ABSTRACT
It will be remembered that circumstances arose at the Grey banquet, at Edinburgh, in the autumn of 1834, that gave hope to the weary and disappointed reform party of a revival of their cause. The difficult and doubtful alliance was preserved chiefly by the knowledge that such a man as Lord Durham was connected with the government, – a man who had shown something of what he could do in his construction of the Reform Bill, and whose declaration against allowing an hour to pass over recognized abuses without an endeavor to reform them, was still sounding in the ears of all true Reformers. After the peace of 1815, there was a great emigration into Canada. Many thousands of men disengaged from the war having now to settle down in a home, a considerable number went to Canada; and among these were some who were disappointed at finding a less fair field for exertion than they had expected.
