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one of favouritism and injustice—that the revenues of their countryare 'emptoyiekt •Aha srinandered away by persOns not responsible to
kht eciplie=—lhat they are Unable to get an accUreite statement of
receipts and expenditure, and, whet, 4ulitiq'tiency is detected, are re-
fused the power to punish or prevent it in future: . , ...
They rempttalit that their Colleg,n, has bren ii4Veted iti# sol.:
dici-s‘ Ilaii'aCkil, chid lit 'Ai* lin`d atkaVbed '.i 11 hi., i.teen divided
biOfee'n tic offtili% ti,tf o`-i0r.',;4...',`.',Qt:
AO .nUVr t— ter bearing with these insults and oppressions for
ti.taity half a century--after every effort to improve their country
by wise and salutary laws has been frustrated by these nniteel aris-
tocratic powers, and after repeated IpDtiettior, tritt, lirr "3
England for reslresitt„ theig ia.%• tkiiiig'-It. nnitrnifilbtisly dee are( that.
tile,4 htVe lie 44 bt kViAe laws and just government until the Le-
gislative Council is ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.
This reasonable request having been scorned and scouted by
those in power, their House of Assembly has STOPPED THE Sur-
rulcs—that is, they have exercised their only constitutional power
to obtain retirees.

For the working men we entertain the highest respect
Their judgment is generally unprejudiced, and their ob-
jacts, we believe, to be always far and honourable ; bet we
pot it to them wheti,er they, have not been grotnly misled
in the expression of the Opinion which we have just re-
corded ? Whether, in their own estimation, they have not
m:stakea the parent for the child, tied sanctioned a came
as just and honourable for which there is no tenable
ground ? Canada is not an integral part of the British
Empire. It is a country subdued and surrendered—its
people the subjects of Great Britain, but not participators
in the privileges and rights which belong to them, and Great
Britain, according to the recognised law of nations (there
being 'to treaty to the eontrary) may deal with them as she
or her Administration may please. This is a point utterly
forgotten, to all appearance, by the " Working Men's As-
sociat: on''—but on this point, and in the grievances com-
olsined of, rest the whole matter of justification or condetn-
eat ion of the rebellion. With regard to the alleged grievances
there are two or three of them, such as the appointment of
persons with unreasonable salaries, the promotion of persons
not suited to their situations—which we believe to be just,
and for which the Tory Government ought to be justly
condemned ; but allowing for all the ignorance and all the
errors committed both by Tories and Whigs, we really
cannot see anything in the shape of a justification of the
present revolt. Blood ought not to be shed without just
cause—property is not to be endangered because a few
hot-headed fanatics are desirous of appropriating it to the
most unjust purposes—a section is not to dictate to a whole
body of greater wealth, respectability, and judgment—the
minority with just claims is not to be sacrificed to a majo-
rity which has neither law, principle, or precedent for its
expressed design of spoliation ; and under these impressions
we have no hesitation in saying, that the British Govern-
ment, while it shall endeavour to do away with all just
grounds of complaint on the part of the Canadians, will not
do its duty, if it do not protect by main force, if necessary,
the rights and interests of those who have left their mother
country in the hope of finding a habitation and a home in
Lower Canada.—Morning Advertiser.
A vast deal of virtuous indignation has beon vented in
Ministerial quarters upon the subject of the meeting which
has been advertised to take place to-day at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern upon the subject of Canadian affairs. To
this meeting, and to the probable sentiments of the ultra-
Radicals, who are understood to be the promoters of it, we
have objectiens, perhaps, as strong as those of any
AliriS-
terialist, and rather more permanent. But we are of opi-
nion that it is due to common honesty to point out to con-
tempt the sudden conversion of these Ministerialists as soon
as their interest prompts, though they never thought of it
before. One gentleman, who proclaims himself to have
been the Chairman of Mr. Leader's Election Committee,
in St. George's, Hanover-square, is especially angry with
reference to the anticipated anti- Ministerial meeting at
the Crows and Anchor, and the part which he assumes
that Mr. Leader will take at it. Perhaps this worthy
Chairman may have an abstract right to be angry when-
ever it so pleases him ; but we may very reasonably ask
him what right he has to attack now the man whom he la-
boured to return to Parliament but a few months ago ?
Mr. Leader's sentiments respecting Canada, were as well
known before the last election as any other political senti-
ments of that not very distinguished senator. The con-
servative press did not fail to warn the electors of
Westminster against the principles of such a candidate
for their suffrages. But these warnings were given in
vain. The Ministers supported Mr. Leader, and he
found no difficulty in obtaining the hearty good
wishes of the Chairman of his Committee in St.
George's Hanover-square. Mr. Leader has not now
the support of the Ministers, and the Chairman of
his Committee, actuated by a curious sympathy, is no
longer his political friend. Was it then only the Go-
vernment that this Chairman thought of, and not the
principles of the man whose election he promoted ?
This may have been the case ; but if it were, this Chair-
man might at least think it necessary to make some apology
for coming forward at the present period to throw discredit
upon the politics of one whom he applauded 'and served
last August. So eager is this Chairman to put himself
forward on the side of the Government, and against his
chosen representative, that he proposes something about a
comparison of the persons attending the meeting with -the
names in the Westminster poll-book. Now, we have looked
over the advertisement calling this meeting, and we do not
find in it one word about Westminster. Why should this
Chairman suppose that he specially has any concern in al-
luding to it, and bringing a Westminster poll-book to test
the metropolitanism of those wlio attend ? The reason we
apprehend to be this—he made himself prominent in the
election of a Member for Westminster, because he thought
that to uphold Radicalism would please the Government ;
—he now wishes to make himself prominent in decrying
that Member, because he thinks that to oppose Radicalism
will please the Government. Such is the virtue of our pa-
triots! Another gentleman we find writing from the Re-
form Club, and apparently pluming himself very much
upon Conservative sentiments, such as it has been tho
occupation of the Reform Club hitherto to discourage.
He says—
" This Canada agitation, however, may not be without its
use. It will test the difference between Reformers and De-
structives, and it is high time that the line were decidedly
marked. Practical reform has greatly suffered by the revolu-
tionary schemes of reckless political adventurers. The dema-
gogues who would abet the French revolutionists against their
own countrymen, would delight in throwing their native
country into a state of revolt, if they could do it with safety
to themselves. Every true Patriot and good Rcfarmer ought
to raise his voice rgainst these false brethren."
Who would suppose that this blame of " destructives"
—this warning against " demagogues"—this reproof of
" revolutionary schemes" and " political adventures" came
from a member of that party to which Mr. O'Connell,
Mr. Hume, &c., belong. It is a stretch of impudence
laughable almost from its extravagance, and they who have
been preaching up hatred and contempt of all established in-
stitutions up to that point at which inconvenience to them-
selves begins should all at once assume the language of Con-
servatism and lecture with great gravity against the very faults
which they themselves practised and encouraged in others.
The usefulnessof making adistinctionbetween Reformersand
Destructives is nothing new to the readers of this Journal.
Ministerialists now say that it is high time tile line of this
distinction were decidedly marked. We said some time
ago that the time had come for such a distinction, and we
have acted upon it without waiting for the Ministerial
favour towards such a distinction. It is painful to witness
the servility of those who call themselves friends of liberty,
but who show by their conduct that they are friends only
of their own interest with the Treasury Benches. We
trust that the public will derive a useful lesson from the
newly-found Conservatism of the late promoters of revo-
lutionary principles. They ought thence to learn that
these political teachers are consistent but in one thing, and
that is devotedness to what they suppose to be their own
personal interest.—Morning Herald.
During the intervals which separate the successive ar-
rivals of intelligence from Canada it can excite no sur-
prise that, in the absence of new facts, the spirit of specu-
lation which recent occurrences have excited should he both
active and intrepid in reference to the future condition and
Government of that Colony, as well as to certain objects,
apart from the immediate affairs of Canada, to which the
approaching development and accumulation of British
power in that quarter of the world may be eventually ap-
plied. Perhaps we should do no injustice to either of these
classes of speculations by the remark, that they sometimes
display activity and boldness at the expense of sobriety and
discretion. To the latter class, however, the remark is
peculiarly applicable. It will certainly be time enough to
inquire what is to be the second object of the augmented
military force which Great Britain will have at her dis-
posal in North America in the spring when the first
object of that armament shall have been successfully
accomplished. To do justice to the present Govern-
ment of Great Britain, and particularly to that
depart-
silent of it which has the Colonies under its especial care,
it is not likely to incur the reproach, or to inspire the jea-
lousy to which it might be subject. if it were supposed ca-
pable of sympathising with the busy imaginings, the far-
sighted projects, the accumulation of enterprise upon en-
terprise, in which some of our Journals permit themselves
to indulge. We own it seems to us that our rebel sub-
jects in Canada may be expected to give us enough to do
for the present, without that powerful assistance which the
mere suggestion of any object, on the port of our Govern-
ment, beyond that of reducing them to subjection, would
be calculated to provide for them. We do not desire to
be more explicit upon this subject, than ri?eistly to ex-
press our persuasion, that there is not a single British
Statesman, of any party, who regards tile settlement of
any subsisting question between this country, and the
United States as capable of being influenced in
the slightest degree by the display of military power in
Canada, the object and intentions of which are strictly con-
fined to the maintenance of the lawful and beneficial autho-
rity of Great Britain in that colony. The future policy of
the British Government, in reference to the internal Affairs

of the 'Canna-is; Wiwi- the of eial siippreissien ot die revolt,
offers, howe'ver, a leas haiaid)us• as a More legiti-
mate,
and useful, Leld of inggestipti and. conjecture than
that to which sv'e aVo lust i•efeiie4: it is were getteral4
`.e114 'that great injustice will be innicted upon the peoPle
cf Great Britain, upon whom has been cast, most unjustly
and wantonly, the coss of an extensive armament—and that
still more grievous and intolerable injustice will be
endured by the !qui Canadian atibjects of Great
Ofitclitti tale rl rf 8 thin^ tie ful ifilusirk has
been interrupted, the peace and security if tvlictsb lintnbs
have been itotoded, w ithout the shadew of just or
reasonable cause—lf the representatives or nominees
0f the habitant should ever again he permitted to resume
that ascendancy in the popular branch of the Legislature
of Lower Canada to which the present insurrection may be
disinetly traced. It would have been wise and just on the
past of the British Goveinment, from the moment when a
majority of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ex-
pressed its discontent with the Constitution which the
Government of Great, Britain had granted to the colony, to
revoke the grant altogether, to have uniert,ken the duty
of framing a new Constitution for the colony, and in the
execution of this duty to have taken especial care that the
active, prosperous, loyal, and constantly increasing body of
British settlers should have ample means of infusing into the
Provincial Legislature a just regard for, and a proper sym-
[ pathy with, an it character, interests, and feelings, and that
1 the monopoly of seats in the House of Assembly which
the French peasantry had acquired, should be extinguished
at once and for ever. And what would have been wise
and just then, is now become a matter of the clearest,
strictest, most imperative necessity. Differences of opinion
may exist as to the most eligible method of accomplishing
this object ; but among the lovers of justice and the advo-
cates and promoters of loyalty, there can be no difference
of opinion as to its justice and necessity. It may be effected
by an amalgamation of the Legislature and Government of
the Upper and Lower Provinces, combined with some slight
alteration of the elective franchise. Or it may be effected by
a more extensive change of the elective franchisein the Lower
Province exclusively, by withdrawing the right of voting alto-
gether from the feudal and servile tenures, by which the habi-
tans generally bold their land. Or, thirdly, it may, we
fear, be effected by comprehending, in one act of personal
disfranchisement, the voters of French descent who are
implicated by act, or by misprision, in the present revolt.
In whichever of these, or in whatever other manner, this
important object is attained is of less importance, so that it
be securely achieved. This is due to justice and to loyalty.
Without it the suppression of the present insurrection will
be of little use, since the present will in this case be only
the first of a series of insurrections, producing the ruin of
the colony, and ending in its loss. To the justice and ex-
pediency of depriving the hobnails of Lower Canada of the
political power included in the elective franchise those libe-
ral persons, with Lord Gosford at their head, who deem the
hobnails who have been engaged in rebellion entitled to
mercy, on the ground that they have been deluded into that
crime, cannot be heard to object. Men so ignorant of their
social duties as to have been misled into the crime of trea-
son can hardly be deemed fit for the beneficial exercise of
political power.—. Morning Post.

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colitieM,g tl the ,basket. The little fellow's cries for the loss he sustained
attrr.etcd atieni:L;li, bil the prisoners were pursued, and soon afterwards
taken into custody.
On the CIIAIRMIN asking the prisoners what theil fine to Rayin de-
fence ? Fasey,,wl'o was Fpokeslnan, said—Your Worship, the be;' tt.lls
a pluinHi ;A4)4; Oita they! sprats. The truth is this here. As I and
my brother sweeps was going ilien6 i khtks up against a bag of cinders,
and by mere accident doused the candle, and IbA was the way as it
was done. As fur tacking them there sprats, we are all as Pinn,.cut.
as the child unborn. We are known to all the gentlefolks in Ricli-
mom!, find ttcr4M hare called some on them forward to speak in our
behalf, but the pilee is, So fAi ofr, Ifni Y.e. was dolicate in le'ting them
ktioW that We was siaspeet.d of such a thing as titishele,
CliAisisul.it.::.,AS yoti have asserted that you have numerotit frends
who can give you a ciiafati!O, sire they now present to say anything
about you ? Fasey (looking round the Court)—No, I see none of the
Richmond people here ; but you may take my il'Or,l for the excellence
of our characters up to the present time.—(l,aughter. Thq prisoner
then, alluding to the youth of the prirelpal witness against thein Fii,l,
" Another thing as I wish to himpr, ss on the minds of . the Court and
Jury is this bete, a:id that is, this little boy, who is not more than eight
er nine }'Cart of age, can't be expecteJ to know the nature of a hoatli,
and how, then, can hatiotsralde gentlenien pie sent return a verdict of
guilty upon such evidenc.? ?" This pris .ner, after going on in this strain
for some time, concluded by soying, "',lto and my fellows, therefore,
throw ourselves upon the mercy of th,: Court."
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and
they were each sentenced tOsix months imprisonment and hard labour.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

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HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Alfred Warren, a young matt, was brought before • Mr,
ROGERS, in custody of G. Collier, an active officer of the E division,
charged with having stolen a valuable diamond ring. the property 01
Mr. Waller, jeweller, of Ludgate-bill.
Mr. ROGERS inquired whether the prosecutor was in attendance?
Collier replied in the negative, and said that he had merely brought the
prisoner to this office as he had not the opportunity of taking him to
Guildhall, the robbery having been committed in the city.
Mr. ROGERA ordered that he should be remanded to the Compter,
preparatory to being taken before the sitting Alderman this day.
A young man named Dominick Desonge was summoned before Mr
ROORRS, to answer to the complaint of a poor man who appeared at the
office with his head bound up and apparently suffering great pain.
It appeared that a:the complainant was proceeding homewards last
night with a basket of linen, he was knocked down by a horse and cart
which the def:indant was driving, and remained lying in the street
for some time insensible, until a policem::n came up, who took the com-
plainant to a surgeon's. A bundle of dirty linen was at the time stolen
from the complainant's basket of the value of 3/ 10s., which the poor
fellow stated he should have to make good.
The defendant was tined in the penalty of 405., and ordered to pay
the complainant 103. damages.
Mr. Rouaas told the complainant he could bring an action against
the owner of the horse and cart, (the defendant's master) for the 'value
I of the linen.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
A young Irishwoman was yesterday brought before Mr. DYER, on a
charge of disorderly conduct. It turned out, however, that she had
previously left her infant-child at a public-house with its father, who,
in his turn, left his offspring in the house, the landlord of which hu-
manely gave it shelter for the nsght. After having been suitably admo-
nished with regard to the offence she had committed in deserting her
child, the baby was given to her, and she was discharged. Soon after
this the relieving officer of the Strand Union caused the girl again to
be brought to the office in order to hear the charge of desertion once
more brought forward.
The relieving officer said his instructions from the Strand Union
Board of Guardians were to deal rigorously with all cases of desertion
towards the mothers. There had been a clear case of desertion made
out against the defendant, and he appeared to press for her commitment
to prison.
Mr. DYER said the application placed him in some difficulty, as he
hd already heard and decided the charge. On receiving a kind of
promise from the young woman that she would not repeat her conduct
he had released her.
The relieving officer said he had been given to understand that it
was the intention of the young woman to do again as she had already
done. Now this course was likely to saddle the Union with the child,
and all the expense of rearing and providing for it. This was no joke,
and therefore it was necessary to deter the defendant from putting her
threat into execution.
Mr. MAIa said he had no desire to inflict punishment, but he should
be obliged to send her to prison if she was brought before him on a
similar charge.
All the parties then left the office.

W OR SHIP- S TREET.
Yesterday Mr. Robert Passinghaat, gas-fitter, High-street, Bethnal-
green-road, finally appeared, on a charge of defrauding the Metropolitan
Gas Company.
It is known that for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of gas
consumed a metre is fi equently provided. The prisoner had contrived
a pipe which communicated with the outside pipe before it entered the
gas meter. Information was obtained by the Company, when they in-
stituted prcceedings against him, and it being fully proved, thedefendant
was fined in the mitigated penalty of 251. to the Queen, and 231. to be
paid to the Company. The fine to the Queen was paid instanter, and
the Company consented to receive the amount of penalty to be received
from the defendant by instalments.

UNION-HALL.
AIe.AILTINO POLICE.—Janus Xdt.9drdS, A cow-keeper, was
brought this morning before Mr. TRAILL, charged by police constable
115 It with having assaulted him while in the discharge of his duty.
From the statement of the complainant, it appeared that he was on
duty in St. George's-fields last night. About half-past ten o'clock he
heard a considerable disturbance in that neighbourhood; upon his going
to see what was the cause he discovered the prisoner, who was in
liquor, quarrelling with several persons who were round him. Upon
the complainant desiring them to disperse he was immediately collared
by the prisoner and thrown down several times, and another policeman
who came to the assistance of the complainant had his coat torn nearly
off his back.
The prisoner upon being asked to account for his conduct, expressed
his sorrow for what he had done, attributing it to too free an indulgence
at the shrine of the Jolly god.
Mr Taktu, ordered him to pay 18s. for the (latrine he had occa.
eioned to the dress of the policeman, and in default to be committed for
fourteen days.
Joseph ltfouls was committed for trial, charged with having stolen a
large quantity of carpeting, the property of a broker named Sa•eetman,
carrying on business in Bolingbroke-row, Walworth. It appeared from
the statement of policeman, 185 P that he observed the prisoner in
company with another person in the Walworth-road List night,
between seven and I ight o'clock. They were carrying a large quantity
of carpeting, and witness thinking all was not right, went up to them
and asked how they had become possessed of the property they had got.
Upon this one of the men threw down the bundle he was carrying, and
ran off. Witness then collared the prisoner, who knocked witness down
and ran oft' too. Ultimately, however, he was secured at the house of
a man named Woodcock, and brought to this otlice.

An order was received on Tuesday at the Brigti.
Post-office directing the reduction to 2d. of all postages to Le
hereafter charged on letters conveyed by the Post-office to dis-
tances not exceeding eight miles. The towns benefitted in
this district in their communications with Brighton will be
Lewes and Shoreham.
MR WELLER'S OPINION OF THE LADIES.—
" That young person," said Mr. Pickwick, " is attached to
your son." "To Samivel Veller I" exclaimed the parent.
" Yes," said Mr. Pickwick, " It's nat'ral," said Mr. Weller,
after some consideration, " nat'ral, but rayther alarmin„
Sammy must 1)2 careful." "'low do you mean ?" inquired
Mr. Pickwick. " Werry careful that he don't say nothin' to
to her," responded Mr. Weiler. " Werry careful that he
ain't led avay in a innocent moment to say anythin' as may
lead to a conwiction for breach. You're never safe vith 'em,
Mr. Pickwick ; ven they 'fence has designs on you, there's
no knowiu' Vera to have 'em, and vile you're considering of it
they have you. 1 wos married fust, that vay myself, Sir, and
Sammy wos the consekens o' the maneuver."—Pickwick for
November.
A HERO'S DETERMINATION.—" It iS not won-
derful that, on quitting India, his professional pre,pects over-
cast, and his body broken down by disease, Nelson's spirits
should have been exceedingly depressed, and his miad sunk in
gloom. Lon; afterwards, he described his feelings at this
time in the following' terms. I was impressed,' he said,
with a feeling that I should never rise in my profession. My
mind was staggered, on considering the difficulties I had to
struggle with and the little interest I possessed. I could not
perceive any means of attaining the object of my ambition.
After a long and gloomy reverie, in which I almost wished
myself overboard, a sudden glow of patriotism kindled within
me at the thought which presented my King and country as
my patron. \Veil, then,' I exclaimed, I will be a hero I
Putting my trust in Providence, I will brave every danger l'
From that time, he often said, a brilliant orb was suspended
before his mind's eye, which led him onward to renown.
Though lie well knew that his dejection was attributable only
to ill health and low spirits, yet he always cherished the idea
that the succeeding radiance was prophetic of glory, and that
the light which led him on was a light from heaven. —Naval
Keepsake for 1838, containing a new Life of Nelson by the 01
Sailor.
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—On Saturday last, a reside!

of the town of Brighton, a person between 40 and 50 years of
age, undertook, for the purpose of deciding a trifling wager,
to start from St. James's-street, near the Steins, to go to the
race stand and back in '25 minutes, to pass through Upper St.
James's-street, by the City of ilereford public-house, and along
the new wall, a distance of nearly three miles. Betting was
even against half an hour; but the bet was decided in 22i.
minutes. The whole distance from ths; Stehle is a coetinuai
and rapid rise, par titularly withiu halt' a mile of the stand, and
when the state of the soil is considered at this period of the
year, this effort may be ranked as one of no mean pretension.
The first ordinary meeting of the Entomological So-
ciety for the season was held on Monday evening, Mr. J. F.
Stephens, president, in the chair. Mr. Elope exhibited a large
collection of insects from the East Indies, including several
undescribed varieties, and Mr. Raddor, some specimens of
Cayenne
pepper, attacked by a species of anobium, as well as
somepeat taken up from a depth of 50 feet below the surface,
on which was a small substance sesetnbling the elytra of in-
sects. Mr. Shipstcr exhibited a spider's nest from South
Australia, belonging to the mygaim or trap-door genus, which
differed from others previously described in the trap being se-
micircular, and not turned back entirely, but returning as it'
by a spring. Mr. ipence described a plan which had been
successfully adopted in the West of England for the destruc-
tion of wire-worms, which had greatly infested the turnip
fields. For this purpose he employed boys for picking them
up at the rate of lid. per 100, and who, in the course of a
few days, obtained upwards of 11 000, the expense of clearing
one acre being about 1/. 2s. 6d. A paper was read from
Mr. Westwood, descriptive of a hybrid sphynx, and another
from Mi. Newport, on the use of the antennae of insects; after
which the meeting adjourned.
An extra times Bedford coach, travelling from
London with four post-horses, on Saturday last, heavily laden,
was overturned not far from the Baldfaced Stag, at Finchley,
owing to the wheel box running against the edge of one of the
large granite stones which are so often placid on that road in
dangerous positions, for the purpose of forcing the traffic on
the new made road. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt
except the conductor. But surely the Trustees of the Metro-
politan Board should be called upon to avoid endangering the
lives of the public, by going to the trilling expense of pro-
riding wooden guards For those parts of the road which they
, think it necessary to defend.—Bedford Beacon.