The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-16 00:00:00

LOWER CANADA.

The official Gazette of Thursday contains a Proclamation
by his Excellency Sir John Colborne, proroguing the Legisla-
ture of this province to the 19th of April next, but not fur
dispatch of busimp.—Montreal Courier, March 19.
The following officers errived at Rasco's Hutcl on Saturday
and yesterday :
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, Lieutenant Townshend,
Lieutenant-Colonel Cox,. Major Mackenzie Fraser, Major
Campbell. Lieutenant-Colonel Horton, Captain Peridar, Cap-
tain de Rottenburgh, Assistant Commissary-Generals Irving
and Raynor, and Mr. Atkinson.
(From the Quebec Gazette.).

DISGRACEFUL OUTBAGE.—Several letters have been re.
ceived in town, which mention that en officer of the Royals,
when proceeding with dispatches from his Excellence the
Commander of the Forces to the American General ( Wool),
was grossly insulted and assaulted in passing through At-
bough and other places in the road to the General's head-
quarters. The fury of his dastardly assailants was Fitch that he
narrowly escaped Lynching, for the execution of which summary
punishment his rabble assailants appeared every way eager.
General Wool, it is said, has since sent in one of his aids to
Sir John Colborne, to express his regret at the gross violence
cffered to an officer proceeding in the sacred character of an
Ambassador, and at the same time to assure his Excellency of
his utter inability to repress such outrages. Here is a pretty
picture of the degree cf civilization existing amongst a perple
who modestly claim to hl the most intelligent and liberal en
the face of the globe I"
QUEBEC, MARCH 16. —The season ht:'" is now rapidly' ad-
vancing; half of the fields exposed to ;I,e sun are b ,re cf
snow, and sail-boats have been passing to flrn,,t Levi. There
is still floating ice from the beaches up the Five: ; but vessels
from sea might reach Quebec in pet feet sat, ty.
(Coriespondecce of the INTry York Daily Exprt.:Qs.)
DETROIT, Mwrico 6 —The immortA Gonc ral StithLY!,lnd
bids fair soon to become a mortal, or to fairly test his imm.."-
tality ? kle is a prisoner ia the hands of the Catn:dians. Le&
by that martial spirit which could not slumber, eren though he
had withdrawn from the field of patriot glory, he crossed into
Canada for the purpose of visiting Poitt au Pellee, as his de-
tractors would insinuate, to witness the defeat of his rival Gene-
rals; but, as his friends maintain, nobly to offer his life in a cause
which had treated him with such deep ingr titude ! fie was
discovered and taken prisoner More he could reach ail amen©
of his self-sacrifice. It is rumoured tha Colonel Maitland
swears by his loyalty that he will make an example of him by
the summary process of drum-head ccurt-martial. No man
has reecho d more kicks and cuffs more unrepiningly than this
General Sutherland. He has bad at It a,t a dozen bar-room
floggings in this city.

General Scott arrived in town on Tuesday evening, and left
in the beat yesterday afti.rnooa fur Washington.
Gvvernor White's veto of the Bank all has been sustained
by the Louisiana House of Representatives-23 to IS.
( From the Courier and Inquirer, March 24.)
THE NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY —Wa have rec,T.ived the
message of the Governor of Maine to the Legislature of that
State, which accompnnied a communication addressed to him
by the Secretary of State on the subject of the North Eastern
Boundary. This communication from Mr. Forsyth, it ap-
pear;, announce; that the diseu;sions between the Federal
Government of that of Great Britain " have arrived at a stage
in which the President thinks it due to the State of Maine
and necessary to the intelligent action of the gi neral Govern-
ment to take the sense of that State in n ,gttrd to the expe-
diency of opcnirg a direct negoti ition for the establishment of
a conventional lire, and if Maine should deem an attempt to
adjust the matter in controversy in that form Lelviscablc, ti,en
to ask the assent of Maine to the same."
The President, however, intimates that if this conventional
line be not agreed to, " he will feel it his duty to submit lino-
tiler proposition to the Government of :heat Britain, to refer
the decision of the question to a third party."
(From the York Gazette, March 24.

The investigating committee in the vise of the Piicenix
Bank made their report to the Assembly on Thursday ; the
report was laid oa the table and ordered to be printed, with-
out reading. The evident. will probably be printed by Mon-
day or Tueseay r.,xt, and then the matter will be immediately
taken up in the house. The Bill to repeal the Mortgage
Law of last session passed the Senate on Wednesday, and was
scnt to the Assembly.
Exchange on England for the packet of the 24th was heavy
yesterday, and a very limited business was done at pries under
those for the packets of the 16th. British Govt rument bills
have appeared in the market, and were sold at 6.4 ; early in
the day they were held at 61. Private bills were done a:. in
to 61, and in some instances as low as 5. On Philadelphia
draughts are now 3} discount, end appear to be constantly
growing worse, and this difference in exchange between the
two cities is loudly complained of by the merchants of Phila-
delphia, who buy a large pro:)ortion of the goods with which
they supply their customers in this city. Their only remedy
is in a curtailment of the .discounts by their banks, which they
have thus far obstinately refused to do, in order to place them-
selves in a situation to resume specie payments with the banks
of New York and New England in May. At the recent sale
of teas, cargo of the Osage, they offered to purchase oa con-
dition that their paper should he taken payable in Philadelphia.
On the conditions of sale being procla:med, that paper out of
the city would b taken, subject to the diff_!,*nce of exclumge
at the time it should fall due, these gentlemen, Who wanted
an advantage of 3 per cent. over the New YOrk merel:auts,
left the room.

There was little variation in rail stocks at the Board; if
any change, it was fur the better. Delaware and Hudson
Canal fell to 664 .12- 1, a decline of I per cent. ; Mechanics'
Bank 1 per cent. les3 than at the last sales. Phcenix Bank
rose .32: and the United States Bunk 3: The bills of this
bank are selling at 31 per cent. discount. Treasury Notes,
+ premium. Sales of Spanish Doubloons, at 16 dols. 30u. ;
Nleyican dollars. 11 premium. Five frans, 93c. Half-dollars
we quote lA-. The Toronto, from London, brought but
96,000 dols, Cn gold; the Westminster, 146,000 dole.'; and the
Ontario, now due, has on board 96,000 dols.