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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1833.

In the House of LORDS yesterday little was done. The
Duchess of KENT'S Annuity Bill, and Jolly's Naturalization
Bill, received by Commission the Royal Assent. Lord
GLENELG laid upon the table an extract from a despatch,
dated Jan. 20, 1838, addressed by his Lordship to Lord
Dc ROAM.
Lord BROUGHAM Piesented several petitions (principally
from Scotland) in favour of the Ballot and an extension of
the Suffrage. A petition from Boston was also presented by
his Lordship, praying that means might be adopted by the
Legislature for diffusing the advantages of Education among
all classes.
The Noble and Learned LORD afterwards intimated that
on Monday next be should move for the production of certain
papers relating to the means taken to check the evils of
Slavery, and also for the production of the Order in Council
sanctioning the introduction of Chinese labourers. The
House then adjourned till Monday.
In the HOUSE of CONINIONS the presentation of petitions,
as usual, took precedence. The House then resolved itself
into Committee on the Canada Government Bill; and after
sone discussion, the report of part of which will be read with
mingled scorn and indignation, the Report was ordered to he
received this day. Old, unleavened Whiggism, with its in-
veterate vices and manifold meannesses, was exhibited last
night in its characteristic colours. Lord JOHN RUSSELL
adopted the very manly, the consistent and straightforward,
the wise uncompromising and statesman-like course, of yield-
ing to Sir ROBERT PEEL ! ! He last night announced to the
House that, upon consultation with his celleagucs, it had been
determined to give up'that omission from the preamble of the
Bill which Sir ROBERT PEEL required I The Bill, which
had been so closely debated last week, as Mr. HARVEY said
—that Bill which had been famed under the sanction of the
highest legal authoritiCs—that Bill which was supposed to
be so complete and perfect in all its parts—which was di-
vested of all ambiguity, and so stripped of all undue ver-
bosity—that Bill—but, alas ! it was in legislation as in other
affairs, there was no knowing what the hour might bring
forth--in twenty-four hours that paragon of Bills, so admi-
rably conceived, and so perfectly matured, was last night
decapitated and also docked of its tail.

The intelligence from Canada, which will be found
in another part of our Paper, is of some importance.
The insurrectionary movements which had taken place
in Lower Canada may now be considered as completely
suppressed, and order, for the present, at least, re-
established. Public attention is therefore directed ex-
clusively to the Upper Province, where the revolt had
not, at the date of the last accounts, been put down.
Its only local habi,ation, however, is the small island
in Lake Erie, .in which Mr. M'KEsztz, and his
" Provisional Government," had, as our readers are
aware, taken refuge and intrenched themselves. They
have been joined by some adventurers from the United
States, and a great deal is said, in the American jour-
nals favourable to their cause, about the strength of
their position, and their determination to hold out to
the last
.extremity. But we do not think they can
long resist the force that the Government will be able
to bring against them. Navy Island is a low
swamp of small extent—its surface not exceed-
ing a thousand acres—almost within musket shot
of the Canadian shore. It must, therefore, be
easily swept by batteries erected on the Ca-
nadian side. It is also to be considered that the
Governor is now able to bring the whole force of the
Province to bear upon this one point, DUNCONIBE's
band having been defeated and dispersed by Colonel
MACNAB. It is indeed stated in one American paper
(the Rochester Democrat), that Sir FRANCIS: HEAD is
said to have passed up the river on the. 26th ult., and
that a heavy cannonade was heard in the direction of
Navy Island on the following night, which continued
for two hours. The same paper mentions further,
that a gentleman from Lockport " states that it was
reported that Sir F. HEAD had attempted to and, but
without success, and had one boat full of troops
sunk in the attempt." It is clear, therefore, that this
repulse of tire attack made by the Governor
rests on nothing more than a vague report. The date
of the Rochester Democrat is not given ; we cannot,
therefore, calculate with any degree of precision whether
there was sufficient time for intelligence of what took
plase at Navy Island on 28th, to have reached Rochester
in the ordinary course, before the publication of
the Number containing the rumour to which
we have alluded. Our impression is, that the Go-
vernor may have opened a bat tery against the insurgents ;
but that no attack by boats would have been made after
so short a cannonading, unless there was an absolute
certainty of success. We must, however, wait for the
next arrivals before the truth can be known.

The debate in the house of Commons last night
will not tend to impress the country with any extraor-
dinary confidence in the consistency, firmness, and in-
tegrity of her 'MAJESTY'S Ministers. Never, during
the long course of his Parliamentary career, did Lord
JOHN RUSSELL appear in a light less calculated to
inspire respect than he did last night in announcing
to the House and the country, that the Cabinet had
veered round, and was prepared to adopt Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S amendments upon the Canada Constitution
Suspension Bill. We, of course, allude, not to the
mere fact of a change of opinion upon the merits of a
Bill which we denounced as radically bad from the in-
stant it was laid in a tangible shape on the table of
the House of Commons. We are glad that a mea-
sure which we stigmatized as preposterous has
been given up, and that there is some prospect of a
Bill, based on the principles of common sense, being
substituted in its stead. It was not the having adopted
a better line of policy at the suggestion of a political
opponent that rendered Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S dis-
pla♦ in the House last night so mortifying to his
friends ; but it was the futile attempt of the Noble
Lord to show that the changes in the Bill would not
not affect the policy of the Cabinet, and the very
plain intimation that Ministers would not stick at
trifles to keep themselves in office. Mr. EDWARD
ELLICE and Lord HOWICK tried hard to cover the
retreat of the Noble Home Secretary, by pretending
to be unable to discover any dissimilarity between the
Government scheme and that suggested by the Right
Hon. Member for Tamworth ; but we defy any impar-
tial person to peruse Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech,
and not arrive at a conclusion the very reverse. The
Government Bill, and that piece of exquisite Toni-
foolery, the official dispatch of the Noble Colonial
Secretary to the Earl of DurtHANt, direct the appoint-
ment of a certain body to be called a Council of Advice.
We ridiculed the idea as preposterous. Now, mark what
Sir R. PEEL says on the subject :

" If the Government wished to act as conciliators in Ca-
nada, they could not maintain an instruction which directed
the Governor to call from Upper Canada three Members of
the Legislative Council, and ten persona elected by the people
of that Province, not to advise with him on affairs respect-
ing Upper Province, but called together for the purpose of
advising him on the measures to be adcpted in regard to the
pecuniary affairs and the Civil Government of Lower Canada.
—(Cheers.) The feelings in Upper Canada were different
from those in Lower Canada; the people of the two Pro-
vinces were of different races and had different habits, and cus-
toms, and modes of thinking and yet by the instructions
which had been issued there would be a majority in the
Council of the Governor of 16 to 10 agaiast the popular

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