North American

THE ELECTIONS.

The Elections in Canada have been marked with riot and murder almost throughout the Lower Province, wherever they have been held. Bribery and corruption have been attempted to induce the French Canadians to return the parasites of the administration and advocates of the "Sydenham policy," and where found unavailing, recourse was had to violence, and the most brutal acts of severity and barbarity were perpetrated by the tory mob, at the instigation of the magistrates and other officials to whom Lord Sydenham had previously issued a hypocritical proclamation enjoining them to preserve order at the polls, supported and encouraged by the military-the pliant and ready tools of British despotism. It is truly mortifying to witness the development of this stupendous system of fraud, dissimulation and crime, as it adds another practical lesson to the already dearly-bought experience of the Canadians of the perfidy and duplicity that has ever characterised the British colonial administration. Aside from the gross injustice of the bill, which, it is pretended, invests them with representative institutions-the shameful and disgraceful conditions which this act of spoliation embodied-the flagrant and palpable interference of the Executive in the purity of elections-all which were self-evident and undeniable, and with the result before their eyes in the recent contest between the Assembly and the Executive of the entire futility-the absolute madness to hope to ameliorate their enslaved condition by any legislative intercourse with the British government, and again, taught by the dire results of the bloody 21st of May, the violence to which the tories would resort, when protected and sided by the military, and still more recently, by the incarceration of their principal citizens, the devastation by fire and sword of their beautiful villages-- by the judicial murder of twelve of their compatriots, the banishment to a penal colony of hundreds of their countrymen to drag out there a miserable existence in the most abject slavery, by the delivery of an entire section of their country to the tender mercies of an infuriated mob and ruthless soldiery, by all these and hundreds more equally revolting facts, were the Canadians bound in honor, by principle, by a feeling of self-respect, but more than all, by a regard to those principles of liberty to establish which so much blood had been spilt, so many lives voluntarily sacrificed, not to disgrace themselves by condescending again to become the dupes of British artifice, the victims of tory vengeance, the apparently voluntary instruments of affixing an indelible disgrace upon their national character. It is humiliating-it is enough to make a consistent republican strike his clenched fist against a stone wall out of pure vexation to witness the subservient, truckling, craven, base and despicable spirit manifested by the classe instruite of Canada, the solicitors of executive patronage and influence and the would-be recipients of popular favors and parliamentary honors. Their conduct will be duly appreciated by an outraged and insulted community. The radical party must now be satisfied that they are in complete bondage. All that can now be done, is to wait patiently, but with undiminished attachment to free principles, the dawn of their day of liberty and deliverance.

We subjoin some more returns made since the last publication.

No.	For	Constituency
H. Desrivieres, Radical	V.	Vercheres.
T. C. Aylwin	Portneuf,	Portneuf.
Doctor Noel	Lotbiniere,	Lotbiniere.
Amable Berthelot	Kamouraska	Kamouraska
Dr. Kimber,	Champlain.	Champlain.
Sol. Gen. Day, Tory	Ottawa.	Ottawa.
Sol. Gen. Draper	Russell	Russell
—Derbishire	By Town	By Town