The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-18 00:00:00

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

The question of transferring the Hudson's Bay territory
to the Dominion of Canada has arrived at a crisis. The
terms offered to the Hudson's Bay Company have been
m')dified, and are now more favourable than before—more
favourable, too, than they are likely to be again. Earl
Granville proposes that the company shall surrender to
her Majesty all their rights of government, property,
&c. in Rupert's Land and other parts of British North
America, which will be transferred to the Dominion of
Canada upon Canada paying the company £300,000 in
compensation for their territory and rights. It is proposed
that the company shall retain their rights of trade, their
stations, and blocks of land adjoining them. Besides this,
they can claim one-twentieth of every district within the
Fertile Belt, as it is called, these claims to be
made as the land is laid out for settlement. No
exceptional taxes are to be imposed upon the
company's property. The shareholders are about to
meet to consider these terms. They cannot do better
than close the bargain, for if they refuse they are certain
to be confronted by a worse. The time when private
companies could govern empires is past.

6 THE UNITED STATES.

The Times correspondent describes at considerable length
the effect of General Schenck's Finance Bill, and the
present state of public opinion in the States on
the subject of repudiation. During the present
year the prices of American bonds have risen
at New York as rapidly as in Europe, and the strength
of the upward movement is still undiminished. The
London and New York quotations have alternately
followed and ruled each other, and at both capitals the
Five-Twenties have reached an unprecedented price. The
price of gold has proportionately declined; it is now 4 per
cent. lower than on New Year's Day. A great change
has unmistakeably come over public sentiment. Last
autumn there was a strong repudiation party, formed of
very different classes of politicians ; now, comparatively
speaking, there is none. The same House of Representa-
tives that voted the taxation of bonds in July shewed a
large majority against it in February. General Logan,
of Illinois, a lealing advocate of repudiation, has openly
recanted. Public opinion is decisively in favour of
honest payment

PO LITICAL ITEMS.

The unseating of the two members for Blathburn
makes thirteen vacant seats at the present time.
Altogether nine liberAs have been unseated (two of
them on account of informalities) and ten Censerva-
tives.—The Owl states that Government intend to
propose the appointment of a royal commission to
inquire into the corrupt practices at Bridgwater,
Beverley, Dublin, and Sligo.—Messrs. Dowdeswell,
Mansfield, and Biron will be entrusted with the Nor-
wich Commission, and should a Commission for Dublin
be decided upon, it will be entrusted to Mr. L. W.
Flanagan, Mr. 11. Law (the draftsman cf the Irish
Church Bill), and Mr. C. Tandy. The same paper
mentions that Mr. Wren Hoskyns, the well-known
agriculturist, the author of " The Chronicles of a
Clay Farm," -is a candidate for Hereford. He
is a Liberal, and will have for his colleague Colonel
Clive, son of one of the unseated members.
Although the next election for the corrupt city of
Norwich is, to all appearances, exceedingly remote,
both parties are now provided with candidates in the
event of the writ being granted by the House of
Commons. It will be remembered that Mr. Edward
Warner, who retired at the general election
in favour of Mr. Tillett, issued an address
in the Liberal interest immediately after Sir
Henry Stracey was unseated. Since then
the Conservatives have been casting about for a can-
didate, the unseated member's son being among
those asked to come forward. Mr. Stracey, jun.,
however, declined, and it is now stated that the party
have succeeded in inducing Sir Robert Harvey to
offer himself. Sir Robert was made a baronet by
the Conservative Government on giving up his seat
for Thetford in favour of Mr. Gordon, the then
Lord-Advocate. He is the acting partner
in the banking-house of Harvey and Hudson,
which, since the loss of prestige by the house of
Gurney has gained considerably in local influence,
and is personally popular with all classes of the city.
On the other hand, the Liberals aresaid to be diciided
by sectarian and personal differences, and there ig a,.
grudge felt by the more ignorant electors against the.
men who successfully prosecuted the petition foi
bribery against the late member. For these reasons
the Conservatives desire and are resolved to vote fez
the issuing of the writ, in the unlikely event of tide
Attorney-General's motion for a COMMiPed on being
defeated.

SIR HENRY EDWARDS.

The Earern Morning News publishes a letter
which has been addressed by Sir Henry Edwards
to the electors of Beverley. The hon. baronet con-
fesses that " his feelings are deeply wounded," for he
"can truly say it is the heaviest blow dealt to him
since his first entry into Parliament, two-and-twenty
years ago." It is, howevAsome consolation to him
to know that his late colleague and himself are
acquitted" of all knowledge and participation in any
illegality at either the municipal or parliamentaly
election. Nothing is said of the prospect of his ever
sitting again for the borough.

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