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    Act have already been repealed by provincial statutes of both provinces . Hence it would not be necessary to legislate here on the subject . What ha * once been done might be done again-The governors of the two provinces might bo instructed to give the royal assent to the necessary Acts for the erection of elective legislative councils ; and should the present councils be found refractory , a creation" might be resorted to for the purpose of procuring the passage of the Act-in question . This plan would be far preferable to a new " Canadian Constitutional act / ' emanating from the parliament of this country , as it would in a manner be a pledge of the sincerity of the non-interference profession already alluded io .

    With regard to " external affairs , " that is , regulations concerning foreign trade , there has been no disposition on the part of the Canadians to interfere with this essentially imperial function of the mother country . It is their internal affairs only that they desire tocontroul . One of the arguments they have urged in favour of the reform they desire is , that it would bring the people of Canada and the imperial government more intimately acquainted with each other . The present oligarchy they have called iC a screen between the people and the impe ^ rial government . " Thev have likened that obnoxious

    minority to $ i jew money-broker , who has an interest in keeping his principals from becoming intimate with each other , and it has only been when urged almost beyond the point of rational endurance that thev hii \ e ventured to remind the people of Eng land of their strength . Let justice then be done to the intelligent people of the two Cauadas , and we secure with them

    a warm and lasting friendship . The danger of a forcible separation lies , not . in the imj > otent threats of the Canadian oligarchies , but in * the continuation of a system of misrule , which must in time completely alienate the affections of the people from this the parent shite .

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    1 £ 2 Recollections of Coleridge .

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    On first turninir over the leaves of these volumes , we feared we should be compelled to denounce the compiler as one of the silliest of that class of twaddlers who take little boys upon their knees ' before company , ' to instruct them with ostentatious dandling , in matters that are as far beyond the comprehension of both parties as are the cradle and pap-boat to a babe unborn . The apprehension might bo premature , hut there were grounds for it . On turning over the title pai * e we discovered the following unique dedication : — * Letter * , Conversatiojis and ReooUeotkm * of 8 . T . Coleridge . 2 YoL Moxau .

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    RECOLLECTIONS OF COLERIDGE . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/58/