It is fabled that two brazen men were placed at
the gates of Rome, east and west, and that when the Eternal City or its provinces were menaced with foreign aggression they began to throw a ball from one to the other. It is a pity that steam cannot effect some such contrivance for England, with its immense colonial territories, menaced with frequent perils external and internal, yet, owing to distance and number, forgotton by England herself until at the point of extreme danger. So it was with the United States, lost before people could believe the fact that loss was possible. The public were reminded of the existence of Canada by the din of rebellion. The present crisis in that same Canada, pregnant as it may be with momentous consequences, is scarcely bad enough to draw attention. We lately copied from the Colonial Gazette a masterly exposition of the state of parties in the colony, by a writer on the spot. He described the way in which Sir CHARLES B &GOT had found himself acting with the Cabinet collected from all kinds of sources by Lord SYDENHAM—well enough suited to be the tool of that pushing and unscrupulous official, but without the confidence of the local Parliament, and unable to serve a Governor desirous of acting with the majority of the People's Representatives. The writer predicted, that the first act of the approaching session would be to discuss a vote of no-confidence in that Cabinet : the same writer now informs us of the fulfilment of that prediction, and supplies an account of the position of parties in the midst of the fight. Of the two courses which he pointed out as open to Sir CHARLES BAGOT in such an event—the formation of a government based on union of the Upper Canada Tories and Lower Canada French, or of one combining the Upper Canada Reformers and Lower Canada French—Sir CHARLES has chosen the latter. For the time, the offered concession has failed ; its tardiness, some personal considerations, and a soreness at the want of a general amnesty, appearing to be the causes of its rejection. But the offer is remarkable: the late Whig "and something more if need be," Lord SYDENHAM, rather kept the Upper Canada Reformers at a distance, or tied their hands, while his whole policy was to crush the French Canadians : the Tory Governor-General has made advances to the chief Reformer who withdrew in disgust from Lord SYDEN HAM, and has offered a share of government to the hitherto depressed French. Even failing at the moment of direct results, the offer cannot but have a happy influence, as testifying Sir CHARLES BAGOT'S bona fides and liberal policy. Ile should not be prevented from consummating the popularity which he deserves, and dissolving the last mistrusts and difficulties, by a general amnesty.
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