The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

THE HUNGARIANS AT WIDDIN.

WIDDIN, Nov. 7.
I returned here this morning from accompanying
Koasuth, and the last portion of the emigration, two
stations on their route to Schumla.

About a fortnight ago arrived, from Constantino-
ple, two miralant, or colonels, with inetruc.zons to
convey the whole emigration from Widdin to Schumla.
from Lis moment the munificent hospitality, always
intended by Abdul Mejid, was carried out in a con-
genial spirit. In addition to the pay proportioned to
the rank of the refugees, and to the rations liberally
distributed since the first complaints reached Constan-
tinople, hourly proofs were given of the Sultan's
magnificent generosity, in which chiefs, officers, and
soldiers participated.
Lodged in the best houses of the town, the soldiers
were all clothed anew from head to foot ; and besides
its being intimated that everything would be fur-
nieht don the road, a large gratuity to defray inci-
dental expenses, and proportioned to the rank of the
recipients, was paid over.
Every general received 5,000 piastres, and to Kos•
euth 10,000 were presented, besides a new and costly
trsvelliug carriage for his journey. The officers dis-
patched by the Porte upon this mission displayed a
prhenance, forethought, and polittne-s, which would
have done credit to the most polished circles of the
west. Kossuth, Cunt Bsthyani, and Count Za-
moyski, who, without violation of oriental
etiquette, could not refuse the Sultan's present, divided
one portion of the gift between the Mullahs and the
Greek bishop, to be applied to the relief of their res-
pective poor, and distributed the rest amongst the
subaltern officers and soldiers. This, indeed, is the
use to which, a'ter the exampixt of Kossuth, the Hun-
garian chiefs have all along applied the weekly pay
apportioned to them by the Porte.
As the Poles, Italians, and Hungarians were to
commence their march in three distinct bodies, on the
eve of separation a general explanation of all previous
misunderstanding took place between the chiefs who
came to take of the late president-governor of Hungary
an aftctionate leave.

Under the influence of his genius, the result, so
little to be expected under the disintegrating influence
of adversity, has been the complete oblivion of all
political differences, and the fusion of all opinions in
patriotic unison of tendency.
On the morning of the 31st, the Polish legion
undertook its march, under the military command of
General Vysocki, but headed by Count Zamoyski, to
whom the consent of the Polish portion of the emi-
gration has been awarded by his countrymen. Gen.
Vysocki, who represents the republican, and Za-
moyski the monarchical interests amongst the Poles,
have io fact given a touching and salutary example
of abnegation of personal interests and opinions for
the public good.
At an early hour a marquee was pitched outside the
citadel of Widdin on a space of ground which, out of
compliment, must be called the glacis. Here the
Pasha and Turkish authorities were assembled, wait-
ing for Kossuth, to review the legion and the Turkish
Nisam destined for its escort before it commenced its
march.

Kossuth and his suite made their appearance on
horseback. He was dressed according to his habit in
very plain civilian clothing, covered by a blue cloak,
but wearing the graceful low crowned black felt
Hungarian hat, adorned with the white ostrich fea-
ther, which was distinctive of the Hungarian generals
and leaders.
Old Dembinski, with his silvery beard, was in the
national costume of Poland, and Kossuth% military
followers in the drones of their country, from which
our own uniforms have been derived, and with which
the appearance of Prince Esterhazy at our drawing-
rooms and levees has familiarised us.

Kossuth, after riding down the line, addressed an
imprerdve speech to the Polish legion. All publicity
and display are distasteful to the simplicity of Kos-
enth's ts.tes; but in particular he piques himself on
never holding out a false hope, or making even an
ungrounded insinuation. On this account his appear-
ance amongst the refugee troops was quite unwonted.
He had impoliticly refused to show himself in the
camp because he could not give them conscientiously
any assurances of safety. On this occasion, after
thanking the Poles for their services, he dwelt upon
the generous hospitality extended to them by the
Sultan and the Turks, but expatiated in particular on
the Cheering sympathy of that great nation of the
west, and on the humanity of its minister, to which,
under Providence, they owed their lives. The effect
of his eloquence on this impressionsVe people may be
judged—prolonged and deafening cheers for Kossuth
and for Hungary, such as perhaps Widdin had never
beard before. Then followed cheers for Poland, and a
right hearty cheer for the Sultan and the Turks. The
Polish legion began its march amidst the good wishes
of the Turkish population, one-third of the men lite-
ndly shedding tears, and all joining in the chorus of
their patriotic songs.
On the following day this scene was repeated by
the departure of the Italian legion, under Colonel
Count Monti, and which Kossuth very eloquently
addressed in the Italian language. The appear-
ance of this legion did its commander the
greatest credit; after so many disuters, marches,
, and fatigues, it turned out without any asset-
L ante of clothing from the Turks, in better and
brighter order than a French regiment of the line
• reviewed in the Champ de Mars. This result Colonel
Monti brought about by the maintenance of an iron
' discipline, by isolating himself with his men, and
sharing their fare, encamped in the midst of cholera,
, in a marsh of the Danube. On the Thursday, Gen.
Bem, or Mound Puha, embarked in a government
L steamer on the Danube in great state. The two
other renegade generals, the gallant Kmettel,
a magnificent specimen of a Hungarian,
and Stein, a short, fat, and fair German,
a very questionable acquisition to the Turks, since he

was avowedly on the point of making propositions to
the Russians—quitted Widdin by land with all due
honours, accompanied by a large mod, and the re-
mainder of the converts to Islamism. After all he
foss that has been made of their numbers, it consisted
in Coto of 98. As a great prejudice had been excited,
there were few there to speed them on their way ; but
Kossuth, I believe, • little to their surprise, rode
down and took of them all a grateful and affectionate
leave.
On the ensuing Saturday Kossuth and the Hun-
garians quitted Widdin. This of course was the
great day, and the same ceremonies described at the
departure of the Poles was repeated. One thing
which seemed much to impress the Turks was the
frantic enthusiasm with which all these refugees
whom they had seen so dejected, were inarired by
the anpeerance and words of Kossuth. A striking
and affecting episode was his touching allusion to and
their lament over 320 of their number, who had died
e cholera, or from previous wont& diving their
sojourn at Widdin.
A hundred waggons, a guard of honour for Kos-
@nth, and an escort of four hundred cavalry had been
provided by the Turks. Kossuth, heading the co-
lumn, rodo side by side with General Perrzel and
Count Casimir Batthy, any, who wore on his arm a black
crape. in mourning for the execution of his cousin.
The fact and manner of that nobleman's death have
now united in Count Casimir all the suffrages whose
aristocratic predilections hscl induced them to think
feasible an arrangement with the House of Hapsburg.
Two ladies only, the Countess Batthyany, and the
Counters Dembinski, accompany the emigration.
Alter four hours' march the emigrants halted for the
night in a small village on the bulk of the Danube,
and last night reached another station six milts further
on the road to Seh4mls.

Nothing could exceed the kindness or goodwill of
the dilihomedan population in both these villages.
They st enuously retu-e all payment for their hospi-
tality. Tire very women, veiled to the eyes, quit
their harems, and rush in crowds to see the renowned
Magyars and the "great Kossuth" pass by. The
peculiar circumstances of the sojourn of the Hunga-
rians at Widdin have done the work of a cintury in
neuttalising the seemingly intractable prejudices of
the Islamites. Here, on my return to Widdin, where'
everything is again dead, du'l, and silent, the
Turks volunteer their friendly greeting and inquire
with deep interest after their departed guests. here
is hardly a Turk in Widdin who has not picked up a
few words of Hungarian.
This circumstance so difficult to reconcile with their
habitual &Wain for the language of the giaour is,
perhaps, mainly to be accounted fur by the impression
which has gone abroad amongst them that the
Ma rare belong to their own race—an impression
the Magyars reciprocate, and which in the future may
not be barren of results.

G. nerd Damianitch (from an officer of whose staff
we publish the following letter) was hanged on the
6h of last month at And. Damianitch, a Hungarian
Serb by birth, served before the war broke out as
captain in the Austrian infantry. He was one of the
bravest and perhaps the ablest of the Hungarian
generals. It was his habit in the hottest fire to urge
his soldiers on by the remark, " Never fear, you see
they cannot hit me, and I eta twice your size." On
quitting the B►nat upon one occasion, he addressed a
remark ,b!e proclamation to the Servian population in
which after reminding them of their former cruelties
which had made him utterly ashamed of the race to
which he had the misfortune to belong, he threatened
if they ventured to hurt a hair of the heads of anv
Magyar or German families to exterminate them all
on his return, and then blow out his own brains that
the last Serb might cease to pollute the soil of Hun-
gary. Hanged last of his companions he turned to
the officials presiding at these executions, and said
banteringly, " You know my friends that before the
enemy I was always first, why here the last."

WIDDIN, Ocronan. 29.
TO YAJOR-OBNERAL [MIRROR BOUTOURLINII, CHIBP OP

THE bTAPP TO P. X. PRINCE PASKIRWITCH.

General—After the capitulation of General Giirgey
he addressed a despatch to the garrison of Arad,
ordering it to place itself under Russian protection.
A council of war wan held in consequence, at whi h
it was determined to hold out against the Austrians
to the last, but to open negotiations with the Russian
Genets! Rudirer. _ .

You, general, were under these circumstances sent
from the head-quarters of Prince Paskiewitch to
Arad, and with you I personally entered into nego-
tiatiocs on behalf of General Damianitch and of the
garrison.
You must remember the assurances you gave and
the promises you made on that occasion. They were
of a nature so positive and solemn as to induce me to
invite you into the forms?, and to inspire us all with
confidence in you.
If your memory fails you I accurately recollect,
and prop se here to recall the exact tenour of your
words. _

After assuring us of the sympathy of your Emperor
with the Hungarian nation, and of his willingness
and desire to shield us against Austrian persecution,
you guaranteed to us that we should remain under
Russian protection till a complete amnesty was pro-
claimed by Austria, and further the: retention of our
baggage, personal property, and arms.
We surrendered on these assurances, and in full
reliance on the protection of Russia. We could not
doubt the honour of your Emperor as pled4ed through
the accredited representative of his commander—we
could not doubt a soldier's ward.

Well General! do you know that in consequence
of that credulity, General Damianitch, the brave com-
mandant of And, has perished by the hangmen's
hands, and that the remaining officers who have not
sharid his fate, have been sent off, stripped of every-
thing, as common soldiers to the army of Italy?
And if you know these things, as you must know
them, what have you to say to avert the universal
execration which I call down on the perfidy of your
Emperor if you acted by his orders, or on your own
murderous duplicity, if you did not?

GUSTAV. FRITS.

UNITED STATES, iiiiio.
AND CANADA. '

arrived
from ha y2oyebetbstio,t_seL-_,
774.
sTehbe morningbrings
Cambria,
bdLr atvienr CaptainaNsSe Shannon,
leynooarnnk'n announced c et
ton to the 21st, and Halifax 23rd ult.
Great loss of life had been occasioned by the raa
less manner in which steamboats are navigatrdi,Z
States. Indeed in ship disasters this mail is ezteei,7
prolific, as will be found by the meagre we_ ly
accounts below : tinkle
The cholera bas re-appeared in the loirm-
The steamer Constitution, which arrived MI S% •
on 15th Nov., from New Orleans, with erairrZ
had upwards of thirty cases of cholera oti bd:11
seventeen of which proved fatal before the
touched the landing. The steamer James INZ:
has also arrived when a number of cues of eholerC
board. She was prohibited from landitg, by:
public authorities, and lay on the opposite studs,
river. The cholera had also again made its sioi,e,
ant* at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Toe moet interesting news in connexion sei,ho,.
foreign poll( y of this country is from Nicaregu.4z..
dates from Leon are 12th and 19. h Ocolat
Kith
intelligence that the contract for the ship egad
been unanimously ratified by both houses of ehei.'
lature, and has boc-ome a law. Sr, also, hesh,4
treaty f " Alliance, friendship. commerce, lA,*
lion, and protection." The Nicaraguans are overjoyed
at the unexpected consequence they have srlpiii,d,
and the minister of Foreign Affairs, M.
addressirg the Chamber, claim, d that the " idedut,
of principles and interests between this country grl
the United States of North America, must ose
da
uni,e them in the most intimate bonds of fratemi
and mutu- I advantage."
Mr. Squ'ee hos succeeded in obtaining het the
republic of Honduras, one of the confalerstr,
Nicaragua, the cession of the famous island& Ti
in the Gulf o; Fonseca, an object of cupidity tei°4
than one Euopean power. This rrovement
what precipitsto d by the rumour that two Etytil
men of war were about to take possession of it. Tie
island of Tigre, not only commands the. gulf betas
whole coast. and if the Nicaragua project stooldie
carried out this island will be invaluable to tee
Am-ricaca.
The rest of our intelligence from North Ametis
will b 3 found elsewhere.

The only important news from Canada is cassmi.
eated in a telegraphic despatch announeirg Chit the
Quebec Mining Company hiving re'ustd, or beim.
unahle,to pay the Indiana for the land they par4,,,i
of them, are naily in expectation of an attack. nu*,
hundred Indians and thirty whites, with threepass
of cannon, were on their way b the miner, la
serious conetquencea were apprehended.

SHIPWRECKS AND EXPLOSIONS.—T6O
HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
A telegraphic despatch reached New York the
right before the Cambria started, stating that ths
steamer Louisiana blew up on the lath Nov., just u
she was starting from the wharf at New Orleam,
while cr.awded with passengers, nearly twa Misdeed
of whom suffe'ed. The scanty particulars of this
catastrophe obtained by electric telegraph from New
Orleans are gleaned from the papers.
Nzw ORLIANS, Nov. 16, As.
A terrible steamboat explosion occurred here list
evenir g. The steamer Louisiana, bound to St. Lang,
when about starting from her wharf, burst both ha
boile-s, shattering her to atoms, and al-o badly iojnr.
ing the steamers Storm and Batons, that were Ipst
alongside. The Louisiana was crowded with pus*
gets, as were ulso the other two, which had jet
arrived. It is supposed that, altogether, 160 lien
were lost, besides many wounded. Already 50 deed
bodies have been recov:red. The Levee is stream
with the dead and dying, and hundreds of one
citizens are around the melancholy scene, render.
ing all the a-estance in their power to
those in whom a spark of life remains. Deed
bodies, legal, arms, and heads are scattered
every direction, and the eight presented is most
awful. It is at present impossible to ascertain the
names or number of those who are lost. As soon
as they can be collected I will forward you another
despatch.
Nov. 17.
Captain Kennon, of the steamer Louisiana, has
been arrested, and held to bail in the sum of 8,000
dollars. The explosion having been attributed to
carelessness, a searching investigation will shortly
t,ke place. Many more dead bodies have been found,
The number of killed, it is believed, will reach 200,
besides many dreadfully wounded. The flags of the
shipping are all at half-mast. They were meetly
emigrgauts, cn their way to settle in the Western
country.
Nov. 18.
Another steamer called The Belle also exploded ea
the day after between New Orleans and Mobile, by
which the engineer and several hands were killed,
and several others more or less wounded.
A third steamer called St. Paul, bound from St.
Louis to New Orleans, struck a log off Hodc Island
on Sundry, the 18:h of November, and sunk to her
main deck.
Fourthly, the packet-ship Tuscarora, Capt. Turley,
from Liverpool for Philadelphia, went ashore about 5
miles south of Cape Henlopen main lighthouse, on
the same day. She sailed from Liverpool on the 13th
of October, is heavily laden, and has between foot
and five hundred passengers. The crew left the vs-
gel by means of a rope fastened to the shore from the
foremast. On Monday her main and mizen mane
were cut away and she was abandoned.
The fifth disaster happened on the lath ult., whea
the new steam-ship Eudora, which left New York fee
Rio Janeiro and California, sprung a leak when two
days out, and went ashore on Ludlam beach, mu
Cape May on Thursday, and discharged her cagoia
surf-boats. She is valued at about 50,000 dam)
and the cargo about 20,000 dollars, which was pried•
pally insured in Wall-street. Assistance will be mat
to her immediately from New York.
It was feared that some misfortune had happened
to a sixth vessel, the Columbus steamer, from Ph&
delphia to Cnarleston. She was considerably ova.
due, and was last seen disabled off Cape Hatteras.

COMMERCIAL INIELLIGENCE.
(From the New York Courier and Inquirer.")
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.
COTTON. -The 'ilea since our lass, p'r Hibernia, 14th
Inst., amount to 3,400 bales. The market, which was dull prior 6
the receipt of the America's advice', became subeequently dememi
W unmated, holders evincing much anxiety to realise, elm es
lore of two to three dollars per bale on their late receipts from Stria
' nab and Charleston. It is difficult to fix the price at which ,si3rel
would operate freely; their view appeaes to be to wilt the cffeet d
the Liv rpool market of :be decline on this side, advised perCaledeens
and the favourable weather (during the picking moon), and carer
re quently incas d estimate of crop advised per Niagara,
Hibernia. Thus far a decline only of # to 1 c. has been estatblTlA
our quotations at toot arc nominal. tie have no later table of
and exports than last adelsed,but we know the receipts continua basal
at southern ports, and that the determination of pl int• re to reins •
unchanged. On the subject of crop, the New York c,timate Is
to 2,'00,000 hales. When we elate that this is the New Vrt.
estimate, we do not wleh to be understood to convey the ides 004,
the public believe in this estimate; but that it Is the one put formrs
to produce the effect desired on prices. We adhere to our Fri:
one opinion, 2,100,000 bales; but are prepared, notwithsUnarm
to see lower prices resulting from the accumulation of early reanei
at southern ports.
Florida and N. O. Teem,
Upland. and Motels.
Inferior 9l to - 9i to -„
Ordinary to good ord. I fie to 9k • et lv
Mid. to good mid.
Mid. fair to fair
Fully fair to fine -
toun.-Since the sailing of the last steamer, the market
remained in a dull state for the common and inferior kinds, 5,4 ti*
the ordinary fall demand for the better sorts of which the receiptalff
leas plenty. The export trade isextremely light, and confined WO
to Cmadian in bond, amounting for the week ending on the 1311,
0,800 brie. Our quotations are for Canadian in bandit dole. Tin;
inspected and line, 3 dole. to 4 dol.. 311 e. ,• common state anti tea's
we-tern, 4 dole. 624 c. to 4 dots. 75e. • straight state and good
tern, 4 dole. Ise. to 4 dots. 94c. • good Michigan, 5 dots to 5 oo:
121 e. ; Ohio, 3 dole. 25c. to I dole. 75c. • fair Genesee. 5 dots. IV.'
3 duls. 25e. Southern kinds, dole. 25;. to 3 dole. 4k. for W'S
wine Baltimore, Georgetown, and Fetersburgh city. Ere flour
at 2 viols. 87M. to 2 d01e.91c.,• and corn meal, 3 do's. 61c. to 3.0.•
12 e. for Jersey, and 3 dots. 25e. for Brandywine.
eette.-For wheat the demand is steady, with sales of Gen
tile. to 1200. Ohio is held at 105 e. to Ilk.; Canadian,
106 c. to ink.; common and inferior Western, ioe. to lle.,
quality. Rye is held
Barley at 60e. to 6040. Oats are rather better, at
to 4k. for Western. is less plentiful, and brings6oc. toi2
Indian corn has declined a trine; mixed western, 62c. to 63e4
yellow, 63c. to 6k.; round yellow, 64e. The exports to E010nd....,.5'
Ireland far the week ending on the 13th that., consist of 1680 ma..
of wheat, and 13,073 halals. corn.
Fueearrs are dull ; the rates are to Liverpool for cotton 7-321..14
per lb.; flour, le. 6d. per bbL ; grain in bulk, 314. to id. per bg-lalf:
corn and wheat respectively. To London, Is. 6d. per Dbl. foe or.
and other articles in proportion. To Havre, cotton te. per lb.
at
A MICR. -The market is dull; moderate eales of sots are 10%...
7 dots, and pearls at 6 dole. 25e. to 6 dots. 31je. per 1001 M. so•
stock in the inspection warehouse is as follows : 1114
Pot. Pearl. sag
First Port
Second sort
Third met B2 ... IA •••
Condemn:el

Stock Nov. 17, 134 ....... 757 8,041 ... S5OO
Stock, Nov. 17,184 e 1,173 ... 1,053 ;al

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wons.—Demestio Whisky b doll at ffe. Deceivers of hands ere
gri, bat we do em Wed say mks et that rate.
ova of Mn Ws. of mem poet were sold this
ii dein Pfc. Maw is hell at b Ida. Illot., with mode.
mem
to is duti—orey men 9 deb. Ns. Is 1 dean cite. •
..-- 1 defu te 7 do7r. 7".; vms7s7 NM% 8 ddt. f he. ; prune;
=,, giy, gds.; lord hems. II dein to If don, D' is Lard is
ggetivelc—Orome. bin Mita ; bwlTsill die- to e.
to
die. to
vir. mop On bone, M. as lea; Inners dairy, 14e. to I he. 1 store
gager, NW i e Its.: 061.; Ills• 60 Is& i red P•••• ditto, de. to No
ow, sta. to las. sal Ti, the tatter pies Inane&
Ingssersis add st Sian Me., abandon the WIRT nds. The
dial 0 bled aken NIL
aw.....TWW N a Isk &mead for expert, sad mks of choke per.
egigent lent mei* in 14e.
NON —thasy is quits *benne, sad Ski hanks ors
"Nen sod dadesses esailika; the bulk of the paper dismounted
r, Jour,s ast swings env Is dsys, whiqt tbe amount maturing
Zoo (at MU stssetwir to the dellental upon them for
7.....5s The soma of ftsgba! seeliag engirdment Is sow
Wine, that throe innitutioas ham assent to control the market ss
, boo nave, and It may truly be mid the power behind the
;wog greater than the throne ilea" Lams en all sn reran
Abdo a 4 a I per MIL Short paper Is disesealsd E
st an per
~_, go air ditto, ris per mot, and ids eseetthe piper, ii to
"'"-.'.e, secordmi to the stunting of the drawee... be. Theisen.
Cad (agars recharge Is dow swards, as the amazed 9,tatiollll
._,,..,., gm., pn. dila a Map to tbe export.' of weds. w 0 quota
=7.. 0,,,e; Londe" 109 to 1091; wow/dais SO to ni ; ars.
tea, to :el; Pert% 9 111,1 to I 311; Hamburg, WO Sii.

CANADA.

We learn from Canada, that is to say, if we can
Mere the Mmtreal (beerier and other papers of that
got, that the desire of annexation is becoming quite
general in the lower province. 'the following is a
wersgraph taken from a late number of that journal:
r-
W. bin ore month nine journals have openly declared for
the manit.sto, and are aote defending aLnesetiun. They
an-- Corner, Mon•tval ; Hired, ditto; L'Anenir, ditto;
mone„,.. di:to; Argils, Kingston; inieweradent, Quebec;
1,10/41641‘1,T01011!0; Mirror, ditto; Vasetto, Sherbrooke.
wails them there are, perhaps, not less than a score that
Pry ancezation sr ides • place in their
anoncolums do not
oppose it, ass many of them will, doubtless, declare
themselves in favour of the men . Such a sudden, such
o assonthing change, was never he'ore witnessed arootg
the public j nraela of this colony mince the white man
first put hi. foot upon the hanks of the Sr Lawrence.
What Beacon ban the opponents of annexation now
from the Lamed press ? The pensioned pilot wed the
wsunnr -Vilitlrt on the ohs side; and on the °tear, the
epicene loyalty and stile witticisms of the hebtidous Trots-
error! an the nest-fallen thunders of thechavette, p fitly
a
dog off int) indistinct murmurs. The peal
os power a
Better
bode
tot new is this city for either patty as hereto:ore.
tholes sow engages the public mind, and the press reeecho.s
the wishes of its supporters. Among the members of the
II .use, and three of loniathe
-
ham, one member of the Upp-t
Lower, have already openly avowed adhesion to the annexa-
tion taus:: many more are known to be decidedly favour-
able; Botha, even in the councils of the cluirry a triumph
b not fee divtast. But should the trial be poetp .ned or evaded
W ea appal to the people, then is our cause certain of victory,
kwly as it known that a maj bity of the counties of Lower
Candi will in for annexation candidates by large votes.
Bat, say the oppnen4 of annexation, our Cam* is
ids yet, Upper Canada is for me. This assertion will be
bend iatorreet in the day of trial. The Toronto pies. mid
its abettors may re to charm down the movement in the
sister province by the prestige of executive patronage in the
warder of the seat of government. They tell us Montreal'
b not Cased., and we teturn their sneer by informing them
fiat so ostensive correspondence and numerous other good
manes ot information enable us to say to the good folks at the
sew lentil governmeat, that the people 01 the Upper Pro-
vince willsoonsa to them, Toronto is not Upper Canada ;
end will declare for annexation :a language unmistakeable."
The members of the British League have broken
up their aession and returned home. They. seem to
have met only to re-affirm three propositions--the
necessity of a federal union of the British provinces
in North America, retrenchment, and protection to
Csnadian industry. The proposition of annexation
was voted down by a large majority—indeed without
a dicisi. n ; and another, of making the council elec-
tive by the people, was lost by a small majority. The
annexationist. say that this majority is composed of
the high church and high tory party, " only that and
nothing more."
We learn also that a Mr. Moyle will leave in
the next steamer, bearing despatches from Lerd Elgin,
sad also a memorial, signed by a number of the most
influential men in Canada, asking of the imperial go-
vernment that some treaty may be made with the
United States, by which free trade will be granted to
Canada.