The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARcm 7.

The Speaker took the Chair at four o'clock.
Mr. MAURICE FITZGERALD gave notice of
his intention to move, as soon as possible after the Easter holidays,
that the House do take into its consideration the best means of car-
rying into effect those principles under which the Union between
Great Britain and Ireland was accomplished.
Some routine business, of no public interest, was then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter after Five.

PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT,UPPER CANADA,

QUEBEC, JAN. 23, 1827.

On the 28d January, His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief,
came down in state to the Legislative Chamber, when his Excel-
lency was pleased to open the Third Session of the Twelfth Pro-
vincial Parliament with the following speech :
_ _

Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
Gentlemen of the Assembly,
I bays again the honour, as his Majesty's Representative, to
meet you for the dispatch of public business in this Session of the
Provincial Parliament,
I regret to say, that the distress which has preyed so
generally and so heavily upon the manufacturing districts
and trade of England, has also been severely felt in our com-
mercial affairs, it is the natural and unavoidable consequences
of our intimate connexion with those interests of the Mother
Country. Notwithstanding this, the resort of shipping here this last
Summer has not diminished materially, and the Revenue nearly
equals that of the year preceding. If we have felt the shock of
alverse circumstances, I trust we may now indulge in the pleasing
prospects held out in his Majesty's Speech at the opening of the
present Session of the Imperial Parliament, of a progressive re-
turn to the wonted activity of commerce and industry in the
United Kingdom. The unusual drought of the last Summer, and
the fires which spread in the woods, gave cause of much appre-
hension, and were, indeed, destructive in many parts of the pro-
vince. lam happy, however, to find that, though the season did
not prove favourable to the grain crop, yet that there is a general
abundance of the necessaries of life. I still, therefore, may con-
gratulate you on the peaceful happiness which the Province enjoys
under the blessings of Divine Providence.
Gentlemen of the Assembly,
I have directed the accounts of the revenue and the expenditure
in the past year to be laid before you, and also an estimate of the
Supply I am to require for the public service, in obedience to in-
structions I have recently received from his Majesty's Secretary
of State.
Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the Assembly,
I must recal your attention to those measures of public interest
which I have before recommended to you, and which were left un-
finished in the last Session. Quiet and peaceable as this Province
is, yet the population increases so rapidly, and society extends so
widely, that I feel every year the necessity more urgent for an
extensive and active system of police to keep pace with that progress.
Amidst the changes which are thus operating in the state of the
Province, I lament to say that none appears more striking than
the increase of crime ; to whatever cause it may be 'ascribed, it is

in itself a fact which calls for measures specially and speedily ap-
plicable to the evil.
The Grand Juries in some of the districts have made their pre-
sentments in language so forcible that I shall lay those documents
before you, to show the various and serious difficulties to be re-
moved. lam myself convinced, and I would earnestly press it
upon your consideration, that the time is arrived for the establish-
ment in every county of those authorities necessary to enable the
Executive Government to watch over and promote the local in-
terests in each. Other matters of importance will be communi-
cated to you by message, in order that I may explain them more
distinctly than this occasion allows. Be assured of my best and
unwearied exertions in that station in which his Majesty has been
graciously pleased to place me in this province, and that it will
always be one of the chief objects of my endeavours to concur
with you in whatever may tend to the public advantage.

During the week immense shoals of Conger eels
have been driven on the coast between Dungenosand this port :
.
many of them were quite dead, and the rest were SO frozen and
torpid a state as to allow themselves to be taken with a spear or a
boat-hook ; by which means large numbers were secured among
the rocks near Shakespeare's Cliff. They were brought into town
for sale. Some of them measured eight feet, and weighed upwards
of 60 pounds.-- Cinque Ports Herald.
The skeleton of a very curious and rare animal has
been landed here, this week, from the Diadem transport, which
has Veengreat number of persons, as the remains of
a ie
description,
which we subjoin, to be a Dugong. It was shot by Lieut. Emery,
yhi ach appears, from Mr. Slight's
rrna
td
which
near the Island of Mombass, and died shortly afterwards. When
seen, the body of the animal was raised considerably above the
surface of the water, and, from the near appearance of that part of
it to the human form, was then judged to be a mermaid. It was
in company with two others, and they were all wading their way
by means of what the spectators called their arms. All the com-
pany ate some of the flesh, which he describes as being very savoury.
He was unable to preserve the skin ; but the hones are saved en-
tire. is lather more tlia4 sft. 10n4.-4lantf Telegraph.