The Caledonian

Terrible State of Anarchy in Canada.

The Montreal Herald says that the police of the capital is inadequate to the protection of the lives and the property of its citizens. "We are in such a state," says that paper, "that no man can leave his house after dark without a feeling of uncertainty whether he will ever return alive. One man has been beaten to death on a public race-course, another is stabbed in the back, and for aught we know, is, at the moment we write, expiring at the hospital. Besides two riots on the same night, a contemporary publishes the names of four persons, who have been separately attacked by ruffians."

Our police have been reduced, the horsemen, who are the only efficient force on the high roads, almost suppressed, and there is no other alternative but to remain absolutely within doors, or to adopt the horrible expedient of carrying arms, determined, if attacked, to sell life as dearly as possible.

"Montreal is not the only place where violent outrages are perpetrated by cowardly ruffians on unsuspecting and unarmed individuals. We regret to see, in the Belleville Intelligencer an account of an attack made upon Mr E. Murney, and Mr James Fitzgibbon, in that place. Our contemporary states that the occurrence arose—from a quarrel between a person named O'Reilly and Mr Fitzgibbon, and that the former procured a third person to beat the latter, and interfered himself when the assailant appeared likely to get punished."

"Yesterday, the Jury who have been so long engaged in conducting the inquiry into the circumstances which led to the death of the late Mr Leonard, closed the inquest by returning a verdict of willful murder against James O'Donnell, Bernard Corrigan, Michael Palmer, Bernard Rafter, Daniel Brennan, and divers other persons unknown."

We learn that Rafter was arrested yesterday; O'Donnell is the man who was apprehended on the Race-course on Friday.