Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE INDIAN.

The Montreal ocean mai'-steamer ins, nn, Capt.
Jones, arrivod here yesterday afternoon. She
sailed from Quebec on the 26th ult., 'and brings
215 passengers. The news is three day's later
than that previously to hand, bu 4-., it is not of the
slightest impo:tance.
There seemed to be no chance of raising the
reek of the Canadian, and it was expected that
any efforts to recover the lost steam-ship would be
abandoned.
The Quebec journals publish the census returns
for 1856 From them we learn.:—
Tne population of Canada msy be stated at almost, if
not quite, two millions and a half. When it is remem-
bered that in 1848 the population of tho United Provinces
was but 000,000, the rate of increase in tan years is
indeed something to boast of. Two-thirds added to the
population of a country with such variety of soil and
climate in that time is, we believe, without precedent.
The increase of the Milted States during the ten years
ending 1850 was 351 per cent. ; that of Upper Canada
during the ten years from 1841 ro 1851 1044 per cent ;
and now for the whole Province since 1848 it is '65 to 70
per cent, or nearly double the rate of increase of the
United states. The third of a century is generally
reckored as a generation. Daring that period the popu-
lation of Canada has increased from 582 000 to 2,500,000,
or more than twice doubled itself. In fact our popu-
lation doubles itself in rather less than fifteen years.
If that ratio of increase be continued, Canada will
have at the beginning of the next century 20,000,000
of inhabitants Nor is it in population alone
that Canadian progress is remarkable. The splen-
did EUCCOM ses of ocean steamers, mark the
-great a rides of Car affirm commerce. and the great Pro-
vincial Exhibition just terminated here, imperfect as it a as
in general respects, yet slowed that bath in agrieulttre
and manufactures our day of small things and slow thirgs
had passed away, and we were entering on a competition
with the world. No one can stroll through the streets of
this city, the commercial metropolis of the Province, seeing
everywhere splendid warehouses, beautiful churches, and
-fine mansions in course of erection, and fail to see the
marks of progress at once swift and sure. At the west and
south of us, long grevions accounts of commercial disaster
-.erne to -us.

Montreal keeps good heart and faith, anti goes on
quietly with her business, as a j mrnal of that city
says :—" And the other day, when the citizens were
asked to lend for exhibition, for the gratification of
their fellow citizens and visitors, some of their art
treasures, the display of paintings was such as to
show that with the acquisitio❑ of wealth had come
the taste to spend it well." An extension has been
commenced on the Grand Trunk Railway, east of
St. Thomns, and 400 men has been placed on the
work. Whatever may be said by croakers', th's is
proof of progress and a move in the right direc-
tion ;and we trust that the time is not far off when
the junction with New Brunswick, by rail, will be
a reality.
A toronto paper, in a leading article on the many
topics that are exciting the Canadian peenle, says :
It seems to be the fate of colonies to have such questions
perpetually dragging at their heels. In Canada wa are
never witheut them. To-day it is, who shall govern the
Hudson's Thy Territor) ? To morrow it may be, who shall
govern all British America ? A comparatively few years
ago the question was, should Upper and Lower Canada be
united ; and now it is shall they continue united Now if
the imperial governs ent really will not settle the seat of
government m,tter, till we know how we are to stand with
the great north west, and to the great north east of Ame-
rica, we should know it at once, so that the people may
discuss what is of such vital importance to them; and so
that they may understand what position they are to occupy
hereafter in North America.
A steamer had burst on the St. Lawreace. A
hand, named William Gray, who lives in Hamilton,
who was near by at the time of the explosion, was
so severely scalded, that he died almost imme-
diately. Another man was badly scalded. An
inquest was held. The following was the verdict.
It is sufficiently descriptive of the nature of the
case :

That the said William Gray, fireman on board the
steamer Brantford came to his death from an escape of
steam, caused by the fracture of the steam-pipe cf the said
Brantford, which steam-pipe was broken in a collision
with the ship Anglesea, on the morning of the '?3ei Sep-
tember, whilst the said steamer was entering the Metcalf
Basin, in the harbour of Montreal. The accident, in the
opinion of the jurors. was mainly caused by the hawser of
the Anglesea being laid across the entrance of the said
basin, but which hawser was there for the safety of the
said ship Anglesea.
Respecting the recent mPeing of the sa-3alled
"Irish Sepoys," at New York, a Quebec paper
remarks that the hall in lahich the meeting was
held (the Stuyvesant Institute,) would not hold
more than 300 people—
That numbers out of 250,000 naives of Ireland, in
New Yolk and B-ooklyn, cannot surely be calle(i a repre-
sentation. Moreover, no man of the least note spoke or
showed himself at the meeting. All intelligent
Irishmen, prom the dais of Burke, have disapproved
of the East India Company's wars and aggros-
tions in Hindostan, but no one worthy of the
name, no Christian, no civilised creature, can hold any
other sentiment than ut'er abhorrence for the murderers
of babes and violators of women taken captive in this
insurrection. We have no feeling in common with the
company as such. We believe they richly deserve to be
kicked out of India by !he plundered and long-suffering
natives. But we have every sympathy with, and shall
heartily co operate in, assisting the gallant soldiers and
civilians who are attempting sga'nst such cl.esperate °Ells
to do their duty by their flag, in belaagared fortresses and
far distant stations.