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

IMPORTANT FROM CANADA,

( From a Second edition of the Times.)
We have received by the kindness of a gentleman, just
arrived from Canada, by way of the United States, the New
York Courier of the 11th. and the Montreal Herald of the
sth instant, the following intellig,nee
( From the New York Couriel.)
LATEST FROM CANADA.
• The detachment of British troops under Colonel Gore, that
marched upon St. Dennis by the wry of Sorel, entered and
occupied that village on the morning of the 2d instant, subse-
quently took possession of St. Charles, and were left at the
last accounts marching upon St. Hyacinthe in pursuit of Papi.
ncau and Nelson, who acre supposed to have fled in that
direction. St.
Charles and the other villages on the Riche-

lilnt;re to be occupied until further orders.—
It is stated in the Montreal Courier•, that the howitzer,
and live wout,ded men, left behind on the 231 ult., were reco
vexed, and that the property of Nelson and the hettes f►om
which he and his companions fired upon the 13 hish trool:s,
were burned. _ . .

The p esent gathering-place of the insurgents, if the Mon-
treal papers may be believed, is in the county of the Lake of
the Two Mountains—from which many of the loyal fami!i;s
have fled—and where it is said they have built block houses
and other fortifications, at St. Eustache, Grand Brule, and
other strongholds.
Several adr!iiional arrests had been made in the district of
Montreal. -On the Ist instant, Toussaint Peltier and Come
Seraphin Cherrier, Advocate of the city of Montreal, and the
latter M.P. P. for the county, were duly committed to -the
common gaol on this charge. On the same day, a man named
Pierre Claude Phaneuf, of St. llamas, was arrested at St.
John's, the deposition of several witnesses declaring him to
have been one of those who fired on the cavalry near

Longuell. The steam-boat Varennes, which arrived on the
evening of the 2cl from Sorel, brought up Pr. I'. A. Dorion,
M.P P. for Champlain, and Louis Moge, who were arrested at St.
Ours the evening previous, during the visit of the troops to that village.
An arrest for sedition has also taken place, of a man named William

Doran, who has been admitted to bail.
Lord Gosfurd, Captain-General and Commander in. Chief in and over
the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, has issued a proclamation,
under date of the 29th ult., calling on the disaffected and malcontent
inhabitants of the Lower Province to return to their allegiance, assur-
ing them that her Majesty's Government is more "desirous to forget than
to resent injuries," and that within that sanctuary they will " experi-
ence, no further molestation."
We learn from Upper Canada that the magistrates of Kingston have
been engaged in bringing to light some treasonable designs, and in
arresting a correspondence with some individuals in the distri. t hitherto
suspected of disaffection to the Government. It is stated in the King-
ston Chronicle that their courts have been successful, and that letters
filled with insurrectionary views, plans and exhortations. have fallen into
their hands, which they have despatched to the seat of government, to be
submitted to the Crown officers.
(Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.)

BURLINCITON, DEC. 7.—The northern mail has just arrived. I have
seen a gentleman—an acquaintance—bp the stage, who says that volun.
teers, 100 in number, left Swanton yesterday for Canada, with muskets,
powder, two cannon, and that they reached Missisqne bay where they
were attacked by the Roya'ists, and after a hard tattle the patriots were
driven back, with the loss of one man killed, three wounded, and the
loss of one cannon and a few muskets.
Yesterday the mail arrived from Montreal, with only one letter and
no papers. Nopapers from Montreal since Friday.
The Royalists are fortifying the whole of the Canada line, by Swanton,
Highgate, &c., a:-.d families are leaving for the States every day. The
Winooski steam-boat left here last night for St. John's, and will proba-
bly return tonight laden with passengers. The streets at Montreal arc
all welt barricaded. Monied affairs in Canada are in a deplorable condi-
tion. The banks are all guarded by the regular troops. Men in busi-
ness can obtain but very slight accommodations, and none but Royalists
are accommodated at all. Canada money not taken at the banks here.
(From the Montreal Herald.)

Last evening, at 8 o'clock, the steamer Varennes arrived in port
from Sorel, having on board Lieutenant Sweeny, Royal Montreal Cavalry,
who has returned in ill health. Four prisoners were brought up at the
same time, accused of high treason, viz. :—Charles Gouin, Alexis Feb.°
quin, and. the Chapdelaines (father and son.) Colonel Gore, as we un.
derstand, has proceeded to St. Charles and St. Hyacinthe to root out the
rebels. St. Dents has been burnt from the entrance of the village, in-
cluding Wolfred Nelson's house. Marcoux's monument totally destroyed.
Every search was made for Mr. Weir's body, but it could not be found;
it is supposed that his corpse has been thrown into the river.
Proclamations have at last been issued, offering rewards for the ap.
prehension of the principal traitors. The rewards appear to be graduated
according to the rascality of the parties, viz. :—L. J. Papineau, 1,0001. ;
Dr. Wolfred Nelson, Thomas S. Brown, E. B. O'Callaghan, M.P.P.,
C. 11. 0. Cote, M.P. , Joseph E. Drolet, M.P.P., J. J. Girouard, M.P.P.,
William henry Scott, 51.P.P., E. E. Rodier, M.P.P., Amury Girod,
Jean 0. Chunier, 5001. ; Pierre Paul Dcmaray, Joseph F. Davignon,
Julien Gagnon, Pierre Amiot, Timothe Franchere, Louis Perrault,
Alphonse Gavvin, Lotlis Gauthier, Rod., Desriviers, 1001.
We understand that the rebels have evacuated Saint Cesaire after
having completely saeked the store of Mr. Chaffers, a loyal magistrate
there. We arc sorry to learn that they have got hold of Mr. Chaffers'
notes and obligations, though we hear his books are saved. Mr. Chaf-
fers's loss cannot be estimated at less than 3,0001., as we are informed.
His clerks again took possession on Friday last, and closed up every
thing, it not being considered prudent for Mr. Chaffers to return amongst
them .for the present.
The Montreal Herald contains a long proclamation by Lord Gosford,
dated November 29, which the Herald censures for its moderate and
" almost absolute impunity" held out to the rebels. We have not room
for it at present.
The gentleman, to whom we are indebted for these papers, has also
favoured us with the following statement :--
" The writer left Montreal on the oth. Colonel Gore had roturned
from St. Denis with the troops, and the body of Lieutenant Weir, which
was found buried on the banks of the Richelieu, near a tannery ; his
face was so mangled that he could not be recognised but from his dress.
The rebel party had retreated from St. Denis. Colonel Gore met with
the armed body on his route. Papineau as yet has not been traced, he is
no doubt in the province, and it will be difficult for him to get nut, as a
sharp look out is made for him by the Americans for the reward. I saw
Franchere, Loapias, sliongear, and slanchaud, at Highgate ; at Swan.
ton, there are Dr. Coke, Drolet, Davignon; Demaray, and Rodier, and
several are also at Burlington ; theye three last places are
the State of Vermont. All through that State there seemed a very
great anxiety for the success of these rebels, and at Albany and Troy
they were raising a subscription for arms and ammunition. The two
pieces of cannon the rebels had at Missique Bay they obtained in Ver-
gennas, also in Vermont. On the morning of the 7th, it was supposed,
or rather reported, that Colonel Wetherall would march against General
Brute, depositions had been made in Montreal that they had deserted
their camp there, after the unfavourable account of the battle of St.
Charles."

(From a Second Edition of the Morning Chronicle.)
(From the New York Morning Herald of Dec. 11.)

We are informed from an official source, that depositions were taken
be:ore the British commercial agent in this city, and dispatched to Eng-
land by yesterday's packet, relative to the enlistment and recruiting
going on in Vermont for the insurgents, and the supplies of arms and
provisiOns introduced into the province from thence. Copies were also
dispatched to Washington. With what face great Britain can remon-
strate on the countenance given to the Canadiads by the sympathy of
individuals, after her national interference in the affairs of Spain and
Portugal, it is not easy to perceive. If even our government openly
abetted the revo:ters this argument would have some three; how much
wore so, when the only aid and encouragement is from the favourable
sentiments of a few isolated individuals.

We add another letter from our correspondent.
ST. JODNS (LOWER CANADA) Dec. 4, 1837.

, • . . Every person able to bear arms is expected to enroll his
name as a volunteer, and be ready to march to all points where the ma-
gistrates or mi,itary Akers direct. The greatest excitement prevails in
I.',lontreal, and although the apprehension of assault has diminished,
the busy note of preparation is very audible. That the winter will be
an awful one there is no doubt. The sucsess of Colonel Wetherall at
St. Charles has had the good effcet of snaking the majority of the habi-
tans waver in their resolution to join those in arms, but their disposi-
tion is the same, and the discomfiture of the troops will be the signal for
a general rise. _ _

_ .
The annoyances of a civil war are invisibly felt in the very outset of
this miserable contest ..The roads are thronged by amateur partisans of
the Government, who exercise a very rigorous surveillance on all coin-
ing to Canada, or travelling to the States. I have had a good deal of
conversation with gentlemen coining through from Montreal with their
families, to deposit them in a place of safety on the other side of the
lines. They apprehended a long and obstinate contest, as an indomi-
table spirit prevails among the Canadians, end their wives and children
are as enthusiastic as the men ; the latter have perilled their lives,
while the lormer commit their household goods and agricultural pro-
perty to the flames, wherever and whenever the troops approach. The
war will be a desultory one, and the antique legend of Cadmus and the
Dragon's tooth will be revived during the present winter.
The rebels arc nothing daunted, by the result of the St. Charles
aflltir; every body feels that the worst has not yet come. There are
not more than 3,380 regulars on this continent; and how they are to
defend the cities, and the expanse of country during the winter, is a
question that considerably puzzles my philosophy. About 5,000
loy.dist Volunteers may be raised, but their fanaticism is as trouble..
some to the Government as the open hostility to the Canadians,
The-Honourable Robert Jones, with a corps of Stanstead and St. .Ir.
mend people, is scouring the country between here and the lines, exa.
mining travellers.-- It is singolar that his partisans are either Ameri-
cans or their suns. lam convinced the Canadians cannot calculate on
any demonstration of support from the township people, they hold their
lands by the " free and common socage tenure" to which the Canadian
seitpieurs are so opposed: the Assembly has frequently questioned the
right ()Vac Clown to concede lands in this manner. If they got the
upper hand they would dispossess the American settlers, or make them
change the tenure ; or in some way or other give them trouble. Having
taking the oath of allegiance the latter cling to the authority under
which they hold; and not having a sixpehce to pay for roads, schools,
or any township contributions, not even their clergy, they see no tea_
son to be dissatisfied.—ltesptetfully yours
PAPINEAU IN NEW YORK.
The New York Weekly Herald of the 9th ult., gives the following
account of Papineau and his doings :
" We have reason to know, that, for toe last week very active mea.
sures have been taken to forward armed auxiliaries to the Canadian
frontier, there to abide the directions of those entrusted with the go.
neral detai's of the insurrection. The process is a curious one. The
candidate for the glory of overthrowing the British domination on
this continent, walks into a barber's shop, and instead of equipping
himself in the dressing gown, and holding out his chin f r the biush,
he marches onwards into a little room where there is a gentleman
seated, who takes down his name arid residence. He is then told that
his services will be required for two or three years probably, and is fur-
nished with money to convey him to a certain point on the lines,
where he will be supplied with uniform, clothing, and arms. In this-
way about 200 men have been dispatched to join the forces of the re
volutionists. We also learn that about 130 barrels of gunpowder in
the s'ape of butter kegs have been smuggled across the frontier into
Lower Canada."

Ma. PAPINEAU IN THIS C►rr, Scc. We understand that a French.
man pointed out Mr. Papineau to Mr Fountain, the keeper of the city
prison. The honourable speaker and agitator of Lower Canada was on
the wharf waiting to go on board the Albany steam-boat, on Thursday
afternoon, when Mr. Fountain's attention was called to him ; he pro-
bably has been ma'iing the arranrments alluded to in another article
for supplying his partisans with munitions of war and auxiliaries.
A gentleman, the proprietor of a newly-invented fieldpiece that dis-
charges some thirty bullets in as many seconds, is anxious to devote
this implement of destruction to the patriot cause, but he very naturally
wishes to know the condition of their funds. Can any one inform us ?

Mr. Poulett Thomson has left town on a visit to
Sir Charles Taylor.
Mr. John Philip Miles is entertaining a large party
at his splendid seat, Leigh Court, in Somenetshire.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet
Britannia arrived on Saturday with the tiamburgh mail of the
26th ult. The Countess of :Lansdale, with the London mail
of the 22d, art ived at Harnburgh on the morning of the 26th.
The Elbe was free from ice, and the navigation completely open.

MAGAZINE DAY

BLACXWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
The " Household Wreck," which is the first paper in
the present Number, is a tale which reminds us, in sonic
places, of the iinpassicned and eloquent manner of Joseph
Dowries in the Mountain- Decameron. The introductory
portions of it ere written with great vigor, and show no
slight power of fancy ; the close of the story however dis-
appoints us sadly, for after being prepared for some stein
and tragic catastrophe, and having our curiosity raised to
tie utmost, we a, c put off with a series of petty distresses
arlsing from the heroine having been taken to a police
office, arid afterwards tried, and found guilty of having pur-
loined some goods from a haberdasher's shop. After a high-
wrought, impassioned exordium, containing many genuine
touches of pry-try, we are ill prepared for such an every-
day catastrophe as this. It is realizing the old fable of the
mountain in labour. Nevertheless, we must confess that
the tale has inteiTst is worked up in places with consi-
derable energy ; and needed only a little. more skill and
judgment to render it all that a magazine fiction should
he. " Modern French Classics" gives an able, though
brief, sketch of the life and writings of the celebrated
French preacher Bossuct, whose funeral oration on Queen
Henrietta, wife of the unfortunate Charles the First of
England, has ever been considered a master-piece of pulpit
eloquence. From the specimens which the writer adducis
of this composition, it is evident that its merits have not
been over-rated. It is nervous and sententious in style,
elevated in thought,' and breathes throughout the true,
meek spirit of Christianity. " The Life of Wallenstein" is
one of those delightful historiettes, for which this periodical
has long been so celebrated. A great variety of informa-
tion, and on matters little known to the generality, though
of general interest, as tending to throw light on many mys-
teriatis events in the Thirty Years War, is here packed up
in the compass of a few pages. The article is besides full
of well-selected extracts, one of which gives us an animated
account of the famous battle of Lot zen, in which Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden, the lion of the North, and the bul-
wark of the Protestant faith"—as Sir Dugald Dalgetty
calls him—fell, at the moment of obtaining a hard-earned
vi t.ory. From this interesting paper, we quote the follow-
iag, extract descriptive of Wallenstein's daily mode of life,
when he was living an exile at Prague. It is a curious and
characteristic picture of the magnificence of the higher
German nobles in the seventeenth century :--
"The ruins of the enormous palace which he inhabited in Prague,
with its six gates, its vast halls, galleries and baths, are still in existence,
vying in extent and magnificence with those of the 'Roman emperors,
and corresponding to the extent of his revenue, which exceeded six
millions of dollars. Besides his own properties in Bohemia and Mo-
ravia, which he had acquired by his first -marriage, he possessed the
Duchies of Friedland and Mecklenburg, the Principalities of Sagan and
Glogua, and immense sums in the banks of Amsterdam and Venice.
He formed a court of his own, and kept a numerous body-guard, sixty
pages, four chamberlains, twelve knights and barons, and three hundred
horses, which were fed from marble mangers in his stable. His table
was never furnisbed with less than a hundred covers, and his liveries,
equipages, and furniture were in a corresponding style of regal splen-
dour. Amidst the pomp with which he thus industriously surrounded
himself, he was distinguished by the simplicity of his own tastes and
habits, and his power of enduring labour and privations. Patient of
hunger, thirst, and watchfulness, he never himself indulged in the fes-
tivities of the table ; to the other pleasures of the senses he was equally
inaccessible;—amusement he despised. Deep study, or active exertion
alone, could satisfy his brooding and restless mind. To noises of all
kinds he had a particular aversion. Guards patroled the avenues to his
palace to prevent disturbance; the very sound of coaches was prohibited
in its neighbourhood, as he pursued his meditations on his future plans
and prospects, conducted with Isis own hand his correspondence a ith
every quarter in Europe, or devoted himself, in company with his astro-
loger, to the study of the planetary aspects, and endeavoured to draw
from them a confirmation of his hopes or fears, as to his future destiny."
" The WorldWe Live In" is sparkling and satirical, but
attacks Sidney Smith in a most caustic, and unjustifiable
style, for no other reason that we can discover, than be-
cause he happens to be a man of wit, as well as a clergy-
man. We suppose the writer is of opinion that in order to
be pious, it is necessary, above all things, that a parson
should be prosy. Yet Bishop Horne was an exemplary
clergyman, and he was a man of first-rate powers of wit ;
also was Bishop Corbet ; nevertheless he did not eschew
his joke! The attack on Sidney Smith is a sheer piece of
cant and humbug, suggested evidently by his Whig politics,
and sharpened possibly by personal spleen. " Russia" is a
well-digested essay, replete with valuable matters-of-fact.
" Impressions of a Tour" is readable ; but it is impossible
to impart much interest or novelty to a tour in Germany
and the Netherlands. The field of observation and enquiry
has been so diligently reaped, that scarcely a sheaf is left
for the most lynx-eyed gleaner to pick up. " What have
the Ministry Done ?" is clever in point of mere style, but
crazy and rambling in its politics. Portions of it evince
consummate powers of mystification.

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Captain Marryat's " Phantom Ship" is continued in this
Number,and forms one of its chief attractions. The supern a-
natural portions of the talc are touched with a light and dex-
terous hand, so as to keep the reader in a constant flutter of
excitement and curiosity. In point of interest, arising
from a rapid succession of startling incidents, we prefer this
story to any its author has yet produced—with the sole ex-
ception of " Peter Simple," which is decidedly his master-
piece. The sketch of the ship on fire off the coast of
Africa, is pourtrayed with infinite energy, though it will
not bear comparison with the same appalling catastrophe
described in " Tom Cringle's Log." The essay entitled
" Female Portrait Gallery," is from the pen of Miss Lan-
don. It is a criticism on Scott's character of Flora M'lvor
eloquent, indeed, but wanting in discrimination. Miss
Landon exhibits to greater advantage as a poet than a
critic. Her remarks on Flora rarely pierce below the
surface. " Pine-Apple Lodge" is a humorously written
article, and contains a lively satirical sketch of one of those
capricious, elderly gentlemen who come under the designa-
tion of " Oddities." " The Great Western Jungle" is a
capital sporting paper, worthy of Nimrod, whose manner,
in some of its hasty, glowing descriptions, it much re-
sembles. It is evident that the author has not drawn from
books of travels, but from personal acquaintance with the
picturesque localities which he pourtrays. "'The Manager's
Note Book" is this month devoted to reminiscences of
Mathews—an able mimic and actor, but by no means the
first rate genius that his admirers would represent him to
be. We take an extract at random from this desultory