Soon after 1838, the _Examiner_ newspaper acquired great influence at York. It was established and edited by Mr. Hincks. Mr. Hincks had emigrated to Canada with the intention of engaging in commerce; and in Walton's _York Directory_, 1833-34, we read for No. 21, west side of Yonge Street, "Hincks, Francis, Wholesale Warehouse." But Mr. Hincks' attention was drawn to the political condition of Canada, especially to its Finance. The accident of living in immediate proximity to a family that had already for a number of years been taking a warm and active interest in public affairs, may have contributed to this. In the Directory, just named, the Number after 21 on the west side of Yonge Street, is 23, and the occupants are "Baldwin, Doctor W. Warren; Baldwin, Robert, Esq., Attorney, &c., Baldwin and Sullivan's Attorney's Office, and Dr. Baldwin's Surrogate Office round the corner, in King Street, 195½." It was not unnatural that the next door neighbour of Dr. Baldwin's family, their tenant, moreover, and attached friend, should catch a degree of inspiration from them. The subsequent remarkable career of Mr. Hincks, afterwards so widely known as Sir Francis Hincks, has become a part of the general history of the country. About the period of the Union of Upper and Lower Canada, a local tri-weekly named _The Morning Star and Transcript_ was printed and published by Mr. W. J. Coates, who also issued occasionally, at a later date, the _Canadian Punch_, containing clever political cartoons in the style of the London _Punch_. We have spoken once, we believe, of the _Canadian Freeman's_ motto, "_Est natura hominum novitatis avida_;" and of the _Patriot's_, just above, "_Common Sense_." Fothergill's "_Weekly Register_" was headed by a brief cento from Shakespeare: "Our endeavour will be to stamp the very body of the time--its form and pressure--: we shall extenuate nothing, nor shall we set down aught in malice."