The great preparations which have begun in Canada and the
public manifestations in the United States, are substantial earnest that our expectation of the welcome given to the Prince of Wales will be more than carried out. Every spot on the devious line which the young tourist will traverse in the British province is the scene of continued excitement and elaborate arrangements to make the visit as gay as possible, and to draw forth the largest amount of communion between the Prince and the people. He is to see the whole country, its natural cha- racteristics, its several races, its most conspicuous objects, and the whole country is to see him. He is to see the improvements effected by the British, the festive talents of the French, and the hearts of all.
The correspondence between President Buchanan and Queen Victoria, as we expected, marks a point in the history of the kingdom and the republic. Everybody who knows the President and the incidents of his residence amongst us as Minister for the United States, is well aware that the language of esteem which he uses towards ihe Sovereign is employed in no formal sense, but is the utterance of a sincere and strongly-marked feeling. In welcoming Queen Victoria's son, he says, "the American people will manifest their deep sense of your domestic virtues as well as their conviction of your merits as a wise, patriotic, and consti- tutional Sovereign." How few Sovereigns have had their cha- racter thus drawn by " a contemporary posterity !" But the expression of such sentiments towards the British Sovereign by the elected representative of the American people is a great po- litical fact. It is a great political response that the grana- daughter of George the Third should address the President as she does with a cordial friendship, rendered the more eloquent by the striking simplicity of the language.
