has been received from Canada and Bands of marauders, consisting
of from 50 .to 100 each, and composed of Canadians, Americans, and Europeans, mostly Irish, give the Government in Upper Canada much annoyance. One of these bands attacked a body of ten or to elve lancers, who were sleeping at a tavern near St. John's, in the district of Niagara. It was about three o'clock in the morning of the 21st of June, when the soldiers were alarmed by shots fired into the house. They attempted, sword in hand, to force their way through the assailants; but were overpowered, and taken prisoners. After- wards, however, they were set at liberty. On the 25th of June, a considerable body of troops, despatched from Toronto, attacked and dispersed the " patriots," as they called themselves, and took some of the ringleaders prisoners. A proclamation by Sir GEORGE ARTHUR admits that there are numerous bands of brigands, shel- tered by the disaffected inhabitants on the Canadian frontiers. A body of 600 Indians was, it is said, in the pay of the Provincial Government ; and some of the private letters mention the circum- stance with regret.
Colonel GREY, despatched by Lord DURHAM to Washington, returned to Quebec with assurances of the most friendly and active cooperation with the British authorities in putting down disturbances on the frontier. A joint naval force is to act against the pirates in the St. Lawrence, under the command of the Eng- lish Captain SANDOM. It is said that the American authorities have hunted all the malecontents across the line into Canada.
There was a report at Toronto that Lord DURHAM had been recalled. For " recalled ' substitute "resigned," and perhaps the rumour may be only premature. At home, the Governor-Gene- ral is not only assailed by the Tories with all the bitterness which might be expected from the lifelong hostility that has subsisted between the parties' but he receives no honest, hearty support, from the ungrateful Ministers whom he serves. Yet the task lie has undertaken would be most arduous, with all the cooperation and aid that could be rendered him by the Downing Street people. Wanting this support, he would be justified in throwing up his commission; which, indeed, we have always thought that Lord DURHAM manifested more of chivalry than of selfish pru- dence in accepting.
President VAN BUREN'S Sub-Treasury Bill has been rejected in the House of Representatives, by a vote of 125 to 111, notwith- standing an unprecedented use of Government influence to secure its passage.
A joint English and American commission is to be appointed to tviplofetthe boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. le4ftif from Mr. FORSYTH, Secretary of State, to Mr. WILLIAMS,
Senator from Maine, states that the object of the commission is ts test the correctness of the assertion of the Legislature of Maine "that the line described in the treaty of 1783 can be found anti traced, whenever the Governments of the United States and Greet Britain shall proceed to make the requisite investigation, with 8, predisposition to effect the desired object." It is to be hoped that the line will be discovered, and the question thus finally settled. In the United States Senate, Mr. CLAY had assumed a rather warlike and threatening tone when speaking on this subject.
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