The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

l'pp. Pop.
BORDER STATES —. 1850. - 1860.
Maine 583,169 628.279...
N. Hampshire 317,964 326,072...
Vermont. 314,120 315,08...
N. York 9,097,394 3,880,375...
Penn 2,311,786 2,906,155...
Ohio 1,980,427 2,339.511...,
Mich 397,654 749,113_,

U. STATES 2'3,191,876 31 443,3272

CANADA.

Yea rs.
12.3

35.6

BORDER PRO- Pop. Pop. Per cent.
TINGES 1830. 1800. • Increase
Ontario
56
Quebec 845,000 1,111,6 4i-1
N. Brunswick 193,000 252,047

DOMINION 2,132,700 8,090,61

4 3.5

From these figures it is sufficiently obvious that
the growth of the Canadian provinces exceeds that
of the nearest States in the ratio of nearly four to
one, and is much greater than that of the whole
United Stdtes,incluclingthe territories. Si tniliq. ealca-

la. ions, which maybe niade by anyone curious it rera! is-
tics, will reveal an even greater disparity in the rela-
tive increase of the other elements of material pros-
peri!y. Thus, all theories, based upon the supposition
that Canada would be becefited by annexation, fall to
the ground when it is shown that with her present
relations she is vastly more prosperous than her self-
satisfied neighbours, to say nothing of the terrible
weight of taxation under which the latter are la-
bouring as a result of the late war. It should not
be supposed, however, that simple self-interest is the
only or the chief source of the loyal attachment of
the Canadian people to the British Crown, and I
Lh to protest emphaticaly against so much of

your al title as may be considered to cast sue% an
aspersion upon Canadian loyalty. A large propor-
tion of the people are descendants of thoze old
United States loyalists who left the other c rlonies
in 1776, because they would not renounce their alle-
giance, and this class hol.l loyalty to be a duty
scarcely less sacred than religion. Is it a matter
for wonder, then, that thews people experience
a fceling of disott at hearing that the first
Minister of the Crown haS made pubic, with-
out remark, a letter from a New Yorker pro-
posing that England should surrender her C.►na-
dian possessions, because, forsooth, a certain
class of Americans felt " irritation" at her retaining

them. How would a siinilar proposition, founded
o❑ similar grounds, proceeding from a Londoner,
and referring to America's newly-acquired Russian
territory, be heard in the Staten.--µ The writer and
she publisher would with one consent be assigned

to no very high rank among those animals which
we may believe on scriptural authority to have been
at one time endowed with the faculty of speech.
As to the defence of Canada in case of war with

the United States, men of large military experience
anl esteemed judgment deem it far from an im-
possible undertaking, and I am not prepared to
controvert these opinions, especially as I am aware
that the " long-thin-line" theory ignores the fact
that three-fourths of the boundary is a line of lakes
which would be entirely in possession of the power
that should hold the Canadian ship canals ten days
after a declaration of war. Permit me to conclude
by saying that annexation or independence will
never reach Canada from her side of the ocean. She
will never be willingly severed from the Empire;
but the separation will come, if come it ever dues,
from England's ambition to emulate the career of
Holland or Spain, and in spite of all the efforts of

those who, like myself, see in a united empire the
best guarantee of the prosperity of

YOUNG CANADA.

JOURNALISM IN AMERICA.—The New York 7 imes
is said to have received, since Mr. Raymond's death, an
avalanche of propositions from would-ba editors. They
are classified as follows :—Persons willing to be managers,
6,259 ; financial editors, 5,670 ; leader writers, 665 ; theatri-
cal critics, 2,076; reporter, 1; night editors, 0; errand
boys, 0. The Boston jubilee correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune stopped in New York on his way home, and
writes that "there is really nothing worth seeing in New
York except the Saddle Rock oysters in Fulton Market
and the sparrows in Union Park."—There are 3,100 news-
papers published in America, of which five-sevenths
are issued in the Northern States. New York has the
largest, and Florida the smallest number.—Mr. Connery,
of the Herald, is preparing for a two months' trip to
Europe, where he will "do" London, Paris, Madrid, and
perhaps Rome. Mr. Connery has just been made Master
of At is by his old Alma Mater, St. John's College, Ford ham.
P. O'Day has transferred his title, right, and interest in
the United Irishman of Buffalo to Colonel Daniel O'Sulli-
van, present editor, who becomes sole proprietor. —Rev.
Bernard Peters, late editor of the Hartford Post, has be-
come editor of the Williamsburg Times.

BUDGET OF PErtsGNAL.--John C. Breckenridge
is to deliver a speech on agriculture at a country fair in
Kentucky, in September.—The Milan Pungolo lately an-
nounced that Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United
States, had arrived at a certain hotel in that city. An im-
mense concourse of people soon after assembled in front
of the hotel in question, and great curiosity was ma-
nifested to see him. The distinguished arrival after-
wards turned out to be "A. Johnson, tobacco merchant,
New York." A New York correspondent sf,tys that Col.
Ryan has made much money out of the Cuban filibusters,
and that he cares a great deal more for greenbacks than
for Cuba.—Miss Susan B. Anthony requested the young
lady who was to read the Declaration of Independence at
Boston on the sth inst. to say " All men (and women) aro
born free and equal," Src.—The Postmaster-General, it is
said, recently telegraphed to Senator Brownlow to ask
what was the character of a certain man who applied for an
office. Brownlow answered, " The worst man unhung."—
It is rumoured that General Van Wyck, of, New York,
will soon be married to Miss Broadhead, a lady of Penn-
sylvania, who spent the last two or three winters in
Washington with the Hon. D. M. Van Auken, her brother-
in-law, one of the representatives from that State.—The
Hon. Chauncey M. Depet; is the guest of Governor Fenton,
at Jamestown, New York.—A marble bust, life-size, of
the Rev. Dr. Billows, by Hiram Powers, has just been
received in New York by Mr Francis, from Florence. The
model was made during a recent visit of Dr. Bellows to
Italy.—President Grant smoked in the Coliseum at Bos-
ton,wAesllenwthryo tsonlldokheilml tu wthaes
“offi actitadrhgerwouansdtshe,aoAnlnynmapaonliass.
"against the rules." " I have suspended the rules," he re-
plied, and puffed on.—W. 11. Seward, aiter his return front
Alaska and a probable visit to the Kodi,:ck islands, and
after inspecting Southern California, will start for tl:e city
of Mexico, via Acapulco, to pay a promised v:s:t to President
Juarez.—lt is stated that the Third Auditor of the Trea-
sury ccnsented to give Dr. Meryl:l:Walker a clerkship, but
that the Secretary of the Treasury refused to approve the
appointment. - A Catholic priest at Circleville, Ohio,
was recently promptly excommunicated for marriage
Forty Mormon missionaries lately passed through New
York on their way to Europe.—Fitz Greene Halleck's
monument was dedicated at Guildford, Connecticut, July
B.—Harvard University is to have a bust of Longfellow
executed by a lady in Rome.—Senator Trumbull has
gone to the Yo Semite valley.—The latest about Colfax
is that he weighs 158 pounds, and that his wife weighs
exactly the same.