TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A Subscriber.—lf your letter had been accompanied with name and address, simply as a guarantee of good faith, it would have appeared in this morning's . issue.
Hudson Bay Company's Pkopits.—The arbitrary rule of the Hudson Bay company, in establishing prices in their dominions and controlling the entire trade, affords them immense profits. For a gun costing them 225. they get twenty beavers skins, worth £32 10s, 3d,, or sixty marten skins, worth .€6O, or 300 dollars, For ten gun flints, cost Id., they get over 12 dollars worth of furs $ for sixty cloy pipes the same; for one pair.Qf trousers costing 6s. 6c.., they get twentyseven , marten skins, worth £20 18s., or over 100 dollars j for ope eight-inch file, over 21 dollars; .for a six. gallon copper kettle they get 50 marten skins, worth 250 dollars or more, Is it any wonder that the settlements rebel against the rule of the company, and wish its powers abrogated,
" Nature, impartial in her ends, When she made man the strongest, Injustice, then, to make amends, Msde woman's tongue the longest."
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Colonist, Volume II, Issue 106, 26 October 1858, Page 2
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181TO CORRESPONDENTS. Colonist, Volume II, Issue 106, 26 October 1858, Page 2
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