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A History of Our Own Times. Fine Paper Ed
A History of Our Own Times Fine Paper Ed Author:Justin McCarthy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tion of its title and adoption of its ministerial uniform. O'Connell we have passed over for the present, because we shall hear of him again ; but of Sheil it is... more » not necessary that we should hear any more. This was evidently a remarkable Parliament, with Russell for the leader of one party, and Peel for the leader of another; with O'Connell and Sheil as independent supporters of the Ministry; with Mr. Gladstone still comparatively new to public life, and Mr. Disraeli to address the Commons for the first time; with Palmerston still unrecognised and Stanley lately gone over to Conservatism, itself the newest invented thing in politics; with Grote and Bulwer, and Joseph Hume and Charles Buller; and Ward and Villiers, Sir Francis Burdett and Smith O'Brien, and the Radical Alcibiades of Finsbury, " Tom " Duncombe. CHAPTER III CANADA AND LORD DURHAM The first disturbance to the quiet and good promise of the new reign came from Canada. The Parliament which we have described met for the first time on November 20, 1837, and was to have been adjourned to February i, 1838; but the news which began to arrive from Canada was so alarming, that the Ministry were compelled to change their purpose and fix the reassembling of the Houses for January 16. The disturbances in Canada had already broken out into open rebellion. The condition of Canada was very peculiar. Lower or Eastern Canada was inhabited for the most part by men of French descent, who still kept up in the midst of an active and moving civilisation most of the principles and usages which belonged to France before the Revolution. Even to this day, after all the changes, political and social, that have taken place, the traveller from Europe sees in many of the towns of Lower Canada an old-fashioned France, such as he had k...« less