[33] _Hansard_, 9 March, 1876. The whole speech is an admirable example of Disraeli's gift of irresponsible paradox. [34] _Hansard_, 3 June, 1839. [35] _Ibid._ 30 May, 1844. [36] _Hansard_, 16 January, 1838. [37] Walpole, _Life of Lord John Russell_, pp. 339-40. [38] Walpole, _Life of Lord John Russell_, pp. 339-40. [39] The reference is to the Rebellion Losses Act riots. [40] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 8 August, 1849. [41] _Hansard_, 30 May, 1844. [42] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 18 May, 1849. [43] _Ibid._: Grey to Elgin, 6 April, 1849. [44] Earl Grey to Sir John Harvey, 3 November, 1846. [45] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 22 February, 1848. [46] Grey, _Colonial Policy_, i. p. 25. [47] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 5 December, 1850. [48] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 25 October, 1849. [49] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Grey to Elgin, 20 July, 1849. [50] _Ibid._: Grey to Elgin, 22 March, 1848. [51] Grey, _Colonial Policy_, i. pp. 13-14. [52] Molesworth in _Hansard_, 22 December, 1837. [53] Molesworth in _Hansard_, 6 March, 1838. [54] Roebuck before the House of Commons, 22 January, 1838. [55] Brougham in _Hansard_, 18 January, 1838. [56] See, for a very complete statement of Bright's views on the point, his speech on _Canadian Fortifications_, 23 March, 1865. Cobden's colonial policy is scattered broadcast through his speeches. [57] Morley, _Life of Gladstone_, i. p. 269. [58] See the preliminary chapter in his _Colonial Policy_. [59] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 6 December, 1848. [60] See Galt, _Canada from_ 1849 _to_ 1859, and his memorandum of 25 October, 1859. [61] See a despatch from Lord Lyons respecting the Reciprocity Treaty, Washington, 28 February, 1862: enclosing a copy of the report of the committee of the House of Representatives on the Reciprocity Treaty. [62] See Dent, _The Last Forty Years_, ii. p. 426. [63] Pope, _Life of Sir John Macdonald_, i. p. 242. [64] Earl Grey, in _Hansard_, 18 July, 1862. [65] Sir Richard Cartwright, _Reminiscences_, p. 55. {293} CHAPTER VIII. THE CONSEQUENCES OF CANADIAN AUTONOMY. A change so informally achieved, and yet so decisive, as the completion of a system of self-government in Canada could not but have far-reaching and unexpected secondary consequences. It is the object of this chapter to trace the more important of these as they appeared in the institutions and public life of Canada, and in the modification of Canadian sentiment towards Great Britain.