The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

secretaries before to-morrow (Tuesday) would be entitled to
attend the first meeting, and vote in the election of office-
bearers. Votes of thanks Were passed to the chairman ;
and also to Captain Bradley, for his kindness in placing
the room at the disposal of this and the next meeting.
The proceedings were harmonious and enthusiastic
throughout; and the audience broke up, evidently
gratified that the proposal had thus far been eminently
cuccessful.

PRESENTATION BY THE 3RD CHESHIRE
RIFLEg, ON SATURDAY.

On Saturday afternoon the 3rd-Chesbire; or Wallasey
Company of Rifle Volunteers, assembled in a large field
at Somerville, near Seacombe, for the purpose of pre-
senting to their Captain, William Chambres, Esq., a
sword and belt, in token of their respect and esteem for
his exertions in their behalf. The occasion was one of
considerable interest, not only upon the Cheshire side of
the Mersey, but upon this side also; and the Seacombe
boats were crowded, during the afternoon, with ladies
and gentlemen anxious to be present at the presentation
about to take place. In addition to this, the occasion
was honoured by the presence of detachments from
about fifteen corps, including the Ist, 2nd, 4th, and
and 36th Cheshire Rifles, Ist Battalion of Lancashire
Rifles, 4th Division Lancashire Artillery, the 2nd, 3rd,
4th, and 5,h Cheshire Artillery, together with a strong
muster of the Collegiate boys. The various corps were
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bousfield,
under whose able superintendence a variety of military
evolutions were performed, after which the men formed
in a hollow square, and the event of the day, the pre-
sentation to Captain Chambres, took place.
Lieutenant HARRISON then stepped forward and
addressed the corps. He need hardly tell them why
they were thus assembled to take part in the proceedings
of the day. They were already aware that the members
and non-commissioned officers of the company were
about to present their captain with a testimonial, and
they were no doubt also aware that that testimonial had
been got up solely by the non-commissioned officers and
privates of the corps. It had been got up by them
without the knowledge of their brother officers, and he
did not blame them ; but had those brother officers been
permitted to join in they would gladly have done so.
He concluded by calling upon the sergeant major to
present the sword.
Sergeant Major HORBURY, in presenting the sword,
said,—lt was with mingled feelings of pleasure and
regret that he occupied that prominent post to-day;
pleasure, because it was his duty to convey to Captain
Chambres the sentiments of 120 men composing the
corps he commanded ; regret, that he was unable
adequately to convey the esteem in which that gentle-
man was held by the corps he commanded. There was
no man so well deserving this testimonial as Captain
Chambres„ and they had for some time past viewed his
conduct to themselves and to the Volunteer move-
ment generally—his many acts of kindness towards
them—as worthy of some return, and they had made up
their minds to atone for the past. He trusted that when
the gallant captain received this small token, it would
convince him of the truth of what he had said. The
value of it was but little, but it was a token of their
gratitude, and he questioned whether there were words
in the English language that would adequately convey
the depth of their feelings. He was sure there was not
a single man present who would ever desert their captain,
and he was equally sure that they would never desert
the cause which they had espoused. They had all
agreed that there should be some testimonial to their
captain, and this was the least they could have done.
He trusted, however, that the receiver would take the
will for the deed ; it was intended merely to carry to
him what their hearts failed to give utterance to.
(Loud cheers.)
The sword and belt, which are of a most handsome
description, were then formally handed to *,Captain
Chambres, who, in reply, spoke as follows : •
Captain CRAMBRES said—l am completely at a loss
to thank you as I could wish for this great compliment,
this kind present which you have so unexpectedly
offered to me. I receive it with very grateful feelings,
and in asking you to accept my most heartfelt thanks,
pray excuse any feebleness of expression, for at such a
moment as this it is impossible for me to convey the
depth of gratitude that now struggles for utterance.
(Applause.)—I am very conscious' that nothing. I have
done can have deserved so great a compliment; so
elegant, so chaste, so costly a present as this ; but I
accept it with great pride and gratification as another
proof of that generous, kind, and self-denying spirit that
you have always shown me, for which I can never suffi-
ciently thank you, and as a recognition on your part
that, in the feeble efforts I have made to further our
common cause, you trace an earnest desire on my part
to do my duty. Eighteen months ago, when we
banded ourselves together in obedience to that instinct
of self-preservation which is common alike to man
and to the lower tykes of the creation, we heeded
not the taunts and jeers that floated down the current
of that day's popular opinion, but were moulded into
form by the skilful hand of one who had lately
been one of the most accomplished field-officers in her
Majesty's service, (who, to our` great good fortune,
happens to be a near neighbour, but whose name I must
not mention, lest with the modesty that accompanies
real worth, he should chide me.) The spark that was
ignited at Birkenhead by the genius and patriotism of a
Laird, and the burning eloquence of a King., kindled
into flame the enthusiasm which smouldered in this
parish ; and, fanned by echoes wafted upon every breeze
from Lancashire of the mighty doings of Liverpool's
foremost citizen, whom we delight to call the venerable
Colonel Brown—of the resistless energy of Major Walter
—of the bright and noble example of the great pioneer
of the Volunteer movement, to whom we are all ,so
deeply indebted, Lieut.-Colonel Bousfield—it blazed
forth a living flame of patriotic fire, and was not
quenched until two per cent, of the entire population of
this parish was caught up and enrolled a sacred offering
to their God, their Queen, and their country ;—and let
each of us under this boundless canopy of God's heaven
engrave upon our hearts the vow that this shall be a
lasting, a permanent monument of the priceless value
which Britons set upon their Queen, their altar, and
their freedom. Comrades, this parish, commanding as it
does the entrance to the Mersey, is really the gate of
Liverpool. If, then, the wave of foreign invasion rolls
upon our strand, Wallasey must be prepared to receive the
first shock ; and, remembering the gallant bearing of our
brave and generous comrade who was unfortunately
mutilated in our ranks by a gun-shot the last time
had the ho:.c.ar of commanding you. and for whom I
would now express our respectful but very earnest
sympathy, remembering that, while lie smarted under
the surgeon's knife, he turned to me and said, "Don't
think of me; I care nothing for the pain, and will be at
my duty again in a fortnight," is it too much to say
that the Wallasey riflemen will, in the hour of danger,
stand, aye, and if necessary, die, at their posts, by the
side of those gallant volunteers who so admirably serve
the Perch Rock Battery guns. Brother volunteers from
Lancashire, my countrymen from the principality, and
my neighbours from Wirral, who have so kindly paid to
the Wallasey Corps and to myself the great complimen t
of being present on this occasion, accept our heartfelt
thanks, and believe me when I say that I look upon
your presence here to-day not only as a proof of the
generous feeling to which the Volunteer service has
given birth, but as your approval of the chivalrous
kindness which gushed forth from the ranks of the
Wallasey Company, although in its generous ardour
overlooking—as it has done—the faults and feebleness
of their captain, and gilding his simple efforts to do his
duty with a lustre which in no way belongs to them.
Comrades, when I look upon this beautiful sword it will
remind me of my duty, and should we be called upon to
repel an enemy from our land, I trust it will lead you to
victory, or to the only alternative a patriot can accept—a
soldier's grave ; and when I leave the ranks of this glo-
rious volunteer service to make way for another and a better
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marching past of the corps, previous to the presentation,
the appearance of the Collegiate boys attracted universal
admiration ; they marched with a solidity and steadi-
ness not always found even in older and more expe-
rienced volunteers, and which, for so young a body, was
highly creditable both to themselves and to their officers.

_jIP ON FIRE.-At an early hour on Saturday mor-
ning a fire was discovered on board the ship Palestine,
the property of Messrs. D. and C. Maclver, of Water-
street. This vessel had just returned from Quebec and
Montreal, having been chartered by Messrs. Allan. At
the time of the fire she was lying-to at the Brunswick
Dock, with her cargo only partially discharged. Every
exertion was made by the Fire Brigade to save the
vessel, but without success, her woodworks being all
destroyed, and the remaining portion of the cargo much
damaged. The cause of the fire has not yet been
ascertained,

, •
GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS.—The grey dawn of the
morning of Thursday saw numb/rs of brave men, passing
under the humble denomination of " excursionists," but
many of them armed to the teeth, wending their way to
the station of the Eastern Counties Railway at Shore-
ditch, where, by means of tickets previously issued, each
man was admitted to the platform, where they were
afterwards "drawn up," and subsequently conveyed by
special train to Harwich. Shortly after their arrival at
this latter place, the splendid steam-ship Emperor. 1350
tons, the flag ship, so to speak, of Lord Raglan's staff
throughout the Crimean expedition, entered the harbour
with the colours of Garibaldi—green, white, and red—
flying at her masthead, and on board of which vessel
the " excursionists," about 500 in number, were
speedily conveyed, under the leadership of Captains
Styles and De Mohan.
The remains of the late Herbert Ingram, Esq., MP.,
are expected to arrive in Liverpool from Quebec,
to-morrow (Tuesday). They will be conveyed from
Liverpool to Boston on Wednesday morning, October
3rd. Should their arrival be delayed longer, they will
leave Liverpool on the morning after arrival, or should
there be time, on the same morning. In any case, how-
ever, the followinc, time table will be observed :—Leaireve
Liverpool per Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
train,rord
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aaa.m.express' at 8 45 a.m.; leave Manchester p_ervsepee -
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leave Sleaford, 120 p.m.; and arriving at Boston 150 p.m.
Wedd, Esq., High street, Boston.
RAILWAY STATION,
OPENING OF TILE VICTORIA
for traffic to-day.
Railway, at Pimlico, will
d openedibseone of the largest of the
The station just completed is
It is at the end of the new
PIMLICO.—The new West End Station of the Brighton
railway termini in Lsotndinonster,
and less than 400 yards
Victoria-street,
convenience to passengers to the south
thinroaudgdhititohne
to afford
afford great
of England, who will avoid
and south-eastern parts
from Buckingham lm'alace. Thus situated, it will
of the City, which is now necessary
thoroughfares
in order to reach `.journey through
the long and diLlaotonrdyoni
ing accommodation for the Brighton traffic, it will also
be available for the r.
t lffic to the Crystal Palace and the
suburban
districts of Wandsworth, Streatham, Balham-
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hill, Nor, _, , Cr. oydon, and other places served by the
Brightonl'
ailwa) . On and after Monday the station
Battersea will be closed to all but the Crystal Palace
:t
n.'d local traffic, and the Brighton and South-coast
passengers will be booked direct from the West End
.
station
• The new London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-.
way . will also use this station as their West End
terminus.