The following is a detail of the losses sustained by
the Lower Cu nadians since 25th of November 1837, in churches and houses bung and pillaged by the troops and volunteers. In the county of the Two
Mountains, there were destroyed, 2 churches, 2 presbyteries, 1 convent, 1 windmill, Ill inhabited houses, 12 barns, 168 outhouses, and 575
families pillaged—total loss valued at 57,5661. At St. Charles, thin
were 18 houses destroyed, valued at 1,9501., and grain and merclaa, disc burnt and pillaged, valued at 5,3301. At St. Denis, the troops
and volunteers under the command of Colonel Gore, ten days °fits
the repulse on the 23d November, outqfrevenge burned 45 houses, which, with other property consumed, are valued at 19,100/.—Montreal Herald. [These particulars are taken from a Tory paper, and the exam.
sions used are those of the Tory writer. The burning of the forty. live houses, by troops under the command of the Honourable Colonel
Gore, was done when they met with no resistance of any kind whatever —done out of pure revenge. The pillaging 575 families at the Two Mountains was a proceeding of a character which the Duke of Wel. lington never permitted his troops to commit even in a hostile country, Has Lord Durham pacified these families?]
Lord Brougham knows full well, that by the law these men (Nelson, Papineau, and the rest of the Canadian leaders,) have incurred death, and that if found at large in any part of her Majesty's dominions, wk. ther in London, Quebec, or Calcutta, these men may be arrested and bung, unless mercy interpose to soften the rigour of the law.—Courier, [Not without trial, conviction, and sentence.] 111r. Roebuck has written a letter to Mr. O'Connell, full of cutting truths cm that gentleman's betrayal of the Canadians whom his exam. pie had stimulated—his gratuitous condemnation of Papineau's conduct in a recent speech in the House of Commons—and the systematic sub- serviency of the Irish " Liberal" Members to the Whig Administra- tion. We intended the insertion of Mr. Roebuck's letter entire; but its great length renders that, in the present week, impossible.
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