The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

SECOND DISPATCH.

MONTREAL, APRIL 27, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Several members of the Ministry were severely beaten
lad night, at about nine o'clock.
The mob, numbering several thousands, proceeded to
the residence of Messrs. Hiucks and Holmes, and de-
stroyed the doors and windows.
The cry was then raised to proceed to M. Lafontaine's.
Upon arriving at his house (in which his family, how-
ever, was not residing), the multitude set fire to the out-
buildings, and destroyed and gutted the house.
After this work had been accomplished the mob re-
tired, and wet the military proceeding to the scene.
Three cheers were immediately given to the troops, and
both parties passed on.
Placards are up for a meeting at two P.ll. on the
Champ de Mars.
His Excellency Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Commander
of the Forces, arrived in town this morning.

It is rumoured that martial law is to be 'proclaimed.
No accounts have been received from Upper Canada.
PROGRESS OF THE CANADIAN REBELLION—FIVE
HUNDRED FRENCH CONSTABLES ARMED—
FIGHT WITH ENGLISHMEN—PETITIONS TO THE
QUEEN FOR THE RECAL OF LORD ELGIN—
CANNON PLANTED IN THE STREETS—RUMOURS
OF RIOTS IN UPPER CANADA.
MONTREAL, APRIL 23.

Our city continues to be the theatre of excitement
and lawless violence. In consequence of the announce-
ment that the Government had armed five hundred
French constables, a fresh impulse wus given to the
already Mimed spirit of the rebels. A party of about
twenty English gentlemen encountered a body of these
armed constables in the streets, when a row ensued, iu
which several shots were tired by both sides, and two
persons wounded, but nut mortally. After this occur-
rence it was thought best by the Government, for the
sake of peace, to disarm the constables, which was imme-
diately done.
A meeting was held yesterday afternoon, on the
Champ do Mars, at which the 11011. George Moffat pre-
sided. Petitions were got up to the Queen, to revel
Lord Elgin, and to disallow the Rebellion Indemnity Bill.
The hotels and garrisons are all under arms, and can•
non have been planted in the streets, to overawe and
suppress any further attempts at rebellion. At six
o'c,oek, P DI., the streets are all quiet, and the row rur
the present is apparently at an end.
Rumours troll' Upper Canada state that the infection
has extended to Kingston, Toronto, and other places, and
that riots have Lccurred here, but we have nothing au-
thentic.

SECOND DISPATCH.

MONTREAL, APRIL 28.
All day yesterday a most tearful excitement existed
throughout the city.
At two, P.M., the mass meeting called to take into
consideration the best means of preserving the peace of
the country, was held at the Champ de 3iars, and an
immense multitude was present. Strong resolutions
were passed, and a petition to the Queen to recal Lord
Eight was dratted and adopted.
At the earnest request of the principal leaders, the
people dispersed quietly.
The five gentlemen arrested have been committed for
rioting.
A man by the name of Perry, the great leader of the
firemen of this city, has been committed to gaol on a
charge of arson.
Towards evening a rumour rapidly spread that the
French party a ere being sworn in as special constables,
and a,m,d. It proved correct.
The British portion were persuaded by the leaders to
wait till armed, and an encounter took place between
about twenty English gentlemen and these constables,
who most wantonly fired on them.
Only a few of the small party had arms, which they
discharged upon the mass and slowly retreated, bearing
off ono of the party, wounded in thu leg by a pistol
ball.

From the cries uttered by some persons in the crowd,
one of the gentlemen who fired informs me that their
discharge must have taken effect.
During the whole night these were drilled, armed
with cutlasses and pistols, in the Bonsecours Market.
The military were under arms all night, and the ar-
tillery drawn up in the square.
I have the best authority for stating that Sir Benjamin
d'Urban, c( mmander of the forces, at the meeting of
the Executive Council last night, made remarks to the
following purport to Colonel Tache, one of the ministry.
He demanded to know by whose authority those men
had been armed. He said he was there to protect her
Majesty's dominions, and by the aid of Heaven he would
do that. It was unconstitutional to arm one portion of
the population against the other.
Turning round to General Gore, he said, " Go to his
Excellency the Governor-General, and say, I send him
a body of British troops to protect him, and that I will
not consent to this clandestine arming of the French
population. Disarm these men, and find by whose autho-
rity they were armed."
It is understood that Colonel Bruce and Colonel Tache
do it on an order from the Government.
The arms are refused to be given up.
The British are rapidly arming, and a dreadful fight

is expected.
The 71st Regiment arrived from St. John's this
morning, and the provincial cavalry are momentarily
expected.
Upper Canada is in a fearful state of excitement.
At Coburg, the Governor was burnt in effigy. The
light could be seen at the lakes 30 miles off.
The whole upper provinces are arming.
In the eastern townships immense qualities of lard
have been sold, and large bodies of sturdy riflemen are
expected to the assistance of the British.
On the Ottawa, the lumbermen are also preparing to
assist Montreal.
It is probable that immediately after the Bill was
signed, conflagration was resolved upon, as just be-
fore the Parliament house was fired there were cries
in the mob of " They come! they come !" and imme-
diately there was a considerable accession to the pre-
viously assembled crowd. Then arose the cry " Let
us burn down the French Parliament !" An exclama-
tion that will at once show you the feelings by which
the multitude were actuated.
Notwithstanding the prophetic alarm that per-
vades the second dispatch of the 28th, it is hoped
and believed that there will be little or no more
rioting. There 'n is some additional intelligence from Califor-
nia. The large number of arrivals at San Francisco
had caused all articles of merchandize to become dul
of sale at extremely moderate prices.
Gold was
still fund in a places
undance, and new were dis-
covered report was prevalent that another
cpolaveeeredhaddailybe.
been discovered in Lower California,
which bids fair to rival in richness those in the
Sacramento.her
Majesty's
ships Calypso and Constantia were
at Mazatlan.
The election of delegates to the Convention to
formr a provisional constitution had taken place, and a
unanimous opinion had been expressed against slave
labour.

From Mexico we learn that cholera was on the
increase.
Accounts from St. Domingo city, of the 13th ult.,
state that President Soulouque was within sixteen
L ?IW Oof the city with I 000 well disciplined troops
_

The screw steamer Sarah Sands arrived at New
York on the Ist inst., after having sustained damage
to her machinery.
The West India mail steamer Thames, from Vera
Cruz, arrived off Mobile on the 21st ult. She had
on freight 45,000 dollars specie, of which 35,000
dollars were for New Orleans, 150 bales cochineal,
several packages Vanilla, and 19 passengers for
England. She was detained 36 hours at Vera Cruz
for the mails, but was compelled to leave without them
in consequence of a strong norther.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 2.
Oar money market to-day, and for a week or more,
has been easy. United States' Sixes of '6B sold yester-
day at 112 to 1121, but to day they are in less demand;
the greatest portion of the purchases needed for remit-
tances for Europe had been completed. Good bills on
London are somewhat scarce to-day, and a good deal of
business was done at from 107 i to 108. The St. Denis
Havre packet, which sailed yesterday, carried about
50,000 dollars in five-franc pieces, but the current of
coin is this way now notwithstanding; Ohio State Se-
curities, 74 per Cent., '5l, at 101; Pennsylvania Five
per Cent., 83i; Maryland Six per Cer.ts., 99; Alabama,
Five per Cents., 65; Arianas Six per Cents., 64. The
business of exchange for steamer has been considerable.
Bills have been very scarce, and higher prices have been
obtained. We quote on London, 7} to 8 per cent. pre•
mium; Paris, st. 32c.,
,sf. 32ic.; 60 days, if. 25c, to
sf. 27ic.; Short Eights closing very firm, and scarce.
Amsterdam, 39i to 39i; Antwerp, 432 if. to 5351.;
Ilamburgb, 354 to 34j; and Bremen, 774 to 76c. • The
business of today will also add to the aggregate.trans-
actions.
Cotton—The sales of the day were 700 bales at the
following quotations:—New Orleans, Texas, and Mobile
ordinary, 6i; middling, 74; good middling, fair, 7i;
Lair, 8; fully fair, 8i; Florida and Upland ordinary, 6 ;
middling, 64 to 7; good middling, 7i; middling fair, 7i;
fair, 71; fully fair, 8. The market is gaining strength
daily from the firmer attitude assumed by holders and
the withdrawal of cotton from sale. The advices by the
Southerner confirmed those previously received as to
the destruction by frost in Carolina, Georgia, and Ala-
bama, and portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, of the
growing crop; prices have been advanced throughout
the south in consequence, and the purchasers making
planters account. The shipping list states that the
total receipts of cotton at all the shipping ports are
2,390,169 bales against 1,940,790 to same date last year,
being an increase this season of 449.379 bales. Tho
total foreign export this year is 329,856 bales more than
last, say 369,365 bales to Great Britain; 37,234 decrease
to France; 17,494 increase to north of Europe; 19,779
decrease to other foreign parts. Shipments from
southern to northern ports are 173,215 bales more this
season than last, and there is a decrease in stock of
16,348 bales.

Bread Stuffs—Soon after the sailing of the Niagara►
steamer, un the 17th of April, the flour market began
gradually to improve, and has been since strengthened
by the favourable news from Cambria, received on Fri-
day last. Prices are uow about 25 cents per barrel over
those current on the 17th ult. on flour; 4 cents per
bushel on Indian corn.

Freights to London—We heard only of engagements
of tallow at 30s. and of tobacco 3s. To Liverpool-100
barrels of lard, 275. 6d.; butter, bacon, ashes, and hams,
2.55.; turpentine, 2s. 6d.; cotton .5-16ths; and corn, qd.
Glasgow—Square cotton, id.; Sea Island, id. to id.
There is no change, the packets demanding -g of a cent.
To Antwerp—Cotton *of a cent.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Arrivals at New York—The Independence, from Lon-
don; Sarah Sands, Liverpool; Seabird, Galway; Acadia,
Newry; Swan, Cork; .Hirundo and Sidonia, Newcastle;
Washington and James Fagan, Dublin; Marchioness
Clydesdale, London; UraniM, Youghal; Warrior, Newry;
Hudson, Glasgow.
Arrived at Philadelphia—The Albion, from Galway.
The Austrian ship Grpgorius, from Bristol to New
Orleans, ran on shore on Uarrysford Reef on the 18th of
April last, and was got off after being on 36 hours.
The ship Swatara, from Liverpool to Philadelphia,
struck in the Delaware on the 270, and afterwards filled;
crew and passengers saved.