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THE PRESS, JULY 10, 1858. 667 - Prince Consort, who wore the uniform of a Field Narshal. The Princess Alice rode on the left of the Prince Consort, and on the left of the Princess was the Duke of Malakoff The Princess Helena occu pied a seat in an open pony carriage, drawn by four greys. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Colville, Captain de Rog, and the Master of the Household. Among the general officers who formed her Majesty's escort were General Knoll)s, Lord Cardigan, Sir Richard piny, and Lord Burghersh. As the Royal party halted in the Valley the Infantry bands played the National Anthem, and the troops gave the customary salute. Her Majesty, attended as before, then passed leisurely along the lines, inspecting the infantry, cavalry, and artillery in turn. The infantry were all in heavy marching order. The cavalry were simply in review order. The inspection over, a sham battle ensued, which the Royal party witnessed from a ccmmanding position on the crest of an adjoining bill. The Prince Consort and the Duke of Cambridge explained the various ma noeuvres to her Majesty from time to time, and the Doke of Malakoff performed a similar service for the Princess Alice. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, accom panied by the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, Count de Flanders, and a numerous suite, left the Royal Station, Bricklayers' Arms, on Monday, by special train, at 3.30 p.m., for St. Leonard's, by the South Eastern Railway, via Tunbridge Wells. The royal train reached St. Leonard's at 5.15 p.m., at which station there were in attendance, to receive the Royal party, the Duke de Nemours, General Dumas, itc. The King and Isuite stayed the night at the Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Leonard's, and left per special train for Dover on Tuesday, at twelve o'cloak, where he immediately embarked for Ostend. His Exoellency the Belgian Minister, d-c., was in at tendance upon the King at Bricklayers' Arms. The royal train was accompanied by Seymour Teulon, Esq., Director, C. W. Ehorall, Esq., General Manager, and Mr. J. P. Knight, superintendent of the South Eastern. The poll shows that unity and exertion alone are required to insure the success of Conservative principles ; and while thanking those who honoured me with their support, and assuring my active and zealous friends of the deep sense of gratitude which I entertain for their exer tions, I hopefully look forward to the prospect of an early dissolution, when, with the register amended, our united efforts will secure a Conservative triumph, which will com• pensate for the temporary success of our opponents. In reference to a subject which has been a current topic of conversation for some days past, the Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday says : Major-General Windham's resignation is no secret, and if the late poll had shown a real majority in their (the Liberals') favour, the Chiltern Hundreds would have been applied for directly. Now that such a course would assuredly end in letting in a Conservative, it will be delayed till a more convenient period. It should be stated that the Chronicle is the Con servative journal of the country. The party of which it is the organ were to hold a consultative meeting on Saturday, and a great deal is said about increased attention to the registration, &c. NORTH ESSEX.—In consequence of Lieutenant- Colonel S. B. Ruggles Brise, of Spain's-hall, having recently announced his intention to offer himself as a candidate for North Essex, the supporters of the Right Hon. W. Beresford have rallied round that gentleman and presented him with a requisition, inviting him again to solicit the *suffrages of the constituency. As Colonel Brise is a Conservative, the decision of Mr. Beresford has been anticipated with some interest ; and, in his reply, just issued, the right hon. gentleman observes cannot but regret that at so early a period after a general election, and at a moment when a dissolution of Parliament appears an improbable, or, at least, a very un certain event, circumstances should have arisen which suggested to my constituents the urgency of such a requisi tion to me. To those circumstances I will make no further allusion, but content myself with simply answering their address. I gratefully thank those who have thus recorded my confidence in me, and I cheerfully respond to and accept the kind invitation which they have tendered to me to come forward again for North Essex. Although I am not particularly desirous of a much lengthened par liamentary life, and though I would not unwillingly have closed my career at the end of the present Parliament, I at once dismiss all intention of then retiring into private life ; and I now pledge my best energies to meet the wishes and to merit the continued approbation of my kind supporters in North Essex. It is curious to observe that Mr. Beresford, who writes from the Carlton Club, regards a dissolution as an "improbable, or, at least, a very uncertain event," while Sir Henry Stracey, the Conservative champion in East Norfolk, " hopefully looks forward to the prospect of an early dissolution." Unless Colonel Brise should withdraw, there will be an odd kind of triangular duel among the Conservatives of North Essex, as Mr. Charles Du Cane, the other sitting member, is very popular, and is not at all likely to retire. Do not for a moment suppose that I am availing myself of a detached port of the toast just given in order to draw the conclusion that the recognition of those principles has been brought about in any degree by the diplomacy of the United States. The truth is—and you are, perhaps, not aware of the fact—that we have no kmerican diplomacy . In England and on the Continent diplomacy is a lifelong career. With us it is nothing of the sort. American diplomacy, compared to European diplomacy, may be likened to the militia as contrasted with the regular army. To be sure, in the United States, from the outset, we have always had a partiality for the militia. Our first military achievements were gained by men among whom were some of the rawest possible militia. And it has so happened, probably by accident, that our militia has over and over again proved equal to the best regulars of Europe. It is in that way, perhaps, that the diplomacy of the United States has been able to do something towards giving expansion and popularity to the principles of the American revolution. Although our Ministers abroad have been drawn from the ranks of private and professional life, en very many occa sions, at the most distinguished Courts of Europe and throughout the world, in conflict, or rather in argument, with the most refined diplomatists of any country, those militiamen of diplomacy have achieved remarkable success. I might refer, if 1 were disposed to empty upon you the archives of the American Legation bete or elsewhere, to many striking instances of this kind ; and as I propose to conclude my remarks by suggesting a particular name to your approbation, it may be proper to say that the list of our American diplomatists, beginning with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Munroe, and William Whitney, includes a long array of illustrious " militiamen diplomatists," who have left behind them a record of the most glowing and gratifying character. At this very Court some of my predecessors may be compared to the very best of the drilled cohorts of European diplomacy. There is one little comment, which is to a certain extent connected with American diplomacy, on which I will say a word. Yon know that we have recently bad some little difficulties on the coasts of the United States and in the West Indian Sea—a matter with which, as one of the militiamen in the diplomacy of the United States, I was lately charged. Now, without referring to that question more closely, it is a point which is essentially connected with one of the fun damental principles of the American revolution,—that principle being the necessity of maintaining on behalf of the great American people, as a great ..ommunity, the independence of their flag. Well, lam not going to argue the question as to visit and search. It has been over and over again, for years back, argued and reargued. But I should like, on the 4th of July, to announce to my fellow countrymen that visit anti search in regard to American vessels on the high seas in time of peace is frankly and finally ended. c Tremendous cheering, the whole company rising and manifesting the liveliest enthusiasm:. While, gentlemen, I am able to announce this gratifying fact, I think it ought to be accompanitd by the assurance that the termination of that for which we have struggled for nearly half a century has been brought about with a degree of honourable candour and fair dealing on the part of the British Government which is worthy of every acknow— ledgment on our part. With a view to draw these remarks to a close, I beg leave to offer you as a toast the name of one of the earliest representatives alike of the principles of the American revolution and of the constitution of the United States—l mean Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk in solemn silence. After exhausting a very long list of " sentiments " and spending a very convivial evening the party broke up at a late hour. • MARRIAGE or EARL SPENCER.—On Wednesday the marriage of the Earl of Spencer with Miss Charlotte Seymour, third daughter of Lady Augusta Seymour and the late Mr. Frederick Charles William Seymour, and granddaughter of the Marquis of Bristol, was solemnized at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The church was crowded, and among the relatives and friends of the contracting parties present we observed the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl Jermyn, Lord and Lady Charles Hervey, Lord Hervey, Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lord George Quin, Lord Lyttelton, Viscount Templetown, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison, the Hon. Miss Ellis, the Right Hou. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. (Gladstone, Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Lyttelton, Hon. Mr. Hervey, Hon. Mr. Ellis, Hon. Frederick Byng, Viseount Ebrington and Miss Darner, Dowager Lady Clinton, Lady Sophia Wyndham, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Colonel Francis Seymour, Sir Ha. milton and Lady Seymour, Misses Seymour, Lady Arthur Hervey, Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst and Mies Batburat, &c. The bridegroom and family circle assembled at the church at balf•past eleven o'clock, and the bride, accompanied by Lady Augusta Seymour, her mother, came shortly afterwards. The Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey, uncle of the bride, MB aimed on the interesting occasion. The bride was attended to the altar by Lady Mary Cecil, daughter dthe Marquis of Exeter, Lady Sarah Spencer, and Lady Victoria Spencer, sister and half-sister of the noble bridegroom, and Miss Eliza and Miss Augusta Seymour, sisters of the bride. After the ceremony the bridal party proceeded to the Marquis of Bristol's mansion in St. James's Square, where a dneliner was given. Shortly before one o'clock the newly wedded couplo left town for Woking en route to Caine-house, Lieutenant-Colonel Darner's seat in Dorset-shire, to pass the honeymoon. Towards the close of the month the earl and countess leave on a tour on the Continent. ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. TrrE eighty-second anniversary of the declaration of the independence of the United States was celebrated by a banquet held last Monday night at the London Tavern, and attended by about 150 American gentle men resident in this metropolis. The dinner took place under the auspices of the American Association, a society recently established in London for the benefit of citizens of the States while sojourning in this country. The banquet was presided over by General Robert B. Campbell, United States Consul at London, on whose right sat Mr. Dallas, the Ame rican Minister ; and among the company were—Mr. J. 8.. Croskey, Captain Mangles, M.P., Mr. R. W. Kennard, Dr. Charles Mackay, Mr. M. Marshall, Mr. P. N. Dallas, Mr. Benjamin Moran, Assistant-Secre• Lary of American Legation, Mr. W. L. Hurlbut, Mr. C. E. Morrell, Mr. Edward Noyce Browne, Dr. Bal lard, Mr. George F. Train, Mr. Thornton Hunt, Mr. Whitehead of New York, Dr. Holland, Mr. F. L. Campbell, &c. Letters of apology for nonattendance were re ceived from the Hoo. James T. Mason, American Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, from the principal American consuls in the United Kingdom, from Mr. George Peabody, and others. The room was tastefully decorated with the star•spangled banner and the Union Jack, and over the president's table hung portraits of General and Lady Washington, and also an excellent likeness of Queen Victoria, gra ciously lent by her Majesty for the occasion. A group of ladies occupied tho gallery after the dinner. Atter the usual complimentary toasts, the CHAIR MAN gave " The Health of Mr. Dallas and the Di plomatic Representatives of the United States," which was greeted with loud applause. His Excellency Mr. Damas rose to acknowledge the toast, and was received with loud cheers. After a comparison between the state of feeling in this country towards America now and formerly, he con • timed : THE STATE OF THE THAMES. THE inquiry before the Parliamentary Committee was resumed on Monday. The witnesses examined were Mr. Bateman and Mr. John Lawes—the latter for the second time. The first-named witness was an engineer. He had been engaged in the purifica tion of the river Clyde, at Glasgow. The Clyde was a very offensive river, and in respect of smell it was more offensive in its intensity than the Thames it self. He attributed that smell to the drainage of all the refuse of the town into the river, increased as it was by an amount of chemical matter which flowed into it, and which was being constantly moved back wards and forwards by the tide. lie had seen Mr. Gurney's report, and essentially he agreed with him. There were no mud banks in the Clyde, except in a very limited space. The river had been dredged about thirteen feet deep at low water from the har bour cf Glasgow right down to the sea. There was what was called an upper harbour, which was about 200 yards in length, in which at certain states of the tide the mud accumulated. The CHAIRMAN : What remedy do you propose as far as the Clyde is concerned ? Witness : That at present is under consideration. The engineering works are questions of considerable difficulty ; and if the sewage has to be carried away by engineering means, it must be at great cost. It has, therefore, occurred to me that if any good deo dorizing system could be adopted, it might be a pre ferable plan. Experiments have been going on to ascertain whether such a system could be devised, and Dr. Anderson, of Glasgow, has been associated with me for that purpose. The CHAIRMAN : Do you know of any case in which the sewage water has been disinfected by the appli cation of any acid ? 6ltction ainttiligtntr. EAST NORFOLK: Sir Henry Stracey, the nnsuc ces.sful candidate for the representation of East Norfolk at the recent contest, seems determined to make another effort to secure one of the seats for the division. On Friday, the 2nd inst., a notification appeared iron) the hon. baronet, in which, addressing his " brother electors," be observes : Defeated by the neutrality of some and the lukewarm• mess of other Conservatives upon ,those support I reason- Ailaly calculated, coupled with the undue means and pressure exercised by our opponents, the comparatively small majonty by which they obtained their success lessens the regret which attaches to the result.