The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-10 00:00:00

teeth; and small, quick, black eyes. The latter were
keenly suggestive of either a genius for petty traffic
or the acquisition of small ware generally by any
means. After these distinguished specimens of a
.decaying race the procession, which was very well
arranged, proceeded in the following order :

FIRST DIVISION.
Police Advanced Guard.
The Chief of Police and Officers.
The Prince's Standard.
Grand Marshals.
J, C. Lacroix, Esq. I M. Doherty, Esq.
Guard of Honour and Bands.
Volunteer Cavalry Escort.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES
AND SUITE.
His Excellency the Governor-General and Suite.
The Commander of the Forces and Staff, mounted.
The Members of the Executive Council.
His Lordship the Anglican Bishop and Chaplains.
His Lordship the Roman Catholic Bishop, with Superior of

Seminary and Chaplains.
The Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
The Chief Justice and Judges.
The Mayor of Montreal.
The Members of the Corporation.
The Civic Officials and the Executive Committee of Citizens.
The Members of the Legislative Council.
The Consuls-General of France and the United States.
The 'onsuls.
Distingui hed Guests.
Band of Music.
SECOND DIVISION.
The Royal Standard.
Grand Marshals.
John Penner, Esq. I J. E. Malhiot, Esq.
The Clergy.
The Bar.
The Notaries.
The Medical Faculties.
The St, Jean Baptiste Society. with banners.
The Si. Patrick's Society, with banners.

The St. G'orge's Society, with banners.
The St. Andrew's Society, including the Caledonian and
Thistle Socie:ies, with banners.
The German Societ`Y, with banners.
The New England Sociei:7, with banners.
The Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, including the
Young Men's Society, with ba:_uners.
The Mechanics' Institute, with banners.
L'lnstitut Canadian, with banners.
L'lnstitut Canadien Francais, with banners.
La Societe des Arts et Metiers.
THIRD DIVISION.
The British Ensign.
Band of Music.
Grand Marshals.
A. W. A. Delisle, Esq. j W. S. Macfarlane, Esq.
The Agricultural Society.
The Horticultural Society.
The Chief Engineer and the Fire Brigades.
Montreal Temperance Society, including the Sons of
Temperance.
Rechabites and Bands of Hops, with banners.
The St. Patrick's Temperance Societies, with banners.
La Societe de Temperance, Section St. Jacques, with
banners.
La Societe de Temperance, Section St. Joseph, with
banners.
FOURTH DIVISION.
The Union Jack.
Band of Music.
Grand Marshals.
Dunbar Browne, Esq. I H. Duchesneau, Esq.
La Societe St. Michel, with banners.
L'Union St. Joseph, with banners.

La Societe des Menuisiers et Charpentiers, with banners.
La Societe St Francois Xavier, with banners.
La Societe St. Antoine, with banners.
L' Union St. Pierre, with banners.
Miscellaneous societies and organisations, not hereinbefore
mentioned, and Citizens.
Sub-Chief of Police and Rear Guards.

The members of the Legislature were to have
marched between the members of the Executive
Council and the Consuls; but here, as at Quebec,
they declined to assist in the procession at all. Their
absence was not "conspicuous." They were certainly
not missed from the procession, and the incident is
only worth mentioning as indicating an undercur-
rent of sullen feeling which just now occasionally
manifests itself awkwardly. The state of parties in
Canada is by no means of the couleur de rose tint
which superficial observers might imagine from the
arches and illuminations which bedeck the land.
There were no signs of any feeling but loyalty,
however, when the Prince landed. The people
shouted with real enthusiasm, and all the steeples
in the town rang out tremendous peals, which filled
the air with a rich volume of sound that added to
the excitement and whirl of the whole display.
In such State his Royal Highness was escorted to
his residence—the mansion of Mr. Rose, Chief Com-
missioner of Public Works in Canada, which had
been placed at his disposal during his stay. Only
a very short halt was made here, for a great deal of
ceremonial and high state had to be got through this
day, with but little time for breathing between each
event. So, after a short pause, just sufficient to
enable the crowds that had witnessed the proces-
sion to flock to the Exhibition, his Royal Highness
again commenced a progress through the streets to
formally open and inaugurate the Industrial Exhi-
bition of Montreal and Province of Canada. The
building which has been erected for this purpose
stands in a commanding situation on the northern
side of the city, just where the slopes of Mont
Royal, from which the town takes its name, begin
a slow rise. The building itself, in outer form
and general internal arrangement, is very like
one of the end transepts of the Crystal Palace,
only, of course, on a much smaller scale, and
built with brick walls, roofed in with an arched
wooden ceiling. For the rest, the columns, girders,
and tie-rods of the interior are much the same in
principle as in the English building. The outside,
however, is handsomely adorned with light orna-
mental woodwork and painting, which give it a
clean and pleasing effect. The time for opening
this Exhibition should, as was originally intended,
have been at least 10 days or a fortnight later than
the `.4sth of August. Advantage was, however,
taken of the presence of his Highness to inaugu-
rate the Exhibition with the utmost state and eclat.
This of course compelled the committee to open the
building before much more than half its contents
had arrived, and when even of that half not more
than one-third of the articles were unpacked from
their cases. Thus the galleries set apart for the
various products of Canadian growth or manufac-
ture were almost all empty, a fact on which Mr.
Chamberlain, the indefatigable secretary, almost
congratulated himself when he found how pressed
he was for space to accommodate spectators. The
Prince arrived at the Exhibition at 11 o'clock, and,
passing through a marquee set aside for the exhi-
bition of a fine collection of hothouse plants, waited
a short time in a handsome reception room till a
sufficient number of naval, military, and civic dig-
nitaries had arrived to constitute something between
a brilliant staff and a small procession. This
Highness at once entered the
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building,d,hains ditpoayassied to the dais, amid the warmest
acclamations of enthusiasm and flutterings of hand •
kerchiefs that ever any heir apparent was greeted
with. " God save the Queen" was sung splendidly
by the chorus, after which the Governor-General of
course read another address, to which as usual the
Prince responded, and these formalities being over
(which to the Prince, even with all his goodnature,
must begin to feel rather tiresome now) a complete
tour was made of the building. As I have already
said, there was not a great deal of it to delay this
part of the ceremony. There were some rich spe-
cimens of iron and copper ores, in both of which
minerals all Canada abounds, though as yet these
sources of national wealth have been most imper-
fectly developed. The copper ore is badly and ex-
in spite of all waste, the
pensively worked, though,
mines yield an enormous profit, and would yield ten
times more if better managed. Iron ore of the
richest kind is abundant everywhere, especially in
Western Canada, where, at a place called Croxly, it
yields from 60 to 70 per cent. of pure metal. Some
very fine specimens of this ore were shown to the
Prince. A conspicuous object in the centre of the
building is a column of coal cut from one seam and
37 feet high. In Canada there is no coal formation
whatever—a serious check on the profitable work.
ing of the iron ores. But at Pictou and Cape Breton
Island there are immense coalfields, the seams at the
latter place being from 37 to 38 feet thick. From
one of them the column of coal in the Montreal
Exhibition was cut,- and though not properly
belonging to objects of Canadian industry, it
was, nevertheless, assigned a conspicuous place in
the building, as another proof of the mineral
wealth of
the colonies generally. The Prince in-
spected these and some fine specimens of native
marbles. Among other objects in this depart-