THE TOUR 
 
 OF 
 
 H. R, JL 
 
 THROUGH 
 
 BRITISH AMERICA 
 
 AND 
 
 THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 BY A BRITISH CANADIAN, 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE COMPILER BY JOHN LOVELL, 
 
 ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 
 
 1860. 
 
TO 
 
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 In acknowledgment of his sterling and brilliant abilities as a Statesman, 
 
 and as 
 
 THE MOVER IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 
 
 . OF 
 
 THE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN INVITING 
 
 TO VISIT CANADA, 
 
 This Work is humbly and respectfully INSCRIBED by bis obliged, obedient, 
 and humble servant, 
 
 THE COMPILER. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 THE PRINCE OF WALES. 
 
 Albert Edward, Heir Apparent to the British throne, Was born at 
 Buckingham Palace on the 9th of November, 1841. He is consequently 
 nineteen years of age. 
 
 The titles of the Prince of Wales are Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe 
 Coburg Gotha, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carrick, 
 and Dublin, Baron Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles. These titles he derives 
 partly by inheritance and partly from creation, from the circumstance 
 of King Edward I. having, in politic concession to the Welsh chieftains, 
 created his heir " Prince of Wales," a few days after his birth, which 
 took place in Caernarvon Castle. This was the unhappy Edward II., 
 who was so barbarously murdered by Mortimer in Berkeley Castle. A 
 few days afterwards he was created Earl of Chester, which title has 
 been retained up to the present time. The Scottish titles of the Prince 
 are derived from Robert III., in whose reign they were vested in the 
 Heir Apparent of the Crown of Scotland. His Irish titles were conferred 
 on the present Prince of Wales by Queen Victoria, on the 10th of 
 September, 1849, in commemoration of her visit to Ireland. In the 
 House of Lords he is known as the Duke of Cornwall. 
 
 Dod, the great authority on all these questions, thus defines the rank 
 and position of the Prince of Wales : " The Prince of Wales has ever 
 been regarded as the first subject in the realm, the nearest to the throne, 
 
the most dignified of the Peers of Parliament, and, though not exercising 
 any political power beyond his vote as a legislator, yet regarded by all men 
 as the most eminent person in the State next after the Sovereign." 
 
 The Princes of Wales, previous' to the present subject of our memoir, 
 have for more than a century been all placed in false positions. Since the 
 accession of the Georges, they have invariably ^ been in opposition to 
 their father. The evil conduct of George IV. had sadly tarnished the 
 high distinction : let us hope the present bearer of that high title will 
 redeem it. 
 
 The education of Albert Edward has been conducted under the im- 
 mediate supervision of the Queen. In the languages, classics, natural 
 philosophy, mathematics, jurisprudence, and other branches, His Royal 
 Highness has had the most eminent professors of the day ; and it is 
 stated that after his tour in America he will return to his studies at 
 Oxford. 
 
 On the 9th of November, 1858, the Prince of Wales, having, on that 
 day, completed his seventeenth year, was appointed colonel in the army. 
 The Gazette of the following Friday contained the subjoined announce- 
 ment : 
 
 " The Queen taking into her royal consideration that His Royal 
 Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Knight of the Most Noble 
 Order of the Garter, and, by virtue of the statutes of the said order, 
 constituent member thereof, has not as yet assumed the stall assigned 
 to the Prince of Wales in the Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, 
 and having, as sovereign of the said order, the inherent right of dis- 
 pensing with all statutes, ordinances, and regulations in regard to in- 
 stallation, Her Majesty has been pleased, by letters patent under her 
 Royal Sign Manual and the Great Seal of the Order, bearing date this 
 day, to give and grant to His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of 
 Wales, full power and authority to wear and use the Star, and also to 
 wear and use the Collar and all other Ornaments belonging to the said 
 Most Noble Order, and to sit in the stall assigned to the Prince of Wales 
 in our Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, and to exercise all rights 
 and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said Most Noble 
 Order, in as full and ample manner as if His Royal Highness had been 
 formally installed ; any decree, rule, or usage, to the contrary notwith- 
 standing." 
 
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 Having thus fairly entered upon the duties of manhood, His Royal High- 
 ness determined upon pursuing his studies, for a time at least, at Rome. 
 Accordingly, after a brief visit to his illustrious sister at Berlin, the Prin- 
 cess Frederick William of Prussia, he proceeded on his journey to Italy. 
 On his way thither, he performed the first public act of his life, by pre- 
 senting colors to the 100th or Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regi- 
 ment of Foot, then stationed at Shorncliffe, near Folkestone. His Royal 
 Highness took occasion to make the following appropriate speech to the 
 assembled officers and men : 
 
 "Lord Melville, Colonel de Rottenberg, and Officers and Soldiers of the 
 100th Regiment, It is most gratifying to me, that, by the Queen's gra- 
 cious permission, my first public act since I have had the honour of 
 holding a commission in the British army, should be the presentation 
 of colors to a regiment which is the spontaneous offering of the loyal 
 and spirited Canadian people, and with which, at their desire, my name 
 has been specially associated. The ceremonial on which we are now 
 engaged, possesses a peculiar significance and solemnity ; because, in 
 confiding to you for the first time this emblem of military fidelity and 
 valor, I not only recognize emphatically your enrollment into our national 
 force, but celebrate an act which proclaims and strengthens the unity 
 of the various parts of this vast empire under the sway of our common 
 Sovereign. Although, owing to my youth and inexperience, I can but 
 very imperfectly give expression to the sentiments which this occasion is 
 calculated to awaken with reference to yourselves and to the great and 
 flourishing province of Canada, you may rest assured that I shall ever 
 watch the progress and achievements of your gallant corps with deep 
 interest, and that I heartily wish you all honour and success in the prose- 
 cution of the noble career on which you have entered." 
 
 The Prince arrived in the Eternal City in the latter part of January, 
 1859, and, having spent some time in exploring ancient and modern 
 Rome, proceeded quietly and unostentatiously to his studies. Before 
 doing so, however, he paid a visit to the Pope. His appearance at the 
 Vatican is worthy of note, inasmuch as a Prince of the blood-royal of 
 England had not made a similar visit for some centuries. Agreeably to 
 the expressed wish of Her Majesty, the reception was conducted with little 
 ceremony. His Holiness rose on the entry of the Prince, and, coming 
 forward to the door of the apartment to meet him, conducted him, in 
 
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 the most affable manner possible, to a seat, and entered into conver- 
 sation with him in French. Col. Bruce was the only other person pre- 
 sent at the interview ; which was brief, and limited to complimentary ex- 
 pressions and subjects of local interest, but perfectly satisfactory to all 
 parties. On the Prince rising to take his leave, the Pope conducted him 
 again to the door with the same warmth of manner which he had testi- 
 fied on receiving him. The stay of His Royal Highness in Rome being 
 interrupted by the outbreak of the war in Italy, he travelled to Gibraltar, 
 and thence to Spain and Portugal. He returned to England on 
 June 25, 1859. 
 
 On his return, he took up his residence at Oxford to pursue his studies. 
 On the 9th of July last, he embarked, with his suite, at Devonport, on 
 board the Hero, ship of war, and sailed for America on the following 
 morning. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 THE fact of the late visit of His Royal Highness the 
 Prince of Wales being attended, in British America, with all 
 the loyal devotion which a happy and contented people could 
 pay to the representative of the best of Sovereigns, irrespec- 
 tive of the interest which necessarily attached to H. R. H. 
 as being Heir Presumptive to the British Throne, and in 
 the United States, with acts of unbounded courtesy and 
 kindness, has induced the Compiler to collect together the 
 most interesting details of the Royal tour, and to present 
 them in the following simple form, trusting that it will 
 be full of interest, not only to the Canadian people, but to 
 others " at home," and to " our cousins across the line " ; and 
 that it will form an acceptable memento of the Royal visit. 
 
 If the work, as an accurate panoramic view of the events 
 which have taken place, give satisfaction to the great 
 mass of the people, who were so deeply interested in the 
 Prince's very successful sojourn in Canada, then will the 
 Compiler be amply rewarded for his trouble ; but if some too 
 discriminating critic detect a flaw, it must be remembered 
 that 
 
 " We all are prone to err." 
 
INTEODUCTION. 
 
 THE Canadians in general, have, apart from their industrial and 
 commercial pursuits, always been celebrated for their steady 
 adherence to the British Crown, as is witnessed in the transfer of 
 the French to the English rule over the native Canadians, who now 
 live in peaceful and on the best of terms with the great mass of the 
 English residents ; bearing towards the Queen the most unfeigned 
 feelings of reverence, and towards the Constitution that deference 
 to which it is entitled. 
 
 No republican spirits lurk in the midst of the Canadians, 
 except it be a few fanatics, too weak for action, and who are unable 
 to augment their numbers by their silly, boisterous, and attempted 
 agitation-talk. The great majority of the inhabitants laugh at these 
 silly people, who, to attain a brazen notoriety, attempt to mar our 
 happiness. No I every true inhabitant of this our home, bears 
 towards Britain true allegiance, which neither time can work upon, 
 nor future events affect. 
 
 Persons unacquainted with the history of the Province, may 
 aver, that the disturbance of 1837 in Canada, and many 
 things tending to its advance, are evidence to the direct contrary. 
 To this we give an unequivocal denial ; for, in the first place, 
 every person in Canada is aware that that rebellion was con- 
 cocted by a few persons totally unacquainted with the Pro- 
 vince, except by business or debased political ties. Certainly 
 there were persons connected with it who were natives of the 
 Province ; but such disaffected persons are to be found in every 
 community, no matter how respectable, ready, at any moment 
 of weakness, to endeavour to take advantage of the existing form of 
 government. 
 
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 It was such persons, by their idle, interested misrepresentations 
 concerning England and Canada, that led many others to err ; 
 and a few were led, from a mistaken sense of danger, to co-operate 
 with them, who to their death will, no doubt, always regret having 
 taken arms against their country, and her fair young Queen. 
 
 The fact of many of these latter persons now being our leading 
 and best of citizens, and moreover ever ready to support the Queen 
 and the Constitution, proves, we think, that our statement is 
 correct. 
 
 Again, look at the terrible numbers that bore arms against them, 
 in defence of their homes and country, and the valiant band, 
 in the war of 1812, that defended both sea and land from the 
 aggressors, every capable man bearing a musket, ready to spill his 
 kst drop of blood in defence of Canada and the King. And look 
 at the great bulk of the population of Upper Canada, the noble 
 and patriotic United Empire Loyalists, who forsook their homes, 
 their all, in the disaffected colonies (now the United States) ; 
 enduring as they did every privation, rather than serve under the 
 flag that supplanted ours. 
 
 These, and many other acts of valour, prove beyond all doubt, 
 that the inhabitants of Canada are worthy of the confidence and 
 esteem of their Queen. Indeed, no sovereign on earth ought to be 
 so satisfied with her subjects as Victoria with her Canadian ones, 
 and no people so proud (as we really are) of our Queen ; and we 
 doubt not, that no ruler is so venerated and esteemed as Victoria 
 is, by not only the Canadians, but the great mass of the American 
 colonists. 
 
 It was, then, this feeling of loyalty and veneration which dictated 
 the address from our Houses of Parliament, praying Her Gracious 
 Majesty to visit us ; to see us as we are, to see the improvements 
 effected by British bone and sinew, without capital, without help ; 
 in a land given to our forefathers in a comparative state of 
 wildness ; to witness her administration of our industry, and to 
 give us occasion to prove our attachment to her Throne and Person, 
 by entertaining her in a land which we have battled for and pre- 
 served to her, and which, we doubt not, may ere long justify the 
 remark, that it is indeed " the brightest gem in the British Crown." 
 
 "What, then, were our feelings when we became aware of the 
 noble response to our humble address ? Her Majesty, unable to 
 
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 come herself, would depute her eldest son and heir to witness those 
 noble advancements in a land, from barbarism to civilization. 
 
 If our loyalty and allegiance to her could at all increase, then 
 did they upon the receipt of the joyful intelligence. 
 
 From cities to towns, from towns to remote villages, and even 
 far away into the recesses of the forest, where the solitary settler 
 was effecting " a clearing," did the good news travel fast, and 
 throughout the length and breadth of the land did it receive a 
 joyous welcome ; and need we add, that the Queen was blessed and 
 blessed again. One regret, and only one, pervaded the whole 
 colony, that Her Majesty herself could not come ; yet we would 
 receive the Prince her son, and our future King, in a fitting 
 manner, in a manner to fully demonstrate to him, that he was 
 indeed her son and heir. 
 
 We imagined that His Koyal Highness (being brought up un- 
 der his royal mother's watchful eye) was a young gentleman of 
 sound mind and " excellent understanding," capable of appreci- 
 ating the hearty welcome we intended for him. In this we have 
 not been disappointed, for he has proved to be all that we could 
 wish ; all that a son of Her Majesty, and the future ruler of 
 Great Britain, ought to be. 
 
 His noble qualities have endeared him to us tenfold ; he has 
 received an ovation, which has been declared by members of his 
 suite, and by others from the other side of the Atlantic, to be the 
 grandest and most cordial they ever heard of or witnessed, and 
 let us hope worthy of him ; and we rejoice exceedingly, knowing 
 as we do that to Canada, and the members of our present Admin- 
 istration, is the whole of civilized America indebted for the 
 honour of the visit of Prince Albert Edward of England. 
 
 We cannot conclude without mentioning the great debt Canada . 
 owes to the Hon. Messrs. Vankoughnet and Cartier, the chief 
 promoters of this memorable event. Let us always remember, that, 
 but for them, it is as likely as not that we would never have seen 
 the Prince of Wales in America. 
 
 To Mr. Commissioner Rose the country is under deep obliga- 
 tions, for the elaborate arrangements perfected to receive the royal 
 prince ; worthy of His Koyal Highness, and worthy the great 
 spirit that projected them and carried them out. 
 
THE TOUR 
 
 H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. 
 
 In 1858, a person named Norris, whether to show his loyal 
 attachment to England, or to obtain a certain amount of notoriety 
 through the undertaking, got up a memorial to Her Majesty, 
 praying her to allow the Prince of Wales to visit our shores, and 
 open the Crystal Palace at Toronto. In doing this he made a 
 very serious blunder, consequent on his extreme haste to honour 
 himself. 
 
 The following is the memorial : 
 
 TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
 The humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of Toronto, and 
 
 Inhabitants of Canada generally, 
 Most respectfully showeth, 
 
 That your Petitioners desire to approach your Royal Majesty with an 
 expression of devoted loyalty and attachment to your royal person and 
 family. That your Petitioners beg leave to inform your Majesty that a 
 Crystal Palace, similar in design, but of smaller dimensions, to those 
 of London and Paris, for the exhibition of the products of Canadian 
 industry and skill, is in course of erection in Toronto, and will be com- 
 pleted about the 1st October next. That your Majesty has been gra- 
 ciously pleased to honour the inauguration of similar undertakings in 
 England, and elsewhere, with your royal presence. Therefore your Peti- 
 tioners most humbly pray that your Most Gracious Majesty will confer a 
 mark of favour and distinction on your loyal subjects in Canada of which 
 they will always entertain the most grateful remembrance by con- 
 ferring your authority on His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, or 
 
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 some other member of your Majesty's Royal Family, to proceed to 
 Canada, and to represent your Majesty in opening the Crystal Palace 
 in this the most important dependency of your Majesty's Empire. 
 And your Petitioners, &c. 
 
 To this Mr. Norris succeeded in obtaining some very influen- 
 tial names, some of the leading persons of the Province ; but in 
 signing it, they little understood his intentions. 
 
 Instead of having the document forwarded to Her Majesty 
 through the Governor General, Mr. Norris, to the astonishment 
 of the gentlemen who had signed it, deputed himself. 
 
 Sir E. B. Lytton, no doubt, was somewhat surprised on 
 receiving a document of such magnitude from a private indivi- 
 dual, who had constituted himself our " ambassador " ; and with 
 such a lack of what ambassadors invariably possess, education and 
 good breeding, he must have been sorely puzzled at the good 
 people he partly presided over. 
 
 However, on an insight into the matter, the truth eked out, 
 and Mr. Norris received such a rebuke, as we fancy he will not 
 easily forget, and which was conveyed in the following official 
 letter from Downing Street : 
 
 DOWNING STRHET, llth September, 1858. 
 
 SIR, I cannot but regret that the Petition from the citizens of Toronto, 
 and inhabitants of Canada generally, which I had the honour to receive 
 from you, was not transmitted, according to usage, through the Governor 
 of the Province. But, as the time within which it was necessary that 
 this Petition should receive an answer, would not allow of my consult- 
 ing the local Government on the subject of it, I have deemed it my 
 duty to lay the Petition before the Queen, who has been pleased to 
 receive it very graciously ; and I am commanded by Her Majesty to 
 state, that, while under the necessity of declining the request that His 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, or some other member of Her 
 Majesty's Family, should proceed to Canada, with the view of opening 
 the Crystal Palace at Toronto, which is to be completed about the 1st 
 of October, Her Majesty appreciates the loyalty to the Crown, and the 
 attachment to her Person and Family, which prompted the wish of the 
 Petitioners. 
 
 I have also to add the expression of Her Majesty's sincere good 
 wishes for the Exhibition itself, which Her Majesty trusts will produce 
 important and useful results to Canada. 
 
 I have the honour to be, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. 
 
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 The object of the Prince of Wales' visit, to use the words of 
 his illustrious father the Prince Consort, was " to inaugurate that 
 stupendous work of engineering skill, the Victoria Bridge," we 
 may say the eighth wonder of the world. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to observe, that Mr, Norris' memorial was 
 got up for the purpose of inviting His Royal Highness to open 
 the Palace of Industry at Toronto, and in which an Exhibition was 
 held in 1858. 
 
 We are infinitely happy that Mr. Norris did not succeed in his 
 undertaking in inviting the Prince of Wales ; for had His Royal 
 Highness visited us at that time, he would have found us in a 
 comparatively depressed commercial state, consequent on the great 
 money-panic of 1857 ; not but that our loyal countrymen would have 
 given their last shilling towards entertaining him, but we would not 
 have been enabled to give him the reception which he has since 
 received, an ovation which the Canadians have done their utmost to 
 make worthy of so illustrious a guest, but which in 1858 we could 
 not have given if we would. Besides, in that year the Victoria 
 Bridge was not completed ; and he would have left our shores with- 
 out giving the concluding touch to that immortal monument of 
 Stephenson's skill, of British capital, and Canadian industry. 
 
 Then again, he would not have had the pleasure of witnessing in a 
 suitable manner the productions of both sections of our flourishing 
 and go-a-head Province, which he has lately done in the Crystal 
 Palaces at Montreal, C. E., and Hamilton, C. W. ; moreover, 
 the people would not have had sufficient time for the pre- 
 paration attending a royal visit, had he come to inaugurate the 
 Toronto Exhibition. 
 
 Thus was the time of the late visit not only propitious, but we 
 were entirely prepared for the honour conferred upon us by our 
 Gracious Sovereign, to welcome the Prince of Wales in a manner, 
 which we doubt not, has not only been acceptable to him, but has 
 reflected the highest credit on ourselves, and been a source of pride 
 and satisfaction to us. 
 
 On the last day of the session of the Provincial Parliament, May 
 14, 1859, held at Toronto, the following address was unanimously 
 carried in both Heuses of Parliament, on motion (in- the Legislative 
 
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 Council) of the Hon. P. M. Vankoughnet, Commissioner of Crown 
 Lands ; who, in introducing the subject, said that in the previous 
 year he had signed a memorial to Her Majesty, praying her to 
 allow His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to visit this portion 
 of her dominions, which memorial was got up by a man named 
 Norris ; but when he (Mr. Vankoughnet) signed that document, 
 he understood it was to be forwarded through His Excellency the 
 Governor General. He now regretted having signed the memorial 
 alluded to, because it was carried over by this Norris himself. 
 
 The opening of the great Victoria Bridge was now a fitting 
 opportunity to invite Her Majesty hither. 
 
 The Address was moved in the Assembly by the Hon. Mr. 
 Cartier the Premier, and seconded by the Hon. Mr. Foley, and 
 carried in both Houses with the greatest unanimity and exul- 
 tation ; and the Speaker of the Assembly (the Hon., now Sir 
 Henry Smith) was deputed to present, in his official capacity, the 
 same to Her Majesty. 
 
 The Address is as follows : 
 
 To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty : 
 
 MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and 
 loyal subjects, the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, 
 in Provincial Parliament assembled, hereby approach Your Majesty 
 with renewed assurances of devotion and attachment to Your Royal 
 Person and Government. 
 
 We have long hoped that Your Majesty would be graciously pleased 
 to honour with your presence Your Majesty's subjects in British Xorth 
 America, and to receive th'e personal tribute of our unwavering attach- 
 ment to your rule ; and we trust that, while Your Majesty's presence 
 would still more closely unite the bonds which attach the Province to 
 the Empire, it would gratify Your Majesty to witness the progress and 
 prosperity of this distant part of your dominions. 
 
 The completion, in the year 1860, of the Victoria Bridge, the most 
 gigantic work of modern days, would afford to Your Majesty a fitting 
 occasion to judge of the importance of your Province of Canada ; while 
 it would afford the inhabitants the opportunity of uniting in their 
 expressions of loyalty and attachment to the Throne and Empire. 
 
 We therefore most humbly pray that Your Majesty will vouchsafe to 
 be present upon the occasion of the opening of the Victoria Bridge, 
 with Your Majesty's Royal Consort, and such members of Your Majesty's 
 August Family as it may graciously please Your Majesty to select to 
 accompany you. 
 
 Legislative Council, 
 
 Wednesday, 4th May, 1859. 
 
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 We are confident in saying, that no better man could have been 
 selected to perform the pleasing duty of presenting this Address, 
 than Sir Henry Smith, a gentleman in the true sense of the word, 
 and possessing everything that is requisite to make a gentleman 
 and an ambassador. What a difference between the would-be self- 
 important Mr. Norris, and the Speaker of the House of Assembly ! 
 Sir Henry Smith left for England shortly after the prorogation of 
 Parliament, and, as every one is well aware, was perfectly successful 
 in his mission ; and to him, to the truly-inspiring Address of our 
 Canadian Senators, and to its originator (Mr. Vankoughnet), we 
 owe the visit of the Prince of Wales. 
 
 The following despatch in reply was received by the Governor 
 General : 
 
 CANADA, No. 6. 
 
 DOWNING STREET, 30th January, 1860. 
 
 SIR, As the two Houses of the Canadian Legislature will soon re- 
 assemble for the Despatch of Business, it becomes my duty to inform 
 you that the Joint Address, to which they agreed at the close of their 
 last Session, was duly presented to the Queen, and was most graciously 
 received by Her Majesty. 
 
 In that Address, the Legislative Council and Commons of Canada 
 earnestly pray the Queen to receive in person the tribute of their un- 
 wavering attachment to Her rule, and to honor with Her presence Her 
 subjects in British North America upon the occasion of the opening of 
 the great Victoria Bridge, accompanied by the Prince Consort, and such 
 members of the Royal Family as it may please Her Majesty to attend 
 Her on the occasion. 
 
 Her Majesty values deeply the attachment to Her Person, and the 
 loyalty to Her Crown, which have induced this Address ; and I am 
 commanded to assure the Legislature, through you, how lively an 
 interest is felt by the Queen in the growing prosperity of Canada, in 
 the welfare and contentment of Her subjects in that important Province 
 of Her Empire, and in the completion of the gigantic work which is a 
 fitting type of the successful industry of the people. 
 
 It is therefore with sincere regret that Her Majesty is compelled to 
 decline compliance with this loyal invitation. Her Majesty feels that 
 Her duties at the Seat of the Empire prevent so long an absence, and 
 at so great a distance, as a visit to Canada would necessarily require. 
 
 Impressed, however, with an earnest desire to testify to the utmost 
 of Her power, Her warm appreciation of the affectionate loyalty of Her 
 Canadian subjects, the Queen commands me to express Her hope, that, 
 when the time for the opening of the Bridge is fixed, it may be possible 
 
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 for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to attend the ceremony in 
 Her Majesty's name, and to witness those gratifying scenes in which the 
 Queen is Herself unable to participate. 
 
 The Queen trusts that nothing may interfere with this arrangement ; 
 for it is Her Majesty's sincere desire that the young Prince, on whom 
 the Crown of this Empire will devolve, may have the opportunity of 
 visiting that portion of Her Dominions from which this Address has 
 proceeded, and may become acquainted with a people, in whose rapid 
 progress towards greatness, Her Majesty, in common with Her subjects 
 in Great Britain, feels a lively and enduring sympathy. 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 Tour most obedient humble servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 Governor, 
 
 The Right Honorable 
 
 SIE EDMUND WALKEB HEAD, Bart., 
 &c., &c., &c. 
 
 What joy was diffused throughout British America, on the 
 announcement that Our Gracious and Beloved Queen had so 
 nobly responded to our call ! Unable to leave England herself, 
 she would send Her beloved Son, our future King, as Her substi- 
 tute. Oh, what feelings actuated the breasts of the truly loyal ! 
 Now and for ever we support thee, Beloved Queen. We would 
 spill our last drop of blood to do thee service. Wonder not, 
 strangers, at seeing such marvellous displays in Canada, in honor 
 of the Heir Apparent : the love and attachment which are enter- 
 tained for Victoria, and the Royal Family, are not equalled on 
 earth towards any ruler, except it be to the Omnipotent One 
 above. 
 
 As soon as the news was received in the Lower Provinces, their 
 respective Parliaments adopted Addresses to Her Majesty, praying, 
 that, if His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales should visit 
 Canada, they also should be honoured in like manner. 
 
 Newfoundland, Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, Nova 
 Scotia, and we believe the West Indies, all petitioned. 
 
 To these Her Majesty, ever generous, replied that their requests 
 would be complied with. The city of New York, U. S., invited the 
 Prince thither, as did also the President of the United States, as 
 appears in the subjoined correspondence. 
 
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 The President of the United States invited him to Washington, 
 and the authorities of the city of New York "did likewise," as 
 appear in the subjoined correspondence : 
 
 President Buchanan to Queen Victoria. 
 To HEB MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, 
 
 I have learned from the public journals that the Prince of Wales is 
 about to visit your Majesty's North American dominions. Should it be 
 the intention of His Royal Highness to extend his visit to the United 
 States, I need not say how happy I should be to give him a cordial 
 welcome to Washington. You may be well assured that everywhere in 
 this country he will be greeted by the American people in such a manner 
 as cannot fail to prove gratifying to your Majesty. In this they will 
 manifest their deep sense of your domestic virtues, as well as their 
 convictions of your merits as a wise, patriotic, and constitutional 
 sovereign. 
 
 Your Majesty's most obedient servant, 
 
 JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 Washington, June 4, 1860. 
 
 Queen Victoria to President Buchanan. 
 
 BUCKINGHAM PALACE, June 22, 1860. 
 MY GOOD FRIEND, 
 
 I have been much gratified at the feelings which prompted you to 
 write to me, inviting the Prince of Wales to come to Washington. He 
 intends to return from Canada through the United States, and it will 
 give him great pleasure to have an opportunity of testifying to you in 
 person that these feelings are fully reciprocated by him. He will thus 
 be able, at the same time, to mark the respect which he entertains for 
 the Chief Magistrate of a great and friendly State and kindred nation. 
 
 The Prince of Wales will drop all royal state on leaving my dominions 
 and travel under the name of Lord Renfrew, as he has done when 
 travelling on the continent of Europe. 
 
 The Prince Consort wishes to be kindly remembered to you. 
 I remain ever your good friend, 
 
 VICTORIA R. 
 
 LEGATION OP THE UNITED STATES, 
 
 London, June 22, 1860. 
 
 SIR, My letter of the 8th instant will have informed you of the 
 step taken by me to apprise the Prince of Wales of the desire expressed 
 by the Common Council of New York that he should visit your great 
 city at the close of his public duties in Canada. I have now the honour 
 
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 to transmit a note addressed to me in answer to my communication by 
 Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, conveying 
 the gratifying assurance that His Royal Highness, with the high sanction 
 of his illustrious mother and her Government, will meet the wishes of 
 your community. With the highest respect. 
 
 Sir, your most obedient servant, 
 
 G. 51. DALLAS. 
 To His Excellency Fernando "Wood, Mayor of New York. 
 
 The undersigned, Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for 
 Foreign Affairs, has the honour to acknowledge a communication 
 addressed to him by Mr. Dallas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 
 Plenipotentiary of the United States, containing a resolution expressive 
 of the wish of the Municipality of New York and of its important and 
 wealthy community to receive a visit from His Royal Highness the Prince 
 of Wales, on the occasion of His Royal Highness' presence in the colonial 
 possessions of Her Majesty. The undersigned, having laid these 
 documents before Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales, is commanded 
 by them to express to Mr. Dallas the high sense which they entertain of 
 the importance of strengthening, by every means, the relations of 
 friendship and regard which bind this country to the United States of 
 America. When, therefore, the public duties, for the performance of 
 which the Prince undertakes the voyage across the Atlantic to Her 
 Majesty's North American Cdlonies, shall be concluded, both the 
 consideration above referred to and the natural desire on the part of the 
 Prince to visit some of the institutions and some of the most prominent 
 objects of interest in the United States, will prompt His Royal Highness, 
 on his return from the Upper Province of Canada, to direct his route 
 through a portion of that great country ; and that route will include a 
 visit to the important city of New York. The time allowed for this 
 journey will, however, under all circumstances, be necessarily very 
 limited, and it will be out of the power of His Royal Highness to make 
 a prolonged stay. 
 
 His Royal Highness will, on leaving the British soil, lay aside all 
 Royal state and exchange his title, as he has done on former journeys to 
 foreign countries, for that of Lord Renfrew. While thus dispensing with 
 any ceremony which might be inconvenient to the communities which 
 he hopes to visit, he trusts to be enabled as a private gentleman to 
 employ the small amount of time at his disposal in the study of the 
 interesting objects in the United States, and of the ordinary life of the 
 American people. 
 
 The undersigned is directed to request that Mr. Dallas will communicate 
 to His Excellency Fernando Wood, the expression of the satisfaction 
 felt by the Prince of Wales upon receiving the resolution of the 
 
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 Municipality of New York, and of his hope that towards the latter end 
 of September he may be enabled to pay a visit to the city they represent, 
 and to the mercantile community who have given to him so welcome a 
 testimony of their friendly regard. 
 
 The undersigned requests Mr. Dallas to accept the assurance of his 
 
 highest consideration. 
 
 J. RUSSELL. 
 
 What can be more kind than the letter from our " American 
 Cousins," and what more truly reciprocal than that from 
 Queen Victoria ! Truly we are more than infinitely blest with 
 such a Queen. 
 
 THE PRINCE LEAVES ENGLAND. 
 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of "Wales embarked on board 
 the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Osborne, for Plymouth, on 
 9th July, 1860. He was accompanied to Plymouth by his royal fa- 
 ther, the Prince Consort ; and as far as the Victoria and Albert, in 
 Cowes Roads, by the Queen, Princess Alice, and Prince Arthur, 
 who remained in the Fairy and sailed after the royal yacht for some 
 distance, and then returned. The Victoria and Albert arrived 
 at Plymouth Sound on the same day. The Channel Squadron 
 was drawn up in two lines outside the Breakwater, to receive the 
 yacht. Yards were manned, and a royal salute fired by Her 
 Majesty's ships Hero, Ariadne, St. George, and Emerald. 
 
 An Address was shortly afterwards presented to the Prince of 
 Wales, by the Mayor and Corporation of Davenport, to which 
 His Royal Highness replied : 
 
 " Mr. MAYOR AND GENTLEMEN, I thank you warmly for this 
 Address, for the expressions of your loyalty and devotion to the 
 Queen, and for the kind sentiments to myself, which characterize 
 this farewell from your important town on the eve of my departure 
 for a short time from my native land. 
 
 " You may well look back with pride to the fact, that so many 
 eminent colonists have embarked on their great mission from your 
 shores. It shall not be my fault if I fail to convey to our brethren 
 across the Atlantic the feelings entertained by the Queen and the 
 people of England for the descendants of those men, and for the 
 countries which they founded. I go to the great possessions of 
 
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 the Queen in North America with a lively anticipation of the 
 pleasure which the sight of a noble land, great works of nature 
 and of human skill, and a generous and active people, must 
 produce ; and I shall endeavour to bring home with me such 
 information as may in future be of use to me in all my associations 
 with my countrymen. Again I thank you for your good wishes for 
 my safe voyage and happy return." 
 
 The Prince of Wales having embarked on board H. M. S. 
 Hero, 91, Captain Geo. H. Seymour, C. B., and the Prince 
 Consort having returned to Osborne in the royal yacht, the 
 Hero, accompanied by the Ariadne, 26, Captain E. W. Vausittart, 
 weighed anchor, and sailed for Newfoundland. Salutes were fired 
 by H. M. S. St. George and Emerald, by the Artillery in 
 Plymouth Citadel, and by the Cornish Royal Volunteers, from a 
 field-battery near Mount Edgecumbe Park. 
 
 About a league and a half south-east of the Eddystone, the 
 Hero was joined by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle's 
 Channel Squadron, which escorted it a short way and then returned. 
 
 RECEPTION AT NEWFOUNDLAND. 
 
 The Flying Fish, 6, Commander Hope, which left England on 
 the 1st July, in advance of the squadron, arrived at St. Johns, 
 on the 17th of the same month. 
 
 The Hero and Ariadne made it about 4-30 on the evening of 
 July 23, and anchored opposite the city at 7 P.M. They were 
 received by a royal salute from the Citadel, by the ringing of bells, 
 and by the lusty and loyal cheers of the populace of St. Johns 
 and the surrounding country, who crowded the wharves and every 
 available spot where they could obtain a good view of the war- 
 vessels. Flags were displayed in profusion, every house appeared 
 decorated and illuminated, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed 
 among the whole of the inhabitants. In the evening an illumi- 
 nation took place, and which for magnificence was all that could 
 be desired. 
 
 For the information of our readers, we append here a few 
 extracts from the Log of the Ariadne : 
 
 Tuesday, July 10th, 1860. Left Plymouth; joined at 7 a.m. ; met the 
 Fleet outside the Breakwater ; formed in two lines, and saluted as the 
 Hero and Ariadne passed down between them. 
 
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 At 4.20 p.m., the Fleet fired a salute and hoisted colors. Wind light 
 from S.E. Weather thick. 
 
 llth. Under steam part of the day ; wind from N.W., and moderate 
 smooth sea. Exchanged colors with the American ship " Parliament " 
 of Boston. 
 
 12th. Under steam part of the day ; wind from S.W. to N.W. Fresh, 
 with thick fog ; sea getting up. 
 
 13th. Under steam until 2 p.m., drew up screw-propeller and pro- 
 ceeded under sail only. Wind strong from W.N.W., with foggy weather. 
 A good deal of sea running. 
 
 14th. Wind strong from W.N.W. A good deal of sea running ; 
 weather thick ; under sail only. 
 
 15th. Wind strong from W.N.W. A good deal of sea running ; fine 
 weather ; under steam the latter part of the day. 
 
 16th. Wind moderate from N.W. ; sea going down ; steamed until 
 8 p.m., then up propeller and proceeded under sail. Weather thick. 
 
 17th. Wind strong from N.W. ; under sail until 7 p-m., then down 
 propeller and steamed. Weather overcast and thick ; sea moderate. 
 
 18th. Wind fresh from N.W. ; thick fog ; steamed all day ; sea 
 moderate. 
 
 19th. Wind moderate from W.N.W., with fog. At 7 a.m., took Hero 
 in tow and proceeded at an average rate of 7 knots ; sea moderate. 
 
 20th. Wind variable; thick fog. 1.30 p.m., cast off Hero; wind 
 fresh from W.S.W. 
 
 21st. Strong north winds, with thick fog ; sea moderate. 
 
 22nd. Strong west winds, with thick fog ; sea moderate. 
 
 23rd. Fresh west winds, with bright clear weather. At noon took 
 Hero in tow, she being short of fuel. At 7 p.m., anchored at St. Johns 
 harbour. 
 
 Tuesday morning (24th) was ushered in with naught but rain 
 and dark foreboding clouds. By noon, however, everything had 
 become bright and beautiful again, the sun appeared, and shone 
 with increased lustre, adding to the scene of magnificence about 
 to follow. Shortly after the Prince and suite, which was composed 
 of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the 
 Colonies ; Earl of St. Germains, Lord Chamberlain ; Major General 
 Hon. Robert Bruce, Governor to H.R.H. ; Dr. Auckland, Physi- 
 cian to H.R.H. ; G. Engleheart, Esq., Secretary to the Duke of 
 Newcastle ; Major Teesdale, and Capt. Grey, Equerries in Waiting, 
 landed from the Hero. The booming of cannon from the citadel, 
 the Ariadne, and the Flying-Fish, and the cheers from the sailors 
 and populace, proclaimed Albert Edward representative of our 
 
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 Queen. The yards'oi H.M. ships were manned, and the city and 
 harbour presented a fine appearance, as every house and ship 
 was decorated. Every body turned out in his best to do the 
 Prince honour. 
 
 The landing took place on the Queen's Wharf, which was densely 
 crowded with fashionably-dressed ladies, who hailed the Prince 
 " with their spotless handkerchiefs, and indulged in the warmest 
 expressions of joy and gladness." The Prince and suite were 
 received by the Governor, Sir Alexander Bannerman, who led 
 them to carriages. The Masonic body, the St. George's, St. 
 Andrew's, British Mechanics', Coopers', Temperance, Native, and 
 Irish Societies, Phodnix Volunteer Fire Company, a Guard 
 of Honour of the Royal Newfoundland Corps, and of the 1st, 2nd, 
 and 3rd Volunteer Rifle Companies, composed the procession, 
 which passed through many beautiful arches and gorgeous decora- 
 tions, to the Government House, a fine substantial building. 
 
 At three o'clock His Royal Highness held a grand levee, when 
 two hundred persons were presented ; also many Addresses, but 
 he replied to the whole, collectively, as follows : 
 
 I sincerely thank you for the Addresses presented to me, and for the 
 hearty welcome received from you all on my landing on the shores of 
 this the earliest colonial possession of the British Crown. I trust you 
 will not think me regardless of your zealous loyalty if I acknowledge 
 these Addresses collectively. It will afford me the greatest satisfac- 
 tion to report to the Queen the devotion to her Crown and person 
 unmistakeably evinced by the reception of her son, and so eloquently 
 expressed in the Addresses from various bodies in this town and Harbor 
 Grace. I am charged by the Queen to convey to you the assurance 
 of the deep concern she has ever felt in this interesting portion of her 
 dominions. I shall carry back a lively recollection of this day's pro- 
 ceedings and of your kindness to myself personally, but above all, of 
 those hearty demonstrations of patriotism which prove your deep- 
 rooted attachment to the great and free country of which we all glory 
 to be called the sons. 
 
 He afterwards rode out to view the town, unattended. 
 
 A superb dinner and a grand ball were given in his honour 
 during the evening. 
 
 The ball was given at the Colonial House, which was beautifully 
 decorated with flags, banners, and appropriate devices for the 
 
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 occasion. Thousands of persons attended, and the Prince danced 
 until half-past one, opening the ball with Lady Brady, and 
 dancing afterwards with Miss Grant, Mrs. Major Bailly, Hon. 
 Mrs. Kent, Miss E. Carter, Mrs. Ridley, Miss Mackarrol, Mrs. 
 Young, Miss Robertson, Mrs. E. D. Shea, Miss C. Jarvis, and 
 Miss Tobin. The following is the list of dances : 
 
 1. Quadrille. 8. Lancers. 15. Varsovienne. 
 
 2. Quadrille. 9. Mazourka. 16. Schottische. 
 
 3. Waltz. 10. Waltz. 17. Quadrille. 
 
 4. Polka. 11. Quadrille. 18. Polka. 
 
 5. Quadrille. 12. Polka. 19. Galop. 
 
 6. Schottische. 13. Waltz and Galop. 20. Contra Dance. 
 
 7. Galop. 14. Lancers. 
 
 His Royal Highness remained in the room until three o'clock next 
 morning. He seems to have pleased all parties (wherever he has 
 visited), not only by his good looks, but by his affableness, unosten- 
 tatious bearing, and good humour. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle and Earl of St. Germains, as on subse- 
 quent occasions, did not mingle in the festivities of the dance. 
 They, as well as His Royal Highness, and the rest of the suite, 
 were dressed in full uniform. 
 
 During the day, a magnificent Newfoundland dog was presented 
 by the Newfoundlanders to His Royal Highness, together with 
 a collar of massive silver, and a steel chain. The collar is beauti- 
 fully wrought in silver, with the Prince's crest and motto, &c., 
 and bears the following inscription : 
 
 " Presented to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, from 
 the inhabitants of Newfoundland." 
 
 The name given the dog by the Prince is " Cabot," after the 
 celebrated Sebastian Cabot, the discoverer of the Island, and, if 
 tradition is to be credited, the continent of North America before 
 Columbus had visited any part of the main land. 
 
 On Wednesday the 25th, the Royal party attended the 
 Regatta, on the Lake Quidi Vidi near the city, and appeared to 
 be well pleased with the entertainment. 
 
 At ten o'clock on the morning of the 26th, the Prince and suite 
 took their departure from Newfoundland, riding on horseback to 
 the wharf. The same procession escorted him away that welcomed 
 
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 him ; but, on this occasion, they wore very different faces from 
 those when he landed : then all was joy ; now all was regret at 
 losing him so soon. The streets were decorated as before, the 
 bells rang forth a right merry peal, cannons roared, and the cheers 
 of the multitude rang forth, far and near, as on his arrival. 
 Every place was crowded ; every one appeared in his best. The 
 soldiers lined the wharf and streets, and the National Societies 
 appeared in the procession in full regalia. 
 
 Every ship in harbour also did honour by displaying its 
 bunting to the best advantage, and by their men cheering 
 heartily. 
 
 The embarkation took place at the Queen's Wharf, where the 
 state barge was lying. The wharf was crowded as before with the 
 fashionable and beautiful, as well as the chief functionaries of the 
 Island, the Trade processions and the school children, all there to 
 have a last look at their future sovereign, to shew their loyalty 
 and to pray for his welfare. 
 
 His Koyal Highness uncovered as he alighted from his horse, 
 took leave of His Excellency, Lady Bannerman, and the Cabinet, 
 and then, accompanied by his suite, stepped into the barge and 
 was immediately rowed to the Hero. 
 
 Again the Citadel and Her Majesty's ships thundered forth a 
 royal salute, completely drowning the great and lusty cheers of the 
 people, the yards were manned, and the sailors and the people 
 hurrahed together as no one ever hurrahed before. 
 
 The French war-vessel Sesostris also did honour, having dis- 
 played all her colours and manned her yards. 
 
 The Prince stepped on deck, showed his grateful acknowledg- 
 ments by gracefully bowing to the people on shore, and then 
 retired. 
 
 The squadron shortly after sailed for Halifax. 
 
 Before his final departure. His Royal Highness presented Lady 
 Bannerman with a magnificent set of jewels, in commemoration of 
 his visit to the Island. 
 
 It is almost needless to say that the people of Newfoundland 
 were perfectly enraptured with the Prince ; such devoted loyalty 
 never was witnessed except in the other portions of his tour, and 
 it has been admirably tested. Her Majesty may be assured of 
 the loyalty of her great and warm-hearted Colonists. 
 
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 KECEPTION AT NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 The Royal Squadron arrived at Halifax on the morning of the 
 30th July, at 10 o'clock. 
 
 The weather was anything but agreeable ; the sky being cloudy 
 and the rain coming down in drizzling showers. 
 
 Nevertheless, the whole population turned out to welcome the 
 Prince, and the greatest hilarity prevailed. Everything shewed 
 that some unusual event was about to take place, and everybody 
 determined to participate in it. 
 
 As the squadron neared the city, numerous small craft laden 
 with passengers, went out to welcome it. They cheered as the 
 Hero passed, and the Prince, who was on deck, acknowledged the 
 compliment by bowing. The batteries fired royal salutes ; there 
 were minor ones from merchant vessels, &c. 
 
 H. M. S. Nile (flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Alexander 
 Milne), then in port, manned her yards, and the men cheered 
 right loyally. 
 
 As the squadron anchored in front of the city, thousands of per- 
 sons gave thrilling and vociferous cheers, which rang loud and long. 
 
 The Prince and suite landed, near noon, at the dockyard, which 
 was crowded with the chief dignitaries of the Province, and the 
 ladies of Halifax. 
 
 He was met on the landing-steps by His Excellency the Earl 
 of Mulgrave, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, who was 
 introduced to His Royal Highness by the Duke of Newcastle, 
 and with whom he shook hands, displaying that coolness and 
 self-possession, and withal that courtesy, urbanity, and good 
 breeding, for which his royal mother, and the royal family of 
 England, are so justly celebrated. 
 
 The 63rd Regiment acted as a Guard of Honour and presented 
 arms, their band playing the National Anthem. 
 
 The Mayor and City Council were next introduced, by the 
 Lieutenant Governor, when the following Address was presented 
 him, by them : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, We, the Mayor and Aldermea 
 of the city of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, in the name of our citizens, do most 
 
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 cordially welcome your Royal Highness. We rejoice that our city 
 should be thus highly honoured by the presence of the son of our re- 
 vered and beloved Queen, the grandson of that illustrious Duke whose 
 memory is gratefully cherished as the warm and constant friend of Xova 
 Scotia, and the Heir Apparent to the powerful and glorious empire over 
 which Her Majesty has for many years so wisely and beneficently 
 ruled. We venture to approach Your Royal Highness with the expres- 
 sion of an earnest hope that your sojourn in our city and on this side 
 the Atlantic, will be attended with much pleasure. We are fully per- 
 suaded that the reception which awaits your Royal Highness in every 
 section of Her Majesty's North American dominions, will only impress 
 you with the conviction, that devotion to the British throne and attach- 
 ment to the British institutions are abiding elements in the minds of 
 the inhabitants, and that the lustre which has been shed on the crown 
 by the Christian and domestic virtues of our most gracious Sovereign, 
 is justly and gratefully appreciated by all her subjects. We earnestly 
 implore the Giver of all good to guard and protect you, and restore you 
 in safety to the parent land, and to that illustrious family circle 
 of which we regard you as the ornament and pride, and that He 
 may be graciously pleased long to spare your Royal Highness to fulfil 
 those distinguished destinies to which your high position points. 
 
 The following was his reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I have been led to expect that the loyalty and attach- 
 ment to the British Crown which exists among the inhabitants of Hali- 
 fax would insure for me a kind reception in your city, but the scene 
 which I have witnessed this morning proves that my expectations are 
 more than realized. For your welcome to myself, I feel, I assure you, 
 sincere gratitude ; but it is still more satisfactory to me as a son, and as 
 an Englishman, to witness your affectionate attachment to the Queen, 
 and to the laws and institutions of our common country. Your allusion 
 to my illustrious grandfather is also most grateful to my feelings, and I 
 rejoice to find that his memory is cherished amongst you. In your har- 
 bour the navies of Great Britain can ride in safety, whilst you prosecute 
 that commercial activity which, under their protection, would seem des- 
 tined to make Halifax one of the most important cities of the Western 
 World, and to raise her inhabitants to a high prosperity. That such 
 may be the fate reserved for it by Providence, is my very earnest hope. 
 I request you to convey to the citizens of whom you are the representa- 
 tives, my cordial thanks for the greeting they have given me. 
 
 He was then conducted to a fine high-mettled charger, upon 
 which he mounted ; the Duke of Newcastle, General Bruce, Earl 
 of Mulgrave, &c., also taking horse. The Prince took his place in 
 
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 the centre, and the cavalcade joined the procession, amidst the 
 cheers of the assembled thousands. 
 
 The procession proceeded in the following order : 
 
 The Union Engine and Axe Fire Companies. 
 
 The North British and Highland Societies. 
 
 The Charitable Irish Society. 
 
 The St. George's Society. 
 The Carpenters' Charitable Society. 
 
 The African Society. 
 
 The Sons of Temperance. 
 
 The Volunteer Artillery and Rifle Companies. 
 
 Her Majesty's Forces. 
 
 The streets were lined by the regular soldiers and volunteers, 
 and were beautifully decorated with arches, transparencies, and 
 evergreens. Of arches there were many, one on Water Street ; 
 the Cunard dock with a model of a steamship and a motto ; the 
 Volunteer Artillery, composed of military trophies, and surmount- 
 ed by a gun ; three arches in the burnt district ; * four in Bruns- 
 wick Street ; two opposite the parade-ground ; one by the Roman 
 Catholic Archbishop ; a Masonic one ; also one by the Governor ; 
 one by the General ; and one at the Nuns' Convent. 
 
 The public and many private buildings presented also a fine 
 appearance, being beautifully and artistically adorned with flags, 
 banners, &c. ; and to crown all, the people continually cheered His 
 Royal Highness, as the procession passed on, a compliment he 
 acknowledged by continually bowing. 
 
 On the parade, a pleasing sight was observed among the firemen* 
 who carried a trophy fifty feet high, surmounted by a colossal figure 
 holding a hose-pipe ; but a still more pleasing one was the turning 
 out of thirty-five hundred school children, dressed in white and 
 blue, who sang the National Anthem. 
 
 Arrived at the Government House, the Prince was conducted 
 into the drawing-room by the Earl Mulgrave. 
 
 In a few minutes after, the Members of the Legislature were 
 announced, and, having been presented, the Premier (Hon. Mr. 
 
 * The scene of a late dreadful fire. 
 
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 Young, now Chief Justice) presented the following Address of 
 the two Houses of Parliament : 
 
 To the Most High, Puissant, and Illustrious Prince Albert Edward, 
 Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of 
 Wales, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Cobourg and Gotha, Great Steward 
 of Scotland, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carrick 
 and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles, K. G. 
 
 The Members of the Executive Government, on behalf of the Legisla- 
 ture and people of Nova Scotia, tender to you, the son of their Sovereign, 
 and Heir Apparent to her throne, the respectful homage of a loyal and 
 united population, and cordially bid Your Royal Highness welcome to 
 this continent. 
 
 Founded by the British races, and for more than a century, amidst 
 the vicissitudes and temptations of that period, preserving unsullied her 
 attachment alike to the throne, to the people, and to the institutions of 
 the Mother Country, this Province has grown with a steady growth ; 
 and we trust that Your Royal Highness will observe in it some evidences 
 of public spirit and material prosperity, some faint traces of the civili- 
 zation you have left at home, some indications of a desire to combine 
 commercial activity and industrial development with the enjoyment of 
 rational freedom. 
 
 To the members of Your Royal House who visited Nova Scotia in her 
 infant state, our country was deeply indebted for the patronage which 
 enabled many of her sons to distinguish themselves abroad ; and during 
 the reign of Your Illustrious Mother the blessings of self-government 
 and of unrestricted intercourse with all the world have been graciously 
 conferred upon the Province. 
 
 With pride, we saw during the Crimean and Indian wars, Xova 
 Scotians winning laurels beneath the Imperial flag ; and Your Royal 
 Highness has seen as you passed to your temporary residence what 
 honour we pay to the memory of our countrymen who fall in defence of 
 the Empire. 
 
 We trust that Your Royal Highness will also observe in the discipline 
 of our A r olunteers a determination to foster the martial spirit inherited 
 from our ancestors, and energetically to defend, if need be, this portion 
 of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 To the loyal welcome which we tender to Your Royal Highness, we 
 beg to add our fervent prayer that the blessings of Divine providence 
 may V,e freely showered upon you, and that you may be long spared 
 in the high sphere in which you are called to move, to illustrate the 
 
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 virtue which have enshrined Your Royal Mother in the hearts of our 
 people. 
 
 WILLIAM YOUNG. 
 
 JOSEPH HOWE. 
 
 ADAMS G. ARCHIBALD. 
 
 JONATHAN Me CULLY. 
 
 JOHN H. ANDERSON. 
 
 WILLIAM ANNAND. 
 
 JOHN LOCKB. 
 
 BENJAMIN WIER. 
 
 To which the Prince gave the following reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I am deeply touched with the warmth and cordiality 
 with which I have been welcomed to this colony, and thank you most 
 heartily for your Address. It will be my duty, and it will be no less a 
 pleasure to me, to inform Her Majesty of the proof which you have given 
 me of your feelings of loyalty and devotion to Her Throne, and of your 
 gratitude for those blessings, which it is her happiness to reflect, 
 have during Her Reign been bestowed upon you and so many others of 
 Her Subjects in all parts of the world. Most heartily do I sympathize 
 in the pride with which you regard the laurels won by sons of Nova 
 Scotia, and the affection with which you honor the memory of those who 
 have fallen in the service of my country and yours. The monument 
 you refer to will kindle the flame of patriotism in the breasts of those 
 Volunteers whom I have passed to-day, and who, in this and the colony 
 which I have lately quitted, are emulating the zeal and gallant spirit 
 which have been exhibited throughout the Mother Country. One 
 hundred years have now elapsed since the international struggles which 
 retarded the prosperity of this country were brought to a close. May 
 peace and harmony amongst yourselves complete the good work which 
 then commenced, and increase the happiness and contentment of a loyal 
 and united people. 
 
 He then bowed to the members, who retired. 
 
 The report goes that in the afternoon His Royal Highness 
 rode out on horseback, and received a thorough drenching from a 
 sudden shower ; but he sat on his horse nobly and never flinched. 
 
 In the evening a grand state dinner was given by the Lieuten- 
 ant Governor, where a party of forty-six ladies and gentlemen 
 dined with the Prince. 
 
 On the 31st, he reviewed the troops of the garrison, consisting 
 of the 62nd and 63rd Regiments of Foot, and a company of Engi- 
 
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 neers ; and the Volunteers of Halifax, which consisted of five 
 companies of Infantry, and one of Artillery. 
 
 When the whole had formed into line, His Royal Highness, 
 accompanied by his suite, the Lieutenant Governor and his suite, 
 all mounted, rode past and reviewed them, and afterwards through 
 the lines ; the multitude assembled cheering, which the Prince 
 acknowledged. He then rode up to the flag-staff from which 
 floated the royal standard. 
 
 The troops then filed past in excellent style. The Prince 
 appeared in good spirits, and well pleased with the manner in 
 which they had gone through the several evolutions. 
 
 At twenty minutes to two, he retired from the field, when the 
 Artillery fired a royal salute. Subsequently he inspected the Citadel, 
 and returned to Government House for luncheon. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, he again left for the Common to witness 
 the Indian Games, &c., which consisted of a war-dance, foot-races, 
 &c., and which amused him very much, he laughing heartily at 
 the ludicrous scene, i. e. the war-dance. The Indians were 
 equipped in their national costume, and paid great deference to 
 His Royal Highness, styling him their " Great Brother." Avast 
 multitude of people were gathered on the field while he was there, 
 constantly using their stentorian powers in cheering. 
 
 In the evening the whole city and harbour were illuminated 
 one vast flood of light, nearly every house in the city and 
 every ship in the harbour being lit up. The whole presented one 
 of the most magnificent scenes imaginable. 
 
 A grand ball took place at the Provincial Building, which was, 
 as well as the other public buildings, handsomely decorated. It 
 was attended by three thousand persons ; suffice it to say, the elite 
 of Halifax and its neighbourhood. The Prince and suite, accom- 
 panied by the Earl of Mulgrave, &c., entered the ball-room at 
 ten o'clock, the Prince leading Lady Mulgrave. His Royal 
 Highness was dressed in full uniform, as also were the members 
 of his suite. He received those present in the ball-room, who 
 passed him in " single file." 
 
 He mingled in the festivities of the room with a great zest, 
 dancing several times, opening the ball with Miss Young (niece 
 of the Hon. Mr. Young, Premier), and danced afterwards with 
 Miss Pilsbury, daughter of the U. S. Consul. 
 
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 The following was the programme of dances : 
 
 1. Quadrille Lurline. 
 
 2. Waltz Rosebud. 
 
 3. Galop Charivari. 
 
 4. Lancers First Set. 
 
 5. Polka Great Eastern. 
 
 6. Quadrille Satanella. 
 
 7. Waltz. .Kathleen Mavourneen. 
 
 8. Galop Love Dream. 
 
 9. Lancers Second Set. 
 
 10. Polka Zelpher. 
 
 11. Quadrille Don Pasquale. 
 
 12. Waltz Lurline. 
 
 13. Galop Ever of Thee. 
 
 14. Lancers Third Set. 
 
 15. Polka Bertha. 
 
 16. Quadrille.. Off to Charlestown. 
 
 17. Waltz Reigning Beauty. 
 
 18. Galop Neptune. 
 
 19. Quadrille Zurich. 
 
 20. Waltz.. ..Martha. 
 
 Early on the morning of the next day (August 1st), he em- 
 barked on board H. M. S. Valorous, and steamed up the bay, and 
 visited his illustrious grandfather's (the late Duke of Kent) 
 farm, or rather the ruins of it, situated three miles from the city. 
 He returned and witnessed the grand regatta. The boats running 
 consisted of yachts, fishing-vessels, the boats of the different men- 
 of-war, canoes, and whale-boats. He appeared to relish exceedingly 
 this rather novel display. 
 
 At noon, a levee was held at Government House, when an 
 immense number of gentlemen was presented. 
 
 In the evening, the volunteer officers were entertained at the 
 same place by His Royal Highness. A grand display of fireworks 
 also took place, and the fleet was illuminated ; the latter present- 
 ing a spectacle of grandeur most beautiful to witness from the 
 shore. 
 
 The Prince, accompanied by his suite, took his departure from 
 Halifax at seven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd August, by 
 special railway train en route for St. John, N. B., after a most 
 auspicious entertainment. 
 
 His Royal Highness was accompanied by the Lieutenant 
 Governor, General Trollope, the Ministry, and both branches of 
 the Legislature. 
 
 An immense concourse of people collected to witness his depar- 
 ture ; all exhibiting regret at the circumstance, but not forgetting 
 to cheer loyally and loudly. Royal salutes were thundered from 
 the ships and batteries as the iron-horse gently but swiftly bore 
 its precious freight away. 
 
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 At Windsor, an Address was presented to him. by the town 
 authorities, to which he replied, and partook of a collation prepared 
 by order of the Earl of Mulgrave. The usual loyal toasts of the 
 Queen, Prince Consort, and Prince of Wales, were proposed by 
 that nobleman, and drank with all the honours ; the Prince 
 acknowledging his by bowing. 
 
 After which the whole party entered carriages in waiting, and 
 proceeded to Hantsport; the people cheering with ardour and 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 They arrived there at half-past eleven a. m., which was, as well 
 as Windsor, handsomely decorated. Here an Address was pre- 
 sented, and replied to, and the Royal party embarked on board 
 H. M. S. Styx for St. John, N. B. ; a royal salute being fired, 
 and every evidence given of the loyalty of the Nova Scotians by 
 their truly loyal and heartfelt cheers, which rang again and again, 
 until the steamer was out of sight. 
 
 RECEPTION AT NEW BRUNSWICK. 
 
 The Styx, with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and 
 suite on board, arrived at St. John, N. B., at ten o'clock on 
 the evening of August 2nd. It not being customary to salute 
 men-of-war vessels at night, the arrival was not noticed ; but at day- 
 light next morning, the batteries gave His Royal Highness a grand 
 salute. The inhabitants arose a little surprised to find the Prince 
 awaiting them ; but hastily getting everything prepared for the 
 reception, in a few minutes all was in readiness. 
 
 The landing took place at half-past ten. and a royal salute was 
 fired by the Styx, as well as by the batteries. 
 
 The Prince was received at the wharf by the Honorable J. 
 Manners Sutton, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, and 
 suite. Also by General Trollope, the Judges, &c., the Members of 
 the Executive Council, the Mayor and Councilmen, the Mayors 
 of Montreal and Boston, and the most prominent citizens of St. 
 John. 
 
 The wharves and all around the landing-place were crowded 
 with people dressed in their best, anxious to show their loyalty, 
 and get a glimpse of their future monarch. 
 
 The Prince was conducted up the steps leading from the water, 
 
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 by the Lieutenant Governor, the band of the 63rd Regiment play- 
 ing " God save the Queen." People cheered, and cannon roared 
 enough to deafen any one. 
 
 The Prince was continually bowing to the people's homage, 
 both when he was led to the Governor's carriage, and during the 
 entire route to Government House. 
 
 The streets were lined by the Volunteers and Societies, a few 
 arches spanned them, and the houses were decorated very nicely; but 
 the whole affair was not so general as at Halifax, or as at St. 
 Johns, Newfoundland. 
 
 The procession was organized as follows : 
 
 The Mayor and Corporation. 
 
 The Town Major. 
 
 Field Officers of the Militia in uniform. 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor's Aides-de-Camp, 
 
 Lieut. Col. Drury and Lieut. Col. Hayne (mounted). 
 The Officer commanding her Majesty's troops in New Brunswick. 
 
 First Carriage His Royal Highness Prince of Wales, 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle and His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Secoiid Carriage His Royal Highness' Equerries : the Earl of 
 
 St. Germains and Major General Bruce. 
 
 Third Carriage The remainder of His Royal Highness' suite. 
 
 The Chief Justice, Judges, and Members of the Executive Council. 
 
 The President and Members of the Legislative Council. 
 
 The Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly. 
 
 The Mayors of other Cities. 
 
 High Sheriff and Coroner. 
 
 Stipendiary and other Magistrates. 
 
 Heads of Civil Departments, and Office-Bearers of the National Societies. 
 
 The procession formed, and escorted His Royal Highness to 
 " the Duke of Kent's Lodge," lately occupied and owned by the 
 Hon. Mrs. Chipman, and which had been handsomely furnished 
 by the Provincial Government for the Prince's use. Inside the 
 grounds were assembled five thousand school-children fancifully 
 dressed, and decorated with flowers. 
 
 As the procession with the Prince in his carriage passed up to 
 the house, these little creatures threw bouquets, and sang the 
 National Anthem, with the following verses added : 
 
 Through ev'ry charming scene, 
 Lord ! preserve the Queen, 
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 In health to reign. 
 Her heart inspire and move 
 With wisdom from above, 
 And in a nation's love 
 
 Her throne maintain. 
 
 Thy choicest gifts in store, 
 On her be pleased to pour ; 
 
 Long may she reign. 
 May she defend our laws, 
 And ever give us cause 
 With heart and voice to sing 
 
 God save the Queen. 
 
 Hail ! Prince of Brunswick's line, 
 New Brunswick shall be thine : 
 
 Firm has she been. 
 Still loyal, true, and brave, 
 Here England's flag shall wave, 
 And Britons pray to save 
 
 A nation's heir. 
 
 Soon after twelve His Royal Highness proceeded to the Court 
 House, a fine-looking cut^stone building, and stood on the steps, 
 while the National and Trade Societies, and Volunteers, passed 
 before him. There was a great number of them, and they were 
 certainly a fine-looking body of men. 
 
 After which he held a levee in the same building. A goodly 
 number of gentlemen were presented, also two Indian chiefs. 
 Two Addresses were presented, one by the Magistrates, the other 
 by the Mayor and Corporation, of which latter the following is a 
 copy : 
 
 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, Duke of Corn- 
 wall and Rothsay, Earl of Dublin, Baron of Renfrew, Knight of the 
 most noble Order of the Garter, 4rc., #c. 
 
 We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of St. John, 
 hasten to approach your Royal Highness for the purpose of welcoming 
 to New Brunswick the Heir Apparent to the throne, and the future sover- 
 eign of this great empire, of which it is our pride to form a portion, and 
 over which the beneficent sway of our beloved Queen, day by day, 
 strengthens those ties which happily unite us with the mother country. 
 Among us is still found a remnant of those who in the last century 
 
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 witnessed and 'partook of the joy and enthusiasm with which your 
 Royal Highness' grandfather, the Duke of Kent, was received on his 
 visit to the infant city, upon the founder of which, in token of royal 
 approbation, great benefits had been recently conferred by the royal 
 charter of his Majesty George the Third ; and with just pride we declare 
 to your Royal Highness, that the feelings of loyalty and attachment 
 which led to these shores the founders of this city, still eminently 
 characterize the entire population of this colony. It is our prayer, that 
 your Royal Highness will have a propitious termination to the tour 
 through her Majesty's North American dominions, in which you are now 
 engaged ; and we hope that you will vouchsafe to assure our gracious 
 Queen, that peace and contentment are found among us under her rule, 
 and that love and attachment to her person and crown is the common 
 sentiment of her devoted subjects in this the commercial capital of her 
 province of New Brunswick. 
 
 The Prince received the Address personally from W. K. M. 
 Brutis, to whom it was handed by the Kecorder, and returned the 
 following answer direct, instead of through the Duke : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you with all sincerity for the Address which 
 you have just presented to me, and for the welcome which it conveys to 
 the colony of New Brunswick, and the important city of which you are 
 the municipal representatives. When my grandfather, the Duke of 
 Kent, paid to this place the visit to which you make so gratifying a 
 reference, he found it but little more than a village. It is my good 
 fortune to receive on the same spot from a city which affords a strik- 
 ing example of what may be effected under the influence of free institu- 
 tions by the spirit and energy of the British race these demonstrations 
 of love and loyalty unto me. Your commercial enterprise has made this 
 port the emporium of the trade of New Brunswick ; and as the noble 
 river which flows into it brings down for export the products of your 
 soil, so I trust the vessels which crowd its piers will reward your suc- 
 cessful industry with the wealth of other lands. I am not unmindful of 
 the origin of this city, and it will be a subject of pride and pleasure to 
 me to report to the Queen that the descendants of its founders have not 
 departed from their first attachment to the crown of England, which 
 brought them to these shores. 
 
 Returning to his residence,he partook of luncheon,aud then drove 
 over the Suspension Bridge (680 feet long, and under which are 
 the Falls of St. John), to the small but beautiful suburb of 
 Carleton, opposite, where the whole population turned out to wel- 
 come him. 
 
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 In the evening, the whole city of St. John was beautifully 
 illuminated, and perfectly eclipsed either Halifax, or St. Johns, 
 Newfoundland. Everything was gotten up on a gorgeous scale, and 
 was well calculated to give a good effect. 
 
 The Prince and suite bade farewell to this rather quiet but very 
 pretty city on the following morning, Saturday, 4th August. 
 Taking the cars for Rothsay Station (named after him) on the 
 Kennebecasis ; at which place they took the steamer Forest Queen 
 for the capital of New Brunswick, Fredericton, where they arrived 
 at six o'clock p.m., after passing up the fine river St. John. The 
 Prince had an excellent opportunity, and no doubt availed himself 
 of it, to view the delightful scenery that adorns this river, as also 
 of witnessing the agricultural proclivities of the New Brunswickers. 
 
 The entire population was out to greet His Royal Highness, and 
 crowded the wharves and fields, all exhibiting the greatest joy at 
 the visit. 
 
 The bells rang forth merrily; guns fired everywhere, the 
 reverberation sounding through hill and dale. Everything and 
 every person seemed delighted on that day in that beautiful little 
 place. 
 
 A troop of Volunteers lined the wharf, and presented arms to 
 the youthful scion of royalty as he passed from the landing-place. 
 A terrace was crowded with ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs 
 to him, and the river was covered with small craft, which had 
 gone out to meet the steamer. 
 
 While the steamer was nearing the wharf, and until she was 
 moored, the Prince and suite stood on deck quietly surveying the 
 scene, the Prince now and then acknowledging the cheers by 
 bowing. 
 
 The Mayor and City officials conducted His Royal Highness 
 to a carriage, and then joined the procession, which escorted him 
 through the principal street to Government House. 
 
 The street was very nicely adorned by a few simple arches, 
 characteristic of the city, and was lined by the Volunteers and 
 Police. They had quite enough to do to keep the people back, who. 
 no doubt, in their loyal enthusiasm, would have drawn the Prince 
 themselves. 
 
 In the evening a grand torch-light procession was organized by 
 
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 the firemen and citizens generally, who paraded the streets. 
 Bonfires were lit and other tokens of the loyalty of the inhabitants 
 shown. 
 
 On Sunday morning His Royal Highness and suite attended 
 Divine Service at the Anglican Cathedral, which was crowded to 
 its utmost capacity by the people of the city and neighbourhood, 
 long before the hour of service. This was the first time he had 
 attended Divine Service on land since leaving England. 
 
 He was met at the door of the Cathedral by the Lord Bishop 
 of Fredricton, who escorted him to his pew. 
 
 The Rev. J. B. Medley (son of the Bishop) read the Prayers ; and 
 the Rev. Chas. S. Medley, the Lessons and Litany. The Rev. Dr. 
 Coster (of Carleton) read the Epistle ; and the Rev. H. Pollard 
 (of St. Stephen's), the Gospel. And His Lordship the Bishop read 
 the ante-communion service, and preached the following : 
 
 His Lordship took his text from the 12th verse of the fourteenth 
 chapter of Romans, " So, then, every one of us shall give an account of 
 himself to God." We are assembled to worship God to-day on an 
 occasion which possesses singular interest, and has also this feature of 
 importance, that we have never all met in this church before, and it is 
 wholly improbable that we shall ever meet here again. Apart, then, 
 from these topics, on which there is no necessity for me to dwell, because 
 your minds are full of them, there is another of unspeakable moment 
 which claims your earnest attention. Pardon me, then, my brethren, if 
 the subject be not what you expected. You may have thought that I 
 would hasten to express (as well as my feeble abilities would allow) 
 the language .of congratulation and loyalty, and be the mouth-piece 
 of those feelings which not only exist, but overflow, in all your hearts. 
 If I adopt a different course, it is not that I do not share with you 
 in the common joy. I rejoice with you heartily and loyally. But I 
 have a higher mission to discharge. Can I, dare I forget that you are 
 all, from the highest to the lowest, immortal souls? sinners redeemed 
 by the blood of a common Saviour Christians, united by a common hope, 
 placed for a few moments under my special charge. Can I forget how 
 much may depend upon one soul even in this half-hour ? Can I, above 
 all, forget that if every one shall give an account for himself to God, 
 I shall myself give an account for what I shall deliver to you this day. 
 And, as I probably address many of you for the first and last time, can 
 I, in justice to you, dwell on any other topics than those momentous 
 truths in which alike all have a common interest, in regard to which 
 
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 the bonds of temporal polity, political action, and even national welfare, 
 great as they are, are as nothing compared with the salvation of your 
 souls through eternity. I beseech you to unite with me at once on this 
 stupendous theme, and pray to God that by His help the words which 
 He has spoken may take deep root in your hearts, that with no light, 
 no momentary impression, the truths may dwell there and abide in you 
 all your life long : and become the rule of your actions, filling you with 
 those high and holy principles which will carry you safely through life, 
 and enable you to give up your account, at the last day, with joy, and 
 not with grief. The points which the text lays down for our considera- 
 tion are two. 1st. That we shall all personally, and face to face, appear 
 before God. 2nd. That this appearance will not be as a matter of 
 choice, curiosity, or joint consent, but that God will summon each 
 separate soul to give an account of itself to Him, the maker and judge 
 of all souls. From these two topics we shall do well and wisely to infer 
 what influence this truth shall have, not only on our feelings but on 
 our daily habits of life. Glance, my brethren, for it is only a glance 
 time will allow us at these two stupendous truths. Have you considered 
 what it is to appear personally before God ? Every one knows that it 
 is an affair of some moment to make an appearance before an earthly 
 potentate. Uneducated men are very brave and boastful on these 
 subjects till they are brought into the presence of the court ; but the 
 splendour of the ceremony, and the gravity and respectful behaviour of 
 those who know how to conduct themselves, awe and impress the boldest. 
 But if this court be sitting on questions of life and death, if the monarch 
 be invested with absolute power, if on his fiat hang all your temporal 
 interests, few men are to be found who do not feel some apprehension. 
 But what court of the earth can furnish you with an image of the throne 
 of God, seated in judgment. This is no question of earthly prudence, 
 superior dignity, profit, or place, or emolument : the prize (if one may so 
 term it) is your own soul ; the question, your own salvation. The 
 demand is whether you are fit to enjoy what Christ has prepared for 
 them that love him. With whom are you to meet ? Not with a fellow- 
 sinner who knows little of you ; but that which your own actions reveal. 
 He who meets you face to face, being to being, he whom you will then 
 for the first time look upon, is your Maker, Sovereign, Benefactor, 
 Saviour, and omniscient Judge. He looks not into your eyes, but into 
 your soul. He sees all is and ever has been there, and reads you off at a 
 glance, what you have been and what you have made yourself, or what 
 His grace has made you. There you stand with all your imperfections 
 on your head, alone with God alone with God ! 0, merciful Father, 
 what a sight will this be of ourselves and of Thee. How will our poor 
 knees tremble at this interview, and upon what can the best and holiest 
 of us cast ourselves but on Thy mercy and the merife of our Redeemer 
 
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 for salvation ! The good we have done is nothing ; the errors we have 
 committed are numberless. Thy power is infinite, Thy justice terrible, 
 and the very sight of Thee is sufficient to destroy us, but for that merciful 
 assurance. This our God we have waited for, and he will serve us. 
 Now if the sight of God is so awful, what shall we say when we consid- 
 er these sacred truths here laid down, that each soul will have to give 
 its own separate account at the day of that meeting. We all know 
 what sight-seeing is. Men run together to great sights from mixed 
 feelings : some from curiosity, some from respect and loyalty, many from 
 both these motives. Our curiosity will find no place there. It is to 
 give account that you are summoned there. Giving account is not a 
 pleasant duty when the accounts are complicated, the interests many 
 and serious, and the penalties of breach of trust are heavy, and we are 
 glad to be rid of the duty, and in no kind of action is the penalty or 
 imperfection of human nature more abundantly displayed than in giving 
 account. What efforts are made to make the best of a bad business, 
 what evasive answers ! What positive deception is practised ! what 
 immense ingenuity in avoiding the plain naked truth. Nay, take the 
 highest standard of duty and the holiest life to be found amongst us, 
 still there is an abatement required, there is a reserve, there is a secret 
 chamber of the soul into which we never admit one human being besides 
 ourselves. In some particulars we stand alone ; our dearest friends are 
 not admitted into the sanctuary of the heart beyond a certain point. 
 No soul stained by sin can bear that it should be looked at throughout 
 even by a fellow sinner. Yet this account, so painful to all honest, 
 humble Christians ; so terrible to the holy Patriarch Job, that he said, 
 " I abhor myself;" so awful to Abraham when he came face to face with 
 God, that he said, " Behold I have taken upon me, yet am but dust ;" so 
 fearful to St. Peter, that he cried, " Depart from me for I am a sinful 
 man, Lord ;" so agonizing to Daniel, that he could eat nothing for 
 many days ; so terrible to John that he fell at Christ's feet as dead this 
 account, so full of terror and of fear to the greatest and holiest of man- 
 kind, you, my brethren, and I must encounter. What is it that we are 
 to render up ? What is it that we can correct, evade, or fly from ? 
 What is it that must all be made known. The life of our souls, the 
 posture of our hearts towards God, the life of Christ as manifested in 
 our mortal body, the use we have made of our baptismal privileges, the 
 benefits we have derived from Sacred Scriptures, the union and commu- 
 nion we have had with our risen Lord, the prayers we have offered, the 
 faith to which we have held fast, the example we have set in all the 
 various hours of life, in all the companies we have been brought, in all 
 the relations and capacities in which Providence has placed us, as subjects, 
 as rulers, as citizens or freemen, as electors, as elected, as judges, as, 
 magistrates, as pastors, as flocks, as hearers, as preachers, as tradesmen 
 
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 as mechanics, as rich, as poor, as gifted with powerful intellect or 
 moderate abilities, as physicians, as merchants, as lawyers, as soldiers, 
 as men of science, as handicrafts even of all kinds, as husbands, wives, 
 brothers, sisters, children, masters, servants, as those for whom Christ 
 died, and for whom He intercedes, and reigns in glory. Surely when 
 you all think of this complicated, manifold, tremendous account, you 
 must see the dignity of common things, the momentous issues of ordin- 
 ary life, the risk we run in living our common every-day life. Surely 
 you must see how judgment and eternity mingle with the daily occur- 
 rences which seem too trifling to be remembered, and that your daily 
 prayer, and daily fear, and daily honesty, and daily living to the Lord, 
 are the threads which hold your life together. Every hour the word or 
 action passes on to judgment. The word is spoken, the action done, 
 and in one instant it. has left the world, and it cannot be undone for 
 ever, and another line is written on the face of eternity that cannot be 
 blotted out. Surely I have said enough, though but little to show what 
 holy principles should guide us, in consideration of these great truths. 
 May God stamp them indelibly upon our hearts. 
 
 1st. The subject here set before us should lead us to a holy, yet, if I 
 may so express myself, a cheerful fear. We are here presented certainly 
 with a grave view of life, yet it is far from being a gloomy, discontented, 
 or repining view. The God who sent His blessed Son to save us, who 
 underwent toil -and privation, ignominy, and death for our sakes, is also 
 the God of boundless might. This God rejoices in the happiness of 
 His meanest creatures, and denies not to us, at all fit seasons, the enjoy- 
 ments with which His works supply us, in the paths of science, in the 
 glories of art, in the splendour of the fields, in the recreation proper to 
 youth, and animal spirits, and high health, and virtuous cheerfulness. 
 We neither please nor worship Him by refusing to our fellow creatures 
 those innocent joys which lighten the common burdens of humanity 
 and cheer our saddened spirits for those graver duties which we have 
 to discharge. So that whilst we fear Him we may rejoice in our 
 Maker always, and may lawfully partake in those sports and recreations 
 which are suitable to our character, which contain nothing sinful in 
 them, provided we bear about with us everywhere a strict sense of our 
 duty to God and to each other, and are ever ready to fulfil it. I have 
 called this feeling by a compound name a cheerful fear because, 
 under any system of theology which absolutely forbids general recrea- 
 tion or which denounces as sinful particular kinds of recreation whilst 
 it tolerates others, the mind is led to assume the look of fear of God, 
 rather than to feel it, or to feel abject terror in the thought of meeting 
 our God rather than the holy and loving one which become a Christian. 
 The proper medium would seem to be to remember that God denies us 
 nothing which is really good for our body, that we must serve him with 
 
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 our hearts and rejoice with trembling, and that a cheerful, hopeful, 
 large-hearted and thankful spirit is that which best enables us to dis- 
 charge each duty as it comes, looking for the merciful allowance and 
 being confident in the justice of God. 
 
 2nd. This account should also be a motive for perpetual love and 
 thankfulness for the vast amount of our present nlercies. Now, inde- 
 pendently of those which personally belong to each of us, and on whom 
 want of time forbids me to dwell, I may properly call your attention to- 
 day to those which belong to us all as citizens. When we look round 
 among the nations of the earth and consider the past and present con- 
 dition of countries favoured with a fruitful soil and a more genial 
 climate than our own, how inestimable is the price of our manly, 
 rational, and constitutional freedom, how deeply should we cherishj 
 how diligently should we guard aud preserve, the integrity of our limited 
 monarchy, the nice balance of our respective estates and realms, the 
 just and merciful administration of our laws, and the various expressions 
 of freedom and safe-guards against license with which a gracious Pro- 
 vidence has endowed us ! Our monarchy, our language, our religion, 
 are rich in all the associations of the past; our progress in the useful 
 arts and sciences has been widening and deepening every year; our 
 deliverances from civil war and religious thraldom have been unexam- 
 pled in the history of the world ; our colonial possessions have in them 
 all the seeds of a great future, and want only a higher education and a 
 more potent development of natural resources to give them birth. A 
 gracious Providence everywhere unites us by successful though calami- 
 tous war and by the nobler arts of peace. Our sufferings and our joys 
 are the common property of the empire. One year our bosoms throb 
 with fear and sorrow at the massacre of Cawnpore, in another we hail 
 the coming of a Prince, not, like his great ancestor, reaping his youthful 
 harvest of renown and blood inflicted upon a foreign land, but sent 
 forth by the love of the Mother of our country, to consolidate the affec- 
 tions of a distant empire and to bring nearer in loyalty, love, and friend- 
 ship the claims which science and commercial action have already 
 united. Truly we shall have to give an account of these unnumbered 
 blessings. This good measure heaped together and running over, which 
 God has given into our bosoms, calling for no narrow gratitude in return, 
 demands of us this day more thankfulness in our hearts, more fervour 
 in our prayers, more charity towards each other, more virtue and 
 holiness as a nation, than we have yet exhibited. And here the context 
 to the passage before us leads me to notice that the whole argument of 
 Paul on the subject is brought to bear on the great duty of a wise and 
 charitable forbearance towards each other. The question which he 
 discusses in this chapter concerning different kinds of food and religious 
 observances, are questions which in principle are continually brought 
 
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 forward, and he brings in the solemn judgment of God to show how we 
 should deal with them. Why dost thou judge thy brother or why dost 
 thou get at nought thy brother ? for we must all stand before the judg- 
 ment seat of Christ. So then every one of us must give account of 
 himself to God; let us not therefore judge one another any more. A 
 judgment indeed we must form upon men and things with a view to our 
 own Christian discrimination; but let it not necessarily be a judgment 
 to condemnation ; let it not, above all, be a heart of uncharitable judg- 
 ment ; but let the severity of your condemnation be directed to this 
 point, that none of you put an occasion to fall in your brothers way, or 
 cause him to fall by an unwise and careless use of your liberty. Here, 
 then, you see another important principle arising out of the solemn 
 subject of an appearance before God in judgment. If all of us will be 
 judged, and if it be so hard and difficult for us to meet that judgment 
 of ourselves, how strongly does this urge on us the principle of mutual 
 amity, forbearance, gentleness, consideration, abstinence from boasting, 
 arrogance, from envy, railing, evil surmisings, and uncharitableness ? 
 This is the special argument of the Apostle, and I wish there were not 
 sufficient reasons for pressing it upon you. Much allowance is to be 
 made for the excitement of men's minds ; but let us recollect one thing, 
 we owe it to our Sovereign, we owe it to our Province, we owe it 
 to ourselves, to let no ill-feeling mingle with or follow the gracious 
 visit, if I may so speak, of our common friend. Let us charitably sup- 
 pose that every one has done his best to welcome him. Differences of 
 opinion are ensured by our freedom of thought ; but we have too many 
 points of union, too many subjects of devout and glowing thankfulness, 
 to allow the envious, ill-natured, or uncharitable thought to have a lodg- 
 ment in our hearts. Why should we set at nought our brother in Christ, 
 when we shall meet together as sinners before a common tribunal here- 
 after ? Let us remember that the unbounded liberty we enjoy of saying or 
 printing all we feel, should be a check against, rather than a guarantee 
 for license; for the greater our freedom the heavier must be our account. 
 And now, addressing for the moment my dear friends and brethren of 
 the Church of England specially, ought not this thought of your per- 
 sonal appearance before God to lead you to value more highly, and be 
 more fervent in the use of your own holy and common prayer. You 
 have sometimes perhaps looked upon what are called State prayers, as 
 if they did not nearly concern you ; you have repeated them without 
 personal interest ; no fervent Amen has come from the depths of your 
 hearts. Our good Sovereign has now sent to you one of the dearest 
 members of her family to remind you that she is not an abstraction, a 
 fragment of the State, a court ceremony, that stripped of its external 
 comes to nought ; but a living, personal, responsible being, an anointed 
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 exalted station, desirous to glorify God in it, depending upon the mercy 
 of God in Christ Jesus the Saviour of us all, looking forward with you 
 to His just and glorious advocate, and solicitous, nay deeply, tenderly 
 solicitous, for the benefit of her people's prayers. And will you deny that 
 profitable, motherly, natural pious request? Surely when we meet together 
 in the church, the thought of this day's assemblage will sometimes infuse 
 fresh fervour into that petition, which I presume, in your name, once 
 more to offer. Endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts, grant her in 
 health and wealth long to live, strengthen her that she may vanquish and 
 overcome all her enemies, and finally, after this life, may she obtain 
 everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Thus it may be seen, the remembrance that we shall all have to appear 
 before God in judgment, has a directly practical bearing upon our 
 whole lives. It may serve to correct our view of human life, to sanctify 
 and soothe our sorrows, to dignify every common action, and to lessen 
 the importance of worldly honour and gain ; it may elevate the honest 
 and humble the richest among us, by abasing all upon the foot-stool of 
 one common Father, Benefactor, Saviour, and Judge. 
 
 But the subject cannot properly be closed without the suggestion of 
 that holy and comfortable hope connected with it. Awful as is the 
 subject to those who, like Felix, tremble at the judgment to come, the 
 humble believer in Christ will remember with a trembling joy that it is 
 not only judgment but salvation, if he is ready to be revealed at the last 
 time. Of ourselves, indeed, we must speak less confidently ; but we have 
 all loved many dear ones gone before us, the reality of whose faith, the 
 fervour of whose charity, the faithfulness of whose good works, supply 
 us with the best foundations for a lively and comfortable hope. When 
 we recollect the unfeigned faith that was in them, their gentleness and 
 brotherly tenderness, their pious munificence, their fervent prayers, 
 their humble and devout resignation, and how they passed through the 
 gate of death supported by the peace of the Comforter, and, in a Father's 
 arms, contented died away, we can even contemplate the judgment- 
 seat of Christ with lively hope. On that seat is our Redeemer, our 
 brother, and our friend ; in that sacred name we acknowledge the marks 
 of his sacred passion ; in that majestic presence we recognize that gra- 
 cious, awful Being, to whom all our prayers are offered ; on whom all 
 our faith is fixed, the author and guardian of our life, the Rock of Ages, 
 in whom is everlasting strength. If I mistake not I speak to some who 
 will recognize in this portrait the features of those much-loved friends 
 whose memory I cherish daily with themselves. Their works abide with 
 us, for our comfort. Let us, then, ever bear about with us this holy 
 principle of duty, this two-fold remembrance of the account we shall 
 have to give. He to whom we give it has promised to receive us to 
 Himself. Let this principle awe and terrify the impenitent, awaken the 
 
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 slumberer, dry the mourner's tears, quicken every good resolution, 
 moderate every joy, hallow every motive, form our shield against temp- 
 tation, our hope and solace in that hour in which neither princes, physi- 
 cians, nor friend, can grant us any longer their protection, succour, or 
 control. In that hour, by Thy cross and passion, good Lord, deliver ns. 
 In that hour suffer us, not for any pains of death to fall from Thee. 
 Above all,when God ariseth to shake terribly the earth, when the judg- 
 ment is set, and the books are opened, good Lord, deliver us ! 
 
 On Monday morning the Government of New Brunswick pre- 
 sented the following Address to His Royal Highness : 
 
 The Members of the Executive Council, for themselves, the Legislature, 
 and the people of New Brunswick, offer to you, the Son of their beloved 
 Sovereign, and the Heir Apparent to the Throne, their respectful homage, 
 and heartily welcome Your Royal Highness to this Province. The 
 inhabitants of New Brunswick are the descendants of the Loyalists 
 who, in the war of the American Rovolution, adhered to the royal 
 standard, and of emigrants from Europe and the British Isles ; are 
 ardently attached to British institutions ; contented and happy in the 
 enjoyment of that large measure of rational liberty which our mixed 
 form of government secures. They have, with patience and industry, 
 devoted themselves to the development of the resources of the country, 
 and the advancement of its material interests ; and ever since the orga- 
 nization of the Province in 1817, it has steadily advanced in all the 
 elements of progress. The visit of Your Royal Highness brings to the 
 recollection of many of the old inhabitants the time when your illustri- 
 ous grandfather visited this Province, and they refer with pleasure to 
 his benignity and courtesy. In forming the colony, it was the design of 
 the Imperial Government that the constitution should be settled upon 
 the model of its great original in the parent State ; but it was not until 
 the reign of Your August Mother, Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen 
 Victoria, that the principles of self-government were fully established 
 with ample power to regulate our trade, consistently with the general 
 policy of the nation. Although in this portion of the Empire Your 
 Royal Highness will not discover evidences of the great wealth and 
 refinement of the Old World, we believe that you will be pleased with 
 the energy of the people and their success, and that Your Royal High- 
 ness will receive new proof of their fitness for self-government, of their 
 loyalty to the Queen, and of their attachment to the institutions of the 
 fatherland. We hope that in witnessing the discipline of our Volunteers, 
 Your Royal Highness will be assured that the patriotic spirit which 
 animates the people of the parent State also pervades this portion of 
 the Empire; and that if the necessity should ever arrive, all the avail- 
 able resources of New Brunswick will be freely offered for the defence 
 
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 of Imperial Interests and the maintenance of national honour. In again 
 tendering to Your Royal Highness our unfeigned congratulations, we 
 would invoke the continuance of the Divine blessing upon your illustri- 
 ous house, and most fervently pray that Your Royal Highness may long 
 enjoy the high position to which Divine Providence has called you ; 
 ever the pride of Your August Mother and the hope of our common 
 country. 
 
 The Prince replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I receive with much gratification an Address which, 
 whilst it breathes a spirit of loyalty to the Queen, and affectionate 
 attachment to Her Family, which animate the whole people of this 
 Province, does not fail to remind me of the claim of your ancestors, to 
 live in the memories of Your Sovereign, and of the British nation. The 
 commercial activity of St. John, the thriving agriculture on the rich 
 banks of the river which I have traversed ; the smiling aspect of this 
 city, the capital of New Brunswick, all tend to convince me, even apart 
 from your gratifying assurances, of the prosperity and happiness which 
 you enjoy under the Constitution of the parent State and the free insti- 
 tutions which you possess! Every visitor to your shores, but more 
 especially the son of your Queen, must earnestly pray that your peaceful 
 avocations may never be disturbed ; but in case such a misfortune 
 should await the Empire, I rejoice to observe in this, as well as the 
 Provinces which I have lately visited, the self-relying spirit of 
 patriotism which prevails ; and I see in the discipline of your Volunteers 
 the determination to protect the national honour which is manifested in 
 every portion of the Queen's dominions. I beg you to accept rny thanks 
 for your congratulations, and for your earnest prayers for my present 
 and future happiness. 
 
 Two other Addresses were delivered, one from the City of Fre- 
 dericton and one from the Clergy. The Address from the Mayor 
 and Corporation was as follows : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales : 
 
 The Mayor and City Council of the city of Fredericton most respectfully 
 greet your Royal Highness with a right hearty welcome to the metropolis 
 of New Brunswick. From the affection we entertain for Your Royal 
 Mother, our beloved Queen, we bid you welcome. From our regard to 
 yourself, as the son of such a Mother and the Heir Apparent to the 
 Throne, we bid you welcome. From our attachment to the Constitution 
 which admits of such a benign and maternal sovereignty in the person 
 of Your Beloved Mother, we bid you welcome. In obedience to the 
 universal heart-throb of our Empire of perpetual sunlight, we bid you 
 
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 welcome. Victoria's son must be everywhere welcome throughout 
 Victoria's dominions. Your Royal Highness, during your provincial 
 tour, will visit larger cities and see greater developments of wealth 
 and art than we present, but nowhere can there be found a people 
 more devoted to the Throne than in and around the Silvcefilia nobilis. 
 May the King of Kings graciously protect Your Royal Highness during 
 your prospective tour, and bring you safely home again to the land of 
 our fathers and the sunshine of the royal domestic circle. 
 
 To this Address he read the following reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, Your hearty reiterations of welcome demand my warm- 
 est thanks. In the name of the Queen I thank you for the expressions 
 of your loyalty, and for the just tribute which you pay to the acts of 
 her reign, and the sentiments which have always animated her. In my 
 own name, also, I thank you for the warm reception I have met with in 
 the city which you represent, and for the earnest wishes for my welfare 
 which you have expressed. Your city, no doubt, is small in comparison 
 with many others which I am about to visit ; but the enthusiasm with 
 which you so loudly greeted me on Saturday, and the devotional quiet 
 which prevailed yesterday in your streets, prove to me that this commu- 
 nity know how to fear God as well as to pay due honor to its earthly 
 sovereign. I sincerely trust that these virtues may never diminish 
 amongst you, while your limits enlarge and your wealth increases in 
 proportion to the local advantages which Providence has bestowed 
 upon you. 
 
 Afterwards His Royal Highness held a levee at Government 
 House, when the principal gentlemen of the city and neighbourhood 
 were presented. He then inaugurated a public park. He attended 
 in the evening a grand ball given in his honour, where the follow- 
 ing ladies were his partners : Hon. Mrs. Manners Sutton 
 (Governor's lady), Miss Florence Parker (daughter of Judge 
 Parker), Miss Fisher (sister of the Attorney General), Miss 
 Lizzy Hazen, Miss Medley (daughter of the Bishop), Mrs. 
 Justice Ritchey, Mrs. Bayard, and Miss Robinson. 
 
 His Royal Highness took his departure from the city of 
 Fredericton on the next day (Tuesday the 7th), taking the 
 Forest Queen to Indian town, adjacent to St. John, where 
 a hearty ovation greeted him. Thence he crossed the 
 Suspension Bridge in a carriage to Carleton. On leaving this 
 delightful locality, a party of stalwart, though gentle, firemen 
 unharnessed the horses from his carriage, and drove " their dear 
 
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 prince," as they delighted to call him, across the bridge to the 
 wharf, the whole populace cheering loudly. There he embarked 
 on board the Styx for Windsor. 
 
 He arrived back again at Hantsport at 7 o'clock on the morn- 
 ing of the 8th ; arrived at Windsor at eight, remaining an hour ; 
 arrived at Truro at half-past eleven, remaining an hour ; and ar- 
 rived at Pictou at half-past five p. m. 
 
 At all these places he was received with an enthusiasm which 
 knew no bounds. At Truro, an Address was presented by the 
 county member (Mr. Archibald), on behalf of the inhabitants of 
 the place, to which the Prince replied. This place was beautifully 
 decorated, and the school-children sang the National Anthem. The 
 Prince was much pleased, and spoke a few words to the little folks. 
 
 He also accepted a slight collation, prepared by a party of 
 ladies, who also waited uponjiim. 
 
 From Truro to Pictou, he, as well as his suite, travelled in po st 
 chaises. 
 
 At Pictou, the Prince was received with demonstrations of 
 regard, and, in fact, perfect veneration. He immediately em- 
 barked on board the Hero, which, with the other ships of the 
 squadron, sailed for Charlottetown, Prince Edward's Island. 
 
 RECEPTION AT PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. 
 
 His Royal Highness arrived at Charlottetown about half-past 
 eight on the morning of the 9th August, and landed from the 
 Hero at one o'clock. 
 
 H. M. S. Nile, Ariadne, Cossack, Valorous, and Flying 
 Fish, the Government surveying-vessel Margaretta Stephenson, 
 and the French war-vessel Pomene, commanded by the Marquis 
 de Montignae, accompanied it. The Royal Squadron, on nearing 
 the town, was met by the Micmac Indians in canoes, who welcomed 
 the Prince. Salutes were fired from the batteries. 
 
 As, in many of the other places visited, the weather was very 
 disagreeable, ' raining continually, yet thousands upon thousands 
 came forth to welcome His Royal Highness. The city was 
 crowded with visitors, and accommodation was a " scarce com- 
 modity." 
 
 The Prince landed at the Queen's Wharf, under eight royal 
 
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 salutes, the Pomene also saluting, and was received by His 
 Excellency Lieutenant Governor Dundas, and the hisrh dignitaries 
 of the Island, among whom were : Chief Justice Hodgson ; Justice 
 Peters; The Premier, Hon. Charles Palmer; Hon. Mr. Pope, 
 Colonial Secretary ; Hon. Mr. Hanraham, Attorney General ; Hon. 
 Charles Young, President of Legislative Council ; Hon. Donald 
 Montgomery, Speaker of the Assembly ; the Archdeacon, Dr. Reid, 
 Dr. Mclntyre, Roman Catholic Bishop and other clergy men, Hon. 
 T. H. Howland, Mayor, and Councillors; Lieutenant Colonel 
 Longworth, Commandant, &c. 
 
 The Marquis de Montignae and the officers of the Pomene were 
 also on the wharf, and a Guard of Honor of the 62nd Regiment 
 from Halifax, and the Militia. 
 
 The Prince was conducted to the Governor's carriage, by His 
 Excellency, and was escorted to Government House by the 
 Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The streets, as in the other cities visited, presented - a fine 
 appearance, being tastefully ornamented ; the streets with graceful 
 and well-made arches,fec.,and lined by Volunteers ; the houses with 
 flags, banners, &c. 
 
 The able correspondent of the Toronto Globe, speaking of them, 
 
 " The arch placed at the street-end of the wharf was built of ever- 
 greens, surmounted by a picture of Britannia sitting on a sea-horse, in 
 the act of ruling the waves, and by two large carved lions. The motto 
 it bore was, " Welcome to Prince Edward Isle." On a second arch 
 festoons of roses were suspended from the hands of lovely-looking ladies 
 in wood, who were, from the trumpets at their mouths, supposed to 
 proclaim the words written underneath " Welcome, our future King." 
 Another arch still in Queen Street, bore figures of two volunteers, 
 with guns and knapsacks all complete, and I think it was upon this 
 erection that the words " May thy visit prove, Great Britain's heir, a 
 closer bond with home," occurred. Opposite Queen's Square, in which 
 are the Provincial buildings, images of two Scotch grenadiers appeared, 
 also surmounting an arch. The circular-pointed market-house, an ugly 
 building, had been planted round with spruce trees, and so hidden 
 with bunting and flowers, that I scarcely knew it again. The post- 
 office too had been decorated with equal success. In the square was 
 the tent of an Indian chief, who, I should have previously mentioned, 
 with his warriors and squaws paddled out to meet the Prince, and 
 
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 joined his voice with that of the applauding throng. Soon after passing 
 the square, the procession moved down Kent Street to Government 
 House. The arch immediately opposite Government House was the 
 most beautiful of the whole. From the hands of two dancing girls 
 flowers were suspended; and stars formed of bayonets, pikes, and 
 swords were inserted in the pillars. His Royal Highness upon alighting 
 immediately entered the house, and was seen no more that day, save by 
 the Governor and his immediate attendants. 
 
 So far, in speaking of the decorations, I have confined myself to one 
 class alone. Charlottetown showed a full compliment of bunting, of 
 floral crowns, of evergreen decorations, of spruce trees, of mottoes, and 
 of those hundreds of little things which go towards making a great 
 display. The Chief Justice had a very nice little motto " In hoc signo 
 spes mea," the sign being the Prince's plume. The scene from the 
 wharf was grand. Union Street is very wide, and rises gradually 
 from the water, so that for upwards of a mile the mass of people could 
 be seen, the narrow lane preserved by the militia being distinctly visible 
 all the way up." 
 
 Every place was crowded by the people, eager to gaze upon 
 the Prince, and to do homage to him ; everywhere were cheers and 
 .cries of joy. 
 
 The school-children, to the number of two thousand, sang the 
 National Anthem in Cochrane Square, as he passed, and after- 
 wards cheered gallantly. 
 
 In the evening, there was a general illumination and fireworks, 
 which were completely destroyed by the immense deluge of rain 
 that fell. 
 
 It was on this evening, we believe, that Mrs. Macready, the 
 celebrated actress, had the honour to read from the English Poets, 
 to His Royal Highness and suite at Government House. 
 
 At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th August, a levee 
 was held by the Prince at Government House. This was a most 
 select affair, for only the highest personages of the Island were 
 presented ; and mainly through an inadvertence as to the time, it 
 being understood that the hour for holding it was two p. m., 
 whereas it took place at eleven. This mistake must have been 
 rather pleasing than otherwise to the parties most interested. 
 
 At one o'clock, he reviewed the Volunteers of the Island, before 
 the Government House, and seemed much pleased with their effi- 
 ciency. 
 
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 Shortly after, he received the Addresses* from the Corporation 
 and the Provincial authorities, on the halcony in front of the 
 Provincial Building; nearly the whole populace gazing on the 
 interesting ceremony. 
 
 The following are the replies : 
 
 To the Provincial one, the following: 
 
 GENTLEMEN, It affords me great pleasure to receive this from an 
 Island which, though the smallest of the British Colonies of North 
 America, has strong claims upon the kindly recollection of the family 
 of the Queen. Its name commemorates the performance of public duties 
 in these regions by my grandfather. Its name is also borne by his 
 descendant, who now visits your shores by desire of your Sovereign, 
 not indeed to command her troops, or to hold any authority amongst 
 you, but to assure all her subjects of the deep interest which she has 
 ever taken in those who are extending British civilization and power in 
 these distant possessions. "With this, my visit to the lower Provinces 
 is brought to a close ; and even if I were not about to visit the St. 
 Lawrence, and become acquainted with the magnificent country which 
 lies upon its banks, I should carry back with me to England a grateful 
 recollection of all the kindness I have received, and an endearing 
 regard and sympathy for a people in whom the love of freedom is com- 
 bined with a deep-rooted attachment to the mother country, and the 
 institutions in which we have all been nurtured. 
 
 And to the Corporation : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 just presented to me, and I avail myself of this occasion to request you 
 to express to the citizens, whose municipal councillors you are, my 
 warm acknowledgements for the hearty welcome with which they 
 greeted me yesterday. That loyalty to the Queen, and attachment to the 
 British crown are the characteristics of the population of Charlottetown, 
 I never doubted. You have given proofs of those feelings which it will 
 be my happiness to convey to Her Majesty, and to assure her that you 
 share largely in the sentiment which I may now pronounce to be uni- 
 versal in these colonies. Your expression of affectionate interest in all 
 that concerns my future welfare and usefulness in the career which, by 
 God's will, may be before me, are such as to demand a no less cordial 
 response on my part. I assure you they will not be forgotten. 
 
 * We regret that we have been unable to procure copies of the 
 Addresses. 
 
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 In the evening a grand ball was given at the Provincial Build- 
 ing, which the Prince and suite attended. The room was tastefully 
 and elaborately decorated. Many beautiful devices graced it, and 
 caught the eye. The inscriptions were many and good. Among 
 them was the following : 
 
 " Thy grandsire's name distinguishes this isle ; 
 We love thy mother's sway, and court her smile." 
 
 And: 
 
 " Heaven, favoured Prince, bestow on thee 
 A people's love, a glorious destiny." 
 
 And again : 
 
 " The gorgeous sun, as on his course he wends 
 On Britain's realm, in darkness ne'er descends." 
 
 The Prince opened the ball with Mrs. Dundas (the Lieutenant 
 Governor's lady), dancing afterwards with Miss Wright (Trea- 
 surer's daughter), and continued to dance until three o'clock next 
 morning. 
 
 His Royal Highness left Charlottetown on the morning of the 
 llth. v 
 
 He was attended to the wharf by the Lieutenant Governor and 
 Cabinet, Mayor and Councillors, and the people generally, all 
 regretting that the happy moments had passed so quickly, and 
 cherishing a hope that one day they might see him again. 
 
 His Royal Highness embarked on board the Hero, the usual 
 salutes were fired, and the fleet sailed for the ancient city of 
 Quebec (Lower Canada). 
 
 RECEPTION IN CANADA. 
 
 The squadron first sighted the shores of Canada on Sunday, 
 12th August, at noon. The scenery along this place (the 
 Gulf) is regarded as very enchanting, from the variety which is 
 continually exposed to view. In one place you have the grand 
 and rugged promontories of rocks, while here and there dark 
 shoals appear out of the water ; in another, you have a delightful 
 plain, verdant and fragrant, quiet vales running down to the 
 water's edge, while ever and anon, you see a smiling milk-white 
 
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 cottage peeping out from amidst the rich foliage ; and so the 
 panorama is continually changing, each scene you fancy more 
 beautiful than the ones you have just passed. 
 
 The fleet entered Gaspe* Bay at sunset, which must have added 
 additional lustre to the magnificent natural beauties of the place. 
 
 Here the Provincial Government steamers Victoria and Lady 
 Head were anchored, having on board the Governor General, His 
 Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Edmund "W. Head, and the 
 Ministry of Canada, they having come down from Quebec to 
 meet the Prince, and welcome him to Canada. 
 
 His Excellency had chosen this delightful spot for the first 
 reception in Canada, so that the impression made on His Royal 
 Highness might prove favorable to us. 
 
 As the Hero and the other vessels of the squadron passed, the 
 Victoria and Lady Head dipped their colours, and the Hero 
 returned the compliment. Soon after the Hero sang out, " Is the 
 Governor General on board ?" The Victoria replied, " He is on 
 board." They immediately dropped their anchors, and no other 
 words were passed. Everything on board the ships was still for 
 the night ; but not so on shore, where the people, in their own 
 peculiar way, were celebrating the Heir Apparent's arrival, by a 
 grand illumination, popping of guns, and by continual shouts of 
 joy and welcome. 
 
 At half-past eight on Monday morning (13th), His Excellency 
 the Governor General went on board the Hero. He was received 
 by a salute, by a Guard of Honour of the Royal Marines, and by 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite. 
 
 His Excellency welcomed the Prince to Canada, and the whole 
 squadron proceeded into Gaspe Basin. The houses along the shore 
 were beautifully decorated with flags and evergreens, &c. They 
 were as white as snow, having been whitewashed for the occasion. 
 Everything had a holiday appearance. Every house displayed a flag. 
 
 Previous to the arrival of His Royal Highness, His Excellency 
 was presented with an Address from the inhabitants of the district 
 of Gaspc?, thanking him and the Ministry for their wise administra- 
 tion, &c. His Excellency and the Ministry were afterwards enter- 
 tained at a dinner by the Town Council. 
 
 The fleet, when opposite the residence of Mr. LeBoutillier 
 
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 (M.P.P. for Gaspe), received a royal salute, from a battery situated 
 in front of it. 
 
 The people here cheered tremendously, as indeed they did all 
 along the shore. 
 
 Near this the Hero ran aground upon the end of a long spit 
 which runs out from the shore. The Lady Head went to her 
 assistance, but she preferred that of her stout ally the Ariadne. 
 A hawser was conveyed to that vessel by the Flying Fish. The 
 Ariadne gave one tremendous jerk. The hawser broke, but the 
 Hero was liberated, and again floated on the water as stately and 
 majestically as ever. 
 
 This circumstance had scarcely taken place, when a deputation, 
 consisting of the Sheriff, and other officials of the crown, &c., 
 for the district, arrived in several boats. They presented an Address 
 to His Royal Highness ; and a Petition, praying him to allow 
 Gaspe" in future to be called Port Albert, in commemoration of 
 the visit. The Prince replied that he was sorry he was unable 
 to comply with their request : it remained with the Provincial 
 authorities. 
 
 Shortly afterwards the Canadian Ministry, with the exception of 
 Mr. Vankoughnet, absent at the Seat of Government, proceeded on 
 board the Hero, and were presented to the Prince, by the Duke of 
 Newcastle, as follows: 
 
 Hon. John Ross, President Executive Council and Minister of 
 
 Agriculture. 
 
 " G. E. Cartier, Attorney General East, (Premier). 
 " John A. Macdonald, Attorney General West. 
 " A. T. Gait, Minister of Finance. 
 " John Rose, Commissioner of Public Works. 
 " N. F. Belleau, Speaker Legislative Council. 
 " Charles Alleyn, Provincial Secretary. 
 " Sidney Smith, Postmaster General. 
 " Geo. Sherwood, Receiver General. 
 " J. C. Morrison, Solicitor General West. 
 " L. S. Morin, Solicitor General East. 
 
 They then lunched with him, and returned to the Victoria with 
 His Excellency the Governor General. The whole fleet then 
 
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 started for the Saguenay River, on the St. Lawrence, the Provin- 
 cial steamers leading the way. 
 
 Owing to a slight accident, the Ariadne did not come up to the 
 other vessels, which were lying at the mouth of that river, till the 
 following morning. 
 
 "We cannot do better than avail ourselves of the following 
 excellent sketch of the trip up the Saguenay, published in the 
 Quebec Chronicle, and written by a gentleman of that place : 
 
 THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO THE RIVERS SAGUENAY AND 
 STE. MARGUERITE. 
 
 (From a Local Correspondent.) 
 
 TADOUSAC, Friday, Aug. 17. 
 
 Without trenching upon the duties of your faithful chronicler, allow 
 me to give a few additional details of His Royal Highness's excursion 
 up the Rivers Saguenay and Ste. Marguerite. This account, though 
 scarcely forming a page in the grand tour, is a glimpse at one of the plea- 
 sant bye-paths along the formal highway of the state progress. 
 
 Early on Wednesday morning, the fleet was descried off the Saguenay, 
 and the watchers on the rocks looked with anxious eyes as the Hero 
 seemed to steer so much higher westward, in entering the estuary, than 
 local navigators consider safe. The Ariadne entered farther towards 
 the east. The Flying Fish, and the Queen Victoria with His Excellency 
 the Governor General and staff, and the Members of the Executive 
 Council, on board, soon joined the Jlriadne. The steamer Tadousac, 
 having on board Mr. D. E. Price, M.P.P., and several experienced 
 Saguenay pilots for distribution amongst the fleet, had been waiting 
 outside since daylight. Meanwhile, a St. Lawrence pilot, taken by the 
 Hero from the South Shore, had attempted to push through the channel 
 flanked on either side by well-known reefs. In delightful contempt of 
 Commander Bayfield's Chart and Sailing Directions, he managed to 
 ground the ship within one hundred feet of the chequered buoy which 
 marks Bar Patch, off Lark Islet. She struck with a rending jar ; but 
 the strong ebb-tide, the prevailing calm, and her own easy rate of motion, 
 probably saved her from material damage. Under any other circumstances 
 this accident might have proved very serious. After remaining aground 
 some three hours, her consort moved her- from the dangerous situation 
 at young flood, and, by request of the Commodore, the Captain of the 
 Tadousac, Mr. E. Tremblay, took charge and conveyed the vessel into 
 safe anchorage off Moulin a Baude. This untoward incident, and conse- 
 quent detention, completely frustrated the arrangements which, with 
 loyal spirit and admirable taste, had been organized by the inhabitants 
 
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 of Saguenay and Grand Bay. The fleet also was deterred thereby from 
 proceeding further inwards, and remained at artchor outside. About 
 noon, however, His Royal Highness and suite embarked on board the 
 Victoria with His Excellency, and the party proceeded up the magnifi- 
 cent Saguenay. Passing L'Ance a 1'Eau the consular flags of Norway 
 and Sweden, and the United States, with the British Union flying 
 between, were dipped in honor of the illustrious visitor, and a royal 
 salute was fired in good style from the small battery of three guns 
 provided there at Mr. Price's establishment. The salute was promptly 
 acknowledged by Captain Pouliotte, and the Queen Victoria was scarce 
 out of sight when the cannon reports were mingling with a hundred 
 echoes startled from the surrounding mountains. Notwithstanding the 
 day was gloomy, and a drizzling rain and chill wind swept down the 
 great gorge of the Saguenay, the scenery of that noble stream stood out, 
 in grim relief, against the murky background. Each point of interest 
 was eagerly scanned by His Royal Highness and attendants, until the 
 steamer reached the spacious bay between the lofty cliffs of Eternity 
 and Trinity. Here she passed close under the almost perpendicular 
 rocks, and fired a gun, the reverberations from which seemed fairly to 
 make the rugged mountains around to tremble. The afternoon was far 
 spent ere they reached L'Ance aux Arables, and the stiff headwind and 
 strong ebb-current rendered it impossible to reach Grand Bay and return 
 in time to pass the night on board His Royal Highness's vessel. Great 
 preparations had been made at Ha-ha Bay for the Prince's reception, 
 and a loyal Address was to have been presented, through Mr. Kane, on 
 behalf of the civic authorities. The disappointment is the more to be 
 regretted, since the enthusiastic welcome which awaited His Royal 
 Highness was such as will not be exceeded in hearty earnestness at any 
 reception throughout the Province. The municipalities, backed by Mr. 
 Price, and cordially assisted by the inhabitants, had erected beautiful 
 arches, ornamented with appropriate devices, along the whole line of 
 procession, which was carpeted and decorated in sumptuous fashion a 
 staging had been built batteries arranged for firing salutes and a 
 concourse of upwards of 8000 people eagerly waited the opportunity of 
 expressing their loyalty and respect. Words cannot depict the disap- 
 pointment felt at their non-arrival ; and we learn with satisfaction that 
 His Royal Highness and suite express themselves very much disappointed 
 on account of being unable to accept the gratifying homage of the 
 people of Grand Bay and the valley of the Saguenay. A copy of the 
 Address intended was presented and read, on board, to His Royal 
 Highness by Mr. Price, who, on behalf of the Municipal authorities and 
 the inhabitants of the County of Chicoutimi, expressed the extreme 
 regret which would be felt from their inability to deliver the same and 
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 It was after dark, when the Victoria anchored alongside the Hero, 
 and left His Royal Highness and stjite again on board. 
 
 The weather having cleared up during the night-time, yesterday 
 (Thursday) morning dawned bright and genial. After partaking of an, 
 early breakfast, His Royal Highness, from the Victoria, accompanied by 
 their Excellencies Sir Edmund Head and the Earl of Mulgrave, the 
 Duke of Newcastle, Major General Bruce, Commodore Seymour, Dr. 
 Auckland, Captain Grey, Major Teesdale, Mr. Engleheart, Mr. Ellis, Mr. 
 Stapleton, Captain Retallack, Hon. Messrs. Macdonald, Cartier, Gait, 
 Morrison, Ross, Smith and Morin, landed at the River Ste. Marguerite, 
 some six leagues within the Saguenay. The forenoon grew finer and 
 more enjoyable abrupt contrasts after the mist and misery of the 
 preceding day. As the sun climbed up behind the still dripping hills 
 and shone out warmly upon the opposite banks of the Saguenay, where 
 huge patches of moist moss-covered plateaux necked with various 
 shades of green lent a soft richness to the beauty of the surrounding 
 scenery, the sight was worthy to be seen by princely eyes. The morn 
 was lovely and the scene delightful as the heart could wish. At landing, 
 His Royal Highness was escorted by some twenty birch canoes manned 
 by Indians. The camping ground had been fixed at a grassy plot on 
 the west side of Ste. Marguerite's Bay, where eight tents had been 
 pitched. From that designed for His Royal Highness floated the Royal 
 Standard, flanked on either side by the Union Jack. A platform was 
 also run out into the tide-way, at the end of which waved another flag, 
 and a pavement of boulders made dry the way up to the base of the 
 hillock on which the white tents stood half concealed by green trees 
 and overshadowed by the high mountains around the rear. Everything 
 here was arranged with the utmost forethought and good taste. The 
 Prince's tent was certainly a model of simple elegance, carpeted by 
 sweet smelling boughs of young sapins, and furnished, even to the 
 minutest details of camp comfort, with seats, lounges, bed, tables, toilet, 
 &c., each and all neatly constructed of osier twigs and white birch 
 bark. The effect was most apropos. A lunch-table was set and supplied 
 in a similarly handsome manner, indeed, all of these preparations 
 reflect great credit upon Mr. Price, and Messrs. Rubridge, Maguire and 
 Carman, who acted for Mr. Blackwell, the lessee of the premises. When 
 His Royal Highness first landed from Mr. Price's boat, he was welcomed 
 by that gentleman as at the earliest landing upon Canadian soil, and a 
 cheer went up from the flotilla of canoes and boats that made the old 
 hills ring again. His Royal Highness being soon equipped for sea trout 
 fishing was taken by Mr. Price to the most favorite spots ; and after the 
 rest of the party had been fitted out from the abundance of His 
 Excellency Sir Edmund Head's supply, and the inexhaustible fly-book of 
 Mr. Gait, they were soon dispersed over the beach, trying each his luck. 
 
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 The season is too late for this description of fishing, and the recent rains 
 had so swollen and discolored the stream that the anglers plied their 
 art with but indifferent success. The Prince here first essayed the angle> 
 and killed several fine fish. Practice alone is needed to make His Roya 
 Highness as expert in fishing as he x already is at fowling. 
 
 The rising tide in all tributaries of the Saguenay flows in with imper- 
 ceptible speed, and creeps around through hidden inlets and, by countless 
 rivulets with such treacherous stealth that a busy fisher may find himself 
 surrounded ere he is even aware of the impending isolation. This pecu- 
 liarity occasioned a very amusing incident. His Royal Highness, appa- 
 rently absorbed in the sport, stood upon a large rock where gullied 
 banks on either side threatened to cut him off from the mainland should 
 the flowing tide surround it unperceived. We watched it from the shore 
 behind. As if by previous concert the flood eddies gathered stealthily 
 here and there in rear, and soon came pouring down along every water- 
 course so fast that the canoes could not get round in time to be available. 
 Whilst wondering how the Prince would extricate himself from the 
 encroaching streams, we espied Mr. Price knee-deep in the gully carrying 
 across His Royal Highness upon his back with the utmost sangfroid. 
 Trout nshing over, the Prince and party repaired to the encampment, 
 and partook of a sumptuous lunch provided at the royal tent, preparatory 
 to ascending the rapids of the river Ste. Marguerite to fish for salmon, 
 near the falls. The steamer Tadousac had, through the kind consent 
 of her owner, Mr. Price, brought up from Tadousac a party of ladies 
 and gentlemen with the intention of enjoying a sight of the Prince en 
 passant at the place of disembarkation. Through the polite attentions 
 of His Excellency the Governor General and others of the royal suite, 
 they were invited to the camps ; and His Royal Highness consented in 
 the most affable manner to this impromptu presentation. As Mr. Price 
 officiated beside His Royal Highness, the writer glanced about the semi- 
 circle of introdacees, and read in their faces some thing more than fashion- 
 able curiosity abundantly gratified, as their eyes spoke a mute welcome 
 to the youthful Prince more eloquent than words. We might not, as 
 King Richard bade his courtiers, " throw away all formal respect and 
 ceremonious duty," but we feel sure that the quiet heartfelt welcome (with 
 only so much ceremony as is consistent) that greeted His Royal Highness 
 at Ste. Marguerite, will not be deemed less true and worthy of remem- 
 brance when compared with noisier and more enthusiastic greetings in 
 crowded thoroughfares and " busy haunts of men." The writer perhaps 
 exceeds their wishes in mentioning the names of those who were so 
 favored by the honour of an informal presentation : 
 
 Mrs. J. Radford, of L'Anse a 1'Eau ; Mrs. P. Whitcher, of Quebec, Misses 
 White and Norwood, of Tadousac ; Miss TTrquhart, of Montreal ; Messrs. 
 Radford, Rubridge, Maguire, Carman, Barrie, and your Correspondent. 
 
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 In commemoration of His Royal Highness's visit, it is proposed to give 
 the place of encampment, &c., the name of Prince of Wales' Bay. A 
 stone will be there erected, cut from the rock upon which he alighted 
 at landing, and will have thereon a suitable inscription. 
 
 A brigade of eleven canoes started after luncheon to ascend the 
 rapids. His Royal Highness led in one of Mr. Price's canoes, at the 
 bow of whiqh streamed a miniature standard. His Excellency Sir 
 Edmund Head, the Earl of Mulgrave, the Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Price, 
 Major General Bruce,Commodore Seymour, Dr. Auckland, Mr. Engleheart, 
 Captain Grey, and the writer, followed, each in separate canoes. The 
 river was very much swollen and turbid, and even the usual rest of 
 dead water between each rapid was now converted into fierce currents, so 
 that it took above three hours to accomplish the ascent with setting poles. 
 The canoes went some six miles up the stream. It was late when the 
 salmon pools were reached, and, the water being very high and muddy, 
 gave little hope of catching salmon. Several fish were, however, tempted 
 to rise, and one was hooked, which His Royal Highness played for a 
 considerable time, but, in one of his vigorous leaps, the hook gave way 
 and he was lost, much to the Prince's surprise and disappointment. 
 The time being so limited, and the day far spent, no other opportunity 
 of striking a fish could be had. The pools were full of salmon ; and had 
 His Royal Highness been able to pass the night there, fishing for his own 
 and three other rods could have been certainly found. In the novelty 
 and excitement of mounting and returning through the rapids, and 
 viewing the wild scenery on every side, any comparative disappointment 
 on the score of fishing was fully compensated. As the long line of frail 
 canoes in Indian file came bounding with their precious freight down 
 the boiling rapids, the passengers were delighted ; and whenever they 
 drew nearer to each other,expressions of wonder and delight were heard 
 wonder how these tiny barks could withstand the tumbling waters, 
 and delight at the buoyant swiftness and quick-varying views of their 
 descent. The reader can form a vague idea of the passage from the 
 fact that about 40 minutes only were covered in returning over the 
 ground it had just taken three toilsome hours to pass upwards. The 
 Prince and entire party were delighted with this novel excursion. After 
 revisiting the encampment, the Royal party returned on board the 
 Victoria, and repaired to dine on board the Hero, next day fulfilling the 
 passage up to Quebec. We have but one parting wish to add to our 
 earnest welcome, and that is, that His Royal Highness, and other dis- 
 tinguished visitors, may sometimes look back towards this Saguenay 
 visit with one tithe of the pleasurable feeling with which we shall ever 
 remember his manly affability and princely bearing, and their noble 
 courtesy. 
 
 After passing up the rest of the noble river St. Lawrence, the 
 fl eet anchored at a short distance from Quebec on Friday night, 
 
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 August 17th ; the Provincial steamers, with the Governor General 
 and Ministry on board, returning thither. 
 
 We copy the following from the correspondence of the New 
 York Tribune ; but we, of course, cannot vouch for the veracity of 
 the correspondent : 
 
 " The short trip around Prince Edward Island had given needed 
 rest to the royal party. It was not an eventful voyage, although a 
 very agreeable one. Minor excitements were afforded in a variety of 
 ways. The Hero, with the Prince on board, ran aground twice, to the 
 particular dissatisfaction of the officers. 
 
 At one point a man fell overboard, and was rescued with a promptness 
 that delighted everybody, himself included. 
 
 The Jlriadne was detained a while by a troublesome bit of machinery, 
 which got hot, and melted, and was repaired so speedily that all the 
 mischief was taken out of it before any knew the difference. 
 
 The night before the second ascension of the Saguenay, the Prince, on 
 turning in at, or possibly a little after midnight, was challenged to be up 
 and on deck at the end of the middle watch. A bet of a sovereign was 
 ventured. The Prince would be up at any hazard even that of repu- 
 diating his berth altogether. This, however, was not needed ; his 
 friends would look to his interests. So, just before 4 o'clock the summons 
 came to him. Sleep was dear at that moment, but the disgrace of 
 forefeiting the wager had to be averted. In some malicious way his 
 clothes had been tampered with, and his stockings evaded all search. 
 But without stockings, and, on the whole, imperfectly clad, the Prince 
 found his way up in the dark, and just won his sovereign by dropping 
 on deck exactly at the moment that eight bells struck. * * * 
 
 The last night upon the St. Lawrence was celebrated by a merry 
 gathering on board the Hero. The scene toward 9 o'clock was utterly 
 void of stately or ceremonious conditions. Grouped together on the 
 main deck, the Prince and his party, officers from other ships, and 
 visitors from the halls of Canadian Governments, smoked and sang and 
 frolicked in a manner calculated to quite dispel the doubts, which every- 
 body knows have always existed, as to the capacity of gentlemen with 
 large titles and severe responsibilities to participate in human and natural 
 enjoyment. At the close, a minister high in Provincial fame, impelled 
 solely by melodious instinct, stepped to the centre and broke out in a 
 very earnest Canadian song, of emphatic accent and tender purport.* A 
 
 * The following is the song above alluded to : 
 A LA CLAIRE FONTAINE. 
 
 FROM THE FRENCH. 
 
 As by the crystal fount I strayed, 
 
 On which the dancing moonbeams played, 
 
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 circle encompassed Mr. Cartier and listened approvingly. The chorus 
 was found to be attainable with little effort a chorus some might say 
 that fitted to perfection at the first trying on. Now a few voices 
 chimed in, the Prince leading, then others' maturer, the Duke's beyond 
 a doubt, among them. Afterwards others' not less distinct, then 
 everybody's, the contagion leaving none unconcerned. As each verse 
 
 The water seemed so clear and bright 
 I bathed myself in its delight 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
 The water seemed so clear and bright, 
 I bathed myself in its delight ; 
 The nightingale above my head, 
 As sweet a stream of music shed 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
 The nightingale above my head, 
 As sweet a stream of music shed, 
 Sing, nightingale ! thy heart is glad ! 
 But I could weep, for mine is sad ! 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
 Sing, nightingale ! thy heart is glad ! 
 But I could weep, for mine is sad ! 
 For I have lost my lady fair, 
 And she has left me to despair ! 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
 For I have lost my lady fair, 
 And she has left me to despair ; 
 For that I gave not, when she spoke, 
 The rose that from its tree I broke 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
 For that I gave not, when she spoke, 
 The rose that from its tree I broke ; 
 I wish the rose were on its tree, 
 And my beloved again with me 1 
 
 I loved thee from the hour we met, 
 
 And never can that love forget. 
 
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 ended, the refrain came clearly out ; all that could turn a tune, and some 
 perhaps that could not, uniting with determined ardor, and sending 
 forth to the waves, which sang their own gentle song, the declaration 
 
 " Jamais je ne t'oublierai ;" 
 
 and it did seem extremely probable that no one there present and thus 
 engaged would be likely to forget any member of the party, or any 
 detail of the scene itself. 
 
 It was a good thing to see the Prince of Wales approaching this 
 more than half French Province, and, while drawing near, joining so 
 jovially in the chorus of a French song, sung by a French officer of the 
 Government. But it lasted only a little while. At half-past 9 the lights 
 vanished and the cigars were sacrificed, the Prince yielding to the regula- 
 tions of the ship with greater readiness than some gentlemen of superior 
 years, who were insubordinate to the extent of the inch or two of tobacco 
 that remained unburned. Then the deck became dimmer, the listening 
 sailors moved slowly forward, the sentries took up their positions, the 
 big Newfoundland dog rattled his chain for good night, and curled him- 
 self away, and the guests mounted to the quarter-deck for an hour's stroll, 
 or turned to their quarters, singing lightly, as they disappeared on all 
 sides 
 
 " Jamais je ne t'oublierai." 
 
 Saturday, August 18th, was an important day for Quebec, and 
 the Quebecers, and not only for them, but for Canadians generally. 
 Seeing that that was the day assigned for the Prince of Wales' 
 first public entry into Canada, no wonder there was such a stir 
 and excitement everywhere in the city. People got up by day- 
 light and crowded the Terrace, to see if there were any signs of 
 the royal fleet. 
 
 Preparations on a grand and great scale were going on, and had 
 been going on for a length of time, in honour of that auspicious 
 occasion ; neat and well-made arches were erected everywhere along 
 the Prince's route, every place was decorated, and flags appeared 
 from all quarters. 
 
 The people were in a great state of enthusiam. Not only the British 
 residents, but the French Canadians also, bore part in the general 
 exultation. 
 
 At nine o'clock, a.m., a general fleet of first-class river steamers, 
 composed of the Victoria, Napoleon, Bowmanville (with excur- 
 sionists from Toronto, more than 500 miles distant), Jacques 
 
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 Cartier, Saguenay, Caledonia, Columbia, Jenny Lind, Mac/net, 
 Voyageur, Mayflower, Providence, and Mmkrat, left Quebec, 
 laden with passengers, to meet the Prince's squadron and escort 
 it to Quebec. They were all gaily dressed out with flags and 
 evergreens, while some had bands of music on board ; and, as each 
 passed down the river, it presented a very brilliant appearance. 
 
 Unfortunately the weather was on a par with that of St. Johns, 
 Nfld, Halifax, St. John, N.B., and Charlottetown ; the sky was 
 covered with mazy and ugly-looking clouds. The rain did not 
 come down in a good and refreshing shower, but in little drizzling 
 ones, making one feel more and more like a hypochondriac. Alto- 
 gether the city would have appeared as dull as dulness could make 
 it, but for the active preparations going on ; and the people would 
 have felt as miserable, but for the buoyancy of their spirits. 
 
 During the whole of the afternoon, and in fact during the whole 
 day, the entire front of the city was crowded with persons, to 
 catch the first glimpse of the Hero. At two o'clock, a huge black 
 mass of smoke appeared directly over Point Levi, and as soon as 
 it was seen, it was surmised that it must be from the royal ves- 
 sels' funnels. And in this the people were not mistaken ; for, upon 
 patient watching and waiting for about an hour, they perceived 
 that the black mass of smoke moved nearer and nearer, towards 
 the point which the fleet was to round. At about three 
 or half-past three o'clock, the Hero appeared round the Point. It 
 was supported on either side by the fleet of river steamers. The 
 Ariadne followed, and then the Flying Fish ; but so hazy was 
 the weather, or so much smoke obscured them, that it was not 
 until they had gained the western extremity of the Island of 
 Orleans, that the excited and enthusiastic multitude that crowded, 
 and in fact covered, every available spot, could obtain a good view 
 of them. Then what a sublime, what a splendid picture pre- 
 sented itself ! The murky clouds which before had covered the 
 entire horizon, had partially cleared away, and the sun appeared, 
 lighting up the magnificent scene before them. The Gibraltar of 
 America looming up to the sky, covered nearly everywhere with 
 human beings; the city decorated gaily with evergreens and 
 flags ; the surrounding country dressed in its brightest hue ; the 
 river covered with large and small craft, displaying their various 
 
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 colours, and dipping them to the men-of-war ; the British war- 
 vessels Nile, Valorous, and Styx, (which had arrived a few days 
 previously,) covered with flags, of all shades and colours ; and, 
 above all, the enthusiastic and hearty cheers, and ringing of bells 
 that tolled in delightful melody who was monarch there ; all this 
 formed a scene which can never be forgotten. 
 
 Then came the thundering and deafening royal salutes from 
 the three men-of-war, from the Citadel, the Durham Terrace, and 
 the Grand Battery. (The guns of the latter had not been fired for 
 thirty or forty years previously.) What a noise ! it fairly shook 
 Quebec again and again. 
 
 Majestically came on the Hero and the other ships. How like 
 a queen she looks in the excited fancy ! Telescopes and opera- 
 glasses are brought to play. A red coat is discovered on deck. 
 " It must be the Prince," cry all, perhaps some poor marine on 
 guard. At four o'clock the Prince entered his barge, accompanied 
 by the Admiral, Sir Alexander Milne, (having gone on board 
 when the Hero anchored,) the Duke of Newcastle, &c. Other 
 boats conveyed the Earl of St. Germains, Governor Bruce, Major 
 Teesdale, Capt. Grey, &c. Again the ships and batteries 
 thundered forth a royal salute, reverberating from shore to shore, 
 and echoing behind the mountains again and again. The smoke 
 had cleared away, and behold Albert Edward had landed upon 
 the shores of the most ancient city in North America. His 
 Excellency the Governor General, the Right Honorable Sir Ed- 
 ward Walker Head, Bt., and suite, and the Canadian Ministry 
 attired in their handsome uniforms of blue and gold, met His 
 Royal Highness on the landing-steps and welcomed him, as also 
 did Lord Lyons (British Ambassador at Washington, U. S.), 
 Lieutenant General Sir W. Fenwick Williams, of Kars, Com- 
 mander of the Forces, and his suite, Sir Allan N. McNab, and 
 Sir E. P. Tache', Aids-de-Camp to the Queen, the various civil 
 and military personages of Quebec, among them Mr. Mayor 
 Langevin. 
 
 Then it was that the assembled multitude from the wharves, 
 steamers, and the rocks above, gave the Prince cheers which can 
 hardly ever be effaced from his memory, so intensely inspiring and 
 truly loyal were they. 
 
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 As the Prince passed to the pavilion to receive the Address of 
 the Corporation, a Guard of Honour of the Royal Canadian Eiflea 
 presented arms, and then their band performed the National 
 Anthem, the other bands taking it up, and the bag-pipes played 
 some national air. 
 
 The handsome pavilion on the \vharf was decked out with 
 national banners and spruce trees. The Mayor, surrounded by the 
 City Council, presented His Royal Highness with the following 
 Address : 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHXKSS, 
 
 The Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens -of Quebec, are happy on being 
 the first among the Canadian subjects of Her Most Gracious Majesty 
 the Queen, to present their respectful homage to Your Royal Highness. 
 They will long continue to regard as a memorable epoch, the day on 
 which they have been permited to receive, within the walls of their 
 city, this visit from the eldest son of their beloved Sovereign, the Heir 
 Apparent to the British Crown. 
 
 When we became aware that Her Majesty, finding it inconvenient or 
 impracticable to proceed to so great a distance from the central seat of 
 Government, had deigned to testify the regard which Her Majesty enter- 
 tains toward Her Canadian subjects, by sending our future sovereign in 
 her stead we felt gratified and proud in receiving such a mark of dis- 
 tinction, from one whose public and private virtues command the admi- 
 ration of the whole world. We feel assured that Our Most Gracious 
 Queen was desirous to show, by this act of condescension, that she knows 
 how to appreciate and honour in a special manner the most important 
 of her colonial possessions. 
 
 In this Province, Your Royal Highness will find a free people, faithful 
 and loyal, attached to their sovereign and to their country. In this the 
 most ancient city of Canada, Your Royal Highness will be in the 
 midst of a population devoted to your interests, testifying, by the heart- 
 iness of their acclamations and good wishes, that, though they derive 
 their origin from various races, and may differ in language and religious 
 denominations, yet they have but one voice and one heart in expressing 
 loyalty to their sovereign, and in welcoming him who represents heron 
 this occasion, and who is one day destined, according to the natural 
 order of events, to become her successor. 
 
 The people of Quebec rejoice in beholding Your Royal Highness 
 in the midst of them. They are happy because they have the opportunity 
 of expressing in a direct manner their respect and attachment; happy 
 because he will hereafter, in all human probability, wear the crown of 
 this great empire ; will be enabled, during his brief sojourn in Canada, to 
 
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 judge for himself of the loyalty of the whole Canadian people in general, 
 and of the citizens of Quebec in particular. Your Royal Highness will 
 also enjoy the opportunity of forming an adequate opinion of the ex- 
 tent of the country, its productions, its resources, its progress, and the 
 great future reserved for it ; and will be enabled to perceive that 
 Canada, with a population of three millions of inhabitants, though only 
 an appendage of the United Kingdom, possesses institutions as free, and 
 a territory three times as extensive. 
 
 In conclusion, we entreat Your Royal Highness favourably to accept, 
 for Our Most Gracious Sovereign and Yourself, along with our loyal and 
 respectful homage, the assurance of our sincere attachment ; while 
 we most heartily wish that this visit to Canada may prove as gratifying 
 and agreeable to Yourself, as it is to the citizens of Quebec. 
 
 HECTOR L. LANGEVIN, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 The Prince replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification and of 
 interest in all around me that I find myself for the first time on the shores 
 of Canada, and within the precincts of this its most ancient city. 
 
 I am deeply touched by the cordiality with which I have been wel- 
 comed by the inhabitants. 
 
 For the Address which you have just presented to me, I beg you to 
 accept the hearty thanks which, in the name of the Queen, I offer you. 
 
 Be assured that Her Majesty will receive with no little satisfaction the 
 account of my reception amongst you ; proving, as it does, that Her 
 feelings towards the people are met on their part by the most devoted 
 and loyal attachment to Herself, her throne, and her family. Still more 
 will she rejoice to learn, from your own lips, that all differences of origin, 
 language, and religion, are lost in one universal spirit of patriotism, and 
 that all classes are knit to each other and to the mother country by the 
 common ties of equal liberty and free institutions. 
 
 For myself, I will only add, that I shall ever take a deep concern in 
 all that tends to promote the prosperity of this beautiful and interesting 
 city. 
 
 The Mayor then called for three cheers for His Royal Highness 
 the Prince of Wales, which were loyally and heartily given. 
 
 The Prince and suite were then conducted to carriages ; the 
 Prince, the Duke of Newcastle, and Earl St. Germains to the 
 Governor General's ; Governor Bruce, Earl Mulgrave (who ac- 
 companied the royal party from Nova Scotia), Lord Lyons, and 
 Sir W. F. Williams, to another ; the Canadian Ministry to others ; 
 the Mayor and Corporation last. 
 
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 The Clergy, the Judiciary, the National Societies, Mechanics, 
 Indians, &c., and Volunteers, turned out in the procession, which 
 was well organized. 
 
 The 17th Kegiment and the Police lined the road from the 
 wharf to Buade Street. 
 
 Everywhere a perfect ovation awaited the Prince; the men 
 cheered and cried, to give vent to their surcharged feelings ; and 
 even women were found who cheered as lustily as the men, but 
 the generality only smiled archly on the young Prince, and waved 
 their handkerchiefs. On Buade St. and along St. John St., the 
 Canadian Volunteer Militia Companies, under Colonel Sewell, 
 lined the streets and presented arms. 
 
 The procession escorted His Koyal Highness and the most 
 important persons of his suite, to St. John's Toll-Gate, when, 
 opening out in two lines, the Prince's carriage passed between 
 them ; the Quebec Volunteer Cavalry, under Col. Bell, alone 
 escorting it to Cataraqui, the Governor General's temporary resi- 
 dence, situated outside the town, and where His Royal Highness 
 arrived at about half-past five or six o'clock. 
 
 In the evening, although it rained, there was a very fine illumina- 
 tion. The rain did not put a damper on the people's enthusiasm, 
 for nearly every house was lit up ; the rich and poor alike did 
 honour to their future sovereign. There was not a man or woman 
 in Quebec, who, if he or she had but a half-penny, hastened to buy 
 a " dip " to light up their humble dwelling, so as to add to the great 
 glare, and show their loyalty to England. On the whole, the 
 illumination in Quebec beat all the preceding ones in honour of 
 the visit. 
 
 On Sunday morning (19th), H. R. H., together with the Gov- 
 ernor General, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl St. Germains, 
 Governor Bruce, Lord Mulgrave, Sir Fenwick Williams, Admiral 
 Sir A. Milne, and the suites of H. R. H., the Governor General, 
 Lord Mulgrave, the General, and the Admiral ; and most of the 
 officers of the Army and Navy in town, attended Divine Service 
 in the Anglican Cathedral. 
 
 His Royal Highness was met at the entrance by the Lord 
 Bishop (G. J. Mountain), and the clergymen of the Cathedral, 
 who graciously bowed. He was then conducted to the Governor 
 
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 General's pew, which had been beautifully furnished for the occa- 
 sion, the organ (under Mr. Carter) playing the Coronation 
 Anthem. 
 
 Every part of the church was secured ; every inch of ground 
 that commanded -a view of the Prince was crowded ; people were 
 standing during the whole of the service, but every one took 
 example from the Prince, and gave it that attention which it so 
 much deserves. 
 
 The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Percy ; the Lessons by 
 the Rev. G. Vernon Houseman ; the Epistle by the Rev. Dr. 
 Adamson (Chaplain to the Legislature) ; the ante-communion 
 service by His Lordship the Bishop, and the following sermon 
 preached by the Rev. Mr. Houseman : 
 
 TEXT, Hebrews II. 3, " How shall we escape if we neglect so great a 
 salvation ?" 
 
 It is to be feared that our very familiarity with many of the most im- 
 portant passages of Scripture produces in us a deadness to their otherwise 
 striking character. The eye, we know, becomes so accustomed to the 
 objects which, at first, elicited our unbounded admiration, that by 
 degrees we lose the intensity of the first impression ; and the ear too 
 becomes so familiarized with sounds which, at one time, produced exqui- 
 site feelings of rapture, that they cease to be regarded with the same 
 pleasure which attended their first utterance ; and in a similar manner 
 it happens that the most solemn and momentous statements of the Bible 
 lose in our minds, by frequent repetition, much of their deep and pointed 
 meaning. Does it not happen that the sinner who is conscious of being 
 a violator of God's laws, can hear repeatedly the awful denunciation of 
 the Bible against the impenitent, and yet feel no alarm, no remorse, 
 and no anxiety for the future can listen to the thrilling descripton of 
 the bottomless pit, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched, 
 and yet be less alive to their condition than the devils who believe in 
 the existence and know some of the attributes of God, and tremble ? 
 Nor can the ungodly be alone charged with failing to lay to heart and 
 profit by the clear enunciation of the word of the living God. Even 
 those who profess and call themselves Christians, and are traversing 
 this narrow way which leadeth unto life eternal, too frequently do not 
 recognize the beauty and the force of many of those passages which are 
 mercifully intended to cheer, sustain, and console them in accomplishing 
 the arduous and important task which they are called upon to perform. 
 So earthly are our affections, so weak our faith, so languid our hope, 
 
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 that we can oftentimes hear of the sublime and glorious promises of 
 God without allowing our hearts to be drawn out in the profoundest 
 admiration and love towards Him, who not only hath given His life a 
 ransom for many, but hath also purchased for his people an inheritance 
 incorruptible and undented, and that fadeth not away. 
 
 And if what I have stated be correct, cannot we be charged with having 
 frequently heard the earnest enquiry made by God himself, in the words 
 of our text, without having weighed in our minds the full import of 
 the question without having arrived at any definite conclusion on the 
 subject without having returned an answer to our own hearts an 
 answer founded upon reason, and dictated by an enlightened conscience ? 
 
 If this be the case if the passage has never been viewed with the 
 light which revelation throws upon it if we have not hitherto pursued 
 the enquiry with an earnest desire to profit by it, let us listen once 
 again, and that, too, with seriousness and attention, to the all-important 
 demand, " How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ?" 
 
 In directing your attention to the words before us, I would speak of 
 the exceeding excellency of the salvation offered to man that salvation 
 which the wicked reject which few Christians duly appreciate which 
 none can adequately estimate. 
 
 To arrive at any just knowledge and understanding of the salvation 
 offered to us in the Gospel, we should consider what man originally 
 was what is his present condition, what his future prospects. As 
 Adam stood, at the first, in innocence before God, there was stamped 
 upon his whole nature the likeness of his Maker. Xo breath of defile- 
 ment had passed over him, no taint of evil had invaded his breast. 
 So pure and holy was he, that he could with unabashed face look upon 
 and hold converse with the Great Author of his being. And in this 
 unsullied state it was his delight to obey the will of God, for there was 
 a ready and active response to everything which emanated from the 
 Lord God. But we well know how soon the glory of the Eternal Power 
 and Godhead, which was reflected in all its brightness in the heart of 
 the creature, ceased to be so exhibited. Man fell, and by his fall his 
 mind lost its divine knowledge, his will its original uprightness, his 
 affections their wonted subjection. And in Adam fell the whole human 
 race, for from this corrupted stem has sprung the degenerate millions 
 who have since peopled this earth. Thus, when we look around us and 
 survey either men in general or ourselves in particular, we cannot but 
 mark the utter absence of all inherent holiness, the inward workings 
 of a heart deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Instead 
 of loving and admiring God and rendering unto Him the homage which 
 is His due, we naturally start aside from communion with him, we crave 
 after the sordid pleasures of earth, and find ourselves too much engrossed 
 with the things which are temporal. Even such a one as St. Paul, 
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 of Christ, and who afterwards exhibited a life of ardent devotion and 
 deep-seated attachment to the Lord who had bought him, was compelled 
 to write, with feelings of self-abasement and genuine humbleness of 
 spirit, " The good which I would I do not ; but the evil which I would 
 not, that I do." 
 
 Nor does the future hold out any bright or cheering prospects to man 
 in his natural condition. So clear and decisive are the threatenings of 
 God against the impenitent, that we would, if we dared, draw a veil over 
 all that is revealed upon the subject. But while we might naturally 
 sink at the prospect of eternity, there is unfolded to us, in the "Word of 
 God, the blessed assurance that there is a way opened by which we can 
 be delivered from the body of sin and brought into the glorious liberty 
 of the children of God. A divine method is set before us by which ini- 
 quity is pardoned, the wrath of God appeased, mercy extended to the 
 penitent, and a region of ineffable splendor and glory secured to the 
 believer, as his rich inheritance in the world which is to come. 
 
 Surely, when we contemplate the salvation which is thus oflered to 
 us, a salvation which accords with man's highest aspiration, a salva- 
 tion which satisfies his most enlarged desires, we cannot but acquiesce 
 in the description given by the Apostle where he terms it great, and see 
 the force of the enquiry " How shall we escape if we neglect so great 
 salvation" by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus and through the 
 sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit ? And I would have you further 
 remember, that the Gospel which is in itself so excellent, is revealed to 
 us as the express will of God. 
 
 To reject the offers of salvation, considered solely in reference to their 
 own intrinsic merit, and to live without God in the world, is the height 
 of folly and madness. But when we consider that the divine purposes 
 have been conveyed to us by a special revelation, the sin of despising 
 what has been designed for our spiritual and eternal welfare is enhanced 
 a hundred fold. God, acting upon a principle of equity, has declared 
 " unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required ;'' so 
 that if He has been pleased to unfold, in all its simplicity and clearness, 
 the way of salvation if He has ordained the terms upon which we are 
 to be partakers of it if He has bound us to the observance of it by the 
 severest penalties, and encouraged us by most ample and glorious pro- 
 mises, how manifestly inexcusable are we, if we neglect all the overtures 
 of mercy, and in the pride and rebellion of our hearts declare that " we 
 will not have this man to reign over us." If the servant that knew not his 
 Lord's will, was yet to be beaten with stripes (although only a few) 
 because he did things worthy of stripes, must we not acknowledge (even 
 although in the acknowledgment we may condemn ourselves) that he 
 who lives in direct opposition to the will of God, conveyed to us even 
 more clearly than by " disposition of angels," shall stand inexcusable 
 both here and hereafter, and so be beaten with many stripes ? 
 
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 For it must be admitted by all, that the salvation which is made a 
 special subject of revelation, is declared in such positive terms, and 
 the manner in .which it is to be secured is made so simple, that it is 
 impossible for any to misunderstand, except those who are -wilfully 
 blind to God's overtures of reconciliation through Jesus Christ. We 
 know that there were once times of ignorance which God winked at, 
 but now, in terms which are written most legibly upon every page of 
 the Bible, He commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Salvation 
 was the theme of the prophets of old. It was the substance of all our 
 Saviour's teaching. It is that for which He suffered and died. The 
 cross of Christ was deemed by St. Paul and the other early preachers of 
 Christianity as the power of God unto salvation. By this weapon their 
 splendid triumphs were achieved. And in like manner " Christ and 
 Him crucified " has been the one glorious topic upon which all the 
 servants of the Lord have been subsequently delegated to expatiate ; and 
 thus the things which God, of old, declared by those who wrote under 
 the immediate inspiration of the Spirit, have been sounded throughout 
 the world as with a trumpet's blast. And, with regard to ourselves 
 who live in a Christian country, it is our privilege to know with singular 
 clearness the things which have been thus revealed. According to our 
 knowlege then, and according to the manner in which that knowledge 
 has been exercised, shall we be judged hereafter ; and lest we should 
 love darkness rather than light, and turn away from Him that now 
 speaketh from Heaven, a voice from on high arrests our attention, and 
 we hear the solemn enquiry " How shall we escape if we neglect so 
 great salvation ?" 
 
 But further, we must not lose sight of the dignity of Him by and 
 through whom the great salvation is proposed, and hence aggravate 
 the sin of those who neglect it. 
 
 You remember how, on one occasion, when the Apostle St. Paul was 
 writing to Timothy, he uses this language, so expressive of the over- 
 whelming grandeur of the Gospel Scheme of salvation : " without contro- 
 versy great is the mystery of Godliness ; God was manifest in the flesh, 
 justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed 
 on in the world, received up into glory." 
 
 The incarnation of the Son of God, and the glorious results which 
 followed from his dwelling among men, filled the Apostle's mind with 
 the stupendousness of the work and the blessedness of those who should 
 believe in his name. And when we are led to contemplate the same 
 subject, and remember that " God, who, at sundry times and in divers 
 manners, spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in 
 these last days spoken unto us by His Son," we cannot but acquiesce 
 in the declarations of the Saviour, " if I had not come and spoken unto 
 them they had not had sin, but now they have no cloke for their sin." 
 "We know indeed that the more prominent object for which the Saviour 
 
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 became incarnate was, by becoming a sacrifice for sin, to reconcile the 
 sinner to God, to break the fetters with which Satan had bound the 
 whole family of mankind, to bear, in his human nature, the curse of the 
 law in one word, to make possible the amazing combination of God 
 being just and yet the justifier. 
 
 But this was not all ; for what mean those miracles which astonished 
 the multitude and convinced so many those discourses which riveted 
 the attention of the populace, and drew forth from their lips the almost 
 involuntary acknowledgment of His divine power ? Why were angels 
 commissioned to announce His birth why was the last trying scene 
 attended with so many extraordinary incidents as to draw from the 
 Gentile centurion, at the moment of the Saviour's dissolution, the truthful 
 exclamation, " truly this was the Son of God." 
 
 Oh! was not all this allowed to transpire to impress upon the minds 
 of those who witnessed these things, and of those who should subse- 
 quently hear of them, the importance of a salvation which divine wisdom 
 saw fit to be achieved by such a sacrifice and promulgated with such 
 extraordinary accompaniments ? Are not the sayings and the doings of 
 Christ, together with the wonders which transpired from the cradle to 
 the grave, handed down to us and continually pressed upon our atten- 
 tion to remind us of the price which was paid for our deliverance from 
 the grasp of Satan ; and the fact that God will, in consideration of what 
 Christ has endured for us, freely give us all things, and consequently 
 that there is not only the voice of Divine Justice calling for retribution, 
 but the whisperings of conscience confirming the sentence, if the facts 
 connected with the incarnation of the Redeemer are regarded as a 
 fictitious narrative and produce no saving effect upon our characters, 
 if, in one word, " we neglect so great salvation ?" 
 
 Once the thunderings of Sinai accompanied the giving of the law, 
 and he that despised Moses's law died without mercy ; of how much 
 severer punishment, justly argues the Apostle, shall he be thought worthy 
 who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the 
 blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, 
 and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? Oh, let us not resemble 
 the Jews of old who were condemned in the parable of the Householder ; 
 for the husbandmen not only ill-treated the servants who were sent to 
 receive the fruits, but they killed the heir, that they might, as they sup- 
 posed, seize on his inheritance ; being, however, themselves miserably 
 destroyed for such wicked and such unjustifiable conduct. And if we 
 slight the Son of God and neglect the salvation which he offers us, shall 
 we not likewise perish ? 
 
 And then, again, consider the clearness and fullness of the evidence 
 upon which rests our acceptance of the gospel covenant. It is in no 
 dark or ambiguous manner that the salvation spoken of in our text is 
 offered to us. As God has endowed man with reasoning powers, so, 
 
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 in the delivery of gospel truths, He has directed us to weigh well the 
 evidence upon which this subject is presented. And then, if the proof 
 be not unreasonable, but clear and ample, yea, undeniable, is there not 
 additional ground for accepting all that has been revealed ; and will 
 not this conclusive evidence witness against those who neglect so great 
 salvation ? 
 
 And what are the facts upon which we may ground our belief in 
 the Gospel Scheme of salvation ? 
 
 May we not take the whole series of prophecy which is to be found in 
 the Old Testament, and see how all are fulfilled under the New ? And 
 these prophecies (oftentimes so improbable in themselves) were known 
 to have been promulgated prior to the event, and yet received a palpable 
 fulfilment ; so that we feel convinced that God alone by His Holy Spirit 
 could have instigated the writers, and that He was, by their utterance, 
 not only preparing the minds of His ancient people for the things which 
 should be hereafter, but also was establishing an evidence which should 
 compel every mind open to conviction to receive the salvation introduced 
 by the Son of God. 
 
 And then, again, consider how the truths of Christianity are recom- 
 mended to us by that great variety of undeniable proofs which St. Paul 
 calls " the power and demonstration of the Spirit." Thus, the Scripture 
 narrative furnishes us with an accoant of the conception of our Lord 
 by the miraculous operation of the Holy Ghost and the wonder which 
 attended his birth, the visible descent of the Spirit upon Him at His 
 baptism, accompanied by a voice from heaven declaring Him to be the 
 beloved Son of God the miracles, both numerous and varied, which 
 He performed during the course of His public ministry His transfigura- 
 tion on the Mount, witnessed by three chosen disciples His agony in 
 the garden His crucifixion and the supernatural effects which followed 
 His resurrection His ascension and moreover the outpouring of the 
 Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, according to His express promise : 
 and all these circumstances handed down to us in the writings of those 
 who were the chosen companions of our Lord, and testified by those 
 who were eye-witnesses and ear-witnesses of the events concerning which 
 they write, and which the enemies of our religion have never been able 
 to disprove, form such an array of evidence that, if, in spite of these 
 things, any presume to reject the Gospel as not being conveyed with 
 sufficiently distinctive evidence to permit their acceptation of it, we 
 cannot but say that Satan hath blinded their eyes and hardened their 
 hearts, and that no other proof would satisfy them, even though one 
 should rise from the dead and declare it. 
 
 Surely we, my brethren, give a hearty and ready assent to what the 
 Bible has revealed ; and if we thus yield the testimony of the understand- 
 ing and of the mouth, should we not, acquiesce also with the heart? 
 and can we not, with the accumulative evidence with which God in His 
 
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 wisdom and providence has. favored us, clearly see that those cannot 
 escape who neglect the great salvation. 
 
 The subject, then, we have now been considering is one which concerns 
 us all most deeply. Our present life is one of probation. We are each 
 living in preparation for one which shall know no termination. God, 
 in His providence has shewn us what we are, what we should be, what 
 we must be, if we would inherit the blessings of His Kingdom of Glory. 
 By the words of our text, He would remind us of our privilege and the 
 imminent peril to which we expose ourselves as long as we neglect the 
 salvation, the great salvation, which is so freely, so lovingly offered to 
 us in Christ. Daily and hourly does God plead with us. He appeals 
 to us in the language of loving-kindness and entreaty. He warns us in 
 terms expressive of his wrath and vengeance, which will descend upon 
 those who make light of his proffered salvation. 
 
 Once again He proposes for our consideration the solemn enquiry of 
 our text. Oh ! let us argue the matter with ourselves, and that, too, 
 carefully, candidly, truthfully, prayerfully, and scripturally, that God 
 may not have to testify against any one present as He did against 
 Ephraim of old : "I have written to him the great things of my law, 
 but they were counted as a strange thing." 
 
 Rather let us accept (even readily, cheerfully, and gratefully) the 
 offers of salvation, that we may be accounted worthy to enter in through 
 the gates into the heavenly city. 
 
 There are many circumstances of a novel and interesting character 
 which, at the present time, naturally engage our attention, gladden our 
 hearts, and strengthen our loyalty. But while we welcome with enthu- 
 siasm, and a just enthusiasm, to this Province, one whom, in the Pro- 
 vidence of God, we expect at some future day to reign over the British 
 Empire ; while we hail his arrival with joy, binding us, as it must do, 
 with closer attachment to the land of our forefathers, and with many of 
 us the land of our nativity while we bid him good speed in his present 
 visit, and pray that every blessing may abundantly rest upon him, let 
 us never fail to remember, that, before the King of Kings and Lord of 
 Lords, we must all one day appear, and " then shall the righteous shine 
 forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fathers." That such blessed- 
 ness may be his, that such blessedness may be ours, may God of His infi- 
 nite mercy grant, for Jesus Christ's sake. 
 
 On leaving Church, His Royal Highness was met at the 
 entrance by a great crowd of persons, who all uncovered, but did 
 not cheer, which augured well for their respect for the sacred 
 day. The Prince took off his hat, smiled on all, and stepped 
 into the carriage with the Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germains, 
 and the Governor General, and was speedily out of sight. 
 
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 On the Thursday following, His Royal Highness presented the 
 Cathedral with a splendid and handsomely-bound copy of the 
 Holy Bible, bearing the royal arms on the cover, with the 
 following inscription in his own writing : 
 
 To THE CATHEDRAL OP QUEBEC, 
 
 in memory of 
 Sunday, August IQtTi, 1860. 
 
 ALBERT EDTVARD. 
 
 On Sunday afternoon, the royal party paid a visit to Spencer 
 Wood, where are the ruins of the Governor General's former 
 residence. It commands a splendid view of the St. Lawrence, and 
 is surrounded by some of the finest scenery in the country. 
 
 The weather on Monday (20th) was as unpropitious as on Satur- 
 day, we may say infinitely worse. Sunday had been a remarkably 
 fine day, but Monday, the day on which the Prince was to see some 
 of the natural beauties in and around the city, turned out a rainy 
 day ; which, after all the Quebecers' expectations, was too bad, and 
 nearly every one you met made that exclamation, or some other 
 very much akin to it. His Royal Highness remained at the 
 Governor General's residence all the forenoon, until about two 
 o'clock, when, the weather having cleared up a little, the Prince 
 signified his intention of paying a visit to the Chaudiere Falls, 
 situated about five miles up, on the opposite side of the river. 
 
 His Royal Highness, with his suite and the Governor General, 
 went down to the place of embarkation in His Excellency's 
 carriages, and at Cape Rouge took one of the Valorous' boats, 
 and, with his suite, was speedily rowed across the stream to 
 the village of St. Nicholas. Here, sixteen splendid horses * were 
 awaiting the royal party. The Prince mounted a celebrated mare 
 called " Lady Franklin ; " and the noble manner in which he 
 bestrode the animal, gave ample evidence of his equestrian skill. 
 
 After viewing the Falls, and one of the party taking a sketch 
 of them, the Prince and suite returned to the village inn, where 
 the Stewart (Mr. Sanderson, of New York) had laid out a sump- 
 
 * Purchased by the Provincial Government. 
 
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 tuous luncheon, to which the royal party did ample justice. 
 They then returned by a small steamer to the city. 
 
 On Tuesday (August 2 1st) His Koyal Highness proceeded to 
 take possession of the Palace (late Parliament Buildings), and hold 
 a levee there. The whole building had, under the judicious super- 
 intendence of the Board of Works, been entirely refitted and 
 renovated. The new furniture was the costliest and most elegant 
 that could be obtained. Rooms were provided for the whole suite, 
 and guests ; in a word, everything was conducted on a most satis- 
 factory footing. 
 
 We take from the Toronto Globe the following description of 
 the interior portion of the building : 
 
 But to come to particulars. In the first place, the whole building 
 has been painted from top to bottom, every hole and corner cleaned, 
 every cobweb abolished, every spot of dirt scrupulously wiped out. 
 Entering by the broad staircase, we find that the walls have been hung 
 with light-coloured satin-paper, divided into panels by dark broad 
 borderings. The staircase and the corridors have all been carpeted ; and 
 placed along the latter are large couches and chairs for the resting of 
 the attendants who will be in waiting night and day. The principal 
 corridor runs the entire length of the building, and has windows at each 
 end which windows have been coloured with coats of arms Royal and 
 Princely, with maple-leaves, with roses, shamrocks, and thistles, fruits 
 and flowers all combined. The Council Chamber, in accordance with 
 the original designs, has been fitted out as a reception-room, in which 
 the levee is to be held. A velvet carpet covers the floor ; a costly affair. 
 Upon a white ground, are worked groups of flowers in many brilliant 
 colours, purple and yellow predominating. The Speaker's gilded chair 
 stands upon its accustomed scarlet dais ; the walls of the room are hung 
 with the pictures once occupying similar positions in Toronto. The six 
 large windows in the room are hung with double curtains of scarlet and 
 white, falling in graceful folds from the large gilt cornices above. The 
 polished brass railings, with their numerous lamps, have not been 
 removed. And it was not needed that they should be. Reflecting back 
 with increased brilliancy the sun's rays as they pass the windows, they 
 add much to the adornment of the room. The chandelier, with its many 
 lights and small glass globes, is the one used last session, but it has been 
 carefully cleaned, and looks " as good as new." The Speaker's rooms 
 leading from the Chamber have been fitted up for the use of His Royal 
 Highness. The carpet is velvet, dark flowers upon white ground, look- 
 ing exceedingly rich. A French bedstead of black walnut, with sheets 
 of finest linen, has been provided for the repose of our illustrious visitor. 
 
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 The posts are square, and, if it is allowable to use such language, in the 
 Italian style. The foot-board is adorned with a well-executed carved 
 crest of His Royal Highness. There are no hangings yet, but there are 
 going to be they will be attached immediately the Prince arrives. 
 Two tables, one with a large mirror, the other with a marble top, are 
 beautiful specimens of cabinet-work. The chairs are of the same 
 material as the rest of the furniture, black walnut, with covers of 
 crimson silk. The sitting-room has a carpet of the same pattern, and is 
 papered in the same way as the bedroom. A side-board of the description 
 used for the holding of plate not being either a cabinet-maker or an 
 auctioneer, I forget the technical term for it is placed in this apartment. 
 From the side-board itself rises a large mirror, a row of semicircular 
 shelves being attached to each side. Along the top is a carved cornice, 
 with the Prince of "Wales crest and a crown in the centre. At one end 
 is a shield bearing a sheaf of wheat. Over it are small banners ; under- 
 neath it is the word " Toronto." At the opposite end is a similar shield, 
 but bearing an anchor, inscribed below with the word, " Quebec." The 
 centre-table is rather plain ; but between the pieces of which the top is 
 composed, there is no perceptible difference. A large piano also of 
 walnut, one of Chickering's, is placed in the room. Five nearly straight- 
 backed chairs, richly carved, complete the equipment of this apartment. 
 Next to it is the bath-room. By means of the appliances provided there, 
 His Royal Highness may have either a hot, a cold, or a lukewarm bath 
 as he pleases. It is very nicely fitted up. But, though the Priuce is to 
 be thus magnificently lodged, His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has the 
 greater space and more costly furniture. The sitting-room intended for 
 his use is supplied with a beautiful Brussels carpet, hung with satin 
 paper, bordered with green and gold. On one side stands a walnut 
 sofa, of a very large size, with much carving upon it. In the centre is 
 the head of a huntsman, on each side is a large eagle, with wings spread 
 and neck stretched as though just about to swoop down upon its prey. 
 A book-case, so large that it covers one end of the room, stands opposite 
 a Chickering piano. The centre is occupied with a beautiful centre- 
 table, while between the windows are two small side-tables, and a 
 writing-desk. Then, there is a stuffed arm-chair, so soft that a feather- 
 bed is as a board to it, two library chairs, and two cane-seated chairs. 
 The three windows are hung with scarlet curtains suspended from large 
 gilt cornices, richly ornamented with bunches of grapes, the centre 
 bunch being coloured to represent the luscious fruit when in full bloom. 
 From the ceiling descend two chandeliers, each with three burners. 
 On the wall, over the sofa already mentioned, is a portrait of the Prince, 
 a copy from Winterhalter, decidedly the best I have yet seen. The bed 
 and dressing-room of the Duke are on the opposite side of the narrow 
 corridor, and are fitted up with a mahogany suite of furniture. The 
 
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 House of Assembly has been converted for the time being into a dining- 
 room. But little alteration has been made in it except that the floor 
 has been raised, and everything reburnished or repainted. Three side- 
 boards have been added. One of them, occupying the place generally 
 devoted to the exhibition of Mr. Speaker Smith, is of oak, and similar ia 
 design to that exhibited, I believe, by Messrs. Jacques and Hay in 
 Toronto last October. The carvings are very rich, and display a great 
 deal of artistic skill. They consist of representations of game, fish, 
 and fruit upon the panels and along the mouldings of the side-board. 
 The portrait of Her Majesty, formerly in the library in Toronto, is placed 
 over the chair, and the portraits of Provincial celebrities are suspended 
 in the neighbourhood. General Sir W. F. Williams is to occupy the 
 Speaker's apartments, which, like the rest, have been completely refitted 
 for his accommodation. All the committee-rooms, leading from [the 
 corridors, have been furnished in a less costly, though not less complete 
 manner than those intended for the gentlemen already noticed. The 
 bed-rooms are all on one side the sitting rooms on the other. Each 
 bed-room is furnished in the same style as the sitting-room opposite to 
 it but no pair of rooms is like to another pair. The suites in some are 
 of maple, in others of mahogany, in others of walnut. In some the 
 carpets are light, in others dark. Take the first we come to. The bed- 
 room has a carpet of dark flowers upon a white ground. The paper is 
 light-flowered satin, pannelled with deep borders of blue and green. A 
 French bedstead, a chest of drawers, a sofa covered with crimson silk 
 damask, a large rocking-chair, two other chairs covered with the like 
 material, and a marble-topped washing- table, all of dark maple, stand 
 in the room. The window is lined with white muslin curtains, a three- 
 light bronze chandelier is suspended from the ceiling ; and to the wall 
 two small gas-branches are affixed. The furniture in the sitting-room 
 opposite is also of walnut, and consists of a sofa, four chairs, a centre- 
 table richly carved, with representations of the rose, shamrock, and 
 thistle, a card-table, and a small book-case. The white satin-paper has 
 a border of dark blue and gold, and there are two chandeliers, instead 
 of one as in the bed-room. The toilet service is generally of white 
 china with blue bands, ornamented in places with the Prince's crest. 
 But there is great variety. Each room is supplied with a bell-pull, and 
 wires in the corridors will enable any of the servants in attendance to 
 summon those of their fellows whose assistance they may desire. The 
 doors are all numbered, as in an hotel, and a registry of the occupants 
 of the rooms will be kept for reference. The kitchen I told you 
 of has been erected, and is in full blast ; for wending my way into the 
 lower regions, I came across a strong smell of roast and boiled. Its 
 mysteries I did not further seek to penetrate. 
 
 A Guard of Honour of the 17th Regiment was in front of the 
 
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 building with their band, and a portion of them lined the street 
 through which the Governor's carriage was to pass. They presented 
 arms, the band played the National Anthem, and a royal salute 
 was fired from Durham Terrace when His Royal Highness 
 arrived, who was received at the entrance by Lord Lyons, 
 General Sir W. F. Williams of Kars, Admiral Sir Alex. 
 Milne, Col. Sir A. N. MacNab, Col. Sir E. P. Tachd, the 
 Ministry, Col. Irvine, A.D.C., Major Teesdale, Capt. Grey, and 
 Capt. Retallack, A.D.C., &c. They escorted him to his suit of 
 apartments, and shortly after to the Reception Chamber (the 
 Assembly room), where the levee was held. 
 
 There he took his seat upon the throne, surrounded by high 
 Civil, Military, and Naval Personages, all in uniform. 
 
 The first party presented, was the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, 
 composed of all the Roman Catholic bishops of the Province, 
 attired in purple robes, with gold crucifixes. They were separately 
 introduced by one of the party. Then came the Judges of the 
 Superior Court, and the Legislative Council of Canada (to the 
 number of about forty-three, some being absent) . The Usher of the 
 Black Rod announced them by three bows ; then followed the 
 Speaker, and then the Sergeant^at-Arrns, with the mace. All the 
 members were attired in suits of superfine black. The Speaker 
 (Hon. N. F. Belleau) advanced, and, on behalf of the Legislative 
 Council, presented the following Address, reading it first in English 
 and then in French : 
 
 To His Royal Highness, #c., $c. 
 MAY IT PLBASK YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Legislative Council of Canada, in Parliament assembled, 
 approach Your Royal Highness with renewed assurances of our attach- 
 ment and devotion to the person and Crown of Your Royal Mother, our 
 beloved Queen. 
 
 While we regret that the duties of State should have prevented our 
 Sovereign from visiting this extensive portion of Her vast dominions, 
 we loyally and warmly appreciate the interest which Her Majesty mani- 
 fests by deputing to us Your Royal Highness as her representative ; and 
 we rejoice, in common with all Her subjects in this Province, at the 
 presence among us of Him who at some future, but, we hope, distant 
 day, will reign over the realm, wearing with undiminished lustre the 
 Crown which will descend to Him. 
 
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 Though the formal opening of that work, the Victoria Bridge, known 
 throughout the world as the most gigantic effort in modern centuries of 
 engineering skill, has been made a special occasion of Your Royal High- 
 ness's visit, and proud as are Canadians of it, we yet venture to hope 
 that you will find in Canada many other evidences of greatness and 
 progress to interest you in the welfare and advancement of your future 
 subjects. 
 
 Enjoying under the institutions guaranteed to us all freedom in the 
 management of our own affairs, and, as British subjects, having a com- 
 mon feeling and interest in the fortunes of the Empire, its glories and 
 successes, we trust, as we believe, that the visit of Your Royal Highness 
 will strengthen the ties which bind together the Sovereign and the 
 Canadian people. 
 
 The following was His Royal Highness' s reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, From my heart, I thank you for this address, breathing 
 a spirit of love and devotion to your Queen, and of kindly interest in 
 me as Her Representative on this occasion. 
 
 At every step of my progress through the British Colonies, and now 
 more forcibly in Canada, I am impressed with the conviction that I owe 
 the overpowering cordiality of my reception to my connection with Her 
 to whom, under Providence, I owe everything, my Sovereign and 
 Parent. 
 
 To Her, I shall with pride convey the expressions of your loyal senti- 
 ments ; and if at some future period so remote, I trust, that I may 
 allude to it with less pain it shall please God to place me in that closer 
 relation to you which you contemplate, I cannot hope for any more 
 honorable distinction, than to earn for myself such expressions of gen- 
 erous attachment as I now owe to your appreciation of the virtues of the 
 Queen. 
 
 Few as have yet been the days which I have spent in this country, I 
 have seen much to indicate the rapid progress and future greatness of 
 United Canada. The infancy of this Province has resembled in some 
 respects that of my native Island, and as in centuries gone by the mother 
 country combined the several virtues of the Norman and Anglo-Saxon 
 races, so I may venture to anticipate in the matured character of Canada, 
 the united excellencies of her double ancestry. 
 
 Most heartily I respond to your desire that the ties which bind 
 together the Sovereign and the Canadian people may be strong and 
 enduring. 
 
 Now followed the knighting of Mr. Belleau, the first knight 
 hood conferred by the Prince, and the first conferred in Canada. 
 No one was certain that this great event was really going to take 
 
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 place, and those assembled were somewhat surprised when the 
 Duke of Newcastle advanced and intimated that it was His Royal 
 Highness's pleasure to confer a knighthood on the Speaker of 
 the Legislative Council. 
 
 Mr. Belleau knelt, and the Prince, drawing forth his sword, 
 touched him upon both shoulders, saying, " Rise Sir Narcisse 
 Belleau;" and by this act, and his subsequent one, Albert 
 Edward, in honoring Canada, insures a country's regard and 
 fondest love. 
 
 The members of the Legislative Council were then presented 
 separately, and retired. 
 
 The Legislative Assembly now appeared, headed by the Speaker 
 (Hon. Henry Smith), and followed by the Sergeant-at-Arins and 
 about one hundred and twenty members. 
 
 Their Address was as follows : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Legislative Assembly of Canada in Parliament assembled, 
 approach your Royal Highness with assurances of our devoted attach- 
 ment and loyalty to the Person and Crown of our most Gracious 
 Sovereign . 
 
 The Queen's loyal subjects in this Province would have rejoiced had 
 the duties of State permitted their august Sovereign to have herself 
 visited their country, and to have received in person, the expression 
 of their devotion to Her, and of the admiration with which they regard 
 the manner in which she administers the affairs of the vast empire over 
 which it has pleased Divine Providence to place Her. 
 
 But while we cannot refrain from expressing our unfeigned regret 
 that it has proved impossible for our Queen to visit her possessions 
 in Canada, we are deeply sensible of Her gracious desire to meet the 
 wishes of her subjects, by having permitted them the opportunity of 
 welcoming, in this part of her dominions, the Heir Apparent of the 
 Throne, our future Sovereign. 
 
 We desire to congratulate your Royal Highness on your arrival in 
 Canada, an event to be long remembered as manifesting the deep interest 
 felt by the Queen for the welfare of Her colonial subjects. 
 
 On the auspicious occasion, when for the first time the Colonies 
 have been honoured by the presence of the Heir Apparent, we receive an 
 earnest of the determination of our Most Gracious Sovereign to knit 
 yet more closely the ties of affection and duty which unite us to the 
 British Empire, and enable us to share in its liberties, its glories, and its 
 great historical associations. 
 
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 The approaching opening of the Victoria Bridge by Your Royal High- 
 ness has been the more immediate cause of your present visit to Canada : 
 and we trust that you will find on that stupendous work the most 
 striking evidence in which the capital and skill of the Mother Country 
 have united with the energy and enterprise of this Province in over- 
 coming natural obstacles of the most formidable character ; but, we trust 
 that in your further progress, Your Royal Highness will find, in the peace 
 and prosperity of the people and in their attachment to their Sovereign, 
 the best proof of the strength of the ties which unite Canada to the Mother 
 Country, and of the mutual advantages to the Empire and to the Colony 
 from the perpetuation of a connection which has been fraught with 
 such great and beneficial results. 
 
 We pray that Your Royal Highness may be pleased to convey to our 
 Most Gracious Queen the feelings of love and gratitude with which we 
 regard Her rule, and especially of Her condescension in affording us the 
 occasion of welcoming Your Royal Highness to the Province of Canada. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, No answer that I can return to your Address will suffi- 
 ciently convey my thanks to you, or express the pleasure which I have 
 derived from the manifestations of loyalty and affection to the Queen, 
 my mother, by which I have been met upon my arrival in this Province. 
 
 As an Englishman, I recognize with pride, in those manifestations, 
 your sympathy with the great nation from which so many of you trace 
 your origin, and with which you share the honors of a glorious history. 
 
 In addressing you however as an Englishman, I do not forget that some 
 of my fellow-subjects here, are not of my own blood. To them also an 
 especial acknowledgment is due, and I receive with peculiar grasifi- 
 cation the proofs of their attachment to the Crown of England. They 
 are evidence of their satisfaction with the equal laws under which they 
 live, and of their just confidence that, whatever be their origin, all Cana- 
 dians' are alike objects of interest to their Sovereign and Her people. 
 
 Canada may be proud that within her limits two races of different 
 language and habits are united in the same Legislature by a common 
 loyalty, and are bound to the same Constitution by a common patriotism. 
 
 But to all of you and to the three millions of British subjects of whom 
 you are the Representatives, I am heartily thankful for your demonstration 
 of good-will, and I shall not readily forget the mode in which I have 
 been received, amongst you. 
 
 With you I regret that the Queen has been unable to comply with 
 your anxious desire that she would visit this portion of Her Empire, 
 I have already had proofs of the affectionate devotion which would have 
 attended her progress, but I shall make it my first, as it will be my 
 most pleasing duty, upon my return to England, to convey to her the 
 
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 feelings of lore and gratitude to her person and her rule, which yon 
 have expressed on this occasion, and the sentiment of hearty welcome 
 which you have offered to me her son. 
 
 Then the Honorable Henry Smith, after the same preliminaries 
 had been gone through as with Sir N. F. Belleau, knelt and was 
 also knighted. 
 
 Numbers of gentlemen and many Addresses were presented after- 
 wards, and at half-past one the levee broke up. 
 
 At three o'clock in the afternoon, a number of gentlemen of 
 the Ministry, and both houses of the Legislature, partook of a 
 dejeuner at the Palace. 
 
 Later, the royal party paid a visit to the Montmorenci Falls, 
 situated a few miles from the city in the beautiful valley of the 
 St. Charles. Dorchester Bridge which they had to cross, and in fact 
 the whole road, was nicely ornamented with arches, flags, and ever- 
 greens, and the people came out and cheered the Prince as the 
 carriage passed by. 
 
 The Falls of Montmorenci are celebrated for their grand natural 
 beauty, being the highest in British America, and for the beautiful 
 scenery and interesting places which abound around them ; for 
 instance, the natural steps, &e. The Prince and suite returned 
 highly delighted with the excursion. 
 
 In the evening, the Prince and suite attended the grand ball 
 given in his honour at the Music Hall. He arrived at about ten 
 o'clock, and was received by a Guard of Honour of the Koyal 
 Canadian Rifles, their band play ing the National Anthem ; and by 
 the hearty and loyal cheers of a large concourse of people outside. 
 
 After visiting his dressing-room, the Prince and suite repaired 
 immediately to the ball-room, one of the finest in North America, 
 but on this occasion deserving of something more than a mere 
 passing notice, which we are sorry space will not allow us to give. 
 Suffice it to say, that the entire building had been entirely renov- 
 ated a few days before, and the ball-room presented a most beau- 
 tiful appearance, being decorated in an elaborate manner with 
 flowers of every hue, flags, banners, &c., and crowded with the 
 cream of Quebec society. 
 
 The Prince opened the ball with Madame Langevin (the Lady 
 Mayoress), and danced secondly with Miss Irvine (daughter of 
 
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 Lieutenant Colonel Irvine, A.D.C.), and afterwards with the fol- 
 lowing ladies : 
 
 Madame Cartier (wife of the Premier), Miss Price, Miss Le 
 Mesurier, Miss Derbishire, Miss Sewell, Miss Caron (daughter of 
 Judge Caron), Lady Milne, Miss Napier, Mrs. Serecold (daughter 
 of Judge Duval), Miss Dunscomb, Miss Fisher (sister of the 
 Attorney General of New Brunswick), Miss Mountain (daughter 
 of the Bishop), Miss Anderson, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Bell, Miss Tilley 
 (daughter of the Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick), and 
 Mrs. R. H. Smith. 
 
 The following was the Programme of dances, the Prince dancing 
 nearly every one : 
 
 1. Quadrille Bonnie Dundee. 
 
 2. Polka Cupid. 
 
 3. Galop The Reception. 
 
 4. Quadrille. . . Queen's Canadian. 
 
 5. Valse Dinorah. 
 
 6. Polka Mazurka . . . Fairy Queen. 
 
 7. Lancers Original. 
 
 8. Galop Pellisier. 
 
 9. Schottische Lenora. 
 
 10. Quadrille Palermo. 
 
 11. Polka Ariadne. 
 
 12. Galop Hero. 
 
 13. Quadrille.... Berliner Couplet. 
 
 14. Valse II Trovatore. 
 
 15. Polka Mazurka Rigoletto. 
 
 16. Lancers DuTal's. 
 
 IT. Galop Charivari. 
 
 18. Polka Selinen. 
 
 19. Quadrille Don Pasquale. 
 
 20. Valse Dream of the Roses. 
 
 21. Galop Strothfield. 
 
 22. Lancers English. 
 
 23. Valse Sybil. 
 
 24. Galop Night Bell. 
 
 25. Sir Roger De Coverley. 
 
 On the following day he visited the Laval University,* situated 
 on the Grand Battery not far from his residence, and which is a 
 large, fine-looking cut-stone building, erected by the Seminary, and 
 supported chiefly by the Roman Catholic portion of the population.f 
 
 His Royal Highness was met at the door by two gentlemen of 
 the Institution and escorted to the Hall, where the following Ad 
 dresses were presented to him ; that from the Roman Catholic 
 Hierarchy by Bishop Horan of Kingston, C. W. 
 
 To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE TOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Catholic Bishops of the Province of Canada assembled at 
 
 * Named after the first Bishop of Quebec. 
 
 f The corner-stone of which was laid by the Earl of Elgin, while 
 Governor General. 
 
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 Quebec to take part in the universal joy caused by tbe visit of Your 
 Royal Highness to this portion of the British Empire, hasten to express, 
 in our own name, and in behalf of our Clergy, the feeling of happiness 
 we experience in seeing in our midst the Heir Apparent to the Crown 
 of England, the son of our August and Dearly-Beloved Queen, who, by 
 her virtues, adds a fresh lustre to the throne of one of the most powerful 
 monarchies in the world. 
 
 Charged with the sacred mission of preaching to the people confided 
 to our care the duties as well as the dogmas of Christianity, we are 
 ever careful to teach them that it is " by God Kings reign ;" and that, 
 therefore, entire submission is due to the authority they have received 
 from on High, for the happiness of their subjects. We feel convinced it 
 is to the traditional respect for the high moral principle of legitimate 
 authority, which constitutes the strength of all society, that Canada 
 has long enjoyed a peace and tranquillity which promise to be of unin- 
 terrupted duration. 
 
 We are happy in giving Your Royal Highness the assurance that the 
 Catholics of this Colony partake of our sentiments of gratitude to Di- 
 vine Providence for the many advantages which they possess, under the 
 protection of the British Government, especially as regards the free 
 exercise of their religion. We have a firm conviction that the presence 
 of Your Royal Highness amongst us will tend to develop and to 
 strengthen still more these feelings of attachment and loyal devotion 
 which bind them to the mother country. 
 
 In conclusion, we pray Your Royal Highness to accept our warmest and 
 most ardent wishes for the prosperity of the vast Empire, the destinies 
 of which you will one day be called to rule. Happy in forming a part 
 of an Empire under which this, our own beloved country, has made 
 such rapid progress, we shall not cease to offer up our prayers to 
 Almighty God, to beg of him that they who wield authority may ever 
 be guarded by the unvarying laws of Justice and Equity, that they 
 may labor with constantly-increasing success for the happiness of the 
 people subjected to their rule, and that they may thus perpetuate before 
 the eyes of other nations the glory of the British Crown. 
 
 The Address of the Laval University was as follows : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 It is with feelings of the greatest respect that the members of the 
 Laval University beg leave to lay at the foot of Your Royal Highness 
 their homage, and the expression of their liveliest gratitude. 
 
 They are happy to see within these walls the Heir Apparent of a vast 
 empire, the eldest son of a noble Queen, whose domestic and public 
 Tirtues the world acknowledges and loudly proclaims ; the worthy Re- 
 presentative of that gracious Queen to whom the University is indebted 
 
for the charter of its erection. Charged with the mission of receiving 
 in the name of our August Sovereign the homage of Her faithful subjects, 
 Your Royal Highness will, we fondly hope, deign to accept the expression 
 of the deep gratitude with which we are filled towards Her Majesty. 
 
 Actuated by this feeling, we pray Your Royal Highness to believe that 
 the Professors and Alumni of this Institution will make it their constant 
 endeavor to prove themselves worthy of the royal favor. This, the 
 first and only French Canadian University thus honored with the royal 
 protection, will be a lasting monument of the desire of Her Majesty to 
 provide for the happiness of all Her subjects, while it will form a new 
 tie between their fellow-subjects of French origin and the mother- 
 country to whose care we have been committed by Divine Providence. 
 
 It is true that, unlike the Alma Mater, Oxford, where Your Highness 
 has been pleased to matriculate, our existence cannot be counted by 
 centuries our alumni are but few, our libraries, our museums, our col- 
 lections, offer nothing to excite the curiosity of Your Royal Highness, 
 accustomed to visit the great and antique Institutions of Europe ; our 
 beginning is but humble our hopes are in the future. 
 
 We trust in the future destinies of this colony, which, under the pro- 
 tection of England, is in the enjoyment of peace and abundance, whilst 
 other countries are distracted by violent convulsions. 
 
 We trust in the future of that glorious metropolis whose influence is 
 so weighty in controlling the destinies of the civilized world. 
 
 We place our trust in the protection and justice of the August Queen, 
 to whom we are indebted for so signal a mark of benevolence. 
 
 We also place our trust in the young Prince whom Providence will 
 call one day to- give on the throne the example of all those royal virtues 
 he has inherited from the most gracious of Sovereigns, the noblest of 
 mothers. 
 
 The Prince replied to both these Addresses as follows : 
 
 I accept with the greatest satisfaction the welcome which you offer 
 me in your own name as the Catholic Bishops of the Province of Can- 
 ada, and on behalf of your clergy, and I assure you that I feel deeply 
 the expression of your loyalty and affection for the Queen. 
 
 I rejoice to think that obedience to the laws and submission to au- 
 thority, which form the bond of all society and the condition of all 
 civilization, are supported and enforced by your teaching and example. 
 
 The assurance that you enjoy the free exercise of your religion, and 
 that you partake in the benefits and protection of the British Constitu- 
 tion, is a pledge that your hearts, and those of your fellow-subjects, of 
 whatever origin they may be, will ever be united in the feelings you 
 now express, of attachment to the Crown of Great Britain. 
 
 I acknowledge with gratitude the earnest prayers which you offer to 
 
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 Almighty God in my behalf; and I trust that my future course may be 
 such as will best promote the welfare of this great Province and of its 
 inhabitants. 
 
 To you, Gentlemen, who are engaged within the walls of this build- 
 ing, in the education of the youth of the country, I also tender my 
 thanks. I trust that your University may continue to prosper, and that, 
 in future years, its sons may look back upon the days they have spent 
 under your instruction, with the same gratitude and sense of the benefits 
 they have enjoyed, as I and others feel towards the more ancient Institu- 
 tions of my own land. 
 
 As he concluded the reply, the audience, composed of the elite 
 of Quebec, cheered heartily and clapped their hands, and the 
 Seminary band played " God save the Queen." 
 
 After having been shown through the several departments of 
 the institution, with which he expressed himself much pleased, the 
 Prince and suite were escorted to their carriages, and proceeded to 
 the Ursuline Convent, which was beautifully decorated for the 
 occasion, and where the following Address was presented to him 
 by Miss Stuart (daughter of Judge Stuart) : 
 
 Qo'lL PLAISE A VOTRK ALTKSSK ROYALE, 
 
 Les Religieuses Ursulines regarderont toujours comme tin honneur 
 signals", la visite de Votre Altesse Royale dans leur antique monastere 
 et elles demandent humblement, qu'il leur soit perinis de deposer a sea 
 pieds, en cette circonstance solennelle, Thommage de leur respect et de 
 leur denouement. 
 
 Bien que vivant dans le cloitre, elles ne sont indifferentes a rien de ce 
 qui interesse leur patrie ; elles ont toujours pris la plus large part a la 
 reconnaissance et a 1'attachement desplus fideles sujets de Sa Majeste", 
 dans 1'Ame'rique Anglaise ; comment ne partageraient-elles pas, 
 aujourd'hui, la joie publique a 1'occasion de 1'heureuse arrive'e de Yotre 
 Altesse Royale en cette province. 
 
 Deux fois de"ja, des princes de la glorieuse maison de Brunswick ont 
 visite" ce pays, et meme cet etablissement d'education, le plus ancien de 
 1'Ame'rique Britannique, et les annales du Monastere en font mention 
 avec bonheur comme d'ev6nements du meilleur augure : avec quel 
 enthousiasme de"sormais n'ajouterons-nous pas aux noms illustres de 
 ces princes, celui de Son Altesse Royale, Albert Edouard, Prince de 
 Galles. 
 
 II serait inutile de vouloir redire, en ce moment, ce que publie la 
 Renommee de la bont de votre Altesse Royale, et de toutes les autres 
 qualites qui 1'appellent a s'asseoir, un jour, sur un des plus beaux trones 
 
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 de 1'univers ; mais les Religieuses Ursulines conserveront intacts, et 
 transmettront a celles qui doivent leur succe"der, le souvenir et les 
 impressions de cette gracieuse visite. 
 
 Que le ciel continue a prodiguer ses favours a notre auguste Souve- 
 raine etque la prospe'rite' toujours croissante de son regne soit un heureux 
 presage de la gloire que 1'avenir prepare a I'h^ritier pre'somptif de sa 
 brillante couronne. 
 
 His Royal Highness thus replied : 
 
 MADAME, I thank you for these expressions of kindly interest in my 
 visit to the city of Quebec, and the personal good wishes which this 
 Address manifests. 
 
 Your exertions in the cause of education are well known, and I trust 
 they may long continue to exert a beneficial influence upon the population 
 of this interesting country. 
 
 After which the young ladies attending the Convent sang 
 " The Prince's Welcome," an ode composed for the occasion. 
 They were accompanied by a Miss Blackiston on the harp, and 
 acquitted themselves admirably. The following is the piece in 
 question : 
 
 Hark ! hark ! a merry, merry peal 
 Rings out o'er all the land ; 
 Its echoes through the cloister steal 
 It fires our youthful band. 
 Bring harp and song ! let melody, 
 Let joy, gush forth in numbers free, 
 Thy welcome, 'tis that merry peal 
 Of joy o'er all the land 1 
 
 'Tis gladness all, thy welcoming, 
 
 From Albion's Isle afar : 
 And loyal hearts their homage bring, 
 
 To hail thy rising star ; 
 And joyous youth its promise tell, 
 While tuneful notes of triumph swell ; 
 Lo ! Britain's Heir deigns here to rest ; 
 Oh ! haste to greet our Royal Guest I 
 
 2ND CHORUS. 
 
 Wake 1 wake 1 another merry peal, 
 And let it echo long, 
 
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 While wishes for the Prince's weal 
 Are mingled with our song. 
 May ev'ry blessing on thee rest ; 
 Thus rings the merry peal : 
 And thus we hail thee, Royal Guest, 
 Thus pray we for thy weal, 
 While still that merry peal 
 Rings loud, and echoes long ! 
 
 His Royal Highness then retired. 
 
 At two o'clock p. m., he visited the Citadel. 
 
 In the evening, a grand display of fireworks took place on the 
 Esplanade. Many beautiful devices in a variety of colours were 
 given, among them the Prince's arms, the royal arms, " God 
 save the Queen, " Duke of Newcastle's and Earl St. Germains' 
 arms, &c. The Prince was present, with a part of his suite, during 
 the whole of the display. 
 
 On the following morning at 11 o'clock, His Royal Highness, 
 accompanied by his suite, the Governor General, General Williams, 
 Admiral Milne, Sir A. N. MacNab, Sir E. P. Tache", Hon. 
 Mr. Cartier (Premier), &c., took leave of Quebec and embarked 
 on board the splendid steamer Kingston (chartered by the 
 Provincial Government, and beautifully furnished) for Montreal. 
 
 The procession which escorted him to the wharf was the same 
 that had welcomed him there. The 17th Regiment and Royal 
 Canadian Rifles lined the streets from his residence to the wharf, 
 where the Volunteer Artillery, as the Guard of Honour, presented 
 arms as he passed, and the band played the National Anthem. 
 
 Royal salutes were fired by all the batteries, and by Her Majes- 
 ty's ships in port ; and as the Kingston steamed out, cheers, long 
 and loud, from the excited and enthusiastic multitude, greeted the 
 ear of the Heir Apparent to the British Throne. 
 
 The sailors of the fleet manned the yards, and, as the Kingston 
 steamed round the harbour, they cheered lustily, heartily, and with 
 a British will, the band on board her playing " Rule Britannia " 
 until out of sight. 
 
 The trip up to the city of Three Rivers, about half-way between 
 Quebec and Montreal, at the mouth of the River St. Maurice, and 
 which was reached at three o'clock p.m., was a delightful one ; the 
 weather was beautiful, all that a person could wish. The sun shone 
 
in his gorgeous attire,and the rich, varied, and magnificent scenery 
 of the noble river showed itself to much advantage. No wonder 
 that the Prince and his party were in high glee, and delighted. 
 
 A royal salute was fired by the Field Battery of the place ; and 
 the entire population of the town, and the people from the sur- 
 rounding country (entirely French), crowded the wharves, which, 
 as well as the town, was handsomely decorated, and cheered the 
 Prince loudly. 
 
 A Company of Light Infantry from Montreal was on the 
 wharf, and, when the Prince landed, presented arms. 
 
 An Address was presented him by the Mayor (J. E. Turcotte, 
 Esq., M. P. P.), to which His Koyal Highness gave a suitable 
 reply. The royal party then returned to the steamer, it being 
 their intention to lie there until the morning, which they did. 
 
 In the evening (mainly through the instrumentality of the 
 Mayor) the entire town was illuminated, and looked extremely 
 well. 
 
 During the night, the steamer Quebec, (the largest, oldest, and 
 swiftest boat in Canada,) came in from the ancient capital, 
 Quebec, carrying the Members of the Legislature, and some of the 
 chief government officers. A meeting was called of the Members, 
 when a deputation, consisting of the Hon. Messrs. De Blaquiere 
 and Drummond, was despatched to wait upon His Royal High- 
 ness praying him to allow the Quebec, with the Members, to escort 
 him to Montreal. The Prince was graciously pleased to acquiesce 
 to this. 
 
 So the Quebec lay at Three Rivers all night, with the Kingston ; 
 but, alas, the next morning broke in with bad weather, miserable, 
 foggy, drizzling Prince's weather ; nevertheless, the royal party 
 amused themselves in the ample and comfortable cabins of the 
 Kingston, and the Members of the Legislature in the commodious, 
 but, on that occasion, somewhat crowded ones of the Quebec. 
 
 Both boats left Three Rivers in the morning. In Lake St. 
 Peter they came up with the steamer St. Lawrence, with mem- 
 bers of the Trinity House on board, who had come down to escort 
 the Prince to Montreal. It fell in the wake of the Kingston, with 
 the Quebec. 
 All along shore the Haitians came out and welcomed the Prince, 
 
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 and even when the rain came down in the worst manner, 
 there were people found on the shore doing homage to the son 
 of our beloved Queen. 
 
 Near Montreal, the three steamers came up with a regular fleet 
 of vessels, which were gaily and beautifully dressed with flags and 
 evergreens, and perfectly crowded with passengers. They were 
 the Victoria, Passport, Mayflower, L' Assomption, Ttrrebonne, 
 HocJielaga, Topsy, Napoleon, James McKenzie, Redpath, 
 ' Aigle, Caledonia, &c., &c. 
 
 As the Kingston passed them, their passengers gave the Prince 
 " three times three ;" a regular downright loyal British cheer, and 
 the bands on all of them struck up " God save the Queen." 
 Nothing could be more sublime, nothing more beautiful. But 
 for the rain, every one would have been in the greatest hilarity of 
 spirits. 
 
 At Montreal it was thought better, on account of the rain, 
 to postpone the landing ; and in the emergency, that indefatigable 
 Minister of the Crown, Mr. Rose, chartered a steamer and went 
 down to meet His Royal Highness on behalf of the Reception 
 Committee, and acquaint him with their request ; which the 
 Prince graciously complied with, the Kingston anchoring shortly 
 after for the night below St. Helen's Island. 
 
 Nine o'clock on Saturday morning was the hour named for the 
 Prince's entrance into the metropolitan city of British America. 
 Long before that hour, however, every conceivable nook in and 
 around the piers from which a sight of the landing could be 
 obtained, was densely crowded by over 40,000 people. 
 
 The weather had been very boisterous during the night, and 
 raining incessantly ; but before nine it cleared up, the sun shone 
 forth, and the weather was at once delightful. 
 
 Near that hour the Kingston was perceived, preceded by the 
 same fleet of steamers that had gone down to meet it the day before, 
 steaming up the river, her colours, as well as those from the others, 
 flying from her masts, while flowers and evergreens decked her 
 sides. 
 
 The battery on St. Helen's Island fired a royal salute as she 
 passed, the people along the river cheered loudly, and the bells 
 from all the city churches rang forth gaily. 
 
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 Shortly after nine the noble vessel made the landing-place, 
 which was handsomely and gorgeously decorated. A massive pa- 
 vilion stood near the edge, which, although made of wood, was 
 gilded and painted in a neat, masterly style. It was surmounted on 
 the four sides by groups of flags, while at the top floated the royal 
 standard. It looked really grand, contrasting with the wharf, which 
 was laid out with trees, and carpeted where the Prince was to walk. 
 The regular lines of soldiers, and the gay uniforms of the officers 
 gathered there, gave the affair quite a festive appearance. 
 
 On the wharf were the chief civil and military personages of 
 Montreal; the Metropolitan Bishop of Canada (Dr. Fulford) ; 
 the Moderator of the Church of Scotland ; the Clergy of the Church 
 of Rome; the Members of the Ministry; the Members of the 
 Legislature ; the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, the officers 
 of the Corporation, &c., &c. The entire Volunteer Force of Mon- 
 treal, composed of Infantry, Rifles, Cavalry, and Artillery, 
 were also there. The Rifles acted in conjunction with the Royal 
 Canadian Rifles as Guard of Honour. 
 
 The Prince and his suite stood on the upper deck until the steamer 
 was safely moored, when they descended, and His Royal Highness 
 stepped on the shore of Montreal. Then did the cheers of the 
 people ring forth in one continued cry of joy, and the cannons of 
 the Field Battery thundered forth a salute, accompanied by 
 H. M. S. Valorous, Styx, and Flying-Fish, the men manning 
 the yards and cheering vociferously. The Volunteer Rifles pre- 
 sented arms and the bands played the National Anthem. 
 
 The Mayor (C. S. Rodier, Esq.), in his robes of office, then con- 
 ducted His Royal Highness to a rich scarlet dais, under the hand- 
 some pavilion, and presented him with the following Address : 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of the City of Montreal, res- 
 pectfully beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness, to felicitate you 
 on behalf of the citizens of Montreal on your safe arrival in this Province, 
 and to offer to Your Royal Highness our most cordial and hearty wel- 
 come to this city. We avail ourselves of this propitious occasion of a 
 visit from the Heir Apparent of the British throne, to express to Your 
 Royal Highness our devoted loyalty and attachment to the Person and 
 Government of our most Gracious Sovereign, your illustrious mother; 
 and to declare our humble but fervent admiration of her wisdom, mode- 
 
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 ration, and justice as our Sovereign, and our love and veneration of the 
 virtues and graces which adorn her private life. As circumstances do 
 not permit our beloved Queen to honour this distant but important sec- 
 tion of her Empire with a personal visit, Her Majesty has been graciously 
 pleased to confer on her faithful Canadian subjects the next dearest 
 boon it was in her power to bestow, by authorising this most welcome 
 visit of Your Royal Highness. This gracious manifestation of Her 
 Majesty's consideration and regard is hailed with thankfulness and joy 
 by all her loyal and devoted subjects in these Provinces ; but we beg 
 most respectfully to assure Your Royal Highness, that by none amongst 
 the millions who compose their number, is it more highly esteemed, 
 more fully appreciated, and more enthusiastically felt and acknowledged, 
 than by Her Majesty's devoted and loyal subjects, the citizens of Mon- 
 treal. The immediate object of Your Royal Highness's most gratifying 
 visit to Canada is to open the Victoria Bridge ; that magnificent monu- 
 ment of enterprise and skill with which the fame and prosperity of this 
 city will evermore be intimately connected and most permanently iden- 
 tified. 
 
 In this stupendous work, Your Royal Highness will not fail to observe 
 how natural pbstacles, almost insurmountable in their ponderous strength 
 and complicated variety, have been triumphantly overcome by the com- 
 bined power of British enterprise and capital, and of Canadian energy 
 and skill. And we beg to assure Your Royal Highness, that this 
 wonderful achievement of engineering and mechanical perfection 
 will henceforth possess a new claim on our interests and regards, 
 associated as it must evermore be in our memories and affections 
 with this auspicious visit of Your Royal Highness, and the interesting 
 ceremony of its perfect consummation by Your Royal Highness's hands. 
 We earnestly hope that Your Royal Highness's visit to this city will be 
 one of unmixed satisfaction and delight ; and we pledge ourselves, for the 
 citizens of Montreal, that they will one and all esteem it the highest 
 gratification and honour to use every means in their power to render 
 your too-short stay amongst them agreeable, happy, and comfortable. 
 We pray that Your Royal Highness will be pleased to communicate to 
 our Most Gracious Queen, your royal and beloved mother, our feelings 
 of ardent loyalty and devotion to her royal person and crown, and our 
 lively gratitude and acknowledgments for this last gracious evidence of 
 her royal condescension and favour, Your Royal Highness's most welcome 
 and grateful visit to this city and province. 
 
 To which His Royal Highness replied : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, The Address you have just presented to me, in which you 
 proclaim your loyalty to the Queen and attachment to the British Crown, 
 demands my warmest acknowledgments. The impression made upon 
 
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 me by the kind and cordial reception which has been accorded to me on 
 this first visit to Canada, can never fade from my mind ; and deeply will 
 the Queen be gratified by the proof which it affords that the interest 
 which she takes in the welfare of this portion of her Empire, and which 
 she has been anxious to mark by my presence amongst you, is met, on 
 their part, by feelings of affectionate devotion to herself and her family. 
 For myself, I rejoice at the opportunity which has been afforded me of 
 visiting this City, a great emporium of the Trade of Canada, and whose 
 growing prosperity offers so striking an example of what may be effect- 
 ed by energy and enterprise, under the influence of free institutions. 
 That this prosperity may be still further enlarged is my earnest hope ; 
 and there can be little doubt that by the completion of that stupendous 
 monument of engineering skill and labor which I have come in the name 
 of the Queen to inaugurate, new sources of wealth will be opened to your 
 citizens, and to the country new elements of power developed, and new 
 links forged to bind together in peaceful co-operation the exertions of 
 a wide-spread and rapidly-increasing population. 
 
 His Royal Highness was then conducted to the Governor General's 
 carriage, as also were the Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germains, 
 and the Governor General ; the different Societies fell in, the bands 
 struck up joyful airs, and the procession advanced. 
 
 A finer procession was hardly ever witnessed. The members of 
 the various Societies attired in their best, wearing their insignia 
 and carrying their colours, the many different uniforms of the 
 military companies present, the Rifles so steady and so effi- 
 cient in their movements, the Cavalry mounted on good char- 
 gers and looking so erect and soldier-like, the Members of the 
 Ministry in their new Windsor uniforms looking the beau ideal 
 of courtly diplomatists, the Mayor in his scarlet robe like a 
 second Lord Mayor of London and preserving the dignity of one 
 all joining in the hearty demonstration of the people in favour 
 of the Prince of Wales. 
 
 Montreal is to Canada what London is to Great Britain, the 
 metropolis; and not only because she possesses an overflow of 
 population or commerce, but because she has earned that name by 
 her fair reputation, her wealth, and her stability in advancing 
 towards greatness, and, being the centre of trade in Canada, doing 
 in one year more perfected work, and more commerce and ready- 
 money business, than is done in five years in any other city in 
 British America. 
 
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 No wonder, then, that, as the richest city in British North 
 America, she should give the Heir Apparent to the British 
 Throne a reception so magnificent, which cannot but be always 
 remembered, by, not only the Prince himself, but all that had 
 the good fortune to witness it. 
 
 Montreal sustained her good name on that auspicious occasion ; 
 and her citizens deserve to be ever honoured for showing their 
 devoted loyalty to the Throne in such a substantial and commend- 
 able manner. 
 
 The whole city was beautifully ornamented with flags, banners, 
 trees, flowers, evergreens, transparencies, and arches, which, for 
 taste, skill, architecture, and varied beauty, can hardly be excelled ; 
 they appeared so very neat, beautiful, and substantial, and were 
 adorned and painted so very elaborately. 
 
 We regret that we are unable, from want of space, to give a full 
 and separate description of the arches. In all there were about 
 eight, at the following places : Jacques Cartier Square ; Dalhousie 
 Square ; Place d'Armes ; Victoria Square ; St. Catherine Street ; 
 St. Lawrence Street ; Griflintown ; and Simpson Street. 
 
 His Royal Highness was escorted through nearly all these 
 arches to the Crystal Palace (which he was to inaugurate), a 
 new building, built somewhat after the London one of 1851, but 
 of course on a much smaller scale, where he arrived at a quarter 
 to eleven, and was received by a Guard of Honour of the Mon- 
 treal Infantry and by a royal salute from the Field Battery, 
 and at the grand entrance by the President, Secretary, and 
 members of the Sub-Committee of the Board of Arts and Manu- 
 factures of Lower Canada, who conducted him to the retiring-room, 
 and, after remaining there a few minutes, led the way to the main 
 building, where he took his seat on the central dais. The organ 
 pealed forth, and the Oratorio Society sang with good effect 
 the National Anthem. The floor and galleries were crowded with 
 the elite of Montreal, and a great number of visitors from other 
 places. The Members of the Legislature were also there. 
 
 The interior portion of the building looked excellently, being 
 very prettily adorned with flags, &c. 
 
 On His Royal Highness's right stood the Governor General. 
 Major Teesdale, and Captain Grey ; on his left, the Duke of 
 
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 Newcastle, Earl St. Germains, General Sir W. F. Williams, &c. 
 The military and naval officers also were there, and the Members 
 of the Executive Council. The Marquis and Marchioness of 
 Chandos, Lady Franklin, Lady Georgiana Fane, Lord Hinchin 
 brooke, and the Hon. Mr. Elliot, attended as spectators. 
 
 The Governor General, at the conclusion of the National Anthem, 
 stepped to the foot of the dais, and presented the following Address 
 to His Royal Highness : 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The people of this Province are aware of the interest with which 
 Her Most Gracious Majesty and the Prince Consort honoured the Exhi- 
 bitions of 1851 and 1855. They know that among the objects which 
 excited attention on these occasions, the productions of Canada held an 
 important place ; and they venture to hope that Your Royal Highness 
 will on the present occasion condescend to meet their wishes by open- 
 ing the Exhibition which is to take place in this building. They believe 
 that Your Royal Highness may find that the objects submitted to your 
 notice will afford some evidence of the industry and progress of Canada, 
 and some promise of her future success. On the part therefore of the 
 Provincial Government, I pray Your Royal Highness to do us the honor 
 of opening in the city of Montreal this Exhibition ; and we trust that 
 such condescension on your part may stimulate our people to greater 
 exertions, and may be long remembered among the gracious acts which 
 are destined to mark the visit of the Heir Apparent of the Throne of 
 Great Britain. 
 
 To this His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, Most readily I consent to the request you have made 
 a request the more agreeable, because it is conveyed to me by my kind 
 friend Your Excellency the Governor General. I am not ignorant of 
 the high position obtained by Canada in the Great Exhibition of 1851, 
 which was opened under the happy auspices of the Queen and the 
 Prince Consort ; and carrying out the design of the memorable under- 
 taking, this smaller, but to Canada most interesting, collection of the 
 products of your land, and of works of art and industry, has my entire 
 sympathy, and claims my best wishes for its success. I hope and be- 
 lieve it will realize all the objects for which it has been designed. 
 
 The Governor then took his place at the right hand of His 
 Royal Highness, and Bishop Fulford offered up the following 
 prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, the Creator and Giver of the Universe, we Thy 
 
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 creatures desire humbly to approach Thy throne of Grace, confess- 
 ing Thee as the Author of our being, and the Giver of all good gifts, 
 by whose mercy alone it is that we are enabled to think or to do any- 
 thing that is acceptable to Thee. "We acknowledge with grateful hearts 
 all Thy past mercies to us, and specially Thy goodness manifested in 
 the abundance of the fruits of the earth, now awaiting the ingathering 
 of the harvest. We also bless Thee, Lord, for that continued public 
 tranquility in the land which has given us the opportunity of pursuing 
 with any measure of success, those enterprises which belong to peace, 
 and promote the prosperity of the people. "We beseech Thee now to 
 look favorably upon this work of our hands ; and while we give Thee 
 hearty thanks that we have been allowed thus far to carry forward the 
 execution of our designs, we beg Thy blessing on the undertaking 
 which we are this day assembled to inaugurate. Let us not rest with 
 pride or self-complaceny upon the results of human intellect and human 
 ingenuity, but make us always to remember that whatever is of the 
 earth is earthly and perishable, and that all flesh is as grass, and the 
 glory of man as the flower of grass, which withereth and fadeth away. 
 And enable us also to exercise our several talents as shall best promote 
 Thy glory and the edification and well-being of Thy creatures, that we 
 may give account of the trust committed to us with joy and not with 
 sorrow ; and we beseech Thee, Lord, so to guide and direct our 
 hearts, and to overrule our purposes, that, while endeavouring to make 
 known Thy power and wisdom in the works of creation, and to develop 
 the gifts of Thy creatures in the advancement of science and art, we 
 may allow no strife or vain-glory to disturb our unity of action or hin- 
 der our success ; and in order thereto, may we be taught by Thy Spirit 
 not to think too highly of ourselves, but, in lowliness of mind, each to 
 esteem others better than themselves. Grant that this mind may be in 
 us which was also in Jesus Christ ; for which we pray in His name, who 
 died for us that we might live unto Him, and who now liveth and 
 reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, in the unity of the Godhead, 
 Thy only Son Our Lord. Amen. 
 
 The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fel- 
 lowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, evermore. Amen. 
 
 A procession was then organized to conduct His Royal High- 
 ness through the building, and the several departments in it. Mr. 
 Chamberlin, the Secretary of the Sub-Committee of the Board of 
 Arts and Manufactures, and the Equerries in Waiting, leading 
 the way, the party passed through the most interesting parts. 
 Whilst in the Mineralogical Department, His Royal Highness 
 entered into conversation with Dr. Dawson, the President of the 
 Board, relative to the Canadian specimens. In the Fine Arts 
 
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 Department, his Lordship Bishop Fulford, President of the Art 
 Association, said that the Council were desirous of presenting 
 him with a Canadian picture from the collection, and praying His 
 Royal Highness to select one. The Prince good naturcdly selected 
 Mr. Way's water-colour painting, " The Prince's Squadron at 
 Anchor at Gaspe" Basin." When passing along the St. Catherine 
 Street end of the building, he stepped out on the balcony, and the 
 immense crowd gathered outside cheered immediately. The whole 
 party then returned to the dais, when the Governor General said, 
 " By command of His Royal Highness, I declare this Exhibition 
 opened." The Hallelujah Chorus was then sung by the Oratorio 
 Society, under the direction of Professor Fowler ; and the Prince 
 and suite retired to his room, whence they left shortly after- 
 wards for the Victoria Bridge "(which he was also to inaugurate). 
 
 We copy the following from the Montreal Herald. It refers to 
 .the preparations at the Bridge, and to the people assembled prior to 
 the arrival of the Prince : 
 
 But before his arrival a large company had assembled. There was 
 first of all a number of what may be called ex officio visitors among 
 them the Executive Committee of the Citizens' Fund, and the Special 
 Committee of the City Council. The former all wore a plume on a 
 blue ribbon. The arrangements at the Point had all been made under 
 the superintendence of Mr. Scott, the architect usually employed by the 
 Grand Trunk Company, and he had done his business well ; for, with a 
 crowd of several hundred persons all pressing forward, there was not 
 the slightest confusion. Except a little pressure at the doors, everything 
 passed off with the most perfect order, each man finding his seat on the 
 cars, and afterwards on the scaffolding of the Bridge, with the greatest 
 ease and comfort. By about 1 o'clock all were seated in the following 
 manner. A space formed by the walls of the Bridge at the commence- 
 ment of the tube had been enclosed so as to form an oblong pit, having 
 one end closed at the top by the first pier, and at the bottom of which 
 ran the rails, of course passing under the pier. At the southern end 
 of this enclosure, and against the pier, a scaffold was erected almost at 
 the level of the top of the pier, reached by n stair from the level on 
 which the rails are laid. On each side of the rails were seats appro- 
 priated to the Members of the Legislature. Upon the walls were gal- 
 leries ; and the top of the pier itself, the last stone of which was to be 
 laid, was appropriated to members of the press, Canadian and Foreign. 
 The gallery was hung with red baize. Over the pier there was an 
 arched board with the royal arms, and below it the words " Finis coro- 
 nat opus." This board served to conceal the wheel-crank and other 
 
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 machinery which were intended to lift the stone from its wooden sup- 
 ports preparatory to its being deposited on its bed. The whole of the 
 gallery was erected under the direction and at the desire and expense 
 of Mr. James Hodges, who wished to give his Canadian friends this last 
 token of his regard. To that part of the structure, therefore, they were 
 admitted by his invitation. The company who came at the invitation 
 of the Manager were accommodated on the embankment in two rows of 
 seats, one on each side of the track. Every place on all parts of the 
 Bridge were numbered, and, as we have said before, all the visitors had 
 found their places before H. R. H. arrived. In the interval some flags, 
 with appropriate designs, had been handed to the ladies, who seemed 
 well pleased with these pretty toys." 
 
 The Prince and suite arrived at the Victoria Bridge station, 
 at about one o'clock. He was met by the Hon. John Ross, Presi- 
 dent of the Executive Council, and President of the Grand Trunk 
 Railway ; T. E. Blackwell, Esq., Vice-President, G. T. R., and 
 the Members of the Executive Council. 
 
 Mr. Ross presented him with the following Address : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., SfC. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada beg 
 leave to offer to your Royal Highness a respectful welcome to the Pro- 
 vince. 
 
 The Canadian Parliament has made the completion of the Victoria 
 Bridge the occasion on which to invite our most gracious Sovereign to 
 visit her Canadian possessions ; and, in welcoming your Royal Highness 
 to Canada as her representative, they have referred, with just pride, to 
 this great work as evidence of the results achieved through the union 
 of British capital and skill with Canadian enterprise and progress. 
 
 The Victoria Bridge, as your Royal Highness is aware, has been con- 
 structed in the face of the greatest engineering difficulties. It is the 
 connecting link of eleven hundred miles of railway, extending from the 
 extreme western limits of Canada nearly to its eastern boundary, and 
 also affording an outlet to Provincial trade to the Atlantic when the 
 rigour of our climate closes the natural channel by the St. Lawrence. 
 
 This great national highway has been carried through by a vast 
 outlay of British capital, fostered by the most wise policy and generous 
 aid of the Canadian Parliament ; and, as now completed, will develop 
 and promote not only the interchange of commerce and intercourse be- 
 tween the various districts of this widely-extended Province, but will 
 also secure to it a large share of the rapidly-increasing trade of the 
 West. 
 
 Canada now possesses a complete system of railway communication, 
 
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 combined with an internal navigation of unrivalled extent ; and, in 
 your future progress to the West, your Royal Highness will observe the 
 best evidence of the wisdom and energy which have thus been applied 
 to the development of the resources of this great Province. 
 
 The Directors have now to express their profound gratitude to their 
 most gracious Sovereign, and to your Royal Highness for your considera- 
 tion in honoring this enterprise with your presence ; and they pray that 
 your Royal Highness will now be pleased finally to inaugurate the com- 
 pletion of the Victoria Bridge, and thus to permit the greatest engineer- 
 ing work of modern days to be associated with the auspicious occasion 
 of the first visit of the Heir Apparent of the Throne to Her Majesty's loyal 
 Province of Canada. 
 
 To which His Royal Highness made the following reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, It is with mingled feelings of gratification at the duty 
 which I am called upon to undertake, and admiration of the magnificent 
 spectacle of successful science which is before me, that I proceed to 
 comply with your invitation, and, in the name of the Queen, to inaugu- 
 rate a work as unsurpassed by the grandeur of Egypt or of Rome, as it 
 is unrivalled by the inventive genius of these days of ever-active enter- 
 prise. 
 
 I regret that the great man, whose name is now doubly enrolled in 
 that page of my country's history in which its worthies are inscribed, 
 has not lived to see this day. I regret that ill-health prevents the pre- 
 sence of another who labored with him to plan and execute this vast 
 design ; but to them, and to the eminent firm and those employed by 
 them in carrying out the works, no less than to your countrymen, whose 
 energetic exertions first gave birth to the scheme of which this Bridge 
 is the consummation, the thanks of the great community of North 
 America are due. 
 
 Your Sovereign has testified her appreciation of the magnitude and 
 importance of the enterprise, by deputing me to come so far to com- 
 memorate on the spot, on her behalf, the completion of a monument of 
 engineering skill, which will, henceforth, bear Her name, and convey to 
 future generations, another proof, in addition to the many which exist, 
 of the successful industry of the great people committed by Providence 
 to Her rule. 
 
 May this ceremony be auspicious to all concerned. May the Railway, 
 and this Bridge, which is its connecting liuk, realize all the expectations 
 of its promoters, and continue throughout the great future of this Pro- 
 vince a source of permanent and ever-increasing prosperity. 
 
 His Royal Highness arrived at the Bridge from the Station at 
 half-past one precisely, in a beautiful carriage lined with crimson 
 velvet, and the outside ornamented in an elegant manner. 
 
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 He immediately ascended the stairs of the scaffold, to the plat- 
 form above, the Hon. John Ross leading the way, while the fol- 
 lowing noblemen and gentlemen accompanied him : 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle, Lord St. Germains, the Governor General, 
 General Bruce, Admiral Milne, Captain Hope of the Flying Fish, Major 
 Teesdale, Captain Grey, Lord Lyons, Commodore Seymour, His Lord- 
 ship the Bishop of Montreal, Dr. Mathieson, the Hon. John Young, most 
 of the Members of the Executive Council, Dr. Auckland, Mr. Engle- 
 heart, Secretary to the Prince ; Sir Allan MacNab, Mr. Blackwell, most 
 of the Directors of the Grand Trunk Eailway ; Mr. Shanly, Mr. Trem- 
 binski, Sir W. Logan, Sir H. Smith, the Speaker, the commanders of the 
 Styx and Valorous, and several other gentlemen. 
 
 The Prince was received by James Hodges, Esq., the builder 
 of the Bridge, who handed him a wooden mallet and silver trowe 
 the Prince bowing and uncovering as he received them. 
 
 The trowel bore on the inside the following inscription : 
 
 TO COMMEMORATE 
 
 The completion of the Victoria Bridge by His Royal Highness 
 
 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. 
 
 MONTREAL, 1860. 
 
 On the reverse was an engraving of the Bridge. The handle was 
 wrought into the form of a Beaver, which was attached to the blade by 
 a Prince of Wales' plume, the edges of the blade being decorated with 
 a border of the Rose, Shamrock, Thistle, and Maple Leaf. 
 
 His Royal Highness took the trowel, and with a few dexterous strokes 
 levelled the mortar, previously roughly spread. The stone was then 
 lowered under the directions of Mr. Hodges' foreman. While the tackle 
 was being adjusted, H. R. H. looked with evident interest on the broad 
 river-scenery before him, and made smiling observations to the Duke 
 of Newcastle and the Governor General. At length the large mass was 
 lowered to its permanent resting-place. It was a stone 10 feet long by 
 six broad and two deep, weighing several tons. The Prince concluded 
 this part of the ceremony by giving one or two formal taps with the 
 masonic gavel, and the Bridge was completed, to be henceforth known 
 by the name of Victoria Bridge. 
 
 - The band of the Royal Canadian Rifles struck up the National 
 Antheni as the ceremony was concluded. 
 
 The last stone having been laid, H. R. H., and a large number of the 
 official gentlemen in attendance upon him, took the royal car and pro- 
 ceeded to the central arch, where the last rivet was still to be driven, 
 an operation which was executed by the Prince with great spirit and 
 good-will. Three rivets were first driven by the men, the Prince having 
 
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 first selected the hole which he would fill. This happened to be a toler- 
 ably high one about the level of his head, and some of the bystanders 
 suggested that a more convenient one should be selected. But the 
 Prince adhered to his own choice. Those who have seen the rivets 
 driven, know that it is done with a very rapidly repeated stroke ; and 
 when H. R. H. observed the dexterity of the workmen, he observed that 
 he was afraid he should prove only a bungling hand. However, the 
 last rivet being pushed through, he took the small hammer, and, after 
 giving two or three taps to steady the bolt, Mr. Hodges having applied 
 the cupping-tool and given him a large hammer, of several pounds 
 weight, he speedily completed this very last touch to the great structure. 
 
 The royal carriage then made its appearance, and H. R. H. 
 speedily took his seat, and it drove away to the dejeuner at the 
 Station, amidst the hearty cheers of those assembled. 
 
 Six hundred guests sat down to the dejeuner (given by the 
 Grand Trunk Railway Co.), which was beautifully "laid out " for 
 the occasion. At the head of the table was a dais, on which 
 sat the Governor General, Sir E. W. Head. He had on his 
 left, H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, Duke of Newcastle, Lord 
 Lyons, General Bruce, Admiral Milne, Sir Basil Hall, Major 
 Teesdale, Capt. Grey, Sir E. P. Tactic*, and Mr. Engleheart; and 
 on his right, the Earl St. Germains, The Lord Bishop, Sir A. 
 N. McNab, General Sir W. F. Williams, Sir Henry Smith, 
 Commodore Seymour, the Mayor, Dr. Mathieson, &c., &c. 
 
 In about an hour's time, His Excellency rose and proposed the 
 health of Her Majesty the Queen, which was enthusiastically res- 
 ponded to. 
 
 Shortly afterwards the Prince Consort's health was proposed and 
 drank with all the honors. 
 
 Again His Excellency rose and proposed the health of His 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Never can His Royal 
 Highness forget the enthusiasm displayed, the cheering and the 
 hurrahs on that occasion. They gave him the full assurance of 
 Canada's love and loyalty. 
 
 After the cheering had somewhat subsided, His Royal High- 
 ness rose. Every one held their breath ; a pin could not have 
 fallen but the company would have heard it ; every one was in 
 expectation and suspense, and every one felt honoured. 
 
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 At length they were most agreeably surprised when H. R. H. 
 spoke, and their cheering was nearly as unbounded as it had been 
 previously. " I propose," said the Prince, " the health of the 
 Governor General, success to Canada, and prosperity to the Grand 
 Trunk Railway." This of course " paved the way " for three 
 times three. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, H. R. H. rose and retired ; and, after paying 
 a brief visit to the Grand Trunk works, where the following 
 Address was presented to him by the workmen, took his departure 
 for his residence : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Walet. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOCE ROYAL HlGHJJESS, 
 
 It is with feelings of unmingled gratification and pleasure that we, 
 the Working Men and Artizans of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, 
 cordially welcome to this portion of Her Majesty's Transatlantic Domi- 
 nions, one so nearly connected with Our Gracious Sovereign as your- 
 self. 
 
 Although separated by the wide Ocean from the land which gave 
 birth to most of us, we yet bear in our hearts the warmest love towards 
 it, and the deepest reverence and loyalty towards that Monarch whose 
 presence here to-day Your Royal Highness represents. 
 
 The noble structure which Your Royal Highness has inaugurated, has 
 been to many of us the scene of our daily toil ; and whilst carrying out 
 the gigantic conception of the designer, we have been able fully to 
 estimate the difficulties which he had to contend with and overcome ; 
 and, now that he has passed away from this sphere of existence, we feel 
 proud that we possess in these Her Majesty's Caaadian dominions so 
 magnificent a funeral monument of one who rose from our own class, 
 and who shared with us the privilege of being a British subject. 
 
 Before Your Royal Highness departs from these shores, there will no 
 doubt be many opportunities afforded you of judging of the loyal and 
 devoted feelings of attachment general in these Provinces towards 
 Your Royal Mother ; and we are sure that whatever spot you may visit, 
 you will find one feeling common (we are proud to say in every land 
 where the English tongue is spoken, and in which we heartily join) of 
 love and attachment towards that Lady whose virtues are known and 
 acknowledged in every land and in every home, Your Mother and Our 
 Queen. 
 
 Wishing Your Royal Highness every pleasure and benefit from your 
 sojourn amongst us, and a safe return to the parent land. 
 Signed (in behalf of the Workmen of the G. T.R.), 
 
 J. CURTIS CLABKE. 
 
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 His Royal Highness made the following reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I accept with peculiar pleasure an Address of artizans 
 and working-men who have, by the sweat of their brow and the skilled 
 labour of many a hard day's toil, contributed to erect this monument to 
 the greatness of their country a structure scarcely less honorable to 
 the hands which executed than to the minds which conceived it. I 
 mourn with you the loss of Robert Stephenson. In your regrets you 
 bring to mind that it was from your class that bis eminent father sprung. 
 Let me further remind you, that England opens to all her sons the same 
 prospect of success to genius combined with honest industry. All 
 cannot attain the prize, but all may strive for it, and in this race victory 
 is not to the wealthy, or the powerful, but to him to whom God has 
 given intellect, and has implanted in the heart the moral qualities which 
 are required to constitute true greatness. I congratulate you upon the 
 completion of your work. I earnestly hope it may prosper ; and to you 
 who have raised it to its present grandeur, and to your families, I 
 heartily wish every happiness. 
 
 His Royal* Highness at the conclusion of his reply was enthusi- 
 astically cheered, as he was also on leaving the Station. 
 
 For the following lengthy description of His Royal High- 
 ness's residence we are indebted to the Montreal Herald : 
 
 THE MONTREAL RESIDENCE OF HIS KOYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OP WALES. 
 
 The mansion where H. R. H. is to reside during his stay in Montreal is 
 that of the Hon. John Rose, the Commissioner of Public Works, who, in 
 that capacity, has had charge of the arrangements for the Prince's recep- 
 tion, Mr. Rose being obliged to reside at the seat of government. How- 
 ever the house has recently been tenanted by Sir W. F. Williams, who 
 volunteered to resign it for the Prince during H. R. H.'s stay in town. 
 The house is finely situated on the lower plateau of the mountain, stand- 
 ing in about three acres of ground, which are beautifully decorated by 
 ornamental trees, and parterres of flowers. The mountain rises up steeply 
 behind it ; but the house itself is high enough to aiford a prospect over 
 the entire city, the river, and the country beyond. The house itself is 
 about fifty feet square, with a wing, two stories high, with handsome 
 porch and entrance, the whole being surmounted by a pediment. Being 
 perfectly white, it forms a very pretty object among the dark trees, in 
 which it is embowered. It is approached by two streets. The entrance 
 gates have been renewed, and decorated with carved plumes of Prince 
 of Wales' feathers. The exterior of the house has been newly decorated 
 for the reception of the royal guest ; and it would probably have been 
 difficult to find a residence in the city, upon the whole, more agreeable. 
 At the entrance are two handsome coloured lamps, and the outer door 
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 with an imitation of a fine yellow marble ; having, at the end, niches 
 containing female figures bearing gas lights. On the left hand is the 
 library. The room is fitted up with a paper of rich dark green, with 
 perpendicular stripes of gold. The carpet is a new Brussels, the ground 
 of a dark green colour, with the pattern formed of two devices, arranged 
 in alternate rows. One of these consists of a number of short lines, 
 crossed by others, all of various light colors, to give relief to the ground, 
 and with colors changed alternately. The other and more conspicuous 
 device consists of a light-coloured border enclosing a fleur de lys ; the 
 ground within the border alternately yellow and brown, and the fleur de 
 lys alternately white and yellow. The curtains are of a green damask ; 
 and the sides are surrounded with books on rosewood shelves ; other 
 shelves with books standing out on the floor of the room. On the other 
 side of the passage is the dining-room. The carpet in this room has not 
 been changed. It is a Brussels with a large pattern, in which red and 
 white are the predominating colours. The mantle-piece is of black 
 marble, and the room is hung with pictures. The paper is a rich red 
 flock ; and at the end farthest removed from the window, there is a large 
 mirror. The table and side-board are of mahogany, and the chairs of 
 the same wood, with black leather covers. We believe that all is 
 exactly as it was when used by the proprietor. The curtains match the 
 paper in tint. 
 
 The drawing-room is a very handsome apartment at the north-western 
 corner of the house. It has two windows opening on to the Mountain, 
 northwards, and a very large bow-window looking towards the west. 
 The curtains here are of a fine grey chintz, having stripes formed by a 
 pattern of moss-rose leaves and flowers ; and they are trimmed with silk 
 and lace. The curtain-rods are of wood, painted white and gilt. The 
 mantle-piece is of white marble, with a fine mirror in an elegant but by 
 no means florid frame; and there is a console-table and mirror between 
 the windows. The carpet in this room is velvet, of a small flowered 
 pattern, in which all the brightest colours seem to be confused, without 
 giving to the eye any distinct conception of the design. The papering 
 is very elegant. The ground represents a grey watered silk, with a few 
 sprigs of gold. The bands of the panelling are of a very light pink, 
 with gilt and light blue lines for borders. The furniture and knick-nacks 
 are of the ordinary kind used for drawing rooms ; but in simple taste, 
 becoming the bachelor quality of the Prince. The whole of the furni- 
 ture and decorations in this apartment are new. All the wood-work in 
 the lower story, except the drawing-room, which is white and gold, is 
 painted oak on the inside and mahogany outside. The stairs to ascend 
 to the bed-chambers are lighted from the roof by two sky-lights, having 
 below them stained glasses, flush with the ceilings, the chief decoration 
 being two Prince of "Wales' feathers, chiefly in ruby colour. These 
 
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 lights throw a fine mellow colour over the stairs. The stairs and 
 the passage at the head of them are carpeted with dark green ; the pat- 
 tern black. 
 
 The Prince's bed-room is the south-eastern apartment of the upper 
 story. Its furniture consists of a bed, wardrobe, washstand, writing- 
 table, sofa, cheval-glass, easy chair, and four small chairs. All the 
 furniture is of a clear bird's-eye maple. The bedstead is a four-poster 
 without curtains ; having the headboard raised a little above the foot- 
 board. All the posts are surmounted by carved crowns, and the pillars 
 are fluted and otherwise carved. The headboard rises from the sides to 
 the middle, where the peak terminates with a large crown. The royal 
 arms are below, encircled with ivy ; a little lower is an elegant fillet 
 composed of the leaves of the rose, shamrock, thistle, and maple-leaf; and 
 again below that, the Prince of Wales' feathers and motto, both of a 
 very neat size. In the centre of the footboard, there is a carved oval, 
 having within it the Prince of Wales' feathers and motto, surrounded 
 by foliage. The wardrobe is surmounted by the Prince of Wales' feather 
 and motto, below which there is a band of open work across the front, 
 and two folding-doors with arched mouldings and carvings within them. 
 The chairs and sofa are covered with green and gold damask ; the small 
 chairs having open worked backs. The cheval-glass has its frame 
 decorated by a carved coat-of-arms and crown like the bed ; and the 
 washstand has a white marble top. All the rest of the furniture is of 
 the same curled-maple as the bedstead all in very simple taste. The 
 carpet is a green Kidderminster, with a very small pattern, consisting 
 of white and red spots arranged in diamond form. The paper has a 
 light ground panelled with broad stripes of lilac, bordered with pink and 
 white. 
 
 The dressing-room adjoining the bed-room is furnished in a still plainer 
 manner than the bed-room. Its meublement consists merely of a sofa 
 and four chairs, all of rosewood, with green and gold damask to match 
 the furniture of the bed-room. The carpet is green with a small yellow 
 spot. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle's bed-room is situated on the side of the house 
 opposite to that occupied by H. R. H. The general style of the furniture 
 is the same ; but it has been apparently chosen with a view to mark the 
 gradation of rank by some slight difference in elegance. Thus the wash- 
 stand, instead of a white marble top, has a black one ; the bedstead has 
 hardly any carving upon it, and is, as well as the other furniture, of 
 what upholsterers call " white-wood," instead of maple ; and the chairs, 
 instead of damask, are of dark green "wrept." The paper is pannelled 
 with lines of gilt and white flowers and sprigs. The carpet is of 
 a commoner description than that in the Prince's apartment, of a dark 
 green ground, with a pattern consisting of small oblong spots of white, 
 
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 red, and yellow, arranged in groups diagonally. Another apartment 
 intended for Lord St. Germains, and a very small one for the Governor 
 General, with a single-sized bed, are both fitted up in the same style as 
 the apartment intended for the Colonial Secretary. The decorations 
 and the stained glass have been prepared by Messrs. McArthur and 
 Spence ; the furniture is from the factory of Jacques and Hay of Toronto, 
 and the new gates, with the capital carving thereon, are the work of llr. 
 Maxwell. Mr. Baylis has furnished the carpets. The whole of the 
 arrangements in the house and grounds have been under the superin- 
 tendence of Mr. Lawford, of Lawford and Nelson. 
 
 In the evening, the city was most brilliantly illuminated, per- 
 fectly eclipsing anything of the kind ever seen on this continent. 
 The city was one perfect blaze of light. In every street was to be 
 seen beautiful transparencies ; the arches were all illuminated and 
 looked superb; and the crowded streets, until two o'clock on 
 Sunday morning, showed how well the Montrealers' illumination 
 was appreciated. 
 
 Besides all this, a large number of the ships in port were lit up 
 with coloured lights, and set off rockets. There was a grand 
 display of fireworks from the Victoria Bridge. His Royal High- 
 ness came down " incog" in his carriage to see the illumination, 
 and was driven down Notre Dame Street. Now it so happened 
 that a proclamation had been issued that day by the Mayor, pro- 
 hibiting any vehicles from driving through the illuminated streets, 
 and the consequence was that a constable, little imagining who 
 was the occupant, soon seized the Prince's horses, and ordered the 
 coachman to turn back. But the coachman would not return. He 
 informed the constable that he was the Prince's coachman, and that 
 the Prince himself was inside ; but the constable replied by putting 
 his finger to his proboscis. The crowd, hearing that the Prince was 
 in the carriage, made a desperate push, and was about to take the 
 horses out, and draw the Prince themselves ; but the coachman 
 perceiving this, drove hastily away. 
 
 On Sunday morning the 26th, His Royal Highness attended 
 Divine Service at Christ Church Cathedral. 
 
 He arrived precisely at eleven o'clock, attended by his suite, 
 and was met there by Sir Fenwick Williams, Sir A. Milne, and 
 their respective suites. The whole party was met at the door by 
 His Lordship Bishop Fulford, Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, 
 
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 &c., who conducted the Prince to his seat, which was the Bishop's 
 pew. 
 
 The prayers were read by the Venerable Archdeacon Gilson, as 
 also the Litany ; 1st Lesson by the Kev.Canon Townsend ; 2nd Les- 
 son by the Kev. Mr. Wood ; Epistle by the Bishop of Rupert's 
 Land (Dr. Anderson) ; and the Gospel by Bishop McCrosky of 
 Michigan, U. S. 
 
 The Bishop of Montreal delivered the following 
 
 SERMON. 
 
 1st Cor. 9th Chap. 25th v., " And every man that striveth for the 
 mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corrup- 
 tible crown, but we an incorruptible." 
 
 We find various expressions and illustrations used in Scripture to 
 explain to us the nature of the Gospel, and the condition of the Chris- 
 tian. These everywhere meet us, both in the Parables of the Lord, and 
 in the Epistles of the Apostles. In the former (the Parables of Christ) 
 we find perhaps more frequent allusions to the state of the Gospel King- 
 dom as a whole ; in the Epistles we are for ever reminded of our relation 
 to that Kingdom as individuals, and of our place and duty as members 
 of it. To describe the unity of such members one with another, and 
 their connection with, and dependence upon Christ, St. Paul speaks of 
 Christians being living stones, built up into the spiritual Temple of 
 God, forming together one great and complete edifice, dedicated to God, 
 and in which He dwells, as He of old vouchsafed His visible presence in 
 the glorious Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem; and all built upon Christ 
 as the foundation and chief corner-stone, which gives strength and 
 security to the whole. On other occasions the Apostle speaks of 
 believers, under the figure of many members united in one body, and 
 having different duties and offices, the head of which is Christ, the life, 
 the intelligence, the wisdom, and the glory of all. So also to describe 
 the difficulties we have to encounter, he likens the Christian to a soldier, 
 carrying on a continuous warfare in an enemy's country ; and in his 
 Epistle to the Ephesians he enumerates the various portions of that 
 spiritual armour, by which he is to be secured from danger, the breast- 
 plate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and 
 the sword of the Spirit. The Captain whom he follows is the Lord 
 Jesus Christ ; and the ensign around which he rallies, is the banner of 
 the cross. In the chapter from which I have selected a verse for my 
 text on this occasion, St. Paul in these latter verses compares the Chris- 
 tian to those persons who used to enter the list as competitors for the 
 prizes in the public games which were constantly being celebrated in 
 different parts of Greece. And with great propriety and that skilful 
 adaptation of his mode of argument (which is so remarkable in this 
 
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 Apostle), does he allude to the subject of these games, when writing to 
 the' Corinthians, since the place where some of these were held, was in 
 the neighbourhood of their own City of Corinth ; so that they all must 
 immediately have understood the meaning, and must have felt the full 
 force of his argument ; and very probably, by themselves in their own 
 persons, or in the persons of their intimate friends, had striven for the 
 mastery in them. St. Paul reminds them, how that, when intending to 
 enter the lists as a competitor for the prize in the race, or any of those 
 energetic exertions that require a great display of bodily activity and 
 endurance, they were used to train and discipline themselves with un- 
 wearied care, submitting to denials of many usual bodily gratifications, 
 without hesitation and murmur, rising early, feeding themselves with 
 moderation and exercising themselves by rule, that their wind might 
 be good and lasting, their muscle strong and full, and no unhealthy ac- 
 tion excited in their system such as might injure their strength and 
 lessen their speed, and thus destroy all chance of their success. Such 
 watchful care over themselves, such self-discipline, was absolutely ne- 
 cessary if they hoped to win the prize. No man was ever foolish enough 
 to expose himself to certain defeat and well merited ridicule without 
 them. " Every man," (says the Apostle,) ye know it so to be. " Every 
 man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." And yet 
 in these games, after all his care and pains, he may not succeed ; for 
 again he writes : " Know ye not that those that run in a race, run all, but 
 one only (the best among them) receiveth the prize." In this respect 
 the comparison with the Christian no longer holds good, except by 
 way of contrast. We as Christians have our race to run : we must, 
 like the Corinthian competitors, keep our bodies under, and bring them 
 into subjection ; we must not give a loose rein to self-indulgence, to 
 sloth or luxurious living, and this not like them, that we may be able to 
 perform great feats of bodily strength, but that, by mortifying the deeds 
 of the body, we may give place and pre-eminence to our spiritual nature : 
 not allowing the corruptible body to press down the soul, nor the earthly 
 tabernacle to weigh down the mind ; which soul and mind in the 
 Christian have been renewed again after the image of their Maker, and 
 are capable of high and holy communion with Him. " Every man '' 
 (says the Apostle) " Every man that striveth for the mastery is tempe- 
 rate in all things." This holds good in the Christian, as well as in 
 competition for victory in the Isthmian Games. Without exercising 
 over ourselves something of the same watchful care and rule of life in 
 our spiritual race, it is a contradiction in terms to say, that we are 
 striving for the mastery at all in our spiritual race, that we have enter- 
 ed the lists at all as Candidates for the heavenly prize ; " For they (says 
 the Apostle, to the Romans) that are after the flesh do mind the things 
 of the flesh ; and if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die." But as I said 
 
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 before, here the comparison ends : the rest is by way of contrast. 
 We run not our race against each other. If one gets a prize, it is 
 not to the loss or hindrance of his fellows, but rather to their gain. 
 We have no need to guage and measure the successful progress of a 
 brother, envying his swifter course, as if our chance of success was 
 thereby endangered. For crowns there are awaiting every racer in the 
 Christian race, be he first, or be he last, who, having striven manfully, 
 and gained a victory over himself, his fallen nature, his evil passions, 
 and the temptations of the enemy, shall arrive in due time at the goal, 
 pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in 
 Christ Jesus. With this encouragement, then, " so run " with such care 
 and such preparation, " that ye may obtain." " One star may differ 
 from another star in glory," yet are they all bright, brilliant, and per- 
 fect, the handiwork of God, and have their appointed place in the firma- 
 ment of Heaven. If we lose the prize, it cannot be because a brother's 
 hand has snatched it from our grasp. Such is not the nature of our race ; 
 but rather every fresh successful combatant in the spiritual contest is 
 another witness added to the great cloud of saints already gathered 
 together in Jesus, who testify to us of the excellence of His grace, and 
 have left the prints of their foot-marks along the narrow course of life, 
 as tokens and waymarks, and warnings to us, lest we err from the ap- 
 pointed track, and lose ourselves in the wide wilderness beyond. No, 
 if we fail, it is because we have never really striven for the mastery ; we 
 have not been temperate in all things, we have not kept our bodies under 
 and brought them into subjection : but we have preferred present ease 
 to future glory, and have bartered away our birthright of an eternal 
 inheritance, for such pleasure, gratification, or self-willed indulgence, as 
 we may chance to fall in with on this perishable earth. And this brings 
 us to the particular consideration of those words which are contained 
 in our text, and in which St. Paul reminds Christians of the greatness 
 of the prize proposed for their reward, who are successful in that great 
 spiritual race in which we are all called to engage. They, the compe- 
 titors of the Grecian games, strove earnestly for the mastery, were 
 temperate in all things, and kept their bodies under, in order to win the 
 prize proposed, which, after -all was but a corruptible crown, a perish- 
 able honour in itself of most trifling value. We do it, or as Christians 
 ought to do it, in order to obtain an incorruptible crown, a never-fading 
 glory, an enduring substance. 
 
 And upon this I would remark, that, however excellent virtue may be 
 in itself, and however real the satisfaction arising from a conscious- 
 ness of submission to the law and will of God, and however perfect and 
 pure the requirements of such a state of grace as shall enable us to bring 
 under dominion the lusts of the flesh, and place them under subjection, 
 that we may walk in the liberty of the children of God, yet as this is 
 
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 not now our natural state, not one that we are capable of appreciating 
 or understanding until we have been already under discipline, but one 
 that, in order to its attainment and perfection, requires that moral 
 training which the Apostle is here enforcing, and which, in its various 
 forms, and according as it thwarts our own wills and inclinations, is so 
 often grievous, troublesome, and distasteful to us ; therefore, in compa- 
 rison to the weakness of our nature, God has been pleased, not merely 
 to propose certain duties which we are required to perform, and for the 
 performance of which he offers us sufficient help, but He is also for ever 
 reminding us of the greatness of the rewards which, unworthy as we 
 are of the least of His mercies, He yet has ready for our acceptance ; 
 and which are in His Divine economy, necessarily, as it were, connected 
 with the performance of such duties. 
 
 " The soul of man (observes one of our great Divines) in all its choices 
 is naturally apt to be determined by pleasure ; and the sensitive and 
 inferior appetites (which would draw it off from duty) are continually 
 plying it with such suitable and taking pleasures ; and doubtless there 
 is no way for duty to prevail over them, but proposing greater induce- 
 ments, and offering the soul greater gratification, bound up with an 
 eternal reward." It is the declaration of St. Paul to the Corinthians, 
 " that, if in this life we only have hope,we were of all men most miserable." 
 And let us suppose that, when God bids us fast and pray, mortify our 
 fleshly appetites, abstain from the allurements of sensual pleasures 
 and deny ourselves ; being smote upon one cheek to turn him the other ; 
 and lastly, to choose death rather than wilfully commit the least known 
 sin ; suppose, I say, that God should command us all these severe pre- 
 cepts, merely as excellent actions in themselves, high degrees of virtue, 
 most pleasing to God, and upon that ground both commanded by Him 
 and to be performed by us : certainly these considerations (notwith- 
 standing all the reason and truth that are in them) would yet strike the 
 will but very faintly ; for men care not for suffering, while they think 
 it is only for suffering's sake. But let us take our rule from Christ. 
 " Blessed (says He to His disciples) are ye when men shall revile you, 
 and persecute you, and speak all evil against you falsely for my sake ; 
 rejoice and be exceeding glad." But why ? Was it, then, such matter of 
 joy either to be reviled and trampled on, to be calumniated and abused, 
 or crushed under the hard rule or power of men ? No, certainly ; but 
 we have the reason given us for this in the next words, " For great 
 (says Christ) is your reward in Heaven." Again, we know how Christ, 
 reading the state of his heart, and knowing the particular cure needed 
 by one who had set his heart too much upon things below we know 
 how Christ answered the rich young heir who was enquiring of Him the 
 way to Heaven. " Go (says He) and sell all that thou hast and give to 
 the poor." Now certainly, had he stopped here, this would have been as 
 
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 severe a command as could have been passed upon any such enquirer. 
 But, in fact, our Saviour did not require this young man here absolutely 
 to quit his riches, but only to exchange them, and to part with a smaller 
 estate in possession for one greater in reversion, with a small enjoyment 
 now, for an infinite hope hereafter : " Do this (says Christ) and thou 
 shalt have treasure in Heaven." 
 
 And further, when our Saviour preached to the world the great evan- 
 gelical duty of taking up the cross, we do not find that He made the 
 mere burden of bearing it any argument for taking it up. And therefore 
 He says " There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sister, 
 or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the 
 gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, and in 
 the world to come eternal life." So that we here see the duty and the 
 reward walking hand in hand, the riches of the promise still surpassing 
 the strictness of the precept, and (as it has been well observed, that it 
 is the custom in the royal diadems of Christian kings) the Cross and 
 the Crown put together. If our God, who knows whereof we are made 
 and has compassion upon our weakness, has thought it right thus con- 
 stantly to enforce our several duties, by reminding us of the greatness 
 of the rewards proposed for us upon our submission to his precepts, it is 
 surely intended that we should weigh and consider the value of those 
 future rewards, and keep them in remembrance, as a due balance and 
 counterpoise to set against the immediate temptations of sight and sense. 
 And this is most certain, that no man's practice can rise higher than his 
 hopes. It is seen in aqueducts that no pipe or conduit can force 
 the current of the water higher than the level of the spring-head 
 whence the water first descends ; and in like manner it is not possible 
 for a man who professes to himself only the rewards of this world, so to 
 rule his life and conversation as to arrive at a better. And the reason 
 is simply this, because, whoever makes these present enjoyments his 
 whole object, must be reckoning them absolutely to be the best things 
 he can have, and accordingly he looks no further, he expects no better. 
 And if so, it is not to be imagined that he should never obtain what 
 he never so much as cast a thought after. For no man will ever 
 arrive at heaven by chance. When, therefore, we are called to take up 
 a cross for Christ's sake, to mortify the deeds of the body, to deny our- 
 selves, to be merciful, meek, patient, humble, chaste, and pure, let us 
 not shrink from the call that is made upon us, but remember the great 
 recompense of the reward, the incorruptible crown that awaits us, if 
 found faithful and ready to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ. 
 It is these very duties that have reference to what St. Paul calls bring- 
 ing the body under subjection which are most opposed to the natural 
 and to the performance of which perhaps we require, if we may so say, 
 the greatest encouragement. Speaking the truth, justice towards offen- 
 
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 ders, or rendering to every one his due, are virtues much more frequent 
 in the world than temperance, sobriety, and chastity, and such other 
 virtues as have a tendency to limit the enjoyments of the animal man, 
 and which come more properly under what the Apostle calls " the lusts 
 of the flesh, which war against the soul." But they do war against the 
 soul, and therefore we must wage war against them. And it is that we 
 can not only reach heaven, but, when admitted there, be capable of 
 enjoying the purity and peace of heaven, that we must be temperate in 
 all things and put ourselves under discipline and watchful rule. This 
 is often no doubt, painful, irksome, and contrary to present ease and 
 enjoyment ; but for any worldly object of sufficient importance, what 
 will not man undertake, what self-denial submit to, what patient en- 
 durance will he not practise ? and " they do it to obtain a corruptible 
 crown." And shall not we, as Christians, equal in our zeal and stead- 
 fastness these children of this world ? we, to whom is proposed an 
 incorruptible crown? We have a sure promise of help in our task. 
 And we shall find too that light will spring up around our onward 
 path, and present satisfaction reward our ripening labours. 
 
 But when the task is over and the labour done, what tongue can 
 tell, what heart conceive, those good things which God has in store 
 for those that love him ! Enduring treasures as contrasted with the 
 perishable and uncertain treasures of this world. enduring treasures 
 there, where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, nor thieves break 
 through and steal, where there is no canker-worm of care to corrode the 
 heart, nor disturbance of sin to mar their joy ; riches, honor, glory, 
 peace, rest, knowledge, fellowship with the saints in Christ commu- 
 nion with God, and whatever the imagination of man can shadow forth 
 as excellent or desirable these are the images, under which are detailed 
 to us such descriptions of our heavenly inheritance as may excite our 
 desires, and animate our hopes. Shall we forego the prize ? We have 
 been entered as candidates for heaven ; as baptized Christians we have 
 been put in trust with a great mystery. Shall we forfeit our adoption ? 
 Shall we not strive for the mastery? Shall we not, at the close of our 
 earthly career, wish to die the death of the righteous ? Then let us live 
 the life of the righteous. Be thou faithful unto death (saith the Spirit) 
 and I will give thee a crown of life. 
 
 The church was not uncomfortably filled, the admission having 
 been by ticket from the Bishop. 
 
 A great crowd of persons assembled outside the Cathedral to 
 witness His Royal Highness coming out, all uncovering as he 
 entered his carriage. An attempt at a cheer was made, but 
 speedily put down, it being known that the Prince is not in 
 favour of these demonstrations on the Sabbath. 
 
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 The Lord Bishop, received during the ensuing week, the fol- 
 lowing note from General Bruce, and the present accompanying it: 
 
 MONTREAL, Sept. 1, 1860. 
 
 MY DEAR LORD, The Prince of Wales commands me to request your 
 acceptance, on behalf of the Cathedral of Montreal, of the accompany- 
 ing copy of the Holy Bible, as a slight memorial of his visit to that 
 fine edifice and attendance ou your service there. 
 
 The Bible contains on the fly-leaf the following inscription in 
 His Royal Highness's hand-writing : 
 
 Presented to the Cathedral of Montreal, in memory of the 26th of 
 
 August, 1860. 
 
 ALBERT EDWARD, 
 
 Prince of Wales. 
 
 On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, His Royal Highness and 
 suite witnessed the Indian Games on a field near the Mountain. 
 The games consisted of lacrosse, war-dances, &c. ; but a rain-storm 
 coming on, he was obliged to leave the field before half of them 
 was over. 
 
 Before doing so, however, the Boston (U.S.) Fusiliers marched 
 on the ground, filing past the pavilion where the royal party 
 was standing. They presented arms ; and their band played " God 
 save the Queen," and afterwards " Yankee Doodle." 
 
 From the same pavilion the Prince also witnessed the grand 
 procession of the Temperance Organisation, numbering 500 
 persons, carrying flags, banners, &c., and headed by a band of 
 music. 
 
 At one o'clock, the levee was held at the Court House, when 
 about 2,000 gentlemen were presented; as also a number of 
 Addresses, among others, from the Synod of the Church of 
 England, Natural History Society, McGill College, &c., and one 
 from the inhabitants of Red River Colony, which we give. It was 
 presented by the Bishop of Rupert's Land, (Dr. Anderson). 
 
 To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 
 
 We, the inhabitants of Red River Settlement, in public meeting 
 assembled, desire to approach Your Royal Highness with feelings of 
 warm attachment to Your Royal Person, and with unfeigned congratu- 
 lations on your safe arrival in British North America. 
 
 Though far distant from the flourishing Provinces honored by the 
 presence of Royalty, and isolated from every other dependency of the 
 kingdom, yet we are not the less sincere in welcoming to the soil of the 
 
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 Western Empire, a Prince in whom are so happily blended all those 
 high qualities which we respect and revere in His Royal Mother, Our 
 Most Gracious Sovereign the Queen. 
 
 Deprived, by reason of our remoteness, of the coveted opportunity of 
 addressing Your Royal Highness in person, we beg, through this humble 
 Address, to convey our sentiments of devoted loyalty to the British 
 Crown, and our high appreciation of the wise and liberal policy pursued 
 by the Imperial Government towards the Colonies ; at the same time 
 expressing a fervent hope, that, when called by Divine Providence to 
 the Throne of the Empire, Your Royal Highness may long be spared to 
 reign over a loyal, happy, prosperous, and contented people. 
 Signed on behalf of the inhabitants of Red River Settlement. 
 
 W. MACTAVISH, 
 Governor of Assineboine, and 
 
 Chairman of the Meeting. 
 Red River Settlement, 
 June 14th, 1860. 
 
 In the evening, H. R. H. attended one of the grandest balls 
 ever given on this continent, at least so it was admitted by 
 all those that attended; and many were there from all parts 
 of the States and Canada. It was given in a large wooden pavi- 
 lion erected for the occasion. A full description of the interior 
 of the building we take from a Montreal paper, and which 
 appeared before the ball took place : 
 
 The entire circumference of the building is, as we have stated, 
 upwards of nine hundred feet. It consists of one circular apartment 
 of 215 feet diameter, and 82,000 feet of superficial space ; and of 
 several others surrounding this, and forming, in a ring between it and 
 the outside wall, the supper-room, the dressing-rooms, and other 
 offices. These last will, of course, be all larger or smaller segments of 
 a circle, and all about twenty-six feet wide. They will be twenty feet 
 high under the eaves, gradually ascending to a height of thirty-six feet 
 at the springing of the dome. The roof of this outer circle of apart- 
 ments will serve, as we have said, for the floor of an external and open 
 gallery. Thus they will be separated, except by doors, from the main 
 apartment, which will have an outside wall of thirty-six feet high, the 
 roof rising dome-shaped to forty-four feet at the base of the lantern. A 
 gallery surrounds the whole circle, capable of accommodating two 
 thousand persons ; and the orchestra, in the centre, will be on a plat- 
 form of twenty feet diameter, which will be greatly increased by addi- 
 tional staging for the musical festival of a succeeding evening. Eight 
 pillars surround this platform, carrying a circle of gas-burners. The 
 lantern above, twenty feet in diameter and eight feet high, being open, 
 
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 with the exception of its supports, forms, with the heating of the gas 
 below, a most efficient ventilator ; fresh air being brought from the 
 numerous doors and other openings at the sides. There will be one 
 other circle of pillars intended to support the roof, besides the pillars 
 supporting the gallery. Mr. Charles Garth has placed on all these 
 lights, to the number of about two hundred. 
 
 " Thus far we have to deal with the designs and workmanship of 
 architects and builders ; but it is plain that a great part of the effect in 
 such a building must depend upon the colourists. The business of 
 decoration has been judiciously committed to Messrs. McArthur & 
 Spence, and they have amply justified the choice. The front of the 
 gallery, where a portion of the space is reserved for the Prince's box, is 
 panelled. The ground colour predominant throughout is pink, and the 
 arabesque traceries chiefly in white and green. A medallion in a circu- 
 lar fillet of gold occupies the centre of each alternate panel ; the central 
 ornaments of the rest being other appropriate designs. The plinth sur- 
 rounding the room below the gallery will also be finished with drapery 
 having a golden fringe. The dome-shaped roof is divided in its height 
 into two circles, and each of these into compartments ; the upper one 
 twelve, and the lower one twenty-four in number. On the upper twelve 
 are painted in bright colours the twelve signs of the Zodiac, in imitation 
 of fresco; the borders of each being made with numerous lines traced 
 in various tints. In twelve of the lower compartments, taken alternately, 
 there is, as a base, a plain geometrical figure with line borders, 
 occupying about one third of the height. Above this a semicircle 
 encloses a brilliantly-coloured representation of the royal arms, with 
 appropriate emblems ; and over the arch of the semicircle is a vase, 
 supported on either side by reclining female figures ; part of the space 
 left vacant on either side by the narrowness of the design as it rises 
 towards the lantern, being filled with bright-coloured arabesques. The 
 alternate compartments have simpler figures, so asto allow the ground- 
 colour to appear in breadth, and give relief and variety to the rich tone 
 and full designs of those just described. 
 
 Rich drapery of scarlet and gold depends from the pillars above 
 the orchestra ; and are wreathed with green, and have, at about the 
 middle of their height from the ground, ornamented shields, with pen- 
 nons on each side. The effect of these shields and pennons is to break 
 the uniformity of outline, and furnish points for the eye to rest on in 
 the wide space between the central pillars and the gallery. On the 
 northern part of the circle, a retiring-room and a compartment separated 
 from the rest of the gallery are prepared for the special use of the 
 Prince and his suite. The retiring-room, occupies a space over the pro- 
 jection for the main entrance, and is about 30 x 50 feet, and together 
 with the compartment is fitted up with crimson and gold drapery. The 
 
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 front of the compartment, which has the appearance of being bowed out- 
 wards, is also draped in crimson and gold, and is further decorated by 
 the royal arms, and similar appropriate emblems. The coup-d'ceil pre- 
 sented by the appearance of this gigantic ball-room, is one in which all 
 the gayest colors vie for brilliancy with the glitter of the golden orna- 
 mentation with which they are interspersed, " A mighty mass, yet 
 not without a plan." 
 
 We have only one or two particulars to add to this description. The 
 interior galleries are approached from the floor of the ball-room by a 
 number of stairs, and communicate with the external gallery by doors ; 
 and in order to prevent disaster from any possible accident by fire, 
 besides the numerous doors either for the entrance of the company or 
 other purposes, and the means of egress offered by the external gallery, 
 there will be hose laid on within the building sufficient to drown out 
 any conflagration. 
 
 We add the following : 
 
 Upon glancing round the room after our entrance, we found that 
 some additions and improvements had been made to it since we last saw 
 it. A line of red drapery immediately below the eaves, made an agree- 
 able contrast to the otherwise rather pale color of the lower part of the 
 ceiling, and added precisely what was required to bring up the tone of 
 the lower circle, to that of the upper one. We observed, too, that the 
 artist who had been employed to decorate the shields and escutcheons 
 on the pillars, and on the front of the gallery, had charged them with the 
 armorial bearings of H. R. H., the Duke of Newcastle, the Governor- 
 General, Lord St. Germains, and several others of the distinguished 
 visitors who have arrived in the suite of His Royal Highness. 
 
 The private, apartment of H. R. H. had also been fitted up since by 
 our previous visit. The windows had on them blinds in Gothic patterns, 
 and there were mirrors on the other three sides of the room. The fur- 
 niture was of damask and rosewood, with a crystal gasalier. The ceil- 
 ing was beautifully ornamented with Cupids on a light ground ; and the 
 paper -was panelled, the ground being a very light pink, with branches 
 of ribbons in gold, and the bars of purple and gold. 
 
 The box appropriated to H. R. H. in the gallery was draped with 
 crimson, relieved by a gold fringe, and opposite to it was a dais with a 
 few chairs for himself and his suite. This was also draped with crimson 
 and gold fringe, and at each side of it there was a piece of statuary. 
 
 The ball-room presented the finest appearance of any that the 
 Prince had honoured with his -presence. A description from us 
 would be superfluous ; so we abstain from attempting* a subject 
 which we know our pen is hardly equal to, and which demands 
 our greatest praise. 
 
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 II. R. H. and suite appeared about ten o'clock, and the Prince 
 immediately took his stand upon the dais. The Duke of 
 Newcastle then presented the Hon. Mrs. Young (wife of the 
 Hon. John Young), and the Prince opened the ball with that 
 lady. He had on his right the Hon. Mr. Cartier, with Mrs. 
 Dumas ; and on his left, Major Teesdale and Miss Rogers. Their 
 vis-a-vis were the Duke of Newcastle and Mrs. Perrault. On the 
 Prince's right hand were Governor Bruce and Mrs. Denny, Capt. 
 Connolly and Miss Penn ; and on his left hand, the Earl of 
 Mulgrave and Miss Delisle, and Capt. De Winton and Miss 
 Tyre. 
 
 H. R. H. danced incessantly until half-past four in the morn- 
 ing, with the following ladies : 
 
 Miss Delisle, Miss Servante, Lady Milne, Miss Napier, Mrs. King, Miss 
 E. Smith, Miss Tyre, Mrs. F. Brown, Miss Leach, Miss Fisher of Halifax, 
 Miss Sicotte, Miss De Rocheblave, Mrs. C. Freer, Miss Laura Johnson, 
 Miss Belson, Miss Napier (a second time), Miss King, Mrs. Forsyth, Miss 
 Sophia Stewart, and the Hon. Mrs. J. S. Macdonald. 
 
 The following was the order of dances : 
 
 1. Quadrille TheQueen's Canadian 
 
 2. Polka Minnehaha. 
 
 3. Waltz Sultana. 
 
 4. Lancers Original. 
 
 5. Mazurka Billet doux. 
 
 6. Galop Reception. 
 
 7. Quadrille Palermo. 
 
 8. Waltz Trovatore. 
 
 9. Polka Ariadne. 
 
 10. Lancers English. 
 
 11. Galop The Prince of Wales. 
 
 12. Mazurka Sweet Thought. 
 
 13. Quadrille Lucia. 
 
 14. Waltz Satanella. 
 
 15. Polka Sleeping Beauty. 
 
 16. Lancers Original. 
 
 1 7. Galop Laughing. 
 
 18. Mazurka Lurline. 
 
 19. Lancers Queen. 
 
 20. Waltz.. . Bertha. 
 
 21. Galop Charivari. 
 
 On Tuesday (28th), the royal party, accompanied by the Gover- 
 nor-General and the Commander of the Forces, went on an excur- 
 sion to Dickinson's Landing on the Grand Trunk Railway. They 
 occupied on that occasion the splendid new car built expressly for 
 the Prince of Wales, and of which the following is a truthful de- 
 scription : 
 
 
 
 The car fitted iip by the Grand Trunk Railway Gompany for His 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is now in Toronto receiving its 
 finishing touches at the hands of Messrs. Jacques & Hay. A great deal 
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 the outside, it varies in no respect from those used in ordinary by the 
 Company ; but once inside, and a groat difference is seen. The car it- 
 self is divided into five compartments. The first is intended as a sit- 
 ting-room for the Prince and the noblemen accompanying him, and is 
 fitted up with every possible convenience. In it there are five large 
 arm-chairs and two sofas covered with morocco. The centre is occupied 
 by a small table, on which stands a lamp. A large mirror, a rack for 
 books, and an exceedingly beautiful chronometer, hang from the sides. 
 The ceiling of the car is of the finest bird's-eye maple, divided into pan- 
 nels by strips of gilded moulding. Contrasting with this are the sides 
 of the carriage of dark walnut, also relieved at regular intervals by 
 ornamental gold-work. Over each panel, running round the entire 
 room, are placed carved and gilt imitations of the Prince of Wales' 
 crest, bearing the motto Ich Dien, worn so many years ago on the 
 field of Cressy. The appearance of the room, though exceedingly pleas- 
 ing, is free of anything like gaudiness or of over-strained display. En- 
 tering the next compartment, we find it smaller in width than the pre- 
 ceding one, owing to the fact that allowance had to be made for a 
 passage whereby to communicate with another room at the further end 
 of the car. It is fitted up with many conveniences. Over the roof is 
 placed a large cistern, a pipe from which descends into a filter, commu- 
 nicating with a tap rising from a marble-topped table. The pipe, by 
 being arranged in the same way as the worm of a spit " still," is made to 
 pass through a large quantity of ice, that a supply of cool water may be 
 obtained. Near by this arrangement is a small wine-closet, and a set 
 of drawers, in which are arranged a number of plate and dishes suitable 
 for use under such circumstances, as it may be expected they will be 
 used. Accompanying the china are knives and forks and silver spoons 
 sufficient altogether for twelve persons. The furniture here is all of 
 black walnut. The next two compartments are state-rooms, with a 
 couple of beds in each. The washing-stand and dressing-table are fit- 
 ted with marble tops. Mirrors hang from the wall, and various contri- 
 vances for holding brushes. Towels and cloths are also supplied. The 
 last compartment in the car, we suppose, is intended for servants. It 
 is supplied with a lounge, and the sides and ceiling are fitted up with 
 much the same description of work as in the first-mentioned room. The 
 doors are each supplied with plain glass panels engraved with the rose, 
 shamrock, aud thistle. Very great care has been taken to secure pro- 
 per ventilation. The invention of Mr. Sheriff Ruttan has been called 
 into requisition, and a contrivance adopted by which the air, after having 
 passed through a cistern of water, where it is cleansed from dust, is 
 admitted into the car through a number of registers. Further to pre- 
 vent the dust finding admittance, frames of net-work have been pro- 
 vided, fitting in windows, which may thus be opened without inconve- 
 
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 nience. The cost of the car, which must be large, we are unable to 
 state. Globe. 
 
 On passing the different railway-stations, the people turned out in 
 great numbers and gave him welcome ; arches were erected, flags 
 displayed, and everything showed that genuine loyal feeling which 
 he had experienced since his arrival in British America. 
 
 At Dickinson's Landing, he took the steamer Kingston, and 
 was propelled down the far-famed rapids of the Long Sault, 
 Coteau, Cedars, Cascades, and Lachine, reaching Montreal at 
 seven o'clock, and was immediately driven to his residence. 
 
 It is related of His Royal Highness that he was so much 
 fatigued on his return to town, with the exertions of the last 
 few days, that he actually went to sleep over his dinner. 
 : At ten o'clock the royal party attended the Grand Musical 
 Festival at the Crystal Palace which was given in his honour. 
 
 The Concert consisted of three parts: 1st. Selections from 
 the Oratorios by the Montreal Choral Society. 2nd. A Grand 
 CANTATA composed in honour of the visit of His Royal Highness 
 by Ed. Sempe, Esq., of St. Hyacinthe, the music by Mr. C. W. 
 Sabatier; 3rd. Selections from the Operas by the celebrated 
 Strackosch's Italian Opera Troupe, composed of Mdlle. Adelina 
 Patti, Mad. Amelia Strackosch, Signer Brignoli, Amodi, Barili, 
 and Susini. The hall was perfectly crowded ; there must have 
 been at least 8,000 persons present, and they all presented a most 
 respectable appearance. 
 
 The CANTATA was commenced before His Royal Highness and 
 suite arrived at the royal box. On their arrival, however, it was 
 stopped. The entire company rose and cheered, and the Choral 
 Society performed " God save the Queen." The Prince bowed to 
 these compliments. The CANTATA was recommenced, and he re- 
 mained until the end of it ; and then retired, amidst the hearty and 
 enlivening cheers of the assemblage. At his departure his 
 place, by invitation, was taken by Lady Franklin, who was present 
 during the whole of the Festival. 
 
 We here give the CANTATA in English, translated by Mrs. 
 Leprohon, the well-known authoress, of Montreal : 
 
 PART i. 
 
 From far St. Lawrence' banks to Albion's shore, 
 A voice hath gone forth and been heard, 
 
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 And in the royal palace noble hearts 
 
 By love respondent have been stirred. 
 
 THE DEPARTURE. 
 
 Recilatif. 
 
 From Windsor's walls the cannon's boom is heard ; 
 By martial sound the summer air is stirred ; 
 From tower and turret countless chimes arise, 
 Mingling in silvery carols to the skies. 
 Steel gleams in sunshine flashing like bright gems, 
 And shouts awake the echoes of the Thames ; 
 Whilst now behold, in royal pomp arrayed, 
 Approach a gay and noble cavalcade ; 
 Fiery chargers arching necks of pride ; 
 Flags, banners, standards, floating on each side ; 
 Drum, Trumpet, blending in one martial peal, 
 That fills each throbbing heart with ardent zeal. 
 London is all astir ; like a stream, the crowd 
 Follow the Prince with cheers and clamour loud, 
 The Prince, who goes to meet, 'neath stranger skies, 
 Subjects bound to him by Love's closest ties. 
 The Royal mother now has said Farewell 
 With tearful eyes to the son she loves so well ; 
 Striving to banish fear of winds and waves, 
 And storms that slumber in old Ocean's caves. 
 Ah, calm each anxious fear, illustrious One I 
 Safe is the bark that bears thy gallant Son : 
 Too many prayers for him and thee arise 
 On Albion's shores and 'neath Canadian skies ! 
 A gain the cannon's deafening roar is heard : 
 The vessel's glittering sails are slowly stirred ; 
 Poised on the wave she spreads the snow-white folds, 
 As if rejoicing in the priceless freight she holds. 
 Fair winds and sunshine mark her onward course ; 
 Neptune restrains the rising tempest's force. 
 Longing, we wait to gaze on that young noble brow : 
 Ah, our hopes are crowned and he is with us now. 
 
 THE ARRIVAL. 
 
 CHORUS : All hail, old England's Hope and Pride, 
 Destined to wear one day Earth's fairest diadem, 
 
 Thou who hast left thy home's dear tie 
 To glad thy people with thy presence new to them. 
 
 Hail ! child of hope and victory, 
 
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 Coming to greet us even on our household hearth, 
 
 Uniting in thyself 
 Royalty's splendor to that of modest worth. 
 
 A VOICE : At thine approach our woods and glens 
 
 Have put on their brightest bloom ; 
 Our Mountains, erst crowned with hoar-frost, 
 
 A richer green assume ; 
 The winds of summer on their wings 
 
 Bring a fragrance yet more sweet, 
 And in humble cot and lordly home 
 
 All hearts with pleasure beat. 
 From 'mid their leafy summer haunts 
 
 Where airy zephyrs, wild flowers woo, 
 The birds their silvery notes awake 
 
 As if to bid thee welcome too. 
 
 Recitatif. 
 
 We hope, great Prince, that thou wilt find 
 Thy New-World Empire worthy of thy sway, 
 And thy coming will give us heart 
 For greater things to strive each day. 
 
 A VOICE : Thou hast seen the massive bridge 
 
 That our labour has patient raised ; 
 Ah 1 repaid for our toil will we amply be 
 
 If by words from thee 'tis praised. 
 Lord of our noble river wide, 
 
 Silent it stands in stately pride, 
 'Mid waters chafing on every side ; 
 
 As firmly based the massive parts, 
 As thou art throned in thy people's hearts. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 CHORUS : Thou who placest the sceptre in the hands of Kings 
 
 Great Lord whom we praise, 
 Of our Young Prince, so well, so justly loved, 
 Guard Thou the days 1 
 A mother's hope is he, 
 Pride and shield of a nation free ; 
 Father ! grant, then, that he may be 
 Worthy his lofty and his noble state, 
 And the honours high that on him wait. 
 
 Recitatif. 
 
 Up even to Heaven's starry domes, 
 Its messengers doth bear 
 
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 Upon their wings to the King of Kings 
 Our incense and our prayer. 
 
 CHORUS OP SOLDIERS. 
 
 War-drums and trumpets, 
 
 Raise your martial voice ; 
 
 Your loud and stirring notes 
 
 Make our hearts rejoice. 
 
 Bind with bright garlands 
 
 Every bridle-rein ; 
 
 Fling wide our banners, 
 
 Free from dishonour's stain. 
 
 Well foes may tremble : 
 
 Our standard floats above; 
 
 We march to do them battle 
 
 For Queen and Prince we love. 
 
 PART II. 
 THE AWAKENING AND RETURN. 
 
 Recitatif. 
 
 Like a mourner weeping nigh a mausoleum lone, 
 Canada in darkness lay, obscure, unknown. 
 Emerging from that torpor deep, at length, 
 She wakes, and the world admires her young strength. 
 
 CHORUS OF YOUNG GIRLS. 
 
 Come let us gather 
 Roses and flowers, 
 Glit'ring with dew-drops 
 From gardens and bowers ; 
 Let childhood's small hands 
 Fair blossoms cull; 
 Branches of eglantine, 
 And sweet myrtle, pull ; 
 Weave them in garlands : 
 Thus well evince, 
 On this day of joy, 
 Our love for our Prince. 
 
 DIALOGUE. 
 
 FIRST VOICE. 
 
 Rude huts on a bleak wild strand, 
 Such was once our native land. 
 
 SECOND VOICE. 
 
 Now harvests of golden grain 
 Enrich vale, hill-side, and plain. 
 
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 FIRST VOICE. 
 
 'Neath her dreary icy shroud, Nature pulseless lay. 
 
 SKCOND VOICE. 
 
 A robe of emerald verdure she wears to day. 
 
 FIRST VOICE. 
 Once the silence of the tomb reigned all around. 
 
 SECOND VOICE. 
 
 Now sunny hamlets through our land abound. 
 
 BOTH VOICES. 
 
 Like Zion, Prince, from out the dust, 
 Hath risen our city fair ; 
 "With giant steps hath she advanced, 
 'Neath Albion's fostering care. 
 Onward her march ; to greater things 
 Will she aspire and aim each day, 
 E'er to become more worthy of 
 Thine and Victoria's sway. 
 
 Recitatif. 
 
 Proudly be-doing our foes and the tempest's fierce might, 
 Freely our standard floats out from its height ; 
 Like an oak in the midst of our forests so wide, 
 It may bend, but 'twill rise in still statelier pride. 
 
 SEXTUOR. 
 
 Here, where once forests raised their summits to the skies, 
 As if by magic power, cities, towns, arise ; 
 And in lone plains where man's foot the grass ne'er stirred, 
 The reaper's joyous song, harvest-home, is now heard. 
 On returning to our Queen, 
 Some kindly words of us thou'lt say; 
 Thou'lt tell her how we have prospered 'neath, 
 And how we bless her wise, just sway. 
 
 Recitatif. 
 
 Already the trumpet's voice 
 Sends forth on the air its echoing swell; 
 
 It may sadden but not rejoice. 
 We must part from the Prince we love so well ; 
 Let us join our voices to say Farewell. 
 
 FINAL CHORUS. 
 
 Farewell, oh, noble Son of our illustrious Queen. 
 May thy heart's motto ever be, 
 Justice, Truth, Fidelity ; 
 
 Thy reign prove bright and blessed as Her's hath been. 
 And may our loyal love's deep store 
 Win thee back to our land once more ! 
 Farewell, great Prince, until we meet again ! 
 
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 At noon on Wednesday, 29th, His Royal Highness reviewed the 
 Volunteer Militia of Montreal, on Logan's Farm, two miles from 
 the city, in presence of an immense concourse of people. 
 
 The Volunteers consisted of two troops of cavalry, two compa- 
 nies of light infantry, nine companies of rifles, one company of 
 highlanders, three companies of foot artillery, and three companies 
 of field battery, numbering about 1600 men, all dressed in uniform, 
 well disciplined, and certainly a fine-looking body of men. 
 
 His Royal Highness was accompanied by his suite, the Gover- 
 nor General and suite, the Commander of the Forces and suite, 
 and a good many militia officers, all mounted, and forming a very 
 brilliant staff. 
 
 A royal salute was fired by the battery as the royal party en- 
 tered the field, and the whole multitude of people cheered the 
 Prince heartily. The Volunteers were formed in line and pre- 
 sented arms, the band playing "God save the Queen." The Prince 
 and those accompanying him passed down in front, and up in rear, 
 inspecting the whole corps, and then galloped up to the flag- 
 staff from which floated the royal standard. The troops then 
 marched past in quick time, and went through several evolutions 
 representing a sham-fight, with which the royal party was much 
 pleased. 
 
 His Royal Highness, on leaving, summoned the commanding 
 officers, Colonel Dyde, Lieutenant Col. Wiley, Lieutenant Col. 
 Thorndike, and Captain Stevenson, whom he personally compli- 
 mented on the efficiency of their several corps. A feu dejoie and 
 royal salute were then fired ; and, amidst heartier cheers than ever, 
 the Prince left the ground. 
 
 The following description of the visit to the late Sir George 
 Simpson's residence at Isle Dorval, which took place the same 
 day, is from the Montreal Gazette : 
 
 On Wednesday the 20th inst., the canoe-excursion given by the 
 Hudson's Bay Company to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
 came off with complete success, from Sir George Simpson's beautiful 
 country residence, Isle Dorval, about three miles above Lachine. 
 The weather, which had been threatening in the morning, cleared up in 
 the afternoon, and was everything that could be desired. After the 
 review, which took place in the morning, was over, the Prince of Wales 
 and suite drove out to Lachine by the upper road, meeting a hearty re- 
 
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 ception along the whole route ; but more especially at the village of 
 Lachiue, where the residents had made great exertions to do the Prince 
 due honor. For a considerable distance, pine trees had been planted on 
 each side of the street ; a profusion of flags and garlands decorated the 
 houses, and (short as had been the time for preparation) no less than 
 eight or nine triumphal arches spanned the road. The first seen was 
 near^the toll-bar, erected by Mr. Duff. Among others, we noticed that at 
 the Hudson's Bay House, the residence of Sir George Simpson ; at the 
 Ottawa Hotel ; at the Lachine Brewery (Dawes and Sons) ; and at the 
 residence of Mr. Hopkins (H. B. Co. service). 
 
 At a point opposite Isle Dorval (also the property of Sir G. Simpson), 
 the royal party quitted their carriages to embark in boats sent up for 
 the purpose, from the vessels of war lying in our harbour. The scene 
 at this moment was unrivalled in interest, and picturesque effect, one 
 never to be forgotten by those (comparatively few in number) who wit- 
 nessed it. His Royal Highness, in warm terms, expressed his surprise 
 and gratification at the demonstration, of which we will endeavour to 
 give some faint idea. 
 
 The site was well chosen ; the channel, less than a mile in width, 
 flows between fields now ripe for the harvest, sloping to the water's 
 edge, and the dense foliage and verdant lawns of Isle D.orval, fresh 
 with recent showers and brilliant with sunshine. A flotilla of nine 
 large birch-bark canoes was drawn up in a line close to the head of the 
 island. Their appearance was very beautiful ; the light and graceful 
 craft were painted and fitted up with great taste, each having flags at 
 the bow and stern ; their crew, composed of 100 Iroquois Indians, from 
 Caughnawaga and the Lake of Two Mountains, being costumed en 
 sauvage, gay with feathers, scarlet cloth, and paint, the crews and 
 craft harmonising admirably. 
 
 As soon as the barge carrying the Prince pushed off from the main- 
 land, the fleet of canoes darted out from the island to meet him, in a line 
 abreast, and to the inspiriting cadences of a voyageur song. On near- 
 ing the royal barge, the line opened in the middle, apparently to let it 
 pass, but, suddenly wheeling round with a rapidity and precision which 
 took every one by surprise, they again formed in line, with the Prince's 
 barge in the middle, and in that form reached the landing-place, when 
 the canoe-song ceased, and a cheer, it did one's heart good to hear, 
 burst from the voyageurs, which His Royal Highness, with a face 
 beaming with pleasure, returned, by saluting his Indian escort. 
 
 The Prince of Wales was received on landing by Sir George Simpson ; 
 and soon afterwards luncheon was served to a select party, invited to 
 meet His Royal Highness, by Lieut. General Sir Fenwick Williams, who 
 at present occupies the Island as the owner's guest. Being a private 
 entertainment, a complete list of the names of those present has not 
 
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 been furnished us ; but we understand that there were about forty at 
 table. Sir F. Williams, as the host, had the Prince on one side of him 
 and Sir George Simpson on the other. Among other guests, were the 
 Duke of Newcastle, Lord Lyons, Marquis of Chandos, Earl Mulgrave 
 Lord Hinchinbrook, Bishop of Montreal, Bishop of Rupert's Land, General 
 Bruce, Mr. Engleheart, Major Teesdale (Equerry), Col. Tache", Col. 
 Bradford, Col. Rollo, Mr. H. McKenzie (H. B. Co.), Mr. Hopkins (H. B. 
 Co.), Admiral Milne, Captain Vansittart, R. N., Mr. Blackwell, Captain 
 Earl, A. I). C., Captain De Winton, &c., &c. No ladies were invited, 
 nor were any present, except three immediately connected with Sir 
 George Simpson, viz., Mrs. Hopkins, and her sister, Miss Beechey, and 
 Mrs. McKenzie. 
 
 Justice having been done to the elegant repast, the party strolled 
 about to admire the beauty of the place, while the band of the Royal 
 Canadian Rifles performed on the lawn, and the birch-bark fleet, in full 
 song, paddled round the island. About half-past four the party em- 
 barked in the canoes, and proceeded, in great style and at a rapid pace, 
 towards Lachine ; one, bearing the royal standard and carrying the 
 Prince, the Duke of Newcastle, and General Williams, taking the lead, 
 while the remainder, in line abreast, followed close behind it. About 
 the centre of the brigade we observed Sir George Simpson (accompa- 
 nied by the Earl of Mulgrave and General Bruce, both old feliow-voya- 
 geurs of Sir George's), directing the movements in person. Passing 
 down close along the north shore, the flotilla at that point again exe- 
 cuted the extraordinary evolution of wheeling round in line, and then 
 crossed the St. Lawrence to Caughnawaga, where crowds of white and 
 red faces lined the bank to see the royal procession pass. After pass- 
 ing along the whole length of the village, a halt was called, and the 
 canoes ordered to head up stream and mount the current in " Indian 
 fyle," till again opposite Lachine, where the line was formed, as before, 
 and the river recrossed to the railroad wharf, where the steamer Kings- 
 ton was lying, to receive the party on board. As soon as the embarka- 
 tion was completed, the canoes drew off, giving a parting cheer in capi- 
 tal style, which was replied to from the steamer and the crowds on 
 shore. The Kingston quickly cast off her moorings, and, running down 
 the Lachine Rapids, landed the Prince and his party in Montreal, about 
 half-past seven, where carriages were in attendance for them on the 
 wharf. 
 
 We are enabled to state that the Prince, and all who had the good 
 fortune to be with him, entirely enjoyed the whole affair ; which, from 
 its peculiarities and successful management, will probably make a more 
 lasting impression on His Royal Highness than anything else that has 
 been, or will be done, to entertain him in this country. 
 
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 the Canadian public, for their liberality and spirit in getting up this 
 unique excursion ; which, besides gratifying our royal visitor, afforded a 
 most agreeable holiday to several thousand persons, who were enabled 
 to witness the scene from the shores of the noble St. Lawrence. 
 
 In the evening, a torch-light procession by the firemen of Mon- 
 treal took place. They were accompanied by their engines, which 
 were gorgeously lighted up, bidding " welcome " to the Prince. 
 The men, besides their torches, carried rockets and Koman candles, 
 which they continually sent up. 
 
 On Thursday, August 30, H. R. H. and suite, the Gov. General, 
 &c., took the royal car for the Eastern Townships, and crossed 
 over the Victoria Bridge. They soon arrived at the town of St. 
 Hyacinthe, which was beautifully ornamented and its streets laid 
 out in a manner deserving the greatest credit ; as also does the 
 hearty reception received by H. R. H., when we know that nearly 
 the entire population consists of French Canadians. 
 
 Carriages were in waiting ; and the royal party were driven 
 through the streets to the R. C. College, where three Addresses were 
 presented from the authorities of the town, the county, and the 
 college. H. R. H., as at the Laval University in Quebec, as- 
 cended to the roof and enjoyed the magnificent scenery which he 
 could there behold. 
 
 He arrived at Sherbrooke at two o'clock. Here a splendid re- 
 ception awaited him. Arches, and beautiful ones too, were erected ; 
 the streets decorated as no others had been. Flags were flying from 
 every roof, and the whole population far and near turned out to 
 give him a hearty and loyal welcome. Guns fired, bands played, 
 and there was certainly a great commotion. 
 
 The following Address was presented to him, under a beautiful 
 pavilion made of green boughs, &c. : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUK ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 It is with feelings of peculiar satisfaction, that, on behalf of the 
 Corporation and Citizens of the town of Sherbrooke, and on the part of 
 the Eastern Townships, we have the honour of addressing Your Royal 
 Highness, the representative of our Gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, 
 and of assuring you of our hearty and cordial welcome to the Eastern 
 Townships of Canada. Loyalty to the Crown, and attachment to the 
 person of your illustrious Mother, are as lively and ardent in these 
 
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 Townships as in any portion of Her Majesty's dominions ; and, on your 
 return to England, you can assure Her Majesty of our attachment to the 
 British Crown and to British institutions, and that we feel proud of our 
 connection therewith and of our relation to our Gracious Sovereign, 
 distinguished alike as a Queen and as a woman for those estimable qua- 
 lities which hare won for her the confidence and love of her people- 
 Your Royal Highness can also assure Her Majesty, that, although situa- 
 ted on the borders of the neighbouring republic, and intimately ac- 
 quainted with the working of its institutions, yet, under our own con- 
 stitution, connected with and protected by the British Government, we 
 have no desire for any change in the relations existing between us and 
 the Mother Country. We sincerely pray that these may continue for ages 
 to come. In visiting a new country like the Townships, Your Royal 
 Highness will not expect such progress in agriculture and manufactures, 
 or such marks of competence and wealth, as in the older settled portions 
 of the country ; still, we hope that what you may see will impress you 
 favourably with the natural beauties and the varied resources of the 
 Townships, and enable you to form an opinion of what they are destined 
 to become through the industry and enterprise of the inhabitants. \Ve 
 sincerely and respectfully thank your Royal Highness for the visit, and 
 would gladly hope that it may afford your Royal Highness as much 
 gratification as it confers honour upon us. Permit us to hope that the 
 Queen, the Prince Consort, and their beloved family, may long be spared 
 to fill and adorn their high positions ; and that when it shall please 
 Almighty God in His wisdom to call upon you to assume and exercise 
 the duties and responsibilities devolving upon you as reigning Monarch, 
 your career may, like that of your Royal Mother, be prosperous and 
 happy, benefiting the millions governed, and year by year reflecting 
 additional lustre on your Royal Highness's person. 
 
 J. G. ROBERTSON, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you warmly for your Address welcoming me to 
 this part of Canada, and expressing your loyalty to the Queen. I could 
 not pass on, in my rapid journey through the Canadian provinces, 
 without a visit to the Eastern Townships ; and I only regret that the 
 shortness of time in which so much has to be seen does not permit of a 
 longer stay amongst you. Even in this hurried view of your country, 
 I see much to indicate the future destiny which awaits a land to which 
 so great energy and industry are devoted, and whose inhabitants are 
 influenced by such attachment to the institutions in which they have 
 been educated, as is evinced by your Address. Accept my thanks for 
 your kind wishes for my future happiness. In return, I wish you every 
 prosperity. 
 
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 An Address was also presented from Bishop's College, Lennox- 
 ville, near Sherbrooke. 
 
 H. R. H. was then conducted to the residence of Hon. Mr. 
 Gait, Minister of Finance, which is situated on the brow of a hill, 
 surrounded by spacious grounds, and which was beautifully decorat- 
 ed with flowers and flags. While on his way, H. R. H. was nearly 
 smothered by the great number of bouquets which came down 
 from the hands of bewitching and captivating maidens. 
 
 At Mr. Gait's, a singular levee took place by reason of persons 
 appearing in undress, in which H. R. H. shewed the example by 
 appearing himself in the same costume. 
 
 Several hundred gentlemen were presented, and, during the 
 levee, the following incident and noble act of H. R. H. took 
 place, and of which we here give the particulars : 
 
 At the close of this levee the voice of Colonel or Captain Moore 
 was heard ; Colonel, by reason of his militia rank ; Captain, because 
 he is a retired naval officer. " Cheer," he loudly cried, " for justice has 
 at last been done to as brave an officer as ever stepped the quarter- 
 deck." He said a few words more, but they were unintelligible, being 
 either choked by emotion or drowned in the cheers which immediately 
 burst forth. Proceeding to the spot to learn if any one were mad or 
 drunk, the writer heard that this was not the cause of the commotion, but 
 that it was from the following circumstance : John Felton, commonly 
 called Old Squire Felton in his own district, was signal midshipman on 
 Nelson's flag-ship the Victory, at the battle of Trafalgar. He was also 
 at the battle of Copenhagen, and wears medals for bravery at both those 
 actions. At the blockade of Guadaloupe, West Indies, in 1826, he was 
 the officer of the watch on board the Curieux, sloop-of-war, when she 
 struck on a rock and was wrecked. On the court martial, which was 
 of course subsequently held, there were some enemies of young Felton's, 
 and, perhaps to their personal hostility, perhaps to the fact that court- 
 martials were not held in those days with so much care for the ends of 
 justice as now, he owed it that, although the wreck was caused by cir- 
 cumstances beyond his control, he was dismissed the service. His pros- 
 pects were thus at once destroyed, and he finally emigrated to this 
 country, where for four and thirty years he has lived respected. 
 His Royal Highness having been made aware of the hardships of Mr. 
 Felton's case, not by him, for he suffered uncomplainingly, chose 
 this day as the occasion for exercising the prerogative delegated by 
 Her Majesty to him, and, when the old man presented himself at the 
 reception, not only received him with the greatest cordiality, speaking 
 to him kindly words, but intimated that from that moment he was 
 
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 restored to the position he had lost. This it was which caused the 
 ebullition of feeling on the part of his brother-sailor, Captain Moore, 
 and the cheering on the part of that of the crowd. The act was in itself 
 graceful, it was gracefully performed, and it was thoroughly appreciated. 
 Everyone looked delighted. Mr. Felton could not conceal his pleasure, 
 though he tried to look unmoved, and Mrs. Felton looked at her husband 
 with more than usual pride as he and she were receiving the congratu- 
 lation of the people. 
 
 After the levee, a luncheon was given by the Hon. Mr. Gait, 
 and to which the royal party did ample justice. The carriages were 
 afterwards brought round, and the Prince took his departure to 
 return to Montreal, amidst a shower of flowers, cheers, salutes, 
 waving of handkerchiefs, &c.; and arrived at Montreal at half-past 
 six, after passing a day which must have been very agreeable. 
 That evening, a grand display of fireworks was given in Montreal ; 
 and the next morning, H. R. H. and suite, accompanied by the 
 Governor General, the Commandant, the Ministry, the Members 
 of the Legislature, &c., took his departure by the railway, from 
 the kind and hospitable city of Montreal, amidst a shower of rain. 
 A Guard of Honour, the Artillery of which fired a royal salute, 
 attended, with nearly the entire populace to cheer the Prince and 
 bid him a good speed. 
 
 At the bridge of Ste. Anne's, which was decked out with flags 
 and evergreens, the entire party took the splendid new steamer 
 Prince of Wales, and had a magnificent sail up the beautiful and 
 far-famed river Ottawa. It was at Ste. Anne's where Moore wrote 
 his celebrated boat-song. The weather had cleared up; the sun 
 shone and the scenery looked most beautiful, everything apparently 
 revelling in the presence of royalty. At every little village and 
 settlement, Two-Mountains, Treadwell, Montebello, Buckingham, 
 Windsor, Plantagenet, &c., flags and decorations were displayed, 
 and the people turned out shouting and hurrahing in honour of 
 the Prince. 
 
 At Carillon, H. R. H. and suite again took the cars. Here a 
 Guard of Honour of Militia presented arms, and a royal salute was 
 fired. Arches were erected, and the place generally was profusely 
 decorated. The people also turned out in great numbers, and 
 showed their loyalty by cheering their future king. 
 
 At Grenville, the same loyalty was shown ; besides, the children 
 
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 sang the National Anthem. Here the royal party took the fine 
 steamer Phcenix, which had been entirely renovated and fur- 
 nished. 
 
 When opposite the Gatineau River, they were met by a fleet of 
 river steamers, nicely decorated and crowded with people, who 
 cheered loudly as they passed her. Here also one of the grandest 
 sights ever witnessed appeared in view: 1,200 lumbermen and 
 Indians, attired in red and other colors, in 150 birch-bark canoes, 
 met the steamer and formed into the letter V, and, with the 
 Phoenix in the centre, continued so escorting our well-beloved 
 Prince to the future capital of Canada, Ottawa City. 
 
 The Prince, who was in the cabin, on being informed of the 
 cheers of the lumbermen, ascended to the hurricane-deck with 
 the members of his suite and others, and greatly admired this 
 novel and picturesque fleet. 
 
 The banks of the river near the city, and the city itself, were 
 perfectly crowded with people. The cheering as the Phcenix neared 
 the city, and until she was safely moored at the wharf, was tre- 
 mendous; nothing could equal it. The people's loyalty as well as 
 gratitude to their Sovereign was clearly shewn. 
 
 Ottawa City was beautifully adorned with arches, flags, banners, 
 and every conceivable decoration was used to give a grand and 
 varied appearance to the city. 
 
 It was after six before the Phoenix came to her moorings, 
 and consequently no time was to be lost. The wharf on which 
 H. R. H. landed was very prettily ornamented and well carpeted ; 
 the seats surrounding it were crowded by the most fortunate of the 
 good people of Ottawa, who loudly cheered, as also did all others 
 present, as His Royal Highness landed. 
 
 A Guard of Honour of the Light Infantry Militia and Volun- 
 teer Artillery of Ottawa saluted him, the former by presenting 
 arms, the latter by a royal salute, which was thundered forth to 
 the cheers of the entire populace ; the band meanwhile playing 
 the National Anthem. 
 
 He was met by the Mayor (Alex. Workman, Esq.), attired in 
 his robe of office, and the members of the City Council, the Warden 
 and members of the County Council, and the most prominent 
 
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 citizens of Ottawa. The following Address was then presented by 
 the Mayor : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of 
 Cornwall, fyc., Sfc. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOCR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Corporation of the City of Ottawa, in Council assembled, most 
 respectfully approach your Royal Highness with the offer of a sincere 
 and loyal welcome to this city, and beg to convey to your Royal High- 
 ness sentiments of profound devotion and inalienable attachment to 
 our much-beloved Sovereign. 
 
 We consider it a privilege in being allowed to tender to your Royal 
 Highness our hearty congratulations upon your safe arrival in this 
 portion of the extensive empire of which this province forms an integral 
 part, and to assure you of the satisfaction which your visit affords 
 to every class of Her Majesty's liege subjects resident in the Ottawa 
 Valley. 
 
 We feel proud in having the opportunity of acknowledging with gra- 
 titude the act of your august mother, our most gracious Queen and ruler, 
 in selecting this city as the future capital of Canada ; and your presence 
 upon this occasion is viewed as a further indication of the great conde- 
 scension and interest manifested by our beloved Sovereign in the welfare 
 of her Canadian subjects in this portion of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 We hail with the utmost delight the auspicious event of your Royal 
 Highness's visit to Canada ; and sincerely hope, that a personal acquaint- 
 ance with the resources and varied capabilities of this important part of 
 the British possessions, may be found interesting as well as instructive ; 
 and that the experience acquired during your sojourn in the country 
 may satisfy you that its inhabitants are loyal, contented, and prosper- 
 ous. 
 
 In conclusion, allow us to wish you a pleasant and agreeable tour 
 throughout the Province, with a safe voyage across the Atlantic ; and 
 on your return to your native land, may you enjoy every comfort and 
 happiness this world can bestow. 
 
 ALEX. WORKMAN, 
 
 Mayor of Ottawa. 
 
 To which the Prince made the following reply : 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for this Address, and request you 
 to convey to tbe citizens whom you represent the expression of my 
 gratitude for the very kind language in which it is couched, and the 
 warm reception with which they have greeted me. 
 
 In this city, at your request, I am about to lay the first stone of a 
 building in which, before long, the deliberations of the Parliament of 
 Canada will be held ; and from which will emanate the laws which are 
 
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 to govern the great and free people of these Provinces, extend the 
 civilizing influence of British Institutions, and strengthen the power of 
 the great Empire of which this Colony forms an integral and most im- 
 portant portion. 
 
 I do not doubt, that, with its increase of population and influence, this 
 city will prove itself worthy of the country of which it is now the Capital, 
 and will justify the selection which your Sovereign made, at the request 
 of her Canadian subjects. 
 
 It has been most gratifying to me to witness the demonstrations which 
 have met me on every occasion during my progress through this mag- 
 nificent country, and which evince the feelings towards your Queen en- 
 tertained alike by all races, all creeds, and all parties. 
 
 Tn consequence of rain falling, the Address and reply were rapidly 
 hurried through. The procession organized, and the Prince, 
 escorted by nearly the entire population, started for the Victoria 
 House, which had been leased for his residence. The procession 
 was as follows : 
 
 ( Police in Advance Guard. ) 
 Sergeant. J Chief rf fo ^ ftnd Qfficerg J Sergeant . 
 
 BAND OP THE ROYAL CANADIAN RIFLES. 
 
 The Prince's Standard. 
 Advance Guard of Cavalry. 
 
 I 1 I" 
 
 His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OP WALES, g 
 
 ;3 AND SUITE. ?3 
 
 ^.. Governor General and Suite. * 
 
 g. Commander of the Forces and Staff. 
 
 Members of the Executive Council. 
 
 <Sa <fc 
 
 CT O 
 
 BAND. 
 
 City Standard. 
 MAYOR OP OTTAWA. 
 Members of the City Council. 
 City Officials. 
 
 Members of the Legislative Council. 
 
 Members of the Legislative Assembly. 
 
 Distinguished Guests. 
 
 BAND. 
 
 County of Carleton Standard. 
 
 "Warden of the County of Carleton. 
 
 Members of the Co. of Carleton Council. 
 
 County of Carleton Officials. 
 
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 BAND. ) 
 
 St. Jean Baptiste Society. 
 St. Andrew's Society. 
 
 St. Patrick's Society. 
 
 St. George's Society. 
 
 )j 
 BAND. 
 
 Fire .Companies in Uniform. 
 Hook and Ladder Companies in Uniform. 
 
 Lumbermen in Uniform. 
 Government Architects. 
 Government Workmen in Uniform. -2 
 
 3 
 
 Citizens of Ottawa. 
 
 Yeomanry of the County of Carleton. 
 
 Military to be arranged by the Officer in Command. 
 
 Meanwhile, the rain came down faster than ever, still the 
 people continued cheering lustily. Precisely at eleven o'clock 
 next day (September 1st), the weather having cleared up in a 
 most propitious manner, H.R.H. and suite left the Victoria House, 
 under a royal salute, to lay the foundation-stone of the new Par- 
 liament Buildings of Canada. The place selected for so doing 
 was perfectly crowded with elegantly-dressed ladies and gentlemen, 
 seated upon platforms erected for the occasion, and the chief dig- 
 nitaries of the Province stood within a railing, which surrounded 
 a space where the stone (which was of Canadian marble) was 
 placed ; to adorn which a neat arch and massive crown had been 
 erected by the Board of "Works. 
 
 Shortly after eleven, the Prince, attended by his suite, the Gov- 
 ernor General, Lord Mulgrave, Sir Fenwick Williams of Kars, 
 their several suites, the Ministry, Members of Parliament, and 
 a host of other gentlemen, took their destined places, the Prince 
 standing, and surrounded by his suite, the Governor General, and 
 most of the above gentlemen. 
 
 The proceedings were opened by the Rev. Dr. Adamson, 
 Chaplain to the Legislature, reading the following prayer : 
 
 Protect us, Lord, in all our doings, with Thy most gracious favor, 
 and further us with Thy continual help, that in all our works begun, 
 continued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy Holy Name, and finally 
 
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 by Thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. Our father which art, &c. 
 
 At the conclusion of which, H. R. H. advanced to the stone, 
 which bore this inscription : 
 
 THIS CORNER-STONE OF THE BUILDING 
 
 intended to receive 
 THE LEGISLATURE OF CANADA, 
 
 was laid by 
 
 ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, 
 On the first day of September, 
 
 MDCCCLX. 
 
 On the top of the cube of white marble which composed the stone, 
 was inserted a long six-pointed star of brass, in the centre of which 
 was the following inscription : 
 
 Quod felix faustumque sit Hunc lapidem JEdificii 
 
 quod comitiis Provincial, habendis 
 
 inserviret ponere 
 
 dignatus est 
 
 ALBERTUS EDWARDUS, PRINCEPS WALLIJE, 
 Anno Domini MDCCCLX, 
 
 die 1 Septembris, 
 Anno Regni Victoria Reginee, 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 On the sexagonic circle around the inscription were these words : 
 " His Excellency Right Hon. Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., Governor 
 General of British America." On each of the points of the star were 
 the names of the architects, builders, &c., as follows : 
 
 Hon. J. Rose Com. of Public Works. 
 
 Samuel Keefer Deputy Com. P. W. 
 
 Fuller & Jones Architects. 
 
 John Morris Clerk of Works. 
 
 Thomas McGreevy Builder. 
 
 Charles Garth Steam fitter. 
 
 It was suspended from the centre of the huge ornamental crown 
 by a large pulley, which ran round a gilt block. Under this was a 
 cavity in which was placed a glass bottle containing a collection of 
 coins of the present day, and a parchment-scroll inscribed thus : 
 
 The foundation-stone of the Houses of Parliament in the Province of 
 Canada, was laid on the 1st day of September, in the year of our Lord 
 1860, in the 24th year of Her Majesty's reign, at the City of Ottawa, by 
 H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. [Here followed the names of all the 
 Members of the Legislative Council, the names of all the Members of 
 
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 the Assembly, the names of the Government of Canada, the names of 
 all the Architects, &c.] 
 
 The mortar was then spread by the Clerk of Works, Mr. Merrill, 
 and the Prince gave it the finishing touch with a beautiful silver 
 trowel, presented by Hon. John Hose, on the face of which is the 
 following inscription : 
 
 WITH THIS TROWEL 
 
 on the 
 
 FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1860, 
 THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUILDING 
 
 intended to receive the 
 PARLIAMENT OF CANADA, 
 
 was laid at the 
 CITY OF OTTAWA, 
 
 BY 
 
 ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES. 
 
 And on the back is engraved a view of the intended building. 
 
 The stone was then finally deposited in its resting-place, 
 H. R H. giving it three steady knocks with a wooden mallet. The 
 following prayer was then offered up by the Rev. Dr. Adamson : 
 
 This corner-stone we lay in the name of the Father, and of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Ghost ; and may God Almighty grant that the building 
 thus begun in His name, may be happily carried on to its completion 
 without injury or accident, and when completed it may be used for the 
 good of the Province, the Glory of our Queen, the happiness of our 
 Prince, and the good government of our people. Amen. 
 
 The plummet was applied by Mr. Morris, and the level by S. 
 Keefer, Esq., Deputy Commissioner of Public Works ; and these 
 gentlemen having announced to His Excellency the Governor 
 General that the stone was properly laid, His Excellency pro- 
 claimed the same in these words, " I proclaim the stone fairly and 
 duly laid in this work." Then three cheers arose for Her Majesty 
 the Queen, such as never perhaps arose in this country before ; 
 three for H. R. H. the Prince of Wales ; and three for His Excel- 
 lency the Governor General. 
 
 The Architects for the Parliament and Departmental buildings, 
 Messrs. Stent and Laver, and Messrs. Fuller. and Jones, and 
 the Clerk of Works, Mr. Morris, were then separately presented to 
 H. R. H., who shortly after took his departure. 
 
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 Shortly afterwards, a levee was held at the Victoria House, 
 when a number of gentlemen were presented. 
 
 In the afternoon, the Government gave a sumptuous d&jeuner 
 to H. R. H. and suite, and a large number of guests, including 
 the Mayor and Corporation, the Clergy, &c., &c. 
 
 At four o'clock, the Prince and suite, attired in their uniforms, 
 entered the apartment, the Ministry also in uniform, and the 
 whole company standing ; the R. C. R.. Band playing the National 
 Anthem, and which also discoursed sweet music during the time the 
 company were engaged. 
 
 After due discussion of the viands, His Excellency the Gover- 
 nor General rose and proposed the health of the " Queen," which 
 was right loyally responded to with a " hip hip hurrah." 
 
 Sir N. F. Belleau proposed the " Prince Consort," which was 
 received with cheers. 
 
 Sir Henry Smith then proposed " H. R. H. the Prince of 
 Wales," which was received with the greatest enthusiasm. 
 
 As it subsided, H. R. H. rose and said, " I propose the Gover- 
 nor General, and both Houses of the Legislature." Cheers again 
 broke forth, long and loud, and the greatest enthusiasm and exulta- 
 tion prevailed. 
 
 We must compliment the Ottawaites on the excellent condition of 
 their lungs ; for really, on that occasion, they displayed more stento- 
 rian powers than all the people in the other cities combined. 
 
 H. R. H. and suite, with the Governor-General, &c., took 
 their departure from the room shortly after. They then proceeded 
 to the Chaudiere Falls, situated near the city ; and viewed the 
 slides over which the timber passes, on a raft which had been 
 previously constructed by Mr. Skead. The Prince and the entire 
 party, including Lord Hinchinbrooke, the Hon. Mr. Eliot, and 
 Lord Mulgrave, embarked and swiftly passed over one of the 
 slides ; near the bottom of which, a beautiful new barge, constructed 
 by the Clerk of Works for the Government, met them, and on 
 which they speedily embarked, and were rowed about the river 
 by a party of Ottawa gentlemen. Afterwards the Prince viewed the 
 grand canoe-regatta which there and then took place. There were 
 six races. In each race, only a certain number of paddles and men 
 were allowed, and it was somewhat ludicrous to view it ; each one 
 
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 endeavouring to supplant the other, and, in doing so, requiring to 
 be extremely cautious, lest, by a sudden jerk or move, the whole 
 occupants of the canoe should be precipitated into the water. 
 
 After a short cruise around the river, the Prince and suite 
 returned to the shore, where carriages were waiting, in which they 
 speedily drove home. 
 
 In the evening, a very pretty illumination was given. Of course 
 it was not so extensive or elaborate as that at Montreal or Quebec, 
 yet its very simplicity made one admire it. 
 
 A Society calling themselves the "Phisiocarnivalogicali^t?," 
 which is enough to break any person's jaw-bone in pronouncing it 
 turned out and gave a torchlight procession ; and which halted, 
 in front of the Victoria and cheered the Prince, who appeared, 
 and was much interested in the strange " institution." 
 
 On Sunday morning, Sept. 2nd, H. R. H., escorted by his 
 suite and the noblemen and gentlemen accompanying him, attended 
 Divine Service at Christ Church, where pews had been provided 
 for them, near the Communion Table. 
 
 On entering, he was conducted by the Revds. Messrs. Lauder, 
 Adamson, Stephenson, andLoucks; the entire congregation stood 
 up ; and the organ pealed forth the Coronation Anthem (the 
 organist was Mr. Barnby of Montreal.) 
 
 The Morning Service was read by the Rev. E. Loucks, of Christ 
 Church; the ante-cominunion service and Epistle by the Rev. 
 Dr. Adamson ; and the Gospel by the Rev. J. S. Lauder, Rector 
 of Christ Church, who also preached. 
 
 The Anthem was from the 26th Psalm, " I will wash my hands 
 in innocency : so will I compass thine altar, Lord." 
 
 The following was the 
 
 SERMON. 
 
 The text was taken from the 1st Epistle of Peter, ii. chapter, and 9th 
 verse, " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 
 a peculiar people." 
 
 The Epistle whence the text is taken, although written for the 
 instruction of the Jews and Gentiles who had embraced Christianity 
 under the Apostle's preaching, was intended more particularly for the 
 Jewish converts : hence the frequent allusions to Jewish customs and 
 historical events which mark the contents of almost every chapter. In- 
 the verse I have just read, we cannot fail to recognize a striking allu- 
 sion to a people who were more than ordinarily circumstanced who 
 
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 were highly favored amongst the various races of men, and the Apostle 
 used the words which should remind them of what they were under the 
 Law of Moses to shew them that they were no worse under the new 
 Law of Christ that they were still a chosen generation, a royal priest- 
 hood, a peculiar people, but with this difference, that the chosen was 
 not now confined exclusively to the Jews, as in the days of old, but was 
 extended to all believers in Christ, no matter whether Jews or Gentiles, 
 in every nation under Heaven. We, then, brethren, who are assembled 
 here to-day, are made, by the mercy of God, partakers of the blessed 
 privilege which the text declares. We are now in a position which 
 none but Jews alone once occupied towards God we are a " chosen 
 generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people " 
 and what blessings are contained in each of those titles ! what glorious 
 gifts have been bestowed in consequence ! 1st. We are a generation 
 amongst whom God has been pleased to set up His name a generation 
 who for eighteen hundred centuries have had the Gospel presented to 
 us a generation enjoying all the privileges which the Jews of old en- 
 joyed, without the heavy burdens of the Law. No types now dim our 
 spiritual vision, nor costly sacrifices have we to make no tedious 
 journeys to the temple to sacrifice and atone for our sins no seeing 
 through a glass, darkly, the Redeemer of our race. The Type has long 
 given place to the Antitype the sacrifice of Christ has made atonement 
 once for all, and the seeing through a glass darkly, has been changed 
 to " face to face." Enjoying as we do all the privileges of the Gospel 
 having the purest branch of the Holy Catholic Church in which to 
 enrol ourselves as members a church in which God's word is preached 
 free and unfettered in which are ceremonies of peculiar solemnity, yet 
 free from superstition a church blessed with two Holy Sacraments of 
 Christ's ordaining, and, thank God, none of man's the one, bestowing a 
 Baptism whereby we are made members of Christ, children of God, and 
 inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven ; the other, furnishing a spiritual 
 food and sustenance for the strengthening and refreshing of our souls 
 in this life hallowed and refreshed by the worship of a " common 
 prayer," in the language of a chaste and time-honoured liturgy, which 
 breathes throughout a spirit of the most fervent piety, and watched 
 over by the pastorship of a three-fold ministry of bishops, priests, and 
 deacons ; having all these privileges amongst us, and enjoying them 
 in the peace and happiness which British liberty affords, may we not 
 well say that we are " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy 
 nation, a peculiar people," and that God has blessed us in a wonderful 
 manner beyond millions of the people of the earth, who yet sit in dark- 
 ness and the shadow of death. But we are also " a royal priesthood." 
 The Jews were styled a " kingdom of priests " by God himself, probably 
 because of their consecration to himself by a peculiar covenant, and 
 
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 their separation from the rest of mankind, as priests are separated from 
 the multitude of men. St. Peter applies the term to all believers, who 
 are priests, not the ministering priests of the church, but priests of a 
 more private character priests to themselves appointed to offer up a 
 sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving daily for themselves and their 
 households. And our church, in her beautiful Communion Service, 
 recognizes this priestly character of its members, in the words, " and 
 here we offer and present unto Thee, Lord, ourselves, our souls and 
 bodies to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto Thee." We are 
 called Royal on account of our new privileges, being born again " to be 
 heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven to reign with Christ hereafter and to 
 wear an incorruptible crown that fadeth not away." We are therefore 
 " a royal priesthood" we are a holy nation too. The Jews were called 
 a holy nation, because they were in covenant with God, and because to 
 them were committed the oracles of God and so are we for the same 
 reason : we are now in covenant with God, and to us is committed the 
 Bible. We are not to suppose that by the term " holy nation " is to be 
 understood a nation in which every individual and thing is holy, such 
 a state of things did not exist among the Jews ; but we are to under- 
 stand a nation in which holiness is recognized as the chief aim of man 
 in which religion occupies the chief place whose people recognize 
 God in all his offices of Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, and the law 
 of His mouth is deemed unto them better than thousands of gold and 
 silver; to whom the Sabbath is a delight, the holy of the Lord honour- 
 able from whose altar the incense of pure and heartfelt prayer ascends 
 to Heaven a holy nation too, I might say, because that even our civil 
 laws render that justice to every man, which only laws based upon the 
 law of God can bestow, and with which every man is satisfied. 
 
 Our last title is a peculiar people. The word peculiar, as translated 
 in the margin of the Bible, is, " purchased " ; and if we take this mean- 
 ing, what a volume does it not contain ? of how much does it not remind 
 us ? what remembrances does it not call up ? how that once we were 
 sinners, and not only sinners, but sinners sold under sin the slaves of 
 Satan and of death, but that now we are purchased back again, and 
 with what a price I purchased by the precious blood of Christ, for which 
 cause you may remember it is said, " Ye are not your own ; ye are 
 bought with a price a purchased people !" Oh ! how does this recall to 
 mind the cross on which the Lord of Glory hung the spear that pierced 
 his precious side the blood that flowed from his reeking wounds the 
 bitter cry, " Eli, Eli, lama Sabachthani," and the last words of this sad 
 scene "It is finished!" A purchased people! Yes; and therefore, 
 perhaps, we may say with some propriety still, " a peculiar people " 
 peculiar because so much has been done for us peculiar because God 
 has made us a chosen generation peculiar because we are a royal 
 
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 priesthood peculiar because we are a purchased people. There is no 
 verse in the Bible, perhaps, more striking than this, in which our real 
 state as believers in Christ is so forcibly set forth. If the titles therein 
 expressed mean anything, they must show us clearly that we are a 
 people signally favoured by Providence that we are citizens of no mean 
 city, but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the household of God, 
 and therefore that our responsibilities are great indeed. As persons, 
 then, called by such titles, what manner of people ought believers to be ? 
 We should be men formed upon the maxims of Gospel. We should pre- 
 sent to the admiration of the world an assemblage of all virtues fidelity 
 in our discourse, sincerity in our sentiments, uprightness in our conduct, 
 modesty without affectation, humility without baseness. We should 
 feel that we have passions, only to overcome them pleasures, to sacri- 
 fice them to duties, to comply with them. Above all things, we should 
 be men of prayer accustomed to seek counsel of God in everything that 
 we do, and to ask His forgiveness for everything we do amiss. We 
 should also be men of self-denial, prepared to do and give up much for 
 the sake of Christ, who gave Himself for us, and for our sakes " became 
 poor that we through his poverty might be made rich." We should also 
 show, by a holy conversation, what we are and whose we are. Passed, 
 I know, is the Golden Age of religion, when the name of Jesus Christ 
 and the maxims which he delivered were mixed with all the discourses of 
 Christians. In these times the language of religion is nowhere to be 
 found but in sermons and books of piety. We have scarcely courage 
 enough in company to mention that adorable name of our Saviour. 
 We need not, to be sure, intrude or thrust our religion into every place 
 we come, lest we make it distasteful and ourselves unwelcome ; but we 
 should be careful, in all our intercourse with men, that, by our chaste 
 conversation, we may be recognized as Christians. Let us never 
 forget that this " chosen generation " is made up of individuals, and that 
 we all individually have duties to perform ; and what those duties are, 
 we need be at no loss to discover. We have only to look around us 
 and behold numberless paths of duty clearly marked out. Believe me, 
 we have not been placed in the high position which the text declares, 
 to live a mere earthly life here, to enjoy earth's pleasures and dance 
 along its seducing paths, without a thought for anything but ourselves. 
 God has given us a holy Sabbath Do we observe it ? He has given us 
 a holy Church Are we faithful members ? The poor are hungry Do 
 we feed them? they are naked Do we clothe them? they are sick Do 
 we visit and relieve them ? The heathen are perishing for knowledge 
 Are we sending it out to them ? There are few of these conditions that 
 you cannot help to alleviate. Christ meant us to do as He did, and He 
 went about doing good. It is idle to call ourselves Christians, unless 
 we strive to be like Him, who hath left us an example that we should 
 
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 follow His steps. As a " chosen generation," then, depend on it, we 
 have been chosen for some purpose, not only as individuals but as a 
 nation ; and the question with us individually and nationally should be, 
 For what were we chosen ? I think, to do our work on the earth. 
 The next question with us, then, should be, How is it to be done? Be 
 assured it is not by the power of her spear or her sword that the nation 
 to which we belong, occupies the proud position she does among the 
 nations of the earth. It is England's Bible that is the grand secret of 
 England's greatness. It is that that has made her the most civilized, the 
 most polished, the most refined, and the most Christian nation in the 
 world ; it is that that has made her laws so just and her people so happy ; 
 and we in this colony of hers, if we are ever to be great, must become 
 so by the same means. The Bible must be our Polar Star to lead 
 us to that kind of .civilization which alone exalteth a nation. 
 Although the waves of the Atlantic roll between us and our Fatherland 
 to-day, let me speak of ourselves as one nation ; for that we are, thank 
 God. God, I am persuaded, has chosen us as a nation to spread the 
 Gospel through the earth. He has committed the Holy Scriptures to 
 us, and we are responsible for the manner in which we use that precious 
 gift. We are bound to spread them, not only among ourselves, but to 
 send them to the darkest corners of the earth. We must not withhold 
 their truths, nor sacrifice -their holy doctrines to superstition or whims. 
 If we are chosen to do this work, woe be to us if we neglect our duty. 
 Expediency, I know, is too much the order of the present day ; but it 
 must not be carried too far, lest we imitate the fearful expediency re- 
 corded of a once-memorable event. " It is expedient that one man die 
 for the people." There must be no halting between two opinions in 
 God's work, neither aa individuals, nor as a nation. We must not ne- 
 glect to send out the glad tidngs of a reconciled God and Saviour to 
 every nation we call our own, that they, too, may become a part of this 
 " chosen generation," this " royal priesthood," this " holy nation," this 
 " peculiar people." The salvation of the soul through Christ is too pre- 
 cious a truth to be kept to ourselves, the glorious news of a Saviour's 
 love is too grand a blessing to be kept uncirculated. If we rejoice in 
 Him, let us see that others are partakers of our joy ; and if eighteen 
 centuries have passed away since Jesus hung on Calvary's Cross for 
 us, since His blood flowed down its rough hewn wood, let us not grow 
 careless ; let us remember, that, though old to us, there are yet millions 
 of human souls for whom that blood was spilt, as well as to whom this 
 great salvation would be new. Ohl if we are a chosen people, let us 
 try to be a holy nation a nation that reads the Bible and spreads the 
 knowledge of the truths contained in it, because it believes the Bible 
 a nation that prays to God and serves its God, because it believes in 
 God and loves its God. It is worth our while, then, brethren, while we 
 
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 have time to do so, to ask ourselves -whether we are really the kind of 
 Christians that Christ intended us to be ? Oh ! what a poor service 
 ours is, after all what a poor serving of Christ ! what miserable com- 
 promises we make! what sincere striving to be His, and yet afraid to 
 put the world out of temper with us ! I fear we are astray, and far 
 astray, in what we do and what we expect. Christ must be our all in 
 all. He wants our whole heart, and we think that, some way or other, 
 though we don't give it to him now, yet he will do something for us in 
 the end, that will gain us an entrance into Heaven. We trust to His 
 good nature, if I might use the term, too much. But it is a sad mistake : 
 we cannot win him even thus. " Lord, Lord, have I not prophesied in 
 Thy name, and in Thy Name done many wonderful works," will have no 
 effect then either. Brethren, now is the time to win Christ; now is the 
 time to gain His favour. Remember, I pray you, and I fear too many are 
 apt to forget this fact remember, that at the last day, Christ is not to 
 be our Saviour, but our Judge 1 Oh, what a difference 1 How does this 
 warn us not to be harboring vain imaginations now! "A chosen gene- 
 ration " we are now. Let us take care that we are found in the same 
 position in the great and terrible day of the Lord ; for, unless we are, 
 all the more dreadful because of our being a " chosen generation " 
 will our sentence be. " They that knew their Lord's will, and prepared 
 not themselves, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with 
 many stripes. But they that knew it not, and did commit things 
 worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whom 
 much is given, of him shall much be required." 
 
 At the conclusion of the service, His R oyal Highness snd suite 
 left the church in the same order observed on entering, viz. 
 preceded by the church-wardens, the organ playing the National 
 Anthem. 
 
 His Royal Highness and suite, attended by the Governor 
 General and other gentlemen, took their departure from the 
 delightful little city of Ottawa on Monday morning at eight 
 o'clock. The steamer Emerald had been chartered to carry the 
 royal party as far as the Chats Portage, and on it His Royal 
 Highness and suite immediately went. A Guard of Honour of the 
 Volunteers presented arms, and the artillery, under Major Turner, 
 fired a royal salute. The people cheered to their hearts' content ; 
 and to the sweet strains of the National Anthem, the steamer 
 moved away. 
 
 The royal party arrived at the Chats after twelve a. m.; and, 
 entering canoes, were quickly rowed up the Ottawa, to Arnprior, 
 which was nicely decorated. They were met by the Sheriff of 
 
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 the Counties of Lanark and Renfrew, as also the Warden and 
 County Council, who presented an Address. Luncheon was 
 partaken of; and at four o'clock they took carriages for Almonte, 
 20 miles distant, a station of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway. 
 The distance was accomplished in two hours and a half, through 
 one of the most fertile and best-settled portions of the Province. 
 
 On each side of the road were well-laid-out farms, the houses 
 all nicely decorated, and colours flying. Arches were erected and 
 well decorated all along the road ; and every farmer and farmer's 
 son turned out, welcoming the Prince with loud cheers. 
 
 At Almonte, the royal party took the cars for Brockville ; and, 
 amidst the greatest cheering, His Royal Highness standing on 
 the platform, took his departure. 
 
 The royal train arrived at Brockville at eight o'clock in the 
 evening ; and of course it would then have been quite dark, but 
 for the loyalty of the inhabitants, who lit up their dwellings and 
 stores. The firemen, to the number of 300, turned out with 
 torches. Everything was at once, as it were, turned into day. 
 
 His Royal Highness was received, on the arrival of the cars at 
 the station, by the Mayor and Councillors, the Warden and 
 members of the County Council, and the most influential inhabi- 
 tants of this pretty and well-laid-out town, who conducted him to 
 a pavilion which had been erected near the station, and which 
 was beautifully ornamented with flowers, rosettes, and drapery 
 of many colours. This was lit up with variegated lamps, which gave 
 a very fine appearance. Two Addresses were then presented ; one 
 from the Town Council, and the other from the County Council. 
 After replying to both, the Prince, his suite, and the gentlemen 
 attending on him, were immediately conducted to carriages and 
 driven through the illuminated streets, surrounded by the fire- 
 men with their lighted torches, &c. Nothing could have been more 
 beautifully sublime ; nothing more truly grand than this simple, 
 unostentatious, but truly loyal display. 
 
 The royal party was escorted to the Steamer Kingston, which 
 was lying at the wharf; and in which the Prince proceeded to 
 Kingston on the following morning (September 3rd), passing 
 through some of the grandest and most beautiful scenery on the 
 
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 continent,* which must have charmed and astonished the Prince 
 and the members of his suite, though much accustomed to some 
 of the best scenery in the United Kingdom. 
 
 And now we have to speak of an affair which was most dis- 
 agreeable, not only to ourselves, but to the whole inhabitants of the 
 Province, and which unfortunately comes specially under our 
 notice as connected with the Prince's visit to Canada. We allude 
 to the Orange disturbances at Kingston and Belleville ; occurrences 
 which are universally lamented as having tended to mar the hap- 
 piness and joy of the Prince's progress. 
 
 It is not our province to pass an opinion on the events which 
 have taken place : we shall merely, and as carefully as possible, lay 
 before our candid and discriminating readers, what really did 
 occur, and leave them to form an unbiassed opinion. 
 
 During the sojourn of the royal party at Montreal, a report 
 was mooted, which came to the knowledge of the Duke of New- 
 castle, that the Orangemen of Upper Canada, but more particu- 
 larly of the cities of Kingston and Toronto, intended to erect 
 arches in those towns displaying partizan objects, and array 
 themselves in full Orange regalia to join in the procession of wel- 
 come. 
 
 This the Duke was most particularly adverse to (on the 
 grounds stated in the appended letter to the Governor General), and 
 accordingly wrote the following letter to His Excellency : 
 
 MY DEAR SIR EDMUND, I am informed that it is the intention of 
 the Orangemen of Toronto to erect an arch on the line of route which 
 it is desired by the citizens that the Prince of Wales shall take on 
 Friday next, and to decorate it with the insignia of their Association. 
 I am also told that they mean to appear in the procession similarly de- 
 corated with party badges. 
 
 It is obvious that a display of this nature on such an occasion is 
 likely to lead to religious feud and breach of the peace ; and it is my 
 duty to prevent, as far as I am able, the exposure of the Prince to sup- 
 posed participation in a scene so much to be deprecated, and so alien to 
 the spirit in which he visits Canada. 
 
 I trust you may be able to persuade those who are concerned in 
 these preparations, to abandon their intentions ; but that there may be 
 no mistake, I hope you will inform them, that, in the event of any such 
 arch being erected, I shall advise the Prince to refuse to pass under it, 
 
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 and enter the town by another street ; and further, if any Orange de- 
 monstration, or any other demonstration of a party character, is persisted 
 in, I shall advise the Prince to abandon his visit to the town alto- 
 gether. 
 
 I have heard, but with less certainty, that a similar demonstration 
 is contemplated at Kingston. I need not say that my remarks apply 
 equally to that or any other town. 
 
 I am, &c., 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
 To the Right Hon. Sir E. W. Head. 
 
 Accordingly, the Governor General wrote the following letter 
 to the Chief Magistrates of Toronto and Kingston (Adam Wilson, 
 Mayor of Toronto, and 0. S. Strange, Mayor of Kingston) : 
 
 OTTAWA, August 31, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter addressed to 
 me by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, now in attendance on 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 
 
 In explanation of this letter, I desire to call your attention to the 
 fact, that, according to an advertisement which has appeared in a To- 
 ronto paper, it is the intention of the Orange body in that city to dis- 
 play in the procession which is to take place on the reception of His 
 Royal Highness, and in the streets through which he is to pass, certain 
 emblems and decorations belonging specially to their own Society. 
 
 I may state in the most explicit terms, that any such display, or 
 any attempt to connect with His Royal Highness's reception, the public 
 and open recognition of the Orangemen or any party association, would 
 be viewed with extreme dissatisfaction. 
 
 You will bear in mind, Sir, that His Royal Highness visits this 
 Colony on the special invitation of the whole people, as conveyed by 
 both branches of the Legislature, without distinction of creed or party ; 
 and it would be inconsistent with the spirit and object of such an invi- 
 tation, and such a visit, to thrust on him the exhibition of banners or 
 other badges of distinction which are known to be offensive to any por- 
 tion of Her Majesty's subjects. 
 
 I feel satisfied that His Grace's reasons for expressing these views will, 
 on consideration, be deemed satisfactory ; and I have to request that 
 you, as Chief Magistrate of the City of Toronto, will take care that no 
 such cause of complaint may exist, either in the procession itself, or in 
 the decoration of the streets through which His Royal Highness will 
 pass. 
 
 I have further to request that you will, by letter addressed to me at 
 Kingston, inform me explicitly whether any doubts exists as to a com- 
 pliance with the wishes expressed by the Duke of Newcastle in this 
 matter ; as the course likely to be pursued at Toronto may materially 
 
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 affect the route to be taken by His Royal Highness iu his future progress 
 through the Province. 
 
 I have the honor to be, <fcc. 
 
 EDMUND HEAD. 
 
 The Roman Catholic inhabitants of these cities, who became indig 
 nant that the Orangemen should build arches and endeavour to de- 
 monstrate their allegiance, immediately called meetings and appoint- 
 ed deputations to proceed to Ottawa, to have an interview with the 
 Duke of Newcastle, and to protest against such demonstrations ; 
 which they accordingly did, and were completely successful, the 
 Duke promising that the Prince would not land where any Orange 
 demonstrations should take place. 
 
 The Orangemen on their part fancying that it was through the 
 Catholics' influence that their arches and intended procession had 
 been denounced by the Duke of Newcastle, then remained firmer 
 to their absurd purpose than ever : they came to a decision, that, 
 come what would, they would stand their ground and carry the 
 day. 
 
 Kingston had made good preparations, and every one expected 
 that the Orangemen would ultimately " cave in," to have the 
 pleasure of the Prince's presence ; but no, they would not ! they 
 remained firm to their decision. In this lamentable state ot 
 affairs, the Kingston, with the Prince and suite on board, appeared 
 off the town, escorted by a small fleet of boats, &c. A royal salute 
 was fired by the Volunteers, and every expression of joy was 
 manifested by the people at the Prince's presence. 
 
 An enquiry was made by the Duke of Newcastle if the Orange- 
 men still persisted in their conduct ; and, to the regret of all, the 
 answer returned was that they did. A message was then sent to 
 say that sixteen hours would be given for the city to give a final 
 decision, a decision by the City Council ; and if at the end of 
 that time they did not consent to give up their partizan demon- 
 stration, the Kingston (with the Prince on board) would proceed 
 on her way to Belleville, the next place of call. 
 
 During this time, a special meeting of the Council was held, 
 to determine whether the Council should proceed to present the 
 Address on board the Kingston, or on the wharf, or not present 
 it at all, if His Royal Highness should not land. 
 
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 After a long debate, the following resolution was carried : 
 That we, the loyal Roman Catholics, in conjunction with the liberal 
 loyal Protestants of this city, do hereby cordially unite in requesting 
 as a special favor that His Royal Highness will land at the place ap- 
 pointed, and then proceed to the City Hall, in order to give Her Majesty's 
 dutiful subjects an opportunity of being presented to her royal son. 
 
 The Orangemen, in full regalia, were assembled in vast num- 
 bers to greet the Prince, the Rifles were on the wharf to salute 
 him, and the whole population was out to welcome him ; but His 
 Royal Highness was obliged to refuse landing after his request 
 was treated in such a manner, and the Kingston proceeded on her 
 way at 3 p. m., 5th Sept. ; not, however, before Addresses were 
 presented on board, from the Magistrates of the United Counties 
 of Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington, and the Moderator of the 
 Church of Scotland. To the former, and to the Sheriff of the 
 United Counties, His Royal Highness expressed his extreme re- 
 gret at the circumstancs which had transpired to debar his land- 
 ing, but doubted not the loyalty of the parties. 
 
 With the greatest regret the loyal inhabitants of Kingston 
 viewed the steamer's departure ; and the city, that should have been 
 all gaiety, was turned, in a few minutes' time, into woe and dis- 
 content. 
 
 This unfortunate event drew forth the following correspondence. 
 The first letter is from the Duke of Newcastle, written on board 
 the Kingston, prior to her departure for Belleville. 
 
 OFF KINGSTON, 5th Sept., 1860. 
 
 SIR, It is with the utmost regret that I now find myself compelled to 
 take the extreme course contemplated as possible in my letter to Sir E. 
 Head, of the 30th August, which was immediately communicated to you 
 by His Excellency,' and to advise the Prince of Wales to proceed on his 
 way without landing in the city of Kingston. When we arrived yesterday, 
 we found an arch covered with Orange decorations, and an organized 
 body of many hundreds, wearing all the insignia of their Order, with 
 numerous flags ; a band and every accompaniment which characterized 
 such processions. I could hardly bring myself to believe, that, after seeing 
 you and the other gentlemen who accompanied you on board the steam- 
 boat, and fully explaining to you the motives which actuated my advice 
 to the Prince, the objections I took to those party displays on such an 
 occasion, and the necessary consequences which must ensue if the 
 Orangemen would be so misguided in their own conduct and act so offen- 
 sively to the whole of their fellow-citizens, Protestant and Roman 
 Catholics, as to persevere in their intention of preventing the Prince 
 
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 from accepting the hospitality of your city. I have been disappointed. 
 The Prince consented to wait twenty-two hours to give the Orange- 
 men time to reconsider their resolve. They have adhered to it; and it 
 is my duty therefore to advise the Prince to pursue his journey. What 
 is the sacrifice I asked the Orangemen to make ? Merely to abstain 
 from displaying, in the presence of a young Prince of 19 years of age, 
 the heir to a sceptre which rules over millions of every form of Chris- 
 tianity, symbols of religious and political organization which are no- 
 toriously offensive to the members of another creed, and which, in one 
 portion of the Empire, have repeatedly produced not only discord and 
 heart-burning, but riot and bloodshed. I never doubted the loyalty of 
 the individuals composing the Orange body. I based my appeal to 
 them on the ground of that loyalty and of their good feeling. I did not 
 ask them to sacrifice a principle, but to furl a flag and to abstain from 
 an article of dress. I wished the Prince to see them, but not to give coun- 
 tenance to a Society which has been disapproved of in the Mother 
 Country by the Sovereign and Legislature of Great Britain. I am told 
 that they represent this act of mine as a slight to the Protestant reli- 
 gion. Until they can prove that the great mass of Englishmen are also 
 not Protestant, it is quite unnecessary for me to repudiate so unfounded 
 and absurd a charge. I am well aware that such party processions are 
 not illegal in this country, as they are in England. This is a conclu- 
 sive answer, if I asked you as Mayor to exercise your authority ; but it is 
 no answer to my remonstrance. I made it not as Secretary for the 
 Colonies called upon to force a law ; but as Minister of the Queen, at- 
 tending the Prince of Wales by command of Her Majesty, in an official 
 visit to this Colony, at the invitation of its Legislature ; and I ask in 
 what position would the Prince be placed by sanction, if he were now to 
 pass through such a scene as was prepared for him (which happens not 
 to be forbidden by the Colonial Legislature), and next year visit the 
 North of Ireland, where he could not be a party to such an exhibition 
 without violating the laws of his country? His Royal Highness will 
 continue the route which has been prepared for him ; but in any place 
 where similar demonstrations are adhered to, a similar course to that pur- 
 sued at Kingston will be taken. I cannot conclude this letter without an 
 expression of regret that the Corporation did not accept the offer which 
 I made them, through yon, to present their Address on board the steamer ; 
 an offer readily accepted by the Moderator and Synod of the Presbyte- 
 rian Church in connection with the Church of Scotland. It is impos- 
 sible to believe that the members of the Corporation were influenced by 
 sympathy with the conduct of the Orangemen, but I fear such a con- 
 struction is too likely to be put upon their decision. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your very obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 To the Worshipful Mayor of Kingston. 
 
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 The Mayor made the following reply : 
 
 THE CITY HALL, 
 Kingston, llth Sept., 1860. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE, I have the honor to acknowledge the 
 receipt of Your Grace's letter dated 5th instant, and have laid the same 
 before the Council of the City of Kingston. 
 
 In reply, I am instructed by the Council to thank Your Grace for the 
 exposition of your motives in the advice given by your Grace to H. R. F. 
 the Prince of Wales, in pursuance of which the citizens of Kingston 
 have been debarred from the pleasure of seeing him, presenting the 
 Address of welcome to their city which they had prepared, and assuring 
 His Royal Highness that the loyalty and devotion to the British Crown 
 exhibited by the inhabitants of this district during times of internal 
 disaffection and foreign aggression have not decreased, whilst the feel- 
 ings of love and admiration entertained for Her Most Gracious Majesty 
 by the people of England are fully shared by their fellow-subjects here. 
 
 The Council have carefully weighed the arguments used by your 
 Grace to sustain the decision communicated on the 30th ult. to Sir 
 Edmund Head, to the effect that His Royal HIghnoss would be advised 
 to abandon his visit to this city in case any Orange demonstration were 
 persisted in, it being your duty to prevent the exposure of the Prince to 
 supposed participation in a scene likely to lead to religious feud and 
 breach of the peace ; and they respectfully call your Grace's attention 
 to the fact, that the present state of the law affecting the Orange Society 
 in Upper Canada is not the result of chance or neglect of the Legisla- 
 ture, as your Grace appears to suppose, but the designed intention of 
 Parliament after several years' experience of a law of repression ; and 
 that the Orange Society, so far from being contrary to law, was publicly 
 recognized by His Excellency the present Governor General on the 12th 
 of July, 1857, when they presented an Address and received an official 
 reply ; that neither the Council nor any other constituted authority in 
 Canada had the power to put your Grace's wishes in force, in opposition 
 to the settled policy of the country, by endeavoring to prevent that 
 body from wearing such dress or displaying such banners as they saw 
 fit ; that the fear of religious feud and breach of the peace must have 
 arisen from wrong information regarding the state of Upper Canada, 
 and ought to have been set to rest by the official guarantee of the Mayor 
 for the peace of the city ; that the general procession in which your 
 Grace objected to the appearance of the Orangemen in regalia was, as 
 you were informed at Brockville, entirely abrogated, and their subsequent 
 appearance was therefore without any semblance of sanction from the 
 civic authorities ; and the act of His Royal Highness entering the city 
 would not, therefore, in the slightest degree have identified him with 
 any particular party, political or religious. Nor could he be held to par- 
 
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 ticipate more in the Orange demonstration by the display before him 
 of flags of the Order than he was compromised by viewing the purple 
 robes and insignia of the Roman Catholic Bishops and others who 
 attended him at Quebec a demonstration in which His Royal Highness 
 could not have participated in England. And the Council consider 
 tliat your Grace's protest was sufficient to prevent any one from sup- 
 posing that the Prince was giving his sanction to a display which you 
 had clearly stated you desired would not take place. Had your Grace, 
 on landing on this continent, made known His Royal Highness's desire 
 that no party-emblems should be used on the occasion of his visit, and 
 that it was your intention to advise him to pass by any place where this 
 was disregarded, the Council are convinced that the late complication 
 would not have occurred, as it is believed the Orange Society would never 
 have thought of acting counter to His Royal Highness's wish ; but your 
 Grace's own experience must satisfy you of the extreme difficulty of, at the 
 last moment, reasoning with men who, looking upon their colors as the 
 badge of their religion, had imbibed the idea, however erroneous it may 
 have been, that your Grace's command (for, considering the penalty, it 
 amounted to such) was intended as a slight to the Protestant community ; 
 the restrictions now imposed being in such striking contrast to the 
 attention and respect shown to the Roman Catholics in Lower Canada. 
 
 Had the Prince visited Kingston upon the invitation of the Orange 
 Society, it would have been within your Grace's province to have affixed 
 any condition you thought proper to the acceptance of the invitation. 
 But this was not the case. The invitation was given in the name of the 
 citizens, and unconditionally accepted ; and the Council cannot but 
 feel that the expectations of the people, after being raised by that formal 
 acceptance, and by the Prince's promise to attend a ball to be given in 
 his honor, have been arbitarily disappointed without good reason, moral, 
 religious, or political, but simply to meet the unreasonable demands of 
 a small section of the citizens. 
 
 Neither the authorities nor the inhabitants were responsible for the 
 acts of the Orangemen who visited Kingston on the 4th and 5th inst. ; 
 and from the fact of so few of the large assemblage being residents of 
 the city, the members of the Council could exercise little, if any, influence 
 over them. And yet, because these parties choose to assert their rights 
 as British subjects, and appear to greet their Prince in a peculiar costume, 
 not contrary to law, your Grace has caused a disappointment of the 
 most poignant kind to thousands of Her Majesty's most devoted subjects 
 assembled here, after months of eager expectation, to testify their loyalty 
 to the Throne, and to give His Royal Highness a warm and affectionate 
 welcome. 
 
 The Council cannot admit of any analogy between His Royal High- 
 ness lauding in a town in Canada where Orange emblems were exhibited, 
 
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 and being a party to a similar scene in the North of Ireland ; and in proof 
 need only refer to your Grace's letter, which states that, Avhilst in this 
 country such a party display is legal, in Ireland it is the reverse. His 
 Royal Highness could not, therefore, by any possibility, be made a party 
 to an exhibition which, being illegal, could not occur. Nor can they 
 see any similarity between the position of the Moderator of the Presby- 
 terian Church, residing in Lower Canada, and with whom a special 
 appointment to receive an Address (the reading of which by some 
 accident had not been permitted in Montreal), and that of the citizens 
 of Kingston, whose invitation, after being accepted, was now slighted, 
 and their dearest hopes doomed to disappointment, because parties over 
 whom they had no control thought proper to wear Orange ribbons and 
 unfurl a flag bearing the likeness of a former King of England. 
 
 There appears, however, to be a great similarity between the course 
 adopted by the Council of the ' Counties of Frontenac, Lennox, and 
 Addington, and that of the City Council ; and this is natural, as in both 
 cases the Addresses welcoming his Royal Highness to Kingston would 
 have been inappropriate, and might as well have been presented at St. 
 James' as on the bosom of Lake Ontario. 
 
 The Council, without justifying the want of courtesy exhibited by the 
 Orangemen, firmly believe that they were actuated by an earnest desire 
 to do the Prince honor ; and that the disappointment is all the keener to 
 them because their efforts have been misunderstood, and the display of 
 the emblems which they conceive to be typical of their loyalty to the 
 Throne and their attachment to the Protestant faith, made a reproach to 
 them. 
 
 In conclusion, the Council desire to express their deep regret at the 
 recent occurrences ; and refer to the strenuous efforts made by them, 
 during the whole period of the late difficulty, to induce the Orangemen 
 to waive their rights and lay aside their regalia, so as to remove the 
 difficulty which your Grace's decision has raised to His Royal Highness 
 landing, as the best proof that they were not actuated by sympathy for 
 the Orangemen in declining to present the Address on board the steamer, 
 but by a due sense of the important trust committed to them by their 
 fellow-citizens, and a determination that they would not, by any act of 
 theirs, assume the responsibility or appear to sanction the soundness of 
 the advice tendered by your Grace to His Royal Highness advice which 
 the Council believe would not have been given had your Grace consulted 
 the Government of the country, who, from their intimate knowledge of 
 the state of feelings and circumstances, as well as the laws of the Prov- 
 ince, would have probably been able to satisfy your Grace of the injus- 
 tice and impolicy of the course which has been adopted. 
 I have the honor to be your Grace's 
 
 Most humble and obedient servant, 
 
 0. S. STRAXGE, Mayor. 
 To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c. 
 
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 The Duke was in London, C.W., when he received this, and 
 wrote the following in reply : 
 
 LONDON, C.W., 13th September, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the llth inst., 
 which reached me this afternoon. 
 
 It would be easy to refute the arguments and contradict the state- 
 ments advanced by you on behalf of the Council of the City of Kingston, 
 but I have neither time nor inclination for the task. I have only there- 
 fore to express my hope that it is your intention to publish your letter 
 without delay. 
 
 If you do not, I shall feel it my duty to do so, in order that it may 
 receive an answer from the good sense of the Canadian people. 
 I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 The Worshipful the Mayor of Kingston. 
 
 The following was the resolution of the City Council upon this 
 last letter : 
 
 Resolved, That in consequence of the letter from the Duke of New- 
 castle, now read, calling in question, as it does by implication, the truth 
 of the statements contained in the letter addressed to His Grace by the 
 Mayor, under date of llth inst., the Council are compelled, in justice to 
 themselves, to reiterate the facts and arguments therein set forth ; the 
 former being known to be true, and the latter believed to be unassailable. 
 
 Carried by a majority of 13. 
 
 The Kingston arrived at Belleville at nine o'clock that evening. 
 The bells of the churches rang out gaily, and the greatest joy was 
 manifested by the inhabitants. Great care had been bestowed on 
 the ornamentation of the town, and on the intended reception. 
 The arrangements perfected were extremely good. 
 
 Nine arches had been erected. The ladies of the town, with com- 
 mendable zeal, had been, for a long time, working to give the place 
 a fine appearance. The town was filled with farmers from miles 
 around, together with their whole families ; with strangers, and 
 others. Everything in fact promised to come off well ; but, by 
 some very unaccountable means, everything went off in the oppo- 
 site direction. 
 
 The Orangemen who reside in, and near here, in great num- 
 bers, had erected two arches, but no party emblems were displayed 
 on them. The Orangemen themselves consented not to walk ; but 
 next morning (6th) outside influence began to work. Flags of a 
 partizan nature were hung from them, and the Orangemen mus- 
 
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 tered in full numbers ; in full regalia, with their bands of music, 
 paraded the street, determined to receive the Prince. When this 
 state of things became known to H. R. H., no alternative was 
 left him but to remain on board, and proceed to Cobourg, which 
 he accordingly did at half-past nine o'clock. It was perfectly 
 touching to witness the sorrowful countenances of the good por- 
 tion of the people of the town of Belleville ; all their exertions, 
 all their toil, destroyed in an hour, by the mere caprice of stran- 
 gers. But at the town of Cobourg he received a welcome which 
 he will not easily forget. 
 
 No partizan displays were warranted or tolerated there ; every- 
 body worked with a will and love that will ever be commendable. 
 The Kingston appeared off the town near nine o'clock at night, 
 the beach was crowded to give the Prince a regular demonstrative 
 welcome ; and when, therefore, the steamer came up to the wharf, 
 ay, and long before, the enthusiasm displayed was intense. 
 
 The whole city was brilliantly illuminated, and presented one 
 of the finest effects ever witnessed. Rockets were set off, a royal 
 salute fired, and a Guard of Honour of the Volunteer Rifles pre- 
 sented arms as His Royal Highness landed. His carriage was drawn 
 by a newly-organized Society composed of the gentlemen of Cobourg, 
 called " Native Canadians," with silver maple-leaves on their 
 breasts, who carried lighted torches, and were escorted by the Na- 
 tional Societies, the Volunteer Cavalry and Rifles, and by the people 
 generally, who cheered and hurrahed until they were hoarse. 
 The Prince and his suite were taken through the lighted streets 
 to the Town Hall, a fine new building, which was gorgeously 
 illuminated. Here H. R. H. received the several Addresses from 
 the Mayor, Victoria College, the Magistrates, Brighton Council, 
 &c., &c., and gave his replies ; and immediately after, entered the 
 building, and opened a ball at eleven o'clock, dancing until broad 
 daylight. The following are the names of the fortunate ladies 
 he danced with, fifteen in all : 
 
 Miss Beaty (daughter of the Mayor), Miss Ewart, Mrs. Reid, 
 Miss Fortune (Sheriff's daughter), Miss Pringle, Hon. Mrs. Sid- 
 ney Smith, Miss Dainty, Miss Powell (Niagara), Miss Burnham, 
 Miss Bennet, Mrs. Cubitt, Miss Hall, Miss M. Boswell, Miss 
 Gaver, Miss Barren. 
 
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 After the ball, H. R. H. and suite, with the Governor General 
 and the other gentlemen, retired to the mansion of the Hon. 
 Sidney Smith (Postmaster General) ; and, after a slight repose, 
 left Cobourg on the morning of the 7th, by railway for Peter- 
 boro, amidst the most hearty demonstrations of loyalty and joy. 
 
 The train arrived at Rice Lake in due time. And here the 
 royal party took the steamer Otonabee, named after the river of 
 that name. The lake is called Rice on account of the great 
 quantities of wild rice that grow in it. 
 
 After crossing the lake in saftey, the royal party again took 
 the cars. 
 
 The scenery in and around this lake, abounds with singular 
 beauty : the many small islands that dot its surface give it a very 
 enchanting aspect. 
 
 On one side of the lake, the Mississaga tribe of Indians (one 
 of the first that held Upper Canada) had erected an arch, which 
 for them was not so bad, as some fastidious mortals would make 
 us believe that it was perfectly wretched ; but it was not so. They 
 fired a royal salute ; and had a brass band, which, we confess, could 
 not come " God save the Queen "; at any rate, they made an 
 attempt. 
 
 The train stopped at this place, and the whole tribe advanced 
 to welcome the son of their " Great Mother." 
 
 An Address was presented by the Chief, who, by the by, is 
 100 years of age. A number of Indian curiosities were presented to 
 His Royal Highness, who took his departure under another royal 
 salute and National Anthem. 
 
 At Peterboro, the same enthusiasm was shewn as at Cobourg. 
 Thousands upon thousands were present to give His Royal 
 Highness a right loyal welcome. 
 
 The place was nicely decorated. Fine arches had been erected, 
 and highly adorned. Under all these the royal party were escorted 
 in carriages to the Court House ; where the Corporation Address, 
 &c., were presented, and replied to. A short interval elapsed, when 
 His Royal Highness took his departure, under showers of bouquets 
 and the deafening cheers of the populace. 
 
 We note not a very agreeable incident which here took place: a 
 man, with an enormous amount of brass, stretched out his brawny 
 
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 arm to shake hands with His Royal Highness, who graciously 
 complied Many others followed his example ; and at last the 
 Prince had to turn to the other side. 
 
 At Port Hope, the next landing-place, quite as much enthusiasm 
 was manifested. The people of this usually quiet little city were 
 as enthusiastically excited as the inhabitants of the other cities. 
 They had worked, and worked well, to have a fitting display ; and 
 the consequence was that several fine arches spanned the principal 
 streets ; the houses being as handsomely adorned as at the cities 
 heretofore visited. 
 
 A well-organized procession escorted His Royal Highness, his 
 suite, &c., through the principal street to the Town Hall ; where 
 the Mayor (James Scott, Esq.) presented the Corporation 
 Address, amidst the greatest cheering from the immense concourse 
 of people assembled. The Prince, after replying, entered the 
 Town Hall, and, with his suite, partook of luncheon/ After 
 the Mayor had proposed the toast of the Queen and Royal Family, 
 His Royal Highness left for Whitby ; where the train arrived 
 somewhat late in the afternoon. 
 
 The people here exhibited as many marks of loyalty and attach- 
 ment to the Crown as at any of the places where the Prince had 
 been. Their cheers were most hearty and uninterrupted, and their 
 demonstrations were also very fine ; a continuous salute being 
 kept up while His Royal Highness was in the town, and until 
 the Kingston, on which he embarked for Toronto, was long out of 
 sight. 
 
 An Address was presented and replied to, and the whole 
 population escorted His Royal Highness to the boat. 
 
 But perhaps one of the finest receptions the Prince ever received, 
 was from the true and loyal inhabitants of the city of Toronto, 
 the capital of Upper Canada. 
 
 Here, where the greatest number of Orangemen reside, and 
 where the greatest gathering from all parts of the country was 
 about to take place ; on being told that such a a display was against 
 the Prince's wish, they vei-y good-naturedly laid down the insignia 
 of their order, and appeared in the procession and manifested 
 their joy as private citizens; and by this act, they shewed their 
 good sense, by complying with the wish of their future king. 
 
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 But they had erected an arch on King Street, the principal 
 thoroughfare of Toronto and the finest in Canada, and through 
 which the procession escorting the Prince was to pass. This arch was 
 intended to be decorated with all the Orange paraphernalia ; but, on 
 becoming aware of what had taken place at Kingston and Belle- 
 ville, they wisely consented to abstain from making the arch a 
 party one, but they allowed a statue of King William III. to be 
 on its summit, as also pictures of the Queen and the Prince Con- 
 sort ; a Bible and a Crown, with several mottoes, but totally of 
 an unpartizan character. The Mayor (A. Wilson, Esq., M. P. P.) 
 had been written to by the Duke of Newcastle to ascertain if the 
 arch was to be decorated with party colours ; and that functionary, 
 putting the state on a footing with the people, took some Koman 
 Catholic gentlemen before it and asked them if they had any 
 objections to the statue. Of course, it being the representation 
 of a king of England, they could not have any objections ; so Mr. 
 Mayor telegraphed His Grace that there would be no partizan 
 display on the arch or in the city, and the Kingston steamed up 
 Lake Ontario for the " Queen City of the West." 
 
 Never had people made greater exertions than the people of 
 Toronto in honour of the Prince's visit, to give their fair and 
 fine city a better appearance than it possesses, and in this they 
 were completely successful. Magnificent arches arose as if by 
 magic ; every house was well decorated, and displayed either flags 
 or something better, according as circumstances permitted ; and 
 everything presented as fine, and perhaps finer, appearance than did 
 any other place yet visited by the Prince. 
 
 On the esplanade, a magnificent large amphitheatre with seats 
 had been built, capable of accommodating thousands of persons, 
 and which was filled to its utmost capacity with well-dressed 
 ladies and gentlemen. Near this, a fine dais had been erected, 
 well carpeted, and very nicely decorated with flags, banners, &c. 
 On this dais was an Address from the city to be presented, by the 
 Mayor and Corporation. For many hours before the appointed 
 time, thousands congregated here ; but it was nearly dusk before 
 the Kingston was sighted coming up the Lake, escorted by the 
 magnificent lake-steamers Peerless, New York, Cataract, and 
 Zimmerman, and the small steamer Fire Fly ; and on her being 
 
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 perceived, three guns were fired by the York Field Battery, as a 
 signal to make all ready. 
 
 The cheering on the Kingston nearing the wharf, and while 
 the Prince landed, knew no hounds. The assembled thousands 
 congregated everywhere, raising their voices in honour of the son of 
 our beloved Queen. The people in the amphitheatre rose en masse; 
 and such waving of handkerchiefs, clapping of hands, and presenting 
 bouquets to H. R. H., was seldom, if ever, seen before or since. 
 
 One thing is certain, joy was more open and intense at Toronto 
 than at any other city, town, or village visited. 
 
 His Royal Highness was received by the Members of the Cabinet 
 and the Mayor and Corporation, the Bishops and Clergy, the 
 Judges, the Members of the University, and the boys of U. C. 
 College, the chief Militia and Regular officers of Toronto, the St. 
 George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's Societies, in full regalia, 
 the British Canadians, the Temperance Organization, and Bands 
 of Hope, the Coloured Society, and several other guilds. 
 
 H. R. H. was then conducted to the dais, the Guard of Honour 
 of the Toronto Militia presenting arms, the bands playing the 
 National Anthem, and a royal salute being fired by the Field 
 Battery ; and here, surrounded by his suite and the other gentle 
 men, the following Address was presented by the Mayor : 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councilmen, on behalf of the citizens o f 
 Toronto, respectfully offer to your Royal Highness a most cordial welcome 
 on your arrival in the capital of Upper Canada, and gratefully express 
 our high appreciation of the distinguished honor which you have con- 
 ferred upon us by your visit. 
 
 The annals of our youthful city present but little more than the record 
 of improvement steadily advancing in almost unbroken tranquillity ; 
 and the brief interruptions of its peaceful progress are now worthy of 
 notice, as evincing an early attachment to British connection, so strong 
 as to stand the severe test of fire and sword, and so illustrating the 
 happy influences of commercial and social intercourse in uniting the 
 combatants of bygone feuds as good neighbours and valued friends. 
 
 The generations which saw the settler's log-house succeeding to the 
 red-man's wigwam on the site of Little York, has not yet wholly passed 
 away, and yet we venture to hope that your Royal Highness will look 
 with satisfaction on the evidences which our city presents in our 
 streets, our railways, our private buildings, and our public institutions 
 
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 of the successful results of industry and enterprise, fostered by consti- 
 tutional liberty ; and that you will regard our provision for the relief of 
 misery, for the diffusion of education, for the administration of justice* 
 and for the worship of God, as manifestations of that spirit which has 
 been mainly instrumental, under Providence, in placing our mother 
 country in the glorious position which she occupies amongst the nations 
 of the earth. 
 
 We desire again most respectfully to offer our grateful thanks for the 
 honor which your Royal Highness has been pleased to confer upon us ; 
 and gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity to renew the assurance of 
 our devoted loyalty to the Queen, under whose benignant'rule we enjoy 
 the estimable blessings of civil and religious liberty, and to express our 
 tmdoubting confidence that our rights as freemen and our interests as 
 subjects will continue to be faithfully maintained by Her Majesty's hered- 
 itary successor, whom we now rejoice to honor as our future Sover- 
 eign. 
 
 The Mayor then handed the Address to His Royal Highness, 
 who replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I receive this Address with the most lively satisfaction ; 
 and I request you to convey to the citizens, whom you represent, the 
 expression of my gratitude for the more than hearty welcome which I 
 have just experienced. 
 
 You will not doubt the readiness with which I undertook the duty 
 entrusted to me by the Queen of visiting, for her, the British North 
 American dominions ; and now that I have arrived at this distant point 
 of my journey, I can say with truth, that the expectations which I had 
 formed of the pleasure and instruction to be derived from it, have been, 
 more than realized. My only regret is, that the Queen has been unable, 
 herself, to receive the manifestations of the generous loyalty with which 
 you have met her representative a loyalty tempered and yet strength- 
 ened by the intelligent independence of the Canadian character. 
 
 You allude to the marvellous progress which a generation has wit- 
 nessed on this spot. I have already been struck throughout my rapid 
 journey by the promise of greatness, and the results of energy and 
 industry which are everywhere perceptible, and I feel the pride of an 
 Englishman in the masculine qualities of my countrymen in the san- 
 guine and hardy enterprise in the fertility of conception and boldness 
 of execution which have enabled a youthful country to outstrip many 
 of the ancient nations of the world. 
 
 The school children, to the numher of 5,000, under the super- 
 intendence of Mr. Carter (the Cathedral Organist), sang " God 
 Save the Queen," the multitude uncovering. 
 
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 The following verses were added for the occasion : 
 
 Victoria's son and heir ! 
 No title canst thou bear 
 
 More proud, more dear. 
 Thou, o'er the mighty sea, 
 Hast come, our guest to be : 
 Warmly we welcome thee ; 
 
 Thrice welcome here ! 
 
 God bless our matron Queen ! 
 Her sons of manly mien, 
 
 And daughters fair. 
 May Heaven's perpetual grace 
 Best on her rising race ; 
 May they her footsteps trace, 
 
 Her virtues share ! 
 
 Hail ! Britain's hope and ours '. 
 Though here no regal towers 
 
 Receive thy train, 
 Strong arms shall thee surround, 
 And loyal hearts shall bound, 
 And every voice resound 
 
 Our joyful strain. 
 
 The royal party were then conducted to carriages, and, escorted 
 by the procession, drove through the streets to Government House, 
 or what was formerly the residence of the Governor General. 
 The whole line of the procession was one perfect ovation ; the 
 Torontonians nobly sustaining their good name. 
 
 The procession was as follows : 
 
 MARSHAL OF FIRST DIVISION. 
 F. ROBINSON, ESQ. 
 
 York Volunteer Cavalry. 
 The Loyal United Colored Society. 
 The Canadian Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 The Fire Brigade. 
 
 The Native Canadians. 
 
 St. George's Society. 
 
 St. Patrick's Society. 
 
 St. Andrew's Society. 
 
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 MARSHAL OP SECOND DIVISION. 
 P. COSSAGB, ESQ. 
 
 The Toronto Grammar School. 
 The Officers and Members of Boards of School Trustees. 
 
 The Normal and Model Grammar Schools. 
 The Officers of Educational Department and Council of Public Instruction. 
 
 Upper Canada College. 
 
 The University of Trinity College. 
 
 The University of Toronto, and University College, with other Affiliated 
 
 Colleges and Institutions. 
 
 The President and Members of the Board of Trade. 
 
 The Chairman of the Medical Board and Members of the Profession. 
 
 The Treasurer of the Law Society and Members of the Profession. 
 
 Officers of the Army, Navy, and Militia, on Foot. 
 
 MARSHAL OF THIRD DIVISION. 
 H. J. BOULTON, JR., ESQ. 
 
 The Yorkville Municipal Council. 
 
 The Chief Constable. 
 
 The Magistrates of the United Counties. 
 
 The Treasurer, Clerk of the Peace, and the County Officers. 
 
 The County Council. 
 
 The High Sheriff, Warden, and County Crown Attorney. 
 The Judges of United Counties. 
 
 MARSHAL OF FOURTH DIVISION. 
 ROBT. BEARD, ESQ. 
 
 Members of Reception Committee. 
 
 The Junior Officers of Corporation. 
 
 The Chief of Police and High Bailiff. 
 
 The City Clerk and Chamberlain. 
 
 The Aldermen and Councillors. 
 The Recorder and Police Magistrate. 
 
 THE MAYOR. 
 
 The Members of the House of Assembly. 
 
 The Members of Legislative Council. 
 
 The Members of Executive Council. 
 
 His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and Staff. 
 
 Their Excellencies the Lieut. Governors and their Suites. 
 
 His Excellency the Governor General and Suite. 
 
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 THE PRINCE. 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl St. Germains. 
 Major Gen. the Hon. Robert Bruce and the other Members of His Royal 
 
 Highness's Suite. 
 
 Mounted Officers of the Army and Militia. 
 York Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Police. 
 
 CHIEF MARSHAL. 
 R. L. DENISON, ESQ. 
 
 In the evening, a grand illumination of the town took place, 
 which, although not quite up to Montreal, was pretty good ; but 
 the joy occasioned by the visit was somewhat dimmed by the 
 unforeseen difficulties that arose out of that unfortunate Orange 
 arch, and which were ultimately overcome. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle perceiving the statue of William III. 
 on the arch, and taking it for a party design, naturally thought 
 that he had been wilfully deceived by the authorities of the 
 place, and naturally looked to His Worship the Mayor for an 
 explanation. 
 
 Next day (8th), the following correspondence took place. 
 Happily the difficulties were overcome, and the Corporation 
 presented on a subsequent occasion : 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Mayor. 
 
 GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 
 
 Toronto, Sept. 8, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I deeply regret that you have not thought fit to send any expla- 
 nation of the occurrence of which I made complaint to you last evening. 
 I would not willingly revert to any cause of offence, after the most 
 magnificent and warm-hearted reception which the Prince of Wales met 
 in the city yesterday, but there are matters which cannot be overlooked 
 without the loss of honor and position. 
 
 Yon distinctly informed me that the transparency of William III. was 
 removed, and one of the Prince of Wales substituted. I relied upon 
 your word, and the consequence was that the Prince was thereby led 
 into doing what I had distinctly informed you he would not do. 
 
 As the levee is announced to be held at this house, no alteration will 
 be made ; but I hope you will see the propriety of not attending it so 
 long as your part in this matter is unexplained and no reparation 
 offered. 
 
 , I am sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 To the Worshipful the Mayor of Toronto. 
 
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 P. S. I re-open my letter to say that yours has been this moment 
 (11 o'clock) received. I trust that the result of the meeting may be 
 satisfactory, but I am sure that you will feel that the reparation must 
 precede any further communication. 
 
 The letter alluded to in the above Postscript. 
 
 MAYOR'S OFFICE, 
 
 Toronto, Sept. 8, 1860. 
 
 MY LORD DUKE, In consequence of the very painful interview your 
 Grace did me the honor of holding with me last evening respecting the 
 portrait of King William III. which has been placed over the arch 
 erected by the Orangemen of this city, and which was to have been 
 dispensed with, and one of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 
 adopted for it ; and respecting also the communication specifying the 
 proposed change which I had the honor of addressing to his Excellency 
 the Governor General a few days since, and which was permitted to 
 remain uncontradicted, either by the latter communication to his Excel- 
 lency or by any personal statement, I have convened the Council for 
 this morning at 9, when I trust to be enabled to make an explanation 
 and an apology to your Grace and to His Excellency which I hope may 
 be accepted as satisfactory. I should have had this meeting last night, 
 but I could find neither clerk nor messengers, and I was told I should 
 have had greater difficulty in finding the members. 
 
 I have the honor to be, my Lord Duke, your Grace's most obedient 
 and humble servant. 
 
 ADAM WILSON, Mayor. 
 
 The Mayor's reply to the Duke's Letter. 
 
 MAYOR'S OFFICE, 
 
 Toronto, Sept. 8, 1860. 
 
 MY LORD DCXE, Adverting to the interview which Your Grace did 
 me the honor of holding with me last evening, on the subject of the 
 transparency of King William III. on the Orangemen's arch in this city, 
 and the letter which I had the honor of addressing to his Excellency the 
 Governor General, stating that such a decoration was not to have been 
 placed there, I am now desirous of acknowledging to Your Grace that 
 I ought most undoubtedly to have stated the change which was subse- 
 quently proposed to be made, and which was afterward in fact made ; 
 and although the Roman Catholics were quite willing to acquiesce, and 
 did acquiesce in the alteration, it was, nevertheless, only due to your 
 Grace and to His Excellency that such a deviation from the understood 
 arrangement should have been promptly transmitted. And looking back 
 to what I have done from the present view of matters, it may appear 
 that it was presumptuous on my part to judge whether your Grace or 
 
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 His Excellency would or would not have esteemed this deviation as of 
 that consequence which it has now assumed. 
 
 There has been much difficulty in arranging satisfactorily the late 
 threatening and serious state of affairs here, and I trust I have not been 
 wanting in my efforts to bring about this pleasing result. It is painful 
 to me, therefore, to feel, that I have, even unintentionally, failed in 
 discharging my duty in this particular. But it is infinitely more painful 
 to me to think that your Grace should think that I have omitted to 
 communicate this information from any unworthy motive, or for the 
 purpose of compromising His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, your 
 Grace, or His Excellency the Governor General, or even for the sake of 
 complaisance towards any portion of my fellow-citizens. I can safely 
 appeal to any one who knows me, and who, I am sure, will satisfy your 
 Grace, that I would not, unless I were to depart from the whole tenor 
 of my life, act in the manner to which your Grace alluded to last 
 evening ; but I admit again, that much does appear in what has occurred 
 to have induced your Grace to form the strong opinion which your 
 Grace gave expression to on the occasion in question. I have now only 
 to implore your Grace that whatever omission or offence I may be 
 chargeable with, it may not be visited in any manner upon this loyal 
 city, for as toward your Grace and his Excellency I am alone to blame. 
 
 I have the honor to be, my Lord Duke, your Grace's most obedient, 
 
 humble servant, 
 
 ADAM WILSON, Mayor. 
 
 To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary for the Colonies, &c. 
 
 The Duke's letter accepting the jSpology. 
 
 GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 
 
 Toronto, 8th Sept. 1860. 
 
 SIR, I am so sincerely anxious that all the painful events of the last 
 few days should be at once and forever buried in oblivion, and nothing 
 remembered but the heart-stirring scenes which last night proclaimed to 
 the world the unanimous and enthusiastic loyalty of the city of Toronto, 
 that it is a relief to feel that I can, without any sacrifice of duty to the 
 Prince of Wales, accept the apology which is offered by your last letter 
 just received. In this spirit I will not continue a discussion which must 
 have been so painful to you, and has certainly been no less to me. But 
 I must point out to you that it was your letter which really gave an 
 obnoxious character to the transparency of William III. Nobody can 
 object to a representation, in itself, of one of the most illustrious of our 
 Kings ; but when you informed me that the transparency was to be 
 removed by the Orangemen as an acknowledged party symbol, it at once 
 assumed the objectionable feature of the display which I advised the 
 Prince not to countenance, and its restoration made it impossible for 
 the Prince to pass under the arch without violating the terms of my 
 
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 letter to the Governor General. I can only hope from this moment that 
 all differences may as completely vanish from the minds of others as 
 they will from that of, Sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 To the Worshipful the Mayor of Toronto. 
 
 On Saturday (8th) His Royal Highness held a levee at 
 Government House, when about 1,000 gentlemen were presented ; 
 but the Mayor and Corporation were excepted. 
 
 Addresses were also presented from the Upper Canada Bible 
 Society, by its President, Hon. G. W. Allan ; from the Synod of 
 the Church of England, by His Lordship the Bishop ; from the 
 Trinity College University, by the Chancellor, &c. ; from the 
 Synod of the Presbyterian Church, by the Ministers and Elders ; 
 from the St. George's Society, by S. B. Harman, Esq. ; from the 
 Temperance Organization, by Hon. R. Spence; from the County 
 Council, by D. Ressor, Esq. ; from Knox's College, by Dr. Willis. 
 All these were replied to by His Royal Highness. 
 
 The weather being very disagreeable, His Royal Highness, 
 accompanied by the Governor General, only visited the Racket 
 Court, and played a game with His Excellency. An immense 
 crowd was gathered outside, who, when His Royal Highness left, 
 cheered him lustily. 
 
 In the afternoon, His Royal Highness and suite attended the 
 evening reception given by the Benchers of the Law Society of 
 Upper Canada, at Osgoode Hall (The Court of Law). 
 
 On His Royal Highness stepping from his carriage, he was met 
 at the entrance of the Hall by Hon. J. Hillyard Cameron, 
 Treasurer of the Law Society ; who welcomed him, and escorted 
 him to the Centre Hall ; the band of the Royal Canadian Rifles 
 and a band from Buffalo (U. S.), playing " God save the Queen." 
 
 Here on a dais, His Royal Highness received the following 
 Address from the Law Society, which was presented by Mr. 
 Cameron, surrounded by members of the Bar of Upper Canada : 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, Her Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects the Law Society of 
 Upper Canada, beg leave to offer to Your Royal Highness our warmest 
 congratulations upon your safe arrival in the capital of Upper Canada, 
 and our most earnest gratitude for the kindness you have manifested in 
 permitting us to welcome you at Osgoode Hall. 
 
 This Hall, now dignified by the presence of Your Royal Highness. 
 
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 contains within its precincts the new Superior Courts of Law and Equity, 
 which have been lately opened in Her Majesty's name ; and it is with 
 pride and gratitude that we acknowledge the condescension of Her 
 Most Gracious Majesty's goodness in affording to Your Royal Highness 
 the opportunity of inaugurating the event in the name and on behalf of 
 Her Majesty. 
 
 In this new country, our Society, with but little more than half a 
 century of existence, cannot exhibit to Your Royal Highness those many 
 memorials of eminent servants of the Crown, who have passed away, 
 which adorn the Halls of the Inns of Court at home ; but we offer (in 
 their stead) to Your Royal Highness, in the dignity and purity of our 
 Bench, in the just and impartial administration of the laws, and the 
 respect of the people for constituted authority, a living testimony of the 
 exertions which have been made among us for promoting sound legal 
 education, and aiding in giving stability to the system of Jurisprudence 
 which we have adopted from the Mother Country. 
 
 We humbly entreat Your Royal Highness to convey to your Royal 
 Mother, our most August Sovereign, our expressions of attachment and 
 devotion for her person and government ; and we pray that the Lord 
 may grant to Your Royal Highness a long and happy life, and that in 
 years to come the remembrance of your visit, in your early manhood, to 
 these Provinces, may be as pleasant to your memory, as the recollection 
 of it will be enduring in the minds of the Canadian people. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I have accepted your invitation to this Hall with very 
 great pleasure, and must thank you warmly for the Address just presented 
 to me. 
 
 The purity of the Bench and the independence of the Bar are the 
 proud characteristics of the legal profession in England ; and I rejoice to 
 think that this Province equally with the mother country enjoys these 
 great securities for liberty and order. 
 
 I hope that this Hall may in future generations continue to have enrolled 
 in its list of members, men as illustrious as those whose names are loved 
 and venerated in the United Provinces. 
 
 The Prince was then escorted to the Society's magnificent 
 Library ; and here, on being requested, and amidst great cheering, 
 became an honorary Member of the Society, as did also the 
 Duke of Newcastle and Earl St. Germains. 
 
 The Hall was crowded with fashionably-dressed ladies and 
 gentlemen, together with most of the Officers of the City in 
 uniform. These did not fail, and especially the ladies, to show 
 their high appreciation of the honor conferred on Toronto by the 
 visit of His Royal Highness. 
 
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 Dancing now commenced ; the Prince opening the reception 
 by dancing with the Hon. Mrs. J. H. Cameron, and afterwards 
 with the following ladies : Miss Boulton, Miss MacNab (daughter 
 of Sir Allan), Miss Widder, Miss Robinson, Miss McCaul, Miss 
 Draper, and Miss Powell (of Niagara). 
 
 After partaking of supper at half-past eleven o'clock, the Prince 
 danced until twelve. It then being Sunday morning, the 
 party broke up, and the Prince and suite retired, the band playing 
 the National Anthem. 
 
 On Sunday morning, His Royal Highness and suite, accom- 
 panied by the Governor General, his aides, and the Commander 
 of the Forces, attended Divine Service at St. James's Cathedral. 
 
 He was met at the entrance by the church-wardens, Bishop 
 and Clergy, who escorted him to the Governor General's pew ; the 
 organ pealing forth the Coronation Anthem. 
 
 The service was as follows : 
 
 Revd. Mr. Grasett, Rector, read the Prayers ; Revd. Mr. 
 Geddes of Hamilton, the Lessons ; The Ven. Archdeacon Bethune, 
 Revd. Mr. Baldwin, and Rev. Mr. Boddy, assisted at the Commu- 
 nion Service. 
 His Lordship Bishop Strachan delivered the following 
 
 SERMON. 
 
 Psalm LXXII. 1st verse, " Give the king thy judgments, God, and 
 thy righteousnes to the king's son." 
 
 In this prophetical prayer, the aged Monarch of Israel, about to re- 
 sign the kingdom into the hands of his son Solomon, makes to God for 
 him the request of a wise and affectionate father. He asks such a por- 
 tion of wisdom and integrity from above as might enable the young 
 Prince to govern aright the people of God, and to exhibit to the world 
 a fair resemblance of that king of Israel, who was in the fullness of time 
 to sit upon the throne of his father David to reign in righteousness, and 
 to have all judgment committed unto him. This tender and affectionate 
 prayer was afterwards more fully shadowed forth at Gibeon, where the 
 Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream, and said " Ask what I shall give 
 thee ;" and Solomon said, " Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant 
 King instead of David my father, and I am but a little child. I know 
 not how to go out or come in. Give therefore thy servant an under- 
 standing heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good 
 and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people !" and it 
 pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. Such was the wise 
 and manly answer made by a youth about twenty years of age. Now 
 
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 reflecting on what almost all youths in his circumstances, with strong 
 passions, a love of magnificence, and in possession of the proudest 
 throne in Asia, would ask, we cannot but strongly admire Solomon's 
 modesty and wisdom, and that diffidence in himself which turned him 
 in confidence to God. Thus guided by heavenly principles, which can 
 alone triumph in conflicts which monarchs have to undergo as well as 
 others, he took upon himself the royal power as God's vice-gerent upon 
 earth, and as his appointed instrument of blessedness to his people. He 
 was the predecessor of one far greater than himself, and prefigured him 
 who was to gather all the earth under his dominion. He was, as it were, 
 riding in a glorious procession which his orderly conduct would bring 
 happily towards its end ; and although great, he was only the harbinger 
 in that mighty procession, and wore the livery of that heavenly Sover- 
 eign who, as in triumph, closed up the rear. The principles which 
 Solomon had chosen are like the soul of man, which cannot be affected 
 by the elements of this world, but are able to defy their most violent 
 assaults, and are like the wind which throws down palaces, but is itself 
 unassailable ; while, on the other hand, worldly principles, like the body 
 of man, yield before the assaults of kindred elements, and break up, and 
 waste away by being exposed to stronger and more corrupt principles of 
 the same world. Solomon proved himself by his choice to be filled with 
 that spirit which became him, who had been anointed by God Prophet 
 and Priest. And the inward grace bestowed in that outward unction 
 had been put to such good use that it carried more grace, and the wis- 
 dom shown in this petition obtained the gift of more wisdom. God 
 gave him a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like 
 him, before him, neither after him should any arise like unto him God 
 also proved in him the rule which his blessed son, Jesus Christ, after- 
 wards laid down when he commands us to seek first the kingdom of 
 heaven and its righteousness, and then all earthly blessings shall be 
 added to it. Because Solomon had asked this heavenly gift only, and 
 mentioned none that were earthly, God gave him the earthly also, 
 " I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches 
 and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto 
 thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, keep my sta- 
 tutes and my commandments, as thy father did walk, then I will lengthen 
 thy days." From the Tabernacle, at Gibeon, Solomon returned to Jeru- 
 salem to offer sacrifice before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. 
 Thus he consecrated the first days of his reign, and commenced his 
 course under the most happy auspices. He made God the beginning, 
 happy if he had made him also the end, of all his doings. It is not, 
 however, my desire, on the present auspicious occasion, to touch upon 
 the last and melancholy years of King Solomon's life, but rather to 
 connect the few observations I shall offer at this time with the youthful 
 
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 and more early portion of his reign while his heart was yet pure and 
 the Lord preserved him. I would observe, in the first place, that there 
 is not, perhaps, in the history of mankind a more beautiful picture than 
 that which is here represented. A young man in the bloom of life, 
 when everything was gay and alluring around him in the moment of 
 ascending to a brilliant throne, where pleasure and ambition were be- 
 fore him betaking himself thus humbly to God, and imploring of him 
 that wisdom which might enable him to resist the temptations with 
 which his situation surrounded him, and to fulfil the duties to which 
 he was called. Had it been in the latter periods of his reign, when, 
 satiated with pleasure and disappointed in ambition, when fatigued 
 with the cares and pageantry of a throne, he looked abroad for 
 better comforts ; had it been at such a time, when Solomon directed 
 his soul to heaven, much of the merit of his piety would have been lost. 
 It would then have appeared only as the last refuge of a discontented 
 mind, which interest, not disposition, had led to devotion ; and which 
 only sought for repose in piety, because it had been disappointed in 
 everything else. But at such a season to be guided by such sentiments, 
 in such an hour to betake himself to God, bespeaks a mind so humble 
 and yet pure, a disposition so ardently and yet so rightly inclined, 
 a soul so well fitted for every kind of excellence, that no language of 
 praise seems too strong. It is not, however, from the peculiar situation 
 of Solomon, that the beauty of this memorable instance of devotion 
 arises. Its charm chiefly consists in its suitableness to the season of 
 youth, in its correspondence to the character and dispositions which dis- 
 tinguish that important age, which we eagerly desire to see in the 
 young. Piety or the fear of God in youth has in it something singularly 
 graceful and becoming something which ever disposes us to think well 
 of the mind in which it is found, and which, better than all other at- 
 tainments of life, appears to promise honor and happiness in future 
 days. It is suited to the opening of human life, to that interesting 
 season when nature in all its beauty first opens on the view. It is suited 
 still more to the tenderness of young affections to that warm and 
 generous temper, which meets everywhere the objects of gratitude and 
 love. But, most of all, it is suited to the innocence of the youthful mind 
 to that sacred and sinless purity, which can lift up its unpolluted 
 hands to heaven ; which guilt hath not yet torn from confidence and 
 hope in God, and which can look beyond this world to that society of 
 kindred spirits, " of whom is the kingdom of heaven." The progress of 
 life may indeed bring other acquisitions ; it may strengthen religion by 
 experience, and add knowledge to faith. But the piety which springs 
 only from the heart the devotion which nature and not reasoning in- 
 spires the pure homage which flows unbidden from the tongue, and 
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 bestows, these are the possessions of youth and of youth alone. I would, 
 in the second place, remark, that the feelings of piety are not only natu- 
 ral and becoming in youth, but they are still more valuable as tending 
 to the formation of future character. They spring up in the first and 
 purest state of the human mind. When the soul comes fresh from the 
 hands of its Creator, and no habits of life have contracted the reach 
 of its powers, they come in that happy season when life is new and hope 
 unbroken, where nature seems everywhere to reign, to rejoice around, and 
 where the love of God rises unbidden on the soul. They come not to ter- 
 rify or to alarm, but to present every high and pleasing prospect in which 
 the heart can indulge. They come to withdraw the veil which covers 
 the splendors of the Eternal mind, and to open that futurity which 
 awakens all their desires to behold and attain, and in the sublime occu- 
 pations of which they feel already, as by some secret inspiration, the 
 home and destiny of their souls. At such a period religion is full of joy. 
 It is not an occasional, but a permanent subject of elevating their medi- 
 tations a subject which can fill their solitary hours with rapture, and 
 which involuntarily occurs to them in every season when their hearts 
 are disposed to feel, and to which they willingly return from all the dis- 
 appointments or follies of life, and resume again their unfinished joys. 
 If there be a moment of human life in which the foundation of a virtu- 
 ous character can be laid, it is at this period. If there can be a dis- 
 cipline which can call forth every noble faculty of the soul, it is such 
 early exercises of piety. They not only suggest but establish a tone and 
 character of thought which is allied to every virtuous purpose ; they 
 present those views of man and of the ends of his being, which awaken the 
 best powers of the soul ; and they afford prospects of the providence of 
 God, which can best give support and confidence to virtue. But again, 
 there is no man perhaps, who, in some fortunate moments of thought, has 
 not felt his soul raised above its usual state by religious considerations. 
 There are hours in every man's life when religion seems to approach him 
 in all her loveliness, when its truths break upon his soul with a force 
 which cannot be resisted, and when in the contemplation of them he 
 feels his bosom swell with emotions of unusual delight. In such mo- 
 ments every man feels that the dignity and purity of his whole being is 
 increased. The illusions and temptations of the world appear beneath 
 his regard, his heart opens to nobler and purer affections, and his bosom 
 regains for a while its native innocence. In the greater part of man- 
 kind, however, these moments are transient ; life calls them back again 
 to their usual concerns, and they sometimes relapse into all the folly 
 and weakness of ordinary mortals. Now it is the tendency of early 
 piety to fix this character of thought, and endeavour to render that tem- 
 per of mind permanent, which in many is only temporary and transient. 
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 precedence to every other system of opinions which might oppose its in- 
 fluences by its power to arrest and return their attention, it tends 
 gradually to establish in the soul a correspondent dignity in every 
 other exercise. While yet the world is unknown and the calm morning 
 of life is undisturbed, it awakens desires of a nobler kind than the usual 
 purposes of life can gratify, and forms in secret those habits of elevated 
 thought which are of all others the most valuable acquisitions of youth- 
 ful years, and fit it for future attainments in truth and virtue beyond 
 the reach of ordinary men. Once more : another fruit of early piety is 
 that it presents those views of man and of the end of his being which 
 will call forth the best powers of our nature. We readily accommodate 
 our acquisitions to the opinions we entertain of the scene in which they 
 are to be employed, and take expectations which are formed in respect 
 to us. It is hence that the different situations of human life produce so 
 great diversities of character and improvement. The poor man whose 
 life is to pass in obscurity and on whose humble fortunes the regard and 
 observations of the world are never likely to fall, is seldom solicitous to 
 distinguish himself by any other acquisition than those which are suited 
 to the humility of his station, and which the exigencies of his station 
 demand of him. The great and the opulent, on the contrary, who are 
 born to be the objects of observation and attention feel themselves called 
 upon to suit their ambition to the opinions of mankind ; and, if they 
 have the common spirit of men, usually accommodate themselves to 
 these expectations. It is in this manner that early piety has an influence 
 in forming the future character. It represents man as formed in the 
 image of God, " as but a little lower than the angels," and as crowned 
 with glory and honor. It represents life, not as the short and fleeting 
 space of temporary being, but as the preparation only for immortal 
 existence ; as a theatre on which he is called on to act in the sight of his 
 Saviour and his God, and of which the rewards exceed even the powers 
 of his imagination to conceive. It represents all this in the season when 
 no lower passions have taken the dominion of his heart, and when his 
 powers are all susceptible of being moulded by the ends which are placed 
 before him. In such views of man, all the best qualities of his nature 
 arise involuntary in the soul the benevolence which loves to diffuse 
 happiness and to be a fellow-worker with God in the designs of his pro- 
 vidence the fortitude which no obstacles can retard and no dangers 
 appal in the road to immortality the constancy which, reposing 
 in the promises of Heaven, presses forward in the path of strenuous and 
 persevering virtue. Such views have also the tendency to fortify the 
 mind against all those narrow and unjust conceptions of life, which are 
 the source of the greatest part of the follies and weaknesses of mankind. 
 They level all those vain distinctions among men, which in one class 
 of society are productive of oppression and pride, and in the other of 
 
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 baseness and servility. They silence that feeble and grievously com- 
 plaining spirit which is so often mistaken for sensibility and superior 
 feeling, and which, from whatever cause it springs, gradually poisons 
 the source of human happiness and undermines the foundation of every 
 real virtue. They dispel those dark and ungenerous views of man, and 
 of his capacity for happiness and virtue, which are in general only the 
 excuses for indolence or selfishness, and which, wherever they have pre- 
 vailed, have so often withheld the arm that was made to bless, and 
 silenced the voice that was destined to enlighten them. " Whatsoever 
 things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely 
 and of good report," these are the objects at which the spirit of early 
 piety forms the mind to aim wherever the production of happiness or vir- 
 tue is to be acquired, or by the performance of duty praise is to be won. 
 It is true that we sometimes find the pious and the wise, to whom reli- 
 gion ought to have taught better things, complaining under the unequal 
 distribution, and nourishing in their hearts those secret murmurs against 
 providence, which unnerve every virtuous purpose of the soul, and cover 
 religion itself in gloom and melancholy. It is the piety of youthful days 
 which can afford the best preservative against those dark and unjust con- 
 ceptions. Before the experience of life has made any impression on the 
 minds before they descend to the wilderness through which they are 
 to travel, it shows them from afar " the promised land." It carries their 
 views to the whole course of their being, and, while no narrow objects 
 have yet absorbed their desires, shows them its termination in another 
 scene, in which the balance of good and evil will be adjusted by the 
 unerring hand of God. Under such views of nature, the system of 
 Divine Providence appears in all its majesty and beauty. Beginning 
 here in the feeble state of man, it spreads itself into forms of ascending 
 being, in which the heart expands while it contemplates them, and 
 closes, at last, in scenes which are obscured only from the excess of 
 their splendour. With such conceptions of their nature, life meets the 
 young in its real colours not as the idle abode of effeminate pleasure, 
 but as the school in which their souls are formed to great attainments ; 
 not as the soft shade in which every manly and honorable quality is to 
 dissolve, but as the field in which glory and honor and immortality are 
 to be won. Whatever may be the aspect which it may assume, what. 
 ever the scenes in which they are called to act or to suffer, the promises 
 of God still brighten in their view, and their souls, deriving strength 
 from trial, and confidence from experience, settle at last in that humble 
 but holy spirit of resignation, which, when rightly understood, compre- 
 hends the sum and substance of religion ; which, reposing itself in 
 undoubting faith on the wisdom of God, accepts, not only with content, 
 but with cheerfulness, every dispensation of his providence ; which 
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 knowing its own weakness and God's perfection, yields up all its desires 
 into his hand, and asks only to know his laws and to do his will. Such 
 are some of the natural effects of youthful piety upon the formation of 
 human character, and to which more might be added ; and especially 
 the certainty which it affords of the favor of God, and of the continued 
 assistance of his Holy Spirit, as appears in our Heavenly Father's deal- 
 ings with the young throughout the whole of Revelation. Rejoice, then, 
 young man, in thy youth rejoice in those days, which are never to 
 return, when religion comes to you in all her charms, and when the God 
 of Heaven reveals himself to thy soul, like the mild radiance of the 
 morning sun, when he rises amidst the blessings of a grateful world. I 
 would offer my young hearers, of both sexes, a parting word of loving- 
 kindness, for God is the Creator and Father of us all. If, then, piety 
 hath already taught you her secret pleasures if when revelation unveils 
 her mercies, and the Son of God comes forth to give peace and hope to 
 fallen man if at such a time your eyes follow with astonishment the 
 glories of his path, and pour at last over his cross those pious tears 
 which it is a delight to shed ; if your souls accompany him in his triumph 
 over the grave, and enter on the wings of faith into that heaven " where 
 he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, and beheld the 
 society of angels and of the spirits of just men made perfect," and listen 
 to the everlasting song which is sung before the throne ; if such be 
 frequently the meditation in which your youthful hours are passed, 
 renounce not, for all that life can offer you, these solitary joys. The 
 world that is before thee the world which thine imagination paints in 
 such brightness has no pleasures to bestow which can compare with 
 these ; and all that its boasted wisdom can produce has nothing so 
 acceptable in the sight of Heaven as the pure offering of youthful souls. 
 
 The following selections of music were performed under the 
 leadership of Mr. Carter, the organist, during the service : 
 
 Venite Chant Gregorian. 
 
 Glorias Chant Goss, from Beethoven. 
 
 Te Deum. 
 
 Jubilate. 
 
 Anthem, " Bow down Thine ear, Lord." 
 
 Introit Sanctus Spohr. 
 
 Responses John Carter. 
 
 Gloria (before and after Gospel) Tallis. 
 
 Before Sermon " But the Lord is mindful of His own " Mendelsohn. 
 
 While the collection was being taken up, " Handel's Sampson," 
 and " We worship God, and God alone," from " Judas Maccabeus," 
 were performed ; and when H. R. H. was leaving the sacred edifice 
 the National Anthem was played. 
 
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 Outside an immense concourse of people was gathered, who 
 cheered loudly as His Royal Highness stepped into his carriage 
 and drove away. 
 
 On Monday (10th), H. R. H. and suite, accompanied by the 
 Governor General, Sir Fenwick Williams, and their suites ; Hon. 
 Messrs. Gait, Vankoughnet, Sherwood, W. B. Robinson (Presi- 
 dent, Canada Co.), J. H. Cameron, Angus Morrison, M.P.P., 
 Major Denison, Captains Dick and Storm, General Robinson and 
 Hon. Mr. Denny (the two latter gentlemen from Pittsburg, 
 Pa.), embarked upon the Northern Railway for an excursion to 
 Collingwood, Georgian Bay. 
 
 His Royal Highness was received at the station by the Hon. 
 J. C. Morrison, President of the Company, and Messrs. Cumber- 
 land, T. Gait, Grant, Fleming, and Beaty, of the Company, and 
 by them conducted to the car, which was a beautiful open one, 
 constructed expressly for the occasion, and which, together with 
 others, left Toronto a little after nine A.M., a large concourse of 
 people cheering heartily. The train was drawn by the J. C. Mor- 
 rison engine, and was preceded by a pilot one named the Cum- 
 berland. 
 
 The Northern Railway runs through a fine and well-settled 
 portion of the Province, and some places along the route are 
 very picturesque and exceedingly pretty. Thus His Royal 
 Highness had an ample opportunity, not only of witnessing how 
 rapidly some parts of Canada West had been developed, but of 
 seeing some very good scenery. 
 
 Crowds of people were gathered at every station along the route, 
 who cheered right heartily. Every place was adorned with flags, 
 banners, and arches, in honour of the auspicious occasion. 
 
 At Newmarket, Aurora, Bradford, and Barrie, Addresses were 
 presented by the municipalities, &c., and replies given by the Prince. 
 At the latter place a very good display was made, the town being 
 well set off. The Rifle Volunteers and Firemen turned out, 
 the band of the former playing the National Anthem ; indeed 
 this air had been struck up at nearly every station on the route ! 
 
 After passing Angus, Sunnidale, and Nottawasaga, the train 
 arrived at Collingwood, at about one o'clock, where a fine recep- 
 tion awaited H. R. H. The Rifle Companies were out and 
 
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 saluted ; the children sang the National Anthem ; Addresses were 
 presented ; and H. R. H. was escorted to the Rescue steamer, 
 at the wharf, by a delighted and enthusiastic people, who cheered 
 as they, no doubt, never cheered before. The Rescue cruised 
 about the Bay for a short time, during which H. R. H. and 
 suite, and those accompanying him, had time to enjoy the pretty 
 scenery that adorns the coast, and to take luncheon. On return- 
 ing to Collingwood, the royal party again took the train, and 
 arrived at Toronto at half-past six p.m. 
 
 Here H. R. H. thanked Mr. Cumberland for the kind atten- 
 tion he had received, and alluded to the good management of the 
 road. 
 
 During the day, the Grand Scottish Gathering of the Canadian 
 Highland Society was held at Toronto, in honour of the Prince's 
 visit, where prizes were given to the successful competitors at the 
 manly games of Scotia. 
 
 On Tuesday (llth), although raining in torrents, H. R. H., 
 his suite, &c., &c., attended the Regatta, under the auspices of 
 the R. C. Yacht Club, Toronto Bay. At the amphitheatre he 
 received and replied to an Address from the Royal Canadian Yacht 
 Club, presented by Commodore Durie and the Officers, who were 
 attired in their handsome uniforms. Here, the children again 
 sang the National Anthem, and a Guard of Honour was drawn up. 
 
 H. R. H. witnessed the start of the fine yachts of Upper Can- 
 ada, which were evidently well manned, but he was compelled to 
 depart to fulfil other engagements. Before leaving, at the request 
 of the Club he became their Patron. The next features in this 
 important day's proceedings, were the opening of the Queen's, for- 
 merly University Park ; the laying of a pedestal for a Statue of 
 the Queen ; and a review of the Volunteer Corps of Toronto. 
 
 On H. R. H. arriving at the Park, he was met by the com- 
 mittee appointed from the Reception Committee, viz. Rev. Dr. 
 McCaul, President of University College ; Messrs. Cumberland, 
 Brunot, A. Morrison, and Pattison ; who, with a portion of the 
 Cabinet, &c., escorted H. R. H. to a handsome canopy, where the 
 following Address was presented him by Rev. Dr. McCaul : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 As Chairman of the Committee on Programme and Arrangement, I 
 am deputed, on behalf of the Citizens of Toronto, to request that Your 
 
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 Royal Highness will be graciously pleased to lay the foundation-stone 
 of the pedestal of a Statue of the Queen. Our object in erecting the 
 Statue is, that there may be a permanent manifestation of our grateful 
 sense of the manifold blessings which we enjoy under Her Majesty's 
 benignant rule. I am deputed further to request that Your Royal 
 Highness will be graciously pleased to inaugurate that portion of the 
 University Park, which has been set apart for the use of the Citizens ; 
 and I feel assured that I speak the sentiments of every member of the 
 community, when I give utterance to the confident hope, that this and 
 succeeding generations, whilst availing themselves of the opportunities 
 which this place of public resort presents for healthful recreation, will 
 ever associate their enjoyment of these advantages, with the reign of a 
 Sovereign, to whose throne and person the citizens of Toronto are 
 devotedly attached, and with the visit of a Prince, whose presence 
 amongst us is welcomed with enthusiastic joy. 
 
 To this the Prince was graciously pleased to give his assent. 
 
 Then Mr. Angus Morrison, M.P.P., handed His Royal Highness 
 a crystal bottle, containing several gold and silver coins of the pre- 
 sent reign, together with copies of the Toronto papers ; the whole of 
 which the Prince deposited in a cavity of the stone for the pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Alderman Carr then presented a brass plate, with this inscrip- 
 tion engraved on its face : 
 
 Hunc Primum Lapidem 
 
 Basis cui 
 
 Statuam Victorias Reginae 
 
 Gives Torontonenses 
 
 Imposituri sunt 
 
 Posuit 
 Albertus Edoardus 
 
 Princeps Walliae 
 VI Id. Septembr. MDCCCLX 
 
 Victoria 
 Annum vicies et quartum 
 
 Regnante 
 Edmundo Walker Head, Baronetto 
 
 Vice Regia Rerum Summam 
 
 Per Provinc. Britann. in America Septentr. 
 
 Administrante 
 
 Eodemque die 
 
 Princeps Celsissimus 
 
 Agrum e Praedio Academico 
 
 In salutem oblectationemque civium sepositum 
 
 Dedicavit. 
 
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 Previous to which, a handsome silver trowel was presented to 
 His Royal Highness by the Mayor. It bore this inscription : 
 
 Presented to 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
 
 by the Citizens of Toronto, 
 
 On laying the Foundation-Stone 
 
 for a Statue of the Queen, 
 
 at the Inauguration 
 
 of the Queen's Park, 
 
 Sept. llth, 1860. 
 
 The stone was then, with the usual ceremony, lowered upon the 
 cavity, and Rev. Dr. McCaul declared the Park inaugurated and 
 opened to the public, by the name of the Queen's Park. This was 
 received by the half-drowned people with shouts of enthusiasm. 
 Three cheers were then given for the Prince, in which every one 
 joined enthusiastically. The ceremony then terminated. 
 
 The review of the Toronto Volunteer Corps then took place, 
 notwithstanding the drizzling rain that continued to fall. 
 
 The Companies on the ground were No. 1 Rifles, Captain 
 McDonald ; No. 3 Rifles, Captain Smith ; Highland Rifles, Cap- 
 tain Fulton ; the whole of the Yorkville Cavalry, Captain G. T. 
 Denison ; and the Companies of the Field Battery, Captain R. L. 
 Denison : the whole under Lieutenant-Colonel Denison, Com- 
 mandant of the Active Force. 
 
 The royal party, with the Governor General, Sir W. F. Wil- 
 liams, &c., stood on the Grand Stand as the corps went through 
 their several evolutions, which were not many, seeing that the 
 weather was so unpropitious ; but what little they did go through 
 was done with a soldier-like precision that reflected great credit 
 on the officers who commanded. 
 
 First of all, the entire corps presented arms ; the bands playing 
 the National Anthem, and every civilian uncovering. They 
 then marched past in quick time to the tune " British Grena- 
 diers," and, with a few other quick movements, the affair ended. 
 
 Colonel Denison then, at the request of the Prince, presented 
 himself at the Grand Stand. His Royal Highness personally ex- 
 pressed his satisfaction to him, at the efficient appearance and 
 standing of the Toronto Force. 
 
 The Prince and suite then paid the University of Toronto a 
 
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 visit. The University is situated a short distance from where the 
 stone was laid, consequently the royal party had not far to go. 
 
 The Entrance Hall of this noble structure, conspicuous from its 
 Norman roof of sombre hue, its tessellated pavements, and mullioned 
 windows, was, in its stern grandeur, very successfully ornamented 
 by the simple addition on the wall of the Prince's plume, and, on 
 a scroll beneath, the graceful classic salutation, " Salve Princeps." 
 
 At the entrance, His Royal Highness was met by the Chan- 
 cellor (Hon. Mr. Justice Burns), the Vice Chancellor (J. Lang- 
 ton, Esq., Auditor Gene^), the President of University College 
 (Rev. Dr. McCaul), and the President of the University Associa- 
 tion (Hon. James Patton). 
 
 These gentlemen conducted H. R. H. and suite to the Convo- 
 cation Hall, which was crowded with fashionably-dressed ladies 
 and gentlemen ; in fact, only the elite of the town was admitted. 
 Through a lane made of Graduates and Students, H. R. H. and 
 suite passed to a raised dais at the end of the room, on which 
 was a throne surmounted by the royal arms in gold. Opposite to 
 them were these pretty words, which he could not help seeing : 
 " Imperil spem Spes Provincial salutat." 
 
 The following Address was then presented to H. R. H. by the 
 Chancellor : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Senate, and Graduates of the 
 University of Toronto, and the President, Council, and Members of Uni- 
 versity College, desire to welcome Your Royal Highness with loyal and 
 dutiful respect on your visit to the Capital of Upper Canada ; and gladly 
 avail ourselves of this auspicious occasion to renew the assurance of our 
 devoted loyalty to the Queen, and to express our grateful appreciation 
 of the manifold blessings which we enjoy under Her Majesty's benign 
 sway. 
 
 Fresh from the advantages of England's most ancient University, Your 
 Royal Highness now honors with your presence the Academic Hall of 
 this young Province. The pleasures and profit united in the purest of 
 Collegiate studies have already been enjoyed by you ; and we doubt not 
 that our efforts to extend the same educational privileges among our 
 Canadian youth will command your sympathy, framed as our system 
 is upon the model of the Institutions of our mother country, while 
 adapted in its details to the special want of this portion of the Empire. 
 
 To this great work, which involves the intellectual advancement of 
 
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 Canada, our best energies have been directed. By its means the first ad- 
 vantages of liberal culture, and Academic honors and rewards, are placed 
 within the reach of all who are prepared to avail themselves of their 
 untrammelled facilities ; and, under the Divine blessing, our exertions 
 have already been crowned with such success as encourages us to anti- 
 cipate a noble future for our Provincial University and College. 
 
 The high gratification which we feel on. welcoming, in the heir of the 
 British Crown, the destined successor of our royal founder, is especially 
 enchanced to us by the consideration, that, alike by study and travel 
 Your Royal Highness is being trained for the duties of the exalted posi- 
 tion you are born to occupy. In these halls, devoted to the training of 
 the youth on whom the future hopes of Canada rest, we welcome you 
 as the hope of a great Empire. "We rejoice to recognize in our Prince the 
 promise of qualities which will render him worthy to inherit the Crown 
 of our beloved Queen, whose virtues are associated with the glories of 
 the Victorian era, and whose sceptre is the guarantee of equal liberties 
 enjoyed in this, as in every Province of her world-wide dominions. 
 
 To which His Royal Highness made the following reply : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I rejoice to receive the assurances of your loyalty to 
 the Queen, and your appreciation of the blessings enjoyed under her sway 
 by every portion of her Empire. 
 
 I am at this moment a member of a more ancient University, but I am 
 not on that account the less inclined to respect and honor those whose 
 efforts are directed to the spread of knowledge and learning in a young 
 country. 
 
 I sympathize heartily with the efforts which you are making on behalf 
 of science and literature. 
 
 I believe that much depends on your exertions ; and I earnestly hope 
 that the best evidences of the successful exertions of the University of 
 Toronto may hereafter be found in the progress and prosperity of 
 Canada. 
 
 A resolution was then moved by the Vice Chancellor, seconded by 
 the President of the College, to the effect " that the Prince having 
 expressed his willingness to become a student of the college, he 
 moved that he be admitted as one of the second year," which was 
 of course carried with enthusiastic cheers. 
 
 The Registrar (Mr. Moss) then presented a book, which His 
 Royal Highness signed. 
 
 The Principal and Masters of Upper Canada College then 
 presented an Address ; and the Prince, after receiving it, was con- 
 ducted through the building, and must have experienced great 
 
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 pleasure at witnessing the progress which has been made by one 
 of our many public institutions. 
 
 On the same day, H. R. H. also inaugurated the Botanical 
 Gardens of the Toronto Horticultural Society by planting a 
 Canadian maple. He received an Address from the Society ; 
 which also presented him with the handsome silver spade used 
 in planting the tree. 
 
 He next visited the Educational Department of Upper Canada, 
 under the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, where 450 school teachers sang the 
 National Anthem, and a new song entitled " Hurrah for Canada.' 1 
 Here Judge Harrison presented an Address from the Educa- 
 tional Department, to which H. R. H. was pleased to reply. 
 
 Knox's College was next visited ; and, after remaining a short 
 time, H. R. H. departed for Government House, after a very hard 
 day's work. 
 
 The ball given to the Prince and suite at the Crystal Palace in 
 the evening, and which he attended, was all that could be desired, 
 and will long be remembered in the " Queen City" as the best ever 
 gotten up. His Royal Highness danced until after four in the 
 morning with the following ladies : 
 
 1, quadrille, Mrs. Wilson, Lady Mayoress; 2, polka. Miss 
 De Blaquiere; 3, galop, Miss Blackwell ; 4, quadrille, Mrs. M. C. 
 Cameron; 5, valse, Miss Killally; 6, galop, Miss E. Ridout; 7, 
 lancers, Miss Powell ; 8, galop, Miss MacNab ; 9, valse, Miss 
 Helen Gzowski; 10, quadrille, Mrs. J. B. Robinson; 11, 
 polka, missed; 12, Miss Wallace; 13, lancers, Miss Young, 
 (daughter of the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia) ; 14, valse, Miss 
 Moffatt; 15, polka redowa, Miss McCaul; 16, quadrille, Miss 
 Harris; 17, galop, Miss Shanly ; 18, valse, Miss Denison ; 19, 
 lancers, Miss Spragge; 20, valse, Miss S. Jarvis, and 21. galop, 
 Miss Murney. 
 
 On Wednesday (Sept. 12th), the royal party, accompanied by 
 the Governor General, the Commander of the Forces, together with 
 their suites, and a portion of the Cabinet, &c., took his departure 
 from Toronto for London, C. W., by the Grand Trunk Railway 
 state-car, amidst an enthusiastic farewell from the whole populace 
 of the Queen City. 
 
 The route was through a very splendid portion of Canada 
 
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 "West ; indeed it is about the best cultivated and settled of any 
 portion of the Upper Province. 
 
 As on the previous trips on our Canadian railways, great dis- 
 plays were made all along the line ; every village and town vieing 
 with each other to do the Heir Apparent honour; each place 
 turning out its whole population to shew their loyalty, by loud 
 and continuous cheering, and by dressing out their places in 
 holiday attire. At every station, two or more neat arches were 
 to be seen ; flags and evergreens abounded in great abundance. 
 Salutes were fired at some places from cannon of heavy calibre, 
 and at others from fire-arms. All joined together, to shew their 
 great joy and hapiness at the visit of His Royal Highness. 
 
 At Guelph, an Address was presented, and the Volunteer Corps 
 turned out and fired a royal salute. National Societies and others 
 assembled, the National Anthem was sung by the school-children, 
 and the greatest joy was manifested. 
 
 At the German settlement of Peterburg, an Address in their 
 native tongue was presented, and a reply given by H. R. H., ver- 
 bally, in that language. 
 
 At Stratford, an Address was also presented, and replied to. The 
 Volunteer Rifles turned out as Guard of Honour ; the Fire Brigade 
 also made a fine display. Every manifestation of joy was shown. 
 
 The royal train arrived at London shortly after four a. m., where 
 a most heartfelt welcome awaited the royal visitor. A royal salute 
 was fired by the Volunteer Artillery ; and the Volunteer Rifles , 
 Highlanders, and Cavalry served as a Guard of Honour and 
 escort. The whole town was out, dressed in its best, in honour of 
 the occasion ; the city was very nicely decorated ; arches, flags and 
 streamers lined the thoroughfares, and the greatest joy was 
 manifested by the people. 
 
 The Mayor, City Council, City Members, and the Reception 
 Committee received H. R. H. at the Station ; and carriages being- 
 provided, H. R. H. and those accompanying him, were driven 
 to a handsome pavilion,where the following Address was presented 
 by the Mayor (James Moffat, Esq.), and replied to : 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Committee of the City of London, in 
 Upper Canada, do, in the name of the inhabitants, most cordially wel- 
 
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 come Your Royal Highness. We rejoice that our city should be thus 
 highly honoured by the presence of the son of our beloved Queen, and 
 the Heir Apparent of the powerful and glorious empire over which Her 
 Majesty has for so many years, so wisely and auspiciously, reigned. 
 It has given us unmingled satisfaction to be made acquainted with 
 the enthusiastic reception accorded to Your Royal Highness during 
 your progress westward, from the day of your first landing in these 
 Provinces ; but less than such a welcome we never imagined you would 
 receive, for the North American Colonies are peopled by those who 
 will yield to none in their devoted attachment to the British Crown, and 
 in affection for the reigning Sovereign. The fact that at most it is 
 only forty years since, in the locality where you now stand, none but 
 the red Indian dozed under the shade of the primeval forest, will 
 sufficiently explain to Your Royal Highness why we can conduct you to 
 no magnificent buildings, to no sacred historic monuments, such as 
 those which are familiar to your eye ; but we are persuaded you can 
 well appreciate the results of an industry which, in our circumstances, 
 are necessarily more marked by the useful than the ornamental. We 
 trust that Your Royal Highness may return home in safety, gratified with 
 your visit to these colonies, and retaining pleasing recollections of their 
 inhabitants. Do us the distinguished favour to convey to Her Majesty 
 assurance of our most devoted loyalty to Her Crown and Pyson. We 
 pray the Almighty to guide and bless you through life. 
 
 JAMES MOFFAT, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I accept with great satisfaction the Address in which 
 you proclaim your deep attachment to the person and government of 
 the Queen, and offer me so kind a greeting in your loyal city. You do 
 no more than justice to the other parts of this splendid Province, when 
 you speak of the enthusiastic reception which has been everywhere 
 accorded to me as the son of your Queen. I know the attachment to 
 the British Crown of the people of the North American Colonies ; but 
 all the expectations I had formed of their devotion have been more than 
 realized by the demonstrations I have witnessed. The country through 
 which I have passed this day, presents the spectacle of a population 
 prosperous and happy. Its progress excites alike admiration and as- 
 tonishment, and the industry evinced on every side has nearly supplant- 
 ed the trackless forest of past generations, by smiling fields and pastures 
 reminding you of those which so many of you have quitted in your 
 youth. That this prosperity may continue and this industry meet with 
 its fair reward, will ever be the constant prayer of your Sovereign, of 
 myself, and of the people who share with you the blessings of free insti- 
 tutions, and are bound to you by identity of interest and affection. 
 
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 Then the carriages were again called into requisition, and the 
 grand procession of Volunteers, National Societies, Members of 
 Parliament, Lawyers, Clergymen, and Firemen, of whom there 
 was a great gathering, many having come from adjoining towns 
 and villages. 
 
 All along the route of the procession the greatest demonstrations 
 of respect, esteem, and love for the Prince took place. 
 
 The National Anthem was sung by 2,000 children, under the 
 directorship of Mr Longman, and in this manner H. R. H. was 
 escorted to the Tecumseth House, leased for the occasion by the 
 Government. At this place the cheering was tremendous ; and, 
 shortly afterwards, the Prince appeared on the balcony in front, to 
 the people's delighted gaze. His appearance was hailed by thou- 
 sands of cheers, hurrahs, and cries, all expressive of their great 
 delight. Subsequently, cheers were also given for the Governor 
 General and the Canadian Ministry. 
 
 In the evening, there was a very fair illumination, and a splendid 
 firemen's torchlight procession, which did honor to the originators. 
 Indeed, for a city of its size, London is entitled to the highest 
 praise for one of the best demonstrations and displays. On the 
 following day (Thursday, Sept. 13th) the royal party took the 
 Grand Trunk state-car for an excursion to Sarnia, a distance of 
 sixty-two miles. 
 
 Starting at nine, His Royal Highness arrived at Sarnia at 
 eleven, a. m., where he received as great a demonstration (though 
 of course on a smaller scale) as at any previous place. There 
 were the usual decorations, cheering, and joy. 
 
 On a large platform, surmounted by a handsome canopy, His 
 Royal Highness received the Addresses of the Town and County 
 Councils, and replied to them ; including one from the Indians, 
 there being a representative from most of the tribes of the Upper 
 Province, tatooed and dressed in their native gear. 
 
 The head man of the Indians, a tall, powerful fellow, delivered 
 the following speech in the Indian language, which was interpreted 
 for the Prince : 
 
 GREAT BROTHER, The sky is beautiful. It was the wish of the Great 
 Spirit that we should meet in this place. My heart is glad that the Queen 
 sent her eldest son to see her Indian subjects. I am happy to see you 
 here this day. I hope the sky will continue to look fine, to give happi- 
 
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 ness both to the whites and the Indians. Great Brother, when you were 
 a little child, your parents told you that there were such people as Indians 
 in Canada ; and now, since you have come to Canada yourself, you see 
 them. I am one of the Ojibbeway Chiefs, and represent the tribe here 
 assembled to welcome their Great Brother. You see the Indians who 
 are around : they have heard that at some future day you will put on 
 the British Crown and sit on the British Throne. It is their earnest 
 desire that you will always remember them. 
 
 The Prince replied verbally, that he was grateful for the Address, 
 that he hoped the sky would always be beautiful, and that he should 
 never forget his red brethren. 
 
 His Koyal Highness then presented each with large silver 
 medals, having ribbons attached, in commemoration of the event. 
 
 His Royal Highness then entered a carriage, as also did the 
 members of his suite, and was speedily driven to the Grand 
 Trunk Railway Station, where a luncheon was provided. 
 
 After the Queen and Prince Consort's healths had been drunk, 
 Mr. Blackwell, Vice-President of the Grand Trunk Railway 
 Company, proposed the toast of His Royal Highness the Prince 
 of Wales, which was drunk with unbounded enthusiasm. The 
 Prince then proposed the health of Mr. Blackwell, which was 
 received with great cheers. 
 
 On leaving the station, the royal party went on board the 
 Steamer Michigan to take a short trip on the Lake, and a brief 
 view of the scenery. After which, the royal car was again taken ; 
 and in an hour and a half, the royal party arrived back at London. 
 
 A levee was held shortly afterwards, when quite a number of 
 gentlemen were presented. 
 
 In the evening, a grand ball was given by the city, in rear of 
 the Tecumseth House. About six hundred ladies and gentlemen 
 were present. This affair was got up with a great degree of spirit 
 and energy, as the arrangements testified. His Royal Highness 
 danced with great "gusto" until three o'clock in the morning. 
 
 The following ladies had the honour of dancing with His 
 Royal Highness on that occasion : No. 1, quadrille, Miss 
 Moffat (daughter of the Mayor). No. 2, polka, Mrs. 
 Watson. No. 3, waltz, Miss Becher. No. 4, lancers. Mrs. 
 Howell. No. 5, waltz, Miss Prince. No. 6, galop, Miss 
 Askin. No. 7, quadrille, Mrs. Judge Small. No. 8, waltz, 
 
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 Hamilton. No. 9, lancers, Mrs. W. L. Lawrason. No. 10, . 
 
 No. 11, galop, Miss J. Meredith. No. 12, quadrille, Miss Bell. 
 No. 13, waltz, Miss Gzowski. No. 14, galop, Mrs. Rivers. 
 No. 15, lancers, Miss Gzowski, No. 16, galop, Miss Hope. No. 
 17, quadrille, Miss Dalton. No. 18, waltz, Miss Paul. No. 19, 
 lancers, Mrs. Taylor. No. 20, waltz, Mrs. James Daniell. No. 
 21, Sir Roger de Coverly, Miss Brough. 
 
 The Prince had seen all that was to he seen in and about 
 London, and had gratified its inhabitants by his presence for a 
 considerable time, so, on the morning of the 14th at ten o'clock, 
 with a renewal of the kind manifestations of loyalty and love from 
 the people, and the general royal salute, and " turn out," of 
 Volunteers, Firemen, Trade Societies, and the people generally, His 
 Royal Highness took his departure from the " Forest City," en 
 route for Niagara Falls, accompanied of course by his suite, the 
 Governor General, the Commander of the Forces, the Members of 
 the Ministry, &c. 
 
 The royal party occupied on this occasion a new car, built 
 expressly for the use of the Prince by the Great Western Railway 
 Company, and of which the following is a good description : 
 
 Yesterday we enjoyed the privilege of a peep at the truly magnifi- 
 cent car just completed for the use of His Royal Highness by the Great 
 Western Railway Company. The grand saloon is a perfect gem of a 
 room, painted in pure white, with delicately gilded mouldings and 
 cornices, and presents an appearance at once rich and chaste. The 
 window-curtains are of a royal blue silk, and so fixed, that, by touching 
 a spring, they are instantly drawn up. Above each window is a panel 
 covered with fluted crimson silk, over which hangs a blue silk curtain, 
 looped in the centre, and bound with heavy gold bullion-fringe. The 
 furniture is composed altogether of curled maple of the finest description, 
 and the cushions are covered with blue silk damask. The furniture of the 
 room consists of four sofas, two large arm-chairs, and four small ones. 
 The arm-chair intended for His Royal Highness is most elaborately 
 carved. On the back is the Prince of Wales' feathers and coronet, 
 surrounded by the rose, shamrock, and thistle, while a wreath of maple- 
 leaves is gracefully entwined amongst them. The Duke of Newcastle's 
 chair is similar to the Prince's, but less elaborately carved. In the 
 carving of the sofas, the beavers are quite prominent. On each side of 
 the door leading to the ante-room is a large mirror, with a marble stand 
 beneath, upon which vases of flowers will be placed. Over the doors 
 the Prince's crest is beautifully painted. The floor is covered with 
 
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 Brussels carpet, and the car will be lighted by three lamps in three cent. 
 In the centre is a table, in the top of which, in a small diamond- shaped 
 space, has been inlaid fourteen specimens of our finest Canadian 
 woods, and very beautiful they are. Between the grand saloon and 
 the ante-room, is the dressing-room, &c. Nothing has been spared to 
 make everything complete. The ante-room is painted similarly to the 
 grand saloon ; but here the similarity ceases. The furniture is of black 
 walnut, with crimson plush cushions. In this room there are two lamps. 
 The exterior of the car is very handsome. On each side there is a large 
 oval panel, in the centre of which is painted the royal arms, with the 
 Prince's crest at the top. This is really a magnificent work of art, and 
 reflects the greatest credit on the painter. Over each door and at each 
 corner the Prince's crest appears worked in with other decorative 
 painting. The platforms are much wider than those in the common car, 
 and have silver-plated hand-rails. The trucks are painted a very dark 
 crimson, and ornamented with gilding ; all the iron work is bronzed ; 
 while the wheels of which there are twelve have all the spaces 
 between the spokes filled up with wood, in order that they may be 
 attended by little or no noise. The ventilation is said to be as nearly 
 perfect as it is possible to make it. The ventilators are constructed on 
 a new principle, under Mr. Sharpe's personal supervision. Persons who 
 have seen the Grand Trunk car, and that built by the B. & L. H. Rail- 
 way, say that neither of them can approach this either for beauty of 
 design or workmanship. Spectator. 
 
 At Woodstock, a pretty little town on the route, a very nice 
 display was made. On landing, the Prince was escorted to the 
 Mayor's residence, where was congregated an eager throng, consist- 
 ing in a great part of the elite of the place, who cheered as heartily 
 as the populace on his arrival. 
 
 Here Addresses were presented by the Mayor (Mr. Cottle), and 
 the "Warden (Mr. Harrington), on behalf of the Town and County 
 Councils, and others from the Council of Ingersoll, and the Baptist 
 College. A levee was also held, at which a great number of gentle- 
 men were presented. The children sang the National Anthem, 
 and the people cheered lustily for the Queen, the Prince Consort, 
 the Prince of Wales, and the Governor General ; after which a 
 dejeuner was partaken of, and the royal party again took the cars. 
 
 On arrival at Paris, the Volunteers turned out, under Capt. 
 Patton, and acted as a Guard of Honour. An Address was pre- 
 sented by the Mayor (Mr. Whitlaw). and replied to ; and here a 
 change of cars took place, H. R. H. being transferred from the 
 
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 Great Western, to the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway ; which 
 had also built a splendid state-car for the occasion. 
 
 Brantford was the next stopping-place, and be it said the peo- 
 ple did not fail to shew their loyal enthusiasm. 
 
 The Address on behalf of the inhabitants was presented to 
 H. R. H. by the Mayor (Mr. Clements), and replied to. The royal 
 party were then conducted to carriages, and driven to the Kerby 
 House, through well-adorned streets, and a loyal and devoted peo- 
 ple, who cheered immensely. Here, luncheon was partaken of; and 
 shortly afterwards the party returned to the cars. 
 
 Dunnville and Port Colborne were passed. The former place 
 turning out its Volunteers, under Capt. Amsden. 
 
 At Fort Erie, the Prince and those accompanying him had a 
 view of the great Lake ; and took the steamer Clifton for Chippewa, 
 where they did not arrive until the shades of night had advanced. 
 The good people of this place had a large bonfire, so that a light 
 was thrown upon the subject. 
 
 Here the Magistrates, Sheriff, and Members of the County 
 received the Prince, and conducted him, together with the noble- 
 men and gentlemen accompanying him, to carriages in wait- 
 ing. The firemen, and many ladies also, lighted up their torches 
 and escorted him to the Pavilion Hotel, where an Address was 
 presented from the County, and replied to. 
 
 H.E-.H. and suite were then conducted to the late residence of 
 Mr. Zimmerman, which had been leased and furnished expressly 
 for the royal party ; and there let us hope that H. R. H. enjoyed 
 a good night's rest, after a very hard day's work. 
 
 In the evening, the Palls were gorgeously illuminated by 
 lines of fires along the cliffs ; Bengal lights, &c., which appeared 
 magnificently in the extreme, being more like crystals of different 
 colours, than water, more like paradise than earth. H. R. H. 
 and suite, with several of the privileged, went out to view them 
 from several points. 
 
 On Saturday (15th), the Prince and suite witnessed Blondin, 
 the celebrated acrobate, crossing on a rope over the awful chasm of 
 Niagara; firstly carrying a man upon his back, and safely 
 depositing him upon the opposite side ; and secondly, walking on 
 stilts, and performing several evolutions on the rope. It is said 
 
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 that His Royal Highness presented Blondin with a gift of 400. 
 During that day the royal party "did up" everything inter- 
 esting in and around the Falls ; going under them, before them, 
 behind them ; and sailed near the spray, in the little steamer Maid 
 of the Mist. 
 
 On Sunday (16th), the Prince and suite attended Divine 
 Service at Chippewa Church. 
 
 On Monday (17th), H. R. H. paid the American side a visit, 
 crossing in an open ferry-boat. The small crowd there greeted him 
 with a hearty cheer, which speaks well for Brother Jonathan's hos- 
 pitality. Here, a Yankee took his portrait, uniting hospitality 
 with " trade." 
 
 His Royal Highness visited the Terrapin Tower ; and a 
 party of men sent an immense log over the Falls for his edifi- 
 cation. 
 
 A visit was paid to the Suspension Bridge, where an Ad- 
 dress was presented to His Royal Highness from the Directors, by 
 the Hon. W. H. Merritt. To this His Royal Highness replied ; 
 and, with his suite, &c., took the royal car and crossed to the 
 centre, whence the visitor has a capital view of the Falls. After 
 a few minutes' time, the bridge was entirely crossed. 
 
 After returning, he drove on horseback into the country, and 
 saw a portion of the Welland Canal, as also the fine farms that 
 adorn this part of the country. 
 
 On Tuesday (18th), His Royal Highness and suite left Clifton, 
 in carriages, for Queenstown, under a royal Volunteer salute and 
 a grand display. 
 
 Queenstown is a beautiful spot. The Heights can be seen for a 
 great distance ; and at a greater distance still, can be seen the 
 monument to the immortal, brave, and glorious Brock, erected, as 
 a slight acknowledgment for his glorious deeds, by a grateful and 
 affectionate country. Here it was that the Prince found about 
 160 survivors of the sad but glorious campaign of 1812, 
 assembled to present him with an Address, and to acknowledge 
 the services of their late immortal leader. 
 
 The Address was presented by the Hon. Sir J. B. Robinson, 
 Bart., Chief Justice of Upper Canada, one of the survivors, and 
 replied to by His Royal Highness. 
 
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 The following is the Address presented : 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 Some of the few survivors of the Militia Volunteers who assisted in 
 defending Canada against the invading enemy during the last American 
 war, have assembled from different parts of the Province, in the hope 
 that they may be graciously permitted to offer to Your Royal Highness 
 the expression of their loyal welcome, upon your arrival in this portion 
 of Her Majesty's dominions. In the long period that has elapsed, very 
 many have gone to their rest, who, having served in higher ranks than 
 ourselves, took a more conspicuous part in that glorious contest. They 
 would have delighted in the opportunity which we now enjoy of behold- 
 ing in their country a descendant of the just and pious sovereign in 
 whose cause they and their fellow-soldiers fought, and whom they 
 were from infancy taught to revere for his many public and private virtues 
 
 We feel deeply grateful to Her Majesty, whose condescension to the 
 wishes of her Canadian subjects has conferred upon us the honor of a 
 visit from your Royal Highness ; and we rejoice in the thought that what 
 your Royal Highness has seen, and will see, of this prosperous and 
 happy province, will enable you to judge how valuable a possession was 
 saved to the British Crown by the successful resistancem ade in the try- 
 ing contest in which it was our fortune to bear a part ; and Your Royal 
 Highness will then be able to judge how large a debt the Empire owed 
 to the lamented hero Brock, whose gallant and generous heart shrank 
 not, in the darkest hour of the conflict, from the most discouraging odds, 
 and whose example inspired the few with the ability and spirit to do the 
 work of many. 
 
 We pray that God may bless your Royal Highness with many years of 
 health and happiness, and may lead you by His providence to walk in 
 the paths of our revered and beloved Queen, to whom the world looks 
 up as an illustrious example of all the virtues that can dignify the high- 
 est rank, support worthily the responsibilities of the most anxious 
 station, and promote the peace, security, and happiness of private life. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I accept with mixed feelings of pride and pain the 
 Address which you have presented on this spot ; pride in the gallant 
 deeds of my countrymen, but pain from the reflection that so many of 
 the noble band you once belonged to, have passed away from the scenes 
 of the bravery of their youth, and of the peaceful avocations of their 
 riper years. 
 
 I have willingly consented to lay the first stone of this monument. 
 Every nation may, without offence to its neighbours, commemorate its 
 heroes, their deeds of arms, and their noble deaths. This is no taunting 
 boast of victory, no revival of long-passed animosities, but a noble 
 
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 tribute to a soldier's fame ; the more honorable, because we readily 
 acknowledge the bravery and chivalry of that people by whose hands 
 he fell. 
 
 I trust that Canada will never want such Volunteers as those who 
 fought in the last war, nor her Volunteers be without such a leader ; but 
 no less and most fervently I pray that your sons and your grandsons 
 may never be called upon to add other laurels to those which you have 
 so gallantly won. 
 
 Accept from me, in the Queen's name, my thanks for your expressions 
 of devoted loyalty. 
 
 The Prince and suite then ascended to the top of the monu- 
 ment, whence they had a magnificent view of the fine surrounding 
 country. After descending, His Royal Highness proceeded to 
 lay the top-stone of an obelisk to mark the spot where the late 
 departed General had died a soldier's death. It bears this in- 
 scription : 
 
 Near this spot 
 
 Major General 
 
 SIR ISAAC BROCK, K. C. B., 
 
 Provisional Lieutenant 
 
 Governor of Upper Canada, 
 
 Fell on the 13th of October, 1812, 
 
 While advancing to repel 
 
 The invading enemy. 
 
 Upon the other side were the simple words : 
 
 This stone 
 
 Was placed by His Royal Highness 
 
 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 
 
 On the 18th September, 1860. 
 
 A handsome silver trowel was used by the Prince on the occasion, 
 and afterwards presented to him by the committee of the monument. 
 An immense crowd of people and militia from all parts of the coun- 
 try were present, who did not fail to shew their loyalty by making 
 the welkin ring. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, the royal party proceeded on board the 
 steamer Zimmermnn for the town of Niagara, accompanied by the 
 magistrates and others, and by some Niagara Militia as a Guard 
 of Honour. 
 
 Niagara was reached in due time. It was well ornamented 
 for the occasion ; fine arches spanning the streets, and flags flying 
 from the house-tops. 
 
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 Two Addresses were presented ; one by the Mayor (Mr. Clench), 
 and the other from the magistrates, by Judge Lauder. 
 
 After some presents, in the shape of fruit, had been presented 
 by some ladies of Niagara, the boat took its departure ; but had 
 to return, when a short distance from the shore, for the Prince's 
 steward (Mr. Sanderson), who had been left behind. 
 
 Port Dalhousie Was soon reached. Here another Address was 
 presented ; and H. R. H. and suite took the royal car, and shortly 
 afterwards arrived at St. Catherines, where a fine display was made 
 by the Volunteers, Firemen, and the citizens generally. Here 
 another Address was presented, by the Mayor (Mr. Currie), and 
 an exchange of cars took place. Grimsby having been reached, 
 an Address was presented from the Loyal Canadian Society, by 
 Col. Clarke. And now for Hamilton, the end of the route, which 
 was reached at five o'clock p. m. 
 
 A description of the reception here would be but a repetition 
 of the receptions at the other loyal cities of the Province. We 
 need only add, that the ' ambitious little city " fully sustained 
 her good name ; the decorations being superb, and the loyalty of 
 the people as intense as could be. 
 
 The Mayor (Mr. McKinstrey) presented the following Address 
 on behalf of the city : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor, Corporation, and citizens of Hamilton, desire to tender 
 you a hearty welcome to this part of Her Majesty's dominions, and to 
 assure you of the deep and affectionate interest we feel in all that con- 
 cerns your prosperity and happiness. 
 
 Your Royal Highness has already witnessed many gratifying proofs 
 of the devotion and attachment of the people of this country to the 
 person and government of our beloved Queen ; and we beg to assure 
 you, that these sentiments, in which we heartily concur, are inspired 
 equally by our admiration of Her many public and private virtues, and 
 by the love of justice, the impartial administration of the laws, and 
 those liberal and enlightened principles of government which have 
 signalised her administration, and enabled her to reign in the affections 
 of her people. 
 
 The inhabitants of these Provinces have ever been conspicuous for 
 their unwavering loyalty to the British Crown, a loyalty which, in the 
 earlier periods of their history, was tried by perils and sacrifices 
 from which their fellow-subjects nearer the Throne have happily been 
 
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 exempt, and they have ever participated with a just pride in the glories 
 and achievements of the great Empire to which they belong. 
 
 But if anything could tend still to deepen and perpetuate this feeling, 
 it would be this gracious mark of Her Majesty's royal regard in sending 
 amongst us one in whom she feels so deep an interest, and who, we trust, 
 is destined to inherit equally her vast possessions and her eminent 
 virtues ; and we beg you to assure her how highly this proof of her con- 
 fidence and esteem is appreciated. 
 
 Your Royal Highness has visited as yet but a portion of these exten- 
 sive territories reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ; but we 
 trust you may have seen sufficient to impress you favorably with their 
 magnitude and importance, as a valuable portion of your own future 
 heritage ; and we esteem it a further mark of your Royal Highness's 
 obliging consideration that your visit should be made on this interest- 
 ing occasion, when the annual exhibition (to which you will receive a 
 cordial welcome) will enable you to judge of the richness and variety of 
 the productions of this part of Canada, and the energy and enterprise 
 of its inhabitants. Comprehending some four million square miles of 
 territory, with an unrivalled system of natural and artificial communi- 
 cation, and teeming with patriotic and enterprising people, devotedly 
 attached to British institutions and proud of their connection with the 
 mother country, it is not too much to predict that at no distant day the 
 British American Provinces will be the most powerful support to that 
 Throne, which, as the bulwark of civil and religious liberty, has for 
 ages stood the wonder and admiration of the world. 
 
 We trust that a bright and glorious career awaits you. To the Govern- 
 ment of an Empire embracing over two hundred millions of subjects, 
 with its arduous duties and its heavy responsibilities, you are destined, 
 if it be God's purpose, to succeed ; and our anxious prayer is, that " He 
 by whom Kings reign and Princes decree justice," may give you a wise 
 and understanding heart ; that He may make you rich in wisdom, and 
 thus prepare you for your great work ; and that His protecting care, 
 which has been over you thus far through life, may guard and guide 
 you through a long and useful career. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, This is the last of the very numerous Addresses which 
 have flowed in upon me from Municipal authorities as well as other 
 bodies, throughout the Queen's dominions in North America, which I 
 have traversed from East to West ; and I can say with truth, that it 
 is not the least fervent in its declarations of attachment to the Queen ; 
 nor the least earnest in its aspirations for the success and happiness of 
 my future life ; and in its prayers that my career may be one of useful- 
 ness to others and of honor to myself. 
 
 You cannot doubt the readiness with which I undertook the duty 
 
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 which was intrusted to me by the Queen, of visiting in her name, and 
 in her behalf, these possessions of her crown. That task is now nearly 
 completed ; and it only remains for me to report to your Sovereign, uni- 
 versal enthusiasm, unanimous loyalty, all-pervading patriotism, general 
 contentment, and, I trust, no less general prosperity and happiness. 
 
 I can never forget the scenes I have witnessed during the short time 
 which I have enjoyed the privilege of associating myself with the Cana- 
 dian people, which must ever be a bright epoch in my life. I shall bear 
 away with me a grateful remembrance of kindness and affection, which as 
 yet I have been unable to do anything to merit ; and it shall be the 
 constant effort of my future years to prove myself not unworthy of the 
 love and confidence of a generous people. 
 
 H. R. H. and suite were then conducted to carriages, the pro- 
 cession formed in, and, escorted by Capt. Bull's troop of Cavalry, 
 soon reached the former fine residence of Mr. Juson, which had 
 been engaged for the royal party, not however before a large 
 number of school-children had sung the National Anthem, " Rule 
 Britannia," and a new piece called " Hurrah for the Prince of 
 Wales!" 
 
 The procession was as follows : 
 
 Assistant Marshal. 
 Police. 
 Band. 
 
 Guard of Honour. 
 
 Abolition Society. 
 
 Temperance Societies. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Fire Brigade. 
 
 German Society. 
 
 Canadian Order of Odd-Fellows. 
 
 Band. 
 
 ~i St. Andrew's Society. ,- 
 
 St. Patrick's Society. % 
 
 ^ St. George's Society. * 
 
 Highland Society. ^ 
 
 Band. 
 
 Sedentary Militia. *55 
 
 Officers of Militia. 
 The Magistrates of the County. 
 The Registrar, the Treasurer, the Clerk of 
 the Peace, and other County Officers. 
 The County Council. 
 The Warden, 
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 The County Judge. 
 
 The High Sheriff. 
 
 Members of the Reception Committee. 
 
 Officers of the Corporation. 
 
 The High Bailiff and the Chief of Police. 
 
 The City Clerk and Chamberlain. 
 
 The Aldermen and Councillors. 
 
 The Recorder and Police Magistrate. 
 
 The Mayor. 
 S Members of the House of Assembly. Jj* 
 
 Members of the Legislative Council. 
 
 O HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS AND SUITE. O 
 
 The Commander of the Forces and Suite, 
 
 mounted. 
 
 Mounted Officers of the Army and Militia. 
 Field Battery of Artillery. 
 
 Police. 
 Chief Marshal Major Gray. 
 
 In the evening, the rejoicings gave vent to a general illumi- 
 nation, and a grand display of fire-works. There was also a splen- 
 did concert by the Philharmonic Society of Hamilton which the 
 Prince and suite honoured with their presence. 
 
 On Wednesday (Sept. 19th), His Koyal Highness and suite 
 visited the Central School of Hamilton; where the Prince received 
 an Address from the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, Superintendent of Edu- 
 cation for Upper Canada, on behalf of the institution. His Royal 
 Highness then passed through the building, examining the school- 
 children, who were dressed very nicely, and who greeted him by 
 singing the new song of "Welcome," and the National Anthem. 
 
 Thence the Prince and party drove to the Royal Hotel, where 
 a levee was held and Addresses presented. 
 
 After the levee, a visit was paid to the Exhibition in the new 
 Crystal Palace. His Royal Highness was received by a royal 
 salute from the Volunteer Battery, a Guard of Honour of the 
 Volunteer Rifles and Highlanders, and by an excited and enthu- 
 siastic multitude (representatives from nearly every city, town, and 
 village in Upper Canada), whose cheering was immense. As this 
 was intended merely as a private visit, nothing of importance 
 transpired. His Royal Highness and suite merely went through 
 the building, examining and admiring its contents, and after- 
 
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 wards viewed the cattle and agricultural implements outside, and, 
 before taking a final leave, drove round the grounds; an im- 
 mense concourse of people cheering him on all sides. A luncheon 
 was then partaken of at the Royal Hotel. In the afternoon 
 His Royal Highness inaugurated the splendid Water Works, 
 situated on the Burlington Beach, a short distance from the city 
 previous to which, he received and replied to an Address from its 
 Commissioners, presented by Mr. Adam Brown, Chief Commis 
 sioner. 
 
 In the evening, he attended the grand ball given in his honour 
 at the temporary building, in rear of the Royal Hotel. This 
 was certainly a very grand affair; being well conducted by 
 the committee, and well attended by the elite of the place. 
 His Royal Highness joined in every dance, and retired at three 
 o'clock next morning. 
 
 As we have given a list of the ladies who were honoured 
 with the Prince's hand at the previous balls, it would be unfair to 
 omit the names of those who danced with him at Hamilton. 
 They are as follows : 
 
 No. 1, quadrille, Mrs. David McNab. No. 2, polka, Miss 
 Mills (daughter of the Hon. Mr. Mills). No. 3, galop, Miss 
 MacNab (daughter of Sir Allan MacNab). No. 4, lancers, Miss 
 Blanche Widder. No. 5, waltz, Miss Smith. No. 6, galop, 
 Miss Thomas (daughter of the Sheriff). No. 7, lancers, Miss 
 Lawrason (of London). No. 8, galop, Mrs. Strickland. No. 9, 
 waltz, Miss Murray. No. 10, Mrs. Brydges. No. 11, quadrille, 
 Miss Powell (of Niagara). No. 12, lancers, Miss E. Murray. 
 No. 13, waltz, Miss Powell. No. 14, galop, Miss Proudfoot (of 
 Toronto). No. 15, quadrille, Miss Benson (of St. Catharines). 
 No. 16, galop, Miss Gedd. No. 17, lancers, Miss Reynolds. 
 
 On Thursday (20th), His Royal Highness and suite proceeded 
 to the Crystal Palace, escorted by the Hamilton Cavalry, when 
 the last Canadian Address was presented him by the Agricultural 
 Society of Upper Canada, which was as follows : 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, $c., Sfc. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUK ROYAL HIGHNESS, We, the agriculturists, artizans, 
 and manufacturers of Upper Canada, beg to approach your Royal 
 Highness with our expressions of devoted loyalty to Her Gracious 
 
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 Majesty's crown and person, and to offer to Your Highness a most cordial 
 welcome to this Exhibition of the products of our soil and of our labor. 
 This is the fifteenth exhibition of the Agricultural Association of Upper 
 Canada ; and we think it demonstrates to those who have witnessed the 
 successive exhibitions from year to year, that they have been successful 
 in stimulating the industrial classes in the improvement of all those 
 productions upon which the prosperity of this portion of Her Majesty's 
 dominions mainly depends. 
 
 Blessed with a fertile soil and healthful climate, and forming a portion 
 of that extensive empire over which Her Majesty's benign rule extends, 
 and in which it is exercised in the maintenance of the religious and 
 civil rights of all classes of Her subjects, we hail with delight the 
 auspicious event of Your Royal Highness's visit to this Colony, and 
 rejoice that we have this opportunity of exhibiting to your Royal 
 Highness as we take what we call an honest pride in exhibiting to our 
 future sovereign such proofs of the industry, skill, and intelligence of 
 the inhabitants of this country. 
 
 We gladly embrace this opportunity of expressing our ardent desire 
 to maintain the connection of this Province with the great and glorious 
 empire of which we rejoice in forming an integral part, and from which 
 we have in great part derived our agriculture as well as our existence ; 
 and whilst availing ourselves of the example and improvements of the 
 older portions of the empire, and of the many natural advantages we 
 possess in our soil, climate, and navigable waters, we trust that our 
 efforts may result in affording convincing proof that this province is 
 really a valuable jewel in the crown of our beloved sovereign. 
 
 We hopefully pray that the intercourse of Your Royal Highness with 
 the inhabitants of Canada, and the opportunity you have had of witnes- 
 sing the efforts we are making to advance the material interests of our 
 country, may, during your future life, leave a pleasing impression in 
 your memory. 
 
 That your Royal Highness may be placed in possession of statistics 
 and their facts connected with the rise and progress of this Association, 
 we beg that your Royal Highness will condescend to accept these 
 volumes, containing a record of the transactions of this Association 
 from its establishment. 
 
 The Prince replied as follows : 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I return you my warm acknowledgements for this 
 Address which you have just presented upon the occasion of opening 
 the fifteenth exhibition of the Agricultural Society for Upper Canada ; 
 and I take this opportunity of thanking the agriculturists, artizans, and 
 farmers, who are now assembled from distant parts in this City of 
 Hamilton, for the more than kind and enthusiastic reception which they 
 gave me yesterday and repeated to-day. 
 
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 Blessed with a soil of very remarkable fertility, and a hardy race of 
 industrious and enterprising men, this district must rapidly assume a 
 most important position in the markets of the world ; and I rejoice to 
 learn that the improvements in agriculture which skilled labor and 
 science have of late years developed in the mother country, are fast 
 increasing the facilities of your soil, enabling you to compete successfully 
 with the energetic people whose stock and products are now ranged in 
 friendly rivalry with your own within this vast enclosure. 
 
 The Almighty has this year granted you that greatest boon to a 
 people, an abundant harvest. I trust it will make glad many a home 
 of those I see around me, and bring increased wealth and prosperity to 
 this magnificent Province. 
 
 My duties as representative of the Queen, deputed by Her to visit 
 British North America, cease this day ; but in a private capacity I am 
 about to visit, before I return home, that remarkable land which claims 
 with us a common ancestry, and in whose extraordinary progress every 
 Englishman feels a common interest. Before I quit British soil, let me 
 once more address through you the inhabitants of United Canada, and 
 bid them an affectionate farewell. 
 
 May God pour down his choicest blessings upon this great and loyal 
 people. 
 
 A shower of rain descending, the royal party entered the 
 Palace, and once more inspected a part of the products of Upper 
 Canada. The Prince, being slightly indisposed, retired with his 
 suite ; but the Duke of Newcastle shortly afterwards returned to 
 inspect the cattle, with which he was much pleased. 
 
 Shortly after two in the afternoon, His Royal Highness took 
 his departure from Hamilton, in the royal car of the Great 
 Western Railway. 
 
 The Volunteers and National Societies turned out, and the 
 Field Battery boomed forth a royal salute. 
 
 The evening was far advanced when the royal train arrived at 
 Windsor, which is situated nearly at the extreme south-western 
 point of the Province, where a royal salute was fired by the London 
 Field Battery. An Address was presented by the Mayor on 
 behalf of the Council of Windsor ; and, after a brief reply, His 
 Royal Highness and suite stepped on board the steamer Windsor 
 awaiting him, and, amidst the most enthusiastic, hearty, and soul- 
 stirring cheers of the Canadians, left British America for the 
 United States. 
 
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 RECEPTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 On board the steamer were the Governor of Michigan, the 
 Mayor of Detroit (Mr. Buhl), and a large party of the most 
 influential citizens of Detroit. 
 
 The whole harbour was lit up by the ships and steamers in 
 port ; the majority of which had variegated lamps from stem 
 to stern. 
 
 It was not very long before His Royal Highness landed at 
 Detroit, which is situated directly opposite Windsor. 
 
 On the Prince stepping on the American soil, the Mayor 
 welcomed him to the United States as Lord Renfrew ; the immense 
 concourse of spectators cheering lustily. His Royal Highness 
 and suite put up at the Russel House, where apartments had 
 been provided for them ; and here His Excellency the Governor 
 General and suite, a portion of the Canadian Ministry, and the 
 Officers of the Civil Service engaged during the tour, took leave 
 of him, and returned to Canada. 
 
 On Friday (Sept 21st), His Royal Highness, after driving 
 round Detroit with the Mayor, took the special train provided 
 for him on the Michigan Central Railroad for Chicago ; at which 
 city he arrived at 7.30 in the evening. 
 
 A great crowd of persons had congregated at the railway 
 station; but, with the exception of an attempt at cheering, no 
 enthusiasm was displayed, which went to prove that his " incog " 
 was somewhat respected. 
 
 The Prince had taken apartments at the Richmond House, 
 whither he and his suite proceeded, accompanied by the Mayor 
 (Mr. Wentworth). On Saturday, 22nd, His Royal Highness, 
 after visiting several of the public buildings of the city, accom- 
 panied by his suite, took his departure from Chicago, by the same 
 car that had brought him thither. His Royal Highness's desti- 
 nation was Dwight Station, on the Prairies, where he intended to 
 have a few days' shooting; game being very plentiful on the 
 Prairies. 
 
 His Royal Highness and suite were located at the residences 
 of Messrs. Spencer and Morgan. 
 
 On Sunday, the royal party attended Divine Service in the old 
 
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 Presbyterian Church of Dwight, where the Rev. Dr. Young de- 
 livered an excellent sermon. 
 
 The Prince and suite remained at Dwight until the 26th, and 
 regretted that they could not prolong their stay. His Royal 
 Highness was greatly delighted with the sport in which he so 
 actively engaged. 
 
 At Alton the cars were exchanged for the steamer ; and as the 
 royal party emharked, a salute was fired, and the people cheered 
 in a most demonstrative manner. 
 
 St. Louis was reached at six o'clock ; where the Mayor (Mr. 
 Filley) met His Royal Highness and welcomed him to the city, 
 escorting him to Barnum's Hotel, where apartments had been 
 taken for him and his .suite. 
 
 On Thursday (27th), His Royal Highness and suite visited 
 the State Fair, and inaugurated the Western Academy of Arts. 
 In the evening he was serenaded by the entire Fire Brigade. He 
 took his leave of St. Louis for Cincinnati, in a special train, on 
 the following morning (28th) ; where he arrived next day at one 
 o'clock, and was received by the Mayor (Mr. Bishop), who 
 escorted him to the Barnet House. 
 
 During the day His Royal Highness visited Mount Auburn, 
 Clifton ; and in the evening attended a grand ball given in his 
 honour, at Pike's Opera House, where he danced until half-past 
 eleven, and then retired. 
 
 On Sunday (30th Sept.), he attended Divine Service at St. 
 John's Church where Bishop Mcllvain preached the sermon. 
 
 At ten o'clock on the morning of Monday, 1st October, His 
 Royal Highness and suite left Cincinnati for Pittsburg ; where he 
 arrived the same day. 
 
 On Thursday (2nd October), after receiving a short Address 
 from the Judges, the royal party took their leave of Pittsburg, 
 and were escorted to the cars by a grand procession of the Civic 
 Authorities, City Guards, &c., and, amidst enthusiastic cheers, took 
 their departure for Harrisburg. At this place he was received by 
 the Mayor (Mr. Ticknor), and City Council, who conducted them 
 to the principal hotel. 
 
 On Wednesday (3rd October), after visiting the Governor of the 
 State (Mr. Parker), in the Capitol, the royal party took their de- 
 
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 parture ; the men cheering heartily, and the ladies waving their 
 'kerchiefs in a most inspiring manner. 
 
 At Baltimore, where they arrived at one o'clock, they were receiv- 
 ed by the Mayor and City Council, and nearly the entire populace, 
 who cheered the Prince frantically. His Koyal Highness passed 
 through the town to the Washington depot, where he and his suite 
 immediately took the cars for the Capital of the United States, 
 which was reached at four o'clock. 
 
 Here he was received hy General Cass, who, upon being intro- 
 duced to him by Lord Lyons, welcomed His Royal Highness, in 
 the name of the President, to Washington. 
 
 The President's carriages were in waiting. His Royal High- 
 ness and suite entered them, accompanied by General Cass ; the 
 people cheering heartily on the route to the White House. 
 
 The Chief Magistrate of the United States, President James 
 Buchanan, was here introduced by General Cass ; who also wel- 
 comed His Royal Highness in the name of the people. 
 
 In the evening, a grand dinner party was given to the Prince 
 by the President. 
 
 On Thursday (Oct. 4th), the President held a levee at the 
 White House in his honour, when a good number of gentlemen 
 were presented. The President shook each gentleman warmly by 
 the hand as presented; he Prince, who was on his right, 
 slightly inclining his head. 
 
 Afterwards the royal party visited the Capitol of Washington, 
 and many of the public buildings and institutions ; the Prince, 
 and in fact the whole royal party, paying much attention to 
 everything of interest. 
 
 In the evening, another grand dinner party was given ; at which 
 a number of the diplomatic corps, in full uniform, attended. 
 
 A grand display of fireworks also took place in the evening ; the 
 Prince viewing them from the balcony of the White House. 
 
 On Friday (Oct. 5th), the royal party, accompanied by the 
 President, Cabinet, and Diplomatic Corps, embarked on board the 
 steam revenue-cutter Harriet Lane, and proceeded up the Potomac, 
 to Mount Vernon, the memorable home of Washington ; where the 
 Prince viewed the great General's former residence, and the 
 curiosities contained therein ; not failing to visit the tomb where his 
 
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 ashes lie. Upon being requested, the Prince planted a small horse- 
 chesnut tree, in commemoration of his visit. On returning to the 
 cutter, luncheon was served up ; and immadiately after, dancing 
 commenced, the Prince dancing first with Miss Lane (the 
 President's niece). 
 
 On returning to Washington, a salute was fired from the 
 Arsenal ; and the whole party proceeded to the residence of Lord 
 Lyons, where the royal party partook of dinner. His Royal 
 Highness and suite afterwards, accompanied by the President, 
 returned to the White House. 
 
 On Saturday morning (Oct. 6th), the royal party took leave of 
 the President and his niece, Miss Lane, who had so nobly done 
 the honours of the hospitable White House, and, embarking on 
 board the Harriet Lane, accompanied by the Cabinet, sailed down 
 the Potomac, with parting salutes from the Arsenal and Navy 
 Yard. 
 
 At Acquia Creek, His Royal Highness took the cars for Rich- 
 mond ; which he reached at about seven o'clock, and was received 
 by the Mayor, together with a committee of citizens, and amidst 
 every demonstration of joy on the part of the inhabitants, who 
 escorted him to the Exchange Hotel. 
 
 On Sunday (Oct. 7th), he attended Divine Service at St. John's 
 Church, and visited the Governor of the State (Mr. Liteher). 
 
 On Monday morning (Oct. 8th), he left Richmond for Balti- 
 more ; where he arrived at 8 p. m., and received a grand welcome 
 from the civic dignitaries, and the military corps of that place. 
 
 On Tuesday, he drove out with the Mayor, with whom he visited 
 some of the public buildings ; and departed for Philadelphia at 
 noon, where he arrived at half-past four, and was received by the 
 city authorities, and conducted to the Continental Hotel, where 
 apartments had been taken for him and suite. 
 
 On Wednesday, he visited the most interesting portions of the 
 city ; and in the evening attended Strakosch's Opera House, where 
 selections from the operas of Martha and Traviata were per- 
 formed. On entering the building, the National Anthem was per- 
 formed, the whole audience rising and uncovering. 
 
 On Thursday (Octllth), His Royal Highness and suite left 
 for New York. At Amboy, the steam-cutter Harriet Lane was 
 
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 moored, with a party of gentlemen on board from New York ; 
 among whom were Mr. Archibald, British Consul at that place, 
 and General Winifield Scott, U.S.A. The Reception Committee 
 was also on board, to bid him welcome. 
 
 His Royal Highness was received by General Scott and the 
 principal gentlemen of the committee, and was afterwards intro- 
 duced to the whole party on board. The Harriet Lane shortly 
 afterwards steamed up and left for her destination. A collation 
 was partaken of on board, and the royal party ascended to the 
 deck. On passing the several forts on the river, salutes were fired, 
 and other marks of strong attachment shown to the royal visitors. 
 
 At two o'clock, the cutter made New York, and the batteries 
 poured forth their deafening thunders, accompanied by the cheers 
 of the whole populace of that great, industrial, and commercial 
 city. Castle Garden had been chosen as the landing-place; 
 and there the cutter was, in a few minutes, safely moored, the 
 people cheering most heartily. His Royal Highness was received 
 by the Mayor (Fernando Wood, Esq.), the Councillors of New 
 York, and the chief personages of the place. 
 
 The Mayor welcomed him in these words : 
 
 YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 As Chief Magistrate of this city, I welcome you here, and believe that 
 I represent the entire population without exception. 
 
 The Prince replied : 
 
 It affords me great pleasure to accept your hospitalities, which I hare 
 no doubt will be worthy the great city of New York.. 
 
 His Royal Highness then entered an apartment and attired 
 himself in his colonel's uniform ; and in a few minutes reappeared, 
 mounted a splendid horse which awaited him, and, accompanied by 
 his suite, the Mayor, and the party of gentlemen who formed an 
 escort, proceeded to the Battery, where he reviewed a portion of the 
 troops, the whole concourse of people there collected cheering fran- 
 tically. 
 
 A procession was then organized, and His Royal Highness and 
 suite, entering their carriages, were driven through the principal 
 streets. The troops on Broadway made a fine display, and thou- 
 sands gave tokens of joy and welcome, every house and thorough- 
 fare being crowded with spectators. It was dark and late in the 
 
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 evening before the Fifth Avenue Hotel was reached, yet great 
 crowds were collected around the building, who cheered him again 
 and again. 
 
 In the evening the Caledonian Club serenaded him. 
 
 On Friday (Oct. 2), the royal party visited the University of 
 New York, the Astor Library, and the Cooper Institute. 
 
 At the former institution, the Prince received an Address from 
 Chancellor Ferris, and listened to Professor Morse speaking on 
 the " Electric Telegraph." 
 
 In the evening he attended the grand ball given in his honour 
 by the citizens of New York, at the Academy of Music, which was 
 a magnificent and gorgeous affair, and, but for the accident in 
 the falling of the floor, would have been a complete success and 
 a great credit to our American neighbours in that locality. 
 
 His Royal Highness opened the ball with the lady of Governor 
 Morgan, of New York, dancing secondly with Mrs. Goold Hoyt, 
 and afterwards with the following ladies : Miss H. Russell, Miss 
 Jay, Mrs. Edward Cooper, Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. H. B. Field, Miss 
 Van Buren, Mrs. Kernochan, and Miss Butler. 
 
 He retired from the room at five a. m. 
 
 On Saturday the royal party visited several public and private 
 places of interest, and among them the celebrated Barnum's 
 Museum. 
 
 In the evening, the Prince viewed, from the balcony in front of 
 the hotel, the grand torch-light procession of the Firemen in his 
 honour ; which was a most magnificent spectacle, the whole Fire 
 Brigade turning out in uniform, with their engines, which were 
 gaily decorated and lit up with transparencies. The procession 
 extended several miles, and was one of the finest sights ever wit- 
 nessed. 
 
 On Sunday, the Prince and suite attended Divine Service at 
 Trinity Church, where the following clergymen took part in the 
 services : Bishops Potter, Odenheimer, and Talbot ; Rev. Messrs. 
 Paine, Ogilby, Creighton, and Vinton. The latter gentleman 
 preached the sermon. 
 
 On Monday morning (Oct. 15), the royal party left New York 
 for West Point, embarking on board the Harriet Lane. Salutes 
 were fired, and the great mass of people congregated cheered as 
 
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 " republicans seldom or ever cheered before ; " showing their 
 sincerity, and good wishes for England's Heir. The cutter arrived 
 at her destination at a quarter to three in the afternoon, when a 
 national salute of thirty-three guns was fired from the battery. 
 
 The Prince was received by Colonel Delafield, who, we under- 
 stand, is the Commandant of the place, and a staff of American 
 officers. A company of Dragoons formed the royal escort to the 
 Commandant's quarters, where the staff of officers was presented to 
 His Royal Highness, who shook hands with each. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, a review of the Cadets of the Academy took 
 place ; the Prince and suite, in plain walking-costume, accompany- 
 ing the staff, in front and in rear of the reviewed. The royal 
 party next day (16th), after examining several of the most inter- 
 esting parts around this locality, embarked on board the steamer 
 Daniel Drew for Albany (having been invited thither by Governor 
 Morgan). 
 
 About twenty miles below Albany, the Drew met the steamer 
 Young America with the Mayor and Corporation of that city on 
 board, having come to welcome His Royal Highness, and escort 
 him to their city ; at which they arrived at half-past four, 
 receiving a very enthusiastic reception from the Albanians, who 
 crowded the wharves and cheered long and loud. We should also 
 note that the city throughout was nicelydecorated. 
 
 Two regiments of Volunteer Militia acted as Guard of Honour, 
 presenting arms as the Prince passed to the carriage provided for 
 him. His Royal Highness was escorted to the Capitol, where he 
 was received by Governor Morgan, and welcomed to Albany. 
 
 The Governor then escorted His Royal Highness and suite to 
 the several public buildings ; and afterwards to the Congress Hall 
 Hotel,where apartments had been engaged for their accommodation. 
 
 In the evening,the royal party dined at the Governor's residence ; 
 where a brilliant company had assembled by invitation, the 
 Heads of Departments, Mayor, City Staff, &c. attending, and 
 which did not break up until a quarter after ten. 
 
 On the following morning (17th), the Prince and suite took the 
 cars for Boston ; where they arrived at four o'clock p.m., receiving 
 a very fine reception from the civil and military authorities, and 
 the people of that place. 
 
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 The royal party was escorted into the city to the Revere House 
 by Governor Banks, several detachments of dragoons and infantry 
 forming a grand procession, amidst the greatest cheering from 
 the inhabitants, who crowded and jammed the streets. 
 
 The following day (18th) was a general holiday in Boston, by 
 proclamation ; consequently the many places of business in the 
 city were all closed, and everything presented a quiet and Sunday- 
 like appearance. 
 
 In the morning, at 11 o'clock, the Royal party proceeded to 
 the State House, where the Governor formally welcomed the Prince 
 to Boston, addressing him as follows: 
 
 It is with great pleasure that I welcome your Royal Highness to the 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and extend to you the most cordial 
 greetings of its people. They have regarded with profound gratification 
 your visit to this continent, so auspicious in its opening, so fortunate 
 in its progress, and now, I regret to say, so near its termination. Be 
 assured, Sir, you will bear with you the united wishes of the people of 
 Massachusetts for your safe return to your friends and to your country ; 
 to which we are attached by so many ties of language, law, and liberty. 
 In their name, I bid you welcome. I welcome, also, with unfeigned plea- 
 sure, the distinguished and honorable gentlemen of your suite. Permit 
 me to present to you my associates in the Executive Department of the 
 Government, His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Gentlemen of 
 the Executive Council, and the Secretary of State." 
 
 The several gentlemen referred to were recognized by the Prince, 
 who shook hands cordially with the Aids, whom he had met before. 
 
 The Representatives' Hall was filled to overflowing by ladies. 
 The Governor led the Prince through the hall, while the ladies 
 rose en masse, greeting him with smiling faces and waving hand- 
 kerchiefs. The Senate Chamber was occupied by some forty mem- 
 bers of the Valuation Committee, who were also permitted to gaze 
 on the face of His Royal Highness. 
 
 The Prince and suite then witnessed a review of several regi- 
 ments of Volunteer Militia and troops of Cavalry, with which they 
 were much pleased. 
 
 After the review, the Prince partook of a slight collation, at the 
 State House, with the Hon. Edward Everett and other distin- 
 guished guests. 
 
 In the afternoon, the royal party attended the Music Hall, 
 where the school-children had been collected to give the Prince 
 
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 a welcome, by singing, amongst other select pieces of music, a 
 grand national ode, written by the celebrated Dr. Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes. 
 
 The following is the ode : 
 
 AIR : GOD SAVE THE 
 
 God bless our Fathers' Land ; 
 Keep her in heart and hand, 
 
 One with our own. 
 From all her foes defend, 
 Be her brave people's friend, 
 On all her realms descend, 
 
 Protect her throne ! 
 
 Father, in loving care 
 
 Guard thou her kingdom's heir, 
 
 Guide all his ways. 
 Thine arm his shelter be 
 From harm by land and sea ; 
 Bid storm and dangers flee, 
 
 Prolong his days 1 
 
 Lord, let war's tempests cease, 
 Fold the whole earth in peace 
 
 Under thy wings ! 
 Make all thy nations one, 
 All hearts beneath the sun, 
 Till thou shalt reign alone, 
 
 Great King of Kings 1 
 
 How touchingly must this have fell on the Prince's ears, sung 
 by over a thousand little voices, and joyfully reiterated by the 
 immense assemblage present, who cheered vociferously and clapped 
 their hands, all joining in one fervent prayer for his welfare. 
 
 In the evening, he attended the ball given in his honour at the 
 Boston Theatre, and the last prior to his departure for England. 
 
 This was quite as grand, and far more successful, than the one 
 given him at New York. 
 
 The Prince opened the ball by dancing a quadrille with Mrs. 
 Lincoln (the Lady Mayoress), and afterwards danced with the 
 following ladies : Mrs. Governor Banks, Mrs. Wise (daughter of 
 Hon. Edward Everett), Miss Fanny Crowninshield, Miss Susan 
 Emery, Miss Bigelow, Mrs. Col. Chickering, Mrs. Harrison Kit- 
 
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 chie, Miss Lombard, Miss Fanny Peabody, and Miss Kitty Fay. 
 The Prince retired at a late hour. 
 
 On Friday (19th October), the royal party visited Cambridge, 
 near Boston, where the Prince received a hearty welcome from 
 the inhabitants. He also paid a flying visit to Mount Auburn 
 Cemetery, and Harvard College, both in Cambridge ; receiving at 
 the latter place a very spirited reception from the Faculty and 
 Students, and partook of a slight collation after visiting the 
 several departments of that celebrated institution. 
 
 On the following morning, His Royal Highness and suite took 
 the cars, and, amidst every demonstration of esteem and affection 
 from the distinguished personages that had helped to entertain 
 them, and the whole people of Boston, took their departure from 
 that interesting city for Portland, where the royal squadron was 
 in waiting to convey them to England. 
 
 Portland was reached at half-past one, when a salute of 33 
 guns was fired. The Prince received a fitting and enthusiastic 
 reception here ; not from the worthy Portlanders alone, but from 
 a crowd of Canadians and other visitors, who had arrived in the 
 cars from all parts to have a last look at His Royal Highness, to 
 bid him an adieu, and to wish him good speed and a prosperous 
 voyage. The royal party was received by Mayor Howard and 
 the members of the City Council, a number of distinguished 
 gentlemen from various parts of the Union, and a large body of 
 State Militia. A procession was organized, and the Prince and 
 suite, having been conducted to carriages, were escorted through 
 the principal streets of Portland to the Victoria Pier, amidst the 
 deafening cheers of the many thousands who had congregated to 
 witness his departure. It was not long before the royal party 
 had embarked on board the barge which awaited to convey them 
 from the shores of America, perhaps for ever. Friends' hands 
 were shaken sadly, but warmly ; expressions of mutual kindness 
 spoken, the people looking on in sadness as the royal barge pushed 
 off. Then the cannons roared, people cheered, bells rang, and 
 every expression of loyalty was given in that American town, 
 with such warmth, with such feeling, that one imagined himself 
 on British ground. 
 
 The royal squadron weighed anchor at half-past four, and, with 
 
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 a fair wind and flowing tide, steamed out on the broad Atlantic, 
 amidst the heart^stirring cheers of the multitude. Although no 
 doubt not heard on board the royal vessels, yet it was a glorious 
 satisfaction to the people to raise their voices in honour of the 
 son of the model Sovereign, and the future monarch of the first 
 throne on the face of the globe. 
 
 Our task has now drawn to a conclusion, and it has been a 
 most agreeable one. We have, to the best of our ability, drawn 
 a slight sketch of the Prince of Wales' glorious and commemora- 
 tive tour through a portion of the vast continent of North 
 America ; and our honest and candid readers will acknowledge, 
 that, regarding the accuracy of our narration, we are entitled to claim 
 their sympathies, even though the treatment of the subject has 
 not been elaborate. 
 
 We have not devoted so much attention to the receptions and 
 festivities in the Lower Provinces or the United States, simply 
 for the reason that the object of this royal tour was Canada ; 
 still the loyal devotion of the one, and the courteous kindness of the 
 other, are subjects of which every true Briton may justly feel 
 proud. To see a great Republic like the United States, one of 
 the only two free nations on the earth, and which at one time 
 fiercely waged war against Great Britain, entertain and nearly 
 idolize a scion of that same power, is something not easily to be 
 forgotten, and binds the ties that already greatly endear us to our 
 Republican friends, and makes us feel that we are closely allied 
 together. It makes the British people respect what they have not 
 until now perfectly understood, the true American character. 
 Oh, may nothing ever sever a friendship such as this, bound 
 together by one so illustrious ! 
 
 Long as we had wished and patiently waited for the Prince's 
 visit, it came at last. We will not here recapitulate Her Majes- 
 ty's generous reasons for acceding to our petition : they are so 
 well-known, so highly appreciated, and so often referred to in this 
 little volume, that it would be idle to repeat them. The Queen 
 sent, not a junior member of the royal family, but the Heir 
 Apparent himself. He came, and he has gone. He has received 
 an ovation, which, for costly magnificence, generous display, and 
 
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 the grand exhibition of enthusiastic and loyal feelings, can, if even 
 equalled, never be surpassed, and, what is certain, can never be 
 forgotten by him or ourselves. No, not in his proudest days, per- 
 haps, when he will be all-glorious on the throne or the battle-field 
 (as destiny may direct), will he ever forget the cordial, the loyal 
 reception which he received from all shades of parties and coun 7 
 trymen on his visit to America. 
 
 And this visit to Canada, at least, will be productive of much 
 good ; irrespective of the political party who wished to force 
 false grievances on the royal ear, and the religious differences in 
 Upper Canada. 
 
 Sorry should we be to turn the enthusiastic reception which the 
 Heir Apparent received from the Canadians, into base capital ; 
 but the interest evinced in the growing advancement of the 
 country by the royal party is sure to propagate deep surmise 
 as to our " future state." We may be assured, that, although the 
 great question of the day i. e. the Federation of the Colonies 
 is not at once determined, our good position at the Court of St. 
 James will not suffer ; and when that great policy of a great head 
 can be safely attempted, we may hope for no insurmountable barriers 
 to its being properly carried into execution. 
 
 In another view of the matter, we are of opinion that we have 
 gained a great success over the other dependencies of the Crown. 
 To be visited by a Prince of the Royal Family is certainly a great 
 honour ; but" when that Prince is the Heir Apparent to the Throne, 
 the one that some day (though, let us wish, for our beloved 
 Queen's sake, a far distant one) may mount the Throne of Eng- 
 land to rule and to be obeyed, then is the success enhanced ten- 
 fold. He has seen the country and its people ; he is acquainted 
 with its vast resources and growing prosperity ; he knows our wish- 
 es, and what this vast tract of country requires, wishes and re- 
 quirements far too many to be enumerated, but not too many to 
 receive attention. 
 
 Let us, then, patiently await the great harbinger of all events, 
 time ; and in so doing, remember that we have now the most 
 powerful of friends in Europe, who are ready and willing to 
 advance the interests of our country and our homes. 
 
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 Recapitulation of Places visited by His Royal Highness Albert Edward, 
 Prince of Wales. 
 
 Leave. Arrive at Miles. 
 
 July 10, Plymouth, England. July 23, St. Johns, N.F 
 
 " 26, St. Johns, N. F. " 30, Halifax, N.B 900 
 
 Aug. 2, Halifax. Aug. 2, St. John, N.B 120 
 
 " 7, St. John, N.B. " 9, Charlottetown, P.E.I.. 250 
 
 " 11, Charlottetown. " 12, Gasp< 200 
 
 " 13, Gasp6. " 15, Quebec, Canada East. 650 
 
 " 20, Quebec. " 20, Chaudiere Falls, and 
 
 back. 30 
 
 " 23, Quebec. " 24, Montreal, C.E 170 
 
 " 29, Montreal. " Caughnawaga and 
 
 back 180 
 
 " 30, Montreal. " Sherbrooke and back. . 50 
 
 " 31, Montreal. Sept. 1, Ottawa 180 
 
 Sept. 3, Ottawa. " 4, Kingston 100 
 
 " 6, Kingston. " 6, Cobourg 90 
 
 ' 7, Cobourg. " 7, Toronto 7o 
 
 " 10, Toronto. " 10, Collingwood 95 
 
 " 13, Collingwood. " 13, London 25 
 
 " 15, London. " 16, Chippewa 126 
 
 " 17, Chippewa. " 17, Queenston 10 
 
 " 18, Queenston. " 18, Hamilton 25 
 
 " 20, Hamilton. " 20, Detroit, Michigan 150 
 
 " 21, Detroit. " 21, Chicago, Illinois 284 
 
 " 22, Chicago. " 22, Dwight 70 
 
 " 25, Dwight. " 25, Stewart's Grove and 
 
 back 30 
 
 27, Dwight. " 27, St. Louis, Missouri.... 212 
 
 " 29, St. Louis. " 29, Cincinnati, Ohio 340 
 
 Oct'r 2, Cincinnati. Oct'r 2, Harrisburg, Pa 615 
 
 " 3, Harrisburg. " 3, Washington, via Balti- 
 more 123 
 
 " 5, Washington. " 5, Mount Yernon and back 34 
 
 " 6, Washington. " 6, Richmond, Va 130 
 
 " 8, Richmond. " 8, Baltimore, Md 150 
 
 * 9, Baltimore. " 9, Philadelphia 98 
 
 " 11, Philadelphia. " 11, New York 90 
 
 15, New York. " 15, West Point 51 
 
 " 16, West Point. " 16, Albany 99 
 
 " 17, Albany. " 17, Boston, Mass 200 
 
 " 20, Boston. " 20, Portland, Me 187 
 
 " 20, Portland for England. 
 
 Total distance travelled 6,134 
 
 N. T. Herald. 
 
ADDRESSES 
 
 PRESENTED DURING THE ROYAL TOUR. 
 WINDSOR, NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 To the Most High, Puissant, and Illustrious Prince Albert Edward, Prince 
 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of 
 Wales, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Coburg and Gotha, Great Steward 
 of Scotland, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carrick, 
 and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles, K. G. : 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the loyal inhabitants of the township of Windsor, of the county 
 of Hants,*in the Province of Nova Scotia, beg leave to approach your 
 Royal Highness to offer the humble expression of a heartfelt welcome, 
 and to thank Your Royal Highness for the unprecedented honour of this 
 opportunity, condescendingly offered us, of avowing our devoted loyalty 
 and unwavering attachment to the throne and person of our Most 
 Gracious Queen, and to her illustrious house and family ; our exalted 
 admiration and respect for the eminent talents and virtues of her Royal 
 Consort, and our fervent aspirations and hopes for a long career of happi- 
 ness and glory for Your Royal Highness. Representing on this happy 
 occasion the loyal feelings of the oldest university town in Her Majesty's 
 widely-extended colonial possessions, we view it as our highest privi- 
 lege and singular honour to be permitted to greet Your Royal Highness 
 in the immediate neighbourhood of an institution founded by his Majesty 
 King George the Third, the august and illustrious ancestor of Your 
 Royal Highness. Believing that the University of Windsor has continued 
 during successive years to answer the wise and benevolent purposes of 
 its founder, and knowing that in King's College, under the Royal 
 Charter then granted, have been educated in religion, in literature and 
 science a great number of the clergy, many of the most distinguished 
 members of the bench and bar in this and the neighbouring colonies, 
 
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 many military men, whose heroic achievements have been widely cele- 
 brated, and several others, including members of the different religious 
 denominations, equally conspicuous in the various walks of life, all of 
 whom have ever manifested the firmest allegiance to the British Throne 
 and Government. But we are aware that your Royal Highness has only 
 a few moments to bestow for the brief but ever-memorable occasion. 
 We are extremely grateful, and we hope that Your Royal Highness's visit 
 to Nova Scotia may be agreeable to Your Royal Highness, as it is most 
 welcome and most gratifying to us ; and that on your happy return to 
 Windsor Castle and to the renowned University in which Your Royal 
 Highness is enrolled, Your Royal Highness may convey to her Gracious 
 Majesty, our beloved Queen, the assurance of the sentiments of inviolable 
 loyalty to the throne and of affectionate veneration for the Constitution, 
 which pervade all ranks and classes of her Majesty's subjects in this 
 portion of Her dominions ; and not least, of the youth of our University, 
 educated in a town whose fortress was honoured by the presence and 
 still bears the name of her Majesty's illustrious father. 
 
 RBPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, The Address which you have presented to me demands 
 my acknowledgments. It is a pleasure to me to visit, even though it be 
 but in passing, this seat of learning in British North America ; to find 
 that the sons of these Provinces are successfully pursuing, within the 
 precincts of your town, the studies which I have myself abandoned only 
 for a time, that I might come to these lands. I thank you for your kind 
 recollection of my grandfather, and for your loyal sentiments. ' 
 
 HANTSPORT, N. S. 
 
 To His Royal Highness jtlbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., 4rc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the inhabitants of Hantsport, would humbly represent thatj in 
 favouring our quiet village with your presence, Your Royal Highness 
 confers on us an honour greater than our words can express, or any de- 
 monstration of ours can testify. Yet, though our language and our 
 means may fail, that honour is not the less appreciated, nor less that 
 deep and lasting sense of obligation our hearts must ever acknowledge 
 through the gracious permission of your August Mother. We joyfully 
 accord to Your Royal Highness, as the representative of our Queen, the 
 reception we would accord to Her Majesty. We do not exhibit to Your 
 iioyal Highness anything to interest, beyond such bounties as nature 
 has bestowed upon us. We boast of no imposing edifices, no grand 
 triumphal arch, no meritorious work of art, nor can we proudly point 
 to scenes of classic or historic fame ; but, better far than these, we 
 
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 welcome our Prince with the earnest affections of a devoted, manly 
 race ; we greet the first-born son of our beloved Queen with feelings of 
 deepest respect, and proudly hail the future monarch of that glorious, 
 globe-encircling empire of which we are a part. We would represent 
 our interest to be maritime, and chiefly in other trade with the brother 
 land, thus adding the strong tie of commerce to the pre-existing ones 
 of blood, of language, and religion. Our pride is in the British insti- 
 tutions, laws, and flag ; to uphold which, in time of need, we will ever aid 
 with enthusiastic Volunteers. Should this village ever become the city 
 of the beautiful basin beyond, of touching historic interest, and in which 
 Your Royal Highness is about to sail, the rise of that city will date from 
 the royal selection of this port for your embarkation to-day ; in com- 
 memoration of which it has been designated by the people, and we humnly 
 trust will also meet the approbation of your Royal Highness, as Princeton. 
 Long live Your Royal Highness. Long may you grace the mighty throne 
 of Britain ; and when in after years, if your august name shall be insepa- 
 rably associated with deeds as great and onerous as ever hallowed the 
 memory of earth's noblest, may we hope, presumptuous though it may 
 seem, that, when relaxing from the toils of state, the mind of the king 
 shall revert, may it ever be with joy and pride, to his youthful days, the 
 hour spent in Hantsport may not have been forgotten. 
 
 EEPLT. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you warmly for your hearty and kind welcome. 
 With agricultural capabilities on one side, and maritime advantages on 
 the other, your town bids fair to rise in consequence and wealth, and I 
 very sincerely wish you every prosperity. 
 
 PICTOU, N. S. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The inhabitants of the county of Pictou beg leave to express their 
 sincere gratitude for the distinguished honor conferred upon them by 
 the visit of Your Royal Highness, and they now greet you with a warm 
 and cordial welcome. They hail the visit of .Your Royal Highness to 
 Her Majesty's North American Colonies as a pledge and assurance of 
 the deep and lively interest which our most gracious Queen takes in 
 the prosperity of her extended dominions, and they rejoice in this op- 
 portunity of being enabled so directly to manifest their devoted attach- 
 ment and loyalty to the crown and sovereignty of Great Britain. En- 
 joying the great happiness of being British subjects, and the recipients 
 of the blessings which that glorious privilege confers, their hearts are 
 knit in indissoluble bonds of loyalty to the British throne. The wisdom 
 
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 and justice which have distinguished the reign of our most gracious 
 Sovereign, and the virtues which adorn Her Majesty's court and life, 
 have secured from her subjects in Nova Scotia feelings of the most de- 
 voted attachment to Her Majesty's royal person and family. Within a 
 century past the primeval forests covered the soil where, in the progress 
 of Your Royal Highness this day, many happy homes and productive 
 fields have presented themselves to the eye. Those have been acquired 
 under the fostering care of the parent state, and from the influence of 
 the virtues and industry which have always characterized the inhabi- 
 tants of the British islands, whence this county was originally 
 settled. The inhabitants of the county of Pictou offer their sincere 
 prayers that Your Royal Highness may have a prosperous and pleasant 
 journey through the dominions of Her Majesty in North America ; and 
 that Your Royal Highness may return safe and gratified to that country 
 which, even in this distant land, is designated by the endearing name 
 of home. 
 
 In your town I close a visit to the Province of Nova Scotia, which 
 has given me unmixed pleasure, and has brought forth proof of devotion 
 to the Queen and to your mother country, which must ever remain 
 engraved on my memory. I thank you warmly for an Address which, 
 so short can be my stay in this place, is at once a welcome and a fare- 
 well. My journey this day through your beautiful country has impress- 
 ed me with an additional sense of the great destiny which awaits these 
 lands. I heartily wish success and happiness to the settlers whom I 
 have passed, and a speedy and productive development of the -vast 
 mineral wealth which lies beneath and around you. 
 
 CANADA. 
 
 GASPE. 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Clergy, Merchants, and other inhabitants of Gaspe", beg leave 
 most respectfully to welcome Your Royal Highness on your first arrival 
 on the shores of Canada, and to express the pleasure we feel at this 
 distinguished mark of condescension. 
 
 This visit proves to us, that, though isolated and few in number, we 
 are not forgotten, amid the many gay, wealthy, and populous cities where 
 the pretence of Your Royal Highness is joyfully expected ; it gladdens 
 our hearts and imparts new life to the principles of loyalty, which, we 
 are proud to say, exists in all our breasts. 
 
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 'Tis true we cannot receive Your Royal Highness with the sound of 
 music ; we cannot exhibit to your view the waving plume of the con- 
 queror, or the glittering sword of the warrior : all we have to offer you 
 is the tribute of warm hearts, and a beautiful specimen of the work of 
 the God of nature ; our scenery is unrivalled in loveliness in the Pro- 
 vince, and our harbour, although it may be equalled, cannot be sur- 
 passed, in point of safety, facility of approach, and extent of accommo- 
 dation. It would ill-become this small and comparatively poor com- 
 munity to speak boastfully ; yet we may venture to express the hope 
 that Your Royal Highness will not regret calling at our port, but rather 
 that, when in the order of God's providence Your Royal Highness shall 
 be called upon to wear Britain's crown, you will sometimes think of 
 Gaspe" and its inhabitants. 
 
 It may not be uninteresting to Your Royal Highness to know that 
 many of the inhabitants of this place are descended from English fami- 
 lies, who, rather than renounce their allegiance to the British crown, 
 emigrated here during the American Revolution ; others are descended 
 from the French who first colonized this country ; but, although we 
 thus differ in our native origin, we are happy to say that we have 
 hitherto lived in peace, and in friendship, respecting each other's par- 
 ticular views and creeds, and acting on the golden rule, " Do unto others 
 as you would have others do unto you." 
 
 It now only remains for us to express our most ardent hope, that, in 
 Your Royal Highness's farther progress through the Province, the sights 
 that will burst upon your view, whether in our thriving and beautiful 
 cities, or in our agricultural districts, Your Royal Highness shall be 
 convinced that the Province of Canada is indeed a bright jewel in 
 Britain's Crown; and that the spirit of loyalty, everywhere manifested, 
 is an earnest of our permanent attachment to, and dependence upon, 
 Great Britain, the star of nations, and the land of liberty and peace. 
 
 Wishing Your Royal Highness a pleasant journey through the Pro- 
 vince, and a safe return home, we are Your Royal Highness's most res- 
 pectful and obedient servants. 
 
 His Royal Highness replied in brief, complimenting the Gaspe" people 
 very highly on the appearance of the harbour, as to the beauty of the 
 scenery surrounding it, and the industry displayed in all directions. 
 
 The Mayor of Gaspe" then presented His Royal Highness with the fol- 
 lowing Petition : 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor and Councillors of Gaspe" Bay South, and York, beg 
 leave most respectfully to request, that, in consideration of this Port 
 being the first that has been honoured by the presence of royalty in this 
 Province, they may be permitted hereafter to call it Port Albert, to 
 perpetuate the remembrance of Your Royal Highness's visit. 
 
 We are Your Royal Highness's humble and obedient servants. 
 
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 CHICOUTIML 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 To allow me, in the name of the municipality and inhabitants of the 
 county of Chicoutimi, to wish and offer you a hearty welcome on your 
 arrival amongst us. 
 
 Still occupied in penetrating into the primeval forest, our population 
 can only associate in heart and soul with the brilliant manifestations 
 which the presence of Your Royal Highness will create all over Canada ; 
 but we shall always be proud and happy, if Your Royal Highness de- 
 parts from amongst us with the feeling and conviction that in no other 
 part of her Majesty's dominions are to be found subjects more de- 
 votedly attached to their Queen, or more determined, as much as it lies 
 in. their power, to add to the glory of the reign of your illustrious 
 mother. 
 
 While our compatriots of the older portions of the Province are 
 advancing in the arts and sciences, as well as in commerce and industry, 
 and doing their utmost to make it a great star of the British Empire, we 
 are advancing into and clearing away the forest, and as it were, con- 
 quering a new province to add to the Crown, which at some future 
 period Your Royal Highness may be called on to wear. 
 
 We humbly pray Your Royal Highness to lay these expressions of our 
 'attachment and loyalty at the foot of the Throne, and to make them 
 known to our most gracious Sovereign. 
 
 JOHN KANE, 
 Reeve of the County of Chicoutimi. 
 
 Grand Bay, 15th August, 1860. 
 
 KBPLY. 
 
 H. M. S. "HERO," 15th August, I860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honour, by desire of His Royal Highness the Prince 
 of Wales, to acknowledge the receipt of the Address which you have 
 this day presented to him from the Municipality of the County of Chi- 
 coutimi. 
 
 His Royal Highness is much gratified by the expressions of loyalty to 
 the Queen, and of kindness towards himself, which that Address eon- 
 tains, and he is much disappointed that the state of the weather this 
 morning prevented him from proceeding sufficiently far up the waters 
 of the magnificent Saguenay to enable him to receive and answer it in 
 person. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 Your very obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE 
 David Price, Esq., M.P.P. 
 
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 QUEBEC. 
 
 CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Bishop, Clergy, and Laity of the United Church of England 
 and Ireland in the Diocese of Quebec, in Synod assembled, gladly avail 
 ourselves of the arrival of Your Royal Highness on our shore to testify 
 our deep and fervent loyalty towards that sceptre which in good time 
 we trust you are destined to succeed, and also express our heartfelt 
 gratification that the Heir Apparent to the British Monarchy has for the 
 first time in its history visited that great and important Province in 
 which our lot is cast. We believe that in this auspicious event is 
 implied much more than the mere graceful recognition of the request 
 made by our Canadian legislators for the presence and sanction of the 
 greatest work of engineering skill the world has seen. We view it 
 rather as an evidence of the more ultimate union which is growing 
 between the mother country and the Canadian offshoot, and as a pledge 
 that that union will be developed into an enduring and indissoluble 
 unity. And moreover we prize the more highly the presence of Your 
 Royal Highness amongst us, as we shall thereby be enabled to add the 
 feeling of personal acquaintance and attachment to that abstract loyalty 
 which we have always cherished in the cause of your progress. Your 
 Royal Highness will be in a position to judge of the rapid advance in 
 material prosperity which the country has made in the last few years. 
 Amidst the busy scene, the Church of England may seem to have been 
 remiss in her work, and to have done little to keep pace with the rapid 
 motion of the world around. We have, it is true, comparatively few 
 marks of outward prosperity. We have no state privileges, no great 
 cathedral, no opulent endowments, and in this part of the Province we 
 are scattered and few in number ; yet we are endeavouring as best we 
 may, and by God's blessing we trust with some measure of success, to 
 reproduce in the new land all that is essentially important in the doc- 
 trine and discipline of that pure and refined branch of Christ's Holy 
 Catholic Church, which in England entwines so closely with the very 
 foundations of the Throne ; and we pray you to remember, that the 
 petitions for the welfare and prosperity of Your Royal Highness will 
 continue to be offered, and with not less fervency from our humble 
 friends as from those splendid fabrics which the wealth and piety of our 
 ancestors have reared at home for the worship of the Almighty. That 
 God may have you in His holy keeping ; that He may conduct you on 
 your way, and restore you to your native land in health and safety, is 
 our sincere and earnest prayer. To His care we recommend you ; may 
 He ever bless, preserve, and keep you ; may He fill you with the richest 
 gifts of His Holy Spirit, and finally bring you to everlasting life, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
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 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, It is a source of no little pleasure to me to receive from 
 you these words of welcome, and to hear from the lips of your Bishop 
 the assurance that your prayers are offered, for my future usefulness and 
 happiness, within the walls of your Cathedral. I have joined in the 
 petitions offered for the Queen ; and I am convinced that the ministers 
 of the church from which this Address emanates, do not fail to inculcate 
 these principles of loyalty which are so characteristic of this Province. 
 I trust that it may be my lot, whatever be the future reserved for me, 
 to realize the hopes which you have expressed, and to secure the bene- 
 ficial results of this my first acquaintance with the Canadian people. 
 
 COUNTY OF QUEBEC. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE TOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Warden, Mayors, and Councillors of the Corporation of the 
 County of Quebec, avail ourselves of the happy event of the arrival of 
 Your Royal Highness in Canada, to approach Your Highness with the 
 assurance of our most sincere and hearty welcome to this country, and 
 with the expression of our most devoted attachment to the person of 
 Your Royal Highness, and of our loyalty to our most Gracious Sover- 
 eign, Your Royal Highness's royal mother, through whose beneficent 
 and constitutional sway, we enjoy prosperity and peace under the 
 powerful protection of the British Nation. The County of Quebec 
 which we represent, comprises a territory which has been the theatre of 
 the most important event in the history of our country, the scene of its 
 earliest settlement, and, though once the battle-ground of those two 
 great nations from which we spring, now happily presents the spectacle 
 of their fusion into one race, through the influences of peace and the ties 
 of family. 
 
 Interesting from historical associations, our country is remarkable 
 for its picturesque scenery, its lakes, rivers, and fruitful soil, the aspect 
 of which cannot but favourably impress Your Royal Highness ; the 
 peculiar, but as yet unemployed, facilities which it possesses for the 
 important purposes of manufacturing industry. 
 
 We fully appreciate the great honour conferred upon our country by 
 the visit of Your Royal Highness, and its important social and political 
 consequences to ourselves ; and hope that it will prove a source of un- 
 alloyed pleasure with satisfaction to Your Royal Highness, certain, as 
 we are, that it will leave a recollection never to be effaced from the 
 hearts of the Canadian people. And we beg most respectfully to offer 
 to Your Royal Highness, our sincere congratulations on your happy 
 
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 voyage, and our heartiest welcome on your auspicious advent to our 
 shores. 
 
 And have the honour to be, 
 
 Your Royal Highness's 
 Most obedient, humble, and devoted servant, 
 
 JOHN Ross, 
 
 Warden County of Quebec. 
 Quebec, 14th August, 1860. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Quebec, 21st August, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the Address presented to 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by the Warden, Mayors, and 
 Councillors of the Corporation of the County of Quebec, and to convey 
 to you the thanks of His Royal Highness for the terms in which it is 
 expressed. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 John Ross, Esquire, Warden. 
 
 THE MAGISTRATES' ADDRESS. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc. SfC. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YODB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Magistrates of the City and District of Quebec, in special 
 session assembled, beg leave humbly to approach Your Royal Highness, 
 to congratulate you on your safe arrival in the ancient capital of Canada, 
 the keystone of Her Most Gracious Majesty's British North American 
 possessions ; and to bid you welcome to scenes that are mixed up with 
 some of the most important events in the history of the glorious empire 
 of which we are proud to form a portion ; welcome to ground rendered 
 classic by many past associations, among which the visit of Your Royal 
 Maternal Grandsire is remembered with pride and pleasure. 
 
 We beg to assure Your Royal Highness that in no part of Her Majesty's 
 dominions, has she a more zealous or loyal body than they who have 
 the honour to bear commissions in Her Majesty's name, for the preserva- 
 tion of the peace, .in this city and district ; and we hail with peculiar 
 satisfaction the circumstance of Your Royal Highness's visit to this part 
 of the British Empire, as a proof of the affectionate interest taken by 
 Her Majesty and Your Royal Highness in the welfare of Her domiaions ; 
 and we trust that the recollection of it will be as agreeable and satis- 
 factory to Your Royal Highness, as it will ever be proudly remembered 
 by us, when it becomes an event of the past. 
 
 QUEBEC, 4th August, 1860. 
 
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 GENTLEMEN, I receive with sincere gratification the Address which 
 you have presented to me. 
 
 You welcome me to a city of which you speak with just pride, to a 
 city once famous in war and now prosperous in peace, to a city en- 
 nobled by heroic deeds and enriched by honorable industry, hallowed 
 of old by the blood of Wolfe and Montcalm, shed in the struggle of 
 nations, but now blessed by the hand of commerce, and knowing no 
 rivalry but such as is carried on with the rest of the world, by the united 
 energies of a happy people. 
 
 That such may long be the condition of this city and district, and 
 that your labours as Magistrates may be lightened by the good order 
 and contentment of those around you, is my earnest hope and expecta- 
 tion. 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE URSULINE NUNS, AS TRANSLATED. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOCB RoyAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Ursuline Nuns will always regard as a signal honour the visit of 
 Your Roj'al Highness to their ancient Convent, and thus humbly ask 
 that they may be allowed to lay at your feet, in a solemn manner, the 
 homage of respect and devotion. Although they live in the cloisters, 
 they are indifferent to nothing which is of interest to their country. 
 They have always been among the most thankful and faithful of Her 
 Majesty's subjects in British America ; how then should they not partake 
 of the public joy on this occasion, the felicitous arrival of Your Royal 
 Highness in this Province ? Twice already have princes of the glorious 
 House of Brunswick visited this country ; and when this most ancient 
 educational establishment in British America, and the annals of the 
 Convent, mention these events with happiness as being of good omen, 
 with what enthusiasm shall we then not add to these illustrious names 
 that of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. It would be useless to try 
 to repeat now what rumor says of the goodness of Your Royal Highness, 
 and of all the other qualities which will entitle you one day to sit upon 
 one of the grandest thrones of the universe ; but the Ursuline Nuns will 
 endeavour to preserve intact, and to transmit to their successors, the 
 remembrance and the impressions of this gracious visit. May Heaven 
 continue tq shower favours on our august Sovereign, and may the ever- 
 increasing prosperity of her reign be a happy presage of the glory 
 which* the future is preparing for the Heir Apparent to the brilliant 
 Crown. 
 
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 MONTREAL. 
 
 CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Bishop, Clergy, and Laity of the United Church of England 
 and Ireland in the Diocese of Montreal, in Synod assembled, beg respect- 
 fully xo assure Your Royal Highness of our sincere attachment to the 
 person, respect for the character, and devotion to the Crown and autho- 
 rity of Your Royal Mother our beloved Sovereign. As Her Majesty's 
 Representative and Heir Apparent to the Throne, we feel it a high pri- 
 vilege to welcome your arrival amongst us ; but at the same time we 
 wish to testify our respect for Your Royal Highness's own character and 
 person, and to express our confidence that the anxious care of your 
 royal parents in preparing you for that exalted station which you your, 
 self hereafter, we trust at some very distant day, may expect to be 
 called on to fill, has not been without-- the most satisfactory results, and 
 in that course of preparation to have seen with your own eyes those 
 magnificent transatlantic possessions of the Crown of England, and to 
 have become personally acquainted in their own countries with many of 
 their inhabitants, will have been no unimportant event. For ourselves, 
 as a Church, we neither occupy the same position as our brethren at 
 home, nor can we be named in comparison with them for our numbers 
 or our wealth, but we still feel we are members of the same body. We 
 teach the same truths, we offer up the same petitions on behalf of the 
 Queen and all that are in authority under her, and ever pray for Your 
 Royal Highness that Almighty God will be pleased to endue you with 
 His Holy Spirit, enrich you with His Heavenly Grace, prosper you with 
 all happiness, and bring you to His everlasting kingdom for Jesus Christ's 
 sake. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you from my heart for this Address, presented 
 by your Bishop, on behalf of the Synod of the Diocese of Montreal, which 
 has been so lately constituted the Metropolitan See of the Province of 
 Canada. It is most agreeable to my feelings to receive such proofs of 
 welcome to myself, and of loyalty to the Queen, from members of a 
 Church to which it is my happiness to belong ; but it would be most 
 unjust if I were to forget, that, since my arrival in this country, the pro- 
 fessors of every creed have given ample assurance that all join in one 
 common sentiment of devotion to the Crown of England, and that all 
 co-operate in the one great duty of enforcing obedience, not only to 
 heavenly laws, but to those of earthly origin. I shall never cease to 
 rejoice that I have been enabled to visit this distant portion of the Empire, 
 and to become acquainted with a people of which I shall carry back 
 with me most pleasing recollections. I trust that on your part the 
 
prayers of which you remind me will henceforth be offered np in the 
 churches of the land with even an increased earnestness. 
 
 CROSSE CLUB. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, %c. 4rc. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Crosse Club of Montreal respectfully approach Your Royal High- 
 ness to express with sentiments of deep gratification a cordial welcome 
 to this portion of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 The members of this Club are not insensible to the great encourage- 
 ments which all manly sports and athletic games hare received from the 
 patronage and example of Your Royal Highness. 
 
 In our city it has also pleased Your Royal Highness to be present at 
 our game of Crosse. 
 
 It is scarcely necessary to mention that this game is one peculiar to 
 Canada ; derived from the aboriginal Red Men of the forest, and pre- 
 eminently adapted to test their swiftness of foot, quickness of ear and 
 vision, and powers of endurance. 
 
 The Crosse Club of Montreal being sincerely desirous of promoting 
 the interests of this game, and, feeling assured of the value of Your 
 Royal Highness's appreciation of their efforts, request that Your Royal 
 Highness will be graciously pleased to receive a Crosse offered for your 
 acceptance by the Club with feelings of the warmest devotion, of the 
 highest admiration, and the most ardent wishes for Your Royal High- 
 ness's continued happiness. 
 
 On behalf of the Crosse Club of Montreal, 
 
 G. H. KERNICK, 
 
 President. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 BAY OF QUINIE, Sept. 5, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I am directed to thank you and the members of the Crosse Club 
 at Montreal for your Address ; and for the intention you there express of 
 presenting to the Prince of Wales a Crosse, of which His Royal Highness 
 will accept with much pleasure as a memorial of the occasion of his 
 witnessing that interesting game. 
 
 I have the honor to be, &c., 
 
 R. BRUCE, 
 
 Major General 
 
 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF LOWER 
 CANADA. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Jllbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 We, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Governors representing the 
 
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 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada, possessing priv- 
 leges and powers nearly similar to those of the Royal Colleges of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of England, desire to take this opportunity of 
 welcoming Your Royal Highness to Canada, as the Heir Apparent to 
 the Throne of England, and the Representative of Her Most Gracious 
 Majesty, with every assurance of our loyalty to the Queen, affection for 
 Her family, and grateful appreciation of the blessings which we enjoy 
 under Her wise and patriotic rule. 
 
 And we are the more pleased at being allowed the privilege of 
 making this assurance to Your Royal -Highness, because tve feel confi- 
 dent that you will rightly estimate the character and importance of 
 such a Corporation as that in whose name we now appear ; that you 
 will understand how wide is their sphere of action, how great their in- 
 fluence upon the community at large. And we trust it will always be 
 our endeavour, as it is certainly our duty, so to labour in our vocation, 
 that we may not only promote the physical improvement and bodily 
 health of Her Majesty's subjects, but also contribute in everyway to the 
 welfare and greatness of Canada, that so Her Majesty may have increase 
 of glory in the growth and prosperity of this bright jewel of Her Impe- 
 rial Crown. 
 
 MASTERS AND WARDENS OF THE TRINITY HOUSE. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Princa of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Master, Deputy Master, 
 and Wardens of the Trinity House of Montreal, approach Your Royal 
 Highness with our respectful congratulations on your safe arrival at 
 this flourishing portion of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 As one of the numerous colonial offshoots, performing, so far as to 
 our position pertains, the duties of a Corporation, whose origin in Bri- 
 tain dates from antiquity anterior to public records, intituled " the Mas- 
 ter, Wardens, and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood of 
 the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of St. Clement in the 
 parish of Deptford Stroud, in the county of Kent," a Corporation which 
 has had the high honour of mentioning, among other illustrious person- 
 ages, as its master, our late revered sovereign, William IV., and is now 
 presided over by your illustrious father, the presence of Your Royal 
 Highness, the lineal heir to the throne of this mighty empire, is to us 
 the source of especial gratification, in addition to that we entertain in 
 common with all Her Majesty's subjects. 
 
 We fervently hope that Your Royal Highness's visit to Canada may be 
 
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 productive of as much satisfaction to youself as it is to the entire popu- 
 lation of every class, creed, and origin. 
 
 ANDREW SHAW, Master. 
 
 W. BRISTOW, Dy. Master. 
 
 W. EDMONSTONE, 
 
 J. L. BEAUDRY, 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 H. STARNES, 
 V. HUDON, 
 
 T. MORLAND, 
 P. COTIE, 
 
 E. D. DAVID, 
 
 M'GILL COLLEGE. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Governors, Principal, and Fellows of the University of M'Gill 
 College beg leave to congratulate Your Royal Highness on the safe 
 arrival which Divine Providence has granted you in this distant part of 
 the Empire, and to express our gratitude to Her Majesty the Queen and 
 Your Royal Highness for the condescension and graciousness implied 
 in this visit to her Majesty's subjects in Canada. 
 
 We call to remembrance, with great satisfaction on the present occa- 
 sion, that we owe it to the Imperial Government, from the interest 
 which it has taken in education in this part of the dominions of our 
 Sovereign, that the University with which we are connected possesses 
 the Royal Charter, which gives authority to its public acts for the 
 advancement of sound learning and science. And, although this Uni- 
 versity, the oldest in Canada, may be said to be still in its infancy, and 
 in this, as well as on account of the obstacles which in a new country 
 impede its progress, does not bear comparison with the venerable insti- 
 tutions of like nature in the mother country, particularly with that of 
 which Your Royal Highness is an Alumnus, we nevertheless beg to assure 
 Your Royal Highness that it possesses in common with them the affec- 
 tion and sense of obligation that are due to our Sovereign Lady the 
 Queen, and the happy part of the Empire over which she immediately 
 reigns. 
 
 We pray that Your Royal Highness may find this present visit in 
 every way agreeable, and fruitful of pleasing thoughts throughout many 
 years to come. 
 
 SIGNED by the Hon. Charles Dewey Day, LL.D., President; the Hon. 
 James Ferrier, M.L.C., Governor ; the Hon. Peter M'Gill, M.L.C., do. ; 
 Thomas Brown Anderson, Esq., do. ; David Davidson, Esq., do. ; Ben- 
 jamin Holmes, Esq., do. ; Andrew Robertson, M.A., do. ; Christopher 
 
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 Dunkin, M.A., M.P.P., do. ; William Molson, Esq., do. ; Alexander 
 Morris, M.A., do. ; John William Dawson, LL.D., F.u.S., Principal ; 
 Rev. Canon Leach, LL.D., Vice-Principal, and Dean of the Faculty of 
 Arts ; Andrew F. Holmes. M.D., LL.D., Dean of the Faculty of Medi- 
 cine ; Henry Aspinwall Howe, M.A., Rector of the High School ; J. J. 
 C. Abbott, B.C.L., Dean of the Faculty of Law; Brown Chamberlin, 
 M.A., B.C.L., Fellow ; Walter Jones, M.D., do. ; W. B. Lambe, B.C.L., 
 do. ; Sir William E. Logan, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., do. 
 
 MONTREAL BOARD OF TRADE. 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the President and Council of the Montreal Board of Trade, a body 
 corporate, respectfully approach Your Royal Highness to offer our 
 sincere and dutiful welcome on your arrival in Montreal, and to assure 
 you of our loyal attachment to the person and government of our gra- 
 cious Queen, your royal mother. 
 
 As a Corporation more particularly concerned in the commercial in- 
 terests of our city, which are intimately connected with those of the 
 whole country, we feel assured Your Royal Highness will permit us to 
 lay before you very briefly the nature of the geographical position we 
 occupy, of the commercial intimacy maintained with neighbouring kin- 
 dred States, as well as our own trade-relations with the Mother Country. 
 The recent abolition of all Imperial statutes protecting Colonial trade 
 and navigation, and the inauguration of a system of freedom from for- 
 mer regulations and preferences, has necessarily introduced a new era 
 for the Colonies as well as for the parent State. In a country situated as 
 Canada, there devolved the necessity of turning to the utmost account 
 whatever natural advantages it possessed, under the penalty of being 
 wholly distanced in the race of American progress and prosperity. 
 Under this conviction, an extensive canal and railway system has been 
 constructed ; the natural channel of our river between Quebec and Mon- 
 treal has been excavated, so as to admit merchant ships of the heaviest 
 burden ; an Ocean Steamship Line has been generously subsidized by the 
 Province ; and other means taken to attract through the route of the St. 
 Lawrence a share of the vast aud ever-increasing exports and imports of 
 Western Canada, and the Western United States. In the same spirit, the 
 Treaty of Reciprocity with the United States was entered into ; the 
 general result of which has proved advantageous to both the parties to 
 its negociations. 
 
 As part of the same general scheme, that magnificent structure has 
 been thrown across the St. Lawrence, which Your Royal Highness has so 
 graciously crossed the ocean formally to open. Even that great work 
 and the others alluded to, may, however, be considered but as links in 
 
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 the chain ; for, although the efforts to attract a large share of the in- 
 terior trade through the St. Lawrence has not yet been attained, we con- 
 fidently hope that the same spirit of enterprise inherited from our ances- 
 tors, which has already accomplished so much, will not rest satisfied 
 till it has demonstrated the inherent superiority of the St. Lawrence 
 route over all others, as a means of intercourse between this continent 
 and Europe. 
 
 Placed as Montreal is, at the head of ocean, and the foot of inland 
 navigation, being at once three hundred miles nearer to England than 
 New York, and nearer to the interior lakes than any United States At- 
 lantic port, and with the vast water-power at our command for manu- 
 facturing purposes, we cannot doubt, that, with other necessary im- 
 provements effected, and its position properly understood, it must become 
 in time one of the most important commercial cities in Her Majesty's 
 dominions. Nor could we, consistently with our duty, representing, as 
 we do, large interests, actual and prospective, refrain from submitting 
 to one in Your Royal Highness's eminent position the importance to the 
 Empire of the timely improvements of those geographical advantages to 
 which we have just alluded. 
 
 We beg leave to be permitted to add, that every exploration has de- 
 monstrated the existence of the most direct and most practicable rail- 
 way route to the Pacific from those Eastern Provinces of the Crown 
 which Your Royal Highness has so recently visited, and consequently to 
 the transit of that immense eastern commerce which now seeks for out- 
 lets by circuitous channels, or through foreign territory. The construc- 
 tion of such a continuous road through British American territory, from 
 the Atlantic to the Pacific, tending, as we are convinced it must, to the 
 increase of commerce, and the spread of civilization, is a subject which 
 we humbly trust may not be found umrorthy of Your Royal Highness's 
 . consideration. 
 
 We beg further to assure Your Royal Highness, that your auspicious 
 visit will stand as a memorable event, and will be gratefully remem- 
 bered as of the grace of our beloved Queen your royal mother. We 
 believe it to be fraught with the most important results, and we rejoice 
 in the assurance of the warm and heartfelt welcome which awaits Your 
 Royal Highness throughout Canada. 
 
 JOHN YOUNG, 
 
 President. 
 JOHN G. DINNING. 
 
 Secretary. 
 Montreal, August, 1860. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 MONTREAL, August 27, 1860. 
 SIR, I have the honour to convey the thanks of His Royal Highness 
 
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 the Prince of Wales for the Address presented by the Board of Trade of 
 Montreal. 
 
 I have the honour to be sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
 The Hon. John Young. 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., Sfc. 
 MAY IT'PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the President, Vice President, Council and other.members of the 
 Incorporated Natural History Society of Montreal, ask leave respect- 
 fully to address Your Royal Highness, with every assurance of our 
 loyalty and affection, on this occasion of your visit to this city, as the 
 representative of Her Majesty, and Heir Apparent to the Imperial Crown 
 of England. 
 
 Having been a frequent attendant at the meetings of " The Royal In- 
 stitution " in London, and at others of a kindred nature, Your Royal 
 Highness will be able fully to appreciate the benefits to be derived from 
 such societies ; and especially in a new countrv, where the necessary 
 business of active life is so pressing, aud but few individuals are found 
 who have the inclination or the time to devote themselves to what are 
 looked upon as the unremunerative pursuits of literature and science. 
 
 We have been encouraged, during the past few years, by the increased 
 success of our Society, and by the growing interest manifested in its oper- 
 ations. A large and commodious building has been recently erected by 
 our Society, containing ample accommodation for our library and muse- 
 um, to which some valuable additions have lately been made ; and we also 
 have a spacious lecture-room, for our annual course of lectures, which are 
 fully attended. And, to exhibit to Your Royal Highness some proof of 
 the talents and acquirements of our members, we beg to be allowed to 
 present to you the four volumes of the Canadian Naturalist, a bi-monthly 
 periodical, which has been in existence these last four years, edited by 
 the Society, and which has been favourably received and noticed by 
 scientific persons on this continent and in Europe. Almost all the arti- 
 cles, many of them upon important subjects connected with the Geolog- 
 ical, Meteorological, and Natural History of British North America, 
 have been contributed by members of the Society ; and the plates are 
 engraved in this city, where the work is printed. 
 
 At the same time, we desire to present to Your Royal Highness, on 
 behalf of Dr. Smallwood, Professor of Meteorology in McGill Ctillege, 
 and a member of our Society, a volume entitled " Contributions to Cana- 
 dian Meteorology." 
 
 F. MONTREAL. 
 
 President. 
 Museum of the Natural History Society, Montreal, July 26th, 1860. 
 
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 His Royal Highness expressed his thanks for the Address by a written 
 communication through ms Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
 
 THE VETERANS OF 1812. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., 4rc. 
 PRINCE, 
 
 The Veterans of the Militia of Lower Canada crave permission to 
 approach your person to tender to Your Royal Highness the homage of 
 their respect and of their prayers. 
 
 The Battalions formed in our Counties, in our Villages and in our 
 Towns, for the defence of our country, during the war of 1812, number 
 now but few among their ranks. 
 
 Our companions have fallen, some on the field of battle, others under 
 the scythe of time ; for, Prince, years have rolled by since then. Then 
 we served your ancestors. 
 
 We, their survivors, soon no doubt in our turn to pass away like 
 them, cherishing religiously in our hearts the memory of that eventful 
 period, seize with delight this auspicious occasion the last we can hope 
 to have to present to Your Royal Highness, and in your person to your 
 august mother, our beloved Queen, the assurance of our unaltered loyalty 
 and devotion. 
 
 Prince, most of those who fought at Lacolle and Chateauguay are 
 gone from among us, and the blood of their survivors courses in their 
 veins more feebly than of yore ; but we rejoice to say that the race of 
 1812 has its successors, and that the youth of Canada know the history 
 of their sires, and, should occasion arise, will not belie it. 
 
 Montreal, 25th August, 1860. 
 
 (Here follow the signatures of a number of officers and men.) 
 
 NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. 18, 1860. 
 
 SIB, I have the honour to communicate to you the thanks of His 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for the loyal Address presented to 
 him by the Veterans of the Militia of Lower Canada. 
 
 It is very gratifying to His Royal Highness to receive these expressions 
 of devotion and attachment to the Queen from gallant men, who, in 
 years gone by, have deserved so well of their country. He only regrets 
 that so few now survive to testify to their ancient spirit. 
 
 His Royal Highness accepts this Address with the more pleasure, 
 because happily we can now look upon the deeds of our brave country- 
 men without any other feelings than those of friendship and regard for the 
 nation against whom they fought. Hostility to our neighbours is buried 
 
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 the plains where they struggled for victory, but the honour of each 
 nation survives for ever. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
 Colonel the Hon. Sir Etienne Tache", A. D. C., 
 &c., &c., &c. 
 
 DICKINSON'S LANDING. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Mbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., SfC. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the inhabitants of the Township of Osnabruck, County of Stor- 
 mont, hail the opportunity now afforded us, to welcome to this rising 
 Province of the British Empire, the son and representative of that good 
 Queen, whom all love, and the Heir Apparent to that Crown on which 
 Her Majesty sheds so much lustre. 
 
 Many of us are the descendants of that illustrious band of patriots, 
 the United Empire Loyalists, who, rather than surrender their allegi- 
 ance to Great Britain and her King, fled, with their families, from their 
 homes and possessions, and took refuge in this land, then a wilderness. 
 Our lot is cast in more pleasant and peaceful times than theirs, and, 
 while enjoying the fruits of the privations which they underwent, as 
 well as of their hard toils, we rejoice to be able to testify to your Royal 
 Highness our loyalty and devotion to the British Crown. 
 
 We feel sure that Your Royal Highness will this day experience 
 unwonted pleasure in descending the far-famed Rapids of that noble 
 river on whose banks we dwell ; and we trust that when, on your 
 return home, Your Royal Highness tells Her Majesty, the Queen, of the 
 magnitude, resources, and natural beauties of this Province, Your Royal 
 Highness will also vouchsafe to assure Her Majesty of the entire devotion 
 of our rural population to Her Majesty's person and crown. 
 
 SHERBKOOKE. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF BISHOP'S COLLEGE, LENNOXVILLE. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Vice Chancellor, Principal, Professors, and other members of 
 the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, having received our 
 charter privileges as a University by the gracious act of our beloved 
 Queen, respectfully ask leave, on this occasion of Your Royal Highness's 
 visit to Canada as representative of Her Majesty, and Heir Apparent to 
 
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 the throne, to express our gratitude for the same, and our veneration 
 for the person, and loyalty to the Crown and authority of our Sovereign. 
 
 Having arrived here fresh from a course of study at the most ancient 
 university in England, Your Royal Highness can well appreciate the 
 advantages of such institutions, and the effects they are calculated to 
 produce upon the character of the people. 
 
 As far as our limited means and opportunities will enable us, in these 
 days of the infancy of our University, it will be our endeavour to pro- 
 mote sound learning and true religion amongst the inhabitants of this 
 province, and to train up the rising generation in feelings of affection 
 for the mother country and loyalty to their Sovereign ; so that, whenever 
 it shall please Almighty God that Your Royal Highness shall succeed to 
 the responsibilities and greatness of the Imperial Throne of England, 
 we may hope that yon will find in these noble transatlantic possessions 
 hearts as true and loyal to you as as they now are to your august 
 mother, Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, whom God preserve. 
 
 OTTAWA. 
 
 RAFTSMEN OF THE UPPER OTTAWA. 
 To His Royal Highness jilbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 
 We, the Raftsmen of the Upper Ottawa, constitute a body of 13,000 
 men, the bone and sinew of Canada. 
 
 We take advantage of meeting Your Royal Highness upon a raft, 
 respectfully to offer you our hearty welcome, and to express our loyalty, 
 our devotion, and our affection for the Queen. God bless you. 
 
 May Your Royal Highness long remain the Prince of Wales. 
 
 COUNTY OF CARLETON. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., 4 - c. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Warden and Corporation of the County of Carleton beg leave 
 most respectfully to tender to you, in the name of those whom they 
 represent, a sincere and hearty welcome to this section of Canada, 
 which has lately been so highly honored by our most gracious Sovereign 
 as selecting the same as the metropolis thereof; and at the same time, 
 to convey to Your Royal Highness, as the son of our august and beloved 
 Queen, and Heir Apparent to the Throne, their unwavering attachment 
 to British Institutions, and unshaken loyalty to the British Crown. 
 
 They trust that the visit of Your Royal Highness to this extensive 
 
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 dependency of the empire may be fraught with important and beneficial 
 results to the country in general, and that your tour through Canada 
 may be as gratifying to Your Royal Highness as your visit is to the 
 inhabitants of this loyal country. 
 
 In conclusion, they desire to tender through Your Royal Highness, to 
 our most beloved Sovereign, our loyal attachment to her person, and to 
 express the hope that the richest blessings of Divine Providence may be 
 vouchsafed to you during your sojourn on this continent, and return 
 you in safety to the heart of that illustrious family of which your Royal 
 Highness is so great an ornament. 
 
 JOSEPH HINTOS, 
 Warden of the County of Carleton. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 OTTAWA, Sept. 1st, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honour to convey the thanks of His Royal Highness 
 the Prince of Wales for the Address presented to him by yourself and 
 the Corporation of the County of Carleton. 
 
 I have the honour to be, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 Joseph Hinton, Esq., 
 
 Warden County of Carleton. 
 
 GLENGARY. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, duly deputed by the 
 freeholders and other inhabitants of the County of*Glengary, avail 
 ourselves of the present joyful occasion of the visit of Your Royal 
 Highness to this nourishing portion of Her Majesty's wide-spread 
 dominions, to tender to Your Royal Highness our heartfelt congratula- 
 tions on your safe arrival, and to renew the expression of our devoted 
 attachment to the person and Government of your most august 
 mother. 
 
 The county, whose homage we now humbly present, was settled in 
 1784 by a small number of individuals, mainly of Highland Scottish 
 descent, who, faithful in their attachment to the throne and their 
 national institutions, after the severance from the British Empire of a 
 large number of her colonies on this continent, preferred to brave the 
 rigours of a Canadian climate and the hardship of an uncleared wild- 
 erness, rather than swerve from their allegiance. These few pioneers of 
 the forest, strengthened and increased by successive tides of immigration, 
 have grown up into a rich and flourishing county, numbering at this 
 time about twenty-five thousand inhabitants. 
 
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 As in the infancy, so in the progress and manly growth of the settle- 
 ment, the "Men of Glengary " have evinced, in the War of 1812 with 
 the neighbouring nation, and on every other occasion where their services 
 were required, their unwavering attachment to the institutions of their 
 fatherland, and their reverence and love for their sovereign. With 
 heartfelt gratitude do "we now receive the high proof of Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty's condescension and regard for her faithful subjects in 
 this portion of the Empire, afforded in her acceptance of the invitation 
 tendered by the Legislature of this Province, and more especially in 
 deputing to represent Her Royal Person, Your Royal Highness, the 
 lineal successor to the Throne. 
 
 We fervently trust that the hearty manifestations of loyalty with 
 which Your Royal Highness will be greeted in every portion of this 
 country that you may be pleased to honour with your presence, will 
 render your stay as agreeable to yourself as it is gratifying to your 
 people ; that the information which personal observation will afford you 
 of the capabilities of the country, as well as of the character of its 
 inhabitants, will strengthen those favorable impressions of both you 
 have been pleased to pronounce ; and that the effect of your visit 
 amongst us may be to cement more strongly the mutual ties of interest 
 and affection that now happily unite these British Provinces with the 
 Parent State. 
 
 Glengary, 13th August, 1860. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 MONTREAL, Aug. 27, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I am directed to express the thanks of His Royal Highness the 
 Prince of Wales for the loyal Address presented by the inhabitants of 
 the County of Glengary. 
 
 I have the honor, to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 Your obed't serv't, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 D. A. Macdonald, Esq., M.P.P. 
 
 PRESCOTT AND RUSSELL. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Jllbert Edward, Prince of Wales, SfC., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Warden and Council of the United Counties of Prescott and 
 Russell, have the honour to present to Your Royal Highness, our cordial 
 welcome and congratulations on your safe arrival in the Canadian por- 
 tion of the British territory. While we desire to assure Your Royal 
 Highness of our continued and steadfast loyalty and attachment to the 
 
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 throne and government of your august and illustrious mother, our most 
 beloved and gracious Queen, we would also most respectfully and duti- 
 fully, as Canadians, and particularly as inhabitants of the valley of that 
 grand and romantic river on whose banks lies the site of the future capital 
 of Canada, express to Your Royal Highness our feelings of deep satisfac- 
 tion for the just selection made by the kindness and condescension of Her 
 Most Gracious Majesty, of the city of Ottawa, as the seat of the Govern- 
 ment of these United Provinces. The free laws under which we have the 
 happiness to live, granted us by the most liberal and enlightened of all 
 governments in the world, a noble instance of which is afforded us in our 
 own municipal institutions, tend to strengthen and cement more strongly 
 and closely, if possible, than ever, our respect, regard, and attachment 
 for the British Crown and Constitution. We cannot conclude this 
 humble and respectful Address to Your Royal Highness without uniting, 
 in the fervent prayer of our fellow-subjects in Canada, that God may 
 spare our most gracious Queen, long to reign over us ; and, at the same 
 time, assuring Your Royal Highness, that, should Providence so ordain 
 it that you shall survive your royal mother, we shall only vie with each 
 other in testifying our loyalty and allegiance to Your Royal Highness, 
 as the rightful heir and sovereign of the British Empire. 
 
 Signed, on behalf of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of 
 Prescott and Russell, 
 
 JOHN HAMILTON, Warden. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 OTTAWA, Sept. 1st, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honour to thank you, by desire of His Royal Highness 
 the Prince of Wales, for the Address presented to him by the Warden 
 and Council of the United Counties of Russell and Prescott. 
 I am, Sir, your obed't serv't, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 John Hamilton, Esq. 
 
 BROCKVILLE. 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor, Town Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Town of 
 Brockville, respectfully approach Your Royal Highness to tender our 
 grateful acknowledgment of the kindness and condescension which have 
 induced you to accept the invitation of the Canadian people to visit this 
 country, and thus witness the universal joy which the presence of the 
 heir to the Crown was sure to evoke. As citizens of Brockville, a town 
 which has shown its loyal attachment to the Crown by perpetuating 
 the name of the gallant General who fell fighting to maintain the 
 
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 integrity of the Empire, we now beg to offer Your Royal Highness a 
 heartfelt welcome to this portion of the wide-spread dominions of our 
 Sovereign ; and to assure you, that the same sentiments of attachment to 
 British soil which prompted the first settlers in this place to seek here 
 an asylum from a hostile country, at the sacrifice of all they possessed, 
 still animates their descendants. We beg Your Royal Highness to believe 
 that the enthusiasm which renders your tour through this Province one 
 triumphant progress, does not wholly arise from laudable gratification 
 that the vast resources of the most important colony of the Empire are 
 seen by our future monarch, nor yet by temporary excitement caused 
 by an unprecedented event ; it is the expression of the deep-seated 
 affection for the Crown and Constitution of the United Kingdom, which 
 constrains us still to call the old country our home. It shall be our 
 earnest prayer that Your Royal Highness may live long to adorn the 
 lofty position which you so worthily fill, and that the colonists of the 
 Empire may be enabled hereafter to feel towards their King the same 
 emotions of loyalty and affection with which the virtues and wise 
 government of your Royal Mother is spoken of throughout that Great 
 Kingdom over which she providentially reigns. 
 
 WM. FITZSIMMONS, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 presented to me. In the Queen's name I acknowledge the expressions of 
 your loyalty to Her Crown and person ; and for myself I am grateful to 
 you for this welcome to your neighbourhood. 
 
 KINGSTON. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CANADA. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with 
 the Church of Scotland, beg to approach Your Royal Highness with our 
 respectful and cordial welcome on the occasion of your arrival in this 
 part of the dominions of our beloved sovereign, the Queen. "We hail 
 with the most lively satisfaction the appearance amongst us of so 
 important a member of the royal family as the Heir Apparent to the 
 throne, regarding as we do the presence of so distinguished a visitor as 
 adding another to those numerous links of sympathy and affection which 
 already bind the North American Provinces so firmly to the British 
 Crown. We are persuaded, that, in your tour through the Province, 
 amid much that may manifest the infant state of the country, Your Royal 
 Highness will observe with satisfaction the progress that has already 
 
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 been made in the development of its material resources and the numerous 
 indications of a yet greater advancement. Feeling assured that without 
 the influence of religion presiding over national advancement, true 
 prosperity cannot be enjoyed by any people, it is our- care, as a branch 
 of the Church of Scotland from which so large a portion of the popula- 
 tion have come to this new land, and it shall be our endeavor in the 
 exercise of the duties of our sacred office, to keep the adherents of our 
 church in the path of piety and virtue in which their fathers walked ; 
 and whilst thus, in our own sphere, doing our part to promote the spread 
 of pure and undefiled religion, we are also persuaded that we thereby 
 take the surest means of cherishing in their hearts sentiments of loyalty 
 to the Sovereign and respect to her government That Almighty God 
 may bless Your Royal Highness with length of days and all other tem- 
 poral and spiritual blessings, and that He may finally call you to the 
 inheritance of that crown of rejoicing which is laid up for those, whether 
 of high or low degree, who shall serve the Lord, shall be our earnest 
 prayer. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 It is with much satisfaction that I receive the Address which you have 
 presented to me en behalf of the Presbyterian Church in connection with 
 the Church of Scotland. You are too well acquainted with the views 
 and feelings of the Queen, not to be aware how anxious she is for every- 
 thing that can promote the religion and morality of her people, and how 
 earnestly she watches the results of the labors of those who devote 
 themselves to teaching the word of God. She will therefore rejoice to 
 learn from your own lips that the ministers of your persuasion ai 
 training their people in the paths of piety and virtue, and in habits of 
 loyalty to the Sovereign and obedience to the laws. I trust that their 
 efforts, in common with those of the other churches of this land, may 
 long prosper, and that under their care a population may be reared fear- 
 ing God and honoring the Queen. I beg you to accept my thanks for 
 imploring the blessing of Heaven on my behalf. 
 
 ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY, KINGSTON. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, <rc., 4rc. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the St. Patrick's Society of Kingston, do most cordially welcome 
 Your Royal Highness to this Province. 
 
 We rejoice at the opportunity afforded us of expressing to Your Royal 
 Highness our attachment and loyalty to the British Throne, and to unite 
 with our fellow-colonists in the enthusiastic greetings that have accom- 
 panied Your Royal Highness in your progress through this Province. 
 
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 With heartfelt pleasure we hail the arrival amongst us of the Son of 
 Our Beloved and Most Gracious Sovereign, whose virtues have added 
 lustre to the British Crown, and who lives in the hearts and affections 
 of her people. 
 
 The prosperity of the people under the mild sway of Our Beloved 
 Queen, in this distant portion of the Empire, is in a great measure attri- 
 buted to the freedom they enjoy ; and we are gratified to believe that 
 the presence of Your Royal Highness will strengthen (if possible) the 
 ties that so happily unite us to the mother country. 
 
 We earnestly hope that your visit may be attended with much plea- 
 sure; and that, upon your return home, you will be pleased to convey to 
 Your Royal Mother renewed assurances of the loyalty and devotion of 
 all classes of Her Majesty's Canadian subjects. 
 
 J. O'REILLY, 
 
 President St. Patrick's Society. 
 
 The Prince in reply said that he was well assured of the loyalty of the 
 people of Kingston, and regretted that anything should have occurred 
 to prevent his visit to it. 
 
 FRONTENAC, LENNOX, AND ADDINGTON. 
 To His Royal Highness jllbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., SfC. 
 MAY IT PLBASB YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Pnited 
 Counties of Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington, and Her Majesty's 
 Justices assigned to keep the peace therein, beg leave to approach Your 
 Royal Highness for the purpose of expressing our respectful regard for 
 Your Royal Person, and our feelings of loyal attachment to Her Majes- 
 ty's person and government. We, in common with the rest of the 
 inhabitants of North America, hail the arrival of Your Royal Highness 
 among us as an event of great national interest, an event which we 
 feel assured will prove an additional guarantee that the union so hap- 
 pily subsisting between Her Majesty's North American dominions and 
 the mother country, will be perpetual ; that the intended presence of 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as the representative of Our 
 Most Gracious and Beloved Queen, at the opening of the Victoria Bridge, 
 presents in a truly gratifying manner the interest which Her Majesty 
 feels for the progress and material prosperity of this highly-favored Pro- 
 vince of Her Empire. As we are severed from our Sovereign and the 
 mother country by the broad Atlantic, we deem it a high privilege to 
 be able to tell His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at this place, 
 near our own homes, that we are, from feelings and conviction, proud of 
 being the free subjects of the greatest and most enlightened empire in 
 
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 tho world ; and how highly we prize the right to participate in the rich 
 inheritance of British freedom, British triumphs, and British civilization. 
 We earnestly pray that the present royal visit to this country may 
 prove, as we feel certain it will, an enduring advantage to the best in- 
 terests of the nation, and a source of pleasure and gratification to Your 
 Royal Highness personally. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address you have pre- 
 sented to me. In the Queen's name I acknowledge the expressions of 
 your loyalty to Her government and service ; and for myself, I am grate- 
 ful to you for the welcome to your neighborhood, although circum- 
 stances which I deeply deplore prevent my landing and visiting this 
 city and the United Counties. 
 
 BELLEVILLE. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the inhabitants of the town of Belleville, beg to express to Your 
 Royal Highness our loyalty and devotion to the Throne of Great Bri- 
 tain, and our heartfelt regret, that, when Your Royal Highness con- 
 descended to visit us, untoward circumstances, deeply deplored, de- 
 prived us of the long and eagerly looked for opportunity of meeting 
 Your Royal Highness with an expression of our devotion to our beloved 
 Queen and the Royal Family. 
 
 From earliest infancy we have been taught to regard our title to the 
 time-honored name of British subjects as a heritage dear to us as life. 
 We feel deeply humiliated, and we pray that Your Royal Highness may, 
 by forgetting the circumstances alluded to, enable us again to exult 
 in the unfolding of that flag around which cluster the historic glories 
 of ten centuries. 
 
 Do not leave Canada without testifying, in some way, the faith of 
 Your Royal Highness in our devotion, without bearing home to Your 
 Royal Mother, our beloved Queen, the assurance, that, notwithstanding 
 the unfortunate events of the 6th September, Her honor and Her 
 interests, reverential love for Her person and Crown, pride in the 
 power and glory of Britain, and an undying determination to preserve 
 the integrity of the Empire, are most dear to us. We entreat Your 
 Royal Highness, if possible, again to visit Her Majesty's loyal subjects 
 in Belleville, and to relieve us from the unhappy position in which we 
 are placed ; thus restoring to us the right to feel that we are in the 
 opinion of the world, but more especially in the sight of Your Royal 
 Mother, and Your Royal Highness, lovers of peace and order, and loyal 
 British subjects. 
 
 On behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Belleville, 
 
 W. HOPS, Mayor. 
 Belleville, 8th Sept., 1860. 
 
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 REPLY. 
 
 GEXTLEMEN, It gives me the most sincere pleasure to receive this 
 very numerous and influential deputation from Belleville, and to hear 
 from your lips the assurances and explanation contained in your Ad- 
 dress. All painful feelings occasioned by the proceedings in your town 
 on a recent occasion, which I knew were heartily disapproved by the 
 great majority of the inhabitants, are now entirely removed. 
 
 The only regret which I now experience is that I am unable to comply 
 with the strongly-expressed wish of your citizens and those of Kingston, 
 that I would go back and pay them that visit which was so unhappily 
 prevented last week. My engagements to other places will not admit 
 of such a change as a return so far eastward would necessarily entail, 
 and I cannot break faith with those who have so. kindly made prepara- 
 tions to receive me. It causes me real sorrow to leave Kingston and 
 Belleville behind me nnvisited ; but I will not fail to inform the Queen 
 of your protestations of loyalty and devotion, nor to add my own con- 
 viction of their entire sincerity. 
 
 COBOURG. 
 YICTORIA COLLEGE. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Senate, Alumni, and Students of the University of Victoria 
 College, present to Your Royal Highness our loyal greetings and most 
 cordial welcome. 
 
 The visit of Your Royal Highness to this humble seat of learning, will 
 ever be remembered by us with gratitude and pride ; and the annual 
 recurrence of the day, celebrated with festivity and joy, will enable us 
 to give renewed expression to those feelings of devoted attachment to 
 the British Throne, which it is our duty and happiness to cherish. 
 
 Our infant University cannot boast of architectural grandeur, or of 
 princely endowments ; but we may refer with pleasure to the fact, that, 
 although established and chiefly sustained by voluntary contributions, 
 she was the first university in actual operation in this colony, while she 
 is, we believe, second to none in the number and character of her gra- 
 duates. 
 
 Founded as our institution is by royal charter, and honoured with the 
 name of our illustrious and noble Queen, we desire that loyalty, patri- 
 otism, and religion may unitedly animate the education imparted within 
 her walls ; and that the study of the unrivalled literature of our father- 
 land, combined with the teachings of the great masters of Greece and 
 
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 Rome, may render Canadian youth not unworthy of their Saxon origin 
 and language. 
 
 We implore upon Your Royal Highness the Divine blessing. May 
 you live to become the Sovereign of this great empire, and may your 
 reign be as happy and benign as that of your august and revered mother. 
 
 EEPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, Accept my thanks for an Address which, proceeding 
 from the Senate and Students of a College which bears the name of the 
 Queen my mother, and is devoted to the education of the youth of this 
 Province, affords me peculiar pleasure. 
 
 I wish your University every success ; and earnestly hope that in fu- 
 ture years it may spread the blessings of a. sound education to the 
 rapidly-increasing population in the midst of which it is erected. 
 
 ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 8$c. $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, Her Majesty's loyal subjects, the members of the Cobourg and 
 County of Northumberland St. Andrew's Society, eagerly avail ourselves 
 of this opportunity of giving vent to the expression of our feelings on 
 this occasion of the visit of Your Royal Highness to the town of Cobourg. 
 
 As Scotchmen, born in Her Majesty's Kingdom of Scotland, or as the 
 descendants of Scotchmen who have emigrated to this favoured portion 
 of her dominions, we joyfully tender to Her Majesty, through Your 
 Royal Highness, the assurance of our unalterable attachment to her 
 crown and person. 
 
 It is our sacred duty, may it please Your Royal Highness, ever to bear 
 in mind the heroic deeds of our ancestors in defence of the honour and 
 independence of the ancient Crown of Scotland. With feelings of 
 delight, therefore, which we find it impossible to express in words, we 
 welcome amongst us the Heir Apparent of the British Crown, and the 
 descendant of that long line of our Scottish Kings, by whose side our 
 forefathers in the days of yore, 
 
 " Through hostile ranks and ruined gaps, 
 Old Scotia's bloody lion bore." 
 
 The memories of the Scottish past crowd thick upon us on an occa- 
 sion so auspicious as the present ; but we would assure Your Royal 
 Highness that our Scottish right hands have not forgotten their ancient 
 cunning, but that they will be found 
 
 " Ready, aye, ready," 
 
 as they were of old, to defend the honour and dignity of the Crown of 
 our beloved Sovereign. 
 
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 Earnestly praying Almighty God to bless Your Royal Highness, and 
 that He will long preserve you as the pride and hope of all ranks and 
 conditions of the British people, we most dutifully subscribe ourselves 
 Her Majesty's devoted subjects, the members of the St. Andrew's Society 
 of the Town of Cobourg and County of Northumberland, Canada West. 
 Signed in the name and on behalf of the Society, 
 
 CHARLES HOPE MORGAN, 
 
 President. 
 
 BEPLY. 
 
 TORONTO, September 8, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I hare the honour to convey to you the thanks of His Royal 
 Highness the Prince of Wales for the Address presented to him by the 
 members of the Cobourg and County of Northumberland St. Andrew's 
 Society. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 Charles Hope Morgan, Esq., 
 
 Presida.it 
 
 PETERBORO. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 Second only to the presence amongst us of a Queen whom all nations 
 honor for the integrity which has marked Her whole public and private 
 career since Her advent to the throne of these realms, is the presence 
 of Your Royal Highness, the Heir Apparent to the Crown of England, 
 in our midst this day. 
 
 The inhabitants of Cavan bid Your Royal Highness welcome. They 
 trust that here, as elsewhere in Canada, you will perceive that there is a 
 sincere attachment to Great Britain prevalent among the people ; that 
 a near relationship between England and this part of Canada exists in 
 feeling as in fact ; and that the only wish of the latter is the continuance 
 of a connection which is alike profitable and honorable to both. 
 
 The fostering care of England, under which the Colony has grown 
 and flourishes, and the interest taken by our Queen in all that concerns 
 the welfare of Canada, have received new proof in the kindness and 
 condescension which have prompted the visit of Your Royal Highness. 
 
 The inhabitants of Cavan trust that a visit, as auspiciously commenced, 
 and which has, during its progress, given as much pleasure to yourself, 
 as to those whom you have so highly honored, will continue equally 
 happy to its conclusion. 
 
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 It is our fervent prayer that God Almighty may grant to our Queen 
 your mother, along, prosperous, and happy reign ; and that He may guide 
 Your Royal Highness successfully through life. 
 
 In the name of the people of the Township of Cavan, in Canada 
 West. 
 
 JOHN SWALS, Reeve. 
 
 PORT HOPE. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Jllbert Edward, Prince of Wales, 4'c. $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUK ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the inhabitants of the Municipality of the Town of Port Hope, in 
 Upper Canada, beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness to offer the 
 expression of our sincere congratulations upon your visit to this portion 
 of the dominions of our Most Gracious Sovereign, and we heartily bid 
 you welcome. 
 
 We tender you the assurance of our steadfast loyalty to the Person 
 and Crown of your Royal Mother, the Queen of Great Britain and 
 Ireland, and of our devoted attachment to the British Constitution. 
 
 We regret that the limited time at the disposal of Your Royal Highness 
 may prevent your making a sufficient stay in this town and neighbour- 
 hood to be able personally to judge of its beauties and attractions ; 
 amongst which we might direct your attention to the viaduct of the Grand 
 Trunk Railway crossing this place, being second in extent and impor- 
 tance in the line only to " Victoria Bridge," and named after your Royal 
 father, the " Albert Bridge." 
 
 We trust that your progress through the land maybe one of unmingled 
 gratification to Your Royal Highness, as it must be of pride and pleasure 
 to its inhabitants, most of whom, from their great distance from their 
 fatherland, now behold for the first time a member of the Royal Family 
 of England. 
 
 We cannot take leave of Your Royal Highness without the expression 
 of our thanks to Her Majesty, our Most Gracious Sovereign, for this 
 testimony of her affection for her people in this distant part of her 
 dominions, in permitting Your Royal Highness to visit us ; and we pray 
 that Her Majesty may long live to govern her vast empire with that 
 wisdom and justice for which her reign has been so preeminently 
 distinguished. 
 
 Dated the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. 
 
 Signed and sealed on behalf of the Municipality, 
 
 JAMES SCOTT, 
 
 Mayor. 
 REPLY. 
 
 GEXTLEMEX, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 presented to me. 
 
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 In the Queen's name, I acknowledge the expressions of your loyalty 
 to her Crown and Person ; and for myself I am grateful to you for this 
 welcome to your neighbourhood. 
 
 TORONTO. 
 
 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., #c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The President, Council, and Members of the Canadian Institute, incor- 
 porated by Royal Charter for the promotion of science and literature 
 in this Province, humbly approach Your Royal Highness with loyal 
 and affectionate greetings, and tender to you with unfeigned respect 
 their welcome on this auspicious occasion. 
 
 While the energies of this Province are chiefly directed to the devel- 
 opment of its vast agricultural capabilities, and to the fostering of 
 trade and commerce, as the essential sources of its material prosperity, 
 the Canadian Institute specially devotes itself to investigations and 
 researches such as lead to the discovery of abstract truths in science, 
 but which ultimately tend to the intellectual and social progress of 
 man. While, therefore, uniting with their fellow-subjects in this Pro- 
 vince of the Empire, in welcoming Your Royal Highness with grateful 
 and hearty loyalty, as the Representative of their beloved Queen, and 
 the Heir Apparent to the British Throne, they beg leave respectfully to 
 tender their loyal congratulations unitedly as an Institute devoted to 
 objects and pursuits specially fostered by Her Majesty's countenance, 
 and to the furtherance of which the illustrious Prince Consort has ex- 
 tended his highest favor and influence. 
 
 Enjoying as they do all the priceless blessings derived from institu- 
 tions by right of which Her Gracious Majesty rules over a free and united 
 people, and sharing in the glories and sympathizing in all the interests of 
 the empire, of which this Province forms no unimportant member, they 
 hail with loyal satisfaction the presence of Your Royal Highness, on 
 whom rests the future hopes of this great empire. Their earnest prayer 
 is, that, endowed with all nobles graces and divine blessings, trained in 
 sound learning, and gifted with a liberal love of science and arts, you 
 may be eminently fitted for the high trust of which you are the heir. 
 May He who is the King of Kings, long spare to you, as to them, her 
 who, while, commanding honor from Your filial heart, lives not less 
 fondly in the affections of a willing people. On her sceptre the virtues 
 of their loved and gracious Queen have conferred a might more potent 
 than ever ruler achieved by conquest. Under its genial sway science 
 and letters have accomplished triumphs which will render the Victorian 
 
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 era illustrious in all future ages ; and while other nations are struggling 
 to attain such privileges as her subjects freely enjoy, the British Empire 
 the sceptre of which they trust will hereafter be no less illustrious in 
 your hands than in those of their beloved Queen has girdled the world 
 with a glorious confederacy of Provinces, alike united in freedom and 
 intellectual progress, and in loyal devotion to their Sovereign Head. 
 
 In their united capacity, as an institution incorporated by Royal 
 Charter, and specially recognized by the Provincial Parliament as repre- 
 sentatives of the interests of science and letters, the President, Council, 
 and Members of the Canadian Institute renew their assurance of devoted 
 loyalty to Her Gracious Majesty, and of cordial welcome to Your Royal 
 Highness. 
 
 DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., 
 President. 
 
 CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Bishop, Clergy, and Laity of the Diocese of Toronto, in Synod 
 assembled, beg permission to offer to Your Royal Highness a cordial 
 welcome on your arrival amongst as. 
 
 The position in which the United Church of England and Ireland has 
 lately been placed in this country, as being self-governed, and dependent 
 for support on the dutiful liberality of her children, does but serve to en- 
 hance our appreciation of the inestimable benefits which we enjoy as 
 subjects of the British Empire, and as an integral part of that Reformed 
 Communion which, under the good providence of Almighty God, is 
 becoming, in every portion of the globe, the instrument of invaluable 
 blessings to mankind. 
 
 We strongly feel that since the ties which have connected us with the 
 Civil Government of* this Colony have been severed, and the Church 
 thereby rendered independent of the State, this independence, in respect 
 of material interests, must be compensated by a closer and more con- 
 scious sympathy with the land of our origin, and with the glory of that 
 land, our Spiritual Mother. 
 
 Nor can we ever forget, that, as the Church of Christ, in all ages and 
 in all climes, has taught her children not only to fear God but to honour 
 the King, so has our Church been pre-eminently distinguished by Chris- 
 tian constancy, and by a high-souled loyalty which religion only can 
 inspire. 
 
 It is our fervent prayer to Almighty God, that these virtues may ever 
 live and flourish amongst us ; and that, as faithful servants of the King 
 of Kings, we may ever seek the honour of our earthly rulers, and the 
 welfare of the people at large, by presenting, in our several stations, an 
 example of dutiful allegiance to our Sovereign, and a grateful recogni- 
 
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 tion of the signal virtues by which our beloved Queen has purchased for 
 herself, among all nations of the earth, an imperishable name. 
 
 JOHN TORONTO. 
 
 (Attested) STEPHEN LETT, LL.D., Trinity Col- 
 
 lege, Dublin, Clerical Secretary, 
 JAMES BOVEI/L, M.D., Trinity Col- 
 lege, Toronto, Lay Secretary. 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I am grateful for the assurance of your loyalty to the 
 Queen, and for the welcome to me conveyed in your Address. 
 
 I am a member of the Church of England, and as such I rejoice to meet 
 in this distant land and in so important a diocese, the representatives of 
 that body in whose creed I have been nurtured and trained. 
 
 I trust that Almighty God will aid in your efforts to maintain the 
 efficiency of the Church, under the guidance of the benevolent prelate 
 who has so long presided over your diocese. 
 
 COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada beg to unite 
 with the many thousands of our fellow-subjects in welcoming you to a 
 country first selected as a home by United Empire Loyalists of America. 
 To us, as a body, has been assigned the task of establishing Normal and 
 Model Schools for the training of Teachers, of making the Regulations 
 for the Government of Elementary and Grammar Schools throughout 
 the country, and of selecting the text-books and libraries to be used in 
 them ; while on one of our number has been imposed the duty of 
 preparing and administering the School Laws. It has been our aim to 
 imbibe the spirit and imitate the example of our beloved Sovereign in 
 the interest and zeal with which Her Majesty has encouraged the training 
 of teachers and the establishment of schools for the education of the 
 masses of Her people ; and we have been nobly seconded in our efforts 
 by our Canadian fellow-subjects at large. At the commencement of our 
 labors in 1846, our meetings were held in a private house, the number 
 of our schools was 2,500, and the number of the pupils in them was 
 100,000. At the present time we have the Educational Buildings now 
 honored by the presence of Your Royal Highness, where teachers are 
 trained, and Maps, Apparatus, and Libraries are provided for the schools ; 
 and those schools now number 4,000, attended by 300,000 pupils. In 
 the song and text books of the schools, loyalty to the Queen and love 
 to the Mother Country are blended with the spirit of Canadian patriotism, 
 and Christian principles with sound knowledge are combined in the 
 teaching and libraries of the schools. 
 
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 With all our Canadian fellow-countrymen, our earnest prayer is " long 
 live the Queen ;" but whenever, in the order of Providence, it shall 
 devolve on Your Royal Highness to ascend the Throne of your august* 
 ancestors, we trust the system of public instruction now inaugurated 
 will have largely contributed to render the people of Upper Canada 
 second to no other people in your vast dominions, in virtue, intelligence, 
 enterprise, and Christian civilization. 
 
 REPLY . 
 
 GENTLEMEN, The progress of Canada has excited my admiration; but 
 there is no subject in which your efforts appear to have been more 
 glorious than in the matter of public education. You have, I know, the 
 assistance of an able administrator in the person of your Chief Superin- 
 tendent ; and I hope that the public education of Upper Canada will 
 continue to emulate the principles of piety, obedience to law, and 
 Christian charity among a thriving and industrious population. Accept, 
 Gentlemen, my thanks, for the welcome now offered to me within the 
 the walls of this great and important establishment. 
 
 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Directors of the Toronto Horticultural Society, desire, on 
 behalf of the Association, to express our gratification of the high honor 
 conferred upon the Society by the visit of Your Royal Highness to our 
 gardens. 
 
 In prosecuting the work of laying out' these grounds, now for the first 
 time to be opened to the Public, the Society have been actuated by a 
 desire to promote the interests of Horticulture, and, at the same time, to 
 provide a new source of healthful recreation and rational enjoyment 
 for their fellow-citizens. 
 
 The encouragement which has always been accorded to undertakings 
 of a similar nature in our Fatherland, both by Her Most Gracious Majesty 
 and the Prince Consort, have emboldened us to hope for the countenance 
 and favor of Your Royal Highness upon the present occasion ; and we 
 now, on behalf of the Horticultural Society, most respectfully request 
 that Your Royal Highness will be graciously pleased to inaugurate these 
 gardens ; and, at the same time, to leave a lasting memorial of your visit 
 by planting in our gardens a Canadian maple, which may long continue 
 a living monument, both to us and to our children, of the gratifying 
 events of this day, as well as of the high honor conferred upon our 
 country by the visit of the Heir Apparent to the British throne. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I shall have great pleasure in doing anything which 
 will tend to encourage amongst you a taste for the cultivation of gardens, 
 
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 such as may increase the comfort and enjoyment of the citizens of 
 Toronto. 
 
 * I shall be content if the tree which I am about to plant, flourish as 
 your youthful city has already done. 
 
 KNOX'S COLLEGE. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Principal, Professors, and other members of the Senate of 
 Knox : s (Theological) College, beg leave to offer our cordial congratu- 
 lations on Your Royal Highness's visit to this part of Her Majesty's 
 dominions. 
 
 "We gladly embrace the opportunity which it affords of testifying our 
 dutiful regards for our gracious Queen and the royal family, and our 
 appreciation of the protection we enjoy under the shield of the British 
 laws in the prosecution of our literary and religious labors. We assure 
 Your Royal Highness of the one sentiment of loyalty to the British 
 Crown, which animates alike teachers and pupils in the Institute we 
 preside over. We trust we shall aim at making some fitting return for 
 the invaluable civil privileges afforded to us, by Divine Providence, by 
 training the youth committed to our charge, in such sound religious and 
 moral principles as may qualify them to diffuse among others the 
 knowledge of that righteousness which exalteth a nation. 
 
 Accept the expression of our fervent wishes for your Royal Highness's 
 protection by sea and land ; and of our earnest hopes that the visit you 
 now make to these parts of the world may be no less gratifying to our 
 royal visitor, than it is fitted, we are persuaded, to strengthen the ties 
 that bind us all to the British throne, and to subserve your Royal 
 Highness's preparation for the high ulterior position to which Divine 
 providence may one day call you. 
 
 In name, and by appointment of Senate, 
 
 MICH. WILLIS, 
 
 Principal. 
 
 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Ministers and Laymen of the Primitive Methodist Church, 
 assembled in our annual Conference in this Province, unanimously agreed 
 on your auspicious arrival in this country to present our most sincere 
 congratulations. 
 
 The Primitive Methodist body in Britain and her Colonies have ever 
 shown an unalterable attachment to the royal household and to the 
 
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 beloved Sovereign that rules her vast empire with such distinguished 
 grace and wisdom. 
 
 As one of the Branches of the Protestant Church in Canada, devoted 
 to the dissemination of religion in the community, we have evidence of 
 the fact, that, whilst our teaching elevates in personal and social 
 happiness, it secures all necessary obedience to the Throne and Consti- 
 tution of our country. 
 
 We therefore trust that Your Royal Highness will be greatly interested 
 in your visit to this colony, and in receiving expressions of loyalty from 
 the people of all ranks and degrees ; and we most earnestly pray the 
 Giver of all good to continue you his gracious protection, and grant you 
 all happiness in this life and that which is to come. 
 
 WM. ROWE, President, 
 JOHN DAVIDSON, Secretary. 
 
 ROYAL CANADIAN YACHT CLUB. 
 
 To His Royal Highness jllbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc. fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the officers and members of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 
 while joining with all our hearts in those manifestations of devotion to 
 the Empire and attachment to the Crown which have everywhere 
 greeted Your Royal Highness, feel that we have especial reason to be 
 proud of this opportunity of extending to Your Royal Highness in 
 person the loyal sentiments which animate us in common with all classes 
 of your fellow-subjects. 
 
 We are grateful for the kindness which has enabled us thus to afford 
 a hearty welcome to the son of that Gracious Sovereign to whose favour 
 we are indebted for the honour of being entitled to the privileges of a 
 Royal Club. 
 
 We are also happy in being able to greet in Your Royal Highness one 
 who can fully sympathize with us in our desire to promote those noble 
 pursuits which we believe to be among the most effectual means of 
 perpetuating in these Provinces that manly spirit which has contributed 
 in no small degree to the national supremacy in which it is the pride of 
 every Canadian to participate. 
 
 Associated for the encouragement of the great national sport of the 
 British Empire, a sport so intimately connected with its naval pre- 
 eminence, we feel that the condescension of Your Royal Highness in 
 receiving this expression of devotion to yourself and your august mother 
 will constitute hereafter an epoch in the existence of the Club, to which 
 we shall ever look with pride and gratification. 
 
 In conclusion, we beg Your Royal Highness to accept our earnest 
 assurances of respect and devotion, and our heartfelt prayers for the 
 
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 happiness of our beloved Queen, and your own prosperity and success in 
 the discharge of the exalted duties, to which, in God's providence, Your 
 Royal Highness will hereafter be called. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I assure you that I take a lively interest in those manly 
 sports which distinguish England and her Colonies, more especially 
 when they are connected with that element on which has been seen 
 so much of the glory of our common country. I thank you for the 
 expression of your loyalty and devotion to the Queen my mother, and 
 for your good wishes in my behalf. 
 
 ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The St. George's Society of Toronto crave permission to approach 
 Your Royal Highness on this auspicious occasion to express their devoted 
 loyalty to their beloved Queen, and their homage to Your Royal High- 
 ness as the illustrious Heir to the Crown of that mighty Empire " on 
 which the sun never sets." 
 
 In the progress of Your Royal Highness through this great depen- 
 dency of the British Throne, Your Royal Highness has witnessed that 
 unity among the subjects of Her Gracious Majesty who have made Canada 
 their home, and has received that undivided outpouring of Canadian 
 love and loyalty which may render it matter of surprise that societies, 
 possessing features of individual nationality, exist among us. May then 
 the St. George's Society of Toronto, an association composed as well of 
 Englishmen as of the sons of that great principality from which jour 
 Royal Highness takes your august title of " Prince of Wales," be per- 
 mitted to quote from their Charter of Incorporation the main object of 
 their organization, namely : " The affording relief to such natives of 
 England and Wales in this country as from sickness or other causes 
 have fallen into distress." Such an object we feel assured will excite 
 the sympathy of Your Royal Highness as England's future Sovereign, 
 as the Welshman's noble Prince. 
 
 But while alluding to " benevolence ; ' as the main object of their 
 association, the St. George's Society of Toronto also seek, by periodical 
 commemorations, to keep alive the remembrance of the achievements of 
 their forefathers, under the banner of their Patron Saint ; and on such 
 occasions it is their especial pride to know (how closely !) the time-hon- 
 ored cry of " St. George for Merrie England !" The adopted motto of 
 the Society is associated not only with their beloved father-land and its 
 numberless public and charitable institutions, but still more with the 
 ancient residence of its kings ; the title of their beloved Queen, as 
 
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 " Sovereign of the order of the Garter," reminding them that Windsor's 
 proud Castle became, on its restoration by William of Wykeham, the 
 cradle of England's most illustrious order of Knighthood, and that an 
 enduring alliance was then inaugurated between the nobility of birth 
 and the nobility of virtue in the Hall and Chapel of St. George. 
 
 That the same power that guided the spear of the valiant knight of 
 Christendom may ever be the guardian and defender of Your Royal 
 Highness, is the fervent prayer of the St. George's Society of Toronto. 
 
 SAMUEL B. HARMAN, 
 
 President. 
 
 JOHN P. FULLJAMES, 
 Secretary. 
 
 SYNOD OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, SfC. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Ministers and Elders of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church 
 of Canada, in Synod assembled, beg leave most respectfully to offer to 
 Your Royal Highness our cordial salutations, and those of the church 
 which we represent ; and to tender the assurance of our hearty attach- 
 ment, in common with all loyal Britons, to the person and throne of our 
 Sovereign. Occupied as we are in the wide field of this church's opera- 
 tions, both in Eastern and Western Canada, in the duties of the pastoral 
 care, and meeting from time to time as church judicatories for the dis- 
 cussion of matters of importance affecting the order and government of 
 the church, we recognize the duty of joining, with our other inculca- 
 tions of Christian truth, the obligation on all to respect those who are in 
 authority over us ; and we appreciate gratefully the protection which, 
 under the shield of the British Constitution, is secured to us in the exercise 
 of our social rights, and liberty of Christian profession. This Synod 
 hails Your Royal Highness in your visit to these parts of the American 
 continent, recognizing in you the representative of a Sovereign, who, no 
 less by her example of domestic virtue, than by her mild and prudent 
 exercise of her queenly prerogative, has secured the hearty homage of 
 her subjects, and the universal respect of the civilized world. 
 
 Permit us only to add our best wishes for the protection of Your Royal 
 Highness in your journeying by sea and land ; and to assure Your Royal 
 Highness of our continued prayers, as a portion of the religious commu- 
 nity, for a family and dynasty, associated in our minds with the preser- 
 vation of whatever is dear to us as Britons and as Protestants. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, Among the characteristics of our parent land, and of this 
 important colony, is the perfect freedom of religious creeds. I recognize 
 
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 in your position the assertion of this right, associated with the doctrines 
 of that church which has long guided the people of Scotland. 
 
 I thank you for your Address, and for your prayers offered in behalf of 
 the Queen my mother, and myself. 
 
 TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATION. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 On behalf of the various Temperance organizations of Upper Canada, 
 numbering some tens of thousands of loyal hearts, we desire to welcome 
 Your Royal Highness with feelings of ardent attachment to our Sovereign 
 the Queen, whose condescension in having permitted the Heir Apparent 
 of the British Throne to visit this portion of her vast dominions, we 
 gratefully acknowledge. 
 
 We rejoice that our allegiance is due to a Sovereign whose glorious 
 reign has never been tarnished by the excesses of former Courts, but 
 that the truly Christian example of your Royal Mother has called 
 forth universal commendation. 
 
 Emulating the Christian graces of our Queen, many thousands of youth 
 are banded together to check the current of intemperance ; and we look 
 forward to a brilliant future for Canada, because in the youth of the pres- 
 ent day the principles and practice of Total Abstinence are growing with 
 their growth and strengthening with their strength. 
 
 We sincerely trust that the visit of Your Royal Highness may be 
 in every respect agreeable ; and that when you are welcomed home. Your, 
 Royal Highness may be enabled to assure Her Majesty, that, amongst 
 the glorious institutions of the Province enjoyed by a free and happy 
 people, none seem to be more blessed of Heaven than those established 
 to discourage intemperance. 
 
 As it has pleased the Almighty long to spare the Queen, to wear 
 unspotted the brightest crown of modern nations, so may she hereafter 
 wear an everlasting crown of life ; and when it shall please the King of 
 Kings to call her hence, may it be the fondest desire of your heart to 
 wear unsullied that crown which has so long adorned the brow of our 
 beloved Queen, whose goodness and whose virtues will form the choicest 
 
 page of England's history. 
 
 ROBERT SPEXCE, 
 
 President Temperance Reformation Society, Toronto. 
 Toronto, Sept. 8, 1860. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 TORONTO, 8th Sept., 1860. 
 SIR, I have the honor to convey to you the thanks of His Royal High- 
 
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 ness the Prince of Wales, for the Address presented to him by you on 
 behalf of the various Temperance organizations of Upper Canada. 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 To the Hon. Robert Spence. 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Trinity 
 College, Toronto, beg to express to Your Royal Highness our heartfelt 
 congratulation on the occasion of your visit to this Province, and our 
 grateful sense of the kindly interest which you have thus discovered in 
 the welfare of the College. 
 
 While we gladly recognize the many obligations under which we lie, 
 in common with all our fellow-subjects in this Province, to loyal attach- 
 ment to the Throne of Great Britain, and to its present most gracious 
 iccupant, it is our especial duty to acknowledge the distinguished favor 
 which Her Majesty the Queen has conferred upon us, by conveying to us, 
 under the Royal Charter, the full privileges of a University. 
 
 3er Majesty, in that character, has been pleased to declare her willing- 
 ness " to promote the more perfect establishment within the Diocese of 
 Toronto of a College in connection with the United Church of England 
 and Ireland, for the education of youth, in the doctrines and duties of the 
 Christian Religion, as inculcated by that Church, and for the instruction 
 in the various branches of science and literature which are taught in 
 tue Universities of this Kingdom." 
 
 It will ever be our pride, as it must ever be our duty, faithfully to exe- 
 cute the trust which has been thus graciously confided to us, both by the 
 inculcation of sound religious principles, and by the communication of 
 all useful secular learning. In attempting to discharge this duty, we are 
 assured that we can propose to ourselves no better model than that of 
 the ancient Universities of England, with the studies of one of which 
 Your Royal Highness is already familiar, while we learn with satisfac- 
 tion that it is your designate form a like intimate acquaintance with the 
 other. It will be our aim, by the blessing of Almighty God, to perpe- 
 tuate in this Colony that spirit of English faith and loyalty, by which 
 the members of our communion have ever been distinguished at home? 
 and by which we trust that they will still be recognized in every land in 
 which our Church is planted under the protection of the British Crown. 
 
 KEPLT. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the expression of loyalty and 
 attachment to the British Crown contained in your Address, and for the 
 welcome which you have given me to this City. 
 
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 The Institution from which the Address proceeds is one of the utmost 
 importance to the Colony, inasmuch as it is destined to train those to 
 whose care are committed the spiritual interests of the members of the 
 Church of England. 
 
 I know the difficulties under which you have labored, and I sincerely 
 hope that you may successfully surmount them. 
 
 UPPER CANADA BIBLE SOCIETY. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 4r., #c. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASB YOUB ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the President and Directors of the Upper Canada Bible Society, 
 in behalf of that Institution, desire to express our grateful sense of the 
 distinguished honour which has been conferred upon this Province by 
 the visit of Your Royal Highness, and rejoice to have the opportunity 
 of testifying our devoted loyalty to the Queen, and our warm attach- 
 ment to British connection. 
 
 The great and good work for which we are associated, has long 
 excited the warmest interest amongst the inhabitants of the United 
 Kingdom ; and Her Majesty, ever ready to encourage undertakings 
 calculated to promote the glory of God, or advance the welfare of man, 
 has evinced her appreciation of the British and Foreign Bible Society 
 by graciously accepting the patronage of one of its Branches. Animated 
 by the success of the Institution in the Parent Country, and impressed 
 with the conviction that the noblest characteristics of our glorious 
 Fatherland is the prevalence of those principles which the Holy Scriptures 
 inculcate, we have directed our humble efforts towards the dissemination 
 throughout the Province of the same Blessed Volume, in the well- 
 grounded hope that through its instrumentality the same happy results 
 may be manifested in the diffusion of that righteousness " which 
 exalteth a nation " and " establisheth the throne." 
 
 Nor have the Society's operations been altogether confined within the 
 limits of this Province; but we have endeavoured, from time to time, as 
 God has put it into the hearts of our members, to aid by special contri- 
 butions to the Parent Society, in spreading abroad the knowledge of 
 the Blessed Gospel in distant lands. 
 
 Permit us, in conclusion, to assure Your Royal Highness, that our 
 earnest prayer to the Giver of all good is, that He may pour His 
 choicest blessings upon our Queen, the Prince Consort, and every 
 member of the royal family, and especially that He will take under 
 His protecting care and guiding influence the Heir of the British Crown, 
 
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 that so he may, when called upon to rule over the Empire, walk in the 
 steps of our present honoured and beloyed Sovereign. 
 
 GEO. WILLIAM ALLAN, 
 
 President. 
 
 JAMES S. HOWARD, ) 
 WM. REID, A.M., \ Secretaries 
 
 J. G. HODGINS, LL.B., 
 
 Minute Secretary. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, It is particularly pleasing for me to receive an Address 
 from those whose efforts are directed to the spread of Divine knowledge 
 and the circulation of the Holy Scriptures. I wish you every success 
 in the mission you have undertaken, and I thank you very sincerely for 
 the welcome which you have given me to this city. 
 
 UPPER CANADA COLLEGE. 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Principal and Masters of Upper Canada College, beg to 
 approach Your Royal Highness with sentiments of devoted loyalty to 
 Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. 
 
 The Institution with which we are connected is amongst the earliest 
 of the educational benefits conferred upon this Province by the enlight- 
 ened liberality of your illustrious relative, His Majesty King George IV. 
 Established in 1829 by Royal Charter, Upper Canada College has since 
 continued to discharge a most important work in the education of many 
 hundreds of Canadian youth, numbers of whom have been enabled, 
 under the Divine blessing, to serve their country and the Empire with 
 credit in various honorable positions. 
 
 The Danube, the Crimea, and the still more recent battle-fields of 
 India, stained with their life-blood, have witnessed the daring and 
 devotion of Upper Canada College boys ; and among the officers of that 
 Regiment which boasts Your Royal Highness's name, are several whose 
 career in Upper Canada College gives promise of good service to their 
 country, should opportunity offer. 
 
 It is our grateful duty and our privilege, along with the sound and 
 religious training which characterizes the time-honored Grammar Schools 
 of England, to inculcate in our Canadian youth attachment to the land 
 and Institutions of their forefathers, and so to educate both mind and 
 body that they may be fitting and useful members of the great Empire 
 to which it is our pride to belong. 
 
 In those of our youth who are now passing under our care, we cannot 
 on this happy occasion forget that we see many who are destined to 
 take prominent parts in the future of this young country, at a time, 
 
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 when, in the order of Providence, Your Highness shall hold the sceptre, 
 which is now so benignly swayed by your august mother ; and the 
 recollection of this royal visit will, we fervently trust, stamp an inde- 
 lible impress of reality on the abstract sentiment of loyalty, and knit 
 the hearts of the rising generation inseparably to the youthful heir to 
 the mightiest Empire in the world. 
 
 YORK AND PEEL. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Council of the United Counties of York and Peel, on behalf 
 of the municipalities we represent, respectfully approach Your Royal 
 Highness to offer the hearty welcome of Canadian Yeomanry to the son 
 of our beloved Queen, and the Heir Apparent to the British throne. 
 
 Through your Royal Highness, we desire to express to our gracious 
 Sovereign our feelings of attachment to the British Constitution, and 
 loyalty to the British crown ; and our hope that her reign, so happy and 
 prosperous, may be long continued. 
 
 We trust that this visit may prove an agreeable one to Your Royal 
 Highness ; that the opportunity of personal observation on the part of 
 yourself, and the distinguished noblemen who accompany you, may 
 prove beneficial to this and the mother country ; and that, in after 
 years, amidst other scenes, Your Royal Highness may at times revert 
 with satisfaction to your recollections of Canada and the Canadians. 
 
 D. REESOR, 
 
 Warden. 
 Council Chamber, 7th September, 1860. 
 
 COLLINGWOOD. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Mbert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor and Council of the Town of Collingwood, on behalf 
 of ourselves and our loyal townsmen, beg respectfully to approach 
 Your Royal Highness with assurances of esteem to yourself, and loyalty 
 to our gracious and beloved Sovereign, your august mother. 
 
 In doing so, we avail ourselves of this your visit to the most northern 
 town of British North America, to offer you a hearty and loyal welcome 
 and to sincerely thank Your Royal Highness for the honour conferred 
 upon us by this your visit to this our youthful Municipality. 
 
 We trust that the visit of Your Royal Highness to the shores of the 
 majestic Huron, the great highroad to our Sovereign's extensive domi- 
 
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 nions in the North-west, stretching as they do to the mighty Pacific, 
 will not be among the least pleasing reminiscences of the sojourn of 
 Your Royal Highness with Her Majesty's loyal Canadian subjects. 
 
 We pray that Your Royal Highness will be pleased, on your return 
 to the Mother Land, to convey to our gracious Queen the assurances 
 of our continued attachment to Her throne and person, and our unwa- 
 vering fidelity to the British Constitution. 
 
 JOHN McWATT, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 BAKRIE. 
 
 MAGISTRATES OF SIMCOE. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Magistrates of the County of Simcoe, in Session assembled, 
 are grateful for the opportunity of approaching Your Royal Highness 
 with our tribute of respect both to Her Majesty whom you represent, 
 and also to yourself personally. 
 
 We would hope that your progress through the Province, as it has 
 drawn closer the ties which unite us and the land of our fathers, by 
 adding feelings of personal interest in yourself, may have also assured 
 you that the Crown of England has, in Canada, as loving and faithful 
 subjects as any in the British Isles. The blood which throbs in England's 
 heart, circulates through every member of Her mighty empire. 
 
 As ministers of justice, we take pride in informing Your RoyalHighness, 
 that, whether congregated in towns or villages, or secluded in the 
 depths of the forest, Her Majesty's Canadian subjects are a law-abiding 
 people; that our laws, nearly identical with those of England, are, 
 throughout our borders, valued and obeyed. 
 
 We see in Your Royal Highness's visit a graceful and welcome recog- 
 nition of Canada as an integral and important portion of the empire; 
 and trust that the recollections you may bear from our shores will be as 
 suggestive to you of our country's devotion to the Crown and to your 
 person, as the remembrances you leave behind you are assuring to us 
 that the throne which your noble mother our good Queen has long set 
 up in the hearts of her subjects, will rest on the same enduring foun- 
 dation of respect and love when you become our King. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 presented to me. 
 
 In the Queen's name, I thank you for the expressions of your loyalty 
 to her crown and person ; and for myself, I am grateful to you for this 
 welcome to your neighbourhood. 
 
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 GUELPH. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE TOTJE ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Mayor and Council, on behalf of themselves and the inhabitants 
 of Guelph, proudly welcome Your Royal Highness to this town, which 
 bears the family name of the illustrious House of Brunswick, a town 
 which has risen in thirty years from an unbroken forest. 
 
 We thank Your Royal Highness for the honor of this visit, and the 
 opportunity thus afforded of expressing our loyalty and devotion to 
 the person of our Queen, and attachment and fealty to the free insti- 
 tutions of the great Empire of which we are proud to form an integral 
 part. 
 
 We entertain a profound sense of Her Majesty's kind and gracious 
 consideration for Her Canadian subjects, in delegating Your Royal 
 Highness to visit Canada; and are deeply sensible of our obligations to 
 Your Royal Highness in encountering the fatigues and perils of an 
 Atlantic voyage to come amongst us. 
 
 Our warm affections will follow Your Royal Highness, and our earn- 
 est prayers to Almighty God for your safe return to that empire whose 
 future hopes and expectations, in common with our own, are bound up 
 in Your Royal Highness. 
 
 JOHN HARVEY, 
 
 Mayor. 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 presented to me. 
 
 In the Queen's name, I thank you for the expressions of your loyalty 
 to Her Crown and person ; and for myself, I am grateful to you for this 
 welcome to this the chief town of so fertile and beautiful a district, bear- 
 ing, as it does, the name of my own family. 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 BOARD OF TRADE. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., 4 - c. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, as representing the gentlemen composing the Board of Trade in 
 the city of London, C.W., most respectfully approach Your Royal High- 
 ness with a cordial welcome on this auspicious occasion ; and we do so 
 the more readily because you have high claims on our loyalty, not only 
 as the Heir Apparent of the British Throne, but as descended from our 
 
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 illustrious sovereign, whom we, in common with all her subjects, revere 
 and love. It is the aim of our Board to encourage every species of legi- 
 timate trading and manufacture, and thereby to co-operate with all other 
 classes in the community in advancing the prosperity of our youthful 
 city, and of the Province at large ; therefore, it is with no ordinary plea- 
 sure that we address Your Royal Highness at a time when this portion 
 of the colony, justly called " the garden of Canada," is steadily recovering 
 from the late commercial crisis, and when a singularly abundant harvest 
 has cheered the entire population, who had been much discouraged by 
 the failure of the crops of past years, causing a general depression of 
 business. 
 
 Although inhabiting a distant part of the British dominions, we con- 
 tinue to preserve the most devoted attachment to the crown and person 
 of Her Most Gracious Majesty. 
 
 It is our sincere prayer, that, when the day arrives for Your Royal High- 
 ness to leave the American shores, you may be carried over the deep in 
 safety, and that your life may be long, glorious, and happy. 
 With profound respect, 
 
 D. FAKRAE, 
 
 President, 
 CHAS. HUNT, 
 
 Vice-President, of the Board of Trade, 
 London, C.W. 
 
 COUNTY COUNCIL. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, $c. } 4rc. 
 
 MAT IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Warden and Municipal Council of the County of Middlesex, 
 heartily welcome Your Royal Highness on your arrival within this 
 county. Forty years ago, Middlesex was a dense forest, within which 
 scarcely a civilized being could be found ; but, through the energy 
 industry, and untiring perseverance of the pioneers of the wilderness, 
 that forest has receded, and has been mainly converted into cultivated 
 lands, the comfortable homes of a loyal, free, and independent people. 
 
 We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to beg Your Royal 
 Highness to convey to Her Gracious Majesty the assurance of our admi- 
 ration of the high qualities which so conspicuously adorn her character, 
 and the devoted loyalty of the people of the County of Middlesex to 
 the Crown and Constitution. We trust that your visit to Canada and 
 sister Provinces may prove agreeable to Your Highness ; and that, on 
 your return to the parent land, you may be pleased to represent to Her 
 Majesty that her transatlantic subjects have already made considerable 
 progress in material comfort, and in the arts of civilization ; and that a 
 
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 further advancement will doubtless continue to be made, under the wise 
 and liberal policy pursued by the parent State, in the benefits of which 
 this important dependency of the British Empire has largely partici- 
 pated. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address which you have 
 presented to me. 
 
 In the Queen's name, I acknowledge the expressions of your loyalty 
 to her crown and person ; and for myself, I am grateful to you for this 
 welcome to your neighbourhood. 
 
 ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 4rc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the office-bearers and members of the St. Andrews' Society in the 
 city of London, Canada West, most respectfully present to Your Royal 
 Highness our cordial welcome to this city, with the expression of our 
 deep affection for you as the Heir Apparent of that vast empire under 
 the dominion of our Beloved Queen. 
 
 To relieve the wants of our indigent countrymen who have emigrated 
 to this soil, is the first aim of our Society ; and as Scotsmen, and the 
 descendants of Scotsmen, in this portion of Canada West, we cherish 
 towards the illustrious family of which you are the hope, an attachment 
 loyal and devoted as that which animates the hearts of Caledonians at 
 home. 
 
 We continue to regard with undiminished satisfaction those domestic 
 virtues which adorn the character of Her Most Gracious Majesty ; and 
 we respectfully request that Your Royal Highness will convey to the 
 Queen the unalloyed pleasure we feel in uniting with our fellow-subjects 
 throughout the empire in maintaining the stability of her throne. 
 
 May the Almighty bestow on you length of days and happiness, and, 
 by making your life a blessing to the whole British territories, make you 
 a blessing to the world at large. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 LONDON, C. W., 14th Sept., 1860. 
 
 SIB, I have the honor to convey to you the thanks of His Royal High- 
 ness the Prince of Wales for the Address presented to him by the mem- 
 bers of the St. Andrew's Society. 
 
 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 J. Wilson, Esq., 
 
 President St. Andrew's Society. 
 
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 SYNOD CHURCH OP ENGLAND. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Eiward, Prince of Wales, fyc., tfc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Bishop, Clergy, and Laity of the Diocese of Huron, in Synod 
 assembled, approach Your Royal Highness to offer to you the homage 
 of our unfeigned respect, and to evince our devoted loyalty to the crown 
 and sceptre of Great Britain. 
 
 Attached by principle and by strong affection to the British Throne, 
 we rejoice to welcome amongst us the son and representative of our 
 beloved Queen, whose many virtues have shed a lustre upon the high 
 position which, in the providence of God, she has been called to fill. 
 
 Though separated from Great Britain by thousands of miles, we rejoice 
 to feel that we are under the British crown, and an integral part of the 
 United Church of England and Ireland. We earnestly desire that the 
 supremacy of the Sovereign of Great Britain over us, as a portion of the 
 Church of England and Ireland, may be ever maintained, and that we 
 and our posterity, to the latest generations, may enjoy the high privi- 
 lege of being united to that pure and reformed church, which, under 
 God, has conferred the highest blessings upon our fatherland. 
 
 We are thankful that God, in his providence, has watched over Your 
 Royal Highness, and protected you in your travels by land and by 
 water ; and we earnestly pray that the same protecting power may be 
 extended over you throughout your gracious visit to this remote portion 
 of the British Empire. 
 
 We shall ever continue earnestly to entreat our Heavenly Father, the 
 King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the only ruler of Princes, to endow 
 you with His Holy Spirit, to enrich you with His heavenly grace, to 
 prosper you with all happiness, and to bring you to His everlasting 
 kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, The formation of this new Diocese of the Province of 
 Canada, appears to show the vitality of the Church of our Fathers in 
 this distant land. 
 
 It is clear that the ministry of her clergy, and the paternal care of 
 her bishop, are sought for, and appreciated. 
 
 I thank you very sincerely for the warm expression of your loyalty 
 and affection for the Queen my mother; and I feel the value of those 
 prayers which you will continue to offer on her behalf, and on my own 
 
 It is true that I shall not have heard, within the walls of your cathe- 
 dral, the preaching of the word of God ; but I shall bear away with me 
 from this city a lively recollection of the welcome which has been given 
 me by the clergy, and the members of that church to which I belong. 
 
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 THE MAGISTRATES. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Gilbert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., Sfc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, Her Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the magistrates of the 
 county of Middlesex, in Upper Canada, in general Quarter Sessions as- 
 sembled, beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness with an assurance 
 of our devoted attachment to the person and government of our most 
 gracious sovereign, and to congratulate Your Royal Highness upon your 
 safe arrival amongst us, and to assure you of the grateful sense we en- 
 tertain of the condescension of Your Royal Highness in submitting to the 
 many inconveniences necessarily attendant upon visiting this portion of 
 Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 We sincerely hope that Your Royal Highness, the descendant of a long 
 line of illustrious ancestors, whose memory will be ever dear to Her Ma- 
 jesty's Canadian subjects, after having viewed as much of this great 
 continent as your time and convenience will admit, may be blessed by 
 the Almighty with a safe return to your native land ; and that, when, 
 under the dispensations of an All-wise Providence, you shall be called, 
 in the course of time, to reign over us, you may remember (as we ever 
 shall, with feelings of pleasure) Your Royal Highness's visit to this 
 favored and flourishing portion of the British empire. 
 
 THE MILITIA. 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, $c., 4' c - 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HlGHNESS, 
 
 We, the loyal Militia of the 8th Military District of Canada West, 
 comprising the counties of Middlesex, Elgin, Norfolk, Brant, and Oxford, 
 and numbering upwards of thirty thousand of all ranks, are most happy 
 in the opportunity given to us by your august mother and beloved 
 Queen of assuring Your Royal Highness in person of our firm and 
 devoted attachment to her person and crown ; and offering to Your Royal 
 Highness, as the son of so admirable a mother, and as the Heir Apparent 
 to that crown, a warm welcome to our home in the forest. 
 
 We are indeed rejoiced to see amongst us, in these remote backwoods, 
 the first (with the exception of your illustrious grandfather, the Duke 
 of Kent) of the Princes of the House of Brunswick ; and next to the gra- 
 tification which Her Most Gracious Majesty in person would have given 
 to us, in common with our fellow-subjects in British North America, we 
 esteem the advent of Your Royal Highness. 
 
 It has been the good fortune of Canadians, from the time since Canada 
 became an appendage of the British Crown, to have served in the armies 
 
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 of Britain, both in the ranks and by commissions from the sovereign : and 
 it is a proud reflection for us that Canadians have ever, in such positions, 
 no less truly than their fellow-subjects, fought the battles of their 
 parent land ; and from the militia of Canada (partly of this district) 
 there was recently added to the British army, as your Royal Highness 
 is aware, the regiment which has your title as its own distinctive name. 
 We can, therefore, confidently assure Your Royal Highness that if, in the 
 course of events, our beloved mother country, and that throne to which, 
 in loyalty and devotion, we will give place to none, should need to call 
 to her aid the sons of her colonies, many such bands as that gallant 
 regiment will be found, who, leaving for the time their axes, their 
 ploughs, and their peaceful occupations in the forests, and slinging their 
 rifle, the weapon of the Canadian militia-men, will gladly, side by side 
 with the loyal volunteers of England, strike a blow for the honor and 
 glory of that empire with which it is our pride to be identified. 
 
 Again we ask Your Royal Highness to accept a hearty welcome, and 
 our best wishes for your future welfare, your health and happiness, and 
 for a safe return to the shores of Old England. 
 
 THE WELSHMEN. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The natives of the ancient principality of Wales, and their descen- 
 dants, settled in this vicinity, proud of the traditions of their country, 
 have appointed us a deputation on this auspicious occasion to receive 
 and welcome their royal Prince to this young and rising inland city. 
 
 We therefore, in their name and in our own, beg leave to express the 
 hearty and unfeigned joy we all feel at the consummation of an event 
 now so long and ardently looked forward to. From the hour in which 
 Your Royal Highness first arrived in these Provinces, we have marked 
 with great pleasure the enthusiastic loyalty and devotion with which 
 all classes of our fellow-subjects have testified their attachment to your 
 royal person, as the representative of our beloved sovereign and her 
 august family. And we beg leave to assure Your Royal Highness, that 
 our hearts respond in unison with the many warm tributes of admiration 
 so justly earned and so universally accorded to those Christian and 
 domestic virtues that have so eminently adorned the life and reign of 
 our good Queen, and increased, if possible, the attachment of her sub- 
 jects to the British Throne and to British institutions. 
 
 We are happy also in the opportunity thus afforded us of conveying 
 to Your Royal Highness our sense of the admirable prudence, judgment, 
 and wisdom displayed on all occasions by your royal father during his 
 I6ng and happy connection with the British Empire. 
 
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 We earnestly hope that Your Royal Mother has yet many years to 
 reign over us ; and that from the satisfaction which Your Royal High- 
 ness has been graciously pleased to express at all you have seen during 
 your progress through this Province, as well as from the ease and 
 rapidity with which the distance separating us from Great Britain can 
 now be traversed, we may be permitted to indulge a hope that this short 
 visit is but the first of a series, increasing both in frequency and dura- 
 tion, which Your Royal Highness may be induced to undertake before 
 reaching that high destiny to which God has appointed you, that you 
 may with your own eyes mark from time to time that rapid progress 
 which is so peculiar a feature of this part of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
 May God in his infinite mercy guide and watch over you. 
 
 BBPLT. 
 
 LONDON, C. W., Sept. 14, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have the honor to convey to you the thanks of His Royal 
 Highness the Prince of Wales, for the Address presented to him by the 
 natives of the principality of Wales, settled in the vicinity of London. 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 To Benjamin Nash, Esq. 
 
 SARNIA. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., Sfc. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Mayor and people of Sarnia, most respectfully approach Your 
 Royal Highness to bid your welcome to our young town, and offer our 
 congratulations on your having now reached, in health and safety, the 
 western boundary of Her Majesty's Canadian dominions. 
 
 We are glad of the opportunity thus afforded us of giving expression 
 to the sentiment of loyalty to the British Crown and Sceptre, which, 
 although " Borderers " geographically, we strongly hold, and have uni- 
 formly evinced in past years ; and which we also enjoin our children 
 to maintain, in time to come, esteeming their union and identity with 
 the mighty British nation as their chief boast and greatest glory. 
 
 As the substitute and -representative of our gracious and beloved 
 Queen, sent to visit Her transatlantic subjects in response to their invi- 
 tation, we pray you to accept our warm thanks for this special mark of 
 her royal consideration, and convey to her the heartfelt tribute of our 
 admiration of the many excellencies that adorn her private character, 
 and of the wisdom and beneficence that characterize her widely-extend- 
 ed government. 
 
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 As the Heir Apparent of the British Throne, we trust that you will be 
 preserved and guarded by a watchful Providence, to become a future 
 blessing to the multitudes, in many lands, who shall yet own allegiance 
 to your inherited authority, and promote, in their day and generation, 
 the strength and splendor of the kingdom. 
 
 As a traveller for recreation and instruction, we trust that you will 
 see much to please, and more to profit by, in the course of your jour- 
 neyings through the Queen's American possessions, and subsequently 
 through those of our republican neighbors ; and that you will carry with 
 you and preserve, after returning to your native land, many agreeable 
 recollections of your visit to this Western Hemisphere. 
 
 We have not very much to show Your Royal Highness in Sarnia, as 
 evidencing the prowess of the people in the subjugation of the rude 
 native elements to the uses of civilization ; but when we say that there 
 are standing here to-day many of the pioneers who first, in this locality, 
 cleared homes for themselves in the unbroken forest, destitute then of 
 any roads, and railroads all unhoped for, even steamboats uncommon 
 on that beautiful river in front, it may be acknowledged, after all, 
 that we still inherit a portion of the energy and perseverance which 
 make the Anglo-Saxon a conquering race on every soil upon which 
 they undertake to live and labor. 
 
 In name and on behalf of the inhabitants of Sarnia, 
 
 THOMAS W. JOHNSTON, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 HAMILTON. 
 
 HIGHLAND SOCIETY. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Sfc., SfC. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the President, Directors, and Members of the Highland Society 
 of Hamilton and Canada West, desire most respectfully to approach 
 Your Royal Highness for the purpose of assuring Your Highness of our 
 devoted attachment to the person and throne of our beloved Queen, of 
 expressing our affectionate regard for your Royal Person, and of tender- 
 ing to you a Highland welcome to our Canadian homes. 
 
 As sons of the garb, associated together for the purpose of perpetuat- 
 ing in the land of our adoption, the language, music, and martial spirit 
 of our forefathers, it is not possible for us to witness the presence 
 in our midst of the descendant of " Caledonia's Royal Race," without 
 giving utterance in a few inadequate words to the feelings of intense 
 delight and satisfaction with which we have viewed the cordial and 
 enthusiastic manner in which he has been received by all classes of Her 
 Majesty's subjects since his arrival on our Western shores ; and espe- 
 
cially to the feelings of delighted pride with which we, in common with 
 all the sons of the " land of the mountain and the flood," hail his arrival 
 in this distant portion of Britain's glorious Empire. 
 
 We feel as if we had a territorial interest in Your Royal Highness, 
 distinct from political considerations, distinct from constitutional theo- 
 ries, or even from regard to those personal qualities which we are proud 
 to know you possess, and which, of themselves, would command the 
 homage of our esteem. We recognize in Your Royal Highness the un- 
 questioned heir of Scotland's ancient Kings ; we render to you the hom- 
 age due to him through whose Veins runs the blood of the heroic Bruce, 
 the defender of Scotland's liberties ; we hail you as one whose Royal 
 brow, we humbly trust, shall at some distant day be adorned by Scot- 
 land's Virgin Crown, that old diadem which, through ages of darkness 
 and danger, has ever been the holy rallying-light to bravery, to patrio- 
 tism, and honour; and we welcome you amongst us as the son of a mo- 
 narch endeared to Scotsmen all over the world, above all other monarchs 
 that ever sat upon Britain's throne, for the loving interest she has ever 
 manifested in the land they love so well. 
 
 We cannot sufficiently give utterance to our feelings of gratitude for 
 the consideration and kindness which prompted our August Sovereign 
 to depute Your Royal Highness as her representative to visit Her North 
 American dominions ; and the importance of the visit cannot, we think, 
 be over-estimated. We know and believe that her object has been to 
 show her colonial subjects that she loves us, and to gratify our loyal 
 love to her and to her race. We fondly hope that both objects have 
 been happily accomplished. Our people are not of those who hurry 
 from their homes, their farms, and their workshops to gaze upon a sense- 
 less pageant : they hurry to do homage to the son of their Queen ; they 
 wish him to see how happy they are in having him amongst them ; to 
 see for himself the placid aspect of a people grateful to God for the po- 
 sition they hold among the Nations, who know their own worth, and, 
 knowing it, feel that they have a Sovereign of whom Canada may well 
 be proud, and to support whose Throne thousands of them are prepared 
 to bring hands steeled by the labours of a life of hardihood and free- 
 dom, and hearts fearless of man in the fear of God. 
 
 By giving expression to our earnest prayer that to Your Royal High- 
 ness a long and happy life may be vouchsafed, that an all-wise Provi- 
 dence may ever have you in its gracious keeping, aud that you may 
 prove a blessing to the people over whom you are destined to rule, we 
 conclude. With these hopes, in the language of our fathers, we tender 
 you " Cead millefailte." 
 
 Signed in the name, and by authority, of the Highland Society of 
 Hamilton and Canada West. 
 
 HECTOR MUNRO, President. 
 
 Hamilton, Canada West, 19th Sept., 1860. 
 
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 MAGISTRATES AND YEOMANRY. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Magistracy and Yeomanry of the County of Wentworth, de- 
 sire to approach Your Royal Highness with the expression of our heart- 
 felt attachment to Her Majesty the Queen, and to the Royal Family. 
 
 We deeply value the high honor which has been conferred upon this 
 Province in the presence of Your Royal Highness among us as Her 
 Majesty's representative; assuring ourselves that Your Royal Highness's 
 visit will excite in the people of this Province, if possible, a yet higher 
 regard for British institutions, and an increased attachment to British 
 connexion. The Exhibition of the Provincial Agricultural Association 
 will have developed in some degree the resources and capabilities of this 
 Province in agricultural products, and, we trust, has proved, that it is 
 not without the promise of much success in manufactures, or wholly 
 wanting in the cultivation of the fine arts ; and we venture to express 
 the hope, that the opportunity which has been afforded to Your Royal 
 Highness of visiting this section of the Province, has impressed Your 
 Royal Highness with the assurance, that, although occasionally oppressed 
 by the failure of its harvest, Wentworth and its adjoining counties 
 possess the elements of future prosperity as the reward of steady indus- 
 try. 
 
 We heartily bid Your Royal Highness welcome ; and when the period 
 of Your Royal Highness's return to the " Old Country " shall have arriv- 
 ed, we venture to hope that Your Royal Highness will convey to our 
 Queen the assurance of our loyalty, and that Your Royal Highness will 
 ever retain a pleasing remembrance of the visit with which we have 
 been favoured. 
 
 By desire of the County and on its behalf, 
 
 E. CARTWRIGHT THOMAS, 
 
 Sheriff. 
 15th Sept., 1860. 
 
 MILITIA. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, <rc., $c. 
 MAY IT PLEASK YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the officers and men of the 7th Military District of Upper Canada, 
 beg leave to offer to Your Royal Highness, our congratulations upon the 
 safe arrival of Your Royal Highness in this portion of Her Majesty's 
 dominions, where loyalty and attachment to the Throne, and veneration 
 for the country whence our forefathers came, are the predominant senti- 
 ment of its inhabitants. These have ever been the marked character- 
 istics of the people, whether engaged in their various occupations, con- 
 
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 tributing to the material advancement of the Province, or assembled 
 together in arms to repel the attacks of a numerous and gallant foe. 
 
 As loyal subjects of Her Majesty, and in our capacity of Militiamen, 
 we hope we may be pardoned by Your Royal Highness, if, upon this 
 auspicious occasion, we refer to the deeds of our forefathers, who were 
 ever ready to rally round the throne at the first sign of danger. 
 
 During the war of 1812 the enrolled militia of Upper Canada, with 
 the aid of a few troops of the line, repeatedly defeated a well-appointed 
 and much more numerous body of the enemy's regular troops ; and not 
 only succeeded in repelling invasion, but carried the war into the ene- 
 my's country, and thus contributed to preserve this noble Province to 
 the British Crown. 
 
 Many hard-fought battles, including the crowning victory of the 
 storming of Fort Niagara, and the capture of the whole of the Niagara 
 frontier, exhibited instances of the courage, endurance, devotion, and 
 ability of the Militia of Upper Canada; and we, as their representatives, 
 beg leave to assure Your Royal Highness, that that loyalty and devotion 
 to their Sovereign and their country which so distinguished the militia 
 of those days have been inherited by their descendants, and that we shall 
 ever be ready to devote our fortunes and our lives to the same cause, 
 wherever occasion may arise. 
 
 We trust that the tour of Your Royal Highness through these noble 
 dominions of Her Majesty, and through the States of the adjoining Re- 
 public, may have a pleasant and happy termination ; that the result 
 of Your Royal Highness's visit may tend to unite more closely the British 
 American Provinces to the great Empire of which they form a part ; 
 and that the friendly alliance with the United States of America may 
 be strengthened, and made lasting and permanent. 
 
 We pray, that it may please an All-wise Providence to conduct 
 Your Royal Highness in safety to the shore of Great Britain ; and that 
 Your Royal Highness will be pleased to assure our beloved Sovereign 
 the Queen, of the heartfelt devotion of Her Militia of Upper Canada. 
 
 Signed at Hamilton, on behalf of the officers and men of the 7th Mili- 
 tary District of Upper Canada, this 4th day of September 1860. 
 
 TRUSTEES OF THE HAMILTON CITY SCHOOLS. 
 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUH ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Chairman and members of the Board of School Trustees 
 for the city of Hamilton, beg to approach Your Royal Highness with all 
 loyal and dutiful respect, and, in our own name, as also in the name 
 of all the Teachers and pupils in the several schools under our care, 
 the highest of which you have deigned to honor with your presence, 
 
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 we most heartily and loyally greet you on your auspicious arrival in 
 our city, and gratefully bid you a joyous welcome. 
 
 Amid the great manifold blessings we enjoy under the benign 
 swny of our most Gracious Sovereign, your august and honored mother, 
 we specially prize the system of general education established in the 
 province, which, if matured and maintained, will soon render a good 
 common education, the young Canadian's birthright, altogether irre- 
 spective of his class, color, or condition, and free access to the school- 
 house, the privilege of all. In all our schools, and in their appropriate 
 lessons, the great principles of religion and patriotism, loyalty and 
 charity, are kindly but faithfully inculcated. And we feel assured that 
 the condescension of Your Ruyal Highness in visiting this and other 
 schools of learning in the Province, will not only greatly encourage the 
 work of education, but will also foster and perpetuate in the hearts of 
 the young, that profound sentiment of devoted loyalty which endears 
 the tie that unites us, as a people, to the British Crown, and which will 
 hereafter strengthen the pillars of that illustrious throne, which, in the 
 providence of God, you may be called to occupy. 
 
 We gladly avail oursjlves of the occasion to renew our assurances of 
 loyalty to the Queen, and our personal regard for Your Royal Highness. 
 
 May the recollections of your present extended tour, be to you a 
 future satisfaction ; may your further journeyings be prosperous, and 
 your return home safe and happy. 
 
 W. L. BILLINGS, M.D., 
 
 Chairman of Board of Trustees. 
 
 WATER COMMISSIONERS. 
 MAY IT PLKASK YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 The Water Commissioners of the City of Hamilton beg leave to ex- 
 press their feelings of love and loyalty to the person and throne of your 
 august mother, and their devoted attachment to yourself. 
 
 They would not have ventured to request that Your Royal Highness 
 would inaugurate these works at this point, had they not been aware of 
 the distance travelled by Her Majesty the Queen to perform a similar 
 ceremony at Loch Kathrine. 
 
 They also know the interest which Your Royal Highness, as well as 
 your illustrious father, manifests in the industry and social well-being 
 of the people ; and they are happy to have this opportunity of exhibiting 
 a system of Water Works which they believe to be as complete as any 
 on this continent. 
 
 These works have been planned and executed under the direction of 
 Thomas C. Keefer, an engineer born and educated in this province ; and 
 the engines to which the attention of Your Royal Highness is directed, 
 
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 are specimens of Canadian workmanship, the most powerful and highly- 
 finished of their kind in the province. 
 
 The fact that a city of twenty-five thousand inhabitants has carried 
 to completion an undertaking of such magnitude, shows that protection 
 of life and property from fire, sanitary considerations, and social com- 
 fort, are as well understood and as highly appreciated here as in larger 
 and older communities. 
 
 The inauguration of these works by Your Royal Highness is a most 
 gratifying event to the Commissioners and the people whom they repre- 
 sent. They hope that the present will not be the last visit of Your 
 Royal Highness to this country ; but if it should be, rest assured that 
 the interest manifested by Your Royal Highness in their enterprize will 
 ever be gratefully remembered by the citizens of Hamilton. 
 
 ADAM BROWN, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 WELLINGTON. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince, of Wales, $c., fyc. 
 MAY IT PLEASB YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 We, the Municipal Representatives of the County of Wellington, in 
 County Council assembled, gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity 
 presented by this visit of Your Royal Highness to our County Town, to 
 testify in word, as we are ever ready to do in our daily lives, our devo- 
 tion to the Crown and person of our illustrious and beloved Sovereign ; 
 while with others we cannot avoid the expression of our regret that 
 the duties appertaining to the high position held by Her Gracious Ma- 
 jesty, have prevented her acceptance of the invitation preferred by our 
 Legislature, and from becoming personally acquainted with the fervent 
 feeling of loyalty pervading this portion of her dominions. We grate- 
 fully acknowledge the readiness with which she has met the prayer of 
 her Canadian subjects, by deputing as her representative, one who, at 
 some distant day, will wield the sceptre now held by her. In doing 
 this, we beg to congratulate Your Royal Highness upon the enthusiastic 
 and hearty reception which has greeted you during your tour through 
 the Province ; and can assure you, that, in the backwoods of this penin- 
 sula, thousands of miles from the parent state, where the hardy pioneer 
 is busily engaged in battling with the difficulties of a fresh settlement 
 in a forest land, there burns as strong a feeling of attachment to the 
 Throne, as in those " happy homes of England " in the midst of which 
 you dwell. 
 
 And our pleasure in welcoming you to this section of Canada, is only 
 marred by the reflection that the limited time at your disposal does not 
 permit you to travel through the interior of the noble country spread- 
 
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 ing from this town northward to the shores of Lake Huron; and to wit- 
 ness how the labors of less than a score of years have converted the 
 wilderness into a land teeming with plenty, and filled with a prosperous 
 and contented people. 
 
 In conclusion, we pray Your Royal Highness to convey to our beloved 
 Sovereign this expression of the feelings of devotion and esteem which 
 animate the people of this country ; and an assurance, that, should 
 occasion ever call for more active proofs of loyalty, the men of Welling- 
 ton will be found worthy of the illustrious name which they proudly 
 bear. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITELAW, Warden. 
 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 DEPUTATION FROM NEW YORK. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fyc., #e. 
 MAY IT PLEASE YOUE ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 On behalf of the citizens of New York, we have the honor to request 
 your acceptance of a ball upon the occasion of your visit to our city, at 
 such time as may suit your convenience. 
 
 We hope that in view of the deep and universal admiration felt 
 throughout our land for the public and private virtues of your royal 
 mother, and for the high respect entertained for yourself, as the heir to 
 the throne of a great country, united to our own by so many ties of 
 history, language, consanguinity, and common interests and principles, 
 you will accept the invitation which we now tender you. 
 
 JOHN A. KING, Chairman. 
 HAMILTON FISH. 
 JOHN JACOB ASTOR, Jr. 
 ROBERT B. MINTURN. 
 WILSON G-. HUNT. 
 ROBERT L. KENNEDY. 
 M. B. FIELD, Secretary. 
 REPLY. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, I thank you very much for your invitation to the ball, 
 and accept it with great pleasure. For any details I must refer you to 
 Lord Lyons and the Duke of Newcastle, who will be most happy to 
 confer with you. 
 
 BUFFALO. 
 
 BUFFALO, Wednesday, Sep. 5, 1860. 
 To the Prince of Wales, 
 The citizens of Buffalo, understanding that Your Royal Highness 
 
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 contemplates visiting some portions of the United States, have appointed 
 a committee to invite you, if convenient, to take Buffalo in your route. 
 That committee, in obedience to the desire of our cit'zens, is happy 
 to extend to Your Royal Highness a most cordial invitation to visit our 
 city at such time as may suit your convenience. 
 
 While our people, as an independent nation, cannot be supposed to 
 feel that loyalty vrhich has been enthusiastically and justly expressed in 
 Canada, yet there is a bond of sympathy between the United States and 
 Great Britain arising from their common origin, consanguinity, language, 
 and literature, and 'the great, similarity of their religion, la\vs, and 
 government, differing more in form than substance, and more especially 
 from the proximity of our city to Her Majesty's colonial possessions, and 
 the friendly and social intercourse existing among the people, which 
 will, we are confident, insure Your Highness a most cordial welcome by 
 our citizens ; and the committee, without any burdensome ceremonial 
 or ostentatious display, will be most happy to show to Your Royal 
 Highness whatever may interest a stranger in our young but growing 
 city. 
 
 Should this invitation be accepted, the committee would esteem it a 
 favor to be informed at as early a day as possible of the time fixed by 
 Your Royal Highness for the visit. 
 
 With assurance of the high regard and consideration of the committee, 
 I have the honor to be Your Highness's most obedient servant, 
 
 MILLARD FILLMORE, Chairman. 
 
 KBPLT. 
 
 GOVERNMENT HOUSE, TORONTO, Sept. 11, 1860. 
 
 SIR, I have received your letter of the 5th of September, and have 
 laid it before the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness regrets exceed- 
 ingly that the arrangements already made, and the shortness of the time 
 at his disposal, will prevent him from accepting your invitation, for 
 which His Royal Highness feels much obliged. 
 
 The reason for his not doing so have been more fully explained to the 
 gentlemen composing the deputation. 
 
 The Prince of Wales is greatly gratified by a letter from so eminent 
 a person as yourself, as he is pleased to have received the invitation of 
 the citizens of Buffalo. 
 
 I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, 
 To Hon. Millard Fillmore. NEWCASTLE. 
 
 PITTSBURG. 
 
 To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, 
 
 Learning through the ordinary channels of public intelligence that 
 the contemplated tour of Lord Renfrew over a portion of the United 
 
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 States will be extended to the Ohio River and adjacent country, it would 
 certainly prove a singular gratification to the citizens of Pittsburg to 
 seize the opportunity of manifesting in the person of Her son their 
 profound respect and admiration for the virtuous and exalted Sovereign 
 of that great nation from whom, as a people, we are mainly descended. 
 At the instance, therefore, of very many of our most worthy citizens, 
 and in accordance and in behalf of their and my own earnest wishes as 
 their chief magistrate, I have the honor to present through your Grace 
 a cordial invitation and most hearty welcome to Lord Renfrew and suite, 
 on a visit to this city. 
 
 Nor would such a detour on the part of his Lordship be devoid of some 
 historical interest, in view of the present visit to the Canadas of the 
 heir to the Crown of England, when it will be remembered that it was the 
 seizure by France, in 1754, of this position, commanding the navigation 
 of the Ohio in the then Province of Pennsylvania; the establishment 
 thereon of Fort Du Quesne ; its subsequent recapture by the arms of 
 Great Britain, and final discomfiture of the hostile and ambitious com- 
 bination of France and their Indian allies, for the possession of the Ohio 
 and the West ; the construction of Fort Pitt on the ruins of the French 
 fortress of Du Quesne, forming, with their aggression, the primary cause 
 and commencement of that long and eventful war terminated by the 
 treaty of Paris in May, 1763, by which the conquest of all the Canadas, 
 achieved by British valor, was secured in perpetuity to the Crown of 
 England. 
 
 Trusting the facilities of intercourse with this city in journeying to, or 
 returning from points further West, will in no wise interfere with the 
 convenience of his Lordship, while it will afford to us a grateful 
 occasion to render his presence in Pittsburg agreeable to himself, it 
 will at the same time supply for record in the future annals of our 
 city (bearing the name and on its official seal the arms of one of 
 England's most renowned and liberal statesmen), one more to the 
 manifold incidents of interest arising out of the visit of his Lordship 
 to this continent, which has so strikingly moved the hearts and 
 awakened the kindred reminiscences and sensibilities of so large a 
 portion of this nation. 
 
 With profound respect and consideration, 
 
 GEORGE WILSON, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 [We exceedingly regret that we have been unable to obtain the whole 
 of the Addresses presented.] 
 
Entered according to Act of the Provincial Parliament, in the year 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by HENRY J. MORGAN, in the 
 Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada. 
 
DATE DUE 
 
 GAYLORD 
 
 PRINTED IN U S A