In the country parishes of the district of Montreal the whole spirit of disaffection had been re-awakened.

The government was regarded as utterly paralysed and without courage to act.

At the trial of the murderers of Chartrand, his associates had declared that it had not dared to make the charge of high treason against the perpetrators of the crime.

Reports were carefully spread of the certain co-operation of crowds of sympathisers from the United States, who would come in such numbers as to make the presence of the military of little account.

The course pursued by the house of lords was regarded as a victory on the part of those who had made the cause of the house of assembly their own.