The latest intelligence from Lower Canada is of a serious
com- plexion. The entire province has been violently excited by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S " atrocious Resolutions." Public meetings have been, or were about to be, held in every county. The reso- lutions adopted at one of these meetings, in Richelieu county, breathe a bitter spirit of hatred to the government of the Mother Country. The dominion of England in Canada, it is declared, exists, and can henceforth be maintained, only by force. The formation of associations in every part of the province, to corre- spond with a central one in Montreal, are recommended. A Pl.. PINEAU tribute, in imitation of the O'Cosisiam. annuity, is to be immediately set on foot ; PAPIIVEAU, like O'CosistaitL, being the only man capable of giving freedom to his countrymen. The election of all the old Opposition members to the Lower Canadian Parliament is declared to be a sacred duty. Abstinence from all duty-paying articles is recommended, as an effectual way of crip- pling the Executive.
The language of the Liberal newspapers is very strong. Lord GOSFORD is virulently attacked. Ile is called a traitor, and a tool of traitors. The women are exhorted to spurn a Gosford-man; the men, to consider it the foulest insult to be described as such. Says the Montreal Vindicator—" Let him be denounced until the mother shall learn to pray to God that the babe at her bosom may not be like a Gosford in principle or in heart ! "
The people are advised to read the American Declaration of In- dependence. Petitions to Congress for a free trade with the United States are in progress. Smuggled tea, tobacco, cotton, and
are to be preferred to those lawfully imported ; whisky and beer, being of home manufacture, to duty-paying rum and brandy. No doubt, loud will be the laughter at the Colonial Office, when these symptoms of dissatisfaction in a colony not yet formidable meet the official eye or ear : but men of sense will deeply deplore the infatuation which is converting a friendly into a hostile nation. There will be many millions in Canada yet; not one of whom will forgive or forget the Coercion Resolutions.
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