New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-16
TRAVELLER IN CANADA.
TORONTO.
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lOROSIO sept &, ior'
lido M, think Toronto is as prettily situated or
- prettily built as Hamilton. There are, how
over. vast number of very fine stone buildings 10
L The grounds which 90 under the compendious
,ame Of The College Avenue are equal to anything
of the Kind on the American continent. The work
If the lamented Downing, at Washington, and the
Common and City Gardens Of Boston, are the only
public pleasure-grounds that know of in the New
World that come up to those Of Toronto. pre-
,ume this provincial city is indebted to the taste
for landscape gardening, which the English carry
with them all over the world, for lts advance P's
lion in this respect What have we 10 sho" ~
Detroit Chicago. or any Of our frst.clasS western
rites in the way Of parks Absolutely nothing
The people who have been accustOiheu y, 49, ..
James, and Hyde Parks 10 kenslngtoh anu III
Gardens not Ia mention the seats oi INC ~
scattered through the length ana ofe"atu can.
motber-country, when they enlgrate "u' "''''
not do without their pleasure-grOuhd'; &c .bo
Every Wednesday afternoon the oanu '" tho
Canadian Rifles performs for the dehgnt VI tlo
citizens Last week the Mayor, be,eI9 W.'
ESQ. threw open his elegant GROUNDS ioi sno P
pose This practice Of pqbhc must - .nr;a",,
inc one and might well be adopted III AMERICAN
80 ~ II ba. ALREADY been in Boston. Inc lOr0h-
ton;.ns have an Exchange Reading Room ana
sInnhan;nS, Institute. The latter numbers 6oO
members. il contains a iac-slinlle Oh Df. Diicu-
heck's written address on laying the foundation
stone Of the London Mechanics Institute "A: D.,
1sS2\ the first of IFS kind. Portraits OF Franklin,
s,annipc and Peel adorn the library: ! mention
1b;s circumstance to show the political taste OF
tLe Canucks The literary Institutions OF Ior0n-
fo do not seem to me Ia be more advanced than
those of HamiltOn-a city not hall It's SIZE. In
this connection | would remark that the New
York Journals bear the sway of the American
N - hnrdaP |
leading Washington papers, and here and there
Boston paper but have yet to see either IN b0-
tells or reading rooms the first Philadelphia jour
nal in Canada.
The Ne,e- York Times, Herald and TRIBUNE can
be procured daily here, at l.. ID. Campbells store,
in King street.-the only depot Of American jour
mails in this prOyince--charge five cents copy. L
observe all the Irish and Engsh-American papers
in his store.
The last CITY census was taken in 1880, when the
city population amounted only to %, loo Now II
is double that number; the Ioront0nians DOast
that it is So OO0 but abate 1000 AS an allowance
FOR gas. The material Of the city i'll 1850 was thus
compounded:
Natives Of Brit Canada Natives Of Scotland 99
Natives Of French Canada $50 Natives Of United States rs
Natives Of England. N Natives Of her countries l66
All through Canada hear the inquiry ." Have
Iyou read EnersOn's English Traits w Ii the
Concord philosopher is as much run after in every
part of tie world az he is in this his name will
become more famous than it is at present.
Toronto has three daily papers; The Cotonist OF
Conservative, The Globe Of Radical and The Leader
of juste miiieu principles. The Temperance move
1nent has a fine field for operations III Canada.
The habit OF drinking is universal, and exceeds
anything l have seen anywhere IN the States.
YOrkve, a suburb of Toronto, IL a very good
specinen of Canadian village, on the slow-and-
sure principle. Excellent roads and footpaths, all
brick or stone houses, no wooden ones; these are
the distinctive features. Americans would build
and people ten villages while this Joe Wilett sub
arb was growing up Fremont is all the rage
here; the Canucks threaten to initiate the Mis-
sour invaders in November, and make an
inroad into Buffalo, and render Fremonts election
dOubly sure in the Empire State.
GENERAL TOPICS.
From this central point 1t Is meet 10 leave local
topics and branch into those general subjects of
conversation which common to the whole Prov
ince. Firstly, have not yet met man who adj
vocated annexation to the Stars and Stripes
Enough have met many who derided the idea in a
COMBINATIONS spirit. Canucks say their own
Government is best and freest Secondly, have
observed strong current of Canadian patriotism:
They talk mach of "Our great country and
Sour national destiny" Canada Is the most
s'plOriOus land on the face of the earth; but this
very sclfesteem which makes them think them
selves too good to remain the first and nobeSt OF
Britain 8 provinces also impels them TO scout the
idea of their ever becoming the last OF the Aneri-
cal States The passion for accommodation
and self-spplause seems common to all branches OF
the Transatlantic democracy, whether they belong
10 Columbia's free shore, to Spanish America, or
the British Provinces. DIR. Lilly's book on Cana
Sa is ridiculousy replet, with this soft sawder OF
"the People quite as absurdy go as the eiiuslOn
of any demsgOgue that ever came beneath my no.
tice Tie talk about " Progress is in everybody's
mouth Land peculatng-" Lots, lots, lots -
Is as rife as in st. Paus Minnesota. The Canucks
begins TO feel if they too could lick creation
Americans included. This frame of mind APP
piled to their politics, s easily explained. The
therefore Retormers must become Conservatives
or 90 ON for something more This something
more is to make the GOyernOrship elective. Sir
Edmund Head is considered too much of an Ea-
Ylishman and an aristocrat to be popular The
Capadan says his great country can produce bet
ter men than can be imported from England or
Scotland. Although this measure will evidently
T. nd to weaken the British connection, yet such
advocates of this idea as have spoken to on the
last golden link " of the Crown of Great Britain.
They stoutly deny the consequences of their policy.
The Conservatives be il RENE uIbered, will make a
good fight on this question, aud TO more advantage
than they did ON the question of the Clergy Re-
serves. CANADIAN politics, when looked at from
this point are in very interesting condition, and
deserve watching. A new Conservative and new
Democratic party will, in my opinion, shortly
spring from the present chaos. The Conservative
party will be REINFORCED by all the guoxddm Moder-
ate Reformers aud, perhaps, by those British Rsli-
Gals who look with affection upon the laGd OF their
birth. JERSEY BLUE.
COILINGWOOD.
Correspondence Of The n. Y Tribune.