The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

ADEL PHI THEATRE.

Last night a new burletta, by the author of Catching an Heiress, in
one act, c died the Dancing Bar.ier, with dialogue, though perhaps no
incident. sufficient for two acts at least, was p.-oluc d at this the.tre
Alfred Fitzfrolic (Mr. Saville) is awaiting the arrival of a barber, who
has been engaged to curl and properly adjust his hair previous to his de-
parture for a ball, which is to be given the same evening at the house of
a gentleman with whom he is acquainted. The said barber di el
not come, and Fitzfrolic, tired of waiting, desires his servant Betty
to fetch some one else. She accordingly engages with, and ushers
into her master's pr,•sence, . Narcissus Fitzfrizzle (Mr. H.
Beverley), the dancing barber, who—whilst employed over the
head of Fitzfrolic—betrays tile same propenisty which the greater
portion, of his fraternity are sifted with—that of talking—and,
after indulging in a great variety of amusing remarks,
he mentions the theatres, Italian Opera, and the celebrated dansauses
who have attracted his attention there, which reminds him of an i,
controllable t hart' he has acqqui:-ed for " trippipg the light iantastle
toe," whereupon he quits his business to enjoy pleasue, for awhile, aid
capers about the room in a most f oli,ksome manner. Yitzfrolic ob-
serving the comic behaviour of his hairdresser, determines to
make him the vehicle for a " little fun," and informing him
that a ball is about to take place at his friend's residence, in-
duces him to dress as a gentleman and proceed thence, where be
will be ah:e to enjoy, unmolested, his favourite acquirements.
Fitzfrizzle makes his entr6e in the ball-room, and is introduced
to a Mr. Dunderhead Twaddle (Mr. Wilkinson), a person (11-
gaged to superintend the dances, &e., who, after some conversation, its
which the former Assumes the name of Brown, the letter has reasons
for suspecting the visiter tube Mr. Fitzfrolic, and therefore delivers into
his hands two letters which he had been instructed to give to that gen-
tleman by Lady Emily Flitterly, the admired of Mr. F., and Mrs.
Snaply, both members of the company. The letters, for the sake of
caution or mystery, being only addressed Mr. F., the barber imagines
that there can be no mistake, and opens the respective letters, when
Fitzfrolic enters, and requests him to communicate secretly to Lady
Flitterly and Mrs. Snaply that he is prevented from giving his
attendance by an unforeseen occurrence. Whilst playing his
part in a quadrille, he c(Fitzfrizzle) whispers the circumstance
to those ladies, and is perceived by Lord Mincington (Mr. Yates), an
admirer of Lady F. and Mr. Snaply, the husband of Mrs. Snaply.
In consequence of this several ludicrous scenes took place, in which
the poor barber is accused of seduction, and is threatened with a brace
of pistols and a horse-whip by the two gentlemen, who considered them.
selves insulted; when the two ladies who have been the cause of
all en'er the room, folLavcd by the absentee Fitzfrolic, whose
frolic is explained to t! e parties, when it appeals that the
whole had been a scheme devised by him, and that the letters
had been forged by a servant of his for the sake of carrying
on the mysterious joke. A reconciliation ensues, Lady Fitterly's
hand is given to Fitzfrolie at the consent of her brother, Lord Flitterly,
who had also felt indignant at the conduct of the pseudo-gentleman,
and Fitzfrizzle being forgiven by all, presents his cards (not u hich he
had played) to the company, and the piece concludes, which was une-
quivecally successful, but would be more entitled to rank amongst the
stock pieces of the theatre were it slightly curtailed. The burletta was
well acted.

A s the driver of the coast mail was pasting the toll-
bar at the top of Folkestone-hill, the horse became restise,
and started at full speed down the hill. After great exertions
by the driver to prevent it, the cart was overturned, throwing
out the driver and another person with great violence some
yards' distance, bat, we are gird to learn, with no further in-
jury than a few slight bruises. The cart and harness were both
much damaged, but the hrerse escaped with very little injury.
The bags, after a short delay, were collected and forwarded by
another conveyance, but by the same driver. —Dover Chron.
The current number of the Medical Gazette con-
tains a leading article on the use of arsenic in the preparation
of candles, in which the facts upon which we have already
dwelt are reproduced and enforced, the danger rasulting from
the volatilization of the poisonous mineral is pointed out,
and some facts 'are related in illustration thereof. Among
these we find the following recent case of poisoning, which ter-
minated fatally. As it is very instructive, we copy it entire:—
" Mr. Phillips told the committee of a case which occurred in
1836 at Falmouth. Mr. Beard, who was delivering a lecture
on the gases at the Mechanics' Institute, inhaled a portion of
arsenuretted hydrogen gas, and died about ten daylifterWards,
in spite of medical assistance. The lecture was delieered on
the sth of December, 1836, the experiments in illustration
were performed on the .19th, when the fatal inhalation took
place, and Mr. Beard died on the.29th."
There is a case of fratricide of peculiar atrocity to
be tried in Carlow at the next Assizes. The following extra-
ordinary circumstance has since led to the arrest of the ac-
cused parties :—A child of four years old, the son of the
principal charged with the horrid deed, was heard' to say. in
the presence of some strangers to the family, that . be thutOt
he saw last night his father cutting his uncle's throat again.
The pers n went immediately and told the police, who had
the child taken and 'interrogated. He then stated that he re-
Membered seeing his father and, his, uncle cutting , his. uncle
L irrv's throat, and he lying in bed ; and that they then rolled
him up in a quilt, and carried him out of the house, and that
is hen they came back they buried the quilt. Search was made
in thc spot where the child said it was buried, and there it
was found, with the blood quite fresh upon it, although the
murder had been committed four months previously. Under
these circurnitam es, the two brothers and a niece, who was
in the house, were arrested and comenitted fur trial. The
e:tild was takcn to Dublia, and will be tlic principal evidence
.gain‘t its wretched father at the coming Assizes: The un-
fortunate man who was mardsred was possessed of consider-
able property. which he always declared ho would 'cave to V-
legitimate children whom he had,--Dab!in Register.
About two o'clock on Sunday Morning, information
was brought to the Police-office 4hat a ie:an_of the name of
Robert Bruce, a calico-printer, ha d been stabbetV in a dange-
rous manner in 'different parts of the body, at Cartlachte.
Cal tail Miller immediately proceeded to the spot, and was
.'ngagcd all right in lie endeavours to discover the assailant.
Hs was at last found ; but the story he gives is, that he rah
as milted first by the person stabbed, and that if he did wound
him it w's in self defence, as the man was above him at the
time, and using tits utmost exertions to suffocate or " Burke"
him, as the a'...cused expressed himself when apprehended. We
nude. stand teat in the district where this occurred. violent
;op: watts :,re perpetrated ala.oit every night ; another evidence
of the net essity of the extension of the police jerisdietien.
G 1 rsguw Clarunide. .
THE CAFFRE STAG.—The ()chir day tliete ar-
riveal, by the ship ilindostert, from the Cape of 'Goad Hope,
one of the finest specimens of the C..ftee s.ag that has ever
b_en brought to Europe. It was shot bt the Ca; e some
time since, mid stuffed there; but the b •-uty cif i!s apecae.
ance does tv...t seem to have been at all injured, e;'l.e- by
the operation of stuffing, or the voyage. which it has rn,de.
The horns arc by tar the most beautlful that have vet been
found on any animal of the kind, and are about two feet and
a half in length. In consequence, however, of the size of
the animal.. for convenience, the horns have been unshippal
imt are to be restored as soon as it is teepee:iced, a• d placed
where it is inteaded to be kept. On Saturday one side-of the
b,x which contains it was taken away, and the animal shown
to s_veral naturalists, and other gentlemen who were informed
of its arrival and went to examine it, all of whom pronetinced
it the largest and most beautiful speciscen of the Clare seag
ver t) Europe. It is now deposit, din the baggegd
a a .elemse at the West. Ltdi t Docks,

In the nei;..;hhourliooti of Perth, last week, ititka of
wild gos.?, were ob,erved taking a northerly direction—syMp..
toms commonly indicative of a continuance of mild weather.
The Duke of Devonshire has been, apparently yids
grent interest; superintending the conipleti,,n of the ircrrrnse
and mignifieent ccwservatory'at Chatsworth. • This buildir g,
.ben calqileted, will ba the fin,st of the description of any
c.),:servatory in England. The end will be Pppropriatcd as an
avi try, in which rare birds will be placed. t at they may brcei,
surrou,:d..d by the chuieest a xotics. Plan's, tAirubF, and II ..xers,
from all parts of the habiti;b:e globe, hive been collected to
grace this splendid fabric.—Derby Mercury.
On Fr day night the Martha, of Gloucester, from
[)roitaich, laden with salt, was run down in the rivcr Severn
btu the Margaret, when unfortunately M: s. Glaqper, the wits
of the roster of the craft, and her d4ughter, were drowned,
the two ether persons on board bring saved with great &fa-
culty.— Worcester JoYrnal.

PROBABLE RESULTS OF THE. CA-
NADIAN REBELLION.

(From the Specta'or.)
This question is much too important, and too complieeted
in its nature. to be disposed of sententiously as if it were ripe
for judgment. " The Canadians," say some, " must he put
(10:" " there must," others will have it, "he a separation."
I;ta who can even make a reasonable guess at what will hap.
pen ? Such jumping to conclusious is not absurd, only because
it has the excuse, as it is the result, of passion. Wounded
national pride on the one head, and English hatred of oppres-
sion on the ether, are, in respect to this Canada question, like
enraged dispetants who appeal to " the glorious uncertainty of
the law," with a perfect certainty between them of opposite c-
sults. Before judgment is finally pronounced, eitherparty under-
goes many a chenge ofopinionas to the end. It will probably be
so with the Canada question. Nay, on- observes already a good
deal of chcppine and changing of opinion amongst thieie c, en
w:to were at ft st most ready to pronounce positively. The
sul-ject is by its very nature full of doubt and uncertainty--a
kind of lottery, depending on events as to which it is imisessi-
ble to fortn an opinion. In such cases, conjecture and gu se-
work generally take a dogmatical shape : in proportion as the
means of sound judgment are wanting, the deficiency is sup-
plied by positiveneee. We shall endeavour to avoid th's too
common error. Impressed with no other conviction as to the
end of this heginning, than that it will be determined by events
not yet foreseen by any one, we shall confine ourselves for the
present to inquiry and reflection.
If there had been more inquiry on this subject, " the Ltttery
of war." as Napoleon wisely called it, would probably have
been avoided. I: has been taken for granted in England,
that, come what might, the Canadians would never
.fig/!t. Ou
this assurni.tion, the Colonial office (for the British nation has
really had no part whatever in the grievances of which the
Canadians complain), has provoked the people into rebellion ;
and on this assumption the servants of the Colonial Office in
Canada have been left without a force adequate for their pro-
tection. But the Canadians have fought. Why they should
not fight, we could never understand ; though we gave some
credit to the general assertion that they would not fight.
They have fought ; and all the bearings of the question are
chary-ed.
Wellington and Peel carried the Catholic Relief Bill,
because they believed that the Irish would fight. It was the
fighting of the workmen in Paris, in July 1830, which, when
nothing else could have done it, at once settled the ques-
tion between the Revolution and the Restoration in France.
Lexington and Bunker's Hill emancipated the United
State?, and have exerted, down to this time, a most impor-
tant influence on the destinies of Europe. As soon as a
civil difference ends in civil contest, the origin of the war is
almost forgotten in the host of new questions arising out of
an event so calculated to strike the imagination and excite the
passions of nations. As respects the parties immediately
contending, the matter is suddenly brought to the last extre-
mities; instead of persuasion—negotiation—perhaps recon-
ciliation, the conquest of one or other party is inevitable, how-
ever doubtful the chances of war. Such a spectacle is beheld
by other nations with trembling sympathy. And never was
there a civil war more calculated than that which now exists
in Canada, to inflame nations who arc not yet parties in the
quarrel. Supposing, as we may readily do, that no foreign
Government should interfere at present, yet we hold it for
certain that the people of France, to some extent, and the
people of the United States generally, stimulated by the
proud recollection of their owl% shares in a similar war, will
take part against our Colonial Office, and in favour of the
Canadian rebels. Thus the Canadian revolt, supposing it to
be prolonged for but a year, affords abundant materials for a
general war. We want evidence at present as to the effect
produced on the other British colonies of North America. by
the fighting which has taken place in Lower Canada; but as all
of these infant States (and independent States they must be-
come sooner or later) have more or less to complain of from
our Colonial Office; and as the fighting must have convinced
them that the Canadians have now no choice but between vic-
tory with independence and entire submission to a far distant
and quite irresponsible rule, it seems more than probable that
they will be deeply affected by this civil war. The fighting in
Canada is pregnant with great events ; and this appears to be
all about which at present there is any absolute certainty.
In consequence of the fighting in Canada, the subject of
Canadian grievances will come at last to be understood in this
country. So long as the colonists did no more than complain
and remonstrate, it was a vain attempt to rouse public:attention
in England to the causes of Colonial discontent. But the
causes of a civil war will soon be inquired into. And it must
soon be known that the " practical grievances" of the Cana-
dians, which the officials have altogether denied, are far more
serious than those which drove our old self-governed colonies
of America into rebellion. Thus, the system on which our
Colonial Office governs from a distance will be brought to
light. And this more than probable result of the Canadian
rebellion is certainly not to be regretted.
The probable influence of the Canadian rebellion on home
politics is as yet disregarded. Let this civil war end as it
may, however, the stela of parties in England must be deeply
affected by it. Suppose the Canadians victorious, and that,
as would then surely happen, this nation's wounded pride gives
way, to indignation anainst the authors of the civil war : Eng-
land defeated I and mdefeated in such a quarrel Such an
illustration of Toryism as administered by Whigs, could hardly
fail to produce important changes at home. Suppose, on the
other hand, that the Whig administration of Toryism in
Canada should triumph over the revolted people, and that the
Canadians were put down and kept down by force of arms :
what a victory for a Whig Government!—for the party whose
sole dependence is on popnlar support, as their only claim to
popularity is founded on their possession of attachment to con-
stitutional freedom I The Whigs may do Tory work so as to
benefit the Tories; but, be the end what it may, they will
assuredly suffer themselves. Retributive justice awaits them,
come what will. They were warned, but were blind, and are
now blinder than ever. They risked all upon the hope that
the Canadians would not fight; and their disappointment now
leads to desperation. The next intelligence from Canada and
the United States may perhaps sober and enlighten them.
There has been no occasion since the fighting at Paris in 1830
when opinion was held in such painful suspense by the want of
news. In another week, perhaps, we shall be able to speak
with less hesitation of the probable results of this momentous
civil war.

" This was written before the appearance of yesterday's
news from Canada and the United States.

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EFFECT OF THE REDUCTION ON NEWSPAPER
STkMPS.—From the table published in Wednesday's paper, it
appears that the number of newspaper stamps used in the first
year of the new duties, (ending 10th of October last,) was
47,248.000. In the year ending 10th October, 1835, the
'lumber was 30,625,000. The effect of the reduction of the
duty, therefore, has been to increase the circulation of news-
papers 54 per cent. The comparison, we may observe, is a
very fair one ; fur in both years the press had the stimulus of
a general election. If the years 1936 and 1837 had been
cora,iared, the increase would have appeared greater. it
must be kept in mind, however, that the increase of 54 per
cent. is the result of the reduced duty in the first year of its
operation ; and as time is required to develope the full effects
of such a change, we may expect a-progressive increase for
some years to come. The old duty was threepence and two-
tenths of a penny: the new is one penny.—Scotsman.
SHEFFIELD.--On Wednesday a public meeting
of the inhabitant householders, called by the Master Cutler,
was held in the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of pe-
titionin,ethe Quo en in Council for a Charter of Incorporation
for the borough of Sheffield. Some other towns also we see
are seeking a charter of incorporation,]
MOD ERN CLUBS ABROAD.--The information
has lately been running the round of the newspapers that a
club called the " Cassina" on the model of the modern
Fnglish clubs, has been established by the nobility of Vienna.
It don not seem to be generally known, that the idea of
associations of this description did not originate in England,
but was borrowed from Sweden, where one was flourishing
in full vigour at the close of the last century. This es-
tabiihment, which bore the name of " Sallrhapet," or
" The Society," was at that time described at length by
travellers in Sweden as something peculiar to the country.
Acerbi, who la as an Italian by birth, but wrote his works
in English, and who is now, we believe, the Austrian
Cinsul in E7yrt sreiks of it (in his " Travels through
Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, in the years 1793 and 1799,"
published at London in 1802,) as follows:_." The most
agreable place in Steckholm for strangers to resort to, is the
club called " The Society." It is open at all times, and is
the best regulated of ad the clubs I ever knew, The house
is magnificent, and furnished with great taste ; neatness,
elegance, and good order, reign throughout the whole. At
half after two o'clock you find an excellent dinner on the
table, of which, however, none can partake except members
of the club, and persons introduced by members, so that you
always meet with goof! comp:my. Mr. Martin, a Frenchman,
who keeps the ',louse, has always the best cooks in his ser-
vice. I.- litre are few private families in Stockholm where
Yeu can dine better than you do at this club for half a crown ;
:newine is not included in this charge. The house contains
hidiard-table, a great ball-room, a parlour, where people
meet for tbo purpose of conversation ; a reading room,
where you have journals and newspapers of all countries
ield in all languages ; a card-room and a dining-room ; all
these apartments communicate with each other, and form a
attire that extends over the whole front of the building. When
the doors are open, you overlook the whole at one view, which
Atli a pleasing effect." Dr. Clarke, in his " Travels in
Botodinacia." speaks of the establishment in terms of appro-
bation equally warm, and adds, that "strangers are permitted
to eoioy all the privileges of the club during two months ; but
if they remain longer in Stockholm they must be presented a
second time, and become members, or be excluded. Every
member subscribes twelve rix-d Mars. In fact, The Society'
of Stockholm only seems to differ from the clubs of London
in one respect, in which the variation is easily accounted for
by the difference in size of the two capitals." " In this So-
ciety," says Acerbi, " all the people of Stockholm are mixed
—both nobility, gentry, and men of business."—Railway!
Times.

TOUCHING.—From the Star, an American Paper.
In the crowded saloon of Mr. Catlin, at the Indian lecture
last night, in the midst of an intensely interesting discourse,
a person raised himself on tiptoe, and in a solemn and earnest
manner said, " Mr. Catlin, Sir, will you have the goodness to
stop a moment?" The audience looked with astonishment, and
the lecturer paused. " I have lost my little boy in the crowd, and
I wish to call him." A dead silence ensued among the twelve
hundred people there assembled. " Clark Potter I" cried the
father; Here I am, father," squeiked a shrill little voice in
a distant corner. Shouts of laughter followed; the urchin
was Landed over the crowd to his anxious parent, and Mr. Cat-
n plroceeded with his lecture in peace.

THE CANADA,

( From the Vinlik ttok.
SYMPATHY FROY LTPPER CANADA.—GREAT

ANTI-CONIiCION MEETING OF THE TOWN-
SHIP OP MARKHAM.
Pursuant to notice in the county newspapers, and by hand-
bills circulated among the people, a public meeting of the
Reformers of Marktain was held at one o'clock in the after-

noon of Tuesday, the 19th of September, 1837, on the pre-
mises of Mr. William Ketchum, in Markham village. About
four hundred friends of Reform were present, and they chose
Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, clothier,
,to be chairman, and Mr.
Peter Milne, wool-carder and merchant; as the secretary.
Their proceedings were orderlb evtry speaker was attentively
iistmed to, the resolutions Were calmly discussed, and although
many carte armed for F elf-defence there was no violence nur
cause for violence. Markham sustained its ancient reputation
a 4 the al--de of a friendly people, We do nut encourage
0r,...ge Lodges and disorderly characters.
kfter the usual preliminary proccedinr, the declaration of
their grievances, set forth by the Reformers of the city of
Toronto, was read to the meeting, and it was moved by Mr.
George Eckhardt, seconded by Mr. Joshua Wright, that it be
Resolved, 1. That the declaration and proceedings of the
Reformers of Toronto. dated 31st July last, having been pub-
lished in the News, and this day read and explained to this
meeting, we adopt the same, as the sentiments of the Reformers
of Markham, agree to act upon the princidles therein set forth,
an-1 hereby name and appoint as our Delegates to the Provin-
cial Conv,ntion, Messrs. Joseph Milburn, John Burr, Peter
Milne, Joseph Tomlinson, James M'David, Justin Badgerow,
and Henry Miller.

David Gibson, Esq., 31. P. P. , addressed the Meting, and
wa; followed by Mr. Alexander Milne. The Chairman al ,o
callei their attention to the situation and prospects of the
country.

The resolution was then adopted unanimously.
Mr. Mackenzie, corresponding Secretary of the Reform
Associations, earnestly requested the farmers and mechanics
to join in the formation of Reform Societies of between twelve
and forty members, distributed the necessary papers for the
formation of such societies, and occupied the time of the meet-
ing for about an hour in explanation of the political state and
prospects of the colony.
After which the ten following resolutions were severally
read, submitted to the meeting, and carried by successivA vote; una.
nimously in the affirmative:—

Moved by Mr. Peter Milne, junior, seconded by Mr. George Henry
Summerfeldt—

Resolved, 2—That according to an estimate, as carefully made as the
nature of the inquiry would admit, the people of the county of York
are taxed as follows :

First Tax.-9,000/. yearly, as duties paid on goods imported from
foreign countries, and the amount repaid to the importers by us, when
purchased for our use-

Second Tax —lO,OOOl. yearly, to b.:, sent to Europe, being payments
for wild lands made valuable by our industry, and pledged to our use
and advantage by the Government, but since conveyed, for a small con-
sideration, to the Canada Company; granted in blocks free to persons
in Europe, many of whom never saw our province, and others who have
no claim upon it, or, being clergy reserves, not reserved for any clergy,
nor sold for education, but turned into cash, and the money transmitted
to Loudon.

Third.-3,0001. a year, being the taxes levied on our houses, lands,
cattle, horses, carriages, mills, stores, and store-houses, much of which
is swallowed up as costs of collection.

Fourth.-4001. a year as the tax on wild lands unoccupied.
Fifth Tax.-8,0001. a year for the use of bank rags, which cost the
bank monopolists next to nothing, and when the banks fail, as that at
Kingston did a few days ago, with nothing in the till (and as another
bank at the same place did some years ago), we, the farmers, are not
only losers by the tax, we pay for leave to use paper promises to pay us
what such banks owe us, but also likely to lose all the produce and
goods and houses, and land we have sold, and delivered for such broken
bank promises.

Sixth.-1,2.501. a-year tax for leave to keep taverns, which tax falls
upon all who frequent the same.

Seventh.-8001. a-year tax for leave to keep store and sell liquor by
the quart; paid in the long run by those m,ho buy in the store.

Eighth.-7501. a_year of tax on the salt we use, although the war
losses, to pay which the tax was imposed, were settled off some time
since.

Ninth.--1501. a-year of tax, levied by John Joseph, clerk to Sir F.
B. Head, for licences to one hundred boys and girls to marry, at six dol-
lars per marriage, although 71d. would meet the expense; and Mr. Jo-
seph has a handsome salary.

Tenth Tax.-11. each to Mr. Joseph for leave to practise surgery, by
doctors who come and settle among us (and 21. for each surveyor to
measure our land.)

Eleventh.—A per centage tax on all merchandise sold by licensed
auctioneers, for which license they are also taxed.

Twelfth Tax.-3,0001. a year levied on our wheat, flour, lumber, and
and other native produce sent to the United States, our best market on
many occasions for flour and lumber, such tax being levied on us by the
United States Government in retaliation, because the British Govern-
ment refuses them the use of the St. Lawrence for a free trade, and
closes the ports of England against them by those taxes called the Corn
Laws.

Thirteenth Tax.—Heavy duties levied on our pork, beef, and other
produce in the ports of England and Ireland, while Irish and English
beef, pork, and other produce is brought into Canada duty free.
Fourteenth Tax.—Duties levied in England and Ireland on our
wheat and flour sent there for a market, in payment of the goods we buy
from thence, while English wheat and flour enter our ports at all times
duty free.

Fifteenth.—A tax of 1501. a_year for permission to distil into whisky
our inferior grain, as a substitute for more costly foreign liquurs.
Sixteenth Tax.-3601. a-year to registrars, judges, lawyers, and others,
on last wills and testaments, not one in a hundred of which would be
wanted had the Bill for a more equal division of intestate estates, as it
as it ten times passed the House of Assembly, not been smothered by
the Government.

Seventeenth Tax.-1,5001. a-year in fees and other vexatious
charges on grants of land and the like, the real cast of preparing which
documents not being perhaps, 1001.

Eighteenth Tax.—Two toll.bar taxes east of Toronto, two toll.bar

taxes north of Toronto, one toll-bar tax to the west, and another in pro-
gress of erection, whereat over 2,000/. a-year of taxes are levied from
us, although the wild lands which these roads have rendered more easy
of access ought to have been given to pay the interest of those road im.
provements, instead of beeng thrown away on those who had no claim
to them.

Nineteenth Tax.—Elections in this country, during the last ten
years, have taken place about once a-year, one year with another. By
the refusal of tho Government to agree to the Bill which passed the
people's representatives, for carrying the elections into each township,
it is estimated that a tax equal to 2,500/. a_year, in loss of time, travel,
and expense, is put upon the people of this county, besides the dis-
orderly conduct occasioned by riotous persons, which that Bill would
have lessened.

Twentieth Tax.—We are taxed on postages about 3,0001. a-year,
although the real service done us does not cost the third of that sum.
The remainder is collected by officers, and forms a perquisite to a person
at Quebec, in part, while the rest is remitted to London on account of
our tribute money.

Twenty-first Tax.— We think we may fairly estimate the amount of
really useless taxation, levied in the county of York yearly, by frivolous
vexatious law fees, not necessary to a decision of the cases tried, at
3,0001. a-year, besides trouble and vexation to the parties, to an ex-
tent not equalled in any other part of North America.

Twenty.second Tax.—We are prohibited from buying teas, oils, fish,
and many other articles, except in the dearest market, by Acts of Par-
liament passed in England, to which we never assented, and against
whi.eh successive Parliomanis have protested in vain. And such Acts,
taxing us without our consent, we verily believe to be illegal, and at
variance with the principles of a free Government.
Twenty-third Tax..—The tax for the maintenance of poor persons
imported by Government from the three kingdoms is a law, but has
not yet come into practical operation.
Twenty-fourth Tax.—The doubtful character and conflicting nature
of our port taxes misleads many worthy persons in this county as to
their meaning, and gives rise to seizures of the property of our mer.
chants and farmers to the amount of 500/. a year, the proceeds being
shared by collectors, common informers, and Sir Francis B. Head.
Twenty-fifth Tax.—The tax collected on our waggons for leave to
stand in the market-place of Toronto, and the heavy taxes just laid on
our imports, as harbour dues in that harbour. Saying nothing of from
10,000 to 18,000 dollars of local taxes levied on the citizens of To-
ronto by the expensive machinery of their municipal system.
We are convinced that, to get rid of this organized system of oppres-
sion, we must depend much more on ourselves than on any man or
tot of men in England, and we see the necessity of establishing Reform
Societies of from twelve to forty, an I will proceed to their organization.
Reform cannot prosper without popular enthusiasm.
Moved by Mr. Peter Hemingway, seconded by Mr. Justin Cadgerow.
Resolved, 3. That the imposts we have named, and other heavy taxa-
tion, is deeply injurious to the settled inhabitants of the province; be.
cause it withdraws from circulation the gold and silver, substituting in
its place, by the contrivances of the Governor of the Bank of Upper Ca-
nada, worthies, paper of bankrupt banks; because it drains our province
of its specie, to enrich individuals or associations in Europe, and dis-
courages those homemade productions and domestic manufactures,
which are suited to this fine country ; because it lowers the value of
lards and farming produce; because it prevents emigration hither, and
and occasions the removal to other lands of many of our most estimable
and wealthy settlers ; because a great share of the procee..s, and ref loans
raised in Europe on the credit of our farms, are wasted uselessly, pilfered
by Government officers, expended in enormous salaries on Governors
and other transient persons, who came here in poverty, and return to
Europe after acquiring fortunes out of the proceeds of our active and ill-
requited industry; and, further, because many thousands a year are
expended in bribing the priesthoods of various creeds to raise strife and
debate and trouble and confusion in neighbourhoods where, but for their
interference, all would be friendship, unity, and peace.
Moved by Mr. Henry Miller, seconded by Mr. John Burr.
Resolved, 4. That the governors and rulers of this colony have com-
bined with others, cur enemies, to prevent as far as they dared the edu.
cation of our young men, have sobbed our common schools of 225,000
acres of valuable lands, secured to them near:y half a century ago, upon
the honour of the King and Government of Britain—have kept other
500,000 acres of the same school lands a wilderness for forty years, so
that no one child of Canada was ever enabled to learn his A B C by
means of the proceeds ; the Government have also crushed every effort
of the House of Assembly to make a large and suitable endowment for
education, although absolutely necessary for the working of popular in-
stitutions; and while the children of the pensioners and placemen at
Toronto have a college and masters which cost Upper Canada 100,000/..
those eminently useful men, the common school teachers, are grudged
their miserable pittance of some 31. or 4/. a half-year. Acting on the
same principle, the British Government in Lower Canada have con.
vetted public seminaries of education into soldiers' barracks, and shut
up in one day 1,200 common schools, by refusing to allow the House of
Assembly to appropriate the needful supplies to uphold and maintain
them. England is governed by a❑ Aristocracy of Whigs and Tories,
and both are enemies to the progress of knowledge. In 1820 there
were millions in England who could neither read nor write, and 3,500
parishes in which not one school was to be found. And even now, with
great perseverance, Mr. Roebuck has been able to obtain only 20,000/.
a-year from the nation to support national education, which was voted
reluctantly. Such a Government will honour the Colonels and Captains
who teach man to kill his fellow, but wil' let the poor schoolmaster, who
is continually doing all the good he can, pass through life in obscurity
and indigence.
Moved by Mr. Mark Shell, seconded by Mr. Moses Hemmingway,
Resolved, 5. That one great cause of the commercial and agricul.
tural distress now felt in Canada is that cruel monopolising code of
laws made in Europe, whereby all other nations except Britain are shut
out from a free trade with the countries on the banks of the St. Law-
rence—while, on the other hand, the Canadians are shut out from the
use of the Hudson by their own Government laying on heavy and bur-
densome duties and taxes on those articles they could best purchase in
the New York market, and prevented by Great Britain and the United
States from selling their staple articles of export to the best advantage,
being hemmed in on all sides by the anti-commercial regulations of other
countries, and neglected and despised by that power which is the most
hound in honour and justice to have guarded Canada's rights. Under
these circumstances we will to the utmost of our power abstain from
wearing the livery of other lands, encourage the use of Canadian cloths
and other goods, and consume as little as possible of the merchandises

which iiast•rk! paid duties and tax2s to the British or any Foreign Go.

Moved by Mr. Henry Kennedy, seconded by Mr. James M`David,
" Res.olved,-'6. That wo. have looked with earnest attmtiod to the
course taken by the Government of England, and by the people of
Lower Canada, and the assembly of their choice, and we condemn the
atrccious resolutions moved by Lord J. Russell fir coercing the Cana-
dians, and governing them by the iron rod of colonial despotism. If
their and cur money can continue to be taken from them and us, without
their and our consent, for bate and unworthy purposes—by resolutions
passed in Europe, or by Legislative arts made there by persons ignorant
of Canada—if hank natters with vat powers can be granted and sent
out to a fe* Monopolists or favourites by a Queen or King from Eng-
-1 trlti, in clefianc, of the resolves of the popular branch of the Legisla.
Lure 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 and guardians of British or Canadian liberty.
And we do hereby nominate as a Cornmitt‘e of vigilance and public
safety for the township of Markham, a,,d to encourage political associa-
tions, to mdntain cur politica! rights, and sprea I useful kno,ledgeT
Nle,srs. Joseph Mill:llrue, Michael Isomer, Joseph Vancize„
Thomas Morgan, Martinet Iladgerow, George Robinson,. John Burr,
Willia:n Stockdale, Peter Hemmingway, Henry Miller, Duncan
Weir, Mark Shell, Peter Milne, jun., James Fulton, G. H. Sum-
merfelt, Justin Badgcrow, James M`David, Godlip Eckhardt, Fre-
derick E khardt, Henry and Jacob Wistner, Charles M`Gary, Thomas
Smock, Timothy Monro, Daniel Horner, Nathan Miller, Abraham
E •khardt, Joseph Miller, William Duncan, Christian Reesor, Em-
manuel Doner, Joseph Doner, Joshua Lamoureaux, Henry Kcnedy,
Peter Shell, Moses Hemmingway, Peter Stalee, Dudley Wilcox,
Marcellus Nl`Keen, John Shell, Christian Henry, jun., John Necles,
William Canticy, v. ith power from ti:ne to time to add to their num-
bers —seven to be the quorum.
Moved by Mr. GODLIP ECKHARDT, seconded by Mr. CHARLES
M`GARY.

Resolved, 7. That being well assured of the love of liberty and
hatred to oppression by which the Honourable LOUIS Joieph Papineau
and his patriotic 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 would consider the redress of their
grievances as the best guarantee fur the redress of our own, which ob-
ject we verily believe would have been obtained had responsible execu-
tives, on the principle laid down by Dr. Rolph, Mr. Baldwin, and the
other members of the Executive Council of January, 1836, been con.
ceded to the colonists.

Moved by Mr. Joseph Milburn, seconded by Mr. Thomas Smock,
Resolved, S. That Messrs. Rolph, Macintosh, Morrison, Parke, Gib.
son, Duncombe, Moore, and others of the minority of the present As-
sembly, deserve well of the people for the noble stand they have made
against executive tyranny and oppression.

Moved by Peter Stalee, seconded by Mr. Timothy Monro,
Resolved, 9, That, with a population of 15,000 or 16,000 souls,
this Riding is represented in Assembly by but one Member, while other
places, the population and property of which united is less than ours,
send many Members, whereby we are deprived of our just influence
over the imposition of taxes, and our remonstrances as to trade and na-
vigation unheeded. When such a man as Mr. Hagerman comes for-
ward to declare " that is would very greatly advance the commercial
prosperity of Upper Canada, if its merchants and traders were permitted
to import, by way of the United States, such British and foreign manu-
factures as they require, especially during those periods when the navi-
gation of the St. Lawrence is closed by ice and the inclemency of the
season," it is worth while for the British authorities to take the hint.
Moved by Mr. Thomas Morgan, sec sided by Mr. James Fulton,

Resolved, 10. That from 30,0001. to 50,0001. a year of the specie
raised from our industry by taxation will now have to be annually sent
to London to pay interest on what is called the public debt, although,
from the expenditure of the money borrowed in our name, partly on
pensions, salaries, bank-houses, Welland canals, war losses, and the like
we have reaped very little advantage, and scarcely any additional income.
Even the 50,0001. law for our roads, sanctioned by the King iu council
more than a twelvemonth ago, is forcibly kept from us by Sir Francis
Head and those who are solemnly sworn to pursue an unbiassed and
honest course towards the country ; and this is done in open defi-
ance of the requirements of the statute of April, 1836, for road im-
provements.

- Moved by Mr. Isaac Miller, sconded by Mr. Joseph Miller.
Resolved 11. That we elected members of the Assembly, agreeably
to the constitutional charter, for four year, unless it was sooner dis-
solved, by the death of the King or a Royal proclamation. The act
of the present bribed, pensioned, and corrupt House, sanctioned by
that wretched state machine the Colonial-office, and by that pretended
Reformer, Sir F. B. Head, to continue itself three years longer, is a
violation of our rights, and we hold the acts of a Legislature so consti-
tuted as imperfect and unconstitutional.
The following resolution was moved, but there was no vote taken
upon it :

Moved by Mr. Nathan Miller, seconded by Mr. Jacoh Wismer.
Resolved, 12, That we deeply regret to find that the hitherto peace-
ful character of this county has been stained and tarnished by a band
of cowardly ruffians, by whomsoever led on and abetted, who have
brought into the quiet and orderly meetings of our brother farmers,
strife, discord, riot, violence, and bloodshed, and lifted their weapons
of offence against the innocent, aged, and defenceless of our popula-
tion, in the presence of commissioners of the peace, and in open day.
The business of the day was closed by giving three hearty cheers fur
Mr. Papincau, and the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the
world ; after which, the people returned to their homes in friendship
and peace.

(Signed) JOSEPH TOMLINSON, Chairman.
PETER MILNE, Secretary.

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