The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1860.

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THE PRINCES VISIT TO CANADA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
TORONTO, SEPT. 10.

The mail had closed when I despatched my last
supplementary letter from Coburg on the 7th, so
that I was obliged to intrust it by hand to a mail
agent going east, and who kindly undertook to send
it on by the Quebec boat, if possible. Since that
date his Royal Highness has visited Coburg,
Peterborough, Port Hope, and Whitby, on his route
to the fine city where he is now staying. At Peter-
borough there were some beautiful decorat. ons and
long addresses and replies, and, above all, there

were tremendous cheers of welcome, compared to
which in the eyes of the Kingston emissaries gall

and wormwood would have been luxuries. From

Peterborough the Royal party returned by rail to

Port Hope, a very pretty little town on the northern

shore of Lake Ontario, end a centre of Orange

organization, said to be not inferior in fanaticism
to any in Upper Canada. Here it is very likely an

- -
Orange procession would have been formed but for

,he conduct of the Kingston men, whose overbear-

ng interference turned all against them. Nerer-

,Celess, some among the crowd called out the

Orange watchword " No Surrender !" as the Prince
stepped ashore, while several shouted that for no
man living save the Prince of Wales would they

have given in—a statement which I believe admits

of no doubt whatever. On the whole, however, the
efforts of the turbrlent few at Port Hope were en-
tirely discouraged by the chiefs of the party, who
would have enforced greater rigour but that they
feared losing their influence altogether, and giving
the lead to the most violent members, who were

already clamouring for it. At 'Whitby there was
a great concourse of people, who received his Royal
Highness with unalloyed manifestations of delight

and loyalty ; and here, addresses having been duly

received and acknowledged, the Prince again em-
barked on board the steamer Kingston for Toronto
on4y a few miles distant.
There had been great doubts whether the Prince
would be able to land at this city at all, for the

Kingston men had been very busy, and not without
success,among the lowest ranks of the Orange Asso-
ciation. Mr. Helyard Cameron, a solicitor of great
eminence and the grand master of the Lodge of
Upper Canada, had, it is said, done his utmost to
prevent a demonstration, and in this he had been
backed by all the respectable members of the so-
ciety, and, of course, by Protestants of every class.

For some time, however, his efforts were in vain.

I am told that he threatened to resign, and would
have done so forthwith but for the earnest remon-

strances of other members of the party, who pointed
out the certainty, in case of his doing so, of his

place being instantly filled by some one or other

of the firebrands of the association, who would be
certain to make matters ten times worse than ever.
Mr. Cameron, therefore, refrained from this step,
and, he being supported energetically by all the

respectable Prote3tants who were not Orangemen,
and who were determined to risk everything rather
than that the Prince should be driven away, the
Orangemen yielded. To say truth, whenever it
has been understood that these processions must
resolve themselves into a question of physical force,
the Orangemen have proved as tractable as Quakers.
So a sort of compromise was effected, and it was
agreed that the Orange demonstration should take
place at two o'clock and be over by three, an ar-
rangement to which every one consented, as his
Royal Highness was not expected to laod before
six or seven.

Before this decision was arrived at, however, the
Orangemen had erected an Orange arch in the
main street, under which the Prince would have
to pass on his way through the town. It was not
coloured orange, being erected to represent the
gate of Londonderry ; but it had several Orange
insignia on it, with a transparency of King Wit•

,am 111. crossing the Boyre, with the figures

" 1688" and the motto, "The glorious, pious, and
immortal memory of King William III." These
transparencies were placed on both sides of the
arch, while the top was surmounted with the usual
Orange emblem of a Bible and Crown, and its ac-
companying motto, "These we maintain."
Except for the unfortunate misunderstandings
and ill-feelings to which this arch has given rise,
it would scarcely be worth mentioning at all; for
even the Orangemen admit with a smile that, as an
arch, it is the ugliest obstruction the Prince has
seen.

Of course, the Governor-General and the Duke of
Newcastle heard of this arch, and Mr. Wilson, the
Mayor of Toronto was at once written to and in-
formed that the Prince would pass under no party
memorials of the kind. The Mayor immediately
replied that the Orange insignia would be removed,
and that the Orangemen had consented to take
down the transparencies of King William with their
party mottoes, substituting transparencies of the
Prince of Wales. The change in the portraits was
to be made accordingly in the night. The Prince
was at Coburg, but the Kingston men were in
Toronto when this pacific alteration was proposed,
and during the night worked upon the feelings of
the violent members of the Irish party to such an
extent that on the morning the Prince was to land
they came to a determination that King William
should remain where he was. Mr. Gamble, the
eity solicitor, took a letter to the Duke from the
Mayor, stating that the intended change had been
effected, though it had not ; and Mr. Gamble him-
self made no mention of the fact that the Orange
arch was as much an Orange arch as ever, and that
it was intended to represent the gate of Derry.
Relying, however, upon the assurance of the Mayor,
the Duke at once came on.
With the single exception of this arch, all the
decorations of Toronto were exceedingly beautiful.
It was getting dark on the evening of the 7th as
the Royal steamer was seen winding round the long
spit of land which stretches out before this city,
and forms for its commerce one of the most perfect
natural harbours in the world. Among those who
knew that the Orange arch was intended to repre-
sent the gate of Londonderry, and that the society
had refused to remove the transparency of King
William crossing the Boyne, the announcement of
the arrival created a great sensation, for it was
scarcely hoped that the Prince would pass under it
along the route arranged for the cortege. Very
few were aware that in these matters the Mayor
had deceived the Duke of Newcastle, and that the
Royal party had entirely on the reiterated as-
surance given that no party emblems had been
erected. So the Prince came to the landing-

, Iplace. All the amphitheatre was filled with ladies
and gentlemen, the lower seats being occupied by
3,000 children dressed in white. As the Prince
stepped on shore all these infant voices broke out
with the National Anthem, and the effect of the
whole scene—the dark, gloomy sunset over Lake
Ontario—the cheering of the crowd outside, just
heard over the strong, solemn chorus of the chil-
dren—the flags of the arches, and the dim ilium:-
nations of the city in the distance, along the streets
of which the crowds were running with a great
rush by thousands, all made it one of :those picto-
rial and poetical displays which no description,
however vivid, can recal. There was a sense of re-
lief to mingle with the feeling of rejoicing which
led the crowds grachally to join with the anthem,
which went peeling out over the water in a grand
volume of sound, enough almost to be heard on the
shores of the United States beyond. An address
was presented by the civic authorities which there '
was considerable difficulty in reading, even with
the aid of lights, for the night had now fallen and
was dark and windy. At the conclusion of this
the procession was formed and followed by hun-
yof people cheering. The cortege winds through
t principal streets to the old residence of the Go-
o v r of the Province, which, like all the other
resting places of his Royal Highness, had been care-
fully prepared for his accommodation in the most
splendid style. The Chief Commissioner of Public
Works, the Hon. John Rose, has had charge of all
the arrangements for the Prince's tour throughout,
and of every single place, whether among the wilds
of the Upper Ottawa, across the woods from Arn-
prior to Almonte, or at the little towns like Brock-
ville or Sherbroke, they have been perfect to a de-
gree that has elicited not admiration only, but
almost the astonishment ef the Royal party. While
on his way to the Government-house, however, the
Prince passed under the Orange arch. Its character
was not seen by the Duke of Newcastle, who was
sitting with his back to the horses, until he had
actually passed under it. There was a few
" hurrahs !" from Orangemen, and cries of " No
surrender," as the carriage went beneath it, but
this was all. For the rest, all the houses were
gaily illuminated, and thousands were in the
streets, a great many wearing Orange ribands
and insignia; but the popular feeling being
strong in favour of giving the Prince a welcome,
independent of partisan feeling of any kind, the
St. George's Temperance Society, with one
of the same kind,
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victory in having got his Royal Highness to pass
under their arch without just then venturing any-
thing further. The greatest blaze of light which
was shed on the procession was at the Rossin-house,
the principal hotel in Canada, where many of
the Royal suite were to stay, and which was
illuminated from top to bottom as if it was on
fire, and viewing the cortege from this point I
certainly could not distinguish any Orange ban-
ners in it.

When his Royal Highness arrived at the Go-
vernment-house the Duke of Newcastle at once
had an interview with the Mayor, and in the
strongest terms complained of the deceit which
had been practised on the Prince, and of the
manner in which, relying upon the Mayor's pro-
mise that no party emblems had been erected,
his Highness had been entrapped into passing
under the Orange arch. The Duke of Newcastle,
I am informed, also stated that, if some apology
or explanation were not given for such an
affront, he would feel it his duty to advise the
Prince either to leave the city, or to mark his
sense of the deceit practised upon him by de-
clining to receive the Mayor or any other mem-
bers of the corporation who had b'ebn parties to
it at his Levee on the following day. His Wor-
ship requested time to convene the Common
Council, in order that a formal answer might be
returned on the following morning, and to this,
of course, the Duke at once consented.

Saturday, the Bth of September, was fixed for a
grand review of the Volunteers, but the weather, as
usual, was in the highest degree unfavourable, and
as at Newfoundland, as at Halifax, as at Prince
Edward Island, at Quebec, at Montreal and
Ottawa, at all the resting-places along the
route, in fact, the rain came down in tor-
rents. The review of course became out of the
question. The rain would have been too heavy
even for an inspection of Canadian lum-
berers, so it was early announced that only the
levee would take place. The Duke of Newcastle
waited long in the expectation of receiving some
reply from the Mayor of Toronto in the matter of
the Orange arch. None came, however, and ac-
cordingly his Grace sent the following letter to
Mr. Wilson :

" Government-house, Toronto, Sept. 8.

" Sir,—I deeply regret that you have not thought fit to
send vsy explanation of the occurrence of wFch I made
complaint to you last evering,.
" I would not willingly revert to any cause of offence after
the most magnificent and warm-hearted reception which
the Prince of Wales met with in this city yesterday, but
there are matters which carnet be overlooked without loss
of honour and position. You distinctly informed me that
the transparency of William 111. was removed, and one of
the Prince of Wales was 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 arnounced to be held at this house
no alteration will be made, but I hope you will see the pro-
priety of not attend4ng it so long as this matter 13 unex-
plained and no reparation offered,—l am, Sir, &c.,

" NEWCASTLE.
" P.S.—I reopen my letter to say that yours has been
this moment (11 o'clock) received. I trust the result of the
meeting may be satisfactory, but I am sure you must feel
that the reparation must pieced° any further communica-
tion.
" The Worshipful_ the Mayor of Toronto."
Just before this letter was despatched a note from
the Mayor was forwarded to Government-house. It
is to this document, which I subjoin, that the P.S.
of the Duke of Newcastle refers. By this time it
had become more generally known that the arch
was built to represent the gate of Londonderry, but
as a matter of course such information was not for-
warded tk the Duke, and among strangers it was
thought, on the whole, to be rather a concession on
the part of the Orangemen that they had not
adopted their party tinge to paint their arch, but
had, on the contrary, used, common stone colour.
The letter of the Mayor, to which the P.S. of the
Duke refers, was as follows :
" Mayor-office, Toronto, Sept. 8.
" My Lord Duke,—ln consequence of the very painful
interview your Grace did me the honour of holding with me
last evening respecting the portrait of King William 111.,
which has been placed on the arch erected by the Orange-
men of this city, end which was to have been dispensed
with and one of his Royel Highness the Prince of Wales
adopted for it, end respecting also the communication speci-
fying the proposed change which I had the honour of ad-
dressing to his Excellency the Governor-General a few
days since, and which was permitted to remain uneontra-
dieted, either by the later communication to his Excellency
or by any Personal statement, I have convened the council
for this morning at half-past 9 o'clock, when I trust to be
enabled to make an explanation and apology to your Grace
and to his Excellency, which I hope may be accepted as
satisfactory.
"I should have held this meeting last night, but I could
find neither clerks nor messengers, and I was told I should
have had still greater difficulty in finding the members.—
I have the honour to be, my Lord Duke, your Grace's mos
obedient humble servant,

" ADAM WILSON, Mayor.
" To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle."
The Levee took place at the time announced in
the programme. The Kingston emissaries, who
till now had found their occupation gone, at once
perceived their chance, and improved upon it.
While these worthies were expatiating on the
wrong done so unjustly to the city, the Mayor and

Council had met, and the Mayor had written and
sent his letter of apology to the Duke, an apology
which admitted the deceit practised, which, in fact,
stated that it was the first time his worship had
ever been guilty of such an act, and which prr-
mised, if this offence was overlooked, that he would
never be guilty of it again. It was as follows:
" Mayor's 'office, Toronto, Sept. 8.
" My Lord Duke, —Advert ing to their ter view which your
Grace did me the honour of holding ai:th me last evening
on the subject of the transparency of King William 111. on
the Orangemen's Arcb, in this city, and the letter which I
had the honour 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 slated the
change which was subsequently proposed to he made, end
which was efterwards in fact made. And although the
Roman Catholics were quite willing to acquiesce, and did
acquiesce, in the alteration, it was nevertheless only due 'o
your Grace and to his Excellency that such a deviation
from the understood arrangement should have beenpromptly
transmitted ; and looking back to what I have done from
the present view of matters, it may appear that it was pre-
sumptuous on my part to judge whether your Grace or 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 arrang:ng satisfac-
torily the late threatening and serious state of affairs here,
and I trust I have not been wanting in my efforts to being
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 an unworthy
motive, or for the purpose of compromising his Royal High-
ness 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 tenour-of my life, act in the
manner to which your Grace alluded last evening; but I
admi aga'n that much does appear in what has occurred to
have induced your Grace to foam 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 most loyal city, for as to •
wards your Grace and his Excellency I am alone to blame.
—I have the honour to be, my Lord Duke, your Grace's
most obedient, humble servant,

" ADAM WILSON, Mayor.
His Grace the Duke of Newcast'e, Secretary
for the Colories. &c."

• ---:
In this reply of course rothing was said as to the
object the arch was intended to represent, and as
no manner of good could then be done by statirg
it, it was much better kept in the background.
Not many, indeed, would have known of it but for
the vapouring of the Orangemen, who went about
declaring that they had rather the Prince passed
under that than any other form of Orange arch
they could devise. The blusterers, however, as has
been the case all through, were the mere dregs of
the party—noisy, violent Irishmen, on whom all
the leaders looked down with distrust and annoy-
ance. To tlie elmost abject applogy of the Mayor
the Duke of Newcastle replied in the following
letter, which terminated the correspondence :

" Government-house, Toronto, Sept. 8.
" Sir,—l am so sincerely anxious that all the painful
events of the last few days should be at once and for ever
buricd in oblivion, an nothing remembered but the heart-
stirring scene which last right proclaimed to the world the
unanimous and enthusiastic loyalty of the city of Toronto,
that it is a real relief to my wind to feel that I can, with-
out any sacrifice of duty to the Pl:nco of Wales, accept the
apology which is offered by your letter just received. In
this spirit I will not continua a discussion which must have
been so painful to you, and has certainly been no less so
to me, but I must point out to you that it was your letters
which really gave an obnoxious character to the trans-
parancy of 'William 111. Nobody can object to a represen-
tation (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 had advised the Prince not to countenance,
and its restoration wade it impossible for the Prince to pass
under the arch without violating the taints of my letter to
the Governor-General. I can orly hope that from this
moment all differences may as completely vanish from the
minds of others as they will from that of,
" Sir, yours very obediently,
" NEWCASTLE.
"The Worshipful the Mayor of Toronto."

This closed the correspondence on the subject be-
tween his Worship and the Duke, and it was inti-
mated to the Mayor and members of the Council
that, the matter being forgiven and forgotten, they
would all have the honour of being presented to his
Royal Highness before the visit to Toronto termi-
nated.

On the evening of the Btlr, after the banquet at
the Government-house, his Royal Highness held a
grand reception at Osgoode Hall. This hall, which,
like all the other public buildings at Toronto, is a
really magnificent ktruciure, is at once both the
Middle Temple and Westminster Hall of Upper
Canada. The external features of the architecture
much resemble, on a smaller scale, the noble entrance
to the British Museum, while the entrance hall
inside is built with a double row of Gothic columns,
and a corridor round it, after the plan of the hall
of Bridgewater-house. All the .interior, however,
is of massive cut stone, with inlaid tesselated pave-
ment of the most exquisite designs. The mode of
lighting is from behind coloured glass screens in

the ceiling of each chamber, and the effect of the
soft rich light which is thus diffused over the whole
is exceedingly chaste and beautiful. In different
parts of the building the various courts of law are
situated, all loftier, more commodious, and better
ventilated than those of Westminster Hall. One
side of the hall is entirely occupied by a splendid
library, and in,tbis, as the largest apartment, a
raised dais was placed for the Prince. His Royal
Highness arrived at the building at 9 o'clock, and
was received by the visitors who had been invited
to meet him at the ball with a great outburst of
enthusiasm. Mr. Cameron, the Treasurer of the
Law Society, with all the judges and members of
the Canadian bar, met his Highness in the lower
hall, and presented him with a long and eloquent
address, to which the Prince replied as follows :
" Gentlemen,—l have accepted your invitation to this

hall wi.h very great pleasure, end must thank you warmly
for the address just presented to me. The purity of the
bench and the independence of the bar aro the proud cha-
racteristics of the legal profession in England, and I rejoice
to think that this province, equally with the mother country,
enjoys those great securities for liberty and order. I hope
that this hall may in future generatiens continue to have
enrolled in its list of members men as illustrious as those
whose names are loved and venerated in the United King-
dom."

This address and walking through the courts
formed the only ceremonial part of the business,
and dancing was at once commenced in the library
with some eight or ten sets of quadrilles.
The Kingston Orangemen now state as an excuse
that they never would have made any demonstration
at all but for certain offensive resolutions which
were passed at a meeting of the Roman Catholics,
held in Itegiopolis College at Kingston.

11Th. LINDSAY'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES.
—The New York Herald, referring to this subject, says :
Mr. Lindsay is no doubt sent out here to confer with Lord
Lyons, precisely as Mr. Cobden was despatched to Paris to
confer with Lord Cowley upon the recent axeraty of
Elgin Com-
merce between France and England, and Lord
was sent here to negotiate the Reciprociiy Treaty with
Canada, of which province he bad been governor, and was
naturally supposed to be acquainted with its affai”s.ens T
in-
his
mission has undoutedly been prompted by the imme
crease in the shipping trade and commerce of the United
States. As long as our foreign trade was confined to the
Atlantic and the Gulf, England thought or cared little
about our view upon the navigation or coasting laws, but
now that our trade with China, Japan, and the East is
opening up, and that our coasting trade extends round the
Horn, from the eastern to the western shorts of the conti-
nent, 'the British Government is anxious to obtain for Bri-
tish shipping a reciprocity of that favour while Anier:can
vessels enjoy, according to the coasting and navigation
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THE NAVY.

The screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Wil-
mot, C 8., having been provisioned, and having
received supernumeraries, seamen's clothing, &e.,for the screw steam coastguard ship Hawke, GO,
Capt. Wm. Crispin, on the coast of Ireland, was
towed out of Plymouth. Sound yesterday (Monday)
by the tug Thais, and took her departure for
Queenstown.
The new steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. II
Broadhead, was removed yesterday (Monday) from
her moorings in Hamoaze, and put in Ne.S dock in
Keyham steam-yard, Plymouth.
His Netherlands Majesty's steamer Cyclops, Capt.
Toewater, from the Texel, bound for Lisbon and
Constantinople, put into Falmouth on Saturday,
for the purpose of coaling and watering.
The hired transport Chanticleer, with building,
stores, &c., for the Cape of Good Hope, left Wool-
wich Arsenal yesterday, in tow, for Gravesend;
and the Rifleman, with a similar cargo, is to sail
this morning, also for Gravesend and the Cape.
The first portion of the fortifications to be erected
at Chatham for the protection of the dockyard will
shortly be commenced on the summit of Chatham-
hill, close to the great highway from Dover. The
owners of the land on which the proposed defences
are likely to be raised have received notices to for-
ward their claims to the Government.

A powder magazine, capable of containing about
2,500 barrels of gunpowder, has just been com-
pleted at Pembroke Dock. It is intended to be the
principal one in Milford Haven, from which all the
smaller ones in the defences now in the course of
construction will be supplied. It is built of massive
bombproof brickwork, walled and roofed in. In
order to guard as much as possible against injury to
the dockyard, should an explosion ever take place,
it has been built in an excavation made in the side
of the Hut Cantonment hill.

A cargo of Spanish oak is now being delivered at
Portsmouth dockyard cx Mentor from Barcelona.
since
seeecat are informed that this is the first cargoreceived
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purposes. The timber referred to as now being de-
livered at Portsmouth dockyard is of very inferior
size and quality, and in this respect forms a marked
contrast to some noble specimens of white oak, of
foreign growth, lying in another part of the yard.
The stock of timber in the dockyard during the past
two months has been largely increased. Some of the
English elm in the yard is very fine. A piece in
the hands of the sawyers yesterday, measuring
only 32 feet in length, contained 470 square feet of
timber.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Heneage Freeling, midshipman,
to the Hannibal; William Donnison, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernu-
merary; John Langrish, first class assist.-engineer,
to the Foxhound ; Henry Payne, first class assist.-
engineer, to the Mersey; James Hansford, second
class assist.-engineer, to the Colossus, for service in
the Biter; George Thompson, second class assist.-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for service in the Raby ;
Charles Augustus Shapcote, promoted to paymaster;
and James S. Daniell, assist.-paymaster in charge,
to the Firefly.