language. The delay which has taken place in giving effect to
the promise made, I think by Gladstone, on this subject, is one of the
points of which M. Papineau is availing himself for purposes of
agitation. I must, moreover, confess, that I for one am deeply
convinced of the impolicy of all such attempts to denationalise the
French. Generally speaking they produce the opposite effect from that
intended, causing the flame of national prejudice and animosity to
burn more fiercely. But suppose them to be successful, what would be
the result? You may perhaps _Americanize_, but, depend upon it,
by methods of this description you will never _Anglicize_ the
French inhabitants of the province. Let them feel, on the other hand,
that their religion, their habits, their prepossessions, their
prejudices if you will, are more considered and respected here than in
other portions of this vast continent, who will venture to say that
the last hand which waves the British flag on American ground may not
be that of a French Canadian?

In the same spirit, when an association was formed for facilitating the
acquisition of crown lands by French _habitans_, he put himself at
the head, of the movement; by which means he was able to thwart the
disloyal designs of the demagogue who had planned it.

[Sidenote: French unionisation.]

You will perhaps recollect that some weeks ago I mentioned that the
Roman Catholic bishop and priests of this diocese had organised an
association for colonisation purposes, their object being to prevent
the sheep of their pasture (who now, strange as it may appear,
emigrate annually in thousands to the States, where they become hewers
of wood and drawers of water to the Yankees, and bad Catholics into
the bargain) from quitting their fold. Papineau pounced upon this
association as a means of making himself of importance in the eyes of
his countrymen, and of gratifying his ruling passion by abusing
England. Accordingly, at a great meeting convened at Montreal, be held
forth for three hours to the multitude (the bishop in the chair),
ascribing this and all other French-Canadian ills, real or supposed,
to the selfish policy of Great Britain, and her persevering efforts to
deprive them of their nationality and every other blessing.

In process of time, after this rather questionable start, the
a