The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-18 00:00:00

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THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,--Mr. Fortescue, in reply to Mr.Wyld, stated
that Canada had not complained, but Canada had
no time to speak out, as the barter of the greater
portion of British America from one private corn-

parry to another was not known here till a month

ago, and Canada had no idea that the British Go-
vernment would give a renewal of the lease—mono-
ply and exclusive privileges, after Chief Justice
Draper's being deputed by that colony, in 1858, to
the Colonial-office to watch the proceedings befort
the committee of the House of Commons, and state
that the public feeling and opinion there was against

be renewal of the lease, end in favour of withdraw

ing .1l the districts between Canada and the Rocky
Mountains from the incubus of the company, and
opening the colonies under the Crown and not
under a private company.

It Mr. Fortebcue was ignorant of this Mr. Merry.
vale might have instructed him before he made a
r.-ply tending to mislead the house.

The Government should not hurry so urjust at d
unconstitutional a measure through the house, but
let it lie over till nest session, that the Opinion of
Canada, the Red River districts, and the people at
home may be taken.

The inhabitants of the Red River said they would
apply for annexation to the States it not freed tro,i
the sway of the company, and made a Crown colony
or joined to Canada.

The Government have swept away the motiopol3
of the East India Company, why then permit this,

the only one in the empire, to stain the statute-
book any longer I'
Sir Edmund Head, so long Governor-General of
Canada, ought to know the sentiments of Canada
well, and how opposed they are to the monopo►y.

Lord Taunton, who was chairman of the commit.
tee of the House of Commons on the Hudson's Bay
question, spoke lately in the Lords on the subject.
To make such a grant to any private company Is
illegal and unconstitutional.
It is to be hoped that some member will move ii
the House that the barter or transfer of one-thin

of a continent will not be ratified this session; but
that time be given for public opinion in Canada, thr
colonies, the Red River, and this country to be
heard. W. g.

Mr. A. Sullivan's opera is all but complete. The
subject is said to be a legend well known to all versed in
folk-lore.
L. E. L.—A writer in the Queen thus describes
the apps arance of Miss Landon :—Dark-brown hair,
soft, beautiful, and arranged with taste and care; a slight
and graceful figure, small feet, small hands, small ears—a
beautiful thing in a woman—features not "icily' regular,"
as Tennyson has it, nor " faultlessly null ;" plently of
faults in them if you took them to pieces, but as a whole,
harmonious, pleasing, nay, charming. Charming, because
of the power of expression in the mouth and eyes, She had
no. large forehead, full of intellectubl bumps, on which
triumphant phrenology could sit astride; she had no "roll-
ing black eyes," or fiery orbs of Juno. Her Crow was
broad and full, her eyes soft and gentle. She did no,
despise a little ornament in her attire, but still dressed
simply and well. A jolly girl, fond of fun, fond of laugh.
ing, and by no means the lonely, morbid being her verses
pictured her. A clever girl, besides the mere facility of
verse-writing—well-read in French and Italian. accom-
plished in most things, as I have said, .xcept the art of
mastering a pianofortelms and that of forming ladylike
pot-hooks and hangers. She -41118 a Rs/Ay talker, and a
pleasing let ter- writer. . Her chief t, et one period of her
literary life, at least, was that of indulging too largely iri
the tempting luxury of simile. Similes are like anchovy
paste, to be used sparingly; but Misi Landon show3red
them over her papa, tied utAerod QUO /Nog thin! wiallte•