The Press.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN paid a visit on Tues
day to the Arctic ship Resolute, lately arrived from
the United States Government as a present to this
country. The Queen, accompanied by Prince
Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
the Princess Alice, and attended by her suite, left
Osborne at a quarter past ten o'clock, and drove to
the ship in an open carriage drawn by four grey
ponies. The Resolute, dressed in her colours, was
lashed alongside of the royal embarkation-place at
Trinity-wharf. The English and American flags
were flying at the peak, and as soon as the Queen
set her foot on the deck the royal standard was
hoisted at the main. The Rdtribution fired a salute,
the boats' crews " tossed" their oars, and the ship's
company, standing on the rail, received her Majesty
with three rounds of cheers. Captain Hartstein re-
ceived the royal party at the gangway, and the offi-
cers, in full uniform, were grouped on either side.
All were presented to the Queen by Captain Hart-
stein, who then addressed her Majesty in the fol-
lowing words :
Allow me to welcome your Majesty on board the Resolute,
and, in obedience to the will of my countrymen and of the
President of the United States, to restore her to you, not
only as an evidence of a friendly feeling to your sove-
reignty, but as a token of love, admiration, awl respect to
your Majesty personally.
The Queen to this frank and sailor-like address re-
plied with a gracious smile, and said, " I thank
you, sir." The royal party then went over the
ship and examint her with great interest.
With such completeness and attention to detail
has the refitting been performed by the
United States Government, that not only has
everyning found on board been preserved, even to
the books in the captain's library, the pictures in his
cabin, and some musical instruments belonging to
other officers, but new British flags have been manu-
factured in the Brooklyn navy-yard, to take the place
of those which had rotted during the long time she
was without a living soul on board. From stem to
stern she has been repainted ; her sails and much of
her rigging are entirely new ; the muskets, swords,
telescopes, nautical instruments, &c., which she
carried have been cleaned and put in perfect order.
Nothing has been overlooked or neglected that was
necessary to her complete and thorough renovation ;
yet everything that has been cleaned or repaired has,
with excellent taste on the part of those wh- superin-
tended the regulations, been restored to its original
position. As regards the arrangement of the furni-
ture and the situation of each particular article, the
Queen saw the captain's cabin in the precise state in
which it was when the crew forsook the ship. In fact,
the ship is—so to express it—a floating Pompeii,
and everything comes to light just as it was left.
Captain Kellett's epaulettes are lying in a tin box on
the table. Lieutenant Pim's musical-box occupies
its old place on the top of a " what not." The " logs "
of the various officers are in their respective recesses
on the bookshelves. The portmanteau containing
the officers' greatcoats is thrown heedlessly on a
chair. On the wall hangs the picture of a ballet-
girl pirouetting—still for ever pirouetting on the tips

of her toes—and, as if in mockery of domestic com-
fort, a little kettle, that should be singing songs "full
of family glee," does nothing of the kind, but sits
upon a fireless stove as cold as a stone and as silent.
After completing the inspection of the ship, the royal
party retired amidst enthusiastic acclamations.
Captain Hartstein dined with the Queen at Osborne
that evening.

THE KIDDERMINSTER OLD BANK, Farley, Turner,
and Co., has stopped payment. The death of Mr.
Abraham Turner last week has brought about this
little event, which for some time past has been an-
ticipated in City circles.
AN INFLUENTIAL. EDUCATIONAL MEETING WAS
held ut Manchester on Tuesday, under the presi-
dency of Mr. Thomas Bazley. The following reso-
lutions, proposed at a previous meeting on the sth,
wore discussed and agreed to :-
1. That a rate fur education is desirable.
2. That all schools deriving aid from the rate shall
be subject to inspection, but such inspectbin as is paid

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for out of the rate shall not extend to the religious in-
struction.

3. That all schools shall be entitled to aid out of the
rate, provided the instruction, other than religious, shall
come up to a required standard, and that no child shall be
excluded on religious grounds.
. .

4. That distinctive religious formularies, where taught,
shall be taught at some hour, to be specified by the
managers of the school, in each case, in order to facilitate
the withdrawal of those children whose parents or
guardians may object to their instruction in such distinc-
tive religious formularies.

3. That there be no interference with the management
or instruction of schools, other than may be needed to carry
out the principles of the foregoing resolutions.
(I. That the education rate be administered by local
authorities, to be specially elected by and out of the rate•
payers for the purpose.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE EXHIBITION
have reason to hope that the Queen may honour the
Great Exhibition of next year at Manchester with a
Royal visit, and thus further evince her Majesty's
most gracious desire to encourage this great national
educational undertaking. We are informed that the
committee are empowered to state that his Royal
Highness Prince Albert has expressed his intention
of honouring the opening ceremonial of exhibition in
May next with his presence.
THE HON. JUDGE HALIBURTON, on Tuesday even-
ing, addressed the members of the Manchester
athenaeum, in the library, on the position and
prospects of the North American colonies. The
hon. judge, who was very warmly received, briefly
sketched the history of our North American colonies,
and described colonial government as characterised
by the greatest ignorance, the grossest neglect, and
great injustice. The rapid growth of the colonies
was astonishing. They had now arrived at the
point, as regards population, at whicb the United
States asserted their independence. Where would
those colonies be in ten years?—

The question must be asked and must be answered.
Were toe colonies to be amalgamated with the United
States? He did not think the United States wanted them,
and he was happy to say that they did not want the
United States; but still this alternative was " on the
cards." There was a road called annexation, and it must
be kept in view, for it led to the United States. Second,
were they to form a confederation, each colony constituting
a little State of itself, and so have a sort of congress, pre-
sided over by a viceroy? There were difficulties in the
way of the third alternative ; but they were not insur-
mountable. Could the colonies be made part and parcel
of England ? This was his favorite plan. But the
colonists would not consent to such a union unless it
were based on perfect equality. They had been degraded
enough, and would be degraded no more. So far, they had
been treated with the utmost possible contempt. Every
petty German prince had a place here, but the colonies
had none. Representation in Parliament was one thing
they would require. The colonist felt that, tf he had been
born in the United States, even the Presidentship would be
open to him, whilst, as he was, he was looked down upon
with contempt by the Yankees, and not considered an equal
by the British. If he bore this any longer, he deserved to
bear it. He naturally asked himself why Ireland should
have representation and the colonist none ? The House of
Peers contained no colonist; the late Governor-General of
Canada left the country knowing just as touch of it as
when he landed in ; and those upon whom titles had
been conferred, in connection with grants of land in Nova
Scotia for settling the colony, neglected it until the land
been made valuable and then claimed it under their
patents. In the House of Lords the colonists claimed
equal participation with England. He wished that some
man of political influence in this country would take up
the question ; and he commended it as a fitting one for the
energy and talents of Lord Stanley, as a young and rising
statesman.

THE SALARY OF THE NEW RECORDER FOR BRISTOL,
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, has been reduced, accord-
ing to agreement, from 0001. to 5001. per annum.

pelant.

THE JUDGMENT of the Lord Chancellor in the
Tipperary Bank case, holding the shareholders not
liable beyond the amount of their respective shares,
has had the effect of weakening the confidence of
depositors in other joint-stock banks, and has led to
run for gold on the branches of the National Bank
in Tipperary and Cashel. The manager has desired
ten days' notice to pay deposit receipts, but there is
no doubt of the stability of the bank.
THE BROADSTONE MURDER still painfully occupies
public attention. No further discoveries since that
of the bag of silver last week have been made. A
most searching inquiry to ascertain the persons wbo
had access to the place where the basket was de-
posited, or who, not having business, were seen
in its neighbourhood, has been set on foot, but it is
said that this is merely a precautionary measure, for
the police are in possession of facts which will go
further than anything which can be elicited by such
an investigation to point out the guilty person.
Doubts having been entertained whether any money
was taken from the cashier's room on the evening of
the murder, it is now positively stated that by a
document in the handwriting of Mr. Little it appears

SATURDAY,

that the sum of 3341. in gold and silver was carried
off by the murderer. A mysterious story told by one
O'Dowd, an engineer, that be one night last week
saw a mufficd-up man come out secretly from a back
window of the railway offices, and remove a bidden
deposit, is disbelieved. The London detectives have
given up the search, and left Dublin.
THE INCO3IE-TAX QUESTION has given rise to
several meetings in Dublin and over the country in
opposition to its continuance, at least at the present
rate.