13 SEPTEMBER 1834, Page 7

At a public meeting held on the 30th July, at

the Market-house in Tonga°, Upper Canada, twenty-eight persons were either severely bruised or killed, by the breaking down of a gallery: among them were some of the most respectable inhabitants of the place.

The American papers are filled with particulars of the horning of a Catholic convent at Charlestown in Massachusetts, near Boston, by a mob of fanatics and ruffians. The Boston Morning Post says-

" A feeling hostile to the estahlislonete on 3fount Benedict, has existed among a portion of the citizens of Charlestown, since the institution was first located there ; and Inane stories, doubtless exaggerated, or perhaps altog,ether destitute of foundation, had been circulated, derogatory to the character of that institution. And the last act reported to have been perpetrated, that of detain- ing a young lady without her own consent, and refusing to produce her where called upon, and declining to give any satisfactory explanation of the affair, appears to have excited the fury of the populace to an ungovernable height."

Stimulated by these feelings, a mob collected on the night of the Ilth of August, and, furnished with tar-barrels and torches, proceeded

to the convent, and called upon the inmates to come out. Twelve nuns and betwen fifty and sixty pupils, many of them quite young girls, lied to the garden ; whence, however, they were soon driven into the neighbouring fields, and such houses as were opened to them.

They had scarcely time to leave the building, before it was set on fire from without and within. Fire-engines arrived from Boston, but were-

not allowed to act, by the mob, which amounted in number to about four thousand. Every building was destroyed, and completely gutted. Even the few articles, with which the poor fugitives attempted to escape, were

tort) from them by the mob, and thrown into the dames. While all this was going on, not a magistrate or police-officer was to be seen. The next day, the citizens of Boston flocked in great numbers to a public meeting ; at which resolutions, stigmatizing the conduct of the mob as base and cowardly, calling upon the civil authorities to bring the perpe- trators to justice, and pledging themselves individually and collectively to protect the Catholics, were passed by acclamation. All this was work ut destruction 1,y toe lettere, and trampling down the

garden. The ronduct of the Catholic Bishop of Boston was admiruble during the whole of this disgraceful affair. He despatched priests and messengers in all directions, with entreaties to the exasperated Catho- lics, most of whom are Irish, to return good for evil. On the Tuesday evening also, he summoned his congregation in Boston, and delivered a Most eloquent exhortation to keep the peace; which seems to have had the best effect.

A New Orleans paper gives an account of a duel fought on the side of the river opposite the city, a short time since, at which several hun- dred amateurs were present as spectators.