The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-21 00:00:00

braved thh lake. MUM" pall the laiglisibgemall,
that a man sna,pa fete the isiefamee of hilkiliapier-
cms hapless, Kr. Dentsos Isla tie only iliediens
and loyal Ras In Toronto who wail kill Mecum=
if be could do so with Impunity.
We have sistady so fully explained the nature
Id. the
ii'lewhich is made the ostensible
et ' at which now agitate, the pro-
Ad allusion to its details is at present
. Is it to se that it is recommended
and that it hate sustain it what the pea
%et &gland revere so mach—a precedent. That
' preeedmat m the bill passed during Lord Mwrcai.ra's
Eleaben
Lie:mialeleealss fit the indemeification of
ir to Maw .4 upps Canada. l'bie lill
*Oar to thee
fernier
one,
differing In tide, that in the one "t=
to was tole paid to Billie sableetaar
dtmesert, wham is the other, the Inhj_
dm=indemnity is to British saltiest* nil
in their veins. I
~. oar abloom, trak eallir loom, by the preesetii
noturlk light upon the nature of the
they are certainly such as to detneeltralem
than ever the essentially party character of )1111.11ne•
sent agitation. As the whole matter will Mt
lergo discussion in paliament, it is d ' dal I
the public should bear ii mid that it ie bat tireinil
emption of party wafers under • new la&
It is sailing under false colours, when it amasses dial
dignity of an imperial question. We have limed
mush of late of the sixpenny loyalty of Ulster. UM
of Canadian togism is avowedly conditiornal. it
makes no earn* of confessing that its allagitnes is
contingent on its being kept in the politisalmead-
ant. The whole moral et the present tory easement
is this—that if the British government does not
now aid the tales in settees back to power,
they will east their lot with the United
Maas. They threaten annexation without even the
'emblem of an acre. Seek of the liberals es re-
belled is 1837 had the decency to pref.r a me justifi-
cation at least for their conduct. Their language
was, 4 we coma remain British subjects if we are
treated unjustly;" that of the tories practically is, "we
cannot remain British subjects in opposition" Yet it
is in aid of ii. paltry faction, sot by such adfish
motives, that some of our contemporaries sem, when
they gravely discuss the question as one involving in
its issue either the integrity of the empire or the
honour of the crown.
- That we have not misrepresented the spirit of the
'malcontents is evident from the conduct of the
"good old tory" alluded to, not unapprovingly, by
the Chronicle, who, in his hatred to rebels and in the
exuberance of his loyalty, " d—d the Queen and
LAFONTAL'4II." If, as we are informed, the true
secret of the leaning of this worthy specimen of his
faction towards annexation be that it would enhance
tenfold the value of his properly, he might bare
spared LAFONTAINE from is denunciation, whilst,
before including the Queen in it, it would have been
but f ,ir to wart to see what ciatse the Queen and
her government would puree in the present juncture.
The instance selected by our oontempaaty is not very
felicitous as tending to show that it is to Om " rebel-
lion losses" bill that are to be attributed the present
aoisy ebullitions of provincial toryism is favour of
annext ion.
A strong point is attempted to be made by our eon-
temporary of the attitude assumed by the American
press in reference to the present movement in Canada.
But a certain clam of American journalists see, or think
they sic, nothing but advantage to their country from
confusion in Canada, no matter from what source that
I confusion may arise. They, therefore, fan the spirit
of disaffection, in whatever quarter they may discern
it, and ale prone to deceive themselves and
others as to the extent of that which they a'e
anxious to Mater. To judge of the present
sepect of Canadian affairs from the colouring Divert
them by some American journals, is to lay
oneself open to deception. In 1837, they exagger-
ated the extent of the rebellion, when they believed
that the spirit of disiffectio2 pervaded the whole
liberal party. They now magnify a party wrangle
into an incipient rebellion, and hail with satisfaction
the menaces of annexation indulged in by some of the
more infuriated kaditre of the tog minority of the
population.
We Uust that the imperial government, should Lord
Emu; rewire the bill for her Majesty's comidemtion,
will not incline towards those who are thus sowing
broad cast the seeds of future calamities tor Canada.
We are advinid to prepare tor every species of disaster,
If we tug u . doer COT 50 ONO 11111001.1•1•604. a Loyal." ila.
the province. In other words, we are warned of the I
danger of disregarding the remonstrances of one-fifth
of the whole Canadian population. Nothing is said
of the perils of running counter to the convictious of
the other four-fifths. Ate the sins of 1837 to be con-
stantly remembered against the French Canadians?
Are their faithful services to the crown during the
revolutionary war, and during that of 1812, to weigh
as nothing *gaited the fault et a few of them in 1837 ?
The cry of French domination is dater nonsense. The
boot is on the other kg; audit is the French, and not
the Anglo-Saxons, of tue province, that have to dread
the political extinction of their race.