The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

rallel lines—the English and French admirals' ships,
the Edgar and Solferino, being abreast of each other,
and theFrenchironcladslying inshore of the position,
and, consequently, occupying the place of honour.

About three-quarters of an hour after the Reine
Hortense reached the buoy assigned to her in Ports-
mouth Harbour, where all the ships in commission
were manned to receive her, and from almost
every craft in which flags were flying, the Lords
of the Admiralty left the Osborne, which was
drawn up within a few hundred yards of her, in
their barge, and paid a visit in full uniform to the
French Minister of Marine. They remained on
board the French yacht for about 20 minutes, and
immediately after were rowed back to their own.
Scarcely had they taken their departure, when the
Mayor of Portsmouth, Mr. Ford, accompanied by
the Chevalier Vanden Bergh, French Vice-Consul,
went on board the Reine Hortense, to pay their
respects to M. Chasseloup Laubat. Soon after they
had left the French Minister returned the visit of
the Lords of the Admiralty.
The Chevalier Vanden Bergh also went out to
Spithead, and waited upon the Vice-Admiral com-
manding the French fleet on board the Solf erino.
On leaving the ship the Vice-Consul was saluted
with seven guns.

Visiting has been the order of the day here too,
among the chief officers of the French and English
ships at Spithead, and nothing more worthy of note
is likely to take place until the banquet on board the
Duke of Wellington this evening.

The British American Provinces,

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
MONTREAL, Aug. 14.

General Grant has just concluded a flying visit to
Quebec and Montreal. In both cities he has been
received with the distinction due to his renown.
The civil and military authorities have united to do
him honour, but in neither city nor in any portion
of his route did the people—as that word is usually
employed—exhibit anything towards him but a re-
spectful curiosity. In Quebec, where there are but
few Americans, his presence scarcely excited notice
beyond the circle of the garrison ; but in Montreal,
where citizens of the United States are more numer-
ous, both as permanent residents and transient visi-
tors, an attempt was made to force a popular mani-
festation in his favour. A crowd of about 200
persons, mostly Americans, gathered in front of the
St. Lawrence-hall, in which excellent hostelry the
General had taken up his quarters, and cheered him
whenever he went out or in, much, it is said, to
his personal annoyance, for, with the modesty
of true greatness, he dislikes to be what his
countrymen call " ovated." With this excep-
tion, the inhabitants of Montreal allowed him to
come and go as he pleased, uncontrolled by their
applause. If there were any design on the part of
the General, as some allege, or of the American re-
sidents, as many believe, to make political capital
out of his visit in favour of the perpetually threat-
ened annexation of Canada, it proved abortive.
The visit was too short and hurried, and the Gene-
ral too entirely surrounded by his staff and fellow-
travellers to gather much, if any, information from
intercourse with the Canadians ; though, perhaps,
as some staunch loyalists assert, he saw enough to
convince him that the conquest of Canada—should
unhappy fate impose upon him the task of at-
tempting it—would by no means prove easy in the
present temper of the population. He could not
but have felt, however, that he was in a foreign
country, and among a people who respected his
character and admired his abilities, but who had no
enthusiasm to bestow upon the cause with which his
name was associated.

Another and more stirring episode, growing out
of the American war, occurred in this city on the
night of the 7th inst., and has for the moment ab-
sorbed the attention of the public, and excited a
feeling the reverse of friendly to the Federal Go-
vernment. Happily it ended well for all parties
except the guilty, and happily the Federal Govern-
ment disavowed all connexion with it as soon as the
facts became known. The results will thus be left
in the hands of Canadian justice, without any neces-
sity for the diplomacy either of Lord Russell or
Mr. Seward. Two Southern gentlemen, Mr. George
N. Sanders, of Kentucky, and Mr. Beverley Tucker,
of Virginia, forlorn and stranded remnants of the
once great Southern Confederacy, are, as all the
world knows, residents of this city, where they are
quietly living under the protection of the British
flag. President Johnson, ill-advised by Mr. Secre-
tary Stanton, and perhaps in a moment of alarm
and irritation at the dastardly murder of President
Lincoln, accused these gentlemen of complicity in
the crime, and put a price of $25,000 upon each of
their heads. No one believes that either of them
had the slightest foreknowledge of, or sympathy
with, the murder, and no one, whether lawyer or
layman, reading the voluminous evidence of per-
jured and suborned scoundrels with many aliases, who
testified before the military tribunal at Washington,
could discover a scintilla of proof that collectively
or individually they knew more of the plot to assas-
sinato Mr. Lincoln than the man in the moon or
President Johnson. Messrs. Tucker and Sanders
no sooner heard of the charge against them than
they offered to return to the United States, and
meet it, provided the Government would guarantee
their personal safety pending the investigation, and
secure them an impartial trial before a judge and
jury. The offer was not accepted, and the exiles
remained on British territory, content to know that
on that soil they were as safe as Louis Napoleon
Buonaparte had been in Switzerland or in London,
or as any European fugitive from political vengeance
would be in New York or Philadelphia, or that, if
demanded by the Federal Government under the
Extradition Treaty, the demand would have to be
supported by such evidence of their complicity in
assassination as would satisfy the legal authorities
of Canada that there was a fair presumption of their
guilt. Of this there was no prospect. The danger
was that as long as the proclamation against them
remained uncancelled the rowdyism of the States
might produce ruffians in sufficient numbers to
attempt their forcible abduction for the sake of the
reward. Nor was the danger illusory. A fortnight
ago a party of desperadoes, two of them a father
and son of the name of Blossom, from Auburn, in
Maine ; two brothers named Adams, from the
Canadian frontier, and four or five from New York
and Washington, arrived in Montreal and distributed
themselves among the minor hotels and boarding
houses of the city, carefully avoiding the St.
Lawrence-hall, where, from the general publicity of
the place, they were more likely to attract notice
and suspicion. They matured theirplans, which were
first for the abduction of Mr. Sanders, and secondly
of Mr. Tucker, very quietly, and, as they imagined,
very skilfully. Their leader, Blossom, who passed
under the alias of Hogan, appeared to be bountifully
supplied with money, freely distributing it among
the conspirators. Casting about for that Canadian
aid without which they feared their scheme might
fail, they fell in with one O'Leary, formerly a de-
tective in the Montreal police, but who for some
venial error had forfeited his position, and was with-
out the means of livelihood. To him they cautiously
communicated their plans, and finding him well
disposed, offered him the sum of $lO,OOO, to be
the Federal Government as soon as M. r.
paid San by
ys
was safely lodged in the gaol of that city.
They furthermore informed him that the Federal
Government was determined to secure that person,
that he was intriguing from Montreal with
lead-
ing opponents of Mr. Johnson's Administration in
the States, that next to Mr. Jefferson Davis he
was considered the most important capture that could
be made, and that the Government had raised the price
put upon his head to $50,000, which large sum was
to be further supplemented by $25,000, the personal
contributicn of a New York millionaire, who had
made a large fortune by contracts with the Govern-
ment during the war. They furthermore promised
O'Leary any position in the police service of the
Government at Washington which he might desire.
O'Leary, apparently dazzled by these magnificent
terms, accepted, but not so gladly as to excite sus-
picion, and the bargain was solemnly sealed—more
Antericano--by a drink at the nearest bar. O'Leary,
however, had a game of his own to play. He knew
himself to be an able detective, and preferred
honourable reinstatement in his old position in the
Montreal police, and the good opinion of his fellow

subjects and old companions, to the $lO,OOO in green-
backs, or any other blood money to be won at the ex-
pense of an innocent man. He accoadingly communi-
cated the whole schemeto Mr. Penton, chief of police,
and a little counter-plot was arranged between them,
by which, if Mr. Sanders could be induced to play a
part, they hoped to capture the whole gang. The
scheme was unfolded to Mr. Sanders by O'Leary,
and though attended with extreme risk to that gen-
tleman's life, had it failed in the smallest particular,
was approved by him, on consultation with Mr.
Tucker, two of the magistrates of the city, and other
personal friends. It was proposed by Blossom and
his confederates that O'Leary should call upon Mr.
Sanders in a carriage with a pretended message from
the Recorder, and persuade him to enter. This done
the rest would be easy, and the prize would be won.
A fast horse was to be purchased for the purpose,
and one of the gang, in the guise of an ordinary
cabman, was to act as driver. After proceeding a
short distance the vehicle was to be stopped by three
other conspirators posted by the wayside to await its
coming, who were to jump in, throw O'Leary out,
gag and manacle Mr. Sanders to prevent outcry and
resistance, and then rattle away as fast as horseflesh
could carry them to Lachine, where a boat was to be
in readiness, under charge of a crew of Indians,
handsomely paid for their services, to ferry them
across the St. Lawrence to Caughnawaga, where an-
other batch of conspirators was to be in attendance
with horses and vehicles to drive into Federal terri-
tory, near Rouses's Point. The weak part in the case
was thehonesty of O'Leary. If, instead of betraying,
he were true to the Confederates, and took any other
road than the one indicated to the police, Mr. San-
ders was a doomed man. Mr. Penton, however, an-
swered for O'Leary's fidelity, and Mr. Sanders re-
solved to trust himself in their hands. At 8 o'clock
on Monday evening last O'Leary called, as agreed,
at the house of Mr. Sanders. Mr. Sanders entered
the carriage without hesitation, and with all the air
of innocent unsuspicion, and in less than a minute
afterwards the three conspirators stopped the
vehicle, threw O'Leary out, and clapped a pair of
manacles on Mr. Sanders's wrist. " That

scoundrel, O'Leary, has betrayed me," said Sanders.
Blossom immediately drew forth a gag and at-
tempted to force it into the mouth of the prisoner.
" There is no necessity to gag me," said Sanders ;
" I am betrayed and helpless, and will make no re-
sistance." The conspirators had humanity enough
to forego the gagging ; and the carriage drove on to
wards Lachine, at what Sanders calls a John Gilpin
rate. On arriving at the tollbar the gate was shut.
The driver lashed the horse to break through the
obstruction, and the animal stumbled and fell. In
an instant Mr. Penton and his assistant, Mr. Tetu,
with a strong body of police, aided by Mr. Beverley
Tucker and his son, who had been sworn in as
special constables for the occasion, sprang upon the
conspirators. Seeing that the biters were bit, and
that, to use the expression of their leader Blossom,
they were " infernally sold," they leapt from the
vehicle, driver and all, and took refuge in an ad-
joining oat field, in which the crop was four feet
high. From this ambush they fired at least half -a-
dozen shots upon the police, which the latter re-
turned. No blood, however, was shed on either side,
and in less than a quarter of an hour after Mr.
Sanders had entered the carriage, the whole party
of conspirators, except those stationed at Lachine
and the driver, were captured, and Mr. San-
ders released. Three others were afterwards
captured at Lachine by a detachment of the
force specially detailed for the purpose by Mr. Pen-
ton, but up to this moment the driver had succeeded
in concealing himself. On searching the persons of
the • kidnappers photographic portraits of Sanders •
and Tucker were found on the persons of each, con-
siderable sums of money, and letters, tending to
show, though not conclusively to prove, that the
Federal authorities at Washington had cognisance
of the scheme. Blossom wore upon his breast, con-
cealed by his overcoat, the silver badge of a Deputy-
Provost-Marshal of the United States, which badge,
together with the correspondence, the greenbacks,
the gag, and the manacles, remain as trophies of the
bloodless, but spirited, encounter. The utmost
satisfaction is expressed at the result in Montreal,
and great praise is bestowed upon O'Leary, Mr.
Penton, and the police, for the adroitness with which
the affair was managed. Nor is due credit with-
held from Mr. Sanders for the coolness and pluck
he displayed in the transaction, for had the conspi-
rators suspected even at the last moment that he
had acted as a decoy it is highly probable that one
at least of the ruffians might have aimed a revolver
at his heart, instead of firing at random upon the
police. The attempt to kidnap is, it appears, only
a misdemeanour, punishable with fine and imprison-
ment for two years, whereas the firing upon the
police in the execution of their duty is a more serious
matter, which, at the option of the Judge, may be
punished with imprisonment for life. The trial on
both issues, and probably on a third (for conspi-
racy), will take place before the Ordinary Court in
this city about the middle of next month, and jus-
tice, nor more nor less, will be done upon the offen-
ders, if they be proved guilty of either the major or
minor crimes in the committal of which they were
captured red-handed.

While the Canadian Parliament, especially con-
vened to discuss in all its bearings the question of
Confederation, is preparing with a majority in
favour of the Quebec scheme in both Houses
to enlighten the public opinion upon the sub-
ject more thoroughly than has ever yet been
done, with a view of overcoming the faint dis-
sent of the French population, the maritime pro-
vinces appear to harden in their opposition, both
inert and inactive. New Brunswick, N ova Scotia,
Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, have
each a surplus of income over expenditure. Canada
alone suffers from a deficit. For this reason perhaps
more than any other, the four colonies looks with
distrust upon a scheme of Confederation emanating
from Canada, and in which Canada will of neces-
sity play the greatest part, lest the first result might
be over the whole territory a greater' financial de-
ficit than now exists in Canada alone, to be made
good by increased taxation over a people very M-
ated to pay it. It is just possible, however, that
Confederation and a uniform tariff, more wisely
framed than that of the United States, and one more
nearly in accordance with the highly-successful free
trade policy of the mother country, might not only
remove the Canadian deficit, but give such an im-
petus to the internal improvement and foreign com-
merce of the whole Confederation as greatly to in-
crease the revenues without increasing the expenses
of the maritime provinces. The present feeling in
Canada is that the maritime provinces should not
be subjected to anything like pressure or dictation,
unless the British Government for imperial purposes
should see fit to employ the former as gently as
may be ; but that Canada, confining itself to its own
legitimate share in these important transactions,
should endeavour between this and the Ist of Jan.,
1866, to form itself into the nucleus around which
the other provinces should gather at their leisure.
Little Rhode Island refused for a long time to come
into the Federal Union of the United States, but
ultimately saw that it would not do for her, with
her scanty population, to " be left out in the cold."
Other States of the Union were not convinced all
at once that it was wise in them to cast their lot
with their fellows ; but all ultimately found reason
to change their minds, and the Uuion was estab-
lished. So it is argued may be the case in British
America. It is for Canada to take the lead, and all
the restwill follow when public opinion is sufficiently
ripened, to accept the inevitable, and make the best
of it.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday Mr. W. J. Payne
held a painful inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on
the body of Richard Ray, Esq., aged 67, the secretary of
the Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company, New
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, who fell from the third floor
window. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

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