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ere, that American citizen residing in Canada are required to take a passport when they design to pay a visit to the United States. The document can only be issued by a full one of whom is stationed at Clifton-Consular agents are not authorized issue passports, but will grant certificate of identity, An American resident Toronto will therefore be required, if he desires to cross the bridge, to take a certificate from Mr. Kimball, the consular agent there, and exchange it for a passport at Clifton. When Mr. Thurston, who is a full consul, returns to Toronto, he will issue passports. We cannot help regarding the introduction of the passport system as a piece of stupidity on the part of the Washington Government. Mr. Seward will not be able to prevent raiders crossing the frontier by any such means. The passport system has been abandoned in Europe — even by Austria and France--it having been found utterly in operation to prevent the transit of political conspirators. Its intro