The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

VANCOUVER'S ISLIND-VICT ;RIA !

A guinea glimpse of the beautiful capital of Van-
couver's Island has just been given to the public
by the Messrs. Day and Sons, the Queen's Litho-
graphers. It has been issued from their establish-
ment in Gate-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the form
of a brilliant coloured engraving—the dimensions
of the paper being 43 X 15, and of the drawing
itself 34 X 8 ! The effect of the whole picture is
panoramic. Technically described, it is a chromo-
lithograph taken from an original sketch made out
at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, by Mr. H. 0.
Tiedemann. It presents to view in one broad
sweep, thirty-four and a half inches in length, the
whole panoramic effect of the lovely metropolis of
Quadra—the rus in urbe crowning that luxuriant
wilderness ! Yonder is the little aboriginal Indian
village (Soughees)—yonder (in broad contrast.) the
new Police Barracks erected by the Anglo Saxon
civilizers! Here—embowered amongst the North
American frondage, whispering to the breezes from
the Pacific, is the District Church of Victoria. There
—is James Bay Bridge : there—the Governor's
residence. The Hudson's Bay Company's Fort,
loyally called (like the city itself) " Victoria''—
appears conspicuously on one hand ; while upon
the other the British steamer, not inappropriately
named " Forward," brings picturesquely to view a
floating type, a visible token of the far off and be-
neficent European civilizatioL. Together with the
entrance to the harbour of Victoria, may be noted
to the right—the various Government Buildings
already constructed in its immediate vicinity
—the Colonial Office, the Land Office, the Trea-
sury, the Guard House and the House of Assem-
bly. At anytime this singularly interesting chromo-
lithograph from the sketch taken on the spot by Mr.
Tiedernann could hardly fail to prove very attrac-
tive to untravelled as well as to travelled English-
men. It is peculiarly so, however, now that Vic-
toria, the metropolis of Vancouver's Island, has
become in a manner the starting point or central
core, whence radiates, so to speak, the civilising
growth of the new Colony of British Columbia—
thatrealiied romance of England's greatest Roman-
cist—that master-work of Sir Bulvver Lytton in
his most practical character as a statesman and an
administrator. Looking at this picture of Victoria,
we cannot but look forward dreamingly to the
time when the Navies of the World may find
safe shelter in the neighbouring harbour of Esqui-
mault.

Viscount Palmerston, yesterday, konoured Mr.
John Watkins with several sittings at his photo-
graphic establishment in Parliament-street. Among
the distinguished persons who have recently visited
Mr. Watkins's atelier, and sat to him for portraits
are the Duchess of Wellington ; the Marquis of
Donegal; the Earls of Eglinton, Onslow, Grosvenor,
and Caithness ; Viscounts Bury, Ranelag,h, and
Valletort ; Lord and Lady Overstone ; Lords Wal-
singham, Vivian, and Elcho ; the Speaks-r of the
House of Commons, the Right Hon. J. E. Denison ;
the Deputy Speaker, W. N. Massey, Esi., M.P. ;
and Sir David Brewster.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY RIVERS.—We
have to record the death of the Dowager Lady Rivers, who
died on Thursday morning. The deceased lady was daughter
of the late Lieut.-Col. Francis Hale Rigby, of Mistley Hall,
Essex, and married, Feb. 9, 1808, Wm. Horace, third Lord
Rivers, by whom the lamented deceased leaves, surviving
issue, the present Lord Rivers, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Horace
Pitt, and the Hon. Harriet Elizabeth, married to Mr. Chas.
Dashwood Bruce. Her ladyship was in her 75th year.

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The Lord Chancellor and the Hon. Misses Camp-
bell arrived a few days back at Hartrigge, the noble and
learned lord's scat in Roxburghshire, where his lordship
and family will remain until the close of the ensuing month.
SUICID:: OF Mn.. FRANCIS, THE THEATRICAL
PitiNTEE:(TUIS Da v).—This morning
considerable amaze-
ment was occasioned in the printing establishment of Mr.
Francis, the well-known theatrical and concert printer,
who carried on business at 31, Catherine street, Strand, in
the rear of the .-lforning Post (Ince, on the receipt of infor-
mation that the unfortunate gentleman had committed
suicide by hanging himself at his private residence in
Bloomsbury. O inquiry the information proved too true.
The deceased was between 45 and LO years of age, end no
motive can be assigned for the rash net.
AN AGIMEABLE MONK.—What a charming
snuggery is the minor canon's abode, lacking nothing but
a wif to make it perfect ; though, if the hundred tongues
of rumour speak the truth (and, for a wonder they
are unanimous on this point), an Eve is soon to
appear in this Paradise, and the monk will have
to break his celibate vow. There is room for her at any
rate; for there are not two sitting•rooms downstairs, and
two bed-rooms with dressing-rooms upstairs! so let her
come, and welcome ; and as for the future (as Horace says),
don't ask what fate is going to bestow upon you. - At pre-
sent, the Agreeable Monk's nursery is in his garden.—
Once-a- Week.