By the arrival of the packet-ship Independence at LiNcryool
from New York, some intelligence has been received front Isiper Canada. A party of' " Sympathizers," who were about to make ao attack upon time town of Coburg, had been surprised, and some of their number arrested, before any thing serious occurred, lhotte. counts of this affair are very contradictory ; but the fidlowing mttt least intelligible- " A party of some fifty or one hundred men, heavily armed, were landed fro a schooner a few unites below Colmr:,, and had marched up to mar the vdIVI when they were tnet by a party who had heard of their approach, attacked, ono driven back ; six of their number having been taken prisoners."
A letter front Coburg gives some further particulate— We have got James Hart, Luke, and Luke's brother-in-law and fathepiai; law, also three strangers, snug its gaol. They lmd laid a plot to murder t Boultons and IL Henry, and rob the batik; but were brought out by a wool the name of Moon, who was to have been their leader. A 1111111 of the nallle,! Lett, and one other, wade their escape. If they are not hanged, they stilg jogbed. If they had committed the murders intended, I would not have given three cents for the hides of all the Americans in Coburg. The Hart iientioned above formerly edited a Reform paper at .Coburg, and is now editor of the Lewiston Telegraph. Lett i$ accused of having killed Captain Usher of
Chippewa."
A great meeting had been held at Dundas, in Upper Canada, and resolutions pttssed in favour of " responsible government," as
recommended Lord .M'S Report.
Two more American fishing-boats had been captured in British
waters. The commercial accounts from the United States were, like those received by the British Queen, very unfitvourable.
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