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London, England, 1838-01-22 00:00:00

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LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1838.

Mr. ROEBUCK, though strictly speaking not agent
for Canada, neither his appointment nor salary having
been sanctioned by the Legislative Council, is to all
intents and purposes agent for the aggrieved parties
in the Lower Province, and will be heard as their ad-
vc,cate in the House of Commons this evening. Jus-
tice, necessity, and policy, require that he should be
heard before the Bill which suspends the rights and
privileges of the Legislative Assembly be discussed.
He was appointed by that body agent in 183.5 ;
he was requested to represent to the Govern-
ment and the Imperial Parliament the interests
and sentiments of their constituents, and he has been
received in that character by the Colonial Secrctary.
There is but one opinion among all candid and intelli-
g,uit observers on this subject. The inhabitants of
Lower Canada have able advocates in the House, but
there is no one so well entitled or so fitted both by his
local knowledge and eloquence to undertake their
defence. We trust, for the sake of the mis-
guided Canadians, that his expressi,;ms of feel-
in:; for their wrongs w:11 be tempered with judg-
mont—that he will give no at antage to his opponents
by deviation frJrn facti, or by any threat of assistance
from foreigners. Such a line of defence would only
rlienate many who are anxiou• to do them justice, and
tfl'ord a triumph to those who wouU refuse than all
redress. An antiquated Cootetriporary is indiolant at
the very idea, of his being allowed to appear in their
behalf, and seems surprised that he is at large
and forthcoming to act the pleader on this occasion.
T;te vigorous measures of former times, when Sir JOHN
Sci CT •as Attorne, -General, should be revived,
M os.BUCK z-liond have been throxn into gaol,
a -d, place of pleatFng for others, heea called on to
plead at the bar of the Old Ballev, on a eliar4e of high
crimes and misdemc,inonrs. Rut we must forgive this
014,,Ilreak. Old people cannot help regretting the past,
and occasionally ma%e wonderful exertions to d'sprove
toe truth of the proverb :

" Ler,lt a;begcelis animos

The Eirl of Dt:11.11ANI has had an audience of her
MAJESTY, and was ino,:t graciously received.
• ate may take this opportunity of stati.;gt th it the report
s-hich has appear.ql in an Evenint Contenipora-y, that the
N-:)le Earl ilal deeli.iel to accept the appoint:cent to Canada
till h:. was a'ked by h. r Majes yin person, and n hich a Morn-
ing Co; 'entpor..ry so uweremonionsly contradicts, is strictly
potitive!y true ! The Noble Earl instantly acceded to
)-.1- Majesty's personal contreazdz, that to them all
re. ,onal coi,siderations mu.t give say. The only condition
wide by t!-:e Noble Earl was, that neither hin-oelf nor his
pri. ate Secretary a' ould receive any salary. We may aid
•t th' Noble Earl nac requested to undertake the Govern-
n.ent of Canada some time ago, previously to the revolt, but
that personal considerations then compelled the Noble Earl to
He has now only given iy.ly the extrtion of the
h ghes- inficence in the gtate."—Courier.
The Times, with its characteristic vulgarity, sneer-
•
ed at the statement respecting her MAJESTY'S request,
whic:i appeared in The Sun of Friday, and which our
Eveaing Contemporary of Saturday so amply confirms.
We may add that we also heard that Lord DURTIAM
Ree2pted the office on condition that he was to receive
no salary, but doubting what now appears to be a fact,
wc declined giving it.

The Times of this morning, in quoting the above
paragraph from the Courier, has the hardihood to
swear on—"fudge again—foolish fudge !" Now if
it believes it to he fudge, why copy it ? Is it for the
cuckoo pleasure of repcwing fudge—foolish fudge ?
Suppose it were to change its note, and say more
truly Apostate—foolish apostate !"

It is gratifying to perceive that amidst the political
excitement called forth by the unhappy state of affairs
in our North American Colonies, the people are not
inattentive to those improvements in our reptesenta-
ti:e system, without which there cannot be any solid
or permanent foundation for public liberty, either at
home or abroad. It is to defective representation that
the people owe the weighty grievances of which they
have so long and so justly complained. This is the
fertile source of all that mass of evil which exists in
our political, civil, and religious institutions--it is here,
therefore, that the remedy, to be effectual, must be ap-
plied. And this the people know full well. Simple
indeed would they be, and marvellously slow to un-
derstand, if the great schoolmaster experience had not
brought this truth home to their minds.

To extend the Franchise, to shorten the duration of
PArliament, and to do away with open voting, are the
three great points which must be carried, before it can
be said that our representative system is in conformity
-with the rights of the people, or even with the theory
.of the Constitution. " But these are organic changes,"
exclaim the professed enemies and hullow friends of
_Reform, " and we have had enough of them." Now,
with respect to such changes we should like to know
what there is so formidable in the word " organic,"
shut it should never be mentioned without throwing
ClQie two classes of persons into hysterics ? if an
organ do not answer the purpose for which it was in-
tended by those who framed it—if its action has been
ifflpedeti or perverted, or if improvements in science
have rendered its mechanical construction obsolete—
what does common sense dictate, but that it should
Teceive such alterations as may adapt it to purposes of
Pr •etieal utility ? Now this is in reality all that aid
-
Rufor,:ners require. They do not demand a novurn
1 that they want is to havc the old one
orvanum--»a:
put into a serviceable state of repair. Surely there is
nothing very extravagant or very terrible in such a
demand.

With respect to the extension of the Suffrage, we
would ask those, whether Whigs or Tories, who hold
it as a constitutional maxim that representation should
be no—extensive with taxation, how they pretend to re-
concile with this maxim the denial of the elective fran-
chise to the working classes ? The quibble about
the differemce between direct and indirect taxation
will not aiower their purpose. The day is gone by
w!len men weft:" to be gulled by such nonsense. The
real question is nct about the nia.;ner iu which the tax
is taken out of the payer's pocket—not whether the
tax-gatherer boldly thrilsts in his hand and whips out
the hard cash, or whether it is drawn out more slily
and imperceptibly by a taxation-price being fixed upon
articles of consumption : the real question is, does the
working man contribute to the expenses of the State
And this quetaion may be answered by stating the re-
sult of a calculation made by Mr. FILLDEN, M.P.
for Oldham, a genthnnan well acquainted with the con-
cerns of the working-classes, by which it appears that
when the necessary deductions :or taxation art,: triad
from a cotton-Tlaner':i daily earniTizs, there renntins

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