Respecting the state of the eunuchs generally, and the reception
Governor Thomson was likely to encounter in particular, we quote the following from the Morning Chronicle's correepondence- " Canada is by no means its a quiet state. Internal troubles, doniestic quarrels, and the private griefs of men in high places, will afford Governor Thomson plenty of' work when he arrives. There is a tretnendous feeling against him, and an apparent determination on the part of the leading men to .drivelihn from'the province as speedily as possible; by :ennoyaeces and poky
'vexatione of various kinds." . •
Also, part of an abusive article from the Montreal Herald,* .1 "There was quite a hubbub in town yesterday. Potactt Thomson is Abe new Governor-General. The announcement has given general dissatisfnetioa. The merchants are displeased because Poulett Thomson has always advocated the reduction of the duty on Baltic timber. The admirers of Viceregal pool, and splendour look like men whose feelings have been mortified ; the ideate haviug a Governor-General of no higher pretensions than one of ourselves, Governor-General whose education, habits, associations, very fashion :pf thoughts and 1117.1111CYS, all exhibit the peculiar style of the Commercialitooes —tins is not agreeable to the class we have nanted. For ourselves, We are not so well pleased as we hoped to be with the new Governor ; but our reason for discontent is, that we fear Mr. Thomson hns not got sufficient of the right son of stuff in him—that stuff whence the destinies of nations receive-their impreo, If Mr. Thomson becomes as fioniliar with the real causes of Colonial evils as he is with theaelative qualities of Baltic and Canadian fir and oak and Norway pine all will end well. We hope that one who has passed his youth with n quill' behind his ear, noting accounts-current, copying letters, and surveyine logs in a timber-yard, will not turn out a Killer Log: nor, ins truth, is the id: ference that he will so turn out at all a fair one."
A new and impartial Lieutenant-Governor, and a dissolution of the Provincial Parliament, are earnestly desired by the Reformers in Upper Canada. Lord Durham is urged to use his influence in England for those purposes ; also to send unit the Appendices to his Report, especially " the masterly Report of the Commissioner of Crown Isands and Elm- gration,—not a ropy eg' eekiele," says the Toronto journalist, " has yet reached the province."
On the 24th of August, resolutions in favour of Lord Durham's Re• port, and expressing want of confidence in the House of' Aesembly, were adopted at a large meeting of the freeholders at Woolwich, in Upper Canada.
From the British Colonist, a paper published at Toronto, we perceive that the advice tendered by tins journal to the Canadians two needs ago, lots got into extensive circulation in the Upper Province. Our paper, " Help yourselves, People of Canada, and Heaven will help you, pub- lished in the Colonial Gazette of' the 14th August, has been copied into the Reform newspapers ; and what is better, our humble but decided and sincere advice is followed. There had been numerous meetings at Thorold in the Niagara District, and at Slincoe in Talbot District, in favour of Responsible Government and Lord Durham's Report ; and the Briliek Cbtonist says that, " thllowing the advice given by Ole London Colonial Gazette-, in the able article copied in the Colonist"— which advice, it is added, is in accordance with "tine decided opinionof many of the most loyal and influential inhabitants of the province"— meetings should be held ins " every township."—Cdouhtl Gazette.
Very heavy defalcations on the pert of some sills-agents of the Com- missioner of Crown Lauds have been brought to light. They have been going on many years. Thc total amount is little short of 10,e0the The people will soon be wide atea lee.— Toronto Examiner, September 11.
On the 26th ultimo, a shipment of fifty-eight Canada rebels was nrade on board the steamer British America ; and on the preceding day another shipment front Upper Canada of the same class of convicts was made on board the steamer St. George; all of V110111 Ore to be reshipped on board the transport Ilaffelo, bound to Botany Bay, for In.—Gene. vese Traveller, in the Times.
The Legislature of Newfeundland have passed a law offering .e reward of 5/, for every skin of a wolf killed in the province; and a society has been formed at St. John's for the especial purpose of destroy- ing wolves.
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