The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21.

Loan la-veins and the Earl of MILEY may di-
vide the oreditof having raised the most mischievous
debate of the Session. The people of the United
States have got enough on their hands to occupy
them for some time to come ; and for a long time we
have found less in American writings and reported
speeches concerning an invasion of Canada than we
were accustomed to read in years gone by, when
an army of 18,000 men was thought much too
large for the requirements of the Republic. But
the Americans will learn from last night's debate
what conduct 20 excellent a judge as Lord DISHY
expects of them as a powerful and spirited people.
There was nothing in the facts before the
House to give occasion for the exciting speech
of Lord DZILBY. The difficulty of defending the
Canadian land frontier is notorious, and has been
discussed ever since the outbreak of the American

war in our newspapers and magazines. On this
subject Colonel Jzsvons's Report contains abso-
lutely nothing new. As long as the Canadians
themselves declined to assume the responsibility
of their own military defence, it was obvious that
no Government could ask British taxpayers
to provide them with fortresses. But circum-
stances have changed ; within a abort time we
shall have to deal with a Government embracing
the two Canada; with all the eastward provinces,
united in a great Confederation, and reedy—so we
are assured--to take upon themselves the main
burden of their defence. It is this that makes it
possible for the Home Government to insert a
vote in the estimates for Canadian fortifications,
and has occasioned, as a preliminary thereto, the
publication of Colonel Jsavorss's Report. It would
have been more satisfactory bad an explicit state-
ment of the views of the leading men of Canada
as to the obligation of the colony on this point
accompanied the publication of that docu-
ment ; but we assume, as a matter of course,
that it will precede or accompany the proposal
of the vote. Such, however, were the circum-
stances in which Lord DERBY imagined he saw a
challenge to him and every Peer of Par-
liament to get up and declare his opinion
on what he called " the critical state of our
" relations " with America. Lord DZRBY has
spoken once before on this subject within these few
days, and on each occasion he expreased himself as
if he ware in possession of information unknown to
the rest of the world. Lord PAILMRIBTON and
Earl Rues= preserve a serene and tranquil de-
meanour, while the Earl of Deasy works himself
into a pitch of excitement as, amidst the cheers of
his Tory friends, he dilates upon the " hostile
" feelings " of the people of the Federal States
towards this country. Lord DERBY refers to the
angry speeches which a few foolish members of the
American Congress have made, and seems deter-
mined that the exasperation shall not all be on one
side. He is told by Earl Onewvius that 50,0001. is
the sum which it is proposed to place this year on the
estimates for the defences of Quebec, and per-
ceiving that such preparations do not express the
unquiet feeling which he seeks to diffuse, he throws
up both hands, and with appeals to Heaven wants
to know when her hacarrv's Government will be
sufficiently alarmed. Lords hismaixasuzy, ELIXIt•
BOROUGH, sad LYTTILTON took up the strain,
and were anxious that we should in-
stantly challenge the United States by a great
military demonstration on their frontier. Do
these men ever reflect that the people who have
the greatest interest in Canada are the Canadians!
Do they ever read Canadian newspapers, or take
any pains to acquaint themselves with Canadian
opinion t It is impossible; or they would know that
the Canadians are the last to desire any such offen-
sive measures as they contemplate. The Cana-
dians wish to live at peace under the protection of
the mother country; but, as they often remind us,
their greatest danger arises from their liability to be
drawn into quarrels begun here, with which they
have nothing to do. They will appreciate at its true
worth the solicitude of the Earl of Daisy for their
welfare, but they will beg of him and his fellow
peers not to make Canada the fighting ground of
the quarrel between the British aristocracy and the
people of the United States.
But there is a wider aspect of the question than
that presented last night either by the Conserva-
tive Peers or by the Government. The good of
the Colony must be presumed to be the law which
governs the whole action of the Home Govern-
ment, and what, we take leave to ask, must be
the effect upon Canada of these repeated alarms
as to her exposure to attack I Fortify Quebec and
Montreal, and after that, Kingston, Hamitic's, and