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UMITED, PRINTERS, COLBORNE STREET. 18S7. 1>A5^^ <^ 1, 4'f!r + SOME VICTOBIAN NOTES. BY HENRY SCADPDJC, D.D. [The Associated Tioneers of the City of Toronto intl old County of York, made the Falls of Niagara the scene of tlieir cnslomziT xnaaal excursion in 1887, the memorable jubilee year of Queen VictoriaL « n dietr arrival at the Falls, partly by rail round the head of the lake, art'^ j^nlj by steamer to Port Dal- housie, they received an especial welcome from zht larhorities of Wesley Park, a beautiful reserve of about one hundred and sirty a>cnes. skirting the edge of the river on the Canadian side between Clifton Houi« ami tbe great railwray Suspen- sion Bridge. After acknowledging with thankfulnrfK 'Ki behalf of the members of the Society then present, the kind words ad^lres^-i :o them on the occasion by the Rev. Dr. Daniels and the Rev. Mr. MitchdL, ibe presiilent of the Society, Rev. Dr. Scadding, proceeded as follows.] « The present jubilee season has naturally ha»l the effect of calling forth recollections of the Queen in every qmrter, and anecdotes connected with every stage of her eventfid life have alK)unded in the countless publications of the da\-, tc^^ether with pictorial repre- sentations of the varying appearance of her person from the cradle to the piesent hour. It will ther'^fore be considered pardonable, perhaps, if I venture to add my small quota to the general mass of particulars now engaging the public attention in this ilirection. Some years ago (it was on Wednesday, June Itth, lJ^40) I had the good fortune to hear the Queen spe^k for a few moments, or rather to read aloud ; and the words then heard were nctetl down, and have been jirized by me ever since as a kind oi roxai autograph, not of the i)en upon paper, but of the living voice nfwn the mysterious tablet of memory. It will possibly Vie remembered by some of you that in the year 1840 an attempt was made on the Queen's life, by a person, more senseless perhaps than readlv malignant, named Ox- ford, who fired two pistol shots into the Queen s caniage from quite a short distance, while drivin^,' in one of tbe London parks. " It is an ill wind that blows nobody good." Sj tJne proverb avers, and its truth was proved in this case. The incident, so unpleasant for the Queen, ami whiili might have been so disastrouH to the nation, led to one's liaving the chance of hearing the tones of the Queen's voice while uttering the words which the present occasion proinpts nie to reiHjat to you. Congratulatio.is on the Queen's escape poured in from all parts of the tlnfe kingdoms. It was my lot to accompany a deputation from the University of Cambridge which came up to tt)wn on an errand of tliis nature. In reply to the felicitations of that learnetl body, the Queen said : " I grat(!fully acknowledge with vou the providential interposition of the Father of ail nuTcies, in our recent preservation from unexpected peril. I thank you for the prayei*s which you oH'er up for my welfare, and I trust that I may continue to receive, as I shall study always to deserve, these expres- sions of loyalty and attachment which this occasion has so univer- sally cjilled forth." And these are the words wliich 1 have stored up in the mental cabinet. The im])ression they made upon me at the time I heard them, I can never foi-g ^t, so clear, so musical, so exquisit of the iiiavlth- stairs, one |»acf!erat<'ly on with the «l»'|nttation. througli a series of lofty [(ictureifarnished s;th>ons. leailing to the j»resence-chanil»er. At ivmilar intervals alon;^ the sides of e-aeh room, stt wel' see from where I stood. And now the whole company .solemnly bnckeil towards the grand folding doors through which thev had entered, a movement of course creating some confusion among tlio.se at the lower end of the room. The moment the last member of the deputjition was outside, the doors were closed ; and then in a few moments they were thrown open again ; when, on looking round, I ol>.served that the throne w;is emj)ty, and that the whole of the royal gioup had vanished, all probably, not soriy that the formalities which had detained them so lonji were over — at all events for tliat dav. Little thought I, good friends, when taking note of all these things that nearly a half-a-century later I should be detailing them to an association of Canadian pioneers and others, with the thunderous monoCone of Niagara cloHe hy for an aoninifaninient. Yet so, in the providence and sure guidings of the Fathfr of all mercies, it has conwe to {niss — but let nie return fnmi this Ji;^re«sioii into which I hare watid»*red. The words of (he Queen vhich I have rejieated to jou. were worthy words, propitioiis words, pro|>hetic of whub has etuiuetl. '* I trust," she Si»id, " I shall continue to rectrive, as I shall always study to deserve, these expressions of loyalty and attachment" Ukut trust has been fully realized. That aim has been faithfully maintained. Yes, to both facts, what noblf witnesi» is liorne by the nniversal acclaim which is now going up from every part of tlie British Empire, after a test of fifty years. Nay. from our brotluus aiCToss the gorge yonder, though nominally no Ion<^r of the British Empire, is not the same acclaim ascending; \ As sings a recent Engitsh poet [Lewis Morris], addressing the Queen : — " Not those alone who thy cummaDdB oljey Thy subjects are ; but in the boundltss \Ve»t Our grandsires lost, still is thy reign oonfeak. ' The queen ' they call thee, the young People srtnmg Who being Hritons might not sufft- r wr.>ng. But are re-knit with us in revereuoe for thee " Truly this is so, as wo all well know who li .ve Iteeu brought into c]«]e far to go to get under the shade of natural wcjil^f — those pleasant reminders of days by gone— envy all who have ready access to a piece of the old primeval forest. I also congratulate the i)eoj)le of this locality and the people of the whole Pro^nnce on the |)os8ession of the great Public Park lately established here, entbracing the whole eniiironment of the Falls on the Canadian side rf the river. Our Legislature has not been slow to follow tfa<> example set with such munidcence by the Legislature of the State oi" New York. By the action of the two governments, the Falls in their totdity, are rescued from the degradation to which they had begun to be subjected, and 1 ■ \ a boon of incalculable value has Ij<«i conferred on the lovers of the Sublime in nature, attracttMl LitiiKeT fr>m all parts of the earth. I congnitulate the people of tLit^ uei;^lj*3(irhebus and Terror. And within the Arctic circle, far up in »>ar North, there is likewise a Victoria Land, a vast insular tntx dir-Mt^d from the continent by a Victoria Strait. In Britisli Codomljui is a city of Victoria, in Hong Konu is another, and in the S*^vcLelks Inlands is another. Numerous are the villages and stations of tini* nauixe, situated either in our own province of Ontario, or iu tine |j*»>vinee of Quebec, or in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, So«ndIand. Ontario (Co. Hastings), and Quebec (Co. Pontiac), are Vktoria Lakes. In North Australia is a Victoria River, and in Ontario a Victoria Harbour (Georgian Bay). At Montreal is the worid-lamfxis Victoria Bridge. In addi- tion, most cities and towns thronivJiKoiiiit the Emi)ire have, like; Toronto, their Victoria Streets and VidUnia ^kjnares. From east to west on the oonrinens of Euroiw, and along the east and south shores of the MeditemiKan Sea, memorials of the Caesars of old Rome in the form of local n i .. », much ilisguised now many of them (Saragossa, e.g., Aosta. Firiali, Grenoble, Adrianople, etc.), are scattered about, shewing the extent of their former sway. But the name of Victoria occurring in s*) many instances as a local or geographical designation, in botln hemispheres of the globe, will demonstrate to after ages the existence of an Empire far transcending that of the Csesara. As the poet, already cited, sings again : — 8 " Oh Kngland ! Kmpire wide antl great Ah evur fr«im the Hhaping hand «>f fate Did iaiuc on the earth, augiiMt, large-gniwn. What were the enipireH of the paHt, to thine - The ohl, old empires ruled by kingH divine — p]gypt, Assyria, Rome? What rule was like tliiiie own Who o'er the round world bearest sway." We, as CHniuliiiiiK, are spocially intereHte have the name of Virginia added to (Jreat Britain, Friince and Ireland ; and by Virginia was then meant the whole of the Queen's dominions on this continent, so denominated l>y Sir Walter Raleigh, in honor of the virgin Queen. (This was the idea also originally conveyed by the expression — the Old Dominion.) So that so far as the poet Spenser is concerned, it would not bo an innovation to write down our Sovereign Lady h.s Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Canada. Since the time of George IV., the name of France as a theoretical hereditjiment of the Crown of England, has been dropped. For this omission, how ample would be the compensation if the name of another Fi-ance were assumed — the New France of this continent, known now as Canada in an extended sense, covering almost the whole of the northern portion of the con- tinent, from ocean to ocean. In regard to Canada, indeed, as in regard to India, the title of Empress could with piopriety be em- ployed, the idea of acquisition and retention by force of arms, im- I .u •$ plied in the title irn|>erator, or emperor, being in accordance with the facts of history, in the one case, as well as in the other. And now one word in regard to our visit here to-day, as a society of Canadian [)ioneers. Our visits to ditlerent locjilities in the Pro- vince of Ontario, in years bygone, have had, as is well known, the effect of stirring up in those localities a fresh interest in the circum- stances of their early settlement. Such a result has, I Wlieve, fol- lowed our visits to Peterborough, to Gueljdj, to Hamilton, to (Queens- ton, to Orillia, and to Orangeville. We have thus actec we shall continue so to act, as a kind of itinerant practical historical sociiity, for a considerable portion of the western part of the Pro- vince. Our visit to the Falls, and to some of the historical sites in the neighbourhood of the Falls, will also possibly have some n "^ult. 1 am sure our Society will be glad to do all in its |)ower to drav» attention, for one thing, to the condition of the burial plot near Lundy's Lane, with a view to having it put in better order. ^V'e shall also be ghul to urge on the authorities the piopriety of us.su>ting residents in the vicinity \*lu leel a concern for tuch nuittt-rs. in an effort to have the 1 Uefield marked by a suitably ins( ribee securepletion of our monument on the site of the old French fort, or Trading Post, at Toronto, established in 1749, by means of which considerate help the monument will be completed iuimediately, and made one of the euvluring mementoes to posterity of this present auspicious year.