The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-15 00:00:00

THE IifILTOWN-BOAD OUTRAGE.

The Freeman's Journal states that on the prisoner
Curran being taken down stairs to the cell after the
examination, on Saturday, vast crowds assembled
in Dame-street and the places from which a view
could be obtained of the prisoner when he would
be conducted to the police van that was in waiting
at the end of Exchange-court. The steps and rail-
ings of the City-hall were densely thronged, and
all the windows of the houses in the locality were
occupied. A large detachment of the police, under
the direction of Mr. Inspector Donovan, had much
difficulty in keeping the passagd clear. Amongst
those assembled was the wife of the prisoner. She
is an exceedingly good-looking woman, and appa-
rently not more than 23 years of age. At a guar-
tea past three o'clock the prisoner was conducted
from the cell to the police van, and when ho was
recognised he was received with a long shout or
yell, which was continued until he was placed in
the van, which drove off to Kilmainham Prison soon
afterwards. He was placed in one of the ordinary
cells. No strangers were allowed to hold any
intercourse with him, but, from all that could be
learned on Sunday, whenever he spoke of the
offence of which he stands charged he stoutly asser-
ted his innocence. Miss /oily arrived in town
from the country on Thursday, in company vrith
her mother, apparently much improved in health.
On Friday, when the inspection of carmen was
taking place, she remained in one of the offices of the
Commissioners of Police, which commanded a viewfof
the inner Castle-yard, and although candrivers
numbering some hundreds had been paraded, she
had
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examination.
nesuahatnti saouhner er:
the care of her mother, is so ill as to require the
greatest care and attention, and for this reason it
will be absolutely necessary for the authorities to
issue such instructions as will keep the Head.office
perfectly clear of idlers and sight-seers on Friday
next, when it is to be hoped the lady's health Will
be so far improved as to enable her on that day to
be present to give her evidence.
The arrest and examination of Curran was the
all-absorbing topic through the city on Sunday, and
the greatest excitement prevails amongst every class
of the community on the subject. The police have
not relaxed their efforts in the least in Beitechil)g
for evidence, and it is stated that the cabmen
rri erniva Will
lodge the .£25 which they have offered as al
for the apprehension and conviction of the
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unmanly and
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be completed befoze the the railing, it is expected,
will
end o the week.

s. ic.
n *INN-Jet-semi ' Lftgan rota' orT-Flot-semi loz)
Wall murem 24 March--29 Sept. Errant'm,ffinangials,
as basis of the Maritime Fishery-park Laws.
THE STAB? S-PERIGEVAN-LONOITTIDE PHILOSOPHY, OR
ELECTED. COMPASS (-) PONTI USE -FRUCT,
fIINQUE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G" Moot-court.—ln
n. c. Diez-Cing'kent-50. N.' 'Pilot-soar arc-en-del
by At istre-geograph foe . • • :: to (4over's 't. Arrow 'off- '
and-on' Diepp's-nouen to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind. Quadra,.
culmination Tropic-wend t'terd minorea'slLangue (4'ock
40. N. Its state-rope Anchor flag-tow),t, pres-by Tyre
'round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vuspaeian's meter, yr 79
on 1824-35 Act for nuca-conchoidal, leet-Crte.
The Bow/oigne 'd illegal mint-Comiln-Regatta fete of
27-Bth, Aue•ust'en A.D. 1861—as Eve sham'd-on " the after-
math-n'hea7d'ng night of Ihon apte'it" —issued the 13th,
Old Lammass-day from the " Jag'ftesey's office (of Grand
master of Malta's College, St. James's-at.", on U. S. c. 33,
s. 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dnpelex, welkin
Paul the capson-scholastic,' by Goal-LkwPs' in Ship way
seal' of rParis 'o'n kirk's ' Earth-moving' error. So to —.
" Command old words, that long have slept—to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake."
This langawa Ba-nfin, out k ifot ,likt_,loop-key, as Corn-
hill-st. ma-c/atTd4. "Like Goo-father-131 CowEEE-1712,
like ciaa.nhildspricm PALMERSTON 1861 -as of H.J.Temple
—cites the charter of Bristol L. P. 9 Annce, 24 July,
afothr,its
beckwarn'ng to six, five, or four," combar- (on s nl.,
Span'sh Cabotage) curvature a Latrinity-m 3., e_r
ithm,e
sunk .port, Q. inn Jet/cm land wad-set's prior to Pope N c.s
tax 1291-97-Do.e 9 G,'s 9th, at Shoreuftm, 18-21 pavillion,
Bright-helm-stone meridian of old London, Led-resumed
for" Carthage-mud port-Cot' hon, Edict Comfn., of Review
in Egypt's 1828," by 9-10 W. 3d, c. 15, for undersigned's
sole Etruscan " Arbitrarm irate 'm Pontifiscum-01Vra-
tor" as G' log des' 'twixt Turkish A, and Codrington,
who in Claudian's '0 'way letter-g,
lL didn'w t—
" Scorn arbitration as a stain-
9th] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th.
Ist. So, no 1581's Earthrolling-bull's, with a Fiat earth
Lan gue,C4' oi `:=.*
O'er iiemit Jet't amen'ys astral, See I Edw.
yj , c. 2, re....,enact 284-yr. in 1832 by 2-3 Will. IV., c. 92,
sec. 4,—entitled, The Submission of the Clergy Restraint
of Avgaa—as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in
intervention, 25 Henry 8, c. 19, ¶ 3, Whereas divers
life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent
out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the
time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome,
contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes
of correction De Jure patronatus, and probates of testaments
—Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes
by advocates or other will-court officers, of the Bing's
Highness, do bear the Echo Knight rider's fiscustom'ary
endorsement, as well as the Common-clerk's name placed
under citor's name, after registered seal, in polar " Die
Baaren" Jet,/ meridian mi roofed : : R cpchester-bridg'd in
fed Anto3c transit, o'er N. Zea 4.1 Waithangad brother
and sister's 3-ty. as 0. 5.20,,,E. of Azores (-) Verd ' fulcrum-
ponticulus-hemispher Ee' . Ist re-ponti-Phi/imore'Tead, as
the old longitude-bridge'Kark-dance o'er the L'aide-lny
"In silence, till the cheerful sun
Has twice six months its star-wend run."

Thus—Lfiganum-notalorum's of Kent under gyn-sid eral-
lathe dpoch for P. Z' audits, to Bow towns 514iN., 13 prefix
over its L' cand'on-wavey bye Wall-in-ford fcirencester
Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Ist.—mile'r Alnothus, to 1-4
Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Ins-" Ex-change-A 1." as of
Bristol's'' leva langu6' in alt9mare Conic-meet, of Fresh
and salt water Admiral's Court, not of ' Co-mercer's fi.
rzrewing-sup,' as on Jesuit's ward books ea. fa.'d.
" Think deep.—or touch not the Pyr6an spring,"
2dly. Whence, by 1 Philip & Mary, c. 7, " No man shall
exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's
Silver-oar, of July, 1521., 81—now -Utrecht's Indian-paddle
Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isled Bohun-
inspector of all r fiscal-f meter-Crts.), who like WopiEY's
Templet,- shall take on himself to direct and serve his own
pr3cept. Hence this cinq Negative ; since (by Russn-Dutch
loan on America's double-hdd-eagle-mozegk, s Mmgan
trust-acts of 1832), pension' d Church-Queen's" m —ofa,
by civil list, —tho' in Ceer"left facs"—have ceased to be
the head of Malcolm nt.'s G.G.G-0011 monetary Trust in
presbytera'aindred T., and at your peril disobey this law
—for "one and all as breast-high'd on Agricola's z:cot and
lot hand-up ceremonial," typic on Caesar's silver coinage
for electing the yearly Abkari' chat's on 29th Sept., or
Sf mi-call-nieze—magistrates, on life union Echo-wall, to the
24th March one—in 'Red Indian " murri nomine"l. -L
27, Aug. 31, 1861 runpaidrjan,ter martyr 19 yrs], London,
PETER RksQuEY,g The flag-union Js4, Ist Fruit-
a.m M p.m. flacca-corn hill'd-tribune as Income-tax-
freeman, Antipod'n Crown colon chief
Bulo.o itgr of 1842, The criminal law's Extradi-
v,
Temple. tion Gap-constable 3-mile off-sea-shore,
Labouchere. bearing Kamerica's paddle of Admiral's
A [2 March, '4l] court, over Canterbury's Q - Gu i
t•
H. M. Perley, settlement for New Zealand's probate
3 Sept, '4l's Crt., its Gig m-m'poy Stil'lordWarden
Gap v viz'r. tho' cruelly set up a medal' d Becca-
machine, in " f3accaria3 gentis imagines." .* rt.
CHARLES ' ACHERLET, J.P. of Carib-allyd f
England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : :
miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown-
retary ; MarcusHill—SANDYS, Lay presbyter's 69u.
on The holy alliance abolition,' of King- A
clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. I
pay'd double- oathied victim—supporter Si
of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu'
sponsorship 1820—thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Rien
Dalhousie, in .Elder's duty for HIS and own's S.P.Q.X.
instant State-birth provision, as the Mon-
tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Trevsor-
• Cartwright's successorial Ombra-T.J'hom6. to trove.
1322'99's red-turban'd Hen. Quadra Manfre-
dum'y de peccaria,' on H. s's colona'd martin 6, 16' V
to GONSALTI 1816 regolamento-159, by Pius 7th on.
Ch.—Bailie -Urban Bth's caps-city-oath, of 1749 Ad-
vocate STVART wortley-wewcomen's en Gonfaloniere'
1825 passed in C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, try. 54,
as th' coin' d popied Luther- calvin, for lay seignorage.
trust, over W. Russell and Stanley's Dead-hand (1681)
yet-attaints, in secret propaganda (Sion Hill) agency.
To all metre-roded Councils General' in nature's Year-law,
under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local
supremacy (against New" Comfn ' Grippe-Jesus' Christian
Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at the Burgh-
ports 1772's on the Shoreham resignation, over-bulrsrun of
Clement 14tb's Jesuit priest Abolition, for the Earth Lay-
resumption of life-set allotments of land), over the yearly
Poor-law Guardians—as are for the time being—on 1603'm
church Canon in vestry'red lettered functional succession
—an afterthought of Q. Elizabeth's ! P. C. I'BURLEY-men,
for oaths in retro O'way-sense, for sound office, whence
stoppage of all pensions and ministers' money (for public
works) whereby all Creed'rs are made self-supporting.—So
be it—for Asia-Europe's posse eomitatus rectification.
" 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire doth maintain ;
It may affiict—but MAN, must not complain."

4. Papal-tribunes of ,3ursre, minor Er-change bapointers*
o.s. Fist-earth's Piere'an philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S
1671's Huitson Chiliarchse'r C of St. Michael's PENN for
Vox human organ rim' of Hidelburgh, in Heligoland 3ty.,
Jan. 14, May-Copenhagen'd by C. A. of HM S Daphne,
1814, as the Montague letter'd Crown-page before Embassy
Fosmx's Abbe-locum of Hanover's dukey papal 3ty, 1816,
in Labouchere's father, as Rothschild's Hessian
Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and
Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051.
Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. in, c. 15, it is enacted,
" That merchants, sole-traders--(and all Antipode'ana
as those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padi;hre Jan'
Bailled 1841)—desiring to end all controversies by
arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to
an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony
Monthermer' ACRERLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any
person, should be made "on Captain Cook's mane rule in
tribal Admiralty red-flag MaoHI,-plea," of his Majesty's
courts of Record ' • and in case of disobedience to such award
or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (IF. Q.
Review, Nov. 1829),—to perform the same, shall be subject
to penalties of contemning a Rule of Court, "as Pa-tax mis-
sion'd on the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, yet Cuba-
Philipin'd to 1763-4-state Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1842-3,
on the Carib-micmac's minor L'noar's head, Inn-fan-Gee
and Out-fan-G.-sustentation' (without " Locatelle' death's,
or further maddening poor PETER by exile from) family.
'Heath polar Astra's wehr-ring wolf to fawn,
And view with trembling, whom they view'd with scorn.'

GUILTY (OR Nor GUILTY FICTION) RIDER.
" The sea-writ original (now police-sheet root
In St. Peter's-key'), spring of ev'ry civic-suit."
The "not guilty" when GUILTY is the free and accepted
for county-rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty
on written confession to Female complainant, before hear-
ing—is of right saved (50, E. 3) from a slaughter under the
twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice
in Judge, as prisoner's police arbitrator. The case in ques-
tion being a complicity 'twixt Mistake-plaintiff, and Defen-
dant, t re- tacited—in order to obtain " a Court-christian
Baillie-day's criminal sentence," —as the October Laird
o' Cockpen's let usefruet, of the French treaty jurisprudence
in the Marylebone Police-court on Wed., Oct. 2, " Bellew
v. Baillie" committed for three calender months to the cells
with loss of hair—omitting the real Rug'd-pursuer's name
on civil law table-turning, a Flemish-Balieu cased in writ
into a police-sheet-charge'r-in-fault.
The pre-forgiven prisoner, (on faith of pre-arbitration
with Plaintiff in rug-laundress), for not having counsel—to
explain ' the kneeling facts' not forthcoming—Therefore,
on swegestion,' Mr. Tyrwhitt may instantly ' from defunct
justice,' as saving being outwitted—rectify this Cassandra
washing-rug' trial between mistress and servant—in order
for instant Henry 6th release, under Chief Justice Bruce-
-nenew-FortPscue's " Kt.-Stapleton Statute" of 1442—(t0
coldbath Vestal-women-jail-keeper's o'er the 600, in Tothill
prison)—&c., on modern Bench-warrant as
Le itive-caso'd-in 'of', sth Victories, c. 24 as—La voila I
" Provided always, Yea! that, if e'er
Quakers or lady Quacks interfere.
Or
take upon
them—'as, a scholar'—
, Prohibitory writ should fll "
0 OW .

rf " HAYM ArAKE-T.
Lessee, Mr..l. 11. guctst,
YvEvTN(4 nertoryusymes will commence with
FA INT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX
Affr. c, Mathews, Mr. Iluekstone, Mr. Compton, Mr, E.Villiers
Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, am
•
With PAUL PRY MARRIED AND SET
MED. Paul
Pry (in a new po!ition), Mr. C. Mathews.
,30nclude with FISH OUT OF WATER.
commence a 7

;.;),t•
-,11: PRINCESS'S
_KAT ita
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. TTarrin.
TS EVENINII, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss
i';l- Hs and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
% !ter whinh, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ-
ten' by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ,
chi; racters by Mr. John Brougham (his 15th appearance), Mr..
;cycler, Mr. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (ot the principal
tres of the United States, his 15th appearance in Eng,
Tan dy, Miss C. Lelclercq, and Mrs. Weston.
Ter conclude with LDVE AND MURDER.

Mr. John

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manner —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
lIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
Atte, which, at Melt o'clock, the new and 'success-
ill comedy of WOSIAN; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrg. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
.1. Robins, Mrs. Oiarle3 Young; Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer
Quick Step.

A.DELPHI.-
NEW T H HATR P-R OYA L,
solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
en for the Season.
D•
,T.. '
HIS EVENINOpG-. MUSlCWinter HATE( CHARMS. Messrs.
"' laher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
TsAti ter which (251st time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr." ,i oueleatat, D Fisher, Billinclon S. Emery, Stephenson,
C. 3. mith, Ro • Billing
' Mrs. Boueleault, Miss
Woo lgar, Mrs. Zri n Howard,
aarnda liras r dli H. Lewis.rs
_Tr, conclude with I.c)VE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Enitt9, L• J• Smith, Mrs, H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
_Doors open at half-past 6--Commence at 7.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1881.

Some of the Americans are already becoming dis-
satisfied with their PRESIDENT. It is not that they
have got a King Log when they expected a King
Stork, but that he is a King Log in regard to the
South, and a King Stork on his own side the
Potomac. He is immovable, and afraid to act
against slavery in Missouri or anywhere else, but
he is active, where all lies in his power, in arresting
men and women, in haling them to prison without
warrants, and keeping them untried as long as he
likes. After seven months his only success has been
to govern Maryland by martial law. One of the
leaders of his party now says that " LINCOLN is the
greatest failure in history !" It is, however, but
just to apportion blame equally. And we think it
must be confessed that those who blame LIN-
COLN are the cause of his failure. They will
let him do anything but the one thing
more efficient than all besides. The great
body of his supporters are only less hostile to negro
emancipation than the Southerners themselves.
The fairest view of the case, therefore, is—that
" LINCOLN and his Republican supporters are the
greatest failure in history."
Earl RUSSELL, so far as he expressed his opinion
at Newcastle, yesterday, took very much the view
which has long seemed to us the only possible one.
"We now see," he said, " two parties contending
together, not upon the question of slavery, though
that I believe is the original cause of the conflict—
not contending with respect to free trade and pro-
tection, but contending as so many States of the
Old World have contended, the one side for empire,
and the
.other for power. Far be it from us to
set ourselves up as judges in this matter, but
I cannot help asking myself, as affairs progress
in the contest, to what good end can it lead."
Mr. LINCOLN and his "party have debased the
contest to this vulgar and useless one, when a
nobler one was both open to them, and far more
sure to be successful. LINCOLN has aimed to be
a President of slave States as well as free States
—aimed to govern through a fugitive slave law
—and is by no means unlikely to lose the Pre-
sidency of the Southern States, because he refused
to initiate an Emancipation policy.
The PRESIDENT'S weakness and the ignoble
temper of his party on the subject of slavery
and coloured men, has placed them in the most
hopless dilemma possible. Earl RUSSELL de-
scribed it to a certain extent correctly when he
said last night—`° Supposing this contest ended
by the reunion of its different parts, that the South
should agree to enter again with all the rights of
the constitution, should we not again have that
fatal subject of slavery brought in along with
them. That subject of slavery which caused, no
doubt, the disruption, we all agree, must sooner or
later cease from the face of the earth. Well, then,
gentlemen, Es you will see, if this quarrel could
be made up, should we not have those who dif-
fered with Mr. LINCOLN at the last election
carried, and thus the quarrel would recommence,
and perhaps a long civil war follow. On the
other hand, supposing the United States completely
to conquer and subdue the Southern States—sup-
posing that should be the result of a long military
conflict, supposing that that should be the result of
some years of civil war, should we not have the
material prosperity of that country in a great de-
gree destroyed ?—should we see that respect for
liberty which has so long distinguished our North
American brethren, and should we not see those
Northern men yielding to a force, and would not
the North be necessitated to keep in subjection
those who had been conquered ; and would not
that very materially interfere with the free-
dom of nations ?" LINCOLN and the Republicans
acknowledge that slavery is at the bottom of the
present struggle, and yet refuse to attack the re-
bellion in its cause and root. They can never, there-
fore, escape from the conclusion that if they suc-
ceed in their present course, they will succeed
in re-establishing a Union which must at
samomaciienvitlaifnu w
maintained
darr ;
by e time be plunged again into
athnedirthpraets,esnot lonpolicy,ga,
its the Union
bUensioononliys
by an enormous and costly army which must provo
utterly fatal to Republican liberty. Indeed, their
government of the South will be a thorough
despotism. If, however, LINCOLN could enforce and
purchase emancipation at a far less cost than that
of this fearful war, he could make the Southern
States but too glad, for their own safety, to Y; com-
bine with the North.

It is too early yet to conjecture the military
result, but as yet nothing has occurred to warrant
the hope of anything like speedy success on the part
of the North. If the doubtful telegram respecting
Fort Monroe be correct in its fullest sense, the case
would be bad indeed, Western Missouri is already
gone, a small army is there withdrawn from the war,
and altogether it is said that £2,000,000 will not

replace the loss in stores, guns, ammunition, &c., at
Lexington. But, it is hard to say what could replace
the lose of Fort Monroe, commanding as it does the
entrance to the Bay of Chesapeake—while the
rebels have also batteries on the Potomac, which
are a serious obstruction to its navigation. The
defeat in Missouri turns out to be a more serious
military disaster than even that at Bull's Run, and
it seems highly doubtful whether FREMONT is in
a position to retrieve the misfortune. At the best
he must lay aside his grand project of moving down
the Mississippi.

What the object of the retreat of the Confederates
from Munson's-hill was, remains as much a mystery
as ever. Whether it was to allure the Northerns
from their line of strong defences, and induce them
again to attack the well-entrenched Southern
army, or to make an attack themselves under more
favourable circumstances, it is impossible to say.
We had always been told that the hill was fortified ;
we are now informed that the defences were of the
slightest possible character, in great part logs of
wood, and what looked through a telescope like guns
were nothing but logs with the ends painted like
muzzles. The condition of the encampments was
very wretched—indeed it is quite evident that the
whole affair was intended for show, not for any
determined resistance. Perhaps, therefore, having
served its purpose long enough, the post was merely
abandoned, as intended from the beginning, when
the probable time for a Northern movement arrived.
Some other things do not look very pleasant for
the North. Mr. RUSSELL tells us that he met with
many individuals, even in the loyal Northwest,
who resent increased taxation, and talk of refusing
to pay it, while trade necessarily suffers ; as, in-
deed, the returns of exports and imports abun-
dantly show. A few jobbers in army and navy
contracts, of course, make fortunes, but the majority
find their occupation, if not gone, seriously dimi-
nished. At present the loans make all pleasant,
but the Secretary of State himself acknowledges
that they are spending at the rate £90,000,000 a
year—and spending it on the destruction, not the
creation, of permanent sources of revenue. It re-
mains to be seen how long a people, whose taxa-
tion has hitherto been so light—who have, indeed,
been chiefly burdened by the cost of their own
selfish folly of a protection to native industry—will
bear the heavy burden of protected manufactures
and war taxes together. The people of Illinois
must soon understand that they have as much in-
terest in getting rid of the disgraceful MORRILL
Tariff as the South has. Hence, we should not be
surprised at heartburnings, on the subject of taxa-
tion, between the North-western corn-growing
States, and those Eastern States which tax them
so heavily by their bad and dear manufactures.
Altogether the prospect is anything but cheering.
A Southern army, apparently poorly equipped,
yet not only holds its ground against the North,
but has obtained two very,important successes over
it. The Northern army, better provided for, is not
yet in a condition to move. The South is fighting

for the worst of causes, while the North refuses to
avail itself of the best of causes and the best of
weapons. All is moral depravity, meanness, or
littleness—having nothing of those nobler moral
grounds which interest all Englishmen so deeply
in the struggles of Italy, Hungary, and Poland.
The contest is too great, and between those too
nearly allied to us, to permit us to re-
main indifferent, but the best we can
discover in the whole affair is bad. A struggle for
objects disgraceful en one side and not honourable
on the other ; and little prospect of any result on
which a lover of his race can look with satisfaction:

Again—who is for Canada ? It was only the
other evening that we had occasion to glance at
some of the many remarkable attractions held out
to emigrants by this great colony. To-day we
would revert to those attractions; for the theme
is fruitful, almost inexhaustible, in its suggestive-
ness. In this resembling in truth the soil of the
Canadian territory itself, or rather a vast portion
of it. Of course a possession so very considerable
in its dimensions as the country of the Two Canadas
necessarily comprises within it almost every variety
of climate. Between the Great American Lakes to
the south, that is Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron,
Michigan, and Superior, and the shores of James'
Bay to the north—between the western bounda-
ries of the Hudson's Bay territory upon one hand,
the borders of Labrador on the other, any amount
of cold or heat, of fecundity or of sterility, may be
found with the greatest ease. There is an extra-
ordinary difference of climate of course, and of
almost every kind of geographical peculiarity, one
might say, discernible upon a comparison of
Western or Upper Canada, and Eastern or Lower
Canada. There is a sort of a delusion prevalent
about the severity of the winter season, especially
in the latter division of this great colony, namely,
in Lower Canada. The fact being in reality that
whensoever the Canadian winter is most rigorous,
the next year's crops are most abundant, and, vice
versa, whensoever the Canadian winter is milder
than usual, the crops of the following season are
more or less unsatisfactory.
DOUGLAS JERROLD said wittily of the soil in
many parts of Australia that you had only to tickle
it with a hoe and it laughed into harvest. Some
humorous traveller, moreover, once upon a time
facetiously illustrated, by the record of a single
incident which he had witnessed on the western
coast of Africa, the tropical heat prevailing there,
the primitive habits of the savage but luxurious
inhabitants, and the magnitude of the scale of vege-
tation in that particular part of the globe—namely,
where the wandering and wondering Englishman
described his having one day seen an Epicurean
Negro (clad, if we may so express it, in the costume
of ADAM) cutting in twain an enormous gourd, and,
while he cooled himself by sitting in one half of it,
scooping out the other half for his breakfast ! Some-
thing of the same kind, so far at least as affects the
gourds and the harvests, may be said for the soil
and climate of Canada—something of the same kind
that was said about those of Australia by JERROLD,
and about those of Africa by the anonymous tra-
veller.

If not throughout the Canadian territory, at any
rate in very many parts of it, the pumpkins and
squashes are known to attain dimensions of really
extraordinary magnitude. In the vicinity of
Toronto a single pumpkin often weighs more
than 3001bs. ! Melons and tomatas again ripen
completely there in the open air, obtaining an
enormous size without the necessity for any forcing
frames—without any need whatever for those
noisome processes so wonderfully, almost we had
said so deliciously, described by COWPER, where,
in that favoured nook of his garden, he says—

" The stable yields a stercoraceous heap,
Impregnated with quick fermenting salts,
And potent to resist the freezing blast :

There lightly shaking in with agile hand
From the full fork, the saturated straw.
•
-- Till the warmth
(Well overlaid with clear translucent glass)
Slow gathering in the midst, through the square mass
Diffused, attain the surface : when, behold /
A pestilent and most corrosive steam
Like a gross fog, Bcootian, rising fast,
And fast condensed upon the dewy ash
Asks egress ;" &c. ,
Nothing of all this is requisite, there, in Canada,