The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

INLAND SMUGGLING INTO CANADA.

A long list Of goods was advertised to be sold at Montreal on
the 26th inst., condemned as forfeited for illegal importation.
This list exhibits pretty.nearly, we should suppose, the articles
usually smuggled into Lower Canada from the United States.
The Upper Canada list must be much more extensive, extend-
ing to a variety of English and other European goods, and
many articles of AMerican manufacture. Two persons' haVi
lately lost their lives in Upper Canada, in connexion with the
execution of the Revenue Laws, but it is believed that few
seizures of consequence are made. •In the frontier TownihipS
in Lower Canada some ill-huMour has already :shown itself
between some of the people about the lines and the Custom
House Officers.

The following are the chief articles. of the Custom House sale'
at Montreal, on the 27th inst. ;
Tea, potash, horses, waggons and harness, black levantines,
silk, lustrings, satins, gros de Naples, Sarsnet-s, Canton crapes,
silk handkerchiefs, ribbons, silk galloons, • sewing silks, crape
shawls, gauze handkerchiefs, silk velvet, stockings, silk gloves,
silk shawls, satin shoes, silk scarfs, crape handerchiefs, silk
Persian cambrics, kid gloves, mourning crape, watch ribbons,
green gauze, Leghorn bonnets and hats, ladies and gentle-.
mens' and boys' shoes, Morocco skins, Havanna segars, snuff
boxes, ladies combs, soap, tobacco, made pens, French-
liqueurs, &c.
The articles appFired to be chiefly India and French goOds,
and* few of American manufacture.

His Majesty's brig Icarus, which was long expected arrived
on Tuesday morning from Jamaica via. the Havanna and Ber-
muda? wits 265,000 dollars in specie, for the Military Govern-
ment in the Canadas.

The new ship ttaway, the vessel which takes the place of
the St. Lawrence in the London'trade, arrived on the same day
in a passage of 38 days from the Downs—she left land on the
-22 d of September last.
The Ottawa is handsomely fitted' up, and has accommoda-
tions for. upwards of twenty. cabin passengers. Her cabin-is
to undergo considerable alterations during next winter, and
when finished, will, it is thought, be equalto that of any other
vessel trading to this port. She is said to sail well, having been
'only ten days from land to land.
The brigs Niagara., Sarah, William' Park, and Veronica, all
vessels of a superior class, and at present intended, we believe,'
as regular traders, have been' launched at Montreal within a
fortnight past,
.making 6 vessels built at that port and sent to
sea this season. The number built in the same period at
Quebec, including the Columbus, is 16, making in the whole
22. It is thought that about 15 will haVe been placed on the'
stacki at Quebec or its neighbourhood in the early part of this
winter ; of that number two are now laid down at Caprouge'
River, 9 miles move this city, at the very extensive timber
'establishment lately formed thereby' Mr. Atkinson, merchant,
'of this city.
A subscription has been commenced in Montreal, for the
puipose of ascertaining, by an experiment, the practittability of
ascending the rapids of the St. Lawrence, between Montical
and Kingston, by means similar to those now in operation on
some of the navigable rivers of the United States. %Ve under-
stand that vessels not draiving,more than the depth of water in
the rapids of these rivers, are' towed up by boats constructed
with paddle wheels, which are turned by the descending cur-
rent, and wind round a windlass a rope or other fastening, one
end of which is fixed at the head of the current ; in this way
obtaining from the current a power against itself which can be,
increased to any. extent within the limits of the strength of the
materials employed. The St. Lawrence is already for the
purpose of descending navigation, a cheaper channel of con-
veyance than a canal,. and if it can be made as advantageous as
a canal for ascending navigation, no artificial water conveyance
will ever be able to compete with ir. • The proposed experiment
will not cost much, and at Brat aiglit, it appears sufficiently.
reasonable to be worth a trial.
I'OllK, (U. C.) SEPT. 30.—The Editors of Pap= in the
Lower Province make mention of the ,building of only one
steam-bent to ply between this town and Niagara. It ought to
be known that there are two boats for that purpose, one at
York and the other at Niagara ; and that it is proposed they
shall sail at a certain hour from each aide of the water alter-
nately, and every day during the season, so that travellers, and
persons on business, may calculate-the time they may have to
spare for each place with the Utmost nicety.
His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland arrived here on Saturs
clay last from Lower Canada. Yesterday at nine o'clock his
Excellency reviewed the 37th Regiment on Point Frederick,
and today, we are informed, he will proceed to York in the
Frontenac.—(Kingston Herald, Oct. 5.) '

IMPROVEMENTS ON THE. OTTAWA RIVER.—One of the
strongest proofs of the increasing prosperity, and consequently
one of the most gratifying spectacles to the eye of a traveller,
is the improvement of the modes of conveyance, through any
strikingcoiintry cohrailigies tfriocrt
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cursion up the Ottawa river, a portion of these Provinces,
which from its immense natural resource, and its great sus-
ceptibility
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country was wild forest—when toe " red son of the forest''
maintained a constant warfare with wild beasts—and who to-
gether formed the only tenants of the soil. A jeorney.thither
was an undertaking, if not attended with danger, full of difii-
culty, and subjected the traveller to unavoidable delays, and
inconvenience, at almost every point. These seem now changed
by the exertions of a few spirited individuals; the means of
conveyance, and the accommodations are such as render it a
tour of pleasure. An excellent stage froze Montreal takes the
traveller to St. Andrews, a distance of -f5 miles—(and even
this part of the rout, we understand, is to be soon improved,
by a steam boat which is intended to ply from Lachine to Point
ortune,) at the former place the traveller is received in a very
comfortable Inn, kept by. a Mr. Russel, and where the accomo.
("miens nod attention he will meet with are fully as
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opportunity ofd iversi fying his v iews o Isom e of therich est scenery.
1-1 ere he joins a steam boat, built last year by a few public spi-
rited men, with far more regard to the adoption of a plan bene.
ficial to the public, than to the expectation of present profit
to themselves. The same liberal feeling that prompted
their establishing the boat, actuated them in the other arrange-
Ments. With a very complete engine constructed on the
safest principles—she 18 laid out and finishes' with every regard
to accommodations for passengers... Under Captain Grant's
managethent, all who have had opportunity of witnessing
have expressed themselves satisfied.—She.perfinins the distance
she has to run from Hawksbury to the Chatalier Valls at
Wrihtstown, 70 miles with ease hi one day ; affording the
traveller by this route a happy exchange, from being obliged
to perform this journey as formerly in a small, canoe, or open
boat, liable to detention from contrary winds—Cxposed to the
changes of weather—eaten by misquitoes at certain seasons—
and having nothing to eat but salt pork, perhaps uncooked.
The effects of this improved conveyance by this route is be-:
coming rapidly more .visible in the aspect of the country.—,
Settlers and farmerS are establishing themselves on both sides
of the river, with. a rapidity whielt promises (were other ob-
stacles from improper grants of land talked) to make the
banks of the Ottawa in a few years as well cultivated as those
of tile. St. Lawrence. •

MONTIMAT., OCT. 6.—On Saturtl last,'tbe 11, a fine brig
the property of :Messrs. Kenzie and Rethune, was launched
t'rotn the building yard of Mi. Young--She measures 330
tons
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John E. Denison, Esq., Jantes S. Wortley, Esq. Meinbers of
the lumarial Parliament, and Labotichere, Esq.
We understand that * lionOurable Mr. Irving or
Las been appointed Connuisaloper to treat with the Honourable
Mr. Baby, relating to theproPortiOn oldUties to be allowed to
Upper Canada under the Canada Trade net.
Vessels arriVed at Quebec this season. . 59.2
Ditto cleared from ditto - 595
Di/fie/tines it: the North Irest..—We 'learn that fourteen
persons in the employ of the Hudson's, Bay Company have
been lately killed by the Snake and Beaver Indians, in the, vi-
cinity of the Rockv . Mountains. One of the forts in wldchth a
Mr. Hughes, (son of Jas. Hughes, Esq.Uf this City,/ was e
principal clerk, was attacked and every person belonging to it
destroyed. Those acquainted with the trade of that-Country,
look upon these facts as strong proofs of further serious troubles.
—( android. )
The Committee for, building the New Parish Church of MOn-
treat, acknowledge with heart felt thanks, the receipt of • the
ve libera donaton' or Thirty Pounds,'Lient-Colonel
Mcry Gregor,l the Officers and inert of the 70th Regiment ; and

the receipt of the very liberal donation of rift Pounds, from
the Hon. E. C. Stanley, John E. Denison, Esq. James St.
Wortley, Esq., Members of the Imperial Parliament; and
- Labouchere, Esq., towards the erection of that edifice.