The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-28 00:00:00

LORI) ELGIN AND THE CIO`

CANADA.

Sono supplementary papers relating to the Mon
tree riot, tit cactinuation of those already printed,
were laid Wore parliament on Friday. Tram them
we select the reply of Earl Grey to Lord Elgin's first
alert. cb, describing the outbreak:
Dovroiag-street, May 18.
"My lord,-1 hare received and laid before the Queen your
lirdship s despatch of the 30th of April, giving an a, count of
the scenes by which the city of Montreal has been disgraced,
and in the worse of which the building oc-upied by AO pro-
viso/A parliament ha. been drstrored by tire.
" I am comman-led by her Majesty to inform your lordship
that while she has r mired with very gnat ccr.cem the in-
tell genes of these plorable events, they hive not impaired
the coofideuts which her Majesty itas hitherto telt is your
ability and judgment, and that she continues to regard your
administration of the Whin of the province as mailing her
entire approbation.
" Upon the act of the provincial parliament which has
hifeeffed • pretext for the <Mingle which have been com-
mitted, It is the duty of her Majesty's Dermas to reserve
their Judgment until we shall be in possession of the full in-
formation which you lead me to espied, se to its character
and objects ; hut, whatever may be the view which may be
taken of the merits of that insmare, there can be t, ut one
opinion as to th • suit of those who, In reshaance to a lam
constitutionally pawed by the provincial legislature, have had
recourse to viol. nee of so diteraceful a character, or as to the
very serious responsibility incurml by all who have, even
by the imprudence of their lave assisted in pro-
ducing the excitement es htch Lis led toguage, such limentable
result.. Her blisiesty's servants entirely concur with your
lordship as to the c msequ.ne• s which most follow from sub-
mitting to the kind of dictation by which it has been
attempted on this occasion to ',vermin the decision of the
legally constituted authorities of the province ; and they con-
fidently rely upon your fir unem, sarported. as I trust you
wile be, by the parliament and the great majority of the
people of Canada, to enforce for the future obedience to the
law, and to compel these who may disapprove of the men-
state either of the leaialative or executive government of the
province to confute their opposition within legal ma constitu-
tionrl Hairs.
" I appreciate the motives which have induced your lord-
ship to offer the suggestion with which your despatch con-
cludes; but I should most earnestly deprecate the change it
contemplates in the government of Canada. Your lord-
ship's relinquishment of that office, which, under any circum-
stances, would be a moat serious loss to her Majesty's service,
and to the province, could not fail, in the present state of
affairs, to be most injurious to the public welfare, from the
encouragement which it would give to those who have been
concerned in the violent and illegal opposition which has
been offered to your government. I also feel no doubt that
when the present cm,tement shall have subsided, yen will
succeed in regaining that position of ' dignified neutrality'
becoming your office, which, as you justly observe, it has
hitherto been your study to maintain, and from which even
those who art at present most enema to you will, on refleci
tioo, perceive that you have been driven, by no fault on your
part, but by their own unreasoning violence.
Relying, therefore. upon your devotion to the interests
of Canau, I feel reared that you will not he induced by the
unfortunate osninemes which have takes 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 Ilsjeety's madam wish that you
should retain. " t have, itc.' " GRIM
" The Earl of Elsie and Klacardiae,lte."

PAINTERS SHOULD NOT SUM THEIR PENCILS.—
The post Reorient examination odfeacest
to artist named A. F.
West, who died lately, revealed en induce the juey
to Tatum a verdict "'That the died from Me effects
of carbonate of lad." It appeered that he was in the habit
el drawing his brushes through his lips.
ANoTitYn MAN POISONED BY HIS WlFR.—Con-
piderable consternatiom ban been caused in Nuneaton
throughout the peat Ave or six days, in cows-
ounce of a repent being freely circulated that
another hatband bad been Howdy poisoned by his
wife. The circumstances connected with the case, as
f.r as they hare yet transpired, appear to be as follow:—For
some time pest the deceased, whose name was Thomas Ball,
and his wife Mary, had lee en unhappy life, owing to her
Cermet unfaithfulness to him, and this only an account Sot
the atrocious act now imputed to her. On Friday, the 18th
instant, the deceased went out fishing, which gave gnat
cff ,nee to his wife. The rain coming on, he caught cold, and
became otherwise indisposed. Having returned home, the
wife, under the plea of kindner, persuaded the deemed to
go to bed sod take a basin of hot gruel, which he roan/
consented to do. His wife, it a pre aced the gm:4
of which he partook, but eh y afterwards he waseels
with violent sickness, purging, and thirst, the usual charac-
teristics of a party suffering from poison. The poor fellow
continued in the most excruciating agony for two 'ism when
he expired. The suddenness of the attack, and the extraor-
dinary manner of the death, Led to a determination on the
part of his friends to have the body opened for the purpose
of ascertaining, it possible, the precise cause of death. Ac-
cordingly a post-mortem examination was made, the result
of which proved Me presence of arsenic in the stomach, a fart
which at can gave rise to suspicion orient his wife, which
stimulated further inquiry, when it was speedily found out
that she, etwompinied by another female, had purchased
soma Millie at the shop of Mr. nits, a druggist. A eoro-
ner's inquest was called, when, laser a protracted inveigles-
Coil, daring which the above facts were elicited, the use
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