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Chorus , Hail to theeSt Valentine ! Still we'll bend before thy shrine ; Ever will we sing to thee ! Every voice shall spring to thee ! Myrtles wreathing , Incense breathing . Ever warm hearts biing to thee ! Ever own thy power divine , Hail ! all hail St . Valentine ! S . Y .
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The reader is doubtless aware , that a . Royal Commission , consisting of Lord Gosford , who was appointed governor also , Sir Charles Grey , and Sir George Gipps , was last year dispatched to Lower Canada , for the purpose of investigating on the spot the grievances of which the people of that colony had complained . The object of the following pages is to detail the early proceedings of the commissioners .
In order to render such details intelligible , it is necessary briefl y to sketch the circumstances which gave rise to the expedient of the commission . The people of Canada , especially those of Lower Canada , had long complained of the evils connected with their local government . In the early part of 1834 , they embodiedtheir
complaints in a series of resolutions , known , from their number , as the ninety-two resolutions . With no other alterations than usage demanded , these resolutions formed the subject matter of a petition to the Imperial Parliament ; but before its arrival , the resolutions themselves were brought before the House of Commons by Mr . Roebuck , who , on the 15 th of April ,
1834 , moved for a Select Committee , " to inquire into the means of remedying- the evils which exist in the form of government now existing- in Upper and Lower Canada . " A committee was accordingly granted by the House ; but ,
by a bold mistateiiient on the part of Mr . Secretary Stanley , the inquiry was confined to the Lower Province , to the great disappointment of the people of Upper Canada . Mr . Secretary Stanley informed the House , that in Upper Canada no differences existed between the several branches of the legislature ; but that the people and their representatives
were contented with the form of government . The House , of course , could not doubt the word of a Stanley , and the Upper Canadians were consequently deprived of the benefit of the inquiry .
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106 Recent Occurrences in Canada .
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RECENT OCCURRENCES IN CANADA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/42/
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