The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for
the week ending Jan. 18 amounted, for conveying
18,334 :passengers, to £6,132 ; for mails, &c., to
£1,027; and for 16,643 tons of freight and live
stock, to £l6,oB6—total, £23,245, against £22,380
for the corresponding week last year, showing an
increase of £865.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CREDIT (LIMITED).
The ordinary meeting of this company was held
on Tuesday, at the offices, Winchester-buildings ;
Mr. G. Sbeward in the chair.
The report stated that the net profit during the
half-year ending December 31 amounted to £5,442,
including £1,332 brought from the preceding half-
year. The directors recommended a dividend of
ss. per share, free of income-tax, which would ab-
sorb £2,990, leaving a balance of £2,452 to be car-
ried forward.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, congratulating the shareholders upon re-
ceiving a better dividend than might have been an-
ticipated, and assured them that it had been
honestly earned. The question as to their advances
to the Italian companies had not been settled, the
case having been adjourned by the Court. The
securities of the company had been estimated at the
value at which they were originally received. In
consequence of the state of inpnetary affairs, the
directors had to some extent contracted their busi-
ness, but they had not been obliged to make a call
on the shareholders or to sell any of their securities
at a low rate to meet their engagements.
The report was unanimously adopted, and the
dividend of ss. per share was declared.
The retiring directors and auditors having been
re-elected, the proceedings concluded with thanks
to the chairman.

territi wial acquisition on this continent without mo-
lestat ion by foreign powers, their jealousies must be
overcc.,me by the assurance that this Government
and people will henceforth cease to manifest any
int.!rest in the progress of freedom in Europe ; or,
in other words, that we shall be at liberty to
Ame ricanize the whole American continent pro-
vided we frown upon any movement that may
tend to, the, Americanization of England and
Europe. We may spread the gospel of liberty
among net ;Toes, Esquimaux, and Chinamen, pro-
vided our f oreign ministers and consuls, our Presi-
, dent and S :?cretary of State, our Senators and Re-
presentativE s, refrain from making the moral in-
fluence of A .merican ideas felt in regard to the pro-
gress of Ita2y, Greece, Hungary, or to that of the
masses of the British, German, and French people.
This is surely in some respects narrow and un-
dignified policy. It certainly seems tantamount
to proclaiming to the world that we are in-
different to any kind of tyranny, whether prac-
tised by emperors, kings, sultans, or popes, as
long as we are left at liberty to clutch more
land. Not that we are in favour of international
entanglements or of quixotic crusades in favour of
a universal Americanization, but we contend that
unless our progress of territory in comparatively
barbarous St ate 3 goes hand in hand with the pro-
gress of our moral influence in civilized or semi-
civilized cotratries, we fall from our high estate.
We increase in size, in that case, in the same pro-
portion that we decrease in moral prestige. It
would certainly place us in a much nobler position
should our foreign policy be so conducted that
whenever a collision occurs between a superior
race struggling for liberty and an inferior race
bent on keeping it in bondage America should
lift up her voice in favour of the oppressed na-

tionality, as was done in the days of Clay and
Webster in regard to Greece and Hungary, and
lately in respect to Crete. Our foreign policy should
be conducted in such a manner as to give the
assurance to mankind that, although we may not
think proper to interfere in foreign affairs by the
force of arms, all the political, diplomatic, and moral
influences of this country will be thrown in the
scale of liberty and progress. Unless this be done,
our foreign ministers will remain only more or less
ornamental accessories of courts, and foreign min-
isters at Washington will continue to constitute a
little monarchical coterie unwholesomely encourag.
ing to the unrepublican and frivolous ingredients of
American society, and to reside in this country not
so much for the purpose of representing to their
governments the bright and promising aspects of
our polity, as for that of playing the parts of con-
ceited critics assuming feudal airs of superiority over
a superior civilization. Unless this be done, they
will continue to inform their emperors and kings
that all this country in reality wants is more dol-
lars and collectively more empire, and that all
its protestations about liberty and humanity are
simply theories—the mere impracticable effusions
of demagogues.
Precisely at this moment of the aggrandisement
of our empire we should augment the manifestation
of our sympathies toward those nations that are
now struggling for the same liberties which we had
the happiness to conquer, and our foreign minis-
ters should be instructed to express them with
dignity and emphasis. We may then present the
spectacle of a nation wielding its power with magna-
nimity, filled, it may be, with the inflexible ambition
of imposing its rule upon all the races of this conti-
nent, but without forfeiting the privilege of bidding
God-speed to the struggling nations of the other hemi-
sphere. It is only in this manner that we can escape
becoming dwarfs in a moral sense, while we grow
to be giants in physical dimensions. It is only in
this manner that we can reconcile the world to our
material progress, only thus that we can go forward
without abdicating our position as a nation that feels
a deep Christian interest iu the progress of freedom
and humanity everywhere.

A KANGAROO HUNT IN SOUTH

AUSTRALIA.

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(From TVilkes' Spirit of the Times.)
Soon after landing in the colony, my friend and
I received an invitation from a squatter, living
three hundred miles from Adelaids, asking as to
spend Christmas with him, in order to witness a
grand kangaroo hunt which was to come off at that
time. 'We of course accepted, and in less than a
week we started on our journey, taking with us
our rifles and a deer-hound we had brought from
England. After three days' jolting and bumping
in a mail coach--one of those tong-bodied American
machines which nothing short of a precipice can
upset—we were not sorry to find our friend waiting
with his buggy and a pair of ponies to take us
over the remaining nine miles to his station, which
we reached safely about three p.m. on Christmas
Eve.

In this part of the world the 25th of December
is usually ushered in by hot winds and a tempera-
ture which entirely destroys our pre-conceived no-
tions of the festival ; but on this occasion we were
in luck, and when dinner came it was quite cool

enough for us to enjoy the roast beef, and even the
brandy-fire on the plum-pudding did not seem op-

pressive. Our festivities, however, were not very
much prolonged, as the grand hunt was to take
place the next day, entailing an early start. Ac-
cordingly we were called before daybreak, and by
the time we were up found that the saddling had
already commenced ; as about sixty men had to
be mounted, saddles soon ran short, and sheep-
skins tied on by a piece of ropy were in great
demand for the riding blacks and station men.

My friend and I had both had some experience with
rough oalts at home ; and, un ler the delusion that
we were fair riders, had expressed our utter uncon-
cern as to our mounts—indeed, in our secret hearts
we were rather anxious to try an "Australian buck-
jumper. The horse chosen for me was a dark bay,
a fine showy-looking annuli, but one that evidently
had the greatest objection to being girthed up,
whilst the very unamiable way in which he laid
back his ears made me determined to be prepared
for the worst. The mounting was quickly accom-
plished, but no sooner was my weight in the saddle
than my steed's back curled up, down went his head
until nothing could be seen in front of the saddle,
then came a frightful sensation not to be described,
and the next moment I found myself uncomfort-
ably seated on a hard piece of ground. The horse
was soon caught, but no one would hear of my
making another attempt ; so I was fain to content
myself by exchanging mounts with a long-legged,
light-whiskered, sunburnt young fellow who had
taken rather a fancy to me on the previous day.
Armed with a huge hide-whip, he was soon on the
bay's back, who this time screwed himself up higher
than ever, until the middle of the saddle only
touched him ; then up he went high enough to take
a four-foot fence, and down again on the same spot,
with this difference, that his tail was now where his
head was before, the same proceeding being re-
peated for upwards of forty " bucks." Thrice as
many, however, would have made but little diffe-
rence to his rider; at every jump there was a loud
crack, and the long hide-whip left its mark on the
ribs or shoulder, until at length the horse gave in,
and moved off a more tender if not a wiser animal.
We are now all fairly mounted ; our way for a
few miles lying through some mallie scrub, and
then to the plains beyond. Much discussion takes
place as to the best way of managing the hunt, and
at last it is decided that we shall form a crescent-
shaped line, with 150 yards between each man ;
the whole of us are then to move slowly towards the
sea, so as to drive the kangaroos before us on to
a point, with a small neck, which afterwards in-
creases in size until it contains about eighty acres.
At last all are placed, the starting signal is given,
and the word passed from man to man down the
line. The blacks on foot, about eighty in number,
are at the south end, and altogether we muster 110
men, so that our line extends nearly ten miles, and
we shall have to ride eight miles across the plains.
After a while the salt bush begins to take the
place of the hideous " mallie scrub," so that the
country is more open and we can see before us.
On we go until all the bushes are left behind ; but
so far nothing meets our glance all over the vast
plain, except a straggling eagle or two.
I am beginning to despair of seeing a kangaroo,