The American Senate has passed a retaliatory Bill against Canada,
the President being empowered to forbid all Canadian vessels to enter ports in the United States. The Bill was passed by 46 to 1, and was accompanied by furious speeches against England. The House of Representatives will modify, it is said, the Bill, and it will then remain for the President to act. The Canadians, on their side, are furious, and declare that they will surrender none of their rights as a nationality. New York is quite calm, regarding the incident as a New England craze ; but the result will, we hope, be a Joint Com- mission to revise all doubtful clauses of the Treaty. The Government cannot help supporting Canada on a question which excites so much feeling ; but there must be some method of avoiding quarrels about a matter which any decent Judge could settle in a day. It is most unfortunate that American Senators should make compromise difficult by speeches really addressed to constituents, but understood in this country to betray deep latent
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