The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

REPLY.

Gentlemen—l thank ynu for your congratulations on
my arrival in this province.

I trust that the information wilieh I shall acquire dur-
ing my stay here may enable trie to recommend such
measures as may promote the rigrieultural and commer-
cial interests of this important province. Among those
measures the re-union of Upper and Lower Canada
appears to me to be the most essential, and you have
been rightly informed that oue principal object of my
mission is to determine in what manner it can most
safely and most advantageously b e carried into effect.
That measure is recommended by r her Majesty's Go-
vernment, from a deep conviction that it will cement
the connection between these col, )nies and the parent
state, which it is the firm determit lation of her Majesty
to maintain inviolate, but to be of permanent advan-
tage, it must be founded upon principles of equal justice
to all her Majesty's subjects.
For this, and for all other misures having in view
the advantage of these provinces, I shall confidently rely
upon the support and co-opera:tion of the people of
Upper Canada.

We have had great pleasure in hearing that her
Majesty has been pleased to lend to the National Exhi-
bition about to open, two of th,e most distinguished
paintings of Wilkie—" The Guelilla Council of War,"
and " The Maid of Saragossa.' The kindness Will
be perhaps the more fully appreciated when it is known
that these pictures were in her ov vn private apartments.
THE WORKING MEN'S ANTI-CORN^LAW
ASSOCIATION IN KENDAL—This body announced on
Saturday last that a public mee• g would be held in
the Town Hall on Monday, for'thee •purpose of consider-
ng the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the im-
mediate, total, and unconditional: ropeal of the bread-
tax. The Mayor, Richard Wasorn. Esq., kindly, and
very properly, lent the Town-hall in the purpose, and
before eight o'clock the hall was so densely filled as to
exclude great numbers.' The Rev. Edward Hawkes,
minister of the Unitarian chapel; we is unanimously called
to the chairs and he delivered a spec ch replete with sound.
argument against this unholy impos .t. Several members
of the association followed, and it w Es proposed and car-
rice that a petition should be prepi cred. A great num-
ber of Chartists were present, who„-though they did not
directly oppose the proposition, ap.peLtred to wish to frus-
trate the laudable object by eroatiLig a division in the
minds of those assembled ; and they actually carried a
proposition for three cheers for the Charter. This done,
other three were given for the :sot orious John Frost !--
Lancaster Guardian.

PORK PlE.—The good people of Nottingham I
have long been celebrated for the ir love of this article_
So great was the demand for pork-pie in the neighbour- C
hood of Hockley, that one shop, noted for constantly ‘
keeping on hand a good article,. actually disposed of up-
wards of half a ton before eight o'clock on Christmas
eve.—Review.

On Christmas morning, a- Woman called Mary
Crossland, of Pontefract, was iso dreadfully burnt, by
her garment taking fire, tbalt after suffering- great
Agony, she died at eleven o'clock: in the forenoon,
The effect of the partial reduction of postage
in this town has been to incree ise tiic number of letters
by about one-third, the previous aierage number being
about 3,000 a week, while last: week they slightly ex-
ceeded 4,ooo.—Greenock Ada irliser..
BONNETS.—Amidst the general depression of
trade, it is satisfactory to learn: -that there is a consider-
able animation in this ancient branch of Kilm:lrnc.,ek
manufacture. A bonnet rant; facturer in town is at
present engaged in completing :an order of 12,000 boa
nets for seamen in the navy, b ding a Government cen-
t ract.—Kilmarnock Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY AG ES OF WITNESSES.-
Robert Lenox, Esq., of New York, was, on Fridiy,
the 20th inst, served heir in general and special to-I)is.
brother, the late James Ler:ox, of Dalscairth, before
the steward substitute of Kiiicuabright, and a respect-
able jury. The united ages 'of the three witnesses, and
three others present at the service, numbered 484
years ; two were 87, one 82, one 81, one 7.5, and one
71.--Scotch Paper.

LONGEVITY.—HeaIth and longevity are at this
time remarkably instanced in the pleasant village of
Wadworth. S:x men reside there whose united ages
amount to 493, leaving an average of 89— One of them,
John. Whitehead, aged 94, who walks in the dischergo
of his duty five or six miles daily, a fine, bale old man,
is the pinder.; and another, aged 77, is a freeholder and

farmer, who daily occupies himself in his farm, with the
energy of early manhood.—Doncaster Gazette.