The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

CANADA.

The steamer America, from Quebec on the 15th
inst., under charter to the Montreal Ocean Steam-
ship Company, also arrived at Liverpool early
yesterday morning.
The Canadian Parliament was opened by the
Governor-General with the usual formalities on
the 13th inst. The Legislative Council elected
Ron. Ulric Jos. Tessier as their speaker, while the
choice of the Legislative Assembly fell upon. Moo.
Lewis Wallbridge. On the following day the
Governor• General delivered his speech. After
stating his reasons for calling Parliament together
at this unusual season, his Excellency said :
I would specially direct your attention to the minting law
which requiem extensive amendment, in order to place this
important arm of the public damn is a muddies of effi-
ciency... The /arm ammo widohlum mewed is the velum.
tear ham sad the aims of .mine which I continue to
receive from sew commaies, are gratifying proofs of the
patriotic seal which animates the whole community in refe-
rence to the subject of public defence. The interest which
has ben displayed in the formation of drill aaso.
stations, and the masifeet desire of the youth of
the" 000atry to perfect themselves ia the ass of
some, are satiafaotory evidences that the people of Cased&
are prepared to submit to any permed sacrifices wbieit ma ,
reasonably be demanded of them in order to enable them ia
the most efficient manner to put forth their streogth he de-
fence of their institutioesand their homes, should dream.
"Maces ever require from them such an exhibition of
pariaikm. I Mist to mersidoso to give apropeedireetioa
to the exadient spirit by whish the people are aaimstrb
.sad term liberality to simply the means by which prac-
ticable Meantime may be obtained from it.
After referring to matters of really local interest,
his Excellency proceeded as follows :
I urge uposyonreuly atteutionthe state of **finances of
the province and **relation which its expenditure bears
to its inomee and resoorees. Yoa will sot fail to costar
with me is the expression of repot that for some yeses past
the public mpssditime Ma exceeded the mend 1310011111, sad
I mama doubt that you will agree with me that the time
has mired when • strenuous effort should be made to avert
the mutinuance of this deficiency. I bavi recemed • de-
from the Secretary of Stade fee the Co.
lo▪
am enclosing copies of a correspondmos barmiest her
Majesty's government and the meet of the Atlan-
tic and Pacific Transit and Telegraph Company,
in reformer,* to • propeml made by that company tor the
establishment of a telegraphic and postal communication
between Lake Superior and New Westminster in British
Columbia. The impudence of such an undertaking to the
British North Americas produces, both in a commercial and
military point of view, inducer me to commend the subject
to your coodderation. Copies of the oorrespoudeme shall
be laid before you, and I fist snared that should my pro.
pout calculated to effect the establishment of such comma.
nicatim on terms advantageous to the province be sub-
mitted to you it will ;receive encouragement at your bands.
I mesa refrain from congratulating you at this season of
the year epos the prospect which everywhere prevails of an
abundant harvest. I sincerely trust that the prosperity
with which it appease likely Provides°, will this year bless
the agricultural dames may produce • oorreapooding im-
provement in our commerce and manufactures...

The speech concludes by invoking the Divine
blessing on the labours of parliament. The
"alarmist" letter of Thomas Darcy Mgibee to the
Montreal Gazette was attracting considerable atten-
tion in Canada. It is as follows, omitting some
introductory remarks
I am no alannist ; but neither can I shut my eyes to the
dos of the tuna. At Eames Point, 45 miles from this
Carried
city, the heart of Canada. our neighbours hare
berried to completion an immense new fortress—Port
Mosigoinery. The statesmen of Canada ought to go to
Qsebec vU Roese's Point. They will me there a place of
anus destined to play no feeble part in the coetemplated
subjugation of their country.
They will see, if they are permitted to enter. magaziaes
capable ef containing SUppike far ea arrayed 100,000 MOD,
and barrack accommodation for a perunteset garrison of

5,000. I speak upon no newspapiir authc;r:Lon no
doubtful information, when I say that the I woken.
plated at Washington for tbe invades of is to
march 100,000 mon up to the district of Montreal, to cut the
coenexion between Upper and Lower Canada, to abstain
religiously from intermeddling with our local affairs,
but to force • separation of the Provinces by the
mare force of an army of occupation interposiog its
military banter to their intercourse. What would follow
such a separatioa, rest smeared, has not escaped their cal-
culation. It is in view of these facts, and others whiek
for important pawns I do not now state, that I ask this
question, which I trust every coostituency in 'Canada will
through its representative, Meat on having answered at
Quebec immediately, "Will England stand by no r To
that question the government of the day ought now to be in
a position to give as authoritative, official answer. I hope
they are in that position ; if they are not, they must be
forced into it by every constitutional pressure.
I can well understand English statesmen and immoral*,
when they my that a nominal connexion is not worth the
expenditure of blood and treasure which • conflict with
America most Peoemarily impose on England. To =Mr
that argument not by logic but by fact, not by argument
but by action, we must make the Dominol mune:ion ma
If we can show that through British Amenet lies the shortest
sad secured British highway, to Japan and China shorter by
2,000 miles to Australia by 800 miles, than any route now
existing—itr the opening of this British highway wee ewe
fairly begun—would not England then have emoting
to stand by ? Thu Intimidator would be wrapped op la
here—our credit would come within one per cent. of
here—we wotild ride oat tbie Amadeu! storm by the am
whore of policy tna power which hare held her fat and
never dragged from their firm grip of the planet during an
the European storms of 800 years.
I beseech the honourable members of both bonsai now es
their way to Quebec not to disunite these suggestions es ids
or spemlative, as unfounded in observation or infonestime.
I beseech them to consider within themselves wheats, lb is
likely England will stead by us if the connexion is manly
to be • nominal one? Will she equip an army and miry
for Lord Koeck's erdary or the reds of haly:ng Lake Eats
the republicans' For one, I do not believe it
other sad better defined arrangements most be mitered
into ; the easoexioe must be made real, not nominal, or
the assistance of England will be found in the day of need
to be rendered, by our owe default. nominal not red.
The Quebec timber market had boa amaive, at morally
firm prices. Freights were firm.

Carron Ann Oorrox Tannan.—The lace cotton
referred to u having attracted the attention of the Cotton
Supply Association on accent of its excellence, was spun
and doubled by M. re. Thomas Oliver and Sons, of Water-
bows Mills, Salutes, near llmieledleld, from the bele of
cotton recently exhibited in the House of Coalmen' u the
produce el the Jamaica Cotton Company's farm. in Jllllllao4
The sompusy have said their late shipment of cotton at an
avenge price of 6d. per lb. above that of ordinary Amen-
mu options. It can, therefore, no more be said with truth
that as rood cotton 0111311114 be grown in Jamaica as is the
Southern States of Amities.
Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
dodo; Dornimaa's Pare Tea; very choice ss aL 44. "
Nigh Ittandard ' at 41. ed. (toemerly ts. ed.), Is the strongest
end most delicious Imported. Agent' In every town supply It
a pocket& —LAdvertteement.)

WOOLWICH, Amon 28.
LIMICH or THE WOLVERINE.—Another ad-
dition to the royal navy will be made 10-MOITOW at
this dockyard, by the launch of the screw steam corvette
Wolverine, of 21 guns, and 1,700 tons burthen. A booth
has been erected near the bow of the vessel, and every
arreagement has been made for the accornmodatise of
vikon, who will be admitted to the dockyard without
restrictios after 1 o'clock. The launch will take place pre.
daily at 2 o'clock, under the direction of Mr. Turner,
master shipwright at Woolwich, sod the seremony of
christening the vessel will be performed by Miss Turner,
the eldest daughter of that officer. The Wolverine was
kid down at this yard, in April, 1869, sad when
is a forward state, her completion was suspended
in atecedases with the Admiralty order to dk-
methane the building of timber Drab ; bat on
a nowt visit and inspection, their lordships directed that
the work should be re-commenced, and the ship get ready
for conimiesios. She is of the earns class and Bias as the
ill-faked Orpheus, and has been constructed with many
improvements, under the superintendence of I!.r. Turner,
who is at preheat directing the completion of the
handed maa.ol-wrir frigate Caledonia. filae is in every
Ml"a La specimen of modern sand architecture, and
oeleakted for speed. The following an her dnainp
does : Feet. Dab.
Length betimes the nerpendklibus 226 0
Ditto for tonnage 197 7
Breadth, extreme 4O 8
Ditto moulded ....
Depth in hold
Barthen in tons (old measurement), 1,700 46-94.
Immediately after the launch the Wolverine willibe re-
moved into dock to be Bard with her screw machinery,
wine& has been manufactured by lbws. blasdeslay, Son,

and Fka

MIL SCHOLEFIELD, ILP.,ON THE LICENSING

BYsrgM.

The anniversary festival of the Birmingham
Beta Brewers' Protectioa Society was presided over on
Wednesday by Mr. W. Soho!afield, IL P., who, in reply to
the toast of his health, said—There were matters connected
with the trade of the rated brewers which must at an early
day be considered by parliament, and when that day
arrived, difficult as that question wae—ead he had never
divined its difficulty—his hon. friend and himself would be
found staged on the side of thou who were in favour of
such an alteration in the licensing laws as would ensure
something like an equality io all oucerned in the lab of
wines and spirits. This was, however, a matter which it was
specially within the province of the government to take
sp. It wee impossible for any private member to under-
take a question of this kind, or to any any views, how-
ever fair and reasonable and just they might ba, through
the legialatere. It was a question of such vast intend,
affestieg so leech the entire country, that now but the
maid undertake it. At the present moment,
rereiramseei ry to ear, be dad not think her Majesty's govern-
meet, *row as it wee in many respects, was stem
to effect the changes which that government believed to
seemeary. Be had reason to swam—although be did
met closures speak as if he were talking with aetheritv—
he bed num to think that her Majesty's government had
views ha nefereace to the licensing laws which weekt involve
a .eselifierable change. But although that might be
their opinion, he did not think that their hold epee the
country was sufficiently strong to enable them to cany
them views into effect ; and dogma ea be was to see •
change—a change which should be just to all parties—jut
to the retell brewers sad just to the lionised victuallers—
he confessed be could not promise them that at any early
date any such change would he effected so long as the pre-
sent government remained in office. He did not widatobe un-
derstood as discouraging then, from thou effora which had
already been urged. lie believed that by banding together as
they did now they would have a power which, if they exer-
cised it, would, at no distant date, do all they mould desire,
and, therefore, he would urge them to keep up their society,
to maintain their rights, to maintain the respectability of the
body to which they belonged, and when the proper time
arrived, not merely to urge governs:4ot to taw the right
steps, but absolutely to compel them to do so. Ahliongh
his views, as all who knew him were aware, were is favour
of • much wider extension of the privileges of the licensing
trade than now prevails, he had always expressed his
opinions to the licensed victuallers in such a manner as to
elicit from them anything but hostility or bitterness.
Although they knew that his views were more in favour of
the retell brewers than theirs, still they were willing to
admit that he might exercise • cooscientamis opinion upon
a subject of the sort. in conclusion, Mr. Scholefield wished
the society to believe that the borough members had their
interest. at heart, that they would in all matters connected
with the trade exercise their judgment and discretion in the
beet way they could; and if they had confidence in them,
u be hoped they bad, they would believe that they would
never do anything to sacrifice those interest. to any other
muse.