The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-16 00:00:00

LORD METCALFE.

A meeting of gentlemen connected with the North
American Colonies was held yesterday, in the Committee-
room of the North American Association, Leadenhall-street,
for the purpose of agreeing upon an address to be presented
to Lord Metcalfe upon the occasion of his Lordship's return
from Canada to this country. The chair was taken at one
o'clock, by Mr. Robert Gillespie, who was supported by a
numerous assemblage of gentlemen connected with our
American colonies.

The CHAIRMAN, having stated the nature and object of
the meeting, and also pronounced an eloquent eulogium on
the Noble Lord to whom it was intended to pay the tribute
of a public address, begged attention to that which would be
read by the Secretary.
The SECRETARY read it as follows :
"TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD METCALFE, G.C.D , &C.
• "My Lord,—We, the undersigned merchants and others
connected with the British North American provinces, beg
most respectfully to express to your Lordship our heartfelt
thankfulness for your safe return to this country, and our
sincere snd earnest hope that your valuable life may be
prolonged, to your own comfort, and for the service of your
country. _ _

" AVare of the high reputation your Lordship had acquired
as a statesman of consummate skill, firmness, and justice in
the Governments which you held in India and Jamaica, we
hailed with the greatest satisfaction your appointment as
Governor-General of the North American colonies at a period
when the inhabitants of Canada were in a distracted state,
and the Government surrounded by difficulties of no ordinary
character.

" By the exercise of firmness, combined with patient for-
bearance, and with a singleness of purpose to render equal
justice to all, you have succeeded, my Lord, in upholding
the prerogatives of the Crown, in promoting the prosperity
of the people, in softening in some measure the asperities of
party hostility, and in establishing a form of government
which, if carried out in the spirit in which it has been con-
ceived by your Lordship, will be of the utmost advantage to
all classes of the inhabitants of Canada.

" While we dEeply regret- the-painful malady which has
made it necessary for your Lordship, in accordance with the
considerate permission of her most Gracious Majesty, to ter-
minate your connexion with the North American colonies,
we are desirous of according our admiration and gratitude
for the devoted attention which, in the midst of personal
suff rings of a most aggravated nature, you continued to
apply to the affairs of the colony committed to your charge
so long as you were enabled to remain there.—We have the
honour to remain, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient
humble servants. (The signatures follow here.)

" London, Jan. 15, 1846."
It was then moved and seconded, and unanimously adopted,
that the address be engrossed, preparatory to lying for sig-
natures at the office of the Association, and should eventually
be presented by a deputation consisting of the chairman, and
the movers and seconders of the several resolutions. The
meeting then broke up.

THE TEN HOURS BILL.

LORD MORPETH AND THE YORKSHIRE CENTRAL

SHORT-TIME COMMITTEE.

AN APPEAL TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT MORPETH,
BY THE CENTRAL SHORT-TIME COMMITTEE OF THE