2 DECEMBER 1837, Page 9

The Colonelcy of the Forty-fifth Regiment, vacant by the death

of the Earl of Cavan, has been conferred on Lieutenant- General Sir W. H. Pringle, and that of the Sixty-fourth, vacant by the transfer of the last-named gallant officer, has been given to Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bourke, now on his passage home from New South Wales.— Standard.

There are reports in town of some disturbances having taken place at Montreal on the evening of the 7th alt., and that the mob destroyed the printing-office of the Vindicator, the leading organ of the Papineau party.— Globe.