Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-06-20

The REBEL AGENTS IN EUROPE SNUBBED.-
The intercepted correspondence of T. Butler
King, published here some weeks since, has
found its way to England, and is made the
subject Of comment by the London press.-
The Times says that the letters of the rebel
agents abroad give "a dismal picture of wasted
energy and Of a long course of deceptive agita-
tion gone through TO no purpose y and then
raps the rebels over the knuckles in this severe
fashion
"Thus have Jared the secession agents in
their own chosen field of Acknowledgment
agitation. Their adversely is entirely uncon-
nected with the fortunes OF war. Their ma
noevers began at least half year before any
State seeded and this correspondence bears
eatlier dates than that of any Confederate re-
verse in the war. They are a set Of ignorant,
narrow minded conceited shareholders and
agents Of sIavehoders-infrm in Judgment
and reckless about truth, as Shareholders get
to be in all countries and all times. They des-
pised the strength of the free States, not un-
dcrstaDding the canses of that strength and
they partly blinded themselves. in the desire
to blind others, to the weakness of their own
enterprise. Though their defeats in the field
had not begun, they must have been more or
less discouraged by their own failure TO obtain
support in Europe, even by such reckless
promises and such delusiTe representations as
they did not scruple to offer and now the cx-
posurc of their correspondence through the
press must crown their notifications"
Speech Of Col. Rankin in the Canadian ParIia-
ment.
Col. Arthur Rankin, member of the Cana
dian Parliament. who offered bis services and
was commissioned q Colonel in the Union
army, made very powerful speech against the
militia bill of the old defeated ministry, few
days since, from which we take the following
extracts:
"a moments real reflection, Mr.. Speaker,
ought to be sufficient to convince every hon
orable member that such law never could
have been carried its provisions were oPprcs-
sive in the extreme, and to have enforced them
would have been an impossibiIity Sir. for
us to talk of placing Canada in a state Of de-
fence against the power of the United States
Government is as ridiculous as it would be for
a mouse to assume an attitude of defence to-
wards an elephant. The army of that nation
is but little Inferior in discipline TO the best
armies Of Europe; it is superior in intelligence
to any army in the world it is as well armed
and equipped as the army of any European
power; it is maintained at the cost of daily
expenditure greater than the yearly cost off
even such an organization as that proposed by |
the late government, and in case of emergency, |
its numbers now exceeding halfa million, can
be doubled. Such being the power of our re- !
publican neighbors, it is obvious that for US |
to talk of defending ourselves against the Gov
ernment Of that country, if disposed to attack !
US. is simply absurd. Bat, Mr.. Speaker, we
have no cause for apprehension. In the first /
place, do not believe there is any i'll feeling /
towards US as Canadians, in the United States
or, if there is such feeling it is because uc are
lritt Britain, and not on our own
account"