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

THE PRINCE'S 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 decorations 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, and 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
the conduct of the Kingston men, whose overbear-
ing interference turned all against them. Never-
theless, some among the crowd called out the
Orange watchword "No Surrender !" as the Prinee
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 turbulent few at Port Hope we,re 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
oiry 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 Protestants 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 land 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 Wil-
liam 111. crossing the Boyne, 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 Orang© 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.

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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-