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run ) is to usurp five or six poets in hi * own per « oo ; no future oowmit&ioner of crQuno laud * ( Felton ) ie to obtain estates of 1 / 200 acres fi > T eaeh of his eight children . These specific
reforms of course draw down upon the local government the hatred both of the officials in possession and the officials expectant ; which hatred being in excess would not have been greater than it is , had the government gone a step further and satisfied the mas 3 of the people . The answer of the Assembly to the speech from the throne
was couched in courteous but firm language . For all the good promised by the speech his Majesty was thanked , besides which the Assembly took occasion to reiterate its demand for an Elective legislative Council and an Executive Council responsible , like the English Ministry , to the Commons of the country .
Some further particulars relative to the address in answer to the speech will be gleaned from the following extracts from a letter from the writer already quoted , which extract is the more interesting aa it explains the relation in which Lord Gosford and the Assembly stand to each other . In relation to the Assembly he is the Governor of Canada ; with the Commissioners the Assembly has nothing in reality to do .
** You will perceive that , in the answer to the speech , the Assembly ha « tib « tuii ) ed from recognising or alluding to the Commissioners , The speech from the throne wu » evidently a trap to gain auch a recognition : hut the Assembly is too jealous of iu own position to do * o . Lord Gottford was distinctly told , before the set-sion opened , that the Assembl y could not recognise the Commission ; and I am told that hi * lojcUhip acknowledged that he did not expect it . Thiii the footing the Assembly and the Commission are on , in relation to each other , is this : —Whatever the Assembly desires of the Commission , they ask of the governor ; whilst , on the other hand , whutever the Commission d *« iiee of the Hou * e i * applied for bv the governor , in
what the old ftchoo ) politicians calk the constitutional manner . From this you will perceive at once the nature of the Commissioner *—they are merely a sort of temporary executive Council , placed there to
advise the governor . This is the opinion of all here , and I myself am inclined to deem it correct . Whether subsequent occurrence * will cause this opinion to be given up , I cannot now my . It it thought
that the Commissioners will not visit the country parishes—they have sufficient evidence of the unanimity of the whole country to render such » step unnecessary . They iiuve , however , announced their intention of visiting Montreal next summer , and it is po *» ible they rnny go to the Chumbly districts . The five confederated counties' would be worth their examination , iu a political point of view . Such a vi > it would give them an id «* of the intensity of public opinion among the most intelligent of the population . "— Quebec , 2 nd Deccmher . After some further observations which ne $ d not be quoted ,
the latter goes on to state that— - " The etectire council qiwwtion is thus ewfed . Ti l * aub-Corooiif-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/51/
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