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Latuata tis resolutions were prupo.ed.-
What those resolutions silicon would b:sl
be uat!or•turd from blearing them valid.
Tha learned gentleman bear prdlwe•I a
nwslaper, and proenedeal to read Won
talwe's resulul,uos std Cayloy's sllpnd-
nsents but, upon u►eervisg ibis duugtng
•Iflect of Ibi. lies fall argue eat, t,ln rowdies
of Ilia cowling were Nt to matiorti soft Dr.
Connor, finding ON hu attempaa to obtain a
hearing fruµlose, filially retired ar"cord.
Mr. Fr7ue8asLD likewise attempted to
make Mmeelf board but this mob would out
li.tet is blue.
Soma person called out lhst none but a
rebel would move an anivodment, which Mr.
F. (tale was actively engaged in the *up-
prento,s of the rebellion) repelled, ar false.
The proper co irrqbfor Ili* chairman would
an
w ►ave been tovis c h
ha left the chair, as
ane „hjeet for which the meetlog was or at
least ought to have been called, namely, a
duclaratioo of public sentiment, was frustra-
ted, as no exprearioo of opinion could kit
given aha only one ride was allowed to
speak and moea res.raL.oe•. This was too
much, however, to expect (runs such a
chairman as Denison, and he accordingly
proceeded to put the fee-dutioo which was
of coursq carried by acclamation.
The mob now had' it all their owe way
and they proceeded to pass ilia following
resolutions, with speeches from persops
who should have known better than to
countenance such proceedenrs.
9. That this meeting declares its primitive
eosvletion, that tf the proposed m.esnres
be bused thrungh the' Legislatne Assem-
biyr it will be in the tooth of at least four
fifth* of the inhabitants of Canada West,
without distinction of politics : and that It
will be a memorable instance of "taxati-m
without representation," the people by
whom tits present Nouse wit elected nut
being consulted thereupon, and a vast me-
jo ity being wholly oppnse•I thoreto.
5. That independently of the palpable
injustice of the measure as a gnestoon of
Ananeaal bt Men and taxation, this meeting
cannot refrain from expressing iter sense of
the absurdity and mockery of cnntinuieg to
flail ourselves subjects of the Crown of En-
flard, and ping her Majesty's name in pub-
lic and judicial proceedings, and yet subnut-
ting to taxation and the payment of a large
sum of monoy to reimburse losrp allodged
to bare been sustained eleven years ago by
a population to open insurrection against
list Majesty's authority.
4. That a petition to Iler Majesty the
Queen be adopted, praying (ler Majesty to
dteallow any measures granting oenumers-
ties to Loy portion implicated in the rebelli-
on for lose sustained in consequence there-
of; and that a similar petition be "dressed
to Hu Excellency the Gov. General, pray -
Ing him not to giro his sanction to such
measures, but rather dissolve the pairlia-
meat, and to appeal to the country. That
the petition to the Crown, be signed by
lobabitants generally : and that to the Go-
vernor, by the Cbeirm so1 on behalf of the
meeting, and transmitted to the member of
the city, at Montreal for presentation.
6. That in ease the.e moasnrr3 be per is -
led in by the present Provincial adalinis
tration, unchecked by the Represenulive of
the Crown, copies of these rasulutioos, to-
gether withr copies of the petitions adop:ed,
be forwarded ; one to a Peer of the Realm,
and another to a member of the British
iinsMe of Commode, for the purposo of
brilisigiag the whole matter before the Im-
pwial Parliament, and that Messrs. Bowes,
Hagerty, Dempsey, O'Brian, Denison, tlet-
ttidRe, Vsmkougbnet. Muonijoy, Moffat,
Wilson and Dugan, with power to add to
their members, o a committee to carry out
the resolution.
G. That the union of the Provinces of
Upper and Lower Camada has not been pro-
ductive of the advantages contemplated and
that a ropeed of the union would be prefers -
his to French domination.
1. That the amid resolutions be not em-
braced in the petition to Governmant and
the Legislature, but the tame be kept to be
sent as the expression of this meeting on
Incidental question.
We beg to call particular attention to
the Wt two resolutions.
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LOWER CANADA REBCLLION LOSSES.
An attempt has blen snado to get rip a
minature hurricane in the eo!itical world on
the subject of the Lower Canada Rebellion
Losses. Resolutions regarding the p -,v -
moot of the losses sustained by the un -
offending inhabitants of Lower Canada dur-
ing the it"lion, have been introduced into
this iloep of Assembly by Mr. Lafontaine.
Thea Reselolisns have been made the
fitindalins at a prise of violent, factious,
setd mnjastiiablg attacks upon the cuverD-
mest. SO wscps(ei have the systematic
Lod unsentpulous aiwoprepntetioos in
whieh the tory preen bed indulged regard-
ing tho rebellles shims in Lower Canada,
that they bare deliedvod several persons
who, we feel enrodtisu, will view the matter
to a different light when the real facts of
the ease nr plated before them. The fol -
lowiagg are the Resolutions introduced by
Mir. (outislos, and on which a Bill bad
baa ptadiestad.
The claims for Rebellion Loss" is Up -
Canada have baa ►ecognimed by tit*1:�Waturo, adjusted, soft nearly all of them
pard. Lower Canada has been subjfietjo
sense little injustice in mothaving her ))'o t
credited for thew losses sooner sdj•setgd.-
i10goor saran fill katdship must, from the no-
urre of things, bees arisen out of this pro.
eraoivato". Peaceable inhabitants who
had tboir peon ity destroyed, by no fault
wf theMM in a popular Commotion. in which
tboy took to putt have waited eleven lung
yews flew M-imbersoment. And sew that
a ""aedtioo is wade to pay these crisis";
s• lwwdmt/te ,be" persons in L,)war Caeeda
(►oft jostles, irbieb ban begin "corded to
edrwilar r-illesees ha Upper Usim da; the tenons
of (Aid emontdne of the Provisoes Place than -
sei"e h„lween the L.gj+lalure ■,4 theme
Injured mss, and stuatly, jmpoltats :!ra
e4fol
T1s levy Plrlismisrst in 1911, appointed a
(,emmMeiea to oegtin iota the InaMeae
1itee reeagwisial ills principle th t those
who bad snared by the destruction of IAeor
In Lower Cseada shoold treat-
ed N tme Game be 6 as the fear*" in
Uqw a . The teriae when is ofil"
\seise vsategllfosd thole principle, new town
right raw" ag ig"I theM io I be@ Delete, to
w/Nss it ! is Me whsle history of poli-
to-veld e, toate eewawe be (cued
- hlamiGa of a "mime rpMtt.-
1wstl@e, boner, we all sseriSeW
M' be opposed. ,M1� of-
lbe ntaeet uw
awit ewewla
by eh. sry j.,Pe.l:
clued N pay, lien, to ttas
teems ; that Dr. Wolf?"
Nelson a to get 90.000 for the d"froctiom
of property in an affloy with the military,
is which ted Doctor himself led the Insur-
gents to combat; that Upper (:needs paid
her no b rebolliun lossce out of a loeaI fund,
and that it is entendad now to compel Up-
per Canada to bear a portion of the Lower
Ca&adt lissevs.
To the allegation that it hs imtesded to
pay £Itlo,u0o, we answer that the statement
is a puts mveuttoa, an such amount being
mentioned m the resoluummm; asd, In fact,
it bas never bees proposed to pay more
than ,8:100,000. It is not the amount but
the jcdtice of the claims with which we
have to Jo. Dr. Nelson may bate piseeot-
ad • claim to the Corpmissioners appointed
in 1845: but we have only to look to Up-
per Canada to gee that three-fourths of the
claims a ms put in were dua;luweJ. To make
a claim and to prove that it it j tot, are
two things. The justice, and legality of
Ike claims can be decided only by inquiry
before an impartial Commission. The
appointment of such a tribunal is contem-
plated by the mover of the resnlutions.
'rho resolution& also propose to authorise
thio payment of the claims when they shall
have inn decided upon by the commiesios-
cre. What can be more reasonable far fin
partial than this ? The necessity for ap-
pointing new Commissioner* arises out of
the fact that those appointed in 1845 mere-
ly received but did not investigate the
claims presented. The amount of claims
in already kdown, but what portion of them
is valid h-ts y.•t to be ascertained. As to
the cry of ir-patice raised respecting the
propnsiton in satisfy these claims out of
the eonsohdsted revenue fond, white it is
alegrd, Upw, r Canal* field her rebellion
loaves not of a special local fond ; there is
really no d1r.r.nce between the source from.
whj.•9 the one bei been paid, and tial from
which it is prepared to pay, the other. The
tavern licenses in Ul per Canada produce a
larger &mutant onnoally than those of Lower
Canads—but this fund is not the more local
on that account. These licenses properly
form part of the consolidated fund. If the
amounts were rained in the Districts
where the claims were paid, the fund was
not therefore local. To pay the rebellion
claims in Lower Canada out of some parti-
cular portion ofthe public revenue, collect-
ed in the Districts where the losses were
incurred, wonbl be to pay them out of a
local fund in the sense that those of Upne►
Canada were an paid. But this is rAm
play upon words. Paying the losses in Up-
per Canada out of the proceeds of the taw.
Pro licensee wan, in every respect, egriiva-
lent to p -tying them out of the consolidated
fund.
Out gf'what, fund was Louis Joseph
Papineau paid £4,600, arrears of salary as
Speaker of the Lower Cansda House of
Assembly ? The Consolidated Ftfod.-
Iiow do the Tories who defend thio act,
justify their opposition to the proposal to
pay theLower Canada rebellion &aims out
of ilio same fund? -Examiner.
Vrolainaa! .pit lament.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
SPEECH OF AIRAI AKF, ON THE
REBELLiON LOSSES.
Mr. SOL►GiTOR GEN. BLAKE rose
to aJdre-tm the House under feelings of ex-
treme fain. Ifo could well recollect the
time- t was not very far distint-when
under his bon. friend the jlltotney.General
West, they were fighting, as they thought,
the battle of the 'Constitution, they were
salu'ed from the other aide of the House
with the universal cry of being men of one
ides -with havine nothing but the theory
of Responsible G>vernment. Tbey.were
taunted with being unable to take a single
practical step to govern the country ; and
they were told that the hon. gentleman op-
posite where am warm friends of the Cossli.
tution and Responsible Government as his
hon. friends aroudd him ; and they were al•
so told that thecountry was convulsed, not
for the purpose cf obtaining any practical
and, but merely in order to uyset the hon.
gentlemen opposite. lie (Mr. -Blake) had
hoped that upon this question at least the
hon. gentlemen opposite would have been
found taking something Ike a mtatesman-
w 1' n position and condi-
tion, and the position and condition of the
country. Ile did hope that when, from this
side of the douse, no obserrations were
1 !teard on the theory of Government, but
;very, measure brought forward of a pmcti-
cal natures that from the other side they
WO aid bays hvrd nothing but deliberate
reasoning ane Crins�deration of t'.e proposi-
tion before the Ilo,,ee. Ile had expected
that when the questiot. of paving these los
tee out of the revenues of the Province was
suhmitted, that hon. gentleman would have
looked a little to the condition of tic coVD-
try at the time those losses were incuried,
and would have trouble] the House with
one or- two observations at least, having some
beutng on the question. (Ilea►.) Bat if
he was unprepared for the extraordinasy
discussion which th.,y had heard since the
commencement of this Session, he was still
less prepared for the extraordinary course
taken by the hon. entleulan on the oppo-
site sidle, and the Epnarliameoury discus-
sion of the last day. Had not the hoe.
menobers opposite during the last Parlia-
ment proposer( to pay the very Inoses as
submitted to the resolution of his hon friend?
,lid they Tint done it for the baso purpose
of corruption T (Cheers) And would they
dare to seiaethe torch of discord and h.irl
it am,ingst their countrymen T Woold they
reckless and regardless of the peace and
happiness of the country -they par exed
knee the loyal subjects of our Queen-re-
gardlesd of the hest interests of the human
race, dare to take the torch of discord, and
ging it (moogst the inhabitants of the coun-
try T ([.mud Cheers.] Ho did feel diapneed
when, he entered the door this morning and
heard tomo eooversstion passing keltspn
the h. memher nn the other slJb of the
lion respecting the proposition of his
ho', friend, ,lo advise them to move an
amesdmec'i pand propose to the Roma to
greet a ebb+l Mforo every Frenchman's
dinner atalteff r up aA hollow -coast of 700,-
"(1 assn to appgap the 1?l.itisk part of Can-
ade. (Che►r•.J Its was look!^g at one
hen. samba( (Col. (logy) who laa,�bed,
mnJ vh) would laugh amidst the 14tH w
was Deabmg to draw down upe►n his noun -
try. IieesvieJ trot the feelaogsofthat hon.
wAnober-pofheps the Canis try knew what
the" feelatige were betlarn now--(HGaf.]
-111 id not wast that leach to
Nr' nit W, (Listed and caressed it
e,besrf �",'J
e—M,. Blake—proposed to
tab e sours* trout the line of ar
Pliamt pstnglbd by the catlamss app& 1
site. Hmproposed as ask the Hem, whet►•
err, is the lose 1836, that preceedin` tie re- I
bellles. suriuns lir eopaUtntfoeel liberty o
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and freedom which t►a pr now with this
boo. gentlemen opposite, vitro tee% as tbey
could Dow "actio& ? lis would tit the
boa. Geotlemos, whether the doetnne wheel
they tl.eo gloried lo, was a flotillas wheel
they could uphold W -day ? fin dud sot in
tend tit rotor late smatter& within bit ewe
personal kooWlodCs, he obeald Mot ge t,
newspaper history, but be should ge u
State papers. published by the Wilostel
House of Commensals, the nt►ority of 1wn
Abadsea would, he supposed, be act, I
edged, even by the bon. gwhwA*a apps.
rite. Lord Aberdeen was Colonial Beer*.
tary its 1833 • he was ■ strong Cassava.
Ulf. and good authority with jr"tlemen,
and be asserted that there wit in Casedad
is 1835. the grossest margovernment. HI
admitleJ, in his dispatch, is answer los tha
c o i o
n n -twat ty roe lit tons proposed by this
Lower Canada members, that the ldmisis
tration ofjustice-that first great west a
every p1le-was impure dad sol to ba
trusted. Ile admitted that clue tomppoosslIlies
of the Executive and Legislative Comnrilt
was such as to reader representation a use.
leu mockery. Ito declared, to his dupatet
to Lord Aylmer, that the conduct of till
Govermur of lower Canada Lower" the
Pe
ople represented by their;[louse of As
senility, was not to be tolerated. Whet
'Lord Durham's report was quoted, the
hon, anti gallant Koi ht oppos.te declare.
tl.at bad Lord Durham been in another
condition of life, be would have boom tries
and shot and wb:le he pr000uscsd the
death wa.t of the late lamemted Lon
Durham fee likewise pronounced an sulogl
on Ilia beloved Sir Francis Bond Ilead.-
lie moonlit tell the hon. and Callamt Kaigh
hat Lord Durham was not for first the tical
heard of when he was appointed Hig!
Commissioner to this country. From bit
first appearance in Parliament, in 1813, be
stood forward the resolute friend of cowl
and religr us liberty. ( Loud Cheer.) Oaf
of hu great efforts was in favor of Lore
Grey'e Reform Bill ; he was the advocate o
the miserable Poles in Russia, when that,
existence was threatened by the lgrant fui
whom the bon. gentleman opposite had
doubtless, a high admiration ; and in 1855
no able and independent vis. he, that hi
was looked to as the great head of ilia Lib
Dial party of ti,st day. (hear, bear"
cheer.) If the gallant Knight bad consul.
ted the Pail.atnentary debates iu England
he would have seen that not one voice wit
raised either in the Ilouso of Lords or Com
mons to ' oppnee the commission of Lon
Durham. Ile was looked upon by men o
all parties se well lilted to remove the Coo
fusion disturbance that thea mantel it
this country. (Ilear.) Thoy wanted. per
baps, the far seeing philosophy of the Cal
lant Knight from Hamilton? The hoot mem
berm should rec,ilcet whet part he took a
the time when largo meetings were caller
lin tipper C•.nada to protest against En
bland', recalling Lord Ihirham : he shouli
rceellect that a dignified churchman, the
Buhep of Toronto, -a man poo ,eseang more
blame than all the rest .roe
party �ui
together (gnat cheering), who mixed a alt
tie politics with bis re:igion,--Called a meet
ing at Torantu, and spoke in what he [i11r
Blake] should'call somewhat insolent Ian
mage against bis recall, it seemed ilia
the gallant Knight, with all his literary skit
[a laugh ], was actually unable to inforti
his hon. friend, the Commissioner of Cron t
Lands which part of Lord Durham's Re
port had been written by Mr. Wakefield
and which by Mr. Buller. If any one coup
do it the hon. Knight ought to be able tc
do it ; for he bad been intimsto witu LII:
Wakefield, and his party had derived mor,
advantage from Mr. W'a interference that
any one else had [dear.) iiia [Mr. Blake's
friends arround him owed nothing to'•a con
vicled felon." [Great cheering. ] The hon
member then pr..ceeded to quote from Lori
Durham's Report and Despatches, to prow
that the country had been shamefully rats
governed up to the mirsion of that ooblemai
to this country, (•IVe regret that we war
unable to catch the extracts. J They, war
told by bon gentlemen opposite that in 183'
there was a grevious rebellion, and Ilia
they were "loyal," and no man should dar
to call them rebels. He could tell then
that a man might be a traitor to his coun
try's rights, as well as a traitor to the pow
lir of the crown. [Cheers.] And let the hot
members stand up if they could and ilia
stow what he [Mr. Blake] should read fron
their own records, or he would tell thein t
their teeth that they were traitors to thei
snuntry. (Cheers and counter-cbsers.)-
The hon. members laugh. (kir. Smith.-
Frontenac.-We always laugh at anything
rediculuus.) They should then neverceasf
laughing at their own words. (Laughter
lie new the difficulty of the position h
which he stood ; he know that the honorable
gentlemen opposite wouid put words into f
marl d atouVi that he never uttered ; It
knew that they would persist, hour aftc.
1 hour, in attributing sentiments to a mat
wbteh he never uttered. (Ilear, hear, hear,,
li. [Me. Blake) spok:,onas a member o
the Government; he pose his own senti
menu ; but he would scorn the man who
when sitting on these Treasury Bencher
wonid use any language -who when u
possession of power and place would condo
seen] to anything, wou.'J get up when be
went to the other side and attempted to fling
the torch of discord amongst his countrymen
(Loud cheers.) Its would produce para-
Ile'sio h .t•,ry for the !ooalty of the hon,
genUemen opposae. Ili@ idea of loyalty
was to endeavour to reconcile the authot,iy
of tee Crown with the liberty of the sub
ject. Bat he could cite instances of loyalty
like that of the hon members opposite ;
when Philip of Spain thought that his did -
tat Provinces could not be nod with-
nnt a strong .:anise of Ike Royal preroga-
tter, he found a loyal enb�'cct. Tkc Diko
of Alva was at head, whose services are
not to be compared with those of the bon.
gentlemen opposite, for he brought to the
scaffold 18,000 freems0-4etter men than
himself. Ito found the loyal Duke of Alva,
and witat was his first act.? To proscribe
as a rebel William, first Prince of (range,
a person whose name was invoked by the
b000rable gentleman opposite, when they
wanted the bludgeon, the gun, and the
bayonet, to Interface in elections. (Cheers.)
Yon histor)) records for ns these facts, that
wbilat W illam established a Republic.,
who" glory has lasted till Ibis bour, the
oetkrated name of Alva bas gone dnwo be.
sath the curses of bis fellow -countryman.
(Choorw) Thant aaCCeein, look to our own
ewatry-to EnClapd-to the reign of James
IRs 8aeond-yw t 4 the Waggle between
"bite&[ freodoi amid Royal tyroamy was
about to be broei to a close. The Royal
lyrist food loyal man to his b"MD
ttly in the way, bet sed the B"eb of Jue-
see. Them was the axserAls )edge Jet -
broom, who mat i sedrads to Ibis ecasul+,
ad toasted of boo fl&edi, reedivise as a re-
rwd for bid loyalty the Clia"lorekip &mid
Chief Justlseshlp. Ameoget the victims
whom this execrated Judge pat before bid
Maker was the mild, amiable, and greal
Lord Russell. (Chanes.) Another victim
was Allgroom 1dtd"y, who walllevel to
the people of Engfatl/ tad In the coselitu-
tis" rights of ib find lv-sib' ts.-
(Clossim.) lie want saWtadt clue ►aa.
member oppssitm tied a tag time In com-
rmisating, met spot British 9oyelt�,' but
s1smi spu ro" Csesdian loyally. Its could
quote maty parallels from history, but be
would coalition himself to one other instunce,
(The boo. member was bore interrupted for
a few ,wofinemts by the arrival of a message
from the LoVelative Cosecil. On resum-
ing, he saidto alluding to The posiUou
of the hoe. Gentlemen opposite, be might
have made use of warm language, but he
was not ashamed of that warmth. Ile did
not derive his notion of loyalty from Ilia
boo. gentlemen opposite : it was born with
him. Thank God, he was cradled in it!-
Ile
t!-Ile did not think there was any amount of
personal wrong wb:cla would isdace him to
adopt the line pursued by the gentlemen
opposite : but he hoped and trusted that lie
knew what loyaltywas, and should ever
act upon jt, whilste trusted that no arm
would be more forward than his own to de-
fendiog that loyalty. Loyalty, was an en-
deavor to reconcile the power of the, crown
with the liberties of the people. lie had no
sympathy with the spuritus loyalty of the
hon gentlemen opposite, which, while it
trampled on the people, was the stare of
t)ia Court -a loyalty which, from the dawn
e histor of this world down to present
day, had lased humanity into rebellion. -
(Cheers.) With such loyalty, he for one
could have no sympathy. Ile world not
rote ancient history ;but he would tell
the hon gentlemen opposite of ones grrat
exhibition of this lloyaliy ; on an o ca -ion
when the people of a distant Roman Pro-
vince contemplated the preparation of the
foulest crime that the page of history to -
cords -a crime from which Nature in com-
paAmun hid her face and strove to draw a
veil over ; but the heathen Raman law-
giver could not be induced by perjured wit-
nersee to place the great fottoder of oar
religion upon the cross, " I find no fault
in him," he said. But those Provincials,
aper endeavouring by every other means to
eff.ct their purpose, had recourse to this
spurious loyalty-" If thou leant this man
g,•, thou art not Cesar's frienl." (Cheers.]
Mark the loyalty ; could they not see every
feature of it ? could they not trace in this
act ? ayo, and overcome by that mawkish
spurious loyalty the heathen Roman Go-
vernor gave his sanction to a deed whose
fnui and impure slain eighteen centuries of
national humiliation and suffering have been'
unable to efface. [Cheers.) This spurious
s!avieh loyalty was not British stuff (chaera];
this spurious, bullying I )yalty is tint the toy
ally that wrung on the fie:d of Runnymedr,
from the tyrant King, the great charter of
English liberty. Aye, the Barone of Eog-
land, with arms in their hands demanded
and received the great charter of their
rights. British loyally during a period of
three centuries, wrung from tyrant King@
thirty different recognitions of that great
charter. Aye, and, at the glorious era of
the Revolution, when the loyal Jeffries was
ready, in his extreme loyalty, to hand over
England's freedom and rights to the hands
of tyrants the people of England, on that
great Revolution established the constitu-
tion which has maintained England till this
day a great, free and powerful nation.
But the hon. and gallant Knight told u-,
"But my loyalty is unjucsCaued; I did illi -
Itar serotic:; I raisaa royal arm in defence
of my country;" and his (Mr. Bli1te's) hon.
friend near him (Mr. Price) actua'ly paid
the gallant knight the coatpliment of com-
paring him to the Duke of Wellington. (A
laugh.). When he heard bis bon. friend
allude to that remarkable historical parallel
it ocCltrred to him that he courd find one
still closer, a great English Knight, Sir
John F.Istef1. (Great laughter.) lid any
man ever know Sir John disloyal, to his
sack ? Why he drank it from morning lilt
ofgght and from might till morniog. He
[bfr. Blake] remembered a little book, pub-
lished in 1837, called "Readings, from Old
Authors," or some Duch title, gensralll
suppored to be meant by some mischievous
and disloyal person to be intended to ridi-
cule certain of the e loyal men of that day.—
Ile would not tako up the time cribs Ilouse
by reading many extracts from it, but he
would qoote two lines, which were general.
ly supposed at the time to apply to the
hun. and gallant Knight from Ifam;lton :
The Ill of Francs with twenty thnosand men
Marched op the hill and tbea marched down
again.
(Cheers, coun tor -cheers, and laughter.) He
did not mean to may that thegaliant Knight
really performed his feats of arms on the
same shabby manner, but he Was certainty
believed byy many persona to have dome'so.
He (Mr.Blake) had referred to the hu•
iota, of our country to establish the fact that
in 1837athere existed I in every Department
of theiState the grossobet misgovernment.(He
had endeavored to establish that true British
loyalty seeks to maintain the privileges of
the Crown and the liberty of the subject by
laws equally stringent, and the men who
played the slave and the loyalist to the ty-
rat, and trampled on the people's rights,
was no loyal man. When his home. friend
for the Fourth Riding of York—who enjoy-
ed no popularity to Upper Canada (bear and
laughter,—was invited to lake a seat in the
Executive Council of Upper Canada ander
Sir Francis Bond Ilea/! Administration,
what did he may hidminute delivered to the
Governor?-" The Council meeting once a
week upas lead Watters, while the affairs of
the country aro withheld from their coastal.
n -
oratioas advice, is as perfect a folfilmost
of the Constitutional Act as if the Provin-
cial Parliament was summoned Deem a year
to smoset the letter of the low, and imrnodi.
mildly III -as open answering the Speech.
In both some the meaning and spirit of the
Conartitntitlimal Act requires the Parliament
should haw* a Ceeral and practicable op-
portms'ty to legulstfl, and the Executive
Cattail to advise upon the stairs of the
iso estry. is the former came the Represen-
tative of Krag coo withhold the Royal
Assert fres s ►iiia, and is the other rojmet
the edviee • but their respective pro-
IAr " cammot be constitutionally circum.
Beg Would any man who beard bids
(Mr. Blahs) Gay that has
hon. fttiead, the
Attorney (literal Wool, whom be made tbat
Iselarstien, acted disloyally t He asked rhe
Immersible member for Toronto, whoetaer,
when hu honorable friend (Mr. Baldwin)
wild the King's Representative that b most
tet cont aeeordisg to his owe wished, am via
melee of the butt Intel to of the coumtry_
when he told him that he would cot bold •
moat in the Executive Coutetl " a mere an.
tomato• for the disposal of land -that be 11
must be eetsulted oat the agbire M the roan. 1
-%
ow
try-whet►e► be AJvaoeond a lie"UtatioGal
Irttle
ed.
position
posy
- dmeh opinion Is be blase Ms. 8pwse owe.
and loyal doctria, or use sssbveirotve of the
ed to ameodneot, to the east, rhes lbs
coonectio& of this country with the Mother
meetiag►ad eoaddows a floe st"aintrati-
country ?
*m ; that so portion of the Ravens of Ca -
Mr. Iii1F.RWOOD-) never was asked to
adds abswdd be appropriated to ted psymeat
go nota the Council of Har Franca (load : I
of Lower Canada Rebels but able would sot
at into
never //at into oth"s ualll there was Roars-
dor, It or not uiltl-eensmtusd u
sible i
16 lull
l�rwibgd
Mr. BLArXR koew that ►enortblmit:&=,
i es
had mot ►pat, but be wasted to know
r t T moat be
was a moderato, loyal, and 004811
I ailed
Joclrios, which Sit, iYratoM flatsI
!_.
effrontery to say he would at te!oray
w d mer f•
Ile would sow go to the d seomsson of death
terry out the prerisions of a Tory guars,
srdluestiys, the opinion held by them that
trot up under As sYperialeadsary of tiefli
the Exoc%Uwe Council was mot responsible
femed "Comm VS -1. IN I' et/l/m6dw
to ilia people of the counlry fur the acts
79"d
trutios I'!-LJrmduf l{ ar nr
which they might coma it as a government.
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The Isativirsble gentleman Isere read as ex.
. .
tract from a despatch in confirmation, of hie
AAA
statement. Mark, continued Mr. Blake—
,
mark what they say in that despatch, that
Aw
the Executive Council should not be reepoa-
.. --- ,�.�
sible to the people of the country—a doe.
trine he had no hesition in denouncing as
U I; Q N S I NAL L.
dangerous and subversive of the dearest
..
rights of rho people; and yet this was the
sentiment held by the fat into now out of
--- - .
FRIDAY, PARCH !, 18M.
place. ( Laughter.) lie trusted the bun.
TLE GOLDEN DeLUlfON ! .� it
member for Toruoto would not :spire,
while he referred to another document in
which that honorable geotl imai s name ap-
_
WL an a!wsyr'willing to give set lfveh
peared. Air. Blake then read another ex.
Jonathan credit for a Inge shaft ofavery thing
tract, and which be also stigmatized as ex.
that is generous, and noble, and eaireaaimmus.
tremely dangerous to the people. It win to
We are even disposed at times to call him the
the effect, :that the honorable member for
bravest, on] the inner liberal fellow in the
Toronto had declared that unless Lord Met-
-world ; ard, till now, we tioought that his via•
calla condescended to consult him in every
duin, that is, the power d laking good care of
act relating to the Government of the coun-
try, that he would not keep his office for a
number one, was rgval to env of his other vir-
moment, They had been well treated the
lues ! But Passing events noidy as Iasi we
"Family compact," and he believed they
were wrens, regetirng this utter omit of his
were the happiest family in the world ; and
eharseter, and that whmtevrr other gdil4irs he
well might they pray, as they did, that the
may mosses•, he is totahr deficient in gvmp/ion.
Almighty might help them out of theird%n•
The fortunate fool has found a region of geld in
ger; for, holding such opinions of Reapoa-
his own dominions, and ahhosgh he is so deep -
sable Government, they might wet! be afraid
of sinking down to that place which one of
ly in debt, that " repndial-on" seemed the sof•
the hop. gentlemen opposite was said to
'""hod of estricnisg himself. TrI forge tiro g
I
have visited. The proposition crouch rod.
the wholesome maatm, which says, " Be just
pons.Witqq was destructive in the highest
I before yua are ecw.ram s," maid neglecting fiat
degree orTwerylhing cacred to the people of
the Province. Were he to to over deop4teh
I to recur- hos own mi:lidns of dol'ars, he has
thrown his Buil region open as at " glotions epe-
after despatch, it would bit��Qpske it clearer
that they done all in their paler to spread
Ats,ion" to the whole world ! Megnaoimou•
'humboge,
an i precipitate the rebellion, and it had also
Jocxlhan ! Daring all Yankee we
been encouraged by them for the purpose
adndre the grrarsear of the soul
of gratifying their revenge. After all, it
Awl ell men are remain_ to the geld region :
was but small revenge. Small rs it waw,
and the topper of Cornwall, and fake Superior,
however, their vengeance had been fearful
and the silver of Germany stall Potosi are regard.
td ranaaa, and such an their may yet have
rd with ind,Brreece. All mimes, metals, and
much cause to deplore. If :Il mcc from
AberJoen down to the present time hall,
minerata, Prove jrold. are nrgleeted or desp'.ed-
admitted the r•;ht of Reepone:ble (Juvcrn
all trade,, professions, snJ pursuits are mertuia
meat, and whea the greatest and beat
Into the one gree► busimess of golJ•estheriar!
statesmen of Bntaiv had given it a+ their
golden diNmwasJgulden prospects, are.bewit -.
opinion, that the absence of it in C-tnada
ging the brain, and dealing doe ..aioa of yomng
was a proper Amp -in for their endeavors to
mai old. Gaunt Poverty with her less Poona
secure it, t -%e people wee not to he blamed
is looking rufslly, and riling her departure from
for theconeeq tevices which issued. If oft, r
years of strnFq!irg to obtain"their ri'Ili"
the abodee from tae childrs-t of men, smd a go; -
they found a d..ctrkle ao detrimental to the
div em is ,!awning nv the, wor)J
liberties advocated by the Government, the
Many noel Jeep are the mks trio of nstare,
bli :n,j wait conch lessened for it was more
and'lorg and anxioo•ly have we theng'a to I
deserving of being denounced as being me
wondered over some of these deep mystreirs, bat
rebellious as the efforts made to set it ariJo.
with Done have we been maw completely per -
What brought' Stafford to the block? It
plexed and baffled, titan with, that. dark ur-
was Dot that he was loyal to his master,
fathomable mystery rbat rsism somewhere be.
but that be was loyal i to the people ; and it
was this loyalty to l.ie people which cost
tween humanity and .-old
•
him his life. Ills friends were placed in a
We do not mean the Calafurnia gold f.re,—
s:mi!ar po.ition, they were true to the in-
Ili;s we uadereoand distivotly-but we mean the
terests of the people, and he would call on
hardships and inconvemincies-the bun trr and
the Opposition tat denounce his proposition
if tray could. What hid Lord Sydenham
pnvstiona-the dellsea and d�presemn of best -
maid 1 That he would rather take his Con
mer, in short, the periadesl misery which the
on ,his eh,iuf.'ers and ram his chance, than
whole civilised would collates, and anaainmu-
submit to h: governed by a d'o^trine an
ly attributes to a scarcity of gold ! In the year
that held by the gentlemen oppo-ite.. Ile
1916 a vc:y serious depreation of trade succeeded
would never wish to kaait -of playing on
the French war. The money %slue of labor was
base a part in the history of his eonnlry as
d reduce I about one-half, a vast mulutu.le of the
haJ been done by some boo. mc:aocrs op.
working population were thrown out of employ-
posite, the consequence of which might yet
light on their bandit. Ile had given his
sent, provisions rose in prier, and sore sof lir.
opinion on the events of the time, and bad
int», and gloom prwrd heavily on society. --
only elatcJ what he thought. He might
Every body old it was the scarcity or Cold—and
a so point them to their acts of 1835, when
thousands who in all probability.- never handled
they had the country at their feet, mad when
tor owned three ounces of gold in their whole
they possessed an overpowering majority,
lives, joined in the universe! lamentation for the.
\Vere the acts of that year in favor of the
want of gold! We were then only thirteen '
hbertiee of the people4 No their mets at
time
years of age, and consequently neither knew
that were perfoimed no that they
might the longer maintain their tyranny.—
not &+red mach shoat the eti'sire of the world.
In 1843 and 1914, their conduct was of a
but The misery existing arosodda attracted our
piece, and only tended to mark what was
attearios, sed we thought, and studied, and
required for the good of the peoplo of this
reasoned according to the best of our abilities.
country. Let him contrast for a moment
but we were' utterly doable to discover why
the conduct of his hon. an l IenrneJ .`rlenJ
voua,y Ncllarg 'aid his family were aatreting
the member fir Turk. in that year his
honorable friend wte told that ,rhe would
hinge: on account r clue seaMity of gold ! For
assist -them that honor would be conferred
q,sen-Jus+see of those isdiviJule who to the
sen him ; but, in i841. when they %vtehed to
beat of oar own persona( knowledge had sever
secure bis vote to carry out some favorite
posscueJ much of either silver or gold.
plan, he taw that he could not conscien-
Thirty-two years have now elapsed mace that
tiously do no, he instantly relingniehcd of-
period, dad to I", time we have seen several
fice. considering it was better for him to do
server• do#veadioms of trade. We have seen the
so than to vote against the interest ,f the
eoontry. But the hoq gentleman opposite .
had had
laboring mi;honw rcdseed a a state of desutu-
tion, av eriam and risen
p p pnsuivsA{ar.at nv.—
office under my and all rircnm-
stances whereas his hon. friend for York, on
We have heard their verctehed condition ■ni-
soon as he found that he could not eonaci-
formly titribated to a scarcity of gold, and we
ectioualy go along. with the pirty, rrlin.
have thought, and wondered sod reasoned on tie
quixhed honor and Ace&,together. What
subject—read all work• on political ee000my,
rights, he would ask, had the gentlemen op-
commerce—•xchasgs roll basking systems, and
poste protected? Could they name fine
Instance in which they had done so? The
at this moment, we are , enable an discover
Rebelli n was called by one Governor a I
any astsrml or necessary matins between gold
creel one—and after it had been put down,
and the physeal happines, of humanity ate we
Common hamanity might have dictated that
were at thirteen years of age ! %e cannot en -
the rights of person+ should be then Mitre
derstand why there is not as much gold in the
ted, and that they should be no (anger ac-
world today as was at any other given period of
tuated by revenge, mnro edpecia!ly whom
they had been commanded to do iso b the
our history, we cannot see why mantind are
supposed to p,s less of it today than they
Sovereigs ; for despatch after deep&( was
sent to the effect that the were Briush
did st say other time. Mattingly eau gold -sad
and that no more blood ought to
the gasatily which is won in apparel a arms -
be
be shed ; dad ted hoaombls member for
went* is .till is existence - In fact it is all in er-
114nulta had base iso reqievted fit innelf,
isteecs that ever was-bui we cannot per.rire
with the recommendation that after the
its neterat infieence upon human happiseu.-
danger was past the saeriftce of human hfe
We feel that theta is a mearuty of money is
should be ended; and the letter recommend.
Coma& at prvwut—we salesetand Ube *dues of
is` this course might now be read in letters
of blood.
it. The smme complaint we believs aldeU trade
Sir A. MACNAB wished ow if the
and hard rinse•, is prevalent over all Eorepe sort
honorable gentleman was deelrose of annoy-
desirous
America. RIM. mho vame eivantity of gold is In
ing him by his allusions to "letters of
amist.ner And though the gmat Iy could be
blood," and which he seemed desirous of
doubled to -morrow, we cannot eodentosd why
Pointing to him. If there was aaything in
'hie of enW Colors. Loate any soiditiieel power
his sonduct which dmorvnJ each allusions,
he would be glad that the boa. member
to the mind, or serves, or faowlse of menklnd.
would condescend to point it out, and let
All the siseeem,.o mad cosmfort@ and luxuries
him know what he meant by "lettere of
wbdeh sus requires a nerd err pestered by kis
blood."
siva iMmaitl, tr ilerprue, mad tountar energy,
(CDIPCLUDan Im oda RaxT.)
and we cement perceive why thew should set be
---- r+-wm.�.�
sat gmt. a" r widely pd isdasuietrdy axety
LATE DIISTRICT WRETiNO.
is rho a►sr.eee of geld. mealasagla be lived is :&
We have ate apaegi for ay extended r
emblem would. The present Miati�er is the
grmssvl t reolod" of twenty is c6an aoimemset
mark* " IM Belles exblblssd N this W-4-
it elle so std sttstspt to
utss Ain a sentmity of goy N the mond, pate .
get
op a t aci hon
to faint tbo Yib", aed
rip am o, It
600 the bet tbst the g� lank bt as
ti tech, it ligat
elle filed. TAerw was bet
the have ed4iag to give It tlftdn 64'1
ei c
dilferssce of opine &, until a mssi"
they have "�w ga60'-p�
coadeamhetory of also MlMfetry was a.
for the pde1w1 heathens adatntw■ed11=177,
This motion was Corse oded iso *Mi"-
derime tbo pPPwas yang obit' snesad is miisg
that the min' tr were 4I= to
Rebels
fear ►eaheM of Mewl (a • sum p me rained Iry
the is i,oww ileatada. sC
pear. the tier Will be O" as Prospers" sad