The Portland daily press., 1867-11-26


oeos corpus, passed at the last session, and in
ooing so, steted that the government was in
possession of information showing consider
apie a'acrity on the part of the Fenian Or
ganlzatlon. The Montreal Gazette warns its
readers that the day on which the law would
take its course with regard to the condemned
Fenians at Manchester would be very like
ly to be seized upon as the pretext for another
raid of the Brothcrh pod, and urges the peo-
pie on the frontier to keep sharp lookout.
We have yet to learn OF the first solitary
fact justifying its anxiety.
r A SLIGHT EMBARRASSMENT"
A writer in the Montreal Gazette has DIS
covered an embarrassment" In letter on
the navigation of the river st. Lawrence he
naively says: e
The great embarrassment in discussing the
navigation of the lakes and the st. Law
renee is, that while the question is grand as
whole. a little ditch is all that Canada re-
quires for our OWL trade. II our
Confederation was a compact territory, a
thousand miles long, and four hundred miles
wide, with great river running through the
middle and one great port at its mouth, there
VOshu u ooiCeuinS cutlcly pdbIlOlt
national in drawing and holding all the ex-
tremities to one common centre; but stretch
ed as we are like links of sausa9es, along the
American border, for some two thousand
miles, the great benefit of cheapening the
carving trade will accrue to our neighbors,
though great wealth would be accumulated
in Montreal and Quebec, and the provinces
would benefit by its reflection.
-i.fs ITEMS,
A family of the name of Shaw, consisting
of four persons were burned to death in Mon
treal, on the 18th inst. They were man, his
wife and two children. Both the adults were
Of incorporate habits, and the house in
which they lived had been burning sometime
before il was known that any one was in it,
The charred bodies were taken out next day
and buried, followed by an immense crowd
striking circumstance connected with this
burial of a family was that they were divided
in the grave by religion. There were two
heaises, and the funeral train moved off in
two directions, the corpses OF the woman and
children being taken to the Catholic ceme
terry, and that of the man to the Protestant
cemetery. ..f.
The Ottawa correspondent of the ST. John
Globe looks with anxious eyes on the lavish
expenditure at that seat OF Government. He
says:
Everything here is ON scale of magnif-
cence that would frighten the simple people
of New Brunswick. In these magnificent
halls, along these lofty corridors, under pas
sage ways, and beneath the vaulted roots of
this stupendous edifce, there swarms an al
I1.Ia 10 A..
Egypt How many there are cannot pOSsi-
bly, say. don't think am out of the way
when say that there are two hundred SER
wants OF the House, from the clerk down
wards. Everything is on scale that would
suit a full grown nation of ten times our re-
sources.
Quebec dispatch says: "Large numbers
of the laboring classes are leaving for the
United States, owing to the scarcity of en-
ployment." HI
Nova Scotia is very anxious that the new
parliament shall encourage its coal trade. 1t
is deemed of enough importance to secure
liberal commercial treaty with the United
States eali 35isa o.i-
Several parcels of letters and documents are
again missing at the Montreal Post-oflice.-
The matter is now being investigated.
The Government newspaper, Mr. Cartiers
organ, says that political interests alone hold
the members OF the Cabine: together, and
th.t the old regard existing between the in
dividual members of the government is gone
forever. The Ministry, therefore, is in a crit
ical state. t h dd
Notwithstanding the reports of settlement
the Quebec ship carpenters strike still contin-
ues, with no prospect of an agreement be-
ween the men and their employers.
Responsible parties in the Maritime Prov
inces have made proposition to the Govern
ment to build and run an Inter-Colonial rail
road for bonus of $5,0O0,O0O
In the House last week the following notice
ofmotion was given: "Whether it is the in
tention of the Government to extend to eiti-
for obtaining patents in Canada that are af-
forded to citizens of the Dominion, and
whether the privileges to order patents now
enjoyed by the United States in the Province
ofNew Brunswick are TO extend to other
parts of the Dominion" -sfal