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P. Ey ISLAND; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1866

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, Charvorrrrowy, Oct. 5, 1866.

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Tork, the es a wigpa to eaat | | Flown, Tea,
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Penh ol eel | Kerosene Oil, Molasses,
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Do by the tub, © 1s 1d to 1s 2d Bo : Candles
Cheese, per Ib., 4d to 64) aps ’
Tallow, per lb., 74 to 94 STARCH, and almost overy other article to be found

per Ib., 9d to 3a in a general Grocery Store.—l’arties will find it to
Flour, ig! ay eee * M their advantage to call before pyrchasing elsewhere.
Oatmeal, per 1001bs,, oO. 304 JAMES PEARDON.
Eggs, per, dozen, eal 10d to 1] Kent Street, April 25, 1866.
Barley, per bush Se 9d to
Fig Ey 2st0 20 3h JOHN BELL,
er aT aca ra total... MANUFACTURER OF CLOTHING
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Potatoes, per bushel, Poult Ta 4dto 1s pd I Patrons for past favors, begs leave to inform them
Geese, na? 2 6d to3s = the public generally, that he is still to be found at
Turkeys, each, 4s to 8a| "8
Fowls, each, olor] OLD STAND,
Ducks, Fish. 1s 8d to 156d Queen Street,
Codfish, per gtl., 208 to ~ and je ‘prepared to make up ‘all kinds of garments en-
Herrings, per barrel, 25 to
Mackerel, per dosen, 9s 6d to4s|fashion.
Lumber. ‘Terms Cash.
ep! Hemlock) 8s 6d to 4s rr Entrance at the Sidé Door.

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trusted to him in the latest style and improvement of ment House at Montreal was burnt down, the library

ones Bouquet, . Patchouly,
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GEORGE LEWIS, Market Gerk. [phe Bard of Avon's Perfume, in a neat Box ; Sydenham Ban|sand symp
de Cologne, Treble Lavender Water, Extract Ot Lavendet|frontier, ard British America, in all human probability,
Sachet, Perfumedr| would have been wrested from the Crown. Had they
Teicentenary Souvenir, Shakespear Golden Scented Locken|sympathized with those who, with the settled purpose
Extruct of Lime Juice and Glycerine, for making the Hair|/of throwing off their allegiance in 1849, got up the
Powdery, an improvement oil] omente at ft if

Violet Powder; Bloom of Ninion, for the Complexion; serious, and the ultimate results extremely doubtful.
Depilatory Powder for removing superfluous hairs without) "Those Provifives stood firm to their allegiance on both
in ury to the — the weary 5, oh = Law 4 YA o¢eusions. “Phey counselled and laughed at the Cana-
seer gee np a pt ee “s ore teouble| ans, till the spirit of violence” was laid; and a more
soe skers a natural and permanent shade withou t&oublél iva disposition gained.the ascendancy. . But, as burnt

for evening parties.

W. R. WATSON.
Drug Store, Dee. 22, 1864.

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000,000 of inhabitants, or about 8 to every square mile, |%lves as complorely as any other British Provinces, or $75,000,000, or about $25 in go
of territory, She bas an exposed frontier of 1000 miles. |*%y States of the American Union, in perfect subordin-| population, the public men ot Can
with no nataral ‘defences for 800 milés sbove Quebec. /tion to the Government and Parliament of the Empire. chase the territories of the Uu
Alonjy the whole of this frontier line she is menaced or| hey. owe no allegiance.to Canada, are free from her an,}!arger than half of Europe. ‘They
pretingped by the groat Republic, with ‘thirty-four mil-{!gonism of races—trom her sectional rivalries~-from| Government of British Srogon an
hona of ii

have been under. fire? Those troops, i t
ober, officers of great ability, familiar with the art of are {roja them, they »aturally, desize to, preserve the|and

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Canadian frontier, be massed in a week, and thrown into|8°Urees without being involved in entanglements difficult)?

small force of volunteers and militia,éven when assisted by| ‘There is no reason why-Canada should not, whenever

Lil yor tke Valley | Had those Provinces acon under the control of, Canada

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f thé Upper Canadians, who. insisted, in violation of|some, years; but the signs of the times do not encourage
their own stipulation at the time of the Union, uponjus to break down a system of government which is
having a share GL Feprenentetias proportioned to their) working well, that we may try another experiment on @
Jnumbers, to be veadjuated and increased, afver each de-jgrand scale, without being driven by the necessity that
cenmal census, It was apparent to the French that, if coerced, or pnanernged by the accessories that aided,
fbin atl Buropé this demand were once conceded, they, would be ewan the founders of the great Republic.
nd was deeply od by the votes of the Upper Province, that the aseend-|, Let us see what these Canadians desire todo. They
inch took Nice, pear § which they had ever maintained by unity of action|are not, as we have shewn, very harmonious or homo-
Wine Prias of would be swept away, and that thenceforward their lau-|yoneous community. ‘T'wo-fifths of the population are
i a L vation Ene thei¥ institutions, their’ ‘educational establish-|Fremch, and. three-fifths English. ‘They are, therefore,
ws. se piel he at ments, would be completely at'the mercy of the major-|perplexed witly an internal antagonism which was. fatal
sha reaeak 130 ; relia and rectity we For ‘ten or fifteen years this question has con-|to the umity of Belgium and and, and which, unless
his Bitters Ne wire ly spares Belgigm, and does not ad. Pr sed the entire country; and while, in the Maritime|the fusion of races becomes rapid and complete, must
vance Bla honmdaliaa ta tea Whioe te did a blood rovinces, representation bag been quietly adjusted tolever be a source of woakness,..\Phey are abut in by
ii ennunies the Contine ei thet meet the wants of growing ‘communities without regard|frost from the outer world for five months of the year. ,
war wou vulge the at, we reatheito religion or origin, in Canada neither party would|They are at the snercy of a powerful neighbor whose
more freely when he yields to she dictates of prudence] yj rs { i Pcp 4 pe gb
Se caahenalll ; : 4 give way, and the battle has been fought with a bitfer-| population already qutnumbers them by more than eight;
"Tie public $0 RN tags ind SuiPoe aa retiytiuat ness and tenacity peculiarly characteristic of the couh-)to one, and. who, a quarter of a century hence, will pro-
res et the boundaries and rights of large dominuntt e ie a» gqpenly present winty-cight millioné se siximiliiecs on the
tios or the othér side of the cree on this ; and yet ieee penne Pa ieee aggravate d by another aoma}- ——— “ seen hate cooms amoral ; ye
: series Le . Jou Contrivance which is a pure Canadian invention.; Iy}such conditions as these ought to repress mordinate am-
strange to say, a measure of spolin unis opiation England, and in all the prt A ‘Colonies A yeah aig Se -| bition or lust of territory on the part of the public men

Faro! Pape w Rh tor tro yeake ty Hitoleed yeti tutions have been copied, a Cabinet is formed by a gen-|of Canada, The wisdom of Solomon and the energy
in British Ametich, seems to have beat ur ana ae tleman who leads the Government,and directs the policy |8nd strategy of Frederick the Great would seem to ba

fahdirs hote. ¢ of the country for the time being, but this simple mode|tequired to preserve and strengthen such \a people, if
The Provines of Canada is as large Ws Great Britain rapoly satisfies the conflicting races and rival sectionalism| formed, as it appears they desire to form mselves
France and Prussia put together, and will, if ever eo. {of Canada, For many years they have had two leaders}\nto ‘a new Nationality.” While they discharge their
pled, sustain 4 population ‘of 50,000 one Kas rite resting on double majorities, each side of the Cabinet duties as unobtrusive good neighbors to the surrounding

; ’ f responsible to its own division of the Provinces and, as|Populations, and of os subjects of the Empire, Great

toate sisted cto ae jah by Meaoden vo we + might readily be supposed, the consequences haye been|Britain will protect them by her energy in other fields
administrative talents of & Bismark o-4f a Louis Napo- interminable deadlocks, a great obstruction to business, |should the Province become untenable ; but it is evident

On ai : Dip Poland an exasperation of the ordinary conflicts incident to|that a more unpromising nucleus of a new nation can
ti en Sis woth paoceh ~ wo ey old nage! a representative system of government, often ludicrous|hardly be found on the face of the earth, and that any
statesmen’ for the Wéxt two. centuriee, Withdut ‘their co- and yexatious in the extreme. organized communities, having a reasonable chance to

_ From all these complications and difficulties the Mari- do anything better, would be politically insane to give

veting nibre land, or desiring to interfere with neigh- i | gt pk : :
bouring cqpumunities, Aéveloping their industry ip a|time Provinces are now free, and surely they may be 1 ered See and subject themselves to
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peaceful and legal manner, on either side, pardoned if they have no desire to be mixed up with) ""*
But Canada is not conspact. She has yet ‘only 3,-|them. Their system is very simple. Tbey governthem-}, ‘Thus situated, and borne down

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Br he ofa ‘and the moral sens¢ of Engl
wounded: When the Emperor of the ¥1
in return for the service rendered to I
England indignantly protested again
of territory. - yer anxious the &

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to

a public debt of
per head of their
TO) ~to pur-
Bay. Company,
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ancouver’s Island, .
Provinces divided from them by aninterminablé wilder-

habitants and a million of trained soldi ho {ber dual leaderships and double majorties—from her
“a “ae pnb ore rata ‘he . ness, and by the natural barrier ofthe Rocky Mountains

Accustomed to\?’eF-resurring politient crises and dead! oeks ; and, being
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great privileges they enjoy, and to develop. their re-

, by means of twenty railroads, pointing to the ‘They propose to rey Nova Scotia, New Bruns
sian

rince Edward I and Newfoundland—éoun

re, the Oa-|t0 unravel, and from which, when once enthralled, there|*¢verally as large as Switzerland, Sardinia, Greece,
Great Britain, appointing their Governors, Senators,

the Province. Whether, when they got .
nadians could drive them out, with their’ comparatively |™4y be no casy means of escape.

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Judges, and exercising over them unlimited powers. of
internal and external taxation. ; eT

the troops this country could spare, is amilitary question|she desires more territy, extend herself to the North*
which 1 will not undertake to decide, Distinguished|She may want breath, but is too long already. It i8| Truly the jublic men Canada are ambitious. Bis-
Members of Parhament; declare they could not: and|thought that she is indefensiblo—to extend her line of/mark and Léuis Napolé are pigmies in pon. |
that if Canada, thus overrun, is ever recovered to the|frontier is to multiply her difficulties—and surely it is|Presentin world their quarter of a
British Crown,sit must be after compaigns in other‘ di-|not wise, looking to Ler past: history, turbid and unquiet|ternal tur
rections, and a successful naval war, in whieh itisevident!ns it has been, to extend the area of her distractions ;|intermina
that that Province, being frozen for five months oljor to allow her to disturb the peaceful progress of their con
the year, and having no'ships or sailors: to: spare, can|neigbbors with whom she has no natural eomnection, and|and thei
render novassistatice, ) ai mw ost os . {fover whom she should be permitted to exercise no con-|hood, in, i:
One would wpease that the p country |trol, Her proper mission-would seem to be to cultivate| ward th ‘ on
80 placed—fo entirely An of the er of ac-jamicable relations with her intbere to: ful up -ber| Amnariae a8 to their domination, ‘and ex?”
cidents, so uaicuprnye and sparsely populated—-would |sparsely populated. to, eliminate from her pol-/pect the Bri ent to become responsible for
not be over anxiows to énlar their wehory dbaatre itical system the anachronisms of dual leaderships and|this hopefal policy by embodying it in an Act of Parlia+’
their responsibilities, even if they had displayed, in thé}double majorities, to control her Irish and Orange. fac-|ment. Some of them even go urther, and desire to
past, & fair average ascquaititance with the science of|tions, and to fuse into one race, by patient tact and mu-|seé & Prince of the Blood come out and preside over
government. Let us see if they can claim for much more, |tual forbearance, her Saxon, Celtic, and Norman ele-|this New Nation.
From the conquest by Wolfe in 1759 to the flight of/ments, If she can do all this, aud if controlled by the Let us examine the last propoisition first, as it involves
Papineau anc McKenzie in 1837-8, with the exception of|moral strength and physical resources of the Empire,|not only the peace of the Empire, but the happiness and
the two periods when the fear of invasion stilled, the|tho United States can be induced to let her alone for|dignity of the Royal circle which all are bound to pre-
voice of faction, the history of Canada is but the history |another half century, she may grow into a nation of some|setve. From the Peace of Paris to the present time the:
of internal srife between parties more or less acrimonious|respectability, although, in. presence of her powerful] boundaries of the British poss¢ssions on the American
and utcdmproinising. In the Lower Province 'the|neighbor, and with her long defenceless frontier, she|¢ontinent, when once defined, have been respected by the
French and English parties divided the legislature and}can never be anything more. That. she can ever. pro-|Government and people of the United States, and al-
society, and in the Upper, to the ordinary rivalries be-|tect, or successfully govern the other great Provinces, |though, when war arose upon other isstes, the conquest
tween Liberals and Conservatives, common to the Mother|already organized, or that may .be formed out of the|of the Provinces was attempted, with peace came the
Country and to all the Colonies, interminable strife, be- boundline territory still subjectto the authority of the|statu quo, and every year the growing commerce of the
twoen tho Orange aud the Irish factions have been added./Crown, on the American Continent, is an idea too pre-|two countries offers additional seeurities for its preser-
44 bitterly have Ney Line dary lm recap? that Toronto] posterous to require serious discussion. vation, In = rn cing our For the American
as sometimes been ‘disturbec armed orgahizations,| y, ine it . ; ;..|Government have to withstand pressure at all times
while at Kingston'the Prince of Wales was prevented an , ‘The, ee regen pig gpl from those who adhere to the Munro doctrine. Of late
from landing by an ahcompromising assertion of Protes+|qmbitious thay these Canadian politicians, but the Al-|*his party have been reinforced in two directions, by the
tant ascendancy. In 1837 and 1838 both Provinces) mighty scattered their Confederacy, and Set His seal|{manciors who see ina long line of frontier « certain
were convulsed by open insurrections, which were only|upon the policy which binds human ambition by lines of|!088 of revenue while high duties prevail, and by the
put down by the shedding of blood, and the suspension | natural defence and hemogencous popalations,, Charle-| *enians who affect to have discovered in the Provine os
of the Habeas Corpus Act and of the local constitutions, magne and Napoleon aspired to universal dominion put|the shortest road to Ireland. Hitherto the Government
and by the expenditure, at the cost of the Britigh Gov-|1),,i; experiments are not worth repeating., The British Of the United States has loyally resisted this r
ernment, of more than a million sterling. vi riuat et grown out of the energies of a superior| /f ‘matters remain as they are l think they will loyally
Tn 1841, the two Provinces were united, and it swag) eee so ted by slow degrees on all the fields of hu- resist it still; and will not, in the face of the world, a¢-
hoped the sévore lessons ofthe past would not-be lost| 4, oxertion with marvellous persistence and success ;|5¥™¢ the responsibility of provoking — war by any
upon the publid men of Canada; but, eight years after~ |). the English did not aspire to govern subject commu,|attempt to rectify boundaries, or interfere with pohtical
wards, their national, antipathies and personal rivalries) jities when they were only three millions of people—|*rangements which they have for eight. years solemnly
culminated again in acts of open violence. The Parlia-| yjon they were without a Navy, and while thelr own recognized. 9. a i
frontiers were su insecure that they had not a regiment| Bat if we begin, ina spirit of menace (which has been
to spare for foreign service. Many people believe tlat|'?° prevalent throughout these’ Confederation discus-
the British Empire is too large. This may or may not sions) to build up new nationalities, and to plaat Crown
be true, but there seems only too much reagoh to fear| Princes beside them, who can tell what may happen ?
that it must collapse whenever the dominion of the sca| flow long will the American pe tims cha kenged, be
is lost, and how to retain it would seem to be the ques-|!™different, and how long will their Government be able
tron for us all to consider at the present time. to withstand the pressure? No sooner is the Quebeo:
: > .. |scheme Jannched than we are met by another, far more
The example of the United States is often quoted in| \oinrehonsive and seductive, to: incorporate the DP
these discussions, and misleads a good many people on ro inte the Rentliic) And:bea ane P iti oh 09
both sides of the Atlantic. But how long would the ” an vnanimous a of the ft ensesdiatie 4
American Confederacy have been kept together had one y pS. pantera

; for a Repeal of the Neutrality laws. Th ropositi
State been large enough to dominate over all the others al ieatunally hors of the stab, and th ma 6 ey

—to appoint their Governors and Senators as these gen- : Seal f
Rag Odin propose,to do for us, or, ted, the, Can- see the two countries united in the bonds of peace should
eae! / : ‘| pray that all may be thrown into the fire.
stitution not grown naturally out of mutual sympathies)" gorora we seriously entertain the policy of making.
and teaphe ony bat had ae foreed ohaes po by Age one of our Royal Princes Viceroy or King of Canada,
by the an f tastbababt wee prerogative or by an arbit-lio¢ us ponder what is passing in Mexico at thé present
rary Act of Fartamens time. Louis Napoleon, in America’s hour of sore dis-
The common perils and gallant achievements of an|tress, thought to build up a ‘*New Nationality,” and
eight years’ war had welded the old thirteen States to-| Maximilian accepted the throne. | He bas worn what one
gether—had created for them a new ancestry—bad de-jof the nowspapers aptly deseribes.as a ‘* Crown of
tached them from the Mother Country, and given. them|Thorns” for a few brief years—his Empress is now in
a body of sdministrators, trained into respect for each France--and the Emperor can only sustain him on his
other's rights, and reputations, They had a boundless|tottering throne by risking an ee and bloody war
continent tooccupy. They hadno formidable neighbors|with a ver doubtful issue, ‘Will he do this?) We
to disturb them, and they went about the task of organ-|shall see. But come what will, enough is already known
izing the great Republic with an earnestness and delib-|to warn us from repeating the Imperial, blunder at the
eration worthy of all praise, Their work was a great|instance of certain purblind Canadian politicians who,
success. So longasthe Fathers lived, and while the|certainly have an original way of manitesting their,
second generation who had known and loved them,|attachment to the Sovereign by: proposing to overwhelm
were inspired by their spiritand animated by their ex-|ber family with humiliation and disgrace,
ample, the Constitution bore the strain of annually ex-| ‘Turning to tlie equally absurd proposition that Canada
pire of which she forms the'centre, should not be very|panding numbers and new organizations. Railroads,| should be aided by a British guarantee, to enable her to

ntary of in-
and strife--their double majorities and
locks—their’ unpeopled ‘terntory—
their high tariffs and heavy debt,
s frontier, they have the hardi-

¢ civilized world, to put fo:
ask their fellow Foca

containing the archives of the Province and a choice ¢ol-
lection of Colonial literature consumed—-the Governor
General and his Lady wero pelted through the streets—
a society was formed to promote annexation. to. the
United States, and American flags were ostentatiously
displayed from the windows.

‘The Maritime Provinces of British America are charge-
able with no such excesses. Jor a hundred years some
of them have worked omer Institutions in
peaceful subordination and devoted loyalty to the Crown
and Parliament of England; and, for a quartée of a cen-
tury, since Responsible Government was wisely conced-
ed to them by the Mother Country, they have developed
that system with skill and ability worthy of all praise.

in 1837, or had te been imbued with the spirit of dis-
aftection, they would have cut olf the troops marching
through them in mid winter; and, if a month, fifty thoa-
athisers would have crossed the American

ontreal, the complications would heve been

children dread the fire, it 1s not to be wondered at that
ts, sincerely attached to the Mother Coun-
try, and desiring, above all things, the unity of the Em-

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ESSENCES,
Gelatine,
Biking Powder,
Pickles and Sauces,
For sale by W. BR. WATSON,
City Drug Stora Deo, 20, 1865,

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anxious to place themselves under the domination and| Canals, Steamers and Telegraphs, then came in and as-|purchase and govern the Hudson's Bay Company's
control of a people whose conihict for the last quarter | sisted to bind the country more closely togethor ; but in|terntory, and that the should a ee ‘to extend
of a century, mot to put.too fine a pois upon it, has|eighty years, with all these aids mp « YR thegame|her authority over the organized. Provinces on the
been a little eccentric at all times, and occasionally peril-| was played out; and the same causes, which in every quar-}Pacifie, with power to assume thei? revenues, appoint
ous in the extreme. ter wt t ~ ole wont, and a. as every age, poe their Governors, se ma tor Rerracsen' and tax them

i a A. since jon |serted themselves, camo distinctly into view, marking |internally and externally, is reposterous
panne Motors. of er wy since the passage of the Union thr subjection even of the Great, Republic, to. the laws| and abdeots Suppose that Franes, with Udvee thirtge

strange antagooism bet the ’ “
Upper and Lower Provines® with whieh a population which the Creator, for some wise purpose, has establish-| millions of people, were to prépose to extend her
frontier line and her responsibilities over two thousand

de the tea may be pardored if t desi have [ed for the government of tho universe. It is true that,
Seaiog whavbvorye ie Theres nerd > ih hapaatnge by the expenditure ¢f a million of lives and of gest | additional miles. Suppose the people atthe Cape were

onivm of races arbitrarily. bound together, shaken b: four thousand millions of dollars, the country is still|to propose to govern half of Africayor that New i
incompatibility of pea sill ahe moment of rian nh otinally kept together ; but wlien hearts are estranged Satemeunenk to do with ber Maories, were:to!

i land interdsts are adverse, whien communities, baptized
ton, 46 Jal sn nee of Palginm, ond Hollany kane aoa? in blood and tears, find in a great calamity Over-recur+ a

full les to prove how indelibl li ,
hi Ay large pass of mee speak Rieder lag. ring elements of discord and reproach, the time is ra- Hilher of these suggedions would ‘be regdived: bya
f ge and obra Shier sources whose original water- pidly drawing on when separation is inevitable, and when| quiversal burst of ridicule in Kurepe) and yet

b new combinations will grow out‘6f. tho play of the pas-| say, the Canadian proposition, in gins it
Se Bae pet Ag Terriceet tal okncey of iticed nubielons which the wig itiind hay hitherto’ Veen monstrosity oF in proper ideas Ca
of|found powerless to control, Any ‘body who spends an} recived with general favour. es ae
ich |hour on ah ms Nao rei tn will oe as my hts to Auybody who looks at. the. Map of E

Province is composed, . Atthe start, the I'ren .{of haman beings as in Constantinople. entuckian | and intelligently searches its
rd the largest population, but the hae tea the is no mory like a Bostonian than “a Virginian is like @lyonn ie ite past record r

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