The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

ThE YLN7INA AOAIN.

In presence of the renewed threats against Canada by
the Fenians, the Times observes with satisfaction that the
colonial government has now undertaken an obligation
which should have been discharged by the late Admiralty,
and has placed gunboats anon the lakes and rivers. A
good flotilla of these vessels would furnish the colony
with the best possible defence on the American frontier.
Nobody supposes that the Fenian' are going to conquer
Canada, but the " senseless movement," as the address
of the Canadian parliament termed it, is throwing heavy
expenses on the colony, and making some demands upon
the government at home.
The Telegraph attributes the new activity of the
Finites to the apparent leniency of the American
authorities, which has had the unfortunate effect of
encouraging the beads of the faction in a belief in the
secret complicity of influential personages in the rnited
States. Meanwhile the government at home is taking the
necessary steps to grapple with the danger effectually.
Two infantry regiments, the 63rd and 61st, are under
orders, and will start at once ; a cavalry force, consisting
of the 13th Hussars, and probably another light regiment,
will immediately follow ; while three additional batteries
of artillery were despatched some days ago in prudent an.
deipation of the emergency which has now arisen. Mere
prudential motives, the Telegraph thinks, would prevent
any American statesman at the present moment in his
country's politics from conniving at any enterprises hostile
to England.

Ma ILECTION COI

Lancaster seems quite worthy, the Daily News remarks,
to take its place by the side of Totnes or Great Yarmouth.
It does not come up, indeed, to the former borough
in the magnitude of single bribes, but in the general
diffusion of corruption it can hardly be surpassed.
In regard to the pries of single votes, Totnes may bear
itself more proudly than all the rest. A ducal borough
should do things handsomely, and the Duke of Somerset
must be exacting indeed if he wants Totnes to be more
eminent than it has become during the last two or three
days. In this small but aristocratic town 1001. scarcely
goes so far as 101. in any other place. The Daily News
confesses I. looking forward with curiosity to the views of
the last elections for Totnes and Lancaster respectively
that will be put forward by Mr. Pencier and Mr. Schneider
when they come to give their evidence. Did they
pay their election bills without looking at them,
after the manner of Sir E. Loon, or make up their minds
to the worst in the fashion of Mr. Brogden I It is some
mail consolation, in the midst of the disgraceful impunity
which bribery generally enjoys, to reflect on the extreme
diecoroposere with which these gentlemen are probably
looking forward to the agreeable ordeal that awaits them.
Meanwhile it is easy to diafranchise Totnes, or Lancaster,
or Yarmouth, and we shall rejoin to see that small wrap
of justice meted out ; but it is the gentlemen—so called—
the members of the Reform or the Carlton—who are re-
sposndbie for the causes which necessitate diefranchise.
meat, whom we wish to see visited with some more effec-