They appear quite impatient for want of employment.

There has been some firing from the sentries on both sides of the river.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 54: At this time, the British regular force in the Canadas consisted of the 8th, 41st, 49th, and 100th regiments, a small detachment of artillery, the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion, and the Canadian, Newfoundland, and Glengary Fencibles; amounting, in the whole, to 4,450 men.

These were distributed along the different posts from the telegraph station, about 250 miles below Quebec, to St.Joseph's, but so unequally divided, that, in the Upper Province, whose front extends to nearly 1,300, out of the 1,700 miles, there were but 1,450 men .-- _James' Military Occurrences_.] [Footnote 55: In answer to Major-General Brock's suggestions on the subject, see page 127.].