"_Resolved_--That those persons in the North who do not subscribe to the foregoing proposition, are too insignificant in numbers and influence to excite the serious attention and alarm of any portion of the people of the Republic; and that the increase of their numbers and influence does not keep pace with the increase of the aggregate population of the Union." ] I am spending to-day with Reynolds, and dine to-night with Brydges. Reynolds has a good house, but he complains of his high rent, as his house was taken in the piping times of 1858. Now rents are down one-half, and he could get as good a house for 100_l_ a year, whereas he pays 200_l_ In 1857 it was--to use a vile Yankee phrase, the literal meaning of which no one can explain, but the illustrative meaning of which is inflation--"High Felluting"-- or, as the Yankees write it, "Hi Falutin"--now everything is sobered, and in many places depressed: only one house now being built in all this town of 40,000 inhabitants." "MONTREAL, "6 _Sep_. 1861. "I spent Monday in Toronto and came on here on Monday night, reaching here on Tuesday afternoon. Since then I have been busy here. I have had a more satisfactory interview with the Finance Minister, and we go to Quebec together on Tuesday, after which I meet the Government, officially, and shall know before the end of next week whether they will help us, or not. I think they will do something. The management of this railway is an organized mess--I will not say, a sink of iniquity. I shall, however, know all about it before I have done with it. "I feel tired, somehow--perhaps with travelling too hard--perhaps with too much anxiety to get on quickly with this Grand Trunk business; but, on the whole, I am very well, and have kept my spirits and nerve up to the mark, generally. I have a great task in hand, and I should like to come out of it creditably. "There is a belief here that Jeff. Davis is dead, and, if so, it may alter the complexion of affairs in the United States. The U.S. Government have introduced passports--so one cannot leave their agitated soil without that badge of tyranny. It will not affect me, as I shall not stop long in their land--but get out of it as soon as I can.