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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], The reinforcement of the Canadian army. (search)
because we have no doubt the Government will be asked for an explanation of a proceeding, which, judging by the parliamentary and press remarks upon the original reinforcement, is certain to provoke strong opposition in England, and may not unlikely lead to a change of administration. The significance of the act of sending such a large body of troops to swell the already unusually large military force in Canada, is increased by a simultaneous change in the Governorship of the colony. Sir Edmund Head is to be superseded by Lord Monek, an Irish peer, who will doubtless act upon special instructions and be the willing instrument of the present ministry. I will be fortunate for England if the absence of so large a portion of her naval and military strength in these waters does not open a convenient opportunity for Louis Napoleon to carry into execution some of his favorite European objects, of which the annexation of the island of Sardinia is among the least. And it will be well,