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SYDENHAM TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

Governdient-house, Montreal, 27th Sept., 1840.
MY LORD—I have the honour to inform you that I re-
turned to this city on Thursday last, the 24th inst.

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I shall transmit to your Lordship by the next mail,
copies of the various addresses which I have received
during my tour, and of my replies. In the meantime it
affords me the most sincere satisfaction to be enabled to
say that, through the very extensive district of country
which 1 have visited, comprising nearly the whole of the
province of Upper Canada, the best possible spirit
prevails.
From the province line to Amherstburg and Sand-
wich, from Lake Erie to Penetanguishine, I have every-
where found a determination to forget past differences
and to unite in an endeavour to obtain, under an Act
of Union, those practical measures for the improve-
ment of the country which have been too long neglected
in the struggle for party and personal objects. At To-
ronto, even, where party spirit reigns with more vio-
lence than in any other part, the general feeling of the
province at last prevailed over the opinions of the ex-
tremes, and I met there with a most cordial reception
from all parties and I had the opportunity, of which I
was glad to avail myself, of doing much to soften down
the asperities which had existed. _ _

Amongst the British inhabitants of this part of Lower
Canada, lam also happy to say that the same good
feeling reigns, and the same confidence in the principles
upon which I have conducted my government, and in
the exertions I have made to introduce improvement.
The citizens of Montreal had prepared a public entry
for my return, which I have reason to know would have
been most numerously attended, but this I was com-
pelled from illness to decline,
Of many of the French Canadians lam sorry to say
that the reports which reach me are not so favourable;
great efforts are made by some few of the leaders of the
old Papineau party to mislead the people, and they are
seconded in the most mischievous manlier by Mr. Neil-
son of Quebec. But. although they may be successful in
imposing on the credulity and ignorance of the habitant
so far as to obtain the return to the United Legislature
of a small party of violent men opposed to British con-
nexion, I am satisfied that they will not again induce the
peasantry to support any attempts at disturbance.
I should do injustice to my own feelings if I were not
to state to your Lordship the impression which has been
left on my mind by the inspection which I have made of
the Upper Province. It is really impossible to say too
much of the advantages which nature has bestowed upon
it, especially that part of the country which lies between
the three lakes—Ontarie, Erie, and Huron. If these great
advantages be properly used, I foresee that in the course
of a very few years that province must become one of
the most valuable possessions of the British empire. Its
population may be trebled, and its products increasad in
an immense ratio; whilst, if properly. governed, its inha-
bitants will, I am satisfied, become the most loyal, intel-
ligent, and industrious subject.s which her Majesty can
number.—l have, &c. S IDENHAM.
The Right Hon. Lord J. Russell, &c.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO LORD SYDENHAM.
COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO
THE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENHAM.

Downing-street, July 6, 1841.
Loup—Her Majesty's Government have received
with much regret the account which your recent corn •
munications to me convey of your severe bodily indispo-
sition, and I have received the Queen's commands to ac-
quaint you that her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to sanction your return to this country on a leave of ab-
sence for six months, as soon after your receipt of this
despatch as the exigencies of the public service in
Canada may admit. I have, &c.,
J. RUSSELL.

RESIGNATION OF LORD SYDENHAM

COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM THE RICIHT RON. LORD

SYDENHA3I TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

Kingston July 21, 1541.
My Loan—As it is probable that. the sittings of the
Legislature will be protracted to the end of this month,
and the state of my health, as your Lordship is already
aware, renders it of great importance to me, that I
should be able to quit this country early in the autumn,
I think it right, without actually waiting for the
termination of the session itself, to enable her Ma-
jesty's Government to take the necessary steps for
the future conduct of affairs here by formally requesting
your Lordship to place at the foot of the Throne my re-
signation of the office with which the Queen has honoured
me, and my humble prayer, in order to meet the possible
contingency of the arrival of my successor being delayed
beyond the period to which I have referred, that I may
receive her Majesty's gracious permission (if it should
not already have been accorded to me) temporarily to.
devolve the government upon the officer nest in com-
mand.

The task which, by her yajesty's commands, I un-
dertook two years ago is entirely completed, and I have
the satisfaction of feeling assured that the great objects
of my mission are answered. The union of the two
Canadas is hilly perfected, and the measures incidental
to that great change have been successfully carried into
effect. Effective departments for every branch of the
public service in this province have been constituted, and
the future harmonious working of the constitution is, I
have every reason to believe, secured.

I have likewise the gratification of learning, that in
another of the provinces of British North America com-
prised within my government the endeavours which I
made whilst I temporarily assumed the direction of of
fairs there, confirmed as they have been by your Lord-
ship's directions, which have been so ably carried out
by Lord Falkland, have been completely successful in
restoring harmony there, and in producing the practical
results.

I can, therefore, with perfect confidence in the future.
working of the great change which it has been my good
fortune to assist in bringing into operation, surrender
into other hands the powers with which I- was honoured
through the gracious confidence of my Sovereign, al-
though, from the deep and heartfelt interest with which
I take in the welfare of these magnificent possessions of
the Queen, I shall do so with feelings of deep regret.—l
have, &c. S 17DE N IA.M.
The Right lion. Lord J. Russell, &c. •

THE QUEEN'S ACCEPTANCE OF LORD
SYDENHAM'S RESIGNATION.
COPY OF A. DESPATCH FROM LORD J. RUSSELL TO THE
RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENHA3I.
Downing-street, Aug. 18, 1841.
MY LonD--I have received and laid before the Queen
your Lordship's despatch of the 21st July, tendering to
her Majesty your resignation of the office of Governor-
General of the British Provinces in North America ;
and I avail myself of the opportunity of this day's mail
to inform your Lordship that the Queen has been pleased
to accept your resignation. Her Majesty has further
commanded me to express to your Lordship her inten-
tion of conferring. on you the Order of the Grand Cross
of the Bath, as a proof of her Majesty's gracious appro-
bation of your services.

I have, &c., J. RUSSELL.
The Right Hon. Lord Sydenham, &e.

PROGRESS OF IRE PROVINCIAL GOVERN-

MENT.

COPY OF A DESPA'FCH FROM THE RIGHT HON. Loma
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"HAM TO LORD J. RUSSELL.
Go
verament-house, Kingston, August 4, 1841.
Alv Lot had the honour to receive, ia New
York, 13‘.; the GrEat Western, your Lordship's despatch
(No. 3r.,7) conveying to me leave of absence from my
post for six months, in consequence of the serious in-
disposition under which I have suffered, and I lose no
time in requesting your Lordship to be good enough to
lay at the foot of the throne my humble acknowledg-
ments
to the Queen for this mark of her Majesty's con-
sideration.
It will be my anxious endeavour that the interests of
her Majesty's service should not suffer through this,
had through the resignation of my office, which I ha
honour to transmit to your Lordship last mail.
I shall not avail myself of the Queen's gracious per-
mission to absent myself until I have entirely com-
pleted the work which I have in hand, by bringing the
present session of Parliament to a close, and by taking
all the steps incident to the- measures which will have
then probably received . their completion ; and with
regard to some of these ' even,namely, the financial
arrangements to be made for the province, in accord-
ance with my instructions, my presence in England may,
I hope, not he altogether without value.
I expect to be able to complete this by the middle or
end ofSeptember, when I shall proceed home ; but of
this I shall be able to judge more exactly in the course
of a short time, and I shall then apply to the officer
ninaanding the naval station at Halifax to furnish me,
if he conveniently can, with a vessel which may convey
myself and my suite to England, of which I trust your
Lordship will approve.
Ih • i. • • have, in the meantime, great satisfaction in stating
that the anticipations which I expressed in my confi-
dential despatch of the 96th of June last have been fully
realised.
The proceedings of the House of Assembly were at
first retarded by the necessity of making arrangements
and laying down new rules and reulations for the con-
duct of business, and by the proceedings in the matter of
election petitions, in which the laws of the two pro•
vinces were different, and great confusion and embar-
rassment naturally arose ; but this delay was rather pro-
ductive of advantage than otherwise, as the Members
from different parts of the province had thereby the op-
portunity of becoming better acquainted with caeh
other's views and opinions, and the difficulties inherent
to the union of the representation of two countries hi-
therto so distinct and separate gradually wore off.
But latterly the L2elsiature has been able to devote
itself la the practical business of the country, and, I am
happy to say, has made great progress, and with great
advantage.
Many measures of public utility have been gone
through, and amongst them three measures of great im-
portance, introduced by the Government, have already
pass-d the House of Assembly, and are before the other
House—a Bill for the establishment of a Board of Works,
conferring the most extensive powers upon that depart-
ment, and thus enablire, us to proceed safely and se-
ftmcnrely is whatever may undertaken on the public sw-
ill:count or with public aid ; another for the establishment
,r•Mpfolistrict courts
.of justice ; and a third for the naturali-
),:", itstiop_of aliensfjt'qubject of the deepest interest to many
':' ,-441:: e inhabitantl'iif the province. A Bill for the este-
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,:kji . t, of kiii) . * Councils in Upper Canada, similar
'*:_, ; in ' itirifi •.,: .. :kh I passed in the Lower Province,
-,;*‘ -• '7:•,. lA,, .; . ~, d will, I have little doubt, be shortly
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The Right Hon. Lord J. Russell, <to.

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