The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

BRITISH NORTH AMBRICA.-CANADA.

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We are in receipt of Montreal journals to the Bth
bet. inclusive. They are full of angry divevv.ioo,
with veer few positive facts.
The Herald intimates that a meeting of the Execu-
tive Council was to be held in Toronto on the 10:h
oo Lord Elgin's arrival in that city, at which Mr.
Enda was expected to be present. The newspapers
Is general throw doubts on the statement that the
vat of government was to be removed from Montreal ;
sad the Minerva, a French journal, which supports
and is understood to enjoy the confidence of minis-
Iwo, says that everything leads to the b lief that the
Seat of government will not be removed, at least for
the presest. Mr. Blake was ganitted on the 61 as
solicitor-general for Upper Canada.
Two movements of oessiderat le practical impor-
tance are on foot. The Montreal Gazette of the Bth
mays,. " Many of the French parishes in the various
district, of Lower Canada have chosen delegates to
represent them at the meeting to-day, to consider the
subject of the seignorial tenure. We have been un-
able to barn the number of delegates that are likely
to be prevent." The Herald, of the 6th, notices a
meeting at 13owmanville at which it was determined
to form an Anti-state Church Association, and view-
kg this am a first step to a renewal of the queestio
wzata of clergy reserves, congratulates Itself on the
event as likely to occasion a rupture in the liberal
LTGTee tory journals concur in representing the
annexation party as rapidly increasing in strength.
Some of their own statements are, however, of a La-
tare to throw doubt on the assertion. Some of them
will have it that the French are for annexa-
tion to a man. The 1116ntreal Gazette, however, in-
falai us that a meeting was about to be held in the
county of St. Maurice, at which M. Pspineau was to
be called upon to explain his conduct during the late
session of parliament. Whereupon the Casette lauds
M. Papineau as the only French member whose con-
duct has been uniformly consistent. Again, tbe Mon-
treal I wirier supports annexation, on the ground that
England wall not recede from her free-trade policy.
The Montreal Herald, on the contrary, equally tory
in its politics with the Courier, and abo addicted to
'platonic flirtation with annexation, enlarges as fol-
lows on the benefits which Canada is denying from
this same free-trade policy :

13141IFICIAL lint= OP Till ABROGATION of
.BIT NAVIGATION Lrove.—As the first and consistent public
shout« of the repeal of them mom injurious enactments' we
Mee anxiously wailed for the time when the new law
mould C9llae into force, in order to see our ix: 'mations res
lived by the event. We hardly expected to hove, so long
before Laud, to announce the proof of the happy Effects
Maly to moult to our trade from the new pace. We learn,
hoverer. that •• Norwegian ship has been already chartered
New York to prommd to Quebec, in the spring, and there
Mad a cargo of timber, Me.. for • British pore, at the low
IBM of 31s. pee load. If this has been dote already, what
mg not be expected when we enjoy the fall advantages of
impend= ? _ _ _

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The opposition party in Canada are at present very
angry, but this anger appears to be their only bend
of union. The Orangemen, a portion of the French
sod the old ascendancy and family compact patties,
are at one in their denunciations of the local and im-
perial governments. Bat some are for free trade,
Nome for protection, some for the resumption of the
clergy reserves, some for the extirpation of papists.
In this state df affairs the following exhortation of
the .Ibrolitig Courier, if not exactly reasonable, is at
least neural :
We undinetaail that • metals 11. P. purposes resign's, kis
Int, in order to enable kiln to agitate the grand question of
useast.oe. 8e vitel a matter should be argued, sad carried
eat, if prectioshis, by thee of strict iategnty, andeyiating
pimples, and without the whit* sleeve balm of their coats
hsisg wen Le no wan listen to, or Plow any oilier, We
▪ soon bars our bands full, and we shall take care who
bade us.
" Let no man listen to or follow any other." What
a picture of a party do these words mosey! Such
laagasge strengthens, if it does not absolutely con-
firm our previous impression that the present effer-
vescence in Canada is mere passion uneombined with
Inflection or definite purpose. It will, if this view
le correct, endure only so long as men's minds are
rat occupied with practical questions. And such die-
tensions as the Clergy Reserves and the Seignorial
' Titles once earnestly entertained will soon banish it
ham the people's mild'. The habit of conforming to
established institutions will outlive it; men will quietly
fall hick into the old accustomed paths. buch is
ear inference from the present state of Canada.
7be prognostications from the United States ore un-
worthy of affection. They speak the wishes more
%a the reuoned convictions of the writers. Ever
as. the commencement of the American revolution

Se sear Lotion of the Canadu and the acquisition of
tisk Lawrence has hem a cherished object with the
statesmen df the Union. This is not the first time by
a roard doses that they have predicated with equal
@Bandeau) the arrival of the hoar which was to see
Se cossummation to this wish.

The Canada* (French journal published at Qeebec)
of the ;Ird iast., states that the emigration from
Canada to Catania "is becoming almost a national
morement." Many young men of good family have
tom or are about to depart overland for California
in small parties, along with American emigrants.
Others who had settled in Oregon are moving south-
ward to the gold regions. "Itis in fact an epidemic
which threatens to depopulate Canada worse than
the cholera." A party of thirty were to
meet at Montreal abort the time this notice
appeared, to proceed through the United States
to tiro Francisoo ; and two or three ships were
expected to leave Quebec with emigrints for that
port in the coarse of a month. The writer of the
article from which we have extracted these statements
mentions that he bad been present at a meeting called
by Mr. Holt, who was about to dispatch a vessel to
lea Fraacista. He proposed to form a joint stock
company, tript 40 shares of 1001. each, to be invested
it a cargo. Shareholders who desired to become
passengers were to pay no passage mosey. It was to
be deducted from their share of the profits, and the
balance paid to them in San Francisco by the am-

Lord sad Lady Jobe Russell left Pembroke Lodge
trnenlay 'Samoa as a aat to ha Majesty at Wiadoor
Lade. •

E x TENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.—ShortIy niter one
O'clock this moraines, a great daetruetion of property by fire
look place in Holton Old-tows. The consumed
were occupied by hat manufacturers, andtMe Are was disco-
vered by a penal push*, who raised the ma'am alarms ;
hat, by the time the firemen could nosh the spot, the en.
tin fottory was one horsing MM. An abundance of
water WAR **clued, end not lees than eight of the
brigade, West of England, and other engines, poured
water on the lipase, but my hing could pre** the destree.
lion of the lackey, dwelling house, and every other valu-
able attached thereto, The fir* also injured some buildings
near. eLd havoc was experienced by the hasty removal
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of (ono: ure. ~itt half-test two farther Mud, --
from tor confusion prevailing. correct of til aright
and lose could .not be ascertained, . Nelsen sad big
family, it is understood, succeeded in laving their lies in
this manner, but two boys who were sleeping in one of the
upper rooms world not be awakened, whet Mr. Maws
rushed to their room, sod, at the lik of his owl llfe,
amend to pa the two youths trees theirbeda and drop
them from the whedew in safety. Al=iime that was snow
pliged at halt-past two o'clock this a female
who slept on the premises, said to be • of ung
the pro-
prietor, wan missing, sad from the inquiries made ,it was
lured that she had perished.