CANADA.

Southland Times, Issue 994, 29 July 1868, Page 3

CANADA.

Montreal, Ist June. The Fenians are quiet at Malone and St. Albans, and no fears are entertained at present from those quarters. There are, however, twenty five thousand stand of arms at Ogdensburg ; and beef and pork for six thousand men for ten days are oil the way. An attack is menaced on Prescott and Cornwall, the object being to cut the canals. The government detectives at every point report all ominously quiet. It is stated, though, that a raid is certain"*to

take place before the first day of July, and this information is received from reliable sources. The Dominion government has protested against the removal of troops and insists upon three additional regiments being sent out and calls for more butteries of artillery. Two batteries of light field pieces have been sent to the front [wherever that is] and two million rounds of cartridges. The volunteer officers have received orders to prepare their men to march at a moment's notice. An order has also been issued to-day which doubles the^ pay of the volunteers, the object of this being to endeavor to keep up the efficiency of the force. The authorities are hard at work preparing for the expected raid, and the people are as much excited as they were at the time of the first raid. Ottawa, 2nd June. . The military preparations for the j anticipated Fenian raid are very complete. Field brigades have been formed in the various districts, composed of regulars and volunteers, having attached to each a battery of artillery and a troop of cavalry, under the commaud of officers chosen from the line. Each brigade can act independently, or they may be brought together as circumstances shall require. Tents and field stores of all kinds are ready for use, and the troops could take the field at a moment's notice, fully equipped for service. The duties of the quartermaster general and commissariat departments will be performed by imperial officer's. There will be a considerable reserve of regulars and volnnteers should the brigades already formed not be sufficient to meet the emergency. The regulars and volunteers are now armed with Snider and Enfield breech-loaders, and there is an abundant supply of ammunition on hand at all the necessary points. The volunteers are to receive fifty cents, per day, in addition to free rations when in active service. In addition to the preparations for the service on land, gunboats are now stationed at Prescott, Kingston, Toronto, Fort Erie and the St. Clair, managed by sailors of the royal navy, and supplied with Armstrong guns. " Toeo^to, 2nd June. The field brigade, composed of regulars and volunteers, in Toronto has been placed in a high state of efficiency. Staff officers in charge of camp equipage, forage, stores, and all other requisites, have been appointed, and the details for prompt action, in ease that the services of the Brigade should be required, are all arranged. Four guns of the Royal Artillery stationed here left this morning for Prescott. A strong guard from the Twentyninth regiment has been placed over the drill shed and the new jail. MoNTKEAii, 4th June. The Fenian scare throughout the dominion is increasing instead of abating, and the authorities add to the general fear of an impending raid by the extensive preparations they are making. In this city a flying column of four companies of regulars and two battalions of volunteera are under orders to leave at a moment's notice to any point they may be ordeied. At Quebec the volunteers have both been ordered to draw the requisite amount of ammunition and rations, and to keep themselves prepared in every particular for a campaign. A large force of British regulars is to be sent to Preseott next week, and in the meantime large quantities of ammunition and other war material are being forwarded to that point. At Athlone, Canada, the Fenian sympathizers are ' jubilant, and boast that the news they have of the movements of the Irish leaders makes it certain that the invasion will take place before the" 25th instant. Two men were arrested at Sweetsburg yesterday, charged with being Fenian spies. Maps and papers implicating them were found in their possession. One of the men has but one arm ; he says that he came from New York. Both the prisoners are now confined in jail, and strongly guarded.