THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO REMAIN CROWN-APPOINTED--THE SIGNAL FOR REVOLT--FIRST INSURRECTIONARY MEETING. AT ST. OURS--DR. WOLFRED NELSON--CONSTITUTIONAL MEETINGS--THE PARISHES--THE SEDITIONARY MANIFESTO OF “LES FILS DE LIBERTE” AT MONTREAL--REVOLUTIONARY BANNERS--IRISH REJECT REVOLUTIONARY PARTY--MGR. LARTIGUE’S MANDEMENT AGAINST CIVIL WAR--THE FRACAS BETWEEN THE DORIC CLUB AND THE FILS DE LIBERTE--RIOT ACT READ--THE “VINDICATOR” GUTTED--MILITARY PROCEEDINGS--WARRANTS FOR ARREST--PAPINEAU FLIES--RELEASE OF PRISONERS AT LONGUEUIL--COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES--ST. DENIS--LIEUTENANT WEIR’S DEATH--GEN. T.S. BROWN--ST. CHARLES--ST. EUSTACHE--CAPTURE OF WOLFRED NELSON--SECOND MANDEMENT OF BISHOP LARTIGUE--DAY OF THANKSGIVING--CONSTITUTION SUSPENDED--THE INDEPENDENCE OF CANADA PROCLAIMED BY “PRESIDENT NELSON”--THE REGIMENTS LEAVE THE CITY--LORD DURHAM ARRIVES--AMNESTY AND SENTENCES--DURHAM RESIGNS--THE SECOND INSURRECTION--MARTIAL LAW IN MONTREAL--SIR JOHN COLBORNE QUASHES REBELLION--STERN REPRISALS--ARRESTS--TRUE BILLS--POLITICAL EXECUTIONS--“CONCORDIA SALUS” 149 CHAPTER XVIII PROCLAMATION OF THE UNION 1841 HOME RULE FOR THE COLONY THE DURHAM REPORT--THE RESOLUTIONS AT THE CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY--LORD SYDENHAM--THE PROCLAMATION OF UNION AT MONTREAL--RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT AT LAST 159 CHAPTER XIX RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT UNDER THE UNION KINGSTON THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT--THE RACE CRY RESUSCITATED--LAFONTAINE--RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT--MONTREAL ELECTIONS--RESTRICTION REMOVED ON FRENCH LANGUAGE IN PARLIAMENT--FREE TRADE MOVEMENT--FINANCIAL DEPRESSION--GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER--REBELLION LOSSES BILL--THE BURNING OF THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE--THE MONTREAL MOVEMENT FOR ANNEXATION WITH THE STATES--“CLEAR GRITS” AND THE “PARTI ROUGE”--THE RAILWAY AND SHIPPING ERA--THE CAVAZZI RIOT--THE RECIPROCITY TREATY--EXIT THE OLD TORYISM--CLERGY RESERVES AND SEIGNEURIAL TENURE ACTS--THE MILITIA ACT--MONTREALERS ON THE ELECTED COUNCIL--THE _Année Terribe_ OF 1857--THOMAS D’ARCY MC GEE--QUEBEC TEMPORARY SEAT OF GOVERNMENT--PROTECTION FOR HOME INDUSTRIES--CONFEDERATION BROACHED IN MONTREAL--THE TRENT AFFAIR--ST. ALBAN RAID PROSECUTIONS--THE REMODIFIED CIVIL CODE--FENIAN RAID EXCITEMENT IN MONTREAL--OTTAWA SEAT OF GOVERNMENT--THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN ACT--CONFEDERATION 163 CHAPTER XX THE MUNICIPALITY OF MONTREAL