The American papers tell of discord—continued, perhaps in- creasing discord,
in Canada ; rioting, almost revolutionary, in New York. The British-Canadians continue to be angry because Lord Elgin plays the part of Governor ; " the Bowery boys" of New York rebel against the authorities because Mr. Macready has played the part of Macbeth. In Canada, the dispute about the Rebellion Indemnity Bill has been fading into oblivion ; but the quarrel about Lord Elgin and his supposed leaning towards the French Canadians goes on ; and Lord Grey's despatch, declining his resignation and assuring him of continued support from home, is likely to exasperate without overawing the contumacious Britishers. Didactic despatches from a distance may well be despised, when a present constabu- lary has been disarmed and the strength of a present executive has been braved.
In New York, it is Native Americanism invading the theatrical world, and persecuting, not Irish settlers and voters, but an Eng- lish actor. The Americans suppose themselves to be retaliating, with more resolution and vigour, a persecution inflicted on Mr. Forrest by the English. The English condemned Mr. Forrest as a bad actor, though he is a very fine man ; the Americans con- demn Mr. Macready because he is an Englishman, and rebel against the authorities because they spread over the alien Roscius the aegis of the law. The Bowery boys either think that an actor is to bold his office, as personator of the characters of Shak- spere, on political grounds ; or else they give the preference to Mr. Forrest as a tragedian ; each judgment being equally sur- prising. In either case, they desired to have Mr. Macready given up to them, that he might be Lynched ; and failing in that request, they rise against their own " aristocracy." When the last accounts left New York, Mr. Macready had been smuggled out of-the city in disguise; and the patriotic Yankees were meet- ing and passing resolutions against their own Mayor and Magis- trates, in terms of Republican dignity that vie with the Declara- tion of Independence.
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