25 DECEMBER 1869, Page 3

The news from the Winnipeg district of the Red River

is very vague, but what there is of it is most unsatisfactory. The French half-breeds who have taken up arms to resist their transfer to Canada seem to be most determined, and Colonel Dennis, who had raised a force of English half-breeds and Indians, is said to be in retreat. If that is true, as affirmed in a Toronto telegram of December 21, there may be serious trouble in that quarter, the frontier of the States being very near. Already there is a cry that we are enlisting troops within the boundary.