RECONQUEST OF CANADA BY FRANCE. (From the European Times.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1286, 17 April 1860, Page 2 (Supplement)

RECONQUEST OF CANADA BY FRANCE. (From the European Times.)

The Paris correspondent of the ' Globe' writes as follows ■ — The immense development of the rifle volunteer organisation in Great Britain has altogether extinguished any talk of an inrasion, even in military circles here. That game is up. But it is my duty' to report what has obtained considerable currency in quarters hostile to England, and which it is of the utmost consequence should reach the ears of responsible folk in office. The newest plan of aggression points to the reconquest of Canada by France. French journals published at Montreal make no secret of the aspirations in the Gallic bosom of the habitant in Lower Canada. A clerical paper, called ' L'Ordre,' goes so far as to question whether neutrality is to~be the Canadian watchword on the arrival of a French force. Aid from Yankeedom in this blow at England is counted on, and the beginning of the row is to be the casus belli I have more than once insisted on — the codbank quarrel. Newfoundland, by the strange neglect at headquarters, has been allowed to become the property of a disaffected faction, and is now ripe for the transfer of its allegiance. The rupture, once successful in this Quarter, will naturally extend, and French sympathisers in Canada count on this opportunity. The restoration of this great colony -to France would place Napoleon on a pedestal of immortality here. ' Meanwhile, the stepping-stone to imperial aggrandisement ' is made ready. Every influential and lucrative post at Newfoundland, speakership of the House of Assembly, attorney general, judges, financial secretary, even the postal communications, are controlled by anti-British influences, and an octogenarian governor is completely in the hands of the party. , The ' Naval and Military

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