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PORTER LY. ge BA A RAAB FARRAR AALAALL ALL TEAL , Y 7 ) ’ ‘ SUNBEAMS. A babyy sat on his mother’s knee, On the golden morn of a summer « duy, Clapping his tiny t auds fn glee, Ag he watched the shifting sunbeams play. A senbeam glanced through the open door,

With And orept along on the sanded tloor

shimmering web of atoms fine,

to a glitteriow, glimmering, golden line.

The babs laughe 4 in his wild deligh . And ciutehed ab the quivering gellen band ; Let the sunbeam fled from his eager sight, Aad naught remained ie his dimpled band.

Fera clewd had ewept oer the summer sky,

Aad gathere d the beam to its botSe:u gray, Aad wral ped, in a mantle of sombre dye,

The glory and pride of the summer's day.

Ti,as cheated sore in his eager quest With a puazled look that was sad (o see, ite laid his head ow his mother’s bre asi,

id caved in the dear face wistfully. The dead swept by and the beam returned; But the weary clild was alumber; And beeded it not, though it glowed ind burned

ig bow,

Like a crown of flawe on his baby brow.

And I thonght: Ab! babe, thon art not alone In thy boctless quest for a fleeting toy ;

Sine en all are babes, little wiser grown, In our chase for some idle and transient joy.

We are grasping at sunbeams, day by day,

Aud get but our tout fur For ever some cloud) t obecures the ray,

our weary pains,

Aud naag)t ia our sordid grasp re mains.

Put when the lures of ear youth de part, Aud ovr empty etrivings are all forgot, -eful heart,

Pie sunbeam glows When we seek it not.

Then, down in some nook of the pe

MISCELLANEOUS,

LLL NAO Nl LN

THE BRITISH AMERICAN UNION,

The London Saturday Review of the 26:h ultimo, contains the following article upon the proposed Union sck2me :—

‘The projected Union of the Provinces of British North Ameriea bas made more sapid progress than could bave been antici- pated by any one who took accoun: of the essential difficulties of the enterprise. It would be premature to speak of the scheme

ruption like that which has rent the United | leader, are continually bidding for the sup- | commanded the Punjab: Runjeet Singh, | Schofield begins the tale in an official des. | In discussing the peace question, Hence it} the great ruler of the Punjab, could not! patch, dated

States may be altogether obviated, while at the same time local independeace will be ' sufficiently respected to satisfy the narrowest provincial feeling. ) tke Bench is to be preserved, as in England, | by making the judges practically irremove- jable; and interval free trade will be se- |cured by vesting the power of indirect tax- jation exclusively iu the central legislature. ; The whole frame of the Constitution pre- | pared by the Conference bears testimony to the essentially loyal and British feeling

| which is interwoveu with the patriotism of |

| the North American colovies. The dvcu-

ment commences with sn express acknow- jledgment that the prosperity of British |; North America will be promoted by a Fe- ideral Union under the Crown of Great Britain ; and the due‘influence of the home j authorities will be maintained by the ap- pointment of the Governor General, and by }a similar veto to that which is now exercised

over the acts of the several provineial par-|

liaments. Indirectly, the Union promises

/to cement still more closely the: interests |

and feelings of Great Britain and her mag- | nificent colonies. | America can scarcely take adequate mea- |sures for their own defence; and the ex- | tremeé sensitiveness which they have showa |to any reproaches on the subject has been in a great measure due to their own convic-

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| tion that they had borne less than their |

share of the burden of placing themselves ‘in a position of security by the side of neigh- | bors as strong and as unscrupulous as the | United States. The concentration of all authority in military matters in the hands of a Government which will preside over nearly 4,000,000 of subjects will greatly alter their position for the better ; and while all the leading statesmen who bave taken part in the movement assume (as they may justly and fairly do) that England will oot be wanting in the hour of danger, they are

serious efforts may be expected from such a nation as they aspire to form than any o! the separate provinces bave yet had the de- termination to make. Little as it appears on the surface, there can be no doubt that

of their neighbors has been one of the main

be confidently expected that the conscious-

as 2 cealimed fact, beeause it stil! remains to secure a anajority im each of five distinct le-

eng : ve gislative bodies, and to obtain — what will eearecely be relused — the sanction of the ilome G overoament. The difiicy ties yet to he overcome are, indeed, much less than they appear at frst sighbe. A project of le-

ness of increased national importance will

stimulate the people of British North Ame- |

rica to exertions which, in their position as separate colonies, seemed too much for their spirit or their strength. Perhaps the only serious opposition which the project is likely to meet with is that of a section of the French party in Lower Canada. As, how-

gisiatioa actively supported by Lord Pal- merston, Mr. Gladstene, the Kar! of Derby, | und Mr. Disraeli, could searcely fail to pass! our Louse of Commons; end it ie with an) influence of very much the aamoskind thar! the Lill ef Union will be introduced inty each of the Colonial Parliements. With’ great judgment the several provinces sent | as their de‘egates te the Conference the leaders of the Opposition, ia company with members of the (roveroment. apd the aver- whalming influence whieh the Cunference, as a body, must have been conscious of | wielding, probably contributed in no small | measure to the basiuess-like <laracter of their proceedings. A judwious silence Sas as yet been maiatained as te the discussions |

ever, the leader of this party, Mr. Cartier, is himself, if not the originator, at least one of the most cnergetic supporters of the scheme of auion, it is almost impossible that any dissentient fragment of bis followers ean eff-etuaily impede the completion of the measure; and the marked consideration which is shown for the inhabitants of the Freneh colany throughout the Report of the | Conference can scarcely fail to diminish the suspicioa with which some of them have | perhaps watarally regarded the projeet.. In|

The independence of

In their present divided, | state, the seperate provinces of British North |

equally explicit ia their avowals that more |

the formidable growth of the military power |

inducements to the movement, and it may |

|of the West.

| will be regarded as @ crime.

‘soning, if reasoning it be, would point di-

port of the Manchester school. follows that a statesman, naturally bold and straightforward, is constantly falling under | imputations of cowardice and ingincerity.’’ The Standard refers to theimpertinent de- 'spatch of Mr. Watson Webb to the Govern- ‘ment of Brazil, whose reasoning and. lan- | guage it does not think it necessary to at- /tempt to criticise, especially in the matter {of his outrageous aod uncalled-for insults to Kogland. Referring to the main point of the despateh it adds :— “Mr. Webb assures Brazil that full apolo- 'gy and reparation shall be made. W hat does this mean? That the Florida shall be re- placed in the harbour of Bahia, and the crim- inals dismissed from the service of the United | States? If so, neutral nations may rest con- tent that no similar outrage will eccur in fu- {ture. Or will the Federal Government keep the prize, reprimand her captor for excess of zeal, and then, as was done by Captain Wilkes —as soon as the matter is blown over reward and promote him? If so, it be- hoves the neutral Powers at large to inter- }fere and exact a much more ample atone- ment. So long asthe Federal Government is allowed to retain thegfruits of wrong-doing,

offence, so long offences will be of daily oc- currence ; and while officers feel that they

may safely venture on the most outrageous | violations of public law, sure of reward if}

| they succeed, and certain at worst to incur no more serious penalty than a formal repri- |} mand,sweetened by the assurance of substan- tial apprebation, the flag of the United | States will be the piratical insolence ‘and |contemptuous defiance of the Sovereign rights of neutral Powers. 1f outrages of this kiad are to be stopped they must be punish- ed; a substantial, not a verbal, explanation /must be exacted ; and both the offenders and ‘their Government must be taught that they ‘will have to give up their ill-gotten spoil, and will not be permitted on any terms to tuke advantage of their own wrong.’’ | With refereace to the aspect of the United States towards other countries, the Telegraph says :— | ott We find Mr. Webb, the Federal Minister in Brazil, so far misrepresenting our neutra- lity as to aseribe it to cowardice ; and we see |the most conspicuous paper in New York— ithe quickest, nimblest, shiftiest, dirtiest

| weather-cock of opinion — again advocating |

| the old nefarious plan of a reconciliation be-

programme of the Munrve doctrine. In a _ : re erg he’ word, the New York Herald is war to the) knife against France in Mexico, and azainst|

England in the new confederation States./ andj who were they who received the rever-

which bid fair to avoid the errors and} ‘crimes that have ruined the great Republic) The gentlemen who complain of our neutrality are perpetually offering us provocation to depart from it. They threaten |

Brazil, they threaten France, they threaten | at Christ’s Hospital less than thirty years tain its position. 1 Confederate attack, as it was said, but was | about three ‘ ‘ ‘this amount they have raised about one third

England; they plainly tell us that, as soon | as occasion serves, non-intervention itself But they ap- pear to forget the obvious fact that the way | to avoid the menaced war might be to aban- | don the misconstrued neutrality, ‘heir rea- |

European Powers ; and before the argument}

\is pushed too far, they would do well to re-} | fleet upon its consequences.”’ In spite of its Republican views, the Scar | of the Queen of England, she had inculcated | teat with getting the town.

on the cheap condition oi apologising for the |

| was so large, indeed, that the arms of h’s tween the belligerents based upon the simple ichair had to be cut off before he could be

have controlled the frontier Princes. But ;on this occasion none were so high or so low }as to neglect the call. Partly from the jlocal renown of Sir John Lawrence, but partly also from the enhanced and growing |reputation of tbe British rule, all con- _curred in tendering the compliment eonvey- ed by the ceremony, even the old and in- firm being brought to the rendezvous. The Durbar was held in magnificent tents pitch- ed on a smooth plain outside the walls of ‘Lahore. The commencement of the cere- mony was expected at nine in the morning, ‘but the smaller Chiefs began to arrive at ‘seven, and before half-past eight the high- jest of the assembly were in their places. | In the East magnificence of costume is still (expected, and the dresses of these Asiatic Princes might be chronicled like the toilets of our Royal Drawing-rooms. The Rajab of Jheend was dressed in pure white muslin, }gleaming all over with diamonds and | emeralds, and a yellow tarban. ‘he Mahara-

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New Series.---No. 5, er ey oe Ne | Mr,|virtuoue. The only misfortune in our Jot

ecember Ist, as are all the other despatches. According to him, the ‘ Rebels were repulsed with the loss of five or six thousand,’ while the * Union loss was only about one-fourth of that number.’ It is suspicious that this commander knows the numerical loss of his adversary, yet is so vague about his own. Did he count the Confederate dead? Then why did he not count his own? To ascertain an enemy's loss it is necessary to remaio the master of the field. Did he remain the master of the field and towo of Franklin? These in- teresting questions are answered only by un- official arrators. According to all their accounts, without discrepancy, the Confede- rate army made its appearunce in front of the Federal lines so late as 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Atan hour and a half after that time it was quite dark, and they all concur that the engagement was concluded by night. The whole action must have taken place in this hour and a half,

They say that the Uonfederates made

jah of Putteala, a very important personage, |} wore a dress of rich lavender silk, but so overlaid with emeralds: aud pearls that the colour could hardly be, distinguished. The | Maharajah of Cashmere, and his son, a boy | of ten, were in white, with red and yellow turbans, emeralds, and diamonds, One | Chief, of great stature, appeared ia black land gold with a green turban; another /showed his true Sikh extraction by a robe of pure yellow. ‘The characters and his- tories of these Princes were as striking and varied as their apparel. There were the two high Priests of the Sikh nation, lineal descendants of the very Prophet who found- ed the State. There was the very Sikh nobleman who, as the best horseman of his race, had led the charge against us at Chilliaowa!lab. There was the noble Persian of the Kussilbash tribe who had rescued the English prisoners from Cabul. ‘There was a litte Nabob, only. seven years old, who behaved with as much intelligence and com- posure as the most experienced ruler. Qne Chieftain present was noted as the hand- somest man in the North-West, another as the wittiest, a third as the heaviest—who

seated. Nos a State, not @ dynasty, not a principality, not an office, vot a dignity remained warepresented in that Durbar.

S | ence of this unpuralleled assembly? The,

‘lines were flanked, doubled on the centre,

aud their whole army utterly defeated. And ail this took place im an hour and a half. But. then, while these statements must necessarily be ¢Xaggeratious, they might be considered essentially true but for the sequel of the narrative. What is that sequel ¢ That Hood fed from the field, or even retreated? That the Federal cavalry

was ‘in hot pursuit,’ cutting up the remnant |

of his ‘scattered and disorganized follow- ers?’ None of these stereotyped phrases do we find in the sequel. What'we do find cannot be read without a start. All thé despatches agree in a statement to this ef- fect :—* The battle being ended, our army retired from Franklin, and now holds-a strong position withia three miles of Nash- ville.’

Here is wn extraordinary thing! Here is a victorious army, occupying its chosen ground, its fortifications, its town full of Hospitals and stores, with railroads in its rear, which defeats with great slaughter, for one hour anda half, another army, and then retreats right away as soon as it grows dark, leaving town and fortifications, and does not stop in that retreat until |i reaches the capital. flanking, no crawling around the victor’s position, like that done by Grant or Sher- man, is ascribed to Hood.

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What, then, was’

Lincoln says :—

would seem to be that we have had so many ears of peace in times past, and that we

On careful consideration of all the evi-| Po neon eo long under ‘the’ delusion thas desirable

' dence accessible, it seems that no attempt at | negotiation with the insurgent leader could | result in any good. He would accept noth- ing short of the severance of the Union— precisely what we cannot and will not give. jis declarations to this effect are explicit and oft repeated; he does not attempt to, deceive us. He eaunot ‘voluntarily expect” the ‘Union, we cannot voluntarily yield it; Between him and us,the issue is distinct, sim-, ple and inflexible. It is an issue which can only be tried by war and decided by victory. | If we yield we are beaten ; if the’ Southern} people faibhim, he is beaten, . Hither way ; it would be victory and defeat following, war. What is true, however, of him who) heads the insurgent cause, is not necessarily | true of those who follow; although he can-| not.re-accept the Union,; they can, some of them, we know already, desire peace and reunion. ‘Tbe number of such may increase. They can at any moment’ have peace simply by laying down their arms and. submitting to the national authority under jthe constita- | ‘tion. After so much the government could |

| the loyal people would not sustain or allow | jit. Ef questions should remain, we should) /adjust them by peaceful means of legislation, 'conferences, courts, and Votes; Opposing) (only in the Oonstitational channels.”’ |

In reférring to the special and’ general | ‘pardons hell cut, many have availed them>| igelves of them. Practically. the door has been open to all who may wish to return, It is still open he says, but the time may come when the public duty shall demand that it be closed, and that the arws be more rigorous than heretofore.

He recommends Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery,’ and as to his own position on slavery, he says :—.

‘* As to slavery, I repeat the declaration I made a year ago, and that while | remain in my present position [shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Procla- ‘mation, nor shall I return to slavery any | person who is free by the terms of that pro- | clamation; or by any of the acts of Congress. | If the people should, by whatever mode or ‘means, make itan exeeutiye duty to rein- slaye such persons, another, not |, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating ‘a single condition of peace, I mean simply

to say that the war will cease on the part of

It the government whenever it shall have ceased No delay occurs, D0| on the part of those who began it.”’

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THE UNITED, STATES DEBT. The United States debt, to use the classic

two first representatives of the Sovereign of'| the cause of that immediate retreat in the’ words of President Lincoln, is a ‘*big thing.’

| India had been Irish lads at a school at| night ?

Londonderry ; the next was a Bluecoat boy

ago. One of these, however, now, in the| name of his Queen, governed the whole of | [udia more completely and absolately teas] it ever had beea governed by the Great} Moguls ; and as the entire meeting rose in |

|uis honour he addressed the Chiefs in their | : . ‘ yy y rectly to active interference on the part of |own language with the ease and fluency of a| laure's more singular. ‘The Confederate

native. Never up te this time had such a proceeding been recorded. He told them | tow, when he lately stood in the presence |

Depend upon it the victory was a The Federal army could not main- It did not beat off the

defeat.

itself beaten, and the advent of night, which put an'end to the conflict and gave a chanee

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‘than a thousand millions of dollars year, or

Since the war broke out the expenditares have been in round numbers somewhat more

millions of dollars a day, Of

by taxes, and two thirds by loan. Some idea of the manner in which the debt is ex-

for retreat, was the salvation of the Federal |panding may be arrived at ‘by considering

army.

the rate at which the annual imterest is in-

But what follows renders the claimto the creasing. For the year ending June 30,

my, which was beaten with @ loss of five or six thousand, was not only unpursued, Jur did itself pursue! It was uot even con- It would not

130, 1866, at $127 009,000. At the same rate of increase it will soonexceed theinterest

ar- | 1864, it was $53,685,421; for the current

fiscal year Mr. Fessenden estimates it at $91,810,215, and for the year ending June

aid on the national debt of Great Britain,

cannot but join in the coudempation of Mr./on him the duty of promoting their welfare, | be still there to * reorganize its shattered |‘) ich is estimated to be about $132,000,000

Webb's despatch :—

ile reminded them of the solid advantages | wings,’ but cam ‘‘No sensible Englishman will think of en-| which they had actually derived fiom the| tors, ‘ skirmishing

i ; ’ : ea REY fo eee = : : . fact, the separation of"the two Canadas, as | tertaing an angry lecung towards the United| Knglish rule, and acknowledged the devotion |

far as all local matters are eoncerned, will remove many subjects of difference in such | matters as education, which were beginning |

States Government because of this little esca- | pade on the part of its enfant terrible. But} we feel really grieved that the two or three | generous and magnanimous sentences in which |

of the Coafereuce, but the scheme fiually | '° threaten serious difficulties in the Cana-) Xj, Webb tenders to Brazil a full reparation |

agreed apou bas been made pubic, and the} many speeches delivered at the cities where the delegates have beev entertained pave! tuade it appareat enough that the gnani-| mous agreement at last arrived at was not! reached without much sturdy conflict and many oeceseary compromises. [t is amus- | ing to observe the anxiety with which the| representatives of each Province strive to| show that they bring at least their share of | contribusion to the common stock. If the’ Canadas have their vast area and important | population to boast of, the maritime pro-| vinces plume themse!ves on their harbours

dian Legislature.

“The political constituticn of the new nation ie avewedly built epon the British | wodel as nearly es circumstances wos!d | allow. fhe Upper Houee ie to be nomi-| usted by the Crown, te eonsist of tweaty-| four members from Upper Capada, and the same number from Lower Casada, and from | the three maritime provinces combined— | Newfoundland being represented by four ' additional members, The representation of the House of Commons is to be apporticned | among the proviuces according to their re- | lative populations, to be readjusted at each |

{ for the wrong done to her should be marred |

and disfigured by the long, intemperate, and uncalled for invective in which he has wrap- ped them up. Alter all,in the matter of} diplomacy, King Log is much preferable to King Stork. Our foreign representatives have happily for us, more often belonged to the mild class represented by the former sym- bol. No human sagacity could have mana- ged to keep us out of the perpetual hot water it we had many diplomatists endowed by Mr.

by which in the hour of our peril they had | repaid the obligation. He told them to! educate their children ia sound learving, | and to acquaint themselves with the true| policy and iatentions of their rulers, ‘so. that they might discern and recognize the character of our Government. Then the} whole six hundred were presented to him one} by one. Princes and their heirs-apparent, | great Ministers of State, Rajahs and) Nabobs, spiritual Potentates aud Military | Chiefs,

Two battalions of British infantry, with |

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Nashville, The victorious retreaters burned the bridge over the Harpeth, but tbe advane- ing defeated crossed the river. The whole distance between Franklin and Nashville was traversed by both hosts in one night. Next day finds the Federal army drawn up within three miles of the last named city. Then it must have been within the for. tifications of the city, for no fortifications are now built at a less distance. Skirmishing goes on within five miles of Nashville, at the time the despatclies close. ‘Then Hood’s army is there confronting that of Thomas, Then these are the admitted

. i . Rai. ate 2a C ‘a few squadrons of cayalry, sufficed’ to re-| facts. The Confederate army reaches Frank-

Webb's energy of invective and misdirected | present the military power of that Empire | lia at four o'clock, and attacks immediate-

geal for application. We are already quite

to which all this reverence had been paid ¢

: “ ic Oy 2 j . . . satisfied that the American Government may |. 4 one of these regiments conduced in no

adopt with perfect justice the reverse of | Charlee the Second’s famous plea, and declare |

the value of her fisheries and ber mines; | Seading the fixed number of 65 members. | the act was ite own, and the words were its |

New Brunswick has a vigorous trade to) bring into tke partnerebip; Nova Scotia adds coal to the products of the Confede- racy; Prinee Edward Isiand is to be the! Isle of Wight of British North America ; and even the Red River se:tlements, to which a prospec ive privilege of joiming the | Union is beld out, Sad themselves repre- | sénted by a native, who thinks them the

most eligible places in the wor'd for coloni- |

zation, if only the Hudson's May Govern- wmeut were changed.

“That thirty-three ehosen representatives |

of different interests, in various provinces, should have come to-agaanimous agreement on a scheme of enion, after a discussion of two or three weeks, is itaelf some evidenee that the project was not started before the time waa ripe for it, and that the leaders in the movement bad the sease to compromise many contested points. i ppec Canada was by so means disposed to spead imeaey on the construction of the Lntercolouial Railway which is to bind together the meawbers of the Federation, but it is made an essential ele- ment of the arrangement that this extension of the existing lines is to be one of the Srst works of the United Colonics, Without this pledge it would. have becn hopeless to seek the co-operation of the maritime pro- vinees. With it, scarcely any terms would have come amiss to them. ‘I'he extent to which the Uniou should be carried s¢ems to have been one of the main subjects of con- troversy, The eager, Britis colonists of the West would giadiy have sven the whole country absolutely merged — as Kugland,

Iréland and Seotland sre—in @ close legis- | adress of President Davis to the Southern | British Lodia.

Jative upjon ; but loeal prejudices are strong in more thad one of the colonies, and the substantial distinctions of religion, race and

language would have enlisted almost every |

wan in Lower Canada ia opposition to a

measure which would bave ioft them com:

paratively powerless. It became essential, therefore, to limit the Union to some kind of federation which should leave religion, education, and, to a great extent, the admi- nistration of civil justice, under the direction of jocal goveraments. the great American sehism was sufficicut to

‘xclude any imitativa of the institutions of

‘te United States. Instead of entrusting to . central goverument ‘certain specified couwers, an tiotytesall other, attributes of sovereignty, re) proposal is to. wllot to the Jocal govern- seig2td their special sudjects of jurisdiction, =" vest what may be calli d the residual

eignty iz thé Federal authorities, « lo at any, ‘fs hoped that the risk of a di

) a ig

But the warning of

reserving to the component ,

The electoral districts and qualification are

left to be determined by the local legisla- |

tures of each ¢f the component provinces.

The seat of the General Goveriment is to! be at Ottawa, subject to any change which |

may be made under the authority of the Crown. What at first was expected to prove one of the greatest difficulties — the settlement of the financial basis on which the colonies were to unite—bhas been easily surmounted. ‘The actual burden of existing

\debts has proved on examination to be nearly proportioual to the populations of the |

different provinces, and some small inequa- jlities which remained» are proposed to be jredressed by a trifling antual payment to one or two of the lesser colonies.

| .**Thus far the movement bas prospered ‘beyond expectation. A common interest well uederstood on al! sides has carried the | enterprise through without the means which |were found necessary to bring about the | Seoteh and Irish Unions, and there is no ‘reason to doubt that the members of the inew Federation will derive the same advan- | tages from their closer connexion which have resulted from the legislative amalgamation of our own islands. and military strength mast be increased by 'a cowbination which will probably foster, at ‘the same time, a national pride in their own

| American State, and a cordial understand. |

jing with the country which they still love to | designate as home,

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SPIRIT OF THE LONDUN PRESS.

The London Herald refers to the recent

Congress, and points out the pretences under

which the British Goverument has main- tained a one sided neutrality far more in favour of the North than that of ite op- ponents :—

‘The objection, then, is confined to our dealings with the North, and is consequently ,most. unfair and oneesided. But it is not the

first time that such a cry bas been raised in this country. Did the old United States try to over-reach us ina boundary dispute or any other matter, immediately we were told not to resent this trickery for fear of influming their passions. We are apt to forget that the best way to foment excesses is tw give them full seupe, and that by our unseascuable display of gentleness, mistaken for timidity, we were holding out encouragement to future /outrage. Lord Palmerston and other British statesmen, we are convinced, are not more blind to this evil tendency than is President Davis himself. Bat uabappily for, them- selves, and for their fair fame with posterity, | they have by their side aspiring colleagues. , Who, not unwilling to supplant their veteran

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YHE WONDERFUL LEVEE AT LAHORE. |

On the 18th of Qctober Sir John Law- | rence ‘held a Durbar at Lahore.”’ The| meaning of this simple announcement was that the Queen of England had, by her re- presentative and deputy the Viceroy of In- dia, been holding a levee in Centra! Asia, and had received the homage of six hundred | | Princes assembled from remote regions in ner honor. Perhaps, in the narratives of | Froissart we might find a description or two! | yielding some idea of the spectacles which Royal meetings presented before the splen- |

dor of semi-barbarism bad been put aside! ‘by advaneing civilzation. But we may as well'say ‘at once that Europe never did, ‘aud never could, farnish sach @ show as!

that at Lahore.

habits of half-civilized races. lis barbarism noble and magnifieent. ‘These | | . . . ‘

| Chiefs and Princes, who, at the invitation

‘ot the British Viceroy, went up to Lahore, |

Only there’

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presented a Kine of Kings who, according to the firm belief of the country, have reigned

‘ia the same dominions for tea thousand | yeurs, and yet he ouly came seventeenth in

lorder of precedence.

| deigned to attend such a levee before. The

Punjab is the north-westermost province of |

So far does it penetrate in- 'to Asia that a single step over the b.rder

'wiil take you into independent Tartary. It! Schofield brags about the repulse of the *commitie ‘is conterminous with the rudest parts of| Rebels, it is perlectly evideut ‘to every | who are harbored there, it has been though«

China and the wilds of Afghanistan. On |these frontiers reside Chieftains amenable

‘to little authority save that of opinion—'

Monarchs with considerable territories or Prioces with patriarchal power. fu the province itself there is an aristocracy of .no mean quality, whose allegiance bas passed ‘from a native Sovereign to the Queen of this realm. To this province, as large and ‘as populous as a Kuropean kingdom, Sir John repaired iu the course of a progress through the Presidency, and there invited ‘all the Chiefs within range to a high Dur- ‘bar. Six hundred and four obeyed ‘the ‘summons, including Kings under “our pro- ‘tection, Princes of the Hills, military Lords

from the Affghao border, ‘and the ‘high ‘no-

‘bility of the Punjab itself. No native

Monareh hat ever convoked sach a Court. |

“Phe Moga! Sovercizgns could uot bave thus

; a” obles assemble: and their ships; Newfoundland sets forth |deeenuial eensus, Lower Canada always|that, im tendering reparation to Brazil, | vovles assvmbled.

music

jpipes brought up and played round the | great tent to the delight of the company ; jand the Mabarajah of Cashmere, we are in- |

jed the beginning and conclusion of this ex-|

Only. in the East are the | é distinctions of long descent and intermina-| THE BATTLE AT FRANKLIN, |

ble history combined with the primitive)

| might be deemed uncivilized if measured by | a modern etandard; but one of them: re-|

These mea were all | | digsified, proud, and powerful; and many of them so indeperdent that they never |

slight degree to the gratification of the| Whether from fasti-| diousness of taste or otherwise it might be | dangerous to enquire, but of al! European | the Indian ear loves that of the} Scottish bagpipe alone, and when the pipers

‘of the 93d were ordered out to play, the

gratification of Her Majesty’s princely vas- sals was complete. Three times were the

formed, hag sent an embassy to Sealkote

| for the express purpose of getting instruction |

on the instrument from the Highland corps | quartered there, while another Hill’ Chief-| tain hag bespoken the genuine article direct from Jcdinburgh. A single morning wituess- |

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traordinary scene, but if its character add | the insurgents of the United States, destitute |004,677 51:

import are duly considered it will take rank | with amy ceremony of apeient or modern times. —Landon Times.

(Fram the Richmond Examiner.) An action has been fought at Franklin, | the town of Williamson county, in Tenness see, between the retreating Federal army un- | der Schofield and Thomas, and the adgane- | ‘ing Confederate army under Hood. No| /account of it has been received from the | | Contederate: General, or will be received for ‘many days. But we do not need them te | ascertain the truth,

satistying. We want none better.—Ak though every one of them claims a great | victory to the Federal arms ; although one | telegrapbist calls it the * pretiiest viciory of | |war;’ although another describes it ay the ‘cleanest victory of the war;* although |

‘Teader who will jook at certain facts which | | they are all obliged to, by the necessity of | things, to make kuown, that the Hederal | army was defeated, that the Confederate | army was victorious, that the enemy was | saved from disaster by the advent of night, | and has found safety only iz the fortifica- tions of Nashville. Lt is'easy to say victory,it is easy to say that the Rebels were repulsed, it is easy to imagine numbers, fur it is easy to lie. But when we eome to examine the narrative apart from the words in which i is dressed, what is the positive outline? First of all, we must remeuiber that these despatch writers have represented ihe Cun- federate araiy to have been repulsed at every step op its straight road xorthward from Florence. 1t wus whipped at Dueatur, beaten at Columbia, and it is brokem up at Franklin. ores

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ly; in an hour and a half darkness comes and ends the battle. The Federal army gets out of Franklin forthwith, and marches all night at such a rate that it reaches Nash- ville next morning. The Confederates pur sue. Now, if this is the story of a Federal

victory. Heaven send them always such, and | ‘grant perpetual defeat to the Confederate |

args. Sine ini eeilleteiaeaceeces THE PRESIDENT’3s MESSAGE.

Boston papers of a late date contain Mr. Lineoln’s Message. It is brief—for a Pre- dent’s Message. He ‘states that the public debt of the United States, on the Ist of July, was $1,7 $0,690,489. In reference to the Uonfederates at sea, he says :-—

‘It is possible, that if it were anew and open question, the maritime powers, with the light they now enjoy, would not con- cede the privileges of a naval belligerent to as they are and always have been, equally, of ships of war and of ports and harbors. Dis- loyal emissaries haye been veither less assi- duous nor more successful during the last year than they were before that time in

to embroil our country in foreiga , wars. he desire and determination of the govern- ment of the maritime States to defeat that design, are believed to be as sincere, and cannot be more earnest, than our own. Nevertheless, unforeseen political difficulties baye arisen especially in Brazilian and Brit- ish ports, and on the northern boundary of the United States, which have required, and are likely to continue to require the prac-