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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 18.
THE manly and temperate tone of Lord ELGIN'S
despatch is as creditable to his she as its pre-
cision and lucid arrangement are to his talents. He
places his appointment at the disposal of ministers,
who amine will only avail themselves of the high-
minded offer to give more unequivocal utterance to
their determination to support a governor, who has
displayed each sound constitutional principle and
such rare self-command on a moat trying occasion ;
who is approved of by a majority of 38 against 16 in
an assembly which, elected under the auspices of the
late ministers toconfirm them in office, passed a vote
of want of confidence in them by a majority of 2 to 1;
and who will doubtless receive similar expressions of
confidence beton the next moil is sent home from the
constituencies who elected this assembly in defiance of
a reckless exerciseof minieterial influence.
All things considered, we feel more disposed to con-
gratulate the Canadians than to condole with them on
the Montreal riots. The faction which roused the
mob to these excesses by systematic incendiary ap-
peals, and by the agency of clubs and Orange lodges,
and which is now making them a pretext for leen'.
pating the Governor, has by this conduct shown itself
to the people of England in its true colours. Nothing
short of this could have convinced tke English public
how tyrannical and lawless this minority of the
Canadians is. The masked ringleaders of the mob
which destroyed the parliament house and library of
Canada, and gutted and destroyed the houses of
several leading liberals, and their satellites, are
the men who governed Canada before, and at
the time of the rebillion of 1837 and 1838.
Englishmen will be able from the conduct of this
party when in opposition to infer what must have
been their conduct when in power. It will no longer
excite surprise that there was a rebellion, and the
foolish and misguided men who took part in it will
henceforth be judged more leniently.
The faction which governed Canada up to tho time
of the rebellion is an exact counterpart of the orange
ascendancy faction in Ireland. Its aim was togovera
Canada by a contemptible and corrupt minority, and
to maintain itself in power by deceiving the English
government and bullying the Canadian population:
I Even in its high and palmy days it not tudro-
qu-ntly had recourse to lawless acts of outrage and
intimidation for the purpose of carrying elections,
only secondary in attoaty to those which it has
recently enacted in Montreal. When insulting Lord
ELGIN and committing incendiary ac's, it has been
playing the same game that the Dublin orangemen
did in their attack upon Lord Herritanunv.
The Irish ascendancy made the support of British
institutions and peon:tandem their pretext ; the
Clammilian ascendancy make the support of British in-
stitution their pretext. It may not be altogether
unless to throw a little light upon what is meant by
British institutions in the mouths of Canadian orange-
men. la Upper Canada the law is essentially English,
and no one seeks to interfere with it. In Lower Ca-
nada tenures of land and great pert of the law are
essentially the some as prevailed in the country
previous to the conquest by Great Brittle. The law
m Lower Canada differs Teem the law in Upper
Canada moth in the same way and to the
lame extent that the law of Scotland differs
from that of England. What would be thought
of Englishmen settling in Scotland were they to in-
Set upon having the whole body el the law and pro-
ceedings
in the law courts of that country item
diately and forcibly superseded by English law, and
legal forms of procedure to suit their convenience or
whims? •Yr t this is precisely what the Canadian
Orangemen mean when they attribute to the legiela-1,
tore and government of Canada a desire "to force
French institutions still fuither on the British
minority in Lower Canada."
The sixteen members of assembly who voted against
the address of confidence to Lord ELGIN are the W-
ort force that can be mustered in the legiala'ure to
support the monetzous pretensions of the old ascen-
dency or family compact faction. And these six-
teen are split into no lees than three parties of
:Itinsesseileable views and characters. There
ALLAN M'NAB and his adheren's, the genuine
sY suerbatessted family compact. There are the
—boss of the late ministry—the Peelites of
Gmada—co-operating with a faction which they de-
spise and detest And there is the monad piety
which is composed of M. PAFiSEAU, equally detest-
ing, and detested by, both his allies. Against this un-
principled, reciprocally hostile, chaotic combination
is arrayed an overwhelming majority of the Cana-
dian people; there is a majority of the Biitish race
against it, and a majority of the French race.
The turbulent minority in Canada has considerable
resemblance to the unscrupulous tory faction of the
reign of Queen Ansa and the first GEORGE. It
consists of a few intriguing and violent politicians of
the educated and proprietary clime?, backed by the
mobs of Montreal and Toronto, as the Arrennuilits
of England and the LOCKILANTB of Scotland were
backed by the High Church and StettEvenezt mob
'of London and the Jacobite mob of Edinburgh. The
1 Canadian ascendancy faction in 1849, like the English
tory faction in 1716, is made up of disappointed and
desperate official jobbers, men in bankrupt circum-
stances, and the aggregate ignorance and brutality of
the province, with, perhaps, a few honest fanatics
among them. The ricts at Montreal, and the riots
which may for a few years longer continue from time
to time to break out, are the last convulsive death
struggles of sordid despotism and ignorance.
No pains have been spared to mystify
and delude the publie of the mother country as
to the power and numbers of this moribund faction.
The most unblushing fats hoods and exaggerations
respecting the state of feeling in the Cuestas have
been despatched by every mail, and by the electric
telegraph, for publication in the journals of the
United States and England. An intelligent New
York correspondent, who has been led to attribute
more importance to the faction than it deserve*, states
two facts relative to the channels through which most
of the recent accounts from Canada have reached the
United States. In the beginnin; of a letter we have
received from him he says —" My information
was derived from the hod Canadian sources,
lost it must be confessed they were of Tory
driien! And, towards the dose, he says,
a The telegraphic despatches [from Canada] are
gassally prepared by ordinary reporters, and
men of mere mechanical dexterity, who have kernel
only to work the telegraphic instruments, and must
IMMIX* be received with a few grains of doubt"
Mom pusskros materials are worked up by renegade
Britons suatteeted with the newspaper press of the
United Stets. into inflated narratives of " inenrec-
dons" Is Canada; and are made by super-subtle
waists and sotists like Mr. GLADSTONE, pretext
for expressing oubts as to the real state of affairs in
Comas which they do not entertain, in order to avoid