The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

THE LEXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1865.

scourge and statesmanlike view of the disposition
of that great Power from which alone they have
anything to fur than many of the statesmen and
the majority of the upper chases of this country.
The Canadian people are perfectly competent to
judge for themselves whether they need that
elaborate system of defensive works which has
been proposed, and they ought to know the amount
of money which they can devote to such purposes.
Upon these questions the opinion of the Canadian
Legislature must be asked, and must be final. They
are entitled to treat with the Imperial Government as
if they were an independent power, and the Imperial
Government must treat them in the same spirit.
On the other hand, the Imperial Government
must consider that when a province has attained
the position of quasi-independence attained by the
British provinces of North America, the period of
total emancipation is not very distant. And it
should be the policy of this country rather to an-
, oalerate than to retard so desirable a consumma-
tan. Whilst it is the duty of this Government
to be prepared to repel any unprovoked aggression
on any parl; of its territory, it is also its
duty to assure the colonists that no means
will be spared to avoid collision with foreign
powers, especially with the United States.
Such a:•-nrances may perhaps have the sailed of
calming the apprehenskms of those who have been
somewhat alarmed by the feeling of hostility
openly displayed by too many iu this country.
Relying upon such assurances, the colonists ought
to be encouraged rather to develop their re-
sour, to cultivate peaceful relations, to multiply
the ties of commercial intercourse, than to cripple
their powers of expansion by burdening them-
selves and their children with an exorbitant debt.
These are considerations which, we trust, will be
weighed by the Canadians before they ratify the
proposals which have been made on their behalf by
the Ministers who were deputed to represent them
in this country, and they are considerations which
ought not to be lost sight of by the Ministers or
the people of this country before they ratify the
proposals made by Mr. CAILDWRIL and his col-
-uses.

with good resents, by the organs of the Tory party,
that party which, to the cry of Church and Queen,
hu always eonsistently opposed every meuure of
civil and religious liberty, and which still *tickles
for the continued imposition of forms and observ-
ances which it knows to be equally worthless and
I irritating, for the avowed purpose of humiliating
loyal and law-abiding Englishmen of opinions differ-
I ent from its own. As for Conservatism in its broad
I and honest meaning, does any one believe for a mo-
ment that Baron ROTHSCHILD and Mr. Citswroau,
Mr. GOSCERN and Mr. LAWRILNOZ, are not as
much interested in it as the gentlemen who come
forward to oppose them I Are they not as deeply
I pledged as men can be to a serious consideration
of the tendency of any measures that may be pro-
posed for extending the privileges of the consti-
tution ? Mr. LYALL and Mr. Fowles promise
nothing useful and profitable that would not be as
well or better secured by the return of Baron
ROTHSCHILD, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. GOSCHER, and
; Mr. Lswasses. AU that they could do which the
; Liberal candidates are not ready to do is, to oppose
the further progress of legislation towards ends and
i objects which the beat intelligence of the age has
decisively adopted for its own.