Intelligence direct from Canada has helped to make clearer what
was somewhat obscure and not a little forbidding in the last ac- counts which came through the United States. It is true that the relations and antagonisms of parties, to the spectator at a distance, and perhaps even to the combatants on the spot, show more con- fused and complicated than ever, and that the difficulties of the Government seem even to be increased upon the fuller view : but no party has been committed to such a determined posture of hos- tility as the first accounts implied. The election of a Speaker of the French race and from among the opponents of the Union, for instance, proves to be a less formidable invasion of the Government than might have been supposed. There are peculiar considera- tions of fitness which rendered Mr. CIIYILLIER'S election to the office matter of approval to all. As we surmised, he had the sup- port of the Reformers of Upper Canada, upon whose decision the fate of most large measures, and ultimately of the colony itself, will most likely hang; and his election was expressly supported by a member of the Government. The strength of parties came really to be tried in some degree in the long debate on the address in an- swer to Lord SYDENHAM'S opening speech. It developed some opposition to the Union from the French Canadians, aided by some few members from Upper Canada ; but that opposition altogether failed of producing any real effect upon the decision of the blouse. Not so the pertinacious demand for some unequivocal declaration of the views of the Administration on the subject of "responsible government." Mr. DRAPER, the Attorney-General for Upper Canada, who seems to occupy the place of leader o se of Commons, was driven from post to pillar in a .40 nation to which he was subjected, chiefly by tog until at length he consented to make the explicit declaration, that if Government could not command a majority in the House of Assembly, its members would feel bound to resign or dissolve the House. They have aiready had an example in Mr. BALD- wut, who has resigned the post of Solicitor-General, because he did not conceive that the Government of which he was a member was framed in accordance with the wishes of the people as expressed in the returns which have been received. He had not, however, predetermined to oppose the Government : on the coutmry, he meant to await and see how they abided by their proposed princi- ple. Mr. BALDWIN represents the Reformers of Upper Canada ; among whom, it is anticipated, his influence will be increased by his new proof of consistency.
