The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-09 00:00:00

UPPER CANADA.

(From the Upper Canada Gazette Extraordinary, dated
Toronto, Wednesday, Nov. 9. )
TUESDAY, Nov. 8.
This day, at three o'clock, his Excellency the Lieute-
nant-Governor proceeded in state to the Legislative Coun-
cil-Chamber, and being seated on the throne, the Gentle-
man Usher of the Black Rod was sent to direct the attend-
ance of the Commons' House of Assembly at the bar of
that Hon. House, who being come thereto—
The Hon. the Speaker of the Legislative Council said,
it was his Excellency's command they should repair to the
usual place of sitting, and there choose a fit person to be
their Speaker ; and that the person so chosen, ba presented
for his Excellency's approbation on the following day.
The House then withdrew.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9.
The House of Assembly being again assembled at the
bar of the Hon. the Legislative Council, Mr. Archibald
M'Lean informed his Excellency that the House of Assem-
bly had chosen him for their Speaker, and claimed the usual
privileges.

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor was pleased to
approve of the choice of the House of Assembly, and then
addressed both Houses of the Provincial Parliament in the
following speech :

" Hon. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" With great satisfaction I congratulate you on the loya
feeling which pervades this province, and on the stillness
and serenity of the public mind.
" The auspicious tranquillity of the country offers you
advantages which the Legislature of Upper Canada has
long been unhappily deprived of, and I gladly avail myself
of the opportunity to bring before your grave consideration
some of those subjects which the country has now reason to
expect will be met by its Legislature with a firm determina-
tion to bring them to a final settlement.

" The most important of these is the long-disputed ques-
tion of the clergy reserves.

" I invite your serious attention to this subject, in the
full confidence that by moderation and sound discretion you
will overcome the obstacles that have hitheato attended its
discussion.

" The beneficent intentions of his Majesty in granting a
charter of incorporation to the University of King's College
have hitherto been productive of no useful result.
" In calling your attention to this fact, I trust that the
province will shortly be indebted to your deliberations for
possessing within itself the means of bestowing upon youth
the inestimable blessings of a refined and liberal education.
" The disposal of the school lands, and the promotion of
general education, are so intimately connected with the fu-
ture destinies of this colony, that I feel confident they will
suggest themselves to your early consideration.
" The term which intervenes between the courts of over
and terminer in this province—the consequent crowded
state of the gaols—as well as the length of imprisonment
suffered by persons charged with crime, are-evils which I
deeply lament, and I trust you will determine whether by
an increase to the present number of judges they would not
be effectually removed.
Having been made aware that cases of neglected misery
and distress have long existed within the province, from the
want of some place of public refuge for those of our fellow-
creatures to whom, in his divine •Providence, the Almighty,
by depriving them of reason, has given peculiar claims
upon our care, I feel satisfied that the necessity of esta-
blishing a provincial asylum for lunatics need only be
suggested to receive your benevolent consideration.
" I feel it my duty to call your attention to the advan-
tages which would be derived from opening communications
by which the agricultural produce of this province might
readily be brought to a market.

" Among various improvements of this nature, a great
western railroad will no doubt claim your favourable no-
tice, as being of infinite benefit to this province, as well as
promoting our friendly intercourse with the -neighbouring
States.

" I also recommend to your consideration an immediate
inquiry into the state of the Welland Canal.

;‘ I regret to say, that under existing circumstances, it
may not be deemed adviseable to commence negotiations
with the adjoining province .for the improvement of the na-
vigation of the Ottawa, but I recommend to your consi-
deration the propriety of causing a survey and accurate esti-
mate to be made of the expense of connecting by the waters
of that noble river Lake Huron with the Ocean.

" Having during the recess of the Legislature given con-
siderable attention to the neglected state of the roads
throughout the province, I beg you to consider whether
some efficient system might not be devised for placing them
under a superintendence, to be held responsible, that the
statute labour, as well as the large sums of money annually
voted for their repair, should he scientifically, economically,
and impartially expended.
" I have to inform you, that for the purpose of encou-
raging emigration, I have recommended to his Majesty's
Government that such portions of the military reserves as
are not required for defence should, as early as possible,
be offered to the public. I also hope to be authorised to
adopt a quicker, raore convenient, and more beneficial sys-
tem, in the Land-granting Department ; and I am happy
to add, that I have concluded negotiations by which I have
obtained from the Indians very extensive tracts of rich land,
which, from feelings highly creditable to their race, they have
cheerfully relinquished for the public good.
" As the Constitution of Upper Canada secures to Bri-
tish emigrants their own revered institutions—as this
noble climate and luxuriant soil offer them immediate inde-
pendence and support, with a moral assurance that their
land, whether it be cultivated well or ill, must in a few
years unavoidably increase in value to a great extent—we
may reasonably expect that the redundant enterprise, capi-
tal and population of the empire, will now flow towards
this favoured province, in which I conscientiously believe
British capital to be as secure as it is in the mother country.
" Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" I trust you will take immediate measures for relieving
the Government of this Province from the embarrassment
it has laboured under, and is still suffering, from the sup-
plies for the public service having been withheld.
" I shall direct the public accounts, together with esti-
mates for the sums required for the support of the civil
government, for the current and ensuing years to be laid
before you.

" Hon. Gentlemen, and Gentlemen,
" I feel confident that the distinguished and conspicuous
station which the people of Upper Canada have attained in
the estimation, not only of the empire, but of the civilized
world, will, throughout the session we this day commence,
be firmly upheld, by the dignity of your deliberations, by
the wisdom of your proceedings, by the purity of your le-
gislation, and by your unceasing zeal for the public good.
" As regards the duties of my station in the Legislature,
it is my intention, so long as they may graciously be con-
fided to me, to occupy myself to the best of my ability in
the internal improvement of the country, in the impartial
administration of justice, and in maintaining unsullied the
commercial integrity of the province.
" The constant obedience which the British Constitution
demands for its sacred institutions, educates and dignifies
the public mind—the moral discipline of their passions
organizes the power of the people, and eventually implants
in the national character justice, mercy, generosity, and for-
bearance.

" It has long been asserted, that these British senti-
ments, which would vegetate in the deserts of Arabia, are
uncongenial to the soil of America ; but the voice of Upper
Canada has repudiated this libel on the land, and both
reason and truth are now daily demonstrating, that the
safast description of self-government, the surest mode of
protecting life, property, and liberty, is that honourable
submission and virtuous obedience to the laws, which the
three branches of the Legislature, as well as the people of
this province, I trust, will ever continue to be proud to ac-
knowledge.
" The Legislature of Upper Canada is not imbued with
power to alter the Constitution imparted to it by an Act of
the Imperial Parliament. I, therefore, shortly after my
arrival here, publicly declared, that if the inhabitants of the
whole Province were simultaneously to petition me to alter
a single letter of that solemn act, I had neither power nor
inclination to do so.

" Grateful for the manly support which the expression of
this sentiment has procured for me, I feel it my duty again
unequivocally to assure you of my determination to carry
into effect his Majesty's instructions, and thus to maintain
the happy Constitution of this province inviolate. "

Yesterday afternoon a bullock, which had escaped
from a slaughter-house on the Surrey side of Westminster
bridge, ran furiously through Parliament-street and Char-
ing-cross, creating great alarm, and doing
some mischief in
its progress. Many persons were knocked down and seri-
ously injured. An immense mob pursued it to the Strand,
when a butcher with a pole-axe struck the animal a tre-
mendous blow on the side of the head, which failed, how-
e er, it, and the bullock ran on towards Hunger-
ford-market in felling
m rke t
wi th the axe still sticking in his head, and
roaring with pain and fury. Some butchers at last secured
it on Hungerford-wharf, and led it off to a slaughter-house
in Newport-market.

LIQUID MARBLE.--Dr. Jackson, of Boston, in
the United States, has lately made an analysis of the water
of that city, in which analysis he calculates that the inha-
bitants of that city annually drink lime enough to make a
column of Marble 40 feet long and two feet in diameter.
The play actors say it takes a long time to excite the Bob-
ton audience. Who can wonder, when, according to Dr.
Jackson's theory, they must present a mere mass of cold
unfeeling marble ? No offence to Baltimore, but ought
not Boston henceforth to be called the monumental city ?
—Philadelphia Paper.