The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

Ws shrank from noticing the Montreal petition to
be allowed to whine British imareiguty for
American annexation. flat wee • spark struck by
an able and malignant hand over • large and well-
famished tinder-box. It is only, however, a breath
from this country that could blow this spark into a
Same. Better, in oar opiates, to have closed the lid
and ignored the spark. Our eontemporaries have
thought otherwise. They have played with it, read
fanned it into a glow. The nue last week treated it
asextremely carious, and with a respeot which is that
journal implies an object of importance and Maur.
no journal has evidently sines been remonstrated
with by the Colonial-office, and informed that it had
treated the Montreal remonstrance with too much
consideration. It accordingly ecdeavoared, in its 1
yesterday's amber, to detract from the important:a
and to represent the annexationist' of Montreal u a
piqued and aninfinential few.
- Of all this we should have taken no notice, bat for
the announcement which the ministerial journal,
sakes at the conclusion of its article, an aaiminsca
mat that will be recd all over the United States and
Muds, and which will excite feelings la both these
enables &crams to the peace, and inimisa both to
the character and grew* tit this country. We
could wish to the leffies a little more pru-
deries, and a greater assmand et secrecy and temple.
To judge from the following, lad Our is as nage-
Innate and imprudent in his neweffisial communism
Bons to the London press, as in kb official despatches
to colonial governments.
" If," says the Mal*, "wider the pressure of temporary
ademeley. er hem an midst estimate of the benefits of repeat-
MEM mss,
Me Omens& pee, le deliberately propose
to esebegge ths keen peaky that ay eels.; ever enjoyed for
the softer's hoeses et hemiessmedt pert of an vawieltly
sestsderafies, then let them smisase that the aoudad of
the people of Sagland will be digested by agaves et re-
deems sad Menem skew. If they think chat they an do with.
can Osesia, then, and than say, will they go. up Naiads.
Bettis elltheaderieg Camas they will take care not to sur-
Nein MI jot of sea or bad. the ponession of whisk really
eat ellhativsly concerns the minim, and oomeseteial be-
ef Great Britain, They will not cede Nova Seeds,
NW ads Caro Brous ; they will not cede that
end the herbals whit* most ever commend the
mouths of tie St. Lawtesse sad protect the trade of the
Athesis. Is porting from England Canada will lose the
name els dependent reprises, to be brought more nearly
within view of the force whist' might have perpetuated her
indepesideam ;in looms her hold of Casa England will
Mite we to lese oisly the respensibilitiss and expense of her
relsaim. Bat wersppebeed that the deitsd fortunes of
Casein sod the &resides ei bet penile make all such anti-
cipations as these wholly saperteses.
We can conceive no language so arrogant, so impo-
litic, or so unprincipled as this. Sash views and an
might be propounded by governments of the
last century, or by absolutist politicians in this.
But for Englishmen, and ministerial organs, to tell
British colonists at the present day, that the English
government in its colonial policy will be guided by
"prudence and interest aloae," that is by selfish pni-
dence —that it will give up the entire provinces of
Canada, if they like, because they are of no pcmible
use to Great Britain ; but that the lox board shall
not in any case bo given up, because it ministers to
the power and commerce of Britain—is this a lan-
guage to hold to colonists in the present age? We
really understood that no British statesman would
think in the present day of holding colonize excepton
the principle of mutual good to colony and to mother
country. But if we are to avow that the government
of both Cnnadi sod England is not only to Wok of
England first, and of Canada second, but to make
Canadian interests of no account at all—why, then,
we say that the Canadians would be justified in de-
manding instant separation, and scouting and repu-
diating at once and for ever the supremacy of a
country governed by principles so selfish and so
rapacious.
As to the Montreal petition, we never looked upon
it except as the expression of individual spite.
Its very cleverness and art bespoke this. But the
purport of. this document, the question mooted- in
it, is one that must eternally be started and kept alive
by the mere propinquity of the United States. A
war is going on between the monarchic government
of Canada and the republican government of the
United States—a war of rivalry, a struggle of com-
petition, to see which will best provide for the wel-
fare, and proiperity, and development of each popula-
tion. The struggle is a fair one. The Americans
have many advantages that we have not. England
has many advantages that the Americans have not.
The only difference seems to be, that they use all
theirs and that we use none of ours, giving to the
Canadians the mere shadow of a govern-
ment, without cspitals or distinctions, share of
place, consideration, representation, or any one
of the many prizes and advantages of Bri-
tish life. Of course if we go on in this blind,
stupid, and selfish way, the colonists will turn their
backs upon us. Our idiotic tory statesmen imagined
they would secure the attachment of the Cenadas by
the implanting of tory principles there, by sending
out Orangemen, and squires, and veteran officers, by
erecting a church and endowing it, and communicat-
ing to the lay party connected with it an ascendancy
like that which has alienated the Irish. We now
find that all their fine tory sowings ban produced a
crop of turbulence and disloyalty. The Orangemen
cry " annexation' The Lord Roma of the new
world are republ'ans. Tory and aristocratic mo-
narchy cannot, in fact, be acclimated in the new world ;
and if monarchy is to survive there, or indeed in any of
our colonies, it maths by being surrounded with repub-
lican institutions, that is, with institutions in harmony
with the social existence of the people.
But whatever be the form or the name of govern-
ment, it must at least pretend to direct the affairs et
each country and each colony for its own interest",
and not for the interests of say distinct moths,
country. To tall British America, therefore, that we
will treat it like the ox of the prairie, carry off the
hide and the horns, and leave the carcess to be de-
voured by the American wolves—this is an outrage
sufficient of itself to create a rebellion.
If we cannot keep Upper Canada against the
wishes of its inhabitants, aided by the armed sym-
pathy of the United States, we may depend upon it
that we cannot keep the provinces around the mouth
of the tit Lawrence against the whole of the
northern continent. The French thought they were
very sagacious when they took their station at the
mouths of the two great rivers of America, the Mit-
=' the Lawrence, leaving the English
a St-
Los important and intermedial parts of the
011111111•1. The rash was manitst i when the day of
came, the holders of the continent sou
the intruders from their enviable positions,
me sabdued them therein.
In the same way it would be the height of impolicy
ell Ilea as mimesess is as to hold say portion of
- Aleuries merely as we hold Gibraltar—for our con-
; We may treat Spaniards so, bat not the
an race. If we hold Canada, it must be for
dr of the Canadians, and with their support.
Ones we lose that right, and that excuse, we may depend
upon it we shall be driven from the whole of the con-
duct, as indeed we deserve to be, if we hold any por-
ties mealy for the selligh interest. or peculiar advan-
tages of our island.
We should, therefore, strongly recommend the
Colonial-office, if it would keep Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton, to do so by keeping Canada too; that is, by
conciliating it and by governing it in some pint
and with some po cy hoe preposterous, less
blundering, less miserable, than its present. Let
not Lord GUT or his organ, the Vona, lay
to their lazy soul' the flattering unction that
they an let go Toronto and Montreal,so trouble-
some to manage, and keep 'tallies as an arsenal and
• packet station. Such an idea could never have
germinated in the brtaet of a statesman, andconldonly