from the attacks made on them by certain parties in regard to
this government scheme, and entering into some details of the progress
of education in this country, moved a series of resolutions condemnatory
of the proposed system of education; and the resolutions were carried
by a majority of two hundred and twenty-nine against one hundred and
eighteen.

In consequence of this majority the lords went in a body to her majesty
to offer their remonstrance against the proposed alteration in the
manner of distributing the educational grant.

At a later period of the session Lord Brougham brought forward his
plan for educating the people; but its merits were not canvassed by the
house, and the consideration of it was adjourned till next session.

AFFAIRS OF CANADA.

On the 11th of February Lord Melbourne laid the report of Lord Durham,
and other papers, on the table of the house of lords, expressing a hope
at the same time, that before the Easter recess he should be enabled
to introduce a measure for the purpose of putting a speedy end to the
discontents in that part of the empire. This report had appeared in the
columns of the _Times_ newspaper some days before it was presented to
either house of parliament; in allusion to which unusual circumstance,
Lord Durham said he deeply regretted the premature publication of it.
His subsequent statement, however, proved that it could not have been
a matter of surprise to his lordship. There had been, he said, an
understanding with the ministry that the document should be printed
before the meeting of parliament, in order to save time, and accordingly
two thousand copies were prepared; and he had himself half a dozen for
circulation among his private friends. It would appear from this report
that the chief cause of all the troubles that had disturbed Lower Canada
was to be found in the spirit of exasperation that had grown up between
the two races by whom it was peopled. It was possible, it stated, that
under a better system of management this temper would never have been
called forth, and that the present disparity between the numbers of
the two races would not have existed. During the eighty years that
had elapsed since the conquest of Canada, the French inhabitants had
increased from sixty thousand to four hundred and fifty thousand souls,
while the English settlers amounted to no more than a fourth of the
entire population, notwithstanding the great influx of emigrants whic