The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

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to the union" of Upper to Lower

Canada, and thus have, no doubt to some extent, been
made the instruments pf their own destruction. The
failure of the UNION, however, has occurred from itsfail-
ing to produce the results contemplated by the Loyalist
liberals of Upper Canada. They had two inducements to
support THE UNION OF THE CANADAS ; first, they
thought that in no other way could they rid themselves of
their own family compact or high Church and College fac-
that the de- `rich has -"

ion, W.. all along been the great curse of Upper
Canada ; second, they trusted that the French hahitans
had heed taught so severe a lesson of loyalty in 1837 and
1838 that they would not forget it before the British po-
pulation had time to grow into overwhelming numbers in
the United provinces. The latter calculation has too no-
toriously been disappointed, and the French Canadian
leaders had sense enough to see that had they not
thwarted the former object, but permitted Church ques-
tions in Upper Canada to be settled, a great popular Bri-
tish connection party would have been formed in United
Canada, which never can be the case while Church and
College questions remain to sow dissension among the
Anglo-saxon race.

Nothing is more certain than that if Church and College
monopolies are not banished from British America, the
Anglo-Saxon population will remain dissatisfied, and gra-
dually- become disaffected ; but, IN THE MEANTIME, a

more imminent danger has to be.warded off, and the Bri-
tish Government may still depend on all the loyalists of
1837 and 1838 putting their shoulders to the wheel. The
parties who will have the disgrace of losing the Colonies
(if they be lost) can only be your Lordship and Lord
Elgin, by your throwing obstacles in the only course left
the ritish population to pursue. The only alternative
left to the Loyal Colonists is TO RETAIN UPPER CANADA
BRITISH. since they cannot make United Canada British
or loyal. They will be sure to petition the Home Govern-
ment as follows, and if your Lordship and Mr. Roebuck
have not influence enough to get the prayer of the loyalists
insultingly disregarded, (as usual,) the Colonies will be

saved ; otherwise, muCh. against their will, they will be
States of the American Republican Union. THE ANGLO-
SAXON RACE WILL INSIST ON THE UNION OF THE CA-
NADAS BEING BROKEN UP, THE ISLAND 0

AND EVERY THING SOUTH OF THE OTTAWA AND ST.
LAWRENCE, AS FAR DOWN AS PORT ST. FRANCIS,
INCLUDING THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, BEING INCOR-
PORATED WITH UPPER CANADA.

Thus would the Canadas be temporarily saved (by our
repudiation of the anti-British legislation of 1774), and
by this course ALONE will time enough be got to save our
entire colonial empire by the national repudiation of Sir
Robert Peel and his anti-British measure of 1846. Except
with a vier,- to the latter there is no use whatever in carry-
ing the former reform ; but, to leave no uncertainty what
I mean by the latter, I shall here state the practical way
in which the legislation of 1846 may be so qualified as to
secure permanently our colonial empire. Let us at once
prove our faith in free trade by making the colonies so
far integral parts of the British empire as to levy no
duty on the sugar, corn, or other products of the colo-
nists, except on articles on which there is an excise duty
in this country; and let us (in order to show our confi-
dence in British manufacturing superiority, and to lead
other nations to reciprocate with us to a reasonable ex-
tent) declare by the same act of Parliament that all
foreign countries that will agree so to remodel their ta-
riffs as not to charge us more on any article than 15 per
cent. on the British cost, shall stand on the same footing
as the colonies, and have their products received here
free of all duty. And, as it is most reasonable that
countries that will not agree even to such terms of reci-
propel trade should have deducted from the price which
their articles produce in this country a customs' duty in
some degree. equivalent to the taxes paid by British sub-
jects producing the same article, let us arrange that, on
all such foreign articles as are riot charged any duty, or
are charged a less duty than 15 per cent. on the price in
England, we should charge the said customs' duty of fif-
her! per cent. until the foreign country agrees to our pro-
position for reciprocal trade, or until we can agree to such
other propositipn as the foreigneyrimay show to be more
reasonable in his peculiar circumstances.
By following the foregoing line of principle and policy,
I am confident the Canadas and the West Indies could,
in a moment, be resuscitated into the most prosperous
and most loyal portions of the British empire. I see,
also, however, that it is more likely that our national in-
fatuation may continue till, in. the British Colonies it
1850, as in France in 1848, the melancholy wor

ied ; and, in such (

the names of Peel and GREY will go down with inf

posterity, as having reversed the British principle
HONESTY IS THE. BEST POLICY.