4 OCTOBER 1851, Page 2

The most interesting item of news received from America by

the last mail relates to the festivities with which the opening of the rail- ways connecting Boston with the Canadas have been celebrated in that city. The completion of the various lines of railway now contemplated or in actual operation in Canada, will introduce a new acre in the colony; will render it the great high-road of the transit traffic of the new North-western States of Iowa and Wis- consin. That line which is already opened will draw closer the bonds of amity between the province and New England, that por- tion of the Union which retains most of its English sympathies. "resident of the United States and the Governor-General of Ikrth America were both present at "the jubilee " ; and arse was of that homely, unostentatious, yet cordial hich best becomes high dignitaries of the Anglican race.