The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-06 00:00:00

1t1) STANLEY-CANADA.

"Lew) ATANLWR,OPINIONS IN 1825 AND 1829 OF THE LEGIS-
LATIVE At, IVEVIVTIvE COUNCILS, AND HIS RECOMmENDA-
Tlom CP A RETUSAL TO GRANT SUPPLIES TO THE CROWN.
.1 Site Legislative Council were ranged on the side of the
Cineersonent to oppress the people, arid in raising those feel.
tags of discontent which led them to make war upon each other.
The I..Pc;2lat;re Council he was fully satisfied was the root of
All: he evils which had oppressed that count, y.for the last ten or
thee, yrerg. 'I so complaints were not of squahhl, s vtlicli-
pruratt up on the mement, but of evils of long standing."—
eHaeceli on Canada, Ma) 2, 1828.
" He considered that the Legislative Council Was that in-
Sfainten whielv especially required revision and alteration.
Ti.eu thied as itpaltry and impotent screen for the protection of
the rem
y.. . 6o
r. In all instances thy were opposed to the people,
d.were placed es P. substitute for an aris.tecrilcy, without pos-
: ss:ng ti e q-aelLfiattions of an pristoeney according to cur
- tcifons of that body in England, imposing salutary checks,
and exA-eising a inditions vlilanee c.Ver the councils of the
entetr.-.—Srseci on tie 2d if May, 1528.
*4 l‘ow ill that Councl p rformed its duty, the paners
befo,e the Hons.) sufficiently prove. The Members of the
Legislative Co,..neil on every occasion enrolled themselves on
the side of Government, and opposed themselves to the people.
They ce.i,ther repelled the people on the one side, nor im-
pelled till Executive on the other ; but while they enab!ed the
one to maintain a war against tie other, they stood as a sort
of mirk between both, and served but to keep up a continued
system of jairing Ind contention between the Government and
the people. 7 his Gonna, then, is the root of all the evils
which hnve tahen place in the administrati,n of the C. lonies
,for the last ten or flftern years ; and this is that Colonial lu.
ititutiun which above all enhe7s vratats alteration and revision
—( Speech of Lord Stanley on Canalan affairs, June, 5, 1829. )
" It was in rain to att,,mpt to carry on the Government i
the Colonies in a proper manner, if all the orders ea el e issu
by the Cov re.rac.rat at home, and were sot:ported. without re
ferenee to circuit:ranee', by the Legislative Council, w
oftee acted in opposition to the wishes of the colonists, es.
pressed, ea they oily could be expressed, through the House o
Assembly. If the Government meant to maintain their swa
over the country, they must do it through the will of the peep!,
It Was to be hoped that the Right Honourable Gentlenc.
would sot attempt to force an aristocracy in form of a Legial
tive Council upon a state. where there are no natural materi
for its exi,tence.—Speoch of sth June, 1529.
" Mr. Stanley, in a letter dated 24th April, 1829, in a
;wer to a communication from Mr. Baldwin, containing cc .
taro resolutions of a Liberal meeting at York, Upper Canad
makes use of the following remarkable expressions—remar
able becnise Ins has since said the direct contrary, and h
add in puniing the Lower Canadians fur acting upon h
owe express advice :
" Upon the subject of the constitution of the Legislati
Council (iehidi Ido not hesitate to sey, without any disc'
sped to, or reflection upon, the individuals who compo
it, is
.at the root of all the evils complained of in ROTC/
praviswes)—upon the exclusion of the judges, with the
single exception of the Chief Justice, -from all interference
in political buAness--and upon the necessity of introducing
some alteration into the present jury system—the three mcst
important points of your petition, you will find that the opinion
of the Committee entirely concurs with yours, and that opinion
I am dispensed to support to the utmost of my power.
" Os the last, and one of the most important topic.,
tamely, the appointment of a local Ministry, subject to
removal or, inteeachment when they lose the confidence of the
people, I conceive there would be great difficulty in arranging
swill a plan--pot are the wishes of the petitioners very clearly
expreiesed—for, in point of fact, the remedy is not one of en.
actment but of prac:ica—and a constitutional mode is open to
the people, for addressing for a removal of advisers of the
Crow*. wed refusing supplies, il necessary, to enforce their
wiskea I do", however, think that something might be done
with oat advantage, to give a more really responsible charaC.
ter to the Executive Council, Which at present is a perfectly
irresprosikie bogy, hardly recognised by the Constitution, and
efectiv chiefly as a source of patrona7e." .

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.