Treaty,
222; zealous Annexationists, 334; Population of, 13, 24; Riots
at, 67, 68, 179-80, 206, 208, 227, 320, 326; Roads near (1840),
11; as Seat of Government, 68, 171; Social conditions at (1840),
26; Suburbs of, 102

_Montreal Gazette_, on Independence, 335

_Montreal Witness_, The, characteristics and value of, 38-9

Moral Influence of Governors, _versus_ Political Patronage, Elgin
on, 198, and as exercised by him, 205 _et sqq._

Morin, Augustin Norbert, French Canadian politician, 59, and the
Nationalists, 105

Mowat, Oliver, Liberal leader, 23

Murdoch, T. W. C., 104 _n._, 140-1; the Need for Conciliating the
French, 135; on Stanley's view of Canadian autonomy, 131

N

_Nation Canadienne, La_, 13; as represented in the Union Assembly, 59

Navigation Acts, Restrictions of, abolished by Grey, 267, 272

Neilson, ----, and the Anti-Union movement, 103, 105, 151; and
the Amnesty question, 149

Newcastle, Duke of, and Monck's scanty Despatches, 325

Newspaper Opinion, real value of, 233

Newspapers, Educational and Political influence of, 38-9 _&nn._,
311, 341-2

Non-Separationists, the four, 278, 491

Normanby, Earl of, 248

North, Lord, and the Colonies, 248

Nova Scotia, 269

O

Oath of Supremacy, Baldwin's difficulty concerning, 112; Dispensed
with, by Sydenham, 113 _n._

O'Connell, Daniel, 22

Office, Colonial, Change in Tenure of, 74-5

Ogden, ----, Political views of, 113; retirement of, 150

"Old Toryism" after concession of Responsible Government, 203
_et sqq._

Oliphant, Laurence, on Elgin in Canada, 204-5, 221, 222, 225

Orange Lodge, the, Politics of, 167

Ottawa, _see_ Bytown

Ottawa River route, 10

P

Pakington, Sir John, and the Clergy Reserves dispute, 252-3

Palmerston, Viscount, 280

Papineau, Louis, French-Canadian Leader, 14, 301, 331; Rebellion
led by, 3; Republicanism of, 65, 271; Return of, to Public Life
(1847-8), 198-9, 212-13, 271, 305, 331-2; as Leader of the
_Rouges_, 301, 331

Parliament, British, _see_ Imperial Parliament
Canadian characteristics of, 65, 289; First Union, 59, composing
group, 104, 113, Crisis in, on Responsible Government, 113-22,
Five great measures carried by, 106

Parliamentary Representation after the Union, Proportionalism in,
309-11, attempted r