The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-30 00:00:00

CANADA.

A New York paper says :
The people of Toronto have been getting up a Crystal
Palace for the exhibition of the products of industry of the
Canadian provinces. The palace is expected to be opened
by the 3st of October. A movement has been got up in
connection with it to invite Queen Victoria either to pre-
side in person over the opening of the palace or to send the
Prinee of Wales or some other member of the royal family
to do so. A petition to that effect has been signed by all
the leading men of the country, and we understand that an
induential citizen, Mr. John G. Norris, sails in the Persia
to present it to her Majesty.

The following is a copy of the petition
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of To-
ronto and inhabitants of Canada generally, most respectfully
showeth

That your petitioners desire to approach your Majesty
with an expression of their devoted loyalty and attachment
to your royal person and family. That your petitioners beg
leave respectfully to inform your Majesty that a Crystal
Palace, similar in design to, but of smaller dimensions, than
those of London and Paris, for the exhibition of the products
of Canadian industry and skill, is in course of erection In
Toronto, and will be completed about the Ist day of October
next. That, as your Majesty has been graciously pleased
to honour the inauguration of similar undertakings in
England and elsewhere with your royal presence, your:
petitioners most humbly pray that your most gracious Ma-.
jesty will confer a mark of favour and distinction on your
loyal subjects in Canada, of which they will always entertain
the most grateful remembrance, by conferring your autho-
rity on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, or some
other member of your Majesty's royal family, to proceed to,
Canada, and to represent your Majesty in opening the
Crystal Palace, in this the most important dependency of
your Majesty's empire. And your petitioners, as in Outl
bound, will ever pray, &c.
Signed by A. T. Belleau, Speaker of the Legislativo Coun-
cil, and all the members; by Henry Smith, Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly, and all the members; by the Chancel-
lor Blake, and all the judges; by the Protestant and
Catholic Bishops of Toronto; by Sir A. Mac Nab, the Mayor
and Corporation of Toronto, the Mayor and Corporation of
Hamilton, the Mayor of Quebec, and all the leading men of
the country.

The Canadian Parliament was prorogued on the
16th instant. The Governor made the following
speech :
Honourable Gentlemen,—l congratulate you on having
closed the session, and am happy to find that the subjects
which have been recommended to your consideration have
received attention at your hands. The act of abolishing
imprisonment for debt and preferential assignments, in
Upper Canada, will tend to the assimilating of the laws
of the two sections of the province, and must be of bene-
fit in its operation. Our steam communication with
Europe has continued to work successfully, and I have
little doubt that you have done well inproviding for
the regular mail service by steam during the season
to Gaspe and the lower provinces. The appropriation for
a postal line to Red River will open a continuous mail
route, under the control of the Canadian Government, from
that settlement to Nova Scotia. lam glad to find that the
customs tariff has undergone your revision, and regret that
I cannot speak of the commercial crisis which has passed
over the country as something that has entirely passed away:
I earnestly pray that the complete restoration of our prospe-
rity may not lung be delayed. I propose, in the course of
the recess, to communicate with her Majesty's
Government,
and with the governments of the sister colonies in another
[paver of very great importance. lam desirous of inviting
them to discuss with us the principles on which a bond of a
federal character uniting the provinces of British North
America may, perhaps, hereafter be practicable. I now re-
lease you by proroguing the present Parliament.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—A very melancholy occur-
rence, resulting in the instantaneous death of
.one man arid
the serious injury of another, took place at Cbaldernetta, in
the parish of Tingwall, Shetland, on the afternoon of Satur-
day. A quarryman, residing in Lerwick, bad left hie home
in the morning, to blow up, by means of a ehargeof powder,
some stones at a place where a new croft is hi course of
formation. In the afternoon, the train of one of the blasts.
having only burnt half-way, another attempt to get it to gus
off was equally unsuccessful, when it was resolved not fit)
blow it again. The bole had been bored pretty nearly to
the powder, when a spark produced by the iron employed, in
boring reached it, and instantly drove the iron right into
the forehead of the unfortunate quarryman, killing him on
the spot. Another man standing close by was struck by
the stones blown up by the explosion, and was much injured.
The body of the other man was taken to Lerwick in the
evening is a cart. He has left a widow and a large
Northern Ensign.