34 REVIEWS — CANADA AT THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION. 



We are told that the display of the products of Mines, Forests, and 

 Agriculture " was truly magnificent," and that the premiums obtained 

 were such as to give full satisfaction to all who were interested in ex- 

 hibiting the natural resources of Canada to the greatest advantage. 

 The samples of agricultural product were very fine, and included every 

 variety of the cereals cultivated in this country. Fifty-six different 

 kinds of minerals are enumerated in the catalogue of articles sent, and 

 sixty-four kinds of woods, together with numerous models in wax of the 

 vegetables aud fruits grown in the Province. The Executive Council 

 close their report, which forms the first, part of Mr. Tache's volume, 

 "with the consoling reflection that the most complete success has 

 crowned the undertaking, for the due carrying out of which, the country 

 has manifested such earnest solicitude." 



The two special Commissioners, Sir W. Logan and Mr. Tache, 

 divided the duties of their office, the former undertaking the arrange- 

 ment of the exhibition ; the latter, the diffusion of information respect- 

 ing Canada throughout Europe, and of the entire exhibition throughout 

 Canada. These efforts resulted in attracting a larger share of public 

 attention to Canada, in proportion to its population, than to any other 

 country ; and, Count Jaubert, in his work entitled " La Botanique a 

 l'exposition universelle de 1855," reproachfully says, " now we can 

 form an estimate of the value of those few arpents of snow ceded to 

 England with such culpable carelessness by the Government of Louis 

 XV." 



The testimony of many distinguished men may be adduced to shew 

 that the most complete success crowned the efforts made by this 

 country at the Universal Exhibition, and in one history of that won- 

 derful pageant, Mr. Robin, the author, remarks : " the efforts made 

 by Canada, that old French Colony, to make a suitable appearance at 

 the great Exhibition of 1855, efforts which have resulted, moreover, 

 in the most complete success, coupled with the undoubted importance 

 of that fine country, whose future cannot be otherwise than brilliant, 

 render it a duty on our part to devote to it a distinct chapter." 

 Canada obtained one grand medal of honour (Sir W. Logan,) and is 

 the only colony which secured that distinction — one medal of honour 

 for the collection of woods and grains, thirteen silver medals, thirty 

 bronze medals, and forty-eight 'honorable mentions,' — making al- 

 together ninety-three prizes carried off at Paris, while at London the 

 number of prizes awarded to this country amounted only to sixty-three. 

 Mr. Eomain's Steam Cultivator was not exhibited, it having been 

 purchased and withdrawn from the exhibition by the celebrated 



