Accounts from Quebec, to the 5th of June, have been

received by way of New York. The dissolution of the Executive Council was mentioned last week. Lord DURHAM immediately consti- tuted a new Council, consisting of the following individuals— The Secretaries of the General Government ; viz. Charles Buller, Esq., 31.P., Chief Secretary. T. E. M. Tortola, Esq., Secretary. Colonel George Cowper, K.H., Military Secretary. The Provincial Secretary.

The Commissary-General.

His Excellency also made these appointments—

To be attached to the High Commission—Lieutenant-Colonel the Honour- able Charles Grey, her Majesty's 71st Regiment Light Infantry. To be Inspector-General of Hospitals, and of all medical, charitable, and literary institutions in the province of Lower Canada—Sir John Doratt

Knight, M.D.

The Quebec Gazette contains a proclamation dated the 2d of

June, offering a reward of 1,0001. to "any person or persons who shall identify and bring to conviction before any competent tri-

bunal, any person actually engaged in, or directly aiding and " the attack on the steam-vessel, the Sir Robert Peel. mation also states that the Governor-General will " lose appealing to the Government of the United States to

vindicate its own honour by avenging the insult which has been offered to their authority by a band of lawless pirates, and repair. ing the wrongs which have been inflicted on her Majesty's subjects."

An addres4, agreed to at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Quebec, was pi eschted It L:1(1 DURHAM on the 4th of June. From this document we take an extract- " Your Excellency finds tie country impoverished, public improvements re. tarded, enterprise scarcely existing. :toil emigration impeded and discouraged.

With what feelings of how rn,v e not look forward to a happy change under your administration ! and we hail the future with mostpleasing anticipations, looking to your Excellency's ,tinent as an earnest of better times, particu-

larly gratifying to us after so m any years of suffering under the feudal and obsolete laws of times long gone by.

" That a nobleman of such eminence in the councils of his Sovereign, and of such independence, should have the patriotism to cross the Atlantic for the

purpose of undertaking in the hour of danger a government of no common diffi- culty, will, we are certain, honourably stamp your Excellency's name in the annals of your country."

Lord DURHAM'S reply was characteristic of its author—frank and friendly.

" Gentlemen—I thank you most sincerely for this kind and friendly address. Following, as it does, the cordial reception which 1 experienced on my first landing on your shores, it gives me true satisfaction ; for it convinces me that I may rely on your support and cooperation in the accomplishment of the ar- duous task which, in obedience to the commands of our Sovereign, I have ven- tured to undertake.

" I earnestly request you at this crisis, so important to the fate of your country, to lay aside all party feeling and political animosity. Let your wisdom and good sense be manifested by restraining the violent, by encouraging the moderate, and by setting the praiseworthy example of charitable forbearance. You will thus enable me to proceed without hindrance in accomplishing the great objects of my mission, and placing in a permanent state of security those interests in which you are so deeply concerned. I shall thankfully receive from you' and from all her Majesty's subjects in these provinces, any information which you can, by personal and individual cominunication, afford me; convinced as I am, that an intercourse thus freely and unreservedly, but at the same time cau- tiously and peaceably conducted, can only teed to our mutual advantage, to the promotion of your iuterests, and to the success of my administration."