St. Catharines Journal

Abstract

Extracts from the journal of the House of Assembly; The House of Assembly in Lower Canada passed a bill to regulate the Post-Office Department within the province, article includes proposed tariffs on postage as proposed; Hon. Colonel Clarke of Niagara passed away, a brief article remembering his life; a five storey building on Mulberry Street was destroyed by fire, which housed the printing, binding and publishing rooms of the “Methodist Book Concern”, arson suspected; from the editor “The City Council vs. Sir Francis Head; an update on the meeting of the Farmers’ Temperance Society; an address to Sir Francis Bond Head, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada regarding the resignation of six members of the Executive Council, as well as Sir Francis Bond Head’s response;