It seems probable, though it is not yet quite certain,
that the crisis in Newfoundland will end in the island Colony entering the Canadian Dominion. The delegates sent to Ottawa profess themselves satisfied with the financial assist- ance offered, and with a compromise about the fisheries, to which it is said the French Government has assented. The basis of this compromise is that France obtains the sole right of fishing and curing along fifty miles of coast, while the remainder, three hundred and fifty miles, is left to the Newfoundlanders. The arrangement requires ratification, however, by the Parliament of the little Colony, and ti e colonists, it is clear, only half like it. They are fond of the independence which ruins them, and are inclined to see if they cannot get along by merciless reductions of expenditure,
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