Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-08-07
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

rbs following are extracts from Euslish and other
journals Of recent dates:
The HEIR APPARENT ENGLAND.
The Montreal Herald gives the following substance OF
letter received by gentleman in Scotland, and COM
mupicated in its present shape for the information OF
friends in Canada:
The Prince of Wales has returned from bis tour N
Egypt and The East Next November he will be major,
and will enter into possession Of the Duchy OF CORNWALL
the annual Of which ESQ 600 sterling, Ahd
the accommodations million sterling, the interest Oh
which will not be short OF another 100000 per annum'
Neither France nor England will interfere in The Amer-
can business in the meantime but should mediation be
called for after he has assumed the ogd vriHs his koyh
Hghness will be appointed TO act-hus inauguraung hs
public career friend Of peace and reconcier Oh men,
in which he will be assisted by older and more exPer
enced heads than his own.
Il is intended his Royal H;ghness shall spend the
summsr of 1863 in North America and shall travel
across the whole continent from the head Of Like SuPe
rior by Lake Winnipeg aud the Rocky mountains, 10
British Columbia where be will embark after clrcum
navigating Vancouvers Island, and retDp home by the
Sindsica Islands Valparaiso, the Horn, Rio Janero,
Buenos AYERS at which q rent places he will land
aud spend day or two. HE Royal Hghness, and the
party oil engineers that will accompany him, VIII oe ne
chalker out OF the line Of the great lnter'ooeanic n
vay that Is to link the Atlantic and the Pacific with its
iron bar ds str, tching from Halifax 10 New Westminster
To found Canadian principally, it has been proposed
his Royal Hghness should purchase the nghs Oh tue
Hudsons Bay Company. IL is not thought that this Is
a. all likely 10 be the case. But his Royal higsness
iatends TO acquire estates in Nova Scotia, New Bruins
wick, 0anads, the BED river, and buah COLUMBIA, anu
10 build chaeaus huating lodges in each making them
At the sams time model farms aud the nues OF sgricul'
tursl communities.
Engineers and workmen of all descriptions will be
sent out; and this example Of his Royal Highness Will
be followed by other wealthy ia England and will
,hf tta IN thp
North America The vast and cherries solitude will be
opened for the plantation Of numerous societies OF In
dustrcus and enterptising men the bari en- lana VIII DC
converted into fertile eds and the desert be made 70
blossom like the rose The Governor OF VancouVers Island
and also the Governor Of uisons Bay Company, have
had hints given TO them OF the intended expedition Suit
able accommodations at diff rent stages will be arranged
TIE different territories, ana horses, wagons,
&c provided and stores laid in 81. His Royal High
ness having old and WORKOUT societies, wishes 10
see Young aud fresh communities, and man in his abort
iual state aud civilization emerging from its hrst ee
neuts with all the vgor which science and mechanical
power can give in the present day; telling forests
making roads building bridges, fencing, draining aud
81, eating the earth, aud manufacturing homes and
hon,esteads out OF the Notwithstanding all subser-
Went to human happiness
The rprit of cocniE Iton ID worthy Of the heir spp-
rant of the British thooe HIS ancestor James vi o.
scotland aud Of England, was great eoloDizsr, aud
planted the Forfeited Sat In Ireland With sc1tchmen
and EuRlshmen and 10 the same way h1 Royal hlgn'
ness at the distance OF two INJURIES and ball, WISHES
60 plant the British North American territories. This
work will crown the Price With LOaor aud distinction
and "a no has already the heart and hand oil the lar
Alexandria Princess oil Denmark. he will then claim her
- hs royal bride and future Qleen ConsOrt, when be
omes 10 occupy the B n throne grit with the histoi'
,l A,socikons Of twice thousand years. and the nup
ss without delay will be celebrated With regal mssnh
csuce aud splehdoI amid the a. >cilg OF ths united
oeope of Denmark aud Britain, sld OF all the colonies
and dependencies thereunto belonging.