The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-11 00:00:00

EE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER,

board. They stayed in the bay all night, when they put
out to sea again in consequence of threats made against
the witness. Carcaris at this time told him they would
do for him as they had done for the others. Witness said
he was not afraid to.l e, and they could do what they
liked with tjae,phi,,, 1.1 he would not navigate her any
mvp. Petirsen We Dane, tried to navigate, but found
iireould not, and the crew again came to witness. He
said if they would obey him he would see them all
right. Caludis said he would cut off the ears of say
one who interfered with him, and witness again took
the command. He took the ship back to the Ile de
Rs. The men asked what land it was, and he told
them Cadiz. He knew it was not, but thought it
lip* to tell them so. They let the anchor out at half-
Past eight, and witness then threw two dczen more
bottles over. The paper produced was one of the
pieces of paper he put in these bottles. He paid out
as much chain as he could with the anchor, in order
that it would take a long time to get up if the men
wanted to get away. He next hoisted signals of dis-
tress. The men thought it was for the police, and
Carcaris came forward and told witness they did not
wish to kill any more. Some of the men wanted to
kill the boy Trousselot, but Carcaris would not allow
it. Afterwards some of the crew came and told witness
he must mind that the boy said nothing when they got
ashore. Witness said he would see to that. Cargalis
next pulled down the distress signals. When the six
men left the ship witness promised to remain on
board about two weeks before he landed, but he
took the direction in which they went so that he might
land the next day and give information. The Tirail-
leur gun-boat coming to them, witness told the captain
all that had happened. The captain called to him to
put his boat out and come aboard. Witness was
obliged to get the revolvers he had hidden and threaten
to shoot the men before they would put the boat out
When he got on board the Tirailleur the captain sent
him first on shore to give information about the six
who had landed, and afterwards gave him ten armed
men to take the five on board the Lennie into custody.
Witness remained in France six weeks to attend the
inquiry there.
It being now too late to read over and interpret the
evidence already taken, Sir T. Henry said it would
perhaps be as well to adjourn. The prisoners were
then remanded for a week.

VISIT OF THE OUEEN TO THE EAST-
END OF LONDON.
On Tuesday, her Majesty the Queen honoured the toiling
Inhabitants of the east of Lonuon with her presence, and
opened a new wing attached to the Lonclprwllosl.ital at the
expense of the Groiers' Company; and the reception ac-
corded her has, perhaps, even excelled that experienced
on the memorable occasion not long ago when the Queen
visited Victoria Park—The following account of the cere-
mony is given by the Gl,be :
The Queen left BncLinghsm Palace at twenty
minutes after eleven o'clock in semi-state, and entering
an open carriage with the Princess Beatrice and two
ladies of the suite, and escorted by a detachment of
Life Guards, proceeded by the Mall in St. James's
Park, the route being lined by a large concourse of
spectators. The weather during the Royal progress
was unsettled, gleams of sunshine alternating with
slight showers of rain. As her Majesty passed along
the Victoria EmbNitkment at half-past eleven the
sun shone out brfluantly, but was soon again be-
clouded. The Embankment was lined on each
side with people. - The bridges running across
the river were khronged with spectators, and
at the piers and othe boats bunting was freely
displayed. The paiansts at the stations, and the walls
of Somerset Housedwere crowded, and where the
throng was most dense there were the cheers most
hearty. There was no attempt at decoration until the
Royal Hotel at Blackfriars-bridge was reached, and
here the windows were draped and occupied. At the
north end of the bridge a body of men of the 20th
Hussars were stationed, and from this point the Cold-
stream Guards, the Scots Fusilier Guards' and the city
and metropolitan police kept the line. The band of
the Scots Fusiliers took up their position at the
southern end of Queen Victoria-street, and from The
Times office, the offices of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, and other buildings, floated
lines of flags of all nations. Outside the Man-
sion Hguse station at the north end of Queen-street
some of the Life Guards held places, and the band of
the 20th Hussars relieved the monotony of the waiting
crowds. At the junction of Queen Victoria-street
with Cheapside, Messrs. Mappin and Webb's pre.
raises were effectively decorated, trophies of flags,
shields, and bannerets being displayed. One enterprising
and ventilating engineer asserted on gaily decorated
canvas that "Happy are the people who live in the
reign of Victoria. They can ventilate their opinions, their
industry, and their homes." At the side and in front
of the Mansion House was another body of the Life
Guards, who kept the thoroughfares converging at
that point, and the summit of the steps at the Mansion
House was decorated with flags and evergreens, and
occupied by a largeooncourse of ladies. In front of
the Exchange trophy,of flags, the steps were
densely packed', and the Life Guards extended from
the statue of Wellington to the east end of the
Exchange building. The Prince of Saxe-Weimar was
in chief command ot the troops, and Colonels Hen-
derson and Fraser took charge of the police arrange-
ments.

The Queen passed along Cornhill at twelve o'clock
through dense masses of people, who had come out of
the Stock Exchange and other places of business to
greet her Majesty. At this point the loyalty of the
City was manifested by enthusiastic cheering.
Once out of the City, the decorations and the crowd
commenced in real earnest. Wonders had been done
since Monday afternoon, and everything looked as
complete as could be desired. Taken altogether, the
decorationsfrom Aldgate to the London Hospital would
compare with almost anything of a similar kind seen in
the metropolis during the last few years. The whole
route from Aldgate to the hospital was lined on each
side of the road with Venetian masts placed at short
intervals, and connected with strings of flags. Each
mast bore its little group of flags springing from a
shield, and a long streaming flag surmounting the pole.
The famous Aldgate pump, which stands at the junc-
tion of Leadenhad and Fenchurch-street, was covered
with red cloth and flags, placed upon a structure that.
made the whole look rather imposing. The obelisk at
the junction of Commercial-street, Leman-street,
Whitechapel, High-street, and Commercial-road, had
been similarly treated, and formed the centre of an
octagonal pavilion, under the roof of which was placed
flowers and ferns. From no point could the decora-
tions be seen with more effect than this. The long
rows of flags crossing from house to house at sh,)rt in-
tervals could be seen down five strews, which intersect
each other at this point. Whitechapel-road, beyond
the site of the old church, also showed up well, and
owed much of its appearance to the dimensions of the
thoroughfare, which is one of the widest and best
in the suburbs of London. Probably on account of
want of room there wet e comparatively a few large
stands along the route; but wherever a vacancy
existed one had been erected. There was a large one
at Aldgate Church for the scholars of Sir John Cass'
Schools; and there was another on the site of White-
chapel Church, and a long one in front of the London
Hospital itself, The inscriptions on the red cloth in
the front of many of the houses had quite a freshness
about them as compared with many of the legends
inscribed on similar occasions. In Whitechapel was
"Welcome, Come Again," "A Great Queen, a Good
Woman, and a Fond Mother." On the front of a
draper's place of business with the sign of the Beehive,
the owner had inscribed, "The Bees welcome their
Queen."
The streets at the East-end were closed to general
vehicular traffic at an early hour, although due pro-
vision was made at such points where important lines
of thoroughfares crossed the closed roads; otherwise,
of course, the whole trade of East London would have
been practically at a standstill. The roads were
sanded. It need hardly be said that all shops were
closed. The crowd, which by half-past ten o'clock
was a very large one, was very orderly. Most of the
men were in their working clothes. All the roadways
were kept open to the crowd to traverse until close
upon eleven o'clock, when the troops and police formed
in lines and confined the people to the footwa:za until
the Queen had lias..APand returned.

The Queen arrived at the hospital about half .past
twelve, and was received by the Duke of Cambridge
and conducted through two of the wards of the
Grocers' Company's Wing. Upon these wards the
Queen bestowed the names of "Queen Victoria" and
"Princess Beatrice." Her Majesty was conducted to
the dais in the saloon, where the following address was
read-by the Duke of Cambridge :

May it please your Majesty,—On behalf of the governors of
this institution, we desire to tender our most heartfelt ac-
knowledgments for the gracious readiness with which, in
reply to the prayer of the governors, your Majesty has this
day visited the London Hospital, in order to ooen the Grocers'
Company's wing, now ready for the reception of patients.
We venture to assure your Majesty that the remembrance of
this condescending act will long be cherished, not only
by the governors of the hospital, but by all classes
In the East-end of London; and will still further
strengthen those feelings of loyal affection and
reverence with which your Majesty is regarded.
Founded by Royal Charter in the year 1740, the London
Hospital has pursued a steady course of usefulness to the
present time; affording relief, during the 136 years of its
existence, to nearly two million persons. Situated in close
proximity to docks and large manufa.ctories, and placed in
the midst of a vast population of the most indigent classes
of the metropolis, it is perhaps impossible to over-estimate
the service which has been rendered by this charity to
the sick and suffering • and the governors have at all times
endeavoured to: maintain the institution in the highest
state of efficiency for the relief of human misery. The hos-
pitarhas been enlarged from time to time as demanded by
the rapid growth of the densely-populated districts sur-
rounding it: the last extension having taken place in 1864,
when their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales honoured the institution with their presence, and his
Royal Highness laid the foundation stone of a new wing west-
ward, called, by special permission, "The Alexandra Wing,"
The increase of accommodation thus afforded did not long
suffice; and the inadequacy of the existing hospital to the
necessities of the neighbourhood, especially as regards
medical patients, soon became painfully evident. After
prolonged and anxious deliberation, therefore, the governors
resolved in 143 to provide an addition of 200 beds to the
resources of the charity, should sufficient funds be obtained
to justify the undertaking. Your Majesty will be interested
to learn that the response to the appeal then made is without
parallel in the history of charity—a subscription of upwards
of £90,000 being, by the generosity of certain governors and
the liberality of the public, eventually obtained. Of this sum,
£20,000 was presented by the Worshipful Company of Grocers,
with a view to the immediate commencement of a work,
known to be of vital importance. In acknowledgment of the
munificence of this gift, the new building is named "The
Grocers' Company's Wing; "and it is a source of great satis-
faction to the governors that an unprecedented instance of
public generosity will incidentally be commemorated by
your Majesty's visit, en the opening of this wing, the
London Hospital will contain 800 beds for patients ;
thus becoming the largest institution of that kind in the
kingdom; and it will ever be deemed a most auspicious
event in the annals of the charity, that the attainment of
this disiinguisued position in the cause of humanity has been
marked by the signal honour of your Majesty's presence.
With a deep sense of the responsiloilities thus committed to
our care, and praying that every blessing may attend your
Majesty, we humbly remain, dm

Her Majesty having briefly replied, prayers were
said by the Bishop of London, and a chorale sung,
composed by the late Prince Consort. Her Majesty'
then declared the Grocers' Wing open. The Arch-
bishop of Cmterbury pronounced the benediction, and
the Queen was conducted to her carriage, and left the
building amid cheers.

The Queen passed along Cornhill on her return at
one o'clock, when the thoroughfares were as densely
packed as before, and the greeting was equally cordial.
Passing along the Embankment where crowds had
remained, her Majesty proceeded through the Horse
Guards and St. James's-park to Buckingham Palace,
which was reached at 1.25 p.m. Her Majestr ap-
peared in very good health, and with smiles acknow-
ledged the hearty greeting accorded her,. ILL'I do

The Times reports a pleasant little incident connected
with her Majesty's visit to the London Hospital. The
Queen paid an unarranged visit to the Buxton Ward for
little children in the Alexandra Wing. A little girl of
four, Kate Ambler, who was .brought into the hospital
on January 14 with a burnt Side .and thigh, haci.pre- .
viously said to Mr. Rowsell, "If I could only see the
Queen I should get well." This remark was repeated
to her Majesty, who *determined to gratify the child's
innoCent wish. "M 7 darling," said the Queen to this
little girl,'" I hope you will be a little better now ! "

The following extracts are from a leader it; roe's-
day's Daily Telegraph:—
Her Majesty the Queen has met the wishes of her loyal ,
people to see her again in their midst. by m6re than one I
gracious .method of late. She presided at the oprening'eere-
monies of the,present Session of. Parliament, and not Long
ago she took part in the concert given at, the Albert Hall.
To-day she makes a new public appearance in serntstate,
passing through the streets of her own capital. But there is
something in the quarter Witch the Sovereign thus honours,
and in the errand noon whin she goes, that lends an especial
significance to this further act of compliance with the popular
desire. It is the Bast-end of London which will have the dis-
tinction of receiving her Majesty to-day; that unfashionable
and humble part of the metropolis, where the chief work of
the vast hi've is done by busy human bees, who see Utilel
enough of sunshine, though they "gather honey all the
day," but hot from flowers, or for themselves. The Queen,
ever true to her own character, Wig chosen for the first scene
of her return to public life WEL cingy region of London
where life is too iabori ,us and eager to be beautiful ;
where every street and alley tells of the contrast be-
tween the immense wealth of the metropolis and the
poverty of thousands who help to make that wealth;
where, side by side with the Mint which pours forth rivers
of gold and silver, with the Docks which hold the
merchant navies of all the seas and the products of
all the lands, with warehouses bursting with silk and wool.
spices and gums, wine and fruit, and good things beyond
enumeration, the industrious majority struggle for their
daily bread in the midst of all that .costly plenty; and the
little pale facPd children Pee the treasures of the whole earth
go past their doors while they eat the bitter crusts of poverty.
It is not every Sovereign who could elect to choose the
hardest-worked portion of a vast metropolis for a Royal pro-
gram After Aunterlitz the Auslaisu Saber WAS thought to

say a grand thing when he sent word to Napoleon—" Tell
my conqueror I can re-enter my capital; it is more
than he could do in my place.' But Queen Victoria
knows that she might leave in barracks to-day every life-
guardsman and mounted trooper if her escort, and drive
through Whitechapel and Mile-end with a guard of honour
composed only of the men, women and children of Eastern
London. The sight of the old-fashieeed tied reets
preparing for the Royal passage is proef enough of the
spontaneous and sincere delight of the East-enders at hav-
ing her Majesty "all to themselves" for one memorable 1
day. . . .
Besides the compliment which the Sovereign pays to the
working world of London this morning, there Is also a touch-
ing signifir.ance in her particular business there. It is not to
a place of pleasure, an edifice of State, or a centre of Royal
display and pride that she passes. The palace she dismounts
at will be a Palace of Pain; the people she goes chicily to
mut and cheer with the light of her presence are those poor
wounded ones in the battle of life who have fallen sVk
or hurt in the thick melee—middle-aged, old, and young— ,
borne perforce to the rear of this ceaseless fight, and. '
thus visited by the Commandress-in-Chief, as it were,
who comes from the front rank ef all to help and
encourage the kindly work going forward far at her rear-
guard. The self•chosen task of the Queen is to open a new
and commodious wing lately added to the London Hospital
—a wing of forty-eagle power, on which comfort and aid
will fly to many and many a future sufferer—a wing 1
which might indeed be almost called an "angel's wing"
as far as succour and loving-kindness go; for there will be
two hundred beds in it, and seventy of them are destined
for little children. As a matter of calm fact, it is the wing of
the Grocers' Company, and by that name, which the Queen
herself will bestow, it will do all the good that the most
poetic nomenclature could confer. It is constructed on the
finest and newest principles of science, with lofty and
brilliantly clean walls, temperated warmth, and careful
ventilation, and in the children's wards, where the walls
are painted sky colour, there are plenty of pretty oleograph
pictures, upon which the tiny inmates can lie and gaze
from their white cots, when fevers and aches leave their
sad eyes leisure for gazing. All sorts of other excellent
new improvements are visible in the building; and while we
must necessarily have great hospitals in cities, though small
country infirmaries are far better for the sick and maimed,
the new addition to the London Hospital which her Majesty
inaugurates to-day may be considered, we believe, a perfect
• example of finished convenience and kindliest forethought.
Nor, since we have spoken of these hard contrasts between the
wealth which pours through the old "gates "of the East-end
and the poverty which sits with weary eyes in sight of all
that luxurious provision, it would be just to forget how the
rich Companies and merchants have helped the "Queens
Fund." The Grocers' Company have ailded £5,000 to their
original donation of £20,000; the Skinners' Company contri-
bute 250 guineas, the elothworkers' Company 200 guineas,
and the City of London £l,OOO. Mr. Coope, M.P., gives
£l,OOO, and Mr, T. Fowell Buxton £l,OOO, these two gentlemen
having already been donors of £5,000 each to the building
fund of 1873; Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Co. also sub-
scribe £l,OOO, and Messrs. Charrington, Head, and Co.
£l,OOO. Thus, if her Majesty does not pass over cloth of
gold all the way to Mile-end-gate, it is only because the
golden store is wisely kept for the place she is to visit, where
It is expended, or will be, on objects which may make a
Queen proud indeed, in the assurance that when the worst
comes to the worst the poorest toiler shall be sure to have a
soft pillow and the best help that medical science can
render