~ Hardware--Fuller Brothers. 2 COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD. ie NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THIS WEEK. Pure Port Wine for Medicinal purposes--Peter Watson. Town Lots for Sale--John Whitley. «Celebrated Dandelian Coffee--Peter Watson Money to Loan--John Whitley. 7 Conservative Meeting--J. Whitley, Secretary. New Tin Shop--John Parker. 7 . Money to Loan--Cornish & McDonald. _ Carriages and Waggons--Robert E. Walker: Silverat par--Fuller Bros. ; Concert--Mrs. Dixie: Watson. Silver at par--J Cofcoran. Gounty 'of Perth' Herald. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1863. The Opening of Parliament. Parliament meets to-morrow for the despatch of business. Mexico. The recent operations of the French in Mexieo may possibly strike some persons as of small moment; they may regard it as the simple case of a creditor taking the only steps open to him for enforcing the payment of his just claims. Momentous results often follow insignificant causes, and a lit- tle deeper consideration of the osten- sible motives for the French expedi- tion, and the eflects likely to spring from it, may lead to the conclusion that the alleged motive was a pretend- edone merely, and the mask under which other and darker schemes have been skilfully concealed. Though locally" situated in North America, Mexico fron ¢limate, Insti- tutions, and nation, belongs to the Spanish portion of the New World.-- Containing within itself the elements of a great empire, it seemed, at one time, destined like Canada, to open its capacious arms to receive the over- flowing population of the other hemis- phere. It possesses a territory of over amillion of geographical square miles, --seven times the whole area of France--thinly populated by about eight millions of inhabitants. The Rocky Mountains run like a. hpge backbone through its whole territory from North to South, attaining in some parts the height of seventeen thousand feet. Nature has been most lavish in her gifts to this country. Rich veins of gold and silver thread her moun- tains, not at the elevation of ten or twelve thousand feet, as in South America, but at the comparatively moderate height of three or four thou- sand ; and plateaus of table-lands of prodigious extent, like so many suc- cessive terraces or steps from the sea- shore to the cordilleras, give every va- riety of climate, from the warmth of the tropics to the cold of perpetual snow. The higher regions are rocky and sterile, but the lower valleys are very fertile. The return of wheat is never under seventy, and _ often amounts to one hundred fold ; and the fruits and flowers follow one another in unbroken succession throughout the year. Beautiful and extraordinary as this country is, the Spanish race seems utterly unable to make good use of its advantages. verge of ruin. cal palsy. lyze the lower orders. Every one who really wishes the future well-being of Mexico admits that foreign intervention is a necessi- ty. No one is mad enough to sup- pose that a satisfactory state of affairs can be brought about without it.-- Whether it be brought about by France or England 'it would have been bet- ter by both) matters little, provided i 1o¥ es in the right direction. 45] es. Unlike other provinces in the new world, Mexico, in place of advancing has gradually declined in prosperity, and revolution upon revo- lution has reduced the country to the It appears to have been struck with a social and politi- Corruption pervades the higher, indolence and sensuality para- No ob- jection, therefore, arises to the French expedition per se :jt is in the working out of the results that the danger lies. The Emperor of the French having | seized upon a good pretext formaking the move, endeayors now. to tum it to quite another and foreign accoun-- According to the latest intelligence.it would seem that Mexico is' to bé erected into an Empire, and that Max- -| imilian, of Austria, is to be placed on the Imperial throne, or, in ihe event of his declining, Louis Napoleon is to nominate'an' Emperor. Whieheverol -these-ideas-may be-ultimately carried out, there con be no doubt that Napo- leén the third' will, in fact, govern.-- Indeed it is not at all likely that Maximilian will consent to accept the throne : most,probably it was never intended he should. The end, there- tfore, will be that the French will have obtained a fast footing upon this con- tinent, and the territory which should have fallen to the lot. of the. Anglo- Saxon, will go to swell the dimensions of the French. Empire. Now. there!.are. two parties who have good grounds to object to this consummation,--the © United 'States and Great Britain. The former will naturally regard the conquest of Mex- ico by the French very much in the same light as they would the invasion of their own territory. Our neighbors have long cast wistful eyes in that di- rection, and the annexation of Texas no doubt increased their desire for the annexation..of Mexico also. Great Britain cannot fail to see danger in the erection of a second French Em- pire upon the ruins of Mexico, Her interest in this continent is too great to admit of acquiesence in any such move. So long as the French con- fined themselves to the legitimate ob- jects of their intervention,Great Britain might remain passive ; but when, un- der the guise of mere intervention is cloaked the desire to acquire territory, the dangers 'likely to arise. from su- pineness are 'too apparent to need pointing out. Whatever action the British and American Governments may take in the matter, we trust the issue will be peace. dw; al The Emperor of the French has, on more than one occasion, shown his desire to preserve peace, and we ear- nestly hope no ambitious feelings may induce him to invoke war. | We should not have felt much uneasiness on this, score but for the fact that the yery. first. step taken by the French afterthe fall of Puebla was the appointment of Fernando Pardo as Prefect. Heis reported to be a re- actionist of the deepest dye. That the French should favor the only fac- tion which has afforded them the least support, is not to be wondered at, still it is to be regretted that a more mod- erate man was not named to so im- portant a post. Mexico will not move in the right direction if led by either of the parties which for the last 20 years have alternately ruled and ruined the country. Its future prosperity will depend more upon the support of the moderate and respectable men--upon that of the merchant, the capitalist, the haciendado, and the tradesman, The leaning towards one faction thus displayed, seems to indicate that something beyond mere intervention was the object of the French expedi- tion into Mexico. The Manitoulin Difficulty. ae In this matter both the Government and the Indians are in the wrong ; but of the two the Government are cer- tainly most to blame. They gave the provocation which caused the unfor- tunate natives to act as they did. It is now clear, from all we can learn so far, that the Government had no legal right to lease Lonely Island. The property belonged to the Indians, not, as appears, having ever been ceded by them to the Canadian Government. This is surely a most ridiculous posi- t tion for any. Gferament to place them- selves ine "Only gifle a few un- letiered savages teaching our Cana- dian Government their duty ; pointing out jo them their blonders.,* "How eomes it that such ignorant: blunders are being committed 'by 'the Govern- mente, Cannot Mr. Brown or Some other individual who presumes"to be conversant, with everything connected with Canadian matters, see to it that these gentlemen are posted.up?., The Indians and those who advised them should be punished however. They had noright-whateverto take the-law-into theirown hands.' There was a way, other than that;'by which they could have obtained justice. True, it is possible that the Indian may have thought he was doing nothing wrong ; he, may, from the fact that he believes the Commissioner of Crown Lands took undne advantage of him while in a state of drunkenness, have consid- ered that no reparation could be had from the Government; and consequent- ly, knowing that the property was his own, and that the Government were guilty of an act of mjustice in giving a lease of it, he may have con- cluded that he not only hada right to drive the Lessees from the Island, but' that his doing so was the only means he had of righting himself, Such a conclusion is not unreasonable. The Indian might very justly conclude that if. the Government either designedly or through ignorance were capable of doing that which they had no right to do, and which was manifestly wrong and unjust, that it was not very likely they would make such an amende as he was by right entitled to receive, He may have concluded, and no doubt did, that the course he adopted was not only the right course, but the only one opento him. It is difficult to see' how. the Government can punish the Indians, from. the fact that the provo- cation originated with the »Govern- ment, not.with the natives. . The maintenance of the law requires that those who take the law into their own hands should be punished ; still, in the case before us there are more than ordinary difficulties to be got over. The nature and ignorance of the Indian must be taken into account, and also that there was great provoca- tion for the act which he committed. His punishment under the circum- stances should not be heavy. Faith should be kept with these people ;*all possible kindness should be uscd ; no act should be committed by the Government which would lead the Indians to suppose that an undue adyantage was sought to be obtained 'over them ; they would then have no cause for wrong doing, and the Go- vernment would not be placed in the humiliating position of punishing of- fences which their own blundering and illegal acts provoked. It is no use for the Globe to attempt ts screen the injustice and ignorance exhibited by the Government in this Lonely Island transaction, by heaping abuse on the heads of the Roman Catholic priests stationed on the Mani- toulin. We have no doubt at all but the priests have over-stepped their duty. We have no doubt but they desire to have the whole of the Island to themselves and the Indians--this is human nature. If the priests have acted wrong, let them be punished if their acts deserve punishment; but let not the Globe or any other paper think to hide the factthat the Govern- ment were the first aggressors, by abusing either the Indians or their priests. Tue BRITISH NAVY.--It appears from a Parliamentary return that the number of screw steamships now afloat is 414; and of paddle, 108. Thirteen screw and two pad- die steam-ships are building. The building Pof 29 others is suspended. The effective sailing-ships afloat are 103, making the total steam and sailing ships in the British Navy The War News. Since our last issue nothing of con- sequence has transpired at the seat of War.» At Charleston both sides are making immense preparations for the struggle which is soon 'to take place therey the West all is quiet, but how long this state of things will.continue we cannot Say. On the 4th ist. an ex- pedition, "composed" of~cne™ turretted iron-clad and three gun boats, under the direction of Major-Gen. Foster, proceeded up "the James River to within seven miles of Fort Darling, when a torpedo exploded under the Commodore Barney. It lifted the bows.of the boat.10 feet: out of the water, and threw a large quantity of water. into the. air, which, falling on tlie deck, washed overboard 15 of: the crew, all of whom, with the excep- tion'of two, were saved. | The Con- federates then opened fire from some field batteries, penetrating the Com- modore Barney fifteen times, and the Cohasset five times, instantly killing the commander of the latter. 'The expedition then returned. . Another Riot, caused by the draft, has. taken place in Sugar Groye, Warren Co., Pennsylvania, resulting in the death of about 50 persons. An interesting correspondence is at present going on between Gov. Seymour and President Lincoln, respecting the draft in the State of New York | The,Governor enumerates a number grievances,, and eomplains that the cities are called upon to furnish more men, ac- cording to their' population, than' the country districts ; he also urges upon the President the des'rability of sus- pending the draft till its consti- tutionality can be tested. The Presi- dent, while admitting the correctness | of most of the Governor's complaints, and his willingness to have its consti- tutionality tested, says he cannot suspend the draft because time is too important and the want of men too great. nw a0 i The Emigration Blunders of the Government, Emigration is a cooling and refreshing subject to write about, when the glass fluc- tuates detween eighty and ninety in the shade, and there is nothing to divest the at- tention but the dust, and bricks, and mor- tar, of out inland city. It suggests thoughts of green hills and pleasant valleys--as well as long lines of adventurers taking their last fond look at those hills and valleys, ere they set sail for anew home in the new world. It calls up pictures of white, swelling sails, and white-capped waves of emerald green, chasing the ship, and hurrying it on' to its destination. 'The poetry of the subject end- here. In turning our thoughts to emigra- tion, even on a hot and dusty day, we cannot forget the fact that the policy of the Reform government, for now going on two years, has been disgracefully apathetic. What has this government done to encourage emigra- tion, since the memorable day in 1861, in which the Cartier-Macdonald government went out of power? Of their acts on this i a and in? 'misguided thought be, will be rewarded Lower Canada with the Priests to encourage homogeneous, crabbed few, to come and set- tle in Lower Canada. The consequences of such a narrow-minded policy are now apparent. Emigration to Canada has been turned batkward, The people whom we most desire to ee to our shores, the middimg and faraifae lasses, >will not come here x all. » They have marked the vacillation of our emigration poliey-- they have heard of the disgraceful indecision of the government on the postal subsidy-- on. the question.of..public.defence--in fact, on all questions.: «'Dhey «see noostability in our government, and in truth but little honor or principle in that illustrious . body? "dt is no wonder; then; that-they willnet-come to Canada: » hey wilhemigrate to any country but to ours. Australia is not too far, nor thé Cape tod barbarous, nor New Zealand too unsettled. -All the,.colonies but those of British. North, America have attractions for the emigrant. . The gevernment first brought themselves and then' the country: ito con- tempt. La It is worthy of remark, that in Lower Canada the people have undertaken to do for their section 'of the' country what the government either will not or cannot do for the whole country. They are organizing emigration and colonization societies, True, the object is but to induce a homogeneous -- emigration, in which' the French: language and the Catholic religion will prevail. True, the priest. of every parish is,at, the head of a sub-committee of the great national league. Can we blame the Lower Canadians? They. feel the want of an industrious race of emi- grants to till the fertile townships, east and west--they feel that emigration is the life- blood and saviour of Lower Canada at the present political erisis--and the people re- fuse to wait any longer for, the dilatory gov- ernment. They have taken matters into their own hands; their zeal, sectional and by grants of land and money from the min- istry; this they will have, in spite of the laziness and imbecility of the Premier; and soon Lower Canada may add, one half to her population, while Upper 'Canada will | stand still, or perhaps retrogade.--London Prototype. diss ae teat What says the Globe to such a movement as this ? Heretofore J.A.Macdonald and the Conservatives would have had to bear the blame, but now that cannot be. - Mr. Brown is in power--why does he not see that those terrible ower Canadian French and their more terrible Priests do not have things all their own way. Free grants of Lands in Catholic Emigration will very soon change the relative position of the two sections. Roman Catholic French Lower Canada is aided--her Priests are assisted in the work of Emigration--while Upper Canada is en- tirely neglected. This, too, while the Hon. George Brown is in Power! It is not a matter of much wonder, we think, that 'Emigration to Canada is about stopped. How could it be otherwise unless where a special influence is brought to bear, such'is 'is being used in the Lower Province. What man of means would desire to come and settle in Canada after reading a few "Globe articles" on that -fearful national debt which is about to swallow us up! What Protestant of means would desire to come and settle in Protestant Upper Canada after reading a few "'Globe articles" about th Priests, and the Papacy and the Hierarchy and the French of Lower Canada being about to eat us up!! Ifany man in Cana all-important subject, we may truly say, that they have left undone what they ought to have done, and they have done what they ought not to have done. No sooner had they sccured office than they proceeded, with an energy that would have graced a good cause, to undo all that their predeces- sors had done. They recalled emigration agents--they upset natural plans-- they spread a panic among the emigration classes of Europe--they abandoned all efforts to thousands which last year and this year left the shores of Europe for the Australian colonies, for the United States, for every place and any place but Canada. By their regulations with steamboat and railroad car- riers, they held out a roe strangers to settle in the States, and n our coun- try. Where they should have been lavish they were penurious, and where they should have economised they wasted wealth. A mixed emigration of all religions, all nation- alities, of the bone, sinew and real wealth of Europe -- that would have enriched all Canada -- was discouraged; while the secure for Canada any portion of the teeming | or any paper in Canada has injured the cause of Emigration to Upper Canada that man is the Hon. George Brown, and thai paper is the Globe. It is not to be expecte that men, Emigrants, will come to a count whose finances are represented as being the verge of bankruptcy, or whose laws art under the entire control of the Papae This is just the condition the Globe h represented Canada tobe in. The crimina neglect of the Emigration question by thi present administration would almost warra the conclusion that Mr. Brown had s himself to work to destroy Upper Canad We hope the friends, we mean the t friends, of Canada, will take this importa: matter up at once and see that something done to encourage Emigrants to our shor pas The headof a carrot, if cut off little below the top and put in a basin water, will send out leaves, and make handsome ornament. pas-The sound of a cannon ball strikir a human being is described by a soldier similar to a sound made by striking a so on the 1st instant, 669 in all. strongest inducements were held out toa sharply with a persons fist.