Accounts from New York have been received to the end
of January. The movements of the insurgents on the Michigan frontier are only mentioned in vague terms. Some of the muskets taken from Detroit have been given up to the United States authorities ; and the American territory appears to be free from the malecontents. The complete dispersion of the people under SUTHERLAND and DUNCOMBE was expected at Detroit. There were rumours of more risings in the London district of Upper Canada ; but they were only partially credited in New York. The following extract from the Montreal Transcript, a Govern- ment paper, is curious, and " demands explanation.'
" The rumours which had been for some days current, and which for ob. vious reasons we refrained from noticing, have not only continued to circulate, but have produced their effect; and the French Canadian population hare been tearing the city and island of Montreal for several days past. We are far from wishiog unnecessarily to denounce them, or wantonly to wound their feelings ; but certainly, there is in this something very remarkable, something which seems to demand explanation. While the British population are, one and all, in a state of the utmost tranquillity and confidence, this sudden bustle and confnsion of French departure bespeaks on their part a remarkable and. dug; or it indicates a knowledge, an expectation of some intended outbreak, which induces them to separate themselves from their British fellow-colonists, aud to retire from what they suppose to be the field of approaching contest."
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