. The House devoted a morsel of Wednesday afternoon to
the position of Her Majesty's possessions between Lake Superior and the Pacific, a territory which Mr. Adderley described as the "British Far West." Lord Milton, who has " been there," and used his eyes to purpose, showed conclusively that if we would not build a road the Americans would ; that the people of the Pacific Colonies and the Red River Settlement were beginning to wish for annexation to the United States, whose people act instead of chattering on Wednesday afternoons ; and that the great route between East and West will pass through this region. Mr. Adderley said a government must be established there before settlers will go, and thelludson's Bay Company must be conciliated, i.e., bought over, before that, and Canada induced to become "mother country" to the colony before that, and the discussion ended in a vague promise that the subject should receive immediate attention from the Colonial Office. The bears need not be frightened ; the settlers are clearly not coming near them yet ; except indeed they be squatters from Minnesota intent on annexation.
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