The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

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G IAV , PRILLIPPS. sal t itood•lane. LC. VUTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the 13 RANK of HINDUSTAN, CHINA, and JAPAN (Malted) LEHI o% ED from 16, Cambia, to No. 1. BAN[-BUILDLNOS, ....ruBUKT.—By order, R. Biala TOIILLV, Secretor/. I. I:Ink buildup, August 24, UK. fliflE WIZARD of the NORTH.—TO-NIGHT. hut sis ow of Wks ANDERSON, the Second .4bll. your STALLS 'Lad TICKETS. at Nr. A. Ticket-0010e, Ytt, PlecadUly.—Opeu dully from 10 IRE WORLD 01? MAGIC." T..' A3IETS HALL—OPEN every EVENING S A: Light with the WORLD of MAGIC. GRAND lADHION a~.Lf:)I.ITINEE every ltaturday M 3 p.m. Reserved Beats numbered'. is : balcon 3a. ; wood sesta, to. ; body flatland upper and lower One 8 rr.l, sea ANDIRSON, Great 1‘ Izard of thel lll A M march of Magicians, Presti.Ugitator, MuslonlaC7X i, ltp! Traveller round the World, displayins In "Very ea -1,14 peculiar art, has arranged with the Committee of the hall to Om his ORI,INAL ENTRRTAINMRNT, as i ruird by hint st all the principal theatres in London 1,000 r..zets Professor Auderson Lust had the honour of appearing r, the London public, be has made his Entertainment Cir. mss rraneum : hence Its present title, THE WORLD of MAGIC. l'Ussor Au&ltun hen to state that however greet his awn ,r?,,ner may have been In paining knowledge of his art, t, 1., not been alone. Ile has been accompanied by bin talc:der. who has encountered all the vicissitudes of travel la isas iietion of the globe, &MI will have the honour of making ter rot appearance In London in connexion with bar father In C: world of Magic. Sliss ANDERSON, the modern Mnemosyne Retro-Reminiscent Orthographist, In her marvellous ' -mance of "Second Islgiit."sas Invented and performed by • ly. The Magic of Twenty Years ago, and the sex as per ; re.; d by Professor Anderson with unbounded moms at Use Itsstre Royal, Covent-garden, be revised in all Ha rth, il splendour during the season, and the Repertoire will ip•,ortain the magic of every age and clime. The tatEAT RIFLE TRICK, to which is called the attention all Riga Volunteers. The expoet of Tablerapping, or so ;Oct Spiritualism. Sphituallsth test your powers, my table •ill risible and moveable. Professor ANDY-IPA/N . 3 SOIREE FAN TASTIQVIS will be found lo contain all the known sciences app licable to Natural Magic, with the resources derivable from cranial-. Dynamite, Hydro traarnics, Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Galvanism, Metro- Ma.aletlsm. Ac. The Thaumaturgy of the Ancients. the Mys km, of the Rolicruclans, the Wonders attributed to Cagilestro, tad the Marvels of the Magicians of the Orient, will be men ;ldled at each representation. Tbi ecinaunc PROGRAMME for the ensuing week will tomist of Mesmerism, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, Prestidigi tation, Chle , omartcy, Chaldaic Enumeration, the Dead Alive, ibdrodynamics, Pure Natural Magic. Ancient Greek Conjuring. E.:tett-icily made into Magic, Magnetism made into Necromancy, and Thaumatunty. THE PSYCRU3U,NTHEU will be on a scale of splendour totally eclipsing all that has ever been done in this metropolis, and designed said executed under the personal superintendence f Dykwynkyn," assisted by arttsts of celebrity. The whole will form en muse superb decoration hitherto =attempted In the tr-sr.a of M.Wesae. The Musical Direction will be tinder the superintendence of Mr. HA the well-knowt;)l7nialDirecter at the Princeete Theatre The Ticket-Mice will be under the Direction of Mr. Aastiu, at the Hail, and which Ls open daily trona 10 till 5 o'clock. TUE OXFORD and CANTERBURY HALL COMPANY THE OXFORD. SELECTIONS from LA 11 1 1 )RZA DEL DESTINO, La ?rawhide, Nabors, sad the ,• ..Mimeo of Verges, by the whole ad the talented eon. [4ti) Director—Mr. Y. JONOMIANS. Comedy by Unerrerth. Carew W. Randall. W. Burka. and Wile. Orman, the eels- Intel cotnedienes and minds. EVERY xvirmaz4a. STEVENB and SONS, 78, Bishopagate-street Mitidu.—LlOElT Bt'MMU MINIS, Barks Included. Que. Ha., tea, Igi. Burgundy, Ida, 10a, Sga, gOa per 6oz. Cte 'Ls . .. NS, foe, Smarm Ms., ILL Bak mid limns Ma., Ms, ila ~ Mamas Ma„ Ms, Pa .. All dhow Wings asd Spirits 'quay ressusalis. TOURISTS and TRAVELLERS, Visitors to the Seaside, and others. mooed to the scorching rays of the rim sad bested particles of dust, .111 and ROWLANDS' LACY LiOff a most retreating parstion for the completion, ewa...ling the cloud of leaguer and relegation. allaying all heat 04 IrfitabIlliY. and Immediately affording the pleasing sensation 5ui6.114 restored elasticity and healthful state of the akin. Frei lira. tan spots, pyimples, bustles, and discoloratlons are 'fedi. curl by its applleation, and give piece to a healthy parity sad era scy of complexion. Price as. ed. and es. 6d per bottle. A. ROWLAND and BONS. 5). Hatton-pales, and by Oemiats and perfumers. Ask for Rowlands' lialydor," and bre.av of spurious and pernicious erodes under the name at ' Cala uor ' ANOTHER SWIMMING RACE FOR THE CHAMPION- Er?.—We are glad to see that proficient* in swimming are pachally receiving that amount of encouragement which edema in so useful and plessare-gisiog an accomplishment theme. Much of the credit for this new movement is due to the London Swimming Club, the members of which bare ltr me years done their best to spread a keowledde of the Rt. m well as to reward the most skilful swimmers. Their chid prize is the Two-mile Champion's Cup, a handsome they trophy which must be held by one man against all eor.irs. three years in succession, before it becomee his pre- JertY. For this kaftan' of the championship there have airraly Leen several oonteets in the Thames, the het winner Leon Mr. E. B. Mather, of Masebester. This expert summer, being usable, through illness, to accept the clod. keg* of a townsman, has forfeited the cop. Come. erectly an open race has been arranged to take place this Menhir, the coon* being from Hammersmith to Peimeg it, - .eduet, and the time of starting being six precisely. The np will be presented to the wiener at a grand aqua*c ea terra:unmet to be given by the London Swimming Club to tu.now evening in the Metropolitan Bath, Ashley-crescent, (3, road. Primo will be offered for public competition on the ' , mine. medals will be swum for by members of the tloh. there will be a display of graceful floating, and a race kr the captaincy of the "London" between some of the t...t rapid swimmers of the day, including, among others. YO-L 4 (.ort, who is expected to win the match for the chaxpiasbip tomigbt. As an example to similar societies, we may mention that the London Swimming Club has me ett,-0 to Master Munro (the little fellow whose gallant aciaos in oaring a man from drowning at Berne Bay wee r e:IF recorded by us) a silver =Wel, se a token of ad toirati,c for his courageous conduct. Fi. Early yesterday morning a fire oe eered op the premises of Mr. Scott, an eatiog-hoone oePT in Limeetreet, Oty. nye greatest alarm was aem siot,i I, the rapidity with which the flames spread on the sary. , .diez property and by the peril in which the inmates were for sometime placed ; they were, however, happily re- 'A by the escape, which arrived just in time. The utc ..t lofts were made to subdue the fire, but the ultimate property was easy serious. It is thus officially re to the insurance offices formin_g the London Brigade: No. - .2, Lime-street, C;ty, J. W. Scott. eating ' -. ..ceper. timber building of three story,, consisting of 14 • • ronteets of furniture, wearing apparel, fixtures, th•r•lfect sell but destroyed.leenred in Mollie Fire • I ~ tte, ditt o, side shop, Messrs. Ager and Co., serious damage br tire. he. insured in the • ' Vire uffice. Ditto, ditto, second floor—Mr. W. Bei !rare. aletioneer, &c. ; Mesas. &labile, shipbrokere ; Mr. cigar manufacturer ; and Mr. railcard, meatier, are wr. "reel, damaged by fire. he. No. 51. ditto. let oat in c . --Meng». ienk andThillip, side wall and roof bunted r: „„t.... throated br water, he. ; iseurance unknown. („, ditto. Mr. E. Hoge's. representative of the Plate 111P3MOC4) Company. beck windows damaged by Sr., veto* by water, he.; insurance not karma. No. 54, WM. 1 V • 61:5t. d shoe warehouse, back windows Ira.. nt ,, • . in • stock la back warebouse_se=duseffetl ler ball-strese. - insurance nokoove. No. - edit, Clumherr. —Misers. Fial. sme.ttto on imund door. sod mesa foss boned eat ; if 6 :,^- ' , de* sod merebasis, Ir. E. Mew" News. Firooo b..* boys ads sseeirsd serious fire. Arc." INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF SIR GEORGE OORNEWALL LEWIS AT HEREFORD. (rug ono owe 1111 . 011•111.) HEREFORD, EUTORDAT, Seer. 3. The ancient and quiet town of Hereford will have need of a long season of repose after the successive excitements through which its inhabitants have passed during the present week. First, they had the musical festival, which brought down all the " county people," and a great many of the London people, with all the available musical talent in the kingdom, not to speak of all the critics, to des cant learnedly thereon ; and then, whilst all this was drawing to a termination, whilst the ladies and the brow. were still gyrat ing to the music of "lutes and soft re corders" at the wind-up dance in the Shire hall, Mr. Mayor and the corporation were pre paring and organiaing and arranging for the solemn inauguration of the statue of their deceased friend and former chief steward, and for the reception of the Prime Minister of England, who had promised to perform the most distinguished part in the historical and interesting ceremony. • Hereford has the reputation of being one of the most old-fashioned towns in England, but it is speedily getting rid of all grounds for a reputation of antiquity. The railway has gradually infused the life-blood of the great commercial centres into the dull old border town, and now the new and smart bonsai may be seen hustling, as it were, the old tumbledown ones in every street, like the seven ' ages of man and woman at a pic-roc, whilst even the venerable cathedral has been sedulously scraped and cleaned, and all that appearance of " hoar antiquity" which foolish people prize as they do the crust on the 1820 port, has been removed from choir and chancel, from clerestory and monumental brass, and noseless effigy of dead crusader, until all looks as trim and as spruce as a new market-house on its opening day, or the great metropolitan sewers on the auspicious occasion when the Commissioners held high festival underground. Hereford, therefore, looked gay and excited, and incomprehensible, on the day preceding the solemn inauguration of the statue of the dead statesman. The zeal of the cor porate body had developed itself in an energetic posting of placards and inscriptions on wall and gate, on street door and in shop win dow, all bearing more or less ou the coining great event, and all being complimentary, more or less, to the distinguished nobleman who was so soon to be their guest. " Palmerston and civil and religious liberty" appeared side by aide with "Don't forget the fireworks ;" " Welcome to the great statesman of progress" cross read on the walla with "If you want your photograph, go to Pousty ;'' and " Peace, plenty and Palmerston, " divided the spectators' attention with " House keepers who are possessed of fags are requested to display them." The crowds that assembled round these various pants of interest were enormous—for Hereford, and included every variety of the border races. The soft dialect of the west, which seems to be entirely based on the final letter of the alpha bet, might be distinguished in animated discourse with the sharp semitones of the Welsh invasion ; and there was not wanting a large mix ture of the metropolitan accent, sarcastic ally intimating the speaker's conviction that nothing, not even a crowd, could be got up with any success out of London. The people of the town had, however, never seen such a crowd, as either waited in Hereford over the musical festi val, for the Palmerstonian feast of reason, or crowded in on the following morning from every point of the railway compasses. As usual, the first symptoms of local delirium were ezbibited by the hotel keepers, who, as each successive vehicle poured out its contingent at their doors on Friday evening, frantically assured the visitors that they bad no room, "not if you offered a guinea a bed ;" a guinea for a bed being obviously the climax of the impossible in the imagination of primitive Hereford Bonifaces. I had the misfortune myself to enoonuter an unhappy host who was in an ad vanced stage of the local epidemic on my first arrival, but it is only justice to Hereford to add that I received ample compensation for his rude ness in the courteous readiness with which the hostess of another and better hostel—l may name it, the "Green Dragon"—made impos sibilities possible by providing comfortable accommodation for myself and other representa tives of the London press. This lady's recognition of our function and its importance is the more to be commended, as at the very moment the strangers were being "taken in" the large vestibule of the hotel was crowded with gay company starting for the ball, andi all most emphatically ordering their rooms to be kept for them " until after Lord Pal merston had gone." There was little sleep, of course, to be had that night. The rising genera tion were rehearsing their squibs, the visitors who had to walk the streets kept up a spiteful concert for the annoyance of the more fortunate who had obtained shelter, and equipages of all sorts rattled perpetually up and down, with company going to or coming from the balL Hereford having been up all night, found little inconvenience in being astir early in the morning. The shopkeepers who bad responded to the mu nicipal appeal for flags were busy placing their banners on the outer walls ; the volunteers were mustering in the High Town, and forming martial groups round imaginary camp fires, preparatory to the skilful manifesta tions of photographic " Pousty," whose magic lantern could be seen dominating the situa tion ; and the militia were more quietly forming their lines in obedience to objurgation. such as only militia officers know how to address to their men. If ere,also, was the market, and mighty trade, which cares nothing for inaugurations or visiting notabilities, and has rather a contempt for holidays and statuary, was going on in it as merrily as if the corporation had not ordained a solemn festival in which the statue of • dead statesman was to be publicly " unveiled" by the oldest and most popular living one. It having been arranged that Lord Palmerston was to make his descent on the town from the Welsh Marches, or, in plainer prose, was to come in by the Abergavenny road, I made my way with some difficulty to the toll-gate, which formed the only defence of Hereford against the incursions of the Welsh, and which, by the way, did not bear the slightest resemblance to the arch of Titus, either in elevation or decoration, and there! found • group discussing the knotty point of whether the Premier should be asked for toll on his entry or not. One gentleman thought he ought to give • " zuvverin," another suggested that he should be let in free, but the pikeman himself decided that his lordship was to be dealt with like "any other man," lie (the pikenian) being, like all pikemen, moruee and misanthropic, only regretting that "this statty bother" would stop the traffic for a whole market day. About here the houses of the more ancient town of Hereford seemed to have all settled down in a sort of sedi ment, leaving the more modern erections to effer vesce gaily over the main streets. There was one fine Elizabethan mansion at the corner which good taste and money liberally employed bad "restored," not cathedral fashion, but bond fide, and it would almost convert a partisan l of stuccoes' Belgravia to the olden style, tone how charmingly several bevies of ladies looked in: the spacious bay windows of this brave old house, with its quaint wo.den frame work, its projecting upper stories, its fluttering ban ners, and its "cloth of arras " hung out over its various balconies, in honour of the coming guests. Immediately outside the toll-gate the streets began to melt away into mellow green fields, studded here and there with picturesque elms, under which nestled very ancient, but still fresh and re spectable-looking cottages with lattaced windows, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1884. from any one of Which Anne Hathaway might have popped out or bead, without anachro nism or breach of propriety. All these snug old homes everywhere in England are, I believe, of the Elizabethan period, it being only then that the word •` comfort" and its meaning began to be known to our vernacular. This was the way Lord Palmerston was to come, and this was the way he did come, o ugh I did not wait to see his lordship en t er , or t h e finan cial question was settled between him a d the stern Spartan of the " pike." 41ace had to be secured in front of the Shire-hall, where the statue stood closely veiled, and where the great event of the day, . namely, Lord Palmerston's inaugurating speech, was to be delivered. Here an unpretending platform had been hastily erected, with a boarded avenue leading thereto from the Shire-hall, and round it were assembled, under a burning sun and in anxious expectation, all the great " county people" of Herefordshire and Radnorshire, and from various parts of Wales. There was no distinction of party ; the Tories vied with/the Whigs in their anxiety to do honour to the deceased, and nothing could possibly be more gratifying than the total absence of political acrimony by which the whole of the proceedings were distinguished. A very large open space took the form of a triangle, of which the Shire-hall formed the base and the ancient church of St. Mary one of the &idea, the other side having • long row of small houses which streamed away u p to a junction with the central streets. Within the triangle was the statue and the temporary rostrum, and round both the militia, and the volunteers kept guard—the latter with their band, which per formed vociferously at intervals during the day. The cresmellated parapet of the old church was studded with human faces, the neighbouring roofs were covered with gazers, and below there was packed a crowd, greater, as one of the speakers stated, "than had ever been seen in Hereford." The arrival of Lord Palmerston in the mayor's carriage was the signal for the moat deafening cheering, for which his lordship returned frequent acknowledgments, after which the carriage pro ceeded slowly to the back entrance to the hall, where its company was ea down, and some short interval allowed for perso arra:Fits. The speaking then commenced, which 'ye below, but I think it better first to finish have to say respecting the aspects of the ceremonial, and then to let the more important oratory speak for itself. There was, first, the reading of an address by the town clerk on the steps of the Shire-hall, a ceremony which kept Lord Palmerston standing there for • considerable time, and obliged him to anticipate his principal address in a short reply ; and then the ascent to the platform, where this statesman of eighty years was kept standing bare-headed under • burning sun for upwards of a quarter of an hour, whilst the Rev. Archer Clive made a long speech, the only object of which seemed to be to anticipate what would niore properly have come from Lord Pal merston himself. Mr. Clive with happy candour re minded his lordship that they bad come there not to glorify the living, but to do honour to the dead, and with equal frankness added that there was only one man in that vest assembly who was competent to describe the varied acquirements of Sir George Lewis, and that was—not the distin guished guest who had been specially invited to pronounce the inaugural oration—but the Bishop of Hereford, who stood behind him. If, as some of the journals had anticipated, Lord Palmerston had contemplated .any allusion to "the astronomy of the aacients," the ground was here cut from under his feet, and I fancied I could observe that neither with this nor with other portions of Mr. Clive's speech was our venerable Premier particularly well pleased. The hint seemed to annoy him very much, ' and he coughed • good deal, although when offered a glass of water be brusquely put it away with his hand. I hope lam not outstripping my function in expressing my opinion that his lordship's intended speech suffered from the malapropos preliminary I observations of his reverend introducer, and had to be mentally somewhat altered from the original in tention. The reader will, however, judge for him self, and it will be only necessary to add here that those who were near enough to hear it cheered very lustily, and those who were not accepted the judg ment and cheered with still greater vigour. The whole proceedings were got through in half au hour, and when they had concluded Lord Palmerston ad journed to the Palace for refreshment, and at a quar ter to three appeared on the rail way platform prepara tory to bis return to town. Here there was much— perhaps too much—shaking of hands, one pertina cious little woman insisting on introducing her whole regiment of early prodigies seriatim, and having them shake hands with the Prime Minister ; and others of the rougher sex crowding round in a way which only Lord Palmerston's good humour could have tolerated. I was informed that one indi vidual had the audacity to come to the carriage window, seize his lordship's hand, and ask "could his lordship tell him who was to win the Leger," but I did not witness the assault my self, and must leave its authenticity in charitable uncertainty. Taking the affair altogether there can be no doubt but that the public feeling of Hereford was fairly divided netween respect for the memory of the deceased statesman and hearty admiration of the varied qualities of his illus trious survivor. 1 ogees them was between my family and the family of the late Sir George Cormwall Lewis • most intimate intercourse. Therefore ea every ground, both public and private, it is most gratifying to me to attend here this day and take pert in the cienencey, which is not only interesting to all them who admire*. public and private virtues of the late Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, but is alike creditable so the tows of Hereford, which thus recognises his diatieguished services. 4 I ' thank you for the compliment you have paid me, the invitation you have kindly given me. Obese) . demise Otrex then proceeded to my that, as emonittee of gentlemen who had raised the the late lamented Sir George Contemn Lewis he bed requested to mak Lord Palmerstos to be presoak at the esremany of inauguration, and be had to thank his lord ship for the reedy assent which he bad given to the request made to him on the subject. It bad been the object of the subscribers to the statue to provide for their departed friend a monument from materials the most imperishable that the , quarries and mines of this country could offer. They had endeavoured to see that it should be, like !Jimmie unpre tending. They had not requested his lordship to sanction the noe=tad statement of lying epitaph'. for theyhad placed os the hoe of the stator but what any person present could say was the truth, and noting bet the truth. The rev. gentleman having referred to the inscriptions on the base of the natne, said that they were borne oat by the obanister of the late Sir G. C. Lewis as • statesmen and II scholar. After referring in flowing terms to the peat qua. Sties of Sir George Lewis no both capacities, the rev. gen tleman begged that Lord Patina:non would give the mom MT &redeem that the statue should be unveiled. This was Immediately done, the bead of the volansie asps performing during the ceremony a slow march. The figure Is • exact »promenades of the ormeased slates ma, sad the is • miry striking me. Lord PALKMerOIII, amid load cheering, then delivered the following address :—" Mr. Clive and patlesiee,—l musk beforal make any observations upon the amnion cre which we are here all assembled, first of all thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kind sod flattering reception which I have nosived from the people of Hereford. I know fall well that the crowd and multitude of people—cif fame which I now see before me—ere met here for an object which Ma also brought me ammo; you, as my friend Mr. Clive has said, not so much, not, indeed, connected with the tin s& lint to do merited hoeour to them we have lost. And, indeed, you must all feel that there has Wein arisen an ocessios on which it would be more blooming for the *nem of a great and enlightened community, Ilke the people of the city of Hereford, to assemble and do homer le the memory of one of their departed members, The grist'a of eslebrating, by houotus conferred, the dia. uieked services of men coped in the came of their country is one which has been followed by all civilised satires, sad in all historical time, and it is founded on two principles equally deserving of pre/Aloe and respect. In x i the $ place, t is an expression grateful and apesable 1 to from whom it poceeds, of their pereeen nisch public respect for the parsons in whose memory honour is onferred. Such acts teed to invigorate in living those feelings of affection and regard which are the most ennobling sentiments that can animate the heart of man. (Cheers.) In the next place, the nature of such acts is that, by holding out to the living generation, and to those that may succeed, the hope that time who reader during their lifetime zeal and dials finished services to their country, will, by memorial rained to perpetuate their memory, live in the recollection and esteem of their countrymen for cesturies to come. (Cheers.) We meet all remember • most remarkable Instance of the way is which this feeling operated to stimulate men to peat metered's. History records that when the great Nelms was about to engage in his first famous battle, be said he was going for a coronet or Westminster Abbey —that hi to say, that he was conscious that what 1 le was about to do would secure for him respect and distinction during his life if he survived, or, if the end was different, such posthumous honours as the country might afford. You are now assembled to confer ' I pretlismons honour upon • great and distinguished states man, who by the inscrutable decrees of Provides°. has been celled away from us prematurely, and at a women when, is the full vigour of his age, we might have expected from him a left and useful continuance of public duty. (Cheerio.) All you 0•8 now do is that which we are assembled to perform' —to commemorate, by • lasting memorial, the respect and esteem which his oosteisponries felt for him, sad to hold out to future ape se instructing and inspiring example, to induce them to follow in that career which he so honourably and usefully filled. (Cheers.) There has seldom been any man in • great public career who so entitled himself to the esteem and admiration of his fellow-countrymen as the late Sir George Lewis. I may say that the whole 'Mice part of hie life was devoted in use ' way or another to the service of hie country. During the latter peeled of his life he filled some of the most arduous and inporinet °Mose at the state. He was, as my friend Mr. Clive has observed, at one time Chancellor of the Ex chequer. He managed, dories the Crimean wier—a period of great anxiety and difficulty—the coments of the country ; sod it is perfectly true that there never was • &mom minis tor who acquired and retained, to • pester degree than Sir George Lewis, the confidence of all that commercial comma city who are so much interested in the accurate and efficient discharge of the dirties of • finance minister. He then took charge of the national affairs of the country as Secretary of State for the Home Department. and there, in that perpetual 1 intercourse which be had with the nobility, the goitre, the corporations, and the different communities connected with I oar national affairs, he oscillated their esteem and acquired their confidence; and so with great public advastap he performed the duties of that important °Mos. (Cheers.) A vacancy happened, unfortunately, by as event much to be deplored, in the office of Minster for the War De- Ml:ment, and Sir G. Lewis—not according to his own nation, bemuse he would have preferred to remain is the offlos which he occupied, but at the earnest requset of myself and other members of the government, under took the arduous duties of War Minister of the coon- Sy. Those duties he admirably performed, and I can not charge myself with the belief that, however heavy the performance of three duties, it did tend in any dopes to shorten his valuable life. In all those great and important public offices be performed his duties in a 11111120111 f which attracted the respect, esteem and approbation of all who were connected with those several departments, and he showed a versatility of talent which perhaps few men in an equal degree pommel. (Hear, hear.) In hie pasha mastery labours he was an able a nd eldest debater ; be stood up manfully against all opponents in his defence of his own opinions. but with • calmness sod forbeerance, sod ceases. of logical argument, which, although be convinced many who bad differed from him previously in opinion, and although be confuted his political integoeista, yet he never, vireo in the warmth of debate, media personal political enemy. (Cheers.) All those who know in any sphere of life bow much the passions are apt to be excited by finding opinions Merest° renown supported by able antagonists, bow much our passim. are apt to be excited. and how much the human mind is impatient of contradiction, must know what • fund of good nature, what • fund of calm forbearance, what • feed of intellectual reasoning, there must have been in that mind which could pow through debates in the Hems of Commas* night after night and year after year, repelluig attacks on some occasions, urging minims on others, and yet, although distinguished as an able speaker in that house, never, by any lapse, or yielding to any impulse, converting a political antagonist into • permed enemy. (Cheers.) But not only was Sir George Lewis die tingumbed as • public man, but, as was well ebserved by Mr. Clive, he contrived in a war which excited, not only admiration, but astonishment to those who knew him—he contrived while be was engaged, almost all the earlier part of his life, is public duties of greater or less importance, all requiring a greet devotion of time—he contrived to acquire a more varied and more extensive and deeper knowledge of all kinds than had often fallen to the lot even of them who have nothing alas to do hut to devote their minds to its an. clangors. He was our of the mat learned men in private life, as well as one of the moat active in public duties. (Hear.) As has bees stated. there is one here who can bear testimony to that, which, however great it was, how ever great was his acquisition of knowledge, there was with all that, such unpretending singleton. and simplicity . a mind and no unneceseary display, that a man might have posed hours in his society, and unless the con- venation turned by itself upon subjects with which he was mach better acquainted than most of those with whom he came in contact, they would have been ignorant, and might liars gone sway without knowing mything of that vast store of knowled g e which he had heaped up in his active and most todustrious wiled. (Hear.) But that knowledge was sot merely useful, as all intellectual acquisitions are, but the habit of mind which the acquisition of knowledge WO him enabled him better to perform those public' dulled with which from time to time he was charged. The great quality—l say, the leading quality—of hie mind wee thirst ing algae truth. His great object was to manna truth. He was not impatiestor contradiction ; be was not impatient of difference of opinion —his object was by comparing his 1 Mese so precisely with those of others, whether living or dead, whether in convenatioe or in books—his great object was to I t get at truth, and to ascertain the correctness or incorrect. ceesoL opinions. (Cheers.) That quality he 11 in a greater degree than almost anybody whom I 7aZithe good fortune to meet. It was that quality which endeared him as • public man to those with whom be had entered into communion. But in his private rata.. time of life there wage warmth of heart—there was mirth- ) nem of affection—there was • total unselfishness of feeling i —which rendered him dear to all his friends, and which made him most valuable to all his family connections, and which inspired in those who came near hint in private life, in the exchange of domestic intercourse -inspired feelings more deep then these which could be felt by any of those who are now assembled to do honour to his memory, It is, therefore, I say, quite • becoming act on the part of 1 the people of this city sad county to have erected to his 1 roamer, the statue which we have sow usnivared,. and i which, bong the work of our of the most distinguished artists at the guest day, dim give as emirate a rwissatianos I as pourable of the features of him in whose honour it is plaosd in your city. I truntheetheee I am now addressing. aadthose Having arrived at the Shire-ball, Lord Palmerston was received with loud cheering. Amongst those in the immediate vicinity of the statue were the Lord Bishop of Hereford, Lord and Lady Say and Bele, Earl Somers, Lady Emily Foley, Lady Lansdale, Lieut.-Colonel Fields. the Rev. A. Clive and Mrs. Clive , Colonel Cli ff ord, M.P.:kc. The noble Premier was cocducted by the Mayor and the members of the Common Council into the Shire tall. On reaching the steps of the building, The TOWN CLINK read the following address to Lord Palmerston : "My Lord,—We, the mayor. alderman, and citizens of the city of Hereford, desire to express the gratibcation we feel at the homes *waisted upon us by your lordship. prestos in our Reelect city, and gladly avail our. selves of this opportunity to acknowledge the debt of gratitude we owe to your lordship in having for so many years aided our beloved Sovereign by your wire and prudent counsel ia maintainirs the high position which she holds among the nations of the world. Permit us also to sprees our admiration of that exalted feeling which has prompted your lordship to appropriate a portion of your valuable time towards paying • just tribute of respect to the memory of the late Sir George Cornwall Lewis, whose Ices we all so greatly deplore, and : who 'edit. lonely devoted talents of no common order to the service of his country. We refrain from dilating upon the merits of this eminent statesman, being well aware that he long enjoyed the regard and friendship of your lordship. We shall ever esteem it an honour that his name stands re corded amongst the chief stewards of this ancient city, sod magratalate ourselves that, under your kind auspices, the inhabitants of the city and scantyof Hereford will this day dedicate • suitable testfroisial to his memory. We fervently' hope that you may long be spared to participate is the councils of this nation, and see our tnuch.loved country inertias in prosperity under the administration and govern. meat of her most gracious Majesty. Given under Oaf ' Corporate Common Seal, the 3rd day of September, 1861. Lord Psturanron, in reply, said Mr. Meyer and gentlemen of the Corporation of the city of Hereford, I beg to thank you most sincerely for the address you have been kind enough to preset to me, and 1 assure you you have conferred upon me intuits estialeetioo in affording me an opportunity of being present no such an occasion as we base met to celebrate this day And with regard to what you have been pleased to say with respect to my public service', I can oaly assure lon that the highest remuneratioa any man engaged in public life can hope to meet with is the approbation and I:middens of his fellow- Stises. It is, indeed, most gratifying tome to be snored by the people of the city of Hereford sod neighbourhood— persons entitled to form, from their intimate knowledge, • sight opinion with regard to the conduct of those who are celled upon to administer the public affaire—that the various dells I have discharged in the service of my country have sot with your approbation. I can assure you that I feel psiycularly interested in the ceremony in hamar of • rimed whose lam we all deplore, and because of the great vales we all stash to the invaluable lervieep rtedered to this country by the let* Sir Gawp Cionswall Lewis. I bad the harpists of sojoying hip private friendship, indeed, I may sty I had the hereditary I eight to his friendship, because I . hed the good fortune of enjoying the frisodship of hie distinguithed father, and be- [Stamped, id. Additional.] who may follow them generation alter peeration, whet they peas this statue, will soy. • That is the statue o f a roan deer to his country, who rendered important services to bit lOUs try, who served his sovereign sod the people of this lead with honesty of purpose, and with eneceedel malts." His career was a career to be imiteted by all, even by thorns who may not poems the quality which enabled him to arrive at that summit to which be attained. Every man in his way may make such progress as his uttelleotaal endowments ; sad his natural disposition may qualify him to make ; and be assured that the imitation of great excellency, though it may not result in equality of distinction. is a sure way to hod every man, whatever his talents may be, to be a useful member of the community, and as. quire the esteem and goodwill of those who may be his friends and companions to IHe. (Obeera ) I therefore, trust, gentlentee, that this memorial will sot only prove is the plasma day the admiration which the people of Hereford feel for Sir George Lewis, but will be a teal lemon to .ort= them and to their children and grand , generation after generation, taschieg them the course which they aught to follow, in order that they may be useful members at the community, sad obtain and secure the Seism and approbation of their fellow moo. Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you for having been allowed to be pesssst and take part in this meet interesting ceremony, and I congratulate you epee having brought it to so peek and sucandul • result.'" (Cheers.) At the termination of big address, Lord Palmerston, ac companied by the mayor and the betioraes and gentlemen already noticed, left the itiatiarm OUT OF THZ SEASON. SUNDAY DOG SHOWS. Readers of Bell's Life mast have remarked that under the heading " Canine Fancy " a series of announcements are regularly given, not entirely intelligible to the world at large. The " renowned old house at home will on the following Sunday show a stud of matchless beautifies the arrange ments being in the hands of old fanciers ' • dog Pincher and his master have returned home, and by way of a treat (!) the former will destroy 100 rats ,under five-and-a-half minutes," as a sort of preli minary to the more important duty of two days later, when he is pledged to a "200 rat match"—"a respected veteran " gives a housewarming, and in vites thereto all the bull-dogs of his acquaintance, when " the great number of those majestic animals (!) will surpass anything of the kind ever witnessed," and when " several of the upper ten' will be preeent"—shares in the "Limited Toy-dog Company "may be secured by paying a modest call of 2s. 6d. per share—tavern bars at which the printed pedigree of the champion bull Crib and the ratting rules may be bad at any time—" rat matches " between two gentlemen for 51. a side "—and Sunday evening shows, whereat the chairman "will show his prize dog Jerry against all comers, faced by a gentleman who will produce his stud of. little pets," and where the same high functionary will graciously exhibit his stud of black and tan spaniels, vice some one who will show his stud of toy dogs." Such are the mystic bits of information to which the great sporting organ devotes each week more than half a column of its precious space. Occupying the centre part of a page, having yachting intelligence and chess problems as its out-guards, it is to be presumed that these paragraphs are intensely interesting to thoee to whom they are addressed. Here, then, is • field for philosophic inquiry. Given statements which are so much gibberish to nineteen educated readers out of twenty ; given a class to whom they are all im portant ; how shall we best ascertain the conditions governing the members of that class the links binding them together, sod the exceptio nal circum stances of their lives ? The solution is not difficult. If the inquirer will select between "matchless beauties " and " old fanciers," " majestic animals," and "toy-dogs," and then give up an hour some Sunday evening, be may ascertain all particulars for himself. First to the back parlour of a tavern in Long-acre, when, just as the adjaaent 'burgh, St. Covent-garden,Paul's, is discharging its congrega tion, and when a fair proportion of the pedes trians you meet have p rayer - books in their bands, the so-called " show is going on. There is neither let nor hindrance to your admission. You are asked to walk in by a gentleman at the bar, and you soon find yourself one of a mixed company of a dozen or so. Five of these are meu, the rest dogs. ' The rattling of chains proceeds from the dogs, the oaths and strong language from the men. The former are chained to iron rings fixed in the wall, or to the legs of the tables at which the latter sit ; or else share the table with tumblers of gin-and water, pewter tankards of beer, and clay pipes and tobacco. The "show "is very like a tap-room, and the guests are a rough and ready, plain spoken set. They call spades spades very frequently during your stay, tell you of the bobbies having stopped • fight " which woe to ave come off near the Welsh Arp this wery Sunday morning." Reminiscences of other fights, not stopped, whereat speakers looked on ; anticipations of a great rat ting match to come, speculations as to the victor, and hopes for the guvnor'ssuocess, follow this ; and then you bear, under the moist seal of tavern con fidence, of a coming dog fight, " which you'll keep it dark, for some folks makes themselves so naughty-word nasty perticler." White bull-dog in corner whines in approval, and rushing to end of chain places his chin against your knee, and looks "long live our national sports," with all the authority conferred by a heavy growl, watery.eyes, bow legs, and brawny chest Thirsty customers produce dogs from most unexpected parts of their body, like the conjurors' vase of gold fish, and whisper inquiries as to fight and " guvnor's chances ;" little black and tan spaniel in right-band corner being of a vain exacting spirit and nut receiving the attention his self-estimated merits demand, proceeds to leisurely choke himself with his chain by twisting it round leg of table, thus evincing a sui cidal tendency, almost human in its governing cause. His master—a hard-mouthed prosaic man in white linen jacket and brown oords—adminis tem consolation in pats on the bead and jerks at the collar, proving himself • complete Aldermau Cute in his determination to put suicide down. The convereatiosa is only momentarily interrupted by this incident, and continues to revolve round dog-fight, match, and " Welsh Arp," up to the time you leave. Now wending your steps across Leicester-square, and turning up the street facing the end Of the Haymarket, you proceed to the " old house at home," to enjoy the society of "old fanciers," and "matchless beauties," and to still farther test the conversation of the dog-dealing, dog-worshipping classes. At the end of a flagged court, where every window of every house is open, and shows people panting for air as they lean out, with children popping round and about your path, and a strong smell of old boots and strong tobacco combining to assail your nose,—you read in ' staring characters "GAL? RATTING MATCH," and pushing at a swing door, some yards further on, are in a bar, with gay cotton pocket-handkerchiefs banging on a clothesline—apparently to dry, but really to show off the colours of some champion— above, some rather disreputable-looking men around, and a highly ornate young lady behind it. There is no need of asking the whereabouts of show. The chinking of chains, the pattering of small soft feet on the wooden floor of the room to the right, the matchless beauty on the squinting gentleman's knee, and the playful bark of the small Skye oppo site, all paint out this to your inexperienced mind, even if the ready " Walk in, gentlemen, please," of the bright-eyed, dark-complexioned, sharp-faced louth, who is said to be the landlord, but who ooks strangely young for that high position, did not promptly greet every new oozier. A low-roofed room, with portraits of pugdista, game-cooks, and dogs, bills of the ratting match, and • large picture of a prize-fight upon its walls; sawdust, wooden benches, chairs, tables, dogs, and spittoons on its floor, and forty to fifty " fanciers " of different wm„ smoking, drinking, and talking round its centre. The history and pursuits of your companions are written on their faces, even if they did not CrWOPENCE I unconsciously paint them in their talk. The resemblance between some of the bulldogs and their owners is so remediable as to be strong testi mony in favour of the theory of natural selection. Hanging jowls, protruding teeth from half-closed mouths, and aggressively prominent ears, are in many instances common to both ; though, as if to defy generalisation and to scoff at rules, there are men present who might, as far as externals go, be easily made up for the pulpit, and whose thought ful, lofty countenances show something of the fire of genius when the merits of "Arry's Novice," or the virtues of a departed "as party a little dawg as ever you see, with a palate as black as hink—l giv' yer my ward," rouse their latent eloquence, and inspire their souls. The high-eheeked man in a Sootcb-bonnet, who has a lovely little Skye terrier under each arm, and is just about to produce another, as it seems, from his watqb-pocket, is in interesting conversation with theiharpieyed Jewish-looking man opposite, whoop " brinjyer dawgs 'ere—that's the way ; and if yer make a little money, why yer can spend it, and (with much emphasis) if yer don't, yer can't, and that's where it is," receives " that is right !" in ap pearing answer. This is said to be a toy-dog show, and all present are toys, from the bright-eyed little King Charles, with flop silk ears, to the fere mons-looking bulldog, which the equally ferocious looking man is nursing as if tt were a kitten. " Like lambs, until they're roused, an d then they're devils that's their sort," explains this gentle man, who again strengthened the likesess between his animal and himself by the contrast between the fierceness of his appearance and the mellifluous civility of his tones. A little playful badinage between the Jewish gentleman and a new arrival, who is sceptical as to the " certainty "of some coming event—constant and stentorian shout' of " Any orders, gentlemen, please," from a bustling waiter, whose costume is that of a patron of the ring who has donned the white apron in fun—sur prise at the great excitement about the dog fight for five and-twenty a side, (" with it ain't ad so mud] as if two men were Robe to mill for a 'underd, and yet it's thought ten times as much of," from a broken-nosed gentleman, who is as palpably disgusted with the degeneracy of the age as was Belau. the Hangman when he beard poor Burnaby loved his mother}—repetitions of the land lord's " Walk in, gentlemen," as mechanic-looking men, with dogs under their arms, slouch to the doorway—potations of " ad and arf," "cooper," and hot grog on every side--oonversation, com prisin aueodotes of departed dogs, pre s g ent whereaboute of famous dogs, reoeat addition of stuffed dogs to tavern parlour; whispered information as toour lithe-figured, urbane landlord having been "champion of the feather weights" —comments upon dogs present, and chro nological ana as to dogs absent, their prowess, their capabilities, and their pluck—while away the time. Perfect order is observed. All prompt appear to regard dogs as the great business of life, and though the exigencies of bread. winning may com pel some of us to keep small general shops, to deal in coals and potatoes, or even to vend fruit, be sure that—we reserve our best energies for the dear animals who surround us now. Here, then, is a phase of London existence as little known to the general reader as the atomic theory to an African savage. We have in our midst a race of fetish-worshippers, to whom dogs are the salt of the earth, who spend their leisure in cultivating doggish society, and their evenings in ex hibiting and bragging of their canine treasures. Taverns are opened for them, " respected veteran" minister to their wants, news paper columns are devoted to the subjects they affect, and other accessories are not wanting t specially gratify their tastes. Thus, in the nine teuth esatury of the Christian ora—in the days of cheap education, wide-spreading refinement, and boasted national progress--at that period of the week when the chimes of calm church bells are still float ing on the air—within a stone's throw of our most prosperous and fashionable thoroughfares—wem blages are held of men, clothed and in their right mind, whose ride it is to concentrate their earnest hopes and serious aspirations upon the dumb ani mal known as the friend of man, and to vaunt it as the all-engrossing object of their affections, and the chief muter of their time. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (Hors's numatmej AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SIM 3 The A bencipost (evening edition of the official Wisner Zeitung) denies the statement of the Oes terreichiache Zeituttg, that Austria intended forming new infantry regiments. The A bendisoet says that this statement has tot the remotest foundation. RECEPTION OF THE MEXICAN ENVOY AT MADRID. MADRID, Firm 3, Eviarriro. _ _ The Queen to-day received M. Fazio, the envoy of the Emperor Maximilian, who presented a letter from his Majesty. M. Fazio's speech and the Queen's reply expressed the sympathy and good understanding between Spain and Mexico. PRUSSIA AND DENMARK. BERLIN, lan. 3. The new Prenuiseke Irreti-veitung'of to-d . lishes news .from Vienna dated Ist inst., stating that in diplomatic circles in that city it was under stood that the conferences would by no means be resumed at an early date, and even when resumed would shortly afterwards be interrupted. The delay, it is stated, is caused by Denmark. There being nothing further to negotiate respectingjthe territorial question the Danes display the greatest tenacity upon the financial question, and threaten to break off negotiations and give notice of the termination of the armistice, being of opinion that they cannot lose more than is already lost. The Kreuz Zeitung adds that this calculation is false, as Denmark would at least lose the province of Jutland, already conquered. ITALY. TURIN, Scrr. 4. The brigand chief Crocco baa embarked at Civita Vecchia on board a Spanish steamer, and with a Spanish passport. MALTA. MALTA, Barr. 3. The English fleet stationed here is atont to sail for Naples. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Scrr. 4. It is stated that Prince Gortchakoff is about to go abroad on leave of absence. fle will not, however, accompany the Emperor. THE TUNIS INSURRECTION. TURIN, Her. 4. Advices received here from Tut,is to the 31st ult., state that business had been resumed, and that the caravans had recommenced their journeys between the towns of the interior. The Bey had sent another body of 6,000 men against the insurgents on the coast. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAIL& MARSEILLES, Barr. 4. The =on, with the above mails, reached Manville. at 11.30 a.m. this day. The mails left for London at 2 p.m.