The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-30 00:00:00

TO MAKE TEMPORARY PROVISION FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF

Lowca CANADA.
N.B.—The clauses marked A to E were added by the Com-

mittee. )

Whereas in the present state of the Province of Lower
Canada, the House of Assembly of the said Province, consti-
tuted-under the Act passed in the 31st year of his Majesty's
King George the Third, intitulcd, " An Act to repeal cer-
tain parts of an Act passed in the 14th year of his Majesty's
reign, intituled, An Act for making more effectual provision
for the Government of the Province of Quebec, is North Ame-
rica, and to make further provision for the government of the
said Province,'" cannot be called together without serious de-
triment to the interests of the said Province, by reason whereof
the government of the said Province cannot be d uly adminis-
tered, according to the provisions of the said Act. And
whereas it is expedient to make temporary provision for the
government of Lower Canada, in order that Parliament may
be enabled. after mature deliberation, to make permanent ar-
rangements for the Constitution and Gov: Alment of the said
Province, upon such a basis as may best secure the
rights and liberties, and promote the interests of all
classes of her Majesty's subjects in the said Pro-
vince ; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with tho advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that from the proclamation of this Act in the said pro-
vince, as hereinafter provided, until the Ist day of November,
in the year 1840, so much of the said Act of the 31st year of
King George the Third, and of any other Act or Acts of
Parliament, as constitutes or provides for the constitution or
calling of a Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly fur
the province of Lower Canada, or as confers any powers or
functions upon the said Legislative Council and Legislative
Assembly, or either of those bodies, shall cease and be of no
force.

And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty,
by any commission or commissions to be from time to time
issued under the Great Seal of the United linigdom, or byany
instructions under her Majesty's-s-lg,net antsign ruanual,..and
with the advice of her Privy Council, to constitute a special
council for the affairs of Lower Canada, and for that purpose
to appoint or authorise the Governor of the Province of Lower
Canada to appoint such and so many special councillors as to
her Majesty shall seem meet, and to make such provision as
to her Majesty shall seem meet for the removal, suspension, or
resignation of all or any such councillors.

CLAUSE (A.
And be it enacted, that from and after such proclamation as
aforesaid, and until the said Ist day of November, in the year
1840, it shall be lawful for the Governor of the Province of
Lower Canada, with the advice and consent of the majority of
the said councillors present at a meeting or meetings to be
for that purpose from time to time convened by the Governor
of the said province, to make such laws or ordinances for the
peace, welfare, and good government of the said province of
Lower Canada, as the Legislature of Lower Canada, as now
constituted, is empowered to make ; and that all laws or or-
dinances so made, subject to the provisions hereinafter con-
tained for disallowance thereof by her Majesty, and for re-
serving certain laws or ordinances for the signification of her
Majesty's pleasure thereon, shall have the Re force and
effect as laws passed before the passing of this Act by the Le-
gislative Council and Assembly of the said province of Lower
Canada, and assented to by her Majesty, or in her Majesty's
name by the Governor of the said province. Provided always,
that no such law or ordinance shall be male unless the same
shall have been first proposed by the said Governor for adop-
tion by the Council, nor unless the said Governor and five at
least of the said Councillors shall be actually present when
such law or ordinance shall be made. Provided also, that no
law or ordinance so made shall continue in force beyond the
first day of November, in the year 1842, unless continued by
competent authority : Provided also, that it shall not be law-
ful by any such law or ordinance to impose any tax, duty,
rate, or impost, save only in so far as any tax, duty, rate, or
impost, which at the passing of this Act is payable within the
said province may be thereby continued : Provided also, that
it shall not be lawful by any such law or ordinance to alter in
any respect the law now existing in the said province respect-
ing the Constitution or composition of the Legislative Assem-
bly thereof, or respecting the right of any person t• vote at
the election of any member of the said Assembly, or respect-
ing the qualifications of such voters, or respecting the division
of the said province into counties, cities, and towns, for the
purpose of such elections ; nor shall it be lawful by any such
law to repeal, suspend, or alter any provision of any Act of the
Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, or of any Act of the Le-
gislature of Lower Canada, as now constituted, repealing or
altering any such Act of the Imperial Parliament.

CLAUSE ( B.
Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be law-
ful by any such law or ordinance to appropriate any moneys
which now are, or which shall hereafter be, in the bands of
the Receiver-General of the said province of Lower Canada
towards the repayment of any sum or sums of money which
shall have been issued out of the sum of 142,1601. 14s. 6d.,
granted to her Majesty by an Act passed in the last session of
Parliament, for advances on account of charges for the admi-
nistration of justice and of the Civil Government of the Pro-
vince of Lower Canada, unless upon a certificate from three
or more of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
setting forth the several sums which shall have been so ad-
vanced for any of the purposes aforesaid; provided also that,
exclusive of any such repaymeut as aforesaid, no appropria-
tion to be made by any such law or ordinance of the moneys
aforesaid, in respect of the public service for any one year,
shall exceed the total amount of the sums appropriated by law
within the said province for tho public service thereof for the
year 1832.

CLAUSE (C.)
And bo it enacted, That the Governor of the said province
is hereby required by the first convenient opportunity to trans.
mit to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State an
authentic copy of every law or ordinance made under the
authority of this Act ; and that it shall be lav4 ful, at any time
within two years after such law or ordinance shall have been
so received by such Secretary of State, for her Majesty, her
heirs or successors, by her or their Order in Council, to de-
clare her or their disallowance of such law or ordinance ; and
that such disallowance, together with a certificate under the
hand and seal of such Secretary of State, testifying the day on
which such law or ordinance"was received as aforesaid, being
signified by such Governor by proclamation within the said
province, shell make void and annul the same foal and after
the date of such signification.

CLAUSE (a.)
And be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be
taken to affect or invalidate anyjaw, statute, or ordinance now
in force within the said province of Lower Canada, or in any
part thereof, except in so tar as the same is repugnant to. Ibis
Act.

CLAUSE (E.)
And be it enacted, that this Act shalt be proclaimed by the
Governor of the said province of Lower Canada within the
said province, and shall commence and take effect within the
said province from the proclamation thereof,
And be it enacted, that for the purposes of th's Act any
person authorised to execute the commiss:oa of Governor of
the province of Lower Canada shall be taken to be the Go-
vernor thereof,

( From the Coinitry Papert published last Saturday.)
.We described the weather in our last as very cold, the ther-
mometer on Thursday beir,.p. at Id below the freezing point, a
point at which it rani -for three days. On gunday an
unlook-ed-for charge toJk place. Oa Tuesday the frost re-
commenced, though not with the same intensity as before, and
his continued ever since. The thermometer has not been
lower than 25, though from the bodily feeling, the cold has
been intenser than it was during the past week ; but there
has been much more wind than before. Our friends in the
south have certainly had a severer touch of winter than we
have experienced in these cold regions of the, north. Is the
peculiarity capable of explanation, upon meteorological prin-
ciples ? Yesterday (Friday) snow commenced to fall, and,
from the present appearances, it will probably remain with us
some time.—Kendal Mercury.
Since our last the weather has undergone a great change.
On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, it began to rain, but
so intense was the cold, that the rain had no sooner descended
than it became frozen. Towards midnight it began to thaw,
which continued until Tuesday, when the frost recommenced.
On Thin sday there was a slifTht fail of snow, which continued
almost uninterruptedly during yesterday. On Wednesday the
wind blew with great severity from the s.-nith-cast ; so severe
was the gale that the Dublin Post-office packet could not make
her passage. She was obliged to put into Holyhead, from
whence the mail bags and passengers were conveyed by land
to Liverpool. On the same day, the packet ship Independence,
after clearing the channels, on her passage out, ran foul of
the North-west Light Ship, cutting her down nearly to the
water's edge, springing her bowsprit and *foremast. Captain
Denham forthwith replaced the light-ship by an efficient du-
plicate, so as to avert any consequences to our shipping inter-
course.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The thermometer early on Saturday morning- last, was in
this city 27 deg. below the freezing point ; this, we believe, is
the nearest point to zero which it has reached. On Sunday
morning the wind shifted quite direct from north to south, and
though there was a cold wind, the temperature out of doors
was sensibly milder. On Monday the snow had, for the most
part, disappeared, and the weather was open and touch warmer,
which description applie also to Tuesday ; but on Wednesday
the wind shifted to the north-east, and was accompanied by a
sharp frost ; out of doors, although the weather was open, it
was perhaps the coldest day for travelling we have yet expe-
rienced. On Thursday morning there was a fall of snow, fol-
lowed by a sharp frost ; yesterday the country again presented
a very wintery appearance, snow having fallen during Thurs-
day night to the depth of nearly four inchec—Herefoid Times.
The severity of the frost in this part of the kingdom
(Wales) continued until Sunday last, when a partial thaw took
place. On 'Wednesday morning, however, the wind having
veered to the north-east, we had a severe frost again ; and this
morning (Friday) we experienced a very heavy fall of snow,
Cambrian.

On Monday a partial thaw commenced, and continued
during that and the following day, accompanied by a fresh
breeze, in consequence of which a considerable portion of the
snow disappeared in the town and the vicinity. Indications
so promising induced us to hope for a favourable change, but
in this we have been disappointed. On the evenin,g of Tues-
day the wind varied towards the north, and a keen frost set in,
which still continues without any abatement. Although seve-
ral showers of snow fell during Wednesday, and the wind was
high and saii ling, yet the roads are, with few exceptions open,
and travelling is unimpeded. The Edinburgh and ISTQwcastle
coaches have arrived since the commencement of the storm,
with the exception of Monday, very little beyond their asual
time. The snow having accumulated to a considerable depth
on the streets, the snow plough drawn by two stout horses, be-
longing to his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe, which has been
of such essential service to the inhabitants for some winters
past, went through the principal thoroughfares of the town
yesterday, and in a short time made a clear and open passage.
The snow storm, we observe, commenced on the Continent,
and passed over to England, and it is more than likely we
may have a prolongation of the present weather.—Kelso
Chronicle.

The thermometer began to rise last Sunday ; but not before
a heavy shower of hail and snow had covered the whole coun-
try with one complete glacier. The thaw continued till Tues-
day ; since which time there has been no intermission of the
frost. It is not, however, so cold as it was last week. The
lowest degree of cold we have heard of during the present
frost was 4 deg. of Fahrenheit, that is, 28 deg. below the
freezing point. According to Captain Parry, who has a right
to speak on this subject, a person is able to walk about without
injury, if warmly clothed, when the temperature is 56 deg. be-
low zero, that is, 60 deg. lower than the coldest day that we
have felt this season. lie adds, however, that this is only when
there is no wind. The slightest breeze at such a low tempera-
tura would cut the skin like a razor.—Bolton Free Press.
On Sunday last the wind shifted to the south, and in the
evening the temperature rose rapidly, accompanied by heavy
rain. The thaw continued until Monday at noon, when it was
suddenly checked, and the frost has continued ever since.
Wednesday was the coldest day this week, the thermometer in
the morning being only 10 deg. above zero. Accounts from
various parts represent the roads as being nearly impassable,
but hitherto we have not been inconvenienced in this respect
in our locality. Very little snow has fallen here during the
week.—Leicestershire Mercury.
Saturday last was the coldest day ever experienced in this
town. The thermometer, at seven o'clock in the evening,
stood at 6 degrees ; this was the lowtst point it reached.
After that time it began to rise, and at nine o'clock stood as
high as 8 deg. This was the case in three different parts of
the town.—Dover Chronicle.

We have had all sorts of weather since our last—thaw,
snow, Kind, and hard frost. Owing to the great quantity of
snow which fell during the night betwixt Saturday and Sun-
day, and which continued at intervals the whole of Sunday,
our shopkeepers and police had hard work of it on Monday
cleaning the pavements and streets, although favoured with a
thaw, which continued on Tuesday. On. Wednesday we had
hard frost again, with the thermometer at 25 deg., and be-
twiat Wednesday night and Thursday morning there was an-
other heavy fall of snow to the depth of five or six inches,
with the thermometer at 23 dog. at ten o'clock, n. M. Friday
morning it stood at 1. In the evening, at five o'clock, it was
at 9, being the severest cold we have had this winter.—Scots
Times.

Since our last we have experienced winter in all its severity
and in all its variableness. At the time of our publishing last
week all around us was encased in ice; the fluctuating Tweed
seemed fairly to have stood still ; and as far as the eye could
reach up her tract she appeared in one continuous sheet of
ice. The frost and cold continued over Saturday and Sun-
day. The former day though pinching cold was favourable
for transacting business—but the evening about nine o'clock
was one of the most severe we ever beheld—the hoar frost
was flying through the air, and attaching itself to every object
in its way ; the gas lights in the streets and in several of the
shops became affected, and refused to lend the benign influence
of their lustre—and even yet some of them have not reco-
vered ; the town clock seemed also affected—the strokes that
proclaimed the hours were tardy and feeble. The streets
were deserted, and many of the shops were closed before their
wonted time. Sunday was not only cold but boisterous, and
and the attendance in all the chapels was scanty indeed.
Monday morning we experienced an agreeable change ; a
general thaw had taken place, and the accumulations of snow
were fast disappearing from our streets, which continued to
flow during that and the following day. The ice on the river
was broken, and by the influx of the tide carried upwards and
lodged upon the shad. to be carried out to sea when the fresh
has become general. On Wednesday the thaw was checked,
and we were again stiffened with frost ; during that morning
and the previous evening the wind blew strongly from the
south-cast ; the sea on our bar was fearfully agitated, and all
interestf,d in the safety of the lives and treasures committed to
her mercy became uneasy.—Berwick Advertiser.
The frost continued without any change until Sunday after-
noon, when a storm of hail was followed by the singular phe-
nomenon of freezing rain, and then came a heavy shower of
rain in earnest. This was followed, in the course of the night
by a sharp frost ; and the streets on Monday morning, were
one glassy sheet of ice, rendering it quite dangerous to walk.
The thaw, however, was not rapid, and continued only until
Tuesday morning, when the frost returned, and during the
night resumed its reign in all its rigour. On Thursday even-
ing there was a fall of snow, which continued through the
night, without, however, any symptoms of thaw, its usual
companion. With the short interregnum alluded to, the frost
has now lasted nearly three weeks, having commenced on
Sunday the 7th inst. flow long it may continue we are not
weather-wise enough to guess ; but while we write this
( Friday afternoon) there arc sonic slight indications of a coming
thaw. The lowest state of the thermometer, in the night,,
during the week, has been hi degrees.—Halifax Express.
The Liverpool Albion of yesterday states that the sQvere
frost still continues there.

LOWTHER CASTLE.—At this mansion of the
venerable Earl of Londsdale, three times a week, during the
winter season, large quantities of excellent soup, not made of
broken meat, or offal, but of beef of the best quality, frequently
slaughtered for that purpose, are delivered out to the poor
people residing in the adjacent villages—Carlisle Patriot.,
MR. BAILLIE FRASER'S NEW WORK.—We
are requested to state that the new work, entit,l,o:l " A Nar-
rative of the Residence of the Three Persiltn -Princes in Lon-
don, in 1835 and 1836 ; with an Account of their journey
from Persia, and subsequent Adventures," by J. Baillie Fraser,
Esq. (author of " The Kuzzilbash," " Persian Adventurer,"
Bce.), in two vols. post Bvo., with portraits. is this day published
by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary
to her Majesty, and may be had of all booksellers. Agents :
for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ire-
land, Mr. J. Cumming, Dublin.

NEW WORKS or FICTION.—The present season
seems to have produced a greater variety than usual in this
'class of literature. We have, first, an historical romance from
the pen of the author of " Beauties of the Country," &0.,
entitled " Royston Gower ; or, the Days of King Jon ;"
seconrlly, the novel on " ove," by Lady Charlotte Bury ;
thirdly, a satirical novel by Mr. Sulivan, bearing the signifi-
cant title of " Ralf Hall ;" and fourthly, a tale of the middle
class, by the celebrated author of ‘'Brambletye House,"
called " Jane Lomax," in which, disdaining all the sources of
interest, lie introJuCes uF to.entirely new scenes and chaeac.
• tors, Here is, we think, abundant gratification for all classes
of novel-readem

The Poor-law Commissioners have refused to allow
the sum of 151„ expenses incurred by the overseers of
the parish of Thurlestone, Kingsbridge Union, in the
county, in prosecuting a woman for concealing the birth
of her child ; and at the meeting of the guardians, on the
15th inst., it was stated an application for the allowance had
been made to the county, and also refused. It seems neces-
sary therefore, that it should now be determined by legislative
enactment, who shall he prosecutors in such cases, and in wbat
patd,--Davoraport Indepoutent.
manner the expanses shall be