Nova Scotia is seriously inclined to follow the example of
Ireland. The Colonists of the Province are discontented with the Dominion on the ground of its expense, a Home-rule project has been formulated, and at the election of the local House of Commons, on June 15th, thirty Members out of thirty-eight stood pledged to Home-rule. The Province intends to secure permission to withdraw by pursuing at Ottawa a steady policy of obstruction. They will, we fancy, find the Canadians less easy to deal with than the Irish have found the people of Great Britain. The Dominion Parliament, we may be sure, will put down obstruction, should it become inconvenient, with a very sharp hand. Congress bears a great deal of it under the name of " filibustering ;" but then, it is not practised at Washington in the interest of secession. Americans consider the latter treason.
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