IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) A > /^ A^^ ^^^. <$'^ ^ f7^ "# r >> % :^V %,. ySS ^v^"*.^ -V' /^ '/ 1.0 I.I lAO 111112.0 ,>.2 1.25 1.4 ||.6 ,4 6" ► Photographic Sciences Corporation V -'^ ^:/;iS'8 ANE BROWN 8 TREACHERY TO THEIR COUNTRY. THIS PAMPHLET IS 8TEHE0TYPED. SO THAT GENERATIONS TO COME MAY LOOK BACK WITH CONTEMPT UPON A GOVERNMEWT THAT HAS UNITKD WITH THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED STATES TO DESTROY OUR PROSPEROUS COUNTRY. PRI0E~$2 PER HUNDRED. $16 PER THOUSAND. Toronto : PRIHTSD AT TffB OFFICE OP THE LBADER A1;d PATRIOT, tS KING STRBBT BAIT JAXEa BEATY, Fbopbietob, 1874. THE LAKE SUPERIOR RING. Purity ii\ poUticftl men, like mc ality iu iudividuuls, ia absolutely esaeulial to the well-beiu;^- of the body politic. Canadians havo always prided them- selves upon the superior morality whicii their public men have exliibited as com- pared with that of those in the United States. The late Parliamentary Oppo- sition in the Dominion achieved a triumph over a statesman, who has had a long and honourable record, simply because he accepted .;^n election sub- scription from a gentleman who happen- ed to be one of a company which subse- quently received a public contract. This fact indicates that Canada de- mands a very high standard of political morality in her representative men. On the strength of this victory, the winning party has assumed the title of "Party "of Purity," with what propriety will subsequently appear. A " Queen's " Evidence" is often the direct instru- ment of bringing a criminal to ju;4tice and we piopose to show that the politi- cal Chief of the Party which arraigned Sir John A. Macdonald on a charge of unstatesmanlike conduct, is himself compromised by a far more serious crime against that purity of conduct which should actuate a public man. Since the union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada in 1871, the location of the Pacific Eailway has occupied a large share of attention from the public, the Government of the day and Parliament. In 1873, Parlia- ment passed the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Act as the first step towards im- plementing che agreement with British Columbia, which provided that the Pacific leaboard should be brought into connection with the existing railway •ystem of Canada. In consonance with the recommendations of the best men on the Pacific survey, it was enacted, that the Eastern portion of the road ■bould extend from a point at or on Lake Nipissing. it so happens chat this plan not only suits tho physical difficul- ties oITered by the North-Weat to rv rail- way, but it also diapeusess even-handed justice to Toronto and Montreal, to Ontario and Quebec, furnishing an L'xcelh'Xit point (Tappni for the railway systems of both these provinces. It possesses the additional advantage of aflording a secure and complete military highway of great Htratcgic importance. But for (he Allan Couipany relinquish- ing tlie charter, operations would already have been begun upon the road on this plan. The events of the recent brief session of Parliament are still fresh in ihe ncmory of every one ; the resigna- tion of the Macdonald Ministry, the accession to oflice of Mac- kenzie and his party, and tlie prorogation ol Parliament immediately after. The veiy unusual course of pro- roguing Parliament before the re-election of Ministers, and their furnishing it with no indicacion ol policy, has caused that, during the present recess, the coun- try is entirely at sea as to the views and intentions of the new Ministry. On one point, however, the Premier has com- mitted himself, and that is, as regardt the Government policy in reference to the Pacific Railway. Ilis hustings speech at Sarnia contains tlie following specific statements on that point : — One of the matters wliich will Vo brought up will bo tlio Pacific liailvvay. You ura aware that, duriDf,' iho discussiou of the Bill, I oujected to the provision to com- plete the railway within tea years. Nearly three years of that time havo passed, and we are bound by the contract to finish it within seven years and threo months. I have always thought that a speedy moana of communieation across thecomioent was necessary for tlie pood of settlement, and f&r the purpose of opening up the dis- tricts where we hate great riches unde- veloped in tho bosom of the earth. Without that coinmunication their dcvf'opment cannot take ])l'ice,a.u6. imuiitjra tion cannot be expecii'd. It will be thu duty of the Adiuinibtialion, io the first place, to secure a means of communication to our navigab'e waters, from Lake Superior to Fort Oarry and the Rocky Mouutains, at the same time commencing at the Pacific Ocean, and constructing- communicallQa > » THl LAKE SUPERIOR RING. by the Westeru slope, fn themennCime, eommnnication mil be afforded in eonjur>ction with the American H/ief until we haoemeariH tnfficieiit to accomjjliah the work. It we once havt) these r( j^iocs accosbible — that iH, Uriiiah Columbui and the North- West Territory — we cau then iiil)rd to Mpond money upou the oonstruction of the other portioas of the road which will he neces- Bary to complete our great national lii<;li- way acroHH the contiiiont ; and I ihiiik, Sir, it will be the duty, an it will bn tin; doHire, of the Oovernmeut to develop anv plan by whirli these reBulta are to bo ac- complished." The more signilicaut portions of the above quotation wo have marked by italics, but it may be necessary to add a word or two of explanation. It will be •een that the Mackenzie Administratiou has determined to construct the Pacific Railway from the shores of Lake Supe- rior to Fort G'irry and the Pacific. Note the urjt,'ument used, the lands in that legicn cannot be expected to be settled, nor the mineral wealth of the district developed, without such a railway pass- in},' through it. Mr. Mackenzie lays stress upon tlie development of that pai- ticuh'r district of Ontario, but the route of the Pacific Railway, as determiued upou by the Macdcnald Admlnistrjition, was conceived on the more important basis of mutual advantage to the older and newer Provinces. However desira ble it may be to settle^and develop that section of country on tiic western shores of Lake Superio:, a great national un- dertaking, like the Pacific Railway,must be planned with a view to its doing most good to the whole country, irrespec- tive of its Uencfit or want of benefit to an insignificant portion of one Province. But the argument used by the Premier shows what was uppermost in his mind, and hia private interests being centred in that district, nothing was more natu ral than that he should look at the mat ter with a distorted vision. For, about the aame time as he must have been concocting his Pacific Rail- way policy, he, in conjunction with Messrs. George and J. Gordon Brow^n, of the Olole, Col Shaw, Ameri- can Consul at Toronto, and two others, was aleo concocting a scheme by which he could turn hit public policy to privato I account, and make it enrich himself and I these, his particular friends. A few I days alter his spiech at Snrnia, the fol- lowing notice appeared in the otiicial Oazettc: "VruTICE !■ hereby gi v., •n, that af,er llio 1.^ expiration of oiit^ inonlli from the first publication hereof in the OntaiHo Omette, a petition will bo niado to His Excellency .iho liieutenuiit-Uovcrnor cf I Ontario in Council, for a Charier of Incor l)oru*iou by liPtters Patent, under the lStatut«» of ('anHdn, puBsed in the 27th and 28th years of iJer Majesty's Himku, Chapter i 2y, entitled, "An Act to authorize th») I granting of Charter.s '^f Incorporation to ' Manufacturing, Mming and other (Jon:- i panics." I Tho names in full of the ap))licants, I their respoctivo places of residence and additions, are an follows : — j The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie, of the Town of S;irnia, in tlu; ("ounty of I Lamblou, Eixiuire ; the Honourable (ieorge Brown, of tue City of 'loronto, in iho County of York. hHtiuiro; the Honourable I Albert Duane Sluuv.of the Buid City of I Toronto, Esquire; William Barber, of the Village of Georgetown, in the County of Haltou, Et'quire ; Jol>n Gordon IJrown, of the said City of Toronto, Rsquire ; and Robert Barber, of the Township of To- ronto, in the ('ounty of Peel, Eequire. Tb'* proposed corj orate name of the Company is the 4 A Silver Mining Com- pany of fjftko Superior. The objects or i)urpos!es for which Incor poration is sought are: the exploration, purcha.se, development and sale of mineral and other lands on the shores and in the ' vicinity of Lake Supeiior, and mining for gold, silver, copper and other metals, ores I and minerals, and the working, exploration and sale thereof. The operations of the Company ara to bo- carried on upon the said lands, and the C3mpany will liave au agency ofRce, for the transaction of business, in the City of Toronto. The nominal capital of the Company ia $2,500,000. The number of shares is J 00,000 of $2G each. The whole of the capital stock has been subscribed. The amount to be paid in before the charter is grant'^'d is $25,'j00. SMITH & WOOD, Solicitors for Applicants. Dated at Toronto, ) 28th Nov., 1873. i Immediately below this is another no- tice of f.pplicatiou for Letters Patent to incorporate 5 A Silver Mining Com- pany of Lake Superior, a second com- pany composed of the same mon, with THE LAKE BUPIRIOR EIKG. the same capital, nnri the name object and purposes. The composition of these companies is signiflcfint. They contain, first Alexandei Mackenzie, the Promier of the Dominion. They contain next, the brothers Bbown, Oeoroe and Gordon. Then there is the American Consul, CoLONEii Shaw. These, with tho two Barbeus, constitute the ring which is to float the two companies which have a united capital of $5,000,000, and the object of which is. the purchase and sale of mineral iind otlicr hiuds on the shores, and in the vicinity of Lake Superior. Mackenzie is a man almost destitute of capital, yet, it cannot be supposed that he give's no quid pro quo for his share in these ventures. As Premier of Canada, he has deliberately announced one of the chief objects of his policy to be, the alteration of the original Pacific Railway route, and his intention to have it terminate at the western end of Lake Superior. Herei surely, is a tiufRcient equivalent tor any share he may be accorded in these t ^0 companies. By his public poMcy he raises the value of these lands and mines enormously, and who has a better right to share the plunder than the Hon. Alexander ? It is to be remembered that, politically, the present Premier of Canada has a lor(i and master in George Brown, and he may have been impelled thus to shape his public policy to suit the private profit of his master and himself, for the man who made him can also unmake him. Simultaneous with the announcement of the Lake Superior Ring in The Leader, the Globe, the organ of Mr. Mac- kenzie's Government, and a newspaper under the absolute control of two out of the six partners of the Ring, has an article which, we will venture to sav, would never have been penned had the fxoose been made one day sooner. It goes further than Mr. Mackenzie did at Sarnia, for it advocates the total aban- donment of the Nipissing portion of the Pacific Railway, and recommends, nstead, the construction of a line along the north ihor* of Lake Rnperior. It says :— The question ot communication with the Lake Superior region is onn w« have frequently discasBed, nnd cannot overlook the importance of. It will 1)6 evident that the construction of the railway to Fort Garry and westward will make a railway to Sault Sto Marie more than ever necassary. \.n enormouo tratlic will BO(fn accumulate, via Thunder Bay and Duluth, and it should be just at much our object to attract it tlirousrh Ca- nada, as it is to brlnK in the same direction that portion which enters Ontario by thf» western peniueula. There are, no doubt, considerable difficulties in connecting the Sault by railroad with Thunder Bay, but they are not insuperable, and if they can be overcome, the advantage of a linn pnral lei with the Lake Shore, and, at aa short a distance inland as possible, over one car- ried northward far beyond all the present and prospective settlement, is too obvious to need demonstration. But this may ba considered quite independently of the more easily accomplished railway to the Pault, by which the western and ii^rth weatern traffic vould either be carried wintliwaid to Toronto, and other Lake Ontario ports, or eastward to Montreal, and the east- ern Provinces. All sectional objec- tions would thus be avoided, and east and west would divide them, under the ordinary influences which con- trol trade, the benefit accruing from tha enterprise. In this connection we, of course, contemplate the steady progress of the Canada Central to Frencli River, or a point at which it would unite with the I more northerly extension. Of the practi- cability of a line to the Sault there can be no doubt, ultimately, it is likely it would become connected with American railways on the South Shore of Lake Superior, bat this would reuder it none the less a neces- sary preliminary to tho Canadian Lake Superior line, which would have au inter- est and importance, both local and nation- al, of its own. From the above extract it will be seen that the '' enormous traffic" which is to accumulate at Thunder Bay is the great recommendation of this plausible arrangement in the eyes of the writer. Could cause and effect be more palpable :' Six men join together to form two companies which, in point of fact, are but one huge land speculating organization. The Messrs. Barber bring tlie nucleus of the land ; the American Consul undertakes to get the shares floated ; Mr. Mackenzie makes the policy of the Government dove-tail into the little scheme, and the THE LAKE SUPERIOR RING. BBOWi» Brothers lend tho whole influ- | onco of their journal to make i the Premier's policy go down with the ' country. It is a noticeable fact that no i applicntion was made for these Letters ' Patent until after Mackenzie had sue- : ceedcd to [>owcr. Our case, as we have stated it, is based upon published facts, and furnishcM u strong prima facie case against tlie purity, political integrity, and honour of that gentleman. Tho pure-spoken, tue incorruptible, (ind unblemished leader of the " Party of Purity," before he has warmed in his scat us Premier of Ca- nada, rushes into a speculation, which, by pursuing a particular line of policy as First Minister, will make Alexander Mackenzie a rich man for tho rest of his days. We deduce from the facts stated — 1. That Mackenzie has determined that the route of the Canada Pacific Railway shall not bo as fixed by the last Parliament, but shall terminate at Thun- der Bay, or its vicinity. 2. That he has suddenly, and since his accession to power, acquired an in- terest in two companies which possess large tracts of land in the district last named. 3. That GEoiiJB and Gordon Brown, who have large interests in :i great many more Lake SuperJoi* Companies besides 4 A and 5 A arc his partners in tlicse speculations. 4. That Col. Shaw, the American Consul at Toronto, is one of the prime movers in thi? affair, and represents the American clement. 5. That the objects of this organiza- tion arc "the exploration, purchase, " development and sale of mineral and " otW lauds on the shores and in the " vicinity of Lake Supprior." 0. That the value of these lands will be raised enormously by the proposed new location of the eastern part of tlie Pacific Railway. A moment'd reflection will enable any man of ordinary intelligence to compre hend the " job." Mr. Mackenzie is not a man of capital, but he is supposed to have the location of the Pacific Railway in his power. The Browns are prepared to give tho advo- cacy of their paper in support of the new policy. The rest of tho Ring con- sider that the success of this enormous speculation is ensured by the Premier and tho Premier's master bee oming per- sonally interested in it. Thus is the prestige of the Canadian Government to be prostituted in the interests of land speculators, a leading partner of whom is the Prime Minister himself. There is a wide difTcrence between a Premier accepting an election subscription for the benefit of a party, and a Premier upset- ting the deliberate decision of Parlia- ment in order to lienefit his own pocket. Wc know that tlio sale of •' min- " eral and other lands," in the Thunder Bay region, is in the hands of Mr. MackiJNzik's friends, and that the friends and relatives of the Ontario Government have been largely^ dabbling in forfeited and other property in that district, which they have procured, in some instances, for a deposit of five cents per acre. Before the maps of the new townships were lodged in the Crown Lands Department, the nephews and nearer relatives of Archibald McKellar had secured to them choice morceavx of these delectable lands situated around Thunder Bay. We know, too, that as soon as 4 A and 5 A Companies have received their Let- ters Patent, and a» soon as there appears a reasonable probability of the new Pacific route being assented to by Par- liament, a whole crowd of owners of land in the Lake Superior region will merge their lands with that of the Ring, and become shareholders of the com- bination. It may well be inferred that, if money be required to carry Govern- ment candidates, or buy up purchase- able men to gain a servile majority in that Parliament which will be asked to assent to the Premier's sc^ erne, it will be abundantly forthcoming. In fact, the prospective ramifications of this Ring, and the corrupt influence which it will wield, are enormous, and only require the manipulation of votes in THE LAKB SUPSRIOR VTSO. 4> the House of fJomtnona in order to cre- ate Tatnmauy in Canftdn. There have bron numerous companies fortnfci during thi. last few years, for the purpoHc of developing tha mineral wealth around Lake Superior, but never one of the sninc nature as those which go to make the Lake Superior Rintf. Like the "Heathen Chinee," this combination is " peculiar," and we will point out in what respect 4 A and 6 | A Lake Superior Conijiiuui d i (Ter from all I others of their kind. All other com- ' panics formed to develop ..he mineral wealth of the Lake 8up?ror (Jistrict are chartered simply for working and dis- posing of minerals, ores, and metals. Thus the " North Shore of Lake Superior "Silver Mining Company," which is seeking incorporation by Act of t'arlia- ment, sets forth their objects as "the "exploring, mining, smelting, manufac- " turing and selling gold, filver, and " other ores, and metals," and also to hold lands for these purposes, ^^ not at ' * any time exceeding two thousand acres in ^•superficies, with power to construct "buildings," etc. In the case of the Laki Superior Ring there is no limita- tion whatever to the amount of land which they may hold, and the whole wording of their application shows that the actual manufacture of metals is not their real object. The two companies of which Mac- kenzie is the figure-head, seek a charter for " the exploration, purchase, develop- " mcnt and sale of mineral and Ovhcr " lands on the shores and in the vicinity " of Lake Superior." It is nothing that purposes such as the above are not con- templated by the statute under which incorporation is sought. The Ontario Government will strain a point in order to accommodate such special friends as Qeoroe Brown and Alexander Mac- kenzie. Should they succeed in getting Letters Patent, their purchases will, no doubt, be confined to such lands as are favourably located, and a favourable location means, on the route or in the neighbourhood of the Pacific Railway. Tiiat the re*! object of the combination is to speculate in land and not work minerals is sufflciently clear from th^ U Jt that at least three members of the ring, namely, Mossrs. Oeorok and Gordos IJkown and Col. Shaw are already in- volved in innumerable Lake Superior mining companies. This new speculallou, therefore, must offer some very special advantitgcs. The special advantages accruing to the Lake Superior ring are patent ; the location of a railway of any sort increases the value of the land.* through which it passes, and the loca- tion of a railway of the magnitude and importance of the Pacific one will give large returns for the $5,000,000, all of which, we are told, " has already been "subscribed." Another great.advantage possessed by the ring is, that the man who now shapes.the Government policy IS a leading member of it, so tliat ho will not only know what sections will be worth investing in, but he will also hn able to determine what sections to beaefit. The Lake Superior Ring is m fortunate in securing tlie co-operation of the Hon. Mr. Mackenzie hs if it had got the Bank of England to buck it. Its two charters will cover the purchase and sale of wild lands anywhere in that region, and there is nothing to hinder it securing land at the most advantageous points, either at the terminun or along the route of the new Pacific Railway, for through Mackenzie, it will have the earliest information as to the exact localities through which the new route is to pass. The idea ot a Premier putting himself in such a questionable position is beyond our comprehension except on the hypo- thesis that he has lost all sense of honour and propriety. Minister Schenck was disgraced because of his trans- actions with the Emma Mines while bn was the representative of the United States in England. How much more disgraceful is it in the First Minister of a country engaging in private land speculations ©n the very spot of terri- tory which the same First Minister pro- poses to make the site of a great national railway. Like C/ESAr's wife, the First Minister of th« Crown ou^ht ^■■MBi THB LAKE SUFIRIOR RUfQ. to b« above fluaplcton, yet what nhdl wn My of a Premier whoie public policy if ihaped to adrantage liia priTatn lands 1 Had Mr. Mackbrzib been an ordinary ■peculator, watching the course of political oTenia in order to take advan- tage of them for his own profit, ho could not have done n more cuaning thin;; than become a largo atockholdur in the King under present circumstances. But what is to oe thought of a man who, us ^Wt Minister, forms a policy, and then, as a private individual, speculates on th« strength of that policy ? It is Tam- many over again. No one will pretend that safeguardn against malfeasance of office are more needed in the case of a Mayor than in that of a First Minister of the Crown. The law as it stands, environs official positions with certain restrictions, and the good sense of every civiliied com- munity recognises the wisdom of such precautions. Thus, what the hon. Mr. HAOKBiiziB might do as a private indi- vidual, he may not do as a member of Parliament; as, for instance, accept a public contract. And what Mr. Mac- KBRZIE, M. P., might do with perfect propriety. Premier Mackenzie may not, ae for instance, speculate in lands which he proposes to make the site of a public undertaking. We find that the Olobe has committed itself to the same opinion, for the concern it has manifested on behalf of the integrity of a mere Prsetorial officer, presupposes a like concern on behalf of the integrity of a Crown Minister. In a recent issue, while speaking of the candidature of Mr. Manning tor the ayoralty of Toronto, it said : — . .Mr Manning cannot deny that he has had an interest in the undertakings of Ginty & Co. and that he has such an interest still, more or less directly. Such being the fact, undenied and unfloniablo, we sav that it is exceedingly undesirable for any one in Mr Manning's past and present relation- flhips with those contractors, to be placed ip such a pobition that he will have to sit in judgment upon the crmnting or witb- liolding contracts to these— his business partn>."B, or the settlements of their ac- counts. We ahouiri my tJie same thing of aim pncifv the half-breed settlers ot Manitoba a railroad was partly built from the North Pacific Railroad near More- head on the Red River to Pembina, at the British boundary, and from fhence by the aid of a locft ; but as the prospects of the British road to the north increased, the Pembira Railroad dwindled down and finally died out, and lost its land grant, after about 100 miles was laid. If the Canada Pacific was built from Ottawa on the south side of Lake Superior to Duluth, there is no doubt but the company and its •onnectijns, with the preparations and connections contemplated, could control the north-western business through to the Atlantic via the New England routes, as the majority of those leaving Duluth by the lakes would be billed to Og- densburg, in the State of New York, to Rouse's Point via the Ogdensburg and pake Obamplain Raihoad, wMch is leased by tho Vermont Central Thence to Boston, Massachuscttji, via the Vermont Central and its connections, as well as to Portand Maine, by a new raii- road, now in course ot c^nstructiou, from Portland to Ronao's Point. The North Pacific mfanagers, foreseeing that a rail- road between the City of Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion ; Eanor on the south side of Lake Superior, would divert some business from the Canada Southern route to Ottawa, then to Montreal, and the Maritime Provinces — have, through the aid of D. S. Macdouald. of Alexand;i«, Ontario, securod tho moanfl of tapping this at Ottawa City, by a railroad diract from Ottawa 8outh-oa,sf, to near the head of the Beauhnrnois (!annl, where the St liawrenco Rivor can bn bridced at a very narrow place in the I'apids. The Mon- trealers have been protesting agr.inst the construction of tho bridge, but it is be- lieved a little money properly applied, will remove this difficulty ; from thence the line runs straight on a line to Rouse's Point and connects with tlio Vermont Cen- tral and with the new Portland Railroad. Unfortunately, after these comprehensive arrangements were matured and work com menced on the necessary connecting linki the Dominion Government, headed by Sir John A Macdonald, reftreed to al- low the Rirangements between the friends of the Northern F'acific to take effect, or allow them to have anything whatever to do with the management of the Canada Pacific. In the meantime the sale of the company's bonds was fallinf,' off, but the prospects of the future were improving. The dissati.sfied but scattered political elements of the Dominion were beiyg combined against the Macdonald Government. The general elections of the Dominion would come off in the fall, when it was hoped a Ministry that would be favourable to the Allan arrangement, or, better still, opposed to the Canada Pa- cific Railroad, would ba installed in ofiJce. The elections were the most exciting and closely contested that ever took place in Canada. Large sums of money were ex- pended. Parliament met, each party claiming a majority, but a few votes prov- ed the Macdonald Government very strong. Previous to the meeting of Parliament, the MacdonnVl rJovornment made arrange- ments for building the road on the north side of Lake Superior, witli new parties (Allan being the only one of the old), all British subiects. In the meantime, Allan had gona to Euiope, to make financial arrongements for the construction of the road, which was to be completed in aboat eight years. The case of the Northern Pacific was getting serious. Allan's success, and the building of the Canadian Pacific would all but ruin the Northern Pacific, ou which nearlv $30,000,000 had been expei ded. Jay Cooke and associates were loaded down with bonds, and almost beyond tho hope of relief ; indeed, ruin was staring them in the face. Confequently, some- thing had to be done at once to bar Allan's financial schemes in Europe, Therefore, the cry of fraud was concocted, generally now known as the Pacific Scan dal. An unscrupulous agent was wanted, a member of Parliament who could make the charge of corruption acainst the Mac- donald Government and Allan on the floor of the House of Parliament. One Hiint> 18 AMERICAN INTRIOU18. fngtoD, of Waterloo, Province of Qebec, —who hai been interested in the Cbambly •nd Bhefford and Canada and Vermont rail- road, with Senator Fester, of the same place, and reported to be now connected witb Senator Foster in contracts on the Rouse's Point and Portland railroad — had DO scruples about making: the charges in his place in Parliament, with a view of up- setting Allan's schemes ; but sur Canada friecuB improved on the orij^inal plan, and proposed to oust the obnoxious Macdonald Qoyemment on the charges. Accordingly the charges were made by Mr Huntington in sach a manner as to become a vo^e of want of eonfidence in the Government. The resolution demanded a committee of invostigation, which would not be needed provided the resolution passed, as then the Government would be in a minority, and would have to resign at once); but to the astonishment of the Premier and his colleagues the resolution was rejected by a large ma- jority, and without reply, debate or com- ment. On the following day the Premier presented and passed a similar resolution, and carr'ed it, and appointed a committee to investigate the Huntington charges. TTiis course alarmed those who wore in the secret, as they knew ther« was no foundation for the charges, and that they had no evidence which would sustai-i the charge, consequently every possible ob- stacle was put in the way, in hopef of i^voiding the investigation. Never tiie]k