at Crew's Nost Pass, through which all cattle aud lorscs going to or from British Cubunhia must pass, the otlici r allowing no animal to pass r'arough unless the attendants can prove owuerehip. All these outposts are to be kept np Mithout roduciug tho strengUi of the force at Macleod below l'OO. S> and K divisions, under Sergeant Steolo and Superintendent Macdouald, 200 strong, fit Battleford. S division, under Superintondent llerchmer, 100 strong, at Calgnry, This covers the moaatain, High lliver, and Blackfoot Crossing districts. 91 II T divlalon, nader Aap«rint«ndent Perry, 100 itrong, at Prmoe Albort. Q iirision, and«r Superiat^ndent Oriesbach, nearly 100 strong, »t Edmantoa. < T« theM muBt be added i^bout 20 icoata and intt^rpretors. And hera ia the e«timated strengtb of the In'Uani, as doaely tui can be g1eakie4 by •••fairy •. filaods, 300 or 3.'>0 ; Blaokfeet, 200 ; North riegana, 100 ; South Picgana, tSt ar 300— a i«tal of K50 or iMX) fighting men, la this, of ooufRc, the neighboring Anarioai* Indiaiu »r« eaUalated, and in no oaen is the unmbor of warriors nmicr-f stimaUd. r>«ai(lw Mmm thera are tb« Clakheada and KootenatH, of British Coiutuhia, who numb«r 7«ry faw. There ar« a fnw Net Pet«ea, who, howerer, Jo not mingle with the o her Indiaau aad being a laperior elasA, are industriouH. On the other sldt of the line tho ylmwa «r« aat friendly with theSusth Pingaus, although a few might join th >!r forttiues. Thoa bketv. ara two South AsAiniboincs, near Belkaap, in Mo!\tnua, who would like tc mo/e into tha #9press Bills, »ut there is a large United States military post near thorn tu keep th'^m .a aabjeotiaa. Aft^r all this ia not snoh a forvnidabfa criemv, eten if they were united, ol which t>rab •btUty tkera ia always ths gieatest doobti. A Tisit to the alleged disoonteuted tribra diuei- pates the iapr«S8lon th.it thore is macb iikolihoo 1 of an ludian aprising. The fact in tkaC Utetn ladians hart*, in the iebools are dttia^ a good work in this way ; so are mission Bchoola. and their beneficial eiTecte will l^a appre- aiated be/ore long. A hospital should be established on each lar^e reserve, which wauld be a koMO f)r the aiok, the afflicted, the deserving needy and the aged and hefpiess oaor — in that way their cor.dition would be bettered. Looal cavalry corps should bo crganiMd *hro«gkoat the Northwest, at different centres, well equipped and completely odiceced. °SkQ full strength of the Mounted Police should be maintained ; and ttie preseo'^ of a British regiment of the line would hare a great effect on the ludian miud." It will be seen from the foregoing couclusiona of a gentteman who has spent mast of kla life in the oonntry, is familiar with the manners and customs of the Indian, .and whase ■ite^itr is above qaeaticn, that little or no trouble is to be feared from the lied man oren at the far weat, while, as already poiuted out, there are millions o2 acres of the fiaeat mil ta tko DoT*iuion open for settlemeut, near which the Indian does not roam, and where far- feet safety In settling can be relied upon. It should also be borne in iriud that the Meunted police force in the Territories, since its recent enlargement, is now more tiiaa laficieni to cope with any body of t.irl>ulant Rqdskina, who might congregate at aay IMiut. This foroe ia diatribnted throughout th" Territories so that any effort on the part OK iadiana to concentrate their forces could be vsily prevented, and members of the forcv kare sttic* o.'dera to preTent concentration. Then, under the treaty, tho Indiaaa arc afcli«;ad tw stay upon their, rp-serren a refusal to comply entailing forfeiture of the Gareca. Meat annuity. -So that *i oy are thux kept from commingling snd plotting treason. This j»reaautiou is one of thr wiaest adopted by the Canadian Oovorniuent. Then agaia, tko laot'jonld net be lost eight of, that with the e-xoellcnt railway faoilitiea now affarded, sra^se th-i completion of the (janadtiui Pacific K^ijlway, four thousand troops from Baatem make the Indiana sitizeas, with au interest in the peace and prosperty of the country." In view of all those facta the danger may be said to be reilaoed tu a minimam, 9o that intending iinmigranta need not be the Nii^btest apprenonsive of coming to settle ia the Northv.'cSt, T ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS -0-0- Of travel botween th(^. old and new worlds. The Allu.'i Luxe has carried more pavsseugor.s to and from Canada than all other Liu(;s })ut tot^ether. Its Vessels are the Best, Its Officers the most Courteous, and Its Agents in both Contries the most reliable. Any passenger travelling by this Line to or from M'anitob.i, and the, Northwe^it will be well u.sed if they will call upon the undersigned at 471 Main Street, Winnipeg. G. H. OAMFBELI., General Western Agent for Manito).>*i, N.W.T. and British Golumbia, tTKADS In M»nitob«t Mtd the Nortnw.i Teriii/ihw to rt'.l fottlerh who may. apply fur Ihi'in. Tholftnd i« pronoiinoed liy cx|)ort(«H<'oouil k« ■on« ui tUe woHrt. «4SYstf:m of survey>* 'rtio couutry ia laid off in To*a»hip« alx iniU« scninre. rontainlDK thlrty-»4ix HWtiotw »• •W niTfH ea'"li, wlilch are tt^r^litl fltilidlvidi'd into miartcr BcctionR tif 160 ucres, the laUcr nuDiU-> •( lurcs enibraciiijr II hdincF'cjirt. 'I'tio Goveni:iient owim nil tlxi ('\en uumljorotl H(»<;tloii>j Whi<'l »n OT>cn (ill" lii>u»e<)ii Hiiitij,' Two H-cliomi In evciy to^vHwhlp are sot apart for wiiool puriH*««' no Utut (hi.' c^lucut:.)!. uf the Hittler's cliiJdreii may aot be ncglootoU. LIBERALITY OF CANADIAN LAND REGULATIONS The r«.nadian I^ud Ri.g«IatJonB havinK hrvn very generally roprosonled to bo more onuroi a/wl IcBB lilHTiil thun tho'> ■ of Ihe I'nitrd sfaten. it is i>roi>or to poiut out tu iritendlntf Hoillora tin.: t«n dcilhirn i|10) covc^ the wholu of tho oillc*' fccb in CinHila, «'itii«ir for pre-emption or a homi •(t<>«f eight doliui^i, pny,al)lt> on ontt>, another of oiK'ht, dollftrr for a (•ominiM-jion. and anotlipr of ten dollurs wlien thopiilcnt w issuer •lakinK twPiity-Bl\ dollars H!2P.001. In Home of thn States the (vex are thirty-four ('ollars (1.14.09' 'Hie I'. S Uind«ttrc »oid at f2.S0 ond fL'-'c- per acre. These prii<8 ore nearly Uic (Wine, but tb' 4UftrenfC is lavt^rable to Canada. In the Uiiit^ Si«t»« u settler cannot Ret his patent until utter five yearn rcBldence. Jh Canii'lj, only tlivee yv.atu >iic roijuircd. Ill face, it .f repi'ut*d ti..!f not on the Continenf of America, and It la believed not eiaowhor ' (tre tho Uinil Ucguintions an favorable 08 m '"ajindii. It is provided 5>y tlic ("anudinn Nuiuroljzali'.n Act that aliens m.ny acquire «md hold rae-i and peraoDol property of fA-ery deseription, in Uio Hanic manner and in all rcHpoetw as a nator!'. kwm British suti.jo"'!, without ptiy dis'Tiniinaiion a^ainH*. the nation from which auch aliens coriu' To lake U[' l/rntod Htates Government loud, however, tho following oatb ia required to !>•; Ukon by a Hntlch subject : 1 do swear that I will sui)port Ihe Constitution of tl»e (J nit*' State* of ^merle^, and that I dOi,.isoiutn nil trainp, U'lk'- chuixo of Oiem, protect them from shnrkH, exorbitant chorgoa. fcU. SMd Kill ;>ly 'hf III witli Ihe fuileHt Inform.-ition rctipectinK the cfjuntry. !n the Intelligence OfllK wil' be /cund Maps showiiiK eettlemciviM, ouide Hook and list of lands ojxin for Homestead ent'.T and all such inforniaiinn as settlers r< 1411're. Tlio Office is in charge of Mr. J, II. Metjjalf, M.P \' .» ffentlemaa fauiilinj- with the eounlry, and who i.-i jirepared to ^lrul8h tlie fnllodt iuformatioi> t-.'Jiej- upon perRonal or wntiin applii'.{i,ticn. lie has 'ifBiftUintu wl>o s^pcuk the foreign huiguafTC." ftncniiy. F'nmi the d'taile*! informnlion, whioh can be obUunexl from the (tffl<;e, U:e intendinK 0«ttl< r can select for hiranelf a location or dintri'-i, and tlius a^uid the waste of time and expoiur homcslcading in all parts of Manitoba and li Northwest kepi for inspection. THE QOVERNMENT HOMESTEAD REGULATIONS, the most liberal in the VVori.o, require but TKRHl^ YEARS to secure a lit'i-, while in the United States FIVE YEARS residence is exacted before the sett'f, can claim the land :is HIS OWN. SIX MONTHS of LMch year call for actual residence ui)on the land .scloi u '. during which time the young SKTIlkr may, if he wishes, live with friends wilh'M a radiL's of two miles of his homestead, and during th< balance of "the year m.i, find lucrative em])loyintiU in towns and villages, thereby increasing the capii.,! necessary fur building up a comfortable HOMIC, At the expirryion of the thic ye.irs tertn, there are no unnecessary expenses as in the Unit<;(l. States wh*..'. lengthy newspaper notices are compulsory before a titlk can be clairned froiM the Oovernment. Finally there is no objectionable Oaih of Ai.lecuanck by which the briti n subject renooncjs forever fidelity to his Queev and Country. The openmg of the two branches of the Manitoba .South Western Coloni' ' tion R.iilway, one to Roissevain, 183 miles, and the other to Holland, 85 mil' , South West from Winnipeg, enables this Company, for the first time, to ofl'cr the public, at MODERATE PRICES ONE MILLION ACRES SELECTED LANDS IN THE RECOGNIZED GARDEN ^^ AMERICA. TERMS OF FAYMENT:— If paid for in full at time of purchase, a Dec' of Conveyance of the land will be given ; but the purchaser may pay one-ten . c IN CASH, and the balance in nine equal annual insialments, with interest .' six |)er cent, per annum payable at the end of each year. 'Hhe Lands of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company lying along the M.-^'i! Line firom Winnipeg to Calgar^. are now relieved of cultivation conditions jp ' payments can be made as above. Full particulars can be obtained ci the oflfices of ALEX. -BEGG, General Emigration Agent, Canadian Pacific Ry, Co., 88 Cannon St., London E.C CHAS. DRINK WATER, or, J. H. McTAVISH, Secretary, Land Commissioner, Montreal. Winnipeg, Manitc ir IMI Jlft r witlv.u' he Europciii irifty farm > ,, lired. M.i . toba nnci u IONS, ecure a uf )re the sett\i land selerivd. i friends wilh'M ! the year ir > ig the caiii;..! n of the thu 1 .States wIk; claimed tViuM ich the brit i, tern Coloni • and, 85 mill me, to oflVi •^f AMERICA, chase, a Dec! j ay ONE-TE-.' i'H ' j vith interest :U i i long the M;iii onditions jp'' fie Ry, Co., LONDON K.C :g, Manito! ■ j -:J