The arrival of three American packets—the Memphis, the Cambridge, and
the President—has put us in possession of accounts from New York to the 10th of July, and furnished some Canadian journals of a rather earlier date. There is no news of importance from the Canadas- meaning by turn's, fresh events ; but we continue to receive evidence°,f the general disappointment and indignation occasioned by the dcterme nation of the British Government to postpone legislation for the settle. merit of affairs in the two Provinces. The Montreal Herald, well known as one of the chief organs of the British party, notices the news by the Liverpool in a leading article ; of the spirit of which this ex- tract is a sample- " The intelligence brought by the steamer Liverpool, that the Canada ques- tion is to be postponed by her Majesty's Covernment till the next sessiottof, the Imperial Parliament, has excited extreme regret to all who desire the pros• perity of the Colonies, but it has neither surprised nor disappointed us. We are so accustomed to the Whigs breaking their most solemn pledges, evea violating the oat his of their Olive, and having resort to every species of mean- ties, and pettilbgging fbr the purposes of delay and of spinning out their core thillallee ill office', that nothing they can do fin' the sake of procrastination can at all astonish us. The next later date which we shall receive, will bring news of great importance, provided Lord Stanley does as he said at was his in- tention to do, on the Pith ultimo, the very day on which the Liverpool sailed— take the sense of the House its to the expediency of pledging the lime by resolutions to the principle of union between Upper and Lower Canada!' Should the House pledge itself in favour of a union, as we think it will, a great step will have been gained : and surely the Government is in possession of sufficient information regarding the wants and resources of the Camden, the elements of which its scattered population is composed, their various religions, and their two political parties, to be able, provided, it is willing, to suit the de- tails of the new constitution so as to be for the greatest benefit to the colony. If, however, Ministers prove as dishonest as heretofore, they will not hesitate to sacrifice any principle of the bill which they introduce, although they may be toe vineed of its correctness, provided the sacrifice of the Colonists will keep
hielm in their places." The British Colonist, am Upper Canada paper, published at Toronto,
speaks in the same tone- - It is difficult to account for the delay which the present ',Ministry require, tomcod the constitution of this country. They admit the necessity of a oe but they arc not prepared to say what that change ought to he. They ,„.--e'1017,p'osed to the proposals made by Sir Francis Bead, and are l'avourahle to the liews of Lord Durham ; but they cannot recommend the scheme of re-
laity to the Local Legislature, to the extent required by his Lordship, . . span
1 hough we have no intimation of the extent' to which 'Monsters do agree question of responsibility within the colony." with him on the a The proposal of Lord John Russell to postpone the settlement of the Canada question for three years, is the most disgraceful to the Ministry, rind the most discouraging to the Colonists, that could have been made: it has blasted al once the hopes of the loyal and well-dismsed, whit, it will scree as os encouragement to the corrupt and vicious to proceed in their finvner ways. If things are permitted to remain as they arc,' for three yeotrs longer, the party is power will have ample opportunity afforded them of finishing what they have undertaken for their own personal aggrandizement ; and by that time, when the principles of it constitution cone to be applied, the. worts of iniquity 101 have been so far completed. that scarcely a wreck of the country will be left worth looking after." Oar next extract is from the Toronto Examiner, a paper respectably conducted, and whose style is usually cation and argumentative. The editor entitles his article " Conduct of the Whig Ministry towards Canada," and prefixes the following motto from Mr. Charles Buller's speech- . But he would tell the noble lord more,—the resolutions would carry in them the germ of a responsible government ; for, let the Colonies be united, and a Responsible Government would inevitably In established by the people themselves."
The Toronto editor then proceeds-
,' We should fail to give expression to the feelings of the outraged and in- stilled people of this province, were we not to declare our bitter disappointment at the news brought l> the Liverpool, an abstract of which will be Humid else- where. It is with mob:Tiled regret that we have to announce, that the expec- tations very generally entertained of a reconstruction of the present Ministry base not been realized, and that the vacillating, imbecile alellnntrlIV Cal/inct still wields the destinies of the empire,—a Cabinet whist has can bse,,dly lust the confidence both of Parliament and of the People, rind whisli exists only by the sod:mace of the great opposing parties, neither of which are sufficiently strong to carry on the Government. If any thing could rouse the people of these provinces to an unanimous determination to insist on haying the manage- ment of their own local concerns, it ought to be the filet, that they are at pre- sent subject to the caprice of this paltry and contemptible Cabinet ; which, we feel warranted in asserting, is almost universally hated and despised by the two millions of people who inhabit these provinces, without distinction of party. Paltry mod contemptible as loos been the conduct of this Ministry on almost every subject, it is in their Colonial policy that they have exhibited their utter imbecility." " It is well the British Government should understand fully the precipice on which they stand. We firmly believe that the late proceedings in Parlia- ment have caused thousands who never dreamt of separation to contemplate each an event without repugnance. That this feeling will spread rapidly, if the present vacillating Ministry remain in power, we cannot doubt. It Is, how- ever, idle for us to warn the British Government. Lord Durham's Report has explained in the most forcible manner the present state of frefing in the Ca- nadas, and the danger of trifling with the people. Our belief is, that the motto of the Reform candidates at the ensuing elections will be • Lord Durham's Report or Amicable Separation.' For oar own part, we yield to no individual in these provinces in ardent attachment to British connexion, or in admiration of the theory of the British constitution. For this reason, we deeply regret to find it promulgated, that, as colonists. WC cannot enjoy the blessings of that constitution. The doctrine laid down by Lord John Russell involves the ne- cessity of separation at no very distant period. That held by Lord Durham, if fairly acted on, would insure a very long, possibly an eternal connexion, it can hardly be supposed by any reasonable man. whether he lie Tory or Re- former, that these important Colonies will very boor SI1111114 to hr governed by despatches tram Downing Street. adopted by an imbecile Mini,t ry at the sug- gestion probably of an Under Secretary. Such, we say, cannot long be the ease; and therefinas unless Lord. Durham's Report, whirls provides to s1 stein ofeoustitutiooal government, be carried coot, separation at no disbud day will
inevitably he de Merl."
A meeting of freeholders in the Township of Hamilton was sum- moned for July the 8th ; the object being a demonstration in favour of Lord Durham's Report. The party opposed to Reform, and win) ac- knowledge the members of the Family Compact as their leaders, gave an intimation in their organ, the Camay Star, and the assembly would be disturbed- " It may do for the advocates of rebellion to advise the hoisting of Durham flags and Reform banners, hut if ill:. ht• hoSt in the contests which must and will,Allow sach ill-adris.it p,:m.,c(lin.qs, ■% ill they take floe blame ? No, far from it : slinking at home, they will incite their blind followers, as 'Mac- kenzie did,"—C aboary Slaws The people met on the day mentioned, in the Market. Square, Co- bourg. The account. of what followed is taken front the Toronto Ex- aminer— "Soon after the people 11:1(1 begun to collect, when there were hardly to hun- dred on the ground, a banal of ruffians, numberine: about to clity-liv.e, armed with bludrons and stories, rushed forward to the .sca when:preloarations were making for the nuretina:, and where the flags were erected. The flags were the 'Union Jack, 'Durham and Re:firm,' and also we believe • Victoria.' These flags were torn to pieces; rood the remnants of the Durham one sent SS a trophy to Toronto ; a bonfire was then made of sloe seatfidding. G. G. Boswell, Esq., son of the llonourahle Walter Boswell, and cousin of G, M. Boswell, Esq., was severely wounded by a stone. The assailants were pre- pared by a pretty strong oloq: of intoxicating drink. Where, it will be risked, were Sir George Arthur's Magistracy ? We answer, looking on and coun- tenancing the assault. "Mr. Chatterton, the bloody author of the paragraph alcove quoted, a .1. P. and one of the Grand Jury which presented Lord Durham's Report as a libel, was looking on during the outrage ; as was also D. E. &Hilton, a member of the Board of Police, one of the netorious &Hiltons ! ! 1 After the riot, this Boulton w«s chaired hat the mob of ruffians. The above Acts are true, Will Mr. Chatterton be dismissed from 'the Magistracy. No, no ! lle has only done his (hay. He loss acted up to the spirit of his writings. And the Whig-Tory Ministry will support Sio• George : and the !dram/ London Spec- tator and Examiner and .1.111fast fl7tiy, &c. &c. will they notice these out- rages? Oh no! What care they ,Ar na,la. Who in England cares for
Canada Y "
The angry Toronto journalist, wl.ase spirit seems 'et have been ex- asperated beyond measure by the bad news from England and the out- rageous proceedings of his political opponents in the province, might have spared the Spectator, (though that English journal, like the rest of them, doubtless "load its own fish to fry," ) for we find in the very next paragraph a recommendation to read the .‘.+pectoter's articles on Canada- " Sear The art isles copied front the London Spectator are well worthy of perusal, and deep consideration. low long i s Canada to he trilled with? We shun devote at large portion of 0111' next Wcrk's impression to the opinio.fs of the press on the late Ministerial proceedings."
The Lewistown. Telegraph gives an account of two incendiary buntings near Queenstou—one, of the barns and outhouses belonging to Dr. New burn, at Stamford; and the other, the house and barns of Mr. Overhault, at Short Hills. Both properties 1 elonged to conspicuous Loyalists.
Lieutenant M‘Latre had captured Martin Kelly, alias Mills, said to have been concerned in the mail-robbery host spring, and in the burning of the Sir Robert Peel.
The American correspondent of the rates, who asSinneS the signa- ture of "A Genevese Traveller," but who is really an American gentle- man highs in the confidence of Mr. Clay, notices the Boundary question in his last letter- " On the Boundary question, the people of Maine are again becoming rest- less: but the great mass of the nation now fake a right view of the subject. Tiley consider it as exclusively muter the control and in the hands of the General Cotvernment ; and to tied si niece, and that mt•, do they look for the final adjustment of' existing difficulties On this point the public mind is now tranquillized; and therefore the time is auspkion., and ought not to be ne- glected, for an equitable and anoicalde artam;ament."
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