There is no doubt of the sympathy of the Americans
with the in. surgents, and not much that they are prepared to render them effec. tive assistance ; as the following extracts from New York paperg will show- " At a late meeting in Buffalo, consisting of more than 400 persons, resolu- tions were passed sympathizing with the Canadians in their present struggle, and offering assistance to them in their emergency. There was to have been an adjourned meeting a day or two after, to hear an address from the Honour. able William L. Mackenzie, who was expected to be present." " Throughout New England and New York, the popular feeling is unques. tionably developing itself in favour of the Canadian insurgents, as they are called. The newspapers of this city are no accurate representatives of the state of public sentiment in that part of the country encircling the Canadas. This sympathy with the Revolutionists pervades both parties; but %then it shall be known that the Administration takes sides with them alio, it will give strength and intensity to the new sentiment. "In New York there are many secret movements going en in favour of the insurgents. Their recent defeats by the Queen's t:oops are reckoned as no. thing in the general chances of the contest. Many begin to believe that the British Government will agree ultimately to a separation from Canada, in pre- ference to the expenditure of blood and treasure which in the end will be thrown away without a purpose. Others again assert that the it authority in Canada will be maintained at every sacrifice, not for the intrinsic value of the province, but as a part of the great Colonial system of England. At all events, we see more trouble and excitement in this country, growing out of the war in Canada, than may be apprehended from all other questions put together. " We have every reason to know, that for the I ist week very active measures have been taken to forward armed auxiliaries to the Canadian frontier, there to abide the directions of those intrusted with the general detail of the insurrec- tion."
There was a rumour in New York, that the British Consul had applied to President Van Buren for leave to forward troops through the American territory to Canada. On this the New York Morning Herald remarks- " We confess, looking on the insurrection in Canada in, every point of view, we see in that affair a deeper, intenser interest, thin on any other public ques- tion of the day. If the popular sympathy of New England and New York should tun warmly in favour of the Patriots, or int:In-gents. (when they gain a battle it will he time to tall them Patriots,) we :ire iwr‘ttacled Mr. Van Buren would not hesitate one moment to plunge his country into a quarrel with Eng- land, provided he would thereby secure his power, and tutu the tide of the recent political revolution at the polls in his own favour and against the Whim. On a question of great national sentiment, such as that would he of the Cana- dian insurgents, the people would grow wild and unmanageable. All other questions—banks, finances, currency, &c.—would sink to nothingness. The reply of the President, therefore, to the application already made by the British authorities, asking for a passage for their troops into Canada, or demanding an explanation of certain secret recruiting movements in this city and in New England, will be looked for with peat paramount solicitude by the whole country."
About one hundred and thirty barrels of gunpowder, in the shape of butter-kegs, have been smuggled across the frontier for the use of the insurgents.
A Canadian bailiff entered a tavern in Champlain village, on a search for some Radical Canadians. The innkeeper allowed that there were
travellers in his house whom he did not know ; but lie refused to have his house searched ; whereupon the bailiff threatened to blow out his brains. The innkeeper was firm in his determination, and the officer had to leave the house unsatisfied. The bailiff had It party of armed men with him, which saved him from being attacked and well beaten for his insolence. It will hardly.answer for a foreigner to come into our territories, with whatever excuse, and attempt to treat our inhabi- tants as if they were under martial law. A few such outrages would send some thousands of Yankees tumbling into Canada, in a way that would furnish a striking specimen of what the Kentuckians call a " caution."—P/attsburg Whig.
There are several erroneous accounts in circulation respecting Brown, one of the leaders of the Canadian Insurgents. Some call him an Irishman, some a native of the United States. He is, in fact, a Nova-
Scotian; but has spent a considerable part of his life in the American state Vermont, where he failed about a year ago. Neither he nor Papineau are thought to have sufficient nerve to discharge the functions of military leaders, nor are they men of moral firmness. The real chief, the most determined spirit among the insurgents, is Dr. Wilfrid Nelson. The rumour in a New York paper that Papineau was in that city was purposely spread to put the British Government off the scent. Papineau is certainly in Canada. In fact, though M. Papi- neau's speeches produced the rebellion, the sudden explosion took that worthy person somewhat by surprise ; otherwise, he would no doubt have flitted such a convenient distance as would have enabled him to make a cool survey of passing events. But his friend Nelson, who knew his man, was determined to try the soundness of that metal which made such a brave noise.— Times.
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