The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Though the dispatch of Lord Durham of the 29th ultimo,
could not be construed into a positive resignation, we are
yet ready to admit that our hopes of his Lordship's continu-
ance in Canada, after the strong opinions expressed by him
in his speech to the Delegates of Quebec, are by no means
sanguine. It is still possible, however, that the unequivocal
demonstrations of the people of Canada may lead him to al-
ter his determination. He could not but be greatly affected
with the mode in which they expressed their gratitude to him,
and the importance they attached to his remaining among
them; and as the necessity for his resignation was grounded
on his apprehension that, impaired as his authority had been,
he could no longer be equal to the difficulties and dangers of
the altered state of things, when he perceives how eagerly all
classes press forward to support him, his apprehensions may
be dispelled, and renewed confidence may beget in him a
belief that he ought not to abandon a post in which
he may render important services to his country.
Though Lord Dm ham had certainly applied himself
with great zeal and energy to the faithful discharge
of the important duties of his high office, and was, we have
reason to believe at least, as fully persuaded as every man of
sense who sees and thinks for himself of the necessity for re-
sisting the mischievous pretensions of the French Canadians
to be considered as a separate nation—pretensions utterly
irreconcilable with the welfare of the British colonists of both
Provinces, and which go to the destruction of the connection
between the Colonies and the parent State—we are, we con-
fess, at a loss to understand in what manner the nationality
of the French Canadians could be destroyed by the scheme
of federation with which he appears to have been occupied.
The French Canadians have but one object, to drive the An-
glo- Saxon race, whom they view as intruders, into the sea ;
and if once more in possession of the power which they so
much abused, they will not suffer themselves to be restrained
by any great Assembly of Delegates from all the North Ame-
rican Provinces, whenever held for mere federal purposes.
The scheme propounded in the newspapers was altogether so
ill calculated to work any good purpose, that we cannot
yet suffer ourselves to believe that in summoning delegates
from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, &c., to
Quebec, Lord Durham really meant to submit to them any
such project as that to which we have alluded. It is but fair,
therefore, to offer no opinion on Lord Durham's plans till we
shall know what they really were. But whether his object,
the healing the differences in the provinces, and the
strengthening the connection between the colonies and the
parent state, by measures calculated to benefit both, would
have been effected, or not, by the course he was pursuing, it
is not the less to be lamented that his ordinances were disal-
lowed. Whether they were or were not strictly legal was, in
our opinion, a matter of very little moment; but it was of
great moment that no proceedings should be adopted calcu-
lated to impair the authority of Lord Durham in the high and
responsible situation in which he was placed. There is a fatality
in the contact of lawyers with great political questions. The do-
minion of law supposes the foundations of society secured ; and
whenever lawyers meddle with the measures called for in times
when the very existence of society itself is at stake they
are sure to do mischief. Burke has in his admirable
description of the inaptitude of the legal mind to
grapple with great political questions, in one of his
apaches on American affairs, left a lesson to all cabinets to
keep lawyers at a due distance when the integrity of empires
is threatened. But great allowance must be made for the dif-
ficult position in which Ministers were placed by the factious
determination of the Peers, evinced from the very departure
of Lord Durham from our shores, to counteract his efforts
by exciting against him all sorts of prejudices, and dragging
every act, or even rumoured act, before the tribunal of the
Upper House, and paralysing the business of the country by a
succession of captious discusssions which they contrived to
raise on all possible occasions. Lord Brougham was, of course,
the prime mover; but he was most actively supported by
Lords Lyndhurst, Ellenborough, and other Peers, the Duke
of Wellington even, proh pudor I having suffered himself to
be dragged into this disgraceful coalition. Of the conduct of
the Tories in abetting Lord Brougham in his mischievous course
it is impossible to speak in terms of too strong condemnation. We
defy any one to point out how any party setting out with the deter-
attained object of convulsing Canada, and rekindling the
flames of civil strife, could have devised a course better adapted
to lead to that result than the course so assiduously and
wickedly pursued by the Tories in Parliament. That they
should now stand aghast at the consequences of their deeds
does not surprise us ; for, insolent as the Peers are, and em-
boldened as they have been by the impunity with which they
have so long insulted the nation, they begin to fear that a day of
reckoning is at hand. They would now fain bury in oblivion
the disgraceful, nay, the infamous, part played by them during
the last Session of Parliament. We must do the Standard
the justice to admit that it reprobated the conduct of the Tory
party last Session in the dishonourable warfare they waged
with Lord Durham. But there is another Journal, of which
the name is proverbial for whatever is base and infa-
mous, which scrupled not to pander to all the factious
desins of the Tories, and which now has the brazen
effrontery to turn round on itself and its party, and lay claim
to a generosity towards Lord ;Durham during the last session
of which the world hears for the first time. Familiar as the
public are with the utter want of principle in the Times, this
last attempt is so barefaced that it will excite surprise that
even the Times should have ventured to make it. " Among
our many proverbs," says the Times of Wednesday last, "we
know of no one more true (it is trite enough withal) than
that which requires that a certain class of persons should have
good memories." This proverb must have been strongly im-
pressed on our Contemporary, with a wish at the same time
that the memories of others might be conveniently shortened.
We blush for the character of the Press in this country, which
is in some sort compromised by such audacious liberties with
truth as those which we are about to expose :
.4 In the position wherein Lord Durham now finds himself
_under a dark cloud of presumptive error, and in some sort
self-punished for faults of which others, by the difficulties
with which they surrounded him, may, for anything we know
to the contrary, have been the real cause—justice and honour,
and every right feeling, preclude us from saying a single word
in the shape of censure or disparagement against him. We
have never wished ill to that Noble Lord, nor suspected him of
an indifference to right or wrong, when both lay
plainly before him. We shall, therefore, on this occasion,
and until Lord Durham has an opportunity of meeting face to
face in Parliament the spiteful enemy who led the assault upon
his character, and the false friends who sneaked away, leaving
an absent man, who relied upon their fidelity, exposed to a
flight of envenomed arrows from behind—until that day of
triumph comes we sail refrain from the utterance of any opi-
nion upon the public measures, apart from the personal ap-
pointments, proposed or executed by the Noble Lord, seeing
that he has never yet been heard in explanation of them.
" One thing, however, is necessary to be borne in mind
upon this subject. When the ordinances of Lord Durham
respecting the deportation of state criminals came to be ques-
tion in each House of Parliament, the Conservatives agreed
in passing a Bill of Indemnity.
" The Conservatives acted in no spirit of hostility towards
Lord Durham. All the lawyers, without exception, in whom
they put their trust, and by whose opinions, had the Duke of
'Wellington and Sir Robert Peel held office, they would have
been implicitly guided—all those constitutional lawyers, with-
out exception, sitting on the Conservative side in either House
of Parliament, pronounced the Durham ordinances to be
against the law. The Conservatives, therefore, with this
doctrine of their own legal advisers placed unequivocally before
their eyes, could in the nature of things have done no other-
wise than resort to one of the two following courses: Ist, a'
vote of censure ; 21, a Bill of Indemnity ; which latter was
likewise an admission that the law, strictly speaking, had been
violated by Lord Durham. There was not breathed a syllable
indicative of anxiety to thwart, perplex, or mortify the Noble
.Earl, or to cast a shade of suspicion upon his motives, not at
least by any Conservative Lord or Commoner in either House.
" We have studiously abstained throughout
,from expressing
so much as the hint of an opinion upon the political merits of
Lord Durham's Canadian administration. We know toa
little of its details ; but we have in the above mentioned data
ground more than sufficient for asserting that never was public
man more scurvily or basely deserted by those who were
pledged, by obligations which cannot be broken without ruin
to those who disregard them, to have made a rampart of their
own bodies round their friend and delegate, and to have iden-
tified their political existence with his. Independent of all
feeling, pro or con., towards Lord Durham, was it not a
painful thing to hear from the lips of any English gentlerran a
passage like that which follows? In concluding his verbal
address to the provincial delegates of British North America,
of which we gave a brief sketch yesterday, but a full report
this day, the Noble Lord stated that opposition' from
'ford
Brougham, and from those acting with him, was no more than
be might have expected, but he was compelled to say that he
was put down—sacrificed—by his FRIENDS—those zc,hose duty
it was to stand forth in his defence—at a period when his
political enemies were using their utmost energies to destroy

Now, so far from " haviag studiously abstained throughoutfrom
pressing so much as the hint of an opinion upon the Durham's Canadian Adiministration," the files merits
o f of
Lord the
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omitting its
;.
Times bear witness t _o;
possible opportunity of
running him down. In the. Times of August the 9th, speaking
of Lord Durham's Adminestration, it says-_
,‘ If the noble fuel dealer had taken out a fleet of loaded
colliers and set fire to their cargoes on his arrival, the confla-
gration, though different in kind, could scarcely have equalled
in intensity the destructive flames which so free a use of
political combustibles is calculated tofeed.f This sort of
Lambton Wall's-end is a dangerous commodity or Canada."
Again, in the same number of the 9th of August :.
" The Special Council of Lord Durham, whether we con-
sider the qualifications or the paucity of its members, is
neither in accordance with the spirit of the statute under
which it has been constituted, not at all likely to command the
confidence of the Canadian public."
And this preface is followed by an attempt to fill
a the
at against
minds
the
of the Canadians with all manner of suspicions g
Council, and by a calumnious imputation of the worst inten-
tions to Lord Durham.
"To supersede, we are told, an ancient and co.nstaituttrioivniaal
f a
form et government by a high-handed despotism 13 e
matter. To tell a population long accustomed to re insti-
tutions, that the present 'too dangerous elements' to enjoy
any participation or influence in the public decrees whereby
they are to be ruled, is a species of affront which they will
naturally recoil from with some impatience. To them a raw
and servile domination, consisting of a few newly-imported
lawyers, &c., is, to say the least, an unpromising expe-
linlent."
.In these days joy over the services done to the Tory cause
byLod Brougham bad induced that paper to take once more
e Noble and Learned Lord into its favour. On the 11th of
August we are told by it, " All Lord Brougham's statements
illustrative of the rash and reckless character of the Durham

policy are, we have reason to believe, strictly true."
Lord Brougbam's Bill is, in the same article termed
" a Bill for putting a stop to the mischiefs which
Lord Durham is threatening to perpetrate." And
yet this very paper yesterday had the effrontery to talk
of Lord Durham having been " attacked by one of the tribe
of Brougham," and to speak of him as a man lower than Fear-
gus O'Connor, for the Tories could receive no help without
disgracing themselves. But Lord Brougham was then de-
stroying himself, with a view to enable the Tories to destroy
the Ministry. He is now cast off, because, we suppose, no-
thing more is expected from him. Again, this fair dealing
Journal, which studiously abstained from expressing so much as
the hint of an opinion upon the political merits of Lord Dur-
ham's Canadian administration, on the 20th August last held
this insolent language :—" Poor Lord Durham. Persever-
ance in our intended strictures on what may doubtless be
deemed the first and last acts of his Lordship's viceroy-
ship is now rendered unnecessary. A general feeling
of indignation has been excited by that nobleman's ille-
gal and despotic ordinances." But why proceed in the
exposure of a paper so lost to all shame I With that
Journal, however, the Tories identified themselves. The
reports of the debates of last Session form a record
of political iniquity from which they shall not be
suffered to escape. They shall again and again be
dragged forth from the concealment in which they would
now fairly lie, as the wicked authors of a policy which
threatens the most serious consequences to the country. We
have occupied so much space in noticing only a few of the
flights of the Times that we leave ourselves no room for com-
ment on the Standard. That paper affects to misunderstand
an allusion to the Tory Ministers, to whose bungling policy
we are indebted for the embarrassments in Canada, and ap-
plies it to the present Ministry. " But, as the Morning
Chronicle truly says—though the language seems strange
when applied by that Journal to its Whig-Radical friends—
" the spirit of imbecility seems to have taken possession of the
statesmen in whose keeping were [are] the destinies of the
empire." All the difficulties of the present Ministers arise
out of the blunders of their predecessors, from Mr. Pitt down-
wards. The dividing Canada into two provinces, and the
nursing, by French laws and usages, a spirit of nationality—
! conferring powers on men who knew not how to use them,
and could only use them injuriously—are the exclusive tro-
phies of the Tories.—Morning Chronicle.

It was easy to foresee, that when once the fact of Lord
Durham's resignation should be known and authenticated here,
the fags of Downing-street, with their usual impertinence,
would attempt to throw the blame of compelling the Noble
Earl to that reluctant act upon any other shoulders than those
which ought to have borne it. We knew what would happen,
and in the Times of yesterday carefully provided against it,
by retracting the mean conduct of the Whig-Radical Minis-
ters towards Lord Durham, and thus fixing the saddle upon the
right horse. It was proved distinctly in our article of yesterday
morning, that upon the grounds and assumptions of the Whigs
themselves, it was their duty, as men of the slightest pretensions
to honour, to have stood by Lord Durham to the last, and to have
resisted, not merely by their speeches, but their votes, that
measure which was designed to put on record the condemna-
tion of his policy by both Houses of Parliament. And was not
the case precisely as we stated it ? Did not the Ministers of the
Crown begin by arrogantly denying that there was any
foundation in reason or law for the censures cast upon Lord
Durham ? Did not Lords Lansdowne, Melbourne, and
Glenelg, repel at first the propositions of Lord Brougham, by
declaring that the steps of the Canadian Government which
produced them were inevitable? Did not the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-General pro-
nounce ex cathedra that those steps were lawful—except only
in this very insignificant point—namely, that as the islands of
Bermuda were not under Lord Durham's jurisdiction, he had
no right to send prisoners thither? Did they not, one and all,
from Lord Melbourne downwards, deprecate the expression
of an adverse judgment by the Legislature, as being fraught
with consequences disastrous beyond all calculation ? And if
this be true, every word of which is demonstrated by refe-
rence to the Parliamentary reports for the month of August,
how happened it that those same Ministers, so valiant in the
war of words, betrayed such pusillanimity when it came to
voting? How happened it that they durst not stand the re-
sult of a division in the House of Commons ? It could not
have injured, but would have greatly served, Lord Durham,
by showing the people of England that he had the real, not
the sham, protection of the Government which had im-
portuned him to take office under it. A division, leaving
Ministers in a minority, would have shown that they
were honest in their support of Lord Durham, and that in re-
presenting his acts to be praiseworthy they bad spoken what
they believed to be the truth. But, on the other hand, an ad-
verse majority might have brought into immediate peril the
places of these liberal-minded gentlemen 1 That was the
true " rub ;" that it was which decided the Radical Ministers
to give their votes in a sense directly opposite to their
speeches, and, as was declared by this Journal at the moment,
"to fling Lord Durham to the winds." Well, after seeing
the Ministerial prints of yesterday, we beg leave to ask our
readers whether the precautions taken by us against the tricks
and lies of the Whig menials were at all superfluous?
Whether it was not a prudent anticipation which led us to lay
the break-up of the Durham (falsely called) dictatorship at
the door of its unnatural parents ? In yesterday's Times we
accused the selfish baseness of the Queen's Ministers as the
cause of Lord Durham's abrupt and (by many people, though
not by us) uulooked-for return. At the same hour appeared
a Morning Ministerial Paper, which only the very day
before had expended a long column of abusive ridicule
upon Lord Durham's supposed plan for a general federation
of the British North American provinces, and had
pronounced that the author of such a plan must have
been a chimerical Utopian, and " no statesman," but which
in the emergency of this time yesterday, after the Noble Lord's
resignation becdme known, produced a tirade of a somewhat
different nature, and let fly at the Conservatives in the House
of Lords, as the factious destroyers of its own dear " chimeri-
cal no-statesman." In this libel upon the Conservatives, for
the rescue of the Whigs, the Treasury vassal shows himself, if
a Dunderhead a daring one, we acknowledge, of the highest
water. He not only knows better than anybody here, but a
great deal better than the Government Press of Canada—nay,
more accurately than the Lord High Commissioner in person,
by whom it is that his Excellency considers himself to have
been most especially aggrieved, abandoned, and betrayed.
The Treasury Journal here in London shifts its attack
from Lord Durham, the victim of its objurgation of last
Thursday, to the Conservatives of the House of Lords, as
the authors of Lord Durham's sudden retirement from
office. But what do the Canadian Papers say, the organs of
Lord Durham's Government ? What was the article of the
" Montreal Gazette," September 25, penned under the eye of
authority in that province, and inserted in the pages of that
very flagrant and unsavoury pothouse print, which, with such
an article before it, holding up the Ministers as the real per-
secutors of the Noble Lord, had the obdurate effrontery to ac-
quit them of the guilt, and to charge it from mere factious and
malignant spite upon their political opponents ? So says
Pothouse ; but what says Montreal? Read—" There is every
reason to believe that the Administration of the Earl of Dur-
ham will be a short one, and that in consequence of the late
proceedings in Parliament in regard to Lower Canada, and
the imbecile and incoherent conduct of the Ministry, his Lord-
ship will at no distant period resign his trust," &c. Again—.
We expressed a hope a few days since, that notwithstanding
so lamentable a state of things, and the sorry councils by
which the Queen's Government seemed to be guided, his Lord-
ship might for a little longer," &c. " But upon more
mature reflection we cannot conceive how any man of
high spirit could submit to the utter degradation of serving
a Government who have neither the power to support
him in the exercise of his public functions nor the
courage to defend either him or themselves from the factious
assaults of party politicians, or the more infamous inroads of
personal and zealous enemies. A Ministry so utterly weak
and incapable as a government—so grossly ignorant of the
duties of their station, of their obligations to their Sovereign,
and of their responsibility to their c,untry, are totally unworthy
ofbeing
.favoured by the services of any man of honour who
values his own reputation." In order to the effective adminiss
tration of North America, " he ought, above all, to enjoy, to
its fullest extent, and in every case and circumstance, the
united and unanimous support and protection of her Majesty's
Ministers. We do not mean the present Ministers, fir we
have seen that they are totally incapable of supporting and
protecting themselves—but such a Ministry and Government as
may have the firmness of purpose and resolute determination of
pursuing such measures in these important provinces of the
empire, as would irretrievably save them from the anarchy
and confusion which we now greatly fear is hovering
over them." " Such is the confidence and support which
ought to be extended to the Earl of Durham, or any other
nobleman or gentleman who undertakes the difficult task of
educing order and happiness out of the entangled condition of
these provinces—not certainly the feeble, lukewarm, silly, piti-
ful, wretched, and disgraceful support that was on a late occa-
sion attempted to be given by the Ministry to the Queen's re-
presentative in Canada." Well, what says our friend of the
pothouse to the above extract from his own columns of yester-
day ? And yet, with it before his eyes, the foolish imposter
talks as if the Conservatives, not the Ministers, were to
blame. Why, if the Conservatives behaved ill in censuring
Lord Durham, how much worse did the Ministers act in making
themselves, amidst much hypocritical profession of sorrow,
parties to that censure ? They say they were doubtful of a
majority. Did they try ? Did they tell the House of Com-
mons, where they have always boasted of having a majority,
If you don't help us to extricate Lord Durham, we will
resign ? It is true we often before talked about resigning
when we meant no such thing, but now we are in earnest—
we are 'pon honour." No ; little as such a threat would have
cost them, they refused even such a trifle as a pledge of resig-
nation to save Lord Durham. But, again—we now quote
from the Quebec Gazette of September 20 :—" Our prospect
wrenderedhwhich,
on measures, Heavendin knows,
more
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was
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ters
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of the colony, were framed to meet the ,
exigenciesg of the dan-
gerous position in which it was placed. Add to these expres-
sions of opinion with regard to the ungenerous and despicable
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uoMteidnistienrs
the
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Times
of
yes-
terday :—" I have been put down, sacrificed, by of
friends—by those whose duty was to my
support me ;"
and then we think that, so far as authority goes, the public
voice will judge not unfavourably for that on which our
state-
ments rest—viz., that if Ministers could not by any eet
means have saved Lord Durham from being mortified and
humbled, they ought, like high-minded and gallant men, to
haveproclaimed to friends and enemies--" Our numbers or
influence in Parliament do not enable us effectually to sup-
port the Lord High Commissioner of North America in his
most arduous position. But, what is more important to the
!reputation of all British Governments, our conscience and

honour do not permit us to abandon him; therefore, we have
resolved that one and all we will swim or perish together."
Of this virtue, of this homely justice, the paltry Cabinet of
Whig- Radicals who surround the Queen of England have
proved themselves utterly incapable. They are disgrac.,d
Ministers ; they are despised Ministers ; and we once more
tell them, that men in that predicament will not long be rulers
over the British nation.—Times.
It would indeed be an idle affectation of maudlin sentiment
and nothing better than rank hypocrisy in us to lament the re-
s'gnation, real or pretended, of Lord Durham, of whose ap-
pointment from the beginning we have augured nothing but
confusion and failure ; nor in this did we speak without abun-
dant grounds fur forming a sound opinion. The conduct of
his Lordship in other public situations, before it was ever
thought that, by the grace of the free government of Great
Britain, he would one day be elevate to the throne of a
Transatlantic despotism, was such as ought to have convinced
every unprejudiced and reflecting mind that his are the quali-
ties of intellect and temper calculated to embroil, not to settle,
the affairs of an embarrassed country, and to disturb, not to
consolidate, the elements of empire. Haughty, petulant, and
self-willed, yet yielding with more than woman's weakness
to the flatterer's arts, vain to excess of newly-acquired
aristocratic honours, yet as avaricious of mob popularity
as if he were a democrat at heart, Lord Durham was not a
whit better qualified to restore peace and prosperity to the
Canadas by such wise and vigorous measures as should make
the Government of the mother country at once feared and re.
spected, than he was to sternly uphold the interests and vin-
dicate the honour of Great Britain at the Court of the Czar.
Without attributing to him any worse motives than those which
belong to a weak and vain-glorious ambition, as distinguishel
from an enlightened patriotism, we regarded Lord Durham
as a man not safely to be entrusted with power involving
the happiness or misery of millions of our fellow-subjects.
We acre, therefore, not sorry when Parliament reminded his
Autocratship that there was some authority within these realms
superior to his own. And that he should have taken in dud-
geon the exercise of a wholesome constitutional interference
with his fancied " prerogative" by the Queen, Lords, and
Commons of Great Britain, convinces us more than ever
that his is not the mind which can form a right conception
of a patriot's duties, or can sacrifice a petty, peevish vanity
to the high consideration of his country's glory. Let Lord
Brougham's motive have been what it may, in denouncing the
illegality of the Canadian autocrat's sentence of deportation
upon certain subjects: of the British Crown, and in rectifying.
the blunder by an Indemnity Bill, no person who knows any-
thing of the Law and Constitution of England can deny that
Lord Durham's conduct was illegal, and Lord Brougham's
Act was necessary. The Standard knows this as well as we
do, though, in its anxiety to place the ex-idol of the Glasgow
democracy, and the decore of Russian despotism above the
law, our much-esteemed Tory Contemporary falls foul both of
Lordf Brougham and its Tory friends. On Thursday evening
in reference to the constitutional curb placed on Lord Dur-
ham's power, it said, " The demon of pettifogging liberalism
ps evaiied with both Whigs and Tories"—the "pettifog-
ging liberalism" being a vindication of the just and
legitimate authority of the British Parliament to cor-
rect the fantastic and dangerous pranks of irresponsible
and upstart power. Last night the Globe took advan-
tage of the doleful tone of some of the Conservative Jour-
nals to say—. The faction—fur it would be employing a term
of respect of which it is undeserving to designate it a party—
which consented to adopt Lord Brougham as its leader in the
attack on Lord Durham's policy, seems astounded by the extent
of mischief it has achieved. Our idea of " the extent of
mischief achieved," is something like a deliverance from the
greater mischief of Lord Durham's adopted plan of a federal
democracy, constituted of all our North American colonies—a
plan which we ccnsider as equivalent to a surrender of the
sovereignty of the British Crown—for, according to that
plan, even appeals to the Monarch in Council were to
be abolished, andmr
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sloafmo
fbtehwre whole of
our North Americam provinces was to be vested in a
republic,
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withoutso tmhee
democratico:conne President'slaco stir saei
the awkward necessity of much fighting. Of the proposed
federal democracy, the Montreal Gazette thus expresses it-
self:—" It was our intention to have prosecuted our observa-
tions upon the innovating scheme said to have been in contem-
plation for changing the free and monarchical constitutions
which have so long been enjoyed in North America, and esta-
blishing upon their ruins a federal democracy. We learn,
however, that in consequence of the proposed departure of the
Earl of Durham from the country, all inquiry into the subject
has for the present been dropped." That is the first great
" mischief" arising from the real or pretended resignation of
Lord Durham ; and, if no greater mischief than that follows,
the lovers of the British constitution, and the faithful
subjects of the British crown, have no great cause to
weep. Yet this monstrous scheme of government was
stated by the Quebec Gazette to have already received the
assent of certain delegates from the Lower Provinces—some
of those persons, we suppose, who have been penning
fulsome addresses to Lord Durham, and who were am-
bitious of filling office in the federal democracy. It appears,
however, that these worthies never thought it necessary
to ask the consent of the people of the lower provinces, whose
free monarchical institutions, if the Gazette speaks the truth
(which Whig gazettes do not always do), they were so ready
to deliver over to the mutilating and mangling operations of
Lord Durham's Constitution-mongers. It could not be
possible," says the Montreal Paper which we have already
quoted, " that a British population in those colonies, who
have so long and so happily enjoyed the benefits arising from
the free monarchical institutions of the mother country, would

..
ever be induced to exchange them for a pure democratical
Constitution, merely because it was imagined that there
existed no other means of enforcing any other system of
government in Canada. Better that the British Government
should be beaten in battle, if the Canadian democrats should
find the courage necessary to give effect to their rebellious
theories, than that it should commit the suicidal destruction
of its power by establishing the federal democracy upon the
ruins of Monarchical Institutions. Of the proposed demo-
cracy the Fredericton Sentinel says—" When its details are
found to involve the abolition of the second branch of the
Legislature—to restore the Executive Counczl, as such, but without
the power to reject any measure proposed by the Assembly, and to in.
troduce a General Assembly composed of ten members front each Co-
lony, whatever its population, the scheme seems too absurd to
warrant the experiment of trial." But that the ex-
periment was to be made an Evening organ of the Home
Government the other day assured us, and we have no doubt
the result of that experiment would have been the eventual
loss, en masse, of all our North American Colonies. The
Montreal Gazette seems to think that the experiment has
been stopped, for the present, by Lord Durham's pro-
posed departure. We hope it is stopped by that event,
effectually and for ever. Still some doubts appear to hang over
the alleged resignation. The Chronicle indulges in hopes that the
Noble Governor-General extraordinary will be induced to stay
%%here he is, and not come home to assist in shaking down an
Administration already tottering to its fall. The Globe speaks
oF the resignation as a thing done, and not to be recalled, like
Lord Althorp's resignation, when Lord Grey was jostled by
his subordinates out of his own Cabinet. For our own part,
if the Earl of Durham, having expressed himself respecting
the conduct of his friends, the Whig Ministers, in the bitter
terms that he has, can allow himself to remain, upon request,
their insulted and satisfied functionary, be must be a mean-
spirited man indeed. In that case we should consider his
expressed determination to resign as a coup de theatre—a
mere stage trick—to induce the request to stop, which it is
said he has or will receive, in an autograph from the Queen—
a letter, of course, dictated by Lord Melbourne ; who having,
by the gilded bait of mock-royalty in Canada, got rid of a for-
midable rival " near the throne," has no desire to be dig
turbed by the re-appearance of the peppery Durham, to
scare him from his epicurean enjoyments in Windsor's ban-
quetting hall, and his sylvan pleasure in Windsor's " green
retreats." We quoted yesterday the description which the
private correspondent of the Standard gave of preparations
for the renewal of rebellion which have for some time past
been carried on in Lower Canada, and the alleged "gross
neglect of the Governor-General in not instituting proper in-
quiries into the nature and meaning of the movements (of the
disaffected) so as to satisfy the public mind as to what will be
done in opposing them." We say that the veteran warrior
Sir John Colborne knows better what is to be done in such
an emergency than Lord Durham, and, what is more, is as
prompt to execute as he is able to plan whatever is necessary
for the defeat of rebellious machinations. Had that active
and experienced officer, unhampered by the authority of Lord
Durham or any other Whig official, beenleft originally to com-
plete the pacification of Canada, which he had so auspiciously
begun, after Lord Gosford had brought the colony to the verge
of ruin, he would have done it effectually, and the weakness,
v indecision, Go-
vernment
hasand infirmityf purpose
siaaeddisplayed
lctye
d f
for
which
the
encouragement
o c u Canadian
r
heroo_f
Canadian and United States' democrats, would not have
promoted the revival of the rebellious designs of the one
party, or invited the aggressions of the other.—Morning
Herald.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE FRONT OPENING
A VaiN IN TIIF: Attic.—An inquest was held by Mr Higgs,
Coroner, on Wednesday night, at the Joiners' Arms' . Eliza-
beth-street, Belgravy-square, upon the body of 111ary Sale
aged 52, who committed suicide by opening a vein in her arm.
Mr. James Hamilton, haberdasher, of Lower Elizabeth
street, deposed that the deceased was his mother-in-law, and.
resided in the same house with him. About six years' ago,
while in the service of the Rev. D. r. Thorpe, she was attacked
with paralysis, and from then at intervals her mind had aP .
pearing wandering, but witness never thought she would hive
committed suicide. On Wednesday morning, about seven
o'clock, upon going into her sleeping room, he found hPr
right arm hanging over the side of the bed, with a deep
wound in it, and a stream of blood on the floor. Witness
immediately sent for Mr. Jay, a surgeon, who attended.
Since the deceased was attacked with paralysis, she had been
a great sufferer. Mr. Henry Jay stated that he had attended
st
ee
had deceasedbe e n for
sufferingseveral
under years.
disease Fo r
othe
thelast b
rfiveain r Six years
which pro-
duced paralysis, and at times rendered her unconscious of her
own acts. He attended on Wednesday morning directly ho
was sent for, and found An incision in the right arm, half an
inch deep, and extending entirely across the arm. Near her
was a table knife covered with blood, with which she had in-
flicted the injury. The Rev. Dr. Thorpe, of No. 9, Belgrave.
street, deposed that the deceased had lived in his service up-
wards of 24 years, and was looked upon by his children as
mother. She was an exemplary servant, and he bad never
had an occasion to complain of her. Her daughter had been
lately married, and a week or ten days ago the deceased was
removed from witness's house to her residynce, and he
settled an annuity upon her for life. During the last five
years she had been four years confined to her bed, Verdict,
" Temporary InsaniV,"

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCK,

SsETRANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.

•
LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 19.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. peri
Shares. Annum. Paid. s
1.766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldhana....Average97/.183.8h. 135
1,082 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 111:1.sh. '73
1,260 Basingstoke lool.i,h. 5
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150/. sh. 90
8,0001-16th. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share M. & 711. 220
LMO
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64
400 4!. ('halmer and Blackwater 100/..h. 101
500 481. Caventry 'oo/.sh. 735
4,545 Croydon ... ....... ... Average 31/.25.10d. sh. 3
2,0601 41. 04. Dudley -. 10,/. sh. 84
000 14i. Derby
20,000 4 per cent. ilannbe and Mayne 4l/.135. 4d .pd 30
3,5751 Si. Ellesmere and enester Average 133/. sh. 801
231 46). Erewash 'OM sti. '740
1,237 08/. Forth and Clyde Average 4.00.1.105. th. sro
I,r''') 121. Grand Junction 1001. sh. 191
2,6491 1!. Grand Union 1001.sb Y 4
11,500 Grand Surrey . ... ~. lOOl. sh. 20
0,003/. 11. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. C 3
31)6
690 13/.124. Id. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. I:3s. 4d. 236
749 10s. Grantham , 150/. sh. 203
6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 60. ti,. 37
100
5.128 11. Is. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. !Ss. 10d. sh 25.1
2,3.471 21!. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 670
5151 131. Leicester 140/. sh. 220
1,897 6/. Os. Lkicester and Northampton... Aver. S3/.los. 90
2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 20)
150 10!. Melton Mowbray lee,. sh. 200
500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 575
3.0:10 11. 10s. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 52
247 171. Neat!)
12,400 51. Peak Forest Avet..ge about 731. sh. 102
1,418 lie. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ed. sh. 161
5,659 61. per cent. Roctida'. Average 8.5/. sh. 109
500 8/. hhvopshire mi. sh. 140
300 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 1511
3,600/. 44 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 111
700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140!. sh. 710
500 9/. Shrewsbury 1251.8h. 250
300 9/. Stourbridge - .... 1451. sh. 3.30
3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. 00. sh. 48
533 151. Swansea 1001. sh. 250
3,762 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...AT 35!. sh. 35
i
2,60015 ti. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, I share 1001.8 h. 600
8,149
1,000-11 sh.
1,000 sh.? 161 Warwick avid Birmingham 1001. sh• 281
280 151.. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 200
, 000 4!. Os. Vlorcest"r and Birmingham...Av.7B/.65. sh. 731
5,000 255. Wilts an.A Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Sd. sh. 23
SOO 31, Vii yrley and Essington 1251. sh 75
125 ... Wisbeach lO5/. sh. 4a
901 1.. Wey and Arun 1101. sh. 224
DOCKS.
OO& }3p. e Commercial •'OOl. sh. 56
IM,o6sfsh
East and West India Stock 111
3,238,3111/. 555. p.ct. London Stock 61
Ditto Bonds lOl
2,009 2!. 19s. Bristol
63,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3
1,352.752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 107
510,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds
20e.009 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO4
2.500 , .... Deptford Pier ',ol. sh. 201. pd 11
BRIDGES.
1,600 10s. Hammersmiti 5Ol. sh. 21
7,231 Southwark, Old .Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 2
1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 F ( cent. 5O/.5h. 14
5,000 . ... Waterloo
5,000 lis. ici. Ditto, Old Annuities of 6!. 6O/. pd 21
5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto if 71 401. pd let
60,000/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll2
5,843 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 23
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/10s Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 73
50,000 1.51Zi ciesnl Alliance,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10f/. pd 141
1.
50,000 A per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. eh. 5/. pd ff
24,000 I 1 perch. Ana., 501. sh. 51. pd 142
1,200 fsii. 51. Birmingham 1' ire 050/. sh. 55/. pi 107;
'20,000 41. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50!. pd 40
12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sb. 5/. pd 6
5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medial, &c. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 4
4,000 2/ 10s County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42
20,000 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. 51. pd 51
r' '''' /and 30/ b5..5
„,, (-5 per cent.? Economic Lite lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 375
2,271 225. percent. European Li:.: 2Ol. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd If
1,000,0(15/. 71. per ct Globe Stock 1441
20,000 51- Guardian lOO/. sh. 271/ pd 351
40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 50!. eh. 51. pd 6
2,400 5/. 73. 64. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 130
7,500 95. Imperial Lite 100!. sh. 10/. pd 10}
13,459 41. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8/. pd 23
2,020 3! 108 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82
3/. Ditto Life 79
10,000 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 30
5,000 10s. London, Fir.- 251. sh. 121. its. pd 10
3,901 10s. London, Ship .51. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16
1,000,0013/. ... ..... Minerva Life WO/. sh.
30,000 21. per cent. Palladium Lit, 501. sh. 21. pd 2/ Ss OA
50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fir, 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 17.0 d
2.500 I!. Provident Lite 100!. sh. 10/. pd 20
109,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 11. pd 64
6499201 5/. per cent. Royal Exch inge Stock.. 22.54
,
6 (;r0 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. id 51
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100!. ch. 5/. pd 74
JOINT STOCK BANKS

25,000 8 per cent. Agric. andCumm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd
5 000 . , Australa'ia 4O/. sh. 40!. pd 61
10,00 10 per cent. Bank of Bii mingham 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 le per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O!. sh. 5!. pd 101
51,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 201. pd 23j
60,,000 Si. London Joint Stock 50!. sh. 101. pd 121
j,OOO 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 90
i.'5,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 231
100,000 7j per (tont Manchester and Liverpool]
District 5Ol. eh. 151 pd 21
20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/. p 4 27
20,000 Provincial Bank of I reland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 42k
So,' 10 National Bank of Ireland - 56/. sh. 17M. pd 161
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. WO/. sh. 351. pd 35
10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. eh. 10/. pd 20
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5!. pd 9
GAS LIGHT ANL) COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 1/ 1/3 00 Bath
5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 211
5,000 gledelLe. 7;1 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 221
928 5110 a Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 98
4,2.50 21,.C0s Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36

1,500 31 10s Brighton 20/. sh. Di
750 3! lOs Ditto, New 201. eh. 18/. pd 9
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17
1,000 5/. Continental Consolidated
1,000 10/. City of London .................1001. sh. all pd 196
1,000 61. Ditto, New
4,000 4/.los. Equitable 5O/. pd 30}
10,000 2/ per cent. Imperial.
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 20
2,350 6/. per cant. lndependeht 3O/. sh. all pd 45
9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix _ 5O/. sh. 391. pd k 2,1
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 80/. pd 58
4,000 South M&tropolitan oli/. eh. 191. pd 17
5,200 5/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 291
240 5/. per cont. Warwick 501. sh. 50
400 5/. jeer cent Wakefield
2,000 31. Westminsf cr Chartered
6100 12s. Ditto New 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 53/
KO Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS.

1,800 Os. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 20
4.424 61. East London lOO/. sh. It'o
5,500 21 lOs Gr ind Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 61
2,000 21. Kent lOO/. sh. 45
375 101. Liverpool Bootle 990/. sh. 3:26
1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Annuities 591
6,486 1/ 15s 51zochester and Salford lOOl. sh. 54
1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 90
8,294 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 96
1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee I'rop 100!. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
8,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby 4O/. pd 3.1
9,540 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester
15,i00 ......... Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 15 pd 71
660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 0j
7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 100/. sh.'l2l/. Ii
3,00 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 40
12,000 ......... Commercial Blackwall 501. sh. 2/. pd 51
8,000
60,008 ......... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 10/.lpd $
......... Grand Junction 1001. sh. 951. IA 181
......... Great North of England lBl. pd 14
5,000 ......... Great Western l6Ol. sh. 651. pd -78-1
2,0n0 ......... Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 1001
8,000 Hull and ,elby 501. sh. 204 pd Si
10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. Si. pd
2,100 3/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65
1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....50/. sh. all pd 75
5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lol /.611. 100/.0 195
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "Si. pd 61
,36,000
12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh. 31. pd 71
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sic 20/. pd 17
25,000 London and Birmingham -.1001. sh. 901, pd 175
Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 30
20,000 London and Southampton -.501. sh. 501. pd 4/
Ditto ditto New l5l. pd ilfil
14,000 London and Croydon Trunk 201. sh. 20/. pd 17
6,200 Ditto New Scrip
12,000 London Grand Junction... ...... 50/. sh. 51. pd 0/
11,000 Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 401. pd 564
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.Bh. 10/. pd 10;
North Midland 1001. sh. 551. pd 571
Northeni and Eastern 1001. sh. 151. pd 71
2,000 Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 30/. pd SG/
28,000 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover ~.. 91. pd 4
1,000 le/.per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240
9,000
1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 21. pd 0
6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121, pd 11