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 of Ministry which followed the 'Three Days of Paris,' soon after Lord Howick succeeded Mr. Horace Twiss as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, the measure suggested by the Colonisation Society was, in part, adopted by the Government. Defective as is that part of a measure—defective because incomplete—still, it cannot fail to be of great service to the colonies. Whatever the people of Canada, and of the English settlements in America, may gain by the check which has thus been put upon official jobbing in the disposal of waste land, they owe, not very remotely, to the workmen of Paris or M. de Polignac. For this great improvement they are more immediately obliged to Lord Howick; to the leading members of the Colonisation Society, Mr. John Sterling, Mr. Hutt, now M.P. for Hull, and Mr. Charles Tennant, then M.P. for St. Albans, and more especially to Mr. Robert, Gouger, the Secretary of the Society, whose efforts to procure the adoption of its whole plan have been unceasing for several years. The successful issue of Mr. Gouger's long contests with the judgments of ignorance, the insults of pride, and the delays of idleness, should be a lesson of encouragement to the advocates of useful projects."