The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-12 00:00:00

CANADA AND AMERICA.

The New York news, of Nov. 90, publishes the
following Wier from Quebec :

"Mr. ioarstary Seward'. letters to Lord Lyons and the
Gomm of the States have not lees without their effect
von the Claardian mind, followed up as they have been by
tiss Noon and !Slidell case. Noes of the Canadian newspapers
etiontpt to justify the latter preceding—even the Toronto
Globe aoademns it, which, more themaagether journal, takes
an American view lot the provost NOW/ in the United
Makes. But whether Captain Wilkes wee right or wrong, is
not rite question now. I to Mil you that at a council of
war, held here yesterday (Sanclay), between General Sir
Fonwick W. Williams, of Kars, sommander of the foram in
Canada, (who came down from Montreal to attend it), his

"keelleery the Governor-General. CoL Pay cater, oomaand-
kg the Royal Artillery in Canada, sad others, it was deter.
wined to prepare for emergencies by putting the frontier in
a state of defence. There are rumoan that it was resolved
knoll out 10,0.13 voluotons, but of that I have no authen-
tic infatuation. It may have ben determined that, is
nos of war, that should be dose. Thus it appears that
Great Britain and the States are actually drifting into war.
Lift up your voice, Mr. Editor, to avert the calamity, if pos-
sible. Give counsel, that the difloulties which exist may be
resnond, if possible ; and surely it is possible, without
rowans to arms. Let not brothers—for such you and we
really an—be arrayed in deadly tights against each other.
For assuredly the calamities of the eiCstiog civil strife will
be multiplied tenfold, if not only the land, but the sea, is
made the field of conflict The Herald has done much to
faa into a flame the elements of discord that er,st between
England and the States. Let the Nets York Times admin.
oder the antidote, more powerful than the poiaoo."

The New York Times, of Nor. 30, says :—" As
some ineication of the temper with which the news of the
@sitar. of Slidell sod Noma will be received in Beglaad,
we Mara from our Leaden Wag that, apes a aaggestioa
that the maxim' of the James Adger in British embers was to
overhaul the Trent, the British Admiralty directed a mewl
of war to pursue and watch the American ebesmsr, and that
the pursuit was only abaadoned when the Adger was found
to have other objects."
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Mr. Edwin :Tames has published a letter in the
New Turk papers respecting the Trot affair. He says the
whole studios in regard to Mama and Slidell would rest
en the movers of the captain of the Trent to the
following questions :-Ist. Were you acquainted with
the terms of her Majesty's proclamation commanding strict
neutrality on the part of all her subject dunog the term
of hostilities between the Northern and Southern Mates!
2nd. Did you not know that the two gentlemen, when
they Weenie pnessegers, not refugees, on board your Meek
were employing themselves or were employed in an eater-
prise of direct hostility to the constituted government of
the United Stab! The answer to then two questions in
the affirmative, he maintains, and imaelsteutly with teeth
they could not be answered otherwise. would redthe the
queettee to very narrow dimeesions ; and should any
doubt exist up= the wooed propeetios, the inerage
recently sent by Mr. Jefferson Davis to his parliament at
Richmond would touch facilitate its solution.