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London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 1858. 857
Mayor----I:a iemann to the Mayor of London. At a little before five the Duke and Duchess of .of Exeter, K.G., Earl De La Warr, and the Duke of
Ideeloe ee ore Salutes To-day. Brabant and the Count of Flanders took leave of Beaufort. At the Council Parliament way ordered
Was there Ever Anything like this Display? her Majesty and his Royal Highness, and the yacht to be further prorogued from the 19th of October to
international Official Courtesies. immediately got under weigh, and steamed down the Thursday, the 18th of November. Lord Stanley
Another Great Problem Solved. Scheldt under salutes from the forts. was sworn in Secretary of State for India. The new
The Excitement in the Metropolis.
The Victoria and Albert cast anchor off the village Seals of Office for the Secretary of State or India
Tremendous Sensation throughout the City.
of Fernoos, at about eight o'clock. were approved by the Queen in Council.
Some of our People going off Half Cocked.
But the Telegraph *sure thing. At three o'clock in the morning the anchor was The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chelmsford, the
All Doubt with the Croakers Dissipated. again weighed, and the yacht proceeded upon her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stanley, General
The Niagara Expected To-day. course for England. The wind had blown very Peel, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Right Hon. J. W.
Everybody crazy with Joy. strongly with occasional storms of rain during the Henley, Earl De La Warr, and the Duke of Beaufort,
Tow's the Time for a Universal Jubilee, dm. day, and her Majesty bad in consequence determined with Mr. Greville, the Clerk of the Council, left the
Excelsior, doe to land at Gravesend ; but the weather moderated Waterloo station of the South-Western Railway at a
Among the transparencies were the following :
during the night, though there was still a stiff breeze, quarter past nine o'clock on Thursday morning, and
The union of England and America—in the place of the
and at a very early hour in the morning her Majesty's proceeded by special train to Gosport on their way to t
weildingeing the Atlantic cable. orders were given to steer for Dover. attend the Privy Council at Osborne. The Ministers
All the world Knox under to American enterprise. The yacht having
non is king of them all.'' It took two American rivers to arrived at its destination at about crossed from Gosport in the Fire Queen, and reached
"There were kings before Agamemnon, but the Agamem-
ten o'clock, and a special train having been kept in Osborne about one o'clock.
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conquer the Atlantic—the Niagara and Hudson. readiness by the attention of the directors of the The Earl of Hardwicke, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and
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erse, the "inventor,' supplied the germ ; Steers, the South-Eastern Railway, both at Gravesend and Dover, the Marquis of Exeter 'pitied their colleagues at the
" mechanic," furnished the Niagara ; Field, the " business her Majesty landed at about twenty minutes past Isle of Wight.
man," completed the glorious work. Americans exult 1 eleven o'clock, and proceeded by railway to Ports • After the Council the same Ministers who left
American invention, mechanical genius And business, mouth. The train was brought into the dockyard, town, with the exceptions of the Marquis of Salisbury
energy and perseverance, furnished by Morse, Steers, and where her Majesty was received upon her arrival by and General Peel, returned to London by special
Field, do honour to America. Admiral Sir George Seymour, Rear Admiral the Hon. train, leaving Gosport about five o'clock and arriving
Europe and America. Dauguerre and Morse.
Sir George Grey, K.C.8., and Major-General the in town about half-past seven. i
England and America married by telegraph.
Hon. Sir James Scarlett, the Lieutenant-Governor.
Electricity: caught by Franklin, harnessed by Morse,
guided across the ocean by Field. Her Majesty, with the Prince Consort, imme- The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Stanley
Marrid, August, 1858, by Cyrus W. Field, Old Ireland diately embarked on board the Elfin, and proceeded arrived in town on Tuesday, from Hughenden.manor,
and eliss Young America; may their honeymoon last for to Osborne. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
ear. In attendance upon her Majesty were Lady Mac-
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Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite ; universal republic. donald (Lady of the Bedchamber), the Hon. Caroline ti
All hail to the inventive genius and indefatigable in- Cavendish (Maid of Honour), Colonel the Hon. A. V u
olital.
dotty of John and Jonathan, who have succeeded in con- N. Hood (Equerry in Waiting), and Colonel the I
automating the highest work of the age. May the cord
Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps. --
that binds them in the bonds of international friendship
never be severed, and the Field of its usefulness extend to The Queen will leave Osborne on Monday next for MR. BERESFORD HOPE AT MAIDSTONE.
the uttermost parts of the earth. Leeds, where her Majesty has consented to be present
A GREAT Conservative festival was held in the .
Victoria, Buchanan, Niagara, Agamemnon. at the opening of the Town-hall on the following I
Let nations' shouts, 'midst cannons' roar, day. The arrangements for the journey to Leeds, beautiful grounds of Mote Park, near Maidstone, on ii
Proclaim the news from shore to shore. and thence on the following days to Balmoral, were the 27th ult., to celebrate the victory obtained by the
Lightning caught and tamed by Franklin. Taught to submitted to her Majesty on Wednesday, at Osborne,
Conservatives at the last election, and to hear from
read and write and go on errands by Morse. Started in and received the sanction of the royal approval
the hon. members an exposition of their political
the foreign trade by Field, Cooper, and Co., with Johnny The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, conduct during the last session. *
Bull and Brother Jonathan as special partners.
the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice, will The dinner was held in an enormous marquee, anti
The old Cyrus and the new—the first conquered the
and for himself, the second the ocean for the world. leave the Isle of Wight after an early breakfast on was presided over by Mr. Stacey. More than 1.400
Queen Victoria—your despatch received. Let us hear Monday morning, and take to the railway in the persons sat down to a substantial cold collation. lit
igen. Clarence Victualling-yard, at Gosport, where a special Both the members on entering the tent were loudly •
The Atlantic cable the strongest cord of Europe and train, under charge of the directors and officers of cheered. On the removal of the oar th,
America. the London and South-Western Railway, will be in The CHAIRMAN having given the usual loyal and i
Oar Field is the Field of the world. readiness for the royal party at 0.45 a.m. At Leeds patriotic toasts,
July 4, 1776, August 16, 1858—the days we celebrate. the mayor (Mr. Fairbairn) will be in attendance to Mr. LAWRENCE proposed " The Health of Mr.
New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com- receive her Majesty, and conduct the royal party to Bereeford Hope," whose rising was greeted with
piny; Peter Cooper, president. his residence, without the confines of the borough. prolonged cheering. Mr. Beresford said :
Atlantic Telegraph Company; William Brown, Ferri-
Theedent. royal progress northward will be resumed on Sir, the pleasure which I feel in being here to-day before
All honour to Cyrus W. Field ; Franklin, Morse, Field ; Tuesday at 1 p.m., at which hour her Majesty will such an assembly of my constituents is augmented, while
with an American flag, American clipper, British steamer, leave the station of the North-Eastern Railway, under at the same time the duties imposed upon me are rendered
and British flag. charge of the directors and officers of that corn- more difficult to perform by the too friendly speech of my
The Atlantic Telegraph ! Symbol and pledge of per- pany. The passage to Holyrood will be deprived of friend Mr. Lawrence. Gentlemen, it is now a year and a
petal international friendship. Honour to its successful much of its usual picturesque character, owing to the day since I last had an opportunity of meeting and .
promoters. Blessed are the peacemakers. lateness of her Majesty's arrival in the Scottish addressing you. Since that time we have all of us gone
World ! what a wonder is this! through many great and unexpected changes ; revolutions ii
capital ; but this, it will at once be seen is an un-
Grandly and simply sublime— in high places, sudden turns, marvelous visitations of
All the Atlantic abyss avoidable necessity. The total distance of 224 miles
fortune, have astonished us all. It is these trying times
Leapt in a nothing of time. will be performed in little more than five hours and which prove a man. One may very well in calm summer
In union there is strength. Magna opera Domini. a half. seas sail his inglorious hsrque, but it is when the storm
Sir William Williams, of Kars, arrived at Halifax The journey from Edinburgh to Balmoral will be runs high, when difficulties occur which rack the soul,
on Tuesday, August 24. He was enthusiastically commenced on Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., at disturb the peace of mind, and trouble the understanding
received. There was an immense procession. To which hour the Queen will leave the St. Margaret's even of the most practised politician, that you prove the
an address of welcome he made a feeling reply. station, under conduct of the directors and officers of metal of which an individual is made. Having returned
The Niagara moil steamer had sailed for Liverpool. the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The train by your
Bind suffra
returngesed, alter ma
say, nyto years
take se
inereet, to
The Gorgon had arrived at Halifax. will arrive at 9.51 a.m. at the Larbert Junction, public id , I mayactive
Yellow fever prevails at New Orleans; sixty to where the directors and officers of the Scottish Con- part in the great cmincil of the nation than I took dining
the eleven years I formerly represented Maidstone, you
seventy deaths per day. The epidemio had also tral Railway bill be in attendance. Thenceforward . . •
may easily imagine how much more difficult 1 found' it to
declared itself at Charleston. her Majesty will pass through the picturesque loca- steer my course through the devious paths which opened to
Great preparations were being made at New York titles of Bannockburn, Stirling, the Bridge of Allan, us during the last session of Parliament. One rule, how
and other places for celebrations to be held on the Ist Dunblane, Auchterarder, and Forteviot to Perth, ever, I laid down for myself, which, under the blessing of
and 2nd of September. The New Yorkers will make where the train is timed to arrive at 11.10 a.m. After Providence, h.ts brought us safely home to be greeted by
it the greatest gala-day ever known in the country. a delay of five minutes only, to take in water, the you with that vote of confidence which is the proudest
The Hermann had sailed for Fraser River with GOO Queen will proceed, now under charge of the direc- reward of all who try to serve their country. That rule
passengers. tors and officers of the Scottish North-Eastern Rail- was—a determination to be perfectly independent, to judge
The Prince Albert mail steamer had sailed for way, vie Cupar-Angus, the Meigle Junction, Gleimmis, of measures by their inherent value, by their bearing on
Galway with 250 passengers. !'lie Arabia and Ariel and Forfar, to the Bridge of Dun, where the train the welfare of the country, and not to pin my faith to the
had arrived at New York, the Angle-Saxon at Quebec, will arrive at 12.38 p.m. Thenceforward there will sleeve of any leader of the day. When the dissolution of
Parliament took place some fifteen months ago, when
and the Canada at Boston. be no stoppage until her Majesty reaches Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston was in the ascendant, when Conservatives
The Europa had left St. John's at which point of the journey the directors and even came forward and said, "We support Lord Pahners-
officers of the Deeside Railway will be in readiness ton—Lord Palmerston is the man for us," what did we see ?
to conduct the train to Banchorry, where the royal That Minister who, rightly or wrongly, at the commence-
Court ant las Von. party will arrive at 2,35 p.m., thus performing a ment of the year 1855 was supposed to be the only pilot
journey of 171.4 miles, exclusive of stoppages, in five who could weather the storm—that man who was supposed
hours and a quarter, to have brought back again to earth the wonderful power
her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Deutz at The Queen will lunch at Banohorry, and make the by which Walpole and Pitt ruled the destinies of the
country with a rod of iron—that Minister has fallen more
tenhe o'clock nn Monde morning last, and took leave of journey between this station and Balmoral by road more hopelessly, than any
thoroughly, more completely,
Prince GI I{ohenzollern Sigmaringen and Count in three easy stages, arriving at her royal residence
Alexander Mensdortf. statesman who within the manners of man has been called
At Verviers in the Highlands about six o'clock. upon to administer the affairs of the country. I need not
her Majesty was met by the Duke The railway journey throughout will be under the relate the history of the chenge of public opieion which
wst, Beuccohess. of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, sole direction of Mr. Seymour Clark, general manager astonished so many people, but which did not astonish me,
ati"d"a.entinpanied the Queen and Prince to Antwerp of the Great Northern Railway Company, whose for 1 bad, even at the thue of the greatest entliiNiesin in ;
with them on board the royal yacht. The carriages will run through the whole distance of 694 his favour, taken a measure of the Ministry, which lens
royal party arrived at Antwerp at half-past three miles. since
proved more accurate than wonld have been believed
°eerie and were conveyed. from the railway station
possible had I then mentioned it. That last appointment
in the carriages of the King of the Belgians to the
wtliwuatiin,
giv;here his_ The Queen held a Privy Council on Thursday at to a place iii the Ministry of a person whose name IWI al
riot mention, but who concentrated in his own person the
Majesty's barge was likewise in Osborne, which was attended by his Royal Highness
indignation of all hone at and moral men of
the
Flanders, and her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the Prince Consort, the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., political opinion, warCelmost the last drop in the cup
- Bake and Duchess of Brebant, the Count of the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. which was so soon to overttow. And what was the reseon
and the ladies and gentlemen in attendance Secretary Walpole, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Major• of the final overthrow ? It was the exressed voice i f free
te y embarked, and
neat veeb e- pr"ooded on Ward the General Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, jeord and glorious England exclaiming, "file will that England
' ' r Yferki and dlPert, §yoley, the Right Win. 1, W. Henley, the Marquis still t 0 free, NTe viii that Eugla44 etlll be the refego
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