The New York herald., 1845-05-27
News FROM CANADA.-Livingston & Co. hav
furnished us with the following letter, giving tn
state of affairs In Canada.

News FROM CAxADA.-Livingston a. Co. have
furnished us with the following letter, giving the
state of affairs In Canada.
MONTREAL, C. E., May "a, lS45.-Thc past week has
produced little Of commercial and nothing Of political
importance There rumors of ministerial changes,
but we can trace them to no authentic source.
We have heard Of alteration in the health Of Lord
Metcalfe: The province enjoys an unusual share OF
The news BY the English mail involved the -four
market in still deeper depression and hope seems fairly
to have abandoned the holders few days before there
was little local speculation Of which but few took ad
vantage and escaped with shilling Of less loss
About 20 600 barrels Of flour have come down since
Saturday morning last today quotations 22s 3D. to
2as 3D. sale Of superne is reported at 23s 3D. Wheat
is in olerable demand at 4s g. to 4s 10y 60 lbs In
Ashes pearls worth 24s Cd to24s 9d pots down
to 23s. 3D. to 23s. and 3D.
rFrcghts do not maintain the high rates expected
Flour to the Clyde has fallen 3D. per barrel being
at 4s To London and Liverpool it is still at 4s 3d. but
with downward tendency For Ashes 27s. sd. to the
The dry goods merchants are very busy sorting and
piecng and there has been very fair demand at some
considerable auctions both for them and for groceries for
local consumption There are as yet very few Upper
Canada buyers in the market. The prevailing opinion
is that there will be bad business done but many
people think that very opinion will tend to prevent its
being realized by checking credits and spccuatons and
fall imports It believed the stock Of last falls imports
the shelves Of the dealers in Upper Canada is very
heavy and the indebtedness to the merchants here Is
large
The low price Of -four will materially cripple the
means OF paying Money continues very Light and i'm
practicable except in the best paper and to limited
tent We continue Of opinion that the real amount of
discount is large ever and that its scarcity is
paatve arising from the extension Of business beyond
capital There few failures in the Upper Province
but none Of any consequence here ase.s
The corner aone OF the Congregational Church in
Radegoudc will be laid this afternoon, Saturday, II
will be under the pastoral charge Of the Rev. H. Wilkes
and will be very elegant structure The annual meet
ing of the Baptist Union fixed for the 25th June at
Bcamsvillc. A Baptist congregation has been formed in
London, G. w. Tomorrow being the great Cathol ic
commemoration Of the Fete Deu." the celebrated
annual procession Of the Host through the streets will
take place.
purse Of about Sa00 to be presented to-day to Capt
swinburne, of the Great Britain acknowledgement
the part Of the merchants Of Montreal Of his merit and
skill commander, in having been the first to arrive
for three years in succession.
We have Just heard that a number Of Upper Canada
buyers have arrived in town. which will, Of course,
iniusc moro spirit and activity into the market
MORMON MURDERS. ST Louis Ne,c Era of
the 10Th saysWe learn from the clerk of the steam
Lebanon that the perpetrators Of the murder of old
German and his Fort Madison few days since,
are Mormons sheriff and possce Of fifteen men came
down from Fort Madison to Nauvoo the Lebanon for
the purpose Of arresng them and carrying them back
when the boat left they had been arrested and
dergoing examination before magistrate p s. The
arrested two brothers by the of Hodges,
Of them said to be an elder Of the Mormon church.
HEALTH OF SAvANNAH-Our citizens, at the pre-
sent moment are in the enjoyment Of that greatest
Of all blessings health BY reference the report of
the Board Of Health II will be that but white,
and three colored died during the past wcekof
whom three were under two years Of age. When
consider the rapid growth Of population within the
past wear. and the number OF unaccmated persons
strangers residing in city, the report speaks volumes
for the health Of savannah Georgian, May ~.