An arrival at Liverpool from New York brings an account
of the prorogation of the Upper Canada Parliament. on the lOth of February,
by Governor THOMSON. MS Excellency thanked the members for their attention to public basins, and expressed peculiar satisfaction. with their proceedings on the Reunion and Clergy Reserves Bills-
" Your willing acquiescence in the proposed reunion of this Province with Lower Canada, upon the terms and according to the principles suggested by me, has afforded me the most lively satisfaction ; and I look forward with con-
fidence to the completion of that measure, under the direction of our gracious Sovereign and of the Imperial Parliament, as the means 1w which the peace, happiness, and gond government of the inhabitants of the Canadas, will be permanently secured.
" By the bill which you have passed for the disposal of the Clergy Reserves, you have, so far as your constitutional powers admit, set at rest a question which for years past has convulsed soci..ty in this Province In framing that measure, you have consulted alike the best interests of religion and the future peace and welfare of the people for who service you arc called upon to legis-
late; and I rely on your efforts proving successful, notwithstanding any attempt which may be made to renew excitement, or to raise opposition to your deliberate and recorded judgment."
Perhaps Governor THOMSON'S pleasant anticipations of the " comple- tion " of his Reunion Bill by the Imperial Legislature would have been somewhat damped had he read a leading article in the Times this week, counselling delay, and bolstering up an attack upon the Reunion by Chief Justice Ronissox, the leader of Mr. Pori .= THOMSON.S very particular friends and hospitable entertainers, the Family Compact party in Upper Canada. " Upon the whole," says the Times, "enough at least has been advaneed bk the Canadian ahf Justice to prove that such a measure ought not to be adopted without further evidence being tohm upon the subject by a ('unuritte'e of the House 6/ Commons. At all events, the proposed Canada Bill, which he sub- joins in an appendix, is shown by him, very conclusively we think, to be ut- terly inefficient even for the objects it professes to aim at." It is amusing to know that the absentee chief of the Compact has been intriguing in London to baffle Mr. Tnomsos, while his followers in Toronto, acting probably under Mm'. Chief Jastiee's instructions, are feasting and flattering the great man into a notion of their high regard and steady affection for him. The flute of the Clergy Reserves Bill is even more dubious than that of the Reunion. The Opposition will scarcely venture to reject that, though they may alter or postpone it : the. Bishops will probably strangle the Clergy Bill without remorse or apprehension.
