[[4]] Allin and Jones, Annexation, Preferential Trade, and Reciprocity, Chap. IX.

[[5]] Responsible Government for the Colonies, London, 1840. See the extract made by Wakefield in his View of the Art of Colonization, p. 279.

[[6]] The Autobiography of Sir Henry Taylor, passim.

[[7]] Ibid. ii. pp. 302-3.

[[8]] Leslie Stephen, Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, p. 49. "On the appointment of a Governor-general of Canada, shortly before his resignation of office, he observes in a diary, that it is not unlikely to be the last that will ever be made."