By the arrival of the British Queen from New York,
we have intelligence from Canada to the 22d of November, and from the United States to the 2d instant—the day on which the steam-ship sailed.
Mr. Pouserr TitomsoN reached Toronto on the morning of the 21st of November; having on his route to that city from Montreal received complimentary addresses from the inhabitants of Prescott and Kingston. Sir GEORG A RTI1 CR received Governor Toosisos at Toronto with due ceremony : he conducted him to the Govern- ment..house, and afterwards showed him the public buildings and principal streets of the Upper Canadian capital. Next day business commenced. The Executive Council, with the Judges, the Bishop of Toronto, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Fellows of the College of Physicians, and several unnamed official persons, were assembled on the occasion. Sir Guonsse Almon presided at the Council-board, until the Royal commission by which he was superseded during the Governor- General's residence in the Upper Province had been read, and the oaths of office administered ; when Mr. THOMSON took the chair, and Sir Geonou occupied a seat on his right.
The Executive Council having been sworn in, and the Judges and other public functionaries presented, an address was brought up from "the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of Toronto." Besides ordinary phrases of congratulation, the address contained the following piece of advice and warning-
"Having understood that one of the priucipol objects of your Excellency's visit to this Province, and of your assuming. the governmentthereof, is to ascer- tain the state of public opinion upon the question of the proposed legislative union of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, we beg to expresi our con- viction, that any legislative union, which shall not be predicated upon the ascen- dancy qf the loyal part of the inhabitants, or which shall give to that portion of the population who, from education, habits, and prejudices are alien to our nation and cur institutions, and to that part of it more particularly which has been engaged in open rebellion or treasonable conspiracy against the Govern- ment, the same riyhts and ivieileyes with the loyal British populathm of the Pro- vinces, who have adhered so zealously and faithfully, at the risk of their lives and property, to their Sovereign and constitution, would be fatal to the con- nexion of these Provinces with the Parent Country."
The Governor replied, that they were rightly informed respecting the union of the two Provinces ; and added-
" That measure is mminmended by her Majesty's Government, from a deep conviction that it will cement the connexion between these Colonies and the Parent State, which it is the firm determination of her Majesty to maintaia inviolate. .Tht to be of perniancsl otironloge, it must be fronded upon prin- ciples n1 equal justice to all her subjects."
Well—Mr. THOMSON has made a fair beginning. The Toronto corporators deserved a sharper rebuke than he administered, and they might have been rapped harder had Lord Duenem been in his place ; but we like the matter of the reply, which conveyed a dig- nified if not a keen reproof:
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