The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-19 00:00:00

that the active sympathy and generous interposition of
the Government of the United States should not be
witheld from so benevolent .an object, and he has ao-
co7diaglY directed me to instruct you to employ, should
ae occasion arise, all those good offices and efforts
v.„ich are compatible with discretion and your official
character, to the end that justice and humanity may be
.extended to those persecuted people, whose cry of dis-
tress has relched our shores-
I am, Sir, your obedient servar,t,
J,Jiin JOIIN FORSYTH.
Glidden, Esq., United States Consul at Alex-

andria, Egypt.

CANADA.
The Toronto Examiner of Wednesday last comes to
Its in mourning for the death of Lord Durham, with a
long and highly eulogistic notice of hitu. It says that
his loss will be severely felt in every part of the British
!empire, but in the North American colonies it will be
Irretrievable ; that generations yet unborn will be
-taught to revere him as the benefactor of their country.
Governor Thomson has recently been making a tour
In. Upper Canada, and at the last accounts be was at
Niagara Falls. He was received with great cordiality
in all places through which he passed, and he appears
to be gaining ground in the confidence and affection of
the people.
An effort has been making to change the seat of Go-
vernment in Upper Canada from Toronto to Kingston,
but it probably will not be successful. Tile Governor
is said to have expressed the opinion that Kingston was
too, near the. frontier for the purpose.
rho electioneering campaign is fairly under way in
lIPPer Canada. The Montreal Hera 1 states, that
!here are different rumours respecting the time of meet-
: • Icg of the provincial Parliament. One goes that the
Proclamation will take place in January or February,
and another, which does not mention the date of the
e Proclamation, but asserts, that the meeting will not take
',....: 'Place until after the opening of the navigation next
BPrlng, if even then.
The Governor-General has power to delay the pro-
clamation of the Union for fifteen months, from the 23d
i_ct. duly last. Within thirty days after the proclamation
'e 15 obliged to declare the parliamentary limits of the
_eltlet and towns ; but he is obliged to call the Legisla-
ture together only within six months after the date
of the proclamation. Within fourteen days after the
scaling of the instrument for summoning the Parlia-
-Icent writs for the elections must be issued, and re-
turned before the expiration of fifty days. So that it
4PpearS his Excellency might, by the Union Act, delay
Ille assembly of the Legislature for about twenty-eight
and a half months reckoned from the 23(1 of July last.
But were the proclamation of the Union to be de-
'''' laved beyond the last day of the last session of the
Upper Canada Parliament, that Parliament, according
to constitutional usage, would have a right to assemble
and Proceed to business. The provinces are in law,,
Its yet, separate, and will continue so until the date of
the proclamation of the Union, but it cannot be the in-
tention of the Governor-General to delay the proclama-
tion so long as to give life to the old Parliament of
tinper Canada, and certainly not to issue new writs for
that province alone. So that practically the procla-
mation must be made before the end of March—that
being about the time of the prorogation of the Upper
Canada Legislature, if we remember rightly.
STATE OF CANADA.—MORE INCENDI-

.ARISM.
The quiet of this unhapprovice every now and
then disturbed by the Frency hp Canandians. The folloke-
hag particulars have just reached us of an outrage com-
mitted at Hemingford, on Tuesday last, the 18th inst. :
From the depositions taken on the inquiry which
has been instituted, it appears that about two o'clock '
A.R., on the morning aforesaid, the barns of Messrs.
Fisher and Mr. Atkinson, of Heminglord, were dis-
covered to be simultaneously on fire. By the exertions
of Mr. Wilsie, justice of the peace, who resides in the
viejuitsr, the alarm was quickly given, and as soon as
daylight appeared a search commenced, and there being
heavy dew upon the ground, the footsteps of three
Persons were distinctly traced across the lines ; and such
had been the promptness of the pursuit, that they were
soon apprehended and taken before Mr. Harden, a ma-
gistrate of Champlain. The names of the incendiaries
are—Jean Baptiste Fournier, Pierre Monclos, dit La
Tulippe, and Eustache Seguin. When befbre Mr.
Harden, La Tulippe confessed he had participated in the
outrage, and by his evidence clearly brought home to
his accomplices, to Fournier in particular, the crime of
setting fire to the buildings in question ; and stated,
moreover, that it had been the intention of the party to
set fire to other barns, which was prevented by the
barking of some dogs.
" The evidence was so conclusive that Mr. Harden
decided upon convicting the villains, but, not wishing
to take the sole responsibility of the act upon himself, he
called in the advice of Mr. Hubbell, a brother Magis-
trate and a lawyer. The latter gentleman decided that
the laws of the United States could not take cognizance
of offences committed in Canada, and instanced the case
of Dr. Holmes, the murderer, as one in point, and de-
eliecd, that the prisoners should be forthwith discharged
acela4mawtaiosat once acted upon, amid the cheers and
ns
of the assembled mob. Amongst the
Inest cons
villain P.euotis of the mob for the release of the
s were Mr. Bromley, the Custom-house officer,
a
Mr. Blakely, the road commissioner ; these gen-
tlnedmen declared openly that the act was perfectly
Justifiable, and the prisoners consequently guiltless in
the eye of the law. Immediately after this summary
disposal of the business, as if to add insult to injury,
A_warrantstson7werielo ihssauded against the Messrs. Fisher and
bets before stated
line with all g
whicho over
obliged tto g give
m evidence
to
o
rec r ot ses theth e
speed to avoid being arrested on the plea
of having brought false charges against the miscreants,
who have found so much sympathy on the south side
ofci the line 43 deg. In the search, which took place at
I,IY, light, one of the matches intended to be used by the
wivains, and which La Tulippe confessed to have lost,
found near one of the consumed barns. It con-
sih of
t,
•_a long piece of twisted cotton-wick well steeped
1..Q0 turpentine, and terminating in a cartridge of gun-
P wder, to which is appended a roll of cotton similarly
i~eePed. La Tulippe, in the course of his confession,
ated that there would be more burning about the
name time in the interior, alluding, probably, to the
maatnbly and L'Acadie fires."

TRAOItDINARY EXPRESS
FROM PARIS.

A 7 the aloniterr of Thursday contains a Royal or-
ofallCe,
of calling into active service the reserve
A
the classes of recruits of 1834 and 1835.
nother ordinance declared that public utility ur-
Vnt.,lY requiring the execution of fortifications round
Paris, the Minister of Public Works was authorised to
proceed forthwith to the appropriation of the ground
p°ll which they are to be erected, and a credit for
wn
It
ers purpose was placed at his disposal to indemnify the
o.
Another ordinance opened a temporary credit of
6,000,000 of francs for tile Minister of War to meet
the expenses of these works, which had already corn-
rneti,tiett at Mont Valerien, St. Denis, Fontenayc, &c.
irom the accounts brought by the Papin, which
left Alexandria on the Ist instant, it appears that
Admiral Stopford, on being informed of the ex-
Pected arrival of a French vessel loaded with artillery
and arnmuition for the Paella, had issued orders for its
capture.
The French fleet under Admiral Hugon was off Ce-
rigo on the 30th ult.