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1ttttttNi orbs sibs appeared es the Weed after
det MMnsIWeed• u
, to meters cave Mei ie W
the lame& Dub" the two
1 dsye • geed deal of eseiteseent
le the streets, aid Wee farther
(seta elf ieeemberiam were perpetraW....
ti\te thee the military force hoe twee te-
eres.ed, aid the leaders of the tkusts/
rostrata
party have above • 4.rm,p. ilio.
that fellewsta s. iu alreet seer
teems* the mese sde•titutt el uhjeet
petitiooieg .the the my recall, and
the drslimeeaeer of shioRioultRI. The
If eke et Asesttl ij will
aloe le to •we tba tdrbutent. i trust,
threfor., that the peace of the city will not
he ague disturbed. Tee gowapapers which
1 ssdsss mutate fall, eel 1 WWere pretty
nurses unseats, of all that has occurred
sisee Wednesday last.
11. The ministry aro blamed ft r not ha-
ying made •tlegaate previa:on agetort these
dtsa.tere ; bot they by so weans expected
that the hostility to the Rebellion Limon
1.11 would have displayed itself in the out-
rages which boyo been perpetrated during
the last few days, is certain. Perhaps suf-
ficient enemies was not paid by them to
the ensues of the opposition press. It
awn be admitted, however, that their po-
witlos was one of considerable difficulty. -
The civil force of Mootnal-aeity anntain•
Mg about 60,000 inhabitants, of different
races, with secret vicious," and other agen-
cies of mischief in contaot activity -eo\
•uta of two policemen under the athonty
Min government, ted 70 appotwted by the
corporation. To oppose, therefore, efoct-
ual
remotion to any cunsiJerable mob, re-
course must b. had in all cases either to
the twittery or to a fore.) of civilise* enroll-
ed fur the occasion. (have objection,
however, presented themselves is the pres-
ent instance to the adoption of either of
these courser., until the disparities to tu-
mult on the part of the populace unhappily
manifested n1611 11) overt acts. More e.pe-
cially was it of importance to avoid any
measure wblch might have had • teadeaey
to prpduce a collision between parti.. at •
goeittoo on which their feelings were se
strongly excited. The result of the
course pursued is, that there has been no
bloodshed, and, except io the cess ef some
of the ministers ttemselvee, oo deslructiou
of private property.
12. The proceedings in the Assembly
have been important. 1 enclose the coP)
of an address which has been voted to me
by a majority of 38 to 16, expr.smve of ab-
horrence at the outrage' which have taken
-place io the city of Montreal, of loyalty to
the Queeo, and approval of my just and im-
partial administration of the goyernesat,
with my late, as well as my present adv(
here. Soros of the oppos,tion approve of
the comae which l bave takes with respect
to the Rebellion Looses Bill, as appears
from the speeches of Messrs. Wilson and
Galt, of which reports are Riven in the
newspapers which 1 enclose. Mr. Wilson
is an infueulial rnsmber of the Upper Cana-
da coo .•rvative party ; and Mr. Gilt's
vie ws are the more important, because be
has beoo returned to Parliament, only a
few dye ago, by a Lower Canadian cuns.it-
ueney, which comprises • large British pop
elation. Generally., howetier, as the amend-
ments they have moved to tho address show,
they desire to avoid committing thinning
us this point. The"votes against the ad•
dress may be thus classed: Sir A. McNab
tad hie party ; my late mintetry and their
party ; mot Mr. Papineen. The first acts
with perfect consistency In vexing as he
bas done on this occasion, for he hes always
cnoteoded that government, coadustsd on
British principle., is unsuited to Canada. -
The Course of the second class is les. intel-
ligible; for, until the day on which they re-
signed their offices into uiy hands, they toe -
rurally expressed approval of the principles
on which myconduct as Governor General
wit guided and these, as your lordship
well koowe, have undergone no change with
the change of adutinistratioo. Mr. Pept-
one's vote conveys a useful lesson, which
will not I trust, be lost on persons who bad
been conduced to believe that the peredotttion
of which 1 am the object is really attributa-
ble to my having shown undue lenity to
those who were led by him into rebellion.
13. I have now famished your lordship
with as clear a,.tateaent of three important
occurrence" as I can give, and i can con-
clude by assuring you that the city is per-
fectly tranquil, and that there is no present
bkelibood of a renewal of disrurbancee. A
few days will show what echo the proceed-
ings of the violent party awaken in Upper
Ga\sd% asd to what extent they will be fol-
lowed by rogation. Meanwhile, itis my firm
conviction, that if this dictation be submit-
ted, to, the govurnmeot of thts province bj
constitutonal means will bo impossible;
and that the struggle between overbearing
minorities, backed by force, and majorities
reeling oo legality and establialied forms,
which baa so long proved the bane of
Cassda, driving • capital from rho pro-
vince mod producing a state of chronic
discontent, will be perpetuated. At the
gams novel think that if I am unable to re
cover that position of dignified neutrality
between eonteadiog parties, which it has
been my unremitting study to maintain, asd
from which i would appear to have been for
the anent driven -not, a. I firmly believe,
through any fault of my own, but by the un-
reasoning violence of faction -it may be a
question with your lordship whether it would
not be for the interest of her Majesty's ser-
vice that 1 should be removed from my high
office, to make way for one who should not
indeed hold views at variance with mine,
with respect to the duties of a constitution-
al governor, but who should have the advan-
tage of being perennally unohnoxious to any
saute° of bar Majesty's subjects within the
provieee. 1 have, kc.,
ELGIN' and KINCARDINE.
The Right Hos. Earl Grey, kc.
PROVINCE Or CANADA.
r
inn the esppl.awst of the Canada Gsuii..
DESPATCH.
DOWNING STREET,
18th May, 1849.
Illy Lneo,
i ham received and laid before the Qneen
You Lordship's Despatch of the 30th
lipid(, scene an •cconat of the scee by
which the City of Montreal has bees det-
ain i0 the course of which the
diaj ossupied by the Provineial Pathe-
tical has bees destroyed by Fire.
IL 1 oma soaausdsd by Her Majesty is
Mitsui Your Lordship that while ..he bis
runnel with veryroar *encore the inNl-
I'piew .f these 4.plorahie menu, the
haresot sapairsd the coai J.ocs which
Icer .Ni eetp has hipbone felt in your
Milky asd j.dgmest, and that 8du sestimses
le regent peer Wesisidrolino If fie.deein
.( de Prentice es merisisg der cohere
approbation.
Upoe the act of the Provincial Parlia-
ment, which has afforded • pretest for the
outrages which have b.eo committed, tt to
the duty) of Har Majesty's Servants to re-
serve their judging* uotil we shall be u
=Me
e( theists m alle
iiforat%a whipl
INd M. to aspect es to its Aurae ter Wit
object"; but -wbatever may be the Ow
',tuck May he takes et the merits of tint
tlltlt)aets, *ilea sae be bet nee ule• es
to the gnat of those who in resistance to a
law constitutionally pained by the Proven•
rut legislature, have had recourse to vto-
teeee of es dlegrs eful a eharaeter. or u
to the very serious responsibility incurred
by all who have even by the imprudence of
their language assisted IS producing the
excitement which has led to such lamenta-
ble results. .Her Majesty's Servant' en-
tirely cyece► with Your Lordship as to the
coaseque1cee whish mud follow from sub.
netting to the kind of declaims by whicb it
hu bees apes; td ea this occasion. to
overrule lbs decline of the legdly consti-
tuted aothnrilise of the Province, end they
confidently rely epos year lrsnese, sup-
ported es I trust yam will be by Parltameot
aid the great majority pf the People of
Canada, to enforce for the fusee obedience
to the law, and to compel those who may
disapprove of the ewer.. eathet L•f the
Legielatere est of the Executive Government
of the Province, to endow their opposition
*Ohm legal and ees'titutaonaf limit..
3. I appreciate the ether . which have In-
duced Your Lordeb;p N ogee the sogge'tton
with which soar Desp.teh cusctudos, bet 1
should most e•rneelly deprecate the eha'ge
rt committals" is the Guver.seet of Car
de. Your Lordship's relioqursbneent of
that office, which ender any cmrouastaaees
would he a moot 'enema Ia. to Iler Majes-
ty's ee►yld ad to the nominee, could not
fol is tbe present elate of affairs tolls most
infamies to the p iblmc welfare, from tis
recoar.gvaret ariaei ii wowld give to Hese
who lore cern e..certed ia the violent and
Iffrgaf opporrtioa whisk ioar been offered to
Year Gesceeaarat, I alert feel se dotabt that
whoa the prevent excitement "hall have
suiusmJed, you will emceed le regaining that
position of " dignified .eutrelity" becom-
ing your office, which as you justly observe,
it has hitherto b..■ your study to main-
tain, and Mom which evert those who are at
pretreat wort opposed to you will on rdoc-
tius perceive (bat you Wive bilea driven by
no fault on your part, but by their own un-
reasoning violence.
4. Relying, therefore, upon
'vour devotion to the interests of
Canada, I feel assured that you
will not be induced by the unfor-
tunate occurrences which have
taken place, to retire from the
high office which the Queen has,
been pleased to entrust to you,
and which from the value she
puts upon your past services, it
is Her Majesty's -anxious wish
that you should retain. . .
I have, kc.
(Signed,) GREY.
The Right Honorable
The EARL or Ei.er'm,
ke., &cc., kc.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!
EH 1 WIIAT 8AYETII TIIE LEAGUE1
THE LONDON TIMES ON 'CANADA
AFFAIRS.
From the Leiden Times of May 17.
Lord Elgin's despatch with its important
enclosure*, has been presented to Parlia-
ment, and will be found in another part of
our columns. In our opinion it leaves
nothing to be wanted. The conduct of •
public man under trying circumstances will
always be open to*disenesioa; but tie pre-
sent question, in its raw state as imported
from the colony is a political, not it personal
affair, and England has really nothing to do
with it. Considering the vest number of
very troublesome geeetioos pressing for
decision in the legislature, the tribunals,
the church, and every other arena of dis-
cussion, we think we shall do the public'
some "entice if we can strike off from the
Int one superfluous controversy. V. will
do so at once. The British Parliament hes
not the feat call to pet its foot into the
Canadian q•terrel. if it chooses to enter
into the particulars of Lord Et.ory's admin-
istration, or to canape the endue of the
Montreal authorities, or of Sie Benjamin
D'Ilrban, or any other colonial officer, it
will probably find the subject et least as
amusing as the Rajah of Sattars s claims.
But ouch a discussion will be wholly gratui-
tous and we are convinced, utterly unpro-
fitable. Beery political question connected
with the Montreal rioters ins already.ieen
definitively settled. Canada is one united
province, rand toe are not now going. to die•
unite it. We have granted it • free con-
stitution, as much on the model of mar own
as the circumstances of a colony will allow.
That Constitution we are not gong to re-
call. We gave it • Repre.stativs Legis-
lature and Responsible Governmebt. - There
is no English statesman who would venom*
to move the revocation of these liberties. -
Canada is sow walking in the light of it.
own constitution: and acting therein with
freedom, deliberation and order. Eves ill
we did not Windy approve of its pohcy,'I
we should he still undoing the good we
have done, the good we wore compelled to
do, and scarcely did in time, if ws were
suddenly to interfere by some act of fa
portal absolutism.
Has Canada moreover, abuse] the liber-
ties we bare lately guaranteed her, or has
the eaes.Jed their just and proper range 1
Most certainly not. As Lord Elgfa asserts
to his despatch, the present Hoose 'of As•
trembly has every possible claim to be re-
spected as the free and rennins void of the
people. it is tbe result of a general elec-
tion whicb took place about 18 month. ago,
under the arming of the political party
now in opposition, arid after • di/rotation
which they bad advised for the purpose of
strengthening their position as • govern
mons. As It hvppensd, the mink was is
the Ise( degree unfavourable to thorn; for
while the represestahon of Lower Caada
wee little anted by the claege, in the
Upper Provisos several consultancies, and
among them some of the most populous
turned oat tory reprosenlativeo, and tent
kneel. ie their place. No ofyeetiew, there -
!armpits be takes to the peculiar che►•eter
of the pesuost lion . The torics appealed
to the penple, mid, 1e ail fairsese, Auld
Mud by (noir appeal. They wore beaten
m the sew Hesse slid kneed te tMlire, • ea
• question of ee\ideses, wises they did
sot muster a third of she votes is their
tamer. Is AM country • party thea & Jest-
ed, etas attest recovering Ms trued by
owvertiag its opponents or partially 000-
forsuss to their views. 1s Canada, the
as who call themselves the Qrtttshry,
ike
sed silo had bnherlgp. w lin eup-
�aet against lke people if the c y, bad
bo lase of so pe•oeful said sonatleeuvaal a
method. They leek up the hostile wee -
titer to the Helms they had tbsmeelvos
milled into emirate* sail the p'opls Pito
bad returoed It. Throughout the province
and pareiculnly at Montreal they made it
the object of bitter Jenue iatton'
ted r
ups rumens. Lord Vele quotes a' prim
from • Montreal *real, unites hetero the
present agitation, and relating to different
0.eas0ree, which betsay• a tempter so
savage and brutal, that every gestyae Reg-
lishtsan will at once pot the party which
could sanction such sentimm.ta wholly out
of tbe pale of his sympathies. it professes
to rejoice to the success of the o'iority, as
being certain to sod io • war of moss and
Anglo-Saxon rebellion. It threatens Eng-
land wile a colonial Cromwell, and with a
sort of uointesdod presestmeat of Mr.
Roebuck, proceed.:-" Sheffield in the olden
time used to be famous fur its keen and
well -tempered whettles; well they make
heyoods then now, just so sharp and just
as well tempered. Whoa we tan stand
tyraesy no longer, it will be sees whether
good bayonets in good Saxon hand., will
not ee more than a match fur a mace and a
majority." This ca only mean aa Mow
lion on the part of a coulees/re minority to
try physical force ageing a majority and
the regular operation of this law. Such
wes the temper which the maleconteata
brongbt to the present gumption.
The seditious,pasione, the rebellious in-
tentions, dm attempted war of races, the
appeal to Sheffield bayonet., the cry for a
Cromwell, the denunciation of the Legi•la-
ture, sod the menace pointed at its official
emblem, all unman] before the prompt con-
troversy. The material of the quarrel was
u( no importance. As soon se the Toffee
found themselves not a third of the House,
they took forthwith to rebellion -rebellion
against the legielature and against the
crown. As if to show that the quarrel had
no other ground than their own political
dirappoinlment, they have broken out -for
so we must espies. it -0o • measure which
is no new measure, but which has been
adopted by successive Parliaments and
Guveroments now for four years, and only
delayed by certain difficulties of execution.
'rho preamble u( the am joss palmed, and
which our readers will find below Lord
Elgin's despatch, traces the history of the
measure througb the administration of the
very persona now moving heaven and eerIh
against it. So tar from propoeteg to in-
demnify rebels, the set ot,ly recognizes
claims oo account of wanton injury to pro-
perty, and especially. excludes contested
rebejs, as well u those who being charged
with rebellion bad subm',lted to.Her Majes-
ty's pleasure. To pus such a hilt is no
stretch of liberty, no insult to royal author-
ity or law. It is merely )be..ttlement of
existing and admitted claims by a regutar
prone. of meljudicatioo. The British public
will- not meet the question whether the
coloniel legislature had • right to pees such
an act; or whether Lord Elgin might pro-
perly allow his cabinet to introduce it, and
so give It • species of sanction. There
Must bea discretion in rulers; sad we oew
not think that Lord E:gir exceeded that
discretion in consantiog to t!.t !:11. We
are equally certain the British public will
not expect the Crown to prevent or delay
the operation of a measure, in itself unnx-
eepti,nablo, and passed by • decided majori-
ty to a Mouse of lfeprosentativoe, free:y
and fairly e;cctcd by two millions of our
fellow subjects.
In truth, the prefeaVoon of these, Tory
desperadoes aro such as are utterly inad-
tameable in this country and this age. in
the face of a solemn treaty by which Eng•
li'hmen •od l'renchmen, Troi Tsriitsqu,
are boned to live in unity and equality, Sir
Allan McNab and leie aceosplices are con-
spiring to disfranchise, enslave, and crush
not far (rum a million of Iter Majesty's
peaceable subjects. Their claim ie, that
the " Aoglu-Saxon" minority, as tbey
ignorantly call it, shall give laws to rho
majority, though the latter contains as
many of Brlti.h u of Freoeh extraction._
For mouth. they have been incessantly
laboring to intimidate the legislature aid
destroy its free action. Take it all in all,
we de nos hesitate to say, that anther the
Chartist nor the Irish rebels exhibited such
a complication of wickedness as the Cana-
dian Tories. Our demagogues at home
had at least some honorable pretences.-
They took op the cause of poverty and op-
pression. 'Piny sought liberty for those
who, at least, had never enjoyed power. -
They imagined their side to be the majority,
and, consistently with that belief, they
asked for a perfect representative system.
Both in England and Ireland, a popular leg-
islaturo was the immediate object of egita-
ti"n. Ir. Ctpsda we behold an oligarchy,
which has long revelled in the plunder ors
province laboring to overawe a Senate. to
bully a Governor, to paralyse a majority,
and to degrade • people, merely that they
may again monopolize office and divide
official booty. The rebefs of 1837 were
patriotic and honorable men compared with
their present opponents. The former fought
for free and equal institutions: the latter
for the aacesdency of a faction and a race.
The true rebels aro three who, having pro-
voked the repellion of 1837, now show how
unfit they ever were to govern, by rebell-
ing themselves the momeut they cease to
be paid for obedience.
RESPONSiBLE GOVERNMENT.
Mow'Tl%WAL, 1715 May, 1849.
Mr Dsaa 8u,—With reference to onr
conversation of this morniog, respecting
the report which you promised making, os'
the bill for ioeorpnratiotQ "The Toronto
Bitncoe and Lake Huron Rail Road Compa-
ny," recommending the same to be reserved
for the medication of Iger Majesty's plea-
sure lhereoh, 1 desire to place upon record
my °pintos upon the public policy of such
a cause, whtcb, as.I stated to you, I did
not mincer in.
it is not with reference to this hill that i
desire to be understood as ioterpoeing any
olyectita to the coarse you propose lo
adopt with reference to this measure, al-
though i deny Ile being a lottery whose,
writhes the seenisg of the Royal tnstraeti-
oeo sad am asst •axioms that it shoald at
ease become law; bet itis en public mid high
..setitolional grooude that i desire thee
emphatically to draw year Wulf/ft to the
subject, whieh lbs eon S ee.ejder tt the
.sore isp\rta\t de I angor/ It, mid 1 \m
sore that yes will straw the medium tied
freshness with which I am about to uprose
aa option adverse to that which you seem
to entertain, when you call to abed how
fully 1 concur with'u, 1 ►'(:eve to all
other respects a nMtos to Respoe'ibl.�
Goeeroment.
T5. s It is tide.. require
that •R int In their object th
euthenists/1lwwhg lotteries (which,
however, Il do an saint this 1e be,) should
be reserved, as well as all anis ed as extra-
ordinary et viesseal sates; bet k meet be
borne Is mind that these ia.trtectiois are
the uld circulars which, with perhaps to
fling alteration, have . emir hue
ret to
Govretrs
of Mertes hoti\g Legislative
A...ublies, and long before Respoaei►M
Gov.rem.01, wa• ever thought of, and
therefore, In my judgm.ot, shoulJ be con-
suued nal acted num with n(cnaos to the
state of things and course of Government
then existing in the colosin to which they
webs intended to apply, and when the Go-
vernor, as an absolute monarch or as the
representative of the absolute authority of
of the Parent State, exercised his power.,
irrespective of local advice, is any degree
responsible for his acts.
Since, however, these instructions wan
framed, Reepobsible Goverment has bees
demanded by the Colony, and acquired in
by the Parent State, as a nate. to which
we are justly entitled, as British subjects,
inhabiting a country of part extent and im-
portance, and which system of constitution-
al government imputes that all local affair",
not involving imperial iotere.u, are to be
conducted through • Provincial Cabinet,
comrisuo of beads of departments, reopen
sib's to the reprss.statives of the people to
Parliament.
This responsibility obviously requires the
presence, to Parliatnsot„of the loading per-
sonages constitutingthe Cabinet, who,(rocc
hour to hour and ay to day, watch over
the proceedings in Parliament, and are sup-
posed to concur in what they do not ex -
preside oppose ; ted as the Government is
adnuwrtered by them, in the came of the
sovereign, represented in the Culooy by
the Governor no bill whichhas reee-
:red the saa:tion of both Houses, and
consequently of the administration pre-
sent there, concurring either openly or ta-
citly, by not resisting its passage, ought
to be reserved ander our preen( con-
alilutton, because the Governor cannot,
consistently with the responsibility of his
Cabinet to Pediment, refuse hie assent
against their advice to a bill which (bey
have allowed to pass through the Legisla-
ture without objection ; sod, if strenuously
objected to by them, ought not, by their
advice, to be reserved, since they ought to
reeigo if a bill of so objectionable a name -
ter as to,warrant its rejection by the Go
Verner, on their advice, was carried in their
despite, otherwise it would be pacing their
decision, in the Cabinet, above the decis ion
of Parlament, by whose permiesion they
are enabled to tender their advice to the.
Crown.
Thio course, moreover, is qnite Linnen...
n ary since, by the constitutional act. the
right to disallow any act of our Parliament
withto two years, is reserved to the Crown
to be exe}eased, of coone, on the responsi-
bility of the imperial Ministry ; and this i.,
in my opinion, the only legitimate consti•
tuttonal, yet effectual, control which, uoder
our system, the Crows has retained oyer
the otherwise absolute authority awn own
Ltgwhaturetb.
Thur is a distinct, broad and eoortitu-
tional ground upon which T desire to place
the gnestion,no t ideating a solitary instance
:n which the Governor can. consistently
with the responsibility of Ministers to Par-
liament, r any bill whatever,. which
would, if admitted, allot; the Mtoistry, in a
quiet way, to get rid of any measure which
(night b., unpalatable to them, by a
.ide :mod,- • sort of " Le Rni
S'Aviesn" process, -when they could
Dot retard Its progress through Parliament,
and might Dot wish to give is that decided
opposition wh:cb, if ineffectual, might re-
quire their going out of office.
If you once break through the principle
that you easy referee any bill which the
conwtntion enables you to pus, it then
degenerates into a question of expediency,
instead of principle, and opens a door to
e very shade of distinction which nubile
mind* may draw upon .objects not control -
ed by any palpable and fixed criterion.
It is upon these principles that i felt the
necessity of the Governor General giving
Ws anew to the Rebeltrun Lose Bill, which
I considered be was bound to do, it having
been brought forward as a Ministerial mea-
tier., and passed both Houses.
Under our new constitutional course of
Government, 1 contend and feel convinced
that it would hews unconstitutional in prac-
tice for the Governor to reserve a bJl, as
for the Soverign in Eoglend to say " Ls
Rei S'Avisera," which is a courteous mode
'of saying " i will not consent to it."
I admit, however, that there may be mea-
sures affecting Imperial interests, which
Parliament melt see the propriety of their
being reserved for the acquiescence of the
Home Government, and then a clause might
be inserted in the bill, postponing ire opo=
ration until promulgated by Royal procla-
mation.
Byi these means the responsibility. of Min-
isters to Parliament would be preserved in
tact,-Mioirtere would themselves be pro-
tected from all snspisioo of playing false, by
. eeretly advisiog the njectios of a measure
which in Parliament they had seemingly
concurred in, -metropolitan interests would
beprotected,-and the action of Provincial
Parliament, kept from collision with the
Supreme authority of the imperial State.
But there are moor considerations which
as matters of policy, ought not to be over-
looked.
Tf s bill be reserved by the action not own
Government, a doubt is evidently cut by
ourselves, upon the expediency of .our ow,
seta, whores, if it receive' the Royal anima
hen, it will go before the Home Goeeri-
meet as a thing done, and with the highest
eawetion, with which Colonial anthortty
eau stamp it, sod it will afford the strongest
*Oaten which the cnnetry the give of Its
Millen approved, and it will elways be felt
morn diflleult, by the Gnveremeat at ileme
to take action neon winch a matter and re-
voke by Imperial sntbnrity, what we have
deliberately done than to remain passive,
sad thereby "Inde the reeptmeibitity of sx-
pr'e.deg any decision at eft.
To former time the Reserving Bills was
a feed expedient of Governors acting on
theft own aolha-ity for getting rid of mea -
sores theism/did to them elvee, of which
the did not desire to incur the edi.s of
poMtive rejection. Ebel! a prenedfag, se
epee to animadversion, be eestioesd oda
e ltsepoesible GoMtn meet r T bop. set.
Moreover, went est @letter of Respoesi-
Ms Oeesr\ms\i, the Mknetry meet kauw
what will be deem with reopen tete >LFd
areas while a bail is V M aa/ if it
wee meowed that A weal/ he ,.awed, the
peevlefo\* might be se varied N to preclude
the aeesssity. if they unseen' the seessu-
�y of nservatlea ; whereas, formed , eve
o�1s�
ends'toil what the Govsrsor might de,
ihlieatl7' �" tc•stlogt esltki
j ehiak that ',hw the IIifNry fate•/ to
gooaiesetd the reurvtioe of • bill, such
*tunes 150.14 be Inland c its
Pere that either area et hue alt
portunity of expressing their cries
of the course imide. oto he taken by the
Gov.g.me\t la that rry�la.. taken_
i do not apologise for thus Intruding my
megatons upon you because 1 know the due
;•tercet you take in the 'cued working of
Responsible Government, and altho' I may
sot have the good fortune to bring you to
my way of thioking, yet to give the current
of poltttcal thought Me proper iisesuos with
reference to Respoosible Government and
the unadulterated integrity of its moot ex -
ended eigniscaltoo.
Believe EDe,
My Dear 81r,
Yunrs,
Very faithfully.
H. J. BOULTON.
To the !Ton. Robe.
11. M. Atty. Geo., U. Canada, S
Liao ELern's Da1RaTCO—Tits Tres
a•TICLI LCD TUB Das.Tu, SAC.—We can-
not well express the pride and grateful fbsi-
ings with which we lay befure our readers
tr*-day, the cake, strong, impartial despatch
of His Excellency, Lord Elgin. to the Colo-
nial Secreta.y, on the late nitrates in Mon-
treal. Fur once, both the imperial Gov
moment and the people of Canada have a
right to be proud of our Governor Gene-
ral. A desire to give to our readers as full
.a atonement as possible of the effect prode-
ced is England by our Canadian Whirs, in-
duces us to curtail any remarks Moor owe.
A few things to which we wish especially
to direct attention, are italicised. We can-
not omit to notice one thing, however ; his
lordship shows that the late parliament was
dissolved by the "deice of his late minis-
try ; they CO doubt, reckoning, that the
support they should receive from thv four
denominations amongst whom the Universi-
ty property was to bo divided, would se-
cure their return to power -the result
showed that in Canada the influence of min-
isters over their people, in political matters,
is feeble iedeed. Wer know there was as
effort made to influence the laity, bet its
utter failure will prevent a similes attempt
for • lore time to come. The "despatch"
knocks the idea of Freocb domination com-
pletely m the head ; there is ocercely any
difference in the comparative number of
Tories and Reformers from Lower Canada
In the late and present parliaments -the
change took place in' Upper Canada, with
persons of British origin ; these, and not
the French, Kaye deemed the fate of Cana-
dian Turyisne—Proei.eialiet.
CATECHISM FOR THE TORIES.
We have thought that good might be
done if the attention of the people could be
drawn off from the language of' ievec-
tivpend concentrated on the real matters
at issue between the Tories and Constitu-
tional Reformers, and for this porpoise we
propose the following queries to the oppo-
nents of the Governor and the Administra-
tion, and we pledge ooreel vee that if the aa.
ewer" are given in civil lineage that we
shall give them a place in our journal.
Quest. 1. You say that the intention of
the Rebellion losses bill is to indemnify Re-
bels : what is rear proof
2. Chat difference is there-tetween the
Indemnity bill, and rho resolutions of the
late mtotatry with regard to the payisg of
the Rebellion Iosaea.
3. What is meant by Constitutional Go-
vernment 1 and has Canada • constitution T
4. On the 'imposition that Canada has a
constitution, In what respect has the Gov-
ernor acted unconstitutionally T
ii• And io what respect have the adminis-
tration acted uoconstitutionally T.
6. And on the supposition that Canada
has no constitution, by what rule is the
conduct of the Governor and Admituatration
to be tried T
7. What was the real design in burning
the Parliament House, and the nation! li-
brary T
8. What was the real design in losolliog
the Representative of the Queen!
9. ibow do arson and insult prove that
the perpetrators of there crimes, are sound
in their political principles and that those
who are insulted and whose property is de-
stroyed and whose effigies are burnt, are
wrong in political principles
The argument on this point must be pe-
culiarly clear and plain, in order to enlight-
en the mierist, who has never met with any
thing in the course of his reading or think-
ing that could enable him to understaad how
vinlonce proves truth, and being insulted
Ind brutally treated, ie proof of being in
error.
10. What is meant by loyalty when sepa-
rated from, and opposed to, constitutional
government 7
11. What is the proof that the Promo,
is under Freoch domination, or that It is
intended to be so T
12. Whet ie it that constitutes a majori-
ty in either Upper or Lower Canada is op-
posed to that Govetomeot.-London Fru
Press.
Sri LL Trier Coes !—Addresses to the
Governor General are coater is doily. -
The Hump Detect mode 2673 sagna**•
the P,-$oee Rdward District, 9106 --the
County of Eine, 3000* Ice. ke. Inc. We
pebluh rime of his Excellency's Replies
to -day. Mere will follow is weceedieg
trembeM r POO.
1113111
The powerful article from the London
Times will tell with withering effect npnn
the twine part in Csead ...cit Nile the
troth in honest john Boll (anion. Thede -
bate also is highly leterovting and erodlts-
b1. 1e broth parties in the ilotese of Com-
mon', at least.-Peariaeielem.
fiftieth lurosearte paw Niseimet.-
A letter to kir. Retheehid, dated Funk -
fort, May 171h, says that the Heagsriase
have totally defeated the hesslses sad
forced them to fi11 Mak epos Crusty. -
The &moieties will ties he ameefeered to
Po After a proelam•ti.s Resweh
Says, that a battle took plass V tles defiles
Roth.nthrss, and list 114,01111 8 arias.
nrr►esdsgsj. The AMlriess tins fOrti(yjag
Vista.
bee rea-
sos-inch rinses, to oomplals of the treat -
emu be bas ruseived at lbs heeds"( a mob
Jo tibtetuy' isaK
curs. wb bq .sp le
h(oaklam�i'apv h Sire 10 be
t . is bot t
hes � Da
discharged by ql
conduct of a true -hearted &mild Governor.
We have bad men le Miff Gbhfy who
sooner than abdicate their authority u this
wap, weeid.Jtt►r esti
their capital -otter, blesdt corpse*. In
Lord Elgin's cum we tio)ot believe that
there wit the feast danger. He might
have terse tato Watson ,any ,day safely
and unattended, and no Oes ♦ottld date
touched him."
Tea foregotag outrageous and barium' ere ti -
meets are from tb.leadisgfanie% ofi:h. Treas-
sorpt of lbs 6th ism- We regret the necessity
of recording oar candid eoavierfo• dust the Trcw,-
crier eu done more aril in the proviso* during
the last six weeks this the Camas, the Colonist
and the Navies all terse put together; siirtdy be-
cause it is meihnted with mote ability. aid efe-
sega.stly extols a imbue* as • poach higher
claw of minds thus cam possibly be armed by the
others This paragraph, which we have goofed.
might have been tolerated u the dee et Lord
Camsetsres, although *ha denotes involved la
it helot's to • for mere retwele period of barbar-
ism -bat u the Loudon Tuns a Me 17th alt,
wheel rectorial, to • pump is the Ilesgvakdds-
:au, way. "k betrays a tamper mange ad
bra tat, that every penis* Eseliahmaa *ill as
once put .a. putt' which ceeld concha. •soh
Natimeot&bogy set of th. pal..15i..ysepa-
' i ." bad the passage wbieb we have- quoted
appeared in the Cremate, wo amid at ales b.,•
said that it wit i• the proper plae.,.ad owinalsd
oervrl( with the ref ectios 1bs1 it emir d. Ilul.
harm. Bat Si it appear• is the TT*wseripi, w•
think otherwise, sad matt therefore offer a few
remarhtepee it
The attentive of the article fres which the
above quotatioo is tithes, w w prime Lord Et-
on as s coward, and we do so;, fors 10010.01,
suppose that the Edits, of the Tieaecrirt is him
-
.elf a prosily le to the opitise which fes seems ss
sedaously inclined to thrum epee kis modem -
The reckless temerSrsed brutal ferocity of the
gladiator, and lion -fighter, bays lug mire. seas•
.d to be regarded as trap courage. except by
the unrefined and the blaebgead, end we would
shudder to include the Editor of the Transcript
is this ells& II most be obvious that se moo.l
ofeoange, either physical or moral, can trader a
mea proof sgaioat the dagger et the pistol ballet
of the outwardly •.mesio, sad boom, .,se s,ppo-
s,og that Lord Eutw was afraid Verlag reel or
mtltroetsal by a regia• m.b, 0,411 his leer w.sld
be very far fromb guneerdlca It is admitted that
his Excellency "Asa psoas. -seek eerin to
complain of the mamma he has receive/ at tie
hands of the Montreal mob,'• sad we are sabe.-
qu.utly told that " h. might here sea. i.e
Montreal soy day safe and ueatreedeJ, tad so ale
woeid have toothed hits" Ws see dimmed to
doubt the accuracy of this bum as.umptioo very
much, acid, at say rate, his Lord.h.p bad no
grounds for belie,iag IL The "trutmeat"
which he had received consisted is the sange
howling" of fancioa .aimaliry.,be mid and
misrules peliaga of Pommes blaekguardiam, and
the era s►(ag .f his carriage with large stesse,
'efficient, and we believe intended to destroy
life! Thatesei-th. perpe era of thew dastard-
ly *singe* were the party or the tools of the par-
ty for "them th. Transcript write.: tad w• 4.11.5
hesitate to assert that the etete5n who could
be Entity of each (legreat alreeittes—although
perhaps cowards where bravery world be rimer -
we -are, aevertb•leu, soersge os essegh to act
the ossein. Aad we are very Perry that we
cannot give the Tresocripteredit for having wnt-
tea one Ines expressive of siesote &glee rot this
deigrecef.l violence; ser eon lino baring a ten-
dency to convey reproof or tame dims the brutal
passions of the farce mob t Oa the eoatmry,
we think that the whole wittier of the Tr.ss-
crirt aid his fellow Lessee le the Dame Hem,
11.10 1h tins of dee virleen does se Me prossot
10e10,et, have hese emiees tly tsl.ulse d to met- -
oni.s for, sad (,gams and stmegthee the feroeity
of the ID.birh dispmitio.. Such new be the
opuioa of every retinal mao Who has marked
the coadect of ibs Tory press at Montreal ! sod
we ceruisiy 15iak that than would be more
cowardice than courage is the esaduet of Iind
Eight, se msy ether sea who Bader ..eh sir -
committing world rash with a emblem debases
tad fool -harasses, tete a mob of hateasaleeda
who had for weeks previous bees .xaopented.
ted 'raised, sad oseekerdsssd for deeds of A•-
samaatiee„ asd ansa, by • depraved set 'Wishes
Press. Lord Elgin my bel happy fear a
eonseiesasese of tbe methods of his.eee elled-
pin and condom. He may bel paha t e
chivolry and heroism of a )erg ire. i '1� d
ancestry; sr, he may feel ell A. `heresy aid
n obleness of said *Isiah cesimeteri.sd the great-
est of his Brest a'eeeteen, but viten ait all.f
these fieliag..00tid hive the asset Idassse is
rvedering hfa ieveleemble et the dagpn er
missiles of a mob of Aria,moa they baro
eet
bud it ptetfmg him from
rhe
m the ,carrifity and
militarism •f the Tory Press. ♦ted bed he .11 -
fitly, ad enaseesear ee dared the Ia•aks, tad
knotty of the hired i.esediarlss sf Itlseteeal
Toryism, es ire ose.dee .Ueded Is, hie ewmp
.cold eel been tasked Ar bi�,illdMMe/et11r
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.ea emeries " irestd have walked l.m
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cs Ron Hata 'maid have dee" se. 1s
weed ask the Editor e( the Theroptubillele M
tepees sf sent 'obey 1 ie as et- Seieff leg
dwelt* oversewed by bleed wolf assiegiallitfilla
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