The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-03 00:00:00

fullowed the reading of the Message. Mr. W. THomrsoN
said that he concurred in the opinion which had been ex-
pressed, that a war with Great Britain would be one of the I
most disastrous calamities that could befal the nation, and
that great delicacy should be observed in treating any sub-
ject that had reference to such an event. He, however,
confessed that if the statements made respecting the de-
struction of the Caroline were true, he could not tell to
what extremes his feelings might not hurry him. He
would declare on the threshold of the business that he con-
sidered the measure adopted by the Federal Govern-
ment as too tame. The British Government should be re-
quired to give up the offenders to be tried and punished
according to the laws of the United States. Mr. FILLIN'G-
IIERST deprecated the idea of a war with England. No
one could suppose that Great Britain would sanction such a
deliberate act of cool, cowardly murder, as they had heard
reported to them in the documents just read ; and he was
confident she would hasten, from an innate love of justice,
to make the States every reparation which such an outrage
could justify them in demanding. The Federal Govern-
ment was much to blame for not taking precautionary mea-
sures for effectually preventing all intercourse with the rebels.
Mr.BaoNsoN tl!rew all the blame on the American citizens.
He had no doubt that, upon inquiry, it would be found that
the boat was engaged in bringing ammunition and stores to
Navy Island. Mr. RHETT took the same view of the
question ; and contended, that if the evidence bore him out
in it, he was not aware that any other troops would have
acted differently from those who sent the boat over the
Falls. The idea of a war arising out of such an outrage
was preposterous. Mr. MENIFER followed in the same
strain, but dwelling with more severity upon the intermed-
dling spirit of the Citizens on the frontier. This spirit, be
maintained, ought to have been more energetically re=
strained by the President. All the other Members who
r,ddressed the House, spoke in terms equally animated
against a rupture with this country. In fact, on all sides,
the idea was reprobated, as the most foolish and danger-
ous that could be entertained.
The following are extracts from these papers :
(From the New York American, Jan. 9.)
" More excitement is visible here to-day than at any former period ;
but the opinion prevails that no interruption will take place in the
amicable relations between the United States and Great Britain. It is
s4iti that the British Minister has expressed his entire satisfaction at the
course so far taken by our Government.
(From the New York Journal of Commerce, Jan. 10.)
" FROM UPPER CANADA.

" By intelligence received, up to January 4, from Buffslo, we learn
that three steamboats had been i cut out of the ice at Buffalo, to convey
General Vain Rensselaer's force at Navy Island up to Lake Erie, to
join Dr. Duncombe at Fort Malden, twelve miles below Detroit.
.4 A gentleman direct from Detroit, according to the Rochester De-
mocrat of Wednesday, confirms the report that Dr. Duncombe is at
Fort Mal: en with a large Patriot force.
" The excitement amongst the soldiers on Navy Island, on being in-
formed of the savage butchery on board the steam-boat Caroline, was
tremehdous ; a general parade was ordered, and each took an oath never
to sho,th sword or bayonet until they had revenged the outrage, sealing
the airamation by kissing the naked steel.
4. A gentleman dii ect from Navy Island speaks with confidence of the
ability of the Patriots to defend themselves, and ultimately to carry for-
ward the great work of revolution. He thinks the number on Sunday
exce&ed 1,500 men, and it was hourly increasing. He counted 20
wen in muted cannon, besides the large pieces."--Star.
(From the New York Morning Herald, Jan. 9.)

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Aetna:la Jay. 6.—1 have hail a I,ng cenversation with a Gentleman
(lOUs city, Just from Buffalo. He left on Wednesday evening. On
Tu' sday 1:e was at Navy Island. They have felled the trees so that
their tops are riv erwards, semiering a landing almost impossible. A deep
ditch has been dug a short distance from the bank. About the centre
f the island is the encampment regularly laid out. They have alarge
number of tents made of beards and linen. There are full fourteen
eursdrad m n regularly enrolled. 1Iajor• Gorham, a Canadian, is a very
efficient officer, and great confidence is placed in him. .They have 31
pieces of cannon, and are well supplied with ammunition. The men
are in the highest spirits- A great number of Americans sent down
from Buffalo to protect our frontier made a mistake, and went over to
the Island.. Pork, beef, flour, &c., are sent down every day to Sehlos-
ser to Buffalo, and lauded on the Leach. The Navy bland boat, a large
scow, manned by armed patriots, comes over and takes it quietly away.
For the past week my informant tells me the weather has been quite
warm—there is no ice in the canal, or in the harbour cf Buffalo. The
young me❑ of the city are organized into a city guard. They patrol the
i "streets nightly and daily. The excitement is subsiding rapidly. Five
Mohawk Indians were captured and brought to town on Tuesday, for
trying to exci'e the Senecas to rebellion. On Grand Is'and there are
00 men stationed, to prevent any landing of the Royalists on our
territory.
Dr. Dunconthe, it is well ascertained, is at Detroit, waiting the
movement of M'Kenzie. if the Royalists did not attack the Patriots
before Saturday, Van Rensselaer has now avowed his intention of mak-
ing a descent on the main land, above Chippewa about fifty miles. They
have boats in readiness, and are increasing the number of them.
I Colonel Vs'oodruir, of Salina, had arrived at the island with 130 dollars
in money for the army, and offered his services, if they would give him
a certain command. Straw and provisions continued to arrive every
hour at Schlosser for the Patriots. Our United States Marshal has made
a formal demand on the Upper Canada Government, for the cannon,
United States property, within its territorinea.
GOVeritOr Head was still at Toronto, rnalgre the reports to the con-
trary. At Die there was one company of regulars that was ready
wLenever Mackenzie landed to join him, says my informant. The
Captain had so professed his determination to him. Mrs. Mackenzie
was still on the island. No Royalist ventures to show his face in Buffalo
now. It would not be safe to do so. The Navy Island cannon demolish
every morning the breast-works that M`Nab attempts to erect in the
night. These hints front an authentic source will enable your readers to
judge of the real state of things on the frontier. If our Government does
not interfere and put a stop to this open abetting of the revolutionists, a
war is certain with England.

(From the New York Morning Herald, Jan. 10.)
The Albany papers are copying from the New York journals the news
given by the latter respecting the Navy Island operations.
Private letters state that the Canadian militia, so long assembled at
Chippawa, have become discontented, and returned to their houses. And
further, that two steam-boats arc preparing to take the Patriots from the
island and convey them to some point up the Lake.
An intelligent person who left Buffalo on the 4th. reports, that three
steam-boats had been cut out at Buffalo, and that they would be
employed to convey the force on Navy Island to Fort Malden (at
the head of Lake Erie, twelve miles below Detroit), where it is said
a patriot force is embodied. He reports the force on the island at 1,200.
It is an ascertained fact that no one has yet been killed on Navy Is-
land or at the British encampment at Chippewa. The only loss of life
positively known is that of Mr. Durfee, at Schlosser.
We receive the Lower Canada papers, but they contain nothing of in.
terest. The only item worthy of notice is the following :
" The gvestion as to whether Lord Gosford's declaration of martial
law be legal or illegal was argued before a full Court at Chambers on
the 2Sth December. The Hon. James Stuart, late Attorney-General,
and that eminent barrister Mr. William Walker, contended for its ille-
gality.
The Judges had not pronounced on the validity of the proclamation
at the last dates. On their decision depends the right of the state pri-
soners to demand the writ of habeas corpus.
" LOWER CANADA.
" Montreal papers to the Ist instant state that Messrs. Girouard and
A. B. Papineau, members of the Assembly, implicated in the proceedings
of the county of the Two Mountains, have given themselves up—the
former to Mr. Simson, of Coteau de Lac, and the latter to Mr. Belanger,
of St. Martin, both magistrates. The Montreal Gazette labours through
a column of strictures to show that Governor Marcy's decision in the
case of Mackenzie was not well taken, and that he ought to have com-
plied with Governer Head's requisition.—Albany Argus."

The Debate in the House of Lords last night, on the
second reading of the Canada Bill, was extremely ani-
mated, considering that no opposition, except from Lord
BROUGHAM, was made to the principle, and none of any
moment to the details of the measure. The speech of Lord
GLENELG, by whom the debate was opened, was a mere re-
capitulation of the Ministerial common-places so repeatedly
urged in defence of the conduct of the Cabinet with
respect to the Canadas—a speech which Lord BROUGHAM
with more candour than courtliness, observed, contained in
explanation of the Bill—nothing ; in defence of the Bill—
nothing. Not so the speech of the Noble and Learned
Lord himself, who attacked without mercy the va-
cillating policy of the Government. He took
a rapid review of the progress of events since
the present Cabinet resolved to legislate for the
peace of our North American Colonies—denounced
in language the most forcible, the absurd and insane con-
duct of Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD—commented with well-
merited severity on the ridiculous affair of the Colonial
Office instructions to the Earl of DURTIAM—and concluded
by reading Ministers an historical lecture, of which, GOD
knows, they stand in much need, on the true principles of
Colonial policy. This speech called up Lord MELBOURNE,
who made one of the silliest attacks on th© Ex-CHANCEL-
Loa ever attempted by a popular Minister of the Crown.
The world does not require to be told that there is no
personal love lost between Lord BROUGHAM and the PRE-
MIER ; but it is certainly very silly of the latter—to say the
least of it—to charge such a man as Lord BROUGHAM with
being actuated solely by personal feelings, in opposing a
measure adverse to those principles which he has so ably and
so uniformly maintained all his life. The Noble Earl volun-
teered a sort of lame defence for Sir FRANCIS BOND
HEAD'S conduct, the suns of which was that the author of
the "13ubb1es" was a greater stickler for epigrammatic
point in composition than for unadorned veracity.
Why did not the Noble Colonial Secretary say so in
a note to the published despatches from Canada? Flow
were sober journalists like ourselves, or matter-of-fact
Legislators like Lord BROUGHAM, to know that we were
commenting upo❑ a series of " Bubbles" from Niagara ?
But how was it that Ministers were misled, who, it
seems. were aware of the fanciful import of the
official despatches ? These questions are rmrely meant
to show that Lord MELBOURNE would have acted
much more prudently had he left Sir FRANCIS
BOND HEAD to his fate—or, rather, had his Lordship
manfully denounced the conduct of the Governor, as
marked throughout with rashness and incapacity. Lord
BROUGHAM'S reply was most triumphant. In defending his