The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-23 00:00:00

It is a tricoloured flag, with two stars. After listening to addrcss:s by
a couple of patriotic gentlemen, they marched out of the city, we be-
lieve, to Black Hock.

It was confidently stated last evening that the command of the expe-
dition had been offered to Mr. Van Rensselner, proprietor of the Albany
Advertiser, and by him accepted.
The Eagle, during the whole evening, was crowded with patriots, and
some of our racist worthy citizens, who ventured to remons:rate upcn the
proceedings, had their mouths stopped almost by force.
(From the Courier and Inquirer, Dec. 2:3.)
We learn from the papers of the Upper Province, that since the affair
at Montgomery's Tavern, strong parties of the Loyalists have been con.
s'antly scouring the country, and bringing in prisoners. Some sixty of
the Montgomery Tavern insurgents have been :united ; their Captain
is said to be one lctorkdale, a citizen of the United States, son.in.law of
Jesse Lloyd, for whose apprehension a reward of 5001. is offered. It is
stated on the authority of prisoners that the number of armed insur.
;tots never exceed 300 The seizure of lillienzie's papers has led
to several arrests ; among others of Douce David Thorburn, " Primo
and Genitor," M`Mirking, Price, an attorney, Charles Durand, of
llamilton, and others of less note. The number of able.bodied Loyal-
ists who had mustered at Toronto between the 4th and the 12th inst.,
is estimated by the Pa.riots of that city at 10,000.
Volunteer forces from Buffalo have occupied Navy Island, at the
foot of Grand Island, near the Ca•sada shore, and at the last accounts
were throwing up entrenchments, and had already mounted six pieces
of cannon. They were engaged in procuring ammunition and camp
equipage ; and balls were casting for them at Buffalo.

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TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1838.

NEWS FROM CANADA.

By the arrival of the New York packet-ship Virginian
yesterday, at Liverpool, we have received New York
papers to the :27th ult., bringing very important and inter-
esting news from the Canadas. The war in Lower
Canada is now over ; the insurgents of Grand Brule
having surrendered, with every token of repentance,
while at St. Eustache they suffered a severe defeat. The
Correspondent of the Montreal Courier states that the in-
surgents had 60 killed, and that hundreds are supposed
to have "perished miserably" in the vaults of the Church
which was set on fire by the QUEEN'S troops. Besides the
Church, which was strongly fortified by the insurgents, the
troops set fire to the prif'st's house, a nunnery, and the
houses of all suspected of Radicalism in the town. This
is a frightful way of carrying on war—one which must sow
the seeds of bitter recollections in the breasts of the most
loyal of the Canadian people. With St. • Eustache
fell the last fortress of the rebels in the Lower Province.
In Upper Canada APKENZIE, with a handful of fugitive
followers, has taken possession of Navy Island, which
he was doing all in his power to fortify. He
is reported to have six pieces of cannon, and to
receive supplies from Buffalo. Navy Island is situated in
the Niagara, is not more than a thousand acres in extent,
and stands on the very borders of the United States.
In the mean time Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD has greatly
increased his popularity by releasing his prisoners,
and granting a free pardon to all who will lay
down their arms, except such as have been guilty of
murder, robbery, or arson. With the exception of
. the fugitives pent up in Navy Island, the whole of the
Upper Province is perfectly tranquil. We are glad to
observe that the tone of the Royalist journals in the
Lower Province is exceedingly temperate. We an-
ticipate the speedy restoration of general tranquillity.

Up to the hour at which we write (a quarter to three
o'clock), the Government has received no despatches from
the Canadas. Official communications from the Governors
of the two Provinces are momentarily expected.

Mr. ROEBUCK was heard at the Bar of the House of
Commons last night, as the Agent of the House of As-
sembly of Lower Canada, against the passing of the Minis-
terial Bill fur suspending the Constitution of that Province.
The Learned Gentleman made a very able, and a very
temperate speech, which was listened to by all parties in
the House with profound attention. He failed, however,
in making out a case to justify th© _He
in appealin g
to physical force against the supreme authority of this
country.; and, what is still more surprising, he completely
disproved the statement of Mr. HUME, in his third letter
on the affairs of Canada, respecting the refusal of the
supplies by the Legislative Council, and not by the
House of Assembly. The Learned Gentleman frankly
admitted, that in 1834 the House of Assembly did
come to the determination of granting no supplies until
their grievances were redressed ; and that such grievances
not having been removed in 1835, the Assembly again left
the officials to shift for themselves, by repeating their re-
fusal of supplies for that ysar also. Now, the very redress
of the grievances demanded by the House of Assembly
could not be effected without an abrogation of the very
Constitution of which Mr. RoEBUcK last night maintained
the inviolability. The Constitution of 1791 does not re-
cognise the elective principle in the composition of the
Legislative Assembly, and yet the House of Assembly
refused to grant any supplies before that co-ordinate
branch of the Legislature was rendered elective ; or, in
the simplest terms—before the Imperial Parliament
consented to the abrogation of the Constitution ! When
Mr. ROEBUCK stated th-tt the quarrel was purely of a finan-
cial nature, he must have entirely forgotten the list of
grievances set forth in the ninety-two Resolutions, upon
which he himself laid so much stress on former
occasion. The other speakers who followed Mr. Rol:-
Bucit threw no new light on the question before the
House ; but, as the debate was adjourned over till this
evening, it is probable that the Tories will try what they
can make of it. We shall to-morrow enter more fully into
the merits and demerits of the Ministerial Bill, of which
most certainly we arc no advocates. The w bolo scheme
of the Government for the pacification of Ca-
nada is based on unsound principles, and threatens
to be conducted in a spirit as vaccillating, and, therefore,
as pregnant with future danger, as was the policy pursued
towards the Colonists for the last seventeen years. In the
Government Bill, we in vain look for a solution of the

problem—how the Canadians are to be convertod from in-
surgents, to a loyal and contented people ? We see how
the body is to be reduced to obedience, but no indications
are given of the means by which the will is to be chastened
and subdued.

The two notices given by Sir ROBERT 1?vEl. lad
night are so ominous, and so significant of the feelings
of that party of which he is the head, that they demand the
earnest attention of all the friends of peace, and of all
those Reformers who expect as much from the Tories as
the Whigs. It is his intention to !novo in Committee on
the Canadian Bill, that the clauses which enable the Go-
vernor-General to call upon the electors of Lower Canada to
send ten delegates to represent their interests in the Coun-
cil shall be omitted, and also to move the omission of the
cl tuse by which her MAJESTY in Council may suspend
what may be justly called an arbitrary act. The two no•
tices of motion are so inconsistent, and if successful, must
lie so injuris-lis both to loyalty and to the character of the
Legislature, that we are utterly at a lois to conceive
his object. He would give the SOVEREIGN arbitrary power
to do evil, and take from her the power of doing an
act of justice and mercy. Without the first clause
her MAJESTY's representatives in Canada may tell the in-
habitants " 1 will summon a Council to deliberate on the
state of the country and remodel its Constitution, but I
will have men of my os'n choice, The Legislature has
declared that you have no right to send representatives,"
If the second is omitted her MAJESTY in Council may say
The conduct of my subjects in Canada entitle them to my
warmest acknowledgments, but 1 cannot make a re-
turn for their loyalty by suspending a despotic, though
necessary law, because Parliament has deprived me
of the power." Perhaps no two measures could place
the Crown and the Parliament in such an odious
ttatlana might well say—The whole position, and the C:1
proceedings mark, more than the purest. despotism—
the British Parliament has deprived us of our privileges,
and it has deprlved the Crown of what every despot pos-
sesses—the prerogative of mere-,1 Let not the Tories be
deceived by the public feeling lisplayed against the Caw.
dian insurrection. The people of England eannot sowaetion
rebellion, but they are the last people in Ow world to
sanction iujustice and oppression. It soch is the line of
policy to be adopted temaiJs 'Canada, then there will
be two powerfkil parties in this country, arrayed against
paph other, and we shall have all the misprio. oc a pro-
tracted war, without honour if, 7,vivc.:tsiAlAL. awl covered with
disgrace additional debt, if, by arbitrary
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the colonies should be separated from the rnoth.ev

We are obliged to pa,sol i4a-marrow the pub-
lication oceitr-AG4 frJru 'Vrend, German, and Lisbon pa-
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