The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-18 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 16.—At a congregation on Wednesday
h ~st, the following degrees were conferred :--
MASTERS or, ARTS.
Rev. Thomas Baker, St. John's College.
Rev. Robert Stewart Dobson, St. John's College.
Rev. Frederick Charles Allfree, St. John's College.
William Lawson Barnes, St. Peter's College.
_Rev. Joseph George Cumming, Emmanuel College.
BACIIELORS IN CIVIL LAW.
Edrvard Zouch Palmer, Trinity College.
Thomas Golding, Trinity Hall.
A grace also passed the Senate " to affix the seal to a re-
newed bond to the parishioners of the Holy Trinity for the
annual payment of 141., due in respect of Wray's Charity."
The Rev. Henry Kitchingman, ono of the Senior Fellows
of Clare Hall, has been presented by the Mastcji and Fellows
'of that Society to the Rectory of Patrington, York hire,
'vacant by the death of the Rev. John Mansfield.
On Monday last, Francis Sheppard, B. A., Scholar of
Clare Hall, in this University, was elected a Fellow of that
St )ciety.
The Rev. William Key, M. A., Fellow of St. John's
Coi.lege, in this University, has been elected to the office of
Pr,lncipal of the York Proprietary School, lately established
in t hat city.
The subjeet of the Seatoinan prize poem for the present
year, is 4, Ethiopia stretching out her hands unto God."—
Psalm lxviii. 31.
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Hereford has been pleased
to appoint, the Rev. Mr. Romilly of Trinity College, the
Rev. Professor Robinson, of Trinity College, and the° Rev.
Mr. Croft, of Christ's College, his Lordship's domestic chap-
lains.
meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Mon-
kly evening last, Professor Peacock, the Trcasuser, in the
chair. Communications were made by Mr. Green, on the
Retiexion and Refraction of Light in non-crystallized media ;
—Jay Mr. Rothman, consisting of observations of Halley's
Cornet, made on the gate tower of Trinity College from Sep-
tember 20 to October 27, 1836 ;.---by Mr. Hopkins, en Pre-
cession .and Nutation, assuming the interior fluidity of the
Earth.

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The Earl of Hillsborough has taken tht
mansion of Sir George Talbot, Bart., for the season.
Lord and Lady Rivers are entertaining a numerous
and distinguished party at Mistley Hall, Essex. Baron Gers •
elorf (the Saxon Minister), Dowager_ Lady Rivers, the Hon.
.Horace Pitt and the Hon. Misses Pitt are of the party.
Sir Thomas and Lady Munro arrived at Farrance's
hotel, Belgrave-street, on Saturday, from Scotland.
The sudden illness of the Countess of Chesterfield
weeented her Ladyship proceeding on the intended tour.
The Earl returned from Melton Mowbray in consequence.
We are happy to add that her Ladyship was better yesterday.
Mr. Wigram, the Chancery Barrister, who offered
himself for Leominster in the Conservative interest, has re-
mitted one hundred pounds to he given away amongst the poor
of that borough.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset gave a grand
dinner on Saturday to the following compare( :—The Earl and
Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady Mary Talbot, the Marquis
of Douro, the Dutch Minister and Madame Dedel, Sir F.
Burdett, Mis 3 Burdett, Miss Coutts, and Mr. Rogers.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will leave
Stafford House in a few days, to pass the Christmas at Oat-
'ands, with Lord and Lady Francis Egerton.
The Duke of Portland is at Welbeck Abbey. A
numerous circle will partake of his Grace's hospitalities at
Christmas-
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort intend to give
a grand ball at Badminton shortly after Christmas to the No-
bility and Gentry of Gloucestershire and the neighbouring
counties. Among the party invited to pass the Christmas at
Badminton are—The Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Duke
of Wellington, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Mr.
and Lady Georgians Codrington, Lord Eltenborough, &c.
The Marquis of Westminster and Lord and Lady
Robert Grosvenor will leave town to-morrow for Eatzu Hall,
in Cheshire. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor left Eaton
Hall in the preceding week, for Motcombo Hall, in Dorsetsbire.
The Marchioness of Downshire and the Marchio-
tem of Bristol are lately added to the list of influential Vice-
Patronesses to the Royal Belgrave Lying-in Institution, and
Miss Burdett Coutts has forwarded a liberal donation, with in-
:lnfliction to place her name as life-governor to that rapidly-
increasing and useful charity, of which her Grace the late
Duchess of St. Alban's was a generous supporter from its
formation in 1832, when her Royat Highness the Duchess 64'
Kent kindly became the Patroness.
Dr. Warneford of Moreton, has liberally pre-
sented the sum of 1,000/. for the establishment of iiiedical
prizes in the Medical School of College, London.

ALARMING NEWS FROM LOWER

CANADA.

(From the New York Express of the 23d and 24th.)
ARREST AND RESCUE OF PRIEONURS.—Canadian affairs are
at length approaching a crisis. This morning we received the
Montreal Herald of Saturday morning, and a slip from the
Montreal Courier of Saturday evening. Both papers give
an account of the arrest and rescue of several individuals
charged with high treason and open rebellion. Six persons
were arrested at Montreal on Wednesday evening, by the
names of Andre Ouimet, George de Boucherville, Tavernier,
Dubec, Le Blanc, and Cymar. The Royal Montreal Cavalry
were ordered out on the same afternoon on a secret expedition,
and owing to the shortness of the notice, only sixteen were at
the muster. They were dispatched under the command of
Lieut. Ermatinger to St. John's, with warrants for the appre-
hension of three individuals, and, immediately after their ar-
rival at their destination, they succeeded in arresting two,
Dr. Davignon and Mr. Desmarets, the postmaster ; the third
individual resided across the river at St. Athanase, and as
they had positive orders not to cross the bridge, his ar-
rest was not attempted. The two prisoners were hand-
cuffed, placed in a carriage under the immediate charge of
Melo, a constable, and the whole cavalcade left St. John's for
Montreal, via Chambly and Longueuil, about four o'clock,
A. 11., Thursday morning. "On Friday morning," says the
Montreal Herald, from which we gather most of our infor-
mation, " when about a mile from.the village of Longueuil,
the cavalry came up to a body of several hundred armed
men, who were stationed behind a log fence, evidently pre-
pared for their arrival, and apparently disposed to interrupt
their further progress, and to rescue the two prisoners.
About sixty men of this multitude wont upon their knees,
so as to take a deadly aim, when Male called out, Do not
fire.' and the command was given to the cavalry to halt,
which was, fortunately, promptly obeyed, as a considerable
portion of the enemy's lire, given at the same moment,
proved ineffectual, owing to their anticipating the con-
tinued advance of the troop. The cavalry then wheeled
about and discharged their pistols amongst the crowd, and
it is reported with some effect, as several were supposed to
be killed or wounded. The little band of volunteers provi.
dentially escaped with but comparatively speaking slight
injury, three only being wounded, Lieutenant Ermatinger in
the face, Mr. Sharpe in the leg. It is extraordinary that
every individual of the corps was not cut to pieces, the dis-
parity of numbers being so great. Several of the horses
were wounded severely, owing, it is supposed, to the rebels
tiring so low. A bullet passed through Mr. Molson's cap,
slightly grazing his head, and a portion of the side of Mr.
Arthur Farquhar's cap was shot away. In effecting their re-
treat, the carriage which contained the two prisoners was
overturned, and it is supposed that these individuals were
wounded by their own partisans. The horses were so fatigued
with their lung ride during such tempestuous weather and over
such bad roads, that they were of little service to their riders
in assisting their retreat, during which the balls were whizzing
about their cars as plentiful as they were, luckily, ineffectual.
The party arrived at Montreal about one o'clock on Friday,
and three companies of the Royals were immediately dis-
patched to what may be more emphatically styled the seat of
war; a dispatch was also sent to Lord Gosford detailing all
the particulars of the affair, and recommending, we believe,
that that portion of the province where the affrayb took place
should be declared under martial law."

Continued from the Herald of Saturday :—" We have just
learned that the volunteer cavalry, who had been sent to arrest
several traitors over the river, and had succeeded in securing
two of them, were yesterday morning attacked by a large force
of habitans, and obliged to leave their prisoners behind
them. As the law must be vindicated, a sufficient force will
of course be dispatched:to search out the rescued traitors, and,
if possible, re-capture them."
In Quebec, too, additional arrests have taken place, the
chief victim being A. N. Morin, Esq., advocate, once De-
puty Ambassador of La Grande Nation Canadienne at the
Court of St. James's.
Tna CIIIEF OF Tile REBEL GANG TAKEN.—Arnable NOl%.
beth Morin, director is chief of the seditious and treasonable
proceedings of the Permanent and Central Committee of
Quebec, and chief spy of the Montreal faction, was lodged in
gaol this morning on a similar charge to that on which Jos.
Legare, Pierre Chasseur, Eugene Trudcau, and Barthelemi
Lachance were arrested. A. N. Morin was committed until
Saturday, when he will be further examined.—Quebec Morn-
ing Herald of Wednesday.
Sir John Colborne has called in the pensioners and the
old soldiers, who are willing to serve, both to enter on imme-
diate active service.—Popuiaire.
We learn from the Courier of the 17th, that the parties
arrested in Quebec were Messrs. Chasseur, Legate, La-
chance, and Trudeau—the first being the printer of the
Liberal. The editors of that paper, Messrs. Bouchette and
Hunter, had not been arrested, as was reported here on Monday.
The charge against the parties arrested is for unlawfully
and seditiously contriving, &c., to disturb the Queen's peace,
bring her Government and person into contempt, and alienate
the affections of her subjects. Mr. Legare was a justice of
the peace, and had been dismissed.
Two companies of the 24th Regiment, from Upper Canada,
arrived at Montreal on Wednesday last.
A number of the inhabitants of St. John's, Loyalists, have
enroll themselbes as a corpse of volunteers, ready to act in
concert with the military as occasion may require.
We published some days since, an account of the troubles
in St. Cesaire, and the determination of a portion of the in-
habitants to sustain Mr. Chaffers, the magistrate, in main-
taining the Queen's authority. It seems, however, that the
malcontents have proved the stronger. A meeting was held
on Sunday at the Church-door, at which resolutions were
passed, declaring that no more courts should be held, or
warrants issued. _ _ .

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Mr, Chaffers was notified of this on Monday, whereupon

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he declared the courts suspended, and the district in a state
of rebellion against her Majesty. His life and property were
threatened.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE LATE
BLOODSHED, &c.
( From the Montreal Courier of Monday.)
Between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday morning a
body of troops set out for Chambly, under Lieutenant- Colonel
Wetherall. Four companies of the Royals, a party of the
Royal Artillery with two field pieces, under Captain Glasgow,
and from 16 to 20 of the Montreal Volunteer Cavalry, under
Captain David, formed the detachment.
The spot where the attack was made on Friday upon
the cavalry is, as we now learn from parties who have
since gone over the ground, from two to three miles out
of Longueuil. On arriving at this place, the detachment
found the waggon on which the prisoners had been con-
veyed, lying by the roadside, a dead horse in the road,
and tracks of blood in the field where the assailants had been
posted, from which it would appear that some execution was
done by the fire of the cavalry, previous to their retreat.
The houses and barns by the road side, from which the
cavalry had been fired upon in their retreat, were all found
with the doors and window-shutters nailed up. A careful
search was, of course, made ; but though the fires were still
burning in some of them, there were neither weapons nor
inmates to be found in any. The party then proceeded
along the road, finding the houses, with one or two excep-
tions only, deserted, and uniformly without arms in them.
Scouts were frequently seen mounted, and riding down the
several concession roads to the main roads; but on sight of the
troops they uniformly started off again. An individual who
was met upon the main road stated that as he came along he
had seen numbers of men, women, and children, leaving the
houses along the road, and going off, right and left, the men
mostly armed. About six miles from Chambly a man was
overtaken on the road armed. When arrested, he admitted
that he had turned out to join a party that was designed to
intercept the troops. About a mile further, the cavalry, who
were a little in advance of the main body, gave chase to a
party of about thirty armed horsemen, who they saw at some
distance before them, and who made off immediately at full
speed, turning to the left up a concession-road towards the
Belleisle mountain. After a mile and a half of hard riding,
most of them took to the woods, while the remaindev made
their escape along the road. A company of the infantry
coming up, were then ordered into the bush, the cavalry
being drawn up along the edge to cut off such as might be
driven out.
Some twenty or thirty shots were exchanged, with what
effect on the rebels is not known ; aid two prisoners, named
Mongeau, father and son, and four horses, were taken. None
of the soldiers were hurt. The elder Mongeau, when taken,
was armed with a horse-pistol, the younger with a fusee.
Both had a supply of ball-cartridge, a part of which they de-
clared to have been served out to them by Dr. Kember, of
Chambly, one of the missing heroes of the revolution, whose
present locale is by many shrewdly conjectured to be south of
line 45 degrees. On arriving at Booth's taveris, not far from
Chambly, a party of about one hundred men wore found posted
just beyond the bridge ; but they made off so fast as the
troops came up, that only four of them were taken. The
party reached Chambly with their seven prisoners a little
after sundown. From the general statements made by the
prisoners, it is evident that a very large body of men had
been called out to oppose the troops, and that courage, rather
than numbers, was wanting, to induce them to attempt it.
The two Mongeaus, we understand, are identified as having.
been of the party that fired on the cavalry on Friday. The
two Magistrates and the Deputy-Sheriff returned on Saturday
night to the city, The troops, with their prisoners, who are
placed in separate confinement, remained at Chambly.
We may now look every day for intelligence of the utmost
importance. Virtually the whole neighbourhood in which
these events have occurred is already in a state of war. It
cannot be long before it will be regularly declared to be to all
intents and purposes under martial
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The arrests in this city, of whose nature we spoke with some
little uncertainty on Saturday, we have since ascertained to be
for high treassll, as they ought to be. The arrested parties
are all in separate cenfinettent. Those who were taken in
arms on Saturday are, of curse, all guilty of treason also.
Since the six arrests on Thqrsday evening, three others have
been made in Montreal, all for the same crime. On Friday
evening Mr. Joseph J,ettore and Dr. B. Lionais, both of St.
Athanase, made their appearance in town, much to the sur-
prise of their captors, and were speedily committed to gaol, as
much to their own surprise. On Saturday, Mr. Louis Michel
Vigel, President of the Banc du Nuple, was quietly lodged
in the same building, in consequence, it is said, of some pecu-
liarly heavy charges against him, relating chiefly to the finan-
cial concerns of the party. If the half of what is currently
believed he true, some startling disclosures may shortly be ex-
peeted of certain means by which the
sinews of war" have
been asipplicd to aid in the proeurenteot of arms, and other
matters, contraband of war.
A gentleman direct from Montreal says that the persons
;eat arrested have given hnpgrt4nt information so important,

indeed, that Sir John Colborne is of opinion that no more
blood will be shed. Knowing, as he believes he does, all the
ringleaders, measures will be pursued which he thiaks will
put a stop to all further agitation.
The Courier of Monday says that the work of royal orga-
nization goes bravely on in all parts of the city. From the
highly satisfactory replies of the Governor, and Commander
in-Chief, to the request for a general military organization of
all loyal citizens for the defence of the city in cases of emer-
gency, it may be confidently expected that Montreal will very
shortly be in a condition to spare almost every man of the
regular troops now in garr:son there, should they be wanted
for the defence of the more scattered loyalists through the
country.
The Halifax Journal of the 6th instant, received yesterday
morning, states that orders have been issued by Sir Colin
Campbell for the 43d regiment, stationed at New Brunswick,
to proceed by land to Lower Canada. The 85th regiment,
in garrison at Halifax, is ordered to replace the 43d in New
Brunswick.