The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-24 00:00:00

accounts will be-open to the inspection ;'tN '-
of the province ; secondly, that a provisi
for the support of the Executive Govern
salaries of the Judges, ,by an adequate ei __„\0f....344
" The much agitated questions respecting the tattAr
land and the registry of titles, and all the complicated con-
siderations connected therewith, will also form a subject for
the review of the Commissioners ; and they are directed to
make a complete investigation of the conflicting claims of
the Crown and of the Seminary of St. Sulpice, within the
seigniory of Montreal. What constitution and course of
proceedings would be most advantageous for the executive
council? What system for the general education of the
people ? How the collection and apportionments between
the two provinces of the duties of customs, levied within
the waters of the St. Law;eice, may be best arranged ?'
And what principle ought hereafter to be taken as a guide
in granting or refusing to companies or associations any
powers to be exercised, or privileges or capacities to he en-
joyed within the province ?—are also questions on which the
Commissioners must report to the Crown.
" There are still graver matters which have been made
the grounds of petition to his Majesty, and respecting
which the Commissioners are not precluded from entering
into an enquiry. But•it would be painful to speak here of •
dissensions between the two Legislative bodies whom I ad-
dress, or to recapitulate the faults which have been found
with the constitution of either body by the other. Let me
invite you rather to follow that example of forbearance,
moderation, and of mutual respect which, notwithstanding
their differences of opinion, has been recently exhibited by
the two Houses of the Imperial Parliament. This mo-
ment, as it seems to me, is a good opportunity for good,
or for evil. Let me intreat of you that it may not be lost
or thrown away. Lower Canada is divided by two parties,
and each of them appears to be agitated by apprehensions
which I trust arc exaggerated. To the Canadians of
French origin I would say, do not fear that there is any
design to disturb the form of society under which you have
so long been contented and prosperous. However different
from those of her colonists in other parts of the world,
England cannot but admire the social arrangements by
which a small number of enterprising colonists has grown
into a good, religious, and happy race of agriculturists, re-
markable for the domestic virtues, for a cheerful endurance
of labour and privations, and for alertness and bravery in
war. There is no thought of endeavouring to break up
a system which sustains a dense rural population, without
the existence of any class of poor. England will protect
and foster the benevolent, active, and pious priesthood,
under whose care and by whose examples so much of order,
of good conduct, and of tranquil bliss is created, preserved,
and handed down from generation to generation. _ _ _

" Of the British, and especially of tit' commercial classes,
I would ask is it possible you should suppose that there can
be any design to sacrifice your interests, when it is clear to
all the world that commerce is one of the main supports to
the British system of finance, that without it this wonderful
fabric of British power and dominion would crumble into
dust., and that it is especially the object and purpose for
which, at a vast expense, the mighty colonies of England are
maintained in every quarter of the globe ? Rely upon it
that the great and powerful country from whence you have
removed yourselves to these shores will not abandon here
the policy which has established the prosperity of her people
in every other region ; and that a Government of which
constancy and good faith are the main elements of power,
will not fail to sustain in this portion of the empire the sprit
of that Constitution which has so long been held out as a
boon to its natives, and an inducement to the settlers who
have embarked in it their enterprise, their wealth, and their
hopes of individual happiness.
" In a declaration put forth by many among you who
inhabit this city, I have seen the following objects enu-
merated ; first, to obtain for persons of British and Irish
origin and others, his Majesty's subjects, labouring under
the same privations of common rights, a fair and reasonable
proportion of the representatio❑ in the Provincial Assem-
bly. Secondly, to obtain such a reform in the system
of judicature and the administration of
,justice as may
adapt them to the present state of the province. Thirdly,
to obtain such a composition of the Executive Council
as may impart to it the efficiency and weight which
it ought to possess. Fourthly, to resist any appoint-
ment of Members of the Legislative Council otherwise
than by the Crown, but subject to such regulation as
may ensure the appointment of fit persons. Fifthly, to use
every effort to maintain the connection of this colony with
the parent State, and a just subordination to its autho-
rity ; and sixthly, to assist in preserving and maintaining
peace and good order throughout the province, and en-
suring the equal rights of his Majesty's subjects of all
classes. If these objects are indeed all that are desired
by the whole commercial interest, I trust it will be satis-
factory to those who aim at them to know, that there is
not one of them which is not strictly within the line of
duty of the King's Commissioners to take into considera-
tion, to receive respecting them the fullest evidence and
information which may be offered, and finally to submit to
our gracious Sovereign and his Ministers their impartial
and well-weighed conclusions.
" To the Canadians, both of French and British origin,
and of every class and description, I would say, consider
the blessings you might enjoy, and the favoured situation
in which, but for your own dissensions, you would find your-
selves to be placed. The offspring of the two foremost
nations of mankind, vou hold a vast and beautiful country,
a fertile soil, a healthy cliamte; and the noblest river in the
world, makes your most remote city a port for ships of the
sea. Your revenue is triple the amount of your expendi-
ture for the ordinary purposes of government ; you have
no direct taxes, no public debt, no poor who require any
other aid than the natural impulses of charity. If you ex-
tend your views beyond the land in which you dwell, .you
will find that you are joint inheritors of the splendid patri-
mony of the British empire, which constitutes you, in the
best sense of the term, citizens of the world, and gives you
a home on every continent, and in every ocean of the globe.
There arc two paths open to you ; by the one you may
advance to the enjoyment of all the advantages which lie
in prospect before you , by the other, I will not say more
than that you will stop short of these, and will engage your-
selves, and those who have no other object than your pros-
perity, in darker and more difficult courses."

A WARM GARMENT.—A French teacher, resi-
dent in Oxford, called on a mercer for a waistcoat-piece, but
could not recollect the name of the material he wanted.
He said he thought it was the English for de diable. The
mercer went over the several names of his infernal highness,
such as Old Nick, Beelzebub, Apollyon, &c. " No, no,
it vas not dat." At length the mercer thought of Satan.
" 0 ! dat is vat I vent," cried Monsieur ; " I rant a Satan
vescoat."

DISTRESSING CASE.-0:i Saturday morning,
about one o'clock, a young woman, named Rarkstree, aged
about 19, was found by the police lying on the steps of St.
PancraS workhouse, being far advanced in pregnancy, and
in a very exhausted state. She told the officers she had
applied for admission into the poor-house, which was re-
fused. They conveyed her to the station-house, where
attention was paid to her ; but her situation every moment
becoming worse, application was made to Mr. Cator, the
overseer, who had her removed to the workhouse. The
young woman stated that she had been left entirely desti-
tute by her seducer and friends, and had sunk down from
exhaustion where the officers found her.

AN EXTRAORDINARY EMBEZZLEMENT.—The
principals, agents, and clerks of a porter brewery of the first
magnitude, south of the Southwark-bridge, have recently
received a shock, not easily to be described, from a misap-
plication of various heavy sums of money received by the
principal agent of the establishment in his official capacity.
The agent in question had, it appears, during a period of
20 years, discharged the duties of his situation with such
ability and integrity as induced the proprietors not only to
place the most unbounded confidence in him, but to elevate
him to one of the most important offices connected with the
house in the out-door department, and to reward him with
an income of little short of 1,0001. a year. Some of the
defalcations, amounting to a few loose hundreds (as they
would be designated on the turf), were discovered nearly a
month since, and it is said that a check to supply the defi-
ciencies was immediately issued by an influential person
allied to the delinquent either by marriage or blood ; and
the business of the houSe, it was expected, would go on in
the usual channel. Upon a more minute examination,
however, into his accounts, it turned out that the defalea-
tions had been multiplied from hundreds to thousandS, and
to such an extent indeed had the embezzlement been carried,
that last week the partners of the firm felt themselves im-
peratively called upon to issue a circular to their customers,
requesting them on no account to pay any monies to Mr.
(the first initial of whose name is not far from the
top of the alphabet). In the course of Friday and yester-
day it came out that the weighty sums (amounting to
thousands) had been received by the offender from publi-
cans for the purpose of being deposited in the house, to
remain there at five per cent. interest. It is not an uncom-
mon course, when a publican leaves a house with a few hun-
dreds or thousands in hand, to deposit his balance with his
brewer until he shall procure another house, being, as a
matter perfectly understood, allowed five per cent. for it in
the interim ; and in some cases an old customer, on his re-
tirement with a few thousands, will receive from his brewer
five per cent. permanently for his- capital. Now such, it
appears, was the confidence reposed in the unfortunate tub•
jest of this notice, that thousands had been intrusted to hint
by different publicans in the manner above described, which
sums he never carried into the books of the establishment
he represented ; although at the end of every six months he
took especial care to take the interests of the, deposits to
the parties to whom it was due ; they, poor deluded crea-
tures, believing that he had brought it in the regular W3y of
business.—Obmrver.

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