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Cumen, amil vibe he/ seseelly /used ea• rim*
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*at of ibeeratrvetives
hos rat the Coneerestives are
shS remotry el seek grime. ial
them sles COW& rok y . This te not
il IMF fit ANL VII* Rr1e.81. ere a large mejoinly
ef tiie popestaime ; wLereas the ititikititieui• ale
• resided asinerity.
In &nether catillliell goer reader', 4111 find the
votes of Aftwenty en the rib wed netth aldose,
epos the Address to the Greyer General, sod
ie. amarkeetata ewer te that Allier. W.
love before se an mialysis 0 the division ret the
rinn etweerout. which ter the etmegest vote
en butt sirs. The total umber 'bat voted wee
*1:1. or where 41 WIWI I. GOV ffiiMenl, erel 17
agseam. Of the 46 tor tioverament there were
tte Freach Cantatas. from Lewer Csoads, 6
British nem Lower Canada. air 18 British from
l'oper Calorie_ The mismity esainst the Ad -
dread. crewed 0( 11 British frorn Upper Canada,
5 British from Lower CUM'S, and r'reach
Canailias, (the Repablican rapture.) Govern -
mem, therefore had a majeritr of all classes ; •
mayn't', orthe British, all the French except one,
one might well be eparr, • mejoeity from Upper
cased*, sed • weewity from Lower Canada, the
•xgreiraie saseenty being overwhalmaing. It
mast be tereadered toe that is this diner the
lectiose nilarity bad mead all its arts to divide
tne Legislature sad wis apparent ,upport. They
Id sea wester* to prefiewe se amendment tear-
ong the Geyser/ Genres!, er .1.0wing ever so
Might • sympathy with the netters. Yet their
effected moderatioa was neamiling, and they
omit entirely beams, as we bare sheien, by a
mapoity of all classes.
i gee It i• artifacts easy, &edit ia wholly unnecessary,
to deser&e a pelitimil querel is a few words. —
' The itebellioa Losers Bill is the merest preterite.
4 ).kr 'ea lent are doubtless aware that it i• aot •
tell Mr iailemsifying rebel', but a bill for toilem-
nifyieg te a very limited exteet, any pereons Oat
may have suffered by the destruction of their pro-
perty is the itebelhen: and the ooly grievance is
thatthe bin dee. see becalm it cannot. expire-
, ty feels& fVffy beitiy who took part 111 IRO (a-
nent... W• believe the wore patio of the affair
is, that after dm sebellies. the royalists, who're
feed of mum deft, wantonly byroad the premises
of disaffected persoss, who will now prefer a
claim for that gratuitous deluge- This, bow -
1. molting bet it* 'mark that has been used
to ifire Ib. magazine. The most explosive ele-
rare is that tsar:ism is inclusion from office,
.ad hoot the diet:111mM' of land grants.—• otial
• se which ibis pet -loyalty of MeNab and his asso-
ciates is onsaifestly anemial. Canada, too, in
otemesem with other oolonies, ia common with
Eagasul asd with all Europe, is suffering great
commercial depressios. It is no longer allowed
to um :be iodustry of the mother-coantry thro'gh
tee operatios of the protective ditties; and, while
exposed to free -trade on this side, it et rebuffed
with prohibitive duties by the neigliboring Uoion.
There has bee. a depreciation in all Canadian
property, sontewhat similar to what we experi-
eace lo railway shares and other speculative in-
eestmeate. Annexation is an idea of growing
far iliarity. /it Mutton a " British Lesgue "
hu bees fanned, which, under the preteace 0( 80
eatravagaut layette, composes a political capital
oat of all the Tory grievances, commercial de-
pression, fro. -trade, the dominion)* clan alien
nee, and every other i naginelie ill. It shows
stronger sympethies with the repablican states-
maa then with the loyal Frenchman, and is evi-
drily disposed to leave Victoria for Gen. Tay-
lor, .1 11. latter will give a better price ror Cane-
d.** prodgee. But enough for the day is the
evil thereof. While it is permitted, we will
tease the question of annexation. It ezisted be -
tor. the peeper quarrel, and is wholly ' indepen-
dein 0( 11. NVhen it comes io unman we omit
this country will be prepared to decide it with
humanity, fire -oats', and discretion.
CA NA DI A N QUESTION.
The manly end temperate tone of Lord
Elgin'. dispatch ie as credible te his char.
ecter ae its percision and lucid arangemmat
aro te his talents. He places hie apopint-
most at the disposal of Ministers, who of
oourse will only av•ul themselves of the
hichtninled offer to lice more nnequivocol
:Aterance to their determication to support
. Governor, who has displayed such sound
ronstitutional principle and such. rare self -
command oft. most trying °Cession ; wbo
approved of by a mejnrity of 311 against
i n, in an Assembly which, elected under
•itie auspicics Of the late ministers to
connrm them in office), passed A vonnef
wiint of confiJence in them by a majority
-.12 to 1 : and who sill doubtleel receive
i inidar Impressions of min/1,1one° before the
7 eat mad is sent home, frnm the come ituen-
-tee who elected this Assembly- in defiance
of a rocklcso exorcise of ministerial influ-
t
All thinge considered, wo feel more dis-
posed to congiatonite the Canadians than to
oondole with them on the Montreal riots.
The fiction which teemed the mob to these
exoeues by green:palm incendiary &Peen's.
ond by the sgency of clubs mod Orenge
Lneeee, arid which is Mew making them a
pretest for incelpatepg the Governor, hos lly
i nes condect ahown itself to :he' people of
Eneland in ite true colour. Nothing ellen
,,1 th ia entail hive icoovinced the Engine?)
triblic hoc t y ran Meal and [aware this Mino-
rily of the Cenadians IA. The ftwoked ring•
1-aelers of the mob which destroyed the
Parlioment Donee and Library of Canada,
nnd Netted end deatroyed tbe bongos of se -
vote' leading linerals, ere the Men who goy
omen Canada before, met at the time of the
rebellion of 1337 end 1113n! Englishmen
o Al be able from the conduct of this party
when in epposition to infer what mut ,have
been their conduct when in power. It will
no longer create "Minnie that there'vras R
rebellion, and tho foolish and mieguided
men who took part in it will henceforth be
j egged more leniently.
The faction that governed Canting up to
the time .4the rebellion, te an exact coun
terpart of the orange ascendancy faction in
Ireland. Its aim was to govern Canada by
• tmetemptible and cermet minority, and to
maintain itulf in power by deceiving the
Innelith G mernetent and bullying tho Ca-
nadein pnpolation. Even in its high and
pokey days it net unfreqnently had recourse
11 levelers acts of outrage and intimidation
for the pored.* of carrying electiona, only
neconeary in atrocity to threes whieh it has
rectally enacted in hfontrell. When in -
/tufting Lonl Elmo and committing incen•
diary wets, t hoe beer playing the eame
eases that the Dublin Orangemen did in
'boor 'Meek epos Lewd Ileytebury.
The Irish ascendowy made the support
a British lest otionrn
e inn protestantie
(noir relent ; the Conatlian ascendency
make the mop rt of British inventions
their pretext. It may not be sltorether
tagenme to threw a little light on what is
emont b Britieli institution. in the 'soothe
Ofa onangemen. In upper caned" the
Bally &giant, and no one mak.
with it. In Lower Canada ten-
sed great part of the law are
esuatielly Om same u prevailed in the
couple, pummel° the conquest by Great
Britain. Tbe taw ne Limos Canada differe
from tits law is Upper Cased* much in the
mine way sad to the same exteet that tlie
law of Scotland differs frotn that ef En -
gland. What Weald be thought of Englisti-
I1150 settling in Scotland if they were to
[exist. epee hating the whole body of the
taw tied proceedings of the law coarts of
that coutry immediately sod forcibly es -
weeded by English law, and legal forma
of procedure to suit their convener:ice or
adieus ? Yet tnis is precool), what the
Canadian Orangemei wises they tet-
t:Mute to the lel:eel...owe and 1(91 800105111 of
Canada a desire " to force Freuch institu-
tions still kitten on the British minority in
Lower eaWile."
The 16 eteglinolgs of the Assembly who
voted against tie address of confidence to
Lord Elgin, en 111111 utmost forcivint can be
'flustered in the legislature to support the
monstrous pretentione of tho old ascenden-
cy or family compact faction. And thems
eixteen are split into no less than three par-
ties of utterly Irreconcileable views led
character". There aro Sir Allan McNab
and hie adherents, the genuine old unadul-
terated , family compact. There are the
members of the late ministry—the Pechter'
of Cantina—co-operating with • faction
which they despise and detest. And there
to the monad party which is composed of
M. Papineau, equally detesting, and detest-
ed by, leith les allies. Against this ucprin-
cipled, reciprocally hostile, chaotic combi-
nation, is arrayed an overwhelniing majori-
ty of the Canadian people ; there tea ma-
jerity of the British race aga.ust it, and a
majority ofethe French race. 4•'
The turbulent minority in Canada has
considerable resemblance to the unsceppu-
toes Tory faction of the reign of Qteen
Anne and the first George. It consists of
a few intriguing and violent politicians of
the educated and the proprietary chimes,
baeked by the mobs of Montreal and Toron-
to, as the Atterberics uf England and the
beckharts of Scotland- were backed by the
High Church and Sacheverell motoor Lon•
Oon and tho Jacobite mob of Edinburgh.—
The Canadan ascendency faction in 1849,
like the English 'Cory faction in 1715, is
made up of dioappointed and desperate offi-
c.al jobbers, men in bankrupt circumstan-
ces, and ageregato ignorance and brutality
of the province, with perheps, a few honest
fanatics among them. The note at Mon-
treal, and the riots which w111 for a few
years longer continue to break out, are the
last convulsive death struggles of sordid
despotism and ignorance.
No Pains have been spared to mistify and
delude the public of the mother country as
to the power and numbers of this moribund
faction. The most utilbluithing falsehoods
and exaggerations respectiog the state of
feeling in the Canada., have been despatched
by every mail, and by the electric telerraph
for publication it the •jouanale of the United
States and England. An intelligent New
York Cofrespendent, who has been led to
attribute more importance to the faction
than it deserves, states two facts relative to
the channels through which moot of the re-
cent accounts from Canada have reached the
United -States. In the beginning of a let-
ter wo have received from him he nays :—
My information was derived frorrethe beet
Canadian sources but it must be confessed
they were of a ?ley origin." And, to-
wards the close ho Rays, "tho telegraphic
despatches (From Canada] are generally
repined by ordinary reporters, and men of
mere mechanical dexterity, who have learn..
ed only to work telegrephic instruments,
and must therefore be receive')
als ire worked up by renegade Britons con-
necteil with the newspaper press -of the
United States into infleted twat:Yes of " in-
surrrection" in Canada ; and nrc made by
super -Butane casuists and eophists like Mr.
Gladstone, a pretext foe expressing doubts
asi to the real elate of affairs in Canada
which they do not entertain, in order to
avoid the disagreeable necessity of confess-
ing that Lord Elgio has acted with judgment
and discretien.
The good sense of the Canadian public is
quite competent to deal with the troublers
ur Canadian peace. There is. no -war of
races impending, for under the .oltr," family
compact "Frenchmen andnE'ognehmen of
honesty and independence, .were alike
oppressed, and iojeries Common, to both
fused them into united ?endue° to the op-
pressors. All that ie renalred at the hands
of the home revetment is to allow the
Cnnadian ministate, With their overwhelm-
ing mejorities in the Legislature and the con-
eittecnciem, and the governor in wbrim they
have expreimed their confidence to go en to
legislate in the sense of the community,
and supprees and punish all lawless outrage.
From the London Econiniist.
• ,CANADA.
The iteconnte received front Canada can-
not 4)141 10 produce, le the mitt I of every
right-thinking Englishman who values con-
etitutIonal rights and privileges. (collage of
deep regret and humiliation. tinder a pre
tence of loyally,-patriotistn, and conserva-
tism., an ethane.% has been made by violence
and outiaggto deetroy that free constitution
width, certainly not tootoon hatnbeen
tendeit to Canada, securing to die follow-
sohjecte, itt that importann colony, the
privileges of self-government, Icy means of
a pnpular tepresebtatilet eye:eel. lf one
evidence stronger• Doti, could be
given of the necessity of Ouch aehange as
has of late year. takes place in the govern•
meet of Canada, 4( 4. tbe extreme violence
and folly of those who constituted the oli-
garchy by which the colony WW1 formerly
governed, now that they ars no longer able
to command a tnajority in the legielatore,
and thereby io conduct the government.
—
if the conduct of these men now, in open
violation of law, doe. not palliate or remise
the rebellion's which in past times disturbed
the public tranrmility and threateried the
dismemberment of the colony, it goes far
at kern to aceonnt for them. At this mo-
ment it would he entirely out of pare to
discuss the precise merits of the Rebellion
Luse. Bill, the ptssing of which was 'wised
upon as a pretext for the thagraceful num'.
rages and note recorded in Lord Elgin's
dispatch. Even thou who ore moot dispo-
sed tattling from the policy of that aet will
be unable to find in it any palliation for Hui
conduct of the Tory party in Cumin
But what are the facts ! They may be
simply and shortly told. On all hands it
has been admitted that the moat enligbtened
nortien 0(ouir colonial policy has bun the
extension le Canada of Reepoesible and
Repressetative Goverement—of • eoestite•
lion in every eacential as free and inslepend-
est sa that .4111. parent state. The Crowe
or, whose place it ie et l
is represeated to the person of the agin
e-
s to giroffs
opinion comititetioaally expressed thrsegh
the elective franchise ef die pie*. In
C•1141141, as to Wingisted. 'be majedig 10 Pot -
Intelsat must not oaly dellormiee whet laws
* ball be passed, but whet we alail term
the executive 01 11• goverawiest. Ye gime
full elect to ouch a nepreosetatema fees of
government, it le eseential that the Crews,
Of lid representat toe, shalt poimer:e a " dig -
mind ooilraIuI, " between' contendiag per
lies. 'Without this. pulite *mos Callia01
Le fairly ex piessed is tbe petal of delicate
NotLing could toe noels fatal to doe encosee
of such a coseUteties, We for the Crown
or its sepresentativ• unduly to attach him-
self' to any porticular party, or to nu Ito
influence to frustrate the consmoresees of
public opiates expreseed by it. rep/080sta-
1i504 in Parliament. This high comet's -
noon ground Lord Elgin has strictly coda -
tamed from the mermaid he arrived in embe-
d& ; and to this fact alone may be traced the
batted exhibited by • 'leeway, vibe, 111
former times, nianaged by • varlet, of mean.
to maiattin tberneelves un power.
Whom Lord Elgin first arrived ia Cased',
he found a ministry carrying on the govern -
mei.? composed of tbe Tory party, awl who
now form the oppoeitioo. That ministry,
however, o as t. eakenedi imml had too alamder
a majority to enable them to conduct the
government with effect. Still they receiv-
ed 'every support from the G meter .Inch
an existing goverornent could expect.—
With a view to strengthen tbeir position,
they solicited a dtssolution and "as appeal
to the:Counery." Lord Encto rrattly, adopt-
ed this coosteutional means of giving
strength to a weal mloistry. But what
was the resell ! The oew Parliament as-
sembled. The government instead of as
improvement in their mantles, fated • ma'
jonty of 100 to one ageing, them. There
was but one course for the monster; asid
the Governor to take : the forgoer to iciallgo,
the latter to accept • miotstry from thew -
1y whom the people had placed is a majori-
ty. But that neniatry, long accustomed to
power, yielded to this conetitutessail neces-
sity with iil grace, ani in place 44 lathillltpl-
ing by legitimate means to striegites et
re-conotruct their party, they have 4111.114•41
themselves ever since to violent appeals. to
popular prejudices, and attempts*, 11111111•41
the old war orrice between the Ineglish sod
the French party, of the latter of wheat Ow
present Govenament is in part commeesini—
tVe need not now refer to the nemerous
instances in which this course has been ap-
parent during the eighteen sacielks which
have elapsed Salt, the general election. if things do sot go exictly to their minds, are
sought by the prevent seisority for their apt 10 become tho most turbulent and dater -
own purposes. Lord Elgin's dispatch en. derly of demagogues. Of course, where
!tided to one, memorable for the utter Me*. thes happens, political professions are mere-
ly • mask for seefish passions. The loyal -
tot whoee real attachment is to his own
prorate interest, passes into the mal content
with the utmost facility when kindly be-
comes a losing game, or . when fortune
seems likely to smile on rebellion. A cu -
nous example 0(this kind of metamorpbosis
has just taken place in Canada. The chief
town in that Colony hail receetly been the
scene of one or the moat disgraceftil riots
that bas ever occurred, and that not was
distinctly excited and fomented by men
who for years enjoyed places and honors in
the Colony, and, while they did so, never
ceased to boast of their unconquerable loy-
alty to the Britiah Crown.
For ;Jong time each of the two Mirovin.
ces, nciw hotted in Canada, was governed
by a a small knot of persons, who, by a
by fame. aad mistmes /*sun on legality
sod established or,whisillies so los/ pio•
.44 diabase etOlooda. difelog capital(.
Itrwriwas. sad resift a stale of chro-
me dileeeterst, wt he perpetuated." Pao -
pie will saturally ask tbewsolve. who aro
the res1 eseeties to free constitutional inett
famine lad self government 10 the colo -
sees I
We SSM, however, pass over, on this
scemmete, the neimeranut 'nineties. 'which we
remark ie the 111:spers, of discostent,
ths deep commercial
depteemen.esare we be blied to ttio wan -
arming
ner D
*hien annexation with the otted
States is discuareJ, a* • means of remedy-
ing the evils under which Cad e now suf-
fers. Thom are quettons deserving of calm
and settees attutiuo ; min we belies.° we
shall to able to show in our next number
that, after the moseutes now before Parlia-
ment for tbe repeal of the navigation laws
has come tato operation, Caeada will poss-
ess advantages of a commercial kind greater
than any wtttch • clout connexion with tbe
Fluted State. could offer. We sball be
able to skew that, by the advaetages secur-
ed by that measure, and the numerous Ito-
provemests in the means of cornetunteation
in that colony, • tech are just completed,
lnuebec and Montreal will be placed in a
coodition to absorb much of the commerce,
both toward itod outward of that vut terri-
tory serroonding the Western Laker, inclu •
a. .ell the American as the British portions
or w
it. Meanwhile we will only add that
Lord Elms's former successful cateer am.
Governor of Jantatea in difficult times, and
the character Lich he bears in ties cuuotry
for discretion and judgment will prove to
tbe public at home a Baud ictory ground
for the molt implicit confidence in his ability
on the present o :canon ; and wo. cannot
doubt that he it reccme the cordial sup-
port and approbation of the Home Govern-
ment in ouch an emergency. And above
all we've glad to pee that while • small
but violent minority io Canada are demand-
ing tee recall. the Legislature, by • large
majonty as well as other public bodies,
a,
en,Toted senreseses " cordial support,"
and of confidence in his "justice and im-
ps/tatty ."
CONSERVATIVE REBELLION.
Self-styled Consertatives are not the
most faithful eupporters of their own prin-
cipies. There is a eloss of fierce and intol-
erant advocates of order and authority, who
n ificance of the remotion, and for tbe violent
and rebellious language used by the miesel-
ty. The measure whioli has hue sada tbe
pretext for the recent disgraceful oetreges
is of iteelf • striking example or the spent
which animates the opposition.
A coey of the Rebellion Losses Lu si
published in the.paperis presented on Thurs-
day to Parliament. Fortunately, the Pre-
amble to that bill tells its history. It was
originated in l'345 ;—and by whom 13,the very persons who now hazard revolution
and rebellion, because their own niessurea
are brought to a legitimate conclusion. In
1815, an address was adopted by the Legis-
lative Assembly of Canada, with the sanc-
tion of the Government of the day, the pres-
ent minority, praying that a Commission
might be appointed to examine and deter-
mine the Icemos incurred durinr the rebellion very close union among themseivee, con -
011837 and 1 e31, in Lower Canasta, with a trived to enjoy a power virtually irresponai-
mew, to an iodemnity. In consequence o.
this address a commission:was appointed
WeamrWlifirel41:4491 %Ak innInntnarynta
which could la used as to tho right of per-
sons claiming indemnity for losses auffered,
in so far as participation in the rebelhoa was
1 concereen, n is, iliac a!! theee who kW
either to. n convicted cif Lie!' trcason, 0,
who, haone been charged withnreasenanle
offences, had admitted their guilt, and sub-
mitted themselvel to the will and pleasure
of her Majesty, should be exclueed from any
claim fer indemnity.. After much careen
contrideration, this was the rule determined
upon by Lord Cathcen, who was then Gov-
ernor. Tiers tho right to indemnify for
loosen mistained re that rettelhen, as well AA
the pree•ele by which it should be determ-
ined what clamp of pomp' iihoold be (retitled
to it, W33 need by the Government of the
'ray, composed of men of the Tory pa-ty—
now in opposition—and before Lord Elgin
arrived in the celonn•
The present Government of Canada hare
therefore only earned out a measure com-
menced by their tesiecessors, who, hov.my-
er, in the meantime havnie lost place, now
"Mae upon their own act, completed by their
successor., n ordcr to rewire the most daa-
gerous passion, and periodic*s of the pnblic
for the most ',elfish party porpotee. The
imperfect notion. however, which that nartv
ble• The mal -administration of those local
oligarchies produced the rebellion of 1837,
1194=VdttrMnitery" tOsigeaunion of Upper
and Lower Canada, under n popular parha-
mentary constitution, which gives tho ma -
prey of the population an efficient control
oter their own affeirs. In Canada, as ei
England, a parliamentry majoritymow vir-
tually appoicts the MCC wbo aro to govern
the country. There can be no shadow et
ORCIISC, therefore, for those who now break
00( 1010 violence against a Canadian admin-
istration, IN 11 .1 did not fairly represent the
voice of the people. If it doea not, there
ie no such thing in the world as fair repre
'mutation. Upon the introduction of the
present constitution,. the old professing
loyalists were graciously daappointed to find
thet the close corporation system could not
nader any form, be renewed. For a time
they lani the responaible administiration of
the colony entrusted to therm but they
were obliged to relinquish it, because :hey
had not influence enough with their fellow
citizens tn eccure a parliamentary mejority.
Power. therefore, passed into the hands of
the mon in when) the people -had cnnfidence
and the dimppointed " Loyalists " became
a most violent and vexatious opposition.
Under these circurnetances a measure
was recently introduced by Parliament for
giving compensation to persons in Lower
have 01the maitre ot the constitution which Wanda wh-cc, property had been injered or
hos been bestowed imen Canada ie.thee destroyen in the rebellion. A similar mea-
eeferree to by ' feed Eigiee dermatch :— ROM had been previously adopted w;th the
"The. natere of the coutittetonal domremi menet of tho" Loyalists " of the tipper
which emetically obtain in this section of
the cnnenunity to ennoesly exempliiind lir
tho fact that it to not timpani of the.tell
by an overwhelming seniority of tho repre-
retail vim or . the people, or the acquies-
cence of the Council, but the consent of tle
Governor, *Foch furniehes the pretext for
an expressmn of popular violence. The
House off:arm-ma p measure delib-
erately 'dinned by a previoas Governrecon
after mature dieciircon and eciesidera(ion,
by • largo ma) city ; the House Of Loa
admits It; and when the Quees goes down
to Parlistnent, not to frustrate tbe Logola
tore, but to act in concert with it, yield ng
obedience to the wish of the people and the
two branches of the Legislature, as cootie
tuttonally expressed, that act is made the
pretext for personal emelt and popular vie-
lence ; and tne men forerun:at to invokine
the public remote& with the setno breath
proclaim and boast of their loyalty. Stich
a case won't! be exactly unarms to what
halt happosed in C101111111.
We purposely avoid any remark on the
merits of the bill it.eir. That is a sonject
with whist+ we in this country hats really
nothing to tin, It is for • Canada herrelf,
through the -armlet inititotions with vrhich
e h* him beam invested, to determine .:,
irth,estione of a local charioteer. A we re
ha
gret extremely tt any l•fiten1 I party
. ),old hive been towel fa that k y, co
dead to the dignity sal pnvilegen of co.
i
stitutioaal govitrement, to attempt by soh
means to inforce the will of • minovit ,
the deli at
bel
agMnet e decision of a reajort.
tynt expressed in he only legitimete way
.hs t free gore% t can afford. Lord El.
tie le his admirable dispatch patty °b-
oner :.,..alt 4..y arm coevictios that if
this dictating he embalmed to, the revere
ment of this previewe by constitutional
means will be impossible, .04that the etrng
gle between overheatieg minorities, backeJ
•
Province. Amongst the persons to be
compensated in Leaver Cenada, were some
who were saiJ to have been concerned
in the rebellion, but against whom no
legal condemnation hail over been pronoun-
ced, and whom, therefme, no publimautdo-
rity cnold•troat as being lees innocent than
their fellow -citizen,. This circumstance,
however. rave an opportunity of exciting
the prejudices of the English population.
and a cry againet " compensatinn to rebels"
was raised by the " Loyaliate" with consi•
Indite effect. The worst undone of a por-
tion of the English population were excited
by this contrivance, and when. Lord Elgi.4
as Governor General, recerilly gave his as-
sent to the compensation bill, a furious mab
stimulated and led by individual., of the dis-
appointel party attacked the parliament
House,—burncd it to the ground with the
whole of the colonial records, the loss of
which is irreretrable,—hnoted and pelted the
Governor General, and burned or otherwise
destroyed houses and forntture !alumni to
members of the Administration. Mean-
while, jeurnals rind orators of the eame par-
ty openly diocese rehollien, end enlarge on
the advantage" of union with the United
Staten
Disgraceful an.J lamentable as thee° pro-
ceedings are, they are, a er all, not so stir -
miring as the damisition which appears in
some quarters in 1ngiaodtto conntesance a
natty capable of Poch outrages. It ha1
even boon made matter of accusation 'venal
Lord Grey that he did not interfere to pre -
vest Lord Elgin from sanctioning the Com -
palmettos Bill, to which the majority 01 14.
Canadiait Legislature bad aseenited. What
'parable jestilleation could there be for such
interbreeee !, It might have bun quite
leen just as It would have been legal for
gam Vittoria to refuse siment to the Cors -
law larval Mt : but atonic! it not have been
a grove practical notation of thet principle
-- -
of Responsbile Government which bas beau
formally established in Canada I Would
it not bars bees so far a recurrence to the
old system of ruling that gnat Colony from
the Culonial Office or by that risme ultra-
cby whose mieconduct provoked the former
rebellion! We canuot believe that the
Government will show any wavering or
weektiose whore the right course is to clear.
Canada has now a popular constitutton—s
freely -chosen Parliament, a.lsgtliniato 0od
perfectly adequate medium, tnerefore,
through which site can express hot deliber-
ate will. According to tho regular parlia-
mentary expression of that deliberate will,
her pulite: affairs ought to be condoc tad, and
it an eascrupulous Mitiority has recourse to
violence in ordos to obstruct that ligitimate
adarinietesties, tbe only ceecern of an
English Minister should be to ewe that, as
far it rests with him, the law shall be
obeyed.— Lewin* Inquirer. .
HURON SIGNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1849.
THE PROGRESS or CIVILIZATION.
Sous five aod twenty years ego we came in
cootact with the writings uf nome of the ablest
living philenthropies, sad moral philosophers,
and from the elevated views which they advance,
regarding the progressive teadeucies of mind end
the improvability of human nature, we were in-
duced to adopt the belief that the moral and in-
tellectual qualities of man had been undergoing
• gradual process of developement—that the
saints of mind, if it may be so called, was yet
in comparitim infancy, that a period would ulti-
mately arrive wheo the mere animal propensities
of our species would be brought completely un-
der the supremacy of our nobler sentiments, and
that, cinsequently, the human beiog would
then, by a rational consistency of eooduct, sane-
factorily demonstrate that he was, in reality, the
noblest of earthly existences—an intellectual and
a moral agent. Subsequent reading tad °Worm -
lion have confirmed us in the truth of this belief;
and the mau must be uncommonly dull who has
witnessed the improvement that has taken place
in the spend coaditioa, aod even in the moral
feelings of the people of Europe and America
daring the last fifty years, if he is not conviaced
that Society is not only progressing but is doing
8040 a rapidly increasing ratio ; io other words
that the power of advancing is always propor-
tioned to the advance already made, and that the
last thirty years have given a greater display of
human intellect then the preceding fifty. Nor is
this astanishingprogresseonfined to the developee
meat of intellect, and the advancemeot of the
physical aciencee ; the tone of moral feeling,
generally speaking, 11Mundergone a chine for
the better, which is Alen astonishing and 00 lee.
honorable. The bigotry, superstition, and in-
tolerance of our grandfathers, if not entirely
banished from the world, are at, lean Leeome
erozbeig
atrdlyi,ahnioirmo
dcaoonnlikeg
only duat
ete: r,
ted1 0 flask. T
u I ki oh!
fc
haughty supercilious contempt which the noble
and the learned need to fling upon the toiling
maltitue, is now regarded as as infallible gimp-
._ Ives's °yr auks wyrillifetrIC119, and
the wise, the educated, and the good seem united
harmoniously in the glorious cause of humanity.
To break 'the letters of the slave—to emancipate
tlo :flied from the thraldorreof ignorance—to dig-
coun tenericii• vice and encourage virtue—to bet-
ter the physicel condition of the multitude—to
ameliorate human suffering nod even to extend
clemency and kindness to the guilty are ihe
reit features of The preterit op, in 60 far, at
least, as real mind and virtue are concerned.
For tbe promotion of these landagle objects
various means have been adopted, societies and
Mechanics' Institutes for the diffusion rf useful
knowledge, both by public teetering and the
distribution of cheap books. Societies for the
emeneirtion of the Nemo, Missionary moieties,
Bible societies, Tract societies, Temperance
eocieties. Peace societies and anti -capital -punish:
meet cooties.- Hospitals and Asylums for the
deaf, •nd damb, the blind, the idiotic, the
destitute, and the abandoned—laws and apsoci•-
lions for the amelioration of criminal jtriepru-
dere, and prison decipline, and the introduction
of various plausible methods popular edecatien
hove all been rendered available, •nd tri some ex -
teat meccessful in the great work of human im-
provement. In short such was the enthusiasm
manifested a few years ago ia Britain for the ele-
vation et the masses, Mid the moral improvement
of society, that we almost laid hold of the hope
of living to see men exhibited in the real charm -
ter ore rational, intelligent being.
Among the numerous means that have been
put in requisition for the advaneement of chid lee -
lion perhaps the Newspaper has been among the
most influential. The icidependent moral tone
which ffre Newspaper Press of Britain has main-
tained, for many years, the honest streighforwani
manner, and ability with which different politi-
cal views are digressed; the gentlemanly courtesy
which its members sheer mesa other and, above
all, the mulct edherenee to cortitutional prin-
ciples mo') knows truths, give It a respectability
end • weight upon public 'million, which news-
papers ham, perhaps, never exerted io any other
country io the world. Besides, the cooduetors
of the British Newspaper Pres'i do not cosfine
themeelees to what may properly be denomina-
ted " News," ouch es Parliamentary orroceediap,
and local occurrences of Births, Deaths, and Mar-
riage'', are. &O., they, is general, esdeavor to
bring before their reader" every subject coneected
wtth human improvement, end as they are, for
Om most part, men pureeing s coesiderable
amount of talent, moral sod scientific Essays
will frequently be met with in the Editorial
columns of • British Newepaper, which *mild
he no dishonor to the philosophic Chairs is the
Untversito In fact • Newtpaper Editor in
Broods is regarded as an enlightened leader is
the 1110111 reformetios of society, am! to the
credit of intelligence it moot be recnorded thatilint
enthusiasm to do goad is • certain lode: to kis
ability : the more reel talent he possesses the
greater is his devotion, to the work 01 improve -
mem ; and this singtel feet we deem a sellicieet
guarantee for the ultilnate emeoripenos of ear
ram frortt ignorance sad depadmies, fer we de
believe is the uniene :nymph of "Mei ever
uskal.f. , -4—ud all rad es oa the «de of virus aad
1114110V8URIWCSI.
tWere to she Ow Newspaper Press DI
Canada as an eapteesios of 4.a10649 we would
certain, be fomed to catenate • ateeh lower
spisies Menu nature to -day, thee soo
doae at any period during the last tweaty-firet
years. But reel intellect is a vero secoodary
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raw. a eiesteri es ddlereat from a
British Miter as me meal be imagined—the
usecruouloas crests," of faction and aelfiehres.
11 • rums ems write • ealficienej of bitter
eitejegsgere—if he roe Mfg rod opera his imp°.
.10101 wilIctieoeya—nifpahealbe.it ,t,aphilit:tuyettetraindiangliceetorifgiaiii
ea ignorant—la short, if he edemas the ta-
utest/ of his party, eves by btewbeetiag, holly .
tali reckler, grousaileas as-
sertion or &brims known fillsehoods, they, be
may remise a Canadian Editor 1
Were we to lee glided in our decision by the
writings of the Tory Editors of Cada kir the
lent four mouths, we woeld 81 0801, declase, that
if there wu one character la raisteses whose
total diereganl of facts, priattples aad COMBOS
honesty, exhibited • deeper depravity than 61111
be met with in the common hausta 0( 1111 vicious
and depraved, Oat character is aCanadian Editor!
When • political question such, for instance,
as the repeal a the Navigation Laws, ts dis-
cussed by the Editors of opposite parties ia
Britain ; the entire bearings of the question, in-
cluding all the probabilities, possibilaise and
theoretical conjectures of both parties are brought
before the public, and discussed with ability,
perhaps, an occessional imrinkling of sophistry;
but the Editor who would have recourse to •
groan perversion 01 facie, or • reckless essertioa 01
known falsehoods, might. at mice write his faro -
well address to his subscriber& la Canada we
lack the ability for free, honest discassies ; the
facts of the case are rarely alluded to, mod that
conflict consists chiefly in assertiag and mfutiog
wilful and deliberate lies; • warfare wnich a
British public wruld not tolerate for one mcoitt.
A free Press is certainly °se of the chief bleesinp
which society ego enjoy. it is powerful "gest
in. advancing eivilizatioit and morality ; but
when the freedom or the Press is extended to the
propagetioe of wilful falsehood and misrepre-
sentation of facts, then itt becomes RR &Cafe
curss—a public nuisance -ea moral peetileace.—
Civilization is then goitre backwards, and the
very existence and support of auch a press ta
positive evidence of the morbid feelings of the
community.
THE BRITISH COLONIST
Winne seems wilting to be made a kind of
common genet for all the filth and falsehood,
winch the miller fry of the Tory press can cre-
ate Of serape together, has retently been making
common cause with the Ming called the " Heron
Ganef te !" and as the Cele:mist is the oaly piper,
with the exceptioo of the Galt Reporter, which
teems to recognize the strugglisg asid mysterious
existence of thee &Meg ; and as the Colonist, in
111 probability, knows nothing of the some&
from winch he is thus anxious to gleam even Om
slightest moiety of revenge 'for hie defeat in the
Founh Riding, and the loss of the Sheriff's Ad-
vertiementa ; we will take the trouble of Jeann-
ine him, that tbe thing called the Hsu.** Geurte
eeloogs to nobedy—nobody is Editor of It, and
nobody will take the responsibity of it. It is not
read by 6fty men in the District of llama, end
of that fifty there are not five who attach the
'lightest credit to any or it, statements. It is
not recognized, nor In fact, does not pretend to
be a newspaper, but is just published remotion -
ally as • kind of rem oc bravado to .hew bow
positively proud some men are of asserting ea -
Crest falsehood,. in order to make people laugh
at them ! The Colonist ta aware how very
hard it is to make Toryiem feel ashamed—and
this is the only triumph which the Hatore
Gazette has gained—it has disgraced toryiem
there are not four tones in Goderieli who would
oat feel insulted by coupling their' rani's.' or
their doer with the Huron Gazette. Indeed
the Majority of them would cheeifully assist ie
throwing ir and *be Press into the Lake, in seder
to rid the town of • very filthy nuisance ! 1, 4.
at the common service of two or perhaps three .
individuals who are as destitute of principle,
talent, character and means any living ena-
tare that crawls on the face of God's footstool,
and, as in the ease of D. II. Zooms, Ere of
Stratford, which will be loud is to -day's Sliest,
we have frequently been called on to viodieate
the character of rum of the most respectable
tones of !futon, from the foul attacks and wan-
ton falmhoode of the Huron Gazette.
Such is the Pearce from which the " leading
Journal of Upper Casada" takes hie barmier
missiles to ding at the Hon. Member for the
Furth Riding ! ! No. 1. is the rigmarole
brations of the honied Josei eleaw•wr, Esq.,
Barrister 01 Goderich, which will be found in
the British Colonist of th• 12t11 Met. lone
STLWART, Esq., Bonbon, hut, throggh same
strange neaten of the Hon Wai. C been ap-
pointed one of the Trustees of the Gannet Gram-
mar School.. But in appointing • Board a
Truster's, the present Government had thought
proper to leave 001the name of loon Brawnier,
Esq., Barrister, and substitute the name ot
Rev. Aux. MeKtn, mho is tA• mac Duero ear -
penned ay the seemed Oceentraost 301115
STRW•RT, Egg.. 11011111tef felt deeply mortified
with thO act of the Government, and kept
whining and Idebberieg about the streets of
Goderick kir •reveral mostlie--till at Werth,
threogh influence a. the HIM MALCOLM
Cutter, who bad ksown Jowl %TWA*? ill MO
liattlf clam the Gevernowat kisdly pee the
child the bauble, by appoiating Jon. STRWART
to 114. 01') Berth. Jewel lately became a membee
lied a "great orathoe" of the "Lemma," ead im-
mediate saw the propriety of resigrag bis
tent office, Moe the bands of • Geremmese
which he deckres 11. would eheerfelly help to
roast ia the &MINI of • Parliament home !—
down'. regressor. it statIlls, illiftwind 4. tko
Harem Octal. I t cad the Cornier Mess it with
avidity, sad Map it at the Um. Rosser Haw -
two 1
We would act +AA le get laughed at kr tsk-
hag asy serioes menu of Jose OTZWART eit 11111
Nem Chectw, bet we ass deems. el Myr.
bare dee euteseptiatity the Chilewiere wee.
peas ; sed for that purpose we asset hams the
Colrewirt that Ione Et -tamers, rag., Perfidy,