Accounts from Montreal mention that the jury on the trial
of Jalbert, for the murder of Lieutenant Weir, bad been discharged, not being able to agree upon a verdict. Ten, all Canadians, were for acquitting the prisoner ; an American and a Scotehman, completing the jury, consi- dered him guilty. The two latter were carried home on the shoulders of the Loys l'sts ; but a fierce inch assailed the ten Canadians, who were very roughly treated—beaten with sticks and otherwise injured. Jalbert
as escoi,sil back to prison by a strong guard of grenadiers, and the judge saved himself front the mob in the 'muse of a friend. Imme- diately after relatiog these occurrences, the Olimireal Herald gives an account of some affray in the United &ales, and observes that it is awful to find such a state of things among a free and enlightened people.
The whole of the roof of St. Paul's Church in Montreal had fallen in, destroying nearly every pew in the edifice.
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