Writing to the Times," A Canadian" eays--" I have reason
to believe that an ,American officer of rank was recently permitted to go through our arsenals, and examine our guns and munitions of war, and make himself perfectly acquainted with all our details. It is also said, that he is to be allowed by our Gcwernment to purchase cannon that have been tested by the authorities at Woolwich. Are we to supply the arms by which the American aggressions on the Oregon territory are to be made? Surely the Master-General of the Ordnance is not acquainted with these proceedings."
_ The Paris National of Thursday eontains a most astonishing tale, strangely told. The ship Fair Arcadian, on its way from New Brunswick to London, was wrecked on a rock in the bay of St. Brieve. Out of ten passengers and screw of fifteen, only three passengers and two sailors were saved. " Having been cast on shore by a raging sea, they were most humanely assisted by the neighbouring villagers. But, on the suggestion of an individual who stated that he was a scriber to the Praise, and who proposed to burn the English dogs,' the unfortu- nate shipwrecked men were on the point of becoming the victims of afalse sena- mentofyarriotism( !) which humanity disavows, but which the exasperation caused by M. Guizoes policy tends to explain. The persons present were preparing fagots to bum the English, when the.pansh priest came to their assistance, and conducted them to the hotel of the Croix Blanche; where they are waiting for funds from their friends in England."
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