Year: 1860

mated the preparations for the princes recep-
ton have cost. The call for evegreens is so
great that steamboats, have been sent down the
river to load up with spruce trees. Many of
the arches required enough wood work and
tinsel TO build modern Yankee house. The
amount of bunting displayed is astonishing.
The cross OF St. George is everywhere in the
breeze, or TO speak truthfully, today, in the
rain. The tricolor is frequently displayed ];
also compromise flag i'll which the English
cross is wrought in red, white, and blue. The
Stars and Stripes are frowned down. But a
few merchants here have the pluck to show
their colors. One VermOntcr on the quay has
found it necessary to offer to shoot the man
who shall modest the Stars and Stripes which
he has generously displayed all over his store
front, in honor of the celebration. As Cana
dian observed to me, "the ID Yankees are
too go-ahead and plucky to be managed"


The Prince of Wales was to have been re-
ceived to-day, and notwithstanding the rain,
twenty steamboats, burdened with decorations
and banners, and loaded with passengers,
sailed thirty miles down the river to meet his
royal highness. AT every large village where
the little stone houses seemed to huddle about
the large church like chickens around hen,
the New Englanders on board were anxious to
know what business was carried on there, and
were astonished to find in every case that there
was nothing" carried on there, which in New
England wouldn't do, you know. There ap-
pear to be no fruit trees anywhere, and but few
shade trees. In Montreal they are limited to
few poplars and naples.


The passport steamer in which your CORES
pondent was luckily passenger was the fast.
est Of the twenty, and succeeded in moving
quite close to the signal boat. SO it happened
that when the cheers brought the royal young
gentleman out of his cabin he was plainly Wis.
ible to us all. He was dressed in light pants,
black coat, and a round crown black felt hat,
and appeared very much as other mannerly
young men of nineteen are wont to do. His
bow without being awkward was not entirely
graceful. He "takes after" his mother, if her
portrait is true, and does not seem to be unu
sually royal physically nor mentally, though





he appears robust enough, and knows enough
for all practical purposes. The gay and un-
usual steamboat reception must have pleased
him. The ladies in our boat waited Oh deck
in the drenching rain, anxious to get another
glimpse of royalty, and when pair of legs
clad in white pantaloons were seen through
the open cabin window of the princes boat,
great was the satisfaction, for it was agreed
they belonged to the prince


1t rained so hard that the prince and suite
came to anchor five miles from the city, and
the Passport" bore messenger to announce
the psstponenent of the landing of the prince
till Saturday. AS the steamers came up, the
quays were lined with at least 25 900 people
the three English steamers were firing broad.
sides in rapid succession, the military and
civic societies were on the march, and the
mayor of Montreal, in cooked hat and white
pants, assumed an attitude at the end of the
wharf where the prince was expected 20 land.
1t was raining all the while steadily. After
long time, the multitude understood the state
of affairs, and went reluctantly home.


The fireworks and gas iuminations prepar
ed for tomorrow night will make al. the city
brighter than the sun and cost pile of mon
ey. Many of the gas iluminators were tried
last night with brilliant success. STANTON.