COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE AND TRANSPORTATION. DAT 
gestion of Lord Bury that the Treaty of Washington 
is unjust to Canada. He shows, on the contrary, that 
the Treaty is beneficial and acceptable to the Domin- 
ion, specifying particulars, and citing the approbatory 
votes of the legislative assemblies of the Canadian 
and maritime Provinces. 
But the United States will never make another 
treaty of reciprocal free importation, without includ- 
ing manufactures and various other objects of the 
production of the United States not comprghended in 
the schedule of the Elgin-Marcy Treaty. In fine, 
Canada must expect nothing of this nature short of a 
true zollverein involving serious modifications of the 
commercial relations of Canada to Great Britain. 
RELATION OF THE BRITISH PROVINCES TO THE UNITED 
STATES. 
The Dominion of Canada is one of those “ Posses- 
sions,” as they are entitled, of Great Britain in Amer- 
ica, which, like Jamaica and other West India Islands, 
‘have ceased to be of any economic value to her save 
as markets,—which in that respect would be of al- 
most as much value to her in a state of independence, 
—which she has invited and encouraged to assume 
the forms of semi-independent parliamentary govern- 
ment,—which, on the whole, are at all times a charge 
to her rather thai a profit, even in time of peace,— 
which would be a burden and a source of embarrass: 
ment rather than a force in time of war,—and which, 
therefore, she has come to regard, not with complete 
carelessness perhaps, but with sentiments of kindl- 
