. - —_ os '_- - fe regarded as fixh to be caught in their net. Tne newt merino gewa and the glossy hat ghat came forth in good form last Sanday, the little giel's hac wd feather shat will not be wanted tll next Sunday, the uu brella, that can be epared because thers is no rain or the parasol becauge there is just now bo bright sunshine; the great coat ar ghe thick erawi when the wheather is warm, the silver | wateh (a chain may dangle oyer the waiat- alii . a — * Just week have not ratarned to Lee's army, and theranre ustay @ocjeotures that the rebel commander, eubotdeoed hy his sucesasful dee fence of tis strong position by a small force will now aend heavy detachments to the as- sistance of the raiding divisions in the Shen- eadvah Valley. FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. Cairao,U) , August.—Steamer Fairchild, of er IT fruitless, unneceasary arson, scathing and ruining the fairest districts at our commen country and waking of ite Whele population a race of starving vagabonds, with no feeling but that of misery, ne aentiqgent but that ot bitter, undying hatred ot their oppresaora, A Wasbinglan paper prints the fullowing extract frow a letter received jt ithat gity, which ifustrates bettey than we can | deseyibe s—"* We have not been visited recently duct in Westmorlrnd County, Va., laat week, evat, even though there be no wateh in the! >), Marine brigade, was fired inta at Astown | /¢ horrible tu think of. poeket): the tailor’e gaose, the carpenter #6) ianding on the 27th ult, by a rebel battery ‘that «a vessel may be hrought up iby the Black Republican decals — but their con- | | duct in We i ix ships of 450 tons burden can pass between Junocent und unofend-| the two waters. ) dig he Ipleas woulenh, high and low, robbed. whipped | publie work oyy he understood as well << ! size that of Great Britain. The navigation of the lakes, the St. Lawrence und tmbutary streams, is either goutinuous or has been made so by urt. By means of canals, the rapide of the St. Luwrence are overeome, 8a 25 feet abave the level of the sea. The Niagara Falls obstrget the navigatiun between lake Erie ard Optario, hut by the Welland Canal The value of this great plane, the glasier’s diqm md, the picture} yf 4 guns ; 17 shots struck the boat, and one juad ravished. Can the * Northern people* pertuil the extent of the inland commerce of Canada, /sueh acts of brutality and barbarisin! They can't "6 iin ‘ | resture the Union in that way. Lcould write pages, Fifteen hundred Texan infantry recently | jut must forbear.” ‘This is the only kind of war- made & raid upon & plantation near Natches | tare which the administration is competent to wage, killed a Federal captain, wounded several of} Chis is the kind of warfure which 1 making a his men, carried away all the negroes, mules) nation of the South—a nation of hereditary ene- ever the mantlepiece, the blanket, the best mon wen kiltel. teapot, the insignia af some Order of emart teiiowe—nothiug comes amiss. Many of the! articles proffere d ta the pawabroker ar’ fa miliar acquartances of hia: he bae bad them , often hetore ip hie care. Many are obyious ly made egpresaly fur pawning. without any intention al redeeming them: and many look dvwubtful, cf are offsred by doutfal-look persune and supplies. A gin bouse and cotton press in William- /son county, Miss., were burned oa the 24th ‘ME ult., together with 450 baies of cotton ; loss sd aa | $30 00, Feraurect Sreawa sat Accipeyt ty Fravce —-40 Pexsoss Drowxeo.—A shocking loss of}, ‘ | . aaa en Sunday by # steamboat! The fallowing letter, dated »+ Near Atlanta bite ae Ge ‘ J : o- * i . M : ° uecident on the Seone. The Lyong ournale | July ae gceeneres in the New York i . meso e a << furnish ge with the fallawjag detsile:-—*' The) °°" ; ; i i tl Moushe No. 4 is one of the frat penuy boats} ,, Daring Saturday (2), Gen Brannan, aks ket tien ae of tha een. Bho te) Chief of Artillery, had placed in position in ike th - - Poe ad t ali at of t! Peat jthe Department of the Cumberland three " ; oon ney a ited ie sn adiiiaiale' hatteries of 20-pounder Parrotts. with orders a is salad heal a t ‘ os + passengers | Ope® upon Atlanta atdark. Shortly after _ a vi cae — . . aan a inate , dark one of these batteries. located aboat a Sara half oan 3 iat Teall al ene three hundred yards from my quarters, open- 4% ad o ' ‘ . °F » @ ‘ hepew ¢ » » & “ tha Sluuche, which bad came fram } sraghe,| upon the eity, and threw a shell every fil 4 . ray w Vaiso. wich © great teen minutes in ite direction. The bom- on eT steed v9 ea a ; & at; Dardment wae kept ap all night. About 12 ren ee Ruai <: Pee eine }o’elock Gen. Johnston, who may be seen in — - ane ® casted ih a oii a at her | different parts of hie division night and day. where she embarked a ' ers that her} : deck wes completely theansed gad her achian' tapped me on the shoulder while 1 was asleep lsu filled tne eceengere guneieted of all aod remarked, * Atlanta is on fire. I gotup yo see la lies - eel &e . all and went to the top of the hill, and saw an a tl oo Sa el when On leaving the lamination in the direction of that city. It head a place the steamer in onder te aveid! lasted but a short time, however, and was the ditferent sand banks near the Point i were a by the burning of some Nemyurs, had tq eteer @ serpentine course | *™4 ested! and take a numberof sharp curves. During : : einen ‘ mavemeuth ake ward te violently, but heard the driving of cattle going on until the passengers for the moment did not pay | ™OFMNg from the direction of the Macon much aétention to themovement. Atlength, wee Early Bandny a a id however, a sudden action of the rudder opened upon the hat ery of <Y pounder aueed her to give vo heavy a lurch that the above mentioned, fram their new positions, « e 4 a em 182 a . i : water came in at the seupper-boles, An in-| int kept up @ vigorous fire during the day diseribable seene of confusion then took heir guns were very heavy and demonstrates place; the ¢ mpact mase of passengers on the fact, it is believed, that the enemy in- made 5 the ru t ' 5 : a is : the deck were pressed with such force against | tend to fight itout. The Fourteenth Corps the Seal soil oh iets ran alung the s je. that, D@¥e but eighteen gans in position, while i¢ ‘ a ‘ ‘ . « * . - . it suddenly gave way and fifty persons were is the recipient of a continuous fire from nine ie’ ‘ « C - " e ae * ebel hatteries —— oo . le > ane Che e . precipitated inro the river in & mass. as . captain of the boat went overboard with the fhe whole army, or at least oar right reat. The scene which followed was heart-! and centre, is situated in an extremely un- » 3 2 , Pthe rending ; the surface of the water was cover- pleasant position, and is at the mercy of th G4 with heads, and arms were seen making ———— FROM ATLANTA. Satarday night our pickets) (rebel cannoniers. There is not a desperate efforts to release themselves. The persons who fell in were so compactly throng. ed wegether that every one clung to his weigtbor in the aguny of des,air, so that those who might otherwise have escaped by éwimming were prevented from using an exertion in that way. The captain lost his life in that manner, for he was seiz d hold of hy two females, ane of whom elung round his peek, and the other round his body, and the three sank tozether. What added to he horror of the scene was that the accident wholly safe. Three solid shot passed through Hooker's headquarters yesterday ,:nd several shelis burst near the headquarters of Gen Thomas. “The rebel gunners, of course, have a perfect knowledge of the country about here. land can burst their shells almost where they | please. Qur officers pass remarks oomph- mentary to the skill of the enemy 'sartillery- jmen, bat | must confess that | don't appre- ‘ciate sweh scientific exhibitions. A diversion lin favour of Houker was made Jast night in ! rough | yicat distant, by the pirate Tallahassee. the following manoer :—~ happened at a part of the river where no} "> | : e spall boats ace kept, and it bemg Sunday,| | There was a portion of ground in front tee of the b tied ma ia ather parts were en |of Hooker which he desired to obtain posses- * . : : ’ an ' Y fe » ’ gaged in their usual oocupations, s» shat a/ of, and the Lith eter on considerable time elapsed before any aesist- utdered at precisely 10 o'clock to sonn cnew came to the spat. Only about ten per-| their bugles, give three cheers, and discharge sone were able te save themselves by swim- quale pote. ag parrenennes ae S om ming ; four or five others were restored to ani-| oe aa pom the we 7 . oo yation alter being got on shore, leaving the 2'° Stats lost SS loft ee aaet . number of druwned to amount to from 35 te firing Gen. Hodker’s left advanced and too rT 4a the bodice were afterwards tuken | Possession of the ground ahove referred to wade aiiiale I de | The firing lusted above half an Sour, when wat of the water they were deposited on the | deck of the Abeille steamer lying alongside | the quay. At six in the evening 30 were! ranged there. Thos recognised were renoved | to their own homes, and the others taken to the Liutel Diew ty await further enquiries. in the following morning those who were} claimed by their friends were takva away, | and the others carried tothe Morgue. After! the neeident, the Muuehe, instead of stopping | to rendey newistance, continued her cuurse, a| conduct fur which the persons belonging to| ber are severely blamed. Various reasons| nee given fury thet ope act. A person on} boaid states that the pasacngera who still re-| wained on the steamer were so alariaed that] they elamorously insisted on being | ‘Phe captain haying been among those who juli} overboard, the man at the helm was the | valy one left to manage the steamer. Ile} was about to order to stop her, when one of | the passengers seiged him by the t)roat and pulled bia from bia place, and then taking ihe tlier steered the vess-] ty the nearest | landing-place. Anothey acoayat stutes that) the engineman, seeing the quantity of water! the vessel bad shipped, aud which lind rush-| ed intu the boiler, feared an expluaun, and | therefure made all haste to get the other | pessengers to land in order ta prevent @ se.) cond calamity. The owner of the boat has been arrested, and a judicial investigation into the affair will immediately tuke place The sensation and xffliction produced at Lyons by this dreadtal aceident are indes- erthable. THE WAR IN THE STATES. CO-OPERATIVE PLANS OF JOUNSTON AND LEK. The railroad carmuniostion between Rich- wood and Atignta is perfect, and the means) of transportation are ample. Uf such has yeally been the intention of the rebo! leaders, | it baa, no doubt, been after cungaltation with General Julnston, and ig pu:suance of » fell understanding with him. On any ather hypothese, Julinston’s recent move- | it was drowned by the roar of the enemy's artillery all along the line — ten thousand times louder than the roar of Niagara. The air was filled with hissing, crackling bombs and every description of misaile kaown in the art of war furiously paraded void, making night hideous, and sleep bayglid our reach. ** As an offsett to this uncalled-for dio, our Parrotts opened upon the city, when some half a dozen rebel batteries directed their tire upon our 24-pounders, but failed to dismount a guo, as they kept up their fire ' upon the city until morning. ** To-day all is qaiet along the picket line, for the first time vor three days, although our own and the rebels’ heavy artillery are continually banging away at each other This will probably be the order of things un- til something further is developed. * From all that oan be gleaned from pri- soners and deserters, although really such persons know very little what is to be the) course of things, there seems to exist but little doubt of the purpose of the enemy. 1 believe tne r bels will stay at Atlanta, if mies to the Coion. [tis this warfare which gives uaa burnt Chambersburg and a devastated border, It will never give us anything better.”— Boston Courwr FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. | Wastineron, Ang 7.—The rebel battery on the north side of the James river has been very lanneying tor adayortwo. Quite au engagement }took place this morning between it and our gun- | boats, and it was fiually forced to limber up and jleave. ‘The weather continues very warm, and | considerable sickness prevails among the soldiers, whe suffer principally trom diarrala@a. St. | George Court House was wantonly set tire to and | destroyed on Friday morning by some soldiers. Later. — A letter from the Army of the Po- jtomac, dated Saturday morning, says: —‘ The lrebels blew up a mine last evening before dark, lin front of the Sth corps, but as they bad not | dug to within 40 yards of our works, no da- linage was done. They also atteupted to make i charge, ebeering loudly, but must bave felt cha- grined at finding themselves so tar from eur loes }Considerable tirtug was kept up for an hour. | The euewy's los’ was heavy, but ours was very light. All quiet this morning.” THE INVASION, BALTIMORE, Aug. 8.~—I[t is reported here that aterce ot rebels was crossing the Potomac yes- terday, beyoud Hancock, and was geing in the di- rection of Wheeling. ‘The same authority says that Karly bas been, or as being reinforced by | Longs reet’s corps, aud Wheelug is to be th: point aimed at. There is bo tucaus of ascertain- ing the retiability of this rumeur, but it is thought to be unreliable. | ‘The rebels have oeeupied Hagerstown, Penn- | sylvania, and Middleburg, in the sume state. ii aici | CONFEDERATE STEAMER TAJLAHASSEE Saxnvy Hook, N. Y., Aug. 14.—The boatman of the Associated Prese furnishes the following report i “ T have boarded the barque Suliote, of Belfast, Me., from Cow Bay tor New York, She was captured on the 12th, off Moutauk Pojut, thirty The pirates bounded the barque for BS000, and put ov } board her $00 passengers from the ship Adriatic, | the latter having been burned by the pirates. No } water or provisions were given them. The Su- liote bas alse on beard Mr. Callaghan and crew of the Pilot Beat Win. Bell, Na. 24, which vessel was burned or the I2th, off Montauk paint, by the pirates, Several other persous trem destroyed vessels were aiso on board the Saliote. ‘The Su- liete reports secing a vessel burning on the night of the Ith. The pirate stated to some of the captured persous that he was coming into New York harbour. “When last seen the Tallahassee was steering southeast. The pilot beat James Funk is her tender. ‘The Suliote passed the trigate Susque- hanna on Saturday morning, lying still south of Sandy Hook.” New York, Aug. 14 —Louis Sampson, pilot, reports Lith inst, twenty-five miles off Montauk Point, saw a beruyaphrodite bry, burued, bottom up; ue doubt the Carrie Estelle. Capt. Hardera of the Hawburg barque Elb, saw [2th inst, off Montauk, three burning vessels At the same time the pirate Tallahassee can close aboard with the Union ensign fymg ; atter passing, the pirate haisted the Confederate flag : guw a wan jump averboard from the Tullahassee, but he was picked up by one af fer bouts and tukenon board again, Same day aaw aachooner, } Siren, and a pilot beat burned; vane aod num- ber unknown. Cupt. Swartz, of the Holland barque Cheribon, reports 12th instaut, lat. 40 25, lon. 72 34, saw large ship on five. ‘The pilot boat Ezra Nye, arrived here, peports that ou the 12th inst., off Moutauk, saw the pilot boat James Funk leave a ship on fire ; atherward saw a auspicions etenmer tuke the pilot boat in tow. Phe Ezra Nye stoed off. but afterward- weut te the burning ship, and found her to be the Adnatie, Capt. Meore, from Loidon for New York. Two toreign barques were ele by, te whem the Tatlthassee was supposed ta have tranaferred the passengers. She was afterwards seeu near a large shyp, New York, Aug. 14.—The harque Suliote, with the gaptain, crew and passengers of the ship arrived up thie evening. The passengers lost all their luggage, and the large number of persons placed on board the Suliete sank ber so that ber deck was level with the water Had a sterm arose, probably all on board would lave been lost. possible. Their communication to the north | and east is entirely destroyed, but so long | ‘ ac oud | i bed, witl air | ; | as the Macon r med is andisturbed, with their Adriatic collided with the pirate, carrying away | present force, ordnance and position, we may | the Tall , . 1 do not believe a good wind at the tuye would yndaubtedly have they have received any reinforcements from | gunk her. regard them @3 quite ete. | Virginia or North Carolina, although both deserters and prisoners persist it reporting | The Adriatic had 163 passengers and a full carge of merchandise, the latter mostly on British account. Ln reunding to after her capture the ahasaee’s (jain mast, and had there been Ou the léih Captain Moore of the | Adriatic boarded the frigate Susquehunuah off | Fire Lsland, and gave ali the intormation he por- i that five thousand soldiers have arrived from sessed relative to tue pirate. that vicinity. It is true, however, that the |town is being filled with Georgia and Ala lhama militia, and it ia likewise true that ithe Trans Missiselppi army is anxiously ex- | pected at Atlanta. ‘The rehela mount new ‘cannon every night, and already their vicious muzzles frown an every Federal encampment, ** It amay be regarded certain that a large ' rebel force exists in Atlanta. It haa heen developed at the skirmish line heyond a ‘doubt, where their pickets are as wumerous | as our own.’”’ | PEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE ATRO- CITIES—WHO INAUGURATED THEM? | Capt. Moore of New York. The Adriatie was owned by E. FE. Morgan and She wae of about | }UUU0 tous burthen and a first class ship. The pilet boat Willian Bell was captured on the Lith, ninety miles southwest of Sandy Hook, atter a chase of half an hour and being fired at three times. The pilets state that the Talahas- see in a very faut eoaael, All the passengers express their gratitude to Captain Pauno of the Saljute fur his kindness to them. | The Brooklyn Ugiaw statea that within three hours atte rthe receipt of the jufarmation of the pirate Tallahassee, two ships, the Ascutney and Bolua, were sent off in pursuit of her. The Susquehannah was got off this warning, and the Adriatic, aud crew of the pilet beat Williaa Bell, | }iation of 45.000. /Q00—having increased about 450,000, when we atate that in L861, 4351 vessels went | through it, yielding a direct revenue of some | $240,000. Cunada at this moment possesses | altogether S16 miles of canal which cost | | $16,000,600, add to this upwards of 2,000 wiles of railway, to say nothing af the many thousand miles of highway whieh open up the country in every direction. In order that we may be able to form some sort of comparison of Canada with Nova Scotia we may state that her House of As- sembly numbers 130 members, and her Legis- lative Council G1. Canada pays her Gover- nor £7000 a year, and her Cabinet Ministers £1000 sterling. In education, she expends $506.000—in the administration of justice $670,000. To hospitals and charities she gives $272,000, and to Toronto University about $180,000.—What will the opponents of Dalhousie say to this? Her millitia in 1861 was only $84.000, but the grant for this has since been made more liberal. For the promotion of agriculture she expends more than $100,000, and for emigration se lays out nearly $50,000 — Nova Seovia can afford only $800. She has ocean steamers of her own, to which she gives a subsidy of $200,000. Such are a few of the items of public expenditure and they are upon a scale wf liberality and public spirit, becoming a great and rapidly advancing people. In 1X61 the Imports of Canada amounted to $48 .000,000. her Exports to $36 000 000.— ler revenue during the same year was $97 - (00,000, and her expenditure $119,000 000. Measures have since that time been adooted to bring her outlay within the limits of her income. ‘The public debt of Canada is $65,- 000,000, for which she has to pay interest amounting to #3.400,000. This seems a large sun, and is, no doubt, much felt by the Colony, but there cannot be «doubt that the Government Works it represents have don* much to place the Colony in the posi. tion it now occu piea, Our space i# nearly exhausted; but we must mention that Canada las made a great and laudable effort in behalf of Education, and has now 40 Coileges and Universities. nearly all sectarian; 200 and odd Grammar ahaa and Acadamies, and nearly 700 ele- In most of these schools education is free, Canada possesses not fewer than 203 newspapers and periodicals— many of them conducted with great energy and ability; and we are glad to welcome some of their ablest representatives, on the present auspicious occasion, to our city. We trust that nothing has happened, or will happen, to mar the good feeling which had 30 happily been inangurated, and its effec will be the drawing of all of us more closely, not only as regards personal amity, but also as regards our great and ever-growing Luter- Colonial interests Canada, as everybody knows, is divided. both geographically and ethnologically, into two great divisions. Canada East contains 60 counties and two great cities— Montreal! and Quebec—-the one with a population o! 100,000, tve other between 50,000 and 60, 0u0. The total population of this portion of | Canada in 1861 was 1,111,556, showing an | increase of 220,000 within the last ten years —a rate of progress which sets at rest the idle calumny that the people of this portion of the colony are non-progressive. Canada West possesses tive considerable cities, but none of them equalling Montreal or Quebec The most important is Toronto, with a popu- In this division there are 43 counties with a gross population of 1 400,- or more than the whole population of Nova Scotia, during the last ten years. mentary schools. ing with giant strides—and this progress must be attributed to ber tree tostitutions— her tertile suil—and her healthy climate— the most healthy perhapsin the warld, except Nova Seotia, if we may form a conolusion frou the statistios afforded by the compara- portions of the globe, In Canada it is 39 in 1000 —in Nova Seotia 34—in Creat Britain 50—in Gibraltar 43—in Bermuda 55 We have said that Canada does not possess eoal, but she has tron in abundance, and her copper mines are said to be inexhaustible, while gold is being found in some abundance in the Chaudiere district. wealth. Nor are her fisheries unimportant, their annual value being about a million and Aug 13. ae aed A correspondent of the Boston Journal at Quebec, writes as follows :—*+ Appearances indicate a strong support by the people of the new govercment. Lustructions are being awaited from England as regards some ims portant questions affecting the details of the tederation, and by-a few weeks considerable progress will be made towarda negotiations, lt is thought, however desirable a complete union of the British North American Pro- vinces may he, that for the present the two Canadas, and perhaps New Branswick and Nova Scotia, only will enter the federation. Canada has become a second California, Sir William E. Logan, the Geolozist of ('a- nada, reports the soil full of ores of all kinds in invaluable quantities. Atrondy several thousand are at work at Chaudiere, Acton. Assembly, where it was exposed withoat jurisdiction to convict the fellow as he was ‘not then a **member,’’ and -appose further, ‘that such a fellow was employed by the old |'‘Pory and proprietary fuction to libel a Go- ‘yernor and bis eouncil, because they were | favourable to fhe cause of the tenantry, and using their best exertions to aieliorate their condition, and suppose that sach libel were the cause of getting him some more agencies oe of proprietors who appreciated his antipathy to the tenants, and that besides the oppres- sion of the tenantry in multiplying costs of lawsuits, he pocketed and spent every penny which be received from such tenanury to his use and benefit, and gave nothing to the pro- prietors ; and suppose that one of such pro prietors gave £5U to be distributed amongst the poor, and that the agent gave more than £10 thereof for such purpose, #@d suppose that he with his ‘‘unclean hands’’ had ma- naged to plunder, by means of endorsements or otherwise, from a Bank some £14000, and offered a large potatoe in paymeni thereof to the cashier, and afterwards sought a ** white- wash’’ certificate from the President, who was not President at the time the plunder wus effected, but dared not ask the former President, whom he victimized, for such ¢er- tificate ; and suppose such a fellow, with his ** unclean hands,"’ wrote and published most glaring falsehoods against the Catholics and Catholic Bishop,and went about through- out the country establishing Orange Lodges and raising the foul spirit of bigotry, pre tending that the Catholies had all conspired aguinst all Protestants, to murder and des- troy them, and moreover to turn the pious virtuous, ** God-fearing™’ Culonial Secretary vut of bis office, which would, as a matter of course, be absolute rain te the poor tenantry all over the Colony !! And suppose such a tellow to haye practised his black art so suc- cessfully both on his own account and on ac- count of the shabby mipvistry who employ him, that they are all under his control to sucl an extent that he can goad them through their **puppet’’ leader as he pleases, becaus: they too well know that he can at any mo- went publish their disgraceful proceedings in their mode of getting majorities ut electiuns, &e.; and being quite aware that such a [el- low will have no scruples in such degradation of himself and colleagues, beosuse worse than he ia at present, or lore despicable in the public estimation he cannot be, and hence his recklessness, and his desire wheneyer it way answer his own purposes to reveal otf others what will bring them down to his own standard of perfidy. Now, sir, (continued Mr. Bireh), look at the group before you and if you recognize such a character as | have been depicting fo your imagination, |! —_— — — Soo eo ‘cality to be brought before the House of Lorde pat together, concurred with the Chan- eellor. ButLords Chelmstord, Wensleydale, and Kingsdown, touk the opposite view, and , the resalt was the decision of the Court be- low has been reversed, A contemporary says:—* The result of the judgment in the Lords was ®nxiously waited fur by Mrs. Yelverton at the office of her agent. Oo being aware that the dicision was against Ler she swooned, and for some time remained unconscious, ing from one fainting fit into another. amin were administered, and after a short interval the poor lady rallied, and was then carried in « semi-prostrate state to a brougham, and con- veyed to the residence ot ber uncle in Cam- bridye-Terrace, Hyde-Park.’’ The Morning Post has the following :—** A minute of re- ference to oath has been lodged by Mrs. Yel- verton, the practical result of which is to prevent the judgment being made final in Scotland until the parties to the suit have heen examined on outh. Their evidence given in Ireland is considered most impor- tant.’’ The prevailing topic of conversation in Dublin was the great demonstration expected on Monday the 8th of August, on the occa- sion of laying the foundation stone of the O'Connell monument. A Dublin paper saye the excitement which the affair creates in that city isshared in by the country at large ; and in Drogheda, Belfast, Cork, Kilkenny. Limerick and Waterford, steps have been taken towards having the inhabitants worthi- ly represented on Munday. The arrangements of the various details conneewd with the procession are, we are hapey to be able to state, progressing satisfactorily, and it is only necessary that, in addition to everything else, the weather should prove favourable on Monday, to render the demonstration, which will then be witnessed, one of the grandest and must memorable sights which has been witnessed by the present generation of lrishmen. The Bank of Fngland minimum rate of discount was raised on Thursday to 8 per cent. The tone of some of the Paris journals to- wards the great German Powers, and parti- cularly towards Prussia, is by no means of a friendly character. J Rumors were current on the Sth that the late rebel cruiser Georgia had been seized by order of the Government as she was about leaving Liverpool. It turned out, however, that she was simply detained by her owner. It is alleged that the Georgia is now bona Jide the property of Nr. Bates, by whom she has been put in thorough repair, and was about jeaving Liverpool for Lisbon, under charter to the Portugese Goverament to carry troops to West Coast of Africa, and mails between Libson and the Aaores. trust you will mingle a tear or a sigh with mine in commisseration of the constituency whom he misrepresents. and of the untortu- nate leader who is goaded by him, and of the poor slavish tenantry whose destruction and slavery every act of his life aims at accomplishing. (To be continued ) Che Examiner, Charlottetown, August 22, 1864. LATEST FROM EUROPE, The R. M. Steamship Asia arnved at Halifax on the 16th instant, from Liverpool, via Queens- town. Dates are to the 7th ist. Conquered by the concessions made by unfor- tunate and disinterested Denmark, the German At the Durham Assizes Baron Pigott, in passing sentenos upon some rasoals convieted of yarotting, ordered them to be well whipp- ed in addition to undergoing penal servitude for some years. TUE UNLON QUESTION, No. 1. Tur following letter from the Hon. Mr. Coles refers to a question of so much importance, and one which is now commanding unrivalled atten- tion, as to call for the most prominent place in our columns: To rus Epiror oy rue Examiner. Sir: — Having been named by His Excel- lency the Lieut. Governur as one of the Delegates to meet similar persons appointed by the Provinces of Nova Sevtia and New Brunswick, to take into consideration the question of Unionof the Lower Provinces~— and L having opposed the appointment of such De- It will thus be seen that Canada is advanc- | tive morality of British troops in different | lier petroleum or | ° ! vil springs are also adding greatly to bei a half of dullars.—Ha/jfar Evening Express, | wente are inex, |icable, and entirely at va-} Ne ee es amaien deatruction of the peveet and thriving ree a giving battle vccasionally, and undoubtediy Chambersburg. It enables as here, in the Nerth, infheung considerable loss on Geo. ral Sher. | youn’s army; but still his pretreat will he disheartening in the last degree to the South-| proaperoua couutry of the South. end, a masterly stroke of strategy ahove hypothesia, it will be so. Joblnston | glorions suecestes of the Federal arinies in reduce | has under his command acventy-five thousand | ing half a State to the condition of a desert waste, | troops ; the troops under A. P. Hill and/ was exhi'arating, perhaps, “Poor devils, why | Longstrect, if they have gone to him, will], did they rebel Tan what right has a rebel, and give him fapty thousand or fi'ty thougand his helpless family, which a loyal soldier is beter | F seneractt 7°? ’ lies bere aah | more, making hi whole lopee one hundred | respect Rut wheo the brand bexine ag und fitteen thousand or ane hugdred and, reach aur own towns, where rewinders of filly | . | thousand ryined Virgioian homes are left by rebel | twenty -fye theyssnd strong. Sherman 1) hands upon the mansiona within a few miles of the supposed to have eighty thousand ef-ctives, | ational capital: when farme are laid waste, towns | a brief and rapid outiine of some of the more! ~ Everybody will be struck with sorrow at the | |that the Juniata and another vessel have been : - | dispatvhed in seareh of the pirate. | to appreciate better than before the realities of | i ed in seat ! war, and toe comprehend the devastation and suf. | first | tering which it has spread over the a a and)! sehouner Carroll, Copt, Sprague, laaded with coal, | oe read, ours! ern people, unless it shall prove to be. in the) sateos sittis g m safety, of the destruction of | ’ ; On the | Southern cities, villages and plantations; of the | was bonded in the sum of $10,000, the singular! wisely use them with a sound nationality at South Ham, Du Loup, St. Flavien, and other localities; also, antimony has been discovery ed on land awned by the Nicolet Antimeny Company, superior tu anything ip the world, appears, says the Brooklyn Usain, that te It i¢ universally canveded that these mines vessel captured by the pirate waa the) ise ugsuppassed jn piohness and extent. Ca- ’ ‘ . ’ » se ” P Chis capture was near Fire Island, and about eae ae ade > ae donee twenty iniles off Long Island shore. The Carroll | ee ee y gunboat Calf will prohably ge thie p.m. A deapateh from Fortress Mouroe announces aml -e pravisian being made in the bond that abe is to be | the basis! lehvered iu New Yor ee meee en Ee | - Very destructive fires are raging in the ngitpaeot ae woods in Canada. Many buildings and a CANADA. great deal of farm property bave deen des. — ae e h ; As everything, at the present moment, | "704 ae ——s —— TOES connected with Canada 18 of interest, it may! ~~) astna ade not be out of place to lay before our readers | COBNRNSE ODENOR. [FOR THE EXAMINER, } und ten thousand more on big lines of Com-| peld te ransom, and whole counties overrun by | important features of that great colony. It) munication. The statement that Atlanta is pet fortified is a great mistake. It is very strong’y fortified. Even if not reiotorged at ull, General Jubpeton could hold it against hmen Wheae own hana have felt the torch of Nor- | contains an eres af 360,000 square miles, be | : _ idera. ¢ + wive ittle hag’ . : vr, See TARY NOTES OF A TRAVELLER. Neon ner i ee eT ae Othe | Being six times the extent of Englund, and! Se acai : MAVELLE " eee . sheile rie ‘ 1s Pr v . * . a ras aa Ls Salad mn abe We begin | therefore if equally densely peopled, capable of supporting a population of 100 millions. Well, Mr. Birch, said 1, will you now Sherioen s present fopee. jnformation is correct, it iseyident that the nek ourselves, “ wha ia te blame far such sayage- ool : : sasenien TY? Whe inaugurated these cru} methods of oe ae yea Sie gi se warfare?” Whe feat bared and sacked de- ” uo % ee 7 ‘ i , PPA. panes feneeless towns and left their inhabitants desti- ao far somth that a defeat would be fatal to) si. The Federal Government haa many him, and where the residue of his forces. | yj nes sent ont raiding parties fur the expreas pure wlter each a defeat, could be taken prisoners, | yose of destruction. and we have al) read the ar in some way put dors du combat, while) congratolations of the press over, vast destrus the rebel troups could be rapidly transported tion of amills, houses, villages, railroads, wheat, ty the ezat. corm, aud all that goes to austain life in man and amm~—2 beast.” It is not long since the once thriving DIFFICULTIES OF THE CA\MPATGN | town of Alexandria, upen the Red River, was AGAINST RICHMON}). ‘left in flames, as Chambershurg was left, by a re- _. | treating army; but thatarmy was a Federal one. if the reader will now take @ map With | O@jeers hagated publicly upon the steamboats of the railroads correctly marked, and wall ob-| the Miseissigqi. that, in Sherman's Yazoo expidi- serve the relative posttiuns af Athuuta, Riche | tion—t Bor thirty miles in length and twelve in wend, and Washington, he will be able to/ breadth, not 4 Quildiag of any kind but had been vucimate the reasonableness of the rebel plans! destroyed, and everything that would sustain lite ; aa abowe mdicated. Geacral Lee's army} nd they grew exceedingly merry aver the con- proper —that ie the corps of A. P. Hilj, | steraation ot the wanes aad childven, when they Longstreet, and Ewell — are not needed at woke up in the night and taand their honeea in Peversharg at all. fuines. ‘It was such fun to see Funning out Beauregard «lvoe is more | or. than enough ta hald Butesshugg If bap ee iu their nightclathes, frightcaed ta Lee's army w being moved to Atinnta, ae) And what were the reasona given by glozing uppesed, and sncoeeds there in defeating | newspapers for such atrocities? Juat such sen. Sherman, there will be nothing to prevent. teneea as these tuew from retarning to Virginis. and then “ The stake is tao mighty to admit of gny remiss. making & second demonstrativs agsinst | ness—to allow even the nutice of saffering women Washington. and children to hold us back! Hot tears may seald the cheeks af mothers, and hynger pinch JHE DEAD BEFORE PETERSBURG. i. af needy ones, and yet the suogesa of = : the Unian cagse is worth all that rifice,”* Phe fheg of trace which visited the open!) Wail, if these thing» are nap ce for apace between the contending linvs at Peters: | us, are they lees ao fur the rebela? Have they burg on Monday found only a very few living! such advantages as to be able to furega means of piew among the hundreds of forma which co. war eayployed by their eneinies? yered the ground. The intenae beat and) "™ it ia tige these inhuman ategeities were auff-ring to whigh the thie battle for two ign ti all bot a dogen of ’ carry an ali necessary military operations without aa iaiioss eanaee jit, there iano better proof nepded of the necessity end only @ dean gurziged the ordeal. The casa! Ghat onan deen ane tusk of the truce was therefore confined to ' the nation wa government strong enough to be ing the dead. It i# reported that the ; i smi c pe abe - + ong rite mean just and mereiful, even to its enemiea—a govern. “im ee But if the abeye | —at least we should hegin=ta reflect, and te, were exposed after “topped. It the present Adwinistration cannot | head of | UPR these waters should he equal ia amount bri hich will not aet tha evamale to rebels af At present it does rot contain much more| please to give me some explanation of this ‘than the fortieth part of this number,so that) wonderful ** Jackal’ or whatever you term ‘there is room for expansion for a very long) him, who appears to have mesmeriged the jtime to come. ‘This magnificens country | leader, and through him the whale fraternity (ie well wooded and watered, and possesses; ul the Government ta such a shameful, ha- , within itself nearly all the resources which | miliating degree? Ah! sir, replied Mr. ‘are capable of waking a nation great and Birch, an ezp/anciian of such a ghoracter is, powerful. There is, perhaps, ane exception, indeed, no easy task , he is jugt himself, and the want of coal, but that can scarcely bo} nothing bat himself; and if twa auch feliows ‘considered a misfortune, aa ite inexhaustible | could be found in any country, one would be jabandance in the Maritime Provinces wil]! sure to hang the ather, alshoagh it would be supply ite and their wants in that respect, waste of rope not ta have ane at each end of for bundred«, probably for thousands of years it. Only imagine ta yoursell & young, jaawa to come. If we oak at the map, we wali see | stadent at law, either before or after being that she possesses but 4 confined sea board, | ‘admitted’? matteys nat, with tar bycket in and as she stands at present is liable to be, one hand and brash wn the other, aallying shut out during a portion of the year from: ltorth from one af bis nocturaal haunts, while direct intercourse with Furape. ‘Tis craw-| honest people are asleep, tu dwab and be- back will only be temporary. The Umon of smear the private and public huidinge of the | the Provinces would at once place her ea rap- town, and caricature the wagistracy thereof ; port with the waters of the Atlantic at all buta culpritof his stamp can seldom be de. times, and should this not speedily take gel/y oonvicted, though, morally, ny doubt place, railway communication, whether or could he entertained of his guilt; but like not, will effect this much to the desired end, all younzstera who commence a career of ‘ao that in case of wisunderstanding with the iniquity, the first success in evading the | Northern States of America, there would be! punishment of the law, 18 only an additional no possibility of deranging or interrupting incentive to continue in irisunhallowed course, the camwercial interests of the peope of althoagh, like Cain, a mark was set on him Canady. But if the sea board of Canada is! to distinguish him from the rest of mankind, restricted, not go her internal waters. In| his hands became * waciean,”’ and the highest this respect ehe atangs unrivalled among the legal tribunal in the land convicted him of nations of the warld. Possessing vast inland; baving gone into that honorable court **with- Allies have consented to a suspension of arms. Che Plenipotentaries of the three Powers have met at Vienna, The preliminaries of peace were soon settled and aigned. There was qo difficulty, tor Denmark submits entipely te her conquerors. | Chere is to be an armistice for three months. | | Denmark loses one-third of its urea and popula- }tien, and a still larger prapertiaa af its com- lmerce. Alsen and the islanda in the Nurth Sea are with the Duchies of Lauenburg. Schleswig land tlalstein ceded ta the two great German Powers. ‘ue coufedoration i nat represented at Vienna, and dissensions are already arising with regard to the dissposal of the spoil, Pras ) sia has not fully shown her ecards; but she is said to claim a tien of huge amount on the conqeured | territories for the expenses of the war, aud a lien of this kind is apt, svouer or later, ta be con- verted into possession. The special correspondent of the Times in Denmark describes the dejection of spirits amoug thinking and fevling Danes as “ something awful to look upon.” He says :— © It ig more than commensurate with the proud coufdence with which they took up the straggle six months ago—more than propartianate te the stubborn obstinacy with which they kept it up long after it was clear to them, as it waa to the rest of the world, that further resistance was out of the question, They seem now prone ta exag gerate the evil that is before them. They look upon the present crisia as a firat partition of their country—like the first partition af Poland, lead- ing to eventual anmbilation. This time, they think, the Germans will walk away with the three Duchies—the whole of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg. It will be great mercies if they do not cast root in Jutland — if they do nat take the fleet and the colonies. What they leaye to- day they may come and help themselves te to- morrow: and France may take a fancy to Iee- land—a long-covetted possession, deemed “ neces- sary” to the developement of her cad-fishing interests; and Sweden may take Bornohalm, the lovely island lying so conveniently off her coast ; and every one may come im for his share, fo" Denmark is at everybody's merey, and no friend will help him who cannot help himself.” The Berlin correapondent of the Star writes— “There can be no longer hardly any doubt that the French Government has sent a despatch to the Cabinets of Austria snd Prussia which has rather disturbed Herr von Bismark's schemes. That daring and crafty diplomatist appears to have thought he had obtained permission from the Tuileries to act as he thought fit in the ques- tion of the Duchies; but he has, it seems, gone a little tan far, and has obtained warnmg to mind what he is about, at @ most inconvenient moment. I hear that the Prussian Minister has already re- plied ta the French despaigh in question. Res- pecting the details of these notes, nothing, of course, is kKnawn as yet.” A letter fram Mexico has been published-ig the Monitewr, setting forth ia glowing terms the already active labors af the Emperor Maximilian for the improvement of the country and people. His Tuiperial Majesty ia represented as inapired with no other idea than to execute justiee and ta devote himself to the meral aad material im- provement of his subjects, whe are auimated by sentiments of affection and enthusiasm for their new Emperor aud Enpress. The fareign legion already numbers 16,000 jen, aud it is suid that from 8000 ta 10,000 af the French army of occus pation will embark tor Fragee tawards the ead of September, A favorable impresajan baa been pradwoed upon, the Preach people by the satisfuctory accounte| received from Mexica, and in the withdrawal af the French farces they hape they discern the end of what has beew au anpapular expedition, Marshal M’Mahan is expeoted to sail fram France for Algeria in the cuurae of the pre- sent wonth, and will undertake the gavern- mentof the colony. Jt is understood that an expedition ia to be sent ta the interior at the end of September, with the objeot of orushing out whatever of the insurreytiun may still be freehwater seag, qaraynd whose fertile shores out clean hands.’ Next, sir, suppose such 4 there ig raom enough fop half a dozen king-! fellow to become, through some of his ma-| | promises to extend iteelf without limit. ’ five great lakee, the largest of which covers haress the puor tenantry, of Ireland, it is little wonder if to the whole commerc:al marine of sume af) for different rts thereof, ayeinst Neil Dar the firet rate states in Europe. The total ragh, John owe of Richard Roe, or qny as pie: 7 Seeiale . es ah ae ie fleece them in, an area considerably exoeuding in extent that heavy expenses for new leases or agreement ; : the shipping and in his petti-fagver oapacity as a lawyer, will, we think, Satigiy moat | two ‘actions’ fur the same suum, or Scotoh Judges were right ; au extens of these vaet inland seas exceeds in! other nawed tenant; and suppose such ras-joacies and found iu existence. Judgment in the Yelvertan oage haa been dows, canmercial enterprise may extend and chinations, Agent to ane or more proprietors! decided in the House of ; Hee of township iands, whioh enables him to! yards. hy the Scotoh lnw, Major Yelvertom and Theresa Long- /worth were duly married in Sootland. ‘The mast elahupote judgment men that the Lord Brouge ‘Lord Chancellor's more intimately acquainted with its intrie peculiarities than all other Law legates in my capacity asa Representative of the people, but at that time expressed my desire to have a Federal Union of all the Pro- vinces from the Atlantio to the Pucifo— | thought, by accepting the appointinest, wy long wished-for desire may be obtained. This desire has been forced on my mind since | first advocated Responsible Government in this Island, for | found from my eigit years’ ex- perience in leading the Government of this Island that real Responsible Government eeuld not be earried out in any of the Pro- vinces so long as a Munister, in whose ehoice no Colonist bad a vote, raled us through the Home Government to allowing a Colonial | repr sentation in the Imperial Parhament | without taxation appeared insurmountable, |) have come to the determination to seek for «| fuyther change ip our constitution in connec- sion with the Mother Country, and be more firmly united under the sway of our beloved Queen. My opinion is, that all our local Governments should be maintained as now) established, except Canada, which should be divided into three Provinces, Upper, Central and Lower, with an elected Governor for each Province or Colony—the Governors to be eleoted by the whole population duly aalified, with an elective Upper Branch in each Province, possessing a similar qualifica- tion for electors and elected to that which we have in this Island,—Iler Majesty's Go vernment to have only one appointment, viz a Viceroy or Governor General over the whole of the United Provinces; and a Federal Le- gislature, elected by the inhabitants holding a property qualification—the number for each Province being nearly equal; and the number of each to be elected, as the Governor would be, hy a vote of the whole, withoutan Upper Branch ; the responsible advisers of the Vice- roy or Gevernor General to maintain the confidonee of the Federal Assembly, the latter to meet aa soon as possible after the lucal Legislaturea had risen, say about the beginn- ing uf June; andall Bills passed by the loca! Legislatures to be approved of by the Federal Assembly, instead ot the Colonial Minister of the day; and no measure of the Colonial Legislatures to be reserved for the Royal allowance, exoopt sush as the Viceroy might consider affecting the interests of the Imperial Government; the Federal Government to have the power of establishing regulations for all matters affecting the whole Union. These hints I throw out with the view of eliciting an expressiun of public cyinion, for | consider that if any change is to cake place, it ought to be one of more permanent responsibility than a Legislative Union of the Maritime Provinces. lam, Sir, yours truly, GEOKGE COLES. August 18, 1864. Mr. Coles’s position at one of the Delegates who will ineet here in a few days to deliberate on this question of Union, aa well as his high charae- ter as our ablest Island politician, and the leader of a powerful party, give him a elaia to have his remarks most attentively considered The Leader of the Opposition will, however, readily admit that the party whom he leads are aot, in the least degree, pledged to accept his views for their guidance in coming to a conclusion on this Many of us will differ with him, both as regurds the principle and details of the mea- sure — some will agree with him as to the first, and differ with him touching the secoud. The Uuien of the Colonies is happily one of those questions which can be discussed without reter- ence to party obligations; and cannot possibly evoke the least bitterness of expreasion in the discussion. As for ourselves, our opivion has been several times expressed on the question in these columns; but we may elaborate it alittle now aud next week, for it may be our only chance to slip a ward in, without being wholly cast inte the abade by the grandees of Colouial statesmen who wil, coudesceud next week, or thereabouts, to shed their intellectual light upon the inhabitants of this favauured Island, teaching them how to think and aot far the future. We hope we will profit by the lessons we shall reeeive; and if the palitical millenium dues come which some enthu- sastio advocates of Unjan promise, let us devoutly pray that we may be here to participate in its glories. That we ago not oppoaed ta union in the ab- stract, our readers may bave yaderstaod from what we have published in thease columns, and what has been spokew by us in another place. We don’t waat strains of (mpassiaued eloquence, question. Colonial Office ; and as the objection by the | Awerican P —_—. —. oo the United States wonder the Jaudawrke iio pexisted before the great rebellion —the Whole of | Europe, with the great powers whieh have filled | the world with glory and with terror in all ages and which now rule the destinies of the glib, does net cover so large w space by two hundred and ninety-two thousand anies as the British ter- titory whieh stretebes from Newfoundland to the Pacific Ocean, The whole globe contains but thirty-seven willion square wiles —the British flag in North America waves over a ninth part of that territory. Even one of the Provinces, Canada, many of whose public men have been regaling themselves tor the last fortnight on the other side of the Straits, and whose representa. tives will be here next week—even Canada itself is equal in size to Great Britain, France and Prussia; and these lower waritime Pevinecs, whose alliance Canada has hitherto scorned, but which she is now disposed to court, so that she tuay be enabled to overcome the difficulties that are almost constantly arising from the difference of races that eccupy ber svil—those lower Colu nies are half as large again as England and Seat. land put together; and if Holland, Greece, Bel- gium, Portugal and Switzerland were rolled into onc, they would net cover larger ground than New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. It would be easy to trace on the map of Europe great kingdoms, neh iu historical aud ciassical associations, not near sv large as New Brunswick or Nova Scotia; and there are some “ Powers and Principalities" jg the Germanic Confederation, whieh, as regards population, territory, wealth and revenue, could be licked into fite by a comparison with little Prince Edward Island. As regards some of onr other resources for. | making a great nation, we can avail ourselves of, and participate in, the commerce of the world by the Atlantic Ocean on one side of us and the Pacific on the other ;—the great Lakes of Caaada, and the Gulf aud River St. Lawreuce, afford the Proviuees means of ooumunieating with each other, and wath the great republic on their border, even without the intereolonial railway now ia contemplation, and certain to be accomplished if we are united, The Gulf and Lakes afford room for our shipping equal to some of the classic seas of Europe; and the vast Kiver that flows out of the Gulf in which our little Isiand rests like a sea-bird, which is all subject to the sway of the Biitish Crown, and carries a volume of water alorg its shores on whigh sterility is searcely known, as broad and as Wag as five of the prin- cipal rivers of Europe put together, and only equalled by that great purse of millions of the human family which, ia all ages, has fed the teeming populations of the East, aud the souress of whose endless and illimitable flow even at this day are the objects of hardy and adventurous exploration, afler centuries of busy traffic along its borders, and after empires that were nourished by it have passed away. Yes, “ like Nilus,” the St. Lawrence “disdaineth bounds.” This off- spring of medery maritime discovery — this fair child of Neptune — may not boast like her aucient sister of the time when her ripples were lit by the smiles of a Cleopatra, or of thet far more momentous day when her fame became inseparably linked with the misfor- tunes of the master of the world, and when ber surges mingled with the lament which commeme rated the wreck of his pride and ambition. But she may rejoice in witnessing glories which leave in the shade all those that illustrate the annals of the Phavoahs — the learging and civilization of the nineteenth century—tho wondertul pragress of art and science — the prosperity and content. went of the millions resting on her broad bosom, the throbbings of whose life, like her own tides, juever cease; but abeve all, may she rejvice in | the bold spirit of freedom which gives greater | lustre to her whores than the artificial lights that guide the wariner to his haven. The population aud revenue of the British revineess how are greater than werg siinilar resources jn the hands of the old thivteea Colonies, (now the United States), ab the time they revolted against the Gavermnent of George the ‘Third, — our wereantile marine, our popula. lio, Our revewue, are all greater than were these of England, when, in the reigu of Queen Eliza. beth, she defied and overcame the power of the greatest monarchy then in Kavope, that of Philip the Second of Spain. Our agricultural, minern} and fishery resources correspond with the great- ness of our territery; and the euterpris, intelligence, bardihood and adventurous spirit of out people are such as te reflect no dis eredit ov the old Anglo Saxon and Celtic stocks from which they sprung —who have gives laws, civilization and letters te the four quarters of the globe—who have left no paths of glory un- trodden, whether in the arts of Peace or in the triumphs of War—and who have attained more imperishable lustre in the creation of a Literature unsurpassed by that of any other country of ancient or medern times, and which seems destined to hve as long as the world lives. It would be fully to question the right of British Americans, poss- essed of such resources as we have briefly indi- cated, aud animated by such a history as theirs, to create for themselves a great nation in this western hemisphere, if they are disposed to units for the attainment of that object. ¥ In what way shall they unite? That is the great question now — that will be the question next week and the week after; bet we are afraid it is @ question that will not be settled in our life. tine = we mean in the life-time of the present xeneration, unless some great unforeseen political couvulsion should arise to snap the ties which bind us ta the Parent State. Scarcely any of the Colonial Delegates who will meet here in Sep- tember will differ very materially from Mr. Coles us tuthe importance and necessity of maintain. exis’, or nearly so. Meu in office will not be in- clined to sacrifice their local status by voting for the abalitian of their local Legislature—men out of office will nut be disposed to do so either, be- canse they hope to be one day in. But the great people abroad everywhere, whose souls are up- tainted by the lust of petty power, are still more strongly opposed than the petty politicians to the abrogation of our leoal Legislatures. They think, aud especially those in rewate see ions, perhaps justly eneugh, that wader ave large Varlianwut, legislating hundreds of miles away, their wants wauld wat be as well cared for a8 they would be by a Parliament sitting within 4 day's drive of all of thei, aad directly under the control ofall. When a man pays taxes be does it grudgingly, but it i¢ nevertheless a cansalation iw Lis troubled spirit ta see the money laid out in iaprovements all araund hin. He has more faith in law-makers, tao, whaare near at howe than those whe are far away. He way make & blunder in belping to put into a sual! House of Asaewbly a stupid fool of a fellow, but he hat & better chance of pitching the «tupid fool overboard on the next election day than be would have had the fellow been sent to a big Parliament. Besides, there is a particular class, and by 0% means au uninfluential une, in every Provinee, who will oppose with tooth and nail the abroga tivu of the loca! Parliaments, and who will not be ten to onesolitary argument in favor of a Legiele- tive Union. We need not bint to the intelligent ‘reader that we allude to what is called the " ausb- room aristecracy” of each provincial capital those great people who could breathe nowhere the breath of lite but iu the atmosphere of thei? petty court— who would be terribly aggrieved unless they could resort uccasionally te ther little uor tiresome statistios, nor ingenious arguments, Goverement House, when great balls are given to convince us that the British American Colonies | there, and thus make amends for their doily ente ham, who kuows more Scotch law and jo POss? 84 the resources requisite for making & tact with the rabble out of dyors by giving avd great nativy. They cover a territory larger by! receiving the odour of refinement, elegauce three quarters of & million of square wiles than high-tuned morality, which are, vf courae, only ug our separate lucal governments as they now - ’ ‘ | a %