istry, the, 300

MacNab, Sir Allan Napier, Tory leader, 62, 63, 105, 133, 143, 167,
300, 301; and Bagot, 141, 143, 150, 151; Defender of the Clergy
Reserves, 62, 63; Invited by Elgin to form a Ministry, 204; and
Political jobbery, 316-7

M'Taggart, --, on French Canadians, 16; on Irish settlers, 16, 21;
on Quebec as Social Centre, 25; on Squatter life, 29

Manners, Lord John, on the Future of Canada, 254-5

Marriage and the Squatter, 29

Melbourne, Earl of, 280

Metcalfe, Lord (Sir Charles Metcalfe), as Governor-General, 7 _n._,
70, 158 _et sqq._; Character and qualifications of, 158-61, 164,
181, 183; earlier career, 159-60, 267
Attitude of his Cabinet, 66; Despatches _cited_, 164-5; Dislike
or party, results of, 167-8; and the La Fontaine-Baldwin
Ministry, 229; Last days in harness, 183; and Local
administration, 295; and the Patronage crisis of 1843, 168-70,
202; Policy of, Elgin on, 192, 202, Grey on, 267; Struggles of,
to balance Autonomy and Supremacy, 161 _et sqq._; Supporters of,
182, 240, 249, 261; and the United Empire Loyalists, 17-18
on Demagogues in Lower Canada, 14-15; on Durham's view of
Executive Responsibility, 244; on Electioneering Language, 67;
on the Influence of the Roman Church in Canada, 32 _n._; on
Irish agitation and its effects on Canada, 21 _n._2; on the
Parliament of 1844, 181; on Results of Bagot's administration,
157; on Sydenham's concession of Responsible Government, 229

Methodism in Canada, 15-17; and Education, 46

Military attitude to Elgin, 204 _&n._
Prominence in Canadian Society, 26
Settlers, 18, 20
Views on Separation, 290

Militia Bill, Canadian rejection of, and the effects, 289-90; True
inwardness of the affair, 328-9

Mill, John Stuart, on the Authorship of Durham's Report, 243 _n._2

_Minerve, La_, on the _Rouges_, 301

Ministerial Responsibility to the Crown, and to a Governor, Stanley
on, 152-3

Ministerialist Party (1841), 105

Ministers, Loyal, and the Assembly, difficulties between (1845), 184

Moffat, George, Politics of, 151

Molesworth, ----, on Separation, 281

Monck, Viscount, as Governor, 324; scanty Despatches of, 325; on
the Militia Bill, 329

Montreal, British and French views in, 14; and the Election of
1844, 178, 179-80; Merchants of, and the Reciprocity