The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-08 00:00:00

deavouring to render " equal justice" to Ireland, than
in mixing themselves up with petty squabbles between
Catholic clergymen. But this would not answer the
purposes of faction, and their Lordships arc " nothing,
if not—factious."

The prorogation of the Legislative Session of the
House of Assembly of Upper Canada will surprise no
person who has paid the slightest regard to the efforts
lately made by the PAPINEAU party to cripple the
energies of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor.
So long as M. PAPINEAU and his supporters looked
only to the removal of the abuses of the Administra-
tion—so long as they confined themselves to the adop-
tion of Constitutional means of enforcing upon the Go-
vernment here the necessity of a greater freedom of trade
for the Canadas—so long as they abstained from libelling
individuals, under pretence of exercising a Legislative
privilege, we lost no opportunity of rendering them all
the assistance in our power. But we will not be par-
ties to the scheme which a knot of poverty-stricken
pseudo patriots are now attempting to carry on, with a
view to obtain for themselves place, pelf, and power.
We now see clearly enough that it is a scramble for
office, and that the most violent democrats in the
House of Assembly would be the first to sell them-
selves, their constituencies, and the country, if they
could only meet with a purchaser. They are pa-
triots on compulsion, though after the fashion
of honest JACK, they are prepared to suffer
martyrdom, rather than be obliged to give a
"reason" for so remaining. Had they been honest, they
would have hailed the arrival of Sir FRANCIS BOND
HEAD among them, instead of meeting him, on the
threshold of the House of Assembly, with a vote
equivalent to a want of confidence in his Excellency's
Government. The instant they found that the new
Lieutenant-Governor was about to reform the popular
institutions of the Colony in good earnest—that his
Excellency's mission had chiefly reference to the eradi-
cation of such abuses as the House of Assembly had
itself pointed out—that instant did the patriots set to
work, with a view to retard the wise measures about
to be introduced for the amelioration of their cuckoo

grievances. Wise in their own generation, they knew
that a ready compliance with past invocations would
annihilate their political importance, and that they
would, from furious declaiming red-hot patriots, dwindle
down to mere vestry-club farthing candles. Ac-
cordingly, they set to work with all their might, to
cast stumbling-blocks before the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor ; and though their real object is now well
known, they have hitherto been tolerably successful.
By one trick or another, they contrived to prevent every
measure of vital importance from passing the Legisla-
ture ; they bullied, insulted, and endeavoured to brow-
beat the Lieutenant-Governor ; they most grossly li-
belled the Executive ; and they concluded by stopping
the supplies, unless the Lieutenant-Governor would
do what the Constitution and the laws forbade him to
do—divest himself of his responsibility ! Accordingly
public business being thus at a stand, Sir FRANCIS
B. HEAD resolved to send the House about its busi-

ness, and on the 20th of April he went down and for
mally prorogued it. His speech on that occasion is
now before us, and a most masterly document it is, em-
bracing a political history of the leading events in Up-
per Canada—of its communications with the imperial
Government here—and of the unconstitutional manner
in which the House of Assembly sought to thwart him
on all occasions. With a frankness worthy of the
Representative of a British SOVEREIGN, he submits
the whole question to the House, and fearlessly appeals
to the good sense of the Canadians against the mal-
practices of their Representatives. The following
extract—though somewhat too long—does not extend
to one-third of the Lieutenant-Governor's whole speech.
It, however, includes the substance of it :
'• GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,
" Having at your request transmitted to you the corre-
spondence which passed between my late Executive Council
and myself, and having reminded you that there existed a con-
stitutional tribunal competent to award its decision, and that
to that tribunal I was ever ready most respectfully to bow, it
is with surprise I learn that you have deemed it necessary to
stop the supplies.
" In the history of Upper Canada this measure has, I be-
lieve, never before been resorted to; and as I was the bearer
of his Majesty's especial instructions to examine, and where-
4/aw_s, ,Ausevevery to correct, the g►ievances' detailed in your
report of last session, I own I did not expect to receive this
embarrassment from your House.
" The effect of your deliberate decision will be severely felt
by all people in the public offices—by the cessation of im-
provement in your roads—by the delay of compensation to
sufferers in the late war—and by the check of emigration.
" In the complaints you hare made to his Majesty against
me (in which you declare that my `ear is credulous,' my
mind poisoned,' my • feelings bitter,' that lam despotic,'
tyrannical,' • unjust,' deceitful,' that my conduct has been
derogatory to the honour of the King,' and demoralizing to
the community,' and that I have treated the people of this
province as being little better than a country of rogues and
fools'), you have availed yourselves of a high legislative pri-
vilege, intrusted to you by your constituents, to the exercise
of which I have consequently no constitutional objection to
urge, but for the honour of this province, in which I, though
unconnected with the country, am as deeply interested as its
inhabitants, I cannot but regret that, while I was receiving
from all directions the most loyal addresses, you, in your
legislative capacity, should have characterized his Majesty's
Government, which has lately acted towards Upper Canada
so nobly and disinterestedly, by the expression of Downing-
street law.'
" I had made up my mind to stand against the enemies of
Reform, but I have unexpectedly been disconcerted by its pro-
fessed friends. No liberal mind can deny that I have been un-
necessarily embarrassed—no one can deny that I have been un.
justly accused—no one can deny that I have evinced an anxiety
to remedy all real grievances that I have protected the consti-
tution of the province—and that, by refusing to surrender at dis-
cretion the patronage of the Crown to irresponsible individuals,
I have conferred a service on the back-woodsman, and on every
noble-minded Englishman, Irishman, Scotchman, and U. E.
Loyalist, who, I well know, prefer British freedom and the Bri-
tish Sovereign to the family domination of an irresponsible
Cabinet.
" It now remains for me frankly and explicitly to declare
the course of policy I shall continue to adopt, as long as I may
remain the Lieutenant-Governor of this province, which is as
follows :
" I will continue to hold in my own hands, for the benefit
of the neople.the power and patronage of the Crown, as im-
parted to the Lieutenant-Governor of this province by the
King's instructions. I will continue to consult my Executive
Council upon all subjects, on which, either by the Constitu-
tional Act, or by the King's instructions, I am ordered so to
do, as well as upon all other matters in which I require their
assistance. I will continue to hold myself responsible to all
authorities in this country, as well as to all private indivi-
duals, for whatever acts I commit, either by advice of my
Council, or otherwise, and will continue calmly and readily
to afford to all people every reasonable satisfaction in my power.
I will use my utmost endeavours to explain to the people of this
province that they want only wealth and population to become
one of the finest and noblest people on the globe—that union is
strength, and that party spirit produces weakness—that they
should, consequently, forgive and forget political as well as reli-
gious animosity, and consider as their enemies only those who
insidiously promote either ; that, widely scattered as they are
over the surface of this extensive country, they should recol-
lect with pride the brilliant history of the old country,' from
which they sprung, and, like their ancestors, they should firmly
support the British standard, which will ever afford them
freedom and disinterested protection ; that, by thus tranquil.
lizing the province, the redundant wealth of the mother country
will irrigate their land, and that her population will convert the
wilderness which surrounds them into green fields,—that an
infusion of wealth would establish markets in all directions, as
well as good roads—the arteries of agriculture and commerce;
that plain, practical education should be provided for the rising
generation, as also the blessings of the Christian religion,
which inculcates ' Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good-will towards men.'
" Taking every opportunity of offering these recommenda-
tions to the inhabitants of this province, I shall in no way
attempt to enforce them ; on the contrary, I shall plainly pro-
mulgate, that if the yeomanry and farmers of Upper Canada
are not yet sufficiently tired of agitation—if they do not yet
clearly see what a curse it has been to them, it will be out of
my power to assist them; that, if they insist on turning away
the redundant wealth as well as the labourers of the mother
country to the United States, I shall be unable to prevent
them ; in short, that if they actually would rather remain as
they are, than become wealthy, as they might be, my anxiety
to enrich them must prove fruitless.
" On the other side, whenever they shall be disposed to join
heart and band with me in loyally promoting the peace and
prosperity of the province, they shall find me faithfully devoted
to their service. In the meanwhile, I will carefully guard the
constitution of the country, and they may firmly rely that I
will put down promptly, as I have already done, the slightest
attempt to invade it.
" With inward pleasure, I have received evidence of the
invincible reaction that is hourly taking place in the public
mind, and, for the sake of the province rather than for my
own, I hail the manly British feeling which in every direction
I see, as it were, rising out of the ground, determined to
shield me from insult, and to cheer and accompany me in my
progress towards reform.
" I have detained youlonger than is customary, but the unpre-
cedented events of this session have made it necessary to do so."

The Paris journals of Monday contain no official
news from Spain, with the exception of the following
telegraphic despatch :
" During the absence of Cordell, the command has been