The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

ri LivEßpoor,

NEWS FROM CANADA.

(Fromlhe Standard of Predneday Evening.)
The packet ship Westminster, of Lon,lon, which left
New York on the 20th itlt., and reached Falmouth yes•

terday, brings intelligence from Upper Cinada
rto the
date of the 11th, and from Montreal to the date of thi'.!
13th ult. Ail the information from both provinces is
highly satisfactory, except in its details of individual
murders committed by the rebels.

Our invaluable correspondent, "a Canada merchant,"
was perfectly correct in his judgment as to the temporary
occupation of Toronto by the traitor party, asserted in
the United States journals. To use our correspondents
words, now fully verified, the rebels never were within
three miles of ".Toronto"—they approached within little
noire than that distance of the town on the sth, waited a
day, during which they committed some murders and
made some prisoners by their marauding parties, and
fled upon the first appearance of opposition on the fol-
lowing dav—WKenzie and the principal leaders into
the United States..

The news from Lower Canada is equally promising of
the restoration of permanent tranquility. On the 13th
the districts of Montreal and Quebec enjoyed undisturbed
repose. Some broken bands of rebels in the neighbour-
hood of Grand Brute, north-iiest of Montreal, and sepa•
rated from that city by the principal trunk.of the St.
Lawrence, and by the Ottowa river, atone I.'ll titling in
arms—if, indeed, they did remain in arras, fur as no
troops were sent to. lOokfor them at. any time, even this
is doubtful—probably they are only fugitives or robbers.
The New York journals supply some very interesting
documents—the official report of the defeat of the rebels
by Colonel Knowlton and a hurried levy of British far-
mers and agricultural labourers in the Missisquoi terri •
tory on the sixth—the account of his escape given by the
rebel General Brown—and a similar account of the
escape of M•Kenzie.'
Toe affair of the Missisquoi gives gratifying proof of
the valour and fidelity, as well as of the prudence, of the
British settlers. The scene of operations is about fifty
miles south of Montreal, on the frontier of the state of
Vermont, part, as all. know, of the commonwealth union.
On the day named the rebels, abundantly supplied with
arms and ammtinition, provided with two pieces of can-
non, and reinforced by adventurers from the states, were
preparing to make an attack upon the village of Philips-
burgh, when they found themselves opposed by a- firm
hut turntiltuary force, tinder the command of Colonel
Knowlton, at a distance of about two miles and a hiallfrom
the village. The engagement did not last a quarter of
an hour, and was managed of course without the least
regard to discipline by the loyalists. Their courage was,
however, irresistible; and in about the time mentioned
he rebels made a *.rapid retreat, leaving one man dead;
some wounded, and some prisoners, their two pieces of
trtillery, all their ammunition, and nearly all their arms.

ColoneiKnowlton and his gallant Britons followed tl►e
fugitives to the United States frontier, but there they

mos; wisely discontinued the pursuit, so as to leave die
States government without a pretext for complaint.
The accounts given of their several escapes by Browne
and *Kenzie bear a most pleasing testimony to the
loyal zeal of the general poptilation. The traitors would
scarcely have had to encounter more of danger and diffi-
culty in stealing their way throuzli the best affected
county of Great Britain, than they repr,sent to have
obstructed their flight—throcuh Canada. French, low
Irish, and United States American squatters, were the
only persons of whom they dared to seek relief. Even
within the United.States.lines, and in the popolOns town
of Bunke, M`Kenzie was not considered sate from the
Royalists, and, acconVinzly; a body guard of six stout
young republicans was appointed to wait upon his person.
A' very great number of arrests had been made in
Lower Canada—among others Dr. Woolfred Nelson,
Papineatt's principal coll,.agne. was in custody, and most
of the prisoners were persons abote the lower rank. Pa-
oinean's papers had been seized, and, if we may trust the
Montreal correspondent of the New York lnquirer,
these papers may lead to arrests at this side of the At-
lantic. In a matter:ttter or so much delicacy-ire shall nut
use anv words of our own :

"The stateMPnts of our correspondent in reference to Mr.
Joseph Hume and Mr. Roebuck are highly impoitant. It is
not unlikely these gentlemen have nsed strong language in
their - correspondence with Papineau, but we shoUld presume
that they would have taken good care to keep on the safe side
of the law. No mention is made of the seizure of this corres-
pondence in the Montreal papers."
So far Our editor of the New York Inquirer—now let
us have his correspondent :
" The papers of Paidneau, which have been seized, are said
to implicate deeply Mr. Joseph Hume, and Mr. Roetyek. The
letters of the former are all ticketed on his own hand, to be and
not to he made public. It is said that they recommend the very
line of proceedings which•have taken place, and that they are
highly ti etu,onable. However, they will be sent home. awl the
matter will not be•-so easily hushed up_ Should the assertions
prove true, Mr. Hume and Mr. Roebuck will have to answer
to the pigple of England."
Mr. Flunit-, if not invited to explain his conduct else-
where in the meantime, will have an opportunity of
throwing some light on this paragraph on Tuesday next
in the House of Commons. The Canada Portfolio w;11
be anxiously looked for, in order to learn what Mr. Roe
buck has to sav upon the facts alleged against. him. The
Governor of Vermont has issued a proclamation, enfor-
cing upon the citizens of the United S ales the duty of
observing a strict neutrality.

,
We now submit to our reaaers the American journals,
from which we have, perhaps, ton long detained them.
(From the New York Inquirer, of the 2.1 th.)
The letters of our curiespondent at Montreal contain the
latest intelligence from that city. By these we learn that Dr.
Woolfred Nelson has been arrested ; and a line on the outside
of one of them informs us that he was hourly expected at Mon-
treal. The insurgents were sti:l committing depredations in the
neighbourhood of Grand Bru:ity. On the 12th instant the stea-
mer Princess Victoria, brought in twenty-five prisoners, who
were taken at or after the affair at Missisquoi, and had been
lodged for a clay or two previous, for safe keeping, at the Isle
aux Noix. Seven of these were men of some note. Amongst
them was Bouchette, late editor of the Citte,,ec Liberal, and an
active agitator, and Kimbert, who was deepi • implicated in the
first movement at Longueuil, and who, with 'Bouchette, is said
to have held a command at Misiisquoi. Desuivieres, Maches-
seanit, and Boucher I3elleville also aiming the prisoners, were
active and prominent at St. Charles. Jalber was at St. Denis.
having been concerne,l in the murder of Lieutenant Weir.
Among them also is Rol, who was concerned in the death of
Chartrand, and gave the comtnand to fire upon him. He was
arrested on the wharf at La Prairie, in the act of putting some
oxen on'imard the steam-boat for the Montreal market. Being
recognised by tr,e of the bv-standers, he %vas forthwith sent off
in the • Ofte boat with the cattle. _ _

Some twenty of the prisoners taken at St. Charles and else-
where have been liberated,- on evidence that they were compelled
to join the insurgents by timrce or intimidation.
The Montreal courier stales that General 'l'. S. Brown, leader
of the insurgents, and for many years the confidential friend
and associate of Papineau, is not an American by birth, hut a
native of New Brunswick, who has spent some of the earlier
years of his life in Vermont.
Froth Quebec we learn that entire tranquillity prevails.. The
'gnus are all mounted upon the ramparts of the town and citadel,
and the volunteer organisation gees on with great spirit. The
15th regiment remains in the Jesuits' Barracks. The Royal
Quebec Artillery are to occupy quarters that have been titted
time old Parliament-house ; and the up for them in the wing of
Royal Quebec Volunteers, numbering 800 strong, "ave been
provided with barracks in the stone stores ota King's-wharf.
It is stated thit Sorel and Chambly will be garrisoned during

the, winter by volunteers, and that St. Denis, St. Charles, Si:
John's, and the Isle aux Noix, will be occupied by the
with the addition probably orsotue volunteers or Upper Canada
The Provincial Assembly stands prorogued to the 13th of the
next month. .

We find in the ALmtreal Transcript the following particulars
of the hotchetv of Lieutenant Weir

`'Ye have reeeiveq the fOliowin!, horrible arenunt of the mur-
der of Lieutenant Weir. The story is very diff-;ent from that

put forth by Mr. T. S. Brown, in the Express of this morning.
By the way, the Express rn.w avows that its sometime correspon-
dent L. M. N. and Mr. T. S. Brown are one and the 'same

person.
" After Lieutenant Weir had been betrayed into the hands
of the rebels„ Dr. Woolfred Nelson ordered his nano-Jai crom
St. Denis to St. Chatb.s. The person intrusted with this duty
was Jaibett, the ex captain of militia. Mr. Weir's arms were
forced hark, and his einows made fast to each tither with ropes.
'nts pinioned, he was placed in a cart, into which Jalbert and

. . .
another man under him, whose name we forget, also mounted,
the foriter armed with a sword, antl the Litter with an axe, an
... (

they proceeded toward.-St-. r.litarlett The roads were in so had
a state that the horse bacaaw fatigued, and with difficulty con-
tinued at a foot-pace. Jalbert fist ordered the man in get out
and walk—he eterwards got out himself—anti finally he made
a'sign to Mr. Weir,
who, although he was in so helpless a con-
dition, descended as best he might. lie had just reached the
..ground, and was steadying rested on with one hand reste im the
I•ack of the cart, when Jalbert made a rush behind him, and
plunged his sword into Mr. Weir's back with such violence
that it transfixed his body,
" Surprised, writhing with pain, helpless!! and influenced by
the weapon no sown withdra% n
the first impulse or nature,
than Mr. Weir gut (lintel the cart, ii here he lay bleeding and in
agony. After a short canference thesis' assassins approached
the cart, and CMDMeneed a tuna Sale' and brutal attack on
their victim, one on each side; the one stabbing with his s.vord,
the other striking with his axe, as the wheel and the position of
Mr. Weir gave opportunity. At length. the axemall
► severe mound on Mr. Weir's left side, close to the hip. Lt„„„.
ed by the brutal character of the attack. and the reti,ction. that
to remain where he was would be to die by inches. Mr. Wetr
crept'from under the cart. and regained his legs. Serino. these
wretches again advance upon him. he resorted to the only pos-
sible expe,bent left, and, weak as by this time he was, he raised
his right leg,
and made a. kick at.
.Jalbert.
"The man with the axe seized the advantage of
the moment,
and aimed a heavy blow at the telt side of Mr. Weir's head.
e
"W the blow coining, and instinctively raised his hand.
The bloW took effect access the site of lire bead and on a line
with the temple. Alter ottin, tdr all the four lint:ers of Mr.
Weir's hand the axe fail his skull t.tnmplelely open, tv.arlv
severing the top of the heall. Tut, twin then sunk upon
the irmond, a dreadful object to hei."111" The statements of our corresp- in refetenee to 'Mr.
Joseph limns and Mr. Roebuck are highly important. It is
not unlikely
these gentlemen have used strong language in
their correspondent.. with PapinPri U, but we should presume
that they would have taken good care to keep on the safe side of
the ;0,, Ni) mention is made of the seizure of this corresrond
ence in the Montreal papers.
( Cori e,t,ondence of the Courier and ferilrer.)
WKONESDAV.—Wo"Ifred Nelson is taken, and
is now at La P,•airie. This to he authentic.
The troops are now on their march. Colonel Dundas, with
his regiment, the and the !locket rtrioade, have just pass-
ed my windaw. The her is beautiful. They will proceed
to St. Martin's to-night, and start from thence a't eight
to-morrow morning. when I shall jnin them, as there will be no
bed or accommodation to he procured at St. Martin's, and 1
can be there before they start.

We have no news from. Toron'o; but by ad vices from Ring-
ston the mails ha%e.a.l heen s!ooprfi by tho insio gents. Volun-
teers were H rtking, up from ail quarters t,, ToHalia, and by this
tune it is presumed that something decisive has taken place.
It is reported, that Corte, one of the leaders who escaped a;
the Phillipsburg, affair. is inarehing from' Plattsburg towards
llemtningforil with about 400 men. This is not unlikely, as
about 200 men were dispersed and crossed the Imes to Swanton
when Bouchette was taken; and he may have picket! up
some
more at Plattsburg, where, it is knon, that at 4. meeting several
x
of the Americans volunteered to join. They will, however, be
too late to join the force at St 13,onard, and there are forces
sufficient to meet them at St. John's and Chambly: probably
they will remain for a time in St. Acadia, which is disaffected
enough, awl then disperse.
Toe paper's "of Papineau, which have been seized, are said to
implicate deeply Mr. Joseph flume and Mr. liiiehuck The let-
ters of.the former are all tackled on his own hand, to be and not
to be made public. It is said that they recommend the very line
of proceedings which have taken place, and that they are highly
bea,onable. However, they will be sent bome anti the matter
will not be soeasily hushed tip. Should the assertions prove true.
Mr. Hume and Mr. Roebuck will have to answer to the people
of England.
The whig government in Etwland are the cause of all this
mischief. It is remarkable that whenever the Whigs have come
into power we have had a revolt in the colonies. Lord Gosrold
is reported to have said. " I came to this province with the full
intention of acting upon the most liberal, even ultra-liberal,
principles lint I have been driven into conservatism in my own
defence by the conduct of govei unient." It is a most remark-
able point, that in the commission as governor given by the
rhi,4.s to Lord Goslord the power of proe'anning martial law had
Lori Gosford was not aware of it at the time that

:;u•,;land. He has been now forced to declare it and
inust obtain an indemnity from the English parliament when he
returns.

The times have been so busy in making preparations for the
expedition, that I hive not been able to gain from head-quartets
the list of volunteers in detail, as I wished to have done; but
have the sum total which is coureet. •

Aletnoranduni of present volunteer force, Dec. 12. 1837:—
Cavalry
Artillery
Infantry

8902
Dr. Woolf,ed Nelson is taken, and expected to arrive here in
course of this I 1 a y —Half-past one o'clock, p.m.
The St. AI an's Messenger also says ;—" A gentleman of this
village arrived in town ou londay, p m., direct from Yamska.
He says that the authorities are proceeding will) great vigilance
in making arrests in St. Cesaire and vicinity, and a ktate of the
utmost consternation 'prevails amoirg the inhabitants; that he
saw a gentleman of St. Cesaire, direct from Montreal, who in-
formed him that on Friday last 20 of the prisoners, who had
been arrested on a charge of high treason, were arraigned be-
fore the court martial at Montreal, and that eleven of the aunt-
he- were condemned to Le shot at four o'clock in the afternoon
of that day."

The 431 British Regiment, December cHt, had not arrived in
Quebec. The 85th is Wowing inialeiliately a ft-r the 431.
It was reported at Fredericton, that three regiments, destined
for Canada, were expected at Halifax frion Eogland, and would
immediately march for Quebec through New Brunswick. .e.lll
these march over the territory q' Maine.
The remaining four Collipanies of 831 regiment, 350
strong, arrived at Montreal oat the 11th instant, also a detach-
.ment of the 21th, frOM St.'John's, with the soldiers wounded In
the afirtir of St. Charles. Two companies of the 321 left Mon-
treal on the same day for St. Martin.
Seventeen indiVidnals %vete comotitted to gaol on the charge
of treason on the 10th

The Montreal Transcript. Dee. 12, expresses its obligations
to the aminaercial Advertiser.

We have a valiant speech ofeaptain ?Harr}-at in the Montreal
Courier.

We ,tunex the official account of the affair of Mi,4.iFquoi Bay,
with such items of interest as we can glean trout the lontreal

papers

" Prelighshur.,h, St. Armand, Der. 7, 1837.
have the honour to r,port for vour Excelooicy's in-
formation, that vesierdav morning I left this. by a previ,,os ar-
rangement with Colonel Knoalton. of Brome, turoonpanv with
Captlin Henry Baker, of St Arm.ind,tuiving under ,fly com-
mand a body ,it volunteers 1.0 111, rancher at,,,m Met),
armed with such guns as could be coilected, to form an escort
to waggons for conveying the .irons and auon,uuitiou of Colonel
Know.ton's battalion from Phillipsburg. I had proceeded outs'
a few miles on my v..riy, when an express from Phillipsburg met
ale, with the information that a Considerable bod►. it the rebels
had passed through that village eat ly in the morning to the
state of Vermont, and were expected to return to but n it the
same night.
"I immediately dispatched expresses in different directions,
to raise men, armed and unarmed, and bring then, to Phillips,
burg, where I haildirections from Colonel Knowlton to deal
t:te arms intended for his bdtallion, if necessary.
corm‘qtwoce Ili ef.rtain inforin.ktion I left the waggons
four miles from Phillipsburg, and struck through the woods so
as to meet t=oe loaded waggons, at the head of Missisqnoi Bay,
in order to strengthen the escort frotriCrydwell's Alatior and St.
Armand west. We then proceeded iu company to Phillips-
burg, and reached it at half-past four p.m., where I found meu
aAsentliteil from -different points, and (hat scouts had cow, in.
from Swanton, in the state of Vermont, with the itiformation
that a body of men, well equipped, and having with them two
pieces of cannon, had taken op their line of march for this pro_
vivre.

"In this emergency orders were issued to supply the men
with muskets and ammunition, from the waggons, and at six
o'clock a positinn was taken half-a-mile south of the sillies
' On
the aces, road leading to Swanten:
" We had occupied this position nearly two tottre in expecta-
tion of the enemy, when positive information- canoe in that they
had taken the east road leading to Swanton,and that they were
within throe Miles of the viltw.se.
•`I
instantly ordered a strong guard to remain nn the west
oialiad,Ltaet:ialntd riadrreea heilp
litiinah.tiitrnseitniiitt ,i,
height to the left, command_
east of the
v
ng the highway at the intersection of the Swanton-road leadino
north and south with the St. Armand-road, leading east and west
a here I found the pickets and advanced guard had retired Mr-
pei ceived before the enemy, Who were 200 string.
"The force under my command amounted to about 300 men,
hut before it was possible for me to reduve - them to order, the
van of my line had Commenced iZ without command.
"To a commander of Sour experience I• need hardly apologise
for the impetuosity alp) undisciplined body hastily taken away
from their farming occupations, and played in sight ofsin enemy
only a few hours after arms hail been placed in their hands 't his
premature fire was instantly returned by the rebels, and the
firing was kept up On both shies for about ten or fifteen minutes,
when the enemy retreated back towards the state of Vermont,
leaving behind one dead, two winintled, and three prisuhoners.
of
"One of the wounded is Robert Shore Milness Bocetle,
Quebec, who led the advanced guatd of the rebels; and is
severely hurt. The other is slightly wounded, and
self to 'be a nephew of Julien Gagnon, Of St. Va!""titiet
iii
L'Acadie, habitat+, the leader of the party. They left, .also,
two pieces of cannon mounted on carriages, five kegs of gun-
powder, of ball cartridge, and seventy m
der, six boxes reports him-
uskets, part
of them in boxes, and two standards. Froth the undisciplined
state of the loyalists the darkness of the night, it being" nine
o'clock, and the vicinity of the woods, the rest made their
escape, The vicinity or the province line was also in favour of
their escape, fir the universal feeling throughout this part of
the border is. that no man shall cross the line armed, even in
pursuit of invaders from the other side, so that to any demands
made by your Excellency or the Governor in Chief, an
answer cannot with truth be made by the general or state go-
vernments of the United States, that the
,people of the province
have done atlytlino, contrary to the treaties existing between
that country and Great Britain.
"0..1. KEMP, Captain.
"To his Excellency, Sir J. Colborne."
(Extract.)
"Freelingsburgh St. Armand, Dec. 7.
"Sta,—l have the hsnor to report, that on reaching the .Isle
aux lsnix, with the arias furnished tor ttie Shellit'ld v"lunte""'
I deemed it advisible, before remoyinis them from that stirtion,
to proceed forward, in order to establish relays or carriages,
with siarient escorts fur transportin, them in the county of
Sheffield—immediately on procuring which. I gave older,
their removal, via Caldwell's Manor, and carriages set forward
yesterday simultaneously fruit% Caldwell's Manor, Phillips-
burgh, in St. Armand, on Missisgimi bay, and Frelighsburgh,
while I pushed forward from Frelighsliuriih to Bromic, to bring
waggons thence, sit that no delay niight take r ; but kimw•
the almost destitution of Missisytiii as to arms and amunition,
I had given directions that the arms for my battaliion should be
used in case of an attack by the rebels.
"On returning to this morning, about six
o'clock, I found that an engagement had taken
place yesterday
evening at nine o'clock, about two miles and a half east of that
village, between the loyalists, firming an escort under Cap-
tain Oren J. Keii p, and a large body of rebels (tinder a Mr.
Julien Gagnon, of St. Valentine, in 'L'Acadie) who had em-
bodied at Swantiiwn, in the• slate of Vermont. The enemy
were driven back by the loyalists, with one man killed, number
of wiitiniteil unknown, and the prisoners, one of whom It. S.
M. Bouchette, of Quebec, is severely wounded, and one
slightly. The loyalists also captured two pieces of cannon,
about forty stand or arms, five kegs of gunpowder, and six
boxes of hail cartridge, with two flags. The muskets captured
are olthe kind used in the American Army during the last war.
The rebels were atient DO, and the loyalists 300 strong.' Of the
loyalists. not one man was hurt, The enetnY retreated into the
state of Vermont, by the road they came.— have the honor to
be, your Excellency's most obedient servant,
• ss, H. KNoW LTO N
"Colewei of Sliptli,l,l volunteers.
"To his Excellency, 'Lieut. General Sir J Colborne,
Commander of ties Forces, &c., Sze."

WINTER IN Lowen CANADA.—As the winter approaches
one snow st or,r, succeeds another Willie face of the whole coun-
try is changed. Every particle of ground is covered, the trees
alone remaining visifde, while even the progress of the mighty
river St. Lawrence is arrested in its course—everywhere, in
fact, the chilling grasp of winter is felt, and every precantinn is
taken by man to resist its beionnlfi,v'eltects. All the feat het ed
tribes take the alarm—even the hardy crow retreats—anti feW
quadrupeds are to be seen ; some, like the hear, remaining in a
torpid state; and milers, like the hare, changing their rokotr to
pure white. Froir. Quebec to Montreal the St. Lawrence
ceases lo lie navigable, and serves as a road for the sleiv.hs
cart inlet,. These vein( les Vary in shape. Au-cording to fancy.
The body of the carriole resembles that of a Phaeton, or :fig, a
it is plattedon is hat are called run-
rhariotteer family roach;
tiers, which resemble in form the irons of a patrol skads, rising
Ili, in front in the same, manner and for the ,tine r"irlt's,s, The
liu9h miners are Montt 18 inches, but i'etlerarY the earn"' is
about 12 inches ;dim, the snow, over which it glides with great
ease, on a level sin lice, without sinkinAr deep; lint when victims
(narrow ridges. with deep furrows) .re formed in :he stotw, the
motion is like rowing in a boat against a head sea, producing it
sensation, until accustomed to ii, somewhat like sea sickness.
The earriole is often mounted with silver. and ornamented With
expensive furs. Instead tif the vdruov which a Canadian stn-
mer presents in haring the course of noble rivers, the fall of
beautiful cataracts, &c., nothing is now to he seen but one con-
tinued solid plain; no rives, 00 ships, no anituals—alt one in-
disci irrtinate'plain of snow, the average depth whit-h, (unless
where accumulated by snow storms or drifts) is about 30inchcs.
The dress of the Canadians now intderviies a complete change ;i
the hat and bonnet rouge are thrown aside, and fur caps, for
cloaks, fur gloves, are put in requisition, with „o„ted hose liver
as well as nutlq hoots; those who take exercise on font use
snow shoes, or TrUlCaPiinti, which are made of a kind of net-work,
fixed on a frame, anti shaped like a boy's paper kite. about two
feet long. and 18 inches broad: these cover 7..irauch of the sir.b ,c,f he snow, that the w r eare sinks but', 6, ry few inches,
even where the snow is softest. Whi;e the external weather is
guarded ;Against the'CaTla. lIS when out of dittos, their in-
habitants sue :tISo SPNlr,:d g',ll.l,st 1 hit destructive power of in-
tense cold. The walls of the houses are visually plastered on
the ontsidp, 1,1 preserve the stones Iron moisture, V.lfich, if acted
on by the frost, is liable to split them ; and the arartments are
heilred with stoves, which keeps the tempeeature at a higher
and noire uniform rate than in our Elligliso 'fire-plat es. It has
been found difficult to get the plaster to allber:,, particularly if
exposed to the easterly wind; but. by mixing Iwo pounds of
Muscovado sugar, with a bushel of lime, a hard and durable
rough casting is produced.—Martin's Culonies, vul.

SEcwci Unri Lt)11:

IRE. COAST- Ft,- EAST DESCRIPTION. TOTAL.
LtN D WISE REIGN IN DIES.
------* -
Wile:, t Qt., 108 1 1 1182
Barley Qrs 7 I i 17 1124
Olt, Qrs 4113 554 46i9
Flour 'lacks 18.4 1804
Ditto Barrels
Malt ..... ... •• .. Cwt 30 30
Oatmeal 1,0a.1s 916 946
Bran
Beans Qrs 23 23
Peas
Ii ye Qrs
Stp.lled Barley.. • . Cwt
Radeseed Barrels
Indian Ccirn Qrs
AVERAGE PRICES.
•
VletivAT. ,tr 70 %S. s d s ,1 BEANS, imp. urea. - s II 9 0
Irish dried red .. 6 6 4 710 Irish .... ....... 45 OTD 48 0
Do. dried white, 7 4 .. 8 0 FLOUR, 'WIBO tbs.
Do.ondried new 6 6.. 61 . Eng.& Irish sup. 44 0.. 46 0
English ...... .. 7 8.. 8 6 Do. fines 4O 0.. 42 0
Canada...... .. 0 0.. 0 0 Do. seconds
OATs, cly 45 lbs... I)o. thirds l7 0.. 23 0
Irish
BAR LEY, iF 60 Ms Do. old — 0 .. 0
Irish grinding.. 3 3.. 3 6 BRAN. gf •-1 lbs 1 0.. 1 0

AVERAGE, PRICE

OF BU TER, Sc.

8 V 8 1.1
Baron, 41, cwt.— 57 0 ret 66 0
Hams, dry 6O 0 .. 6i 0
1)o. wet — 0 0
Firkto Lard,
Bladdered do 7o- 0 .. 74
Grease Butter ..: 45 0 .. 50 0
Prime Mess Beef, •

1 s n SD
Banbridge 7B 0 e 80 .0
Vt :der ford,
Coleraine.
Carlow, - 83 0 .. 91 0
Lineriek . 0 0
Bell' ist 96 0 .. 99 0
Derry BO 0.. 0 0
Cork, gds — 0 .. U
Newry
Dundalk — 0 .. u
Sligo 0 . 9

4 tierce, 98 0 ..110
!time Messf' Purl:,

dr barrel. 78 0.. 80 0

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, JANUARY U.—Wind S.E.

Traveller, hence at Dublin.
Dd -hi, Herbert, from Liverpool and St. Üb. s at Monte Video, and
was to sail for Buenos Ayr. s, Nov. 8.

Atrea, Neill, henee at Waterford. for Naples.
Pro L:•tter run Falmouth Olver, for Naples.—
Bun Philip, Danger,. fur Dunk irk.—.ll dry, Norton, fa( New Orleans.

Stir WA Unilt SCOTT'S PECUNIARY M ISFORTUN ES. —The first
intimation be had of any danger hauging oyes him floor the
failure of Constable's house, wds conuuuuicaterl by Mr. Lock-
hart ; but it will he seen by the followiug extract, that, though
the information disturbed blot, he did not credit :—A few
slats, however, alter my arrival at Chetswood, I received a
letter from he legs: friend already alluded to —( M r.W w Wright,
the eminent barrister of Lincoln's Intl —who, by the way, was
also on habits of great personal familiarity with Constable, and
liked the Czar exceedingly )—which reuewed my apprehensions,
or rather. for the first time, gave roe any suspicion that there
really might be somelbing, • rotten in the state ot'
Mr. ‘Yrtglit informed me, that it was reported it] Lonrho', that
Constable's London banker hadthrown up his book. The letter
reached me about five o'clock, as I was sitting down to dinuer;
and about au hour afterwards, I rode over to Abbotsford, to
communicate its cooteuts. I found Sir Waiter alone, over his
glass of whiskey and water, and cigar—and at this time, when-
ever there was no company, • his custom always in the after-
noon.' 1 gave him Mt. Wrigl.t's letter to tend. Ile did so,
and returning, it, said, quite with his usual tranquil gooddiu*-
mour of look and voice, I um much ()bilged to you for coming
over; but you may rely upon it, W right has been hoaxed. I
promise you, were the Craft y's book thrown up, there would be
a pretty decent scramble among the oaukersfor the keeping of
it. `There may base been some little dispute or misunderstaud-
ing, which mallce and envy have exaggerated in this absurd
style; but I shan't allow such uouseuse to disurtt my siesta.
Don't toil see.' he added, lighting :mother cigar, that Wright
could not have heard of such a tiansactiou the very. day it hap-
pened ? And can you doubt, that if Constable had been in-
formed of it yesterday, this day's post must have brought me
intelligence direct from him ?' I vensured -to suggest, that this
last point did. not seem to me clear; that. Constabie might not,
perhaps, in such a ease; be in so great rr hurry with his intelli-
gence. Ali!' said he, the Crafty and James Ballantyne have
been so touch contitehclutegtl 0 itr
i,lrptsganessty andhat ralitke the unison stuen would
t)tion o
be
r
sure to hear of MO'
his hearing it, and not sending me one of his mulagrurous bil-
let-doux. Ile could as soon keep his eyebrows in their place if
you told him there was a fire in.his nursery.' Seeing how coolly
he treated oty news, 1 went home, relieved and gratified. Next
morning., as I was rising, beheld Peter Mathiesou at toy door,
his horses evidently off a Journey, and the sheriff rubbing his
eves, as if the halt had shaken him out of a sound sleep. I made
What haste I could to descend, and found him by the side of the
brook, looking somewhat worn, but with a serene and satisfied
conniewthee, busied already in helping his little grandson to
feed a floet of ducklings. ' You are surprised, he said, •to see
me here. The t'utli is, 1 was more taken aback with Wright's
epistle than 1 cared to let on; awl so, as soon as you left me, I
ordered the carriage to the door, and never stopped till I got to
Polton, where I found Constaole putting On his trighteap. 1
stayed as hour with him, and I have now the pleasure to tell
you that all is right. There was not it word of truth in the
story. He is as Ben Lomond; and as mamma and Anne
does nut know what my errand w2s, I thought it as well to come
and breakfast here, awl set Sophia and you at ;your ease before
I went Engle again.— Lockhart's Life of Scott.

15 —Received the melancholy
n yt.nSec,:ytriT:ast
aDonaisT Noce
rM,illty
Aubotsftid—Abhotsford, May
lb. Site died at nine in tie morning, after being very ill for
two days—easv at last. 1 arrived hete late last night. Anne
which returned on my arrival.
is wort' out, and has had hysterics,
tier broken accents where like those of a child, the language as
well as the tones broken, but in the most gentle voice of sub-
mission. Poor mamma—never return again—gone fur ever—
a better place." Then, when she came to herself, she spoke
with sense, freedom, and strength of mind, till her weakness
returned. It would have been inexpiessibly moving to nit as a
stranger—what was it, then, to the father and the husband?
For myself, I scarce know how I fell; sometimes as firm as the
Bass Rock, sometimes as weak as the water that breaks on it.
I am as alert at thinking and deciding as I ever was in -my life.
Yet, when 1 contrast this place as it now is, with what it has been
not long since, 1 think toy heart will break. Lonely, aged, de-
prived of Inv fainily—all but poor Anne; an improvisheil and
embarrassed man, deprived of the sharer of my thoughts and
councils, who could always talk down. my sense of the cala-
mitous apprehensions which break the beau that bears them
alone. Even her foible's were or service to toe, by giving ,"
things to think of beyond my weary self reflections. I have
seen her. The figure I beheld is, and is not my Charlotte—my
thirty years' companion. There is the saute symmetry of form,
tif,aigh !how butts are rigid which were once so gracefully
elastic ; hot that yellow masque, with pinched features., which
seem to mock life rather than emulate it, can it he the race that
141 S MICE! .so lull of lively expression ? I will not look on it
again. Anne thinks her a little changed, because the latest
idea she had fortne.l of her mother is as she appeared under co-
cunistauces Of extreme Main. Mine go back to a period of com-
parative ease. If 1 write long in this way, 1 snail write dual]
my resolution ; whit hit should rather write up, if I could.
wonder how I shall do with the large portion of thoughts which
were hers for !hilly years. -I suspect they will be hers vet for
a long time at least. But I will not blaze cambric and crape
in the 'fluidic eye, like a disconsolate widow, the most affected
of all characters. May 18. Another day, and a bright one to
the extet nal wor!d. ogain Open on us; the air soft, and the
flowets sunilliur, anl the leaves glittering. They cannot refie,sh
her to whom mild weather was a natnral enjoy,anaut. Certanetos
of lead and wood already hold her,— cold earth must have her
soon. Bot it is not my' 'Charlotte; it is not the bride of nay
Youth, the mother of tow children, that will be laid among the
ruins of Drybutgh, which we have so often visited in gaiety and
pastime. no, Site is sentinal, and conscious of my
ions—somewhere—somehow : where. we cannot tell; how, we
cannot. tell;—yet would I Hot, at this moment, renaunce the
tnysterious, yet ceitain hope, that I shall see' her in a better
world, for all this world can give nie. The necessity of this

sepal atom - that necessity which rendered it even a
t hat, and patience, mu, he tutu' comfott. 1 du not experience
those paroxyins of which others do on the saute occasion. 1
can exert trt sell', and speak cheerfully with the poor girls. 13ut,
alone, or if en% thing touches me, the choking sensation ! 1
have teen to her room. There Wit 4 no voice in tt riming ;
—the pressue of the cnifin was visiide on the bed, but it had
not been removed e sewtere. All was neat as she
;but
~ti Was calm—,'alter as death. 1 reinendirred the last sight of
her ; —she raised 6. tsett. in tied, and hied to tutu her et es after
; ,;nd said, with a ',nit of smile, o ail have suet; inelan-
chtil) faces " These were the last words I ever braid her utter;
I hurtled away, for site did nut seem quite consajous of what
she sail. \V hen I returned,,untnediately departing, she w„s to
a deep sleep,—it is deeper- now This was but seven days since.
They are arrauging the chamber of death—that was long the
apartment of -connubial ha ppiness. and of whose arrangements
Hbetter than in richer lior,s,s) she was so proud. Thev ate
treading fast and thick. For trucks sun could have heard a
foot tall. Oh nuy God I--Sir Waller Scull's Diary.