deracy of injured and insulted men, and hounded them on to new violations of the law, and invasions of the sights of industry. Mr O'Connell, however, acted other nor did he stop to consider how many of his own wise; vered on Monday, at a meeting with the trade deputies. A long discussion subsequently took place, in which much personal abuse was indulged. POST OFFICE REFORM. The THE REVOLT IN LOWER CANADA. to the insurgents' march upon Toronto. On the first day, when they approached the city, they come within a Wednesday's Morning Chronicle published extracts from two New York papers of the 19th and 20th, retired about three miles buck, where they remained until very short distance of it, and for some cause unknown they brought by the packet-ship Westminster of London, constituents he might offend by taking the course that Captain Moore, four days later than last week's arrivals. the Governor's attack upon them; and it is confidently said, that had they advanced upon the city the first time, duty dictated. This Irish Papineau flings himself at The general purport and effect of the information that they could have taken the whole town and garrison, as once across the tide of popular prejudice in its current; thus brought is almost decisive of the putting down of the inhabitants were quite ignorant of their coming, and be sees his fellow citizens misled, and sets himself at once the revolt. Many of its details, especially as to the cap equally unprepared for resistance. They were well to remove their delusion; he sees the public interest in ture of the leaders, will be found below; but we may ob- armed, and showed a determination to prosecute their danger, and he hazards his popularity to defend it; he descries an opportunity for exerting his great influence serve here, that according to these accounts the insur work, until confusion seized them by the working of the gents have fled everywhere before the troops, and that Governor's cannon. These were managed by four artilto promote the permanent welfare of his countrymen, the last date of the advices just bring us to the point of lery soldiers and as many old pensioners. The insuralthough at the risk of incurring their temporary dis- the departure of a corps from Montreal, for the sup-gents, besides their guns, were furnished with immense pleasure; he seizes that opportunity promptly, and exposes himself to popular clamour as ardently as he Grand Brulé, a little to the W. N W. of the island of been for some time back preparing for rebellion. The posed purpose of breaking up a rebel assemblage at spears of home manufacture, which shows they must have ever courted popular acclamation." Mr O'Connell's last speech on the subject was deli. Montreal, where the rebels were said to be in considerable whole coast is guarded here by militiamen, to watch all numerical force. This expedition took place on the those who cross the water, and, if possible, to intercept 13th ult., and consisted of the Royals, the greater por- the insurgents if they attempt to escape. It is thought tion of the 32d and 83d regiments, a detachment of that the same precaution is used at Sandwich. artillery, with six guns, and a strong body of loyal vo reward offered for Mackenzie is 1,000, and for the lunteers, infantry, and cavalry, the whole brigade to be others 500l. each, which will no doubt induce many commanded by Sir John Colborne in person, who left persons to deliver them up, if they come within their Mr Rowland Hill has commenced a series of letters to the city a few hours after the troops. The next news, grasp. I write hurriedly, being about to leave for HaLord Liobfield on the subject of the abuses of the Post therefore, may be looked for with some degree of in-milton. Several arrests are said to have been made; one office, and his own projects of reform. In his first terest, since, if the French Canadians waited the attack, is reported of Mr M Micking, M.P." Jetter he thus briefly and succinctly sketches both :the chances are that there would be more or less sharp The ends proposed arc-1. A great diminution in fighting, the retreat of the enemy being apparently cut the rate of postage. 2. Increased speed in the delivery off by troops already posted to the north and west of of letters. 3. More frequent opportunities for their them, while the St Lawrence interrupts them to the despatch. In calculating on attaining these benefits southward. We trust not many days will elapse with. without a proportionate diminution in the revenue de-out bringing us the result of this combined operation. rived from the Post-office, I depend-1st, On the in- We may conclude our abstract with an extract of a letter grease in the number of post letters certain to follow a from Burlington, in the New York Commercial Advergreat reduction of postage and other improvement. 2d.tiser. "The truth most assuredly is, and I think On the result of certain plans intended to secure great speak uninfluenced by any pre-conceived opinions, that simplification, and consequent economy, in the operations of the Post-office. With a view to obtain this simplification. I propose-1st. That there should be a uniform rate of postage according to weight; and 2d. That the payment should always be in advance. And to rid this mode of payment of the trouble and risk which it would otherwise entail on the senders of letters, as well as for other important considerations, I propose that the postage be collected by the sale of stamped covers. Increased speed in the delivery of letters will obviously result from the plan of payment in advance, whereby the time now spent in collecting the postage will be saved. More frequent opportunity for the despatch of letters, especially in populous neighbourhoods, will be justified and required by the increase in the number of letters, and will in turn become a great source of additional increase." Jedi golve Doctors "His Excellency Sir Francis Head," says the Patriot newspaper, "with the humanity becoming a brave Bri tish officer and the representative of her Majesty, requested Dr Ralph and Dr Baldwin to visit the head. quarters of the rebels, and to entreat them, in the name of mercy, to reflect on the miseries they were about, by their rashness, to inflict on their fellow subjects, and on themselves and families, and to desist from their evil purposes ere it is too late. His Excellency's appeal the whole affair has proved an utter abortion. The Ca-tion for their offspring and dependants, was as strong as to their humanity, to their self-love, and to their affecnadians have altogether mistaken their influence. For eloquence and genuine feeling could make it. it is most certain that there is a very wide-spread opi- Rolph and Baldwin returned with a reply that the rebels nion among those who have been urged to measures of would retire peaceably to their homes, provided his Exopen resistance, that their leaders have deserted them. cellency would agree to have all differences settled by a Indeed such was the feeling of indignation at the unsucconvention. His Excellency returned for answercessful issue of the affair of St Charles, that Mr Brown, 'Never.'" as he himself admits, was actually for some time detained The Kingston Chronicle of the 9th says, "We regret under arrest by his own men. The editor of the Free to learn that several gentlemen have fallen into the hands Press in this village, who was present at the interview of the rebels. It appears that on Monday evening a between Mr Brown and myself, and who has also conversed with him, has seen what I have above written, party of six or eight gentlemen rode out on Yougestreet, for the purpose of reconnoitering, when, unfortu and concurs in the correctness of it. He expresses himnately, some of them were taken prisoners, viz. :- Mr self fully convinced that the war, for the present at least, Bellingham, Mr Brock, and Mr Archd. Macdonnell, is at an end that there has been an utter want of pre- (formerly of Kingston). The history of Mr Macdonparation and concert, and that Mr Brown's own account nell's capture (says the Patriot) is thus related :- He of the present condition of Canadian affairs affords but was in company with John Powell, Esq., when they were poor ground of expecting a result favourable to his party. both stopped by four men on horseback, one being Mackrender on pain of being instantly shot dead. One of them drew a pistol and presented it at Mr Powell, who instantly shot the rascal dead on the spot. Mackenzie then snapped a pistol in Mr Powell's face; and Powell presented another at him, which actually touched him, but unfortunately missed fire. Powell then spurred his horse towards a wood, slipped off, and escaped with the loss of his horse, and is now here. Colonel Wells and his family, Colonel Cameron and his son, and Captain Stewart, are among the prisoners." From the frequent representations made to the Post-It is certain, too, that there has not only been no concertenzie, with Who goes there?' and were ordered to surmaster-General, the Earl of Lichfield, of the abstraction among the leaders, but that there is even a feeling of of newspapers from their envelopes during their transit, mutual recrimination between themselves. Mr Brown, his Lordship has issued an order permitting the name and address of the party to whom a newspaper is directed to be written on the paper itself, as well as on the wrapper. This arrangement is of great importance to newspaper proprietors, as well as their readers, for in future no plea can be set up of the wrapper having been or accidentally torn off, so as to prevent the paper reaching its destination. defaced for instance, stated, not indeed in my presence, but in From Quebec we learn that entire tranquillity pre vails. The guns are all mounted on the ramparts of the The sum of this intelligence from Upper Canada is A circular has been received at the different police- town and citadel, and the volunteer organization goes on unquestionably the entire subduement of the revolt. offices of the metropolis from the Secretary of the Home with great spirit. The 15th regiment remains in the We learn from the best private sources that the victory Department, ordering a return of the number of persons Jesuits' Barracks. The Royal Quebec Artillery are to gained over the rebels by the militia and volunteers, led committed as vagrants for the last twelve months, and also occupy quarters that have been fitted up for them in the by the Lieutenant-Governor, on the 7th of December, the causes of their commital. These returns are said to wing of the old Parliament house; and the Royal was complete. The loyalists, at the alarm of insurrechave been ordered preparatory to some contemplated al-Quebec Volunteers, numbering 800 strong, have been tion, flocked in from all quarters and put the insurgents terations in the Vagrant Act. [They are much needed.] provided with barracks in the stone stores on King's to flight, without the loss of a single man on their side. Lord J. Russell has directed a circular to be wharf. It is stated that Sorel and Chambly will be gar- Three loyalists only were slightly wounded, although it transmitted to the different clerks of the peace, for the risoned during the winter by volunteers, and that St is true, unfortunately, that Colonel Moodie, late of the purpose of preventing them in future from acting as poli- Denis, St Charles, St John's, and the Isle aux Noix, will 104th regiment, fell on the 6th by a rifle shot, as he was cal agents-[A very wise and prudent step.] be occupied by the regulars, with the addition probably advancing from his residence, twelve miles distant, to the There is no foundation for the report relative to the of some volunteers or Upper Canada militia. The Pro-assistance of the town. Many of the principal inha institution of a new order of knighthood. vincial Assembly stands prorogued to the 13th of the bitants in the affair of the 7th served in the ranks with THE WEATHER. For several days London has been next month. the privates. Among them were actually members of visited by snow and frost. The frost has been so severe The New York Inquirer also contains the following: the Council. The number of the rebels killed was not a to freze the water in the houses and water-pipes, "The St Alban's Messenger says, ' A gentleman of this ascertained. many of which have burst froin the expansion. The village arrived in town on Monday, P.M., direct from wind intensely cold from the north-east. Skaiting has Yamaska. He says that the authorities are proceeding already commenced on the Serpentine, and the men be- with great vigilance in making arrests in St Cesaire and longing to the Humane Society are actively engaged in vicinity, and a state of the utmost consternation prevails adopting precautions to prevent the loss of life. In the among the inhabitants: that he saw a gentleman at St Regent's Park on Wednesday skaiting commenced. The Cesaire, direct from Montreal, who informed him that ide was good, excepting a rippling here and there; the on Friday last twenty of the prisoners, who had been finest and firmest portion was next to the Marquis of arrested on a charge of high treason, were arraigned be Hertford's Hindoo pavilion. The performers of emi-fore the court-martial at Montreal, and that eleven of nence were the Hon. Frederick Byng, Sir William the number were condemned to be shot at four o'clock in Newton, Captain Trotter, Dr Page, and the Rev. Cyril the afternoon of that day.'" Page; Henry and George Chilton, Esqrs.; Henry " We may add that second engagement took place at Missisquoi, with brilliant success to the royalists. The insurgents were on their way to join those at Grand Brulé, with two pieces of cannon, 35 muskets, a large number of pikes, and five kegs of powder. All these were taken by the royalist volunteers, as also two tricoloured flags, wrought and presented to Mr Bouchette. Mr Bouchette himself was taken, being severely wounded in the foot; Dr Kimber, of Chambly, was alo taken, with ten others. Seven dead bodies were found in the road after the skirmish. The loyalists captured two pieces of cannon, about forty stand of arms, five kegs of gunpowder, and six boxes of ball cartridge, with two flags. The muskets captured are apparently of the kind' used in the American army during the last war. rebels were about 200, and the loyalists 300 strong. Of the loyalists not one man was hurt. The enemy retreated into the State of Vermont by the road they came. THE LEADER OF THE INSURGENTS OF UPPER CANADA. The The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser contains a report of another meeting of the citizens of Buffalo, which took place in the theatre on the 11th of December:-"Every foot of the house, from the orchestra to the roof, was literally crammed with people-the pit was full-the boxes were full the galleries were full-the lobbies were full-the street was full-and hundreds were obliged to go away being able to gain admittance. to without o' summer. In the village of Smalesbury a friend of ours, prevent their coming on. At Hamilton the militia are Dr Rolph would be present; but at the time of opening the also out, to resist a suspected attack from the Radicals him, and said he was on his way as fast as horses could meeting he had not appeared. The committee still expected of London, who are reported to be marching down to bring him. The venerable Dr Chapin was called to the the number of about 1.500; but this is not believed: chair. He made a few remarks on the object of the est however, in all places the militia are ready, and in good ing. "Gentlemen," said he, we have met on an im spirits. There is one remarkable circumstance relative occasion. Our neighbours on the north are at war, lightipp o few days ago, gathered some full blown primroses.' Peston Chronicle.We have had brought to our offre a sparrow's nest, containing four eggs, which was found in the roof of some cottages in Portlandfold." Manchester dubitiser. NO for liberty. We have met to express our sympathies and skirmish, in which some three or four lost their lives, and of hemlock boughs. "I continued my route to within good wishes. But, fellow-citizens, we must act with wis-being destitute of arms, were obliged to retreat. Parties two miles of Durham village, when I struck into the dom, prudence, and discretion. We sympathise with the were coming in in every direction, with bold hearts and woods to gain the Stanbridge road. I inquired for oppressed, and it is highly proper we should do so; but, as strong hands, but they were unarmed, and there were no arms milk at a log-house-they had none; but tire owner said before, and have said on a former occasion, let pru- to give them. Why? There are not probably 300 muskets started to inform the village of my presence, and was indence and wisdom characterise all our proceedings. Let us in the Upper Province, except those in the hands of the go forined he would have made his fortune by catching me. act as honourable, high-minded men should act, in view of vernment. Arms and gunpowder are, and have long been, For four long hours I trudged before I found bread and the delicate position in which we are placed, with a country contraband. They have nothing but pitchforks to oppose on one side resisting oppression, and enlisting all our warm bayonets. He described the death of Colonel Moodie, who milk, and great was my sorrow to learn I had only gained and holy sympathies in its favour, and, on the other, a power was shot by a sentinel, endeavouring to escape, and after he fifty rods in distance. The truth is, one of my legs hav ful nation with which we are at peace, and towards which had first fired on the soldier. He spoke of the interest of ing become useless, my supporters had performed the we are bound to act according to the most friendly treaties. the United States in the freedom of the provinces, the navi- action of a pair of dividers, one leg standing still while I have one word more to say," he continued: "I have now gation of the St Lawrence, the north-eastern boundary ques- the other walked round it. Refreshed, I continued my men under my protection, at my house, on whose life a price tion, the trade of the Upper Province, its wheat, its lumber, route till late in the afternoon, when I passed a large is set, and whom I am bound to protect." "Who are and its millions of acres of the best land in North America, clearing on which were five cultivated farms. they?""One of them is William L. Mackenzie."-The and especially of the interest of Buffalo, in the present strug at the last one for a wood road leading five miles Inquiring whole vast assembly burst into a thunder of applause. gle. They had little to contend with-a few thousand men miles through Never saw we such a scene-never heard we such a shout would do the business in a hurry. There were no British the forest, I entered it boldly, fired my carbine as though of exultation! Such enthusiasm is honourable to the feel- troops-none but the pensioners of the government, and a game was my object, and laid down till dark. With the ings of our citizens. It was not Mackenzie who called forth few of the old Tory brood, who still adhered to the princi- best disposition in the world, I could go no farther. The such electrical feeling. A few months ago he might have ples for which their fathers fled from the States to this pro- leg that had been dragged all day, not only refused to be come among us and excited little interest. He comes now vince. There is, he said, no probability of England's debat- dragged longer, but the other which had so patiently as the champion and martyr of liberty. A price is set on ing the question. In her former struggles she had lost endured the toil would drag it no longer. With such his life by the agents of transatlantic power. That circum-money, honour, men, and been shamefully defeated. He had mutinous members I could only return to one of the stance alone is enough to call out all the feeling of an Ame-watched the progress of seventeen successful revolutions: houses and make out as good a story as I could devise. Tican assembly. Fellow-citizens," continued the veteran, he did not believe that of Canada would be an exception. As I approached I met the owner, to whom I said. I "his life is in our power; he has thrown himself upon our He had by chance seen some despatches from government protection will you protect him?"-"We will! we will officers in the Lower Province, which got into his camp was going through the woods, but it looks so much like He looked an instant Bring him out!""Gentlemen, he is too fatigued-too sick instead of going into the post-office. One of them, to the snow I will wait until morning.' to come here to-night; but to-morrow night he shall address Commandant at Niagara, said they were all rebels below, in my face and exclaimed, B, I know you, but here Ayon (Cheers) I am an old man, but at the hazard of my and made inquiries in regard to the Upper Province, recom- are four friends of yours and you are safe; I have just life will I protect those who throw themselves upon hos-mending, moreover, that spies should be sent to Buffalo, as come from the Flat, they are all after you; old Cup'er pitality. If any mean scoundrels, for the sake of they apprehended danger from this quarter. He said he was the reward of 4,000 dollars, which is offered for him, not the principal man; he acted in an humble capacity; should undertake to get him, they must first walk over there were leaders abler than himself. Thirty-five hundred I am rather old to fight, but I have got a good had come to them-they had no arms to give them-they bowie knife. (Here he showed one of very respectable di- were obliged to go home. They wanted arms-they wanted mensions, which was greeted with three cheers.) Now we powder-they wanted ordnance-they wanted blankets. Of cured another guide, and after another day's toil hap3- must act with prudence and discretion. I want six strong, those assembled in the neighbourhood of Toronto there were pily succeeded in reaching Chaffey's, in Berkshire (Vt.), brave young men, as good sons as God has got among us, to but 200 armed. Would they be successful? He could not before morning. Having left St Denis with a determi go to my house to-night, for fear of any attempt on the part tell. They depended on the same overruling power that nation of getting to the States in safety, nobody ever a of the Loyalists." A hundred !"-No, I want only six- guided our fathers and protected the life of Washington. hailed the land of freedom with inore exultation. On do go?"___« ] "-"I-I-I," was heard all over the house. A The battle was not to the strong; he trusted that God would Saturday I moved to the southward. The first Montreal sprang upon the stage. Mr Stow was loudly called strike for the oppressed. England could hardly spare troops paper I saw contained, sure enough, a reward for my for. After an eloquent speech he moved an adjournment to or money to carry on a foreign war. It takes 30,000 head, and that of We certainly have precedence the next evening. After giving three cheers for Mackenzie bayonets to keep Ireland quiet; those who make war in three for Papineau three for Rolph and others-the as- England are tax-payers they would hardly take money outsider the valuation far below my own estimate. Poor on the list, but I don't like the classification, and con. sembly left the house. They then formed a procession, and of their pockets to oppress their countrymen. Mr Macmarched to music through the streets to the residence of kenzie was listened to attentively throughout, and frequently Lord Gosford must, however, be pardoned. We had, by Dr Chapin, and gave three cheers for Mackenzie and his interrupted with bursts of applause. At the end he was our proceedings, already caused so much expense to the neworthy host. greeted with prolonged cheering. little Queen's treasury, that we most charitably suppose he could not afford more. A laughable thing occurred ཀ་ me. favour of Canadian freedom.t GENERAL BROWN'S ESCAPE. He was fixing his old gun, I told the dd old cuss it wouldn't go off, but he swore he'd shoot you ir he see'd you; I daren't take you into my house, so you must come into the barn.' Here he received assistance, pro OTHER INSURGENTS. Another Buffalo journal of the same date publishes the following letter:-"Sirs-The Reformers of this part of This person has addressed a letter to the New York at Milton. The stage passengers (among whom was Upper Canada have taken arms in defence of the principle Mr Rodier, Member of Parliament; Mr Beaudry, Viceof independence of European domination; in plain words, Express detailing the particulars of his escape. they wish this province to be a free, sovereign, and inde- begins by describing his motive for escape in a very president of the Montreal Young Men's Society, and pendent state. They request all the assistance and skill flippant and disagreeable way:-" One brigade of British myself,) sat down to breakfast, when a dry goods bi republic may to Montreal a breakfast apart for for himself I address this letter to your office because you have ex-Denis, a second brigade had retreated, to use a fashion- and a bank clerk, that they might not be contamipressed a friendly wish towards us in the Buffalo Whig. able word, from St. Charles to the safe barracks of nated by eating with rebels. This man belongs to a class We are in arms, near the city of Toronto, two miles and a Montreal, when a third brigade was directed on St of Yankees in Canada, who expect to grow fat by licking Jalf distaut. Your faithful servant, W. L. Mackenzie. Denis, and had arrived at St Ours, nine miles distant. not, independently their own paws like the bears, but the Yonge street, Dec. 6, 1837.". American editors will be pleased to copy this letter, whether they are, or are not, in and myself saw that, there being no rising else- posteriors of British Royalists. Several have come out to prejudice the Vermonters against Canadian freedom; W. L. M." where, we were drawing the whole force of the governMackenzie's escape through the royal lines appears to ment to our devoted district, and that, though we might but so universal is public sympathy in the north, that have been a hazardous one in the extreme. He was in dis- maintain ourselves in force, still we must retreat and unless they beware, Lynch law will be applied as unspasguise, and slept two nights in haystacks. Being clothed draw the enemy after us, whereby the thirstiness of Eu-ringly upon those persons as martial law is by a bloody very poorly, and mounted on a good charger, he was appre- ropean rage for American blood would be satiated in the government in Canada." hended as a horse-thief. f. He was armed, but did not wish to murder of grey-haired sires and smiling infants, not to ARREST OF DOCTOR NELSON, AND ARREST OR ESCAPE OF shoot the sheriff; so, to ascertain his sentiments, he com- mention the destruction of property, to intimidate other menced talking politics. The officer expressed himself counties from imitating our example. We, therefore, Doctor Nelson was arrested by Col. Knowlton's party warmly in favour of Mr Mackenzie, upon which he avowed told our men to go home quietly for the present, and to on their return from the affair of Missisquoi described himself, but was not able to convince him, until he showed hin his name marked on his linen, upon which he was at be in readiness to assemble at the first signal. We also above. Valois, of Pointe Claire, was arrested with him. vice aided to escape. It is said that before he had got imagined that the august representative of the ruling pet- Four men of Colonel Knowlton's militia," says a corCacross the river, a party of horsemen in pursuit appeared on ticoat of Britain might, in his ardour for an interview respondent of a loyal paper at Montreal," discovered the tic opposite bank. with two individuals who had caused him so much dis- two prisoners in the woods by the light of the fire they In Buffalo papers of the 13th we find the account of quiet, offer a price for our heads that would render them had lighted. No resistance was offered. An Indian, the proceedings at the adjourned meeting in the theatre. It a marketable commodity. With these considerations who was their guide, had a gun with him; but he was was thronged by an enthusiastic and excited multitude. Mr we determined on visiting the States." A pleasant asleep in a barn at some distance. The Rev. Mr Selley Tillinghast was called to the chair, and after a few introductory remarks, he led forth Mr Mackenzie, the leader of the way of saying they had resolved to make a cowardly accompanied Dr Nelson to Montreal. We held some re agitators in the Upper Province, who was received with escape from the dangers they had prepared for others. conversation with Nelson in the prison; his appearance 42 repeated cheers. "Mackenzie," says the Buffalo Commer. The "General then relates their passage from St was ghastly, for he had suffered much; but he displayed cial Advertiser, is a little Scotchman, five feet five, with a Denis along the Yamaska river, through many suf. a collectedness and a composure of mind truly surprising. big head and sandy whiskers, hearing some slight resem-ferings and dangers. "A Canadian forest is not a Ver- It appears that himself, Dr Kimber, Papineau, Brown, hance to Martin Van Buren." He spoke for about an hour, mont wood, where you move between majestic trees and and O'Callaghan, all took their departure together, and in a plain matter-of-fact style, with an occasional dash of tread upon the dry elastic leaves, the accumulation of continued together for some time, when the difficulties humour, but with no attempt at eloquence. As the speech ages. No, the damp, low soil throws the roots of trees they encountered induced them to separate, and shift astrof Mr Mackenzie, as we find it reported in the Advertiser, to the surface, and every wind overthrows them in every each for himself. Dr Nelson, when taken, had been appears to present a condensed summary of the causes and direction, while small brush grows up in every little nine days in the woods, without any other protection oprospects of the insurrection, we copy it at length, confident that we can give nothing which will be read with greater opening thus created. Your course is a continued from the climate than a capot he had on. He thought interest at the present moment. To prove the justice of the climbing over fallen logs or swimming through a thick-that both Papineau and O'Callaghan had been taken, of cause, he took the Declaration of Independence-went set hedge of brush-wood, with the expedition of a fly and expected to have heard they were both there before through it, article by article, and stated that, in every parti-through a saucer of honey. Underneath the ground is him. He say's that the rewards offered leave no room to cular, the Canadas had the same grievances, and in some spongy, leaving water in every footstep. One half the doubt they were apprehended. He speaks of himself as cases that they were even more onerous. He spoke of the surface is covered with little pools, which being slightly an infatuated man, and wonders how he could undergovernment of Great Britain as good at home, but uniformly frozen, kept one in constant tremour between hope and take to oppose the British government, which, as he says, Bad abroad of laws made in the province, repealed at Lon-fear and alternate changes of joy and sorrow, as his feet was powerful enough to crush Bonaparte. He now dow after being six months in operation-of the enormous sunk or remained firm upon the treacherous surface." bas salaries of their public officers of taxation without the con- Two days they travel thus, and are then deserted by their undertaking as madness." The Montreal Gazette of the sees the revolt in its true light, and speaks of the whole sent of the taxed-of the British monopoly of the trade of sthie St Lawrence of packed juries, and packed Legislatures guide. Suddenly," he says, "we lost sight of en- 9th ult. adds the following: Pierre Amory of Ververb of a perpetual Senate, the creatures of the Governor-of tirely, and, upon reaching it, our guide, upon pretence cheres, for whom a reward of 100%. has been offered, was hsupporting church establishments with which the people of looking a little further, deserted us for ever. arrested last night in his own house by a bailiff named have no sympathy of the want of education, and the seques- was gone, and we were deserted by our guide. My Loizelle, and lodged in gaol. This morning Alphonse tration by the government officers of the funds raised for companions, five Canadians, tired ed of wandering in the Cauvin, of this city, late colonel of the rebel army at St that purpose of colleges endowed by the King of France woods, determined upon returning to the French set- Denis, upon whose apprehension a similar premium had turned into British barracks-of the London Company's land tlements; but I informed them that I must go to the been set, and six other prisoners, were brought to town monopoly of the repeated overwhelming majorities chosen States, wherever they might go. My companions rein the Varennes steamer, from Sorel, in charge of the by the people in the Lower House, whose reform acts were monstrated in vain. They turned into the woods, and I volunteer cavalry, who accompanied Colonel Gore's seuniformly set aside and vetoed, when 80 to 8-of his own Poterepeated expulsion from the house, and his being elected towards the house, and thus I found myself alone." The cond expedition. Yesterday Louis Frechette, of L'AcaMayor of Toronto in consequence of the frequent and large person intimated by was Doctor Wolfred Nelson, die, accused of high treason, was brought in by a party petitions sent to the home government, but uniformly disre- whose subsequent arrest is elsewhere given. After much of the 24th and St John's Volunteers" And we find garded. He said that the recent unfortunate rising was in wandering and living on turnips and old potatoes, the further news of the same sort in the Quebec Mercury of the ro consequence of a mistake in the time specified in one of their General arrives at the cabin of a solitary Irishwoman, 12th ult. :-Dr Kimber and R. S. M. Bouchette were -despatches. They were organized, acting in concert with and afterwards finds better comfort in a Yankee wood- both taken by the Missisquoi militia, and were on the 8th be the people of the Lower Province, running almost daily ex house. The husband soon arrived, dark and suspi- inst. safely lodged in St. John's. Gagnon is dead of his **presses-despatches had been sent to the different townscious; but upon learning that I was like a Vermonter, wounds; Côte escaped. Gen. T. S. Brown arrived at Burwho had joined in the league, but one of them, by accident and a republican, things went smoothly. I was quite lington on the 11th instant, after an escape described else sisis or design, was written "Tuesday" instead of "Thursday." ignorant of Canada affairs, but spoke learnedly of pine where. They came on Tuesday, and made a forced march to the M. Papineau was at Middlebury, Vermont, at neighbourhood of Toronto, expecting to meet the citizens of trees and swamp lands. There were nine children in the date of the latest advices, as we learn from the corresthe whole province. They were too weak to attempt the the family. A little girl pertly remarked there were pondent of the Boston Allas, writing from Montpelier. but to put on 'em."" After The Hon. Bidwell has been required leave the town that night-the government tok of the arminers of the leaving this place he crossed the branch of the Yamaska province of Upper Canada for every although he took no pxecutive—and the opportunity was lost, They had a slight in a canoe, suffering much pain and sleeping on couches part whatever in the attempted insurrection. Ho suffere the alarm-the student. a command in Canada, for which colony he embarks at Liver- cheering.)-Col. Thompson arrived at this stage of the pro- of using stumped paper; and 4, The conscription. The THE OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE ON THE AFFAIRS OF from CANADA. FRANCE. The following is the first notice we have seen of an important event. If true, we shall soon hear something more about it: A rebellion is said to have broken out in Athens, and to have extended pretty gene. rally over Greece. Few particulars have reached the west of Europe."-Standard. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. nately arrived too late for insertion, but we shall avail ourselves of it in our next. "A Radical" is quite right in spirit, but he must not take effect, not bearing upon the quarter supposed by " A Radical," The Leipsic Gazelle states that the University of that place has received an official communication from its The discussions in the French Chambers during the authorities, that in case any one of the seven Gottingen past week have not possessed much interest for the Eng-professors should choose to come to the University, and lish reader. They have been confined indeed to the in- to become a private lecturer (privat docent), no oppositernal policy of the country, a subject of little interest tion should be made to his so doing. At Konigsberg even in France, except to the parties who struggle for the University has conferred unanimously the degree of power. The better and nobler part of Count Mole's Doctor in Philosophy on Professor Albrecht, of Gottin ministerial system consists in what he has done at home, gen, and that of Doctor in Medicine on his fellow exiles The official papers relative to the affairs of Lower Ca-in giving the amnesty, muzzling the keen bloodhounds Professor Weber. In the mining district of Saxony, nada, which were laid upon the table of both Houses of of the law in their persecution of writers and liberals of the Erzgebirge, a subscription for the professors is going Parliament at the close of the last ante-Christmas session; all descriptions, and in his superseding the Doctrinaire on successfully. have been given to the public. Many of them consist regime of terror and intimidation for one of fairness, of speeches and proclamations of Lord Gosford, and of mildness, and conciliation. But, as the Morning Chroaccounts of meetings and manifestoes of the rebels, taken nicle truly remarks, of these great and good acts, which from the Canada papers. These have already appeared history will place to his credit, Count Mole dares not in the columns of this journal at various times, boast. On the contrary, he is rather obliged to ask same sources. We need not say more of pardon of the Doctrinaires for all he has done contrary thom the san at present in this place (we have adverted to to their spirit. He declares that he invented no new them elsewhere), further than that it would appear policy, that he does not condemn the past, and that M. certainly from them that the strength of the Papi- | Persil himself, compassionate soul, would have given an neau p party has been greatly exaggerated. Again and amnesty quite as soon and as readily as Thiers or Mole! again, to the very last, Lord Gosford says that the feelings The nonsense aud absurdity of such a declaration are of the great body of the French Canadians are decidedly sufficiently evident, and if the Doctrinaires are satisfied loyal. We must add, however, that Lord Gosford, on with such false and empty compliments, it is pity not to literally the flourishes of our contemporary for a rhetorical more than one occasion, has evidently and very curiously indulge them, much as it tells against the dignity of underrated the force and pretensions of his adversaries, Ministers and the gravity of all hearers. The difficulty On the 25th of May, for instance, Lord Gosford writes of this Ministry is to satisfy both the Intimidationists Nothing is more erroneous, in my opinion, than the and the Doctrinaires parties, and hold the balance besupposition that the French Canadians are a disloyal tween them. Fortunately the Doctrinaires are the body. As far as regards the district of Montreal, the weakest, and confess themselves so. M. Jaubert, one of meetings are planned and concocted by the same indivi- their orators, declares that he abandons opposition, in duals, feth in number, who, it is understood, are desirous order "to suit his temper to his fortunes." M. Guizot of substituting a republican for the existing form of go- declares himself not averse to conciliation. In short, vernment." On the 2d of September, however, we find the Doctrinaires offer themselves as a cheap bargain; Lord Gosford writing thus" It is evident that the Pa- whilst their opponents of the left centre, conscious of pineau faction are not to be satisfied with any concession their increased strength, seek to drive a harder bargain. that does not place them in a more favourable position to Then the Court flings its weight into the light balance of carry into effect their ulterior objects, namely, the separa- the Doctrinaires; so that after all the scales hang pretty The circulation of Examiner for the Midsummer tion of the country from England, and the establishment even, and a straw may turn them. Electoral squabbles quarter was 56,800; its circulation for the Michaelmas of a republican form of government. The violent and occupied the better part of the last sitting. M. Sivrey quarter was 58,350, though that is what is commonly unjustifiable attacks which have been made by the ultra- accused the Prefect of the Morbihan of the most un-called the dead season. When the returns for December Tory party upon the French Canadians generally have warrantable acts to defeat his election, and made use of are given, in completion of the Christmas quarter, it will d caused an animosity which Mr Papineau does not fail to such strong language that the Prefect, meeting the De- be seen that the Examiner has made a farther steady, inturn to account, and I attribute much of his influence over puty in the Hall of Conferences, insulted, challenged erease, and our last number was above 5,000, a high cirso many members in the Assembly to this cause. Mr him, and a duel took place on Wednesday. This inci- culation for a paper addressed to the educated and think, Papineau has emissaries in various directions." And on dent produced a short but lively debate in the com- ing classes. the 8th of September Lord Gosford writes" We can mencement of the sitting of Wednesday, in which M. now make no terms with Mr. Papineau; you must either Barrot, M. Berryer, and It would have then opened on the paragraph regarding Spain; but the discussion on Poland will precede that of Spain, and defer it to Thursday or perhaps Friday. put him down, or submit to let him put you down; there was expected that the de M. Montalivet took part. is no halting between two opinions. Until you nullify MARYLEBONE MEETING IN FAVOUR OF THE ban Jogia adr to INSURGENTS. SPAIN. Extract from the Returns of the Stamps issued to Atlas of the E ....is 45,000 betemnos ... 62,500 basmaos el93,000 07ion of POSTSCRIPT. sót sud „gaibanse LONDON, Saturday Morning, January 13, 1838, We find by the Paris arrivals this morning that the debate we anticipated in the French Chamber on the We have no news this week from Madrid; but by affairs of Poland did not take place on Wednesday, the letters from Bayonne we learn the failure of the last and amendment in favour of Poland having been carried much vaunted Carlist expedition. A telegraphic despatch, which is of the 3d, says" On the 29th Basilio unanimously. The debate on Spain immediately began Garcia crossed the Ebro at Alcanadre, 'near Logrono, and continued on Thursday. It has been very serious On Tuesday night a public meeting of the inhabitants of with eight battalions and 200 horse. A thousand men and hard contested hitherto, and has assumed indeed a Marylebone was held at the Mechanics Institution, Circus of this force having refused to pass the ford, either de-threatening aspect. street, New road, ad, to take into consideration the present serted or were drowned.' The Mole Ministry are evidently alarming condition of Canada." The large room of the instiThe Morning Chronicle in danger. On the very first outset M. Thiers stood uppby tution was was crowded to excess. s. Within a few minutes of Bayonne correspondent says: Basilio Garcia passed eight o'clock, J. A. Roebuck, Esq. appeared on the platform, the ford of the Ebro, though with considerable loss of and repeated his old opinion boldly, frankly, and more and was unanimously moved to the chair.-Mr Love, the men and horses, almost all of the latter. More deserted forcibly than ever, thus contradicting all the reports of te secretary, read letters from Sir S. Whalley, M.P. Joseph on the other side, for he contrived to trick the Navarrese his sentiments having undergone the least modification. Hume, Esq. and Col. Thompson, excusing themselves for into crossing the river, by pretending that he had no On Wednesday he pushed M. Mole hard, and forced not being able to attend at the meeting. Mr Hall, one of intention of crossing or remaining seriously on the other him to the important admission that never, in any case, the members for the borough, had spoken to the committee, side. Hence it was with but a small portion of his regretting, also, that business would detain him out of town force that he reached Manilla in the Sierra of Cameros." would he consent to intervention. This renders the till the loth instant. Mr Roebuck then explained the ob- And this miserable flight into the mountains, with question debated much more simple. And it would jects of the meeting, and proceeded to say that certain persons were inclined to condemn the course which he and his scarcely half the force with which he set out, is the splen- seem that M. St Marc Girardin, all Doctrinaire as he friends were pursuing. He, with others, thought it best to did result of this portion of the "expedition!" is supposed to be, is as much opposed to M. Herbert L meet their fellow-countrymen, and discuss with them the and Count Mole as M. Thiers. On Thursday M. Passy present position of Canadian affairs. This had been called little new in the arguments on either side. The vote is reported that Garcia had with his troops entered the The enlightened people of the free city of Frank. a very improper course (hear), but he was determined to fort appear to have amused themselves on New Year's spoke, and Count Mole answered him, but there was persevere in it-to go before the people-to discuss the queseve by smashing the windows of the Jews. tion to meet opposition-to answer objections, and refute them but to speak no treason, because they felt none. (Loud A correspondent in the Augsburg Gazelle of the 29th cheers.) Mr Roebuck then entered into a recapitulation of mentions that one of the first acts of the new Spanish the views and arguments which he urged on this subject at Cabinet was to send to Paris for a French mistress for the Crown and Anchor meeting, and then proceeded to say the little Queen. Madle Blumeau, so the lady is that there was a writer in the Times who signed himself named, had a long audience of Louis Philippe before she "No Traitor," and daily recommended that he should he left Paris, having been highly recommended by him. sent to the Tower. Langliter.) But he would tell "No The Emperor and Empress of Austria will be Traitor" that would describe himself much better if he crowned at Milan next September. subscribed himself A Canadian Merchant, with bankruptcy staring him in the face." But however Lord Gosford might arrest M. Papineau and the other leaders of the people in Canada, it would take the British Government a long time to consider before they would arrest the leaders of the people from the fort. Cabrera was said to be in the environs of this country. (Loud cheers.) Was there any justifica. The Cortes in Portugal have sanctioned the extention for their going to war with Canada on the present occasion of the period at which the holders of the still out-of Daroca, and Cabanero at Alfamen. It was believed sion? (Loud cries of "No, no.") Were the people here standing paper money had a right to call on Government that a bold movement was in contemplation immediately ready to meet taxation for so unholy an object? (No, no.) to pay them in cash. He would conclude by asking, did the present meeting deem the sanction of the Finance Committee, is to be until the lions under Don Carlos. The extension, which has received on the junction of those bands with a corps of 20 batta such a war consistent with their notions of honour, justice, Cortes shall have determined on some general plan of We question this belief, how M and benevolence? (No, no! and loud cheers.)-Mr Savage finance. This decision, however, seemed likely to aubium ne gabbies-una duka moved the first resolution, to the effect that the meeting deSvew clared the successive governments of this country alone recreate discontent on the part of the bank directors and We find no corroboration this morning of the responsible for all the horrors of the civil war in Canada-that others of the government creditors. In the course of a oppression and injustice had characterized the conduct of the debate on the state of the provinces, M. Franzini gave an ported revolution in Athens; but the City correspondent ge governmen s towards the people of Canada, and that the alarming catalogue of assassinations and robberies during of the Times mentions—“ A letter from Athens, of the meeting sympathised with their Canadian brethren. It had the last year, which made it appear that of the former 28th of November, states that the finances of Greece are been said by the press that the Canadians laboured under no there had been 1,412 cases, of the latter 3,219; and in the most dilapidated condition, and that the money svo greater grievances than those which the people of England these returns apply to only some districts. and Ireland endured. That was no matter. Tire Canadians advanced by the allies is nearly exhausted, when there a The apparent success of the King of Hanover is deemed themselves aggrieved, and no man would endure a grievance who could relieve himself from it. (Loud cheers.) stirring up. we learn, both the King of Bavaria and the must be, to all appearance, a second bankruptcy.” The Canadians, therefore, if they had moral and physical King of Naples to encroachments on the existing liberforce to redress themselves, were perfectly justifiable in doing ties of their subjects. The King of Naples intends, says so. (Loud and long-continued cheering.) This was in ac a letter from his capital, to subject the Sicilians to the tions passed by the Westminster Liberal Association, cordance with the old maxim, that "treason never prospers," same regime as the Neapolitans, by establishing, 1. The condemnatory of the recent Crown and Anchor Meeting because, if it did, who dare call it treason? (Continued monopoly of tobacco; 2. That of salt; 3. The necessity on the affairs of Canada. They consider," of the toba e resolutions, "that the whole of the proceedings af that meeting were calculated, not to advance, but to retard the progress of the true principles of liberty and of freedom, and to deceive by false statements the British public, and more especially the disaffected portion of the Canadian population. That this Association, whilst it admits that the administration of the affairs of Canada requires correction, does not consider that the real grievances of the Canadians can justify their resort acts of rebellion and armed resistance against the Government." The Morning Chronicle adds, that at this meeting of the Westminster Association there was read by Mr Fearon, a gentleman who, in all times, has distinguished himself as a steady Reformer, and uncompromising advocate of liberal principles, a protest against the proceedings at the Crown and Anchor, not with a view of its adoption by the meeting, but as expressing his own opinions on the subject. It was signed by the leading members present, and is well and sensibly drawn up. hipe Lord Eldon is in a dangerous state of health. The answer to inquiries made by us at his Lordship's house, in Hamilton place, at a late hour yesterday was such as to leave little hope of the Learned Lord's recovery. Lord Eldon is in his 87th year. various In consequence of the numerous reports of a ghost (the matter is alluded to elsewhere) having been seen in ious parts of the suburbs of the metropolis, the commissioners of the metropolitan police on Thursday issued the following order :-" The superintendents will cause the strictest inquiry to be made in their respective divisions (horse-patrol included) whether any person has been injured or frightened in any manner by the figure which is said to be going about the outskirts of the town, resembling a ghost, bear, devil, &c., for the purpose of alarming the inhabitants. A special report of everything connected with the case which can be satisfactorily accounted for will be made to the commissioners at orders to-morrow (Friday)." -The Times reporter of to-day notices a singular circumstance in describing the melancholy ruins of the Royal Exchange. "The appearance of the quadrangle, whether viewed from the south or north side, is one of utter desolation. The walls are so much shattered that they seem as if the building had been subjected to a hot bombardment of some hours. Large masses of stone, in great part calcined, are strewed over the pavement. All the statues of the sovereigns of England have fallen from their niches, and lie in scattered fragments, with the exception of that of Charles I., which remains a solitary, but lately, y, contrast to the ruin by which it is on all sides surrounded. The outer walls of the building are still standing, but for the most part in a very tottering condition the chair. or other persons, to become cautioners in the bail-bond Mayor said it was evident that considerable terror had required to be executed for the appearance of the accused been excited by the appearance of some than or men in the to stand trial, and placed in their hands the amount in outlets of the metropolis in disguise, and that a great deal money of the penalty to be paid in forfeiture by the flight of mischief might arise from a pantomimic display at night in and fugitation of the accused. Another charge was, from the first that the greatest exaggerations must have a retired and peaceful neighbourhood. But he thought that they had conspired to write threatening letters to been made, and he believed it to be quite impossible that the masters and managers. And that, in order to carry there could be any foundation for the report that this object into effect, they appointed a secret select com- the ghost performed the feats of a devil upon earth. He mittee, the names of which were kept secret from the also withheld his credence from the statement that so many general members, and are unknown to the prosecutor. ladies had been frightened to death, although he had been And that the prisoners were all members of the said asso- given to understand, from authority which he could not ciation in January, 1837, and were so at the dates of the question, that one of the female servants of a gentleman crimes libelled. The indictment then went on to relate who resided near his house at Forest hill, beyond Peckham, the facts, beginning with the strike of work in April, 1887. was a short time since terrified into fits by the sudden ap It charged Thomas Hunter, the President, with having pearance of a figure clad in a bear's skin.--Mr Hobler said he believed that in all probability the matter would one day proposed the secret committee, and the other prisoners end in a good ducking. The Lord Mayor hoped that the with having been present at the meeting, and concurring fears entertained would soon vanish altogether. He had the in the appointment of said committee. The charge of satisfaction to know now that he would have the assistance of murder was to the effect that, on the 22d July, 1837, the a barrister and an attorney, whose names and respectability secret committee, and the four prisoners, as parties, did he was acquainted with; and all he could say was, that if instigate M'Lean to assassinate a cotton-spinner, by two lawyers could not make a fool of the devil himself be(A laugh.) shooting him with a pistol, for the sum of 204.; and tween them, he did not know who the d-I could. (A laug accordingly, on the same night, M'Lean proceeded, armed with a pistol, and in Clyde street, of Anderston, TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE ROYAL Glasgow, discharged the pistol at the person of John Smith, residing in a tenement called Houldsworth's BarEXCHANGE BY FIRE.enwosis medt Since the destruction of the Houses of Parliament Londones racks, in Cheapside, of Anderston; and the said shot has not been visited by so calam tous a fire as that which took effect upon the person of the said John Smith, and broke out on Wednesday night at the Royal Exchange, f one of the bullets penetrated his back, and mortally the whole of that noble building there remains standing now wounded him, in consequence of which he died. The nothing but the charred and ruined skeleton. The structure letters then proceeded to charge the crime against all the itself is totally destroyed, and we fear the value rather than the actual amount of property consumed is beyond calculaprisoners. There were 38 documents and instruments tion. About half-past ten o'clock one of the watchmen of libelled to be produced on the trial; and 91 witnesses the Bank discovered the fire in Lloyd's Coffea-house, in the summoned on the part of the Crown, and 58 in exculpation. north-east corner of the quadrangle which constitutes the There have been three public meetings within these Royal Exchange. An alarm was immediately given; but, 56. few days, at which resolutions and petitions in favour of before any engines had arrived (and they were on the spot, the ballot have been adopted-namely, at Greenwich, we learn, with very little delay) the fire had caught the where Mr Barnard, M. P., declared his concurrence in northern side of the Exchange, and was burning with great the petition; at Cambridge, where Mr Pryme took a fierceness and rapidity. It was a considerable time before. similar part; and at Norwich, where the Mayor filled any supply of water could be procured, and even then there seemed to be great difficulty in reaching the fire, except from within, which we may term the court-yard of the Exchange. For a considerable time, as we were informed, it was found THE GHOST AT THE MANSION HOUSE! impossible to effect an entry. The gates were closed, and Some persons of the Waterford class appear to have been it was not until the fire had burned its way into the very amusing themselves for the past week or two at the expense heart of one side of the quadrangle that admittance was of decency and humanity, in various villages round London. obtained into the Exchange, and then, unhappily, the adThe Lord Mayor introduced the subject on Monday, at the mittance was of no use. The Lord Mayor, some of the.. Mansion house, by reading a letter, of which the following aldermen, and many of the most respectable citizens were is an extract:-"It appears that some individuals (of, as able to enter the court; but it was only to look upon the the writer believes, the higher ranks of life) have laid a progress of the ruin, which they were unable to arrest. Our wager with a mischievous and foolhardy companion that he readers are aware that the apartments of the Exchange, at durst not take upon himself the task of visiting many of the least the upper story, were separated from each other by villages near London in the three different disguises of a nothing more than thin partitions-the whole constituting a ghost, a bear, and a devil; and, moreover, that he will not quadrangular gallery of the extent of the building. It may are to enter gentlemen's gardens for the purpose of alarm- be easily imagined that the fire, when it had once caughton ing the inmates of the house. The wager has, however, hold of a portion of such a structure, spread with the most been accepted, and the unmanly villain has succeeded in ruinous rapidity. At twelve o'clock the flames had acquired depriving seven ladies of their senses. At one house he such an ascendancy that it was obvious that the whole struc rang the bell, and on the servant coming to open the door, ture must fall a prey. In the meantime Threadneedle street this worse than brute stood in a no less dreadful figure than was broken up, and the engines at full play; but the fire a spectre, clad most completely. The consequence was that seemed to defy the exertions of the brigade and the staffs of the poor girl immediately swooned, and has never from that the different insurance companies. The western side of the moment been in her senses; but on seeing any man screams quadrangle was already enveloped in flames, which were out most violently, "Take him away There are two spreading with so much rapidity as to justify the precautions o ladies (which your Lordship will regret to hear) who have of the inhabitants of Cornhill, who were removing their probut likely to become burdens upon their families." husbands and children, and who are not expected to recover, perty and effects to places of safety. The military from the The Bank had been called on at an early hour of the night, and Lord Mayor proceeded to observe, that he feared that one of though assisted by a large force of the city police, they were the seven ladies who had lost their seven senses was his found insufficient to preserve anything like order in such a correspondent. The letter was written in a beautiful and scene of fearful confusion. Not that the crowd displayed this lady-like hand. He hoped she would do him the favour of slightest disposition, either in their eagerness to gratify their a call, and he would have an opportunity of getting from her curiosity or through a worse motive, to embarrass those who yo such a description of the demon as would enable him to were engaged in the discharge of their very arduous duties.e catch him, in spite of the paid press and police. On the contrary, we have never seen so large a concourse of a On Wednesday the Lord Mayor again adverted to the people assembled upon such an occasion behave with more subject, and read several additional letters he had received. propriety or decorum. It was found necessary, however, to A Mr Thomas Lott (dating from Bow lane) writes: "In send a messenger to the Tower for an additional military 9289 YA A the neighbourhood of Hornsey, where I have a residence, force, and after their arrival, about half-past twelve o'clock, some scoundrel has been alarming the neighbourhood in the utmost order and regularity were preserved, At that We find in the Sun and the Courier of this evening the these disguises, and I heard yesterday, in our news-room at hour the fire had reached the southern side of the quadgreater part of the evidence in the important trial of the Guildhall, from one of the deputies, that the same thing has rangle, and the gallery of the façade was one blaze. In 2 Glasgow cotton-spinners, before the High Court of been played off near Kingston, and from a respectable Cornhill an abundant supply of water was obtained; but, Justiciary at Edinburgh, the verdict in which is most similarly visited. It is stated that some individual (gentle- was, it seemed to produce not the slightest effect in staying neighbour in Cheapside, that Hertfordshire has been even though thrown in the immense quantities in which it anxiously looked for. The proceedings were not con- man' he has been designated) drives about with a livery the progress of the fire. At one o'clock two sides of the cluded at the hour of post on Thursday.. The Lord servant in a cab, and, throwing off a cloak, appears in these quadrangle might be said to be totally destroyed, and the Justice Clerk had then been ten hours summing up, and frightful forms, and is to win a wager by the joke-if it be flames were rapidly mounting to the beautiful spire that... a joke, one that is very likely to produce the catastrophe rose over the entrance from the centre of the southern side. had not finished. No trial for a very long period has detailed in the letter addressed to you the other day, but The bells of the clock chimed half-past one, while the very str excited such deep interest in all classes, and this, we see, cannot be considered as fact."-H's Lordship next read from a moment-if one's mind could be divested of a feeling of deep ar which, till the writer comes forward and acknowledges it, frame-work in which they were set was on fire. At this is fully warranted by the disclosures made during its letter, of which he had also received the name of the dismay and regret the appearance which the whole edifices! progress. The opinion at Edinburgh was that the ver- writer:-"I will premise that I am an acting magistrate for presented was grand and imposing in the extreme. Three dict would be unfavourable to the accused; and no one this county, and a practising barrister. I mention this as a sides of the square were one mass of fire, while the flames can glance at the evidence so far as it has yet gone with- guarantee that I will not improperly trespass upon your were rapidly gathering round the cupola of the belly. To out agreeing in that opinion. We have no space to- Lordship's valuable time. Some few weeks ago an old the immense mass of people, who were literally wedged in night for extracts, nor do we wish, before the verdict is female domestic, now the wife of a decent tradesman at in the street, the fall of these old and well-known bells was delivered, to present an ex parte view of the case, but it Hammersmith, called upon me, and informed me that the matter of exciting interest. The whole octave of them is indeed matter of astonishment that the dark scenes and females of Hammersmith and its vicinity feared to walk we believe there were so many-were distinctly visible, and machmations which this trial will have revealed should abroad after nightfall, in consequence of the molestations of no little alarm was created by the prospect of their fall, it have continued so long undetected, while their conse- thought this to absurd for belief; but on further inquiry a ghost or monter to which they were exposed. At first I might be, into the very centre of the street. By a judicions, though not very legitimate, use of the engine hose, the popu quences have at at various times appalled the public. We ascertained that several young women had really been lace were kept at a prudent distance until the iron frame-Y subjoin an abstract of the indictment of the prisoners:- frightened into fits-dangerous fits, and some of them had work of the bells, reddening in the fire, broke from their ove This day the postponed trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter been severely wounded by a sort of claws the miscreant stauncheons, and the whole came thundering through the Heckelt, Richard M'Neill, James Gibb, and William wore on his hands. I expressed my surprise that the atten- building like the discharge of a park of artillery. One, howLean, cotton-spinners, for illegal combination, as. tion of the police had not been called to the nuisance. My ever, remained swaying to and fro, until one of the granite sault, fire-raising, and murder, was again brought for informant assured me that repeatedly their vigilance had pillars of the belfry was forced into the street with a tremen ward. The indictment set forth that several years ago been adroit enough to elude capture. I have that reliance the south side, were in a few moments enveloped in flames est been aroused on the subject, but the fellow or fellows had dous crash. The whole of the buildings under the arcade at -the precise time unknown-a great number of cottonon the witness I allude to, that I have no doubt she reported and at half-past three o'clock the eastern, the only remaining one spinners formed themselves into a combination for the facts."-The next communication goes a little farther. This side of the quadrangle was on fire. From the impossibility purpose of keeping up the price of wages; and, more is anonymous:"The bet is, however, understood to be of of getting any of the engines into Sweeting's alley, it was effectually to attain their object, they administered to an even more grave nature than is there stated, and, if it be useless to attempt to preserve this portion of the building; each other a secret oath binding the members to execute true, amounts to murder. As far as the writer has been and in less than five hours from the outbreak of the co every task which the majority might impose; and the informed, the bet is, that the monster shall kill six flagration there remained but a smoking mass of ruins in the said association resolved from time to time to strike women in some given time. It is asserted that he has been place of that Exchange which, since the reign of Charles 11. has been one of the most beautiful specimens of our metrost work, and on these occasions they appointed certain of seen in St John's Wood clad in mail, and as a bear." their number to be a guard committee to watch the cot. politan architecture. It would be quite impossible to foros ton mills where work was struck, and by means of me any idea of the quantity of property which has been destroyed. naces, molestation, and threats, to deter others from work From its nature and extent we fear the greatest and most complicated embarrassments must be produced. Nor can we ing in the said mills-of which several specific instances indulge a hope that any portion of it has been rescued. Of were brought forward; and, that the perpetrators of said the owners many reside in the country and all were 100 crimes might escape justice, they procured law-agents, distant to be available upon so sudden a notice. At one A very important disclosure appears to have been elicited at another of those meetings in Dublin where Mr O'Connell has been so gallantly opposing the trades' combinations. A Mr Connerry rose and said that, at a meeting of tradesmen, he and another, out of eighty work men, were the only two who reprobated the " slating system. Every man at work in the trade was obliged to pay three shillings and three-pence a-week to aid in slating persons, or rather "murdering their fellow-citizens.". (Exclamations of "Oh, oh.", Mr. O'Connell (to the Jast speaker)-You have given us highly important and alarming information. If you are not able to establish it upon oath retract it. Mr Connerry-I am able to prove it upon oath, and if the finger of scorn was not directed against me by M'Donogh I never would have divulged the circumstances. TE Saturday Night. Another, not anonymous, writes: "The villain mentioned After reading these various communications, the Lord a |