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London, England, 1858-09-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WIDNIBDAY, SEPT. U.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " REPRESS,*
ecaticiaing the result' of the d►y's Races, is pub-
lished e•e7 evening during the Sporting Sesson, it
six o'clock.

Ir is impossible for an Englishman at home to
observe without interest the constitutional difficul-

ties through which our fellow-subjects in Canada are
brushing their way. A fastidious and epigramtnatie
Prince might even be excused for thinking that is
that country colonial responsible Government itself
was " on its bid.' Certainly the present complication
of sectional intend', the confusion of political pu-
bes. added to the more permanent evils of hostile
prejudices, founded as differences of religion and race,
demand the discreeteat treatment of all who are called
to bear a prominent part in the public affairs of that
portion of the Empire. How far the Clovilmos-
()ENDA L of Canada has comprehended the oppor
tanitiee and proprieties of his position se the repre-
sentative of the Sovereign will have been seen
from the letter of our able correspondent
at Toronto which we published yesterday. Bearing
auks of the excitement of the struggle in which it
had its origin, that oommunication exhibits faith-
fully, and with the aid of the document' which have
pared, the conduct of Sir EDMUND Henn wider
circumstances calling for the nicest regard both for
the hamar of his Sovereign and the rights of the
people.

On the 28th of July last, the Gorennot-GEN
saw the Ministers with whom aid he had governed
defeated in the Assembly and on a qmstion of the first
order, by a numerical majority sash m, in their own
judgment, rendered their continuance is Aloe impos-
sible. The leaden of the parliamentary opposition
were Mr. Bikers and Mr. Dome. Their political
situation was well moderatos:id throughout the colony.
The victors of the hour, the heads of a powerful
party oat of doors, it was well known to everybody,
and of course to the Govitiscia-Orsestai, that
within the Assembly as it then stood they would
not be able to command a permanent working ma-
jority. This consideration did not deter his Excel-
lency from taking the step which was plainly indi-
cated by the ordinary principles of free Govern-
ment; he rent for Mews. 211.01111 and Downs,
and committed to them the trek et forming an
Administration. It is due to air Emmen Hien te
believe that when he did this he was setiagwith good
faith to the Colony and the Quasi.. He could not
have been proposing to himself at that time to go-
vern Canaia through a Cabinet which should be
hourly exposed to defeat and discredit. He must,
therefore, have intended, in the first instance, to in-
vest the new Ministry wi,h thane constitutional
powers which would enable it to appeal to the
people ; he mast have been prepared to authorise it
to dissolve Parliament. To suppose otherwise would
be to explain his conduct on principles which we
believe to be as foreign to the high personal cha-
racter of the Govrasoa-UalgasAi. as they are un-
worthy of the high position he holds by the favour
of the Crown.

In this frank and loyal act the political virtue of
Sir EDMUND Baer) appears at its height. Hence-
forth be appears as a politician differing from other
politicians only in station, rather than es a Governor
'placed above parties, and stedfastly resolved to walk
by cometitational rale. In the interval between his
Ant assays to Mr. Biowx sad the complete con-
structioa of that patlmman's Administration, the

rzaLi were to have reflected on the

inconvenience of that thorough turn-out and turn-
over which the accession of the opposition, followed
by a dissolution of Parliament, would en-
tail. Plausible reasons, some of them solid,
were at hand for objecting to a general
election. The partisans of the old Ministry
were active. They demanded nothing bat to be
allowed to go on with the existing Assembly, and
promised that if that were granted they would som
put the BaowN Ministry out of the way. In the
midst of these circumstances, the GOVULNOIII-01NE-

XAL quitted his earlier Arm positios of impartiality,
for in his letter addressed to Mr. Blower on the
3lst of July, before the new Administration was
complete, we find him volunteering to the expectant
Premier a statement of the difficulties it might be in
his power to throw in that gentleman's way. With-
out waiting to be asked, without waiting for the
event which might render a declaration necessary,
without waiting even until the expectant Ministers
should have really formed an official connexion
with him, the Ooveamoa.Gmtgau. wrote to
Mr. BROWN, telling him that if he took
office he might possibly find himself without the
power of dissolving, coupling this intimation with
references to the unpleasant situation of a Ministry
in a Parliamentary minority, and prescribing in a
bargaining spirit the terms on which he would con-
sent to prorogue. This communication was both
irregular and unreasonable. The incoming states-
men were asked to commit themselves to a rouse of
policy of which they were not the authors.
asked too by the very person they were invited
to advise—and this while they occupied a positioe
without the honours, the responsibility, or the
protection of office. In making these proposition•
his Exoellency abandoned that attitude of reserve
and expectation which is characteristics et the weed-
tutional ruler in times of party conflict. Without
any relinquishment of thou prerogatives which are
attached to his office for the good of the °wintry he
might have allowed the political crisis to follow its
natural course, always the safest in the end. He
rewlved otherwise, and the result is that he
stands before the Canadians in the eloped of a,
partisan.

The policy of Mears. BoowN and DORION, under

these ciretnstances, was at the same time their
duty. They replied that until they bad 'maimed
their functions of constitutional advisers of the
Crown they would not be in a position to discos
important measures and questions of public policy
with the Govimitoz-Gamemst. Sir EDMUND
HEAD admitted the justice of this rebuke, for
without further parley the new Ministers were at
oats sworn in. What had been anticipated hip-
pest& The parliamentary adherents of the fallen
Administration, who had passed over into oppo-
sition, passed at once a vote of want of confidence in
the new Ministers. The latter thereupon demanded
as appeal to the country. The GOVERNOR-GENERAL
ntsiod to dissolve, u he had before refused to pro-
ems% and the Bmovrm-Domom Cabinet resigned
beim it had even entered on a single act of adminia-
Medea. After an ineffectual attempt to form a
seed sow Cabinet the members of the old one
IMO abutted together, and within a few days of
their resignation were, with two exceptions, all
busk in their places at Sir E. HEAD'S Council
Board.

At this distance we are unable to judge of the
comparative merits of the men who have gained or
of the men who have lost in the coarse of these trans-
positions, nor should we have a right to do so if they
were nearer. It is neither for as nor for Sir E.
HBAD to decide who is beet fitted to conduct
the public affairs at Canada—that is the business,
as we understand it, of the Canadians. The
Goveanoz-Oxr tem., however, cannot have been of
that opinion. He has proved himself to be of the
school who seek to set the narrow wisdom of
the Prince above the: sure intuition of the
people, and with the best intentions has, a second
titre, placed the Crown in a false position. As the
matter stands at present, Sir E. HEAD has contrived
to appear as directly interfering to thwart one Minis-
ter and to favour another. Nothing could be more
terries. The Colonies have had a long fight for self-
government, and it is preposterous to suppose that,
after they have emancipated themselves from the
leading strings of the Colonial-office, administered by
a constitutionally responsible statesman, they will
surrender the privilege to its local officer. Already the
hostility of the Oovasoa-Gartxnit. bas served
the interests of the party against which it
wee exercised ; Mr. Blows has been re-
turned for Toronto after a most exciting
struggle, and people all over the country are peti-
tioning for the Govenuoe-GENIRAL's recall. With
the-electoral emcees of the aggrieved party this ex-
eitement will probably die away. Those who com-
plain loudest, and even talk of an elected Executive
on the American plan, know that it is much easier to
get the mistakes of a removable Governor-General

assanded than it would be to correct the aberrations
Cr restrain the caprices of a President chosen for a
tam and irremovable until its expiration. Bat it
was none the lees on this account unwise to provoke
the natural jealousy of a spirited people. Canada
Is not the only colony in which the working
of free oonstitutiooa has demanded tact and discre-
tion in the Governor, but wherever the spirit of
such constitutions has been loyally observed, the colo-
nies have been seen to right themselves. In oom-
mending Sir EDNITIID MUD'S policy to the notice of
the COLONIAL 131CliTAItY, we will recall the words
of Mr. LABOUCHIRE, his predeoessor in office, ad-
, droned last January to a body of colooisti:—
" I am persuaded that no greater mistake could be
"made than to grant responsible government to
"any colony, and then not to act frankly up to that
" concession."