The North American mails still follow suit in the accounts
both from Washington and Montreal. After fifty-one divisions, the American House of Representatives was still unable to effect an election of Speaker ! " Republican institutions," cries the Mo- narchist, " come to a dead lock !" The Republicans had proposed to compromise the difficulty by agreeing upon a joint Speaker and dividing the booty—the profits and patronage of office; an ar- rangement impracticable, on account of the thorough accord re- quired for a patronage so minutely distributed and so corru tly employed.- But the Americans are a practical people, and t, ev find some way of getting out of the dead lock by continuing to try the balance until it •3--" fail to do at some time or other.
A well-informed "--
Montre°1
at the
opinion and n:-a: adhesion of t lonists in every part of Cana- -- mention of t e g across the horder.,-in-the_State of
Vermont, w formally offered to receive Canada into the Union, renders it the more ominous. Lord Elgin had tried to check the Annexationist. by dismissing members of their party from office, like Irish R ers ; but he had excited less fear than disgust.
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