The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-30 00:00:00

STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING.

We have already laid before our readers a good many evi—
dences of the state of public feeling in one part mid another of
the province, in the shape of resolutions and addresses,, voted at
recent public meetings, expressing the zeal of those who voted
them to stand forward in defence of the constitution and laws of
the province, against the traitors who would destroy all that is.
truly free and valuable in either. From the extensive territory
covered by the Eastern Townships, in particular, from the•
smaller district lying Westward Townships of the county of
Beauharnois, documents of this kind have been furnished in.
abundance. Actions, indeed, no less than words, give evidence.
that the brave and hardy inhabitants of these districts are to m
man loyally devoted to their Queen and country. Thousands,
of them are already in arms to attest their loyalty, and some of
them, as the marauders from Swanton will long remember,
have had the fortune to use those arms to some effect, for the,
same purpose.—Of these men, whose loyalty has been thus un-,
equivocally evinced, no small proportion are American citirienai
by birth, not merely sons of American refugees, as the itineran4
mendicants of the-revolutionist faction delight to call them,—..
, but bona-fide American-born citizens, whd having made Canada,
their home have thereby become British subjects, and who by.
years of actual experience have rOund British rule so thoroughly,
the reverse of all that is oppressive, that they, aye. now among.
the heartiest of its supporters against its hypocriticaWpponents.,
We should like to know, en passont, of our American neigh, boors, who hold the opposite opinion,.by. what fatality it happens;
that almost every man of their fellow-countrymen now resident
in Lower Canada is adverse to what, they at a distance dream
to be the cause of freedom ? Is there aught in, the air of Canada,
to change the temper of the most independent people of the
known world? Can it be that Americans, and Englishmen, and
Scotehmen, and Irishmen, are found almost to a mon on one
side in a political struggle, and that that side after all is the side
of tyranny and oppressive government 2 If it be so, then indeed
the age of miracles is not yet past,

(From the Hamilton Gazette of Dec. 26.)
With great pleasure we announce that the rebellion through-
out the entire Westarn district, has been completely put down.
the various documents telative thereto, will he found in our
columns.—.Colonel M'Nabb returned here on Friday evening,
and immediately proceeded for Toronto. The Volunteers were
under arms during the entire of Friday, ready, to march at a.
moinent's notice.
On f riday Ancaster again turned out her brave and valiant
companies. under. Captains Suter and Chep—t hey took pos., session, for the present, of our former printing uffice—would
that we could accommodate those fine fellows at our own fire
side.

Saturday, our town presented throughout the day the most
animated scene—hundreds of fresh volunteers hourly ar;iving.
About 5 o'clock, the troops which had proceeded to the west,
under Colonel M'Nabb, returned to town, not having lost a,
man, and after baying scoured the entire of that part of the,
country, amidst the heart-felt cheers of a loyal people.
Sunday was an active day. The din of preparation was very
manifest, and every man was required to be at his post; the
men returned to their barracks for the night, after being mi-
nutely inspected by Gap ain Gourley.
Early on Monday [Christmas] morning the entire body pa.
raded in the Court-house square, and a finer appearance than
was tkere.presented, no loyal heart could desire to see. Colo,
nels M'Nabb, Land, G. -Chisholm, Major Land, Captains
Gourley, Macdonald, Secords, Chote, Kirby, Poore, Hawatt,