The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

GARIBALDI'S PROGRESS. Kitom the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NAPLES, SEPT. 11. The four battalions of Chasseurs whom the King has left behind in his flight, quartered here and there about town, hare gone asunder. Many of the soldiers go home ; those who wish to remain at Naples, secure from harm, do obeisance to the new powers that be by wearing a small badge with the Savoy cross on their breasts. The fortress of St. Elmo followed the example of the fleet. It fired a thundering salvo in honour of Garibaldi, hoisted the Sardinian colours, and admitted the National Guards within its walls. The other forts are equally garrisoned by this same burgher militia. Naples, in short, is now wholly in the hands of the patriots, and Garibaldi has already pushed forward one or two brigades, which have gained possession of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The King shuts up the gates of Capua. There and at Gaeta he will abide till his enemies come en. Meanwhile Gari baldi, master of the seas, sends his steamers to Paola, to Sapri, to all the small ports near which his overtasked legions lingered behind. Every morning we hear of a joyous landing and a trium phant march of these several brigades. The whole force will soon be brought together, and the respite allowed to the King at Gaeta will be of no long duration. The joy of these good Neapolitans at their cheaply-gotten emancipation becomes daily more noisy and frantic. Every evening the Toledo is all alive with banners and torches, with thronged masses of possessed people, all poking their fore fingers in each other's faces, and shouting out with all the might of their Southern throats that favou • rite cry, " Una! Una! Una!"—conveying their de sire that all Italy should be made one country. There was a grand gala night at San Carlo on Saturday last, when the proscenium, the pit,'and the boxes became one vast stage. You could not tell the actors from the spectators ; for the whole performance consisted of lo Penas to Garibaldi, who, calm and serene in his homely garb, had a pleasant word for all the friends who surrounded him in her ,box, and was, in fact, less insensible to that popular demonstration than he might have wished to avow. To prevent the sameness of these amusements palling upon us, the Novena and other festivities of St. Januarius will close all the Neapolitan theatres for a fortnight. Driven from the playhouses, we must make the Toledo and all the streets our stage. The solemnity of Pie di Grotta, also on Saturday, was marred by a smart shower, the first we have heard of in this country for the last four months. Garibaldi and his officers, whose horses are still tarrying, jaded and knocked up, at a great dis tance behind, repaired to the spot—the church near the opening of the great Roman tunnel at Pausi lipo—in carriages ; but the National Guards were but Neapolitans—a set of men who have a mad dog dread of rain-water--whose martial array was as utterly discomposed and thrown into confusion by the pelting element as it might, perhaps, have been by a Tolley of musketry. One of our greatest objects of interest is now the easily-won Castle St. Elmo. The whole popu lation of Naples, male and female, seem bent on forming a pilgrimage to that shrine of their patriot martyrs, and yesterday I went up myself with a party of friends. We first walked through St. Martin's marble Church and Monastery, where our Garibaldian red-shirts, I dare say, boded little good to the white-cowled monks, who gazed at us as we passed, tall, stately, and motionless, so that we at first mistook them for statues ;—good Carthusian monks doing penance in a marble paradise, bound by vow to perpetual silence, and affecting an easy unconcerned air, though in their heart of hearts probably trembling not a little for the visible and invisible treasures of which their sanctuary has been time out of mind the repository. From the marble cells of the monks to the iron dungeons of the victims of Castle St. Elmo the tran sition is but short, but the contrast is appalling. The stone steps wind down six floors, and at every floor room was made for about half a score of victims. Some of the miserable cells had windows ; but, as the view from the hill over the loveliest panorama of land and sea would have been too great a solace to the lonely captive, the window was lat ticed over by thick wooden bars, not intended to prevent escape—for from that height only a bird could attempt to—but simply to rob the poor recluse of the distant view of his familiar scenes. In the lowest floor there is no window to the dungeons— only a little wicket in the door opening outwardly for the gaoler to communicate with the prisoner if he has a mind. The wicket would be opened one moment in the morning to let in a little bread and water ; then the wicket would fall to, and for 24 hours all would be darkness inside. I do not like to witness horrors, much less to dwell upon them, else I could tell you of the loop holes we were shown, through which the sentries could shoot the prisoners in their cells and their beds. I could repeat the instances of wholesale executions of Swiss and Sicilian mutineers of which St. Elmo has been the theatre, and of which the world never knew anything. The caitiffs who were but yesterday in the King's pay are eager to pro mulgate abroad the infamy of his doings ; and I have no doubt St. Elmo will soon become the subject of books or pamphlets yielding but little in interest to the stories of La Bastille, of which it will soon share the fate. Yes, the good people of Naples are bent upon demolishing St. Elmo, and are only awaiting the Dictator's bidding to lay hand to the work. A tough job they will find it, I am sure. As I was walking yesterday along the upper battlements the impatient citizens were already busy pulling back the huge brass guns, each of which was most offen sively pointed at some of the most densely crowded quarters of the town, and turning their muzzles inward. What a fortress that was, and what a protection to the city'. It was no bad emblem of the whole sea and land might of the Bourbon— worse than useless against foreign aggression, wholly and exclusively directed to crush internal commotion. There arc not many men who could venture to say what Garibaldi's present intentions may be. Garibaldi is apt to talk 'wildly, though he is sure to ast wisely. He must bring the Neapolitan enter prise to an end, and that will give him employment for a week or two; then, if either Lamoriciere marches forward to the rescue of the Bourbon, or the Bourbon with his troops takes refuge in any part of the Papal territory, the war will necessarily 'be carried into that ground where Garibaldi himself would wish to pursue it. Our Dictator here has been frightening people out of their wits by too openly revealing his designs upon Rome and Venice. H e must have the whole of Italy, and it was supposed his reluctance to the immediate annexation of these Southern kingdoms to Piedmont arose from a fear lest his action for the future might be hampered by his allegiance to the Government of King Victor EmmameA. I always thought, however, that the alleged between Cavour and Garibaldi, if not altogethe r a feint, was at any rate in a great measure affected. We have this day ample confirmation of all my surmises. Two battalions of Bersaglieri— genuine Piedmontese Bersaglieri—have landed from the Sardinian men-of-war, and taken possession of the Darsena. Telegraphic orders have been sent more Piedmontese for two regiments to garrison the Neapolitan forts, By taking the Neapolitan marine under its command, and occupying the strongholds, dockyard., and arsenals about this place, the Sar dinian Gove rtu:lent commits it se lf more openly to the annexation of these kingdoms than it ever dared to do in the case of Tuscany (f. Romagna last year. And all these measures are taken net e 137 with the consent but by the express desire of Garibany, ~ ,h o certainly exhibits no apprehension that the King' s Government will interfere with his vast under takings. Garibaldi, who appointed no Minister for Foreign "airs, deemed it, however, expedient, upon the suggestion of General Bertani, to send forth as his Ambassadors from Naples Carlo Cattaneo to London, Camillo Car a , 6olo, Marquis of Bella, to Paris, and Leopardi to Turin. Tho idea of sending Cattaneo, an untravolled mi latese, who knows nothing about Naples, and tho ug h a scholar, a most un practical person in all human, affairs, seems to the good people here most preposterous. No doubt, but whenever poor Garibaldi is led to commit a 'silly thing Bertani is supposed to be at the bottom of it ; yet we should not believe that the influence of the new-fangled General is very great upon his heroic friend. Bertani may occasionally palm an old crony like Cattaneo upon Garibaldi, but the appointments of the Dictator generally evince suffi cient discretion and impartiality, The formation of a Ministry took every man by surprise. It was ex pected that none but the Bertanians, the Committee of Action, and other violent partisans, would get into power. What was the universal surprise on hearing that most of the Ministers were of the Mo derate party, and that two of them had actually held their portfolios under King Francis 11. towards the decline of his reign ! One of these, however—Liberio Romano--seems to have become aware of the false position in which ho has placed himself, and is hourly expected to retire. FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) NAPLES, SEPT. 9. So far Garibaldi has pleased people much, by his confining himself to Neapolitans in all the appoint ments which he has made. The following offices have been given temporarily to these persons : Public Works, to the Marchese d'Afflitto ; Public Instruction, to Dr. Ciccone ; Finance, to Scialoja ; Marine, to Captain Scrugli, under Admi ral Persano. Marchese Bella, Cavaliere Leopardi, and Dr. Cataneo, are appointed Envoys Extraordi nary to France, Sardinia, and England respectively. Several concessions have been made to the Maze niani, as the directory of the Custom-house to Agresti; and the governorship of the Bank to Libertini, an appointment which will inspire little confidence in the public. All public officers are for the moment retained in their old stations. The holding of seve ral offices by one and the same person is hencefor ward forbidden, and pluralists are to select within five days which office they will retain. All military men willing to serve are ordered to present themselves at the nearest station, give in their adhesion to the actual Government, and take their certificate of it. Those officers who present themselves with their troops will be retained in their positions in full ac tivity ; those who present themselves alone will be placed in the 2d class, and will be employed when the army is reformed. Those who do not send in their adhesion in 10 days will be excluded. SEPTEMBER 9. The Official Journal of Naples, as it is now called, publishes a series of decrees this morning, of which the following are the most important :—All the acts of public authority and of administration are to be issued in the name of his Majesty Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, and all the seals of State, of public administration, and of the public offices, are to bear the arms of the Royal house of Savoy, with the legend " Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy." The public debt of the Neapolitan State is recognised; the public banks are to continue their payments, as also the Discount Bank, according to existing laws and regulations. Passports for the United Italian States are abolished; those for foreign States and Italian States not united are to be signed by the Director of Police. A series of despatches also are published from Nola, Benevento, Aquila, and a host of other places, expressive of the public joy at the arri val of the Dictator iu the capital. In Arriano and Avellino there has been a reactionary movement, and from 50 to 80 persons have been sacrificed among the Liberals. On Sunday afternoon the divi sion of Col. Turr, composed of 2,500 men, left in that direction. Some disturbances, accompanied by loss of life, have taken place also in Canosa. To-day news has been received of a reactionary movement in the Island of Ischia, and Albert Mario, on the staff of Garibaldi, was sent off last night to quell it. llere, in Naples, the castles have all capitulated, and are in the hands of the National Guard. The population is gradually settling down into its usual sober state, which has recently been disturbed by the madness of exultation, and before that by appre hension. The funds have risen five points to-day, and com mercial confidence is evidently on the increase. The energy of the man at the head of affairs makes itself felt throughout the capital. The only foreign Ministers who now remain in Naples are the British, French, Sardinian, and American, but all but the two former have no rela tions with the deposed Government. Mr. Chandler is, indeed, so indisposed that he could not leave, and, moreover, no notice has been sent to the diplo matic body of the departure of the King. SEPTEMBER 11. Yesterday morning Garibaldi paid a visit to Ad miral Mundy, and was received with the honours given to general officers. The Sardinian admiral (dose saluted. Mr. Elliot paid a visit at the same time, and there was a strictly private conversation between the three in the admiral's cabin. Some think that an attempt was made to induce the Dictator to annex directly, so as not to leave this country with out a government; others say that an effort was made to dissuade Garibaldi from attacking Rome, as it is assumed his present object is. I am more in clined to think that ulterior movements were dis cussed. Ofcourse, what took place was perfectly un official. Both in landing and embarking the general was received with the greatest enthusiasm. Soon after Baron Brenier visited the Admiral. There is an expectation that the Sardinian vessel will leave here to-day, and that Victor Emmanuel will visit Naples immediately. The authority on which I received this repsrt is very high. There is a great desire on the part of the public to destroy that great monument of domestic tyranny, the Castle of St. Elmo, and yesterday morning several thousands went up to the fort, but were kept back by the National Guard, who said that the stores must first be removed. They then dispersed, taking with them the Royal Standard, which was burnt in front of the Palace. The following is an extract of a letter from Mr. Edwin James to a friend : " Naples, Saturday, Sept. 8. " The long roll of the spirit-stirring drums, the discordant noise of the Calabrese soldiers as they were endeavouring to form their ranks, the dashing in of carriages from Naples with their cargoes of deputations to attend Garibaldi, roused me before 4 o'clock from my bed in a wretched albergo in Sa lerno, where I had been the prey of mosquitoes since midnight. Garibaldi was astir as early as 4 o'clock; he had seen members of the committee from Naples, and was arranging his entree into the city. At my interview with him yesterday at Eboli, which was a hurried one, he had requested me to see him in the evening; he was surrounded by crowds of admirers, all anxious for a glimpse of the great man, that I delayed my interview till this morning. On entering the large rooms of the Hotel de Ville, or Intendenza, the throngs of people and their agitation end excitement were most striking. " The National Guard of Salerno lined the ave nues—priests of every denomination crowded to touch the hem of his garment. Officers of State of the King were in ea rnes t convers ation with him, urging his c orn i ng without delay into Naples. Observing the enter, he came up to me and said— ' Mr. Ed win James, let us speak together,' and we retired into a private part of the saloon. I divulge ' no confidence when I write to you that I had been requested by some persons of consideration to make a suggestion to him with respect to a subject of some importance connected with his assumption of power in Naples. Sir,' said he, and a peculiar lighting up of his countenance at once struck me, ' diplomatists doubt me. I shall be loyal to Victor Emmanuel. I love him as my life. I have served him without an oath. I shall immediately do all in my power to procure annexation to the King of Piedmont. But these things I must do in my own manner.' I mentioned to him that anarchy might prevail at Naples, and that all the hopes which igh t i be m m neutralized. England ent er t a i ne d o f th e regenera ti on o f It a l y in Have no fear,' he said, ' of that ; t 1 the people will support me, I shall do all in my power to promote the annexe.- to Victor Emmanuel.' I told him, as he knew, that England loved liberty and order too, and that upon the overthrow of tyranny no time should be lost in the formation of a constitutional Government, I tgoo seae i t d a h g e a , i n t o t N h e a r p e l . e s A i n hspaelfc-hr,' h t r o a u i ' o a f n d a b w o e o 2 p oe carriages was in waiting at 10 o'clock, and we ob tained a seat in the carriage next to that in which Garibaldi was. Throughout the journey to Naples, in every village, at every station, the joy and en thusiasm of the people exceeded the powers of de scription. Women and girls presented flags, threw flowers into the carriages, struggled to kiss the hand of the General. Mayors and syndics ejacu lated their gratula.tions ; priests and monks stood, surrounded by their wretched flocks, on the hill `side, and shouted their Vivas, and, holding the crucifix in one hand and the sword in the other, waved them in the air, and bawled out their bene- dictions. As the train passed the King's guard at Portici the soldiers threw their caps into the air, and joined lustily in the Viva Garibaldi ! "We are in Naples. No pen can describe the scene; the whole population thronged the station. Bands, banners, banclieri, National Guards, car riages, ladies of rank and station attired in their white dresses, trimmed with Garibaldian colours, pink and white—thousands of male and female lazzaroni—every human being in the city almost, formed the procession to the Palazzo Angri, and there ho is installed, and shows himself at the win dows. The, shouts of " Viva Garibaldi !" " Viva Italia Una !" are deafening, and thousands crowd the staircases and spacious saloons of this beautiful palace. In the evening the whole city is illumi nated. Processions block up every street ; all men are armed. Thousands of women carry a new poniard in their girdles. What a scene of blood shed has for the present been averted! Who had thus armed this enthusiastic and excitable people ? In Naples you can seldom probe to the truth. Some tell you that the King had done so, and intended to turn the mad. rabble loose upon the citizens ; others say that secret committees in the interest of Garibaldi have for weeks been providing means of resistance to the troops, and been most prodigal in expenditure of money and promises. However it may be, the hour may come when excesses may sully a hitherto bloodless revolution. The tumult is great, the agitation excessive, but I am inclined to think that the thousands aro enjoying the scene as a carnival rather than exhibiting in their ebulli tions any strong political sentiment. The fact is that the King has been unpopular with the lazza roni and the lowest orders of Naples, who number more than half the population ; his war has been against the intellect and free thought of his sub jects. The priesthood, the soldiery, and the lowest orders have been his implements ; by such means as these he has destroyed all freedom of speech, of thought, of action, and to the ot roXXot' of Naples it is a matter of indifference whether they render tribute to the King or to Garibaldi. But the enthusiasm is at blood-heat,' and for days it will so continue. In the meantime the Pro visional Government is in course of construction. Some of the late King's Ministers gave in their ad hesion without hesitation ; some require time for thought. The ladies of the Court are suddenly taken ill, and cannot follow the Queen to Gaeta! 'Decrees' are being placarded on the walls; every cafe is thronged ; the press, now free, is pouring forth its new journals ; the arms of the King are painted out, or pasted over with brown paper (more prudent, if the purpose be temporary), and the curtain closes for a moment upon the great drama being enacted here. The next scene will present new difficulties, and is anxiously awaited by every Government in Europe. " There's not a history but shows a thousand crowned conspirators against the people, and the crowned head of the besotted Bourbon is at length overtaken by retributive justice." IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1860, THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO CANADA (From tho Special Correspondent of the Times.) OTTAWA, CANADA WEST, SEPT. 3. To continue my diary of the progress I must be gin with stating that his Royal Highness and suite left Montreal on the morning of Friday the 31st, at 8 o'clock. Notwithstanding the earliness of the hour a good deal of public enthusiasm would doubt less have been manifested along his route to the station, but it rained. It is taken quite as a matter of course now that the rain is to attend at nearly , all the ceremonies incident to the arrival, depar ture, and entertainment of his Royal Highness. Processions under umbrellas, and Court suits and uniforms swathed in macintoshes, have been the normal state of things throughout from the first day of the landing at Newfoundland down to his arrival in this wild picturesque, most modern, and most muddy capital of Canada. So the demonstra tion of popular feeling was rather damped out on the morning of the departure from Montreal; for, with whatever drizzle the weather may content itself while the Prince remains at a town, it makes no mistake at all about the matter when it heralds his arrival or accompanies his departure. On those occasions it may always be depended on for such violent intensity as " the oldest inhabitant" has, according to the colonial papers, declared repeatedly he never saw before. The route the Prince took to Ottawa was a sort of compound progress by rail and boat alternately, though a mere nothing for variety to the journey which he commences at 8 a.m. to-day, when he will have to scamper through a wild untravelled country in a series of short stages by carriage, rail, steamers, and canoes, emerging at last upon Brockville, where he sleeps for the night, to start at daybreak again to-morrow morn ing through the Thousand Islands for Kingston. His route from Montreal was admirably arranged to afford him the best and most picturesque view of the country through which he passed. After once leaving Montreal, with its quaint, tall, silent streets, and marine limestone houses, there is very little to see before you come to St. Anne's, and over this part of the journey he accordingly went by special train. The outlying country round Mon treal is not at all impressive. The land has all been cleared, and has, accordingly, a close, well-shaven aspect, the dull green uniformity of which is only broken at rare intervals by rough timber hedges or log huts, both of which seem about equally well cal culated for purposes of shelter. Now and then a larger farmhouse than the rest was announced by the hoarse screaming of the whistle, to drive the cows off the line, or else a station was passed which might with propriety have been used as a cowhouse, if by any process known to carpenters it could only have been made moderately weather-tight. But beyond such poor stimulants to curiosity there was nothing worth seeing, or at all calculated to inter rupt the dreary monotony of railway travelling whether in Canada or the States. At St. Anne's the Royal party alighted to pro ceed on board the steamer for Carillon, and at this point there was a prospect worthy of attention, even for those who had seen Halifax and St. John's, the Saguenay, and the St. Lawrence. The St. Anne's river is one of the most picturesque (at least at this point) of all the many noble tributaries of the great Canadian Father of Waters. The stream is wide, dark, and rapid, hedged in by steep, lofty, richly wooded banks, and forcing a swift and devious way through little nits and islands, all clothed with trees down to the water's edge. A railway bridge of singular beauty spans the stream, where two steep headlands confine it to its narrowest limits, and from this point the finest prospect can be gained. You look down far beneath you on the quick black sheet of water, closed in by hills and cliffs, and studded over all its surface with beautiful little islands, while higher up as on a slope is the summit of the stream, marked by a dim, rough, tumbling line of foam, where the rapids of St. Anne's, which Moore has so immortalised in his Canadian boat song, begin their rush and whirl. As compared with the rapids of the St. Lawrence, the great breakers of the Long Sault, or the mighty rush of the cascades, those of St. Anne's, of course, are no thing. But there is something wild, yet quiet in its rich scenery, something in the equal solemn flow of the rapids, which befits the plaintive music in which Moore has sung them, and which makes the whole scene seem not strange, but a beautiful prospect, with which you were long familiar and had long been parted from. From this, the quietest little gem of Canadian scenery, his Royal Highness went by steamer to Carillon. Here we again took the railway across a wild, woody country, where, amid the great forests of pine, the leaves of the maple, already assuming their scarlet livery, tell of the Indian summer being near at hand, and of the woods arraying themselves in all the gorgeous colours of Anierean scenery in the Fall. It is very early in the season yet to see among the forests here that rich confusion of bright colours of every hue with which the almost Arctic winter of Canada heralds its formidable approach. But the late cold rains have hastened matters in the last few weeks, and the deep green of the forests of these regions is fast breaking into groups of reds and yellows, and the flaunting fire weeds, wild geraniums, and wood lilies arc nearly all withered and gone. After a run of 14 miles by rail the party- again embarked on board the Phwnix and steamed away to Ottawa. The whole day had been a sort of ex aggeration of April weather, with wind, hot sun, and showers of heavy rain. But as the steamer ' neared the new and very upstart village now called the capital of Canada of course the sky became black and overcast, and the rain came down with the usual drenching vehemence familiar to Royal landings in this tour. Just as this set in, the procession of lumber men in their canoes, paddling down the Ottawa to meet the steamer, came in sight. A more striking or more characteristic procession in honour of the _ _ Prince has not been seen since he landed in Ame- rica. At first it seemed like a dim crowd of red colour on the water, but as it drew nearer and nearer the quick regular chants of the Canadian boatmen could be heard, and the long sharp out lines of the canoes, with their quaint ornamented prows, just turning up above the surface of the water, over which they came gliding like arrows, without noise or ripple, were seen. All these little skiffs were of light birch bark, beautifully painted, and each carried from six to 15 men, in the scarlet tunics which on State occasions is the lumberer's grandest uniform. Their song had nothing in it of the long melodious air which in England is popu larly supposed to be peculiar to these Canadian voyageurs. The half-caste Canadians only sing in their canoes when beating the long, light, thin, rickety cradles in which they journey for thousands of miles up against a stream, or coming full speed down it through rocks and over rapids which would make a man giddy to look at. Their song, there • fore, is only meant to accompany the quick beat of their paddies—a strange rhyme, which the man in the bow gives out, and to which the rest of the crew respond with one or two short words of hoarse chorus, as they strike their paddles straight down over the sides into the current. But all music sounds well on the water, and the quick, rough strains of this song came modulated by the distance into perfect melody, and the effect of the whole — the mass of scarlet canoes dancing lightly down the river, the bold, picturesque headlands on which Ottawa is intended to be built, the grand heavy falls of the river in the background boiling up into a cloud of smoky spray, as if the river was on fire, all made together one of the strangest, wildest, and most beautiful scenes that the Prince has yet seen. Lumberers care little for rain, or frost, or snow, or, indeed, any other form in which nature may show her inclemency, so the downpour of Friday night made no matter of difference to them as they paddled down to the Prince's steamer, shouting and waving their paddles with half-frantic gestures. They seemed delighted, not only at the honour of being chosen to receive the Prince's steamer, but at the opportunity it gave them of showing their strength and skill as they whirled round their canoes in the water, and, breaking out again into their wild, quick song, kept pace with the Phcenix with as much ease as if sho had been a sand ' barge. It would be difficult in any country to have seen a finer, more athletic, and, I may add, a browner body of young men than these same 1,200 lumberers. Their boats seemed to shoot along without an effort, and, among some 120, colli sion seemed inevitable, but just as one heavy canoe, impelled by 14 powerful brawny fellows, seemed on the point of running down another, a quick turn of the long paddle in the stern altered its course in an instant, and, without stopping their hurried song, they all kept gliding on together, so light, so quick, so easy in their movements, that it more resembled flying in its gentle rapidity than any other motion I have yet seen. Why do none of our London row ing clubs try a canoe on the Thames, the water of which above bridge is better suited to such light craft than many rivers here, where they are much used ? To see a marl carry down a canoe weighing some 501 b. to the water's edge, launch it, let half-a dozen people into it, and than force it over the water at the rate of 10 knots an hour would be " a caution" to some of our outrigger amateurs. In large canoes, capable of containing 25, or even 30, men, the Indians thinks nothing of venturing on Lake Huron in a gale, though the sea there is sometimes as dan gerous in its way as in the North Atlantic. The Lumberers, who in this city welcomed the Prince in their procession of canoes, are a race of men peculiar to Canada, and who make this intended capital (as being about one of the wildest spots in the country) their head-quarters. As their name implies, they are the working men for carrying on the great timber trade in which nearly three-fourths of all Canada and the provinces are engaged. In the depth of the winter their work in the backwoods begins. They then start forth to fell the huge white and red pines, which are drawn out of the snow by oxen and piled near the frozen rivers till the return of spring gives them an opportunity of floating them down in immense rafts and masses, which fill all the surface of the streams, in May, for miles and miles. Of course, in these expeditions, which last for months and months together, the men lead a hardy, backwoods sort of life, which so nearly approaches that of the Indian that, ex cept in the drunkenness and physical infirmity of the latter, there is but little difference as to the mode of life between the two. Their adventures up in the mountains with bears and wolves, or, worse still, in struggling with hunger and with cold, would fill whole volumes ; but in spite of its labour the life has a charm of recklessness about it which seems to be perfectly fascinating, and which leads the spirited young labourers of Canada to join it, as, with us, all the scrapegraces and dare devils of a poor family are sure to go into the navy. By hurling the pine logs over cliffs and dragging them down ravines the lumberers before the thaw sets in manage to collect along the banks of the various tributaries of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence some millions of cubic feet of timber, and when the ice-bound streams are free once more their more arduous and dangerous labour commences. Loosely joined together in huge, rough, uncouth rafts, the logs are set adrift, and, with a few poles and mis shapen oars to guide them, the lumberer goes in charge down currents and rapids of deep rivers, swollen and flowing iereely with the waters from the meltir ° e snow. It is all very well as long a s these rafts hold together, but hurried and tumbled over rapids they often break up, and woe betide the unhappy lumberers who are on them when the great logs come rolling in fierce confusion one over the other, and go smashing down the rapids from rock to rock till they are all cast adrift in splinters. When such accidents occur, as they do frequently, it sometimes happens that the logs get so wedged and bound together on the brow of some stony rapid that they remain immoveable, and all the miles of rafts which are following behind are stopped at, once. It then becomes necessary to cut the ob structing logs away with axes. Only the bravest, coolest, and most experienced of the lumberers can attempt this most dangerous of all their tasks, for when once the logs which bar the passage are half cut through the might of the press behind breaks them like straws, and some 10,000 trunks of trees come plunging down with a rush and confusion that but too often renders all the coolness and activity of the lumbermen who are trying to escape the avalanche of no avail. In such wild expedi tions and dangerous feats these lumberers pass their early lives, gaining sufficient, if they are pru dent or saving, after a few years' labour, to com mence trading en their own account from Ottawa —the great centre of the lumber trade of Canada. Of the manner in which the timber reaches Ottawa, and how it is then run down the celebrated timber shoots along the falls, I shall have more to say by-and-by, when I come to the exploits of his Royal Highness in this new capital, As a conclusion to the outline of the lumbermen's history, it is only necessary to say filet very few are English. Three fourths are French Canadians, or what are styled as each, though having a certain proportion of half ,l caste Indians among them, whose flat features, coarse hair, and white skins, at once betray their hybrid origin. It is singular that the half-caste Indian girls arc often remarkable for their beauty, while with the men the mixture of the white blood seems only to result in additional and more inveterate ugliness. The Prince landed at Ottowa a little before dusk. There was a Royal salute and there would have been a procession but for the rain, which, as has been told, was heavy enough to have almost cleaned the streets of this so-called city, than which I can not possibly imagine harder work for water, no matter how profusely applied. His Royal Highness and suite were lodged at the Victoria Hotel, which and the Roman Catholic Cathedral at present form the only two buildings worthy of the name in Ottawa. All other and less distinguished visitors shifted as well as they could, which was ill enough. Most of the hotels at Ottawa have a strong reformatory element running through them all, which manifests itself by rules to have doors bolted and lights out by 11 p.m., which requires every one to be up by half-past seven o'clock or go without his breakfast, and which otherwise suggests almost the rigours of a prison discipline with all the discomforts of a bad hotel. Matters in these respects were not much mended by the arrival of an immense train from Montreal, laden solely with colonial dignitaries and others of suffi cient influence and station to be expected to follow the Prince, and all of whom were disembarked in the mud and fell easy victims to swamps and morasses in their search after cabs and lodgings. There was a general debacle among the luggage that night, and only those who, quite irrespective of ownership, were wise enough to take whatever trunks came first to hand got anything at all. Peopla are sanguine enough to believe that at some remote period (probably when Ottawa is built) the trunks which have been lost in this tour will turn up somewhere. I have tried this kind of consolation on several of my own friends, who have been thus bereaved by the railways and left to face a three months' tour with only an odd pair of gloves and a pockethandkerchief. As a rule, however, such sympathy having be come rather common of late, has lost the very little charm it did possess in the earlier stages of this progress. Only two days since I was informed that a gentleman with a sumptuous wardrobe, pre pared for following the Prince throughout, re ceived a notice that his trunks had gone per last mail to England. lam bound to add that this in timation was accompanied with a courteous assur ance that they should be returned at the first op portunity. The fact is that the American system of checking luggage through to destinations—ad mirable in ordinary travelling—does not answer for unusual emergencies. Only a certain number of brass checks are allowed for each place, and when these run out your luggage gets checked wildly all over the States of Canada, and at last doesn't get checked at all, when, of course, it is left behind or taken on, or. something or other done with it in the long interval which elapses before you see it again —if ever you do so at all. By the merest accident I discovered, when coming up from Quebec, that one of my trunks was " checked" through to Chicago and another for Portland, both intended for Mon ' treal. The morning of Saturday, the Ist of September, was really bright and beautiful, a fact which is worth recording, considering that the day was fixed for ceremonial and rejoicing in honour of the ?rince. With colonial promptitude the people got up in what Brummel would call the middle of the night, and at 8 a.m. the one or two good thorough fares of Ottawa were as thronged as they could well be, considering that the " capital" only boasts some 12,000 inhabitants—very little if at all more than now belongs to Sydenham or Norwood. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is such a mon strous absurdity, that, like all who ever penetrated to its wilds, I can never treat its metropolitan fu ture as anything more than a bad practical joke, in which no one ever saw any meaning, but which, now that the Prince has laid the foundation stone of " intended" Parliament buildings, is considered as having gone rather too far, and is slowly but surely awakening a deep feeling of indignation throughout all Canada. The site which has been chosen for the capital is one of the most picturesque I ever saw for any city in my life, save that on which Constantinople has been founded • but a merely picturesque situation is no'reason for build ing a capital when all other requisites are deficient, or if so, the Chaudiere Falls or those of Montmo renci would certainly have been preferable to this. Ottawa must always be the centre of the lumber trade ; with a few thousand pounds' outlay it may be made an impregnable fortress ; but a great city, much less a capital, it never can become. The geo graphical features of the country are against it. Surrounded by wide shallow rapids, over which the great bluffs of cliff and headlands lean in beautiful disarray, it will require more than another Victoria bridge ever to give means of communication be tween one side of the river and the other. The river itself for commercial purposes is entirely use less. It is too shallow for any but such steamers as ply between Mortlake and Richmond, while all means of access to the stream above the city are cut off by the steep Falls of the Ottawa, which pour over the cliffs of limestone just above the timber shoots. If Ottawa were a fortified town like Quebec; if it were not close on the frontier of the United States; if it were only inhabited by English settlers, or werenow, or ever had in future times the chance of becoming a great city, there possibly might have been some reason for the extreme step of changing the seat of Government from Montreal to this place. But in all and every of these points of view, either commercially, strategically, or legislatively, the choice of Ottawa has been a grand mistake; and if persevered in it will, at no distant date, give rise to great troubles in Canada. Throughout the whole province there is a deep-rooted and fast-increasing dissatisfaction with the choice. The expression of this each day grows stronger and more strong. As well might the Queen by her own act select Vent nor as the seat of the Government of England. The change from the city of Montreal to the village of Ottawa, be it remembered, was the act of the Home Government, and forced upon the Canadians in spite of their remonstrance and entreaty Ever since that it has borne bitter fruits, which are ripening now day by day. After this Royal visit, after the personal experience of the Duke of New castle, the Home Government may with a good grace recant their former error, and for the last time transfer the Government from Ottawa to the only real capital of Canada—Montreal. The Cana dians, 1 am sure, expect this act of grace, and, whether well given or ill given, will surely have it somehow at last. The great natural highway of Canada, the St. Lawrence, has been departed from, and an out-of-the-way backwoods town has been selected for the capital of what must in future be a great and thriving country. In the present state of feeling among all classes of the Canadians— English, French, or Irish—two years cannot elapse before the capital will be transferred to Montreal, either by the Government or the people. The appearance of Ottawa, as it now is, is very like the harbour of Sebastopol ; and if one can imagine the heights of that stronghold clad down to the water's edge with thick pine -trees, and a huge cascade pouring over a high reef of rocks at the head of the harbour, then you see Ottawa. Thus much for this intended city. On Saturday, the Ist of September, the Prince proceeded to lay the corner stone of the Parliament buildings, which, if their plan is carried out accord ing to- the present design, will prove the finest Gothic buildings in all America. They err, per haps, like all the earlier Gothic structures, on the side of heaviness ; but, this fault excepted, they will be grand, regal, and ancient looking enough to satify even Mr. Scott himself. The ceremony of laying a foundation stone is, of course, like opening a bridge (which has been tra versed for months), or inaugurating waterworks, or any other meagre and unsatisfactory State ceremo nial which Royalty is occasionally compelled to en dure in deference to public feeling. At that of Saturday the splendid silver trowel was, of course,an object of interest second only to the Prince himself, and people who couldn't see the trowel concentrated their attention on the stone—a great block of white marble, with an inscription to the effect that " This stone of the buildings intended to receive the Par liament of Canada was laid," &c. The delightful ambiguity about the word " intended" was a source , of unalloyed satisfaction to nearly all present. The scaffolding over the stone was in the form of a hand some Gothic arch. The seats were ranged in tiers around it. The legislative members had the front places, whereat they grumbled exceed ingly, and decried the arrangements in every tense and mood. There was a dais near the stone, with three seats and a full-length portrait of the Queen in the centre of the enclosure, and which, in order that the spectators might judge of the artist's work from a disinterested point of view, was placed on its head. When these facts are noted down, and it is further stated that the day was hot and clear, all that re quires to be said about the preparations for laying the foundation stone of the " intended" Parliament buildings has been told. One feature, however, con nected with the fete, which, though not prepared, was especially prominent, deserves some mention, and that is the mud. Mud is the only thing which has, as yet, been completed and brought to perfec tion in the city of Ottawa, and there, indeed, it lies about the streets in quagmires which saurians might revel in. The Prince came out on the dais at 11 o'clock, and in five minutes after the stone was declared by him to be " well and truly laid," and the ceremony was over. Before this the portrait of her Majesty had been restored to the position originally intended by the painter, and was placed at the back of the Prince's chair. This, as the ceremony concluded, was slipped aside, disclosing a private way out, and while those in the outskirts of the crowd were won dering when the stone was to be laid the Prince was quietly walking back to his hotel. So everybody gradually made a move towards the dais, and half Ottawa waited and took turns to sit down in the chair of State, in which the Prince had never sat at all. After the Parliament buildings came a levee, which was soon over, when the Prince drove round the town. The few conveyances that were in Ottawa then let at once at 50 dole. an hour, and at this rather heavy figure were taken up eagerly, so that before the Prince had gone 100 yards he - was followed by a long train of vehicles of every kind, all splashing through the mud in wild con fusion. The little town was soon traversed almost from end to end, and almost every street elicited new expressions of approbation at the singular architectural beauty and grace of its triumphal arches. Whatever else it may want, Ottawa is not deficient in genuine good taste, for both in form and decoration, though not in number, its arches are far finer than those of any town the Prince has yet vi sited. They were indeed so good, and so purely Gothic, as to excite a very general suspicion that some one or other connected with the " intended" Parliamentary buildings had designed them. After this drive there was a dejeuner in rather a more costly style than usual, from which his Royal High ness retired early, for ho had yet to visit the Falls of the Ottawa, the Lumber-arch, and the timber shoots. This he did at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all Ottawa and as many inhabitants as could be spared from the surrounding wilderness being on the road to cheer him, and follow him in all he did and to all he saw. He drove from the Victoria Hotel to the suspen sion bridge over the Falls of the Ottawa, where the whole mass of the river comes tumbling down a series of huge cliffs of a laminated kind of lime stone, much like the Natural Steps at Montmorenci, with a cataract coming over them. These falls are wonderfully picturesque, mo re so for their ciecayed masses of rock than for heir rush of water. They somehow look as if they were out of repair and fall- ing to decay—as if a river had been turned over the ruins of some gigantic building, and left to fret and fame itself away amid its shattered walls, great porticoes, and ruined columns. Such a ruined aspect as nature here puts on is seen at no other cataract in America ; and beneath the mass of dark brown water the eye can trace out such a regularity of disarray, such chambers, such nooks, such passages and pillars as scarcely seem the freak of nature, but more re semble the stately vestiges of the old rock-hewn temples of Egypt. At one corner of the falls, re moved from the turbulent mass of foam and mist Irth - C - CenTre,l; called ili;losißiverf" where a part of the Ottawa drops over the columns of rocks and disappears in a deep unfathomable hole at the base. The Prince and his suite stayed for a long time inspecting these ruins of cataracts, and then returned under the Lumber -arch. This arch, one of the finest and most characteristic of the country the Prince has ever seen or is likely to see here again, was erected by the lumber-men. It was a broad and lofty structure, in form like the Marble-arch of Hyde-park, but built entirely of planks of raw deal laid transversely one over the other, without a nail or fastening of any kind from first to last. Light as it seemed, there were nearly 200,000 lineal feet of plank used in its construction. The Prince, as, indeed, every one who saw it, was astonished, for its effect, though not easy to describe was really wonderful to look at. It was the arch of all the arches the Prince has had erected to his honour; and it is almost a pity that a monument so strong, so beautiful, and so characteristic of the country, should ever be removed. From this arch the Prince went down the banks of the stream to the head of one of the longest tim ber shoots, where a raft had been prepared for him to run down these artificial but most rapid of all rapids in this part of America. A few words will suffice to explain what a timber shoot is. When the great mass of lumber is brought down to the Falls of the Ottawa, a special contrivance is- of course necessary to get it past them, as the result of letting it over the falls themselves would be simply to destroy the logs. For this purpose, then, a certain portion of the river is dammed off, and turned into a broad wide channel of timber, which is taken at a sharp incline along the banks of the river, and down which, of course, the waters of the Ottawa rush at terrific speed. The head of this shoot is placed some 300 yards above the falls, and terminates, after a run of about three-quarters of a mile, in the still waters of the river below their base. As, however, a raft on such a steep incline, and hurried along by such a mass of water, would attain a speed which would destroy itself and all upon it, the fall of the shoot is broken at intervals by straight runs, along which it glides at compara tively reduced speed, till it again drops over, and commences another headlong rush. Some of these runs also terminate with a perpendicular drop of some four or five feet, over which the raft goes smash, and wallows in the boiling water beneath, till the current again gets the mastery, and forces it on faster and more furiously than before. More than 20,000,000 cubic feet of timber come down the shoots of the Ottawa in this manner each year. The rafts are generally made of from 15 to 20 trees, with two transverse ones to secure them at each end, and a kind of raised bridge for the lumberers to stand on, who without such aid would be washed off it, as the mass drops from shoot to shoot down these Rapids and disappears some few feet under water with each plunge. The same risk attends these shoots as attends the rafts on natural Rapids, and if not carefully secured the mass of timber may break up, when all on it would have but a poor chance of escape ; or else the raft may get " stubbed"—that is twist and.jam itself so as to come to a dead stop, when the men are hurled headlong off it, as if thrown from an express train. With well-made rafts and careful raftsmen, however, these accidents are unknown, and for all practical purposes running a timber-shoot on a raft is safe enough, or with only just enough of danger to give zest to the feat. Of course every possible precaution was taken to insure strength and careful guides for the raft on which the Prince was to rush down the shoot. Only the immediate members of the suite and a few gentlemen, in all about 20, were allowed to be on it. When these were fairly settled down, the Prince sit ting on a raised plank, between the Duke of New castle and the Governor-General, the rope which held the mass of timber against the current was. cut, and instantly the raft began to move. At first it went with a slow, stately motion, but gradually as it entered the narrower parts of the shoot, where the incline began, the speed quickened, and every one hold fast as the first jump and steep descent drew nearer. Before you could well say it was com ing the mass slid over the edge with an uneasy kind of gliding leap, and went rushing down faster and faster till there was another jump, and then a straight run which plunged the beams under water, wetting some of the suite to the knees. Quicker and quicker the banks flew by, all thronged with people cheering and waving handkerchiefs, and faster and faster the raft plunged down groaning and creaking, now half hidden by the boiling water, into whiCh it dashed at the end of each shoot, glid ing rapidly along the logs of the strait runs with jerks and thumps as if it was being forced over rocks till it came to another jump and another steep incline, taking each one faster than the others in one grand headlong sort:of flying whirl which gave a notion of irresistible force, and made each passenger, as it were, a component part of raft and Rapids both. To go down the Rapids of the St. Lawrence is nothing, but to go down the Rapids of a timber shoot, to keep pace with the flying waters, and see them hissing and rushing up over the raft beneath your feet, is the most exhilarating adventure in all the repertoire of American travel. It is something which partakes of flying and swim ming ; the immense speed of the whole mass—the rush of the water, the succession of shoots stretching out before you like sloping steps of stairs, the de light of flying over these with the easy,skim of a bird—the rough long straights in which the raft seems to dive and founder, letting the water up beneath and over it behind till it is again urged forward, and then comes another incline of water which you whirl madly down as if you were in a ' swing. To steady yourself on the narrow plank amidships, and hold on with might and main as the timber snaps and works like a bundle of reeds, getting a momentary rest with each quick incline, and again thumping over the straights with sharp, uneasy struggles, is to experience such a heap of new sensations as neither balloons nor diving bells afford, such a whirl as only three-quarters of a mile down the great timber shoots of the Ottawa can ever give. All on the raft with the Prince, to whom (excepting the Governor-General) the sensation was as novel as it seemed beautiful and terrible, were delighted, and the only regret which his Royal Highness expressed when the raft at last did con descend to stop in the centre of the river, below the Falls, was that the shoot was not at least a mile longer. From off this raft his Royal Highness went in a canoe to witness canoe races, which were exciting and closely contested, and in which everybody, if they did not win, at least said and thought they did, which is much the same. Six Indians of the Allejonquins tribe, however, distanced the best crews and canoes of the lumbermen beyond all chance of doubt. These sports were still at the highest when his Royal Highness left, as the sun set over the pic turesque headland of Ottawa in such a flood of purple grandeur as seemed to impress into admi ration of the scene even the rough natures of the lumbermen. On that night there was a banquet at the Victoria-house, and the village of Ottawa was illuminated with candles. There was also an at tempt at a torchlight procession, the only very bad one the Prince has met with. Yesterday being Sunday of course nothing was done, and to-day (that is to say, in an hour hence) the Prince leaves for the furthermost wilds of the Ottawa river, and takes a route to Kingston about as direct as a man would take who should start from London-bridge to reach Islington via Peckham and Battersea. This route, however, will best show the features of the country, and as the Hon. John Rose is in charge of all relating to his tour, it may be considered as certain that there will be much worth seeing, and that his Royal Highness will be as well provided for at Brockville as Mr. Rose has provided for him throughout all Canada. 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No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s, 6d. ; 51b. 11s. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co. ; Abbis, 60, Graceehurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and lie, Ox ford-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Biskopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street, City ; at 127, High Holborn ; and all grocers. BIRTHS. ASSHETON.—On the 13th inst., the wife of Ralph Asshe ton, Esq., of a son. DUNCOMBE.—On the 16th inst., at Hillingdon Court Uxbridge, the lion. Mts. Cecil Duncombe, of a daugh ter. LONGALAN.-011 the 17th inst., at Cherleywood, Harts, the wife of William Longman, Esq., of a daughter. NEED.-.-On the 13th inst ,at Mansfield Woodhouse, the wife of Walter Need, Esq., Commander R.N., of a daughter. MARRIAGES• CAMPBELL—BRUCE.—On the 13th inst., at All Souls', Langham-place, Henry Campbell, Esq., second son of Sir James Campbell, of Stracathro, Forfarshire, to Char lotte, only daughter of the late Major-General Sir Chas. Bruce, K.C.B. CHILD-IIoDD.—On the 13th inst , at St. Nicholas, Brigh ton, John B. Child, Esq., of Brixton, to Emma Sarah, the second daughter of the late S. T. Hodd, Esq., of Brighton. DEATHS. DISBROWE.—On the 4th inst., at Suez, Brevet-Major J. G. C. Disbrowe. 43d Light Infantry, only son of Col. and the Hon. Mrs. Disbrowe, aged 33. 16th inst., at 1, Princes-gate, 'Arthur DONEGALL.—On the 14th inst., at Paris, the Marchioness formerly of Wimbledon. En o E f , at 19, Clarendon-road, Ken- E sington, Now-town, James Bristow Hizon, Esq., aged ii.x de T_n the 16th inst. 58. ND.Lnigistitql.ltihe llnxi.Ev.—On the 15th inst., Noel, only son of Professor Huxley., of the Government School of Mines, Jermyn street. LINGIRD.—On the 12th inst., at Southport, Alexander Lingard, Esq., of Suffolk -square, Cheltenham, agod 67. TURTON.—On tho 15th inst., Sarah, third daughter of Sir Thomas 'futon, Bart , of Felcourt, Surrey, aged 71 LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Jtfice, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of WM*); Tuesday, September 18, 1860. I I I i