Next to His Majesty the King, one could have taken the leading part in the ceremonials better than the Prince of Wales. He showed the same tact and geniality which so distin. guished every action and every speech of His Majesty. On every side the Prince won golden opinions for his manly bearing and modest behaviour. No one was neglected. Ho paid special visit to the high dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Charch at the Quebec Seminary, which is some miles from the city: and while there delighted the "habitant " managers of the farms belonging to the seminary by chatting with them familiarly in French on the ud subject of crops and agriculture generally. On his return he did not go back by train, but he and Lord Grey entered 8 motor car and made what might alma be called " triumphal procession to the city. Owing to the odd farming tem along the St. Lawrence each farm, while half a mile in length, is onlys few hundred yards wide, and the fora houses are all built along the rosd which thus for miles practically constitutes a village street, there being no break in the of houses, All slong the way the French-Canadian turned out to cheer the Prince, and kis progress was accompanied by the joyous pealings of the bells of the diarchs in the various parishes. Short stope wace node a6 fre villages along the route where the parish priests and som of the most prominent inhabitants were presented to His Royal Highness. At one of these villages the cure asked special permission to present some inhabitants who had each attained the age of one hundred years, and at the corner of a street the Prince held this strange court. On Sunday the Prise attended service at the Anglican Cathe dral in Quebec when the Lord Bishop of Quebec preached. It is not generally known that the Prince has an timate acquaintance with Canada: this last visit makes the sixth which he has paid to the country, As midshipman on the cruiser Canada, and again later on in command of the gunboat Thrush, he had the opportunity of visiting the ports on the North American station; while he, with the Dochess of York, made an extended tour of the whole Dominion in 1901. The concluding sentence of the Prince's message to Canadians prior to his departare is well worth quoting. "It is with heartfelt regret that I bid farewell to Canada. That God may ever watch over and bless its people, inspire their ideals, prosper their works and guide their destinies will ever be my earnest THE NATIONAL PARK, The crowning point of the ceremonies was that which occurred immediately
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