Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-02
The Prince Of Wales again COmInG 10 this
Country.

The Prince Of wales again Comiug 20 sri
Country.
The following is the substance Of let
ter received by a gentleman in Scotland
and communicated in its present shape foI
the information of friends in Canada
JUNE l6, 1862.
The Prince OF Wales has returned from
his tour in Egypt and the East. Next No
vember he viii be major, and win enter
into possession Of the Duehy Of Cornwall,
the annual revenues Of which are $4,000
sterling, and the accumulations one mill.
ion sterling, the interest on which will not
be short Of over $4,000 sterling per an
mum. Neither France nor England will
interfere in the American business in the
meantime; but, should mediation be called
for after he has assumed the toga UiriEis,
his Royal Highness win be appointed to
aet-thus inaugurating his public career
as a friend Of peace and a reconoiler Of
men-in which he will be assisted by older
and more experienced heads than his own.
Il is intended his Royal Highness shall
spend the summer Of 1868 in North Amer
lea, and shall travel across the whole con-
tinent from the head Of Lake Superior,
by Lake Winnipeg and the Rocky Noun
tains to British Columbia, where he will
embark, after oircumnaYigating Vancou-
ver's Island, and return home BY the Sand
Wieh Islands, Valparaiso the Horn, Rio
Janeiro, and Buenos Ayres, at which diff
erent places he viii land and spend day
or two. His Royal Highness and the party
Of engineers that viii accompany him will
be the ehalkers out Of the line Of the great
inter-Oceanic railway that is to link the
Atlantic and Pacific with its iron bands,
stretching from Halifax to New Westmin-
ster. To found Canadian principality
it has been proposed his Royal Highness
should purchase the rights Of the Hudson's
Bay Company. It is not thought that this
is at all likely to be the case. But his
Royal Highness intends TO acquire estates
in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada,
the Red River and British Columbia, and
to build chateaus or hunting lodges in
each, making them at the same time model
farms and the nuclei Of agricultural COM
munities. Engineers and workmen Of all
descriptions will be sent out; and this ex-
ample Of his Royal Highness will be fol-
lowed by other wealthy men in England,
and viii give a weighty impetus to the
colonization Of British North America
The vast and cheerless solitudes viii be
opened up for the plantations Of numerous
societies Of industrious and enterprising
men the barren lands will be converted
into fertile fields, and the desert made to
blossom like the rose The Governor Of
Van Couver's Island, and also the Governor
Of the Hudson's Bay Company, have had
hints given them Of the intended exPedi-
ton Suitable accommodation ct different
stages viii be arranged through the re-
spectiYe territories, and horses, wagons,
&C., provided, and stores laid in, Sc. His
Royal Highness, having seen the old and
worn out societies, wishes to see young and
fresh communities, and man in his sbOrig-
inal state and civilization, emerging from
its first elements with all the yigor which
science and mechanical power can give it
in the present day-felling forests, making
roads, building, draining, and subjugating
the earth, and manufacturing homes and
homesteads out Of the raw material-mak-
ing all subserTient to human happiness.
This spirit Of colonization is worthy Of the
beir-apparent Of the British throne.