The Montreal Herald mentions -a report of the reinstalment of
the Judges suspended by Sir John Colborne ; which, he says, " must place Sir John in an exceedingly awkward position both in regard to those worthies and their equally worthy friends the Whig Ministers.
The same paper sneers at the movement in Upper Canada for Re- sponsible Government, and asserts that the Lieutenant-Governor is "directly responsible for all his acts to the Imperial Government;' whereas "the Rebels" wished to have him "responsible to them, so that they would be in point of fact the real governors instead of the governed." The Lower Canada papers are complaining of a never-ending rain that has drenched the country. The crops are injured, and it is feared (hat a bad harvest will follow.—Nou York Express.
We understand that the British Commissioners for exploring the Boundary are preparing, and almost ready to begin, their recon- noissance. We have every reason to believe that this difficulty will be soon settled amicably.—Attu York Express.
A fire at St. John's, New Brunswick, had destroyed about a hundred buildings, and property worth 200,0001.
The transport-ship Buffalo has at length arrived at Quebec, and is said to be destined to convey the political prisoners in the Canadas to their destination—Botany Bay. There they will be indentured to the colonists, and treated like galley-slaves for life, made hewers of wood and drawers of water, and branded with the infinity of felons. Their fellow convicts will be well adapted for them—consisting as they do of thieves and murderers. But English thieves and murderers will look with scorn on American brigands, the invaders of British soil, and on rreneh Canadian rebels, the ungrateful subjects of a country which has attempted in vain to raise them from a state of barbarism to that of civilization.—Montreal Berta [The execrable spirit fostered by. civil war—a war of races—breaks forth in such paragraphs as these in the newspapers of the British party.]
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