The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-13 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

The following is the nominal roll, according to
sections, of rifle volunteers who attended the sth
course of musketry instruction at Hythe on Aug.
21 :—Right wing, Ist section-4th Middlesex, Pre-
sident Lord Stratheden ; 26th, Capt.Wybrovv ; 20th,
Capt. Barrow ; 22d, Capt. Oldershaw ; 23d, Corpo-
ral Hemming ;16th, Private Stontt ; 38th, Quarter-
master-Sergeant Palmer ; 31st, Ensign Kirby—
Staff-SergeantPotter. 2d Section-30th Middlesex,
Ensign G. Tyrrell ; South Middlesex, Lieut. E. J.
Hawker; 14th Middlesex; Sergeant-Major T. Pratt;
26th, Sergeant H. Burton; 22d, Capt. J.W.Bushby;
23d, Corporal H. S. Drewry ; 4th, Corporal C. Pan-
tin; 2d Herts, Capt. Hon. R. Capel--Staff-Sergeant
Bowring. 3d Section-3d Dorset, Capt. Kinders-
ley ; Ist Dorset, Lieut.-Col. W. Mansel ; 9th So-
merset, Ensign Blommant; 9th Berks, Mr. R. B.
Reynolds ; '4th Dorset, Lieut. Cox ; 6th Somerset,
Private G. Elwell; Ist Berks, Private IL Burr; 9th
Cornwall, Capt. Tremayne—Staff-Sergeant Dillon.
4th Sectioa-12th Surrey, Sir H. Chamberlain ;
11th Shropshire, Capt. Wicksted ; 2d Oxford, Col.
North ; 15th Surrey, Lieut. Murray ; 2d Oxford-,
Lieut. Mallam ; 31 Oxford, Sergeant Tawney ; 2d,
Oxford, Lieut. Thomson ; 7th Cornwall, Captain
Tyacke--Staff-Sergt. Robertson. sth Section-2d
London, Capt.Spottiswoode ; 11th Middlesex, Serg.
Hodgkinson ; 11th Middlesex, Ensign Houghton ;
Gth Cornwall, Ensign Dingley ; London Rifle Bri-
gade, Private Kelley ; 7th Herts, Lieut. Pearse ;
Ist Carnbridgeihire; Ensign Claydon ; Ist Norfolk,
Ensign Jolly—Staff-Sergeant Stanway. Left Wing
—6th SeetiOn-3d Saffalk; Captain 'Brooke ; 9th
Essex, Lieut, Crouch ; 19th Middlesex, Lieut.
Shaen ; 6th Cinque Ports, Ensign karney ; Cam-
bridge University, Captain Hughes ; 4th Cinque
Ports, Lieut. Makeson ; 35th: Kent; Lieut. Board ;
18th Middlesex IHarrow), Mr. O:; D. Hay—Staff-
Sergeant Wilson. 7th Section,--21st Lancashire,
Mr. J. Taylor; 31st Lancashire; Mr. J. W. Black-
hurtle; 12th Staffordshire, Captain I3agnall ; 3d
North Yorkihire, Sergeant -Campbell ;. 4th Shrop-
! shire; Sergeant Jay ; 2d Shropshire, Sergeant-Ma-
jor Wilkinson ; sth East Yorkshire,Capt. Prickett
—Staff-Sergeant Moynagh. Bth Section-Bth Der-
byshire, Captain Okeover; 4th Lincoln, Ensign Gee;
sth Hants, Sergeant Davey; sth Isle of Wight,
Sergeant Deklabh ; sth 'Worcester, Lieut. 'Bury;
sth Lincoln, Mr, Cautley ; 31 Bucks, ,lion. P. Bar-
rington—Staff-Sergeant Grittori. 9th Section-4th
Flints-hire, Captain Lord Feilding ; 15th •Glamor-
PEI, Captain Rowland; sth Sussex. Ensign Head;
3d Hereford, Captain. Earl Somers; 13th Glamor-
gan, Private Berbeek
;Lieut. ; 9th Glamorgan, Sergeant
Jones; Ist Cardigan,
12th Gla-
morgan, Lieut.:Jones—Staff-Sergeant Tyler. 10th
Section-sth Dumbarton; Lieut. R. IL Turnbull;
3d Durham; Captain T. E. Chapman ; 19th Lanark,
Captain R. B. Stewart; Ist Warwickshire, Ensign
G. Allcock ;,-3(1 Wilts, LieUt. C. R. Luce; 4th Had-
diogton, Lieut. F. C. Burnet—Staff-Scrgeant Finu-
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THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO ZJANAD.I.

(From, the-Specialndent cf.l7_.l Mau.)
MONTREAL, AUG. 30.

The great ball of Montreal, so much talked of
and so long expected, came off at last on the night
of the 27th. Long as his Royal Highness may
live, and many as are the fetes of the kind he will
h6nour with his piesenee, he is not likely to attend
any more brilliant, better arranged, or better car-
ried out to the last, than that which was given to
him by the citizens of Montreal. I have seen many
displays of this kind, but I must admit I have
never seen anything to equal, either for taste or.,
splendour, the fete which terminated here so gaily,
at near 6 o'clock on the morning of the 23th. When
it was understood (and it is Low quite taken for
granted) that his royal highness prefers balls to any
other kind of entertainment that can be offered to
him, the citizens of Montreal met in conclave and
determined to give him one on a scale which not
only could not be equalled in Canada, but which
should leave even New York itself no chance of suc-
cessful competition. If the latter was the object of
their ambition, as it appears to have been, I am
confident they have succeeded, for the fete of Mon•
day night was one of which any capital in Europe
might well be proud, and which none could give
without bestowing . the same care, money, and at-
tention to the whole affair which all Montreal has
done from first to last. The Iron. J. Young was
appointed president of the ball committee, and he,
with his colleagues, at once determined that not only
a ball-room, but extensive surroundings in the way
of pleasure grounds, fountains, groves, and bowers,
all lighted up like a second Vauxhall, should be
specially constructed for the occasion. Costly and
almost extravagant as such an idea might appear
to many.for the sake of a single night's entertain-
ment, it was welcomed with acclamations by the
citizens, who instead of any economical curtail-
ments, bent entirely in the other direction, and even
enlarged upon the cost and proposed decorations of
the first plan. The spot chosen for the intended
edifice—for edifice, in the most permanent sense of
the word, it may be fairly called—was on• the north
side of Montreal, almost at the foot of Mont Royal,
and in the centre of a large extent of meadows.
Only five weeks from the present date the cattle
were grazing over the gro7nd which on Monday
night looked like a fairy land. Less than five weeks
since, as I am told, the woodwork of the building
was in the form of huge pine logs. The design for
the whole construction was intrusted to Mr. Toft,
who hit upon the happy idea of forming the interior
of the ball-room in one immense circle, with an or-
chestra in the centre, beneath the lofty peaked roof.
which gradually sloped down towards the outer
walls so as to resen.ble in the design a circular pa-
vilion tent—though, of course, of colossal dimen-
sions, as the diameter of the ball room was nearly
100 yards from side to side. In the midst the double
orchestra was placed, reaching from the ground to
the roof of the building. The design of this centre
ornament, if it may be so called, was light and ex-
ceedingly beautiful, and its trellis of open columns
was almost entirely concealed under garlands of
flowers. Three circles of columns, similarly deco-
rated, supported the roof in the space between the
orchestra and outer wall. The latter was about 25
feet high, and on this, raised some 12 feet from the
ground, was a deep balcony, or rather gallery, of
sloping seats, extending round the whole circum-
ference of the building, and in which those who
preferred the brilliant scene beneath to dancing or
flirting might survey it at their ease. Beneath this
balcony, on one side, was a raised dais, and Royal
alcove for the Prince. Round all the rest of the
circle, except at the doors of the entrance, the sup-
per was to be served by unseen waiters, for whose
hands there was just sufficient room left between the
tiers of refreshments to enable them to minister per-
fectly to the wants of the guests without entering
the ball room. This only gives the merest outline
of the internal arrangements, and it would be quite
impossible in a hurried notice to give much more.
Every part of the room was decorated with such con-
summate taste and knowledge of effect that no por-
tion could be selected for particular admiration. The
prevailing tone of the whole was pink, but of such
a soft tint that it was only when one saw it in im-
mediate contact with white and gold that its actual
colour could easily be distinguished. Even the floor
of the ball room was stained of the same light, rosy
hue. The roof of the pavilion was painted, not alone
for mere night effect, but with a care and minute
attention that is rarely seen in such ball-room
adornments, especially when only wanted for
one evening. So also with the front of the raised
gallery and the walls beneath it. Every column was
wreathed with garlands as round the orchestra, and
three immense circles of lamps—one on the outer
diameter, one over the centre, and one round the
orchestra—nearly two thousand in all, lighted up
every part of the circle beneath with the most perfect
brilliancy. The interior, of course, was made the
feature in the design, and when such a perfect suc-
cess had been achieved, and when only a night's
entertainment was intended, the exterior might very
reasonably have been passed over with small care.
This, however, was not so. The committee deter-
mined to do the whole thing thoroughly from be-
ginning to end, and set to work to make the out-
side almost as good in its way as the grand ball-
room itself. Four handsome entrances were ac-
cordingly made into the building, flanked with bat-
tlemented towers with low walls and turrets
connecting them, while the apex of the ball pavi-
lion was surrounded by a cupola and open lantern,
not only to finish the effect, but to secure to the
utmost a perfect ventilation. Ido not know how
many acres of ground round the building were set
apart for the bowers, promenades, &c., but there
must have been very many—apparently not less in
all than 50 or GO at the least. Every path over the
whole of this extent was planted with small trees,
and every branch was decorated with coloured lan-
terns. Near the building a little lake was actually
formed, with a bridge across it hung with coloured
lamps, for by this his Royal Highness was to enter
the building. The whole surface of the lake, too,
was covered with imitation water lilies, which were
lighted up in the night, and shone over the smooth
surface like little stars in the water.
The Ball, here, in fact, was made the grand
feature of the reception. All Montreal looked
forward to it—all who had heard of' its intended
splendours were to a certain-extent prepared for
something good in a colonial way, though quite
convinced in their own minds that it would be

nothing after all at which travellers would need be

excessively astonished. Those connected with the
fete maintained a decorous reserve ; those not con-
nected with it were incredulous, and those indifferent
or opposed to it (of which latter there were certainly
some) rather hinted at the prospect of a crush, hot
roams, dust, drunken waiters, and a general
failure.
For the garden portion of thefete—ontof the chief
attractions---there Were no hopei even among the
committee ; fcir the weather which has Caused his
Royal Highness to be called " the reigning Prince,'
set In again on Monday with all the inclemency of
an English Summer'. It was not so much downright
heavy ride; which within certain limits a man can
excise —for heavy showers alWays seem as if' they
had something to do and did it—it was thick,
" Muggy," wretched weather, damp and slippery in
the streets, cloke arid depressing within doors, with a
sloW, stupid, idle sort of rain that neither came down
nor stayed up, but dropped with a sullen weak
saunter through the air. Thii put an end to all
hopes for the gardens round the hall and all the
chances of moonlit walks and small flirtations which
might have been based thereon.
The hall itself, however, nothing in the way of rain
could interfere with, so that on the whale it perhaps
itsh ronytacir
Highness
sit
alwaysgr et
arrivestre at
aoltontl"loy.a'ccillteoicoePkne,n and, as it is not etiquette-to come later,
some 4,000 or s,ooo'people seemed suddcmly smitten
with a' desire to be on the spot 'at half-past 9
.pre-
cisely. ThiS desire (Which sufferers still believe was
fostered 'and goaded to the utmost by the- carriage
owners),'of courso had only one restiltthat of rais-
ing the hire of vehicles to prices little short of the
legitiMate value of the entire team. For once car
i iagc s were not to be got at almost any price, and th?,
Montreal hotel busses, having much the appear-
ance,' with' three fillies the length of an ordinary
Euglish hearse, were at last called into requisition
to transport whole crowds of city belles to their
great scene of action. Tiank, dismal, avid uncom-
fortable as the evening was; it could not rob the
gardens round the ballroom of all their bright of
fect,-and the little lake, with its illuminated bridge
and shining water-lilies, the rows of trees covered
with variegated lamps in all directions, seemed the
more festive in comparison with the Weather, and,
like forbidden fruit, became most tempting in ap-
pearance when most out of reach; - Perhaps, if one
could have walked among the trees and bowers of
this extemporized Eden, much of its iOns would
have disappeared ; but as it was, it was all couleur
<le rose from a distance, and the lake, under the dim
wood-covered eminence of Mont -Royale-looked like
a lake,- and the little trees threw their arms abroad
with plr-the dignity of nature, and made believe as
if they grew there and the lamps were their natural
fruit.

The ballroom was, as I have intimated, an ex qui
sitely brilliant sight. Its soft pink tone, its bright-
ness, its rows of light, the fresh green leaves and
flowers twining up the columns, its crowds of of:n
filers of every service intermingled with ladies in all
the glories of Parisian toilettes, long ord(-red, long
arranged, and at last displayed, made one rch
sud(len picture of luxuriant gaiety, which, though
few who saw it can forget, none who saw it can de-
scribe. It left a vague impression of music,,flowers,
rich uniforms, and splendid dresses; quiet, and yet
festivity ; a sort of reserved enthusiasm of display

• #
T 14 TritaDAY EVENIt -
THE. -Stasr; LO-': - - - SNG

whip!), seen under the spacious dome of that pavilion,
male it-one of the most impre:ssive yet one. of the
least describable-scenes which" have ever witnessed
The, eye couldrest on nothing of itself rertarkabh
beyond the general effect Everything harmonised
so well, from the bright yet soft tones of the ceiling
over the pillars of flowers, and round the spelcious
gallery where laced uniforms ani rustling silks
seemed natural accompaniments, down to the quiet.
pink floor, promenaded by hundreds and hundreds
of the great of Canada, all as natural, too, as if they
had lived there all their lives. In fact, the ball here
stands alone of its kind and marks an era in the his-
tory and general management of such entertain-
ments, which those who wish to thri've must copy
entirely or fail to equal. New Yorkers—men espe•
cially deputed to invite the Prince to similar dis-
plays—were there in plenty. and owned at once
with frank dismay that the Empire city could do
nothing to welcome his Royal Highness in a way
that would at all bear comparison with the fete of
Montreal. .

This language is dreadful guide-book heresy I
am aware, but the worst is yet to come. 'Cana-
dians tell you that if there is anything better
worth seeing than the Rapids it is the thousand
islands which dot the surface of the St: Law-
rence just where Lake Ontario ends -End the river
commences. here,. you are told, the rich grandeur
of the Hudson, the wild stern magnificence of
Saguenay, and, for aught you hear to the con-
trary, the flowery beauty of the Euphrates in
spring, may all be met with.

It is a trying thing to have to contend against
such notions, but, if an individual opinion is worth
an 3 thing, I must unhesitatingly give mine that these
thousand islands are in their way a monstrous
delusion and a snare, and will as much bear com-
parison with the Hudson or the Saguenay as the
Thames below Blackman. Take slips of the Isle of
Dogs of all sizes, from an island as large as a foot-
stool up to 10 or 12 acres, plant the large ones with
lean stunted firs, strew the little ones over with
broken stones as if they were about to be macada•
mised, put them near the surface of the water in a
mechanical disarray, giving confusion without pic-
turesqueness and number without variety, imagine
these choking the highway of a broad noble river,
and you can fancy yourself on the. St. Lawrence and
in the middle of the far-famed Thousand Islands.

The Prince went by rail to a place called
Dickenson's Landing, where he had an opportunity
of seeing some, though only a few of these unpic-
luresque obstructions, which, even seen, at their
best, look like castaway boulders ; that disap-
pointment, as a disappointment it will surely be if
he, like everyone else, has been informed that
'they are wonderfully beautiful, being reserved for
him till Thursday, the 4th of September. At
Dickenson's Landing a steamer was in waiting for
the Royal party to take them down the Rapids,
which are four in number—the Long Sault, Cas-
cades, Cedars, and Lochine. Long Sault, the first
'of all, is certainly the best. The current runs there
:at some 16 or 18 miles an hour, and, as the water
is very deep and the river makes a sharp bend, the
:first glance of these tumbling waters as they fill
the river with a foam-like snow is really very fine.
Ile sight is finer still as you near them, and you
see the whole river ploughed up by a series of wild
dangerous breakers, which plunge and start up in
a broken sea nearly 20ft. in the air. These waves
are all quite fierce and dangerous enough to de-
stroy any small boat in a minute, and even give the
steamer some heavy blows, which cover her decks
with foam and spray. But the current is so strong
• that, before you can well appreciate their turbu-
lence, the Rapid. is passed, for the Long Sault is
scarcely, more than a quarter of a mile in length.
The
and
cCeratsaicah%e, worth.
e
and Csedeaig, especiallyrhsare
both fine Rapids,
the latter,
which foams and rushes down :with tremendous
velocity for same four or five miles. I am told
that in three miles of its course the river here falls
tha
SO or 90ft., and I can well believe it, for the boat
flies past the banks like an express train. But
'of danger, as I
At h
'actually none.evelastsoaifdallbefore, there is
,
!smie dangerous rocks obstruct a very narrowpas-
!sage, some five or six miles above victoria-bridge,
there very likely Lochine, where
may have been danger to the
!boats at first; but the pilots are now so thoroughly
!used to the channel that they laugh at the idea of
;risk, and run their craft through with perfect in-
difference. Through -this last Rapid, however,.the
Prince did not pass, as when the boat Arnyed

If there was anything the entertainment lacked
to make it perfectly satisfactory to those who
looked beyond the mere show and glitter of the
affair, it was the presence of the French Canadians.
But, as at the Quebec ball, very few were present.
His Royal Higness arrived at 10 o'clock, and was
welcomed with the most profound salutation as he
passed the dais, and in a few minutes afterwards
the ball was opened, with some 30 or 40 sets of
quadrilles, for all of which there was room and to
spare in the spacious pavilion. This first set was of
course ushered in by an air which may be regarded
as almost the national song of Canada, as the maple
leaf is its emblem. Its real name is "a la Claire
Fontaine," though it is only known here by the
burden of its refrain, " Longtemps que to j'aime,
jamais je ne t'oublierai." It is a sweet, sparkling,
little melody, which appropriately enough, is al-
ways played in honour of the Prince. Already the
New York bands are getting it up to welcome him
with it on his arrival in the real capital of the
States. Unfortunately for some of the representa•
tives of the American and colonial press the Prince
neither slipped nor stumbled the whole evening and
thus no thrilling narrative of princely humiliation
ran through their recollections of the fete. Every-
thing passed off well, though I should not be doing
my duty as an impartial chronicler of these events
if I failed to state that throughout the whole night
the Prince was mobbed by a crowd of sightseers.
At no other ball that has yet been given have I
seen any approach to crowding round him " for a
good look." At Montreal lam sorry to say this
was the rule all night.
Apparently, however, the keen endless scrutiny
to which he was exposed made but small impression
on the Prince, who danced and laughed away the
time with perfect enjoyment and unconcern. That
he enjoyed the ball may he guessed from the fact
that he danced every dance in the programme,
except the last of all. Before the rather lively
hilarity of " Sir Roger de •Coverley" he always re-
tires, but as it was rearly 5 o'clock before he quitted
the saloon it cannot be said that he made any con-
siderable sacrifice on the score of leaving too soon.
On Tuesday the 28th his Royal Highness was up
again early, though he could scarcely have had more
than two hours' sleep, and prepared to start for his
trip down the rapids of the St. Lawrence.
These great Rapids, which are formed by a series
of declivities in the bed of the river between Lake
Ontario and Montreal, and down which the stream
rushes with a velocity varying from 17 to nearly 24
miles in the hour, are among the things which
tourists who visit Canada never fail "to do," Until
within the last few years they were considered as
too dangerous for any vessel, and it was not with-
out great misgivings that a steamer at last at-
tempted to run them, the immediate and inevitable
destruction of ship and all on board being, of course,
foretold by everybody as a certainty. Contrary to
this general expectation, and not a little, I believe,
to the actual disappointment of those who relied
upon the invincibily of the far-famed Rapids, and
felt it as a positive indignity that they could be
traversed in any vessel with safety, the steamer
arrived at Montreal, all well. Since that date they
have run regularly down the stream every day, re-
turning back to the head of Lake Ontario by means
of a canal with almost innumerable lock-gates to
prevent that becoming a Rapid as well as the rest.
Every one who goes to Niagara comes down the
Rapids to Montreal, and there are not a few who
make a great noise about it afterwards, as if the
feat was something perilous and wonderful. One
might as well attempt to stem the Rapids themselves
as assure the majority of tourists here that there is
really nothing very tremendous in them after all. ,
You are sure to,be met on every side with the ques-
tions, " Suppose the steamer droke down, sprang a
dangerous leak, or struck full upon a rock, where
would the passengers be then ?"—queries which, if
they have any weight at all, apply with equal force,
to a trip across the Atlantic, which now, at least, is
not thought such a wonderful achievement as it
used to be. The fact is that the terror of these
Rapids exists far more in appearance than in reality,
for the channel they have worn is so deep that the
steamer could not get out of it if it tried. To
be sure, if the vessel went full tilt against a rock,
turned over, and threw all the passengers into
the torrent, I don't believe any would bc saved ;
but, even taking this extreme view of the case,
I can't think that there would be much difference
in result between an upset on the St. Lawrence
and on any other of the large, wild, and rapid
streams of North America. How many,, for in-
stance, are saved when a Mississippi boat gets
" snagged" in the night • and gdes down in the
centre of that yelldw, turgid, desolate stream ?
So; all go down the Rapids arc told they
have accomplished a tremendous feat, and as none
are incredulous of their own heroism the delusion
is passed on from tourist to tourist, and the ra-
vening ferocity of the waters of the St. Lawrence
maintained in as much dignity as if crowds of
rafts, barges, and steamers did not come down
them every day, and as if the steamers that have
gone ashore had not quietly disembarked their
passengers without trouble or danger. lam quite
aware that if any one fell into the .ltapids it
would be a thousand chances to one against his
being saved, but I am equally sure that there
would be nearly the same chance of his meeting
the same fate in every other of the broad rapid
rivers of America I have seen.