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THE SUN, LONDON, SAURDA• it
T , APRIL 2, 1836.

6. The House of Assembly state, " that in reply to the
representations of this House to. his Majesty against the
composition of the Legislative Council, the despatch of
Lord Glenelg refers with approbation to the Report of the
Committee of the House of Commoni on Canada aff.tirs,
in the year 1828, and we cannot, by any possible inge-
nuity, reconcile the principles laid down in that Re-
port and that despatch with those acted upon in
the recent appointment to seats in the Legislative
Council (if we may believe general report),' inasmuch
-as all those said to be lately appointed to the said Council
who were Members of the last Parliament (including
the gentleman who has during the present session already
taken his seat), took a most conspicuous and prominent
part in the contemptuous proceedings on the Earl of Ri-
pon's despatch, which a reference to the journals of this
House will most amply show ; and all said to be so ap-
pointed have always been understood to be violently opposed
to the principal measures of improvement and policy so
long required by a large majority of the people, thereby in-
creasing, if possible, instead of diminishing, the great ob-
stacle
to the reform necessary to be accomplished, in order
to secure to the people of this colony peace, happiness, and
prosperity, and the full enjoyment of their civil and reli-
gious rights and privileges: We therefore desire to obtain
copies of any communications between the*Colonial-ofEce
and Government of this colony, relating to the late appoint-
ments to the Legislative Council, of those of any other
persons whose appointments have not been acceded to, or
confirmed by the King ; and to be informed, who among
those lately appointed have taken the oath as legislative
councillors, and who, if any of them, have declined accept-
ing of the appointment ; and we request your Excellency,
as early as may be, to call upon any such as have been so
appointed either to accept the said appointment, and take
the necessary oath, &c., or to decline the same."

As the Lieutenant-Governor is incompetent to judge of
the principles which regulated the conduct of his respected
predecessor, it is totally out of his power to attempt to re-
concile to the House of Assembly the recent appointments
to the Legislative Council with the report and citspatch
alluded to by the House of Assembly. But, although
these appointments are the prerogatives of his Majesty,
and although the recommendations from which they pro-
ceeded ought not to transpire, the Lieutenant-Governor
nevertheless transmits to the House of Assembly, accord-
inc, to its request, " copies of any communications Netleen
the Colonial Office and the Government of this colony re-
lating to the late appointments to the Legislative Council,
or those of any other persons whose appointments have not
been acceded to or confirmed by the King ;" and moreover
the Lieutenant Governor informs the House that those
gentlemen who have been lately appointed have been already
required to take the oath as Legislative Councillors.
7. The House of Assembly states, " We therefore trust
that your Excellency will take immediate steps, in fulfil-
ment of the gracious wishes of the King, to carry into
effect his benevolent intentions, as desired by the great
body of the people of this colony, by calling upon the said
Bishop (of Regiopolis) and Archdeacon (of York) either
to withdraw from the Legislative Council altogether, or re-
sign their other offices." _ _ .

-The Lieutenant-Governor is not aware that his Majesty
has expressed any " intentions" on the above subject, but
opinions have been very clearly expressed by Lord Ripon,
in his dispatch of the Bth November, 1832, to the full ex-
tent and th• meaning of which the Lieutenant-Governor as-
sures the House he shall feel it his duty strictly to attend.
8. The House of Assembly requests, " that your Ex-
cellency will lay before us any other information or instruc-
tions that you may have received (if any) from his Ma-
jesty's Government beyond what has been already sent to
us, relative to the administration of the Government.
In reply to the above request, the Lieutenant-Governor
feels it will be only necessary for him to remind the House
of Assembly of the following extract of the message he
communicated on the 30th ult. :—" The Lieutenant-Go-
vernor was commanded by his Majesty to communicate the
substance' of his instructions to both Houses of the Pro-
vincial Parliament ; but, considering it would be more sa-
tisfactory to them to receive the whole, he accordingly
transmits it herewith."

9. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor will transmit " any other information or instruction
in answer to a resolution transmitted to his Majesty through
his Excellency Sir John Colborne, which resolution was re-
ported to this House by the Finance .Committee, and
adopted by the House, as containing our views on the im-
portant question of the appropriation of the proceeds of the
natural resources of the country by the Legislature, and
strongly remonstrating against the charter and improvident
sale to the Canada Company, which has proved, and is
likely to continue to prove, exceedingly injurious to the
province."
In answer to the above request, the Lieutenant-Governor
re-assures the House of Assembly, that he has received
from his Majesty's Government no other information or
instructions on the subject beyond what he has already

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communipted.
10. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits bereWith to the
House of Assembly, according to its request, " Copies of
answers to any other resolutions or addresses of this House,
transmitted to his Majesty by its order."

11. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant-
Governor to transmit copies " of correspondence between
his Majesty's Government and the Government of this pro-
vince, especially relative to the address reported by the
committee on grievances, and adopted by this House, on the
complaint of an outi age on William Forsyth, of the Niagara
Falls Hotel."

In reply to this request, the Lieutenant-Governor informs
the House of Assembly, that the case of Mr. William For-
syth, with the documents relating to it, is at this moment
under the consideration of his Majesty's Government ; and
that as soon as the Lieutenant-Governor receives his Ma-
jesty's final decision, it shall immediately be communicated
to the House.
12. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of
Assembly, according to its request, " the copy of the de-
spatch of his Excellency Sir John Colborne to the Secre-
tary for the Colonies, dated Sept. 12, last." The despatch
dated the 16th, containing his Excellency's observations on
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13. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant-
Governor to transmit to the House " copies of all other
communications between the Colonial-office and the Execu-
tive Government of this province, on matters of public
or general interest to the inhabitants of this province,
since the period of the general election of members to
serve in the House of Assembly, and referred to in the
despatch of the Secretary of State, sent down to this
House on Saturday last, as being for your Excellency
guidance and instruction."
In reply to this request, the Lieutenant-Governor ob-
serves to the House of Assembly, that in his instructions
alluded to lie certainly was referred for information by
the Colonial Minister "to the correspondence of my
predecessor and myself with the officers who have succes-
sively administered the provisional government ;" but he is
sure the House will feel that it was not either the intention
or wish of his Majesty's Government that the Lieutenant-
Governor should (as requested by the house) unreservedly,
and without even a specification ofthe documents required,
divulge to one branch of the Legislature a voluminous cor-
respondence, which, from its nature, must unavoidably re.
late to many questions belonging exclusively to the other
two branches ; but must also unavoidably contain subjects
of a strictly confidential nature, besides others the publica-
tion of which would merely tend to revive bygone dis-
cussions." ,

The Lieutenant-Governor takes this opportunity of ap-
pealinc, to the liberality and good sense of the House of
Assembly for consideration, that, as a stranger to this pro-
vince, totally unconnected even with the political differences
which have existed in the mother country, he hai but lately
arrived here, intrusted by our most gracious Sovereign
with ins:ructions, the undisguised object of which is—
firmly to maintain the happy Constitution of this country
inviolate, but to correct cautiously yet effectually all real
grievances.
The House of Assembly is deeply interested in the im-
portance and magnitude of the task he has to perform, and
he is confident it will, on reflection, be of opinion that the
Lieutenant-Governor of this Province had better look stea-
dily forward to its future prosperity and improvement—
that he had better attact into Upper Canada the supera-
bundant capital and population of the mother country, by
encouraging internal peace and tranquillity, than to be ob-
served occupying himself only in re-considering the occur-
rences of the past.
The Lieutenant-Governor does not assert that the latter
occupation would be totally useless, but he maintains that
the former is by far the most useful, and that to attend to
both is impossible.
14. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of
Assembly, according to its request, " a statement of the
proceedings and steps taken by the Government relative to
a special matter contained in the third report of the com-
mittee on finance of last session, in reference to a defalcation
of monies by the late collector of the town of Kingston,
which defalcation had for several years been reported and
appeared in the public accounts, but which was omitted to
be stated by the Inspector-General in the last accounts sent
down to this House without any authority to do so from the
Legislature,"
Government-house,
Feb. 15, 1836.

A very handsome property in the north-west of
Ireland has been willed to a man named James Gilmer. It
appears that Gilmer has latterly resided at Scarborough, in
very poor circumstances, and has only a few days ago set off
for Iceland to take possession of the property which has
been left to him by his brother Alexander Gilmeii it con-
sists of an extensive estate, and other property in the county
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T}ll POLES AT PORTSMOUTH.
(FORRIING TIIE POLISII COMMUNE GRUDZIAZ.)

TO THE FRIENDS OF POLAND.
_ The groans of our brethren have pierced our hearts : the
blow which is destined to cut them off for ever from the
nations of Europe hangs suspended over their devoted
heads, threatening every Moment to fall! • To you—to the
freemen of the west—their brethren in feeling and principle
—they stretch through us their suppliant hands! Time is
urgent ; but endless formalities and obstacles stifle our
voice, and impede its reaching the cars of those who both
can and will, we are confident, lend us the most effectual
aid, prevent its reaching the cars of the British people,
and, through their irresistible intercession, the ears of their
representatives in Parliament. For petitions from us to
that Parliament there is no access. Nevertheless, silence
on our part would be a crime, betrayal of every human
duty.; an infamous acquiescence in the murder of our bre-
thren and countrymen, a base submission to the new atro-
city perpetrated upon our beloved fitherland. Hence, as
the shortest and most efficient method of communicating
our views and sentiments to that assembly, we have ap-
plied to him to become our interpreter and advocate
there, who being the devoted and zealous defender of all po-
pular rights, must necessarily best understand and appreciate
the interests of Poland—to Daniel O'Connell, whose elo-
quent appeal of 1832 is embalmed in our memory, and en-
graven indelibly on our hearts, and who bath renewed his
claims to our eternal gratitude by the words in which, upon.
the 18th of-March, he .directed the attention of the House,
not only to the secondary question of the occupation of
Cracow, but also to the more important one of the impre-
scriptible rights of our whole country, and by so doing has
furnished us with an occasion for testifying how truly
anxious we are to recognise, as our rightful Representative
before Europe, every friend who bases our cause upon en-
larged, sacred, and immutable principles, and to contemn
the mistaken friendship of those who, confining themselves
within the narrow limits and to. the mere letter of spoliatory
and parricidal treaties, are the organs, not of the Polish
people, but of the selfish interest and egotism of that peo-
ple's but too often implacable enemies—the Polish aristo-
cracy.

Friends of Poland !—We implore you to give Mr. O'Con-
nell every possible support. Pour in your petitions, meet
and raise your voices in behalf of Poland, for our desolated
country is about to lose the last of her sons ; and it is to the
protection of you only that she can commend them.
Remember, that of the once great, free, and flourishing
republic of Poland, but a small nook was left as an invalu-
able but melancholy asylum for her devoted sons! A peace-
able residence (vas assured to them, by every possible gua-
rantee,whiCh existing institutions can offer and existing
Governments suggest, in the ancient city of Cracow, that
cemetry of' departed grandeur. From thence the thoughts
of our brethren plunged into the realms of futurity, and they
beheld in imagination a new fatherland arising from out of
the ashes of the old. There their feet pressed a soil that
was native to them, and from that contact they derived
new strength to endure misery and persecution. For know,
friends of Poland, that the influence of our beloved native
land over us is fascinating and all powerful ; his native
mountains are not more dear to a Swiss, nor his native snow
to a Laplande,r,,than are our gloomy forests to us. This
Nicholas well knows, and hence he envied his victims even
this consolation. 'When he can no longer shed our blood,
he will have our tears—his vengeance is inexorable! To
gratify that he has not hesitated to trample upon treaties,
upon the sanctity of oaths, upon the guarantees of public
faith. His co-partners in spoliation easily became accom-
plices in his new and barbarous felony, and their three
armies entered Cracow. That sacred city of Poland has been
desecrated by the Cossack ; and the most devoted of her
sons, instead of finding an asylum among their brethren in
misfortune, have now nothing to look forward to or to hope
for, but the filthy straw of an Austrian dungeon, and eternal
banishment from Europe. Even now they are being trans-
ported to Trieste ; even now the wildernesses of America
are preparinc, to engulf them, and destruction at home awaits
those who refuse' to be victimised abroad. If the people of
the West open not their arms to receive them, if Great
Britain proffer them not the same hospitality which she per-
mits us to enjoy, abandoned to the vengeance of the Czar,
they will be entombed in the snows of Siberia, or in its
mines be prematurely hurried to the grave.
Friends of Poland, how many, think you, are there of
these victims ? Four hundred ! Four hundred by a
single Russian Ukaso were doomed to proscription. But
eight days were allowed them to make their last wills,
to arrange their affairs, to save their wives and children
from misery, beggary, and bankruptcy! And before the
atrocious order tbr the proscription of these four hundred
had been made known to the Senate of the town, the
territory of Cracow was invested, egress interdicted, all
communication cut off, and the bayonet pointed, against
the deliberative assembly, which was preparing to decide
upon the fate of the proscribed. The Senate denianded
time,.but-its dpuand- was disdainfully- rejected-; and at tliP.
verification of the passports and the examination of tour
hundred individuals more than occupied the whole eight days
assigned, the Cossack entered the city lat-wo in hand, at
once tho accuser, judge, and executioner of his allotted
victims ! Nor was the end in view, or the proceeding it-
self, as pretended, a more measure of general security
of police ; it was in effect punishment -without previous
trid, exile en mane ; in a word, proscription, Expul-
sion merely will not satisfy the tyrante--..nothing will sa-
tisfy them but the banishment of our brethren to America.
They will not even allow our unhappy countrymen the
melancholy privilege of choosing thlir own asylum'! Nay,
even Great Britain and France are denied the right of
receiving them ! Oh ! no doubt, the paternal solicitude of
the robber Courts would fain extend its protecting mgis over
even the public mind of Groat Britain and Franco I—would
ardently wish—after having succeeded in establishing,
through the instrumentality of Louis Phillipe, some of
their favourite institutions in the latter country—now to sur-
round these islands with a "cordon sanitaire" against the
contagion of destructive principles, with the view of ulti-
mately establishing amongst you, Britons, a censorship, the
spy-system, and modern star-chambers! But Lord" Pa-
lmerston bath told you that your Government had no pre-
vious intelligence of the salutary measure thus adopted for
your safety ; the allied Courts dispensed with its consent,
and their protection of your interests was on their part an
entirely spontaneous act. Then is it for you, citizens of
Great Britain, to protest against this insult ; then is it for
you to demand, to insist upon, the-proscribed being re-
united to their countrymen, to declare that your land
needeth not the tutelary care of despotism, and that, -far
from feeling grateful for its interference, you hail its victims
as your brethren, to avow before all nations that it is but
necessary for you to be told who are the martyrs of liberty,
to induce you to welcome them, as you have us, to make
common cause with them against the homicidal designs of
all tyrants.

Friends of Poland ! Men of Great Britain, of Ireland !
You will not, you cannot, forget what is due to yourselves,
your own honour, and dignity. You will not abando9 our un-
happy countrymen—our desecrated country. Poland suppli-
cates your protection for the last of her sons. Alas! few are
now left her! But they, if you receive them, will await but
the moment—not long distant—which shall 'summon -them
to shed their blood in her and your defence, will repay
cheerful), with their lives the generous sacrifices you may
make in their behalf will come but to add another link to
the chain of brotherhood which unites you to all other free
nations, that brotherhood which will sooner or later enable
us to achieve our inevitable and sublime destiny—the firm
establishment of our country's rights and liberties. -Hasten
then, friends of Poland, to snatch our brethren from the
grasp of their tyrants, restore them to us, and suffer not
our beloved county to lose the last of her sons, nor Europe
and freedom some of their most courageous and devoted de-
fenders.

Dziewicki Wontrobka Buchowski —Worcell—
Lelejewski— Swidzinski —Rupniewski Picut-
kowski Wellman —Jaworski Wolski—Am-
broziewicz Racgonas Czajkowski— Baczyn-
ski.

GRONKOWSKI,
Portsmouth, March 26. Secretary of the Committee.

The • weather at Dumfries is still miserably cold ;
hail, sleet, wind, and rain. During the whole of last week
the hills were white, and are snow-capped still. Storm,
which thickens the fur of hares and rabbits, has a contrary
effect on the flocks ; for in severe seasons the fleece is lighter,
although it may be a shade finer in quality. Lambing,
around Queensberry, where the sheep are for the most part
white-faced, commences about the 10th or 12th of April—an
important period for store-master and shepherd. Many of the
ewes require to be watched, and where the lambs are very
weak the only mode of saving them is to roll them in a corner
of the plaid, until they can be conveyed to, and placed before,
the nearest fire. The dams follow, and are fed about the
doors till the nurslings recover or die. Thousands of lambs
are saved every year in the manner described ; the shepherd's
sheeling affords all the aid it can, and even masters, where the
locality suits, succour weakly lambs both before the kitchen
and the parlour fire. But these matters, of course, will
sound strange to Londoners and others, who know little of the
flocks beyond what they see in the stalls or at the table, and
live in the same happy ignorance of the wintry terrors of those
.hills that make even unconcerned spectators cold to look at
them.—Dumfries Courier.
p„,
FLOGGING IN TILE ARMY.—The Courtier ran-
eels, on the subject of the abolition of the flogging system in
the English army, says that the truo question to be decided is
not so much whether the discipline of an army so composed
can be softened, as whether it is not to the interest of the
country to abolish usages no longer in harmony with the spirit
of the age. The existence of an army in England is looked
upon by the English citizen only as a necessary evil ; b‘u; still
it may be asked, whether it be not rtlssN4to peeohelle this
necessity with the opin'qr, the Iftness of modifying the mode
ponisemerier vri.:•iiil4 might be made more civic and
more free at the same time.