The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-11 00:00:00

CANADA.

Quebec and Montreal papers have been received to the 12th
of November. The session of the legislature opened on the
31st of the preceding month, on which occasion the Lieutenant
Governor delivered the following speech :
"The continued emigration, unarecedented as regards the
industry and capital transferred to this country from the'parent
state, is by its beneficial influence, forcing the province rapidly
forward, and opening to you the fairest prospects Your
deliberatioha,therefore, cannot but render the Session of peculiar
importance to the general interests of the colony.
" Yon will learn with satisfaction that the population has
increased not less titan one-fourth since the reports forwarded
for your information last session • that the emigrants, with few
exceptions, are fully occupied in the districts in which they are
established ; and that the extensive agricultural improvements
and actual cultivation promise support and employment for our
e.ountrymen, whom the current of events may induce to fix
their abode in this part of the empire.
" In directing your attention to these favourable results, you
will find-that, under existing circumstances, no subject is more
closely connected with the immediate prosperity of the colony,
or reonires an earlier consideration, titan the anticipated pro-
gressive increase in the number of emigrants that will from
this reason annually flow into the Canadas.
" The Rideau Canal has been completed, by the exertions and
perseverioce of the officer who had the charge of that great
national work. '

" The arbitrators appointed to adjust the claims on the part
of Upper Canada, to a proportion of the duties levied• at
Qaehec, not having agreed on any satisfactory arrangement,
a third arbitratOr will be nominated by the King, in conformity
to the British act passed in the third year of his late Majesty's
reign." -
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His Excellency then states that the cholera had nearly dis-
appeared in every district of the province and then proceeds—
Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,—The annual ac-
counts and estimates shall be laid before you, and I trust you
will make the necessary provision for the ensuing year, and for
the salaries 'and claims of the several departments not sanc-
tioned last year.
Honourable Gentlemen,—,-His Majesty having acceded to a:
request of the House of• Asiembly, in respect to the appropria-
tion of the sums arising from the sale .of lands formerly set;
apart for the support of .Grammar Schools, and not-alienated.
by the authority of his M.ijesty's Government, the accounts of
the board under whose control the school revenues have beet►.
hitherto placed, will be delivered over to the King's Receiver
General at the close of the year. In this instance-of the con-
sideration of the King in complying with the prayers of the
'address of the House of Assembly, you will perceive the soli-
citude of his. Majesty to promote the wishes of the province."
His Excelleno' then concludes by stating, that whatever
course may be deemed expedient for the intended object will
meet his hearty concurrence.