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vernment of the Dominion. Mr. Seward's Note to Mikado. Mr. Burlingame was to leave by th
the Minister, at the same time that it expressed Pacific mail of the 25th of February, on her mis-
disapproval and censured the act of the Michigan sion from the Chinese Government to the United
officer, announced that M'Donald was to be States and Europe.
taken into Canada and there set at liberty. Mr. The Congressional interference with the Supreme
Thornton, in reply, expressed the appreciation of Court causes great suspicion and fear throughout
his Government of the course proposed; adding, as the country. If it be desirable to alter the Con-
they had no sympathy with a malefactor, that on stitution, all unprejudiced men desire it to be done
his own responsibility he declined to accept the offer in a constitutional way. The result of the patching
to set M‘Donald at liberty. On the 17th March, by Congress has hitherto been anything but satisq
in the Parliament at Ottawa, Mr. Mackenzie moved factory, resembling the sewing of new cloth on old
for the correspondence, and called the attention of garments. If the Legislature had left the Recon-
the Minister of Justice to the newspaper report of struction Acts alone there would not now be so
the circumstances. Sir John Macdonald ack now- many rents in the Constitution ; and to save the
ledged the correctness of the newspapers, expressed Reconstruction Acts they rush into other illegalities,
his surprise that a person illegally abducted should just as an original lie enforces a dozen to maintain it.
be thus detained in the United States; adding "It The majority of the Justices are Democrats, and the
was due to the House and to the country to have Republican Congress made a law to reduce the num-
some explanation of the extraordinary and unprece- box from 9to 7, hoping that a couple of the very old
dente'l conduct of the British Minister at Washing- Judges who were Conservatives would, in the natural
ton. (Hear, hear.) IVe should not permit any
order of things, die first, and that thus the Republi-
British Minister to take upon himself to say he can minority would be strengthened. The Conser-
would surrender the rights and liberties of a British vatives, however, will not die, and when Mr. 'Wade
subject whom American authorities ha I no right to
succeeds to the Presidency the object of the Re-
detain." This is not a bad sample of the manner in publican party will be better gained by allowing
which England benefits by her connection with him the power of tilling up the vacancies; for this
Canada.
reason a bill has been introduced to repeal the old
At the sitting of the North German. Parliament, law, and to return to the preview number. The
on the 2d April, the treaty recently concluded with infraction of the Constitution, and the infraction of
the United States, settling the nationality of erni- the infraction because it was found not to answer
grants, passed the final reading almost unani- the purpose, causes great uneasiness, and we doubt
mously, the Polish members dissenting. It has not will yet produce a strong expression of opinion
been semi-officially declared that the Treaty re- from the country; indeed, nothing saves the dotni-
ceivecl the sanction of the American Senate, at naut party from this condemnation but the extreme
Washington, March 26. It is, therefore, complete ; difficulty of the position and the urgent necessity by
and Count Bismarck has announced that it will which it is driven.
always be carried into effect in a conciliatory spirit. The Opposition in the House of Representatives
It provides that citizens of one country who have to the payment for the Muscovite territory of Rus-
become naturalized in the other, and resided there sian America has been stronger than anticipated.
for five years uninterruptedly, shall be held and The Government acts as if the territory was its own,
treated as citizens of such country ; but he cannot while the House exercises its constitutional right of
be relieved from trial and punishment for crimes making such appropriations as it considers ex-
previously committed against the laws of his ori- pedient. Russia, between the Executive and
ginal country by thus becoming a citizen of the Legislative branches at Washington, fares badly.
other. The declaration of an intention to be- The Foreign Committee has postponed the conside-
come a citizen of one or the other country can- ration of the subject until next month, as it cannot
not have the effect of naturalization. A person agree about the appropriation. Considering that the
naturalized in either country, who shall re- period of payment is fixed by the treaty for the 20th
turn to his original or native country, with the in- April, this decision has caused some surprise. It
tent to remain, is to be held as having renounced is no wonder that men like General CLAY re-
his naturalization. A residence of two years is to sign in prefeience to explaining away such a
be taken as such intent.. A case has just occurred breach of contract to Foreign Ministers. Mr.
in France which proves the value of such a treaty. Adams is still kept by unavoidable circum-
A Frenchman emigrated to Louisiana at the age of stances from attending the Queen's Levees and
17, where he quickly became the head of a great Drawing Rooms. Mr. Sumner is said to wish to
commercial house, and amassed a fortune. His be his successor. We would advise that influential
Senator, if he would establish himself at the Court
father died, and he returned to France at the age
of 27 to settle family affairs, when he was arrested of St. James's, to get the Senate to repeal the ridi-
as a deserter, having been drawn in the conscrip-
culous rule by which they have lately hampered
tion in his absence. lie has just been tried by the their diplomatic servants in the matter of dress.
military tribunal of Bordeaux, and it is probable The most conspicuous individual is the one attired
that the present agitation in the United States on differently from all the others ; it matters not that
naturalization has taught the tribunal the necessity his dress may be comfortable, appropriate, and be-
of a mild sentence, for it was limited to six days' coming ; if it be totally different, it is outre. Many
imprisonment.

The elections in Connecticut are now eagerly
looked forward to, the campaign having been opened
by both parties. Two score of Republican Con-
gressmen are to " stu mp" the State, but report does
not say how many stump orators the Democrats will
furnish. Until last year the State was Radical,
but it was then carried for the Democrats by a ma-
jority of 800. Although highly elated with the
result of the New Hampshire elections, the Republi-
cans will not consider their victory complete unless
they triumph in Connecticut. It is even said that
the decision there this month will foreshadow the
elections in November. Although somewhat shaken
in confidence by their defeat in New Hampshire,
the Democrats are still sanguine of again succeed-
ing in Connecticut. Strong efforts will be made ;
every absent citizen who has a right to vote will be
forwarded to the State ; every doubtful one open
to a bribe will be bought, and no stone left un-
turned by either party to secure the victory. Port-
land, Maine, has at last succeeded in electing a Re-
publican Mayor, by a majority of eleven in a total
vote of 5,500.

The Reconstruction Committee have introduced
another bill for the re-admission of Alabama so
soon as her Legislature shall have complied with
the 14th Amendment of the Constitution proposed
is 1866. The members returned by Alabama for
Congress are in Washington, but there is little
chance of their admission this Session. The Repre-
sentatives of the rival Reconstruction Conventions
of Florida are also in Washington, each party With
a different Constitution, to puzzle Congress. Several
of the Reconstruction Conventions have finished
their work and adjourned, that of North Carolina
going out in a characteristic way, though one any-
thing but to the satisfaction of the planters of that
proud State. The scene is described by telegrams
from Raleigh, March 17, the day of the adjournment.
The Conservatives refused to sign the Constitution
and withdraw ; the floor was cleared, black and
white jcined hands and danced in a circle to the
ringing of the Capitol bell and such songs as " Old
John Brown," " Hang Jefferson Javis on a sour
apple tree," which was responded to from the gallery
by the rebel cry, "Three cheers for Jefferson
Davis"—given with a will. A telegram also an-
nounced in New York, just prior to the departure
of the mail, that the. Arkansas Constitution had
been defeated by a majority of 15,000 votes. In
Texas the election was very nearly a failure, the
50,000 votes polled being less than 4,000 above the
necessary half of the registry. Zhe Convention
consists of 81 white and 9 negro delegates,_ the, ma-
jority of voters being white, and it is believed that
no Conservatives have been elected.
The news from Rio Janeiro to March 9th is to
the effect, that on the 17th of February three
monitors pased Curupaity, and on the 19th six
ironclads succeeded in forcing the
passage of Hu-
maita. The ships were much battered, but none
lost ; ten men were wounded. On the same day
the Marquis de Caxias stormed a work north of

men dislike thus to attract attention ; they still

more dislike infringing etiquette, and they most
of all dislike the chance of being subjected
to rebuff from officials. We would, therefore,
remind Mr. Sumner that a rule applicable at the
White House may be very inapplicable at St.
James's or the Tuileries, and recommend him if he
seeks Mr. Adams's post either to get the rule re-
pealed or himself made a Volunteer General, or at
least to join a Fire Brigade—so that he may have
some rag of uniform in which to appear.
Our announcement some weeks ago that General
Cassius M. Clay had resigned the mission to
Russia is now confirmed, the President having ac-
cepted the resignation. No successor has as yet
been nominated, and we presume the nomination
will be made by Benjamin Wade. It is just pos-
sible that the incoming President may desire General
Clay to retain the post ; Mr. Johnson seems to
have " run amuck" through the most distinguished
of the United States Representatives.
State Conventions continue to assemble and
choose delegates for the Presidential Nominating Con-
vention. The Republican one of New Jersey lately

met and sustained Congress, applauded Impeach
went, and nominated General Grant for the Pre-
sidency. Andrew Johnson is accused "of blas-
phemous vituperation of the co-ordinate branches
of Government." The Republican Convention of
Alichigan declares Mr. Johnson to be " one of the
greatest criminals of the age"—a phrase becoming
quite a favourite with such assemblies. That oue

gathering of citizens should solemnly pronounce the
Chief Magistrate to be one of the greatest criminals
of the age, and that another gathering of citizens
should with equal solemnity name him the mar-
tyred President, is incomprehensible to people on
this side the Atlantic, who do not know the value
of terms in the United States, and the boundless
limits in the way of exaggeration permitted to
political organizations and stump speeches. The
Michigan Convention named Grant for President,
Colfax, of Indiana, for Vice-President, and only
alluded to the greenback question by affirming
" that the preservation of the public faith depends
upon the success of the Republican party." It
also passed a resolution in favour of negro
suffrage.

A bill has been introduced by Sir John A. Mac-
donald, and read a second time, to extend the provisions
of the Ex!radition Act of Canada to Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick. In those provinces the Imperial act only is
in operation, the Ashburton Treaty providing that act
shall remain in force until acts giving effect to the treaty
shall be passed by all the colonies. Canada has adopted
an act meeting the United States law, giving effect to the
Imperial act. By the United States law provision is
made for the immediate arrest, and the detention for two
months, of a criminal fleeing from Canada. But a felon
fleeing from Nova Scotia or New Brunswick could not be
arrested until after application to the United States Go-
vernment, and elaborate and extensive correspondence.

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Ilumaita, taking fifteen cannon and a quantity of
stores. The loss on each side was about 600
men. On the 21st three iron-clads steamed
on to Assompcion, and found that place.
and all the river towns abandoned. A corps
of 11,000 men was about to march thither.
The Brazilian account is that on the 19th of Febru-
ary six Brazilian armour-plated ships forced the
passage of Hurnaita, which was defended by 180
pieces of artillery. Three ships remained before
Tagi, which was occupied by the Brazilians ; the
abets ascended the river as far as Assumption,
which they found had been evacuated. On the
same day Marshal de Caxias, with 6,000 men, car-
ried at the point of the bayonet a redoubt
situated to the north of Hurnaita, capturing
fifteen cannon. The. losses in killed, wounded,
and prisoners amounted to 1,600 men. This
news sent up Brazilian stocks, but it by no
means follows that because the capital of Paraguay
has been captured that Lopez is brought to the end
of his resources, or that the country has been con-
quered. As a matter of course, when the ironclads
passed the fortress, Assumption was at their mercy,
and being evacuated fell into the hands of the
Allies ; but not a soldier of the Allied army has as
yet moved, and powerful as the fleet may be along
the river it is helpless beyond. It may turn out
that the Allies have but gained a barren tri-
umph ; the rest of the news is as follows :
" A revolution broke out at Montevideo on the
19th of February, caused by a rising of the Blanco
party under Berro. General Flores was murdered,
receiving 11 stabs. Manoel Flores and 20 of hip
friends died suddenly, and were supposed to have
been poisoned. Reprisals were made by the popu-
lation and the troops that remained faithful to the
Government. Berro, the leader of the revolution,
was shot, and order restored. General Battle
was elected President, and all was quiet when the
mail left. La Plata was tranquil, and the cholera
had disappeared from Brazil. Great rejoicing took
place in Rio on the 14th of March in celebration of
the news from the scat of war. The Minister for
Foreign Affairs was dead. Alagoas had been
pacified."
By way of Alexandria intelligence is telegraphed
from Japan that Iliogo had been tranquillised, and
that the war was over. No fears were entertained for
the safety of foreigners. Satsuma, Choshiu, and
Zoza had assumed the government under the