Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Canadian Politics. [ARTICLE]

Canadian Politics.

Since the union of the two Canadas the debt has increased from six to sixty millions, and thp annual expenses of the government from a million and a quarter to eleven million and a half. The great expenditures have been made to conciliate various localities arid to fatten speculators, and the people, feeling themselves outraged, begin to talk again about repudiation, revolution, and annexation to the United States. This answers the same purpose in Canada as the cry of disunion by disappointed politicians in the [United States. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Milan, says that when the news of peace came he saw a young French officer at the Case del’ Europa drew his sword, afterreading the bulletin,and break it against the mqrble table at which he set. He heard others,* who related the insulting words with which - they had been assailed by the populace, sympathizing with the feeling which had dictated these words, and only pleading their innocence of the transactions of their sovereign. The revulsion was so sudden and blasting to the Italians that in one day five persons were carried to the mad-house : raving maniacs. O^7“A correspondent writing from Niagara Falls |o the New York Herald, says that he has been informed, by a gentleman whose staterrifent is reliable,, that where the Suspension Bridge originally sagged only two or j three inches under thb weight of a train, it I now sags nearly twenty inches. The gen- 1 eral impression in the neighborhood is this ■ great work of art will one of these days give : way ahd fall into the river. Visitors now , walk over the bridge, instead of crossing in , the trains as formerly. Carlinville (Macoupin Co., Ill.) Free Democrat of the fourth, learns that a ; notorious bully and rowdy, by the name of Vanrichie, with another man, were shot dead on Friday or Saturday last, near the southwest border of Macoupin county. The particulard are not reliably given, but rumor says that two men shot, went to the house of a farmer, : ( and finding his wife alane, attempted violance upon her, when her husband came in with*, a gun and shot them both. We do riot knqw the names of the parties, except the one* mentioned above. O^7“A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune mentions as one of the things which disturbed (he pleasure of commencement at Harvarq College, an unfortunate allusion by one of (he boys, when he “spoke his piece,”! to the ‘‘contemptible articles in the New' York Ledger, ” which the youngest contrasted with the elegant literature of the Atlantic Monthly* Mr. Everett, who was on the platform, foiind it convenient to blow his nose about that time. to the articles of war, it is death toi stop a cannon-ball.