ure both to myself and my colleagues to
have advised his appointment. Vice-Chancellor Jameson's health,
too, will probably ere long lead to his retirement. When that time
arrives, will our friend's continued absence be still a barrier to
the gratification of our wishes?

If the affairs of the Province shall be then conducted by the same
Councils as now sway them, I may say, with almost the same
confidence of that future as I do of the past, that it will be the
only obstacle to such gratification. I should add, too, that last
winter one of my colleagues who, as well as myself, has always
taken a particular interest in Mr. Bidwell's return to the
Province, wrote to him, informing him of the Judiciary measures
intended to be introduced by the Administration, and giving him to
understand as distinctly as could properly be done, that, if he had
returned to this country when those measures were to go into
operation, it would afford us and our colleagues the greatest
pleasure to have it in our power to advise his being placed in a
situation alike agreeable to his tastes, deserving of his talents,
and satisfactory to the public at large. And though, when he wrote
first, he expressed some doubt of the Bills becoming law during the
last session, yet shortly after, when it was felt expedient to
carry them through, he again wrote to inform Mr. Bidwell that this
would be done if the sanction of Parliament was obtained to the
measures. Whether, in my letters to Mr. Bidwell, on the subject of
his return, I have appeared to him not to speak with sufficient
warmth, I know not. It has, at all events, not been from
indifference to the object. I certainly have felt that, in the
uncertainty that must for the future attach to political power,
there was a great responsibility in urging one in good business
elsewhere to leave that and throw his fortunes again in with us
here. I am naturally cautious, and my caution may have led me to
speak less warmly than I felt, particularly when I found my first
appeals unsuccessful. But he ought, and I hope, does, appreciate my
motives. It is true his ear may be poisoned by having had unjust
suspicions poured into it. I know I have never afforded any just
grounds for such suspicions, and I feel confident that his generous
nature