The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-09 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY fiIVENING, NOVCI/13Eq, 1861.

dred acres to begin with. Against none of these
conditions can even a moment's objection be raised
as against anything exorbitant, or otherwise, in fact,
than most rational and most judicious. Look at the
first condition for instance, viz., that the settler be
aged at least eighteen !—without doubt an almost
superfluous proviso : for who would ever dream
of an actual settler being under eighteen—who

would ever dream of such a thing, at any rate
out of the pages, let us say, of the Swiss Family
ROBINSON, or of those marvellous records of Boy
Adventurers that Captain MAYNE REID loves to

tell of ! and that boy readers love so dearly to hear
him relate ! Condition 2—That he (the settler)
shall, within a month's time from the date of
the award of 100 acres, take possession of them.
A condition based upon_ the principle, of course,
that if 'twere done; then 'twere well 'twere

done quickly." Condition three can hardly be
looked upon as one requiring too much at the

hands of the emigrant —to wit, that in Four

Years, twelve at least out of the 100 acres of

land freely granted to him shall have been brought
by him under cultivation. The fourth and last of

these very moderate conditions binding down the

settler to secure in the most effectual manner his

own comfort, by requiring him, that is, to con-
struct for himself a local habitation of convenient

dimensions, and to inhabit it ! " That he build

a log house" (says the condition) " twenty feet
by eighteen, and reside on the lot until the fore-

going conditions shall have been fulfilled." Who

shall say that, with Free Grants of 100 acres of

land thus readily procurable in Canada by the

youth of England, that the world, the British
Empire, has not room and verge enough for all ?

TILE LORD MAYOR'S "SHOW."

The splendid pageant of the Lord-Mayor's pro-
gress was this year more magnificent than usual_
indeed more so than on any previous " display'
within our remembrance. The horses or cavalry on
this occasion looked exceedingly fine—and paced
their stately steps passing well to the stormy
music of the drum. The Volunteers trooped
along in gay career, and looked as if they,
too, were worthy of the sight. The flags and
banners of all the corporate companies flaunted
in the breeze in joyous consciousness of "the occa-
sion ;" while the mob—we beg pardon, the illustri-
ous visitors—showed off in all the glories of the
" mighty million." Nor was the grandeur of the dis-
play confined to the cavalcade—for "the populace"
heartily joined in the popular applause in right
jolly earnest, whilo some of the more lively
spirits, wishing to divide the interest of
the scene, had a sort of bye-play of their
own by way of pitch and toss—for up
went the hats and caps of their fellow-travellers as
if nothing was amiss. It was rather ludicrous to
see some twenty or thirty of "top sawyers" flying
about and above in all directions, and by the
time some came down amidst the " scrimmage,"
others went up with more good will than was
quite agreeable to their " bald headed "
gazers, who struggled in vain to recover
their wandering whereabouts. The scene
was joyous to the multitude, many of whom
kept one hand to the hat, while others, in fine
devilment, poked under their arms, and thus set
the captives "free as air," to the still more enjoy-
ment of all the unconcerned.

But leaving the rabble rout to their amusement,
we cannot omit to bear our good opinion to
the splendour of the scene, which was chaste as a
City pageant and passed off and along altogether
as the best of its sort and will probably
never be supassed unless the next Lord Mayor be
many Cubits higher.

Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke and
the Grand Duchess Constantino of Russia, with the Grand
Duchess Olga, arrived at Windsor Castle yesterday after-
noon on a visit to her Majesty. Their Imperial Highnesses
are attended by the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Brunnow, Comtesee Komarov;ski, Madlle. do Bibikoff,
Marechal de la Cour Tchitcheiin, Conseiller Priv6 Haw-
rowitz, and Aide-de-Camp Lutire.

The Countess Apponyi has arrived at Chandos
House from Paris. His Excellency the Austrian Ambas-
sador is not expected from Vienna until the middle of the
month.

The Duke of Newcastle hes arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square.

The Marquis and Mare-lioness of Bath left
Carlton House-terrace on Wednesday, for their seat, Long-
lest, Wilts.

The Earl of Derby comes to town on Monday
next, from Knowsley Hall, for a fow days.
Frances Countess Waldegiavc and Mr. Harcourt
arrived in Paris a few days since from a tour in Italy. Her
ladyship and Mr. Harcourt are expected in town about the
161 h inkt.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
Cambridge-house yesterday from Broadlands, where they
have been receiving a OUCCeE36iOI:I 6f visitors,

turesque incidents related by the hand of DANIEL
DEFOE as having befallen ROBINSON CRUSOE in the
island of Juan Fernandez. But, happily for the
settlers in Canada, there is not much fear before
them of their finding themselves ever doomed by
circumstances to a life of prolonged solitude—even
when they have penetrated far west into the back-
woods bordering upon those great inland seas
dividing Canada from the Federal States, the giant
forests skirting those mighty lakes of the new
world that may not be inaptly spoken of as the
American Mediterraneans. Even there, in those
almost untrodden wildernesses, retirement from the
haunts of man is in fact becoming more and more
impracticable. And now that that stupendous and
intolerable territorial monopoly known as
the Hudson's Bay Company has found a
portion at last of its authority wrested
from it by the daring policy of a great administra-
tor of the Colonial Empire of Great Britain, now
that British Columbia is expanding its energies
eastwards from the shores of the Pacific, as the
Canadian provinces have long been expanding their
energies westwards from the shores of the Atlantic
—we may leave calmly and confidently to the force
of circumstances and the Course of Time the
subjugation of the sylvan wilds of the innermost
depths of our North American possessions. With
the Canadian provinces upon one side, and with
British Columbia upon the other—it becomes
merely a question of time when the heart of our
hitherto impenetrable, or at any rate, of our
heretofore unpenetrated, dominions in the new
world shall have been swept over by the bene-
ficent influences of modern civilisation. The axe
of the backwoodsman has long been ringing fur-
ther and further inland, wielded in the grasp of
that, for the most part, unconscious " pioneer"
of Civilisation. Preceded years ago by the crack
of the fur-trapper's rifle, the clang of the set-
tler's hatchet is being everywhere steadily and
surely followed up by the clatter of the railway
cars that are year by year being borne further
and further into the recesses of that vast North
American continent. It is purely and wholely,
we repeat, a question of time, and no more than
a question of time. The age will come when the
advanced guard of Canadian and of Columbian
enterprise will meet, "must" per necessitate meet,
in the centre of the American continent—and the
work will then have been accomplished. And,
meanwhile, during the process of its accomplish-
ment, the opportunities afforded to the youth of
the old mother country may be referred to with-
out even the appearance of hyperbole, as almost
beyond the reach of calculation, as certainly be-
yond the reach of any very accurate calculation.
Some of them we have here deliberately pointed
at. Meaning, at those very reasonable conditions
upon which any actual settler in Canada may, ii
he lists so to do, obtain a free grant of one hun