In 1820 Mr. John Carey had established the _Observer_ at York. The _Gazette_ of May 11, 1820, contains the announcement of his design; and he therein speaks of himself as "the person who gave the Debates" recently in another paper. To have the debates in Parliament reported with any fulness was then a novelty. The _Observer_ was a folio of rustic, unkempt aspect, the paper and typography and matter being all somewhat inferior. It gave in its adherence to the government of the day, generally: at a later period it wavered. Mr. Carey was a tall, portly personage who, from his bearing and costume might readily have been mistaken for a non-conformist minister of local importance. The _Observer_ existed down to about the year 1830. Between the _Weekly Register_ and the _Observer_ the usual journalistic feud sprung up, which so often renders rival village newspapers ridiculous. With the _Register_ a favourite sobriquet for the _Observer_ is "Mother C----y." Once a correspondent is permitted to style it "The Political Weathercock and Slang Gazetteer." Mr. Carey ended his days in Springfield on the River Credit, where he possessed property. The _Canadian Freeman_, established in 1825 by Mr. Francis Collins was a sheet remarkable for the neatness of its arrangement and execution, and also for the talent exhibited in its editorials. The type was evidently new and carefully handled. Mr. Collins was his own principal compositor. He is said to have transferred to type many of his editorials without the intervention of pen and paper, composing directly from copy mentally furnished. Mr. Collins was a man of pronounced Celtic features, roughish in outline, and plentifully garnished with hair of a sandy or reddish hue. Notwithstanding the colourless character of the motto at the head of its columns "Est natura hominum novitatis avida"--"Human nature is fond of news," the _Freeman_ was a strong party paper. The hard measure dealt out to him in 1828 at the hands of the legal authorities, according to the prevailing spirit of the day, with the revenge that he was moved to take--and to take successfully--we shall not here detail. Mr. Collins died of cholera in the year 1834. We have understood that he was once employed in the office of the _Gazette_; and that when Dr. Horne resigned, he was an applicant for the position of Government Printer.