The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-14


to the Canadian journals. TO people on this
eide of the line they are a. uninteresting as Il
they were printed In Iceland, or the vicinage Of
Smiths Sound A row among the "Ministers"
an excursion up the Ssguenay, an account Of
the movements Of the Governor General.
report of a militia parade, hotel puff or two,
o few local items Of no interest to any one 10
the world, q heavy Leading article, with all the
owl-ike gravity and tremendous pomposity
but no trace Of the ability, Of the London jour
nalists, and advertisements which seem to re-
main unchanged from one years end to the
other-the whole printed upon dingy paper
and with old fashioned type-and Jon have the
Canadian newspaper as clearly as it could be
limned by photographer. The journalist
across the frontier is slower even than his sur
roundings. To call him the incarnation Of dull
ness is to use what is, under the circumstances.
term Of angelic mildness.
Latteriy. however, the Canadian jour
nalist has shown some signs Of vitality. He
has become, in fact, dangerously lively.
He bias ascertained that the heir apparent Of
the British throne il on visit to his loyal sub
jects in the North American provinces. Az the
Prince only arrived about six weeks since, the
enterprising editors, who have already dis
covered the fact have been wonderfully rapid.
and it is to be feared that the breaking in Of SO
much light upon their brains. so long in worse
than Zimmerman darkness may be attended
with fatal consequences. We are not without
hope, however, that they will all survive, and
that when the Prince goes away they will make
up for lost time By relapsi3g into condition
Of stupidity more profound than ever.
During the earlier portion Of the Princes
tour the local journals left the work Of chronl
cling the movements Of the vice-regal party to
the New York reporters, and oontented them
selves with abusing each other preferring COM
plants against officials who had not treated
them with the profound respect they deemed
their due, and stigmatising ~ falsehoods the &C.
counts Of the foreign correspondents, all Of which
accounts have since been thoroughly verified.
In due time, however, this amusement became
little tiresome, and the Canadian editors came to
the conclusion to have an attack Of enterprise
They are now giving very minute accounts of
the Princes progress, and they have secured
the services of Chevalier Jenkins, one of the
most important personages Of the day. The
provincial Jenkins Is rather ahead Of his me.
tropolitan friend the hero Of the quadrilateral
and the elbows Of the Mincio. Several Of the
newspapers in Canada West are devoted entire
~ to the accounts of the Princes visit. Column
after column Of the most minute details
drag their slow length along. In one instance
half column is devoted to q description Of the
circumstance that the gentlemen presented at
the Princes levee did not know what to do
with their hats. Then there is an attack upon
an immense lumber Of colonies, captains and
other officers Of troops which never bad
any existence, bat who insisted, like the
Georgia major, upon being presented
in all.the glory Of their empty titles.
Further on there h an account Of the ball
given to II. 3. II. BY the Toronto bar, and the
lawyers are denounced a. snobs because they
called it Q reception" Mr.. Cameron, who got
up the affair, Is abused heartily for saying there
would be no dancing 1T was 4 ball. cries
out the irate Chevalier, with a. much horror as
If he were Aminadab Sleek; at was q ball, in
consequence of which. we have no doubt, the
citizens ball will lose the sale Of hundred
tickets" and il is darkly hintsd that some ter
rible thing is to happen to Cameron in the way
Of punishment for his vfllanop conduct.
In the account Of the ball proper We are told
when the Prince opened his eyes or shut them,
when he looked up or down, when be smiled,
and who he danced with there. jenkins forgot
to describe the ladies' clothes-a most import
an. omission. On the next day the Prince
went incog. to play game at rackets, bat was
obliged TO suspend bis sport-a number Of
young men having climbed to the roof Of the
below that certainly the heir appa-
rent TO the British throne was earnestly
engaged at a game Of rackets," and. still
more wonderful to tell, with his coat or
As proper climax to this unbending OF the
royal dignity, II. X. H. went OF in
one Of the incest cabs in town, drawn by two
handsome gray horses,r and owned by one OF
the well known family Of Walkers. Happy
cab Happy grays! Happy Walker. And
thrice happy Jenkins
All this stuG, II may be remarked. comes
from the radical paper. The government organ
Il slower and dngier, in harmony with it, on
ciaLposilon. II gives most ponderous accounts
Of the reception, and bolts the whole Of the
Bishops sermon, which is exceedingly enter
tanning. This, we presume, was jenkins
penance for hi iunketing at the lawyers ball
the night before. He must have been there. As
be declares that all the ladies were "arrayed
in the richest and costlie-t Of garments silks,
satins, poplins and MORE antiques were dis
played Ia gorgeous profusion." That Is good:
gorgeous profusion" Is sweet phrase. The
same paper contains an editorial about a mile
long full Of Latin quotations, and suggesting. as
a means by which future Orange disturbances
may be prevented, the alteration Of Newcastle's