The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-11

the Commissioners bill Pass.
Walt OF Queen Victoria 10 Canada and the
United states.
Mr.. John billiard Cameron, of Canada, has
proposed that the Qneen Of Great Britain be
invited to visit her dominions in Canada. The
idea is not original. Soon after the union of the
two Canadas in lS4l, it was suggested that the
Queen ought to visit her North American colo.
MES, and that such courtesy would tend to
ecothe the sore feelings Of the people. At g
later period, four or five years ago, the notion
was revived; but nothing came of it. Mr.. Ca
meron now renews the proposal with enhanced
authority and weight
The great objections to the Queens going to
Canada are the difficult navigation of the st.
Lawrence, the unentertainiDg character Of the
country and the astonishing inconvenience Of
the Canadian climate. If she sailed up the
st. Lawrence in large vessel, she would run
great risk of remaining a day or two aground
on the shadows below Quebec, independently
of the chance Of shipwreck in the dangerous
| Cult She would have to time her visit to a
week; in June winter has not passed away; in
| August torrid heat scorches the face of ma
ture; and by the close Of September cold
autumn has set in. And these inconvenience
and dangers would be undergone for the sake
Of seeing country which, though very inte
resting to the farmer and political econo mist,
is really rather dull to the average traveller
When Quebec and the Thousand Isles have
been "done," Canada may be scored out of the
handbook. Nothing remains but big river,
big lakes, big forests, big rocks, and no end OF
pine stumps. Surely in such case poyeu
men vaW pas Ia chandelL.
But what prevents the Queen from visiting
the United States, and passing over to see
what is worth seeing in Canada?
She has been twice to France and once to
Belgium. The interests of the French and
Belgians in her dominions, and those Of her
subjects in France and Belgium, are triaing in
comparison with the commingled interests of
English and Americans Much as the British
government is abused at times in this country,
and we'll as, we venture to add, it generally
deserves it, we have yet to see the first word
printed or hear the first word spoken against
her Majesty. tits understood here that Queen
Victoria is g lady Of domestic virtues, ire
proachable conduct, and rare judgment and
discretion. This is the impression OF all classes
Of the Bowery boy as well as the New England
clergyman; Of the Western farmer as well az
the Southern planter. Aud we greatly mistake
the hospitabe and courteous feelings of the
American people if they would not extend to
such visiter welcome more hearty and
splendid than any she could meet with in any
kingdom abroad.
Nor would such visit be merely suggestive
Of evanescent civilities. There are and always
have been, as Mr.. Buchanan said, cloud of
unsettled questions pending between the two
countries; these questions might easily be set
tied if they were pending between the United
States and any petty Power, or England
and any petty Power; but between two such
rivals as the two Anglo Saxon nations, they
have naturally been embittered and aggravat-
ed and made the worst Of, partly through
the Jealousy OF the popular mind, and partly
through the knavery of politicians Just ..
present there are several of this class Of ques-
tons in agitation; one or two of them of very
ways of settling these anicably is to produce,
by some means or other, an era Of good feel
ing between the two peoples; and hardly any
thing would conduce to that event so rapidly
or SO directly as visit of the Queen to the
United States. In the manly good hearted
ness which would follow, the Central Ameri-
can difficulty might be CLOSED up in an after
noon: and all the others might be disposed Of
as rapidly.
Nor would it be Of less use to the country
in view of future difficulties arising that the
Queen should see America, and Judge for her
self of the working of our institutions and the
Development of the great nation which has
sprung out of the British people. Still more
valuable would be the journey to her sons 1t
is impossible to Judge Of America or Of de-
mocracy without having seen them. Books
convey no idea at all, newspapers, with an
exception here and there, an imperfect one,
of the real state of things The naked eye
is the only guide worth reliance. TIE late
King of England, William the Fourth, Was
fond of making speeches in convivial moments,
and saying that there was but one thing
he regretted on looking back at his
past life; that was that he had not been born
an American. He had seen the country in his
youth. 1t is hardly to be questioned but that
the feeling which he thus emphatically ex-
pressed would have saved the world from the
scandalous spectacle Of war bet 1een the
United States aud Great Britain, had such
calamity threatened in his reign. Nor would
the came seed produce different fruits now
One or more of Queen Victorias sons will in
all probability sit upon the British throne. II
may prove an excellent thing for the United
States and the world if these young men are
taught before they are crowned that a repub-
lican is not necessarily blood thirsty revolu-
ZIONIST, and that man may love real liberty
MI thout cnuetinr his neirhhnr's hnuse