The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-30 00:00:00

BRITISH AMERICA.

6tna.la Pape'rs to the 2d inst. were received yes-
terday at the North and South American Coffee-
bouse. The following mes,age from the Governor
was communicated to the Legislative. Assembly on
the 28th of November

" Nis Excellency is comma►►ded by Hs Majesty
:o acquaint the Assembly, that the discussions which
lave occurred for some years past between the dif-
7erent branches of Legislature of this province, re-

specting the appropriation of the revcrule, have en-
gaged his Majesty's most serious attention, and
that he ha.; directed careful inquiry to lie made in
that matter, that the question may he finally ad-
justed with a due regard to their prerogative of the
Crown, as well as to the constitutional privileges,
and to the general welfare of his MajeEty's subjects
in Lower Canada.

" His Excellency is further commatyled to state,
that the statutes passed in the 14th and 31st years
of the reign of his late Majcsry hare imposed on the
Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury,the

duty of appropriating the produce of the revenue
granted to his Majesty by the first of these statutes,
and that whilst the law shall continue unaltered by
the same authority by which it was framed, his
Msjesty is not authorized to place the revenue under
the controul of the legislature of the province.
" The proceeds of the revenue aiming from the
act of the Imperial Parliament, 14 Geo. M., toge-
ther with the sum appropriated by the provincial
statute 35 Geo. 111., and the duties levied under
the provincial statutes 41 Geo. HI., c. 13 and 14,
may be limited for the current year at the sum of
34,700/.

" The produce of the casual and territorial revenue
of the Crown, and of fines and forfeitures, may be
estimated for the same period ut the stun of 3,4001.
" These several sums, making together the sum of
38,1004, constitute the whole estimated revenue
arising in this province, which the law has placed at
the disposal of the Crown.
" His Majesty has been pleased to direct that from
this collective revenue of 38,1001., the salary of the
officer administering the government of the Province
and the salaries of Judges should be defrayed. But
his Majesty being graciously disposed to mark, in the
strongest manner, the confidence which he reposes
in the liberality and affection of his faithful Commons
of this province, has been pleased to command his
Excellency to announce to the Assembly, that no
further appropriation of any part of this revenue shall
be made until his Excellency shall have been enabled
to become acquainted with their sentiments as to the
most advantageous mode in which it can be applied
to the public service;
,and it will be gratifying to his
Majesty, if the recommendation made to the Execu-
tive Government of the province upon this subject
shall be such as it may be able with proprety, and
with due attention to the interests and efficiency of
his Majesty's Government, to adopt.
" His Majesty fully relies on the liberality of the
faithful Commons of Lower Canada to make such
further provision as the exigencies of the public ser-
vice of the province (for which the amount of the
Crown revenues above mentioned may prove inade-
quate) may require.
" The balance of money in the hands of the Re-
ceiver-General, which is not placed by law at the
disposal of the Crown, must await the appropriation
which it may be the pleasure of the Provincial Le-
gislature to make.
" His Excellency is further commanded by his
Majesty to recommend to- the Assembly the enact-
ment of a law for the indemnity of any persons who
have heretofore, without legal authority, signed,
sealed, or acted in obedience to warrants. for the
appropriation of the public service, of any unappro-
priated monies of this province : and his Majesty
anticipates that they will, by an acquiescence in this
recommendation, show that they cheerfully concur
with him in the efforts that he is now making for-
the establishment of a permaneNt good understand-
ing between the different branches of the Executive
i,ed Legislative Government.
" The proposals which he has thus been instructed
Ito make for the adjustment of the pecuniary affairs
of the province, are intended to meet the difficulties
of the ensuing year; and he trusts they may be
found effectual for that purpose."
The remaining heads of the message touch upon
matters of a minor importance relative to the system
of administration hitherto pursued in the province,
and suggest means to be adopted by the Legislature
for the reform or removal of abuses and defects.
In conclusion, the Governor expresses his reliance,
for an adjustment of the various questions which
have been so long in dispute, upon the loyalty and
attachment of the Canadians, and the' future pro-
ceedings of their Parliament.
A resolution has been proposed in the Assembly
by Mr. Vallieres, for abolishing imprisonment for
debt for merchandize sold and delivered to persons
not in trade, in Lower Canada. The further con-
sideration of the subject was postponed for a fort-
night, and it was hoped that the resolution would
pass so amended as to give general application to
the relief.
The substance of the Treasury minutes, relative
to the complaints addressed .to Government against
the orders which directed the custom duties to be
paid in dollars of 4s. 6d. each, is given in the
Quebec Guzettc. It appears that their Lordships so
understand the meaning of the Acts of Pavliament
which regulate the payment of the duties, as to de-
sire that it should continue to be effected in British
money," or in other monies, the value of which
should be computed by the amount of pure silver
contained therein, and be received at the rate of ss.
6d. per ounce of pure silver." Their Lordships
consequently refuse to authorise the dollar to be re-
ceived at a higher rate than 4s. 4d. sterling, which
exceed 4 their value at ss. 6d. per ounce of pure sil-
ver. With respect to Halifax and New Brunswick,
the Lords of the Treasury, having considered the
state of trade and commerce in those colonies, have
allowed doubloons to be received in payment of the
Custom-house duties as well as British money and
Spanish dollars; bet all provincial notes are to be
refused.

THE LEEDS PROTEST ADDRESS.—The
promoters of this farce boast of the number of names it
bears, at which the public will feel no surprise, when they
are informed that two young Brunswickers, about twelve
years of age, in one of the public schools in this town,
whose names are in our possession, signed the Address
eight times each. This is only a specimen of the mode
in which the Appeal to his Majesty is got up, and fur-
nished with naMes: " And is not this a dainty dish to set
before the King ?"—Leeds Mercury.

A paragraph has gone the round of the last
week's newspapers, bestowing the vacant Blue Ribbon on
his Grace the Duke of Richmond : it seems to have
escaped observation that there are, at this moment, two
vacancies in the List of the Knights of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter—the first occasioned by the death of
the late Earl of Pembroke ; the other by the more recent
demise of the Earl of Liverpool—and we do not believe
that either vacancy has been yet filled. Can it be from
motives: of policy that the Premier is so tardy in the die-
tribution of honours, as well as of other more substantial
marks of approbation, for which assuredly there is no lack
of aspirants ?

The late Lord Liverpool is reported to
have died exceedingly rich. Rumour (which, however,
almost always exaggerates) estimates his property at no
less than seven hundred thousand pounds ; his long tenure
of office, and his unostentatious and simple mode of life,
will lesson our surprise at this immense accumulation, if it
really exists. We are sorry to learn, from pretty good au-
thority-, that the widowed Conntes., whose exemplary ten-
derness during his protracted and harrassing illness was
the admiration of every one who had an opportunity of wit-
nessing it, derives no pecuniary advantage by the Earl's
dece4se, beyond the original settlement made at the time of
the marriage. The present Earl, half-brother of the late
Premier, is (with a few trifling
exceptions) stated to be
the universal legatee.

SUDDEN DEATH.—A young man of the
name of Younie, belonging to the parish of Rafford, dropped
down on Friday the 12th inst. and instantly expired. Al-
though only 14 years of age, he had attained the extraor-
dinary height of bre feet ten inches,---Inverness Journal.