The Canadian Ministers implicated in the recent scandal have, we
perceive, denied the charges brought against them in the most absolute manner. They are not only not guilty of personal corruption—which nobody suspected—but they took no pecu- niary help whatever to assist in the elections. The late Sir G. Cartier may have done so, but his letters refer to an arrangement' absolutely personal to himself and Sir Hugh Allan, were un- known to the other members of the Government, and did not refer to the Pacific Railway Contract. There is one fact which tells very strongly in their favour, and has as yet been scarcely mentioned, and that is the amount of the money said to have been -received. It was only 1.25,000, exclusive of Sir H. Allan's pur- chases, while the contract must have been worth an expenditure of ten times the sum.
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