Lynchburg Virginian

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. John N.B., dated Oct. 21:

"We have no news in this cold region, except a rumor that Governor Campbell of this Province has had instructions from the Governor General, Lord Gosford, to have troops in readiness to proceed to Quebec at a moment's warning, as Papineau, the French Canadian and Speaker of the Parliament of Lower Canada, has assumed the authority to convoke the General Assembly. We cannot, however, believe that a faction in that country will dare to try its strength at present with Great Britain. That the time is not far distant when all those Provinces will be severed from the mother country, there is little doubt; and yet there never were colonies more kindly ruled than those. The home government, as they style it, sits upon them as lightly as a hen upon her brood. The British Ministry esteem it policy to conciliate the people here at almost any sacrifice, merely to secure to themselves the timber trade in times of war.

On all other accounts, it would be far better for England that all her North American possessions should secede from her protection. For myself, I should be sorry to be assured that a union of any of those Colonies with the United States should ever be effected. Texas is the only territory that can be added with any safety or propriety to that great Republic, and that, ere long, will probably be ours. It is too far separated from the Mexican States to remain in union with them, and the vast plains that divide them will never be the abode of aught but buffaloes."

[N Y Adv.]