THE CANADA CORRESPONDENCE : LORD GLENELG'S DISMISSAL.

Lotto Dranam's Despatches to Lord Giscsm.o and Sir CEORGE ARTHUR, together with two or three from Lord lit.aNsmo, form the only interesting portion of the 400 folio pages of " Papers relative to the Affairs of British North America," which have this week been laid before Parliament. The rest coesists of extracts or copies of Despatches from or to Lord GLEN FLO, Sir Joux Cot.- Boutin, and Sir t;iron Am:Turn, 115 verbose and dull as the truest red-tvist. could desire, and heaped together without order, expla- nation, or any apparent design but that of overlaying the only valuable part of the collection. This really valuable part consists of Lord DURHAM'S numerous Despatches to Lord C LENELO, which lend sonic interest to a few from the Ex-Minister to Lord DURHAM. They may be properly divided into three classes,—first, those which relate to the causes and manner of Lord DURHAM'S resigna- Lion, including the questions of the disallowed Ordinance and the 1 censured Proclamation ; secondly, those which may be termed descriptive, as they treat of matters subsequently expounded in the High Commissioner's Report ; and lastly, those Avhich relate to the current business of his administration as Governor-General. This classification is not perfect, because two or three classes of subjects are touched upon in several of the despatches; but it is .! the best that we can make, and will be sufficient -1;,r the purpose oY description. From the first class, we have selected those which appear the most important. They will be found reprinted entire in the Sup. picment to this day's tVrectator.

Una): the subject matter of this class of Despatches it is not few purptne to dwell at present. A more suitable opportunity for

doing will occur when the whole case is ditteussed in Parliament, after Lord Dean ear shall have said Nvilat he may think requisite ea, his (evil vindication. There is no such reason, hawcver, for I; pettily, the following remarks. Lord C T.EN%T.C, it Will be seen, takes care to have the last v:er,1 in the coetr: iversy. For example, the despatch in which IIC c. sures Lord l)ranAm's Proclamation, is dated the Inith of Nov,: ben when he nmst have known that Lord DURHAM was on hi ean to 1:ngland, and no longer in a situation to rkply to it. .:1310, iL tt•:1- not till the lOth of Decembea—that ist, a Ihrtnight after 11. '.1 ?lad reached England—that Lord GI.ENF.I.G. NOM; bad 1,•.1, he.' : lade at tangemcnts for Ins return and har his lamp., rueeee.

by air doitx Cot.ISORNE, reproached him with having deviated en,e. " the general rule which requi .TCS the Governors of her Mnie:ny's Colonies to remain in the discharge of their ditty until relima(l !;y her .7'.1aiesty's express permission." It is plain, in a word, that theo, taw,( despatches about the Proclamation and the unumb,,rized rehire of Lord DURHAM, were ufterthoughts of the 1:nivel-n:em-

it:it ietended to promote the public service. but written merely . the perpose of recrimination upon the friend whom they Lel :a...- trayed, and whose return as a resentful accuser they naterally dreaded.

It equally clear. however, that they have since found in,aem to coi!ciliate Lord DURHAM. On the nth of thie month, 1..w.,1 ‘wrote to him to assure him of her ..lajesty'a graciou.;

ru- crption Of his Report,--a document compared with which. for mi- precedented plain-speaking, denunciations of misrule. and appeal:

from the blundering ignorance of authority to the sen.:e of the public at large, the Proclamation, censured oll thus, rY.7/ grormds, a tame, inoffensive production. In November, the Queen is made to condemn the milk-and-water Proclamation: in February, she is made to thank Lord Denitrot thr the fiery Report, which brands the Government with disgrace. The contradiction is easily explained. In November, the Government thought it expedient to get up some charge against Lord Denu.km. who was coining Roane as their accuser : on the nth of Fehruarv, they had sacrificed their colleague Lord Gmesnim to the wrath of Lord DuanAm, whom it was then their great object to pacify anti cajole. Their profligate selfishness should teach Mtn at least on.: argon:cot in defence ot' his ii authorized return,—na, 1 41 it

ue.y, that on the score of soltnpreservation ; since, if he ha. r:. andned hi 1p- Icaol at a distance, or had not fined them with a determination to right 11;11i:elf, they would have ruined hint beyond rct'eniption. The second class of these Despatches c.mtaius matter (tf more

perm:mein interest than either of the othera. •cc is one in par- tieula", winch, thomah obVhatsIV ...0.1:10:itia of that part of tot;' Poniort rehnes to C:arJait. ,!lows that all Lord Demi.% M's present opini ms with rasp act to that colony were formed so early as the 9th 01' August, the data of the despatch, and the very day on which Lord :ME:Jen-one zumounced that he had resolved to disallow the celebrated Ordinance. This coincidence is remarkable. At the 1110111011t NVIIVI1 Lord DualtAn was describing a state of affitirs which required that the lane Government should atibrd him every kind of ttid, Lord '\11::eilovnxii was engaged in doing that which, it is now manifest, was fatal to his powers of usefulness in the colony. This point is noticed with bitter and scornful resentment in one of the Despatches which we reprint. The great evils, difficulties, and dangers in the state of Lower Canada, and the absolute necessity or Cl mprehensive and vigorous measures of remedy, are as tbrcibly Hilted out ill this very long and elaborate Despatch as in the inure recent Report. Lord GLEsEr.o's answer to it is highly characteristic of the present Government. Ile says- " 3Iy T.cmt—I have received, and have hrotuzlit under the c. atsitkration of my colleague:. your Lordship's despateh of the 'All alt.. eNtihurttory of your views on the state of Lower Canada, and intimating gent rally :I.,• nature of the mea- sures width pot arc about to reConunctut for the a‘ljn-t::::.:It of the qn,slions whirl have long u;ZI:ated that country. ilex Majes.ty's Govvmment have read this commitzth.nti.:11 with the deepest interest, awl repo,: every confidence in pow wisdom and ohility in the prosecution of your tmloons labours. Re- serving, of course, to themselves the exeunt, of their own judgment,: on mat- ters of such great importance, 1 am yet enabled to a,snve yam Lordship, that they—will not shrink—"[Front adopting \Villa Vigutail:, atld rc,ululc course, does the reader imagine :]—" will not shrink from recoLow. I.:ling to Parliament such measures as may, on mature deliheratitto, untrar hi th,qn calculated to se- cure the permanent interests of the provinces of British North America!"

This question will be asked as to other parts of the correspond-

ence. The Times may well take credit with Lord DiontAm fOr having saved his admirable Report front similar garbling.* Obviously mutilated, however, IS this Despatch is, it contains ample proof that a doubt which We lately ventured to express of I.ord Dettuam's consistency as a 1.1..41)1.1)1er Lower Canada,t had no sort Of Inundation. It was F(I confidently asserted by hangers- cm of the Government, that his eyes had not been opened to the misrule of which he speaks in his Proelaniation, until oftty he had becn thvarted and irritated I>y the disallowai lee or his Ordinance, thet we couhl not help attaching s:-.1.1e credit to the iNsert1011. Its t:11,12hornt is lloW II:attire:4. This In-match of the nth of August, end others of a net earlier (17.0e. 0s:11:fish beyowl a fl,nht, that the

proceedings in Feelaed had im i; en:en on his vier: or the state of affnira in the colony.

F'u' the De,patelle,if the third lvhiell relate to the cur- re' hesiness irf hie pa:eminent, e,,!.,ist alinont ei:tirely of repro- !am., or practice', eanevenca on"ered by variou: chn,ses ()I' tne 1 ...re 1 of the ultra: Ames of i,-.. whit+, by nn her telopted or a Govi.r1Mlent to '.1.:11t. The :4! kit ,elknientS (10 him ,110111% iliraCing. !;i.■ :It variety of subjects, all of nnintigat,•l and mole pia•e•etly inteIngible, they not of the writer': eananny fl, pr renamer, than of justice and regard no. truth. It is dnlicult to con- nTiption illiprOssiorl (4' thc,c -,ties: or of the

1111 selee.,,,enenet. which ea(11.1 :Ilona hay, o■cil,led hint.

iii n raids': of deep irortirieati,m, haras,in2; to be- - go milch nttention on the drytet s',.tail of government.

The corre:poieleme between Sir Gi•:onnE

ARTHUR dt'ATVC'■ a separate notice. Though Silltti red through the volume. as if for the purpose of its rentoining unt-tbserved. it relates to the single suhject of'. the disposal of piditiral prisoners

ill Upper Canada. So Lite as the lath of .111neast, the hangman v.as still at work in that provihec, and all. • Mutely nothing had been done towards a settlemcnt or the fate of the great mass of

political prieoners and refugees. Lord Demi Am then iniarlie.cd, with the obvious desiano of preventing f,;ithcr excenlinn'. his Gefloot: and his Council at first resisted tin' Cevcrnor.General's authority, but finally su!-tiont:•d to it. Lord i:ii.kua's part in this correepomh ;lee is also most creditable to him : and we are dis- posed to think of his Despatches geocrally, that they arc calcu- lated to sfreng,then the very high opinion of his character and talents which his Report has spread far and wide. Th.: Homo Government cut a miserable figure in all their rela- tion:. with Lord DURHAM. In the \VII( Oh' eorrespondence down to the 1 nth of November. when he had all but reached England, one

caneot find the trace of any thing like disanieatval of any of his

ro.ts. or even of a difference (rt. n1)1111011 with h;.:'!. Until Idler he rmatia, (lc. -notches were my ecknowledged ceneessions of the Wal'illeq ilpIWObatiron. the only eN- In't`r,.6!1,-, Of a di,agrCTIIIPIlt of opieion with l:no any point, are to he fi and in sonic despatches of Lord 1.; :111,.71■'..'d mint to Lord DuroiAm, but 1,, C.,Aarae! date after Lord De :ma m h.i l el-riven in London. Ili: stern- Itt port has