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At noon on Monday the nomination for the Western Division took place at the Weigh House, in Victoria (Haymarket) Square. When Mr. G., H^ Ryland, Regis- trar and Returning OiEceri arrived, about six dr seven hundred electors and others had assembled at the hustings, and as Mr. Mc- (jee advanced, surrounded by a number of friend«, loud cheers were given for the hon. gentleman. Hon. John Young arrived shortly after, accompanied by Mr. T. Cramp alone. The Returnmg OflScer having niade the usual proclamation, the writ was read by Mr. Johnson, when the electors were re- . quired to name whom they wished to repre- sent them. Mr. Walter McFarlane now advanced to the front of the hustings, and in a brief speech, highly compUmentary to fhe Hon. Mr. McGee, projiosed him as a fit and pro- per parson to represent the Western Divi- sion of Montreal in the .Provincial Parlia- ment. (Loud and continued cheers.) Mr. P. Brennan briefly seconded the nomination. Mr. Benj. Holmes came forward to pro- pose Hon. John Young. He expressed his diffidence and regret at the duty he had to perform, and stated that all Mr. McGee's acts, votes and speeches since his first elec- tion to Parlip.ment had met with his approba- tion and support. He denounced the con- duct of the Macdonald-Gartier Administra- tion as corrupt, jnconstitutional, and so forth, and was condemning their assistance to the Grand Trunk Company, when a voice from the crowd interrupted him thus — " Who was the greatest assistance to the Grand Trunk Company but Mr. Young"] which question was loudly cheored. Mr. Holmes now brought his speech to a hun-ied conclusion by proposing Hon. .Tohn Young as a Candidate for the Western Division. (Hissses and Groans.) Seconded by Mr. Jas. McDougall. Hon. Mr. McGee was called forward amid enthusiastic cheers and spoke as fol- lows: — Mr. Registrar and OentUmen, Electots of Montreal Wett, Twice I have been indebted to you .,j|gB||Un three years for an unanimous eldMion, and once berote when I was a comparative stranger in the city, for a tiiumphnnt return, after a memorable contest. To-day we are challenged to a new contest by our old friends, who come against us at the eleventh hour with tfr. Young at their head, and we accept that challenge (Cheers.) I accept that challenge not only for my friends in Montreal, but for all my friends throughout the Province, whom this day's proceedings may reach. (Cheers ). The new Ministerial party, not content with forcing in a manner, which I maintain to bo inconsi- derate, unjustifiable and unconstitutional, the retireuent from office of the majority of the late Cabinet, — men of their own party, their own associates and old friends -demand tbat those men, so deprived of their constitutional and party rights, under the present dissolution should endorse all that has been done, and give the intriguers a bill of indemnity in ad- vance of the election ot the new Parliament. They have come to me, Mr. Young has come to m«, Mr. Holmes has come to me, they have come singly and in deputations, to ask that I should endorse all that was done at Quebec during the late crisis, and that it so, I would have no opposition from them. Intimations of future arrangments, offers of lucrative office were not wanting, on the part ot those who have the temporary disposal of office, if I would consent to endorse what had been done at Quebec. They received from mo one invariable answer. I told them I would not depart from my position of entire independence ; th it I would not, however aggrieved, for the sake of auld long nync move one finger, or utter one word against my old colleagues, unless in self-defence I tolu them I would not attempt to influence a single vote against them, in the East or Oeutre, unless the individuals came to ask my opinion on the recent changes, and then that I should tell them the truth. But this has not satisfied these exacting ex-allies. Jacta aleatst— the die is cast by them. They will iasist, notwithstanding all they know of the facts, and all they don't know, that I must hoist Mr. Banfield McDonald's and Mr. Dorion's colors, and drag the flag of my own honor hum- bled in the dust. They have chosen their part —they have flung their challenge in our faces — they have left myself and my friends nothing else f)r it, but to oppose theopposers. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, there ai-e some explanations which public men can only properly make on the floor of Parliament, vis a vis with the persons impli- cated; but there are others which the repre- sentative owes to his consiitu^nts, and notwith- standing the provocation of this eleventh hour, this twelfth hour opposition, I vhall confme myself to those proper to this occasion. Twelve months ago I went to Qu,eb(c, clothed with your suflfrages, aa a member of the McDonald- Slcotte Cabinet, to assist in carrying on the Government of this country, on the principles tbOD Qiade publio. I look back no^r with oon> PMP i fidence to that twelre moxtthi' Rdminlstratioii, and I assert, tl\at its nns of commigBion and omission, weu as few as those of any Qorern- mfant that preceded it ; I tay that it was a year of office marked by the i^aagoratioa of a genu- ine system of retrenchment ; that both, with the Imperial Qorernment and with our own people goodNfaith was kept ; that in our official cor- respondence, our Orders in Ooancil and our Oommissicms of Inquiry, broad and jost princi- ples were asserted, deserving the approbation of the people of Canada. (Gheers.) It may suit tte exigencies of the moment for our suc- cessors in office to assail us, as it suited our predecessors to do so the other day ; but with all its faults and short-comings — and it had them— of course, it had, — I assert that the Mac- donald-Sicoto administration has left behind it the most honest chapter which has for years been written in the annals of Oanadian gorernment. Now, we knew, right well, gen- tlemen, when we accepted office, in May 1862, that we could hardly expect the support of a Parliament elected in '61 under the auspices of our predecessors, who for seven years previously by a succession of coalitions, bad controlled the government and patronage of the country. We knew as well last year as this year, that a vote of want of confidence was possible — was pro- bable,and we should last year as well as this year have gone to His Excellency in such oircumstan- ces for the constitutional resort of a dissolution. But certainly we should have asked a dissolu- tion for our own policy not for another, — for our own government, — not for another. We should have asked for a dissolution not as a pretext for dropping our programme, but as an occasion for taking the sense of the country, for or against, that programme. (Oheers.) Other oounsela, however, prevailed at Quebec, during the late crisis, other men now repre- sent those counsels, and it was really asking a little too much, — it was it seems to me hcu^Iy decent, hardly delicate to ask the authors of thb rejected policy to endorse its rejeotion, and to swell the chorus of the new programme re- taining so far as we yet know, hardly a vestige of our platform. You will observe, gentlemen, that I stand here as an independent candidate, 3n no personal ground whatever. All the per- sonal inducements for me, are on the side of the present Ministers. Almost all my personal and political friends are in that camp,— and some who, perhaps, would not be there, if they knew all the facts of the recent obange. It would be, I say, unfiignedly, far more agreeable to my feelings, if I were supporting at this mo- ment, Messrs. Holton and Dorion, as I always have done, — always have faithfully done, — since our joint contest, in 1857. (Oheers) They have sent here Mr. Young to force me from my position of independence, and to drive me into opposition, but they will fail (cheers). I will oppose the opposers, but I will stand on my old platform of liberal and national opinions, from which it is not in the power of any person or persons, or clique to dr^ve ma. (Oheers.) How have they sent Mr. Youno; hero ? how has he allowed himself to be put forward here? He, and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Oramp offered onVri- day last — an intimation which was a polite method of intimidation— that I should have no oppoiUion from them, if I allowed three mem- bers of my committ«e to serve on their com- mittee (groans), and three members of their committee t» serve on mine (groans). I re- fased — ^baoause th&t would be playing false to my Address, which they had read before they saw me. (Oheers ) Then, if I would promise to declare publicly that I would vote for Mr. HoltoQ as an elector cf Montreal Centre, I could have purchased their forljoarance, but I refused, because that too would be departing from my declared independence. I repeat, I think it was not delicate, it was not decent to urge Blie to these onnclusions ; but the last me- nace is now resorted to, and I take up the gauntlet. (Cheers.) How is Mr. Youne here ? say, situated as we are, that there is al- ways great difficulty in forming any definite programme for a nuw Administration, while there is on the other hand great danger of de- ception and misrepresentstion, if the pro- gramme be not definite. (Cheers.) 1 have twice had an humble share in Cabinet-making I remember the scandals which followed— the conflicts and controversies which arose — from the Brown-Dorion programme of 1858 not having been definitely understood, on the seignorial question, on the representation ques- tion, and the school question. We had in Par- liament and in the press, Minister flatly contra- dicting Minister, us to what was really the policy of that short-lived combination. I don't know bow it is at present, but at all events, the programme of May '62, was honest, explicit and above-board ; at all events it was found not to be impracticable at the Council table, and I do not tbink it was fair or wise to assume, that it could not have the support of a new Parliament, merely because it was not sus- tained in the old ow, from which we never ex- pected at any time, on any programme, to have a majority. (Cheers.) We saw that the re- presentation question, — though based on a prin- oipli^of justice as far as regards tha|fa](lAiir |nd poD«4r branch of the Lagislaf" ** ' -i £if- ■ &!>' — 4 — t 8 9 ( r I I 1 be Mttled, and we said so. We saw that the sense of aelf-preMrration,— that instinct whieb Cinetrates communities, — kad been rooied in ower Canada, and was stranger while it lasted, than the next strongest principle of onr nature, —the sense of justice. We desired at this juncture in American affairs to quiet the agita- tion, to allay the sectional conflict, but uese gentlemen hare reopened it again, and have given a premium on the renewal of a perilous agitation. What is their policy upon it? Mr. Dorion says here, he and his colleagues will never submit to it, Mr. Brown says at Toronto, these are the only Lower Oanadiaas through whom it can be obtained. Kither there is ** a whopper" at Toronto, or "a whopper" at Montreal. (Laughter.) 'Under our pioft«mme we settled the school question, (OhoBrs) which vexed aud distracted Upper Canada since 1856 ; under that programme the magistracy was no longer the reward of partiaanshtp ; under that programme we embodied and armed 25,000 vol- unteer militia in six months ; under that pro- gramme, the representation question which it was agreed could not bow be settled, was by common consent not to be agitated ; under Ihat programme it was believed by ail our party one brief year ago — when Mr. Brown, Mr. Bolton, aud Mr. Dorion w re all out of Parliament,— that the country could be honestly and efQeieot- ]y governed,'— and it is believed by many of ns still, now that all those three gentlemen are back again in active public life, exercising their great and paramount influence, in the councils of their party. (Continued cheering.) These three gentlemen are the architects of the new policy, whatever it may be ; no one has yet told us how far it goes or what it includes ; no one can tell whether it is verbal or written. Mr. Dorion is answerable fur it. Mr. Holton, with his firm tenacity of will and great deliberative power, is answerable for it, and Mr. Brown, with his large and loose vigor, with a manliness which ill is impossible not to respect, whatever one may think of his policy, is answerable for it. But what is it? No one can tell. We do not want an answer at second hand, and the principal artificers of the new atraagenent are discreetly silent. Does Mr. Young know it? Does Mr. Holmes? Will either of them tell us ? (Laughter.) What, not a word. We are told the school questlbn is settled— that is old news, (tjanghter.) We are told fti« Inteiv colonial road is abandoned— tbat western ex- tension is abandoued,- tbat I consider bad news. (Cheers.) But wag it delicate— was it decent— to urge me to endorse a policy I do not know, and to condemn a policy I do know, which was adopted by the whole liberal parly except Mr. Brown and Mr. Uolton, and which never has been, that I have heard of, condemn* ed by the liberal party. (Cheers.) I turn now, gentlemen, to the McDonald- Siuotte policy so far as oonoerns the present aud the future. From my own mind, without compromising others, let me otSet yon, with all possible deference, a few general ideas as to the description of policy we endeavored to make conversant to the people of Canada during onr term ot office. (Cheers) We found the uidex to that policy in our geographical situation, in otyjl'tsi^exion with the greatest eommnelal rwice 1 »■♦•— ipowar the world hi^iintt ■^I^Jn three years fo'j flommnels Id hiyiij^j'e teen ; in onr own domestic oircomstanees, and in those of onr neighbors. We (bond the data OB which it is framed, first at onr own doors, and next beyond the lines, beyond the Rocky mountains, and beyond tte Atlantic. We found expression for that policy in two words —economy and enterprise ; or in two other words if you prefer theu, retrenchment and de- vclopement. These two words do not at all re- present hostile ideas; we must be economical, that we may be enterprising ; we must retrench, if we would develope. Bconomy is a good horse, enterprise is another; yoke them and drive them kindly, and they will carry you to the goal. (Cheers) I am as much opposed as any man living to the false retrenchment which would deprive a deserving public serv- ant of his due, or cripple an important public service of its sustenance ; — but of the retrench- ment which outs ofT f xcrescences and drives out drones,— I avow myself the partizan. This is, however, a retrenchment quite consistent with developement, for it is one by whieb It is possible to economize far more than the JCgone forever into their custody. I beg you, gentlemen, not to consider this a chime- rical or a remote contingent. I speak of that people, who. in thn» years, advanced their flag from Arkansas to the Oaliforniaa gulf->the same people who forty years ago, in their com- parative infaiinoy, compelled Russia to make the North Pacific an open sea— civil war has dietracted, bnt it l\as not destroyed, the energies of that fearless race of colonizers and pioneers, (cbeen.) Let me say a few words more here in Montreal, fiar the youngest born of what I must call our common political family,— British Co* Inmbia. Now what are the main facts as to that territority ? There are at most points ten degreea of longitqde, between the Rooky raonn- tains and the Pacific, and between the Russian and United States boundaries, six deg^rees of la- titude— giving a country of 600 miles of coast, within an interior of 600 miles. The climate immediately under the mountains is com par jd to that of the North of Scotland— as yon des- cend to Ihe sea it is said to resemble with a little Aiora rain, the southern countries of Eng- land and Ireland. Its great arterial river, the Prazer has a safe harbor, and water for ships drawing 18 to 20 feet— the depth we have now obtained in our own river by artificially deepen- ing Lake Saint Peter with which my hon. op- ponent has been so lon^ and so honorably con- nected. The only practical pass into central North America— the Yermilion Pass — forms as eaity a road towards us, cs the passage of the Ailegbauies at Altoona, on the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh railway. Captain Synge has demonstrated that by this route Hong Kong will be brought nearer to London by 2,000 miles than by any other, and Mr. Kelly, in a paper read before the Geographical Society, has esta- blished that Sydney is 900 miles nearer to Loo- don via New Westminster than it is via Panama. Here is a country, (I embrace Yanoouvers with the main) rich in soil and fortunate in climate, with valuable woods, gold, silver, cinnabar, plumbago and coal. Here, is a land; with as yet not more than 20,000 inhabitants, well capable of subaisling 10,000,000 ; here is a pass cleft by nature through the maintains— a river navig- able fbr ships of 1000 tons flowing down to the sea— a way to China, shorter by 2,000 and to Australia by nearly 1,000 miles than any other which can be found on the globe — trifles, trifles, Mr. Registrar wholly unworthy of the atten- tion of our new Canadian Administration. (Cheers.) I confess I should be sorry for my country,! should be ashamed of iby order — if the peoplb and Parliament of Canada permitted the pooh I pooh I policy, to overcome the policy of national developcment of which I am and always have been since I resided among you the advoctfle. (Cheers.) Admitting we have the initiattpn of this great future now in our keep- ing, hW are we to make use of it fbr jifirflelXML 4b4 mlt«W chUdsMi. I aiwirer, b.r ' "" ' "^* u — e~ s tl s a C f ; I for onrMlvea and for oar ebildren, on Britiih prinoiplM, a stable form of mixed gOTemmoat, •a distingauhable from a poor parody of an<- qaalified demooracj. I answer, hj diseharglng our datiea— all oar dntiea— ch««rftillj bj the Empire, and iadadng oar fellow>iabjeeU in Bngland to feel, and to act on tbo Aeling, tbat their capital is as safe in Canada at it woidd be in Hiddleaez. (Oheers.) Onr own arms are as yet too weak for the-work— we most borrow the aid of the Empire,~-tbe7 have bridged the QangoB and the Nile, and thej will find no in* soperable obstacles in the St. John, or the Sas- katuhewao. I desire «boTe all tUags, gentle- men, to see a policy maintsined by this ooantry which shall win us respect in Bngland. But how shall we win respect in England? Not by always saying ditto to Downing street (langh- ter) ; not by our embasiadora acting Sir Pertin- ax's part— who " nerer could stand straight in Uie presence of a great man" (laughter). We shall win respect in England by maintaining our credit, by paying our debts, by turning ont, ereiy man of us, to defend our homea against all comers ; we shall win respeet in England by steady proof* of our attachment to our own good government, by loyalty to the laws, by the de- corv.m of our assemblies, by understanding, mas- tering, and putting boldly forth, the outline* of a national and Imperial polioy, as applied to the whole congeries of the British American provin- ces. (Oheers) It has been alleged that the Ck>varoment of which I was a member did not, in oneiastance->thatof the Intercolonial road- act in entire gc od faith by the Imperial aathori- ties. I solemnly declare, that I never saw and never heard of any design to embarrass or pro- tract that negotiation oa our part, and I mnat say that, as against our Qovemment, I think any imputation of bad faith, coming either from England rw the Lower Provinces, wholly un- founded by the facts. (Cheers.) I am told no,w, however, that the negotiations concluded at Quebec in September, 1862— •including Inter- colonial free trade — are absindoaed. I am sorry if tt be so; I believe it a wretchedly retrograde step, taken in submission to an ignorant clamour about wildernesses which do not exist, and jobs which could easily be prevented. If we are to be a nation we must have thut road, if we are long to be connected 7r:th Britain we must have that r.ad — if the British communities left on this Continent are ever to stand together, helping each other, we must have that road. I must for my part declare that I shall never abandon the advocacy of that road, unless, as I said in my address, " it should be prov^^d by actual survey to be an undertaking beyond our strength." I have been told, by a gentleman who ought to know, that I was premature in- concluding, from the Ministerial announcements, that the project haa been wholly aban loned, and that Western extension has shared the same fate ; they certainly have been abandoned according to Mr. Dorion's address, on the basis proposed at the Conference of Quebec, in September last, and as no other basis was indicated amdtag the possibilitiea of the new programne, I think I wtm justified in oonoludiii| tbat :^f£r''/'%r:^M wore onooaditk>naHjrJirop»d ^d^^ three years fd^ ^■■'' ^* A- I naderstand Mr. Tonng to say they aM not dropped. (Hear, hear, from Hon. Mr. Young.) Wen I shonld like to see that, not at second hand but in the addresses cf the New Ministers. (Oheers.) I am sure tf ray hon. opponent was a Minister be wonld speak ont on that subject ; bnt if Mr. Sandfield Maedonald's new colleagues will not let him speak— If Mr. Dorion will not speak —what are we to conclude, bnt th^t they have no policy whatever on those subjects. (Oheers.) I beg to apologise to you, Mr. Regtstiar, for de- taining yon so long, but before I close you will permit mo to say a tew words, as to the actual state of parties, both in Upper and Lower Cana- da. (Hear, hear.) We are told, there are but two parties to this contest, the old Coalition party which we outsted in May '62, and the pre- sent Administration pnrty. Mr. Holmes has talked of the joba of the coalition, and I unite with him in pronouncing them infamous. Bat who inaugurated the system of public jobbing in this country ? Why Mr. Hincks, of whom Mr. Yonng was a colleague, and Mr. Holton n supporter. (Cheers.) The jobbing commenced with the railway era, and the grand jobber was the leader of both those gentlemen. (Cheers.) Hon. Mr. Toung — Name the jobs , Hon. Mr. McOee — Oh I it would take me a week. (Laughter.) I shall give the first chap- ter to-morrow night at Ghaboillez Square, the second on Wednesday in St. Lawrence Main Street, the third on Friday at Wellington Bridge, and tbe fourth on Saturday, bpre, in the Haymarket. (Oheers.) I invite Mr. Young to attend those meetings, and if he is not heard, I shall not speak. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, I shall say frankly as an indepeiidant n^ember, that if it turns out to be the case, on tbe meeting of the new Parliamen«»t, that if any vote or voice of mine should be- instrumental ' i bringing back the old Coalition party tc power, they of course, cannot have it They had seven years trial as a party, and the record is heavily against them. I will say now—what tiO possi- ble pressnre would have forced from me, till I had this day vindicated my own position, — that, rather than suJBTer the restoration of the greater evil, I would vote confidence in the present Ad- ministration, though believing it to be formed in an irregular, inconsiderate, and very unconstitu- tional manner. But I am laOt convinced that the people of this country are * reduced to the bare alternative of the present replalrage or the old Coalition . I know that every election brings into Parliament from 60 to 70 new men,— I know there are liberal conservatives as well as illiberal reformers— that there are men, unstained by complicity in the old Coalttton, who will be as unwilling to shoulder its sins, as you, or I, or any one can be. (Cheers.) I believe the number of indspendant members at the meeting of the new Parliament will be large, —and it will include, I have reason to tbink, ail tbe Lower Ganada section of the McDonald-Si- cotte Ministry, who are now candidates for re- election, with other liberal members, who equal- ly disapprove of the method and the example of the late rcplatroge. (Cheers.) I do not appre- hend, therefore, that I shall be myself forced into any position either isolated or inconsistent with my antecedents . My friends need ^yre no anxi- F a. ■■•wi"- " I men, who i you, plieve at large, c, ail Id-Si- re- Iqual- Jle of |ppre- linto J with janzi- ety for me. i ibaU know how, I hdpe, to riodl- cat« my own honor, and to maintain in erery situation my own principles. I bar* now no leader but my own conscience, and if ever I fol- low any one agftin, it shall be a man with a head and a heart, not a potter's Teasel that may be moulded to-day into one shape by one dominant influence and to-morrow into another. The po- litical potter knoweth bis own Tessel—but I know him not. (Laughter and cheers.) It is amusing to hear, as lam told people do hear the Oommittee, of Mr. Holton and Mr. Dorion talk of my deserting them— as if I destroyed their old platform — «8 if I thrust them out of office. (Laughter.) Among other slanders against m« it has been again circulated that I am hostile to my fellow-subjects of French origin. There never was a more wanton falsehood. Last summer I remember I had the pleisure of pronoancing the panegyric of Samuel Cham- plain, before 7,000 of the children of the Purii ans, at the mouth of the Kennebec. Never did I feel more pleasure in illustrating the character of Saint Patrick or King Brian, or any of the hcioes of ihe history of my own fatherland, than I did in doing justice to the illustrious founder of Quebec, and tirst Gtovernor of Canada. I know too much of the early hardi- hood and enterprize of the French race in these regions, long before our Bnglish tongue had sounded so far North, not to respect their dep- crndants sufficiently, not to flatter them to their faces. (Ghters.) And now, gev tlemeu, come what may, out of this general election, I intend to adhere to the national policy, I have always advocated and acted upon, since I have been in public life, in this country, — the policy which embraces British Connexion (Cheers.) — theasser- tion of the monarchical as against the democratic principle. (Cheers.]— the policy of conciliation between our dififerent creeds and classes [cheers) — the policy off internal reform, tkni parri poisu with that reform, a great series of internal im- provements stretching from the frontier of New Brunswick to British Columbia. (Cheers.) It is this public works' policy which made the United States the poor man's country— ii. was this policy that converted shoals of day laborers into resident cultivators. Look at the interior of New York. The Erie Canal is the marrow in the backbone of its population. Thousands of men who worked at digging " DeWitt Clinton's big ditch," as it was once called, lived to freight its barges, as resident proprietors dwelling on its banks. If it is mortifying for us to hear of tens of thousands of natural born British subjects preferring that country to this, we must remember the cause, — the ready wages on public works, — and the easy terms on which they could procure a portion of the public lands. (Hear, hear.) This policy is the only true basis of Colonial defence — for it is a policy of new settlements, of increas- ed population, of diverse employments, of a lew northern nationality, subordinate to, helpful to, and helped by the Empire to which we belong. It is a policy for our old men — a policy of peace and security ; it is a policy for our young men— a policy of promise and expectation— it is a policy for our merchants of more consamers— 'for our fumers of new markets. (Cheers.) It may be thought at *bis moment by some of oor pollti' • ■■•. ,, ." *" '' >. r-'n. ,— " •*♦ cianv^iaioBAry and unreal ; bat when were en- terpi^be, inereaae, exteusion, and development, nnrM or visionary to our race on the American C/ontinent? We are of the race that forced the icy barrier) of the North West passage, after two centnries of desperate adventures— we are of the race that blasted a channel for their ships wi^^h English gun-powder, through Arctic ice. (Cheers.) Shall we not have our triumphs on the Ind as well as on the sea ? Shall we not es- tablish the North West passage where nature laid it, though the Vermillion Pass, and down the Valley of the Frazer to the Pacific ? That way lie Ja^aOi China, lodia, Australia, the countries who8« trade ha£ always enriched, whatever power knew how to grasp and hanole it. That way liea the future fortune of all the Eastern British provinces, including Canada, and Cana- da's chief city, Montreal. 1 do not believe not- withstanding all that has been written in Eng- land of Colonial reform^ that the mother coun- try is tired of her colonies with thefar £60,000,000 sterling of annual imports cf her goods, and their £60,000,000 exports to her of their produce. The maritime provinces and ourselves taken together tax her treasury just about one-fourth more than Ifalta, or Gibraltar, and about double the Ionian Islands. I have no fear that England will aban- don one-seventh of this Continent, to save an ord- inary tbilitary expenditure of half a million a year. She w81 place against that charge and its respon- sibility, the pride of empire, the proprietorship of so Jorge a scope of the continent, and the only feasible northwest passage ; the commerce of gre^ t communities, dwelling under her own flag in North America, and of the older and greatef communities easiest to be reached through our territory. Under that flag of the triple cross of St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. Qeorge, encircled with the native maple-wreatb, I desire to labor for — I have labored for making and kelping as one united people (cheers), and my name shall be renembered for these labors when all these petty intriguers are forgotten. (Cheeif.) If we adopt Nelson's motto, that every man and every colony should do its duty, we may rest well assured, England will not withdraw her capital from us in peace or her ar- mies in war. [Cheers. | But we must do our duty, our whole duty, at once and cheerfully. If Canada can bear fifty thousand men under arms, and fifty thousand reserve, England's ul- timatum, Canada must provide them. If not, then forty thousand of each force ; if not forty thousand, then thirty-five thousand, or thirty thousand active, and as many reserve, men. [Oheerl.] It is clear, we cannot have the con- nection for nothing ; we cannot be without it for anything ; and that we must be prepared to do and to suffer for it — and I think we all are — some thing. [Cheers.] After agaia returning thanks to the Re- turning; Officer, his proposer, and seconder, and the electors, the hon. gentleman with- drew amid loud cheers. The "^ow of hands, after a few words from the Hdb. Mr. Young, was declared in favor of Mrj^cGree, and a poll was demaQdl^ Young. ^^-- ■ .--^T. Cbewn lamog b«M giv^i for Uli • the Croiremor (^»ncral, the I^j^ Mt. MeGtM, the lai^ crowd j^ttfei parsed. 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