The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-29 00:00:00

Canada like yellow leaves before the whirlwind;
asserts that the British navy is a "pasteboard
sham" which does not contain a single vessel that
one prime American ironclad could not send to the
bottom in 15 minutes; affirms that nothing in
Canada could offer serious resistance to the Federal
arms; that the British West India Islands might be
made valuable appendages to the great Republic ;
that Ireland might be detached from or made worth-
less to England ; that half a million of Irishmen in
America only await the glorious opportunity, and
would spring to arms and crowd every transport to
avenge the wrongs of Ireland, on Irish soil, and bet•
ter or worse than all, that the South itself would be
rejoiced to lend a hand in taking revenge against
Great Britain for its selfishness and meanness. The
Americans, however, and Mr Raymond as their
oracle, make a great mistake if they think the bully,
ing policy will be effectual either with Great Bri-
tain or Canada, or if they entertain the idea that
Great Britain is afraid, or that Canada will fall into

their hands whenever they are ready to clutch the
4iriza they covet. Perhaps they will learn from the
future history of the particular case which has so
stirred their bile that they have excited themselves
unnecessarily, and that the course of British and
Canadian justice will flow in its usual channel, nn•
impeded by their bad manners and unhastened by
their violence. Bat though General Dix was pre-
mature, his " order" waft-not without a certain de.
gree of dignity. Not so some proceedings and utter-
ances in the Senate and House of Representatives
with reference to the present and future relations of
the United States and Canada, especially those of a
Mr Zechariah Chandler. now senator for Michigan,
and formerly a dry goods merchant in Detroit. In
other countries a person in the pcsition of a senator,
a member cf the Upper House, generally, if not in-
variably, endeavours to present to his countrymen
and the world an example of forbearance and cool
judgment. He remembers that he is a father as well
as a pillar of the State, and is conscious that he
ought to be removed, by age, education, and exped
rience, far beyond the heats and impulses of
younger, less responsible, and less honoured politi.
cians. But it is not always so in the United States,
or Mr Chandler—the same person who declared,
more Americano, when the South first threatened
secession, " that the Union would not be worth a
cues without some bloodletting" would never
have been chosen to so high a position. Not con-
tented with the too copious blood-letting which
has reddened the battle-fields of Virginia, Georgia,
Tennessee, Kentucky. Missouri, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania, Mr. Chandler appears to desire
blood.letting in another direction. In hot haste, and
almost before the telegraphic wires from Montreal
had ceased to click the message which so disturbed
him, he introduced a series of resolutions into the
Senate, in the highest degree irritating to the Cana•
diens and calumniatory both of the Colonial and
the Imperial Government, in which he declared in
face of known facts that the Canadians were disposed

not only as individual; to protect "thieves, robbers,
incendiaries, pirates, and murderers" who invaded
the Federal States, but to shelter them by " quibbles
of the law." This form of putting the case being

strongly objected to, he forthwith introduced a no iv
resolution, still more offensively worded, in which,
forgetting for a while his Canadian grievance, he
not only accused the British Government of " pre-
cipitately" recognising the Southern insurgents as
belligerents, but of permitting British subjects and
members of Parliament, " with the full knowledge
of the authorities," to build and equip piratical ves-
sels to prey upon American commerce and to despatch
blockade-runners to provide the rebels with the

means of organising and continuing a rebellion which

without such means could not have maintained itself
for six months. In order that such proceedings should
be stopped for the future and atoned for in the past,

he moved that Mr. Seward shculd be instructed to

make out a list of all the ships destroyed by the Con-
federates, dr, as he preferred to call them, British
pirates, together with a fair and separate valuation
of their cargoes, and to demand payment from the
British Government of the value of the same, with
interest at the rate of 6 per cent. since the day of
capture or destruction, on the penalty of war if such

payment were refused. The Senate had more sense
than its fire-eating member, and the resolutions
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Senate was sufficiently:valiint to recommend the
immediate purchase or construction of balf-a.dozen
gunboats to ply upon Likes (Mario, Erieollichigen,
and Superior, and the House of lt,2presentatives
sympathised so fully in the purpose as to confirm the
Senate's decision without the shadow of a debate,

and to vote a million of dollars for that purpose,
Having previously given the requisite notice of its
intention to increase its armament on the Likes—

a notico which it appears will date from the middle
of October—the Federal Government will be able,
long before opening of navigation on the St. LAW.

I-eine, to have as many war ships on the Lakes as it

can buy, construct; or transport in the interval, and
the British Government, unless it have the materials
for ship-building, arming, and equipping, on the
Canadian shores of the Lakes, will find itself about
the 15th of April with only one vessel upon each
lake to oppose them. Thus the sharp Yankees have

stolen a march upon John Ball, and John Bull, as
far as the Lakes are concerned, will have to submit
to the disadvantage till the St. Lawrence is free of
ice. It is useless to deny or conceal the fact that
there is danger ahead i❑ this direction, and that
although the over-tinning and impulsive fanatics
who for the present control the destinies of the Fee
deral Republic may tot mean actual war with Great
Britain, but only to threaten for their own purposes
without resorting to the ultima ratio of Kings and
democracies, there is so much peril in playing with
such edged tools as to make it the duty of the
British Government to be prepared for all eventu-
alities. Those who live opposite to powder maga-
zineo must have ate eye to their fire•engines and
water-tanks—and those who would live at peace
with the Americans must be strong enough to be
feared, even if they be disliked and vilified. It is
quite true that the Federal Government has more
than enough on its hands in its veer against
the South, and that every true American
statesman will so admit. But American statesmen
are scarce, and worse still, they are not in power.
The men in power,like the people they govern, take
their wishes for facts and their passions for argil.
merits, and no foreign statesman can calculate or
predict what they will do in any given set Of cir-
cumstances. Possibly, however, the anti-British
war mania may subside as suddenly as it broke out;
but the British Government and people ought not
to forget, either now or hereafter, that the Ameri-
cans hate them ; that they would like to possess
British America, as an off-set for the probable loss
of the South ; that the ignorance of the people with
regard to the strength of Great Britain especially,
and of Europe generally, is only equalled by their
arrogance and presumption ; and that consequently
the only safe methodof keeping on good terms with
them is neither to offer insult nor to brook it, and to
show under all circumstances that, though they
wish to avoid quarrel, they will, if quarrel be forced
upon them, so comport themselves that the aggres-
sor shall receive a lesson which to all future time
shall teach ordinary caution, if it do not teach
common honesty.

The Journal de Nice states that the Mayor of
that town and three members of the Bureau do Bienfaisance
went last week to the Villa Vigicr and presented to its mis-
tress a gold medal as a testimonial of the gratitude of the
poor and of the respect of the municipal administration. On
the obverse of the medal, in relief, are the words—" To
Sophia Cruvelli, Baroness Vigier, the town of Nice and the
Bureau de Bienfit'sance, 1864;" on the reverse, also in re-
lief, are the arms of Nice. The journal abovementioned
highly approves of the homage thus rendered to the bene-
factress of the poor, and expresses the hope that her great
talents will again this year be exercised in their benefit.
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