About a week ago we were shown a letter received
a short time before from a gentleman settled near York ( Upper Canada). It is evidently from a man, all whose thoughts are engrossed with his farm ; and the passages which throw light upon the condition of Upper Canada are incidental. The writer mentions facts without seeming to suspect the inference that may be drawn from them. He mention's, in the first place, that his reserved lots are unsaleable, men being afraid to purchase land under existing circumstances ; in the second place, that the old Dutch settlers, the most industrious and steadiest portion of the ripulation, are dieposing of their property, and retiring into the States Ittoid the impending stotm. These are not signs of that universal
devotion to British supremacy, which has been said to characterize the inhabitants of Upper Canada—Correspondent if the Glasgow Argus.
The Sun of this evening contains a series of resolutions adopted by a meeting of the people at Uxbridge in Upper Canada. The meeting took place on the 11th of November, the day on which the first arrests of the suspected persons in Lower Canada were made. The resolutions express indignation and disgust at the conduct of Sir Francis Head and his Parliament, with strong approval of the pro- ceedings of Mr. Papineau and his friends. One of the resolutions evidently point to a forcible resistance of the Government-
" Resolved, That every man in this township who has not a good rifle, do forthwith prepare himself with one, as we do intend to maintain our political rights toe whale, let the consequences he what they will. We know our cause is a great and honest one, and we will have one who is stronger than man to go with us : therefore, brother Reformers, be encouraged, be true to each other, and be united, as union is streagth."
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