The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN AND CANADIAN AFFAIRS

The Sirius, Capt. Mowle, arrived at Plymouth on Monday
afternoon, having sailed. from New York on the 30th of June
at eight o'clock in the evening. She brings 25 cabin pas-
sengers.
(From the National Intellioencer of June 26.)
SOB-TREASURY B11;1, DEFEATED.
We stop the press to announce the Sub-Treasury Bill has
just been rejected in the House of Representatives by a vote
of 125 to 111. Laus Deo.
We understand, however, that one of the minority will
more to-day a reconsideration of the vote—vain though it
will be.

(From the New York Daily Whig of June 28.)
Mr. Foster, of New York, rose and moved a reconsidera-
tion of the Sub-Treasury Bill. Sherrod Williams moved the
previous question. Motion lost, 21 to 102, so that the house
refused to reconsider.

(Frorn.the New York Daily Whig.)
We are called upon this morning, says the Rochester
Democrat of the 23d current, to communicate the important
fact, that Lord Durham has been recalled by the Home
Government The causes which have led to this very
sudden and important movement are given below:—
"Toronto, June 21, 1838.
" Mr. Dawson,—Dear Sir, I hasten to tell you of an im-
portant change which has taken place in our distracted
government. This is an uuexpected recaltof Lord Durham.
The circumstances are whispered here, having arrived last
night by a dispatch, although probably on account of the
expressed wishes of the government, they have nut been pub-
lished in any of the Lower Canada papers.
" A great many years since, an ancestor of the present
Selkirk family received from toe British government a grant
of the present Canadian provinces, with a considerable por-
tion of what is at-present the United States. Among other
privileges granted by this charter was that of being perpetual
governors—the fatal consequences of which were not con-
sidered at that time, when the country was mere hunting
government, that they have been obliged to recall ourdespot,
and no future governor can be appointed without the con-
currence of Lord Selkirk.
"This is all the information the government has allowed
to become public, and this is merely Whispered among a few.
" His lordship does not sail, it is believed, for a month or
six weeks. He is said to have been excessively enraged, at
the reception of the intimation of his recall."

(From the New York Evening Star of June 30.
THE PATRIOTS TOTALLY DEFEATED.—The lo Ad-
vertiser, of Tuesday afternoon, furnishes the following, which,
if true, as it propabiy is, will terminate the disturbances
which have been created in that quarter. It is, however,
most probably exaggerated:—
" Accounts have been received this morning, from Canada,
of the entire defeat of the insurgent force in the neighbour-
hood of the Short Hills, yesterday, and the capture of their
standards and ringleaders. A large body of troops, and 600
Indian warriors, had been previously collected in their rear,
and gradually hemmed them in. It is said that there are
many Americans among the prisoners, who will most pro-
bably be tried by a field court martial and be executed forth-
with. All communication across the river has been sus-
pended, and the boats drawn up to prevent the escape of any
parties still lurking in the woods."

We learn from Samuel Heron, Esq., editor of the Dundas
United States Gazette, who came over in the Traveller yes-
terday morning, that the Patriots left the Short Hills on
Saturday night, and moved towards Grand River. The in-
telligence reach Hamilton on Sunday, and, M‘Nab was im-
mediately ordered out with the 3d regt. to meet and attack
the Patriots at Short Tavern, about 14 miles from Hamilton,
ou the Grand River-road. It was supposed by many that the
Patriots would reach this point before the Royalist troops.
(From the St. Catherine's Journal (Niagara district) of
June 21.)
SERIOUS TROUBLE, IN_A NEW QUARTER.—For several
days past this section of the province has been teeming
with rumours of the concentration and movements of the
" Patriots," in various directions, not only along the frontier,
but in the interior of the country—some of which were of
such an exaggerated description, that we were, for a while,
strongly inclined to treat the whole as existing- only in the
imagination of those with whom they originated. But recent
events in the vicinity of the Short Hills, prove most conclu-
sively that we have been hitherto innocently resting in false
security, on the brink of a volcano, now just ready to burst
under our feet, and overwhelm us in one general ruin and
dismay.
In consequence of sundry unfavourable reports, and ill-
usage received by some of the most active Loyalists, from a
few miserable loafers about St. John's, it had been deemed
prudent by the authorities, a few days since, to station a de-
tachment of Major Magrath's lancers at that place.
After this, all appeared quiet, until Thursday morning,
when our villages were alarmed by the arrival of an express,
(Mr. Zenas Fell,) at day break, from St. John's, bringing
the astonishing intelligence, that an organised gang, vari-
ously estimated at from 50 to 100 desparate villains, well
armed, had attacked the tavern occupied by Mr. John Ous-
terhout, where the lancers (only 1U men) were quartered,
about three o'clock that morning; and succeeded in capturing
them, with all their equipments and horses, except one, and
had made off to the nearest swamp, with their booty.
It appears, however, that those brave volunteers, although
assaulted in the 2d story, while asleep, in the dead hour of
the night, totally unprepared 'for immediate resistance, did
not yield without showing the most determined valour. They
successfully repelled their assailants at the stairway; and
the banditti finding the odds fearfully against them, in firing
through the windows, at last resorted to the expedient of
setting fire to the building. On learning this, the lancers
rushed out of the house, sword in hand, resolutely.cutting
and slashing on every side, among the motley group assem-
bled there; but were finally overpowered; taken prisoners,
and conducted, with several others, a distance of two or
three miles, and then discharged. Sixty-eight ball holes
were counted in the ceiling of the room in which the
horsemen lodged; but providentially, only one of those gal-
lant fellows was seriously injured in the affray. Three
men are known to have been badly wounded among the
assailants—one of whom, being unable to walk, was car-
ried away by Mr. Davis's team, which they pressed into their
service.

In the meantime, as we have since learned, another squad
of the same gang, entered the house of a farmer, in that
neighbourhood, Mr. Overholt, and robbed him of 1000 dollars
in specie. • . _

Immediately after the arrival of the above tidings, ex-
presses were sent off to head quarters; and a strong party of
volunteers, both horse and foot, mustered, on the spur of the
moment, and set off, well armed, to the scene of this diabo-
lical outrage. In fact, the whole population of the country
is iu inotiqu—and well it may be—for, while such a lawless
and powerful banditti is roaming at large, no man is safe.
any more than he would he in a howling wilderness, infested
by hordes of wild beasts of the most ravenous kind.

in the course of the day they overhauled and captured five
prisoners, two of whom were those wounded the night before,
and one of the others was Samuel Chaundler, supposed to be
the principal leader of the gang. The latter was taken by
Mr. Thomas Adams, of this village, and secured through the
assistance of Lieut. Heath, of the Lancers A sixth rene-
gade, named Kempt, was shot down, in attempting to escape,
by one of the Lancers—the remainder of whom had instantly
hurried to_ the relief of their companions in arms the moment
they were apprised of the dastardly manner in which they had
been attacked. The prisoners were escorted to Niagara„gaol,
under a strong guard, where they will, no doubt, soon meet.
a just and well-merited reward for their crimes.

'FRlDAY.—Preparations for hunting down and extermina-
ting these mad-brained desperadoes, still continue. Three
companies of British regulars, belonging to the 24th regiment,
arrived at Queenston, from Toronto, on Wednesday, destined
for the disturbed sections of the district. The high sheriff,
with a number of magistrates and officers of the six-months
volunteers, are in motion. Captain M'Donald's troop of
cavalry, and a volunteer company of infantry, hastily collected
in this village and vicinity, have just gone out to reconnoitre.
Reports are flowing in from all quarters, all the movements
of the marauders—who appear to be divided into squads of
some 30 or 40 men, each, and described as being a poor, rag-
ged, emaciated and haggard looking set of wretches, as were
ever banded together—fit instruments, in the hands of wicked
and designing individuals ; and countenanced and supported
by a few disaffected residentsin different parts of the pro-
vince, to do much mischief, if not promptly put down by the
strong arm of the law, and the united voice and exertions of
every friend of his country.
Six more prisoners were taken this day, after a sharp en-
gagement with one of those bands of robbers, during which
two of the volunteers, under Jacob Keefer, Esq., of Thorold,
were slightly wounded in their cheeks. The loss among the
brigands is not known, as the remainder precipitately fled to
the woods, carrying off their dead and wounded, if they had
any.
SATURDAY.—it is stated this morning, that one of the lan-
cers is missing in an unaccountable manner—that his clothes
have been found, with spots of blood upon them—that the
mill-pond at St. John's have been drawn off, and other dili-
gent search made for the body, without success—and that
there is too much reason to fear he has met foul play at the
hands of some of those prowling villains, now attempting to
lay waste the country.
According to all accounts, we are induced to believe, that
these petty bands of marauders are principally composed of
the refugees, who have been hovering along the frontiers du-
ring the last six months, some of whom have made their way
thus far into the interior unarmed, in pairs and singly, by the
regular ferries; the others in small parties, with boats ob-
tained from the other side, loaded with arms and ammunition,
which have been returned. From Grand Island to near Black
Creek, is said to be a point at which much business of this
kind has been done.

Finding the United States government officers and troops
growing tired of the annoyance, and harrassing duty required
of them, in consequence of the operations of these misnamed
" Patriots; and the sympathy" of the American people,
getting quite below par, since their wanton destruction of the
Sir Robert Peel, and other depredations upon defenceless
Canadian inhabitants—these wretched misguided men have,
as a last resort, and reckless of the result, thus madly return-
ed to their own country, and imbrued their hands in the blood
of their friends and neighbours and thereby irretrievably cast
themselves into the jaws of ruin and death.

PROCLAMATION.
UPPER CANADA.

- - -
By his Excellency_Sir George Arthur, Knight Commander
of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Lieutenant
Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene-
rid commanding her Majesty's forces therein, &c. &c.
Whereas, on the morning of the 21st of this present month
of June, a large body of armed men assembled in the town-
ship of Pelham, in the Niagara district, and attacked and
plundered a house in that neighbourhood of a large sum of
money and other property, and fired upon and overpowered
a small detachment of the embodied militia there stationed :
And whereas, information has been received by me, that
certain evil disposed persons connected with the brigands,
who have of late molested and disturbed the peace of the
American and British frontiers, have crossed the Niagara
river, and that they lurk and secrete themselves in parts of
the district of Niagara, with the knowledge and connivance
of some of the disaffected resident inhabitants.
And whereas it is necessary for the peace and security of
the district of Niagara, that the ingress and egress of idle and
evil minded persons should be restrained aneprevented, and
that the perpetrators of the above outrage, and their abettors,
should be brought to condign punishment.
I do therefore strictly order and command all officers, ma-
gistrates, and others whom it may concern, that no person be
permitted to land upon or leave the shore on the British side
of the Niagara river, coming from or going to the United
States territory, unless he shall give a full and reasonable
account of himself, and show that he is coming or going in
the prosecution of his lawful affairs and business, which per-
son
shall be furnished with a passport, to secure biro. from
further hindrance or molestation.

And I do hereby earnestly call upon all magistrates, offi-
cers, and other loyal subjects of the Queen, for their best
united exertions in restoring the peace and tranquillity of the
province, in the prevention of crime and disorder, acid in
the apprehension of the guilty ; and I assure them of every
support and assistance which may be required for these pur-
poses, to the utmost extent of the civil and military powers
which her Majesty has been pleased to place in my hands.
Given under my band and seal at arms, at Thornton,
this 22d day of June, in the year of our Lord 1838,
and of ber Majesty's reign the second.
By command of his Excellency,
GEO. ARTHUR.
✓✓. A. HAGERMAN, Attorney General.
D. CAMERON, Secretary.

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