NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Issue 75, 5 July 1866, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

CANADA. . The Governor-General, of Canada has issued a general order, calling out the volunteers, who are to be placed under the command of Lieut.-General Sir John Mitchel. v The Governor regrets', as a measure of precaution, to call into active service so large a number of volunteers, and says that this step does not result from the existence of a condition of war with a foreign State, but is rendered necessary in the performance of the duty devolving upon the Government of providing for. the protection of the lives and pioperty of the Canadians against the threatened piratical attacks of lawless men, who use the territory of" a neighboring power openly to organise enterprises against the sovereign rights of the Queen, and the security of her subjects. A letter from Montreal states that the Order in Council, calling out 10,000 volunteers, was approved by the GovernorGeneral one afternoon, and next day at twelve o'clock 8000 men were reported by telegraph to lead-quarters as fit for duty, and ready to- march. The writer adds : — "It is a creditable feat for this colony to have turned put within twenty-four hours an army of 10,000 men, well officered, well armed, and fairly drilled. All our men are animated by the best spirit, and I believe will be very sorry if they have no opportunity of giving the Fenians " a lesson." For my own part, rash as it is to prophesy, I must confess that I do not expect any opportunity will be afforded to them. Though the Fenians, I am sure, both here and at home, feel that their blow must be struck "now or never," yet I suspect that, like Mr Trollop's Bishop of Barchester Towers, they also feel that it cannot be " now." '■'' The excitement on the Fenian proceedings had greatly subsided in Canada, and the Government had mustered put the surplus of volunteers, retaining 10,000 as a standing army of observation on the frontier. Despatches from Toronto assert that orders which had been issued for disbanding the entire volunteer . force have been rescinded, and troops continue to be dispatched for the frontier. • The Fenian excitement appears to be increasing in intensity. A Quebec dispatch, dated April 12, says : — Large bodies of Fenians are gathering along the New Brunswick frontier, and threatening Campo Bello and St Stephen's. Two hundred Fenians lelft Portland, ■Mainej on April 9, for Eastport on the; Canadian frontier, and a schooner haft been chartered to carry arms Murpfiy, the president of the Toronto Hibernian Society, and five others, had been arrested in Canada, en route for Portland. Arms and ammunition were found upon them." On the 12thya Fenian convention was iii session at Eastport, Maine. The. town was crowded with Fenians, and there were several Fenian vessels i»"the harbor armed with howitzers and 20-pounders.^ A sailing vessel escaped to sea, notwith-* standing -the presence of the United States marshal in EastpprJ. Arms and ammunition Avere arriving at different points along the New Brunswick frontier. The despatch adds : — Several British gunboats are off EastCampo Bello, keeping steam up andportfioies-open. This attitude is said to have caused a^raCne^feeiej^ajnong American sympathisers with the; Fenian" cause, numbers of whom, together with some British* deserters, are joining the Fenians. A suspicious looking steamer, showing American colors, had proceeded up Eastport river- towards St Andrew's. Communication between St John's and the western towns onthe British side was reported to have been cut off, by the Fenians. The garrison of Campo Bello has been reinforced, and earthworks have been thrown up. , The Canadian authorities believed that this movement on New Brunswick was a feint to cover an attack upon Canada, in conjunction with gunboats from Chicago. At Toronto, Fenian arrests and the search for arms continued, j The Toronto headcentre and others had been preliminarily examined before the magistrates.