The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-15
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clerks. ~ tne ensigns and
Inc coloniai system, of course. m.La. a.
uo.eInor uenerai the Representative -,s IL. IT..
Majesty power and splendor :, re- u Her
And as there IS with all EngIishIna,, - ia:
weakness for display, the Goyarna.n n = once
raj, in very small way, goes thrn,'.s irene
motions OF royalty itself. He commu5;ea.as s
with the upper house OF the Canadian Paris
ment with much form and ceremony 10,
such occasions, the galleries are filled ,r;,t p1h
ladies' in full dress, the Governor Gene
raj, clothed in the robes of Office, msun.s |.
pretentious looking throne, and reads h;s
speech to the Colonial House Of Lords =
They have given him a huge mace. srkich
cost tire hundred dollars, and although chiefly
of brass, it is washed with gold. When this
little great man holds levees, &c. DC, there
are many insects, smaller than himself, who
seek to be presented. and feel proud of the
honor ever after. Greatness on minute
scale, strikes you very amusingly in Quebec.
Well bred people speaking French, certainly
with uncommon purity for Englishmen, and
English women practice the manners and
customs of large old England establishments,
in small and uncomfortable houses. Men,
who can afford to keep but one horse, har-
ness him to vehicle large enough for two,
and then make him tug up the steep streets
of QUEBEC, with huge fiunkey in livery
showing the calves of his legs in short breech
es and cotton combinations.
No petty commissary or treasury clerk can
transactthe business ofhis department without
having huge red coated soldier stalking up
and down all day on the pavement in front
of his office. The proceedings of their courts
of justice are numbered by the same unne-
cessary and ludicrous formal nonsense.
saw this morning, a sergeant guard of Draw
ny Highlanders apparently escorting to prison
few ragged wretches whom the redoubta-
BILE Captain WHITE, assisted either by the
energetic TYLER. or the vigilant TRUEHEART
would have taken, without rope or handouts
two hundred miles 1t is both ludicrous and
and melancholy to see this poor, ancient
worthless and exhausted colony tottering
feebly along under load of absurd and an
tiquated ceremonial and formal nonsense
The mere shadow of royalty, as exercised in
Canada, is more costly, and the ceremonial
more elaborate than that employed by the
chief executive officer of our great Republic
The men who have impressed me most IA
yorably in QUEBEC are the superior officers
in command of the regiments. They are
generally men who have seen hard and long
service.
Many ofthem are grey haired old men, but still
Captains and Leutenants. The possessions of Great
Britain are so extensive, that some of the officers
CHINA and INDIA. What strange life must that
Of an English officer BET One year he is in CAL
cUTTA- and the next in QUEBEC. One of the officers
was pointed ont to who had lost an arm during
the wars in INDIA, and another who had received
wound In CHINA. The officers who have won lau-
rels and seen hard service, modest quiet intel
lgent men, accomplished i'll their profession. and
many OF them well versed in general literature and
the modern languages. | attended the Established
or ENGLISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH, few days ago,
and found many war worn soldier meekly par
taking of the elements of the holy sacrament
There do not appear to be in QUEBEC, very many
of the noisy, registering betting, horse racing dis
sipated heroes that figure often in the pages of
our popular novelists. Indeed, the position of a
Captain of Infantry in the British army, without in
fuential friends or means of support beyond the
regular pay is not one to inspire oviality or light
heartedness of any kind
Nor is promotion so rapid during peass, as to
keep the hopes of an officer constantly aroused
The hosts OF grey haired Captains and Leutenants,
would lead an uninformed stranger to suppose that
to attain the rank of general officer, such men
would have to reach the age of the Wandering
Jew.
shall probably write to you again from Montreal,
row evening. Yours WV Vi 'o-iiio'