The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-03

subjects. Their claim is that the "Anglo-SAxon" MI
norty as they gnorantly call IT, shall give laws to the
majority though the latter contains many Of British
as Of French extraction For months they have been
necessarily laboring to intimdate the Legislature and
state that neither the chartst nor the Irish re-
bells exhibited such complication Of welcomes the
Canadian tories Our demsgogues at home had at
cause OF poverty and oppression They sought liberty
Tor those who at had enjoyed power They
ly with that belief they asked for perfect representa-
tive system Both in England and in Ireland, popular
was the immediate object Of agitation. In
Canada we behold an ogarchy which has long revealed
in the plumber of province aboring to overawe Sc
nate 10 pully Governor to paralyse q majority and
to degrade people merely that they may again mono
49,! were patriotic and honorable men compared with
their present opponents The former fought for free
. faction and a race. The true rebels those who
having provoked the rebellion Of 1887 show how
unnt hey ever were to govern by rebeing themselves
the moment they cease to be paid for obedience.
From the London Chronicle, May 1871
The disastrous intelligence from Canada which we
published yesterday in second edition. and Of which
further particulars will be found in columns this
morning confirms but too faithfully the views that we
have taken from the outset with respect the gravity
OF the question lately under discussion That Of
races, whca ministers even affect to treat with
scorniu incredulity-and yet perhaps after all it is
not affectation-has actually commenced with signal
ana unexampled outburst Of popular passion; and al
though glad to perceive that the
contain nothing TO show that further acts of violence
might be imme dately looked for it is
that we can have neither the last the worst
consequences OF that policy which has been
adopted by the Of the British crown in
canada, and which her Majestys government evil
IDENTIFY determined to make their own Neither histo-
rcal analogy nor moral probability will allow us to
oeeve .hat 70 portentous an outrage as the sacking
and burning OF Parliament House by mob can be
the conclusion, as well Us the commencement, Of n
civil war.
For all details Of the occurrences which afford so dis.
nal a commentary on the Elgin and Grey policy in
Canada and on the recent ministerial that
the excitement was abatingn we refer the reader TO
the accounts elsewhere published. We willingly
tent ourselves here with the brefest possible notice of
events which no loyal subject of the dwell
upon without indignation and shame. The Rebellion
Losses Compensation Bill has received the of
the Governor General and is PROFESSIONALLY the
law OF Canada but the hall of legislation which wit
messed the contamination Of that nquitous project is
a heap Of ruins. The same mail which brings her
Majesty's government Lord Elgins first official
municaton respecting that bill, also informs them
that in consequence of it, and nstantaneousy on its
passing the Parliament House OF chief colonial de-
tendency has been burned to the ground-all the
chives and records OF the two United Provinces de-
stroyed-and the Queens vceroy himself personally
ins ucd and attacked in the public of his
likewise been Quilted of all its contents and burned
and several members of his government have been
severely maltreated. Legislators proceeding pro
ftTore place OF meeting under military escort but not
secured thereby against outrage prisoners released
In fright; partisan constabaary armed one hour at
the bidding of panic fear and dsarmed the ncxt Mt
the dctation Of mob-compete for the present, the
picture of popular violence and official faulty. We
are thankful to have 1t in power to add, that the
worst element of civil commoton Is absent from this
caamitous record No lives lost in the tumulss
OF the 25th and 2Gh Of april Yet it is impossible to
overlook the circumstance that this fortunate charac
erstic Of the late riots is in all probability solely
tributable to the imbecity of the authorities. The
was not sanguinary because it was unresis
The first we hear Of military interference is, that
the rioters coming from the Of destruction
they met the soldiers going, and that both parties
passed on.n
This seems incrcdibe-yet it ought not in the least
to surprise us, all things considered The utter want
of any for the crisis Is after all only
extreme instance Of that amazing Ignorance of the
state Of popular feeling which Lord Elgin and her Ma
jesty's government have manifested from the first We
perceive that Sir Allan McSab (who by the way, no
morally distinguished himself by endeavoring. at the
imminent risk of his life to rescue portion of the
library from conag strongly
sured the Governor at the next days sitting Of the
Assembly, for not having made due military pref pa
ratons, for which there ample time, and by which
the public property might have been savedn We are
not sure however that this altogether
sonable. Why should Lord Elgin have made due
contingency of which he would not foresee
the possibility, and which he does not seem even to
nave though. worth speeaia,ng upon are 70 Juage
ment in his private letters to the Queens Minister'S
1t took him totally by surprise. He had heard much,
but believed nothing, of the passionate Indignation
that would be excited among legal British population
by the exhibition of French ascendancy in its worst
and most offensive form-that OF tax for compen-
sating rebels against the British When star
tied out Of his ehargc security by seeing the seat Of
government and legislation smoking ruin, he did
what weak men will do when frightened-he resorted
to expedient of reckless and almost criminal vio
lence without however having the courage to persist
in it, Nothing but the rashness OF panic terror can
palliate his device Of armng French constabu-
larry force-n other words, organizing partisan SOL
derry and the subsequent disarming Of those French
C onstables, on threats from the " British party"
that they would disarm them IL the government
would not Though the least Of evils, under the
as disgraceful concession to mob
intimidation made by British viceroy
We shall wait with deep solictude the further issues
Of this most shameful and perous business. In the
1t is Mt least satisfactory to perceive that
the insulted loyalty Of the British population
the date Of the latest accounts seeking express
sion in legitimate and constitutional methods-which
is, suppose, what Lord Grey means by tranquility
being restored.n Their leaders were making every
exerton to preserve the public peace from renewed in
fraction and crowded meetings. had been held ut Mont
pose Of petitioning the Queen to recall Lord Elgina
prayer which, if any other man than Lord Grey were
her Majestys responsible Secretary Tor the Colonies
ese it may be right to do to undo in the state Of
things which the Governor Generals fabulous blind
has produc 1t is certain that this Is right Even
though the Rebellion Losses Compensation Bill were
actually just and legitimate in itself he Is
the to be trusted with the peace Of Canada and
integrity of the British domiDions In North Amer
ca Neither the honor Of the British crown nor the in
t.rests Of the British empire and people can be safe,
for one hour, in the keeping Of ycsroy whose "a.
quite Unexpectedly confiagration OF a Parliament
House and the entirely unforeseen) insurgency OF
province.
Affairs In France-The Electi0ns, &C., &C.,
In an English Point of View, de-, &c.
(Erom the London Times, May 10
The result Of the French general election and the
uture policy and composition OF the French govern
nent as they be affected by the prevailing color
,f the new Legislative Assembly, are matters OF para
Importance to the tranquility Of the continental
states and to the peace of the world 1t depends on
he issue this great contest whether the President OF
he French republic will be enabled to form and con-
iuct the government Of the country with the assist
lnce only Of the abest statesmen but OF steady
majority Of the representatives Of the nation; or whe
her harrassed by jealousy of angry factions foied
the weakness and rresoution ohe friends OF order
by the ntrigues Of the revo
utonary party and dscredited by the political theo-
es which plunged the public mind into the Wild
est anarchy Louis Napoleon will be compelled to throw
himself upon the Of military government
md the bodness of his Agerine generals to rave his
authority from ruin and the state from dissolution.
lie this great alternative confined to France alone
II any untow ard, and trust unlikely, CONFUSION
again to bring the revolutionary party into the
1t lcannot be doubted that this fresh out
break would give decisive impulse to the fatal powers
already engaged elsewhere in so fierce struggle The