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shill be our purpose shortly to prove.how this may be
effected. •

A more careful perusal of the American PRESI-
DENT'S Message than- we were on Thursday able to
spare to that document, has not only confirmed the
impressions which it originally produced in our
minas, but has satisfied us that it is as reckless an appeal
to party spirit, for the most sordid purposes of elec-
tioneering intrigue, as ever was promulgated even in
the United States. The approaching term of the
natural dissolution of Mr. TYLER'S chief magis-
tracy, and the activity of the canvass carrying on by
the friends of the more popular candidates for the va-
cant chair, seem to have inspired the PRESIDENT with
a determination to "go the whole hog" in administer-
ing to the worst passions and the blindest follies of
the Loco-foco, and other anti-British factions of the
Republic, whatever may serve to influence the one, or
gratify the other. It is really an instructive lesson,
to all who would study the grand problemof the form of
government best adapted to the wants and the interests
of civilised communities in the present diffusion of
moral and political intelligence—to note the ten-
denC.;ns of electoral responsibility—a principle of un-
doubted al.:stract excellence,—to defeat occasionally
the great end of securing a vigorous and unbiassed
executive, which should seem to be the first and most
natural end of its application. In the " Message" be-
fore us, we have Mr. President TYLER enlisting into
the service of his own political views every topic of
national irritation that preoccupies the public mind
throughout a vast proportion of the Union, against
the rights and the a4hority, the character, dignity,
and power, the prosperity and influence of Great Bri-
tain. The most offensive strain of that sort of arro-
gance which is best designated by the name of
" bragging," is resorted to in the allusions to Mexico;
and the ultimate "pleasure" of the United States in
regard to Texas, is intimated in a tone of menacing
assurance, which well accords with the easy-going
lawless insolence that has marked, for so many years,
the unauthorised locations of American citizens on its
territories. But there is no act, out of those many
outrages on national faith and territorial rights and
international law, which have been perpetrated within
the last seven or eight years by citizens of the United
States, which does not find, either by specific mention,
or inevitable implication, with a whole class of ana-
logous offences, an apology, a vindication, or an en-
couragement in this Message of President TYLER.
This is strong language ; but it is easy to justify it.
We have marked the several passages which bear us
out in each of these charges against it.
That part of the Message which we may designate
as the monetary portion, is the lonkest. In addition
to the deficiencies of revenue and income, which we
noticed on Thursday, there appears to be a deficit on
the close of the present fiscal year of other 2,000,000
dollars, arising out of appropriations already made by
Congress. What is said of the condition of the States
currency, and of the expedients proper to be resorted
to, or already adopted, to meet the emergencies arising
out of that condition, is very clearly stated, and
evinces abundant good sense. But the inconsistent
obliviousness with which the PRESIDENT affects to
talk in lofty language of the duties of a government
in enforcing the punctual discharge of the public
debts, with its nefarious acquiescence in, and mire-
buking cognizance, of the fraudulent swindle of the
repudiating States, we have already remarked upon.
So have we, likewise, on the reiterated adjurations of
the " SUPREME BEING," and the invocations of
DIVINE PROVIDENCE—not in a strain of Christian
humility and pious faith, but, we are constrained to
say, in a strain of downright cant. When the late
GEORGE RosE, TreaSurer of the Navy, and one of
the most unscrupulous Tory officials that ever became
the ready tool of a Minister in this country, ventured
to make some startling averments with a boldness
which for the time silenced the incredulity of the
Opposition, GEORGE THE THIRD was accustomed to
ask hia Ministers whether ROSE " had called GOD to
witness" the truth of what he had stated ? If
answered in the affirmative, the good-natured Mo-
narch would remark, with an amusing air of mingled
uneasiness and shrewdness, "Then I know it's a lie !"
We feel just the same suspicions of what lurks
beneath the puritanical phraseology of JOHN TYLER.
Perhaps he was striving to produce the same personal
impressions of his moral probity, among other quali-
fications for high authority, as OLIVER CROMWELL.
When OLIVER gave an account of his advancement,
he said, " I am a person that from my first employ-
ment was suddenly preferred and lifted up from lower
trusts to greater, from my first being a captain of a
troop of horse, and I did labour as well as I could to
discharge my trust, and GOD blessed me as it pleased
him." In one of the passages relative to commercial

negotiations, the PRESIDENT says, "From its origin,
the importance of the German Union has never been
lost sight of by the United States. The industry,
morality, and •other valuable qualities of the German
nation have always been well known and appreciated."
Why, the " force of canting can no further go." As
if the -morality of their customers formed one
millioneth of a cent in the considerations that would
weigh with a federal government which justifies
the maintenance of negro slavery in its most cruel
forms in Alabama, or Georgia, or Carolina, on the
plea that it is necessary to be retained, in order to
enable its planters—among the worst slave masters in
the world—to raise tobacco and cotton on terms suffi-
ciently cheap to command a market. Again, we find
the "CREATOR" invoked in a paragraph of maudlin

sensibility about the guilt of Mexico in continuing at
war with Texas, and turning nature's solitudes into
scenes of desolation. This from the heroes of Pen-
sicola —the exterminators of Florida—the unrelenting
destroyers of the red men, in all the countries to the west
and north-west of their own ample dominions, where-
ever they can find them. A further complaint against
Mexico is, that she has made predatory incursions,
the result of which has been to carry off certain

'l'exian authorities, " thus leaving crime to go un-
punished, and immorality to pass unreproved."
President TYLER aware of the moral condition and
social Government of the Illinois district—that
vaunted United States' Paradise—at this moment ?
What immorality is there there which is reproved ?

—what crime which is punished? Does he know

Nvhat is at this moment the condition, civil, social, and
moral, of those vast hordes of emigrants, Europear
and American—British, Scotch, Irish, French, Ger•
man, Dutch, who are "settled "—in the most mourn.
Cul sense of the term—along a vast line of the banks oi
the Mississippi ? We doubt whether any territory 01

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the whole world, inhabited by civilized men or their
descendants, can produce the parallel of zuc a con-
dition as exists- in that_ region of audacious profli-
gacy, of unrestrained violence, of utter abandon -
ment, and undisguised licentiousness, of the subver-
sion of all rights of property, all notions of order
and religion? The fortunate few who have returned
in rags and poverty, in abject indigence, yet still re-
joicing to have escaped at all, and once more to have
set foot on their native land, have supplied ample
details on these subjects to undeceive their townsmen
of Glasgow or Dublin, Liverpool or London.
But, enough of these matters of domestic American
history. Let us pass, in conclusion, to the hostile
spirit in which other parts of the " Message" are con-
ceived- An apparently designed distinction is taken
in the mode of announcing the progress of diplomatic
relations with other States from that employed in
speaking of Great Britain. Thus, as to the former,
it seems, "since the last adjournment of Congress
the Executive has relaxed no effort to render jade-
structilde the relations of amity which so happily
xist between the United States and other countries ;"
and of the latter—" The treaty lately concluded with
Great Britain has tended 'greatly to increase the
good understanding which a reciprocity of interest is
calculated to encourage, and it is most ardently to be
hoped that nothing may transpire to interrupt the
relations of amity which it is so obviously the policy

of both nations tocultivate."
The same tone preserved throughout the Message
with regard-to the relations between the two countries.
It is a sorry compliment to give credit to this great
country for no higher motive in maintaining rela-
tions of peace than mere "reciprocity of interest."
Then, again, the atrocious misconduct of the Ame-
rican authorities in dealing with the case of Mr.
M‘LEoD, is not 'even glanced at in the following
garbled and disingenuous statement of the affair:—
" The hazards incident to this state of things were
greatly heightened by the arrest and imprisonment
of a subject of Great Britain, who, acting as it was
alleged as a part of a military force, had aided in the
commission of an act violative of the territorial juris-

diction of the rnited Stateg, and involving the
murder of a citizen of the state of New York."
The notices of the condition of the United States'
army, of the proposed mode of strengthening and en-
larging it, of the state of the public works, the
torts on the sea coast, and the navy ; the strong recom-
mendation to have the' forts on the lakes, and the
approaches thereto, put immediately in an efficient
state ; the display of diplomatic strength and influence
in the recapitulation of treaties entered into with
Foreign Powers ; the continual allusions to some sup-
posed case of necessity, contemplated, or of probabry
proximate occurrence, as calling for the infusion of
All possible strength—all these various departments of
die public service are all conceived in a spirit which
xe cannot but consider as one of intended distance
and unfriendliness towards this country. The ill
conL'ealed intentions and views about the Oregon and

he Texas (which lattet, it should seem, by a recent
political revelation, some have net hesitated to consider
as part of the United States' territory), are specimens of
the most unprincipled political doctrine we ever saw
promulgated in a State paper. On the whole, we
cannot think that on the great majority of the
American' nation, shrewd and sensible as they are,
I manifesto so abundant in boastful and impudent
language, is likely to have much influence ; or that
JOHN TYLER'S presidency is likely to be resuscitated
by the people. By the way, if we may be forgiven
for once more alluding to the offensive feature we
have denounced as of such perpetual repetition in
this Message,. we must own we have been amused
with one instance, in which the PRESIDENT at the
same time helps himself to a more than Archi-Epis-
copal designation. The old Scotch Covenanters, and
the English Puritans before them, were scandalised,
among other abominations of the hierarchy, by their
profane assumption of spiritual excellence. They
could not tolerate a bishop's announcing himself to
be " CHARLES -by Divine permission Lord
Bishop of LONDON or SARUM." Fox, the Quaker,
and other eminent Dissenters, protested against the
"blasphemous" distinctions taken in all their public acts
by the Primates of our Church, each calling himself
"By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of --."
But JOHN TYLEit leaves bishops and archbishops far
in the back ground; he " goes ahead" thus :—" When
by a dispensation of Divine Providence I succeeded to
the Presidential Chair." After this, the fanaticism of
the great, but cruel ALVA himself expressed itself in
terms of absolute personal modesty !

The Madrid journals of the 23d ult. give an account
of a strange scene, which occurred in the Chamber of
Deputies, on its reassembling, on that day. The
business commenced by an announcement from MAR-
TINEZ DE LA ROSA, stating that he had presented to
the QUEEN the address of the Chamber, which was
most graciously received. On the Ministers entering,
Senor DIAS put a question to the President of the
Council, relative to the late disgraceful attacks com-
mitted on persons connected with the Eco del Com-
mercio and Tarantula. Senor BRAVO said he did not
deny the right of members to put questions to the
Government, but the Government had also their
rights, and might answer or not as they judged pro•
per. This excited loud disapprobation, but when he
added " Honourable Deputies would act more wisely
by attending to the Bills before the House than by
putting questions," the storm became tremendous.
The President rang his bell and put on his hat in
vain. The uproar having at last died away from
exhaustion, BRAVO said that if he delayed replying
to the questions, it was only because he wished to be
able to communicate the full details of the measures
which had been adopted to give satisfaction to the
journals which had been attacked, or those which
thought themselves menaced. This explanation, not
having produced the effect of calming the confusion
which the Minister had caused, several Deputies rose
at the same time to speak without being able to make
themselves heard. M.. CABALLERO, having at last
obtained a hearing, asked M. GONZALEZ BRAVO
if he intended to give a plain answer or not ?
M. BRAVO said he did not think proper to add
anything to what he had already announced.
This added new fuel to the flame, and, after another
uproarious scene, the Chamber adjourned without
doing any business. Towards the conclusion of the
meeting, i❑ answer to a question from a Member re-
lative to the impeachment of OLOZAGA, two of the
members of the Committee, CORTINA and POSADA,
said that for various reasons the Committee had not
yet assembled, but would meet on the following day.
The Chambers were adjourned for three days.

The Three per Cents. were done on the 23d at
at 60 days, the Fives at 21i for cash, with five
coupons, and 191 at 60 days.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the pro-
ceedings in the two Chambers, which possess consi-
derable interest. After the election of M. SAUZET as
President of the Chamber of Deputies, the usual Ses-
sional Committees were formed, and the Presidents
elected, six out of nine being Ministerialists. Another
great triumph to the GUIzoT party was the election
of the Tice-Presidents, all of whom are Conserva-
tives. M. BILLAULT, the Opposition candidate, had
only 99 votes, while the Ministerial candidates, who
stood lowest on the list next to him, had each 150.
The names of the successful candidates are M.M.
BIGNON,_ LEPELLETIER D'AULNAY, SALVANDY, and
DE BELLEYME. These are regarded by the Minis-
terial journals as great victories, and hardly denied by
those of the Opposition. The Journal des Debats
after adverting to the very feeble demonstration made
by the Opposition, after so much boasting, says—" To
sum up, the result of the sitting is what we expected.
The session of 1844 opens like that of 1843. The
majority, which has not changed its representatives,
has not, we are sure, changed its principles—it has
resolved to have now, as it had a year ago, the same
policy—the same men."
In the Chamber of Peers the Committee for draw-
ing up the address to the Royal speech was appointed
on Friday; the members chosen being the Duke DE
BROGLIE, Counts DE TASCHER, D'ARGOUT, 'DE
PONTECOULANT, MOLE, PORTALIS, and M. MERILHOU.
The Duke DE BROGLIE is the Reporter, and Count
DE PONTECOULANT fig the President. Some of the jour-
nals state that all the bureaux of the Peers have in-
structed the Committee to insert in the address a para-
graph against those Royalists who have visited the
Duke of BORDEAUX in London ; and, according to the
Commerce, several of the military officers who were
among the visitors, are to be tried for having infringed
an article of the law,_ which prohibits military men
from absenting themselves from the kingdom with-
out a special permission, the consequence of which is
the loss of their rank. Strong measures evidently
are in preparation against the party. On Thursday
two Legitimist journals, the Quotidienne and the
France, were seized at the Post-office, and on the
following day the Gazette de France was also seized.
The .following appears in the Pilote de Calvados, a
Caen paper :
" Several journals, in announcing the presentation at
London to the Doke de Bordeaux, by the Duke de Mont-
morency, of a deputation from Normandy, has given the
answer of the young Prince, in which he thanks his
faithful Normans, recommending to them union and
moderation. One of our subscribers has favoured us
with a letter from London giving details of this occur-
rence. It appears that, independently of the personages
who went to England, and whose names are given in the
English newspapers, the Count de Mortemart and Count
d'Osseville were charged with letters to the Count de
Chambord, expressing the devoted attachment of many
of the clergy of Rouen and Bayeux, and of a great num-
ber of functionaries who, notwithstanding their zeal for
legitimacy, have not dared to venture upon this pil-
grimage. This explains the proclamation addressed by
the young Prince to
his faithful Normans, and the advice
which he gives to them."
The Paris correspondent of a Contemporary adds
the following postcript to his letter of Saturday :
" M. Latlite has
just delivered in the Chanter a
speech of a perfectly revolutionary character. He said
that the peace which the country enjoyed was but
apparent, and that at its root lurked anarchy and con-
fusion, that the French, people were really in a state of
complete disoiganizution, and that venality and corrup-
tion were the ruling principles of the Government.
Under these circumstances (he continued) it was requi-
site to act with caution. ror fourteen years a struggle
had been raging between the central and local powers,
or, in other words, between Monarchy and Democracy."
The Ministers have decided upon not presenting
the law of flotation,
in consequence of the feeling of
the Chambers against it,
BOURSE—Yams,
SATURDAY, DEC.• 30.
First Highest Lowest Last.
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 123 70... 123 70... 123 60... 123 60
Four per Cents. 104 50... 104 50... 104 50... 104 50
Threes. B2 5... 82 5... 81 95.. t 42
Bank of France. 3230 ...3230 ...3230 ...3230
Latlitte Bank 1,000f...1095 ..1095 ...1095
bt000L.5075 ...5070 ...5070

Belgian Bank 747 50... 747 50 .. 747 50... 747 50
Belgian Fives
1840 lO7l ... 1071 ... 107 k ... 107 i

1842.... 1081 ... 104 ... 108 i ... 1081
Spanish Active ...... ... 261 ... 29/ ... 28{► ... 29/
Passive ...... 5 ... 5 ... 4/ ... 4/
Neapolitan
,:(,,riati, ...... .....,...... 1044. ... 1044 .. 1044 ... 1C44

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 311 25... 310 ... 311 25
L. 8... ..,. 176 25... 180 ... 176 25... 180
Rouen 825 ... 827 50... 825 ... 827 50
Rouen to Havre C37 50... 637 50... 635 ... 637 50
Orleans.

Strasburg to Bale. . .. 213 75... 213 75... 213 75... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 637 50... 640 ... 637 50... 640

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R.B 312 50... 312 50.. 310 310
L.B lBO ... 180 180 ... 160
Rouen
Rouen to Havre... 635 ... 635 ... 635 .. 635
Orleans 842 50... 849 50... 835 ... 835

Strasburg to Bale '2ls ... 215 ... 213 75... 213 75
Avignon to Alarseil:es €36 25... 642 50— 636 25 .. 642 50

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF TILE ACADIA STEAM-SHIP.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.
The Acadia, Captain Ririe, NI hich sailed from Bos-
ton on the 16th of December, arrived here this morn-

ing, at eight o'clock, bringing intelligence eight days
later than that brought by the last packet. The wea-
ther throughout the passage was very indifferent, she
having encountered several strong gales, which, how-
ever, being from W. to N.W., were in some degree
favourable. Between Boston and Halifax, at 10 30
p.m., on the 18th, she passed the steam-ship, Hibernia.

The news to the English reader is but of little im-
portance ; the completing of the Congressional offices,
and party ,squabbles, seem to occupy the attention of

he American press.

" A most perfect union," says the New York Herald,
" has at length been completed among all the elements
of the democratic party of the House of Representa-
tives. These members, numbering nearly 126, have
had several caucuses, and have almost completed their
arrangements for tha Presidential campaign.

" In addition to the election of Mr. Jones, the new
Van Buren Speaker, we have already mentioned that
all the other officers of the House nominated are Van
Buren men, including Blair and Rives as the printers
of that body. From the consultations among all the
elements of that party, we learn that the following is
the arrangements for the next campaign, entered into,
and agreed upon, by the combined democracy of Con-
gress :—President in 1844, Martin Van Buren ; Vice •
President in 1844, a Southern man ; the succession
in 1848, John C. Calhoun ; Secretary of State, 1844,
Thomas H. Benton ; Secretary of the Treasury, 1844,
James Buchanan ; Secretary of War, Colonel John-
son. In the debate on Tuesday, Dec. 12, the death
of Lewis Field Linn, on the 3d Oct., in the 48th year
of his age, was announced. After a brief sketch of
his life and manners had been given, it was agreed
that the House should go in mourning, as a mark of
respect due to his memory If we remember right
this is the member who brought in a Bill for occupy-
ing th• Oregon Territory.

Mr. John Quincey Adams had been chosen Chair-
man of the Committee of Manufacturers. The ap-
pointment of Mr. llol►nes, of Virginia, as Chairman
of the Committee on Commerce, was said to exhibit
the hostile feeling of the House against the existing

tariff. A long batch of documents—the Report of
the Navy, the Report of the Treasury, &c.—which
usually accompany the President's Message, had
been published, and occupy much space in the
American papers. They possess little interest.
NEW YORK, DEC. 14.—MONEY MARKETS.—Stocks
are still on the advance. Long Island rose l per cent. ;
Paterson 2 ; Harlem a ; Norwich 2 ; Farmers' Loan 2 ;
Canton 1 ; Illinois 2 ; Indiana 2 ; Indiana Sterling 2 ;
Ohio Sixes a ; Kentucky very firm at former quotations ;
Vicksburg Bank improved 1i- ; Pennsylvania Fives de-
clined 4 ; North American Trust sold at 12, which is 2
per cent. above the first sales. Considerable activity
prevailed in Wall-street, and operations were very ex-
tensive.
FROM NEW GRENADA.—From Carthagena advices
are to the 25th November. The Governor of Santa
Martha and two or three of his friends were assassinated
at the Cienaga on the 14th November, by a party of
rebels, who landed from that place at Jamaica, on the
10th inst. The party consisted of some eight or ten in-
dividuals, who were banished from New Grenada at the
close of the late revolution.
DISASTERS, &c.—Packet ship Hibernia, at New York
from Liverpool, had heavy weather all the passage ;
17th ult., lat. 47. 30., lon. 24. 30., sprung the foremast,
mizen-mast head, and main-yard, carried away cross-
jack and mizen topsail yard during the passage ; 24th,
in a heavy gale, the second officer and one seaman, while
in the act of furling the fore topsail, fell from the yard
on deck ; Bth inst., whilst lying-to in a heavy gale from
the westward, lost main topsail.
STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.—Thursday morning, Dec.

7, about one o'clock, the steamer Warren collapsed a
flue while lying at the wharf at Freeport, on the
Alleghany river. There were, at the time of the acci-
dent, about eighteen or twenty persons on board, of
which number about twelve were scalded—four or five

not expected to survive.
,TExas, DEc. 2.—The United States schooner Flirl
returned to Galveston from Vera Cruz on Nov. 22,

She brought letters frotn the United States Minister in
Mexico to General Murphy, our Chargé in Texas ; but
the nature of the dispatches had not transpired. The
Flirt reports that two of the Mexican vessels of war were
at sea, and the remainder, including the three steamers,
were lying under the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa.
A second attempt was made, on the 22d, to sell the
vessels of the Texian navy by public auction, but without
success—no bid being offered. Nearly the entire popu-
lation of Galveston, including the military companies,
in their parade dress, attended at the place where the
sale was to be held, but there was no violence or dis-
turbance of the peace.
Colonel flays arrived at Washington on the 23d, and
reports that all is quiet in the west, all the Mexican
troops having been withdrawn from this side of the Bio
Grande. Some small traders have been into Bexar, but
buiiness was limited.
It is estimated that 2,000 bales of cotton will be raised
in Bastrop county this year. There is nearly twice as
much wheat there as can be consumed by the settlers.
Corn is selling at a bit a bushel, and pork can be readily
purchased at a cent a pound.
FROM SISAL.--Captain Buckman, of the brig Trojan,
from Sisal, Nov. 12, reports that ie Yucatan Commis-
sioners had returned from Mexico without effecting a
treaty. It was generally believed that the Mexican
troops would march against Yucatan in about thirty days.
CANADA.—We have received the Kingston Whig of the
sth inst. It contains news to the afternoon of that day.

There is considerable excitement in Canada owin,,,,rto
the troubles of the Government. It now appears that
the late minority are throwing every obstacle in the way
of the Goverrfor-General.

(From the Kingston Whig, Dec. 5.)
A message was sent down, ycsterd'ay, by his Excel-
lency the Governor-General to the Legislative Assembly,
expressing a hope that the important measures now be-
fore them may be proceeded with to their termination.
The members opposing the Governor have shown a dis-
position to sneak oft and embarrass him. Lafontaine
f'ound•great fault with the dress of the Secretary who
brought down the message.. It is contemptible for the
House to be debating about the buttons of Mr. Rawson.
Lafontaine, Baldwin, and Co., had better bring forward
some better ground of complaint against the Governor-
General. _ _ _

Every step now taken by the late Ministry, and their
supporters, is with a view of insulting the Governor-
General. A Committee of the whole House is now
sitting on the Bill providing for the incorporation of
townships, towns, counties, and cities in Upper Canada ;
and are expunging all the clauses relating to patronage.
They have put forth the lion. Member for Kingston as
leader of the van. _ _ _

The debate on Mr. Price's motion, on the resignation
of the members of the late Executive Council, com-
menced on Friday and was adjourned to the following
day, when it -terminated. The passing of this mo
tion by th• House is a direct insult to the representa-
tive of the Queen. It assumes the statement of Mr.
Baldwin—that he resigned in consequence of some ob-
jections having been raised by his Excellency to the re-
solutions of the 3d of September, 1841, to be correct ;
whereas, his Excellency informs us that he subscribes to
those resolutions, and protests against Mr. Baldwin's ex-
planation as omitting entirely the actual and prominent
circumstances which led to their resignation.
Mr. Wakefield took a prominent pall in opposing the
motion of Mr. Price. His not having been able to prevail
upon Mr. Lafontaine to allow the Irish Colonization Bill
to pass into a law, is assigned by some as the reason for
his having deserted the ex-Ministry. In order to bring
discredit upon the bold stand which has been made by
Sir Charles Metcale, a report has been industriously
circulated by the gentlemen who have left the treasury
benches for their country's good, that Edward Gibbon
Wakefield is a secret, a '• back-door" adviser of his Ex-
cellency. Nothing can be more false. Sir Charles Met-
calfe is too wise to be led by the advice of any such man.
He has been'sent to this province as Governor, to regain
and assert the prerogative of the Crown. He has his in-
structions from the British Government, and requires the
advice of no one on that subject, but trusts to his own
energy and the good sense of the people..
The following is the Address presented to Sir Charles
Metcalfe by the Legislative Assembly :
" May it phase your Excellency,—We, her Mejesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects of the Commons of Canada, in
Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly beg leave to
represent to your Excellency the deep regret we feel at
the retirement of certain members of the Provincial Ad-
ministration, on the question of their right to be con-
sulted on what we unhesitatingly avow to be the prero-
gative of the Cro.wn appointments to office ; and further
to ;assure you Excellency that their advocacy of this
principle entitles them to our confidence, being in striet
accordance with the principles embraced in . the resolu-
tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3d day
of September,•lB4l.

" That this House, in dutiful submission to their gracious
Sovereign, and with the utmost respect for the exalted
station and high character of your Excellency, is most

anxious to guard against any misconstruction'which possi-
bly might be placed upon the affirmative declaration of their
opinion upon this delicate and most vitally important
constitutional question, and, therefore, most humbly beg
leave to disclaim, in a negative form, any desire that the
head of the Government should be called upon to enter
into any stipulation as to the terms upon which a pro-
vincial Administration may deem it prudent either to
accept or continue in office, that mutual confidence,
which is essential to the well being of any Government
necessarily presumes that they are understood, while a
due respect for the prerogative of the Crown and proper
constitutional delicacy towards her Majesty's_representa-
tive, forbid their being expressed."
REPLY OF SIR CHARLES MWICALFE.

" The Governor-General observes with concern from
the first portion of the Address of the Legislative As-
sembly of the 2d instant, that an impression has been
made in the House, which has led to a misapprehension
of his sentiments and views.

" While it is his bounden duty to maintain unimpaired
the prerogative of -the Crown, he recognises the resolu-
tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3d of
September, 1841, as constituting the guide according to
which tha administration of the Government of this
province has since been, and is to be, conducted.
" In expressing his entire concurrence in the second and
concluding portion of the Address, he is happy to per-
ceive that the House of Assembly disapprove and dis-
countenance any attempt to require the Head of the Go-
vernment to enter into any stipulation as to his exercise
*.f. the prerogative of the Crown. C. T. METCALFE.
" Government House, Kingston, Dec. 4, 1843."

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The third session of the present mayoralty commenced this
day, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, Alderman Hooper, Alderman T. Wood, the Sheriffs,
and other Civic Functionaries.

The Grand Jury having been sworn, were addressed by the
RECORDER. He said that the calendar, comparatively speaking,
was light, containing only 125 prisoners, to which number,
however, there would be an addition during the course
of their duties, but he did not expect their attend-
ance would be required for more than a few days. He had
directed his attention to the depositions in some of the principal
cases, and though many of them were of importance, they did
not require any parti ular observation from him. Tee only
case to which he would call their attentio,i was one of man-
slaughter, in which the death of a p'rson was caused by
two omnibus drivers, one of them driving at such a
rate as to cause the horses of a dray to become
restive and unmanageable, and the other driving at the wrong
side of the road, where it appeared there was not room for him,
and in consequence of which the death took place. If the death
was the consequence of mere accident, then there was no crime ;
but if they were of opinion that there was any culpable negli-
gence on the part of the persons charged, they were liable to
be punished. If, in the course of their duties, any difficulty
presented itself to them, the Court would assist them to the
best of its ability.
. . . . .

The Grand fury then retired to their room.
The following is a summary of the calendar : Bigamy, 1 ;
burglary, 2 ; unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 4 ; feloni-
ously uttering ditto, 1 ; cutting and wounding, 2 ; embezzle-
ment, 1 ; forgery, 3 ; horse-stealing, 4 ; housebreaking and
larceny, 6 ; larceny, 68 ; ditto in a dwelling-house, 5 ; ditto
from the person, 8; ditto by servants, 3 ; maliciously killing a,
pig, 1 ; misdemeanour, 6 ; receiving stolen goods, 2
Total, 125.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.) ..

The January Quarter Sessions for the county commenced
this morning, at ten o'clock, before Mr. Walesby and a full
bench of Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green.
The calendar was comparatively heavy, there being no less than
58 names upon the prisoners' list, charged with various offences.
Hannah Monday, aged 17 years, was indicted for stealing
various articles of wearing apparel, the property of Thomas
Holt, from the person of William Maxam. This was one of
those cases so frequent in London amongst the thieves who are
watching to plunder children.
It appeared that Mr. Holt sent the goods named in the in-
dictment to No. 6, Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, by
Maxam, a boy less than ten years of age, who deposed that he
met the prisoner in Oxford• street, who promised him 6d. if he
would go No. 4, Blenheim-steps, and inquire for Mrs. James,
and that in the mean time she would take care of the parcel.
When he went to the house he found it empty, and on his re-
turn the prisoner and parcel were gone.
On the CHAIRMAN questioning the boy, he displayed the
most lamentable ignorance upon the subject of an oath and all
other religious observances, and was unable to write, not even
knowing the letters of the alphabet.,
The COURT commented strongly upon a boy of 10 years
of age being, in those times of national schools, and other
sources of education for the children of the poorer daises, in
a state of such disgraceful ignorance.
The Jury said although the lad Maxam showed much na-
tural intelligence, yet, owing to his ignorance of the solemn
nature of an oath, they should net rely on his evidence.
The prisoner was then acquitted.
Three wretched-looking youths, named Johnson, Harris,
and Purday, were indicted for stealing a loaf of bread, the
property of Thomas Goodway.
The case displayed the usual manifestations by which hun-
ger and destitution was the parent of crime.
A verdict of guilty being returned, the COURT sentenced
the prisoners each to three months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

Several other cases of a similar nature, for stealing trifling
articles of food, were tried during the morning, in all of which
the prisoners pleaded hunger as the cause of their offences.

PO LICE INTELLIGENCE

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

ANOTHER MAN Theodore Mitchell, a slim young
man, with a singularly wild cast of countenance, was placed
at the bar, charged with having committed a violent assault
upon his brother, and threatened the life of his father. While
the prisoner was waiting in the anti-room of the Court, before
his examination, he gave unquestionable proof of his being of
deranged intellect, continuing to talk with great incoherency:
It was also evident that he was labouring under various delu-
sions—one of which was, thathe had been privately married to
the Queen, he should claim her in a short time, and take
her ,away from Prince Albert, hut, as some compensa-
tion to him, he should put him into a snug little busi-
ness in the coal and potatoe line. It appears that he is
the son of Mr. Lecompte Mitchell, a highly respectable
tailor, reAding at No. 44, Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-square,
he had latterly absented himself for days and nights together
from home, although he had no money or the means of pro-
curing food. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Satur-
day night he commenced abusing his father and threatened his
life, and afterwards struck his brother violently on the cheek.
At length his conduct became so outrageous, shrieking murder,
etc., that he was given into the charge of the police.
Mr. MALTBY—How long has the prisoner shown these
symptoms of being deranged? Mr. Mitchell—Only five days.
The prisoner, while at the bar, went on in a rambling,
unconnected statement, asserting that he had a right to drown
himself if he liked.

Mr. MALTBY said he would have the prisoner's state of mind
inquired into, and ordered him to be committed for the present
to Westminster Bridewell.

MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
Joseph Norman, a cab-driver, was charged with a violent
assault upon Robert Beeson, a very old man, also a cab-driver.
The complainant said that be had known the prisoner's father
for many years, and had recommended him not to employ him
(the prisoner) in driving his cabs, as he was such a notoriously
bad character. The:prisoner took umbrage at this advice, and
on Friday last he came up to complainant, and struck him such
a blow on the eye that it was laid open to the bone. Com-
plainant did not give him into custody then for his father's sake,
hut at a later hour the same evening,- he again came up behind
complainant, and struck him a violent blow on the head with a
stone. He then escaped, and complainant did not see him
again till Saturday, u hen he came up to the cab-rank in Sey.
mour-street, with a lot of infamous characters, and assaulted
the complainant a third time. A policeman came up and took
him into custody.
He had no defence tb make, and Mr. RA wciNsorr said that
he was determined to make an example of him, and fined him
bl., or two months in the House of Correction.

David Inglis, a boy about fourteen years of age, was
charged with having robbed his brother of tis.

MT. RAWLINSON asked the complainant if he wished to
prosecute, and was answered in the affirmative. The evidence
gas very dear that the boy had ari.en in the morning, and
taken the money out of his brother's pocket. When taken
into custody he had above 4s. 6d. remaining.
Mr. RAWLINSON, who seemed reluctant to commit the boy,
asked his brother a second time if he meant to prosecute him
for the offence. The brother was determined to do so, and
the prisoner was sent to Newgate in consequence.