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London, England, 1837-12-30 00:00:00

rebels—all who were the victims of his tyranny,
malefactors.' We are sorry to say, that in the
past conduct of the Whigs towards the official ob-
jects of popular detestation, we find no excep-
tion to what we may designate as a general
rule of the Court. In their promotions and
appointments ample pains have been taken to
mark their contempt of popular opinion. The
Governor, whom even a convict population could not
endure, is sent to blight by his presence every re-
maining hope of preserving Upper Canada in a
state of obedience to the will of the Imperial
Legislature. 'What troops have been ordered to attend
the new Lieutenant-Governor to his Province ?
Surely Ministers have not ventured to play over again
the ridiculous game of the Canada coercive resolu-
tions--provoking a civil war without having made any
preparations against such a.fearful catastrophe.

We have received a file of Upper Canada News-
papers up to the 29th of November. A great deal has
been said of the contentment and peace existing in
Upper Canada, and that it is in Lower Canada alone,
amongst the French Canadians, that discontent exists.
-We extract from a Toronto Paper of the 29th of No-
vember, resolutions of the Political Unions at Ux-
bridge, in that Province, on the 1 lth of November,
which denote a state of feeling in that province any-
thing but satisfactory. Nor can we wonder that dis-
content and a desire of a change should exist under the
misrule that exists there. Sir JOHN COLBORNE,
formerly the Governor of Upper Canada, and now the
Military Commander-in-Chief in Lower Canada, was
removed from Upper Canada, on the complaints of the
people, for misrule, having excited in that province the
hostility of the House of Assembly; which by'a large
majority objebted to his conduct, and by petitions to the
British Parliament and to the KING, requested his re-
moval. The House of Assembly and the people thought
Sir Joel N COLBORNE'S Government was bad. But Sir
FRANCIS HEAD, whom the Government sent out to
supersede Sir JOHN, and to redress their grievances,
and to remove discontent, has turned out much worse
than Sir JOHN COLBORNE. Sir FRANCIS HEAD,
after he had been some weeks in the province, formed
a strong opinion of the state of misg,overnmeot that
had existed under preceding Governors, and in his an-
swer to an address from the people, declared " The
grievances of this province must be redressed ; hnpar-
ttal justice must be administered ; the people have de-
manded it ; the KING has ordained it ; I am here to
execute his gracious commands ; delay will only in-
crease impatience." But ere he had been four months
in the province, he fell into the clique of evil advisers,
chiefly violent Orangemen and Tories who filled his
councils, and proceeded to acts against the liberty of
the people which out-heroded Herod. He dissolved
the House of Assembly which had supported popular
measures ; and, by bribery, corruption, intimidation,
and the creation of voters by grants of land, he car-
ried a majority of Tories into the new Parliament.
He then removed every Reformer from the Com-
mission of the Peace, and from the Courts
of Requests, and other situations of honour and profit,
filling these places up with Orangemen, and partisans
of the same na:ty, which had rendered the Govern-
ment of Sir JOHN COLBORNE odious and detested.
Although with a majority in the new House of
Assembly, he was afraid of having recourse again to
a new election,-and passed a Bill (similar to the Sep.
tennial Bill in Englalid), by which the House of
Assembly should continue their own existence for four
}ears, notwithstanding the demiSe of the Crown. In
Canada the people would have had a new Parliament
within six months after the death of WILLIAM THE
FOURTH, and their opinion of the conduct of Sir
FRANCIS HEAD and of his Government would have
been shown by the elections to the new Parliament.
But that was too great a risk to he permitted. The
Reformers had been put clown and disgraced in every
part of Upper Canada. A lavish expenditure had been
incurred beyond all example, bringing on the province
a load of debt and many other acts which rendered
Sir FRANCIS most unpopular ; and, afraid of meeting
the people at a new election. He had therefore
recourse to the perpetuatinp, the packed House of
Assembly ; and Lord MELBOURNE'S Government, to
their eternal disgrace, gave the sanction of the
Crown to that innovation on the constitutional
rights of the Upper Canadians. The subject was
brought before the House of Commons in July
last, just before the dissolution of Parliament,
and Sir GEORGE GREY defended that most uncon-
stitutional conduct of Sir FRANCIS HEAD, and so
made it a Ministerial measure. Ministers also made
Sir FRANCIS a baronet, to reward him for the bold-
ness with which he had violated the constitutional
rights of the Upper Canadians, and the zeal he
had manifested in reducing the Reformers of the pro-
vince to the most abject state. Political Unions have
been formed in every part of Upper Canada, and reso-
lutions of the strongest character have been agreed
to—Resolutions in which the Upper Canadians speak
out plainly, and tell the world that they only wait
their time to free themselves from the tyranny that
oppresses them. On the day on which the Patriots
in Lower Canada were arrested on charges of sedition
and treason, the Political Union at Uxbridge agreed
to resolutions which appear in all the Liberal News-
papers of the province. First, they express their
disgust at the House of Assembly being allowed to
continue its existence for four years longer than the
Constitution allowed ; secondly, they state that re-
forms are wanted, and that those in power are un-
worthy to be continued in office ; thirdly, they approve
of the conduct of PAPINEAU and his party in Lower
Canada ; and fourthly, they resolve that every man
in the Township who has not a rifle should get one,
as soon as he can, to maintain their political rights,
" let the consequences be what they will." After
these proceedings, who will say that Upper Canada is
is a stetter of peace and contentment ? Sir GEORGE
ARTHUR, the most unpopular Governor that ever was
in Yan Diemen's Land, is to be sent out to succeed
Sir FRANCIS HEAD, and to conciliate the highly
excited and much injured population of Upper Canada.
We ask, can it be wondered, that affairs are in so dis-
tracted and disgraceful a state in the Canadas, when it
is known that such misrule exists there ? England is
put to a heavy expense to keep up this state of discon-
tent and misrule, as disgraceful to England, as it is
injurious to these Colonies. And all this under a Re-
form Ministry 1 We implore Lord MELBOURNE to
reflect for a moment on the evils and the disgrace he is
heaping on himself, and .upon all who are his sup-
porters,
and let him have some consideration for them,
if he has none for himself, or for the poor Colonists.
LIMERTY, TRUTH, UNION, AND TER GENERAL GOOD.

At a joint meeting of the Oolitical Unions, No. 1 of South
Uxbridge, and No. 2 of the North-east and North-vest corners
of Pickering and Markham, the following resolutions were
moved, seconded, and put fr• am the chair and unanimously
adopted:-
1. Resolved—That we consider the present Bread and
Butter House of Assembly do not represent the people of
Upper Canada, as they passed a law to retain their seats in
the House four years longer than the reign of their Sovereign.
Is that one act not enoughto disgust any honest man against
Sir F. B. Head and the Home Government who gave their
assent to such a disgraceful act ? We trust the day is not
far distant when we sholl have a Constitution in reality—a
cheap, honest, and responsible government.
2. Resolved—That the priyvince needs a thorough reform.
Those who proposed and supported such a disgraceful act are
no longer worthy to be eleva, 'ed. to, or continued in office, and
that their places should be SU, *plied with honester and better
men.

3. Resolved—That this mee ting approves of the conduct
and proceedings of the Hon. X.,c,uis Joseph Papineau, and his
brother Canadians of Lower Gan.lda, for the manly and bold
stand they have taken against the British Ministry, whom this
meeting, and, we believe, a v( ;ry large majority of the people
of Upper Canada, repose not ire jot of confidence in, as they
will always be for plundering and oppressing the people, to
keep up the old and rising ails', ;ocracy.
4. Resolved—That every re, in in this township who has not
a good rifle, do forthwith prep ir e himself with one, as we do
intend to maintain our political ri, ghts inviolate, let the conse-
quences be what they will. NiTe • know our cause is a great
and honest one, and we will har e one who is stronger than
man to go with us ; therefore,. I rother Reformers, be.encou-
raged, be true to each other •, and be united, as union is
strength.
5. Resolved—That the heart r .thanks and goodwill of this
Meeting be presented to the E ors of Liberal Presses in
Canada, for their able oppositio. n ot. the present state of 'our
public affairs. _

WNI. BRt )WN, Chairman.
WM. VAI Secretaries.
IRA AND 2.1150 N,
South-East Corner, I,Vhitchur.-,1 Nov. 11, 1837.

At a public meeting—some: report of which will be
'ound in another part of The Sun—held At BirtnifT-