The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-25 00:00:00

LOWER CANADA.

The Earl of ABERDEEN had a petition to present to their
Lordships from Lower Canada, signed by 11,000 persons, in-
habitants of Montreal and its vicinity. Out of the above number
10,000 were persons either British born or of British descent,
and those persons represented the opinions of a numerous and
respectable body of individuals, not less than 100,000 in number.
The petitioners stated that they wore highly sensible of the
value of the connection between the two countries, between
Canada and the mother country, that they were partial to the
Constitution granted to their province by his late Majesty, and
that they were determined to maintain that Constitution. They
state, however, that they view with regret the tendency of the
92 resolutions passed by the Ho•:se of Assembly, because they
tend to spread alarm throughout the province. They view with
feelings of deepregret the disloyil principles promulgated under
the sanction of Parliament, aga►nst the constituted authorities ;
they reprobate the system of withholding the supplies, of endea-
vouring to usurp the prerogatives of the Crown, and establish-
ing a pure democracy by placing in the hands of the people
the power of electing the Legislative Council. They entreat
your Lordships, should you think it necessary, to interfere in
their favour, and concur in a mo lification of their Constitution,
so far as to secure a better arran-vmennt of their financial
system, and to strengthen the connection between the two
countries, and preserve the mutual rights of all classes of his
Majesty's subjects in that province. Knowing, as he did, the
intentions of his Majesty's Government in this country, if they
were met with the same spirit of conciliation by the inhabi-
tants of Canada he thought it would be hard if the whole
question was not brought to a satisfactory and favourable con-
clusion. The Noble Earl concluded by moving that the peti-
tion be laid on the table.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE wished to know whether
the Noble Earl, in his remarks a few evenings since, intended
to attach any blame to the conduct of his immediate prede-
cessor in the Colonial department, with respect to the instruc-
tions that that Right Hon. Gentleman had transmitted to the
Government of Canada. He had understood the Noble Earl
to say that his Right Hon. Friend had sanctioned the seizure
of the revenues of the country by the Governor. In justice to
his Right Hon. Friend he begged to state that so far from
sanctioning** seizure of the revenues of the Colony he advised
measures of quite a contrary character, inasmuch as his Right
Hon. Friend, being aware of the great distress that existed in
Canada on account of the non-payment of the salaries of Offi-
cers under Government, ordered that they should be paid
out of the extraordinary revenues of the country. With re-
spect to the other charge of delay imputed to his Hon. Friend,
he thought his Right Hon. Friend had done right in taking a
large space of time for the consideration of the question, and
that the choice of the time for transmitting the instructions and
intentions of Government was not wise and convenient, since
it was the period when the Legislative Assembly was to be
convened. He thought, therefore, that no unnecessary delay
hid taken place respecting the transmission of the instruc-
tions of Government by his Right Hon. Friend. He also
understood that it was imputed to his Right Hon. Friend as
a charge, that he had not recalled the Governor (Lord
Aylmer). Now, if their Lo:dships recollected the attacks
made on Lord Aylmer, they would feel that his recal would in
some degree justify those attacks, and he believed that the
Noble Earl opposite himself would not think it just, under
those circumstances, to recal Lord. Aylmer.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said the Noble Marquis should
recollect the comments that had been made on the allegations
contained in the petition presented by the Noble and Learned
Lord opposite (Lord Brougham) the other evening, and that
in it blame was imputed to those who retained Lord Aylmer
as Governor of Canada, particularly after the report of the
Committee of the other HOWE that sat to inquire into the
question last year. It had never entered into his contempla-
tion to say that Lord Aylmer should have been recalled. He
had stated that the complaints in the petition presented by the
Noble and Learned Lord w7re unfounded, but as the Noble
and Learned Lord seemed to adhere to some of them, he
thought he had a right to say if there were any just subjects of
complaint, they rested with the Noble and Learned Lord and
his colleagues. Trat was wliat he said, and he had no inten-
tion of imputing blame to any party. With respect to the
other point, the expression made use of by him, that the Go-
vernor had been authorized by the Noble and Learned Lord