The Press. — London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

762 except on the arrival of her Majesty, or on her taking her departure for the season, to fire a royal salute ; but as the Victoria and Albert passed, with the standard of England flying from the main, the Admiralty flag at the fore, and the Union Jack at the mizen, all the flags were dipped in honour of the Sovereign. At twenty five minutes past twelve o'clock the yacht came abreast. of West Cowes Castle, and at this moment the Medina steamer, from Southampton, came alongside with a numerous party on board, who loudly cheered her Majesty as she passed. Her Majesty remained on deck, near the paddlebox, and gratefully acknowledged the salutations she received. The royal yacht then steamed up the Solent towards the Needles, and it was expected that she would be off Cherbourg by about four o'clock in the afternoon. The Trinity yacht was in attendance upon her Majesty. Her Majesty arrived at her destination about three hours later than was anticipated, and her arrival in the roadstead at Cherbourg was telegraphed about seven o'clock. The royal vessels were saluted by the whole French fleet and the forte. At eight o'clock the Emperor, who had arrived at five o'clock, visited her Majesty, amidst remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm. The illuminations were magnificent. On Thursday, at twelve o'clock, the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Prince of Wales, breakfasted with the Emperor and Empress. Their Majesty's afterwards made the tour of the city, and were received everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm. They dined on board the Bretagne. The members of the House of Commons pro ceeding to Cherbourg have been enjoying them- selves on board the Peru. On Tuesday night a hundred of them sat down to a grand dinner on board. The following is a list of the members on board :—Lord Ashley, Mr. A. S. Ayrton, Mr. A. 11. Baring, Mr. M. T. Bass, Mr. A. Bathurst, Mr. \V. Beech, Mr. Beecroft, 7.dr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Bramle3 -Moore, General Buckley, Mr. R. J. R. Campbell, Sir J. R. Carnac, Mr. S. Child, Mr. J. C. Cobbold, General Coilrington, Sir T. E. Colebrooke, Mr. W. Coningham, Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Mt. Alderman Cubitt, lion. W. H. F. Denison, Mr. E. Divett, Mr. C. Ducane, Sir J. Duke, Hon. Colonel Duncombe, Mr. C. Dupre, Mr. E. C. Egerton, Sir J. Elphinstone, Mr. T. W. Evans, Mr. J. C. Ewart, Mr. W. Fagan, Sir M. Farquhar, Mr. J. H. Foley, Colonel French, Mr. A. L. Goddard, Mr. J. Greene, Captain Gray, Mr. C. D. Griffith, General Hall, Mr. T. Hankey, Mr. K. D. Hodgson, Mr. E. Holland, Mr. W. W. F. Hume, Mr. H. Ingram, Mr. W. Jazlison, Mr. D. Jones. Sir F. Kelly, Colonel Knox, Mr. J. H. Langston, Sir R. Levinge, Mr. \V. S. Lindsay, Captain Lowther, Mr. T. Luce, Mr. G. Lyall, Mr. A. M'Carthy, Mr. G. Macartney, Mr. J. lil`Cann, Mr. R. M. Milnes, Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, Sir C. Napier, Mr. D. Nicoll, Sir D. J. Norreys, Colonel \V. Patten, Mr. H. Paull, Viscount P. vensey, Mr. It. N. Phillips, Mr. J. Pritchard, Mr. C. W. G. Puller, Sir H. C. Rawlinson, Mr. P. Robertson, Mr. J. A. Roebuck, Mr. W. Ronpell, Mr. H. Russell, Mr. A. Russell, Mr. H. W. Schmdder, Mr. H. K. Seymer, Mr. J. Steel, Mr. M. Sullivan, Mr. \V. P. Thcrnhill, Mr. W. Tite, Mr. W. Vansittart, Mr. S. Warren, Colonel L. Watkins, Mr. J. P. Brown•W.•sthead, Mr. J. White, Mr. H. \V. Wickham, M. \V. Williams, Sir W. F. Williams, and Mr. J. NVyld. On Tuesday night many members were in the abrouds looking on at others dancing on deck. Some Scotch reels and Irish jigs were danced with extraordinary animation and elegance. When the reels were proposed, there were loud calls for Scotch names, and Irish names were heard shouted for when jig tunes were demanded. The splendid and capacious deck of the Pent, nearly •lOU feet long, and proportionately broad, the calm and beautiful night, the exhilarating strains of music, and the satisfying effects of a snoerb banquet, all seem to have induced the company on board the Peru to thorough enjoyment. Even the aged members were sitting on deck pleased to witness the enjoyment of their more juvenile companions, and thoughts of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Sheridan gave way to Apollo and Terpsiehore, who may be considered to have caught the Speaker's eye. The Earl of Sheffield and Lord Kinsale were the only two members of the Upper House who elected to accompany their legislative colleagues on board the I'era, though several of their lordships were present in their official capacities in atten dance on the Sovereign, and several more in their owo yachts. The following was the programme drawn up by the civil and military authorities for the reception of the Emperor and Empress, and the celebration of the several days of their stay in Cherbourg : AtGVST 4. Their Majesties will be received at the railway station by the authorities, civil, naval, and military. The keys of the town will be presented to his Majesty by the Mayor and the Municipal Council. w THE PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1858. The benediction and inauguration of the railway will take place in the presence of their Majesties. All the land and sea forces will be under arms : they will be placed in rank from the railway station to the Hotel of the Prefecture. The arrival of their Majesties will be announced by a salute of artillery. All the ships of the squadron, as well as the forts of the road, and Forts Ouglet and L'Amiral, will be decorated with Bags ; all the buildings of the port will also hoist their respective flags. On the arrival of their Majesties at the Prefecture the Empress will receive the wives of the principal officials, and the young la lies deputed to offer her Majesty a corbeille of flowers and lace. . . The public offices, the ships of the squadron, and the breskwster will he illuminated every evening during the stay of their Majesties. The officers and public functionaries are requested to illuminate their residences and decorate them with flags. AUGUST 5. This day being reserved by the Emperor and Empress for the reception on board the Bretagne of her Majesty the Queen of England, a future order will be issued as to the proceedings of the day. The regatt* will take place in the road of Cherbourg, in he presence of the united naval forces and the Royal Yacht Squadron. AUGUST 6. This day their Majesties will visit the ships of the squadron in the road, and land on the breakwater. AUGUST 7. Their Majesties will leave the Hotel of the Prefecture in the morning, and pass through the town and environs. it noon their Majesties will proceed to the military port to open the grand inner basin of the works. In the evening a ball will be given to the Emperor and Empress by the town of Cherbourg at the How' de Ville. AUGUST 8. At nine o'clock in the morning the Emperor will inau gurate the equestrian statue of Napoleon. The departure of their Majesties is fixed fur two o'clock p.m. The remainder of the programmes contained the special regulations and orders to the officials relative to this ceremony, which was the last of the celebra tions. Another programme, published by the Munici pality, detailed the popular fetes that were to be given in honour of the imperial visit, and the part the Municipality was to take in the other ceremonies. The mayor of the town issued the following address to the inhabitants : Fellow• citizens,—ln 1842 we requested the Emperor to grant a railroad to our district. Our request was granted, and now his Majesty comes to inaugurate this great road, which unites our town to the metropolis. The third dock of our military port is finished. The Emperor will preside at its opening, and thus crown the completion or this magnificent arsenal, which excites the admiration of the whole world. His Majesty will also inaugurate the monument you have raised to Napoleon 1., and, by his presence at this imposing solemnity, add to the splendour of the homage you have paid to the powerful founder of the Napoleon dynasty. The Empress, his noble partner, the august mother of the prince on whom rest the dearest hopes of the country, deigns also to visit us. If the eyes of France are at this moment fixed on Cherbourg, it is because every town wishes, like our own, to enjoy the happiness of possessing the Sovereign who has raised so high the glory of out arms, and secured the prosperity of the country; it is because Cherbourg is now the town privileged above all others. Need I excite your enthu siasm? No; I know your patriotic sentiments, and I know, in anticipation, that everywhere on their passage their Majesties will be received with fervent acclamations, the sincere proofs of your devotion to the empire. Your houses will be decorated with Hags and illuminated during the whole sojourn of our august guests. We all know what we owe to the Government of the Emperor, and we shall feel happy to be able on this great occasion to offer him abundant proof of our affeciion and grad tnile. Vire l'Empereur ! Viva l'lmperatrice ! Viva le Prince Imperial! LODE, Maley. The following general remarks we take from a morning contemporary of Friday : It is said 40,000 passports have been granted in Paris for Cherbourg. A person► who was at the Pre lecture on Monday estimated the number of persons waiting for passports at 7(NO. It was stated yester day that there were 60,000 strangers in Cherbourg, whose ordinary population is under 20,000. The visitors, especially the Parisians, seem to be making the most of the opportunity of floating on salt water. The admiral's fine vessel, the Bretagne, at anchor between the Arcola and the Eylau, is an object of great attraction, and is daily surrounded by a crowd of [boats. The traffic of small craft between the breakwater and the port is prodigious. Upon the former the breeze blew fresh a day or two ago, and ladies who landed are described as liming been sadly afflicted, or at least disconcerted, by the eccentrici ties of their crinoline—an awkward style of garment on an elevated perch in the middle of the waves, with a capful of wind blowing. A letter of the 3rd says that twenty English yachts had arrived in the previous night. The town, according to all accounts, seems to have made every exertion to look its best. The inhabitants, of course, are defighted, and are evidently resolved to make the most of the occasion. Men, women, and children, active and persevering touters, pursue the freshly-landed stranger with their obliging offers of lodgings. All sorts and kitchens have been turned into and are offered at the moderate rate napoleons for the period of the evening of the 3rd (the date of my the English element was beginning very perceptible in the throng. No tained that great enthusiasm would on the arrival of the Sovereigns, aril reception was reserved both for the Emperor. Notwithstanding the imi Cie naval uniform made itself very Boats were continually landing partie' sailors from the ships of war. The ing seemed to prevail between till French sailors. The following account of Cherbourg given by the Moniteur de la Flotte, is opportune The first sovereign whose presence clearly known was Harold, King of Denmark. Conqueror was there several times. Her England and Duke of Normandy, visited •..1 court, in 1110. The Empress Queen Nlathiltle, Henry 1., and widow of the Emperor Hr the coast of Cherbourg in 1115, after , during which she made a vow to raise Virgin wherever she might first touch tt the origin of the Chapel of Notre Dame di destroyed when the maritime port was i placed under the same name by a parish menced in 1850, and not yet finished. 1181, King Henry 11. of England paid bourg. St. Louis honoured the town „. in the early part of April, 1256. He pegged Easter at Avranches and at Mont Saint. it was visited by Philippe-le-Hardi. &h. land presented himself before Cherbourg siege to it, but he did not enter the place. Bad, King of Navarre, who had the provin as his apanage, visited the place twice—it there two months, and in 1366, to relieve from feudal servitude in giving them th baron. During his first residence he was 1. of Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Hem landed at Cherbourg in 1420. This strong was long in the possession of the English, them on the 12th of August, 1450, and ever since under the authority of the Francis 1., accompanied by the Dauphin, 11., visited it in 1532, and remained Joseph 11., Emperor of Germany, and k Antlittette, going through France incogie name of the Count de Falekenstein, visite(' September, 1781. It is stated, sa ys 3,4, , that in walking in the port of Cherbourg, who accompanied him was pushing the p. the Emperor said, " Be quiet, sir; it does much room for a man to pass." The k breakwater was decided on in 1781. Loin; the works in 1786; he arrived on the 22r on the 26th. Another great work, the • military port, consisting of vast docks ; depth of eighteen metres, was decreed having resolved to inspect this colossal . Cherbourg on the 26th May, 1811, accoml Empress Maria Louisa, Prince Eugene, • suite. He remained there till the 30th. Maria Louisa, Regent of the Empire, bourg in 1813 to preside over the inaugut military port. Her Majesty arrived on the and stayed till the let September. Charles X royal family, banished from France by the n July, embarked with their suites at Cherbourg August, 1830, in two American packet • Britain and the Charles Carrel, which Havre. Don Pedro 1., Emperor of Brazil, press his consort, daughter of Pnnce E; being expelled from their States by . taken to Cherbourg in the English frigatt. landed on the 10th June, 1831, with a small daughter Donna Maria, win) died Qnr having been brought to Brest by the stet rejoined them on the 23rd July. Dal proceeded to Paris wit), his family, and Louis Philippe visited Cherbourg on the 1833, with his :was the Duke de Nemours de Joinville, accompanied by Marshals and Admiral de Rigny. Qneer. Mane d'Aumale and de Montpensier, the Prit Clementine, and Madame Adelaide, b arrived there the same night. The royal at Cherbourg four days. Lastly. the Ei sident of the Republic. honoured the to. in 1850. He made his entry the sth evening, and remained until the morning having examined the breakwater and anew CABINET Cousms were held on Tuesday at the official residence of the Exchequer, in Downing•street present were :—The Earl of Derby, 11. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, Salisbury, the Earl of lisrdwicke, Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lytton, General Peel, Sir John Stanley, and Lord John Manners. Mu. GEORGE F. WILBRAHAM, the Cheshire, has appointed this day for for North Cheshire. Mr. Wllhrahar of the late member, is the only field. 7".".'"n".".."....yrta1a0tef s q t uee acco r el l :se ats : ,nto bedchambers, ate of eight or ten lo doubt was enter. o tld manifest itself t r nvea t i ge i mni e'reQdysi immense l o etse f eh.na: o n sann n ffi el t aO c P i aec i n e i ncrdusmvou itsel f wr t ° a n t i tud e bbn: e best understand. the English and 'bout% , is interesting and tee at Cherbourg is !nulark. William the Henry 1., King of :ed the place with his if athilde, daughter of Henry V., landed N I r a violent tempest, aise a church to the ill the shore. Hence le du Vceu, which was vas inclosed, and re , Jarish church, sum. shed. In t 163 end id two visits to Clue vn with his peseta, pessed the fetes of int-Michel. In 127 s Edward 111. of Eng. rbourg in 1346 to lay place. Charles the rovince of Normandy min 13113, remaining lieve the inhabitants in the title of pair a was visited by Peter leory V. of England strong place, which glish, was taken from and has remained he crown of France. lin, afterwards Henry led there three da,s. and brother of Mane ncognito, under the visited Cherbourg in a Madame de erg, one of the officers he people aside, when does not require so The formation of the Louis XVI. visited e :I•2tid June, and left he establishment of a :s cut in the rock to a 1 in 150.3. Napoleon, al enterprize, entered accompanied by the ens, and a numerous 3 1 ./th. The Empress returned to Cher- inauguration of the on the t, 2 lsth August ;harles X. and all the by the revolntion of rek ti he e ß v ir bo wabl tf t:f o :rei u d i ti h i: : : ( I ;Er t a h ed :. Eugenefri a s a t ea revolution, l Queen l l °B o u 1a 9 f e i c a e h o h ar Their g hai g e la e[)la n )l n t ri,le c: a st l n nh te nAt t sers h o P e v u edes i n ais e ntt sem e dase l to nt aft dh i l i el Lo e ti : prie n n l l l 4be ‘ n rn rce i royal e Em chp m eefesg e r s eilKui Emperor, nywm i g hj er ink 1 1 r en : r ; , town with a first visit th September, in the .ping of the 9th. after arsenal. e :1 71 . r y k rb e. e: e ytcl , il t a k t s hth li i eTb gi M i f e rn e h r ho g . RMeC E n ts i o S e cMda:. C ha n ce l l or I, 0 1 isie ffi t sati v a r Yoel a nd Ministers for the nomination them Egerton, ' . ° ll y candidate in the 1. ••••••1111