The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-30 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE EARL OF DURHAM.

(Fr ,rn the Quebec Mercury.)
On Sunday forenoon the telegraph displayed the signal for
a line-of-battle ship within sight of the lower station, and
about noon her lofty canvass was seen towering above Point
Levy with signals flying from the mast head, from which it was
speedily ascertained that the noble vessel was lu.r Majesty's
ship Hastings, kving on board the Earl of Durham, Go-
vernor-General, Vice- Admiral, and Captain-General of all
her Majesty's provinces within and adjacent to the continent of
North America, with his family and suite. The wind blew
fresh from the East, and the Hastings stood on under easy
sail till she atrive.l nearly opposite the Queen's Wharf,
where she let go her anenor. The fine band of the 7lst
Light Infantry Rae upon the quarter deck, and, es the
ship passed the town, played the Air of " Rule Bri-
ta,nia" with powerful effect. The glacis of the citadel,
garden walk, and grand battery, were crowded with spec-
tators, expecting that the Noble Earl would immediately dis-
embark. It was, however, soon made public that his Lord-
ship would not come on shore till Monday at two o'clock, and
orders were issued to receive the Governor-General with all
honours due to his rank. The appearance of the weather
yesterday, about noun, indicated an afternoon of heavy rain,
and the disembarkation was postponed till this day at the same
hour. .

" His Excellency having determined on disembarking
this day, the military preparations wera accordingly made,
and a little after one o'clock the two battalions of Guards
posted a Captain's guard of honour at the wharf, and a second
at the Castle of St. Lewis, the streets being lined by
the remainder of the battalions from the landing.
place to the Castle. Shortly before two o'clock his
Lordship left the Hastings, which was dressed in her
colours, and fired a salute as the barge pulled from the ship.
The yards of the ilialabar, Inconstant, Pique, and Racehorse,
arid of the surveying schooner Grilnare, were manned in com-
pliment to the Governor-General, who was received on the
Queen's Wharf by h:s Excellency Sir John Colborne, Com-
mander of the Forces ; Sir James Macdonald, Commander
of the Garrison; and the whole of the military staff and heads
of departments. The Guard of Honour saluted as soon as the
Governor-General set foot on shore, and a salute of -19 guns
were fired from the citadel.

" His Lordship now mounted his horse, and, attended by
the Lieutenant-General, the Major-General, and the numerous
military cortrge proceeded to the Castle, the ladies following
in an open carriage.
" The Executive Council and the Officers of the Civil Go-
vernment were in attendance at the Castle, and his Lordship
on alighting immediately proceeded to the Council Chamber,
and took the oaths of office. The termination of this ceremony
was announced by a second salute of 19 guns from the salut-
ing battery on the Cape.
" His Excellency was dressed in military uniform with sil-
ver lace, and wore the collar of the Bath. He appeared in
good health. He was loudly cheered dismounting and upon
leaving the Castle.
" The streets were thronged with spectators as were the
wharves of the Lower Town, and the Place d'Armes, and the
promenade between the Government Gardens."
Immediately after taking the oaths, the following proclama-
tion was issued by his Excellency :
" DURHAM.
" By his Excellency the Right Hon. Joha George Earl of
Durham, Viscount Lambton, &C. &c., Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the
Bath, one of her Majesty's Honourable Privy Council,
and Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Captain- Ge-
neral of all her Majesty's Provinces within and adjacent
to the continent of North America, &c. &c. &c.
" A PROCLAMATION.

The Queen having been graciously pleased to entrust to
me the government of British North Arricrica, I have this day
assumed the administration of affairs.
In the execution of this important duty I rely with confi-
dence on the cordial support of all her Majesty's sub-
jects as the best means of enabling me to bring every ques-
tion affecting their welfare to a successful issue, especially
such as may come under my cognizance as her Majesty's
High Commissioner.
The honest and conscientious advocates of Reform and of
the amelioration of defective institutions will receive from me,
without distinction of party, races, or politics, that assistance
and encouragement which their patriotism has a right to com-
mand from all who desire to perpetuate and consolidate
the connection between the parent state and these important
colonies ; but the disturbers of the public peace, the violaters of
the law, the enemies of the Crown and of the British empire
will find in me an uncompromising opponent, determined to
put in force against them all the powers, civil and military,
with which I have been invested.

In one province the most deplorable events have rendered
the suspension of its representative constitution unhappily
a matter of necessity—and the supreme power has devolved
on me.

The great responsibility which is therefore imposed on me,
and the arduous nature of the functions which I have to dis-
charge, will naturally make me most anxious to hasten the
arrival of that period when the Executive power shall again
be surrounded by all the constitutional checks of free, liberal,
and British institutions.

On you—the people of British America—on your conduct,
and on the extent of your co-operation with me, will mainly
depend whether that event shall be delayed or immediate. I
therefore invite from you the most free, unreserved commu-
nications. I beg you to consider me as a friend and arbi-
trator, ready at all times to listen to your wishes, complaints,
and grievances, and fully determined to act with the strictest
impartiality.
If you, on your side, will abjure all party and sectarian
animosities, and unite with me in the blessed work of peace
and harmony, I feel assured that I can lay the foundation of
such a system of government as will protect the rights and
interest of all classes, allay all dissensions, and permanently
establish, under divine Providence, that wealth, greatness,
and prosperity of which such inexhaustible elements are to
be found in these fertile countries. _ _

Given under my hand and seal at arms, at the Castle of St.
Lewis, in the city of Quebec, in the said province of Lower
Canada, the 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1838,
in the first year of her Majesty's reign.
(By command) C. B UL LE R, Chief Secretary."
The passage across the Atlantic was a most delightful one,
and Lord Durham and family were in excellent health and
spirits during the whole of its continuance. The total num-
ber of his Lordship's family, suite, and servants on board the
llastings, is sixty-one.
(From the Quebec Gazette.)
The following circular was yesterday addressed by the
Chief Secretary of his Excellency the Earl of Durham, to the
different members of the Executive Council :

" Castle of St. Lewis, Quebec, May 31, 1838.

" Sir,—l am directed by his Excellency the Governor-
General, to acquaint you that it is not his intention to con-
tinue the Executive Council according to its present composi-
tion, and that your services, therefore, will not be required
for the present.
" His Excellency has come to this determination not from
any feeling of dissatisfaction with the. conduct of that coun-
cil or any of its members. On the contrary, his Excellency
particularly directs me to express his high sense of your ser-
vices and his esteem and. respect for yourself personally. But
his Excellency deems it essential for the objects of his
mission that during the temporary suspension of the Constitu-
tion the administrator of affairs should be completely inde-
pendent of and unconnected with all parties and persons in
the province.
" Dissensions and animosities have naturally, during the
course of the late unfortunate events, been carried to such an
extent that the necessary abstraction from all party feeling
cannot be expected from any who have been participators in
the struggle on one side or the other.
His Excellency believes that it is as much for the interest
of yon all, as for the advantages of his own mission, that his
administrative conduct should be free from all suspicions of
political influence or party feeling ; that it should rest on his
own undivided responsibility ; and that when he quits the pro-
vince, he should leave none of its permanent residents in any
v.ay c:)mmitted by acts which his Government may have found
it necessary to perform during the temporary suspension of
the Constitution. NI, hen happily the time shall have come for
the re-establishment of constitutional government, the diffe-
rent Powers composing it will return to their natural state,
and be confided to those whose station in the province and
personal character entitle them to the confidence of their
Sovereign and their country.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,

" Your most obedient humble servant,
- (Signed) CHARLES BULLER, Jun., Chief See."

(From the New York Daily Express of the Bth.)
Letters from Quebec state that a reward of 4,000 dollars
would be offered for the discovery and arrest of the pirates who
destroyed the Sir Robert Peel.
We understand that a hearer of the dispatches arrived in
this city yesterday, on his way to Washington, having left
Nlnntreal ,ince the date of our last papers, reports that Sir
John Colborne, with his staff, has gone to take command of the
forces in Upper Canada, a movement that seems to indicate
apprehensions of something serious.

ATTACK UPON BRITISH OFFICERS AT
DETROIT.
( From the Sandwich Herald.)
Colonel Hill, Captain Sparke, and Lieutenant Robinson,
of the QUetnl.3 Light Infantry, in full uniform, accompanied
by Dr. Dawson, surgeon of the regiment, in plain clothes,
went over to Detroit about noon, on Friday, and whilst
walking through the streets were assailed repeatedly by
the c:y of " Tory I Tory 1" from individuals, and also by
disgusting and ahu.iive language, and were thrice pelted with
.:tones, evs, and mud, of which they took not the slightest
notice. On their a/rival at the wharf they found that
the ferryboat had just left, and they accordingly had to
wait its return, and therefore took another stroll through
thc.. streets. On their return a second time to the wharf,
Captain Sparke was struck tw ice with eggs, which broke on
h back ; and'On his turning to cross the street to where Col.
Hill and Lieut. Robinson were standing in a store at the
corner of the street, opposite to the ferry wharf, a man pushed
purposely against him, and struck his sword, which the man
construed into an alTrunt from Captain Sparke. A mob of
twenty or thirty scoundrels immediately collected, and closed
round the officers, and used most disgusting, insulting, and
brutal language, evidently with the view of provoking them to
draw their swords, which, had they done, there is not the

slightest doubt they would all have been murdered. The
officers behaved with the greatest forbearance, and, at Colonel
Hill's request, went quietly on board the ferry-boat; but in
turning to do so, Captain Sparke was kicked by the cowardly
rascal, who first pushed against him; sererel eggs were also
thrown at the officers when on board of the boat, one of which
passed close to the head of Miss Mason, sister to the Governor,
who, with other ladies, and Captain Rowland, of the Brady
Guards, came on board the boat as she was pushing off.
Only one individual, a respectable-loaking person, standing
in the store with the officers, attempted to interfere in their
behalf, and repudiazed the conduct of his fellow citizens. He
having seen the man wantonly push against Captain Sparke,
expressed his opinion freely to that effect.
Captain Grant, late of; the Royal Cavalry of Sandwich,
was present at the affray, and exerted himself very' handsamely
in favour of the officers, and openly expressed his indignaton
at the brutal conduct of the " free and enlightened citizens of
the greatest republic in the world."
Another officer, Lieut. Cameron, of the Queen's Light
Infantry, who had been sent on th.:! 17th with dispatches
to AmhertE,burg, on his return last Sunday morning in the
steamer General Porter was grossly insulted and pelted
with stones and mud whilst proceeding- on horseback from
the landing to the ferry-beat. Lieutenant Cameron was in-
formed that the man who led the mob on Friday and Satur-
day was a fellow named Appleby, ci decant captain of the
I piratical steam-boat Caroline, and now of the steam-boat
I Constitution.