The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1858.

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yard this forenoon and disembark her freight, and
prepare to receive a fresh allotment for the Medi-
terranean stations.

MIIITIA.

Six companies of the Royal Elthorne, or sth
Middlesex Militia, havearrived at Kilkenny from
the Curragh camp. The officers are Lieutenant-
Colonel • Murray Prior, Captains'Freeman and
Hoare, Lieutenants Lloyd, Campbell, Cookney, and
Balderson. Paymaster Mitt, Captain and Adjutant
Bell, Assistant-Surgeon ?ieree, and Quartermaster
Coombes. The six companies number 505 men.
The three eompanies Cetached to Naas, under
the command of Major Grange, with whom
are Captaizi • Ring and Lieutenants Short and
Trueman, • consist of 200 men. The company re-
maining at the Curragh, comprises 70 men, under
the command of Capt. Foster.

a railroad, a ship canal, and a telegraph between
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on British terri-
tory. (Loud cheers.) I must now advert to that
other requisite which. I said was necessary for the
full development of Canadian progress, that rap-
prochement—for I do not find a corresponding
English word—of which I spoke. We have heard
the theory advanced that the provinces should be
represented in the Imperial Parliament. I was
reading the other day a pamphlet by Mr. Hincks,
in which he makes an observation which I cannot
but think a true one. He says, before the Ameri-
can colonies separated from the mother country,
the cry was that taxation without representation
is tyranny, and he says, if the colonies were repre-
sented in the Imperial Parliament, as now, with-
out participating in the taxes which the Imperial
Parliament is called upon to administer, such re-
presentation without taxation,to reverse the adage,
would be tyranny. But there is a mode of repre-
sentation which would not be open to this objection.
It has been much canvassed in England whether in
any reform bill which may be brought forward,
the question of, life peerages should not take a
prominent place, and it seems to me that the House
of Lords, which has nothing to do with voting
away public money, but which yet enjoys, a large
share of the reverence of the country as a time-hon-
oured institution, would be the best place in which
our colonial senators could be plaeed—!--that gentle-
men from the colonies who have rendered themselves
conspicuous among their fellow-citizens, in politics
or in other ways, should have conferred upon them
life peerages which would make them members of
the British parliament, though not in a position to
vote on the disposition of those taxes, to which
Canadians do not contribute. Perhaps, gentlemen,,
this is a new idea, and one which may not commend
itself at once to your minds, but you will see that
many advantages would result from it. One would
be that Canadians would have resident at home, in
London, gentlemen who, like ambassadors from
foreign states, would be able to vouch for the status
and position of those gentlemen who may visit
England from the colonies. I have often heard that
gentlemen from Canada have considered themselves
not very warmly received in England—not in such
a manner as their position in the colonies entitled
them to. If a gentleman, however estimable, comes
from Canada, and is not known in English society,
he cannot complain that that society does not at
once open its doors to him. But if a person was on
the spot, who could say so and so is the position of
the gentleman you see before you, and vouch for his
social position, that gentleman would find as good an
entree as any one else into English society. I hope
I. have myself done and shall always do what lies
in my power in this matter; but I and men like me
who have experienced kindness on this side of the
Atlantic, are not in a position to do those acts of
kindness, or of justice rather, in the way iu which
a man in the position of a life peer of a parliament
sent there by the colonists, and recognised by the
home government as a representative of the colo-
nists, would be enabled to do. It seems to me that
you want some one in that position, either an am-
bassador, or call him what you will, who shall re-
present Canadian interests at the court of St. James's.
I feel I have detained you too long. And I shall
close by reiterating to you the grateful thanks
which I would like to put in more fitting words
for the noble hospitality which you have shown
me to-day. (Loud- cheers.)