A Montreal correspondent of the Times gives, in the following
letter, what that journal calls an "interesting view of the present State of affairs in the Canadas."
"MONTREAL, Oct. 12, I836.—We are at length going on quite quietly in Upper Canada; and I can assure you the struggle is completely over. The people are as loyal and (to tell the real truth) more so than in England, but a few Radicals had been allowed to deceive them. With these fellows Sir F. Head found it necessary to have the same sort of row-royal that the new Police, on its first formation, had with the London pickpockets. His Excellency ma- naged to lick them ; and having once turned tail, they will never stand again. " The success of the Lieutenant-Governor in the Upper Province made Papineau desperate; anti it was always prophesied of him that he would break, not bend. He has done so ; and, in my opinion, the game is completely up. "All that is necessary here, is not to be afraid to tell Me people the truth ; far you can't conceive with what avidity they feed upon it. "Sir F. Head has just been over the whole province. On entering each Atiwnship, a number of people generally met him on horseback, for a guard of ' /colour ; but before he reached the pi incipal town, they were generally an hour, and sometimes two hours, behind him ; and you can hardly imagine how the Radicals have been upset by being totally unable to keep up with the Lieute- sant- Governor, who has gained more popularity by riding fast over their own 'corduroy roads and own rickety bridges, than if he had preached to them on 'political economy for a year. "Depend upon it, that Me British Constitution has nothing to fear from the Ganadas ; and it is my opinion we shall support rather than undermine it."
Thewriteref this letter-is, on the. face of the epistle, either a perfect fool, or a wicked hoaxer. But the- gullible Times takes all he sass for gospel ; assumes that the Cataadian affairs are settled; that the galloping Governor has licked the Radicals, and sagely observes— We presume that, now the example has been set to Lord Gosford and hh colleagues by Sir F. Head, his Lordship and Co. will have pluck and judgment to follow it. Nor will the lesson be lost, we hope, upon the domestic councils of the mother country, that a cause which is rooted in the solid interests and dis- passionate sentiments of the better orders of society cannot be sustained with too much energy or spirit by the Government, and cannot be lost but through the basest treachery, the most arrant cowardice, or the most pitiable folly."
"His Lordship and Co." would do well to wait and see the re- sult of Sir FRANCIS HEAD'S experiment, before they adopt his courses. Sir FRANCIS himself may have more arduous work to go through than riding over corduroy roads. As Mr. WARBUR- TON remarked last session, if the charges against him should be substantiated, he must be impeached. The Times recommends the Government at home to take a lesson from Governor HEAD; ■wr• but neither Lord MELBOURNE nor Sir ROBERT PEEL will risk their necks by following such hairbrained advice. As for the Canadians, we shall soon see whether Sir FRANCIS has "managed to lick them," and whether the struggle is " completely over."
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