The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

THE WATER COMMITTEE.

The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held
yesterday at the Town-hall. In the absence of the
Chairman, Mr. Charles Turner presided ; and the other
members present were Messrs. Beloe, Crellin, Estill,
Wagstaff, and Bennett.
The following report from Mr. Duncan, the engineer,
was read :

Liverpool Corporation Water Works, July 2, 11160.
Dear Sir,—l have to report the foaewing matters for the
information of the committee.

Filters—The re-sanding of No. 1 has been completed; all the
other beds are in good working condition.
Offices—The works have been fairly resumed, and the
remaining portion will be ready for roofing in about ten days.
Millstone—The pipes have all been laid, and Mr. Campbell is
uow employed in cleaning out and re-tilling trench.
On the other portions of the works nothing out of the ordi-
nary course has transpired. The men have been engaged in
repairs of walls and roads, washing sand, and getting in hay
from the liorwich Bank.

The average rainfall for the week ending Saturday the 30th
ult., was—Old gauge, 2.54 inches ; Mean, 2.01 inches; and the
depths of water in the several reservoirs, below and over their
respective overflows, were, at the same date as per table---
June 30. June 23. Rise. Fall.
ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. ft. in.
Roddleiworth 0 3 ... 1 7 ... 1 4 ... 1
Rake
Anglegark ...over 0 2] .. 0 0 .., 0 2.... 0 0
Rivington
Prescot (No. 1).. 0 4j .. 0 3i ... 0 0 ... 0 1
Prescot (No. 2) 0 4i ... 1 1 ... 0 Si ... 0 0
- - - -

. - -
Table of the quantities for the past five weeks is appended.
June 30. May 26. Increase.
Ruddlesworth 98,643,442 82,039,186 16,604.256
Rake
Anglezark
Rivington 1,810,197,529 1,578,357,153 231,810,376

3,017,125,598 2,531,781,319 485,344,279
2,531,781,319

Increase 485,344,279

On the pipe line two leaks near Plat Bridge, and two near
Mountrey House, have shown themselves during the past
week, and are in course of being repaind. All else is in good
condition.

THE SUPPLY.

Quantity of water received from Rivington during the week

ending June 30, 1860.

Into Kensington..
„ Audley-street
~ Park Hill

Quantity of water pumped from the wells
ut Bootle
Green Lane
Windsor

958,647

ted in France.

leave him.

Charles Sudikatis said : I live at 32, Rose-street,
Long-acre. I have known the deceased since he was a
boy eleven years of age. His name was Antoine
Dhereng, and he was about 34 or 35 years of age. He
was a tailor. I saw him last Thursday week. I was
in the habit of seeing him three or four times a week.
He was always in good health, and a sober, hard-
working man. He was married about six years ago,
but did not live happily with his wife. Last April
twelvemonth, he was sent to prison by the magistrate
at Marlborough-street Police-court, for four months, for
striking her. Long ago, I advised him, if he could not
live on terms of affection with her, to consort with some
other woman, and I believe if he had done so this shock-
ing affair would not have happened. When he came
out he said he would do something to her. On the
evening of Thursday week, when I last saw him, he
was excited, and not in his right mind. I talked to
him about half-an-hour in French. He said he could
not live happily with his wife, and that I should very
soon hear of his finishing his career. I advised him to
make up his mind and live with another woman. lie
said he could not do so. I then wished him " Good
night," and we parted.
The Coroner—Did he appear excited at any other
time ?—Witness Oh, yes, at different times. I could
99,253,793 I see it in his features.

By a Juryman—All the conversation was about his
wife.

Witness—The deceased was an Englishman. He
was bore in Rupert-street, Haymarket; but was educa-

Jane Macdonald, wife of James Macdonald, of 24,
Peter-street, Golden-square, tailor, said—My sister was
the deceased's wife. I knew him well. I was very

little in his company. He always behaved so cruelly
and unkindly to her that at length I ceased going into

his place at all. I cannot say when I saw him last. I
have not seen my sister since February last. He was in

prison for ill-using her, and I have seen little of them
since he came out. She never had a happy hour after
she married him. He was a very passionate man ; he
would occasionally open the window and throw out his
food ; and he used to take up some little kittens they
had, and killed them before her, which shocked her so

much that she was in the habit of coming crying to me.
But she was his wife, and I could not persuade her to

Carlo de Bolla, examined through an interpreter,
said,—l am a confectioner at 36, Great Oxford-street.

The deceased, whom I had not known before, came with
his wife to lodge in my house last Monday week. They
occupied apartments on the top door. I never saw or
heard them quarrel, but they might have quarrelled
without my hearing them. _ All the conversation I had

with him about repairing the lock of the door. There

was nothing remarkable about his appearance or man-

ner. I saw him last on Saturday evening. I saw his
wife the same evening ; 'she was then scrubbing down
the stairs. He seemed to be a man in his right senses.
By the Foreman—There was a private door to the
house, and he could go out and in without my know-
ledge. I never saw him the worse fur , liquor. I had
no reference with him.

William Ram, a' park-keeper, deposed to being on
diity on the north side of Hyde Park on Wednesday
morning, about a quarter-past nine, and hearing a

report of firearms. He made his way to the spot, but
before he could reach it a second shot was fired. Just
as he got to the place a man (the deceased) fell from his
right knee, on which he was kneeling, backwards, with
a knife in his hand. A Mr. Kent, who ;had also
hastened to the spot, took the knife out of hi throat.
Two pistols, both of which had been discharged, and
were still warm, lay near the deceased. A surgeon,
who was sent for, pronounced the man to be dead.
Among other things, a gold watch 4nd chain, a purse
containing 2s. 9d., some gunpowder, and three letters
(afterwards put in evidence) were found upon the
deceased.

George Dhereng, who was in a state of great mental
distress, said—l live at 17, Southampton-street, Fitzrety-
square. 'lnc deceased was my brother. Lilo namc was

Antoine John, and he was 36 years of age. He was a
tailor. I always saw a good deal of him.
The Coroner—How did he appear latterly ?-IVit-
ness : The same as he , always appeared since I have
known him. He was most eccentric in'all his ways.
His mind was not always right.
The Coroner—Give some instances.—Witness : He
was always telling me he would commit suicide. He
has said that at times during 16 or 13 years, and he
bought some pistols in Paris about 14 or 15 years ago
for that purpose. Twelve months ago, when he came
out of the House of Correction, he bought pistols again.
He told me he could not survive the diSgrace of that

punishment. I talked to him, and I thought I had
persuaded him to abandon the intention. I urged him
to give it up for the sake of himself and his family ; but
he frequently said he could not forgive the punishment
he had undergone. I last saw him on Tuesday morn-
ing. He was very excited, and nearly like a madman.
He tojd me by degrees what he had done—not all, but
nearly.
The Coroner : 'What did he tell you ?—Witness :
That he bad killed his wife. That was on Tuesday
morning. He said he had done it on Saturday night.
The Coroner : Did you believe it ?—Witness: I did
not know what to believe. [A juryman at this point
gave a piercing shriek, and was carried out of the room
in an epileptic fit--a circumstance which distressed the
witness still more.]
Witness resumed The deceased came to my, house on
Tuesday morning, and, said he wanted to speak to, me.
He was in a very agitated. state. asked, hip; what was
the matter. He told me to call a cab and he would
let me know. did, so, and, he related to me in
the cab part of the things he had done. He said
on Saturdny night he was aggravated by his wife—l
did not ask why—_-and that be gave her a blow, which
knocked her down. I said, " Miserable man ; what have
you, done ?" He said, " She is dead!" I asked him if he
was sure she was dead when he lett the place. He replied,
" You know I am a determined man, and I did not
leave the place. until I had finished her." 1e con-.
chided by telling me he had cut her, throat. He said,
that during the whole of :ttureley night he was like a
madman, and went down to Liverpool with the
intention, of di,owning himselff. He added that he was
180 miserable that he could not live, and that he would
,conATait suicide. I tried all I could to dissuade him
from that, and he promised to follow my advice. That
is all I have to say.
The Coroner—You took no step to Ascß#E4n whether
what he told you was true or not ?--Nyittiess I did not.
He had told me K often teat, he would commit suicide,
that I did not, believe he would do, so, conjured him
in the cab, to say if what, he had told me was really
true. He replied he was very sorry to say that it was,
but that he would do all in his power to save me and
the family from disgrace. I stopped the cab, left him,
and I went home.

By the Foreman—He had talked of suicide before he
was imprisoned, but much , more afterwards. He used,
to control his feelings well, but he told fie, tknrs, that.
nobody else knew.
Luoien Heagarty,. of‘ 6, West; street, Golden-square,
trituraing-sellpr, who volunteereil himself as a, witness,
said, he had, known the deceased well 1c the. last eight,
years. He was year Cxeit44.ES and witness always;
believeil liim, to, lse trisnu.e. Ho was in the habit of
going to, see houses where serious tragedies had been
committed—snob as that in which Bousfield committed
the murder near Portland-street,—and ho was also in
habit of going to see people hanged. [The coroner said
many sane people did that.] He was a famous swimmer,
and used to go and swim in the Serpentine at might.
His wife and ho frequently quarrelled, aid he would
leave her for six ,weeks at a time. 'When they lived
in Carnaby-street, he was in the. habit of catching rats,
taking them b$ the back of neck, and cutting their:
teeth but in order to, tame them. ' Witness always be-
lieved him to be 4 maniiic ; and his wife ~had often told
him (witness) that he would kill her some day.
The deceased's brother was recalled at his own request,
and stated that the deceased was in the habit of visiting
Dr. Kahn's museum, and studying the arteries about
the neok and throat, and especially familiarising. himself
with the position of the jugular vein. He used also to
say that if he cut his throat lie would not do it in a
vulgar way by severing the windpipe, . • '
Mr. VilUare 1310xana, pin., of 21, Mount-street,
, _
Grosvenor-slaaln fitageoh, gave a minute description of
the injuries inflicted on the deceased, ascribing the
death, not to a pistol wound foultid on, the, forehead, but
to a wound en the ii&ht side of the neck, which was
inflicted with surgical precision. He added that the
left lAcast, of the deceased was tattooed Kith, t1a,,,,, vpos,
in bad French "Afore, asx, femvx int4eAles," with a
figure of a, w0711a.;1.1410,w, which appeared to have bean
Gone came years ago. (The brother said 16 or 17 years
ago.)
A person in the room stated, in reply to the coroner,
that the deceased was married in 1854, at All Soul's
Church.

Mr. Charles Albert, of 28, Great Marlborough-street
interpreter, w,s 0,44, And read the following transla•

tion of a letter found upon the deceased, which was
written partly in English and partly in French, witness
explaining that he had rendered the French portions
faithfully into English, but the English he had simply
deciphered as he found it, excepting some little correc-
tion in the orthography :
" Mercy, mercy, my agony is extreme ; I have
suffered for what I have done. No mortal being
can tell. Adieu, adieu to all that is dear to me !
" My DEAR GEORGE—You know very well that since
I came out of this infernal, infernal prison, I became
mad and furious for having been made the victim of this
incomparable woman. You know that she had the
wickedness and ferocity to premeditate everything in
order to send me to prison.
"And it is this idea which upsets me and which
renders me more than mad. I have been cruelly sent to
that house of sufferings and degradation by the hands
of my own wife. Oh! when I think of it my head
bursts ; there is no more happiness upon earth for me,
who have been so cruelly treated by this cursed woman.

. . . . I recollect the 12th of October, '5B, when
she came to my place during my absence and basely
drove away this poor little woman, with whom I was
happy. Ah ! when all this returns to my mind Ido not
know any more what lam doing. Ido not deserve so
much from a wife who ought to be your best friend in
this world. The sufferings which I endured in this
prison made me hate this woman to such an extent that
I always had in my mind to give her on my coming out
the just punishment which she had drawn upon heiself.
But you know well that you represented to me the
abomination of such an idea ; and, therefore, at last I
determined to bear my grief and remain quiet."
In English, but very badly written.

" Oh, dear George, how distracted you will be at
hearing the fatal news of her death, and that by my
own hands. Mercy ! mercy ! mercy ! lam not a guilty
man. I always condemned those who take life, and
now I am guilty myself of a most atrocious deed.
Mercy ! mercy for me ! lam guilty ; it was the work
of a moment—Saturday evening. She wanted to go to
her sister, to tear her liver out for what has happened in
James-street, No. 4. I remonstrated with the unfair-
ness of the deed, and let all be quiet. She began to
abuse me and blackguard me in a most shameful manner,
which excited me so much that I became quite out of
my mind.

" Oh ! mercy, mercy, mercy of you, and in the eye of
society ! I struck her dead. * * * All my
past animosity flashed into my mind, and then, in the
heat of passion, I struck her dead.
"Ever since then life is burden. I cannot live.
I have rendered myself guilty of a most atrocious crime
that ever can be done by degrading myself to low rank
of murder. Poor, dear woman! she has suffered death
by the hands of her own husband. But, fortunately, I
am a man, and will pay with my own life for what I
have done in a moment of frenzy. 376, Oxford-street.
Now that I am no more, you will pity me, and say,
like me, that I do not die a villain, but a poor unfor-
tunate victim of having so unfortunately met with a most
violent woman, like myself, which is the only cause
that now I am obliged to sacrifice my own life
instead of being happy in the world and be respected.
. . . Poor, dear creature ! her poor lifeless body is lying
as I struck her. I hope for mercy in your eyes and of
society, for our human frame is very weak, as per
example, the Catholics murder the Protestants, and the
Protestants burnt the Catholics in Smithfield. So that
will show to you what man is really. Ah! is it pos-
sible that I have committed such a crime ! Oh, mercy,
mercy! lam not guilty. Nature has not favoured me.
I have a most violent temper, and, unfortunately,
instead- of having been united to a docile woman for
partner for life, I have met with a most violent woman
that could be found. But I forgive her, the poor dear
creature."

On another sheet, in pencil, very illegibly written
376, Oxford-street. Mercy! . . . She came
during my absence, turn out everything, and took my
keys, and when I came home she insulted me, . . .
and even . . . . exasperated me, as it naturally
would, and I only give her slap in the face, which was
well deserved, and for this I suffered ignominiously four
long months, which she could have prevented had she
not appeared against me.

" But, alas! that is what she had premeditated, for
she told it to all my acquaintances I write
this within a few mi— . . . omy death "
The rest is not legible.

The brother was recalled by the coroner, and asked if
he could explain the meaning of the reference in the
letter found on the deceased, to " the poor little woman
with whom he was happy." Witness said, about
eighteen months ago the deceased and his wife had
quarrelled, which resulted in a separation by mutual
consent, she going to her friends in Liverpool; and he
remaining in London; that for about a fortnight he took
home a young woman whose acquaintance he had made;
that one day his wife returned unexpectedly in his absence,
and,, finding the young woman in question in the house,
she abused her, tore her clothes, turned her iato the
street, and then locked up the house and was going
away, when tke husband taad, his uppeatance, and on
learning what had happened had a violent quarrel with
his wife, whom he struck. She summoned him for the
assault to the Marlborough-street Poliee-court, when he
was ordered to be imprisoned fox fbur months. Witness
added, in answer to a juryman, that the deceased had
no family, and that he (witness) had not the slightest
reason to believe he was jealous of his wife.
The corc4ier then recapitulated the chief points in the
evidence, and briefly explained the law as applicable to
the case.

The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict
that the deceased connnitteci suicide while in a fit of
insanity.

CORMER'S INQUEST ON THE MURDERED
WOMAN.
On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Bedford,
the coroner for Westminster, and a jury of inhabitants
of St. James's, assembled in the board-room of St
James's Workhouse, Poland-street, for the purpose of
investigating the death of Caroline Dhereng, aged
thirty-six years, the wife of the above John Dhereng.
The court was crowded, The body of the murdered
and mutilated woman lay in the dead-house, anal pxe-
sented n shocking spectacle.

Jane Macdonald identified the body of the deceased
woman as that of her sister. Catherine was her correct
name, although she was called Caroline. She was 36
years of age. Her husband's name was Antoine., She
had never seen her sister since February last, but was
fully aware that she and her husband did not live hap-
pily together. They had been married about six years,
and from the first he had ill treated her, although.she
was as good a wife as ever lived. \Her husband
frequently left her without any means of ohtalning subsist.
ence. She had heard that he had, once or twice threat-
ened to cut his throat. She knek.arothing of the
circumstance which led to. her death. `
~, r
Joseph 14cr,Kar Police-conatable 128 D, said when the
body. of the man was found who had cotnmitted suicide
1 in Hyde lark, be discovered a letter in the pocket.of
the deceased man, which induced him to go to an addreas,
that was written upon it, namely,. 376, Oxford,street.
The house was kept by Mr. De Bolla, /4,,desetibing
the deceased, he asked Mr. De 1341aif lie knew. such h
man. He replied, "Yes ; he, is my lodger." Wituas,
and Mr. De Bella then, went upstairs together, and
Mr. De Bolds, huck previously boredi soave holes in the
door to look through, as, he sweated something wrong.
, Witness, looked, threngla these -holes, but could not
see anything, either on the bed or floor ; Aint, there
being every bad smell, they forced the door and entered
the room. The body of the deceased woman was lying
on the floor, partly covered over. There were cuts
across the arms, the head, the legs, and' thighs. 'A
medical man was at once called in. OA tha table there
was a large knife lying open, end. the room was all over
blood. The budy was, headless, but
.the inspector of
the park police, who accompanied, witness, st+seqiueutly
found the. head, of the woulan. in 14, cppLisatd‘ On
L'searcbing .the room they fou a *l4 nearly view, with
a quantity of blood,a,udihaix twat\ it, ..,,.
-,,
[The sa,A ap}A knife were here iiioduced, and excited
a feelingoc horror amongst the jury and the*speetators.)
William Morrell, of 18, Welli,etreet,, Oxford-street,
obemist, deposed,—Between eleven and twelve o'clock
onNednesday last, I was fetched to the house where
the deceased woman resided, and took • Mr. Bridman, a
'surgeen, with me. The body of the decer.sed, woman
Vas quite naked, but there were two. pipes of canvas
lying upon the stomach., The legs were nearly, cu,t og
at the upper part, andiso,were the arms, as if an attempt
!had been made to cut the body tct. pieces. The body
.Ivas viiiboui 'll4 head, and on looking into the cup-
beard and ninongst the coals I found it. The head had
,
recd several wounds, exposing the scalp. , •
By the'Coroner—l placed the head by the side of the
body, and covered it over.
.-
Mr.-,George William Bridgman .atimined—l run, a
surge* and reside in Margaret-street, CavenPh-
square. ' I was called to the house in OFford7street by
the pievious witness. I found the body of, a woman
lying on the fkcox. ' There were four wounds on the
shoulders and hip joints` \ There were two cuts oxer the,
rinkles. The head was found in, the cupboatc‘, and, on,
it there were several cuts. ' I, have., since. laftc* a post
mortena examination. Ther,tvafi an, extensive fracture
or the skull, which was done duringlife.
By-tlip:Coronerr-114aye no dOirt thA the Town& ou
the head, were inflicted during lifer ADA that the throat
was also cut during life ey tte,ntediately after the death.
The cause of death was no doubt the injuries to the
head) B,S they were amply sufficient. The nutting of the
head aukthe injuries to the arms were done after death.
su
I attribute the death of the woman to the injuries to the
head and the cutting of the throatgconjointly T4e large
shueehother instrraent as** have
injuries could have been
shearsblo od producedu upon
produced
an
the fracture w.
were
r eTof th,e an
4'ol. There are marks of
inflicted with the knife and saw now prodUced.
Mr. Carlo de Bolla (through M. Moliman, tt,li inter-
preter) said—l am the landlord of tae hOuse inWhich
the murder took place, le then cempeii, the evidence

he had given on the previous day at the inquest on the
husband of the deceased, Dhereng.
By the Coroner—They appeared to me to live com-
fortably as man and wife together. I last saw the
deceased woman alive on Saturday afternoon. On that
day I also saw the husband, who said he was going to
see the Volunteer Review. He went out, and did not
return till about nine or ten o'clock in the evening.
He had a bottle of ginger beer in my shop,
and wished me " good night," and went up stairs,
I did not see either the deceased or her
husband after that. There might have been a noise
in deceased's room, but I did not hear it. I slept in the
second floor back room, and the deceased and her hus-
band in the room above it, on the third floor. A person
named Torreani slept in the next room to the deceased,

on the same floor, on Saturday night. That person has
since gone to Ramsgate, where he has a shop. Torreani
gave me eleven or twelve days' notice before he

left. I do not think that the Dherengs knew
Torreani. He left on Wednesday morning last at
six o'clock, and before it was known that anything had
happened. I thought that something was wrong, not
having seen either Dhering or his wife since the previous
Saturday, and said to Torreani I should like to see the
room, but he said I had better not, as perhaps the Dhe-
rengs had gone into the oountry. I replied that I
should like him (Torreani) to be a witness if I went
into the room. After Torreani went I bored some holes
in the door to see if the things were in
.the room, or
whether the Dherengs had run away. r saw that the
things were there, but they were all upset. I then had
stronger suspicions that something was wrong, and went
down stairs, when 1 found the officers there from the
park, and they went up and burst open the door.
Mr. George Dhereng, brother of the husband to the
deceased, was next sworn, and repeated the conversation
he had with his brother on the Tuesday, when he con-
fessed he had murdered his wife. The evidence was
quite in effect the same as that the witnos gave at the
inquest on his brother on the previous day.
By the Coroner—l did not know anything of the
man Torreani, who has been spoken of as lodging in
the next room.

Inspector M'Mahon, of the Hyde-park police force,
proved that the letters produced were taken from the
person of the deceased man who had committed suicide
in Hyde-park, and induced the police constables to-go
to the house where the murder was discovered.

M. Albert, the interpreter, was then called, arid, being
sworn, read three letters found upon the body of the
deceased's husband, as given above.
Jane M'Donald, on being recalled, said that the hus-
band of the deceased had been living with another
woman, and it was during that time that he committed
the assault upon his wife for which he was imprisoned
for four moaths.

Constable Brown, in answer to a question, stated that
the key of the room in which the murdered woman's
body was discovered had not been found.
There being no further evidence, the coroner, in sum-
ming up, directed the attention of the jury to the con-
clusive evidence there was that the deceesed woman's
husband had perpetrated the crime by which she lost
her life, strengthened still further by the way in which
be had committed the crime of self-destruction.

After a short deliberation the jury returned a ♦erdict
of Wilful Murder against Antoine John Dhering.

The proceedings then terminated.

A FAREWELL TO THE ORPHEONISTES.

Whatever may have been the inconveniences to which
the French Orpheonistes have been subjected during
their stay in England, it is certain that they must have
been fully compensated for by the genuine ovation
which was paid to them on Saturday last, when, in
addition to the usual cheering which greeted them on
the conclusion of their day's labours, a banquet was
prepared, presided over by Sir Joseph Paxton, and
attended by several members of Parliament. More-
over, throughout the day fraternisation was the rule,
handshaking was seen on every side, and compliments
and good wishes were heard in every part of the Crystal
Palace and its grounds. Enthusiasm was at its height,
the French and English alliance was ratified with every
outward mark of sincerity, and the 3,000 Orpheonlites
must assuredly have taken back to France a very diffe-
rent estimate of the British people than that with which
they landed upon our shores. The proceedings on
Saturday opened with a concert.
With the exception. of two instrumental pieces and
one vocal, the entire selection had been already per-
formed at the Crystal Palace by the Orpheonistes; but
although such was the case, the spirit with which the
programme was executed invested the concert with a
great amount of interest. Apparently determined to
leave a highly favourable impression of their powers, the
Orpheonistes' farewell performance was a genuine artistic
triumph, and the audience fatly recognised the exertions
of a choir which, collected from all parts of France, and
only having had the benefit of a single rehearsal, executed
with the utmost expression and delicacy, and the greatest
steadiness and precision, a programme which was
remarkable for its variety if not for its extent. To M.
Delaporte is mainly due the credit of having brought
the performances of the Orpheonistes to a brilliant close ;
his talents as a conductor cannot be overrated ; and to
that gentleman, the sub-conductors under him, and the
organist, Mr.. Batiste, the thanks of the British public
are due for having organised and carried out one of the
most interesting musical entertainments on record.
The superb band of the Guides again surprised
and delighted the audience by their magnifionnt playing.
As was remarked on a previous occasion, the Guides
divided the honours of the concert with the OrphOonistes ;
and to M. Mohr, the conductor of the band, all praise is
due for the skilful manner in which he has trained the
instrumentalists under his control. At the conclusion
of the performance the scene that wag gone through on
Thursday was re-enacted, int this time with the band of
the Royal Artillery, which, stationed in a gallery facing
the Handel Festival orchestra, played " Partant pour le
Syrie," which was received with great enthusiasm, and
amidst much cheering the "farewell concert" terminated,
the visitorsdeparting for the grounds to witness the display
of the great fountains, while the Orpheonistes hastened
to the banquet prepared for them in an impromptu saloon,
fitted up in the terrace dining-room and in the open
gallery extending on the garden side of the Palace from
the south transept to the great central one. This din-
ner, which was only definitely arranged last Thursday,
was got up by a public subscription, to which a large
'lumber of members of parliament contributed, and
the total sum collected amounted on Saturday to
nearly £1,600, But while the money was so reaCrily
Obtained, it might have been supposed that a little
trouble would have been experienced in providing a
repast for 3,000 persons. But Mr. Strange is not the man
to be daunted by difficulties; calling all the resources of
his establishment into action, he, with apparently the
same ease as others would provide a..dinner for half-a-
dozen persons, set before the " thousands" of Orpheo-
nistes a most excellent,cold repast, consisting of roast and
boiled meat, tongues, hams, salads, pies, and plum-
puddings, with a. bottle and a half of pale ale to each
man, and a bottle of Bordeaux for every three. The
' dinner waa'aet out on seventy-four tables, and, to give a
cheerful appearance to the room, it was decorated
with ttags and evergreens. Moreover, Mr. Strange pro-
vided a whole army of waiters to attend to the wants of the
dinners, and to supply them with the good cheer which
was provided in such profusion. At a long table,
raised on a dais, were seated Sir Joseph Paxton, the
chairman of the banquet, who had on his left MT. John
Bright, M.P., and on his right Mr. Delaporto,tho leader
of the Ciplaeoaistes. There were also seated at this
table Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Roupelt, M.P., Mr. Jack-
son, M.P., Mr. Langton, M.P., Mr. H. Ingram, M,p.,
Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Morley, Mr. Myers, - Mr. Ander-
, son, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. C. M. Dilke, „Mr. Farquhar, Mr.
ionides, Mr. England, Mr. Grove, and other members
of Parliament, and directors or friends of the Crystal
' Palaco. •

For some time after the guests were seated the most
profound attention was paid to the viands, but, their
appetites satisfied, and the mercurfality of the French-
men manifested itself in a hundred Ways. Songs were
sang, cheers were raised, hands were shaken, and a
capital understanding was established •between the
diners and the visitors on the terrace. At Jength some-
thing like order was established, and Sir Joseph
Paxton rose and proposed " The Health of the Queen,"
Which was responded, to by cheering that threatened
Ae ifeT to stop. Sir Joseph then gave "The Healtliot
the French_ Emperor," which was the signal for •
renewed applause. Then followed the toast of the'
day, "The Health of our Friends the. Orpheonistes."
jAs may readily be supposed this, toast was received with
the utmost enthusiasm, and M. Delaporte, in, returning
thanks, expressed the. hope that the visit of the. Orpheo-
nistes to England would have the effect of eementing
the allianee between the two countries. Sir Joseph
Paxton, then, gave the last toast,—" The Alliance of
France and England," which was the signal for a most
exciting scene. The Frenchmen jumped on the tables,
gesticulated, shook hands with every Englishmen within
reach, and. shouted until. they were obliged to refrain
from, sheer exhaustion., As soon as order was a little
restored, Mr. Bright, M.P., acknowledged the toast.
This 0;4430 the official programme of the after
dinner speeches, but one or two more healths were
proposed and responded to, and the banquet, the*
terminated.
As soon as the, dining-room was desertet4 a
), i t her the
demonstration commenced in the, grounds, w---_-_-_,ed in
various members of the Orpheon Societies fresh
he.Prr
flagse7 on
procession, headed fly elfieials bearing their '
of the Royal
the upper terrace were stationed the band
formed of the
Artillery, and,a long line of vol
I,9gaden Scottish. Down
Qaeen's, and a company of the
this line the Frenchmen proceeded' shaking hand, and
bidding adieu in the nWst emphatic m,anu,ez,. , , ~, , As they
ivee, kith cheers and
went alew they,
goodwill,. so. hearty that at length
were race
exi4esthpi,,, of: goo
mune-
excited, and seizing
' the. Orph(onistes b
rittgreel). inbraced them in the
upon several,
The Englishmen good humouredly
French fashiaa,
submitted, And then, amidst more handshaking, a great

amount of bad French from the Britons and much indif-
ferent English from the Gauls, the Orpheons filed past
and the volunteers marched off towards the railway
station. Altogether a more exciting and characteristic
scene cannot possibly be imagined; the excitability of
the French proved infectious, and sober British .Pater-
familias, under the influence of "the alliance," grew
most demonstrative and indulged in an amount of
enthusiasm that was hardly in keeping with his usual
dignified behaviour. The procession on the terrace by
no means concluded the day's proceedings. Groups
were afterwards formed in various parts of the grounds,
singing alternately the "National Anthem" and
" Partant pour la Syrie," making speeches and shaking
hands. At one part, without any apparent reason, about
a hundred French and Englishmen suddenly jo:ned
hands, and began capering round in the most joyous
style, while a rifleman and an Orpheoniste executed in
the centre of the ring an impromptu pas de deux under
an umbrella. At another part a gentleman with a black
moustache, and slightly lame, occupied himself in con-
junction with a younger companion, conspicuous by the
shortness of his coat, in inducing energetic Frenchmen
to carry riflemen on their shoulders. At one moment one
of the kilt company of the London Scottish was hoisted
up and cheered by the crowd ; at the next a stalwart
member of one of the Mounted Rifles was borne aloft
in triumph ; and then a dandified officer was suddenly
held up to the admiring gaze of the audience. At an-
other portion of the grounds a number of volunteers and
others formed into line and marched up and down,
shouting with might and main the French national air,
and then, halting before a group of Orpheonistes, broke
out into cheers that testified most unmistakeably to the
strength of their lungs. But all over the terraces simi-
lar scenes were being enacted, and as we left the Palace
the last episode in the farewell to the Orpheonistes that
we beheld, was a bald-headed rifleman being embraced
and kissed by an extra-excitable Frenchman.

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