The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-20 00:00:00

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 com-
pany 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 before
the committee of the House of Commons, and state
that the public feeling and opinion there was against
the renewal of the ►ease, end in favour of withdraw-
ing all 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.
if Mr. Fortescue was ignorant of this Mr. Merry-
vale might have instructed him before he made a
reply tending to mislead the house.
The Government should not hurry so unjust and
unconstitutional a measure through the house, but
let it lie over till next 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 if not freed from
the sway of the company,and made a Crown colony,
or joined to Canada.
The Government have swept away the monopoly
of the East India Company, why then permit this,
the only one in the empire, to stain the statute-
book any longer P
Sir Edmund Head, so long Governor-General of
Canada, ought to know the sentiments of Canada
well, and how opposed they aro to the monopoly.

Lord Taunton, who was chairman of the commit-
tee of the House of Commons on the Hudson's Bay
question, spoke lately in the Lards 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 in
the House that the barter or transfer of one-third
of a continent will not be ratified this session; but
that time be given for public opinion in Canada, the
colonies, the Red River, and this country to be
heard. W. K.

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 appearance 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 intellectual bumps, on which
triumphant phrenology could sit astride; she had no "roll.
ing black eyes," or fiery orbs of Juno. Her Lrow was
broad and full, her eyes soft and gentle. She did not
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, except the art of
mastering a pianoforte keys and that of forming ladylike
pot-hooks and hangers. She was a lively talker, and a
pleasing letter-writer. Her chief fault, et one period of her
literary life, at least, was that of indulging too largely in
the tempting luxury of simile. Similes are like anchovy
paste, to be used sparingly; but Misa Landon showered
them over her pages, and uttered one every third minute.