American Affairs and World News
One of the signs of the times is the increased attention paid to United States affairs by the Canadian newspapers. A considerable of their space, formerly given to dry and second-hand dissertations upon English topics, is now devoted to the news and the thoughts current on this side of the line. Some of these journals have correspondents at New York and Washington, and show a commendable degree of enterprise in publishing the freshest ideas and thoughts which are of interest to their neighbors. This mutual interest will lead to closer intellectual intercourse, and closer intellectual intercourse will lead to closer social and political intercourse.—Det. Post, Jan. 10. Mt. Vesuvius.—The great Italian volcano is giving forth symptoms of another grand eruption. Already there have been several small eruptions recently, causing alarm in the vicinity. The troubles that have taken place in the South since the close of the secession war, are the consequences of that war. We have heard much of the restoration of peace, but, in fact, peace never has been restored in some of the Southern States, and perhaps it never will be thus restored, till the central government shall have interfered once more as it did in 1861–5.—Boston Traveler.