NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE first favourable wind for homeward-bound vessels in the Atlantic will bring Lord DURHAM back to England. Despatches from his Lordship announce his intention to sail with his family from Quebec, on the 1st instant, in the Inconstant frigate. The reason of this change of plan, and abandonment of the intention to make a tour in the United States, is said to be, intelligence, communicated in detail and with unreserved good faith by the United States Government to ours, of an extensive organization ef lawless adventurers and disaffected persons on the Canadian frontiers, eager to assist in any outbreak which may be attempted in the provinces during the approaching winter. The number of these banded " patriots" and freebooters, is estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000; but we may safely assume that report has exaggerated the truth. It is, however, certain that their " de- monstration" is formidable to the Government of both the Cana- das, and threatens trouble, more especially to the Upper. Though for the most part American citizens, they are chiefly emigrants from England and Ireland, who have already been in Canada, and who cherish feelings of hostility to the British lute there, and most of them ready for any daring, whether of war or of sport, when the frost-hound earth is shut to the pursuits of regular industry, and favourable to marauding. The army of the United States is utterly inadequate to the duty of maintain- Mg neutrality. From good authority we learn, that the force of the American General, never reaching so much as 4,000 in num- ber, has been greatly reduced by desertion, and that it is probable the main body of his troops would rather aid in the foray across the frontier than restrain it. New York is said to be the spot where the "rebels" (as they are called, though incorrectly, fur only a small portion of them are Canadians) hold their councils; and a correspondent of the Chronicle, whose "peculiar sources of infor- mation " ate guaranteed by that journal, asserts, that "immense numbers of persons are enrolled all along the frontier," who are to take part at the "proper time." Under these circumstances, Lord DURHAM resolved to return to England direct. Probably he considered it advisable personally to supply the Govern- ment at home with the earliest information, and, in ease Parliament should be summoned to meet before the usual petit d, to be reedy to speak fur bit-ascii in the Legislature. We can also easily believe, that, as a matter of taste, he shrunk front the triumphant reception w Inch awaited him in the States, at a time when no small number of the citizens of the Unien were preparing to make an inroad into the piovnices, the govei nutria of which he hail just quitted. Whatever may have been bird DURHANI.S motives for hastenine to England, there is no deubt that the announcement of his speedy return has given a darker hue to the complexion of Canadian
Important is has been received from Constantinople. Thu Shah of Persia has ac redly re.ired from Herat ; Mr. ItIcNi.ti. has moulted ti 'flew' all ; and the Russian Mike:ice in Persia has met with a serious chcck. ln the management of the Aline theie is but one °pinto!, as to the vigour, thinness, and knowledge of the teen he had to deal with, displayed by Mr.
bIcNEIL.
An extenske revolt against the Russians has broken out in Choi gia. Shiro, one of the limey .1 cities, bad been sacked by the rebels, and 6 000 Ruesians w Ili twit geeeral officers [Dessau:tel. Tee Georgiai ,. were advaoc ng ou TAN when the last ace lints were despatched Iron) Eize11/0111 to Constautinople. The Rus- sian Got-enamel!, miticipetner twenty. ha despatched a reielotce- meet of 15.000 until to the Lampe iu Georgia tenure the insuiree• lion broke The adhesion of the Fiend) Government, and of MEHEMET ALI, to the treat■ between Engleed urd Turkey, is minimum! ; Austria also had sigeffied an Ititentioll or becoming a party to it ; 'and nothing mule is said of the Russell' th:eat to consider the rat:- ficatian ef the treaty as a declaration of war on the part of Turkey. According to the latest accounts it also appears, that Admiral STOPFORD sailed on the 27th of October, with the greater part of his squadron, for Malta: leaving, however, four large ships of war in company with the Turkish fleet. It was thought probable, that, contrary to their usual custom, a part of the Turkish squadron would keep the sea during the winter, under the pro- tection of the more experienced British seamen. This intelligence has a tranquillizing effect, and throws damp on the warlike spirit which the news of last week had tended to excite. There is certainly more activity in our naval dockyards, military stores are in request, and the inlistment of marines is proceeding ; but there really would appear to be no great occasion for extensive preparation from the now actual state of affairs in the East of Europe. The Times yesterday, in an article written to glorify Mr. URQUHART, whose laudation is also the theme of a long letter in the same journal from a Levant merchant, endea- vours to make out, not only that Lard PALMERSTON and Lord PoNsoNev thwarted Mr. Umenteenf s endeavours to obtain the treaty from Turkey, but that Admiral Sroreoen had sailed to Malta with the view to afford the Sultan an excuse for trot ratify- iug ill—one of the conditions on which the treaty was signed being, as the Times and its correspondent would have their readers believe, the presence of the British fleet before Constantinople. But there is no authority given for this improbable assertion. The adhesion of France and Austria to the treaty will, at any rate, in- sure its final ratification.
