THE PRINCE OF WALES'S TOUR.
The Canard steamer Jura brings news to the 29th, at which date the Prince had arrived at St. Louis. Crowds followed his e,arriage from the wharf, which was filled with spectators, who received the Prince with hearty rounds of cheering.
The Prince was expected to arrive at Washington on the 3d. A report
was current that the President, although anxious to pay the Prince all due honour, was afraid of overdoing the matter. The President and the Mayor of Washington were to meet the Prince at the station, and escort him to White House. A dinner will be given him by President and Mayor, and the Prince is to hold a levee in the East room of the White House for the reception of citizens.
Before leaving the Canadas, the Prince opened the Hamilton Agricul- tural Exhibition, and there he uttered his farewell words in the follow- ing address- " Agricultural Society of Upper Canada, September 20. " Gentlemen—I return you my warm acknowledgments for the address which you have just presented upon the occasion of the opening of the Fifteenth Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of Upper Canada; and I take this opportunity of thanking the agricultural citizens and manufacturers who are now assembled from distant parts in this city of Hamilton, for the more than kind and enthusiastic reception which they gave 1110 yesterday and have repeated today. Blessed with a soil of remarkable fertility, and a hardy race of industrious and enterprising men, this district must rapidly assume a most important position in the markets of the world, and I rejoice to learn that the improvements in agriculture which skill, labour, and science have of late years developed in the mother-country are fast increas- ing the capabilities of this young soil, and enable you to compete success- fully with the energetic people whose stock and other products are now ranged in friendly rivalry with your own within this vast enclosure. "The Almighty has this year granted you that greatest boon to a people —an abundant harvest. I trust it will make glad many a home of those I see around me, and bring increased wealth and prosperity to this magnifi- cent province. "My duties as representative of the Queen, deputed by her to visit Bri- tish North America, cease this day ; but, in a private capacity, I am about to visit, before my return home, that remarkable land which claims with us' a common ancestry, and in whose extraordinary progress every Englishman feels a common interest. Before, however, I quit British soil, let me once more address, through you, the inhabitants of trnited Canada, and bid them an affectionate farewell. May God pour down His choicest blessing upon this great and loyal people !"
From Hamilton, the Prince travelled to Detroit, his first resting-place. The country lying between Hamilton and Detroit suggests to the able correspondent of the Times some comparative reflections as to the fruit- ful soils he saw, and the want he knows to exist elsewhere-
" The country between Hamilton and Detroit was for a long time, like all the land of -Upper Canada, rich and well cultivated—even where the black gnarled stumps of burnt pines stick up like tombstones of the forest, looming dark and mournfully upon the upstart growth of Indian corn be- neath. Sometimes it was meadow land, with the ragged zigzag fences of lopped trees strewn loosely between the fields,—sometimes a long tract of corn was passed, with the massive sheaves stacked together like straw tents, and the ground covered with bright orange pumpkins and squashes which
inexhaustible exhaustible fertility of the land has nurtured between the ridges of maize. Then come acres and acres of orchards, with trees heavy and over- borne with their rich burden, drooping down like willows to the ground, and their red and yellow fruit sparkling softly in the evening sun. All the barn doors of the clean,- white farm houses stood wide open, showing heaps of corn piled high within, and across the clearings oxen came slowly along with mounds of other sheaves in rough wooden carts, dragging a plenty for which the farmer had no room in the timber outbuildings which ordinarily accommodated the harvest. On every side were such signs of bounteous abundance, there was such a calm in these wild, clean, fruitful homesteads, there were such signs of progress and of energy, even in the forests hacked aside to make room for cultivation, that one could not but gaze with lin- gering astonishment upon the scene of rising prosperity, and think of that vast class at home whom Bumble denominates as 'abb.:bodied paupers' going supperless to bed for want of work. Why, here are mil- lions of acres of such fertile land as English farmers never think of getting without draining, manures, and topdressings, and all the scientific agricultural slang which mark the presence of poor land. Here are millions of acres still clad in all the savage grandeur of the wilderness, -and seeming to call—in their rich matted growth of timber and luxuriant underwood—for some one to clear an overburdened soil, and let the natural fertility of the earth have scope to show its proper might and usefulness. , Where the lumberers fell timber in the Upper Ottawa they scatter handfuls I of Indian corn among the ragged stumps, and lo, in some six weeeks' time, a harvest for a few in number, though enough in quantity to keep an Eng- lish parish. Yet men break stones in England for 8d. a day, and cost the country 10d. more while doing it, and farmers here cry out for labour, and get it or a few short months, till their servants have saved enough to bet- ter themselves and buy land, when at once the law of Canada steps in with restrictions which drive them in hundreds and thousands yearly to the far West of America."
To reach Windsor, the last point in Canada, the train must pass through one of the Canadian forests.
Windsor reached, the Prince at once crossed the river St. Clare and landed, as Baron Renfrew, at Detroit ; his princely title being doffed in ;deference to the great republic. All the craft in the river illuminated, bells rang, guns fired, and rockets shot into the air. The firemen turned out with their torches to keep the line ; but the eager expectant crowd swayed to and fro until they wedged themselves into a mass just at the place where the Prince was to land. The carriage was only a yard from -the boat, but even if it were possible for the royal party to get to the car- riage it was impossible for it to move. Some resolute persons backed the -carriage until it was placed along side the steamer, and the Prince and Isis party took advantage of the opening to get in and so away, which they the more readily did as no one suspected the Prince to be in the car- riage. When two or three carriages had departed, the crowd came to the conclusion that the Prince must be coming at last, and so a " push " was made, in which Mr. Pennefather the Governor-General's Secretary was pushed into the river and nearly drowned. When it was iumertained that the Prince had got away a rush was made to the hotel, where every one who called expected to be received at once, but this was a delusion, and it came slowly to be regarded as such, after some hundreds of callers had been informed of the incorrectness of their information. Next day the Prince drove through the city.
Leaving Detroit by train the Prince travelled on to Chicago. His de- parture at Detroit, and at several other points, was signalized by loafers and rowdies, who came and took down the carriage windows, and stared at the Prince to their hearts' content. At Chicago the Prince was serenaded by the Volunteers during the night, beyond which there was no attempt at annoyance.
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