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t!•e orders of Lord John Hay, was to proceed in that vessel for
Halifax.
Active preparations are, we are assured, mak'ng in ev2ry
quarter to strengthen our military force in Upper and Lower
Canada. Drafts from the depot companies of the regiments
at present in the Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick,
have orders to join immediately their respective regiments, so
that the service companies of each corps will now he six in
number, consisting of 100 rank and file each. Two compa-
nies of the Royal artilleey, which were to have embarked yes-
terday for Jamaica and Barbadoes, have been countermanded,
and are destined, it is rumoured, for Canada via Halifax. A
brigade of the guards, under the command of Lord Saltoun.
and the 23d and 71st regiments, will, it is said, leave England
for Canada in the spring. The Ist battalion of the rifl !brigade
stationed at Woolwich, is ordered to be held in readiness for
immediate service. Its destination is doubtless to Canada. All
officers on leave from Canada have received orders to join their
respective regiments without delay. We stated in our last
week's paper that the Inconstant was about to sail for Canada
with Sir G. Arthur. Our Portsmouth correspondent writes
that she left Spithead on Thursday with that officer, and is to
proceed to Cork, for the purpose of taking up the service
companies of the 93d regiment ; but we have since heard that
Sir George Arthur will be conveyed to the New York packet
which left the Thames yesterday. The Hastings is also des-
tined for Canada, with troops. Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzge-
rald, late brigadier-general in Spain, is appointed inspecting
field-officer of militia in Canada. Captains De Rottenburg
and Head, with a number of other half-pay officers of various
ranks, have received orders to embark immediately for Canada,
for the purpose of assisting in the organization of the militia.
—United Service Gazette.
It is supposed that the 85th, 93d. and 99th, with other re-
giments, will leave Ireland for Canada forthwith. The 22d
are certainly ordered to Cork, perhaps for embarkation, The
service companies of the 93d will proceed to Halifax. The
transports to convey them are expected every hour at Cove.
The following note from the Commander-in-Chief, with its
answer, have been published :
" Horse Guards, Dec. 23, 1337.
" Lord Hill, being about to submit to the Queen that two
battalions of the guards should be held in readiness to proceed
to Canada, as soon as the season will permit their transport to
Quebec, requests that you will inform him which two batta-
lions are first on the list for foreign servive.
(Signed) " FITZROY SOMERSET.
" The Field Officer in Waiting, brigade of GUards."
"My Lord—ln reply to your communication of yesterday,
I have the honour to inform you, that the two first battalions
For service are—the 2d battalion Grenadier Guards, and the
2d battalion Coldstream Guards.
(Signed)

"J. FREEMANTLE,
Field Officer in Waiting.

SYMPATHY OF UPPER CANADA
WITH THE LOWER CANADIANS.

eeting In the Township of Whitchurch, Upper Canada,

September 16, 1837.
The obJect of this meeting was to take into consideration the Resole
lions passel by the Imperial Parliament, and about to be enforced i❑
the other colony, and to sympathise with Mr. Papmeau and the Lower
Canadians.

Resolved—" That we view, with hatred and abhorrence, the course
adopted by the British Government, relative to Lower Canada, and that
it is our duty not only to sympathise with, but in case of the enforcement
of Lord John Russell's resolutions, to support the Lower Canadians in
their struggle for independence."
Resolved—" That forasmuch as Sir F. B. Head has virtually succeeded
in wresting from this Province, the same inestimable right that Lord
John Russell's atrocious measures of coercion would take from the
other colony by force, namely, the control of the provincial revenue, by
hich a constitutional check might be exercised over the corruption of
the Executive, we most heartily sympathise with the people of Lower
Canada, and wholly approve of the course taken by Louis Joseph Papi_
nean and the majority of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, we
.consider their cause our cause, and tender to them our warmest thanks
and gratitude for their manful support of civil and religious liberty."
Other resolutions were also passed, and the whole were signed by
Mr. IL M`Kinley, the Chairman.

Public Meeting in the Township of Markham, Upper Canada, Sept. 19,
1837.

Among the re.;o7utions unanimously passed at a very numerous meet.
ing was the following one:—

" That we have looked with earnest attention to the course taken by
the Government of England, and by the people of Lower Canada and
he Assembly of their choice, and we condemn the atrocious Resolu-

tions moved by Lord John Russell, for coercing the Canadians and go-
verning them by the iron rod of colonial despotism. If their and our
money can continue to be taken from them and us, without their and
our consent, for base and unworthy purposes, by Resolutions passed in
Europe, or by legis'ative Acts made there by persons ignorant of Ca-
nada—if bank charters with vast powers can be granted ano sent out to
a few monopolists and favourites of a Queen and King from England,
in defiance of the resolves of the popular branch of the Legislature and
the requirements of the Constitution—then are those who submit to
such oppression unworthy of the name of freemen, and unfit to be the
depositaries of British or Canadian liberty; and we do, therefore, hereby
nominates Committee of Public Safety for the township of Markham.
"Resolved—That being well assured of the love of liberty and hatred
of oppression by which the Hon. Louis Jos2o Papineau and his pa-
triotic countrymen of Lower Canada are animated in their present noble
struggle, we are determined to make common cause with them, and do
hereby declare that we wculd consider the redress of their grievances
the best guarantee for the redress cf our own, which o'Jject we verily
believe would have bean obtained, had a responsible Executive, o❑ the
princ:ple laid down by Dr. Rolph, Mr. Ba'dwin, and the other members
of the Executive Council, of January, 1836, been conceded to the co-
lonists."

The whole of the resolutions were signed by Mr. Tomlinson, Chair.
man.

Public Meeting at St. Thomas, Upper Canada, October 6, 1837.
Among several resolutions it was resolved :
" That we deem the resolutions lately passed by the Parliament of
the United Kingdom a subversion of the chattered rights of these pro-
vinces; and we therefore applaud the patriotic stand taken against their
baneful operation by our brethren in the Lower Provinca. NVe ap-
prove of their determination respecting the disuse of tax-paying articles,
and we recommend their example as worthy of imitation in this pro-
vince, until the obnoxious resolutions be anulled, and until both pro-
vhices obtain such an am_lioration in the Constitution as will enable
our respective Legislatures to redress the grievances which have long
pressed heavily upon the people, and which have chrek.d the prosperity
of the Provinces, and engendered such discontent as haya at last de-
stroyed the credit of the Province abroad, and plunged it into bank-
ruptcy at home.

" Resolved,—That time after time, both in this Province and in Great
Britain, most loyally, nay, most servilely, have we petitioned for a re-
dress of the long and frightful catalogue of the wrongs of Canada.
Our prayers have hem spurned, and our feelings have been deeply
wounded by the instets that have accompani2d the contemptuous disre-
gard of our most humble supplications for justice—'hat we have too
long hawked our wrongs, as the beggar doth his sores, at the fastidious
threshold of haughty oppression, when, ckrided and mocked, we have
beets sent empty away. That, since our iron hearted rulers have turned
a desif ear to the voice of our complaints, we, confiding in the goodness
of our cause, resting as it wholly does on reason, truth, and equity for
its support, will call upon the God of Jo:Bee to aid us in our holy
struggle as Britons and as men."

When the business of the meetings, says the Liberal, concluded,
several rounds of heart stirring applause were given for the friends of
Canada in the British Parliament, for Papineau and the Lower
Canadians.

At a very large meeting at Toronto, Upper Canada, held upcn July 2-B,
- it was resolved :
" That the warmest thanks and admiration are due from the Re-
formers of Upper Canada to the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, I ,
Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, and his coin.
patriots in and out of the Legislature, for their past uniform, manly,
and noble independence in favour of civil and religious liberty ; and
for their present devoted, honourable, and patriotic opposition to the
attempt of the British Government to violate their Constitution, to sub-
vert the powers and privileges of their Parliament, and to overawe them
by coercive measures into a disgracef.l abandonment of their just and
reasonable wishes.
" That the Reformers of Upper Canada are called upon, by every tie
of feeling, interest, and duty, to make common cause with their fellow_
citizens of Lower Canada, whose successful coercion would dotibtl,ss
be in time visited upon us, and the redress of whose grievances would be
the best guarantee for the redress of our own."
TORONTO POLITICAL UNION.
At an adjourned Meeting of the Union, held on Monday eve-
ning, the 17th inst.,