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LATE NEWS FROM EUROPE. By the arrival of the Saronia wnd City of Boston, at New York, news to the 5th had been received, from which we glean the following, in addition to that received by telegrams :—

Both Houses of Parliament agreed unani- mously to the resolutions respecting the as- sassination of President Lincoln, lhe Times sags both branches of the Legisleiure were erowded to an unusual degree, because the

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A CURIOUS LETTER.

The foilowing extraordiuary produetion appear- ed in ove of the April issues of the St. John Globe, and escaped our notiee until our attention was called to it,a day or two aga, by certain private pen marks, and a written assurance at the bottom that the Rev. John Brewster, late a Wesleyan Miuister of this City, is the autbor ot the letter. Although written with a certain de- gree of vigour and smartness, all the sentiments are by no means commendable. Taere are passages which, as the reader will easily discover, border on profanity and blasphemy, if they do not go be- yond the border; and the allusions to Englishmen and Irishmen are indelicate and indecent in the highest degree, and wholly unworthy of any

writer. Mr. Brewster had a right to throw aside

members, sharing and representing to the utmost the strong popular sentim nt which | pervades England, wege anxious to add as) much as possible by their presence to the| simple solemnity to be enacted. The de-| wesnour of Parliament was in the highest) degree impressive. Mr. Adama presided at a great meeting of Americans in London, expressive of their! sorrow and indignation. } Public meetings have been held in London} and all the chief cities in Great Britain, ex-) pressing unanimously their abhorrence of | the frightful crimes against Mr. Lincola aod | Mr. Seward. The Tunes hopes that ‘our manifestations of indignation and sorrow will be received by Awmeticans as genuine expression« of feeling) wrung from the nation’s heart. [Lee no one} for a moment confound thie manifestation | with any political ubjeet or ulterior design We feel that this sorrow, which England and America way be said without exaggeration |

' to share, cannot pass by without making,

them better acquainted with each other, and more ready tu make allowance for eac! other's faults than betore.’’

Admiral Fitzroy bas committed suicide.

The shipment of the Atlantie cable was being condueted with the greates: dispatch, end would probably be finished and the Great Hastern ready tu leave Sheerness in June.

Phe House had debated Mr. Bain’s bill re- ducing the 'ranehise without action.

Console heavy at 90g. Confederate loan 12415. | Freneh rentes 67/7. 40c.. Virginia dixes 2 per cent. higher.

The rate of discount at the Baok of Eng- land bas been advanced to 44 per cent.

FRANCE.

Napoleon left Parison the 29th for Algeria. liis reception at Lyons and Marseilles was enthusiastic. The Empress hus been ap- pointed Regent.

Tbe American Minister had thanked M. Drouyn De L'Hays for condulence on the death of Mr. Lincoln.

M. Rouber communicated to the Chamber na despateh conveying the sywpathy of France on aceount of Mr. Lincuia’s assassi- nation to the American Minister, similar to the address agreed to in the Senate.

Mr. Slidell declined to attend the funeral services performed in Paris on Mr. Lincoln's death, stating that no one could feel greater horror at the late crimes, but be teared bis presence at the ceremony would lead to erronevus interpretations.

AUSTRIA,

The Reichrath unanimously yoted an ad- dress to America, expressing syiapathy and requesting the Government to express to the American Minister at Vienna its deep sympathy.

Austria raisea no objection tu the provi-

sional stationing of Prussian ships at Kiel, |

bat cannot allow it to be permanent before a definite solution of the succession question. SWITZERLAND.

The Federal Council has forwarded an

address of condolence to America. SPAIN.

The Senate has adopted a bill for the aban- donment of San Domingo.

The Council of Ministers and Congress unanimously agreed to a resulucion expres- sive of sympathy with America,

The rowors uf @ ministerial crisis were

upfounded. PRUSSIA.

Solemn services in the German and Eng- lish languages were performed «t Berlin on the 2ad, in memory of Mr. Lincoln. Nuamer- ous deputations were present. M. Biswark attended. The King was represented by his Aide-de-camp. The chureh was crowded.

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A LANDLORD’S GENEROUS OFFER.

WE have noticed lately, in the report of the proceedings of a meeting of the Tenant Union, * held at the School House, Pisquid Road, Lot 49,” the following offer from J. R. Bourke, Esq., to seli certain lands claimed by him :—

“May Gth, 1865.

“T do agree to accept the offer of my tenants on Pisquid Road and Little Hell, for the purchase of the tee simple of their farms, at the rate of twelve shillings per acre, elear of all arrears, with interest from this date; the agreement, as far aa possible, to be similar to the one exeeuted between R. P. Haythorne, Eey., and his tenanta.

“J. R. Bourke.”

The report of the meeting informs us that there was great cheering and enthusiasm over this offer from the generous landlord, who, of course, was honoured by having a regular forwal vote of thanks given to hum with three times three. The anpromising and disagreeable name of “ Little Heil” induced us to inquire how many and what clase of “tenants” chose te abide there. The

exact number we could not ascertain, but those

who acknowledged Mr. Bourke’s claims, we were informed, do nut exceed one dozen—all the rest

are squatters, who could never be got to attorn |

by any amount of threatening or coaxing. We

‘his nationality when he went to the States, and

fall down with such fanatics as Parson Brownlow | and worship the “nigger, ” if he pleased, but we don't concede the right of bis abusing his own countrymen, in a British province, saying Le “despises John Bull for bie vulgar obesity; bis rumbling bowels, his grumbling voice, his palpable negation of ali that is intellectual and beautiful ; his cold, prowl, iso’ating look of contempt on all that iz artistic in the Italian, polite in the French, and ingenious in the American” This is curious language te come from a writer who boasts of being an Englishman himself. Itis not necessary for us te defend our English fellow subjects, nor is it needful to declare that the passage we have quoted is iudamously false and libellous.

His allusions te “ Paddy” “leaving his rags and their tenants behind him,” and his caricature of the Irishmen of New York on St. Patrick's eve, representing them as drunkea and uproar- | ous rowdies—are extremely disgraceful. If | there were suck scenes on St. Patrick's eve as he | describes, it was not hia place to witness them, and listen to the exclamaticns whieh he has re-

ported aad italicised. The [rishmen in America | have been the chief fighters in the war now clos-

i , . ; | ing—their blood has pleuteously moistened every

battle field—their nameless graves thickly dot levery scene of strife; and were it not for their valiant hearts and steut arms, the Federal Go- verament could never have conquered the South. Now, one oi those who professes to have a deep interest in the cause for which they fought and suffered rewards them with filthy abuse and ri- | bald lampoons. But Mr. Brewster is no excep- tion te other abolitionists. They nearly all abuse | the unfortanate turn. ly designated, has been too much of a fool all his life. He is always too ready to fight the battles of other people ; and if he does not find a resting | place for his shattered bones on the blood-stained | field he may be sure to be rewarded with kicks

Irishman after he serves their Poor * Paddy,” as Irishmen are insulting-

| when he returns home, and the kicks will be all the harder from those fur whom he has fought | the hardest.

There are other passages in the letter upon | which we might comment, but we will not keep | the reader wuch longer from its perusal. Its | authorship alone is that which has given it a claim to this notice. The friends of Mr. Brewster in ‘this place will regret to learn that his visit to the States has taught him so much of the Parson | Brownlow style of slang, as well as ar. unctuous- | ness, which even the notorious and blasphemous Parson could not excel!, in speaking familiarly of the Almighty, of the angels in heaven, of hell and the devil—and more frequently of the latter; while he labours to impress bis readers with the be- lief that he bimself was always a man of immaculate piety, of profound godliness only such as com- paniouship with the angels can inspire, and that consequently, go where be would, he cou!d al- ways rise superior to the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

We suppose we must believe him, (although the belief may be dashed with some grains of inere- dulity) when he says that in the course of bis ramblings he was always *‘on the side of the angel” —that “the orgies of the Casinos” did not tempt

| him—that “champagne lunches and oyster suppers”

had no charins for one who held “companionship” with “ Michael” after his stormy dispute with the “ Devil’; and oh! above and before all, we | suppose we are bound to believe that the “ fair

—the finance minister who found the ‘ means” for getting to New York and Washington—were exercised by no notions of “ eupidity’’ towards this godly companion of the angels; although, while making an effurt to irdulge this belief, we almost wish that his “ taste as a Christian man” did not prevent him from giving “an account of events and things,” which would no doubt show in a very striking light all the fascinationa and allurements with which he and his travelling companion Were assailed by their “ fair friends,” which he, with the help of “ Michael,” was able to withstand, while the other was compelled to succumb.

IMPRESSIONS OF A VISIT TO THE i UNITED STATES. {To the Editor of the Globe.] *Sir,—To live on the border line of a great country like the United States for twenty years : to feel deeply and daily a lively interest in theit welfare, and.to sympathise with them in the present bloody crisis which is beginning to pre- sent a few of its final and sublime issues; and not to eberish the inspiration of an enthusiastic j demire to visit theat, wonld make me quarrel with lmy own nalure, aud seek for some door at which

suspect that whenever Mr. Bourke descended to! 'e lay my complaint. A recent visit to Wash-

« Little Heli” he found many evi! spirits there, and a disposition to make the place tue hot for him; hence his desire to have no further transac- tions with such an ill-omened spot, He is cunning in proposing that the agreement should be similar te that exeeuted between Mr. Hay thorne and his tenants. We know that one ot the couditions of that agreement is, that all the tenants shall buy their farma, or none at all,—one von-consenting tenant would invalidate the whole agreement, Now, if Mr. Bourke ean get the squatters, whe have never given him sixpence, t) join the few regular rent-payers in the agreement which he proposes, he would have just such a hold of them as he desires; and he might laug! in hia sleeve at the praise of hia generosity for offering to sell lands to certain people, at a sery handsome price, when those to whom the offer was made seemed determined be sheuld never realize a fartbing out of them. If Mr. Rourke should sucesed in mak- ing such an extraordinary change im the temper aud disposition of the squatters of “ Little Hell,” as an uagnimous compliance with his offer would indicate, we suggest that the place should never again be known by ite present ill- favoured naine, , but—as the abode of purified spi:its—should be heacefurth distinguished as “ Litt\s Paradise.” Our friend of the Protestant seems anxious to have the last word on the advertisement contro- versy. Weill, let him have it, if he likes. He says we are so “used up" on that matter, that Quite a mistake. We have clearly established our posi- dive = He commenced the very stall dispute by ebgrging the Sceretary with fav uring the £x- aminer in “ giving” it two eertam official ad- vertisements which were not ” zigen” to the other pepers. The Secretary de: laved that the Proestapt bad made aa erroneous charge, aud we felt byand ty support this deeluration, as the charge conveyed ap insinuation of bribery against ourselves. Now we hope we have seeu the last ot thie small matter.

The Protestagt complains that we du not see aud appreciate its ~ witticism:.” Sorry we eay't, and we don’t kuow who deve. Jn attempt ing the diseovery of a witticism jn the columne ot our dewure contemporary, we Uhink we would require sewe such onxakary as p cupibiuation oi

we “cannot conceal” our “ ehay rin.”

geateh warrant, mictuscupe, wid J piludelybia-|

Jaw) er-weuteyenc.

}ington, and other cities of the Union, has been attended with a cousiderable degree of pleasure aud profit te inysell, fur whieh I seek in your ev- lumns an outlet for a devout expression of my thankfulness to Alinighty God for the ways and means His Providence bestowed upon me to enable me to aceomplish the long cherished wish of my heart. If the desire of the heart be good, fostered in the midst of pure motives and directed toa lofty and usetul end,it cometh froa God and is honoured of God. Whateverts of God in Nature will be responded to by God in Providence, pro- viding the recipient bas tound the grand seeret of bringing in the dispensation of Grace between those of Nature and Providence, aud se linking them together ia beautiful harmony. A ehristian man has the advantage of three dispensations : Nature, Previdenee and Grace; and if he bave ouly wisdew suflicieut to keep them in barmony with each other, aud which also requires a large amount of trust in God and personal self-denial, he may ask and have whatever he wants. It there is anything good in bis Nature, Grace will find it out and make interest with Providence tor its proper developement. How te obtain the means wherewith to visit the States was the diffi- culty, and had to be lett to His Providence whe gives us all things requisite aud tiecessary at the right tine.

The means came in the shape of a young mer- chant, who spuntaneously offered to lake me as his travelling companion and to pay all ex- peuses. The easket in whieh God puts His gifts is Sometimes as pretty and as valuable as the gitt itself. Every neighbor ts a treasure to his fellow. But then God keeps the key, and until He unlocks the casket the treasure 1s a secret. The only difficulty | experievced in all my visit was rum the eupidity of my fair friends in New York and elsewhere, to go shares with me jin my treasure. As Shere ts a great dread, just now, oi auuexation, | did out dare, for my country’s sake, te add to the force of the temptation. War was immediaiely declared against me, and I tound to my dismay that America was resolved upon an- vexation or war. The women of Ameriea are excessively belligerent, aud I was obliged to re. turn bome without my young triend, leaving him among the tai belligerents as a hostage to tacili- tate my own escape. Your readers wust not ex- pect from me an account of events and things! coutrary to my taste as a Christian man, Ame-| rica is a great country. Its heignt and depth of | vice and virtue, of fediy and wisdom, are in won-| derful extremes. New York is tremendously tall; it touches heaven with ove hand and hel with the other. Jt has the filthicst streets iu all Christendom, and better men and women are not to be ound, perhaps, out of heaven. | saw the Devil and Michael disputing tor it. [ kept on the side of the angel all the time. 1 saw no theatre out ltahay opera; yo guduight assemblies por bacciavahay souies, J retused all champagne luncheous, late dinners aud oyster suppers. ‘The orgies of luce Casinos had ue tor me, | oad heard trou our Colonial press ot the horrors vf the Fenian Lrotherbuod, aud { made diligent

|}—' beware of the train.

friends” who so cruelly abducted his “ treasure” |

search lor them. I was tuld w wait and see

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New York on St. Patrick’s day. I stood at the drawmg room windows of the Ioternatioual Ho- | tel, Broadway, ou that day, aud saw a& procession two heure long. But Paddy looked so well dress- ed, so happy, and so well-conditioned in bis phy- sique, that J was quile sure he had leit his wrongs where be had lett his rags and their tenants. “ Hear their speeches over their dinner and their whiskey at night,” suggested a friend. I beard speeches on St. Patrick's eve. It was : musing. “ The hated Saxon ;" “ The Bloated Bull ;” “ The Protestant Heretic ;" ** The bloody Englishman ; “ The iniquitous throne of Brunswick; ” “ The pampered Protestant Bishups fattening on the spoils of our martyred fathers,” ull came iu for upreari- ous dequociation. ‘ There is vothing to fear in all thie,” said I to my friend. “ Paddy’e engine has no valves, the steam escapes with the swoxe ; the utmost he eae do with hs engine is to make it whistle horribly ; aud as it amuses hisn it does not burtas; even if it should be able to come thundering along with his five hundred thousand brethren, he takes the precaution you bear of sounding his whistle. He has put up a board My object in my visit to the American States was to see and hear and judge for myself of the present crisis, and to give veut to iny jong pent up sympathy for my brethrey in their conflict

with slavery. Much bas been said and written on both sides of the question, North and South. The North has been traduced ; the South has | been applauded. Abraham Lincela has been

abused ; the Confederates have been encouraged,

Slavery has found its eloquent apologisers among

us. We have harbored traitors in our midst, aud

counived at the escape of raiders. We have

stood on the high places of our fancied securities, aud laughed in bitter irony at the deep agony of

our Kinsmen. When we have seen the North lick

the dust, or fly in disordered coluwns from a

Bull's Kan beture the great slave power of mo- dern times, We have mocked: “* Aba! so would we have it!” I say “we” have been and done this. No, nof we! There are those amoug us who have wept in secret places before the Lord for our brethren in their battle for freedom. We have watebed as for the Ark of God with trembling solicitude, knowing that if the slave power triumphed, the clock of the millenium would be put back a diurnal task, aud IcuaBop would be written on the mountain Lops of New England. Amid the din of war, the g. rife of tongues, and the ambitious, clashing passivns of men awong us, this has been our joy—SLaVORY [5 FOREVER poomED! Ia this 1 rejoice, tor I bate slavery as I ate iniquity. If I hear a man pleading for slavery I listen for his foreign accent, knowing that he is no Englishman. Tue English iatred of slavery is the deepest and most powerful current of our nature. It is the moral “ Gulf Streani” which rushes through our whole depth of being, warming the otherwise cold and chilly eurface ot our pature. It is our only glory—our one beau- teous feature. But for this I should despise Jobo Bull for his vulgar obesity ; his rumbling bowels; his grumbling voice; bis palpable negation of all that is intellectual and beautiful; his cold, proud, isulating look of contempt on all that is artistic in the Italian, polite in the Freneh, and ingenious io the American. But his downright love of free- dom, aud Lis upright determination to eee justice done to the humwblest of the human race, makes wwe love him in spite of his vleaginous forum and absence of intellectual beauty. His hatred of slavery 18 8 hatred of the thing itself, as a thing vile, damnable, and condemned by the uachange- able principles of morals, as an outrage ujpou man and a dishonour against Ged. I have seen the secessionist and his sympathizer stand up before my country —the living persouifieation of eivil and religious freedoms — and say, * Slavery has been unworthily opposed, and bas been largely wisrepresented.” Bur wHaT OF ‘THaTt! Tell us that the Bible epeaks ot slavery — say that it recognizes the institution, regulates its adimiuis-

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, the rejection must be accepted as proof that they value their connection wilb Britain only for the pecuniary rehef it affords, and the connection must end. Such a severance would be regarded by the majority of educated Englishinen with a feeling of bitter pain. It hurts their pride, breaks ep their dream of an Empire fringed round with a feuce of Anglo-Saxon alliances, impairs their confidence ia the policy which of late years bas induced thei te do justiee to the colonies often to their own burt. But it is im- possible in the present state of the world that all the advantages of alliance should be on one side. and the colonists, as they bave demanded the advantage of independence, must alsv accept its burdens. England is willing, @& the vote in the House of Commons showed, fo be faithful to them ; but the contract is one of marriage, and the weaker side cannot break it and demand maiu- tenance tov.”

A FANCY PICTURE.

if they reject them

WE have considered that our present House of Assembly is a pocr and bad affair, but the anti- Confederation House of Assembly in New Bruns- wick far transcends it in folly, worthlessness and wickeduess, if ‘he following graphic picture from the St. John Morning Tolegraph, of the 11th in- stant, can be at all depended upon. The rather forcible language whieh we have put in italies, is Indeed, our Parliament is a model one in eomparison with that of New Bruaswick :—

“ The House of Assembly seems determined to do nothing. It met on the 27th ult., and up to the present moment has not really done one full day’s work. Members fritter away the time in absurd discussions about their pay, about engag- ing couches, about everything, in fact, except the work they were sent there to perfurm. The Go- vernment seem to have po coutrol over them, al- lowing matters to go onin & listless atyle that is quite improper. If the Government are ao strong in the Assembly as they pretend to be, why do they not use their influencete h forward the business of the country, indead of permitting so wach time and money to bewasted over frivolous talk that does no earthly good? If they are such wouderful “ patriots” as they say (hey are, why not prove their title by putting forth an effort to save the people’s money?) Why not bring for-

worthy of aotice.

ward those wouderlul measures whieh they pro- mised the country when they were out of office and hungering for the spoils?) Why not oceupy the time of the Legislature, if it ust be occupied. by an attempt at redeeming the many pledges they made ou the bustings, at party meetings, and vhvough the Press? But why ask such ques- tioits? The Government and a majority of the Legislature are totally corrupt and Teas They represent the very worst elements in our poli- tical system —theu represent chiefly the ignorant and worthless of the constituencies—they represent bro- ken pledges and miserable artifices of every kind. ‘Their action thus far has been quite consistent. They will do nothing that is just and proper to be done. They will not retrench; on the con- trary, they will squander the veople’s money right and left, without meaning and without justifica- tioa, The Assembly will spin the Session out to as great length as possible, and a few weeks hence we shall liave the Government announcing that en account of the vear approach of the Ses- siou’s termination, they are not willing to submit important measures, 6. Yet the same gentle- wen never failed to charge their opponents with trickery and want of candor, The country will discover ere long that it bears an ineubas auch as has not cursed it since the days of the Family Compact aud irresponsible Government.” ~-— <p

tration, and gives us no precedent for expelling the slaveholder from Christian cotnmuuion. nounee the abylitiouist, as you please. old John Brown, and sit beneath tie gallows, and

breeze of God's fair blue heavens! him as traiter, fanatic, murderer! Draw with masterly hand the personal kinduess of the Shel- bies, and the chivalrie valor of the St. Clairs!

over-stated and its benefits uuder-valued. — hadi- cule as you like the Legrees of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and pour all your vile contumely on the head of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Take off the robes with which the Southern abolitionist has decked out slavery in its hideous deformity. Say that Wendell Phillips aud his class have been down into bell for a wask through which slavery way grin horribly befure the world. Strip off that mask and go ye yourselves adinirers of Jef. Davis and Bob Toombs, up to beaven’s gates and ask the guardian angels to lend you the sweet form of some young eyed cherubim, wherewith to adorn the brow of your protege. Ask further gifts. Beg of the angels to give you a tub of water from the river of water of life, which flows fast by the throne of God, where ministering angels wash their wings after their flight from our dusty blackened earth. Put in your blacka- moor. Wash him white in your owa evil eye— yet there it is— the same thing of Coarse horrors

ugliness—foul, dastardly, diabolic trom beginning te end—an insult to humanity—an affront to the | wnajesty of human reason — a Curse upon every \land—a rod of attraction to the lightning veu- geauce of heaven —a titanic demon which has rent ia twain the western hemisphere of the globe and is now soldering up the ritt with the patriotic dead of the freedom-loving North! thrilling spirit the shout of the battle, the noise of warriors, and the hearse challenge of this Goliah as he defied the armies of the living God; and I prayed that God would let me go down to see my brethren in the fight, even if [ bad nothing but an ass to carry a cheese. What | heard, what I saw I mean to tell. Your obedient servant, Brivisuer. intense tains

CONFEDERATION.

A very sensible and well written article, entitled “Confederation considered on its merits,” ap- peared in a late No. of the Halifax Lvrening Express, and feeling that it will suit this region quite as well as that of our larger sister com- wunity, we readily make the following extract from it:—

“ There are certain grave facts connected with this question which are well calculated to arrest the attention and call up serious feelings in the wind of every reflecting and upright man. In the first place the great abstract principle ot Colonial Umon is one which has been advocated long and ably by nearly every Colonial statesman of any standing, including Mr. Howe, and others who now take exception tu this particular scheme. The men who matured the Quebee Scheme, with the exception of Mr. Howe, constitute the leading aud governing minds of the five Colonies. The idea of Union, and also the particular basis of Union were cordially aecepted and approved by the British Colonial Secretary, the British Government, the leading men of all parties, and with scarcely an exception by the whole British press. These are facts which can neither be evaded norexplained away. If then this question —or any question of this nature is to be con- sidered judicially, if the authority of experience, character, position and ability 1 to have any weight in guiding us to a r.ght conclusion, there is enough here to make us pause and ask our- selves: Is it possible that all these men can be wrong in their inductions, or that they have been led to these conclusions from interested or cor- rupt motives? The latter we must disuriss at once as an idle absurdity. It is perhaps within the range of possibilities that one or two Colonial Delegates might be tempted by ambition or the hope of personal aggraudisement; to consent to the betrayal of the interests of their country. We do not say, we do not believe that such has been the case; all we concede is, that it might be within the Immit of things possible. But that all should be conspirators is a libel upon our common country. But even granting that so great an infamy could be fastened upon us, who will charge corruption, or iguorance, or blindness to consequences, to the public aud the press of England! No, the wildest partizaa, the most unblushing nuposter, will not venture so far as that, All that remains for him is to gloss over the expressed opinion, to evade the quibble, or turn te aide issues, and indulge in affected wit—in persona) sneers—in anything at all, to direct at- tention from the fact, that the statesmen of E.g- land, her press, her public opinion, are in harmony of feeling with the action of the Colouial Dele- gates who framed the basis uf Union.”

We are indebted to the same paper for the following extract from a recent No. of the Loudon Spectator—a jourval of very great influence aud ability—whieh declares in more forcible style than we have yet seen what the position of England will be towards these Colonies if they persist in refusing to confederate, and thus seek to throw the burthen of their defence upon Great Britain:

* We do not profess to know the inner winds of the Canadians either on the Confederation or the alliance with Great Britain; but this much seems to us certain, 1 is absolutely necessary for this country to know that wuer mind. The very first thing to be done before we can move another step is to ascertain precisely what the bulk uf the colouiste desire —if they themselves know — to aseure them they are at full liberty to vote thew. selves independent without incurring charges of treason; and, if they reject that effer, to submit te thew io sume intelligible form the conditions of our alliange. If they thei, well; if they wodity thew in any way, well alsv; but

De- | Hang up |

mock his grey bairs as they stream aud the | Blaspheme |

—an unchangeable thing of moral and intellectual |

I heard with |

THE LATE PRESIDENT.

| The American papers continue to overflow | with tributes to the memory of the late President

| which attended the removal of his remaing from

| Washington to Illinois, where they were burted. aiding and abetting this aggressive movement |

| following interesting extract from the eorrespon- dence of an American paper :—

SPRINGFIELD, IIl., May 3, 1865.

He said, in the few words of impressive fare- well addressed to his friends on the J1th day of February, 1861, after he had stepped upon the plattorm of the car which was te bear bim away, “T must now leave you —for how long I know not.” Alas! those friends now know just how long. He said, too, “I go to asanme a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washing- ton.” And now the whole world, whore central figure he bas been from that day te this, must concede that he has aequittted himself of that task like another Washington.

In the mellow air and tright sunlight of this May morning, sweetened by the rain of last j Hight, when those prairies are clothed in flowers. | aud the thickets of wild friit trees, and blossom- jing orchards are jubilant with birds, he comes jback. lis triends and neighbors are here to re- iceive him, not with banners and triumphal music, [net with congratulations ard grasping of hands, 128 they had hoped to do, not so, but in mourning, j and his oldest and dearest frends come to meet | Lim to be the pall-bearecrsat his funeral. | "The contrast between tlat other day-and te- | day, the contrast between what, but for the as- sassin, the day of bis rewwn should have been, and what that day actualy is, these contrasts force themselves tipon the uind and will nut be banished froin our thoughts

The train that brought bim to his long home moved slowly into the town moved slowly through masses of * plain people” who had come from all the country round abott. These people had known him always, as the bey struggling for knowledge while he batthd with poverty, as the young man who surveyedtheir lands, and read al uight when perchance hestayed at their bumble houses; as the rising youig lawyer who pleaded the causes of the pour fur only © sweet pity’s sake,” who upheld the weak against the strong tor only justice’s sake, tea because oppression was hateful to hia; as the politician whose con- tinual plea was, “ Let ue see if this thing be right —if it be right. let us have it; but if it be wrong, let us put it away from us,” as the State legisla- tor, who with one other against an intolerant majority dared to file upoa the records his protesi against Slavery; as the Presidential Elector. who cach four yeat's spoke his eouviction in every town in the State, though in a hepeless minority, for evnseience sake, and yet never lost his temper or called bad names; ys the candidate for Sena- tor, who deliberately said, “ I will uot be double- faced, I will utter the same opinions at both ends of the State, I will not be made Senator by a fraud; and by and by be was made President and went from among them-—and they watched him from afar, were proud that one of themselves had become in virtue and in station, “ the fore- most mau in all this world.” And then they saw him accomplish bis great task; and now they were seized by a wigity longing to see him once wore, and they wade him promise that he would come in June; and then they heard of bis most horrible murder, and behold, he comes in May, but he comes a dead man. Say, have not these people a right to mourn and refuse to be com- forted ? Was he not peculiarly their own, and when you and all of us sorrow, shall these not lament?

The train stops. The pall-bearers, those old men, friends of his lung syne, approach. The stillness among all the veaple is painful; bat when the coffin is taken fran the car, that stillness is broken—broken by «bs, and these are more painful than the stillness. The coffin is borne to the bearse; the hearse moves slowly, almost ten- derly away, followed by the mourners, and the pall-bearers walk side by side. The cortege, more svlewn tian any that had gone betore, reaches the State House, where he was wont to speak face to face with his neighbors—where at this hour these ueighbors press to bebuld his face locked in death.

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Price oF Lanps ty Canapa West.—Some tenants in this Islavd seem to think they are very fortunate if they can buy their farms at twelve shillings and six peuce an acre. The following paragraph from a late Upper Canada paper wil! show what is the value of lauds in a flourishing sec- tion of that Province, where great railways and canals are to be found in the immediate vicinity, enriching the country all rownd, and stimulating the industry and enterprise of the people :—

“Tue Crown Lanb SA4Le at Saryia.—The Sarnia Observer says:—' The sale of Crown and Clergy Lands in this county and Kent, advertised to take place at Alexander’s Hotel, yesterday, took place in the tewe bali, notice of the change being given by handbills distributed through the town on the morning of the sale. The sale waa condneted by Mr. G. Stevenson, under the super-

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CAPTURE OF THE EX-PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH.

Tue capture of Mr. Jefferson Davis, late Pre- sident of the Southern Confederacy, is the only item of news of great importance which we have received from the States during the past week. The great “ Rebellion,” so nearly crushed out before, may now be considered annihilated with the downfall of its Chief and eoutrolling spirit. As to the way in which the Washington Govern- ment will dispose of the ex-President, there is at present no means of aseertaining. President Jebnson commenced his eareer by declaring that he would make an “example” of the leaders of the ** Rebellion.” What he meant by making an “example” points significantly enough to the gallows; and there is no doubt that be will find pnumerous advocates in the North to justify, nay eall for this cruel exercise of power. The high price set upoa the head of the fallen Chief stamps hitn with the suspicion of crime greater than that of rebellion; andin the present temper of the North, it will not be difficult to convert suspicion into so called conviction, however baseless ils founda- But we tmust not judge the Federal Government too prematurely. We hope wise and merciful counsels will prevail at Washington, notwithstanding the hot and hasty words of the new President. As Jeff. Davis has been recog- nised as a belligerant, he should be treated as such, unless it can be clearly proved to the world that he bas been guilty of other and darker crimes than that of making war against the Northern Republie for the independence of the South. The good opinion of all ewailized nations will not ap- prove of a cruel and relentless policy towar him, simply because be happened to have been

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FILIBUSTERING ON A LARGE SCALE.

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tion may be.

THe following article from the New York News, one of the organs of the Washington Government, describes a Filibustering movement of the great- est wagnitude ever yel witnessed on the American continent. ‘The flimsy pretext that it is av immi- gration movement to Mexico, and that the Fede- ral Government are not connected with it, can impose upon no one. The “ immigrants” go out with arms in their hands, which are the property of the American Government; and they declare that when they get to their destination they will expe. the emperor Maximilian and bis French army, and restore republicanism, with, no doubt, all its ancient corruptions and berrors. We feel assured that the Emperer Napoleon will have a great deal to say about this matter before the fil- libustering movement shall have made much pro- gress. He has immense vested interests in Mexi- can territery—he has a large army and navy em- ployed to protect the throne of the new empire— the honor of France is pledged to continue that protection as long as the security of the Mexican empire requires it; and we may be sure he will not be disposed to yield up his interests—to allow his aruty and navy to be dispersed, disgraced, and per- haps annihilated, and the pledged word of France