started the _Constellation_, which, Dr. Scadding tells us, illustrated the jealousy which the people of the Niagara district felt at seeing York suddenly assume so much importance; for one of the writers ironically proposes a 'Stump Act' for the ambitious, though muddy, unkempt little town, 'so that the people in the space of a few months, may relapse into intoxication with impunity, and stagger home at any hour of the night without encountering the dreadful apprehension of broken necks.' The _Constellation_ only lived a year or two, and then gave way to the _Herald_ and other papers at subsequent dates; and it is an interesting fact, mentioned by the learned antiquarian of Toronto, that the imposing stone used by Mr. Tiffany, was in use up to 1870, when the old _Niagara Mail_, long edited by Mr. W. Kirby, at last ceased publication. The _Gazette_ and _Oracle_ continued to be published at York by different printers, and, like other journals in America, often appeared in variegated colours--blue being the favourite--in consequence of the scarcity of white paper. The title, _American Oracle_, was dropped from the heading when Dr. Horne became the publisher, in 1817; it continued to publish official notices, besides meagre summaries of general news, and some miscellaneous reading matter. The second paper in Upper Canada was the _Upper Canada Guardian_ or _Freeman's Journal_, which was edited and printed by Joseph Willcox, who fell under the ban of the Lieutenant Governor, for his Liberal opinions. It was printed in 1807, and exercised much influence for a time as an organ of the struggling Liberal party. Like others, in those days of political bitterness, its editor was imprisoned, ostensibly for a breach of parliamentary privilege, though in reality as a punishment for presuming to differ from the governing party; but, able man as he undoubtedly was, he marred his career by an infamous desertion to the Americans during the war of 1812, before the expiration of which he was killed. The first newspaper in Kingston, the third in the province, was the _Gazette_, founded in 1810, by Stephen Miles, who afterwards became a minister of the Methodist denomination, and also printed the Grenville _Gazette_, the first journal in the old town of Prescott. [Footnote: Morgan's 'Bibliotheca Canadensis,' Art. Miles.] The first daily paper published in British North America, appears to have been the _Daily Advertiser_, which appeared in Montreal, in May, 1833--the _Herald_ and _Gazette_ being tri-weekly papers at the time. The _Daily Advertiser_ was issued in the interests of the Liberals, under the management of the Hon. H. S. Chapman, subsequently a judge in New Zealand. One of the chief inducements held out to subscribers was the regular publication of full prices current and other commercial information. The _British Whig_, of Kingston, was the first newspaper that attempted the experiment of a daily issue in Upper Canada.