The Daily News vouches for the sound information in a
letter from Miramichi, which declares that the North American Colo- nies, disgusted with the apathy of the Colonial Office, its utter ignorance of Colonial feeling, and its indifference to Colonial in- terests, are "now nearly ripe •for annexation to the United States." "A variety of causes" are cited. :The reduction of the duty on Baltic timber has destroyed the export of New Bruns- wick ; the threatened repeal of the Navigation-laws "has closed most of our shipyards," and "in another year we [of New Bruns- wick] shall be in an equally bankrupt condition with the West Indies." Proofs of the altered feeling are given. The re- emigrants Westwards from New Brunswick manifestly increase in numbers. Canada has sent two members of Council to nego- tiate a commercial treaty with the United States ; and a similar step is proposed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Prince Ed- ward Island has offered its ports, on a stipulated payment of one aollar per ton, to the ships of the United States, for the St. Law- rence fisheries,—a proposal which two years ago would have drawn upon the suggester the punishment of being "flayed alive." Beginning with these commercial alliances, the Colonies "will be absorbed in the Union much more quickly and readily than Texas."
At the Cape of Good Hope, Sir Harry Smith is fain to boast of a decisive advantage over "Mr. Praetorius "—the shrewd but bigoted Anglo-Dutch O'Connell. But the gallant hero of Aliwal finds it expedient to mingle with his victorious sallies hortatives to the recusant Boers.
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