6 MAY 1837, Page 2

When alluding last wee to the " contentment " of

our North American provinces, we mentioned that the resolutions of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, in favour of an Elective Legislative Council, had been rescinded—we imagined, by the same body that passed them, namely the House of Assembly, This was a mistake. The resolutions were not rescinded, in the proper acceptation of that term; but the Council of Nova scout refused to sanction them. When Sir GEORGE GREY, in reply ts Mr. ROEBUCK, stated that the resolutions had been rescinded, he conveyed the impression that the opinion of the body which passed them had changed. This was a little ingenious device on tile part of Sir GEORGE GREY; not the first which be has practised in the House of Commons when dealing with the interests of far- off dependencies—in the case of the Mauritius, for example. Tle. fact would seem to be, that in Nova Scotia, as in Lower Canada and Newfoundland, the people and the popularly-elected Houses of Assembly are on one side ; the irresponsible and subservient Council, with a tool of the Downing Street bumbureaucracy, calm a Governor, on the other.