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Register of Warrants Office, Stamps, and Taxes,
October 20, 1838.

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LONDON :

SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1838.

THE CANADAS.
OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

Despatches were received this morning, at the
Colonial-Office, from Sir JOHN COLBORNE, dated

Montreal, November 18, which give as favourable

accounts as could have been anticipated of the events
in both Upper and Lower Canada. Sir JOHN writes,
in the greatest confidence, of the whole rebellion
being for the present completely at an end in Lower
Canada. He cannot, of course, answer for what
attempts may be made through the winter, and
the service of the troops will probably be bar-
rassing ; but he does not anticipate any second
formidable attempt, and his resources, he thinks, are
fully adequate to all the calls likely to be made on
them. On the whole his accounts of Lower Canada
are extremely satisfactory, and no necessity will exist,
we hope, to make any further demands on the re-
sources of the Empire.

With respect to Upper Canada the military view
is equally good. Let us first state, for the satisfac-
tion of Colonel YOUNG'S friends, that the report of his
having been killed, which was inserted from the American
papers, is totally destitute of foundation. Letters have
been received from him, which do not allude even
to his having been wounded. He has now the satis-
faction, too, of seeing his assailants, whom he was
unable to encounter with the few militia under his
command, completely routed. The despatches from
Sir JOHN COLBORNE fully confirm the accounts
derived from the New York papers, which will
be elsewhere found, of the defeat and dispersion
of the brigands by Colonel DUNDAS, who has
captured all their guns, and arms, and ammunition.
his success is the more pleasing from its having been
obtained without any loss, only one man having been
killed. The brigands, as was reported in the Ame-
rican papers, effected a landing, and Colonel YOUNG,
finding that he was unable to oppose them with
the few volunteers he had collected, retreated till
Colonel DUNDAS with the 83d came to his assist-
ance, when the discomfiture of the brigands was com-
plete. The spirit of the people in Upper Canada is
excellent, and 5,000 of them are in arms ready to repel
any future attacks. It is impossible to guard the long
line of frontier, and to attempt it would only fritter
away our military strength ; the troops therefore
are collected in masses, ready to march to any
point where a landing may be effected. We may
expect, therefore, with such a population as exists
on the frontier, notwithstanding Mr. VAN BUREN'S
proclamation, that frequent attempts will be made to
disturb the peace of Canada ; but we also feel assured,
that they will be promptly repelled and severely
punished.

The dispatches received from Sir J. COLBORNE,
will appear in an extraordinary Gazette, this evening,
which we shall publish in The Sun this evening in a
SECOND EDITION•

By the arrival of the Great Western steam-ship,
Lieutenant JAMES HOSKIN, R.N. Commander, last
night at Bristol, in fourteen days from New York,
whence she sailed on the 23d ultimo, we
have received files of New York and Canada
Papers, the former of the 23d and the latter
to the 20th ultimo, inclusive. The Great Western
had a stormy passage homewards. She brings
eighty passengers, and official despatches for the
Government from Sir JOHN COLBORNE. The news
from the Canadas is highly interesting and satisfactory,
as will be seen by a reference to the copious extracts
which we have made from the Journals. Though
considerable excitement, not unaccompanied with acts
of outrage, continues to prevail along the Canadian
frontier, yet the neck of the rebellion may be fairly said
to be broken—mainly by the promptitude of Sir JOHN
COLBORNE, and the gallantry of the native militia of
British origin, assisted by the QUEEN'S troops. The
~affair at Prescott on the 16th ult., though disastrous to
the Rebels, was attended with so little loss to the
Loyalists, as hardly to merit the name of a regular
engagement. All that is now wanted to restore tran-
quillity to the two Provinces, is the observance of a
strict neutrality on the part of the authorities on the
United States frontier. In the Canadas the Rebels
have neither camp nor locality in which to raise
the standard of revolt, but, like the progeny of Sin
and Death in " Paradise Lost," fly for shelter whenever
they are pursued to those frontier hot-beds of rebellion
in which their crimes were first engendered. The well-
timed proclamation of President VAN BUREN, com-
manding all citizens of the United States to abstain from
acts involving a breach of the neutral relations
between the Confederated States and Great Britain,
and directing all officers, civil and military, on the
frontier, to exert their authority to the utmost
in preventing and punishing violations of our terri-
tory, will deprive the bandits, calling themselves
" Sympathisers," of the pretence of being actuated
by motives tacitly sanctioned by the United States
Executive. We have no doubt whatever but that this
document will be highly approved of by Congress ;
and should it appear that the hands of the Executive
are not sufficiently strong to curb the brigands on
the frontier, we look with confidence to the strin-
gency of the measures which that body will
adopt, as an earnest of its regard for the rights of
nations, and of the amicable relations which it desires
to foster between Great Britain and the Federal Go-
vernment of the States. President VAN BUREN has
performed his part in a spirit of frank amity. He
leaves the Executive in Canada to deal with such of
the " Sympathirs " as are caught 111 411113, ac-

cording as it may think proper, without re-
gard to pretensions resting upon their claiming to
be citizens of the United States. His words are very
emphatic:--" I hereby warn all those who have engaged
in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that what-
ever may be the condition to which they may be re-
duced, they must not expect the interference of this
Government, in any form, on their behalf ; but will
be left, reproached by every virtuous fellow-citizen, to
be dealt with according to the policy and justice of
that Government whose dominions they have, in de-
fiance of the known wishes and efforts of their own
Government, and without the shadow of justification
or excuse, nefariously invaded." More than this we
cannot ask from the PRESIDENT. If more require to
be done, we must look to Congress.
We have some important news from Mexico and
Texas, the substance of which will be found
elsewhere. The Liverpool steamer safely arrived
at New York a few hours before the sailing of the
Great Western for Bristol. She left Cork on the
6th ult.

The subjoined letter from New York is so gene-
rally interesting, that we prefer inserting it here to
giving it among the regular intelligence :
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—1 wrote you on the 20th
inst., and have since received later advices from Canada.
The patriot force who were in the windmill at Prescott
have either been taken or killed.

I am informed that the Governor of Upper Canada
has ordered the prisoners (122) to be tried by Court
Martial, and their sentence to be executed immediately,
most of them are citizens of the United States, and we
are in daily expectation of hearing that they have all
been hung. Whilst we must all regret the shedding
of so much blood, nothing but summary proceedings on
the part of the British authorities will put a stop to
similar attacks from the lawless population on our side.
The notorious Bill Johnson has been arrested by
our authorities at Ogdensburg.

It is with pleasure that I inform you that the utmost
harmony exists between the British and American
officers on the frontier, acid that the acts of our mis
guided citizens who have invaded Canada ate univer-
sally reprobated by all those who have the least claim
to any respectability.
The Stock Market generally to-day was rather
lower, but the United States Bank, American Trust
Company, and Farmers' Loan Company shares, main-
tain their price fully. The United States Banks are
t)-day selling bills on London at 10 premium, and
offer to deliver bills, after sailing of the Great Western,
at 9 premium.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, Nov. 22.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
20 Shares United States Bank
40 do. Phoenix Bank
10 do Manhattan Bank ..

... 120
106

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10 do. National Bank
10 do. Bank of the State N. Y
625 do. Del. and Hud. Canal Co. 69 69),
43 do. Farmers Trust Co. ... ll3i 113,;
100 do. Vicksburg Bank 771 77,1
60 do. Ohio Life and Trust Co. lO2 10'?4
5 do. Planters' Bank. Tenn • 95
38 dn. N. Amer. Trust and Banking Co
59.9.1•
6L)0:21.1
45 do. East River Ins. Co.
150 do. Mohank Railroad
120 do. Paterson Railroad so:} 51
382 do. Haarlem Railroad 471 48
70 do. N. J. R. R. and Tans. Co loo}
80 do. Stonington Railroad 36 37i

Although the heads of the Post-office arc not doing
much towards promoting the extensive Reforms nece.s
sary in that department, the public will learn with
pleasure, from the advertisement in yesterday's Sun,
that they are not altogether asleep. After the 11 th
instant the General and Twopenny Posts are to be
consolidated within the three mile circuit, and greater
facilities will be afforded for posting, and, we hope,
delivering, letters than at present. The multiplication
of receiving houses seems connected with some plan,
as already recommended in this Journal, of sorting the
letters at the three principal houses on Cornhill,
Charing-cross, and Oxford-street, for there no letters
will be received after the 11th, because that " would
interfere with other duties." Though we hope the
delivery will be facilitated, we see no provision
for that purpose, and at present great, and, we think
very unnecessary delay, takes place in sending
round the letters and papers which reach the
metropolis by the day mails. It has already been
found out that very few letters go by the mails
which leave the metropolis in the middle of the day,
and we are not surprised at it, after learning from the
advertisement that letters to be sent by them must be
put into the Post-office before eight o'clock in the
morning. Between the departure of the night mails
and eight o'clock, the time is almost wholly given to
repose, and few or no letters can be written to send
by the day mails. If the hour of receiving letters
were ten o'clock, when the letters which arrive in the
morning have been an hour delivered, the advantages
conferred on commerce by the day mails would be
much enhanced.

In its further progress towards reform, the Post-office
seems likely to encounter much selfish opposition,
clothed in the garb of piety. A rumour has got into
circulation, that the Post-office proposes to forward
by the Sunday-night mails, the letters which reach
town by the Sunday-morning mails, on their route to
some other place ; whereupon some clerks are alarmed,
lest they should not be able to sleep so long as at pre-
sent on Sunday morning—some selfishly pious per-
sons forsee a conflict between their intense love of
gain, and their desire to set a good example by dozing
in church of a Sunday—and they predict, if once the
small edge of the wedge be entered, more letters will
be transmitted to London on Sundays—letters will
soon be received at the Post-office on Sundays, and
soon will be delivered—and thus, say these parties,
the Sabbath would be desecrated, and all kinds of
evils flow in, from diverting a small portion of public
attention from the Sabbath prayers and discourses of
the clergy. The bankers seem to take this view, and
the Memorial which they have presented to the Treasury
will be found in another part of The Sun. They
add, however, that the quiet and domestic comforts
of Sunday are mainly secured to them by the total
cessation of business at the London Post-office, and
for their quiet and comfort they are very selfishly in-
clined to sacrifice the ease and the accommodation of
all but the bankers of London.

The memorialists, however, may easily preserve
their quiet and comfort ; they have only to shut their
doors, and bar their windows, as at present, and order
all letters for them to be left till Monday. Nobody
will disturb them ; but if they do not choose to send
away and receive letters on Sunday, by what right do
they seek to prevent others from doing it, and ar-
resting here the whole circulation of letters—for the
coaches do not stop--for 24 hours, impeding business,
and keeping alive anxieties which the arrival of a letter
would relieve ? A Correspondent of the Times,
who is a non-communication man, lets us into the
secret of these gentlemen. The delivery of letters on
Sunday, we are told, would introduce among merchants,
bankers, and wholesale traders in London that same
misery which at present affects only certain classes of re-
tail traders, who are obliged totrade on Sunday, or lose
half their customers b:'cause their neighbours trade.
None of the bankers then would reject their letters on
Sunday, because, however rich any of them may be,
they cannot bear that a neighbour should obtain an
advantage ;and father than lose a customer, our pious
they are to inflict privations on others,
andtradelrosu,dreaasdy aar:
their hypocritical pretences about the
Sabbath, would sacrifice their most vauntedp rin.