The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

regret, that there are existing circumstances to prevent the
immediate commencement of negotiations with the adjoin-
ing province for the improvement of the navigation of the
Ottawa ; but in the sincere hope that any such difficulties
may speedily be removed, we will devote our attention to
the recommendation of your Excellency, as to the propriety
of causing a survey and accurate estimate to be made of
the expense of connecting Lake Huron with the ocean.
" We will devote that attention to the adoption of an
effectual system for the maintenance and repair of the pub-
lic highways in this province which the important bearing
of the subject on the interests and prosperity of the com-
munity demands.
" Alive to the advantages resulting from the immigration
of our fellow-subjects from Great Britain and Ireland, and
their settlement among us, we are happy to learn that your
Excellency has recommended measures to his Majesty's
Government calculated to give encouragement to it, and
sincerely hope that no time will be lost in the adoption of
an improved system in the Land-Granting Department.
" As the Constitution of Upper Canada happily secures
to British emigrants their own revered and cherished insti-
tutions—as this noble climate:and luxuriant soil offer them
immediate independence and support, with a moral assur-
ance that their lands must in a few years unavoidably in-
crease in value to a great extent—we reasonably hope, and
will earnestly endeavour, to attract the redundant enter-
prise, capital, and population of the empire, by setting be-
fore them these solid advantages in the most prominent
and conspicuous manner ; and it is but natural for us to
expect that capital and industry will now flow towards this
favoured province, in which we agree with your Excellency
in the conviction that such capital is fully as secure as in
the mother country. And while happy to learn that ex-
tensive tracts of rich land have been obtained from the In-
dians (whose' liberal motives and feelings in the cession we
fully appreciate), we cannot refrain from expressing our
anxious wish that these lands may be thrown open to set-
tlement upon terms of the most favourable nature for
those who desire to become residents upon them.
" We will give our prompt and careful attention as well
to the public accounts as to the estimates of the sums re-
quired for the necessary support of the public service, as
soon as the same are laid before us, and will not fail to take
into our immediate consideration measures for relieving the
Government of this province from the embarrassment it
has laboured under, and it is still suffering, from the sup-
plies for the public service having been withheld.
" We most sincerely hope that the important trust re-
posed in us by our constituents, will be discharged in a
manner calculated to raise the province in the estimation
of the British empire, and to secure to it those advantages
which we have hitherto derived from its fostering care and
protection.
" The principles of our Constitution, in the maintenance
of which consists the safeguard of our lives, liberties, and
property, are identical with those of the Constitution of the
mother country, and, if maintained in their purity, cannot
fail to produce peace, prosperity, and good government.
" We are fully satisfied that the people of this province
desire nothinc, more ardently than to see those principles
supported, and the connection with the British empire sus-
tained, and we, therefore, cordially respond to your Excel-
lency's determination to maintain this, our happy Constitu-
tion, inviolate. Protected from external danger by the
overshadowing power of the mother country, and free to
pursue any measures calculated to promote our internal
welfare and improvement, we feel that there is a course
before us leading to the most auspicious results, and that
the time has arrived when, preserving our character as,a
loyal British province, our institutions may be settled on a
firm basis—our resources developed—all well-founded causes
of complaint removed—and peace and prosperity secured
or us and our posterity.

ARCHIBALD APLEAN.
" Commons' House of Assembly,
Nov. 15, 1836."
HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY.
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly
—lt is needless that I should express to you the feelings
;vith which I receive your address. The country will ap-
preciate the sentiments which it contains, and history will
record them."

The following, from Lisbon, appears in the second
edition of a Tory Morning Contemporary :
FALMOUTH, DEC. 11.

" This morning his Majesty's packet Lyra, Lieutenant
Griffin acting, arrived here from Lisbon. She sailed
thence on the 4th instant, at an early hour, with
the regular mails, that date being only two days
subsequent to the sailing of the Calpe steamer, already
arrived. Little had occurred in that brief space of time
in addition to the accounts published of the Miguelite
force stated to have been off the coast ; nothing fur-
ther had transpired, but a belief was very prevalent that
Miguel had reached the head-quarters of Don Carlos, via
Bayonne; considerable apprehension was consequently felt
until the truth could be fully ascertained. The Royalists were,
however, in good spirits at the news. Another large force of
Miguelite guerillas has shown themselves in the Minho, near
Valence. No certainty as the result of the elections could be
arrived at. Senor Passos cannot get in for Lisbon, but it was
believed he would be returned for Oporto. From the con-
flicting
opinions the truth was difficult to be conjectured
at as to the Ministry being able to command a majority
in the Cortes ; should it be against them, the resignation
of office will be the immediate result, and no one can re-
motely calculate on their successors, or those indivi-
duals who will readily become the serviles of the Na-
tional Guard. Generally speaking, the country abounded
in confusion, and what the upshot is to be cannot now
be developed ; suffice to say most parties agree on the
point that affairs as they exist at present can prove but of
a temporary tenure. As to Gomez's defeat by Narvaez,
nothing farther had been learnt at Lisbon in addition to the
accounts received there by the Calpe steamer. The Lyra
experienced tremendous weather on her passage home.