tec that we are to expect such happiness if their report bo sanctioned and followed up without amendment or modification we shall of all people be the most misera ble in truth we have reason to know ihat it never will be sanctioned in its pre sent form in all probability the commit tee instead of being thanked for their in dustry and assiduity will either he dis solved or sent back to reconsider the evi dence in order to draw a closer parallel between it and the report a glariag defi ciency which detracts very much from the good sense and impartiality of the commit tee yet this is the imperishable mo nument which the house of assembly have undertaken to print publish and circulate throughout the country we shall only add that before the printer has got the job out of his hands it is more tbau probable that the imperishable monu ment shall have been dashed to pieces and a structure more useful and durable erected in its place we decline alluding to the extraordi nary character of some of the evidence given before the committee the manner in which that part of it which has refer ence to the lachine canal has been refut ed in this country is as honorable to one party as disgraceful to the other to be continued misce from the loudon magazine for february windsor as it was my earliest recollections of windsor are exceedingly delightful i was born with in a stones throw of the castlegates and my whole boyhood was passed in the most unrestrained enjoymeut of the venerable and beautiful objects by which i was sur rounded as if they had been my own pe culiar and proper inheritance the king and his family lived in a plain barrack- looking lodge at his castle foot which in its external appearance and its interior ar rangements exactly correspond with the humble taste and the quiet domestic habits of george ih the whole range of the castle its terrace and its park were places dedicated to the especial pleasures of a schoolboy neither warder nor sentinel nor gamekeeper interfered with our bois terous sports the deserted courts of the upper quadrangle often reechoed on tho moonlight winter evenings with our who- tohoop and delightful hiding places indeed there were amongst the deep buttresses and sharp angles of those old towers the rooks and a few antique dowagers who had each their domiciles in some lone tur ret of that spacious square were the only personages who were disturbed by our re velry and they kind creatures never complained to the authorities but if the inner courts of windsor cas tle rang with our sports how much more noisy was the joy in the magnificent play ground of the terrace away we went fearless as tho chamois along the narrow wall and oven the awful height of the north side where we looked down upon the tops of tho highest trees could not a- bate the rash courage of follow my leader id the pauses of the sport bow often has my eye reposed upon that magnificent land scape which lay at my feet drinking in its deep beauty without a critical thought of the picturesque then indeed i knew nothing about the stately brow of windsors heights nor could i bid the stranger th expanse below of grove of lawn or mead survey my thoughts then were all fresh and vivid audi could enjoy the scenes amongst which i lived without those artificial and hacknied associations which make up the 9ti4 v t wjftw cjvpt an wk irw joy when laying my eye to the edge of the eastern wall and looking along a chan nel cut in the surface i saw the dome of st pauls looming through the smoke at twenty miles distance then god be praised my ear had not been shattered nor my heart hardened by dwelling under the shadow of that dome and i thought of london as a place lor the wise and the good to be great and happy in and not as an especial den in which 41 all creeping creatures venomous and low might crawl over and under each other the park what a glory was that for cricket and kiteflying no one molested us the beautiful plain immediately un der the eastern terrace was called the bowling green and truly it was as level as the smoothest of those appendages to suburban inns we took excellent care that the grass should not grow too fast beneath our feet no one molested us the king indeed would sometimes stand alone for half an hour to see the boys at cricket and heartily would he laugh when the wicket of some confident urchin went down at the first ball but we did not heed his majesty he was a quiet good humoured gentleman in a long blue coat whose face was as familiar to us as that of our writingmaster and many a time had that gracious gentleman bidden us good morning when we were hunting for mushrooms in the early dew and bad crossed his path as he was returning from his dairy to his eight oclock breakfast every one knew that most respectable and amiable of country squires called his majesty and truly there was no inequali ty in the matter for his majesty knew every one the circumstance was a natural result of the familiar and simple babit3 of the court there was as little parade as can well be imagined in all the movements of george iii and his family and there was infinitely more state at such places as stowe alnwick thao in the royal lodge at wiodsor the good man and bis amia ble family perhaps as a matter of policy carried this freedom of manners to a little excess and it was from this rauso that the constant attacks of peter pindar in which the satire is levelled not only against the mo9t amiable of weaknesses but against positive virtues were so pojular during the french revolutionary war but at any rate the unrestrained intercourse of the king with those by whom he was surround ed is something which is now very plea sant to look upon i have now no recol lection of having when a child seeu tho king with any appendage of royalty ex cept when be went to town once a week to hold a levee and then ten dragoons rode before and ten after his carrriage and the tradesmen in the streets through which he passed duly stood at theirdoors to make the most profouud reverences as in duty bound when their monarch looked eve ry inch a king but the bows were less profound and the wonderment none at all when twice a week as was his wout duriug the summer mouths his majesty with all his family and a considerable bevy of an cient maids of honour aud half pay gene rals walked through the town or rodo at a slow pace in an open carriage to the windsor theatre which was then in the high street reader it is impossible that you cao form an idea of the smallness of that theatre unless you havo by chance lived in a country town when the assembly room of the head inn has been fitted up with the aid of brown paper and ochre for the exhibition ofsome heroes of the sock and buskin vulgarly called strollers at the old windsor theatre her majestys apothe cary in the lower boxes might have almost felt her pulse across the pit my know ledge of the drama commeuced at the early age of seven years amidst this royal fellow ship in fun j and most loyally did i laugh when his majesty leaning back iu his capa cious armchair in the staebox shook the house with his genuine peals of hearty merriment well do i remember the whole course of these royal playgoings the theatre was of an incouvenient form with very sharp angles at the junctions of the centre with the sides the stagebox aud the whole of the left or o p side of the lower tier were appropriated to royalty the house would fill at about halfpast six at seven precisely mr thornton the ma nager made his entrance backwards through a little door into the stagebox with a plated candlestick ia each hand bowing with all the grace that his gout would permit the six fiddles struck up god ve the king the audience rosctho king nodded round and took his seat next the stage the queen curtsied and took her armchair also the satin bills oftheir majesties and the princesses were then duly displayed and the dingy green curtain drew up the performances were invari ably either a comedy and farce or more frequently three farces with a plentiful interlarding of comic songs quick suett and mrs mattocks were tho reigning fa vourites and about 1800 elliston and fawsett became occasional stars but quick and suett were the kings especial delight when lovegold in the miser drawled out a pin a days a groat a year the laugh of the royal circle was somewhat loud but when dicky gossip exhibited in his vocation and accompanied the bur den of bis song dicky gossip dicky gos sip is the man with the blast of his pow derpuff the cachinuation was loud aud long and the gods prolonged the chorus of laughter till the echodied away iu the roy al box at the end of the third act coffee was handed round to the court circle and precisely at eleven the performances finished and the flambeaux gleamed through the dimlylighted streets of wind sor as the happy family returned to their tranquil home there was occasionally a good deal of merriment going forward at windsor in these olden days i have a dim recollect ion of having danced in the little garden which was once the moat of the round tow er and which washington irving has been pleased to imagine existed iu the time of james i of scotland i have a perfect re membrance of a fete at frogmore about the beginning of the present centurywhere there was a dutch fair and haymaking very agreeably performed in white kid gloves by the belles of the town and the buckbasket scene of the m merry wives of windsor represented by fawcettand jftnjnntlnrta pnd j fhirv vr fjmiim- er the colonnade of tue house 10 the open day and variegated lamps and transpa rencies and tea served out in tents with a magnificent scramble for the bread and butter there was great good humour and freedom on all these occasions and if the grass was damp and the young ladies caught cold the sandwiches were scarce and the gentlemen weut borne hungry i am sure these little drawbacks were not to be imputed to the royal entertainers who delighted to see their neighbours and de pendants happy and joyous a few years passed over my head and the scene was somewhat changed the king and his family migrated from their little lodge into the old and spacious castle this was about 1804 the lath aud plas ter of sir william chambers was aban doned to the equerries and chance visiters of the court and the low rooms and dark passages that had scarcely been tenanted since the days of aoue were made tolera bly habitable by the aid of dilligent uphol stery upon tho whole the change was not one which conduced to comfort and i have beard that the princesses wept when they quitted their snug boudoirs in the queens lodge wiodsor castle as it was was a sad piece of patch work affair elizabeth took great pains to ennke it a royal residence according to tbe notions of her time but there were many difficulties in converting the old fortress into a scene for the gallantries of leicester and essex i have seen in the state paper office a re port of the surveyors of the castle to lord burleigh upon the subject of certain ne cessary reparations and additions where in amongst divers curious matters illustra tive of the manners of that ageit was men tioned that the partition separating the com mon passage from the sleeping room of the queens maids of honor needed to be rais ed inasmuch as tbe pages looked over the said partition before the honorable damsels had arisen to tbe great scandal of her ma jestys most spotless court c charles ii caused verrio to paint his crimson and azure gods and goddesses upon the ceilings iu the state rooms of windsor and he coo- verted the old gothic windows into hide ous ones of tho fashion of versailles anno lived a good deal at the castle but comfort was little understood even in her day and from nor time till that of the late king windsor was neglected the castle as it was previous to the recent complete remodelling was frightfully in commodious the passages were dark tbe rooms were small and cold the ceilings were low and as one high window gave light to two floors the conversation in the lower rooms was distinctly heard in the upper george iii took a fancy io occu py the castle himself from finding james wyatt the solitary inhabitant ofsome mag- nificout apartmeuts on the north side the architect gave up his spacious studio the work of reparation began and the king iu his declining years took possession of a palace full of splendid associations with the ancient records of his country but in itself a sufficiently drear and uncomforta ble abode he passed very few years of happiness here and it subsequently be came to him a prison under the most pain ful circumstances which can ever attend the loss of liberty the late king md his family bad lived at windsor nearly thirty years before it occurred to him to inhabit his own castle the period at which he took possession was one of extraordinary excitement it was tbe period of tbe threatened invasion of england by napolean when as was the case with france upon the manifesto of the duko of brunswick the land bristled the personal character of the kiug did a great deal towards giving the turn to public opinion his unconquera ble perseverance which some properly enough called obstinacy bis simple habits so flattering to the john bullism of the day his straightforward and earnest pi etyand the ease with which he appeared to putoffthe farmer and put on the soldier oach and all of these qualities were ex ceedingly in accordance with the temper of the times the doings at windsor were certainly more than commonly interesting at that period and i was just of an age to understand something of their meaning anl partake the excitement sunday was especially a glorious day and the descrip tion of one sunday will furnish an ade quate picture of those two or three years at nine oclock tbe sound of martial music was heard in the streets the blues noa the stafford militia then did duty at wiodsor and though the ono had seen tut service s mindon and most unde servedly bore the stigma of a past genera tion and the other was composed of men who had never faced any danger but the ignition of a coiipit they were each a fine body of soldiers and the king did well to countenance them of the former regiment george iii had a troop of his own and ho delighted to wear the regi mentals of a captain of the blues and well did his burly form become the cocked hat and beavy jackboots which were tho fashion of that fine corps io 1805 at nine oclock as i have said of a sunday morning the noise of trumpet and of drum was heard in the streets of windsor for the regiments paraded in the castle quad rangle the troops occupied the whole square about ten the king appeared with his family he passed round the lines while the salute was performed and many a rapid word of inquiry bad he to offer to tke colonels who accompanied him not always did he wait for an answer- but thatvas after the fashion of royalty in general he passed onwards towards st georges chapel but the military pomp did not end in what is called the upper quadrangse in the lower ward at a very humble distance from the regular troops were drawn up a splendid body of men ycleped the windsor volunteers and most graciously were the nods of royalty to the wellknow ii drapers and hatters and book sellers who had the honor to bold com missions in that distinguished regiment the salutations however were short aud onwards went the cortege for the chapel bell was tolling in and the king was al ways punctual i account it one of the greatest blessings of my lifo and a circumstance which gave a tone to my imagination which i would not resign for many earthly gifts that i lived in a place where the cathedral service was duly and beautifully performed tj h noiy uimur eveuiuguave t suliu the cold hoir of st georges chapel with no congregation but two or three gaping strangers an ao ancient female or so in the stalls lifted up to heaven by the peals of the sweetest of organs or entranced by the diviaa me of tho nunc dimittis or of a solemn anthem of handel or boyce breathed mos exquisitely from the lips of vaughan if the object of devotion be to make us feel and to carry away the soul from all j and earthly thoughts assured ly the grnd chants of our cathedral ser vice are d without their use i admire none can admire more the abstract idea of 3 assembly of reasoning beings offering p m the author of all good their thanksgivings and their petitions in a pure and intelligible form of words but the question will always intrude does tbe heart g along with this lip service and is the raiad sufficiently excited by this rea sonable worship to forget its accustomed association with the business and vanities and passions of the world the cathedral service does affect the imagination and through that channel reaches the heart and thus i can forgive the solemnities of catholicism of which our cathedral ser vice is a relic which act upon the mind precisely in the same way the truth is we church of england people have made religion a cold thing by entirely appealing to the understanding and then calvinism comes in to supply the place of high mass b offering an excitcmentof an entirely dif ferent character but where am i wan dering concluded next week from the n y commercial advertiser april 14 two days later from lon don the ship grecian captain masters ar rived at this port during the last night from liverpool whence she sailed on the 5th of march by this arrival the editors of the commercial have the london pa pers of the 2d and of the evening of tbe 3d of march there was no abatement of the anti- catholic excitement in the house of lords on the 2d the duke of newcastle gave notice that he should move a call of the house on the day that might be fixed for bringing into that house tho bill for tbe removal of catholic dissabilities which he said he should designate as a bill for op pressing and injuring the king and for in troducing popery and arbitrary power tbe debate was very warm the 1 hikes of wellington and sussex and the bishop of bath and wells took an active part the archbishop of york on the presenta tion of a petition said his opinions with respect to the catholic question had un dergone no change lie knew nothing about the bill to be introduced but if it make adequate securities for the establish ed church he would support it ho should however feel it his duty to oppose the bill if that were ooi the case the duke of gloucester said it was unfortu nately necessary to adopt some measure for the entire emancipation of tho catho lics for no half measure would do he was convinced that the ministers would not propose any moasure inconsistent with the security of the church establishment the duke of wellington replied and the ex planations which he gave are thus editori ally stated by the london courier a very few hours will elapse before the great measure will be introduced iuto par liament mr peel as we stated a week ago is to bring it forward the day after to morrow and thus all the reports which have been circulated upon the subject will be set at rest and we shall know what the measure really is the duke of wel lington touched upon it yesterday in the house of lords in his reply to the bishop of bath and wells without going into any details his grace stated generally that tho bill hereafter to be introduc ed into the other house of parliament and subsequently to come under the discussion of their lordships would be perfectly free from the least encroachment on existing institutions and would oot at all interfere with the oaths taken by tbe right rev prelates and other members of that houso 41 that it would not touch upon the in tegrity of the protestant establishments of the couutry nor upon the existioe securi ties for that iotegrity in any way whatso ever that when those measures which would shortly be submitted to the other and subsequently to that house of parlia ment were before their lordships he en gaged to prove that so far from tending to establish popery they would prevent the growth of popery and promote the ex tension of the protestant religwu he engaged to prove he would repeat that those measures would check the increase of the catholics while they would tend to add to the numbers of tbe protestants finally that the measure tented so far from establishing popery to chick and prevent its growth and to promote the in fluence ofthe protestant religion in ire land in the house of commons a commit tee was ballotted for on the petition against mr ocoonells return for clare the following are the names of the persons ap pointed j- easthrope esq j stewart esq sir g robinson baronet hon i lid- dell hou r clive right hon pcourt ney j brougham esq r s greve esq e- bellow clive esq j lodfc esq lord w russell petitions were pouring into bothhouses of parliament for and against cotfession to the catholics but the latter jreatly outnumber the former the number of members qualified to vote at the seating of the catholic association was at the time of its dissolution over 15000 in the debate in the house of cotonions on the 2d ult mr baring made an enquiry as to the amount of expenditure which would probably be incurred for public works and fortifications in canada and bow far their construction had advanced the ostimates were 67398 for canada and 4581 for nova scotia which recon sidered small when compared with the probable ultimate expenses sir h- har- ftlftop sn7m ffwo timi mfvr rfca continuation of the works commenced last year the gross sum which parliament was called upon to vote on account of these works amounted to 3300001 for canada but of course that expenditure did not take place this year tho votes for works at halifax and kingston were the principal which were included in the present estimate for these purposes about 15000 was to be expended at halifax and 20000 at kings ton this was 5000 more than was ta ken last year these works which were to be continued on the scale of 30000 a year would be finished next year when that branch of expense would cease the rideau canal was not contained in this estimate estimates to a large amount for works in canada were brought forward and laid before the finance committee but at the same time it was stated that there was no intention of carrying the whole into execution the works were divided into three classes the first embracing what was urgent the second including works that were desirable but not of so urgent a nature and he third referring to undertakings kept back till a more distant period and made contingent on the spread of civilization the wants and exigencies of the country a sum of 900000 would have been required to complete the whole of tbe undertakings contemplated exclu sive of 600000 for ihe rideau canal for 1500000 we should be able to place our colonies in sch a state of de fence as might be considered complete but he stated that no ttre than 330000 would be asked from fa house the ri deau canal would mst undoubtedly an swer every object aftd intention which government had iu view when it was first contemplated and according to the la test reports ofthe surveyors there was no season ofthe year exvpt when the wa ters should be frozen ift which it would not afford a perfect water communication with respect to kiogtoo and halifax it was ofthe utmost importance whether or not other works were v he carried on at montreal isleaunoix c and that the undertakings now iu progress should be completed mr a baring thought the rideau ca- nal uot a useless wasteful an extravagant application of the public money it was an improvement certainly hut one which though we might make it there was little doubt would fall into the hands of others mr peel has been elected for westbury it wiltshire for which place he was sworn in and took his seat oil the 2d an american brig was chased into porto novo terceira on the 20tb of february she ran on shore in hazy weather and 4b landed a largo number of portuguese re fugees letters received in portsmouth from on board the shannon and from terceira refer to the landing of the refugees in the james cropper on that island and menti on that capt fitzclarence a midship man and one or two men had beeo hurt in a scuffle with the guard on shorewhifher the pallas had been sentfor water the gover nor had received considerable reinforce ments which for the present would euable him to oppose efficient resistance to any at- tackjfrom without a cruel murder wascommitted at ports mouth on the night ofsuuday the 1st ult a mr langtree aged eighty years who was a cripple and his housekeeper a wo man between 50 and 60 years of age on the following morning were found in the house they occupied with their throats cut and their bodies mangled some plate which was scattered about led to the infer ence that the ruffians had been alarmed aud fled while searching for plunder mr langtree was a man of eccentric and mi serly babits aud lived in seclusion tho front windowshutters of his house were never suffered to be opened the dutch mail received io london on tbe morning ofthe 3d brought nothing of consequence which has not been anticipat ed here by recent arrivals varna on the 14th february was well provisioned and goods were sold at reasonable prices mr jaubert continued to he treated with dis tinction by the porte on the 24th january and his negocialions with tbe reis eftendi were not brokeu off the scarcity of pro visions at constantinople was sensibly felt and various rumors prevailed as to the course the porte would adopt iu conse quence from the n- y commercial advertiser april 20 postscript latest ffonr khgiatrdt the packet ship william thompson captain maxwell arrived this morning from liverpool by this arrival we have received our files of london papers to tbe kith of march and liverpool to the 17th mr peel brought forward the catholic relief bill and the irish elective fran chise bill on tuesday the 10th of march some conversation arose between the mi nister and several members relative to the propriety of allowing a reasonable time to prepare for the final discussioo of these bills the result was that the bills receiv ed their first reading without debate and were to be called up for the second reading on tuesday tbe 17th of march mr peel said that if there should nut be time or opportunity for going on with it then it might be deferred to any future day the house might see convenient the papers of the whole week from the 9th to the 14th both inclusive are almost entirely filled with incidental debates in both houses of parliament arising on the presentation of petitions for and against the catholic bills on the 11th the earl of winchelsea concluded a violent speech against the catholics by moving that an humble address be presented to his majesty praying that he would be graciously pleased to order to be laid upon their lordships table a return of all the roman catholic clergy of great britain and ireland specifying the number of pa rochial clergy as also those holding titular hishopricks and other dignities and the districts of which they have superintend ence also tbe number of foreigners acting as roman catholic clergy in ireland whether regular or secular the number of houses and seminaries under the direction of the order and society of jesuits the names and number of other roman catho lic orders in great britain and ireland toother with the number of rp mates of the dinerent convents and monastnes the duke of wellington replied in very energetic and decided terms we have room to quote only the following passage he admitted that be had in conjuncti on with his right honorable colleagues advised his majesty upon tbe present measures they had recommended the introduction ofthe proposed bills hear hearj and they had received not only the sanction but the support of his majesty hear hear he had he conceived discharged his duty faithful ly he had done what he considered became him as a minister of the crown bear and he had done that upon his own responsibility hear hear he had done that which in hisopioion would tend to the benefit of this country and the tran quility of ireland here here and he bad undertaken it notwithstanding the no popery cry he would say boldly that the religion of this country as established by law was not endangered one iota by the proposed measures it would remain precisely the same as at present he did not consider himself called upon at the present moment to enter into a defence ofthe pro posed measures butwbeo the proper time arrived he trusted be should be fully able to demonstrate to their lordships the neces sity of them as to the formation of a new administration he would not dwell upon that subject he would leave it to the noble earl but for himself he would say that at present he had not the least inten tion to attempt either to dissolve or reform the parliament hear hear he car ed not who might be his successors but be was determined to perssvere in what he considered to be an honest and proper per severance he had no objection to the motion of the noble earl so far as it could be consistently complied with the motion of tho earl of winchilsea was adopted tho duke of newcastlewho is equally as decided in his opposition to the catholic bills as the earl of eldon has bad an in terview with tbe king which is announced by the morning herald as follows the interview which was granted by the king to the duke of newcastle c wed nesday was attended by some particular circumstances the duke applied tothe king to know if bis majesty would grant him an audience the request was compli ed with and three oclock on wednesday afternoon was named by the king as the hour when he would receive the duke his grate came at the time appointed to windsor castle ingognito on foot having walked from eton and remained for a considerable time with tho sovoriga the chronicle kingston april 25 1829 we have london dates to the lgth of march and liverpool to the 17th ca tholic emancipation seem to occupy the attention of the british public to an ex- traordinary degree mr peel introduced the subject in the house of commons pre faced by a speech of great length on t 5th of march the following abstract of the bill willeoable our readers to judge if its provisions 1 its basis is the removal from the ro- man catholics of civil disabilities and tin equalization of political rights 2 roman catholics are to be admittej into both houses of parliament then are to be no restrictions as to uumbers catholics becoming members of either house are to take an oath a copy of which will be found in our report of mr peeli speech 3 roman catholics are to be incapa ble of holding the office of lord chancel lor or of lord lieutenant of ireland 4 they may hold all corporate officer may be sheriffs and judges 5 but they are not to hold places be longing to the established church the ec clesiastical courts or ecclesiastical founda tions nor any office in the universitiesr the colleges of eton winchester and westminister nor any school of ecclesias tical foundation the laws relative te ro man catholic right to presentations are to he retained in cases where any ro man catholic shall hold an office with which church patronage is connected tlto crown is to have the power of transferring the patronage no roman catholic hold ariy office to advise he crown linrijp appointment of offices connected wittf established church of england and 1 land 6 tbe existing penal laws sirqw roman catholics are to be repealed 7 roman catholics are to be pstwha respect to property on a footing wwi senters i 8 catholic members of parliament not to be obliged to quit the house u anyparticularquestion mr wilmot tons suggestion upon this subject is f to be objectionable 9 there is to be no declaration ren umd against transubstantiation 10 upon the subject of ecclesiastical se curities the roman catholics are to u placed upon the footing of all other dk- senters 11 there is not to be any veto norfc there to be any interference with the iutercourse in spiritual matters between the roman catholic church and the sec rome 12 the episcopal titles and names now in use in the church of england arc not to be assumed by the members of tbe roman catholic church 13 when roman catholics are admit ted to corporate and other offices the in signia of such offices are in no case o be taken to any other place of worship than a place of worship of the established churcs no robes of office are to be worn in any otberthan the established church 14 the jesuits and monastic commu- nities the names and numbers of the in dividuals belonging to tbe existing comma nities are to be registered commiinit bound by religious or monastic vows s nut to be extended and provision is to made against the future entrance into t country of the order of jesuits the ji suits now here are to be registered 15 elective franchise forty shilling ffrfittifntfitf tj jwrvc rvwtffcfc k tffc posed to be raised from forty sn dungs a ten pounds freeholds are to be regis ed and the registry is to betaken bet tho assistantbarrister of theirish countm with the power of an appeal in certain ses from bis decision to a higher tribunifc the editor of the advocate with disregard to truth which characterizes him in noticing the appointment of james samp son esq to the office of inspector o li cences vacant by the death of our lame ed townsman mr cumming giv readers to understand that the membe parliament for hastings of that nam the person whose political services have been thus rewarded by the government we beg to inform bim that the gentleman appointed to that situation is doctor james sampson of this town who we believe has interfered as little with political affair as aoy member of the community and whose chief claims to tbe favor of govern ment havo been bis active services during the last war with the united states bnr ing dangers where mckenzie would not be likely to show his face or if he did wonld be as likely to lend bis aid to the enemy as in resisting their attempts to subjugau this appendage of the british empire thursday last being st georges day and the one appointed for observance his majestys birth day the 71st high land light infantry and royal artille paraded in front of the main guard t royal artillery at 12 oclock commenced firing a royal salute which was followei by zfeudejoie from the 71st this gal lant corps in the firing and the few mt- nsuvres tbe limited extent of the gronaj permitted thorn excited general admi ration our citizens present on the occa sion joined heartily in the cheers of lbs soldiers io honour ot his majesty at one oclock the vessels in cenus sion under command of commodore bir- rie fired a royal salute they were taifr fully and beautifully decorated we were pleased to see ctpt betha and his troop also join in paying their r peer to the day they looked extras well jl