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London, England, 1840-03-18 00:00:00

solve itself into a Committee to take the Corn-law into
consideration.

The County Constabulary Act Amendment Bill was
presented and read a first time. Mr. GALLY KNIGHT
is to propose, in Committee on the Bill, that one half
of the expense be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
The landed gentlemen first degrade, impoverish, and
demoralize the people, and then tax them to keep the
serfs they have &graded in obedience and thraldom.
Mr. CRA FOLD is to bring the Opium Question
under the notice of the House on the 24th inst.
On the 19th, Lord MoaPETH is to ask leave to
bring in a Bill to prevent mendicancy in Ireland, an
Herculean task ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL 19, on Mon-
day next, to lay the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill
on the table, and on the same day to move for leave to
bring in a Bill to re-unite the Provinces of Upper
and Lower Canada. _

Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN stated that the illness of the
Duke of WELLINGTON had prevented the Report of
the Military Commission from being laid on the table ;
and he did not know whether the Commission would
assemble again or not
Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced that he meant to
give up the Ecclesiastical Revenues Bill for another,
which was more likely to meet the views of the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY. How dare the Tory Journals
say that the Whigs do not consult the wishes of the
Bishops and the ease of the Church ?
The Report of the Printed Papers Bill was brought
up. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN moved to add a proviso,
that any person should be discharged from custody
whose action at law was put an end to by the
Lord JOHN RUSSELL resisted the motion, as an in-
vasion of the privileges of the House, which the Bill
professed not to touch. It was negatived,
and the
Report received.

The Mutiny Bills were committed.
Mr. WALLACE brought forward a motion, which ap-
pears to us to have for its real object to inquire into the
political conduct, and political sentiments, of the Pro-
fessors and youth cf the Glasgow University.
It was for the names of the Professors
and students of the University of Glasgow who
are now members of the Peel Club. With great
respect for Mr. IV ALLAcE, we must condemn such a
motion, and hope to see nothing of the kind repeated.
After a not unamusing debate, for which we refer to
our report, Mr. WALLACE withdrew his motion.
Some despatches relative to the dissolution of the
Legislative Assembly of the lonian Islands were ordered,
on the motion of Lord C. FITZROY.
Mr. WAKLEY obta!ned a Committee to inquire into
any measures which have been adopted for carrying
into effect the I st of Vic.. c. 68, concerning the payment
of Coroners, after a division, 31 voting for, and 17
against the motion. The Hot,. Member wished to
confine the inquiry to the county of Middlesex, but, to
meet the views of others, extended it to all counties.
The Tithe Ccmmutation Act Amendment Bill was
re-committed.

The ilous:, adjourned before o'Cloek.

Mr. LEADER asked last night in the House of
Commons, by whose permission the Chief Justice
of Upper Canada was allowed to be absent from
his post for one year and a half; by whom his
duties were performed ; and whether his salary
continued to be paid ? To these questions Lord
JOHN RUSSELL answered, that successive Colo-
nial Secretaries had allowed this gentleman to be
absent ; that in the mean time the other Judges
performed his duties ; and that, like other official
persons, the Chief Justice receives, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL supposes, half his salary. The sinecure
half-pay Judge has intimated to the Colonial
Office that he will be ready to return to his duty
about the middle of April. In the mean time he
writes and publishes pamphlets here, to embroil
those affairs he is no longer allowed to embroil in
Canada.
Mr. Jon 1-1 BEVERLY RourNsoN has the re-
putation of being a shrewd, long-headed man, who
shines more as a politician than a judge. Report
says that the principal object of his long sojourn
in England is to make the Tortes perfectly masters
of the views of the Canadian Tories. He is in
close league with Lord LYNDHURST, and that
long-headed, shrewd lawyer, equally distinguished
as a politician, will no doubt profit by Mr. Ro•
ruNsoN's instructions to do all the mischief he can.
Already the plot is hatched. Mr. ROBINSON has
announced it. The new character of Obstructives
assumed by the Conservatives, is to be acted up to.
In alliance with the habitans, the union of the two
provinces is to be opposed. It might strengthen
the popular party, and add to the reputation of the
Whigs.
Plausible arguments, so say the Tories, are al-
leged by the Chief Justice why the union should
not take place without further inquiry, and those
arguments will be most plausibly set forth by the
Tory law Lord—who has. already clone a great
deal of mischief to this very Colony—to set
aside the Whig plan for the settlement of the
unhappy differences in Canada. It has been the
misfortune of the Whigs, ever since they came into
office, to be obliged to work with Tory tools.
Their subordinates have continually led them
wrong, and continually thwarted their best laid
plans. All will, however, go smoothly for the
corruptionists—for sincecure judges who impose
their duties on other men, the national policy will
be perfect and be well-executed, whenever the
Whigs, never mind by what artifices, can be turned
out of office.

We learn from Mr. Chief Justice RosmsoN's
own pamphlet, that he has been one of the advi-
sers of the successive Governors of Upper Canada
for twenty 'ears. When Lord DURHAM went
thither, he objected to see, like his predecessors,
with Mr. Justice RoßlNsoN's eyes. He examined
for himself, or by means of gentlemen he took with
him from England, and obstinately refused to look
only through the spectacles of the family compact.
One great object, therefore;of the Chief Justice,in his
pamphlet, is to throw discredit on Lord DURHAM'S
Report. As the Noble Lord did not ask his ad-
vice, the Chief Justice sneers at the authority on
which Lord DURHAM'S Report was founded.
One great and important element, however, of a
sound judgment, the Chief Justice has overlooked.
Lord DURHAM had no sinister interest to serve. Can
Mr. BEVERLY ROBINSON say as much ? If the
two Canadas were united, and if, as Lord DURHAM
recommended, the Executive Government were to be
made responsible to the people of Canada, would
the Chief Justice be allowed to remain for eighteen
months out of the land ? Would a few aristo-
cratic chiefs, by the aid of the aristocratic Govern-
ment at home, then be able to domineer over the
mass of the Canadians ? We believe not ; and the
union of the provinces, which the Chief Justice
opposes, would be the extinction of the family com-
pany. Inasmuch as a wily man,with perfect knowledge
of facts, having an interest to deceive us, is less to
be trusted, and more dangerous, than a sincere man
with little knowledge and a strong interest in lead-
ing us right, we prefer the recommendations of
JOHN, Earl of DURHAM, to the suggestions of
Mr. JOHN BEVERLY ROBINSON.