The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-15


memory of theiF heroic opponent. Upon a
handsome tablet to his memory, in the Chapel
Of the Convent, placed there by LORD AYL-
MER, | found the following beautiful inscrip-
ton:
Honneur
MoNTCALMi
LIE destin en- lui derobant
La Victorie
La recompense par
Une mort glori6use.
The following translation will do for those
of your readers who do not understand
French:
Honor TO MoNTcALM
Fate, in depriving him of victory,
RecOmpensed him,
By glorious death.
In the PUBLIC GARDEN of QUEBEC there
Is an appropriate and beautiful Monument
erected to commemorate the Joint memories
of the great leaders who fell at the battle of
the Plains of Abraham. 1t is sixty five feet
high. Onone side of the column is inscribed
the word 'WoLFE," and on the other the
name of "MoNTcALN," whilst upon still anoth-
er side is chiseled the following most ap-
propriate inscription: Mortem, Virtos, Com
munem .famom: Historic: Monumentem.-
P0steratas Dedn.''
This monument was the work of private
subscription, and is one of the most beautiful
instances have ever known of the generosi
ty of the English to the memory of an enc
my. Such things almost make me forget the
fate of NAPOLEON, and the barbarities of
tHHd aaInG ahgl For sthsaFREGah
and WOLFE, the subscriptions were / heard,
exclusively made by the English residents
Although French is universally spoken by
the English and Scotch citizens of Quebec
yet stranger discovers at once that the most
respectable people here are the English mil
itary and civil officials and the English bar
risters.
There is not otmuch wealth, but vast amount
of handsome silver-gilt gentility among the
fashionable people of QUEBEC, and the ilni
tation article looks almost as well as the pure
metal Hence families keep up an incessant
struggle with poverty-in many amusing eff
forts to keep up appearances. QUEBEC is a
place of honorable exile for the youngest
sons of England's knights and lords. The
fortunes of all this respectable, but needy
class of young gentlemen, at home and in the
colonies would not, in the aggregate, equal
that of wealthy cotton planter-yet al
though nultitude of -er0s with no valuable
unit on the left would represent theirpecunia-
ry condition, yet if their pretensions to re-
spectability and family could be subjectedt to
an arithmetical test, they would be valued at
many millions.
To these leaves and stems of nobility and
aristocracy-fo they do not rise to the digni-
~ OF sprigs-the minutest colonial offices,
civil and military, are acceptable Here they
possess a position and influence to which they
were of course strangers athOme. Wherethere
are more than enough lords, knights, and
members of parliament, of course the forty
ninth cousin of the duke of DOODLE is nobO-
dy. He cannot get into the church. the en-
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ceed at the bar talent is necessary.
There are always the daughters of rich
tradesmen and successful commoners ready
to be knocked down to bankrupt lords, with
the roots of their genealogical trees deep in
Saxon soil-but the wife even of successful
cheesemonger in England thinks nothing OF
the remote and poor relative of lord
Hence the forty ninth cousin Ofthe illustrious
Duke of DOODLE gets, from the Canadian
magnate, a government office, or from the
war department an ensign place in the army
There is a pretty tale OF flsherman's finding
as he supposed, a poor miserable creature
confined in a small casket which he had
drawn I'D in his net Yielding to the urgent
entreaties of the prisoner, he released him.
| When the feeble wretch is transformed into q
monster ten thousand feet high, and two
thousand feet across the shoulders. Now the
authorities who manufacture thousands oi
clerks and subordinate officials every week ii
| Downing street, have no conception how pro
digiously they grow when transplantedto the
colonies. To simply assert, that they become
too stout for their amplest trousers, would
convey no idea of the rapidity with which
they become great men in place like Ca
| NADIA
They are the leaders of the fashion in GER
tain circles OF dilapidated and slovenly ORE
Bee They do not wear their honors meekly
not at all-they go rough shod over mercan
| tile people with hundred times their means,
and barristers of the colony with thousand
times their brains. w ver the army and
government officers of a country are filed
| with the poor relatives OF old ana wealthy
| families, who have no recommendations but
| family influence, you may set II down as a
rule, that the youngest clerk always outsweiiS
| the chief of the department, and the soitesi
| ensign of Yesterdays translation irom the
academy, or nursery. swaggers along the
streets with an air that the oldest MAJOR Ge-
neral wouldscareely venture to assume This,
we suppose, illustrates what the poet meant
when he said. that certain class IN society
| darted rashly into places where angels very
| unwiilinrly yenture--for that is the prose Of
the poetry think There is a vast amount
| of pinchbeck in QUEBEC society, from the