Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-04-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

fully corrcbora,e tho views we took last
week, tina, the war speeches in Parliament
were merely made with a local political
view. After The address In answer TO the
Queens speech was carried, not woro
more was said, 20 for rs we have seen
IA parliamentary reports, about the necessity
of war with tho United States. The res
;pna,ion of Lord Gleneg appears by these
arrivals to have been occasoned by bs
inefriciency, and the measures taken in the
cabinet in consequence. Lord Normandy
late Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland succeeds
Lord Glenclg in the Colonial Office.
Lord Durham is s'oully battling with
the ques,oners Of Lis official conduct in
Canada, among whom Lord Brougham
does not appear. Indeed we shnl moi be
surprised to see Brougham defending the
Elk Governor General with such excep-
lions as will make the somorset loco re.
marbable und observable. When the mp
poin,men of 'rur,on, late legal adviser OF
Lord Durham, was under discussion in the
House of Lords, Lord Brougham came in
for the defence of Turior; said he was not
go bad man as he was represented thai
he had been guilty of but one offence, and
that under mitigating circumstances, &C.
Some people do not scruple to assert their
belief that as Lord Durham did not wish
10 90 TO Canoia. there was an implied
concert between him and Lord Troughom
that the latter should raise breeze at the
earliest opportunity. which should bring
him back. And if the reader will take
pains 10 recolect that his Lordship dis
claimed any feeling against members Of
the peers for what they had said in their
places. He expected it Of them The
burthen o! his complaint was against the
ministry. Since his return, as the reader
is already aware. formal reconciliation
has taken place between Lords Durham
and Broughsm, and some Of the newspaper
writer's 20 so far as TO include the premier.
Melbourne, in the new friendship. 1t is
certain, al any rate, that tho ministry do
not seem disposed 10 keep up any quarrel.
Lord Durlam's exposition Of his views in
relation to Canada would fill the Free
Press FOR six months. 1t advances the
idea of a union Of the Provinces with local
governments, &c. and the document
differs in mono Of it's recommendations from
what we were led TO expect from previous
givings out. In it's tone toward this coun
try it is exceedingly friendly; and in its
review Of the English colonial policy very
severe and unrescrved. lite publication
before it was laid before parliament an.
moved the ministry somewhat.
DURHAM'S REPORT.
This document fills fifty columns Of the London
daily papers. We can give merely an outline Of
its contents Ills lo'dship SETS oul with The posi-.
ton that The differences in Lower Canada are no,
differences of poucal principle, bni Of nal onal
races-Brilish against French and F,encl, against
Briiish. Nearly one half of the report is taken up
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