The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

I TWOPENCE'

MR. GLADSTONE'S VISIT TO BOLTON AND
PARNWOBTH. •

Great preparations are being made, both at.
Soften and Faroworth, to give • cordial greeting to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will visit Bolton thin
afternoon, and on the day following will open the publis
park at Faro worth. The right hoe. gentleman will arrive
at the Triaityotrest station, Bottom, at 4.38, where be will
be met by the mayor and town clerk, Mr. Barnes, M.P.
Colonel Gray, M.P., and Mr. Alfred Bernie, chairman of
the Fareworth local board. Thome gentlemen will escort
lir. Gladetees to the Free Public library, where he will
be met by Mr. Qom* and the other members of the
library sad museum committee. They will then po-
oled to the Market-hall, sad theses to the Temperauce-
ball, where the mayor will preempt to Mr. Gladstoce
the following address from the eorporation :—" To
the Right Honourable William Ewer! Gladstone, M.P.,
Chancellor of the Exchequer. 13b.,—We, the mayor, alder-
men, and bargeman of the borough of Bolton, in the
comity of LanauCer, desire to express the deep gratification
which your visit to thin town affords to all classes of its
inhabitants, and the great regret felt on their part that
your stay amosgst them I. unavoidably for so short • period.
In commas with many of our fellowoountrymen of all
shades of political opinion, we admire you as • statesman
possessing rare and distinguished abilities, and as • mini/es
occupying in the government of this country • high mi-
lieu, and adoning that government with snob gifts of 01
ton 7 and Boanclel ability, combined with great scholarship,
1 aa have rarely hem equalled ; sad we are glad that the town
' of Bolton has the bower of being publicly visited by so
illustrious • meat The opening of the park at Fareworth,
which is the esimalso affording us the privilege of your pro-
Reece, bee oar warmest sympathy ; and it gives us much
pleasure to odd that, through the liberal provision of
that government whose fivanoes you so ably eootrol, this
borough is undertaking the formation of a park for the fres
use of its inhabitants ; and we doubt pot that the present
and future generations of our tows, whilst enjoying the
benefits Igloo conferred upon them, will resard with grati-
tude the parliarneot whi* at your iortimitioo, has foreished
the meths of such healthful recreetion. In coaclunion, we
Tejon.* in giving you • hearty welcome upon this your tree
public visit to Hellos, sad venture to express the hope that
the time le pot far distant when we shall be favoured with a
loopr stay than that which you an now enabled to make
I amongst na—Given noder the commoo seal of the borough
of Balboa, at • inset* of the tossed of the said
borough, held es the fith day of October, 1864." After
, leaving the Temperas the party will proceed
down Bradshawgate (to afford Mr. Gladstone an
opportunity of inspecting the (krieiptea status), and
from thence to the residence of Mr. Alfred Barns, Green
Book, Farnworth. Go Wednesday morning a precession
will form at half-past sine o'clock, at the others of the
Local Board, in Derby-strait, Fareworth, and will pass
through the principal streets to the park. The ceremony will
commence by the Sunday otholars ringing the 100th Prim,
and after a prayer by the Bishop of Manche ter, and id-
&woos by Sir J. P. Kay fibottleworth and the Rev. G. D.
Macgregor, Mr. Barnes will present the park to the in.
habitenta for their use for ever. Mr. Allred Bares, se
chairman of the Local Board, will accept the same.
and Mr. Gladstone will declare it opal. In addition to the
gentlemen named, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Hoe. A
Egerton, M.P.; lb. limey, M.P. ; Bagley, M.P. ;
Colonel Gray, IL P.; Mr. J. Pilkiogtoo, M.P. ; and Mr.
Hibbard, M.P., have promised to attend. At one o'clock a
hossinsoo will be served in a marquee. At three o'clock,
Mr. Goddard will ascend is his halloos ; at six o'olock, there
will be • dimple of fireworks ; and at half-put seven them
will be a entertainment in the New Hall, by
the Opogregational Young Maa's Mutual Improvement So.
craty. Great preparations axe making, both is Bolting and
Farnwortb, for the decoration of the street., and the day
will be etwerved in the esighbourticod as a general holiday:
—Manchour Guardia*.