Since the Topic on Canada was in the press, we
have seen the Re- solutions which Lord JoaN RUSSELL will move in the House of Corn. mons on Monday. Their plain scope and tendency is to destroy the Constitution of Lower Canada. By that Constitution, the Canadian House of Commons has the power of withholding supplies. In order to enforce a demand for redress of grievances, they have exercised that power. That power is the very back-bone of their Con- stitution ; as it is of ours here in England. By one of the proposed Resolutions, the Governor is empowered to appropriate public money without any vote of the Assembly. Other resolutions abso- lutely reject the demands of the Assembly. Instead of a redress of grievances, the only means which the People have of enforcing a demand for redress of grievances is to be taken away. The Ordinances of Coantss the 'remit were highly constitutional when compared with this revolutionary proposal,—which, indeed, more resembles the doings of our CHARLES the First.
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