WHIG TORYISM.

SosiE months ago, a body of gentlemen, comprising men of all parties,—for example, Lord DEVON, Mr. WARD, Mr. FERGUSON Of Raab, Mr. T. P. COURTENAy, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, the O'CONNOR DON, and Mr. WirsE,—who wished that inquiry should be made as to the disposal of waste lands in the Colonies, with a view to raising an Emigration Fund for Ireland, cast about for the best means of accomplishing their object. Having reason to fear opposition from the Colonial Office, they took no notice of Lord GLENELG, but addressed themselves directly to Lord MELBOURNE. At an interview with the Premier, they requested that he would sanction a Parliamentary inquiry into the whole subject : to which Lord MELBOURNE cheerfully assented; desiring only, at the suggestion of Lord GLENELG, whom the Premier had invited to be present at this interview, that, since the people of the Canadas are very jealous of any interference with their waste lands by the Home Government, those Colonies might be excluded from the investigation. It was therefore determined that Mr. WARD should, with the sanction of Ministers, move for a Committee of inquiry, excluding the Canadas. But Mr. ROE- BUCK, hearing of this, and officially representing one of the Canadas, gave out that he intended on the occasion of Mr. WARD'S motion, to move that the Canadas should not be excluded from the inquiry. Accordingly, Mr. WARD had scarcely risen to speak on the subject, when Sir GEORGE GREY interrupted him, assenting to his motion on the part of Govemment, and praying,. therefore, that the House In'teht be epared a discassion which had become unnecessary. The House, always ready to he spared it\ this way, agreed with Si GEORGE GREY ; 011d thus the suNeet of waste lands in Canada was kept quiet for the time. The 12om- mittee sat, however ; aud have tiollected a mese of evidence on which we shall soon bestow more ample notice. It may be stip- posed that Sir GEORGIC GREY, representing the Government on this Committee, and having the archivee of the Colonial °diee at his disposal, furnished a great deal of the highly-vainable hirer- mation which has been obtained. Not a portiele of it : he at- tended the Committee fin- no other perpose, as it appeared to us, than, first, to prevent the disclosure of abuses with respect ta the disposal of waste laud in the Colonies teenerally, and, secondly, in particular, to prevent any merely incidental or illustrative notice even of such abuses in the Canadas. While thoroughgoing Tories, like Mr. FRANCIS BARING and Mr. IV, E. GLADsTONE, atterided .closety to the evidence, and tank unusual pains to elieit the truth and master the subject, the liVirie Uuder-Seeretary for the Colonies seemed to have HO objeet but to stifle the iiiquiry as far as possible. We are informed fiertIter, that lie voted, and sometimes alone, aeaitist all the resolutions which have been reported to the House, (the aim of those resolutions being to place the (lisps:a of Colonial waste lauds under responsible management 'With a view to the greatest adventege both of the Colonies and

the motiler coulltrYJ awl that he has since missed no oppor- ninny to speak with anger or ridicule of the labours of the Com- mit tee.

Here is a pie in statement of filets, hilt may be easily verified or preyed to be tint tue. The only difficulty has been to account thr Sir

'GEORGE GREY's behaviour. But even this difficulty exists DO 1011ger.

Sir GEORGE GREY, a mere law or by profession, a cleverish man, but who neither knew nor cared aught nbout the Colonies, till, be-

cause his name w as thane he became an Under Secretary of State, is the standing, counsel, the hired advocate of the Colonial Office, which he defends and serves, whether right or wrong, eccordieg, as we remarked the other day, to brief and fee. The Ctilonial Office, it now appears, has bad motive enough for wishing to pre- vent all inquiring as to the disposal of waste lands in Canada. Here is another plain statement of facts.

The province of Upper Canada is divided p diticelly into two parties—the Tories and the Reformers. The Reformers are those who wish to obtain responsible government—local self-govern- ment, such as was enjoyed by every eolony of Biltish origin up to the time of our having- a Colonial Office—instead of government from a distance, which means government by a faction of strangers to the colony, or, as they are called in Upper Canada, Tories. 1Vell, of late years the Tories of Upper Canada have been a good dial annoyed by the Reformers; who, obtaining some representa- tion in an elected Legislative Assembly, havrehad the impudence to pry into the abuses, expose the jobs, and cheek the expenditure of the Administration, which has always been thoroughly Tory. The Tories and Reformers of Upper Canada, therefore, are at u-ar, like those of' England, Scotland, and Ireland. The only difference between the colony and her mother country seems to be, that in Canada there are no Whigs. The Whig Government at home, therefore, is compelled to take part either with the Tories or with the Reformers of the colony. Can it be doubted that Lord MEL- BOURNE, if he had known any thing of the case, would have sided with the Refhtmers? Lord GLENELG and Sir GEORGE GREY, or rather the secret Bumbureaueracy of the Colonial Office, headed by Mr. STEPHEN, (whem me hope to unhumbureaueratize in time, by bringing him sufficiently before the public,) have taken a most decided part with the Tories. In the last Canadian House of Commons, the Reformers had a majerity. It was therefore, aniwedly, that the Governor dissolved that assembly. A general election has just taken place, and a majority of the new Parlia- ment are decided Tories. The manner of this change furnishes ample evidence of Colonial Office Toryism. What follows is ex- tracted from a petition to the House of Commons, presented by Mr. HOME on the day before the close ef the session. The petitioner is Dr. DUNCOMBE of Burford, in the county of Oxford,

in Upper Canada, anti Member for that county itt the Legislative Assembly, but now in London.

" That of the many complaints the people of Upper Canada have to prefer, the following deserve the immediate attention of your honourable House.

"That the Lieutenant- Governor, the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, and generally every public functionary, made common cause with the Tories bee Orangemen against the Reformers, usiu., every means in their power to in- tooidate the Reformers and influence the erections in favour of the Tory can- Cidates.

" That the returning officers are all appointed by the Lientenant- Governor, of such persons as were known most likely to forward his views. " That the elections were fixed by the Lieutenant- Gorernor at places to favour the Tory candidates ; and, as in Aliddlesor, the place first appointed, and where former elections h d been held, was changed, as the place first fixed was considered Elmo irable to the Reformers.

" That, by the general law of Upper Canada, no elector can vote upon a freehold, the homier title of echich has been less than three months in his possession' and reystered as such. " That Sir Francis Head, in order to overwhelm these lately-registered electors, issued a large number of patents, or grants of land, under the Great Seal, in many cases for only a quarter of an acre of wild uncultivated land, on which no huiliiings were erected ; suck grants being generally dated subsequent to the dissolution of Parliament, an in some cases even after the opening of the poll at which the holders of such grants actually voted.

"That the hoklers of such grants, .as in the Can of the Reverend Dr. .Phillips, one of the ssew rectors of the Established Church of England, when

called open at the hustilr,a twoorear toile value of such grant being 40s. a year, lie declined to do so, and rookd lied vote.

" That the 'amber of sueh patents to be prepared urns so great as to require an additional number of clerks to get them ready ; awl your prtitirmer believes he will he able to prove eort thousawls o.1 stele grants of land were issued and voted aro t at the ek,ctitms.

Oleos of OettLla per- ,' That styli grants WM. dilfrihntefl tipprOy at the sons who had tint applied at Pod time .fir suds patents, and who reeeived them, to tumble them to rote. without ray* the usual fees ; and at Nimcoe, one of uli:n!. lastant: s, Mr. Eta: Corrruotent Eailgration Arica, thus issued lite le trels if th■me yrauts (mm li./vi rote,/ inn:wilt/tag sum MM. " nor h: r,/,■/,r,, the pr ,•, 1,C,1mmiI tC) h..sur the ',dent until the rurdt...s. -,emnry! tn.! fi.s ah.1 nil Slur conditkpat of the Order it, Comreil eamp;ed In such a cidonv 0 5 Cariatht, let our Enelish reader: observe, all the eleetine distrirte contale !teen or less of waste land still at the dieposid or Govern roprt : i is th''rellre tit the power of the iloionial Government to erewe fi.ye!iolders—that is, eivefors- without limit as to ennilitee And, not only can a Governor make VOterA bo, by the act of making tin-m, he purchases tlwir votes : it is as if the Lor-l-Li,utetituA of a Welsh c;,linty, in Si Inch thiA.o 0re extensive triets of Crown land, were able to fzrant freeholds out of this poblie property on the eve of a general election, on condition that the erief!('(! 5I:MO(1 vote :It his bidding. l'he oil Irish fon v-shillitie freehelder system was hertlly so facile e ;rem ive a method of cowl-onto!! eleteiens as this rew Cana- dian pent of fit r-vottentekinge By nwans of his pinear to dis- pose of waste land, the tleveriIiir Oc Upper Caneela has ruled the I ate general timtion at his ple;,3nw : and it has been his plensure to vet-ern a majority of Tieies. Sir Fit 1NCIS HEAD i's It person vie:moue, we ileve no daub% in ;tot it5t, IA no' less reio!cte than pelmet in pursuille a cearee marl:ed tilt for him by others ; but he is not a man to oriehiete an great rditical measure goal or bed. He e ould never have thotight of sneh an outrage as he scene; to have perpetrated against the people of llpieir Cantela, it' this phut for obtaining a Tory Colonial Perth:men! I:ad not been suenested to him at imea lepiarters. The whole truth mnst Cm title out : arid we venture conreleritly to predict that the Celonial Office at teem will he Iltnail to hove he:.n at the bemire of this shameful afiltir. Sir GEontes: Chien- hegv:ed of the House of Commons to Thy no attention to Dr. DeetconBefs petition : and on what eround ?—ou the ground that the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada is the (1ttiv tribe:ex] proper to entertain such a complaint. " Wine -said he, " hare mutt these charges been brought before the Fi ouse of Assembly, which would have saved the honourable gentleman (Dr. I )t7 Nc 1 ti us) the trouble of coining to this col ti try, and where the miens of establishine the charges are within rlieli?" Yes, these verv words nentally fell from the Colonial Office advocate, (if we may believe the report of the Chroniet-,) although the petitien did not pray for inquiry here, and although the sole complaint of the petitioner is that the House of Assembly is, not what it purpotes to be, but a btxly of Tories, chosen contrary to all justice and all law by the mere pleasure of the Governor. that is, the person complained against. The Cana- dian Reformers complain that their House of Assembly has been most illegally tilled with l'ories—that it is a mere mockery of a House of Assembly : " Why," says Sir GEottat: GREY, "do you come here with your complaints ? why don't you petition the House of Assembly ?" The answer then to this grievous charge against a servant of the Colonial 011ice, is of the most shuttling, not to say jesuitical descriptiote But it proves that the Bumnbu reau- envy dread any thing like a real inquiry into the conduct of Sir FRANCIS HEAD. By whose instructions has he acted ? An answer to this question will be found when we discover who instructed Lord GLENELG and Sir GEORGE GREY to take care that Lord MELBOURNE'S assent to a Parliamentary inquiry respecting the disposal of waste la:zds in the Colonies, should not lead to any disclosure's as to the Canadas. It must have been one and the same sly person, who wished Canada to he excluded from the recent Parliamentary inquiry as to waste Linde, on the ground that " the people of Canada are very jealous of any interference with their waste land,- and who prApesed, through Sir GEORGE GREY, that a complaint against the manner of electing the Canadian House

of Assembly should be referred to the very body whose election is complained of. There cannot be more than one such crooked mind even in the Colonial Office. However, Lord MELBOURNE

may now know telly the deputation abeve-menzioned went to him rather than to Lord GLENEL0 ; also, wig Lord GLENELG objected to any search into the doings of the Colonial Office with respect to waste land ia Canada ; and lestly, why Sir GEORGE GREY thinks fit to abuse Mr. WARP% Committee. We have further the plea- sure to inform hisLordship, that time evidence as to Canada, which the Colonial Office took so much pains to keep back, will be given to the public. Even if the Whig Gevernment were strong in pub- lic opinion, the Tory preceedings of its Colonial department, being exposed, would be enough to ruin it. NVe shall return ta this subject next week.