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I30 I. P ION. . 9—3.“

“'e do n lurch much import- ance ol‘ \‘alrto to what is Fifitl oi l'an: 'lllr‘ press of the United States. bill the. York 'I'lt'liune of Saturday week has an article on " 'I'he llolliinion North oi us.“ which wceannot l'r-l’l. Ill lronl copying. It will be seen tlult the Tribune. which lolly admits the existane’e ol elements that on- due the conic-duration with strength, 31% pretiatcs the importation ol tile vet-put ne- golutions which have resulted III the acquisition by Canada of tile lludson llay Territory :—

“ It cannot be denied tlrniiil‘ the effects to the Imperial and lloruinion Govt-yu- ments are succcsslul irl cementing a lnrron of the British North Arliericrrlr l’rovinc -s. the result will be a very strong empire. When we speak ol the strength ot thrspro- spretivc empire. however. we must not be understood as meaninga strong govern» uicnt, b bed by armies alrd ships oi war, and m: B's-d by Imlrl and ablostatesnren, {or in all these things it would probably be weak, but as strong in possessing the resources of an extensive and ll‘uitllrl ter- ritorv. Within a few days the cubic has inforincd us of the settlement of the dif- licalty in relation to the Hudson‘s Ilay Company‘s 'l‘erlitory. by which that vast region is to be ceded to Canada. It is now two centuries since tliat Company \v-rs formed, and although its claims to terri- torial rights have. of late years. been dc~ tried by manyemhlcnt lawyers in England. -it has never been practically disputed. That claim is now to be extinguished. upon the payment oi 1300.000 sterling, and already the Canadians are talking ol providing some sort ofgovcrunrcnt lol' the Red liiver Settlement. and taking irnrlie- tliatc steps to check Americarl encroach-

merits along the Western lronticr. Can- ada’s best delense against Ame ms is

tlle good faith of the boiled St: es; but in regard to this region. it is really as val- uable as one oi our own North—Western States. Fol'yerli's the country has been systematically misrepresented by the llud- son‘s Iiay Company. rlllrl its vallrc and illi- portaace. even now. is only irnpertcctly known.

“ Simultaneously with the settlement of the North—West qucslon is the movement in the legislature ol Nenlouudland tojoin the confederation and an agent is now on his way to Ottawa. to negotiate with the Dominion (iovcrnlncllt lor the acceptance oi the terms proposed by the authorities of the island. These terms. thouin lrol entirely acceptable to Canada, are not so unusual as to interposo ilrsuper: Jlt: ob- stacles to the end iir vi- w, and greed to, either willi or without lirodilication. will probably be ratilied by tile people oi Newfoundland at an elcclloll intended to be held ili November. Should the move— ment result in llro transfer of the Province to the Dominion. ].ab 'ador, which is :l dependency of Nuwlouiidland. would oi course become a part at new empire. and Prince Edward Island would almost be coerced into adopting a similar course. The Dominion would thus gain control oi the extensive lisheries of these islands. and the 'alne of its resources would be greatly enhanced. Asido lroiu its lislr- eries, Newfoundland is oflittle importance. The hull: oi the people of the island live in a state of squalid and abjectnilscry. which is often aggravated by tlro failure of tile fishing voyages. .llut the minerals are. now attracting some notice. and ii the mines should prove really valuable. the poor oi Newlonndland might reap a more certain substance under the fostering care of the Dominion than they have cverbccn able to obtain iil their half independent condition. Annexation tn the l7rlitcd St' es in a thing not desired by the people of this country, unless llceiprocal interests indicate its necessity ill the case of any ol the provinces. and c\ n then it would boa subject ofgrnvo deliberation. 'I‘lrc Ameri- can people will not interposo any obstacles iii the way of tho consolidation oi the Brit- ish North American Provinces if their mutual inte' s dictate tllis polio , and where, unlike the caso ofNova Seol‘ l, a yoke has not been put upon the rice s ol all unwilling people. It Newloundland and the Dominion oI Canada lind Recipro- cal advantages ilr Union. let them unite upon terms agreeable to themselves.

‘ 'I‘ho Canadians seem to have a passion for re: lestate. and with such fair prospects for the acquisition oi Newionndland and the llurlsou‘r-l Ilay 'I‘erriuwy are just now

d' cting their gaze \vestw t. and pre- d rtg the annexation ol the Pueblo pro-

Tllese. too. may collie under the government of the Canada poliliei . An empire so great in extent alrd (ll\'t ed rrl resources would form a llrerne l'or Domin- ion Day ovations which even otlr own Fourth oi July orators could scarcely i‘li‘itl.‘

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l‘lAltIlIEl! Woiinx‘s I‘rlor'l-znrv Btu..— Mr. Russell (lurncy‘s 'Alzti'l'ied Women’s Property llill‘ has just been ism-d. Stari- ing with the assertion that the law oi pru- perly and contract with respect to marrie- ed women is unjust in principle. and presses with peculiar severity upon the poorer classes of the community, the liill provides that a married woman shall be capable of holding. acquiring. and deal- ing with real arid personal estate, ol con- ~ ing, of string ruld beingsucd. as it she

I single woman. Every women who in: lires alter the passing of the Act will have at d hold all property whether real or personal, posse. cd or rrcquired before or alter marriage, II o lroln the debts arid obligations of her husband, from his corr- trol and disposition as if she Were a single woman. Every woman married bcloro the adoption oi the Act would be entitled to have and hold all property accruing to her alter the passing of the Act. free lroin dobls, obliv'uiolrs, rrlrd control of her llns band, provrdcll no existing settlement. or covenant prevented such possr sinn. The earnings of every married woman in any separate trade or occupation will be her personal property. llusbands will not be liable for the debts of their wives. citlicr betore or altermru‘l'iuge. norliable in damn. ages lor any v rung committed by them. Upon the death ol'a wrlc illlesnttc. the bus— band will only take the same distribution rl :nl her personal estate as a wile would now take ill the personal estate of all intes- tate husband. 'l‘hcrr isnotbiugiu lhepro- posed Act to hinder the practice of making mettleliicnt. which at prl out virtually secures to the \vivcs oi the richer portion of the eoirinluuily the M‘purulu pus assinn oi their properly. llnl the Hillel. ,lsthal no settlement ol a wife‘s property shall have greater force or validity against, her crruii. tors than u like settlement entered int , by .'| man would have against his t'l‘t'dilovs. it this llill can obtain it. the Emancipation oi Woman is to date ll‘orn January 1.11570.» ll'nglr'slr paper.

The Royal Commission appointed to en.

port. 'I’bey recommend enact-

Inudo their

,hubl lzrmlml liltqrcl’lj'.

The New York 'l'inu's. which is by no means on AnicIJriiisllpupr-r, s s: ‘ 'l‘lrr-r-o -.- too luxury elenrents and mot ‘es 01 has illily to make a p l'ul rrird harmonious ' adj ‘Illit'iltilltitli'llilli‘i‘t‘llt’t's with England universally accepted Ill thiacountry. 'I‘hc ' h clclrlent alone is, in numbers. ill

cspcr lily ill political illlpr ‘trillt‘c. toot-on- sidr-rablc a powcrlo allow full :lt‘tyllll‘sl't‘lit‘t' . in such a settlement. It is . t-oullort and

ot’corllplzrintoutstandingagainst England, 1

. tosay nothing of Ireland. I

conquci‘t" _ . lccl so disposcrl.’

whenever he

The. New York 'Tinlcs‘ thus exposes , IlIv lolly of llthetalk abollttllc transler ol 4 this coniltr :—‘ Those who are talking so bout llro tr

' ward‘s 1 ’I'llltl. and Newiuundland. to this country, by the English Government, lose sight oi one fact. 11 is not in lllcpulrcr of lllu: English Unrt’rnnnul to [muster thesi- vast tel'rilolics. with their population ol four millions. The colonists would not submit to be. bought and sold ill this way. Alrd it is they why would have to be con- r salted about this inaltcr. The free niid hardy population oi Canada and the Mari- time I’rovinccs would be very apt to take ‘ their destiny into their own hands. ii‘thcy found they were to be made the subject. oi tradeand riickcr. ()l course, we could li Ilt them and ‘ whip them.’ We could ' wtlrp‘ anything whalerev—couldn't woi‘llut tllcll they also could made a. show at light. arid could add a billion or so to our national debt belore we brought tlrclri into the Union as slrl ‘ gated territories. to be governed by the grt 1 men at \\'ashingtolr."

III the Spanish Constitution the reign oi 'tlie king is riot limited to is year as re- ported; on the t'oiitary. the poss on of the Crown remains ill the king fcl‘irr'e. and .15 to his I . lilc ternrol' whose ma- 3 fixed at the 18th year.

llcl'ore the Trent idl‘air. St. John had a .rson of only some DU or 0') men. and it docs not need more rrt present, although hundreds oi soldiersare stationed here now The [Tailed StaleSas a nation canno' at “us without such iloticc as will enable us to ,obtain succor iroril Europe. As for the , Fenians. ii ilrey come. ollr own people can r take care of them —-h't. Julia yi‘ft'yl'tlpll.

i Advices irom (‘apn Town states that a ‘lract of country III South Africa. 400 miles :lorrg. and front 50 to 151) broad. has been burnt over, ocezrsiolring great dcslruetioir oi'pl'rqrcrly. Sc\cral natives perished in the dunes.

The beauty of Queen Victoria's lamily is developing ill IIr-l' Majesty‘s grandchild- l'Cil. The eldest son ol'lhe Prince oi wales bids fair to be a pel'lect Adonis.

A gold nugget. weighing two hundred nounds (irov). has been dug up Ill Victoria. it is supposed to be the largest llrrrrp ever found.

The Boston Journal says:—-“ It is re- ior'led in some ol the Entrl h papers that

)r. Pusy. the High Char h leader, has been found to be a real Jesuit priest. '.Ille revelation purl orls to have been made by tl-lt uitpl-iest oil the Continent.“ What next?

A New York paper, the World, is envious of the linaneiul position ofilre Dominion. It says:—" The Itevenuc of the Dominion of Canal for tho lllorltll of March last was a trillle less than a n illioll; expenditures smile- thing over half a million. So much for bloat- ed despotism. Would that our despotism would bloat it little ill the

l-‘ 'unce and I'll

'I‘ur. ’aris correspondent of the Army arid Navy Gazelle wrote on the 18th ult., apropos oi the diplomatic dill‘crcnccs be- tween France and llelginnl :—

Tbe tone again adopted by the Pros 'an journals is highly irritating to the sensitive I tell people; tlrcioreigu policy oi the Cabinet. iSIclt to he a. mistake. and to be driving the cornrly into complications from which war must result. We learn from Ill-i'lin that llaron dc Moltko has just returned from :l tour of in.) lieu ill Sile- sia. .llillllUlllttlly alter his av val he had an interview with the King, and ilreli with the War Minister. The liaron had gorleto visit the l'or'rcsscs, nlid he is said to have reported that the works hldis cllsablc loi‘ putting those erected ill the t' igrl oi Wil Ilaru Ii ill au rllicient state, could not. be executed soon enough to be of any use in e e oi war breaking ollt this your. A de- tailed plan ior the immediate tablisbnrcnt of an entrenched camp near Ncissn, capri- bio of protecting twu corps d’arniee. wu~ submitted to the King. II the French Ern- pcror merinl; lighting thisycar. he will open the ball in about a lllontli, when the six- moliths-Icavernlcn join their respective corps.

The Army and Navy Gazelle correspon- dent had previously written :—

lll consequence oi the recent movctiicnt ul Ambassadors. it. is said that Prussia has discovrred the exisleli e of a scerety treaty between France. Austria nml Italy. The Italiall Arnb Nov to Paris has gone to Florence, the French Arirbasador to Viticu- nri has been summoned here, lrrld the I'ru - sian Arnba sailors to Italy-and Austria Ill ‘e repaired in Hull . This looks like a panic in the diplonralr ,ol‘ps. and gentle- ‘lnerr who are speculating tor a rise on the Iloul‘se. don't hall like the appe. mice of tile ntlliosphcru. The Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has been making It solemn voyage to St. Pctersbcrg ulrd Ilcrlin. and I the vesultis reported to be it treaty bettt ccn the Prince tllltl Count llismarcll. Prussia rs to furnish Montenegro with 10,001! necdlegnns, with mountain cannon. oili- ccrs. and tlralers, and is to guarantee tire ll l\lli.|illltli territory. in which Scutari will be comprised. hit-bolas. oil lli side, has prorrliscd to go campaigning directly Count liisrna k requires to r 'itutu Austria on her I’:l.ill:tll:tli flank. 'I‘he rcccirt speech . ofthe hing ot lrussia. in tho opirrioil oi the l“l't'llthi Press. is too peaceful, and in lira .\I

l

soiliirrnsioE gnoURn‘XL

ncgociniiolls of last summer having been read

. . . . . lll:xsl.r:v i “mil-4'“ "I Will-Wms “'"Il'm'm' “ml ' tiraiivillc as to the duty of the Local Gov meat in treating with the CongressionalC miltec. . taken a cursory and superficial view of the a consolation to a very large pol'ilou UI Ilt‘4utfllllltiils, for it'exarniuerl closely, it would our people to reflect that we have grounds be seen that so far from claiming the treaty

lrpolr which we can gotowarwilhlit-rand lard down as being the prerogative of the

tioverliuienttlnrt we could meddle with tllc Fisheries without Imperial sanction. but we

to promote the pclquc'sintcrcatnlll approach- , of Canada. ing the Colonial Minister on this subject, we . Nora Sr-o a. New Brunswick. Prince Erl- tell. that if ever a Colony should have the liberty loose the wealth of its surrounding waters, for its own advantage, it. was Prince

on the countenance oi' the English Govern- rllcllt to counteract the wrong dolrc us ill re- gard to ourlands. land, exceptional arrangements were liladc with France on the matter of the Fisheries.

been conceded. Curler a license system which yields us live or six hundred pounds cash a year, the American Fishermen are allowed free access to our boys and harbors. but a, system of red tapcism prevent: us froln tlllow- l lug our fisheries open to the sauna parties for

the shape of reciprocal Free Trade arrnngr- Ilicliis with the United Statcil. l..txli while regretting that a question oi so much irllportuircc had been postponed so Irrlc in the session, remarked that it was all ill day for Prince Edward Island when the old’i rcaty was repealed. mutant, and its abrogation a loss to us and the United States. .irlcirlblc length the causes which led to tllat. event, alld said that even if the Colonies had. sympathizcd with the South during the rebel-

ycar use our Fisheries. he did not see why we

annexation, Mil. Ilowmx did not. think it right to be throwing cold writer on it country like the United Staten, whosearmamubernlent would world.

said England had been latterly taking a very strange way to maltc licr Colonies loyal. Cudhp's resolution in the New Ilrunswrck Legislature. showed how great. a change had taken place ilr men's sentiments ol'late years, and how strong was the feeling ill l. annexation.

cutoll' trolri England? and if so, shall we chose Confederation or

before the House, showed from the correspon- dence between the Congressional Committee utld the GoveruIllciit,tllatthere was no attempt or intention on the part of the latter. to enter into a ’I‘rcnty with the United States. procin would be a gain to us. arid an injury to no one else.

than rmth of the gentlemen which preceded llilli. tion or Annexation. were progressing rapidly ill our present posi- lion. siou ul Caltero arid a portion of the England would cast them loose at any time.

of considerable routine business. M r. Kellv lntilnated that the committee on lawyer's fees Were not prepared to re; art. this Session, aan

for another year.

4—,

APRIL. 29, 1869.

House of Assembly. From the I'tlfl’ftlf, April ‘24. The dcspatelres relative to the Reciprocity

ll the House on Friday. the ltith init., Mr. said that be dillerell with Earl

lle regretted that his Lordship

linking power for the Colony. it was carefully

~rown. Nor was the idea entertained by the

old all friends of the Island were desirous of loingall we could, within constitutional limits.

Edward Island, which has a strong claim up- Un the coast ul‘Newfound-

I‘o this Colony Illilllllli‘ privileges should have

(to us) a hundred times their present value in

Illa. llAvl-

Its benefits he believed were

Ilu tllcll reviewed at eolr~

,W’I‘HURSDAY,

troll, our republican neighbors should not he‘ the llrst. to complain, or resent that state oil feeling. since they themselves were in open

sympathy with the Sepoys ul’Ilirliudurilig the

late rebellion ilr that. country; willl the Itlis-r sinus at llle time of the Crimean War; wilhi the Cretans ill their recent revolt against Turkey; with the t‘tlbuns ili their present struggle for independence. arid iii fact with rebels everywhere. Since the abrogation ol the Treaty, our produce, especially outs, was in as good demand as ever, alld our revenue had blriltlily increased. The injury to the Colony was not at all so great as had been anticipated. Slncc the receipt of Lord Gl'an- villc's despatch, he was sorry to see a portion of the local press so strongly tinglcd with An- nexation tendencies. Not believing that we would improve our circumstances by a tllliori with thel L'nitcd Sixties, Mr. II: ‘ lid wellton to combat the arguments generally used in tavor of Annexation. Our system of Govern- ment would nut Ire better or purer; our taxes would be far Ire-trier, and we could not. live so cheaply r s we can now. He was as llllrcll ill favor of Free Trade as any lrlt-lrrbcr ill the Home, lilitl only dill'crerl with them as to the rlrode of negnciating the arrangements. The Fisheries were common property; alld ill dealing with them common action was neces- sary. Constitutional ell'urts to establish lic- ciprocity,’ would always have his support. Alli. BELL, who expressed his regret at the tolic ot the desplltcll. observed that every na- tion sylllpaihized with the people frurn whom they expected must advantage; and England, which hoped to exchange llcr manufactured goods at a low duty for tire cotton of the South, was no exception to the rule. Mr. ilavilrrrid had intimated tlrrlt we have not yet felt the loss of the American market for our produce. True, but. we are beginning to Io, it now. There is at this moment, said Mr. Bell, a. large quantity of potatoes in the coun- try for which a market is required. The Cul- ony was badly treated in regard to its lands. and now for the Mike of an idea, the British Government should not refuse their sanction to the privileges oll'ered us. The fisheries which they won‘t concede to us, they are giv- ing away to the An runs for nothing. (lur interests are sull'tll lg daily by England's treatment ol the Colony. Canada oli'eni no inducement ill the way of Confederation, be- cause it does not want. our produce, and the lllni'kcts which are oll‘crt-d to ml, and to which we might have access, rrre virtually closed against us by the mother country. Mu. Illne- l.i' believed that the lirralreiul condition ofthe United States, at tile close of the war. wusrrl- so one of the causes for ubrogating the Itcci- procity 'I‘rcrity. Ilc saw nothing unreason- able ill our looking for Free Trade; and it was our duty to make tllc effort. There Were

III III considerations ill lover of an cxcu )llUll- _ i y I learned by it) to 2.

al urrang‘enieut for this Colony; and if the Americans could fora few hundred pounds a

could notnlake use of them to open up a market for our surplus agricultural produce, kc. Without arguing on confederation or

not advance the civilization of tin: Ilaving expressed his regret that the llrltiidl ilrrg ever tloatcd over the .Allulummalc

‘ur ui 'I‘irnc was when a lllllll Would heimoted t'or- littering the selililllcllts that. resolution embodied. The surroundings at llriiirrlr America led thoughtful and loyal men to Illlk themselves tllc question, Are we to be

Annexation? Mn. ILHHZS, who spoke at length on the subject

lieci»

Mr. Ilavies took a ulorc lupclnl and encouraging view of the question