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THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1E33.

By the arrival at Liverpool of the packet-ship
Orpheus, in sixteen days from New York, we have
received Canadian Journals of the 15th, and New
York Papers of the 19th ult. From the Canadas the
news received is highly important. The flames of
civil war kindled by the rebels in the Lower Pro-
vince, have spread to the Upper, through the agency
of the " Sympathisers," whose appetite for plunder is
stronger than even their fear of the gallows. It will
be seen, from the copious extracts which we have
given in another part of The Sun, that a severe en-
gagement took place at Prescott on the 14th, between
500 of the rebels, and a division of the British
troops, in which the commanding officer, Colonel
YOUNG, lost his life. In the action the ,British having
conveyed their killed and wounded into a barn, behind
which they sheltered themselves, the rebels contrived
to set it on fire, when all within it were miserably
consumed. Re-inforcements arriving from Kingston,
the rebels were repulsed, but not without considerable
loss on both sides. In this instance there was no
rising of the inhabitants on the Canadian frontier.
The rebels were openly conveyed in two armed
schooners, and the steamer United States, from the
United States frontier on the 12th, in the presence of
a large concourse of people. One of the schooners
got aground, and the British steamer Experiment, a
small armed boat, in attempting to prevent any assist-
ance being rendered her by the United States steamer,
had six men killed and five wounded. On the other
side the steersman of the United States was killed,
and five rebels drowned. However application having
been made to the authorities, the United States
Marshal seized the schooners and the steamer on the
14th, and ordered them to be conveyed to Ogdensburgh,
where the crews will be prosecuted for a violation of
the law of neutrality.
These dreadful occurrences were foreseen, not only
in the Lower but in the Upper Province, long before
their commencement. We publish among our extracts
from the Canadian Journals, a Proclamation by
Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, in which his Excel-
lency says :—" I have learned from various sources,
more or less authentic, that regardless of the
friendly relations subsisting between her MA-
JESTY'S Government and that of the United States,
and stimulated by the worst passions and motives, a
number of American citizens along our whole frontier,
have formed a secret combination for another invasion
of these Provinces, and that preparations on an exten-
sive scale, for carrying this unprincipled enterprise
into execution, are at this moment in active progress."
In fact, from all that has yet transpired it is evident
that the " Sympathisers," as they call themselves, are
the principals in this rebellion. They supply the
arms, and they employ them in an invasion of our
territority. The rebel Canadians are too contemp-
tible a body to excite apprehensions, did we not know
that they serve in the capacity of tools to the avarice
and ambition of a horde of scoundrels along the
United States frontier. Of this the Federal Government
does not pretend to be ignorant ; but the President, in
answer to our remonstrances, points to the Constitution
which he cannot infringe, and which leaves him with-
out the power of effectually putting a stop to such
shameful violations of international law. We admit
the difficulties in the President's way to be very great.
Should he entirely fail to surmount them, we trust
we shall be held guiltless, if, in order to protect our
frontier from a hostile invasion whenever it may
suit the convenience of the frontier free-booters, we
charge ourselves with the punishment, according to our
interpretation of all hostile violations of the law of
neutrality. Our Government cannot, and will not
suffer an annual invasion of the Canadas, under the
pretext of warring as " Sympathisers ;" and we are
sure that the bulk of the people of the United States
would not tolerate such an enormity. We are con-
fidently assured that of the hordes that have taken the field
against the authority of her MAJESTY, her Canadian
subjects do not bear to the whole number the propor-
tion of one to twenty ! This statement, astonishing
as it may appear, is partially confirmed by two respec-
table United States Journals, now before us. The
Vergennes Vermonter, a frontier Paper, distinctly
states The insurgents were supplied with
arms from the United States Arsenal in this
city (Vermont). Those who have marked the
apparent anxiety of the President to preserve
inviolate our neutral obligations, will be surprised
at this assertion—but it is true." The New York
Courier and Inquirer of the 19th ult., in a long
article, condemning the culpable negligence of
the Executive, in suffering our territory to be
wantonly invaded, and our peace disturbed by a
horde of robbers and assassins, plainly says—.
"It is idle, in this matter, to affect conceal-
ment of the fact, that the present Canadian rebellion
receives its chief impulse and encouragement from

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the United States." These statements and admis.

sions of a fact now become notorious, entirely change
the complexion of the last insurrectionary move-
ments in the Canadas. That they will be effee-

tually crushed, we require no better security than
the presence of Sir JOHN COLBORNE and the
valour of the British troops ; but easy as the victory
over the Rebels and Sympathisers may prove, it is
plain that it would be still easier were the United States

authorities along the frontier obliged to do their duty.
As Congress is by this time assembled, we trust that
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our Government will take care to apprise that body,
through the Executive, of the necessity of taking
measures for preventing a continuation of un-

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provoked outrages on the part of the United
States citizens, which are unhappily calculated to
loosen the bonds of amity now subsisting between two
great and independent nations, to the prejudice of

both, and of the principle of civil and religious liberty
throughout the world.

The letter from Sir W. MOLESWORTH to his con-
stituents at Leeds, in another column, will reward Peru.
sal. Whatever may be Lord DURHAM'S objects, it
is quite plain that Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH,
who we hope does not speak his sentiments, is bent on
blowing the difference which exists between the Noble
Lord and the Ministers into a violent quarrel. Ac-
cording to Sir WILLIAM the Parliament was pro-
rogued with breathless haste to the latest possible
period, to prevent Lord DURHAM from making the
disclosures which he had hurried across the Atlantic
to make. Public impatience will be on tiptoe till
Parliament meets.

The average price of wheat fur the last week is
735. Id., or, 3d. lower than last week. The average
for the six weeks, however, is 71s. 6d., or Is. 3d.
higher than the average of the previous six weeks.
The duty is now 6s. Bd.; and next week, or the week
after, it will again be at the nominal duty of ls. At
Haverfordwest the price is 645.; in Denbighshire
80s. 10d. ;—the 16s. 10d. difference denoting rather
the difference of quality in the wheat sold, than the
cost of conveyance between the two places.

The Herald accuses our yesterday's statements of
being uncandid. Our Contemporary has misunder-
stood or not read them. We never implied or meant
to imply, or insinuated, as our Contemporary says,
that the men of the North are bent on repealing the
Corn-laws. We know they are not ; and have fre-
quently expressed our regret on the subject. We do
not, therefore, look for a combination between the men
of the North and the men of the West to repeal the
Corn-laws ; they prefer starving and chasing after the
dismal dream of a great organic change. Nor did we
say, or mean to imply, that the men of the West
looked to the men of the North for assistance to repeal
the Corn-laws. The views of both go, we believe,
beyond that point. They have now suffered so long,
and so much, that the men in the West, as in the
North, have lost all faith in our institutions ; and the
rural population—the prime pets of the Parsons and
the Squires—are, we believe, as ready to cheer the
steel-and-lead doctrines of Mr. STEPHENS, as the
artisans of Manchester and Birmingham.

The scheme of Reform which the Committee of
the City of London Corporation Reform Association
have been employed upon for some time past, has
now been brought to maturity, and will be found in
another part of our Paper. It was submitted to the
consideration of the Association at a very full meeting,
on the 29th ult., when a long discussion arose on the
first proposition, which was ultimately adopted with
only three dissentient voices. The other propositions
will be examined seriatim, until the whole plan has
passed the ordeal, and received the sanction of the
general body.
It will be observed that it differs in some respects
from the plan laid down for the regulation of the Eng-
lish Municipal Corporations under the late Act for the
improvement of these Institutions. In some particu-
lars it is more democratic, in others less so,
than that above-mentioned, but upon the whole
it appears to have the advantage on the side of libera-
lity. It affixes a qualification of 101. house-rent to
the franchise ; but why this is thought necessary in
the city of London, and not in Bristol, Liverpool, and
other large cities and towns, we cannot tell. Its ten-
dency is to narrow the constituency. It may, how-
ever, have little or no practical effect that way, as there
cannot be many householders in the City who pay less
rent than 10/. per annum ; and there is no accompa-
nying clog, of rates and taxes to be paid up, hung
round the necks of the electors. The municipal con-
stituency, therefore, while it embraces all the Parlia-
mentary electors, will also take in those whom the
Reform Bill excludes from political privileges, for their
sins against the tax gatherer. We highly approve of the
suggestions that every person qualified to be an elector
should be deemed free of the City without the pay-
ment of fees, and that an end should be put to those
rights of trading which are now carried on by a portion
of the citizens at the expense of the rest. The mean-
ing of this article (the 3d) would have been more cor-
rectly awl clearly expressed if the words " that such
persons" had been used, instead of " and who." The
triennial election of the whole body of Aldermen is
decidedly better than the triennial election of a por-
tion, with the privilege of holding office for six years.
We should indeed have been glad if the office of Al-
derman had been altogether abolished. It appears to
be worse than useless, even after all the trouble the
Association have taken to render it harmless. It w

be seen that an amendment—which we trust w

be defeated—is to be moved on this article. The ob
ject of it is to introduce the mode of Aldennanic elec.

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lion established by the Municipal Act.
The equalization of the wards is a matter of course ;
for without that, and a great extension of the franchise,
all the other projected improvements would be mere
moonshine. The abolition of all qualification for any
office, beyond that required for an elector, is highly
proper. We are persuaded that property qualifications
for office wherever they exist, are mischievous. They
inevitably lead to fraud, and often to perjury. Their
effect on the public interest is like that which was pro-
duced by the vile Test and Corporation Acts, which
effectually excluded from the service of his country
the conscientious Dissenter, but opened the door of
office wide enough to the knave who had neither con-
science nor principle of any kind.
There may, perhaps, be some doubt as to the pro-
priety of adopting the eleventh proposition as it stands
at present. It seems to us that its effect would be to
multiply Justices of the Peace too fast—unless, in-
deed, it is understood that an Alderman is not to ex-
ercise magisterial functions when he retires from office.
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Our limited space precludes us from pursuing this
subject farther at present, but we intend to resume it
on an early day.
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We understand that the Colonel YOUNG mentioned
in the American accounts of the attack on Upper
Canada is an Unattached Officer in Canada. He
was sent to organize the militia, and the presumption,
therefore, is, that no regular British troops were en-
gaged on the occasion, and that the American ac-
counts are not implicitly to be relied on.

There is no news of any interest in the Paris Jour-
nals of Tuesday. The Brussels Papers mention a
rumour, which was current in the Chamber of De-
puties in that city, of another attempt having been
made upon the life of the King of the FRENCH.
For ourselves we attach no credit to it. Some in-
teresting particulars relative to the final settlement of
the Hollando-Belgic question will be found in our
City article. We have no news this morning from
Spain.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, DECEMBIR 4,
Five per Cents.. 1091 93c. 11Cf. 109 f. 9Cc. 95c. 90c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 1061. 50c.
Three per Cents., fill. 45c. 40c.
Bank Actions, 2,715 f. 2,70 f. 2,725 f.
Rente de Naples, 10If. 45c. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents. 101)04,
Spanish Actives, MAN:.
Spanish I'assives,3
Belgian Bank, 1,4601
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 20.
Ilaytian Loan, 410 f. 400 f. 403 f.
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Three
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hpApsae: erp.
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en:C73Br: :1..45457 ey,
money,2sl 2.527 ci.sc
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 110 f, 20c.
Actions 2.725 f.
ROlnans, tots,.
Belgian Bank, 1 4tlsf.
Spanish Actives' lgs
Spanish Actives,
Portugue,e Tile' 3
Hamar, Three Per Cents., 20.
an. 405 f.

mouttis
THE MILITIA. --------Th
arru-:eour of its being the in-
the circumstances
tention to call out the militia
n respecting that
of some new regulations in conte
body. It is the intention to increaseP
serjeant, a corporal, and a drummer to ee staff, and to have a
drill them, and render them fit for duty, thirty. men, to
require. It is rumoured that a third at' the moTsio.n may
to be called out in the spring of next year for 1 itia is likely
n
to be exercised, a third the year following, and one month,
the remain
ing third in the spring of the succeeding year.

THE EARL OF DURHAM.

We have just received the following report of the
Earl of Durham's answer to an Address presented
to him by the Corporation of Exeter, yesterday, in the
Guildhall of that city :
" I receive with feelings of deep gratitude the Address
with which you have honoured me. Your cordial expres-
sions of sympathy and approbation, so truly characteris-
tic of that spirit of justice which ever governs the con-
duct of Englishmen, are most cheering, and inspire mo with
a confident hope thatyour fellow-subjects in British America
will receive from the people of England that support and
countenance to which they are so eminently entitled.

" I am proud to say that my administration of affairs
in British America won me the regard and con-
fidence of all the loyal, well-affected, and enlightened
classes in that vast country.
" My course of policy has been to administer strict
justice, but not blood-thirsty vengeance—to respect the
rights of all classes, but at the same time to endeavour to
raise them still higher in the scale of freedom and civiliza-
tion—to apply temperate, but sure remedies to all abuses--
and, finally, to enter upon such a course of legislation
as would not leave untouched or unredressed any well-
grounded complaint or grievance.
" You know, and have adverted to, the circumstances
which compelled me to terminate this course of action.
They are, indeed, deeply to be deplored ; and the late in-
telligence from Canada shows how injuriously the best in.
terests of the empire are affected by proceedings founded
on party feeling and political animosity.

" That these lamentable events in Canada would inevit-
ably take place was foreseen by me ; and every preparation
was made, consistently with the means at my disposal, for
meeting them vigorously and efficiently. But their per-
manent suppression, and the impossibility of their recur-
rence, must depend on the Government here, who have
been long apprised by me of the certainty of their oc-
currence, and on the British Parliament, which cannot—

must not—shrink from the fullest and earliest inquiry into
a question which regards not merely the lives and pro-
perties of so large a portion of her Majesty's subjects, but
the highest and most important interests of the empire."

SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH TO
THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS.

(From the Devonport Independent of Saturday.)
DEVONPORT, DEC. 1, 1838.
FELLOW CITIZENS,—I have just returned from one of
the most numerous aed enthusiastic meetings that 1 ever
attended. It was held in the Town Hall of this important
and populous borough, for the purpose of congratulating
Lord Durham on his safe arrival from Canada. One
feeling pervaded the assembled crowd ; and that was admi-
ration of his humane and liberal policy in Canada ; of his
eloquent and able exposition of his views with regard to the
Government of that Province ; and' of his manly courage,
when thwarted in his projects by faction and treachery at
home, in at once throwing himself on the people of England,
and from them claiming that support which the ignoranco
and self seeking policy of our rulers had denied him.
You cannot doubt that I sincerely sympathised with that
meeting, as, on the appointment of Lord Durham, I had
expressed, in the House of Commons, in my own, and like-
wise, 1 believed, in your name, firm conviction, that amongst
all our Statesmen he was the one best qualified to restore
peace and tranquillity to Lower Canada, by reducing the
people of that province to a state of contented allegiance ;
that he alone could avert the disasters with which our
country was menaced at the commencement of the present
year, and could save us both from the horrors of a civil war,
and from an equally deplorable contest with men of our
own race,—with the high-minded citizens of the United
States. In this belief I have neither wavered nor been
deceived. The course that Lord Durham has pursued, and
the measures that he has proposed, have won him the good
will and approbation of all the more intelligent inhabi-
tants of North America, whether citizens of the neigh-
bouring republic, or subjects of the British Crown. The
confidence of the latter he has completely gained ; and
on him alone they now place reliance to make known
their interests and their wants, as yet unknown to the
Imperial Legislature, and by appealing to the sound sense
and sympathies of the British people, to obtain for them
many and much-needed reforms. They look forward, with
eager expectation, to the next meeting of Parliament ; and
I would call your attention to the strange fact, that since
it was known that Lord Durham had arrived in a part of
this kingdom, before, however, the tremendous storm
would permit him to land, the Ministers, with breathless
haste, postponed the meeting of Parliament to the latest
possible period, without waiting for the disclosures, to
make which he had hurried across the Atlantic, and which
universal and not unfounded rumour, declared to be of
immediate concern to• the integrity of our empire. Truly
may it be said that they are determined, at what cost to
the nation they care not, to hide as long as possible
from the public the full proof that awaits of their folly
and incompetency.
The opinions that I have formed after much and carefu

reflection, and the information that I have received within
the few last months with regard to Canada, make me be-
lieve, that when Lord Durham shall lay his plans before the
two Houses of Parliament, I, for one, shall be able to give
them my most cordial support ; and that all real Liberals
will be equally able to rally round the Noble Lord, and
with justice acknowledge him to be their leader. The in-
habitants of this populous town have acted wisely and well
in greeting him, as such : they have set an example, which,
I trust, will be imitated by all, who, despising faction and
free from sinister interest, have but one political object,
namely, the steady advancement of progressive Reform.
I cannot but hope, that you, my Constituents, than whom
none in this great empire are more enlightened as to the
objects of good government, or more eager for their attain-
ment, will cordially approve the conduct of your Repre-
sentative in supporting, both against the open attacks of
manly foes, and the base machinations of false friends, a
Statesman, to whose conduct on many occasions, and to
declarations in the present one, I can point in order to
show that in addition to his other claims on the public, be-
sides his acqaintance with the commercial interests of this
empire, and his enlightened attachment to the sound prin-

ciples asserted in the old saying " Ships, Colonies, and
Commerce," he is likewise favourable to those improvements
in our representative system, the support of which in no
small degree induced you to confer upon me the honour of
being your Representative.

Your obedient, and humble Servant,
WILLIAM MOLES WORT

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE I'RICES OF BRITISH CORN,
Fer the Week ended NON. 30, 12.38, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors m the diferent Cities and Towns in England and Wales, Per
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat 73s. ld. 1 Oats
8ar1ey......... 331 7d. 1 Rye
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE !IX WEEKS
PRECEDING.
Wheat......... 71s. 6d. Oats
I
Barley 33s. 10 Rye
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat......... 6s. Bd. Oats
Barley l2.s. 4d. I R Iye