The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-20 00:00:00

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REJOICINGS AT CARDIFF.

The rejoicings In Cardiff on Tuesday in celebration of the
mane-nag" of the Marquis of Bute were on a magnificent scale:
the streets were elaborately decorated, the cost being met by
volentaty subscription ; and the business premises and
private houses were as lavishly decorated as the public
bundling, In Main-street, leading to the en stle, was
erected a magnificent Gothic arch n each side of the
sped. us street being festooned with flowers and ever-
greens, looped up and suspended from Venetian poles
from 30ft. to 401 t. long. Interspersed at fremunt intervals
were bright streamers, and the poles were garnished in the
centre with shields of various kinds, from which radiated
banners. The festoons were continued to within a few
yai its of the Bute statue, where an imposing teiumphal
arch bad been erected, consisting of three gable entrances;
the centre arch being fifty feet high, and surmounted by
an amber-coloured glass crown. In the gable facing St.
Mary-street were transparencies, one of which displayed
the arms of the houses of Bute Ka froward. In the
side gables were the arms of Cardiff, surnmunted with
the Tudor Rose (the Corporation peal) and the Glamorgan
arms. or the arms of the Earls of Glamorgan, sermounded
wills the Red Dragon of Glamorgan. Over the centre arch
were tins' portraits of the Marquis and his bride. In Vie
gable fading the Castle Wan another transparency, and below
a inhield containing the Hastings arms The whold of the
inch was decorated with evergreens, and fringing the upper
outline, right up to the coronet at the minima, were
torches, consisting of polished metal backs glazed with
painted glass, and lighted tip by sans burners behind,
giving to the whole a remarkably effective appearanee.
Within the arch, facing :it Mary street, was the following
inscitption 0, ham/ day, schen by faith and true affec-
tions comes to 1000 thins weet union of Holearfs fatrest
,toncer to Cardi,y's brightret honour." 'the side gables were
sarmouuted by trophies and flags, and overtopping the whole
structure were four magnificent Indian suale.,in bloom.
Two handsome silk banners enhanced the effectiveness of
the arch. They had, elaborately worked, the initial letters
"J." and G.,' and the crests of the Marquis and
Marchioness. The weather Was very fine. !liminess was
entirely suspended, and many thousand visitors were brought
to the town by the Great Western, the Taff Vale, and the
Rhymney Railway Companies, who ran cheap excursion
trains,

la the morning the town was paraded by a procession,
composed of the If.iyor and Corperatlon, merchants, ship-
bnilders, pilots, and trade and ben:flt societies. At one
o'clock a public breakfast was held at the Town MIL pre-
sided over by the Mayor. who proposed the toast of the
Marquis and his bride. Is the afternoon Indween sin and
seven thousand school children were treat. d to dinner, and
for the amnsementof the people athletic spirts levee organized
in the public park Shorty a'ter seven 0.4 ck a special train
arrived. contaioing the Marimis and Marchioness of Bate. It
was announced by t salute of guns fired by the Artillery Corps, a
detachment of whi• h was grown up on a piece of ground
adjoininz the Great Western Railway station. The plat-
form was decorated with eilinson cloth, and the Mat•quis
and Marchioness were received by the Mayor and corpora-
tion. The Marchioness having been presented with a bouquet
of dowers from a bevy of young latils, dresse•l in white,
who occupied a position on the platform, the Mayor read
the following address :
'' We, the Mayor, aldermen. and burgesses of this ancient
borough, desire to °demean. biticere congratulations to your
lordship and your noble bride, a daughter of the house of
[toward, to whom we tender the most heartfelt and cordial
welcome on this auspicious day. We express not only our
own sentiments, but those of every inhabitant, in fervently :
wishing that all happiness inay bless your union with the •
amiable lady who will henceforth share your honours and the
respect and affection with which all are animated towards
yourself, the son of one of the most munificent on" honour-
able of England's peers, the founder of the great commercial
prosperity of this town. Your Lordship has emulated your
honourable father's great qualities, and thereby created a
bond of union between the [louse of Bute and this borough,
which we ardently desire may ever continue. Given under
our common seal at Cardiff, this 16th day of April, 1872."
The Marquis made the following reply,—Mr. Mayor and
Gentlemen, on behalf of Lady Bute ant myself I can only
Chunk you very much for this addre,s and these congratula-
tions, which are only a part of many acts of kindness for
which we have to thank you, and I may say upon my wife's
part. as well as upon my own. how sincerely we are affected
by them Astor Lady Bute. lam sure that I may say that I
know she comes here with a desire to do what is right,
and to be a source of happineas, not only to myself but to
all of those by whom she's surrounded. (Loud and continued
cheering.)
The Martinis and Lady Rate were then escorted to a ear-
riage, the pathway from the station to the carriage, which
was.covered with crimson cloth, being strewed with flowers.
The newly married couple took their seats in an open car-
riage amid most enthusiastic cheering. The carriage was
driven at a walking pace through St. Mary street and High-
:street to the Castle. In the evening tine public buildings
and nearly every business establishment besides many private
houses, were Illuminated.
In the course of a few days addresses will be presented to
the Siarquis and Lady Bute, at the Castle. from the Catholic
community of the town.