The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-01 00:00:00

THE 'EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1865.

JOHN BROGDEN recommends the public to
bans the caratita stated on the Invoke, " flue gold
and pure sold." as to }maim belag a delusion. JOHN
BROODINIS GOLD NE are este upoo tble rude 067.
and at sausutaotarers prem. liaasftenty. 0. eariette•
Meet, Covent-pedal, W.C. ibis establishment is closed at 0.
and on liantsdapi at 1 eolook.

while this is • point in fel

oat of doors without widok it
abortive proisots that prsosded
7riTioa
:a* Whigs ed
. /Its mph-
anivins.llt
tosSimeUr .aboltibed. Vs
.nosigrietsillphAi of
lout stint* a single do-

LONDON must have a Supper and Music Room
for Oestletemt.—seeseeshar n wilt for you at EVANS'S
alter the Dorset Garden Opera and the Theatres.

it is not balanced by any
holders will look mom 1
meat than the inhabitant
know that if a fair
shareholders

gat eroveoo.

TO 001.11211POIDINTS.
Alvallowasall Imadaded tat Irmo Loadon
mart too Id the laaverlagne4, Tao
rrei aa Ow day el "Meadow

HAYMAIMIT.
MYErnto. TIMM WILMS Alt= IiAZZIAGE.
MID CP. Mr. Crhis Mathews, Mr. Howe . Mies Nell Moore,
Mrs. 111. OOLOYM PLUCK Mows. Charles
Mathews and Compton Mrs. C. Mathews. —And the RALLY[.

MECUM
Twn Imam, AN AMPLE APOLOOY.—Atter which IT IS
TISVia& TOO LATE TO 11111 D. Mama Vlaiss O. Mdse..
T. Mead, D. Murry, S. Wham. F. VE/Ass. Mussy O. Mur-
es,. sad L. CC Mims L. Mows sad E. liodesrA

- are always
with investigation. And
of Parliament secures absence _
consequent certainty of dividends, there results a
certainty that shareholders will not disturb them-
selves by inquiry ea to the efficiency of the manage-
ment in other respects. In truth, the necessary
publicity of the work, if it is done by the Cor-
poration, its respoosibility to public opinion, and
its superintendence as a matter of right by every
ratepayer, give some guarantees for good manage-
meat which an ordinary company does not offer.
While, as there would be neither profit nor loss
made in the manufacture, there can be no argu-
ment urged against the employment of the cor-
porste funds for the purpose, such as would hold
good against their being devoted to any speculative

_ ow be effected in our
mead expeeditere to the extent of " mrnions."
The Ad... Miser credits a report that Sr G. Grey'will
bare the Dtehy of Imicaster, sad be succeeded as Home
fleerelaty by Berl de Grey sad Ripoe, and that Lord Cran•
meth will retire from the Lord Ohaticellorsbip, and be
susoseded by 81, J. Romllly, Master of the Rolls.

TDB ABTIIIIMIAN
The Daily ltews says that Earl RumWe despatch, pub-
lished in lan night's Gazelle, makes it pretty plain that
there have been seta and omissions on our part at which
the ruler of Abyninia might be expected to take offence,
but these mistakes were made long ago, and were such
se naturally arose out of a policy which was at
the time °moldered national, and was followed
by ministers of every party. In 1848, the date of the late
Consul Plowden'a appotirtraest, we were ready to send a
consul or aa agent to any place where he would be received,
and to conclude treatise of friendship and commerce indis-
criminately with all the governmeate el the world. It took
as a long time to find out that Mtn policy had practical limi-
tations, bet for several yeas' pest we have been andreeting
our sogagements of this kind so far es we could properly do
so, Unfortunately Captain Cameron made his compliment-
ary minion the onairice of political activity of a very differ-
ent kind, precisely such as the British government, as he
bad full opportunities of knowing, had renounced.
Sonar of our oountrymea blame their govern,
meat bemuse it will not undertake the protection
of the Abyuinians at Jerusalem, and ascribe the imprison-
meat of Captain Cameron to its unreasouableness in that
reaped. Others want the government to take up the
quarrel of Abyssinia with the Turks as that of a Christian
with a Idahomedan power, and to back the Emperor
Theodore spinet the Sultan of Toney and the Vioerc, of
Egypt. On these points, however, the Daily News mild-
pates the judgment of the public will Ennio Earl
Russell's opinion that "the obligations of the British
government are various enough, and heavy enough, with-
. out undertaking so costly, haserdons, and usprobtable •
protectorate."
The Past also concludes that Consul Cameron's own in.
discretion contributed more than anything else to excite
the King's displeasure. The explanations which Mr. Bassi=
is Instructed to make will, it is to be hoped, have the effect
of inducing the Emperor to liberate him ; and the reso-
lution to which her Majesty's government have came of
employing him henceforth ia some other country will
•

-astrarirm
THIS Mime, POIIL • DANL.7Na & Lane.—Signor
Bevant and Ms Aatamsta.—Tbs D'Aubans.—To cou
TRAELWAR : Ttit LAST DAYS 01 KlLOON.cludo with
oepl

trade.
These considerations incline us to think that there
is • reasonable ground for expecting that in No ex-
?Hanel a manufacture, yet one of so universal
need, the Corporation will be more efficient and
economical than any company established for
profit to the shareholder'. Nor need we be at all
influenced in this preference by the circumstance
that the projected Consumers' Company is to
supply its own shareholders. We have already an
example of a Consumers' Company, whose gas is
as bad and dear sa any of the rest, and which
speedily joined, as every such association must,
the phalanx of the monopolists. No doubt the
shareholders in it would do well, for they would
get back in dividend what they paid in gas rates.
But those who are not shareholders would pay the
high rate and not be recouped by dividend. The
advantage of the Corporation scheme is, that it
makes every user of gas a shareholder. only it ex-
poem him to no rink, and gives him his profit only
in the form of a reduction of one-third in his out-
lay for gas. We hope the scheme will have • fair
trial, for if it succeeds, the example will be useful
outside the precincts of the City.

HIGH WAXU AT LONDON -BRIDE.
TO DAT 111.oralm oL Os.....AfternooL OL 70.
Toamow -,1 ilda . &
Ob. S&L —Monsoon. OL 57t o.

LONDON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1.

Tee City is at present divided between two
rival schemes for cheapening gas. The Cor-
poration has resolved to undertake the manage-
ment for itself, but it has met with a rivel in a
projected Consumers' Company. The case of both
rests, to a certain extent, on the same data. Lon-
don gas is admittedly the worst and the dearest in
the kingdom. What the metropolis pays 41. 6d.
for, other towns, more remote from the coalfields,
are able to obtain, of better quality, at 2s. 9d. Nor
is there any prospect of bringing down the price to
any such point by the operation of ordinary causes.
The whole of London is parcelled out, under Acts of
Parliament, into the separate domains of the seve-
ral existing companies, so that competition is
wholly excluded, unless a fresh appeal to Parlia-
ment is made. By the same authority the com-
panies are entitled to maintain the existing rates
until they have not only paid 10 per cent. dividend
on the current year, but have made up put divi-
dends to that amount for six years back.
They may next proceed to the paying off area POLITICAL SITUATION.
of borrowed capital, which bears interest The Times has found some who defend on prin-
st five per cent., by the creation of new shares, apt* the arrangement of Chief Seesetaries in the Leeds
which will then bear interest at the regular rate of sad Under-Secretaries ia
• the Cowm
than en',
an andiettoth Dies* it
ten per cent. When all this is dons, they may
°fftluit :f ceutison°°that the presenOt h"
nstbserveuetion "eiseePer.
raise the salaries of their officers to any rate they
vista:ay. It will last the reams, md that is spoken ci as
please, may pay what they like for their raw ma- if it were the pledge of • more enduring stability. Sofas I
Loris], may employ the most expensive processes, as that gore, the Times would like to know what sort of It'
and may sell at the wont profit the residual pro- Cabinet would not Wit till the meeting of parliament. It 1
coeds of the manufacture, the coke, tar, and liquor, is then that the experimeat has to be put to proof. As
which ought to go so far to defray the oust of the axperimest it is admitted to be, and it in really an export. I
raw material and diminish the cost of the gas.
ore_nai, as otuosily on
lso outhe powers
the te of
per einsvtirelllaehleeee ed.
oosen s,
excelled
Against such malpractices the public have no de-
which baba Luria
shown twat
not at
an thatady t,..
play
fence, and no motive is supplied to the companies minuet*. with. If anything, we have bed to deplore its
to induce them to aim at any other result than the ova-sensitiveness, and its divoeition to underrate material
production of statutory gas and the payment of advantages and sensible arraugements when honour I+ is
statutory dividends. Bat while these reasons jos- question. It repressets all saris, and, saving its abscoos
tify the attempt to introduce • new system, just now, is made up of all soda. Lied Russell thieke it
it is to be deprecated that any rivalry in the pro- reehr tn. ripl"a 744;
moat
derojest oneersotiL,
tthateteedis theme
ponds for improvement should be insisted on. thinks n
there p
ought tonebem lesees deeoubt about its consti-
Both the Corporation and the new Company tution, and, as It appears, about its functions also. But
propose to apply to Parliament for powers, the house, when it motto, will be very apt to do as all
and it they are not better advised, there former houses have done. It will not be able to disguise
must be added to the price of the gas which either from itself the very mixed character of its oompositioa sad
may ultimately furnish, a charge for interest on origin. Like all new wide things, it will tied that it has
the heavy preliminary outlay in parliamentary ex- towalmakone anthemesthkrtaits ow
collisioeepos. iliton, any
adtteh:eht t
see that his prom:
tail
peens. But the question at Minn is of still fur- experiment in made on its forbearauoe, and 1.13 y take sales
ther importance to the public. It involves the amordingly. That is • crisis which the Tines cannot help
point whether the manufacture of this article of thinking it ia better sot to wait for, simply because It is
indispensable use is most conveniently and bane- better sot to be beaten in ever so trifling • matter. If the
ficially undertaken by a body which looks only to lest House, a singularly moderate and self.disciplisedb nll,
profit, or by one which looks only to the public and with Lord Palmerston face to face, complained now sad
adv then that they had to deal with an official shadow instead
antage . And there is so much to be said on
of the substance, the new house is not leas likely to Tenon-
both aides, and so many considerations have in meats when they find the Chancellor of the Exchequer the
such a case to be kept in view, besides those which only minister there with a general commission to defend
ordinarily regulate the demand and supply of the ministerial policy.
articles of domestic use, that it is worth while to In another article the Times apiaries upon the allege-
listen to what the advocates of either arrangement !loos of a correspondent who points out several important
have to set forth. errors in a return which just at the end of the session was
Generally speaking, it must be admitted that it Lies'orstedfort° counties ,n °Ef aCgt:d7°;,dotaf , tikilea numimaadd
Would be most unwise in • corporation to engage Ireland. There are shoe the Reform Bill four kinds of
in manufacture. There apply to it all the objec- toasty voters known to the law—tresholden, copylsolders,
lions which attach to government fabrication. leaseholders, and occupiers. Bat the return in question, ,
Everything must be done by deputy, and by depu- besides these qualifications, includes trustees, and most-
ties who have no immediate personal interest in gasses, and offices, Now no one has • right to vote as a
economy or perfection. The proverbial advantagetrustee or mortgagee manly, nor his any one a right
leave t°
eopeifficeet;hdeendht. oth
Theernomveeeratights
mater's of " the eye " must inevitably be wanting al a mirror
at every stage. There follow not only the direct eeteiename renters hteef bean
in this one of the numerous effects which have resulted from
evils of negligence and supineness, but, further, a the meaner Is which the question his always been argued.
necessity for a complicated and expensive system Instead of a:ambling into the figures of the case, as would
of superintendence, in order that bad work infallibly have beat done is any other matter of one-hue-
may not be dons, bad materials not be dredth part the importance, oar legislators have hitherto
accepted, and frond not at one stage or other coetented themselves with the diricuisioe of vague mete-
physical shametioes. Of entree, to such • way of reason-
be perpetrated. There is also the absence of any
iron figures and statistics would be • mere encrimbrenee, end
wholesome competition, which may operate as a there is, therefore, so reason to wonder that very little as-
check on the system followed, and an absence of any mace has been expended upon them. Discussing the dif-
powerful motive to adopt improvement. All these ference between England and Ireland in the gush&
are disadvantages which it would be idle to under- cation of • treeholder, the
the r Times
etentisays it
of admits
whether on the
value. They establish conclusively that in all or- of much question
dinars, trades—in those of bakers, butchers, grid' been of l'llilli'm freehold in the English r
w franchise
has any red benefit to Begland, ohether its
brewers, tailors, haberdashers, and so on—the exclusion has been the injury that is supposed
to Iceland;
attempt to supersede private enterprise by cor- The Times inclines to the belief that in this, as in so many,
perste action would be disastrous. But then the other cases, Ireland as far as mere institutions go, has
question conies to be, whether the rule is abaci- been more wisely dealt with than En and, and that, in-
lute]] without exception. And when we come to stead of introducing the fortysh shillin nor unwd freehol franchise
We
considerthequestiouofthemeembsctureandsupplyof into the sister COWIAZT, we ould ant ies if
WOW to abolish it is our own. The freemen and the forty
gas, we must at once admit that it has some fes-
shilling freeholders were, perhaps as expertise,. has
tures which make these comparative advantages of • • '
proved, code as great blots in the Reform Bill of 1832
private and public action not wholly applicable to as the Chandos Clause itself.
such • case. It is almost necessarily • monopoly. The triumphant rpeechesat the Chatham dinner notwith-
Not only is the capital required enormous, but the standing, the Herald says a day does not pass without
operations necessary for the supply compel us to some prominent declarative of no confidence in Lord Rms.
restrict the number of competitors. We cannot sell's cabinet. Never, perhaps, did • statesman assume the
highest. reeponaibilitim of 0010 e with lees encouragement
allow half-a-dozen different companies to ran their
mains through our streets, and their pipes into fortathilinef risomnds.ed ' However,veoo the
one gwrieteht difficul
regard llo.efrefoali—thehis
our dwellings. And if we give such power to one Lord Russell's perplexing inheritance from his former self.
or two, experience has proved to us that we invest Many • political triumph may be celebrated at Chatham
them with a privilege which they will soon agree whilst radicals are awaiting a settlement between the lade-
to use to our disadvantage. And, in truth, even pendent libaraliem of 186:i and the historical whiner, of 1
if we could possibly prohibit this, we should only 18522 THE
hurt in *different way, for when the expense of The Star endorses Mr. Otway's warnings and eonddeut 1 Tue CHANCELLOR or THE Excntorea IN SCOT-
hopes. The bon gentleman referred is • possible 00oraja. LA24I).—GLASCIOS, TUESDAT.—MT. Gladstone arrived here
by the night mail this morning, and at 001:0 proceeded
a full set of mains has to be borne by only a few *ion of inquiry on the reform question. The Star under-
individuals in each street, because the other inha-
accompanied by her two daughters, stands him to have repudiated that proposal, and says it to the seat of the Lord Provost, at Lilebank, where
bitants prefer to employ different companies, the I certainly is one which ought to be scented wherever it is Mrs. Gladsmee,
result would be to raise the price as effectually as ! mentioned. The only proper court of inquiry la such a I had arrived yesterday evening from Forfairsh'es. After
if there were no competition at aIL In Unease of gas, case is the House of Commons. The time has ease sow
the'onli,heenredlit would peaty I gull
oadf LogArayiitanwenoreo.wn
il r
.ahifeat the right hoe. hee.th gentleman, with • distils-
In theenevernitengE7hhsiiel% lied Provostthe
the private competition can never by itself avail to ,
supply us, as in other trades it does, with the best ! ferieteemsuschd"a decided sad
aetteentieife
emembrace the opportunities which they generally member
have before eitertaiord at dinner a select company of the city and
article at the cheapest rate. The rate must be • 1
- , parliament meets of speaking out their
sentiments
. openly sew' hbourhood.
dear one if the competition is effectual, but the pro- and heartily se Mr. Otway his done. The Registrar-General has just Lamed his quer-
bability is that the competition will soon cease The Telegraph distinguishes between the abstract theory . belt' report of the births and deaths for the quarter end-
altogether. of political equality held by liberal politicians and the con. log in September, ad of the marriages for the quarter end-
whTichheisbithe largest number that
mecca enpsdicsoy which regulate their Mg in ;use. According to this document 91,514 persons
But when in this aspect we come to compere 1 ekreratmee of
adloosti. The
b imam of the Bhara
edparty are content to i marriedever in the:
the action of • corporation carrying on a monopoly,:luartmcdr,
and of a joint-stock company carrying on a mono- , fnp me"'
... pas yil=diaseeymessme do cot ; we oca"my commanahVitsai; former
gaunter, awe pang to 181,642, whioh is sethathees ateen
poly, we shall soon see that the latter can claim no 111 M but we are anxious to advance steadily, and so told more than one birth • minute. The death rate, bow.
alventages over the former. A company, equally , regulate the order of our march that sot • single amp oleo t ever, is also high, though not much above the average of
with a corporation, wants " the master's eye." It , made shall have to be retrased. It is simply proposed to' the preceding summer quarters—it amounted in all to
must perforce work by means of hired officers and enrol fresh recruits in the garrison of oar con-' 113,401. The death nets for ell England is 21 In the 1,000,
salaried servants. The same system of checks and "Rua"- The measure which • Russell-Oladstone Leedom mortality is only ens above this events. The
superintendence must be enforced by the one as by ministry Is bound to introduce must be so framed Registrar.Oesera attributes this favourable return to the
as to conciliate the rapport of all who are not also- labour+ of the Metropolitan Board.
the other. The only difference is that to the cost of lately bigoted op.. mho. of ay bled ;it matt be of a i A grand choral festival by the Hampshire
paro-
the article furnished by the one there must he nature to be swept sae to the preterit Home of Commons ; ehial choirs will be held in Winchester 110. the
added the profit paid to the shareholders. But but it must else be safealessly breed and ratenstial to sth of Jane, 18Ca.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

prevent the possibility of any similar numumennamosn
again between Consul Cameron and the sovereign of
Abyssinia. What, however, the public are most interested
in is the explicit statement made by the Foreign Secretary
of the peaky whieb our government intend to pursue with
respect to Abyssinia.

1011120311 TOPICS.
The tom and substance of the utterances ascribed to the
Pope by M. lkiggio [given in the Mrpress of Monday last]
agree, the Daily News says, with the best authenti-
cated reports of the feeling of the entourage of
the Holy Father. The Daily News suggests to
his Holiness, however, that if called on to choose
he would do well to take his stand rather upon
his virtues than upon his political influence in France,
great as that undoubtedly is. In them lies his native
strength, and they will mail him when mundane rapport
fails. His supposed power to control the policy of France
is the dream of a priest, and such as • priest could dream
nowhere but at Rome.
The Daily News reminds us that it is wetly this month
twenty years ago that, in Boston, the most miligntmed
city in the American union. William Lloyd Garriseri, the
abolitionist, was dragged through the streets with a halter
round his neck, while the tar kettle was being heated
and the beg of feathers was being fetched. These things
should be remembered sow when public speakers in Ame-
rica are foolishly lamenting over the present time as " the
darkest hour "in the natiosal life. Pro-elavery men and
parties is America transmit their griefs to Europe, and are
sympathised with by the secession champions here ; sod
the timid and disappointed friends of the megrims emu-
where cannot compose their troubled spirits while **many
dangers and difficulties remain ; but to minds of large
capacity, minds rendered impartial by distance, or hopeful
by philosophy, the existiog state of things in America ap-
pears as promising as it is rational to expect. To dupes-
'jousts minds it appears most probable that the President
is doing as well as he knows how, amidst perplexities as
great and various av any ruler had to deal with ; that he is
trying to follow in the path of his magnanimous and mer-
ciful predmessor ; and that the sum of his immediate policy
and his daily efforts is—to deliver over to emigres' the
great decisions which do mot rest with him in the beet coo-
dition for a settlement.
The Post rejoices is the peaceful tendency which the
Emperor Napoleon's present policy, as shown by the pro-
posed reduction of the warlike expenditure in 1867 by
some 15,000,000 fr. seams to indicate. The French home
budget. also promise considereble economy.
The Telegraph referring to the news of soother Arab
revolt,gives the following as the" whole philoeophy" of Alge-
rian insurrections. It is the policy—the enforced policy,
perhaps—of the French in Algeria, to maintain the Arab
chief' la the full enjoyment of their feudal privileges. The
mitersl consequeace is that them semi-independent and
semi-barbarous personages are continually falling out with
each other, and, as a relief, they not unfrequently are in
arms egaiest the government of foreigners, whom they are
unanimous In hating and clasping.

grecmatintoug TOPICS.
The Timer scrutinises the report of the performasoes
ei the two famous steam rams of the Money, now the
property of the royal navy—the Scorpion and Wyvern—
which have just returned to Portsmouth after a trial cruise
in the Channel. It may be considered that the turret system
has earned • m►terial accession of credit as to see wortbi-
nen, and the facilities foe working !ergs guns, but the un-
certainties as to the habitableness of such vessels is not
much lessened by the description of their performaeces in
i a sea. The doubt can be removed till a turret ship
is built expressly and avowedly to perform all the duties of
a see-going frig►te.
' The Daily News congratulates the government upon He
determination to bring the Fenian primmer, to trial, as indi-
cating the probable close of the eerie. of arrests which
were beginning to excite remarks owing to the
trivial occasions on which some of them took
place. When we read of • ruin being arrested
for an unmeaning expression used in his drink, of another
being taken up for whistling • wog, and of a party of boys
being thrown into prison for playing at F.nians, it is impose
'ibis not to feel that the government la in danger of attract-
leg to itself some of the ridicule which properly belongs to
this most absurd of conspiracies. The actions against the
executive government are not to be altogether regrettixl,
the government having, according to the observation of
Berke, • greater interest in acting according to just law
than even the subject himealf.

'Mg CORrlo
WINDSOR OAS Z, Oar. 31.
The Queen, soompeaied by the Prince aad
Princess Lod. of Rose cad Primus Holo4 drove gat
yemboday actorsoan.
Prbinalalavilan a/no went oat driving.
Her Majesty,with Primer Helios, manilla the grow&

this morning.
Prises and Prisms Louis of Ham and Frisian Undo,
treat out riding.
The HOD. Florio°. Seymour. 114or•Gsmeral F. S. G.
Seymour, and Berea de Itabonatt, were is attendees...
PAM. Frederick William of Prude, attended by the
Beronem von Debeneok, went to London, and returned fa
the afternoon.
The Judge Advocate-General bad sa andieeoe of the
Qum.

Yesterday, at the Connell Chamber, Whitehall, the
Karnali Camden took the oaths as lord lieutenant of the
county of Brecon, in the prawns. of the Lord President ef
the Cowell, the Right Hen. T. Kilmer Gibson, sad the
Right 800. H. A. Bruce.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour.
able Privy Council wt yesterday, at Whitehall, upon the
subject of the cattle plague. Presort—The Lord Chan.
cello; the Lord President of the Council, the Right Bon.
Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Mawr Gilson, and
the Right Hon. H. A. Brunt
Mr. Helps, the Oink of the Counelt, attended.
The Right Hon. T. Milner Gilson, 11. P., Mit twit yea.
terday for Theberten.howe, Suffolk.

VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
OF WALLS TO LIVERPOOL

_
LIVERPOOL, TOMCAT.
Loyalty supersedes all markets to-day, and the
only " quotatiose" thought of for the Let 48 house are
those for meats at windows and balconies commanding •

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view of the royal preemies, and in the choirs situations
shopkeepers have been more than compensated for their
lees of anatomize by their pins from spectator'.
The weather to-day was fortunately propitious, and in this
respect the visit formed an agreeable oontrast to that of her
Majesty in 1864 when a mersilma rain fell for hours, halt
extinguished the illuminations at night, and greatly dimi.
Dished the pleasure and comfort of the royal party.
Throughout the whole Has of route the greatest enthu-
siasm was manifested, and their royal highnesses were
►. . .

continually bowing their acknowledgments of the hearty
plaudite which they received. The royal carriage was pre-'
ceded by a body of mounted police. lt contained the Prints
and Praxes; of Wales and the Earl and Countess of Derby.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Jones, K.C.8., woompsand
the royal carriage on horseback, in full uniform. The sword
carriage oontained Lord Stanley, and in title and the re-
mainiag carriages were the distinguished gown of Lord

Derby and the Earl of Sefton.
The procession left Keowaley at 11 o'clock, eallitig at
Croxtoth-park for Loed Sefton's party, and proosiding
through West Derby village, and arriving in Liverpool at
12. By half-past 12 the carriages reached Castloalreet,
where an immense cow:rouse of people had assembled. The
greetings here were prolonged sad most enthusiastic, the
ladies joining and giving a welcome to the Princess, which
was most gracefully acknowledged. The route to the land-
ing stage was down Wateratreet, which was festooned from
end to end with flags suspended from the merchants' and
shopmeo's offices, which are here the principal buildings-
Shortly before 1 o'clock the royal visitors reached the
stage, where they were received by the mayor. On the
stage and the surrounding quays and walls (which wore
alive with people) the enthusiasm was even greater, if pos-
sible, than is she atreele. As the Prince and Princes, with
their party, embarked on board the Woodside, M'lver's
Artillery corps presented arms, while the band played
" God bless the Prince of Wales." The royal standard was
then hoisted onboard the Woodside. and she preowned in
• northerly direetioa along the lino of docks, headed by the
tender of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Hoard, the Alert,
and followed (immediately astern) by the Canard tender
Srtellite, and on the quarters by the smart and
beautiful boats of the Massy River Steambeat
Company, the Sprite and Sylph, on board which wen
the members of the Town Connell and other public bodies.
A perfect fleet of miscellaneous ferry bode, all reeling
with passengers, followed at • little distance. The Wood-
side is Geo of the fine edema steamers which have lately
come into such deserved popularity for river traffic. She
was built by Masers. Laird, and lent for the occasion by the
Birkenhead Commissioners, who were represented on board
by Mr. H. K. Asphalt, Mr. Hrnd, and other gentlemen.
The cabins were carpeted, and an exquisite bouquet placed
in the private saloon. A portion of the upper deck was
also carpeted and furnished with cushioned chairs. Here
the royal party stayed during the whole of the trip on the
river, though the weather at times was bitterly cold, and
the brilliant sunshine was temporarily obscured by
a smart shower of tale, which drove a portion of
the company below. The passage up the river was neces-
sarily slow in consequence of the crowds of steamers, which,
in spite of the police regulations, encroached on all sides
upon the royal steamer, to the imminent danger of collision.
On passing the north feet a salute was fired, and the Wood-
side turned her bead to the Cheshire side of the river, and
proceeded southward, • short pause being made opposite
the Woodside larding stags in order to afford the crowds
there assembled a view of the Prince and Princess. The
ship-building yard of Messrs. Laird and Co. next attracted
attention, and the Prince and Lord Derby catered into an
animated conversation with Mr. John Laird, M.P., who,
with his family, was on board. On passing her Majesty's
ship Doaegal the yards were manned, and the
band of the Marines struck up various 'lathed
airs, The Cunard steamer Persia, decorated from stem to
stern wah busting, and carrying the Danish standard at
the foremast, was next passed, but no vessel seemed to
interest them more than the school frigate Cloonny, the
I yards of which were manned by about 200 youths, whojere
I sow studying navigatien on board, for the purpose of obtain-
fug appoiatmeeta as officers in the mercantile navy. The
I reformatory ships Akre,: and Clarence, and the training
I ship Indefatigable came in for their share of attention.
'The crowds upon the quays and stages remained until the
I return of the steamers, and, on the disembarkation, the
cheering was renewed, and continued until the party had
entered the Tows-hall, when they were entertained to
lutetium by the mayor in the large ball-room, which was
beautifully arranged and decorated for the seesaw. After
looking on 'Change from • balcony, the royal party next
visited the Free Public Library and St. George's Hall. At
the latter Mr. Best played a brief selection of music. This
portion of the day's proceedings was not finished in time
for a detailed report.
The Prince and Princess appeared in the best health and
spirits. The Princess wore a maroon velvet drew, white
bonnet, with mauve strings, and a rich India shawl. She
-"d a white silk parasol with lees ooverreg.

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