According to a correspondent of the Colonial Gazette, on whom
that journal appears to place full reliance, the Governor-General ofCanada has made a tardy commencement in the actual business of governing; and, if reports are to be trusted, he has set out with a mistake. He was to appoint an Upper Canadian Radical to office, in the person of Mr. HINGES; and he. was about to elevate to the chair of Chief Justice Mr. VALLIERES DE Sr. REAL, a French Canadian. These appointments, which would be popular, are to be " balanced" by the appointment of an Upper Canadian Tory to be Solicitor-General. This notion of strengthening power by sharing it among conflicting parties, seems too glaringly absurd to be really entertained by a man of Sir CHARLES BAGor's position in diplomacy—unless it is an evidence of the besetting sin of his craft. It is obscurely hinted by the correspondent of the Colonial Gazette, that there is something amiss in London : the inertness of Lord STANLEY is observed in Canada as well as in Parliament ; and the mischievous hand of a person who has tamed successive Colonial Secretaries to his rule appears at work. What the parti- cular mischief is we know not, and probably we shall not learn it until it has crossed and recrossed the Atlantic—possibly not until i it lk 419 made known in its effects; for " the Office" in Downing Sti t i§ a setiet council. Colonies, like the West Indies, may be bro ght to the verge of ruin, or, like the Canadas, to the point of rebellion : yet this thinking people is still content to let the Colo- riles be the playthings of Mr. MOTHERCOUNTRY.
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