The House of Assembly of' Lower Canada has passed the
fol- lowing resolutions, by a majority of 64 to 8. It will be seen that -they are couched in the same spirit of dogged independence that as characterized all the recent proceedings of that body.
" I. Resolved, That any censure of the proceedings of this House on the part of another branch of the Legislature or Executive Government, is a violation of the statute in virtue of which this House was constituted, an infringement of its privileges which they cannot disperse without protesting against, and a danger. ous attack upon the rights and liberties of his Majesty's subjects in this province. "2. Resolved, That that part of the speech of his Excellency the Governor- in-Chief addressed to the House on the 18th of Match, at the close of the last session, and which relates to the petitions addressed by this House to his most gracious Majesty and to the two Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the state of this province, complaining of grievances and abuses which exist in the province, and introducing measures for remedying the same, is a censure on the part of the head of the Executive of this province of the proceedings of the House, which had acted as an equal and independent branch of the Legislature for diver, good causes and consideratious to itself known, for the benefit of his Majesty's subjects in this province, and of his Majesty's Government therein.
"3. Resolved, That the said speech be expunged from the journals of this House."
Previous page
