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THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 4 , 1858. 857 Mayor----I:a iemann to the Mayor of London. At a little before five the Duke and Duchess of .of Exeter, K.G., Earl De La Warr, and the Duke of Ideeloe ee ore Salutes To-day. Brabant and the Count of Flanders took leave of Beaufort. At the Council Parliament way ordered Was there Ever Anything like this Display ? h er M a j es ty and his Royal Highness, and the yacht to be further prorogued from the 19th of October to international O ffi cial Courtesies. immediately got under weigh, and steamed down the Thursday, the 18th of November. Lord Stanley Another Great Problem Solved. Scheldt under salutes from the forts. was sworn in Secretary of State for India. The new The Excitement in the Metropolis. The Victoria and Albert cast anchor off the village Seals of Office for the Secretary of State or India Tremendous Sensation throughout the City. of Fernoos, at about eight o'clock. were approved by the Queen in Council. S om e of our People going off Half Cocked. But the Telegraph *sure thing. At three o'clock in the morning the anchor was The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chelmsford, the All Doubt with the Croakers Dissipated. again weighed, and the yacht proceeded upon her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stanley, General The Niagara Expected To-day. course for England. The wind had blown very Peel, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Right Hon. J. W. Everybody crazy with Joy. strongly with occasional storms of rain during the Henley, Earl De La Warr, and the Duke of Beaufort, Tow's the Time for a Universal Jubilee, dm. day, and her Majesty bad in consequence determined with Mr. Greville, the Clerk of the Council, left the Excelsior, doe to land at Gravesend ; but the weather moderated Waterloo station of the South-Western Railway at a Among the transparencies were the following : during the night, though there was still a stiff breeze, quarter past nine o'clock on Thursday morning , and The union of England and America—in the place o f t he and at a very early hour in the morning her Majesty's proceeded by special train to Gosport on their way to t weildingeing the Atlantic cable. orders were given to steer for Dover. attend the Pri v y Council a t O s born e . The Mini s ters All the world Knox under to American enterprise. The yacht having no n is king of them all. '' I t took two American rivers to arrived at its destination at about crossed from Gosport in the Fire Queen, and reached "There were king s before Agamemnon, but the Agamem- ten o'clock, and a special train having been kept in Osbor n e ab o u t on e o ' clo c k . ) c onquer the Atlantic — the Niag ara and Hudson. readiness by the attention of the directors of the The Earl of Hardwicke, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and . M , i er se, the "inventor,' supplied the germ ; Steers, the South-Eastern Railway, both at Gravesend and Dover, the Marquis of Exeter 'pitied their colleagues at the " mechanic," furnished the Niagara ; Field, the " business her Majesty landed at about twenty minutes past Isle of Wight. man," completed the glorious work. Americans exult 1 eleven o'clock, and proceeded by railway to Ports • After the Council the same Ministers who left Amer ican invention, mechanical genius And business, mouth. The train was brought into the dockyard, town, with the exceptions of the Marquis of Salisbury en ergy and perseverance, furnished by Morse, Steers, and where her Majesty was received upon her arrival by and General Peel, returned to London by special Field, do honour to America. Admiral Sir George Seymour, Rear Admiral the Hon. train, leaving Gosport about five o'clock and arriving Europe and America. Dauguerre and Morse. Sir George Grey, K.C.8., and Major-General the in town about half-past seven. i England and America married by telegraph. Hon. Sir James Scarlett, the Lieutenant-Governor. Electricity: caught by Franklin, harnessed by Morse, guided across the ocean by Field. Her Majesty, with the Prince Consort, imme- The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Stanley Marrid, August, 1858, by Cyrus W. Field, Old Ireland diately embarked on board the Elfin, and proceeded arrived in town on Tuesday, from Hughenden.manor, and eliss Young America; may their honeymoon last for to Osborne. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, ear. In attendance upon her Majesty were Lady Mac- ] Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite ; universal republic. donald (Lady of the Bedchamber), the Hon. Caroline ti All hail to the inventive genius and indefatigable in- Cavendish (Maid of Honour), Colonel the Hon. A. V u olital. dotty of John and Jonathan, who have succeeded in con - N. Hood (Equerry in Waiting), and Colonel the I automating the highest work of the age. May the cord Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps. -- that binds them in the bonds of international friendship never be severed, and the Field of its usefulness extend to The Queen will leave Osborne on Monday next for MR. BERESFORD HOPE AT MAIDSTONE. the uttermost parts of the earth. Leeds, where her Majesty has consented to be present A GREAT Conservative festival was held in the . Victoria, Buchanan, Niagara, Agamemnon. at the o p enin g of the Town-hall on the following I Let nations' shouts, 'midst cannons' roar, day. The arrangements for the journey to Leeds, beautiful grounds of Mote Park, near Maidstone, on i i Proclaim the news from shore to shore. and thence on the following days to Balmoral, were the 27th ult., to celebrate the victory obtained by the Lightning caught and tamed by Franklin. Taught to submitted to her Majesty on Wednesday, at Osborne, Conservatives at the last election, and to hear from read and write and go on errands by Morse. Started in and received the sanction of the royal approval the hon. members an exposition of their political the foreign trade by Field, Cooper, and Co., with Johnny The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, conduct during the last session. * Bull and Brother Jonathan as special partners. the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice, will The dinner was held in an enormous marquee, anti The old Cyrus and the new—the first conquered the and for himself, the second the ocean for the world. leave the Isle of Wight after an early breakfast on was presided over by Mr. Stacey. More than 1.400 Queen Victoria—your despatch received. Let us hear Monday morning, and take to the railway in the persons sat down to a substantial cold collation. lit igen. Clarence Victualling-yard, at Gosport, where a special Both the members on entering the tent were loudly • The Atlantic cable the strongest cord of Europe and train, under charge of the directors and officers of cheered. On the removal of the oar th, America. the London and South-Western Railway, will be in The CHAIRMAN having given the usual loyal and i Oar Field is the Field of the world. readiness for the royal party at 0.45 a.m. At Leeds patriotic toasts, July 4, 1776, August 16, 1858—the days we celebrate. the mayor (Mr. Fairbairn) will be in attendance to Mr. LAWRENCE proposed " The Health of Mr. New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com- receive her Majesty, and conduct the royal party to Bereeford Hope," whose rising was greeted with piny; Peter Cooper, president. his residence, without the confines of the borough. prolonged cheering. Mr. Beresford said : Atlantic Telegraph Company; William Brown, Ferri- Theedent. royal progress northward will be resumed on Sir, the pleasure which I feel in being here to-day before All honour to Cyrus W. Field ; Franklin, Morse, Field ; Tuesday at 1 p.m., at which hour her Majesty will such an assembly of my constituents is augmented, while with an American flag, American clipper, British steamer, leave the station of the North-Eastern Railway, under at the same time the duties imposed upon me are rendered and British flag. charge of the directors and officers of that corn- more difficult to perform by the too friendly speech of my The Atlantic Telegraph ! Symbol and pledge of per- pany. The passage to Holyrood will be deprived of friend Mr. Lawrence. Gentlemen, it is now a year and a petal international friendship. Honour to its successful much of its usual picturesque character, owing to the day since I last had an opportunity of meeting and . promoters. Blessed are the peacemakers. lateness of her Majesty's arrival in the Scottish addressing you. Since that time we have all of us gone World ! what a wonder is this! through many great and unexpected changes ; revolutions i i capital ; but this, it will at once be seen is an un- Grandly and simply sublime— in high places, sudden turns, marvelous visitations of All the Atlantic abyss avoidable necessity. The total distance of 224 miles fortune, have astonished us all. It is these trying times Leapt in a nothing of time. will be performed in little more than five hours and which prove a man. One may very well in calm summer In union there is strength. Magna opera Domini. a half. seas sail his inglorious hsrque, but it is when the storm Sir William Williams, of Kars, arrived at Halifax The journey from Edinburgh to Balmoral will be runs high, when difficulties occur which rack the soul, on Tuesday, August 24. He was enthusiastically commenced on Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., at disturb the peace of mind, and trouble the understanding received. There was an immense procession. To which hour the Queen will leave the St. Margaret's even of the most practised politician, that you prove the an address of welcome he made a feeling reply. station, under conduct of the directors and officers of metal of which an individual is made. Having returned The Niagara moil steamer had sailed for Liverpool. the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The train by your Bind suffra return ge sed, alter ma say, nyto years take s e inereet, to The Gorgon had arrived at Halifax. will arrive at 9 . 51 a.m . at the Larbert Junction, public id , I mayactive Yellow fever prevails at New Orleans; sixty to where the directors and officers of the Scottish Con- part in the great cmincil of the nation than I took dining the eleven years I formerly represented Maidstone, you seventy deaths per day. The epidemio had also tral Railway bill be in attendance. Thenceforward . . • may easily imagine how much more di ffi cult 1 found ' it to declared itself at Charleston. her Majesty will pass through the picturesque loca- steer my course through the devious paths which opened to Great preparations were being made at New York titles of Bannockburn, Stirling, the Bridge of Allan, us during the last session of Parliament. One rule, how and other places for celebrations to be held on the Ist Dunblane, Auchterarder, and Forteviot to Perth, ever, I laid down for myself, which, under the blessing of and 2nd of September. The New Yorkers will make where the train is timed to arrive at 11.10 a.m. After Providence, h.ts brought us safely home to be greeted by it the greatest gala-day ever known in the country. a delay of five minutes only, to take in water, the you with that vote of confidence which is the proudest The Hermann had sailed for Fraser River with GOO Queen will proceed, now under charge of the direc- reward of all who try to serve their country. That rule passengers. tors and officers of the Scottish North-Eastern Rail- was—a determination to be perfectly independent, to judge The Prince Albert mail steamer had sailed for way, vie Cupar-Angus, the Meigle Junction, Gleimmis, of measures by their inherent value, by their bearing on Galway with 250 passeng ers . !'lie Arabia and Ariel and Forfar, to the Bridge of Dun, where the train the welfare of the country, and not to pin my faith to the had arrived at New York, the Angle-Saxon at Quebec, wi l l arrive at 12.38 p.m. Thenceforward there will sleeve of any leader of the day. When the dissolution of Parliament took place some fifteen months ago, when and the Canada at Boston. be no stoppage until her Majesty reaches Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston was in the ascendant, when Conservatives The Europa had left St. John's at which point of the journey the directors and even came forward and said, "We support Lord Pahners- officers of the Deeside Railway will be in readiness ton—Lord Palmerston is the man for us," what did we see ? to conduct the train to Banchorry, where the royal That Minister who, rightly or wrong ly, at the commence- Court ant las Von. party will arrive at 2,35 p.m., thus performing a me n t of the y ear 1855 was supposed to be the only pilot journey of 171.4 miles, exclusive of stoppages, in five who could weather the storm—that man who was supposed hours and a quarter, to have brought back again to earth the wonderful power her Majesty an d th e P r i nce C onsort l e f t D eutz at Th e Q ueen w ill l unc h a t B an ohorry, and make the by which Walpole and Pitt ruled the destinies of the country with a rod of iron—that Minister has fallen more ten he o'clock nn Monde morning last, and took leave of journey between this station and Balmoral by road more hopelessly, than any thoroughly, more completely, Prince GI I{ohenzollern Sigmaringen and Count in three easy stages, arriving at her royal residence Alexander Mensdortf. statesman who within the manners of man has been called At Verviers in the Highlands about six o'clock. upon to administer the a ff airs of the country. I need not her Majesty was met by the Duke The railway journey throughout will be under the relate the history of the chenge of public opieion which wst, B e u c c o hess. of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, sole direction of Mr. Seymour Clark, general manager astonished so many people, but which did not a s tonish me, ati " d "a .ent inpanied the Q ueen and P r i nce to Antwerp of the Great Northern Railway Company, whose for 1 bad, even at the thue of the greatest entliiNiesin in ; with them on board the royal yacht. The carriages will run through the whole distance of 694 his favour, taken a measure of the Ministry, which lens royal party arrived at Antwerp at half-past three miles. since proved more accurate than wonld have been believed °eerie and were conveyed . from the railway station possible had I then mentioned it. That last appointment in the carriages of the King of the Belgians to the w tl iw ua ti i n , g iv ; here his_ The Queen held a Privy Council on Thursday at to a place iii the Ministry of a person whose name IWI al riot mention, but who concentrated in his own person the Majesty's barge was likewise in Osborne, which was attended by his Royal Highness indignation of all hone at and moral men of th e Flanders, and her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the Prince Consort, the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., political opinion, warCelmost the last drop in the cup - Bake and Duchess of Brebant, the Count of the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. which was so soon to overttow. And what was the reseon and the ladies and gentlemen in attendance Secretary Walpole, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Major• of the fi nal overthrow ? It was the exressed voice i f free te y embarked, an d neat veeb e- pr"ooded on Ward the General Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, jeord and glorious England exclaiming, " fi l e will that England ' ' r Yferki and dlPert, §yoley, the Right Win. 1, W. Henley, the Marquis still t 0 free, NTe viii that Eugla44 etlll be the refego • 1 .