The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-16 00:00:00

Mr. ADDERLEY said it was not the act itself they we*.
plained of, but it was the ambiguity and obscurity of its
phraseology which laid it op.n to objection. He rise via
great pain upon the present occasion, because he could as
vote for the motion before the houte, and his yeah*
for not voting for It was that it came too lite
If they were to endeavour to induce the crowa not to
mac.
Hon this act, they would stultify themselves, for the mem
by its organ had tanc,ioned the passage of the et
lie feared it was too late for the crown to interfere without
a chance of exasperating the col mien; he dtd not see hoe
parliament wee to interfere. He
.would et•li the nsble toed
to show how he would give instructatusto the coraniilionets
which would ovcr•ride the act, ao .d, be could, he would
vote for the act.

Mr. M. MILERS believed that this question had uses
late, as the hun. member lir Stamford had said ; but by
could not see huw it could come eariier. It the house would
regard the history of the bi 1 they would. 5..0 out it had goy
through ev.ry legitimate rooms* in the colony. The
tion now before the house was whether th.y could prumi,
the relations between Canada a,.d this country in sad
manor that the connexior. should u c'ul aid he ituraSle
on the put of the colony. Could they reject a bill sotctioned
by a large My withal seriously cnd.inft. ring the coma:las
between the two countries ? Ile be'ftved that by pacing
this bill they would coy to the British inkabitanta of Caw.,
hat we wish to do is to make the muntety of the late Iv
bellion a real amnesty ; mike the two prosiccts 'AC*.
nada a reilly united people ; to do what weir represtuts.
tives d d when they gate their coremt to 'he Dlefalat gs
hoped the house would give a full assent to the priLciple of
Loud Elgin.

The Marquis of GRANBY said that the question wr
not whether or not they ehutiiil endearcur to counteract the
prmeiple of respon.ible sv.vernment, but whether, by +Log.
ing the re.olution of hi. rght boa. friend, they would be
acting contrary to that principle. The noble lord, the fins
minister of the crown, bad said the other night, that in hi'
opinion there were eases in which it Incame the cuty efts
government of this country to iuterlero wits the deusial of
colonial legislatures. Wes this one of ibis cases in whir;
it was their i:uty to ad vow her M.jr!ty :At to give ha oat.
sent to the act 1 It bed been admitted by the noble kel,
it had been admitted by the torrourable member Ire
Sh.ffield, and by the Attoriley•General, that if this
bill became the law of the Lull, rebels must be mu_
vensated for the loses they incurred in the late es.
b.Liog. if that were the case, he put It to the home
whether it woo not an levered question rather than s
local one. Ile did Lot see the linne member fR
the University of °vont in his place, but he Gould note
down without noticing the taunt which he threw enlist
night on the conduct ei hi. h his right hAiourake friend had
thourret lit to pursue ' • he said that opulluet was extract.
divary, and that the house was not prep.red for theme/se
which they hod taken. lie thought tea conduct of the
right hon. gentleman was extraurilii.ary, and he naul
doubted whether the alt-r the very brillice spe.elt
that he had made, was not surprised at the milt.
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Mr. LAIIOL:CHERE as nied the noLe aierluie that
avea under a syatein of respoesible gourmets, q
ua
tione might arme on which it might he receaaeT
for the mantel 1 nuthrroy to intersse ; and a ti's
believed that the bill which had c me from th Cantdae
wit intentionally framed, as was stated by gentlemen
on the other side, with a view to inettlt the triudt crews,
and affront deliberately that portion of the people ut Canada
who particularly thatineuiseed themelves Li sapid. sang
rebellion in Canada, he should he prepared to &snipe the
rejectiae of this bill at all hazard,. But it ea, with the
utmost difficulty ant reluctance that he could belies-, that
that was a faithful description of the bill, el ea the bill was
finally agreed en i, the House of As eolith of Canada
by a mejor.ty of 148 to IS, • majerly not composed
exclusively of Layer Canadians ter members refl. setting
French descent, but an actual majo.ity of the r precieseees
of either Canada. Tee hon. member for Nardi Wrakk-
shire had reproached his noble friend, the fire, maw,
ter t'f the crown, fur hayloft said that he should won te ate
the instructions which Leta Linn had i.s..ed to tio e amts.
sioners, before he advised the ero en to sanction this bal.
New, what his noble fri, ad had cud a-as, that. neetauily,
some time must eleibe before the mega wee called apse
express an opi, ion, and that in the interval, the inatraetises
to Lord Elgin would come ever, whet Lis nail, fared did
nit feel any doubt but that t'oce icstrLetiar.s w..tid b.'s&
us to warrant his advisintr the mown to ece, id the b,ll. (saw,
hear.) Ile (Mr. Labonehere) thought the gentile
which tho house had to deeido lay in a emir
compass. All patios admitted the nteees ty cf responsible
governte.ent in Canada, nod ell admitted that an indemnity
hi 1 fur losses incurred in tier. b. Ida:. cos a prop :r mean.
The only question was, whether the pr. irnt was a tripe?
bit. (11 ar, hear.) lie d.d not say that it was the mut
proper tell that could have been (levant, bat the queitioa
was whether teere was PO much impropriety on the ,ace edit
as to prevent its becoming a law. Now he media hadn't
wakes the house was @Atha .d of its grass iinpropric ty, thus
would be greater danger in their attompiiug in the way pm
noted to legidate for Canada. He o ned that after hung
heard lion. and right hon. gentlemen of g eat do
quence and great ingenuity, it canned in him that as ran
objection% might be urged ropiest the ILi white
they proposed to b. enntructed as eg..inee th.:t wdli which
they were already acquainted. He lepdit, dt; at then me
nothing in the present bill that cull he taken to imply sa
intention of rewarding rebels for their r. or that
would warrant that house in intcrferine clut the coleniel
legislature. S,.metllng had fu I.n irons the nehl, marquis
who had just add 'eased the home w 1 ie., required a pawn
Midelo. The noble marquis had al!• gad that u. der the hat
the claims of Nome loyal sit fec.e would he rich:dee Hs
was not lawyer cc °ugh to say whether ores the athlete mar.
pais wee techeindly correct in hie eintrurtion ; he very mach
doubted it ; Matteis he would say, that eepiiethiy construed,
the phraseology of the bill would, in has ednion, be au&
tent to include the claim of every loyal sa' j at. Lai, even
ii the bill did not go fir enough, if fil• they measures of in.
demnity were necessen, the queue in was one for the rapt,
and parliament of Canada, and not f the inap,rial legis-
lature. (Hear, hear.) H- confessed that if he could hue
any doubt as to what the decision el th .t hogs, v. rind he, be
should await that decisien with ereat ant :via. se acid et.t ety.
lie n.ould be the hat man to advise ail ieselting proceeding
towards our colony, end therefore he taunted that the hew.
wmul I, bye large majority, nject Vie amendment of the
right hon, gentleman, while he had such cotifideece in the
good sense, genuine loyalty, and reel atteedua.nt to the
another country, of the Canadiaa people, as to he thinned
that even that portion of the ineab: ants whe Lai ran
most sir: au ,usly opaesed the hill would feel convinced that
r government and parliament had been actuated by na other
, desire than humidly to fulfil toe high Maniacs which the
country had im;tosed on them, and r.oe on Liedequate ground.
to int, rfcre with the cons lantana! ,vied fps el one of the
, nab!, st pmesessioos of the lirit.s'a empire. (Cheers.)
Mr. BASHES soil that, looking to the deletions
of the ri,ent haamarablo member for Oxford Univenity,
I end to the ausweis whisk had be, n given by the
• government, he felt that the pr.e of was one et
those rare occasions when the house would be justified in
I addressing her Majesty fee some pause, is outer %het
I nothing ahouid be done a i,hout • fall and clew
I interpretation of the seeps and intention of the measure.
Under these circumstances he could not but sunpa., while
eid mining to the eufie,t extent that such m e,rpoeetion should
I i,e rare, that aco a had been made out w. ich justified tont
delay on the part of the crown in giving its assent to the
act of the colonial legislature. With regard
.to
f the question whether he-, aa member of the op
• peril) parliament, was jawatied in inlirferii4 in Li:is Mak
• ter, and in interposing with the culunial goverement, he
3 could not but remember that there had been nxi.simes
I in which the governnemt had not shonn that (itemisation
r to upheld haw atid eider even in this ceuutry. H.. hag read
in tee correspondence,whieh was published en the autumn et
• last year, referring to events which o. curred wh n Lwd
Melbourne was in utfice, that the secretary of that noble iced
was charged therein with writing a letter to a penes—
' (01, ch.) Yes, he contended that that was a question aaa-
I
lagous to this, which was the remuneration of traitor; (hear,
I hear), and he mph. d, when he ask, 1 how it c b. looked
ution a 3 an imperial question, that thcro was • time whea
' this country was iu the condition of Canada, and even sub
1 jest to a control and an interference which motet have
Ive
been dangerous to the state, and to the safety of tireat Bri-
tain. In his opinion it would be dangerous to ass vet to a
bill having the immediate effect of encouraging übdt:n and
conepiratort either at home or abroad. (" Hear, hear," and
I cheers.) He gave the noble lord credit for having at
I heart the interests of the empire and the sovereign as Lana
I as he had; but befere he could give his assent to • measure
I such as that under disenseion, he coast require from the
I noble lard a distinct asenrance that traitors eheu'd ecet be
compensated under it. (Hear, hear.)

Sir IL PEEL felt that all the arguments on the tidied
had been exhausted, yet was unwilling to give th- vote he
intended to do vrithent a brief explatattoo of the grounds 011
which it was founded. He did not pat the construction as
the amendment of his right boo. friend (Mr. Herr:op) wtick
had been ,at upon it by the lion gentleman who had last
spoken. He did not consider it m.r.ly as an addmis to the
crown to come to no hasty decisioo at h reap ct to the refill'
cation of this att. (Hear, heir) Ho nwhistoed it to b•
substantially an address to sway the crown not to assent to
the bill until certain amendments moved by the miaot ity is
the colonial legislature abotie be ma's is it. (Hear, hear )
That motion of his right hod. friend'', whether lutes-
, tionally or indirectly, was, as had been observe], by
j the hon. member for Northamptiun (Sir. V. Smith), Len-
tkal with an amendment moved by the minority is the
I discussion on the bill—cousequ• nay that which the House of
I Comm eel was new called upon to arum was suhaantially
this—that the measure of the maj why should Lot hare treat
, until that majority abould adopt an amendment suomided
tsit by *email minority, and welch it hail after consi rid*
, rejected. (Hear, hear.) If they seamed to such a motion
, it would be impossible to avoid (ua, in; in a conflict of no
small extent—(nmar) —a confimt in which they ought with-
, out doubt to eagage if the ho-au, of the crowd imperatively
required it—bat whil, b. lore amy engaged in it, was cer-
i Wady advisable to consider the nature of and the circum-
stances under which they were called upon to enter into it.
(Hear, hear.) They had before them a measure which Pro'
Tiled for a certain aptropriation of the fences ef a trivet
colony of the British Empire. (Hear.) At a former period
it was proposed that the compensation approved by the ball
should be made from the imperial treasury—hut the propeellf
was rejected. The present meesuro dia nut contemplate any
appropriation of the revenue of that kind. Ti.e measure
under consideratioo proposed an api/tOpii4lioll of eilositd
funds for colonial purposes. (Cheers.) And teat measure's
proposed had been affitmed by a mai Teal in he Leeishtive
Aseemb:y of the provincts of are has titan ii ro 18. He
was not willing to refer to the aharaetm and conditutisa
of that majority, because the act of the majority was that
which, under ordinary circumstances, ought to be COTICIa.
alas—he said, under ordinary oireumstancts—:ter he eras
willing to admit that if the honour of the crown r• gaited it,
the exercise of the authority of the crews are inter-
posed ; but, under ordinary o.f4PiladAr.Ctl, ;dr act of OA