Sir FRANCIS HEAD closed the session of the Assembly of
Upper Canada on the 4th of March, in a speech full of self-congra- tulation on the success of his policy, and his triumph over the Reformers. On the previous day, the Committee of the House of Assembly delivered a report, (to the House itself', we suppose,) consisting chiefly of abuse of Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. ,PAPINEAU, and the Lower Canadian Assembly. It appears to ■us that " black- guard " is tile proper epithet to apply to this document ; which is
precisely what the report of a Legislative Assembly ought not to be. Its style and contents strengthen our conviction that Sir
FRANCIS HEAD has crammed the Assembly with persons who are conscious of having no right to be there, and are anxious to prove their obsequiousness to the power which upholds them in spite of the majority of their fellow citizens. Sir FRANCIS HEAD and his tools are felicitating themselves on the peace, loyalty, and contentment which reign in Upper Canada, and getting up addresses and reports which Sir FRANCIS expects
to find useful in Downing Street ; but we have been favoured with the perusal of some private correspondence from well-informed per- sons in the province, which gives a very different account of the
state of public opinion. A bitter feeling of exasperation prevails against the Government ; the people are forming themselves into associations for self-defence ; petitions to the Congress of the United States have been sent, praying for assistance against an oppressive Government ; evidence in proof of the accusations against Sir FRANCIS HEAD is collected ; and the spirit of discontent
with the domination of the mother-country is becoming daily more prevalent. Such is the tenor of our private advices from well- informed persons ; and we rely on it in preference to the speeches
and " reports" of Sir FRANCIS HEAD and his Assembly, whose interests lead them to misrepresent facts and deceive the people and Legislature of Englandean easier task than to gain respect and popularity where they are known, and where their proceed- ings are understood.
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