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. comment matte Nes + Tamey OW, DO} LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARKIVAL OF THE CHINA. ———— ~ r . -w?era . SU RRENVSt OF LHE SHENANDOAT F e Eu ean Times, Noe. 11) Pac avpoaraace in the Mersey of the Confe. a P st: Seenandeah, which has been : the Avlantic aad Paviie Oceans, r ing and preying Iw every umasia . ‘ the Federal comme: te of Amenca, r mite rreat civil war had ceased, wah wt every where regarded, in the preseat state 33 between Eagland and th e3 being untoward. Captain Wadiell, a ‘OmIamand(r, deliberate ¥ $ai.ea : Merser, sa.uted Her Majesty's shi; Donegal, and p.aced the Shenandoah in Capt Parater’s hands, informing him, it is said, that : the strong room of the vessel he would fin

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ail <n chrono perty taken from the had captured, for the t returned to th und his ¢ now at liberty. ternational law is or is nut aseinst Capt. Wad dell, he has undoubtedly earned the execration uf maakind by the course he has pursued since the evacuation of Richmond and the surrende vf Gen. Lee in the summer of the present year ive months have elapsed since that event, ant the cantain of the Shenandoah, thoush repeat

neters, mouey and other pro tarious veasels that h purpose of the sare Capt. Waddel!

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ediv taid that the war was over, refused to be lieve it, and contiaued his depredations. Iti

urged, as deevening his offeace, that his rm vases on the commerce of America since th« peace have been much more serious and de: tructive than duriay the war, and he has de:

troved so many whalers in Behring’s Strait

sod the adjoining coasts that the price of sperm |

vw | las advanced considerably in consequence Cavtain Waddell professes to have had no re liabie iuteliigence of the end of the war unti ie fell ia wita the British bark Barracoute, at f Aurust last, and then he steere: immediately fur Liverpool. It was known i: this country months aro that Captain Waddell! when informed at California of the t iumph o the Federal arms, refused to believe the stat: meat; aud why he rejected intellizence whic any ove else ercdited, and which mizht hav been ingerved from a long course of previou-

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evenia, it is not difficult to conceive. Th Loudon Tours of the Sth, referring to this case, ma'ces the following remarks, which wil exeite ecusiderable interest abroad, as the have done at home:—‘It would have bee

a reat relief to ourselves, thouch little to th advanta-e ef the United States, had the Sh

cadeah been simply excluded from the Mersey and ‘eft to roam the seas till she should hay tulien into the hands of her pursuers. As it is there ca. hardly be any lesitimate alternatiy Cant. Waddell and his 130 men car not be handed over as prisoners of war upo any hypothesis consistent with that of the wa beiuz atanend. Nor under aay circumstance given over to the United States suted under th:

nut one.

ean they be They mizht possibly be prose Foreica Ealistmeat Act, but experience ha shown the extre:ne difficulty of establishin: odences of that nature. The crime of whic they stand wceused —-supposinr them to hav wilfully ignored ihe termination of hostilities— is taat of piracy, and on this charge it j they my apprehended and trie fore an English Coart of justice.” very day that this articie anpeared, a telezran from the F weiza off e, add essed to the com mander of the Donegal, reached Capt. Payater © yueating that the captain and crew of the a le sed piratical vessel misht be discharged Chis was immediately done, and they have bee accordingly dispersed, no one knows whithe \ copy of Capt. Waddeli’s letter to the hea of the Government will be found elsewhere Ta it he defeads the course he has pursued, s jong after the war had ceased, on the groun: that he was without reliable information, and that when once convinced that the contest we actually closed, he determined to give the ve sel up. What has passed on the subject bi

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tween Mr. Adams and the British Government i+ not at present known. From the hastv wa)

in which the captain and the crew of the She- nandoak have heen liberated, it appears pro- hable that the representative of the United States washed his hands of the aTuir, and threy the whole conseyuences on our Government ; hut Of this we shall probab y know more b:-reatt

{in New Zealand aTairs are imoroving.— There has been some fizhtiag in the stron shold of the aborizines where a pah has been storm- ed, and « native towa occupied by the colonia! t-oops, which are said to have behaved admir- ably. Ta the East Coast District martial la has been proclaimed; but the war in Waikato has beea declared at an end, and after confis- eating certain lands in Taranaki, the Governo: is ied a proclamation of amnesty aad peac We learn from Melbourne the failure of neso- tations betweea the Council and the Levislative Assem'ly on the Tarif and Appropriation Bil's.

Now that the misund rstauding between E..sgiand aad Brazil has been satisfactorily ed justed, the London Times devotes a long arti- ele to the subject, by way of harmonizing the renewed alliance. “ Brazil,”’ says that journal, **i3 one of it: own best customers. Cunsider- ing the smalluess of its population, our can mercial trausactions with the empire are on an extraordinary scale, and the intercourse is siri- gularly profitable to both countries. Of the whole imports into Brazil, a good half comes from Great Britain or British possessions; 0° her whole exports, nearly a third finds its way t» Eigiand. Cottos, suzur aud hides ave very useful commodities to us, and we return in ¢otton staffs more than we receive in the raw material.”

A serious accident has befallen Sir Charles Wwod. He was riding with his hounds in the nei tibourhosd of Doncaster, when his hat fe|i of, which eaused his horse to shy, and ultima’ e- iv threw his rider arainst a stone wall, with which the head of the unfortunate gentiemon came in contact. He was severely injured,— $9 acverely that for a considerable time he was inseosible. Such is the brief outline which the telegraph sends. The accident is likely prove serious, because, long before it happened, Sie Charles Wood was in indifferent health, and his friends feared that he wouid be ob ized

in consequence to relinquish office. In the present state of the Ministry, this accident is of more impo:tance than in a merely personal

sense. A Cabinet Minister, and the Secreta tor ladia, ouzht not only to be in prime heal: but equai to aay emergency that might arise ; and with a coastitutivu already considerably shattered, and with advancing years, the p habilitvy is that the duties which Sir Charles Wood has lone dis ‘harzed must hereafter Le comunitted to other hands.

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In reference to the Alabama claims, the Times gays it is nnsossible fur the American ‘rovernment to abandon these claims, but quite possible fur a Government to yield nothing, et do nothing. W2 must prepare to be told that the United States will abate no jot in its demand, and wil! reserve the risht of enforcins them; but stil, when temper of people is calmed, whea commerce has had time to renew links which biad the two uations together, when the memories of the war fade into the past, there will be little disposition to dwell on aafortanate, but inevitable casualtics.

Daily News confidently dismisses aupposition v ] I

that Alabama claims cau becoine a direct ease |

of wer, but trusts that something will yet be done ty Brin sg disouts to early practical settle- ment, for itis oue that can, in no other w uN ln: disposed of.

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‘|seem to realize that the Herald speaks the ‘} sentiments of the great masses.

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precedent ia law writers for guidance az to fa- ture coutrol, management and final disposal uf the vessel, but found uone. Finding the author ity under which he acted, questionab.¢, be im- mediately ceased cruising, and shaped his course for the Atlantic. He did not feei justi- jhed ia destroying the vessel ; but, on the coutia- ry, be thoucht the ship, should revert to tx ,Americau Government. Therefore, he sou shit | Liverpool! to tearn the news, and if without the | Government, to surrender the ship, with yune, }stores and apparel complete, to the British Gove umeut for such disposition as it should |deem proper. The Shenandoah was surrendered to the! | Aneziean Consul on the 10th inst., who took | }/0 mal possession and placed her under Capt. | 'Freeman and a crew of his own selection to | ;convey the ship to New York. | _—-—-——~» «- ~<a +o eo - - > i

BRAZIL. | |

Advices from Brazil announte that the town} of Uruguay had been unconditionally surren-| dered to the Brazilians and their allies, and| that the Pararuayan garrison, 6000 strong, | had been made prisoners of war.

The Times says the progress of the war is | , more satisfactory than had been expected, con- | sidering the bravery of the Paraguayans. The juews of an unconditional surrender of a large | Paraguayan garrison is especially important, and looking at the previous advantages gained iby the allies, strong expectations may be en- /tertained that it will naturally terminate the | contest.

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i cn RNERR ERNST ee THE FENIAN MOVEMENT ON CANADA.

Toronte Correspondence of the New York Herald

FENIAN ARRESTS—-PLOT TO ROB THE BANKS.

Oa Thursday the Leader startled the publig |with the anuouncement that two men were ar- rested and in jail, who had divulged a plot, in | process of forming; to rob the banks. It was j asserted that seven emissaries from the United | States Head Centre were here planning the }campaign upon the baaks. As a matter of | course, this startling news put everybody on the | qui vive of excitement, and the authorities, civil }and military, doubled their precautions to pre- i vent a surprise. These men are still locked up. [ do not know how far their confessions impli- cate other pa:ties; but this I do know, that as yet the detectives, who are lying about every- where, dozing the heels of every American |* butter merchant” in the city, have failed to jarcest any of the hundred men who were said |to be organizéd for the purpose of replenishing | the treasury of the Irish republic by borrowing | from the Canadian banks. | This expose comes at a very opportune mo- ‘ment, when every little ten by nine newspaper in the country is assailing the correspondent of jthe New York Herald rezarding his sensation despatches. It is merely a confirmation of news | published in the Herald three weeks ago. So [ apprehend it will be the case of the other items telezraphed you. Every one of them| jin time will turn out to be correct. In one of} imy despatches the telegrapher made me say \*the Ovanzemen are arriving for the defence jot this district.” The orizinal read, “The | Oran semen ure arming for defence.”’ Quite an | important error, you will see.

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THE EXCITEMENT SPREADING. The Fenian furore has been chiefly confined to the cities; but since the uppearance of Ozle | it. Gowan’s manifesto it has spread over the jentire provinces. I caxnot open a newspaper jthat does not contain labored and anxious ar- i ticles upon the apprehended invasion, and the iprobability of war between the United States jand Eagiand, growing out of the Alabama claims. Every paragraph in the editorial co- | ‘ummns of the [Herald relative to Cannda is seized }and commented upon with as much concern as }we might expect were the Herald edited by President Johnson, Seward and Stanton. They

Hence they have good cause for alarm.

Is TRE CONQUEST OF CANADA POSSIBLE?

**Can the Fenians take and hold Canada?” | ‘3 a question that is asked and answered hourly. |The pros and cons are fully discussed, and as far as my observation goes, it has been very | enerally admitted, even by the most loyal, ‘that Canada can be conquered easily in the ; Winter season. I will state some of the reasons judvanced. There are about 10,000 regular |troops in Canada, and perhaps 50,000 volun- | teers could be got together to repel an invasion. | But scattered over a frontier of 800 miles, from | Montreal to Detroit, this force of 60,000, even lif every man could be depended upon, would searcely make a skirmish line to impede the jadvance of 100,000 or 150,000 well armed | Fenians, provided they were properly handled.

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their forces at Rouse’s Point, say 25,000, 9,000 at Osdenburg, 15,000 at Watertown or Cape Vincent, 20,000 on the Niagara border, and 10,000 each at Detroit and Port Huron, and assault Montreal, Prescott, and cut the Grand Trunk, Kingston, Wiudsor and Sarnia simultaneously, ean any one familiar with the inefficiency otf the Canadian volunteers doubt that those cities would become an easy prey to 50,000 or 160,000 veteran Irish from the battle ields of Sherman, Grant and Sheridan? If this invasion was made in December or Janu- ary, when they could cross upon the ice, the whole line of the frontier could be carried with a few hours’ fighting, and before the Canadians could concentiate their forces at the points threatened. Indeed, an attack of this kind at different points would be more danzerous to the Canadians than if the invaders entered in but one or two columns, for to meet a variety or plurality of columus they would be forced to divide their commands into smal! detachments. While these cities aie being carried, che column on the Niayara could cross, and by two days’ |march surprise and capture Hami.ton, which jis undefended by forts, and then, swinging | | around to the rizht, sweep down upon Toronto, and pay a visit to its inhabitants, throwing out forces upon the rizht and left, and forming |junctions with the columns that enter Kingston |and Port Huron. ,

With the whole liné of the frontier once in ‘their possession, together with the Grand | Prunk, which Mr. Brydzes would no doubt lease to the Fenians on easy terms, the conquest |of the country would be very certain. Aud this without the assistance of the Canadian | Fenians, who, holding positions in the volun- | teer force, could aid the brethren in more ways ithan one by quietly and silent!* disjointing

| artillery. With their government once estab!ished, the | United States could follow British precedent, jand recognize the new government us bellige- jrents, and American capitalists would not be } slow to fit out Alabamas and Shenandvoabs for |the use of the Fenians to prey upon British | commerce. Let the Brotherhood once possess |4 foothold in Canada, and there they would )make their base from which to fit out an expe- jdition for the liberation of Ireland. No one |can seriously believe that England would at- jtempt to dislodye the Irish from Canada. It ; would be paving “tuo much for the whistle.” | But, then, who Leowhs but the possession of the Canadas would satisfy the Fenians. It is a ‘eich svil there, potatoes grow large, so do babies, and once planted there, the Insh race }could have a country to themselves, to which they could invite their friends in Ivelaud to |\oin them; aud, under the protection of the | United States, they would grow into wom dous propo:tious, before whose lustre in a half | ceutury even England would pale.

IHE AGENT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

both Governments confess theinselves unable s oo . to find any Sut a violent solution of the differ. | in this city is unknown to me, but he evidently sauces; but there is a stat: of nominal peuce ‘does not know his business. I observe that he

wich has many wo s+ digadvauta yes than wor.

The liberation of the Captain and crew of ib® Shenand ah is said to have been uneonci- togel, the British Government hein g of opiuion that there wes no le sal ground upoa which they could be detained.

Captain Wadoll’s letter to Eari Russel! is pub ished. Fond himself iu the Arctic and Cksutsz Seus, far removed from the ordinary channels of ccmmer @e. circumstance, he was @azared jn acts of war tilithe 28th June, eutirely icnorant of the re vers# suffered by the Con

geunce Gu the 2ud Ausnat, fiom the British | border last year.

bak Barracouta. He

wher ye the iatellireuee was t-te. bt hace heen svasil'e to have taken

sovneate with gonrs European port aud lenrn PRECAUTIONS OF d

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It says, in obedience to orders he |

| Permit me to say that he simply utters what is ‘untrue for the purpose of screening himself from jueslect of duty.

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atesand the tcral| The order has not yet been published, but I &ijteration of the Government under wh. se | !earn it provides fur the establishment of a force urders be acted.” He received the first inte!li-|

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desisted immediately quiet, and do not show themselves much. from fusteer acta of war, until he eould Com: |

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PM dilirent'y sought-for: gan—bas the followins :-—

er that the Jerald reports ave all sen-

, On Saturday oiders were received from the Tu conseyueoce of this awkwa d/| Adjutant General for the volunteers to proceed ; iia the front for active outpost duty.

sutional; that there is no excitement here.

Auy one reading the news- papers will see that Cauada is fearfully alarmed. f there is cv alarm in Canada, allow me to ask why are the

VULUNTEERS ORDERED TO THE FRONTIER.

This looks like anticipation of warm werk this winter.

of frontier pickets similar to that seut to the The Fenjans here ave very

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«Of whatever information the Government mar be in possession, it 1s quite ¢.ear that it, has been sutliciently impo tant to induce promt and decisive precaution, v hile it wou d be | unwise to mazuify the Fenian movement into | vast importance, It would be criminal to neglect | the positive manifestations which are open and | undis ruised in the nei shbourins States. Thee is little wisdom in endeavoring to disregard a danver as to feel neediess alarm. It is, there: | wiih sat sfaction that we see the Adjutant- |

iore, ; ; ordering out seve:a: |

cral’s Department

scompanics of volunteers fi the Province. These will be stationed along the frontier, and will effectua!iy prevent any |

tillibusterins upon the border towns. Infor-| mation has been given on two or three oc: casions that a raid upon certain places was in contemplation; and athough nothing has transpired to corroborate the notice given, it is quite possible that to the preparation conse- quent upon the knowledge acquired was the ground of security. * * ° * Prevention is at all times better than cure, and we sincerely hope that the military force which the Govern- ment is prudently sending to watch the frontier will cause the entire abandonment of any wild and visionary project of aggression or plunder. Let all who have been persuaded to entertain such an intention rest assured that they are eutering upon & most dangerous course. A raid upon Conade would be most wanton and unprovoked, and would be avenzed to the last man who should be caught in the attempt. No mercy would be shown to the perpetrators of so atrocious an outrage, or sympathy for the weakness which permitted itself to be deluded ito the paiticipation in so black a villainy.” —~-_——-- —~> o- <> +o oO —__—_—— ——

THE EXECUTION OF WIRZ.

Late American papers contain, in addition to the official proceedings, findings and sentences of the court in the Wirz case, and the authorization of hia execution, some particulars prior to the ve- We find it stated that: —

“After the reading of the order was completed, Wirz conversed with those ou the platform with seeming calmness and self-possession, and it was remarked that he bad a smiling countenance. To bis spiritual advisers be said: “ Tam inneeent. I have to die, but I can die ke a man. I have hope in the future. IT bave nothing more to say.” His legs and hands were tied, the nouse passed around the neck, and the black eap placed over | his face. He stuod erect, without faltering, evi- deatly having nerved himself for the solemn event. Phose ou the platform retired ty the railing, leaving the doemed man in the centre of the structure. After a few mowents of profound quiet, the drop, ata preeoucerted signal, fell. The sound thus oeeasioned, having reached the ears of a promiscuous crowd outside the Old Capitol geounds, was respouded to by repeated shouts of approbation. The convict iinmediately after fall- ing Was considerably convulsed in his legs, but the agony was sven over. He hung about fifteen minutes, and was then cut down, the body laid upeu a stretcher and conveved to the prison, where it was placed in a coffin and transterred to Father Boyle for interment. His neck was breken by the fail. The proceediags occupied about three quarters of au heur,”

currence of the latter.

Mr. Schade, who acted as one of Wirz’s coun- sel, and who exerted dimself consid rably to ob- tain a commutation of the sentence of death,

| states that on the night of the 9rh, Father Boy le | jand himself were called upon by several persons,

whe cominnnicated the information, purporting te

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strong in their pride of apdism —a new sect,

anti-clerical demagogues, opinion and eager lor propag in feet, whe aim at “ehanging the heart and —that is to say, the faith and

wind of Treland” feeling of the people—even more than its ~—e ment. ‘Thie eect is altogether novel in Trish his- tory and its members have already done too mueh to retard, in Ireland, that {ull enjoyment of reli gous liberty and equality which prevails in Ca- aoda, Australia, and in other British colonies.

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Che Gxvawminer. POPPA PPP LLL ALLL ALL ADL I ALL AE Charlottetown, November 27, 1865.

FREE TRADE WITH THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN WESTINDIES, BRAZIL AND MEXICO.

Oxe of the most important missions ever undertaken, as affecting the interests of these Colonies, is that which is now on the way to Great Britain, with the view to arrange a sys- ‘tem of reciprocal free trade between the British American Provinces and the above named counties. In September last, our readers will, perhaps, remember, a Commercial Confederate Council was assembled at Quebec, for the pur- pose of making such arrangements as might lead to a renewal of the reciprocity treaty with the United States; and, in the event of that failing, to seek for other markets for the sale of Colonial productions. The only decision come to by the Confederate Council in regard to the Reciprocity Treaty, was—-that the Pro- vinces —represented at the Conference-—(and not one was unrepresented)—should only con- sent to the renewal of the Treaty precisely as it was framed in 1854; and that the United States—~should the Government at Washington be inclined tu enter into new treaty stipulations— should not be allowed to have any more fayour- able terms than our American cousins had un- der that treaty. Trade with the West India Is- lands, British and Foreign — including Cuba, of course — with Brazil and Mexico — was then deemed hizshly practicable; and if it could be established on sound principles of reciprocity, would more than compen- sate for the loss of the American market. With the view of solving this question, the Government of Great Britain communicated | with the Spanish, Brazilian, and Mexican Go- vernnrents; and to such advantage was, we understand, the communications conducted, as induced the Brirish Government to invite the Colonies to send Delegates to the countries with which free trade is proposed te be opened up. The invitation has been accepted. The Delegates are now on their way to England, where they will be invested with embassadorial

come from the Cabinet, to the effect that if“ Wirz would acknowledge that Jeff Davis was connect- ed with the attrocities at Andersonville, bis sen- tence would be commuted.” Although, so the despatch says, Mr. Schade did not place full con-

relate it to the prisoner at his fast conference with hiu.

* Mr. Schade, you know IT have always told yan I did not know anything about Jaf Davis. “He had no convection with me as to what was done at Andersonville, and if I kaew he had, I would hot become a traitor agaiust him or any one else lu save my life.”

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Tur MekpDeReRs oF Captain Benson, oF GRAND Mavan. — The excitement during the final proceedings was intense, but not demonstra- tive, When the Jury returned to the box, the Court-room was crowded to oveiflowing—but every breath even waa hushed while the great audience awaited in death-like stillness the result Only two meu seemed unmoved — the mate and the cook. The three prisoners steod up while the venerable Prothonotary, in the precise and tormal phraseology of the law, demanded the verdict of the Jury. When the foreman answered first, respecting the mate, he spoke so indistinctly, from agitation evidently, that it was generally supposed he said “not guilty.’ Everybody beut forward ia quick surprise, and his Honor the Chiet Justice asked the foreman avxiously wha: he had said. “ Guilty, my lord,” came this time too distinctly to be mistaken, People seemed half afraid to look at the mate: bat he never moved a muscle—astill looked straight before him as before—yet those near him saw his eye Kindle with a strange wild brilliazey for a moment, ax if the last gleam of hope was flashing up out of his heart forever, or as if his brain had burned with @ momentary delirium.

As for the cook, a cast-iron statue could net have been wore impassive. He had sat during the trial as a wan might sit alone in a raiiway ear, listless, content, wrapped in his own passing reflections, and taking no note of what was golug ou around him. While the jury were out tne spirits seemed actually to rise. He turned his black eyes with a defiant, sometimes almost a humorous, expression around him. He even, it was said, chided the wretched-looking German handcuffed to him for not “keeping up” better. When standing up to hear the verdict, his face had not a line of apprehension or constraint in it —he did not even attend to what was going on Had a fly buzzed bebind him he nught have turned bis bead, but the word of doow uttered in front of bim altered his featuves ag little as the idle breeze alters the hard outlines of a rugged ruck.—Halifar Citizen.

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FENIAN INFORMATION FOR THE BRerisuers.

—A correspondent writing from New York, sends the following statement to the London Times :—

The head of the order bere is a wild looking young man, named O'Mahony. He has an ottice, “headquarters” it is styled, n Duane street, No. 22. Leailed there a few days age, and saw him He was seedily dressed, and had that familiar, slovenly, lounging air that distinguishes those hangers-on of small politicians and petty courts here, whe are kuown by the familiar name of *buminers.” He told me that the order number- ed over two hundred thousand persons; that they had money and arms; that no rehyious test was required of the members; that their object was to liberate Ireland; that their great cause of discoutent was the laws of entail and of primo- xeniture, Which prevented the poorer classes in Ireland trom becoming owners of the soil; that the United States government knew what they were about, and would not intertere with them; that the erganization had been in existence se- veral years, but that notning practical had been done until the late war kad inured their men te arma. Dhis was about all L could get frow bin.

When f interposed objections to the scheme he smiled, and said that they had thought of every- thing. They would first take Canada, and by thai means obtain shipping, &e.

All this appeared to me to be mere nonsense, and with thai impression J leit him. But 1 as. certained that wagon loads of muskets are driven up to his door every day, sent up stairs to be in- spected, and then driven away again. Exrpressmen with remittances for money are also constantly in attendance ox him. ‘Two of them came in while | wus talking to him. One package contained twenty-tour and the other three dollars.

These facie prove to me that, however wild the scheme is, it bas plenty of adherents, aud faithful ones, too.

My correspondent in Washington informa me that O'Mahony 8 statement eomeeruing the indit- terenee of the government is true: that a leading officer of the Treasury intormed him that the sub- ject had been cancassed in high official quarters ; that it had been observed thut the agitation would produce a flew of capital from England to this countty—a thing very much to be desired and that when England noticed the vccurrence of the inevit- able phenomenon she would let Canada go rather than prolong the agitation, &c.

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Wat THe Fenxtays geatty Erreer.— The last Toronto Freeman (R.C.) says: Genu- ine religious equality, strong in the Colonies, must, sooner or later, by the were effect of time, prevail in Ireland, too. That waa the main stake for which our fathers fought ; aud vow it is with- in reach. But we have in the way the worst ob- stacle the devil has ever juvented for ihe Inish— an irreligeus revolutionary seeiety, in which pa-

triotism takes the garb of iudifferentism or hosti-

Capt Wirz, in reply, said :—

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THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. |

The Quebec Chronicle~a Government or-'

lity to religion. This is the enemy of the Irish cuuse in our time ; aud it is that every man should combat first and foremost. It is net “ honest

fidence in the report, he considered it his duty to |

powers as representatives of Great Britain, as | well as representatives from the several pro-

| vinces whence they proceed. They. will then | ° . : ; . | be conveyed in one of Her Majesty’s ships to

jthe British West Indies, to the Spanish posses- Brazil and Mexico. :

| Canada sends three representative: the Hon.

| William McDougall, Provincial Secretary, and } > > .

}sions in America, to

jtwo other gentlemen not connected with the | Government, whose names we have not yet | seen announced. New Brunswick sends one lor two; Nova Scotia, the same; and this Is- | land sends one im the person of the Hon. W. H. | Pope, who left here on Wednesday night last for Halifax, to take passaze in the English If it were desirable and proper for our Government to accept the invitation of the Imperial autho- ritie-—and we think they could not, without a gross breach of cow tesy and dereliction of duty, have neslected it—we do not know that in the whole Executive Couneil they could have found

steamer then shortly duc at that place.

(the mission than Mr. Secretary Pope.’ His very extensive tip, which will oecupy a pericd of five or six months, will cost this Colony a pretty round sum of money—not less, we should think, than five hundred pounds sterling; but if, in the event of free trade negotiations being concluded with the countries referred to, Prince Edward Island should have the good fortune to be included in the new arrangements, the money will be well invested; and in any case, its loss will not ruin the Colony.

We have always advocated in these columns the principles of free trade—we hailed the Re- ciprocity with the United States as a great boon—we should be very glad to see it renew- ed; but Brother Jonathan sulkily refuses to renew it, and it is consoling to know that there are other countries in the world with which there is a prospect of trading besides Brother Jonathan’s large domain. The West India Islands, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba, will take nearly every article which our fields, forests, and fisheries can produce ;—lumber and fish will find most remunerative markets there ; oats, oatmeal, potatoes, poultry, butter, eggs, pork, beef, hams, meat provisions of all kinds, ~—will find a ready sale in the conntries with which negotiations are now about to be commenced. Brother Jonathan proposes to lock his door azainst the admission of these articles, unless we pay a high fee for opening the door. We buy his sugar and molasses, and other tropical productions, at second hand, and at a very high price. If we can get these things from the countries in which they are raised, at a low price, and without Custom House charges, profits and commissions, we shall gain immensely by the change in the channels of trade, and be perfectly independent of our angry cousins over the border. In that case, the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty would not be very severely felt by Canada and the Maritime Provinces; and it would afford an apt illustration of the old adaze about a sulky fellow cutting off his nose to spite his face.

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TENANT LEAGUE LITERATURE.

We have not been an attentive reader of the recherche literature which emanated from the shining lights of the Tenant Leazue during their short, fitful and not honourable career ; and it is probable we have lost, fi om, time to

aman better qualified to discharge the duties of

of a piece of land, was to be the first *judye of its value; the seller, it was announced, should take the price offered, or forfeit his claim to the annual value of his land. The law and its officers were defied — and defied with violence in some cases —and the country was dis sraced by seeing bearded men blowing frantically through tin trumpets whenever their settlement happened to be visited by strangers who might be suspected to be Sheriff's officers. We took the ear'iest opportunity, after the formation of the League, to protest against the danerous principle of repudiation on which it was based. We were scoffed at for our pains. We exposed the criminal folly to which it was giving rise in the tumultuous assemblaze of the tin trumpet- ters; and we warned the infatuated people that dark and dismal times would assuredly come

}upon those who so foolishly set their faces

azainst the law. More scoffing from the Leasuers —and abuse from the stump orators of the “R. Stewart” species, with the applica- tion of foul names—followed our honest warn- ing to the deluded tenants. We think, however, we have rendered some service to the country in preventing the pestilent thing of the League from spreading; and we have no doubt that some of the victims who are now suffering ex- treme privation to pay the heavy bills of costs which their folly has brought upon them— io their inmost hearts regret that our words of warning were not accepted in the spirit in which they were given.

The resolution to which we have made refer- ence above is a curious composition, taking it as a literary thing. It might pass muster for a speech or an address from the great Sanhe- dvim of the League — or even, on a pinch, for a leading article in Ross's Weekly ; but it reads as little like a resolution as anything we have ever seen. Still, it is important as being a confession—(the last dying speech and confes- sion, perhaps, )—-that the Leazue was altogether in the wrong in advising poor tenants to resist the law. Here is the resolution, as passed at the last meeting of the so-called Central Com- mittee on the 7th instant :—

“ Resolved, That, on account of the high-handed acts of the present Government, in colleeting rents at the bayonet’s point, and reviving an obso- lete lew relating to the service of Legal Process, the Central Board permit all tenants belonging to the Union to satisty their landlords’ claims for the present, if they are disposed todo se. Rather than witness the scenes of misery, cruelty and bloodsbed that would probably follow from eol- lecting reuts oy a military force, they recommend tenants te commit no breach of the law. And, having done their duty, by making a fair and equitable offer tor their lands, te rely on the honor and integrity of the Britieh Government to tulfiith ir promise, by redressing our oft-admitted grievance. In the meantime, those who have been put to expenses by their connexion with the Tenant Union, will be assisted, as far as the funds wil allow, on application to the Central Board. Our future policy will be made known by circular {in the course of a few weeks.”

The word “obsolete” im the first sentence of the foregoing “resolution,” so called, was evidently put there at random, the writer not knowing its meaning.

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The law to which re- ference is made, and of which, indeed, we do not approve, is quite a new law, not by any means an old and disused statute, which the use of the word “obsolete”? would signify. But let mere style and composition pass: the Lea zuers are not the people to have their wise heads bothered about the meaning of words. The pith of the resolution is simply this—the tenantry are at length permitted to do right by satisfying the well understood claims azainst them; and if wrong-doing in resisting those claims “ by their connection with the Tenant Union,” has brouzht them into trouble, they will be “assisted as fur as the funds will allow.’ There is superlative impudence in this granting of permission to poor dupes to pursue honest courses after they had been en- courazed to pursue foolish and dishonest ones: and we fear there is little charity to be looked for by them behind tuat saving clause in re- ference to “the funds.” Why not blmt out the honest truth at once, and say that “the funds” will be dispensed to the misguided tenants as far as the necessities of R. Stewart & Co. will allow? There was great boasting some months ago shout the riches of the League— thousands of pounds they were said to possess; and so large was the sum at: their disposal that they had to use the Bank vaults for its safe keeping. The object of this boast- iig was well uade st'ol; some hinlreds of boys and men had been befooled ont of their dollars, which had a peculiar attraction in the eyes of R. Stewart & Co., and it was hoped, we believe, that hundreds more would be got to follow their example. There is no doubt that the head Leazuers will, for a little while yet, try to “raise the wind,” by saying that they intend to help the distressed tenantry placed in distress by following their bad advice. But we implove the unfortunates net to put any dependence upon receiving help from the League. Dishonesty is stamped upon their proceedings — there is no truth in them ~ and any future appeal for money that may be made by them should be regarded as prima facie evidence of intentional fraud — an attempt to obtain money under false pretences. Never since the Lea gue was organized have the publie been made acquainted with the receipts and expenditure of that body, honest!y audited. It may be said that the queer set of people called the Central Commitice know exactly “the way the money goes ’’—and comes—and are satis- fied with the good financial management of the affair; but the general public who have been asked indiscriminately to subscribe to “the funds” have an undoubted right to know what has become of the money—whether R. Stewart & Co. have appropriated the whole of the bal- ance left from incidental expenses, or how much of it, to their own use — and how much of it has been dissipated in sendinz artful fools like Sandy MeNeill to scour the country for dupes. This information ought to be given to the public, in any case, but especially before an- other shilling be asked for—if the Lea rue have yet vitality enough and a plentiful lack of shame to set out upon anoter hezziny exped'tion.