8 APRIL 1865, Page 2

The Canadian House of Assembly has voted for the plan

of Confederation by 91 to 33, the majority including a clear majority of the French as well as English inhabitants. New Brunswick, however, has rejected the plan, it is alleged for two distinct reasons. The colonists fear that all their leading politi- cians being drafted off to Ottawa, local business will be left to very inferior men,—and local business is important to them. They also distrtist the honesty of the Canadians, who offer them as a temptation the intercolonial railroad, which New Bruns- wickers greatly desire, but are all the while steadily urging that the money should be applied to canals. They therefore elected members pledged to reject the scheme, and now Nova Scotia is waiting to see what will next be tried.