... to erect Canada into an independent kingdom. There can be no doubt that it would be the interest of both England and Canada that the latter alternative should be adopted. What possible objection could England make to the independence of ...

... the Union. No doubt. But this phrase has two senses. It means either Home Rule or Independence. Now, we are not aware that the serious object of the leaders is Independence, in thie sense of separation. In the sense of Home Rule, the Irish agitators have ...

... I THE INDEPENDENCE OF CANADA. 'I Mr. Goldwin Smith has called public at- tention to the expediency of making Canada an independent and separate state. There are strong reasons why we should let our great American colony part from us. Canada, ...

... have been unsatisfactory, it wits not vague, inasiatlih as 1 proposed, in the most delfinite man. ncr, to make, Canada an independent nation.- I anl, &c., GOLDWIN SMITE. Oxford, July 23,186;2. ...

... not accrue from trade with them as independent nations, nobody has ever attempted to prove. Canada lays heavy import duties on the products of our industry, as though we were a foreign nation. If she was independent we might negotiate a reciprocity treaty ...

... present Constitution of Canada ; not, however, in the relations between Canada and this country-those are the wrong lines, and lines against which I protest, and which mean separation-but in the relations ziter se of the provinces of Canada. Those are the relations ...

... military establishment in Canada, about Bos,6001. 'i-year, besides occasional heavy sums for forts. Total, perhaps i,3650,0001. Let it not be said, that at least we secure a market for our manufactures. Canada, if independent tomorrow, would gladly take ...

... Theirinterests are the same. What benefits Canada benefits the re- public; and the richer the United States become, the more flourishing will'be Canada. But the United States and England may be at war; and Canada, as the nearest an d most onveaient,is certain ...

... satisfactory. It may be, and is, perhaps, quite true, that a cause of war between Canada, as an independent nation, and the United States, can hardly be anticipated to arise; but Canada, as a dependency, is perhaps as likely to involve us in war with the United ...

... public affairs. They were so sent, but I have not: learnt that they have proved useful. The House of Assembly of -Lower Canada is independent; but the Council has a sympathy with the placemen in the Upper Country, and as soon as they heard the news from York ...

... the whole of the Freemasons in Canada. The independent movement might have been checked, but several causes rendered it now impossible. The Grand Ledge of Ireland, on being applied to for recognition of the independent body as a Grand Lodge, wrote to ...

... well-meaning though rather inconclusive body, the Imperial Federation League. But he declared last night tha Canada was practically independent, and never likely to be anything else. It is melancholy to reflect that such should be the case, in spite of ...