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dent Harrison's omAHDous remark; and OF
course, therefore. nothing is known of Lord
Salisbury's spirited reply.

ceived information from an authoritative
source that, though the French Government
did not intend TO mix up the questions Of
Zanzibar and Egypt, they considered hat
the demand which England must make TO
them in regard to the recognition of her
protectorate over Zanzibar, "would render
the moment prOpitiOus for the arrange
ment of various questions interesting both
France and England in Africa" III other
words they want to receive a quid pro QuO
for their assent to our ProtectOrate, which
appears to be required by the Treaty of
1862. Probably some concession ought to
he made in order to smooth matters, but at
present the French Cabinet ask far too
much,-no less than the recognition %oftIeir
ProtectOrate i'll Madagascar, the abandon
ment OF our most-faVOured nation rights in
Tunis, the delimitation Of the Hinterland
behind Tunis and Algiers, and a rearrangr-
ment OF boundaries at the mouth Of the
Niger. No doubt Lord Salisbury Will act
wisely but whatever is ultimately Il one
IN the way OF exchange, we trust that ID
permanent settlement of the NewfOund.
land question will be II part of the arrange
ment. 1t is essential that matters there
should be decided once for all, and not
merely patched up.
The French Government has male tho
IObNnuoO HCSOlldNIOuS now pclulFS Db~
tween King Leopold and the Belgian Par
lament in regard to the Congo Free State
an excuse for the publication of a Yellow
Book including documents intended to an
sert that the Republic has Il right of pre-
emptiOn. That France has this right in
preference to all other nations Except Bel
GUM is admitted. The question is whp.
Their, since the King of the B~eleians is also I
the head of the Congo State, this limitation
is good as against his own Kingdom. The
point is one which wOnld nave delighted
the transcendental lawyersNf the sixteenth
century, who, for example, loved to discuss
such problems as whether the King was
seised Of his Duchy of Lancaster in respect
of his "bO0y natural" or whether he pos
sessed 1t, as he did the rest of the posses
sions of the Crown, in his capacity of u
corporation sole,
Considerable sensation has been prolnc-
ed in Canada by the publication of an
article in La Patricia paper believed to
represent to opinions of NJ. LAurier, the
leader Of the Opposition in the Dominion
misunderstanding in favour of bleak.
ing up the Canadian Confederation 1t COZ.
cluces by appealing to the Ontario Liberals
to join in its efforts to tear mp the Com
~stitutiou "given to Canada by the British
Parliament, for which we French Canadians
long ago openly proclaimed our hatred"
In all probability, this is only ~tall,talk, but
at the same time it is impossible not to no.
tice the growing uneasiness and discomfort
of the French Canadians, who, though not
hostile to the English connection, seem
more and more disposed to dislike Sheir
Anglo, Saxon fellow. citizens, and hence
to desire the practical independence Of a
separate Colony. They would I've wise,
however, to remember that though En- land
will not fight to prevent the Dominion de.
clarifg itself Independent, should that be
the deliberate will Of its Inhabitants, she
will never allow one province, contrary to
the wishes of the rest, to break up tho
Union that now binds together British
North America.
The French National F6te, celebrated on
Monday last, July 14th, passed off without
any noticeable occurrence, except that the
President was fred at by a mad inventor
with a grievance, whose revolver, however,
was not loaded, and whose only object was
to attract attention to the neglect he
believed himself to have suffered at the
hands of the public. The troops who took
part in the review of the Paris garrison
seem to have won high praise from military
critics, the soldierly bearing of the men
and the completeness of their equipment
attracting particular attention. A special
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