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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 4, 1865.

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The aspect of Canadian affairs is just now a mat-
ter of the deepest interest, and every particular of
the engagements entered into between this country
and British North America is received with atten-
tion. There are divided opinions on this as on
every other subject, some persons thinking
that England should undertake the whole
expense and responsibility of protecting
the colonies, while others—these, fortunately, form
but a small party—are inclined to surrender all
connection with those vas+, and yearly improv-
ing territories rather than run the risk of
offending American sensibilities. The Govern-
ment appear to have acted with prudence
and liberality between these opposite courses, and
have succeeded in reassuring the colonists, and re-
moving any lingering anxiety or uneasiness which the
language held by some of our Parliamentary speakers
may naturally have given rise to. The Canadians
themselves are acting in a fair and conciliatory
spirit. Whild admitting the necessity of defending
their country more effectually than at present, an 1
showing every readiness to come forward with their
share of men and money, they are nowise anxious to
provoke their powerful neighbour or to give grounds
for a quarrel by making any active demon-
strations. They are now more eager to strengthen
themselves by a renewal of the commercial com-
munications between the States and Canada on
their old footing than to exhibit by their forts and
warlike preparations their readiness for a war.
The renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty is a matter
of great moment to the Canadians ; and, if we are
to believe the emphatic language of the address
from Detroit last year, it is scarcely less so
across the border. It ;formed a prominent sub-
ject of the discussions between the Colonial Dele-
gates and the Home Government during their late
conferences, and the assistance of her MAJESTY'S
Ministers was invoked in order to obtain a fair
hearing for the merits of the case at Washington.
In the Legislative Assembly of Canada, in
reply to certain questions which had been
put to the Government, Mr. CARTIER, the
Attorney-General and one of the members of the
deputation, read a paper summing up briefly the
policy to be pursued during the session. The
reciprocity question formed an important item of
this statement, and Mr. CARTIER announced that
a meeting of Delegates from the Provinces was to
be held i n Quebec in the course of Sep-
tember, under the Governor-General, for the
impose of arranging an united action in regard
to the Reciprocity Treaty. Mr. CARTIER did not
indicate the policy that the Government was
prepared to recommend, as the meeting was to be
held within so brief a period, but he stated that the
Canadian Ministry was prepared to enter into any
negotiations with the American Government on
the most liberal footing. Perhaps the time which
has elapsed since the first hasty notice for the termi-
nation of the treaty may have allowed the American
statesmen the opportunity of regretting that foolish
and impolitic measure. They have received an
unmistakeable proof of the shortsightedness and
error of thus checking the free commercial inter-
course between the two countries ; and, however
popular the measure may be among a certain set in
New York and New England, it will be looked upon
with great dissatisfaction by the merchants and
dealers whose interests will suffer.
The Colonial Government seems to think it wiser
to defer any active measures for the protection of
the country. They are hampered by the postpone-
ment of the union, and can hardly push on the
grand central works until that important matter is
definitively settled. With regard to the Confede-
ration itself they do not propose to recommend any
further action during this session. Perhaps they
may think that any display of eagerness or em-
pressement on their part will only serve to excite still
further the jealousy of the smaller colonies, and that
leaving the matter to time and reflection will be
the best way to overcome their prejudices. In
the fear of the maritime provinces that they will
lose their identity by becoming united to Canada
they appear to forget the real danger that
threatens them from another quarter. Their
sea-board • will always give them peculiar
advantages which Canada has not, and
which will always prevent them from becoming
absorbed by their larger and more conspicuous

ally. But if they choose to run the risk of becom-
ing annexed to the United States they will find
themselves in a very different position. There are
plenty of seaports round the magnificent coasts of
the States, and the maritime provinces of Great
Britain will only be valued because they
once belonged to their hated and dangerous rival.
Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers are not
likely deliberately to prefer annexation to the
States to union with Canada ; neither will Eng-
land suffer them to be forcibly incorporated with
America Schleswig-Holstein fashion, but by their
refusal to join in the proposed confederation scheme
they may bring about serious evils. The old fable
of the bundle of faggots has been illustrated too
often in history for its lesson to be overlooked,
and every politician knows that the weakness of
republics and small States lies in their perpetual
disunion and division. We hope that with these
various reasons for delay too much time will
not be Ipst in beginning the necessary prepa-
rations ; but no doubt the Canadian Government
is actuated by sound motives, and wishes to avoid
any appearance of defying its neighbour at this
juncture of the Treaty question. The Intercolo-
nial Railroad is still admitted by all parties
to be a matter of the first necessity ; and Mr.
CARTIER reiterated the conviction of the Ministry
that it was indispensable to the accomplishment of
the confederation scheme. We learn by the news
from Quebec that the surveys and estimates for this
undertaking have been submitted to the Canadian
Parliament. The route proposed is via River du
Loup, Fredericktown, and Picton to Halifax, and
the estimate is 25 millions, or $440,000 per mile.
As regards the loan which has been talked of, the
Home Government has expressed its willingness to
arrange all terms in the manner most favourable to
the province ; so that, should the colonial Ministry
decide upon applying for a guaranteed loan, there
will be no difficulty in settling the details.
The most important question that is likely to
be brought before the Canadian Parliament this year
is that of the North-West Territory which presses
for settlement. The colonists have wisely deter-
mined not enter upon a long and costly lawsuit with
the new company, who have most improperly been
favoured by the British Government with the re-
newed monopoly. They prefer to enter into an
arrangement by which they can indemnify the com-
pany for any reasonable claims, but even with this
condition there is good ground to fear that the com-
pensation demanded will be a heavy pull on the
finances of the colony. Under these circumstances
a guaranteed loan would be the best means of re-
conciling difficulties, and the advantages to be
gained by throwing open the rich and fertile terri-
tories of the north-west to the enterprising settler
would speedily reimburse any temporary outlay.

The French are particularly brilliant in their
criticism on political matters, especially foreign ones,
and the writer in the Revue des deux Monde has

achieved a great success in his epitome of the Ger-
man tactics of late years. He has taken up the
subject con amore, and not allowed himself to be
mystified with the confused statements of preju-
diced partisans. This theme is now well-nigh
worn threadbare, but still in this article we find
much to suggest matter for observation and reflec-
tion. In point of fact no one can treat the affair

in a proper style who does not recognise
in the first place the gross fraud that has
been committed by the diplomatists of
Berlin, and the artful manner in which they

have contrived to outwit and cajole all dissentients
into real or affected acquiescence. It must be ad-
mitted by all that the Prussian Minister has shown

himself master of his peculiar line of policy, and
I in this, as in many other such cases, the opinions
of the apparently most acute have been shown to
be erroneous. Not alone do those who tread the
usual round of conventionalism, and follow the
beaten track of mediocrity, achieve the most signal
successes and make themselves the most prominent
in their generation. The sapient diplomatists of
Europe have made rather a mistake in this matter,
and the writer in this critique aptly discourses
their oversight. The conclusion they arrived
at in respect of this alienation was a very
unfavourable one, and now he has out-
distanced them in the race, and stepped in to
win the prize, while they are left without, blank and
dfgcomfited. Whatever grave errors he may have
committed, and however contrary his practices may
be to the notions of honour and high principle, it is
very certain that there is now no occasion to laugh
at Herr VON BISMARCK'S war. This is only proof
of the mistake which people make when they at-
tempt to be too clever, and measure their estimation
of character by rule, instead of taking that broad
view of human nature by which only individuality
can be discovered in its tendencies and power. In
the case of Herr von BISMARCK, it is a success
which is perilous, and which contains within itself
the germs of decay. It is founded on those
doctrines that were much in vogue during past gene-
rations, but which these present days of enlighten-
ment and progress have almost wholly discarded.
It is not probable that such a wholesale robbery as
that which has just been consummated at Gastein
can be allowed to continue in its integral form, but,
with one circumstance and another, it may last for
the present.

This writer remarks in a very impressive manner
upon the supineness of Austria in this question, and
there can be no doubt that that country has abne-
gated many of its indefeasible rights, and retro-
graded to a great extent by its many concessions to
Prussia. We could not have a better instance of
the rapid growth of evil, and the great respon-
sibilities which those incur who allow matters to go
by default, instead of arousing themselves in the
right spirit, and addressing themselves to the case
before them, whether it be pleasant or otherwise.
Had Austria, for instance, been more on the alert,
or had the minor States of Germany been more
patriotic, the results must have been very dif-
ferent. It is most painful to dwell upon our
share of these transactions, for sins of omission may
be as great as sins of commission, and worse, if we
attempt to deceive ourselves and others by declaring
it is no concern of ours. This argument might
have been valid had it been made respecting any
line of Policy France and Russia had thought fit
to Pursue ; but, in the case of Germany, we are so
raised up in the interests of those States, and so
deeply involved in all that concerns the policy of
the leading Powers, that it is an insult to common
sense to say that there was nothing we could have
done. Well may the eloquent writer above re-
ferred to exclaim against the apparent 4, ana-
chronism of the GASTEIN Convention,' and
state the swindle and confiscation of the Duchies
may " render us more indulgent for the generation
that allowed the partition of Poland."
There has not, indeed, been one valid reason
given why all this confusion worse confounded
should have occurred in Germany, and only
the rights of the Danish Sovereign should have been
sequestered, for that they were rights has been
admitted by the Crown lawyers of Prussia, them-
selves
advisers of the arch conspirators at head-
quarters. Can anything exceed in downright
swindling and organised hypocrisy the conduct thus
AO properly described-," Certain pretexte were put