The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 27, 1860.

shadow of a grievance. We gave the resolutions 1
on (P Wednesday); but, lest we should misrepre-
sent, we repeat the chief accusation in their own
words, it is that " repressing their patriotic
demonstration of welcome to his Royal Highnes
the Prince of WALES and interfering with the action

of various municipal bodies under whose auspices or
with whose sanction they were invited to join in the
general rejoicings with their fellow-subjects of all
classes and creeds,produced irritation and heart burn-
ing, and left a feeling of dissatisfaction and discon-
tent among the Protestant population of Canada,
which never would have existed had the Duke re-
membered that his Royal Highness was the guest
of the Province, and that through the Government
alone should all his communications have been ad-
dressed to the Canadian people." This charge of
interfering with the municipal bodies seems to be
the favourite one hit upon by the Canadian con-
stitutional lawyers, as they think themselves. They
again " cannot refrain from expressing their in-
dignation that, while the people of Canada possess
representative institutions, and have their own
Parliament and the management of their own local
affairs, any member of the Imperial Government,
who owes no responsibility to them, should dictate
the course to be pursued by the inhabitants of the
country and make direct communication to their
municipal authorities in matters of purely local
arrangements which not only did not contravene
any law of the Province, but not even any law of
thy' Empire." The ineffable absurdity of all this
will be apparent enough when it is recollected that
these municipal authorities" had so managed
matters 01
tit the Dui= and thy PRINCE wcro own-
pletely take by surprise, that it was indeed
the intent of these violently cunning men
to surprise the NiNcE into passing under their
yoke. Whatever tho propriety or impropriety of
the DUKE'S communicating with the municipal
authorities, he had no alternative when the obtru-
sion upon him of what was known to be offensive
was so sudden and municipal.
But what can be raid for these gentlemen when
the correspondence is known which they had the
hardihood to produce at the meeting. Mr.
CAMERON) the head of the Toronto Orangemen, had
written to the Governor, and had been informed by
him, after conferring with the DUKE, that an
Orange address would " be very embarrassing." He
boasts that he had listened to that advice, and the
Orangemen had presented in consequence no ad-
dress. The Governor, however, seems to have re-
ceived another letter from the restless Mr.
CAMERON—for that gentleman read to the meeting
the following letter
MY DEAR SIR,—I have no objection to your publish-
ing my letter of August 13.
" If I recollect aright, no word passed between us on the
subject of Orange insignia or banners to be used in the re-
ception of the Prince. Had the question been received,
I should certainly have thought them quite as likely to be
embairassing' to an English Prince and English Minister
as any address which could be presented.
" The antidote to an address may, if necessary, be admi-
nistered in the answer; the other class of demonstrations
admits of no such protest.
" However, this is immaterial. There can be no doubt
that you, as the chief authority on the part of the Orange-
men, foresaw the probability of difficulty, and took measures
to obtain correct information at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.—Yeurs very faithfully,

"EDMUND HEAD,

"Hon. J. H. CAMERON."

Thus fully warned, not through the municipi

authorities, but through the Governor of Canada
himself, that their gaudy partisan exhibitions would
be annoying to our English Prince and Minister,
these worthies yet persisted in annoying their guest
with what they knew would be so unpleasant to
him !

After these facts are known, we imagine there
will not be two opinions here on the conduet of
these persons—gentlemen, so far as this matter is
concerned, we cannot term them. All that we
heard before bore but one aspect ; but that they
should, in reply to their own inquiries, have been
told that what they would wish to do would be
annoying, and that they should still not abstain
from doing it, renders their behaviour a disgrace
to the colony, and no meetings of their partizans
all over Canada can wipe it out. Are we to
hope that the sober Protestants of the colony
will step forward and vindicate their character.
If they do not our conclusion will be, that
they, who know so much better than we can do the
local status of these bullies, deem them unworthy
of their notice. They possibly are below contempt,
at least below what ought to call forth public ex-
pression of it. It may be that we, in writing about
them, are giving them a purely factitious import-
ance. Of one thing we are certain, that the con-
sistent, manly, liberal conduct of the Duke has
won him golden opinions here ; and that an
Orange mob, with the delinquent Mayor of Toronto
in the chair, aro little likely to change opinion in
England. All respectable Protestants in this country
regard Oran geism much as they do Ultramontanism,
and they are only grieved to see it compassing
sea and land to make proselytes, and when
it has made them that it should also make them
tenfold more the children of bigotry than them-
selves. From such persons the charge of favouring
Catholics at the expense of Protestants, will be
simply evidence of perfect religious neutrality
on the part of the Duke.

The reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of
WALES by the free-born citizens of the United
States is something more important than a mere
piece of court pageantry passing through the midst
of a hospitable republican demonstration. It is'
one of the most graceful and beautiful incidents
that the future Bancrofts and Macaulays will have
to record in the annals of the elder and the
younger divisions of the great Anglo-
Saxon race. Americans and Englishmen
can only be brought more closely and more cor-
dially together, by such reciprocations [of good
feeling between the citizens of the young republic,
and the heir to that old constitutional monarchy
from which that young republic (now not eighty
years ago) emanated during the reign of the Prince
of WALES'S great-grandfather. It was only a
day or two since that we published the
particulars of the reverential visit paid by
his Royal Highness, the eldest son of our
beloved SOVEREIGN to the hallowed grave of that
great rebel to the Crown of her MAJESTY'S grand-
father, King GEORGE lll.—that great rebel and
heroic patriot who has left behind him so pure a
fame and so imperishable a monument of his msg.
nanimity. It comes as a fitting sequel to this
pilgrimage of the Prince of WALES to the grave
of WASHINGTON, that his Royal Highness should
so soon afterwards pass through the street of New
York in the midst of such heartfelt and enthusiastic
acclamations. Not one loyal Englishman amongst
us all but will read, with a glow of pleasure,
the particulars given in another part of our
impression of this evening, the deeply interesting
account there given of the Prince of WALES'S
arrival in New York, and of his Royal High-
ness's progress down the noble Broadway.

It appears that the Societe d'Escompte of Paris,
on whose account the purchase of £600,000 gold was made
in London about a fortnight back, are still offering a pre-
mium for some rather large amounts. The parcels bought
hero this week oil their account exceeds £lOO,OOO.