Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-09
THE UNION OF THE TWO CiNNDAs.

The resolutions proposed BY MIR. Sullivan, the Soil
citor- General in favor of reunion OF the two pro-
vinccs have passed the legislative council of Upper
Canada by a vote Of II to c-c,upcd with '.an hurbl.
address 10 her Majesty, praying among other things
I'm the event of the union being carried INTO effect by
Pariamcnt that the seat of the united government and
legislature be at place within the present limits OF
Upper Canada convenient Of access TO the inhabitants
of both prorinccs-hat the permanency OF the seats
of members Of the legislative council, and the power
given TO the sovereign to make those seats here
ditarv, remain they now are under the act of
George the Third-that there be qualification
required Of members of the house Of assembly
;sncithc7 so high as nrCay to limit the choice of the
electors nor low as introduce into that body per-
having but little f.-...:~-, tho colonr
nor property quafd IN ether respects that provision
he made for the cnrcgStration If rotcrS and holding
the elections that sail written proceedings of The
legislative council and assembly shall be in the English
language, and none other that sat the end of the
space Of years, all debates in the Legislative coun-
ell assembly, shall be carried in the English Ian:
guagc and none other; and that "a new division of
the counties of Lower Canada be made by the imperial
government, 10 secure due proportion of the
presentation in the united legislature to the British in
habitants of Lower Canada
In the House of Assembly, the two first of the
lutions approving of the reunion upon the terms cx-
pressed in the message OF the Governor General were
adopted the 10Th inst the second which regards an
equal representation Of each province in the united
legislature, after being debated great length By
majority of - to 81.
The Montreal Gazette of the 2lth thus speaks Of
this result:
This decision augurs well for a concurrence in the
whole series of resolutinns-thc two first being the
most important, and the remaining two having only
relation points, with regard TO which little no df.
ference of opinion possibly be entertained in Up
per Canada-the civil list and the charging Of the
debts Of Upper Canada, for public works, TO the joint
revenue Of the united province. Thus, happily, no
impeachment will be thrown in the way Of the rcunion
by the legislature of Upper Canada, in as far as re-
CARDS the princ pie OF the And, in truth, af
ter careful perusa of the debates in both houses in
as far as they have reached us, must confess it ap
pears that serious objections were ever urged
against that principle. The whole difficulty seems to
have related solely TO the details Of the measure
But whatever The feeling in such quarters and in
Upper Canada, in regard especially to charging the
debts of t G.. upon the united province, the Quebec
Gazette holds other language lregards the proposition
very much in the light in which the Barings suggestion
touching the assumption by Uncle Sam Of the State
debts has been viewed by the democratic press in the
States In reference 10 remark of the Solicitor
General, in the of speech i'll favor Of the
union, that at evident to him that the only means
Of dschargng obligations, Of faithfully satisfying
the public creditor, by uniting Upper to Lower
Canada ,rdos. surplus rcrenac 0ionc cod enable us to
reaesm obiigahoHs, the Quebec Gazette says
sTo all this, Mc hod'rs ?fthcse ojiigatOas debcn
lures in London, Upper Canada, and elsewhere, TO the
of million and quarter of pounds al interest
together with the rpSttaats Of oHoter mlon already
appropriated promised, ana their respective friends
and connexions say ANfS.
z. 5. Since the above written we learn that the
whole series OF union resolutions providing for the equal
of both provinces, permanent civil list
and the Joint assumption of the public debt, agreed
to in the house Of assembly by majority of Is.
[.Nbany .7rgus.