The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

A CANADIAN ON ANNEXATION.

The Ottawa correspondent of the New York Tribune of
Jnne 11th gives the substance of an article published in
La Minerve, the French Canadian Government organ.
"It is," he says, "on the subject of the responsibility of
the United States for, permitting the assembling of Fenian
troops, and of England for not being able to protect
Canada. Such is really the meaning of the article, and
it is quite from high quarters. It is not difficult to under-
stand what Sir George E. Cartier, who inspires the
Unnerve, and who is the Government in himself, is driving
at. It is the old cry which the Tribune was the first to
perceive and report last summer coming up again,
but this time in official quarters. The article
in question contrasts the conduct of the United
States and that of Canada under similar circum-
stances of raids and invasions. Correspondence between
the two Governments during the last American civil war
is quoted to shew that the United States demanded the
most complete and efficient measures to be taken by
Canada for the purpose of preventing any hostile expe-
dition from the latter country, and a list of these measures
is given, by which it was intended not only to prevent
such. expeditions leaving, but also to prohibit their
formation within, Canadian territory. These went
so far as not only to prohibit the importation
of arms, but also their transportation from
one point to another , within Canada. More
than that, in the case of the St. Albans raiders,
our Government admitted their responsibility for the
depredations of these latter, who operated from the base
of our frontier, so far as to appropriate a sum of money
to cover the losses of the banks of St. Albans
which they had robbed. The conduct •of the United
States has been the reverse of all-this. The Fenians,
whose avowed and chief design was the invasion of our
territory, have all along been tolerated by its Govern-
meht, flattered and encouraged by the press and public
men, and sympathised with by its people, and when, at
the last mom ent,.silence became no longer possible, the
commands of the First Magistrate of the Republic were
trodden under foot. We have no concern with the special
quality of anyone coming thence ; it is enough that they
are subjects of a neighbouring country, and if that
country has not thought fit to arrest its subjects, it is to
its Government we look as being responsible therefor.
It is thus the matter was understood by our authorities
when they reimbursed the St. Albans banks for their
losses. It is our turn now to demand the application of
the same principle, and we are not content to let the
matter rest where it is. It is true the Canadian Govern-
ment has made out its account for the Fenian raid of
1866, and placed it in the hands of Great Britain for
collection. But, 'proceeds the • Minerve, we have
lost all confidence in the liberal disposition of the
men who govern Great Britain. They make
use of the Fenian claims to combat those of the
Alabama, and seek to protect their own interests by sacri-
ficing ours. There was hardly six months between the
lodging of the claims by the St. Albans banks and our
satisfaction of them ; we have a right to exact the same
diligence. In order to do this we must address ourselves
through England, and she must insist for us. If England
washes her hands of the Red River imbroglio, we wash
our of that of Fenianism. Fenianism is purely an Im-
perial quarrel. The Fenians attack Canada merely to
revenge themselves on England. Is it not our turn to say
to England, ' This is a state of matters that can be no
longer tolerated?" English statesmen of the present day
have carried selfishness so far as to deprive us of British
troops, and even to make us pay for the use of and dam-
age to the arms lent us to repel the Fenians. If this is to
be the way of it, if England can no longer protect us
against the consequences of her own acts, we have a
right to insist that we be not made to suffer exclusively
from her quarrels. Once confidence between the colony
and the mother country is lost, there can be no more
union possible, and no sympathy can be felt for a power
that shews a dispositiou to crush us. _ _ _

" The greatest evil that could befall us would be our
abandonment by England, and we hope it will never be
thus, for we are not ripe for independence, and we do not
want annexation ; but the scourge of Fenianism may
compel us to a choice between two evils, and if England
is not generoUs enough to recognise the responsibility
that falls to her, all the consequences will be in favour of
a system where there will be many privations to bear—
many risks to run, but where there will have to be no de-
liberate injustice endured. Injustice is the hardest trial
to bear—no man of spirit would submit to it. We have,
therefore. serious claims to make on England—claims of
indemnity for the past and protection for the future. The
feeling in Canada is unanimous in support of these claims
and will warmly support any Government that will enter
into negotiations on the subject, and so far as legitimate
satisfaction is not given to the most faithful subjects of
the British Empire, the most loyal will be powerless to
preach devotion to it."

The North German Correspondent says the an-
nouncement of the death of Charles Dickens is deeply
and generally regretted in Germany, where he had many
ardent admirers.

The Figaro and the Gaulois say that, in reply to
the Orleans letter, the Emperor has written to Emile
011ivier to the effect that he is anxious by a spontaneous
measure to put an end to the exile of the Bourbon
princes, and begging him to inform them that it has
ceased so far as they are concerned.

M. d'A ndrimont, ex-Burgomaster of Liege, who so
liberally extended his hospitality to the British Volun-
teers during their visit to Belgium last year, has arrived.
in London. He intends to pay a brief visit to the manu-
facturing districts in the North of England, and will re-
turn to London to be present at the annual meeting of
the Volunteers at Wimbledon.

A WONDER IN UTAH.—We will never know
when the great natural wonder of this Continent has been
discovered. A dispatch from Corinne, Utah, now re-
ports the discovery in that vicinity of an immense mael-
strom supposed to be the outlet of that other wonder,
Salt Lake. Scientific men are already on the way to in-
vestigate the matter. There is nothing so calculated to
give us great ideas of the grandeur and magnitude of the
domain we occupy as thus to suddenly discover on the
silent, unexplored wilds of the great West such stupen-
dous wonders, hitherto unknown.—New York Herald.
GREAT FIRES.—The recent fire in Constantinople
will probably rank in history next to the great fire of
London. There is something appalling in the swiftness
with which the conflagration must have spread and on
the inexorable doom of those who were hemmed in by its
progress. The imperturbahle fatalism of the disciples
of elahomet was forcibly illustrated by the calmness
with which the Turks met their impending destruction,
and their refusal in many cases to avail themselves of
and chances of escape. The fire itself probably origi-
nated in some such exercise of stoical indifference con-
cerning the relation between cause and effect, but we are
quite sure that the Turks are no wiser on the subject
now than they were before.—New York Times.
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