ArtliscrIlancous.
Tuesday's Gazette announces the appointment of " the Right lIonour- able Charles Poulett Thomson to be Governor-General, Voce-Admiral, and Captain-General of all her Majesty's Pros'inces within and adja- cent to the Continent of North America."
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Downes Jackson, K.C.11., Colonel of the Eighty.first Foot, has been appointed to the command of the Forces is Canada, in the room of Sir John Colborne, who is returning home. A deputation from the North American Colonial Association, con- sisting of Messrs. Carter, Brooking, Atkinson, Dowie, Harrison, Pem- berton, and A. Gillespie junior, had an interview with Viscount Mel- bourne on Monday in Downing Street.
An address to the Queen, from "merchants, bankers, shipowners, and traders of London," praying her Majesty to cancel Mr. Thomson's appointment as Governor-General of Canada, is in progress of signa- ture. The grounds of the objection to Mr. Thomson's appointment are stated in the following extract from the address-
" We have learned, with the utmost alarno and dismay, that your ;Majesty has been pleased to appoint to the highly important and difficult office of Go- vernor-General, one who has had no experience whoever in Ginuuial govern- ment; who is necessarily unacquainted with the ha hits, feelings, and customs of the people whom he is to govern ; and who, above all, from the eom'se which be Ions unfortunately taken throughout the whole of his public in opposition to the interests of the Colonists, is almost universally believed by them to be the determined enemy of Colonial connexion.
"It is with great hesitation that we pre,11111e to address your Majesty on a abject touching the undoubted prerogative of your 3IajCsty'S Crown; and it is with deep regret that we take a course which may be supposed to proceed from personal hostility towards one of your Majesty's servants, but width we beg permission, most solemnly and emphatically. to disclaim. We are, how - ever, so thoroughly impressed with the conviction, that the arrival of the Right Honourable Charles Poulett ThOM9011 in Catiatil, as Governor-General, would mate an extensive and dangerous degree of exasperation in the public mind— would induce a general opinion that it is the intention of your Majesty's Go- vernment to sever the connexion of the North American Colonies with this country, and would cause some desperate course to he adopted that could only terminate in a violent disruption of that connexion—that we are impelled by a sense of duty to your Majesty and to our country—by the feelings of humanity, and a consideration for the lives and properties of the Colonists, many of whom are connected. by the ties of blood and interest with some of those who now ad- dress your Majesty—by regard for the pecuniary interests of ourselves and others in this country, who lace lark. properties invested in the North Ame- rican Colonies, and in British shipping and manufactures, which would he seriously injured by the loss of the extensive and growing trade of these Colonies—most earnestly to pray that your Maje4y will be pleased to avert the dangers which we anticipate, by cancelling the appointment in question."
The Morning Chronicle says," Of all the deceunents that have ever come through our hands, this is the most insolent." But then, did the Chronicle ever know of so outrageous an appointment ? The Canada merchants of London commit an outrage on the Government, but why ?—because the Government has committed an outrage on Canada. his easy to question this proceeding, it' the provocation to it is kept out of view. Suppose that the Government had appointed Little Wad- dington to the Dictatorship of Canada : would a remonstrance from the Canada merchants have been insolent in that case? All depends on the character of the appointment which has given occasion to this protest. To us it seems perfectly unjustifiable ; and we torts find an ample justification of the course pursued by the Canada merchants. The Chronicle further attributes their conduct to party motives as
Tories. Upon what evidence is this asserted All the evidence is the other way. When the Tory and Whig parties in Parliament conspired to destroy Lord Durham, the Canada merchants protested against that shameful proceeding, and sustained the then Dictator—who, God knows, is no Tory—by all the means in their power. Then as now, they appeared to be moved by a view to Canadian interests Gazette.
The " British North American Association " of Liverpool held a meeting on Tuesday, and resolved-
" That this Association having taken into their consideration the appoint- ment of the Right Honourable Poulett Thomson as Governor-General of the Cluladas, cannot altogether dismiss from their recollection the opinions which he has 50 frequently expressed, and the measures which he has advocated, op- posed, as they consider' to the interests of those Colonies and of this country • 1'ettlris Association feels satisfied, that the right honourable gentleman in en! tering upon the duties of his high office, will devote himself to the calm consi- deration of the varied interests of those possessions; and, trusting to his dis- passionate view of the merits of ilk 'rent subject, and his increasing :Iola al nt- mice with all its hearings, will s. - alive tine to t • v. I f tutarnacd e , / L.111'413 a 7 extent .n o to our Colonies in North America, and of the importance of its con- e to this country. " That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by the chairman to the RightHonourable Poulett Thomson.
" ALEXANDER Pantaxe, Chairman." Tfiepetition to the Queen against the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson
to the Governor-Generalship of Canada has received the sig.• natures of many leading Glasgow merchants.
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