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Canada has hitheero Ingged behind the United States, on Monday bast, Mr. Rameey, United States and Great Uritain in the 0b¢ of the members from the State of Minne- Laemeithh: wiidehsThe wisdom ond liberality of their postal arrange-{sota, on the Republican side, submitted the Pentagon geome i. mente. The charge on ordinary letters within | ms yt

| fullowing resolativas, wh were ordered to r ‘rance and 4 the dominion of the province vet five cente.. he a —— prs wap ah i —

while with ue it is three, and in Great Britain & penny sterling, or less than two centa.| Resolved, That the Committee on Yoreign But th .| Relations is beewby dir ceted to ivquire inte the : 7 ut the authorities at Ottawa, in accordance: : ie eae ele © luquire inte the l reached the British expedition that Kit with the general sentiment of the people from | P*Pediency of atreaty between the U aited States Seanad a A daeneeinial Debra Tabor. whom they derive their power, intend to re- | "4 the Dominion of Canada which shall contain | 40re Dad set fre to and destro) duce common postage “ d ie a ing #0 ur | the following proets) ons :— ce rosta ge. n 1 Go oO are | lea—That a dutr io . . ralorem |}; a ‘ : ae igs - Dolice likely to adept the three cent rate im practice | of tive ver cent advalorem | fished a Circular by the Prefect of Police,

he Uni . . ) shall be imported on all iM pe ctahons from Canada, mm the nited States, making it universal | bejng the exclu vive prodietions or imanutactures|

througheut the various ancient provinces | of Canada to t' 6 United States or from the United | now teluded in the Dominion of Canada. States to Car ada, which shall be substituted for The event will afford a favorable opportu- yw caciffs af the reapective countries, : mity for new imternational arrangements be- sane an the excise oe Unite teen the United States and their northero | tat" a stall be assimilated by concur- neighbors. At present - mutual pestel | Jr —Theat ‘the navigation of the great lakes arrangements are full of incongruous an | and of the éanala and channel of the St. Lawrence omales Letter postage to or from the) i ver shyt) be forever tree and open te the citi- UL mited States coste the Canadian ten cents in| "ens of che United States aud of Canada specie, while the citueen of the republic is 4th —That Canadian vessels in American ports only charged the same amour! iv curreno, | sha’) be entitled te all the privileges of Awercan whatever may be rte walue. The cetizer, of | © asels in Canadian ports. Buffalo pays ten cents tor carcying & ‘erter) Sth That the fisheries of the Atlantic coast to the neighboring village of fort Erie. shall be free to the citizens of beth countries while he can send a letter sewral t’ ousar ss of miles to our most remote pos? easions on the Pacitic for lese than vne\"ird of that 7th—Tha ‘anada, with the consent of Grea ‘ee . . ie ae The citizen ef Maine pays ten cents Britain ~e ae - odtones oo the 0 | privilege of Habeas Corpus in Rogland. for ® sumilar servicer to Che pext township. tricte of North America west of longitude ninety| — Paris, Dee. 20th.—The Moniteur has late Separated perhaps, only by, aN incesible line | degrees, on the couditions, ta wit:— Ist, the Uni details of the recent battle on the Parana from his own tarm. Yet a mon who dwells) ted States will pay six million dollars to the Hud-| Lopez, by neglect. not only lost the results o

LOM EUROPE, St. Petersbarg policy agreed

\ despatch from Mas-

j peace af Kurope.. .. .- ; from the interior had

sowah says a report

1° is firm and active for con.ma on Congou.

that the Emperor has proposed to Belgium,

tm Customs’ union. mercial alliance with Prussia. —A_ report

North German Confederation.—In view of the recent outrages committed or attempted it

shall be extended over both countries

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in Portland and writes to hie eor respondent in|" Bay Company iv tull discharge ot all claims | his victory, but was turned on by his vanquish- Detriot, or the most westerly portion of our} te territery or jurisdiction in North Aweriea, ed enemies, and badly beaten. Loss of Para-

territories, has tt carried some two bundred | whether teunded on the charter ot the qumapen) | guayans heavy, fniles to Canada, and thence some eight or r a oman 7 eeu : peg! edly Loxpox, Sexnpay, Dee. 22.—The Govern nine trmd rm more through the provinee te} es oa Gaal i sa al rate sii aa | Ment is still taking precautionary measures t the Doterot River, and thence westward, 00 | do lars: Srd, To aid the cnnetruction ot the North.

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three cents for

the whole route of some! of Lake Supernor te Puget Sound

the frontier bave to pay ten cents for one) made, will guarantee dividends of five per cent!) Observer, in its issue of Saturday, says that the ‘ t ‘ ! ” - .

rile on the same route. The gross inconsiet- | "Pe? the stock of said coupons, provided that the} British Government in all the extraordinary

ency is & Mugrant relic of impertect civili- | MHOUNt of stock guaranteed as aforesaid, shall) )recautions which it is now taking against the

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Lonpow, Dee. 18.—The Paris Moniteur pub-

placing the press under a more rigorous cen- sorship.— Advices here say that the Tea trade /at Hong Kong is quiet, aud that at Shanghae

Loxpos, Dec. 20, midnight.—It is reported

Holstein and Switzerland that they join France Belgium is said to have declined the proposition on the ground tbat she has already concluded a military and cOm-| Expedition, has been agreed to. Ss | current that the Grand Duke of Baden will abdicate and leave the Duchy free to join the ‘| late,’ said Mr. Disraeli in moving the vote of

tth—That a common system ot laws regulating} England by the Fenians, and to prevent by copyrights, patent rights, and rates of postage | summary measures their repetition, the Cabinet | Complete force on the

| has decided to ask Parliament to suspend the

uard against the expected movements of the thee continent as he pleases, paying only | ern Pacitic Railway, trom the western extremity | Fenians. The troops which were yesterday ‘ The United | dispatched for Portsmouth were to-day seat to wesands of miles, while the residents near | States, in addition to the grant of land heretofore} Osborne, Isle of Wight......The London

LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. | the present position and aspect of such nation! | asm, whic questions aud affairs as are now felt to le Qur notices might , easily, perhaps, have been made both a litte (ustria on the| more extended and a little more inclusive; but Kastern question if persisted in will insure the} we have deemed it best in this case, so to

naiversally interesting,

mete out our article as rather to lay ourselves ie Theo-| open to taxation for brevity, than censure for

| prolixity. ARYSSINIAN Wank

In Great Britain, the absorbing themes

Fenianism. As respects

of landing the force.

i Abyssinian

General Napier, it is expected, will find him

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{ If Theodorus should, in alarm at the magnituie

defray all charges; but in the event of the

until next April, the Chancellor of the Exche

and a half. Britain should be called upon to replace the

at present, are the Abyssinian War and the former, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has aceom- plished the object for which Parliament was summoned at so unusual a period as the month of November, and a vote of credit for two millions sterling, on account of the Abyssinian This sum, however, it appears, will ouly cover the expense

“ As far as we can-calcu-

credit, “it will take exactly that sum to place our soil,” -| personal objects and ambition, self with his army ready for action at that cost. An unknown expenditure, however, will follow. | :) stand in opposition to unjust laws and arbi- ‘arrested at Florence, and a plot has been dis- of the invading host, at once give up his pri- soners, it is thought another half million will -}t6 assure honest men that there is no chance or | tablishment ofa Republic. It appears to have sable monarch’s determining to fight, and its being found necessary to carry on the war

quer says the expenditure w ill be three millions

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farming utensils. They t trious too, cleared more land,

attention to its cultivation. Mechmdes, more constant und more remunerative e BO > SE 9 A ment than in the old blue homespun Government and Constitution of the Kingdom, | withthe Pope, Archbishop Mauning presided, | period. Almost every merchant in the eg for which they suffered bad in ‘and among the speakers were the Earl of Den-| enlarged his establishment and quadrupled conse= I bigh, Lord Arundel, of Wardour, Sir George | trade. Charlottetown inereased in size and

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h, in times of less forbearance, would \delay to Caprera. The Etendard characterises have subjected them to a quick visitation of jas regrettable that authorisation should have pains and penalties, Allen, Larkin, and |been given to Garibaldi to return to Caprera.

Gould were connected with a political confede- subversive of the | held in London receatly, to express sympathy

A great mecting of Roman Catholics was ™ but the outrage itself no political character whatever; : , _ } ; quently it is irrational to assurne a political j Bowyer, and other aan som — pane en villages and harley : ascribe the enforcement of the | with all the enthusiasm of a convert, repudiated | sprang up all over the country with i The sympa- |‘ such a thing as nationality,” and declared | rapidity. Seeing such, and so many, beneficial results flowing from the working of the Rec. procity Treaty, it is no wonder that forebodings filled the minds of most men at the prospect of its abrogation. It was hard to go back to the old dreary state of things, to stop by

complexion, and sentence for political revenge. one thisers appear to be under a false innpression, he was nothing but a ¢ eahetg, 08: Ragtion that, because they were Fenians, they ought | man, if they pleased, but a Catholic first.

not to undergo the penalty of murder ; that | Archbishop Manning, another convert, Wig an they were engaged in a patriotic attempt to Englishman, would admit that oot Govern- avenge a tyrannical Government, and estai lish | ment was the best in the world,” but denied

that the Pope's was the worst. On the con-| the carof progress in full career, But far the greater part of their dismal anticipati He considered it was | however well grounded, have not been realized, | Matters seem to £¢ on pretty much in the same way, since the abrogation of the Treaty, as

did while it was in operation. All kinds of farm produce are in good demand, and prices rule high. Whatever of dulness and embarrags. ment there may be in commercial circles can easily be traced to other causes than the abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty, To the | want of demand for shipping at home and to the overtrading and reckless extravagance of previous years may justly be attributed the evil under which trade on this Island at Pp labours. The causes which led to the abroga. tion of the Reciprocity Treaty, were, we think,

another system, on principles which the part es

But patriotism is | trary, he ‘would extol it as irreproachable,

to the movement approved,

; sis aallin a6 not to be assumed for an act at the will and | just, and merciful. sugzestion of a few individuals unknown to | «the duty of every Christian Power to protect, -— . . . 7 . 2 2: fume; and, who, in this ease, were notorivusly | if need be, in war, the head of the Christian

. . . nt 9 . Pp . Ww . . led by alien adventurers, men from a foreign world. An address to the } ope was adopte d

country, destitute alike of means and reputation, | by the meeting, and is to be forwarded to his and whose real object was the furtherance of | Holiness by Dr. Manning.

The conse-} It would appear that the Italian kingdom has

! ie eae cration of patriotism is accomplished ouly when ‘other troubles to contend with besides the Mo-| individuals of character and position take their | man dil. iculty. Twelve Mazzinians have been

trary government. There are no such persons lecovered having for its object the overthrow of

among the Fenians, and their absence ought |the dynasty of Victor Emmanuel and the es- g ) ;

likelihood of prosperity for the Fenian cause. |had an extensive ramification, as committees

Cheir professed object is the establishment of | were furmed an all the Italian cities, and the . . i . . . i. . . ‘ i . . “4s a a Republic in Ireland; but public opinion im \}minds of the working men have been instilled

twofold. The first was to punish British

Ireland is unfavourable to the republican sys- | with the views of the conspirators. Americans for presuming to sympathise wit tem GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES—

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That may not be all; for if Great ‘| country—Whig, Tory, and Radical—a belief |

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wet exceed twenty thousand dullars per wile, and |

, | Fenians, is acting with a full knowledze o " il | Congress shall regulate the securities tor advance their secret plans. 4€ present movement in Canada shoald be) oy account thereot: 4th, The North Weet Terti- i ns

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will be increased to four millions.

forces of the Indian Government which are |;

Among all the respectable classes in that

wrevails in the superiority of the present form |

“ ALADAMA CLAIMS.”

The President in his Message informs the |

the South in the late great struggle. There jg | no doubt but that many people in these / Colonies did sympathise with the Southern

| now employed in the enterprise, the expenditure

But who

of Government, over any system that can be | Congress that the «/abama claims are still! people in their attempt to secede from the

Union. Many, too, both journalists and others,

brought from America, or elsewhere, to take j unsettled, and that he had felt it his duty to

exteeded by a liberal arrangement on behalt | tory shall be divided and organized into territor-

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of the people on both sides of the lines, would meet the approval of all who in either country desire the prevalence of mutual up- precration and good understanding on hoth sides. Besides the weighty considerations and unanswerable arguments in favor ot cheap international postage in general, toe case of our neighbors basa special claim. Our res- pective territories are mutually indebted and situated so a8 to make the greatest possible treedom of intercourse desirable for us. Oar languages are the same, so that business with them is transacted as easily as between ind- vidual citizens of ether nation. The imbabit- wots of several of the Western States regard the roate through Canada as the best way of communicating with our people in the New Ragland States, while through New York and ochet Adantic States the Canadians avvid an rt mensely circuttuus Toute when sending their letters te the ocean, aad no inconsiderabie portrea of the world—in fact & wlaiost every pert ol ic

_ The removal of the present odious and un- just tax upon the interchange of sentiment and the mutual exchange of information can have no more favurable beginaing than by tneegutauug a genuine Awerican system of portage, in which a proper convention with tee Dew confederation of Canada would appro- priately take the lead. Few, perhaps would grumble if a slight difference were made be- tween foreign and domestic postage , if, while the one is three cents, the other should be five. for the tendency of great bodies to move slowly in the direction of peaceful and bene- ficial reforms is so well known as to be pro- verbial, but there is no reason why « valu- able and important change as an uniform Americaa or continental rate of three cents should be adopted only by siow degrees, and there are more reasons why the chenge should be consummated as speedily as circumstances will permit.

— oe CANADA AND THE NORTH-WEST.

From the Scottish American Journal, Dec. 7th. Whe Goveroment of Canada baa laid befure

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weof the United States, not less than three 1

y | from Japan announce that in accordance with

will answer for the war's being concluded for

its place ; a continuance of the Fenian azita- i decline arbitration, because, as proposed, it has

were very loud and indiscreet in the expression

jutinber, with all the rights aud privilegs of the | the treaty concluded with the Commissioners of} that sum? Two millions are

leitizens and gorerument et Montana Territory, | Foreign Powers the ports of Yeddo and Osaka

i vaya . diately ; and Mr. Disraeli’s **rough estimates ’ sv far as the samme can be applicable. | will be thrown open to foreigners for settlemeut dt te, Ooo ctanatelths bo bine Giles te <<. . and commerce on the 20th ef January, Wi 9 I Skeet, ee ee —e ae } OVERLAND TO BRITISH COLUMBIA. | The New Constitution of Austria which recent-| British nation is at peace with Abyssinia. ——- > ily passed the Reichrath has been promulgated With respect to this Expedition, it seems to The project of a wagon road to British Colum-/ throuxhout the Empire by Imperial decree. . .

| bia across the continent, such as is proposed by | The Bill for the reorganization of the Army, Mr. Waddington, is not a newly conceived idea. | : ¥ Poe British Colonist, speaking of Mr. Wadding- | tons service says :—Years ago, before even the

boldest ef Canadian statesmen bad tairly enter-

tained the scheme of contederating the North | American colonies under one strong central | . ; a Te government, the prejector of the Bute Inlet defending the features and defending the Wagon Road was employed, at his own expense, character of the measure, He denied that it in equipping and despatching bodies of explorers.) Was & preparation for an early war, because in who were charged with the duty of examining | reality it would operate to reduce the present and reporting upon the practicability ef con-) effective force of the army. He insisted that structing #fead through the coast range ¢!!;he measure was intended only as a wise pro- Metis Le Cariboo. After a considerable out-| vision for the necessities of the future.

lay of time and money, the idea beeawe a reality . sg * A feasible pase lo the open coun-

which has been under discussion for the past week in the French Senate, was introduced in the Corps Legislatitf by M. Gressier, and was debated during the sitting yesterday. M. Gressier on reporting: the Bill made a speech sinian Expedition, to change his mind,

prisoners by force;

Lonpoy, Dee 22d.—M. Rouher, Minister of try wae discovered lying at the heed of Bute In-| State, also spoke in support of the bill. He let, and the Iniet was ascertained to be the best | strongly protested against the opinion which natural barber on the matuland, between San | had been expressed tnat the introduction of Francisco and the North Pole. Mr. Waddington the bill looked to a war with a foreign power, | thereupon started a working party, whe, alter) and declared that the bill was not proposed by waking considerabie progress, were set upon and | the Goverumeut as a temporary expedient to murdered by Indians, in April, 1564. Though! meet an inimediate contingency, but as a per- this melanchuly mishap retarded the progress | manent measure to improve the organization the work fur a time, he did net abandon the pre- ; pea. eee . ; : and promote the general efficiency of the mili- | ject; he bas since obtained a new charter, with | ua : ‘ | tary forces of the empire.....M. Jules made a}

pewer to extend communication to the base ot | a : 7 he Bill. | the Rockey Mountains, where it is to be hoped | powerful speech in opposition to the Bill. Towards the close of the sitting the vote was

the work will be met by Canadian enterprise | se ; 3

through the Northwest, so that an uninterrupted taken and the ministry was sustained by a majo- ebain of land and water communication may be | rity ef the chambers.....A long and angry de- fairly established for the railway line which wust/ bate in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the at no very distant tiwe be extended to the shores) policy of the Government on the Roman ques- tion terminated yesterday. The final vote was

of the further vceay.” a taken and the Government was sustained by a

“ Mixerlaneous Statistics of Canada for the year | ™)Orty of two.....The announcement of the 1866," Part IL, recently issued from the Finance | result was received by the opposition with loud Departinent, says that, the total evat of railways | cheering.....Gold 133.

in Canada, Ontario and Quebec, up to 1866, Loxpos, Dec. 24.—Troops despatched yes- reached $144,611,853. The total amount paid r during the year tor dividends, leases, interests, &c, amounted to $4,102.757, or not quite three per cent upon the total capital. Six lines paid | interest upon a part, or whole, of the capital, |

very serious matter.”’

mind.

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little.

Osborne, owing to extraordinary precaution by | Government having full knowledge of plans of the Fenians. told 133.

wanted imme-

be regretted on all sides that Lord Stanley did not abide by the first opinion he delivered upon the suggestions for an attempted rescue of the captives, and that he should have found reason, in the arguments of the promoters of an Abys- His lordship, some months ago, said that it was no easy matter to obtain the release of the for without consider- ing the military resistance which might be expected, “ we have,”’ he said, ‘to consider the country, tne climate, the heat of one season and the rains at another; the cost of supplies, the absence of all means of transport, our total ignorance of the feelings of the people, which make operations against Abyssinia a Nothing has come to the public knowledze to lessen its seriousness by removing any of the objections which, at the former period, oceurred to Lord Stanley's ‘* Magdala, where these men are de- tained,”’ bis lordship added, “is at least three hundred miles from the coast, and must be approached through a country which is moun tainous, without any thing which we should consider a road; in many parts said to be destitute of water, and of which we know very It would be madness to throw a British army into an unknown country, in a tropical iterday to Portsmouth were to-day sent to/ climate, far from the sea, very far from its | reserves and its supplies, without a full previous The alarm in London was sub. | investigation as to the means of moving and

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tion can, therefore, result in nothing but con- fusion to its promoters.

It was a sad necessity through which the Government was unable to comply with the wishes of those persons who petitioned for the reprieve of the prisoners. ‘There was an alarm of insecurity in the public mind, aud concern The latter are surely

entitled to sympathy in the performance of their

among the police force.

duty ; but sympathisers in this case put the police out of consideration. The man who was murdered in the police van gave up his life to his sense of duty. He had only to throw out the keys and be saved; but he pre- ferred to be slain rather than betray his trust. If his murderers had been spared the police foree would have had reasonable cause for distrust and apprehension. We regret that a necessity for capital punishment existed, and the public at large entertain the same feeling ; but that there was such a painful necessity The out- rages still occurring in Ireland go far to prove

calm and capable reasoners admit.

that Feuiayism requires strong measures for its suppression; and public opinion, whilst it would readily concur and favour fair and open agitation for a political object, however vision-

assassination as one of its justifiable means, and, discarding argument, makes use of Ame- rican rowdies’ revolvers.

Speaking of the inflammatory writings on the subject of the Manchester executions, in some of the Irish newspapers, it is observed that they are beginning to produce their natural fruits.

ary and objectionable, will ever be found | arrayed against organizations that admit of |

‘been aecoimpanied by reservations incom- patible, in his opinion, with the righty and Lord Stanley offered

| . . . jto refer to an arbitrator the question whether

linterests of his country.”

| Great Britain is responsible for any neglect of

duty, moral or legal, in connexion with the Mr. Seward insists that the propriety of the recognition of

| Alabama and kindred ships. ‘the Southern States as belligerents must be included in the terms of the reference. There the matter stands.—Mr. Johnson also proposes to Congress to declare that the naturalization of a foreigner as a citizen of the United States, absolves the recipient from allegiance to the ‘sovereign of his native country. This is jevidently intended to meet the case of Ameri- eau Irish, who may be charged in Great Britain Mr. John- son and his advisers must, however, know very well that the American Congress cannot ailect to legislate for any country but its own. The allegiance which a natural born British sabject owes to the British Crown, cannot be absolved by any other Legislature than that of Great

with sedition against the sovereign.

Britian.

The message does not increase the prospect of an early and pacific settlement of the great questions which await the action of Congress and the Executive in the United States.

MBXICO.

This country is represented as being in a sad condition. Robberies are, day by day, becom- ing more common and audacious.

President Juarez has commuted the sentences

of most of the Imperial prisoners to shorter ‘sentences of imprisonment.

All foreigners | out their host. As yet, however, it is said, they have been | who adhered to the Emperor and a\l the higher | sion, consequent on the loss of trade with the-

of thatsympathy. We are of opinion that thig feeling in favour of the Southern Rebels did not arise out of any ill-will felt by Colonist, towards the northern people, or indeed out of any rational conviction whatever. Tt wag 2 merely that partiality for the weaker side which most persons instinetively feel on witnessing a struggle between unequal oppo- This outspoken sympathy in favor of their enemies, was very annoying to the people of the Northern States; aad to show ~ their resentment, they abrogated the Recipro. city Treaty at the earliest possible period, They ail along believed that the people of these - Colonies received far greater benefits from thig. _ Treaty than they themselves did; and they consequently concluded that its abrogation, while it would be productive of immense injury to British America, would occasion but trifling loss to themselves. Jn this they have sadly miscalculated. Their action in this matter has uo doubt hampered trade to some extent in the Colonies, but not nearly to the extent which they believed and hoped; while the: restrictions which they themselves have placed on their trade with British America, have proved exceedingly burdensome to the over. taxed consumers of the Northern and Eastern. States. The American people have, to use @. common phrase, more expressive than elegant, “cut off their nose to spite their face.’

The Americans expected to use the abroga-- tion of the Reciprocity Treaty as a endgel with which to drive us British Colonists into liere again they reckoned withe.

It was thought that the depres-.

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the Dominion Parliament a series of resolutions | the Welland, the Northern, the Brockville and

feeding, and keeping them in health.”

coufined tu the County of Cork, but it is hard | [mperial civil officials are to be banished. United States, would render the Colonists di» to expect that the people in other localities |

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peaing to the organization of civil government

én the north-western districts, and their abserp- |

tien as provinces into the Confederacy.

The step is taken nut ane moment too soon. The future of the Dominion as a consvlidated Britizh American Power on this continent is in ne small degree contingent upeu the union of the whole territory now owing allegiance to the Crown. The Dowinion must stretch trom the Atlantic te the Pacitie, or the proportions which are essential to permanence and strength will be wanting. It is no poet’s dream, this of a north ero wauionality: no mere vision of beauty, to lighten aod adorn aiter-dinner eloquence, and then to be seen no wore. It is a stern uecessity, te be worked fur sedulously, with all the ability which Canadian statesmanship can possibly command. For let the Dominion terminate ia the wilderness which forms the wes orn boundary et Ontario, aud what distinctive destiny can Canada hope te achieve 7 Ou the contrary, let it be extended tu the Pacitic—one end of the

FROM THR UNITED STATES. Burravo, 19th.—A terrible railroad accident occurred near Angola in this State, yesterday, p- m., from displacement of rail. Two rear

| Ottawa, and the Cartllen and Greenville ; aad six | lines are returned as yielding ne dividends, name- ly. the London and Port Stanley, the Port Hope and Lindsay, the Cobourg and Peterbero, the Ottawa and Preaeott, the Stanstead aod Shefford* ee acute eae te anion be Buffalo were thrown from the track and rolled | : given a8 2,564,485; and the tons of freight as 2,- down embankment fifty feet hich. Thirteen | UA7.878. The total working expenditure ia set | Passenzers killed instantly and fifty burned to

down as $6,274,511. The reevipts trom passen- gers, $4,322,042 ; from freight, $6,209.240, trom mails and sundries, $455,050, and trum rents and} 4) account of a swindle other sources, 122.514; which shows a total of | B ;

Commons has agreed to.

annual Income-tax.

arnard of this city, by which a diamond broker |

of which number 5,457 are employed upon the ministerial blunder. Grand Trunk, The number ot persous killed by accidents on the lines during the year is given at seventy-seven, and the number injured, oue hundred and three.

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A published statement in Ontario and Quebec

FROM CANADA.

Ortawa, Dec. 20.—Parliament will adjourn to-morrow, probably until March... . It is un- derstood that a Government Delegation will visit England during the recess, on business | but the patient public grumbles mournfally

and stupidity brought about the Abyssinian | war to fix the burthen upon a patient public,

chain resting, a8 it were, in the magnificent

harber of Halifax, and the other rivetied to the | Canada bad reduced its liabilities from 19th ot foundations of Victoria—what limit can be placed October to 23rd of Nov.—five weeks—to the

to iis interval growth and prosperity.

The importance of waintaining this territorial unity ie se obvious and vital, that the failure thus fur to seeure it aluest passes Coonprehension

Every mouth's delay adds to the dangers which | operations. lu the absence of direct coummunication, | ae : | Late Montreal papers contain particulars of | charged the Government with want of policy| price of commodities to consumers. The out- a vast trade has grown up between the former |

bewet it. between the Red River settlement and Canada.

aod St. Paul. The Miunesetiane cast covetous glances at a region which the Canadians bave undervalued if net despised. Awerican inter prise bas carried the tacilities and profits of com-

they have learned that ne fiver agricultural ter- rilory is to be found of the continent than that which is comptised in the districts of the Sask- alcbewan, the Assinibonie, and the Red Kiver: they have tested the richness of the gold lands whieh lie just above their nertbern berder : and most gladly would they make there varied res ources thet own. Already, indeed, American seitlements are forming m the viewmity of Red Kiver, and yet further west the adventurous miners of Montana are crossing the line in seareh of the gold that awaits their tireless labor. Now, it were worse than folly to disregard the warning which these facte read to the rulere of the Domi- nien. They show that influences are at work— silently, way be, but not the lese eflectively—in a direction antagonistic to the Qepes of the Cana- dian people. And they prove the wb vclute neces- sity of doing semething at couse to present the breaking of the territorial chain where it ie at ence weakest and most exposed. With cennee- tion eevered at Red River, what poewble chance wood there be of keeping Brith Columbia?

7 : | melancholy , ypulation ateuud Fort Garry ;) - ’ Pah : : a merce to the pop TY +) months ago he married the daughter of Gen, | the route, and would announce it in the proper |

connected with the Inter Colonial Railroad and | under the infliction. An increase of the tax | North Western Extension. es ak dg }upon Income will, it is argued, diminish the Orrawa, Dec. 21.—The House rose to-day. | ienneie cif Cini eias ' f lal to yo my ee ° itil ll at aa 1! Pans ( ousands oO 2 employers Of labour, ap of $1,979,608. The total assets on the ya To, a gar pes bills the consequence of which must sarily } « 7 = = . . *hs6° : . arch, a + rISig re | se -e 2 288¢e ’

23rd Nov. was $5,021,018; and the liabilities | oe ce : ye a - a " : en but $2,6 There is quite a strong pro-|.""% adjourned ull L2th March, Last even-/a reduction of the number of hands em- ng in the Senate an i: teresting discussion |

17,776.

lbubility that the Bank will early resume | eee

| : eee j |arose on the Customs’ Bill, and subsequently on the Railroad bill. Letellier De St. Just

jourwals shows that the Commercial Bank of

ployed, or of the amount of pay; unless, indeed, ithe alternative be adopted of increasing the

the melanchely suicide of Capt. Arthur Cooch | 04 Railways, and said they should have named ery against the butchers and bakers which has of the 16th Regiment, well known in this city.|the route in the Bill. Mitchell answered)": Deceased came from England recently, and|the charges fully, and showed that such a} er : : aisee Wile oattend ot Moentet tak toon very | course would have been u:wise. He said that | the conclusion that this alternative is not likely

and shunned society. Three | the Government had @ policy in referenee to | to be adopted ; so that it is really the working

oned so much seusation lately, leads to

Murray; his wife is in England. He shot|time, and he felt assured that it would give classes that will ealiye sn6nh 9 the new tax which himself in the mouth, the ball passing out | Satisfaction to the country... ..The Postal Bill the House of Commons has with so much through his skull, Verdict—“ Suicide, while | ¥8 amended in the Commons. An amend-| cheerfulness adopted. laboring under aberration of mind.” ment stipulating for the free carriage of papers | cla was nearly carried, there was only thirtee It would appear from all accounts that the | @ Minority. shipbuilding trade in and around the city ot Quebec is upen the point of being paralyzed, owing to the extreme demands of the workwen for increased wages. ‘The builders maintain that the present price of ships will net justity them to wake a further advance in wages, and moreover that it would be better to close the yards than pay the exorbitant rate demanded by the ship- wrights. Several builders have determined to elese their yards until the Carpeuters’ Union shall have been dissolved. One of the papers say that the builders of Quebee have, this fell, refused contracts for fifteen vessels owing te the condition of the labor market. The average number of ships built at Quebec for the past ten years has been about filly per annua, but new there are

‘| In further commenting upon the increased n of : . . burthen thus laid upon the working classes, it

Moxtneat, Dec. 21.—A_ number of officers} is very justly observed thet an Income-tat is

| helonging to the Canadian Volunteers have left | #!Ways objectionable on account of its gruss in- for Rome to join the Papal army. A recruiting | equalities, but it is particularly annoying at the office has been opened here with the object of iaising a regiment for the Papal service.

Montreal, 23rd.—Fire broke out in Nord- heimer’s, completely destroying 16 billiard tables.

| present time, when all classes are suffering from the financial crisis and the depression of trade. The revenue is also declining, which is a sure sizn of the difficultyexperienced by the indus- trious classes in meeting the present demand in this respect, so that the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s expectations may uot be realized. A Property-tax would be a surer mode of

Che Gxaminer.

And with the Dominion bounded by Lake Superior, what conceivable inducements could it bold out to emigrante whose swarming thitherward is essential to ite greatness |

On every ground, then, it is mest important that no further tine be lest in censumwating plans which onght to have been in operation ten years ago. The consent of the linperiai autheri- ties in of course requisitive in the frst instance, bot thie ie a mere formality which tn Bowise Linders actual work. The adjustment «f the Huidees Bay Company's pretensions will be tnare dfieulty. though we see 1@ it pe insuperable dit- ficult, 1 approached in the true spirit of states. men rather then as huckatere intent upen driving | ® hard bargain. As to the sale of the Company's interests to the Government of the United States, of which mention has been more than once wade teceutly, we may rest assured that the project has wo foundation autside of the newsmonger's brain. Mere coummereial facilities or interests the Company omy be free to sell to the highest bidder; but territorial jurisdiction over the most feetiie region of Britieh America cannot be nego- title without the ewuseat of the Government immediately coneerucd.