Dear England; we bless thee, dear old land! To live for thee, to see and feel, N. B. The last stanza to be sung to the first part of the music. MUSIC OF THE MONTH. MR. CLIREHUGH's musical entertainment at the St. Lawrence Hall, on the 15th was, as it deserved to be, very well attended. Mr. Clirehugh's voice is not very powerful, but it is quite equal to the execution of the music he undertakes, and it is singularly sweet. He reminded us a good deal of Wilson, and we think that, except in power, he is fully equal to that artiste. He was accompanied by Mr. Butterworth who fairly entranced his auditors by the delicious sounds he produced on the Franklonian, an instrument invented by the great Franklin, but very much improved by this gentleman, who has added two octaves to its original construction. We will not attempt to describe the tones of this instrument which can only be compared to the softest tones of musical bells. We were perfectly amazed at the fullness and richness of the sounds produced, and at Mr. Butterworth's wonderful execution. Legato, or Staccato, it is all the same to him, and the playing of "Rory O'More" or "Still so gently o'er me stealing" is equally beautiful. Jenny Lind's Echo Song, "The light of other days," "The last Rose of Summer," are also given on this instrument with very fine effect. We advise all, who can, to hear this instrument and to judge for themselves of its power and beauty. NEW YORK. MADAME ALBONI.-By universal acknowledgment, no singer has ever succeeded in more effectually awakening the enthusiasm of an audience, than did Madame Alboni at her concert of Tuesday evening last. Expectation had been on tiptoe for her "Casta Diva." Our expectations, however, fell very far short of the reality; for Alboni's voice speaks directly to the heart, and if ever that inborn soul of music which she possesses were fully given out to the admiration and delight of her audience, it must have been here. Each pause and the terminatfon of every strain, were marked by a burst of applause, but quickly hushed, as if the audience could not afford to lose a single note. We could dwell with delight on each separate portion of this cavatina; but "Casta Diva" is to familiar now to require such a dissection, and we therefore only say that Alboni's voice and style lent the whole a rich and gorgeous colouring, and a newness of effect, which will be long remembered by those who had the good fortune to hear it. She was also as successful as heretofore in the beautiful rondo from "Somnambula," "Ah non credea;" and sang again "Rhode's Variations" and the "Brindisi." MADAME SONTAG.-The concert series in which Madame Sontag has been so ably supported and so remarkably successful, and which has proved such a rich treat to the lovers of music, is, for the present, suspended. She has gone to Philadel phia, where her countrymen have exhibited much enthusiasm in receiving her, in the way of music, addresses, and presentations. Madame Sontag's last two concerts, on Friday evening of last week, and on Monday last, were attended by great concourses. Both were on the same grand scale as their predecessors, and both appeared to give much satisfaction. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MAGAZINE. Vol. I. TORONTO: DECEMBER, 1852.-No. 6. CITIES AND TOWNS OF CANADA. PORT HOPE; WITH DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. PORT HOPE, in the Township of Hope, in the Newcastle District, is pleasantly situated on Lake Ontario, and commands from the upper part of the town fine view of the lake and the adjacent country. An inconsiderable, but rapid stream runs through it, forming at its embouchure a natural harbour, which requires only to be cleaned out to be one of the safest and best protected on Ontario, as it is of considerable size and is well sheltered from the east, west, and north. This stream was formerly styled Smith's Creek, and the town was for some time known by the same name. Two piers have been erected near the mouth of the stream, but the continual deposit of alluvial matter brought down, and the wash of the lake have formed a bar which will render it necessary for the citizens to avail themselves of the hitherto neglected advantages of their natural basin, and it is now in contemplation to erect, lakeward, two outer piers which will thus form a commodious harbour. The town is prettily laid out and is rapidly improving; the business part is principally in a valley sloping gently to the north, while on the east and west the ground rises more abruptly and is studded with the residences of the citizens. On the hill to the right may VOL. I.-FF be distinguished the English Church, a plain and unpretending wooden structure. A great part of the town was destroyed by fire a few years ago, and substantial three story brick buildings are rapidly rising on the site of the former unsightly wooden piles which then lined the principal streets. Directly in the foreground is the new Town Hall, of red brick, a large and convenient building, with a good market in the lower part of it, and a little to the right are some extensive grist mills, of stone, newly erected and capable of turning out very large quantities of our present staple. Port Hope can boast of a full proportion of the usual manufactories found in other improving towns in the Province and reckons amongst them, saw-mills, breweries and foundries, distilleries (Port Hope is famous for the spirits produced there,) carding and fulling mills, tanneries, asheries, soap and candle factorics, with many other manufactories for various purposes. The Banks and Insurance Companies are all fully represented, while there are churches for the members of the Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist persuasions. The Catholic Church was destroyed a short time ago by fire, but another is in progress of erection. Port Hope, in short, from its pretty situation, its thriving state, the energy of its citizens, and its fine back country, forms a very desirable location for the emigrant. The society is on an easy footing, and a Mechanic's township including Port Hope only contained Institute has been formed, which must tend 4432 inhabitants. In 1852, the township still further to add to the many advantages alone numbered over 5000. offered to the intending settler. The shipping, properly belonging to and owned at Port Hope, is as yet but inconsiderable, but the enterprising citizens have repeatedly avowed their intention, as soon as the new harbour is completed, to increase this branch of business, and place this thriving little town on an equality with any other of similar importance on the lake. No. VI. The scenery about is pretty and romantic, the land in the vicinity (vide Smith's Canada,) "particularly on the west side of the town, being composed of a succession of little hills or knolls, rising one above another to a considerable height; the highest called 'Fort Orton,' commands a fine view over both land and lake." The formation of the ground, however, renders the situation of many of the THE CHRONICLES OF DREEPDAILY. residences more picturesque than convenient, the proportion of level ground being small. On the left of the plate may be distinguished the commencement of some rather high table land, prettily wooded, a favorite resort for the inhabitants in the pic-nic season. The well laid out nursery grounds, called the "Hamilton Gardens," about two miles from the town form also another attraction to the citizens. The Toronto and Kingston stages pass through the town, and during the navigation season, steamboats call daily on their respective routes to Toronto, Kingston, and Rochester. The town is incorporated and contains about 2500 inhabitants according to the last census. As an instance of the rapid rise in the value of property, we quote from Smith's Canada the following:-" To the east of the town is a a block of land, containing about 250 acres, which was formerly held in lease from the Crown, by one of the first settlers; on the expiration of the lease, five pounds per acre was the price set upon the land, this he refused to pay, thinking it too much, and the lot eventually became the property of the University; part of it is now laid out in town lots, and is worth probably not less than a hundred pounds per acre." In the town itself, building lots fetch readily four times that amount, even in no very eligible localities. 'Good roads lead in every direction from Port Hope, and afford great facilities to the farmers to bring their produce to market, and very large quantities of lumber, butter, wheat and flour are annually exported to the United States. WHAT BECAME OF THE QUAKER'S WARD. Ar our last confabulation, gentle reader, we informed you that the fair precisian, Bathsheba Buddicombe, had fallen into the snares of that incorrigible poacher, Cupid, and it now devolves upon us to put you in possession of the full facts of the case. The person who had smitten Bathsheba with the disorder, for which, as Dr. Scougall used often to say, there was no legitimate cure but a plain gold ring, was the last man in creation you would have evened to a douce, sober, Quakeress. The Township of Hope is well settled, and contains some good farms; the soil is generally a sandy loam, and there is considerable pine mixed with the hardwood. In 1842, the Walter (or as he was more commonly called Wattie,) Ogilvie was a rattling, thoughtless chap, with more wit than siller, who was Laird of a small property in the neighbourhood of Kilmarnock. Once upon a time it had been one of the best estates in that part of the United Kingdom, but gradually it had dwindled down to a sapless skeleton, in consequence of the improvidence of his ancestors. They were a drunken, roistering, feckless race, that had sold acre after acre, as the winecask and beef-barrel got empty, being too proud to sully the purity of their ancient blood with the ignoble mud of commerce or trade. Though neither a sot nor a spendthrift, in the grosser acceptation of the term, Wattie was nearly as improvident as his predecessors. He had never been brought up to follow a regular calling; he was on the wrong side of the political blanket to get a commission in the army, or a post in the Excise;-and though his acquaintance with the heritors of Dreepdaily might have secured him a hoist into the Kirk, (the Veto not being then in |