The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

CANADA.

On the 10th instant the two Houses of the Provincial
Parliament were prorogued by his Excellency the
Governor-General in the usual form. The following is
his Excellency's speech:—
" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
"At this advanced period of the season I could scarcely
have entertained any reasonable expectation that the present
session of Parliament could be sufficiently prolonged to enable
you to dispose of the various -measures -submitted to'your
deliberation with the attentive consideration due to the
highly-important interests which many of them involved.
" Your indefatigable attention to the laborious duties
which have been imposed upon you has, however, enabled
you to consider and to perfect the business with which you
have been occupied in a manner that, while it affords grati-
fying evidence of the cordial and united efforts of the several
branches of the Legislature, will, I have no doubt, prove
highly beneficial to the best interests of the province.
" Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
" I thank you in the name of her Majesty for the liberality
with which you have provided the necessary supplies, which
shall be expended with the utmost economy consistent with
the efficiency of the public service.
" I shall immediately take the necessary measures for
raising the loans authorised by you, for the prosecution and
speedy completion of the public works.
" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
" The truly loyal and patriotic spirit in which you have
passed the Militia Bill claims my warmest acknowledgments,
and proves how confidently our gracious Sovereign may al-
ways rely upon the attachment of her Canadian subjects, and
the promptitude and energy with which they would at all
times be ready, should circumstances require it, to come for-
ward in defence of their country, and in support of their con-
nexion with the parent state.
" I have had the satisfaction of assenting, in the Queen's
name, to the greater part of the enactments which you have
passed.
" In regard to the Bills which have been reserved for the
decision of her Majesty's Government, that course has in
each case been required by imperative reasons, over which I
could exercise no control.
" The several addresses which you have voted to the Queen
have been duly forwarded through the proper department to
be hid at the toot of the throne.
"In returning to your homes, where your presence is so
much required, Gentlemen, I doubt not that you will use
your utmost influence to inspire confidence in your respective
districts by encouraging that spirit of loyalty for which the
Canadian people have always been distinguished, and by
promoting as far as may be in your power those branches of
useful and protective industry, as well as of commercial en-
terprise, upon which the welfare of the colony so mainly
depends. For they may be assured that however unfavour-
able the aspect of affairs may have appeared to them, there
exists sufficient power and energy in this noble province, if
well directed, to make the most of the resources it unques-
tionably possesses; that will, under the blessing of Divine
Providence, create new sources of wealth and prosperity,
should those upon which they have hitherto relied be found
ultimately to fail them." _ _

The lion. the Speaker of the Legislative Council then
declared that it was the pleasure of his Excellency the
Governor-General that the Parliament should stand
prorogued to Saturday, the 18th day of July next.
CANADIAN COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONTREAL, JUNE 12.—AsnEs.—There is very little de-
mand for either sort; pots are worth 225. 6d. to 225. 71,4 d.,
and pearls 21s. 6d. to 21s. 9d., with few buyers. The stock
is light, and there is a material decrease in the receipts this
season, which on June 1, 1846, were only 8,471 brls. of both
sorts, against 10,296 brls. to same date last year.
FLOUR.—After the departure of the last steamer the mar-
ket continued in a very depressed state for some days; the
only sales worthy of notice being 1,500 of superfine at 295.,
and 1,200 of extra fine at 275. 6d. The advices received by
the Great Britain caused a farther extreme depression-
-1,500 barrels of a good brand of " fine" were placed at 265.
The Hibernia's news confirmed the decline. For the last
two days there has been a good deal doing, at low prices,
holders having met the views of shippers, as far as possible.
8,000 to 10,000 barrels of " fine" have changed hands at
235. 6d. to 245. Id., according to brand, and this afternoon,
a parcel of " extra fine" at 245. 6d. The market is rather
firm, and the best brands may be quoted at 245. to 245. 3d.
GRAIN.—We have to quote a decline of fully Is. per 601bs.
in wheat during the last ten days. A parcel of 6,000
bushels of very prime white Upper Canada was sold, this
afternoon, at ss. 4d. per 601bs. ex barge. Inferior samples
have been sold at 4s. 10d. to ss. No transactions to note in
other grains.
PROVISIONS.-400 barrels of mess pork changed hands
yesterday, at 14i doll.—the only sale we hear of.
FREIGHTS.—There is no great want of shipping, and
freights have advanced rapidly this week. For flour to
Liverpool and London, ss. 6d. per barrel has been paid in
several cases, and 9s. d. per quarter for wheat. To Glas-
gow, flour was taken to-day at ss. We hear of no engage-
ments for ashes.
EXCHANGE.—There is a good deal offering, and the de-
cline, since last steamer, is Ito per cent. Private, 90
days on London, are, today, worth 91 to 4. The banks are
drawing at 11.

!FROM MEXICO.
An American paper gives the particulars of the murder of
a party of fifteen Americans, including two women and a
child, between Point Isabel and Corpus Christi, by a party
of Mexicans, exceeding in cold-blooded cruelty any of the
previous atrocities of these people. It appears tkat a party
of fifteen, of whom Mr. Rogers, spoken of above, was one,
left Corpus Christi for Point Isabel, on the 2d or 3d instant.
They arrived at the Little Colorado just previous to the
battle of the Bth ult., where they were surprised by a com -
pany of Mancheros, and being overpowered by numbers,
were induced by Mexican promises to surrender as
prisoners of war. No sooner had these blood-thirsty
dogs obtained possession of their arms, than they
stripped and robbed their victims, bound them be-
yond the power of resistance, and having ravished
the women before their faces, cut all their throats, one fiend
performing the horrible butchery. Rogers saw his father
, and brother butchered before him in this terrible manner
before his own turn came, and his own escape was owing to
the fact that while the wound upon his throat was not
fatal, he had the presence of mind to feign himself dead, and
was accordingly, with all the balance, thrown into the
Colorado, :where he managed to escape unseen, and swam
to the other side of the river, Thence he subsequently
made his escape to the Rio Grande, was taken prisoner, sent
to the hospital in Matamoras, and, after the battle ex-
changed.

FROM ST. DOMINGO.
'We learn from Captain Tew, of the schooner Velasco, from
Port-au-Prince, which place he left on the 20th May, that
it was reported that the Haytien army had been de-
feated near the mountains south of Port-au-Prince, by the
insurgents from the mountains called the Pignalts. Several
hundreds of the defeated army had been killed. The Hay-
tien fleet, consisting of two barques, one steam-ship, and
three schooners, sailed on the morning of the 28th—destina-
tion unknown. The barque Hector, Hoyt, for New York,
having on board as passenger J. C. Luther, Esq., American
consul, sailed in company with Captain Tew.

FROM HAVANNAH.
By an arrival at New Orleans, from Havannah, we have
advices from the latter place to the 9th inst.
The Mexican steamers Montezuma and Guadaloupe had
arrived at Havannah, and were delivered up to their builders
in default of payment for the vessels.
English officers had announced that Commodore Conner
had notified the United States Government that it was use-
less to attempt the taking of the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa,
as it was impregnable.
Several failures took place in Baltimore on Saturday, in
consequence of the tightness of the money market.