THE FENIANS AND CANADA.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2930, 6 July 1878, Page 2

THE FENIANS AND CANADA.

A number of discouraging reports bare long been afloat to the effect that the Fenians in America would seize the opportunity of British complications with Eussia to make a descent upon Canada. The rumours now take a concrete form,

and wo here of camps formed not far from the frontier, mysterious drillings of largo numbers of Irishmen, the collection of Remington rifles, and the actual organisation of the invading force, the intention of the Fenians being to prevent Canada, by occupying attention, from contributing any material aid to England in the event of our being engaged in war. Their levies are said k> be under the command of veteran Irish officers who fought in the Civil Warsoldiers of fortune, with everything to gain and nothing to lose except liberty, which some few, perhaps, have lost once already, when they made acquaintance with the inside of certain Knglish gaols. The unmistakable " buncombe " and " tall talk " which underlie there preparations save the Canadians from feeling any great anxiety as to invasion. But they are wisely taking precautions against attack. The frontier is long, but intercommunication is easy, and any hostile movement would speedily be known. There are. gunboats on the lakes, and the Canadian Militia is being mobilised to hold the best tactical points on shore. Both naval and land forces are in a state of high efficiency, mud they may be expected to make short work of the " raiders," who would probably find also a" functionary in their rear called the United Slates Marshal, with something to say about their unlawfully levying. war on their own account.