New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-02
PRINCE 4RTHVR IN CANADA.

| find his Way out of the difficulty, he had DuC
TO blow his horn, set his foes jumping and
| i;ypinp. and escape amid their painting confu-
| sion The Dominionists in Canada seem to be
trying an experiment borrowed from the lively
| captos of Wieland's poem They apparently
hone to get out of all their difficulties by setting
Prince Arthur and all parties and sects, and the
| population generally, dancing to the registering
music of the Highland reel. The Prince danced
with everybody, danced down everybody,
danced as only princes in newspaper descrp-
items ever do dance; and he carried away the
affection of a populace of perspiring compet-
tors. Dance light, for my heart lies under your
eject, love-" is the refrain of pretty ballad
which all the loyalists of the Dominion might
have chorused in the modest ears OF young
Arthur Where are your anti-Domlnionists
now 2-yOur annexationists, your mallgnants,
who were wont to set the maritime provinces
in a roari Danced away, apparently, as sad
thoughts arc said to be in another ballad
whereof we remember nothing more.
Still somehow, there remain difficulties hanging
over the future of the new Dominion which your
only iig-maker, though he be a Prince cannot
charm away Doubtless the Queens third son If
very popular in Canada. He scemsa winning. in
telgent lad, who has not yet arrived, and we
trust never may arrive, at the season OF
Schneider, and caR-can, and music-hall. lie
appears to have lent himself to the festive
business of the visit with thorough good hui
NOR and his presence, no doubt, has been a
social success But if it was seriously proposed
to use it Us % cOunterblast to the dlSSatls-
faction of a certain portion of the Canadian
people, it will prove decided failure. The
loyalists of Canada are already loyal enough
in all conscience; it is only squirting the Will
ing horse to administer fresh stimulant to
their devotion. Indeed, there still exists among
certain classes in Canada a sentimental, high
flown, medieval loyalty, which died out of
England with the Stuarts. really loyal
Canadian of this stamp, when he visits England,
experiences n chilling shock to find himself
among people who hardly understand his
raptures, and have forgotten all about the sort
of lyric loyalty which animates his chivalric
bosom. They tolerate his highfown en-
thusiasm about queens and princes ana
prnCesses just az q prOsaic papa might listen
TO his daughters accepted lover pouring out
the eilusiveness of his admiration over young
lady who appears To her father very GOOD
sort of girl indeed, but not bit OF an angel
goddess, scraph, or sylph On these devoted
Canadians the presence of Prince Arthur Will
have little additional effect, and on nobody
else will it have any effect Whatever more last
ing than the heat of the Scotch reel or the
bubbles of the champagne which followed.
The future of Canada will be settled by
strictly practical and prosaic consdera-
tons. The Nova Scotians, who are the
bitterest enemies of the Confederation
measure, arc among those of the population who
have always been most noted for loyalty; ana
vet their loyalty did not two years ago, and
does not now, prevent them from declaring
loudly for annexation to the United otaIoS
rather than a federation of the British
American Provinces. These men see no adyant-
ace in the Confederation scheme, ana they
do see that the situation of the maritime PROV
Inccs, the vast and dreary distances lying be-
tween them and Ottawa, the total dlsSiml-
larity of interests and objects which forms a
still drearier intervening distance, render 1t
impossible to think with patience of the per
manent cohesion of the Dominion. They see
too, quite clearly that England wants to be nd
of them. We commented a few days ago
upon the remarkable frankness with which
Sir John Young conveyed to the Cana
ready to let them go whenever they
please. The delegates from the several
British American Provinces found out this for
themselves, to the great surprise of many of
them, when they went over to England to
agitate for and against the Dominion project.
The notion taken up by some of our New
York contemporaries, that the English Govern
ment have sent Prince Arthur to Canada for
- Al, IT,.
as q king, is utterly chimerical, and, in
deed, shows q curious ignorance of the
feelings of the English public and the
opinions of English statesmen. We may all rest
assured that Prince Arthur's mother and Prince
Arthurs friends would no more allow him to
accept the crown of Canada than the crown of
DahOmey. "The GenOese give themselves to
"me," said the gracious French King, "et moi
"je les dome az diable." Prince Arthur will
never, we fancy receive any such offer from
the Canadians; but if he should, his answer,
although not couched in just the same Ian
guage, would assuredly be to much the same
effect.
If there is any political significance in the
visit, it is simply in the fact that the DOmn-
iOnists are trying to make capital out of it.
So far as England is concerned, it means moth
ing. Canada will, in fact, soon find herself
practically driven to choose between trying to
set up for an independent State and annexing
herself to our great Republic. When it comes
to this, even the most antiquated of monarchists,
even the most ambitious Of title-loving polit
clans, will look, at the one side, on the energy,
the progress, the amazing prosperity of the
United States; and at the other on the slow,
lethargic, unsatisfactory process of half devel-
onment which Canada IA n colony and Canada