The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-20 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTON AT DOVER.

DOVER, TORBDAY.

To-day the town of Dover is en flte, Lord
Palmerston having received one of those popular °Tattoos
of which he is so frequently the subject when relieved from
the more weighty duties devolving on him as the head of
her Malady's government during the parliamentary seedem.
In his lordship's newly assumed dignity of Lord Warden
of the Claque Port he has received the flattering oom-
plimeets of the mayor, aldermen, and burgessecof this the
most important sof the five ports. Judging from the
*vent of today the loyalty of the Cinque Ports, to say
the least, has soffered no diminution, however the lapse
of years, and the birth of • ruder and less obse-
quious age, may have shorn them iof their ancient
dignities and immunities ; and this demoustration
manifests that the feelinp,of which loyalty to the throne is
the most prominent type, have now se great • vitality
among all CUMIN of the people as in the days when the
Cinque Ports were • power in the state.
The object of the noble Premier's visit to Dover was to
be present at a ceremony arising out of the presentation of
his lordship's portrait to the town. Already the Matson
Dien Hall, • spacious building founded by Hebert de
Burgh in the reign of King John, and recently restored at
considerable outlay, contains the portrait of many eminent
men, some of whom have held the post of Warden of the
Cinque Porte. Among the most treasured of these is •
full length one of the late Duke of Wellington, who at the
time of his death held the honourable office of Lord Warden;
and it has been thought that the likeness of Lord Palmers-
ton would be • valuable acquisition to the collection. His
lordship therefore complied with • request made to him to
sit to • talented artist, Mr. Morris, 8.A., who happens
most appropriately to be a native of Dover. The portrait
is an admirably painted full-length one. His lordship is re-
presented in the Warden uniform, • blue coat with eaarlet
collar, and is wearing the order of the garter. The likeness
is perfect.
The presentation took place at three o'clock in the liaison
Dien Hall. Lord Palmerston, accompanied by Lady Pal-
merston, the Hon. Mr. Cowper, dm, rode over from Wil-
mer. On his lordship descending the Castle-hill a salute of
nineteen guns was fired from the coatis batteries, and at
the foot of the bill hie lordship was met by the let A Cinque
Ports Artillery Corp, under Captain Wolluton, sad the
Bth Cinque Ports Rifles, under Captain Churehward, who
formed • guard of honour. The streets through which his
lordship passed on his way to the Matson Dieu were thronged
with people, who cheered heartily. Triumphal arches, flap,
and evergreens met the eye in all direction, a glorious sun-
shine giving due effect to these festal parparations. Indeed
nothing was wanting to render the reception ss complete
and enthusiastic as possible. At the Town Hall Lord
Palmerston was received by the Mayor and corpo-ation in
their official robes, attended by the Recorder. The Mayor
was preceded by the mace-bearer, carrying the mace given
to the corporation by Charles If. His lordship was con-
ducted to • dais, where the portrait to be presented use
placed, draped with crimson cloth. The hall was crowded
with the townsfolk, who Greeted his lordship with hearty
applause
chheeisrLingterhisif ishutellidlilare following
engrossed on vellum and bearing the corporate seal, wtr=
by the Recorder of the borough, Mr. W. H. Bodkin, the
pareags congratulating the noble viscount on his undimi-
nished health, and eaprewing the hope that his services
might be long spared to the country, being received with
cheers :

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To the Right How Beery John Temple, Viscount Palmer-
ston, K.G., 0.0.8., D.C.L. Constable of ha Majesty's
Castle of Dover, Warden Keeper, and Admiral of ha
Majesty's Cinque Pura, two ancient Towns, and
their Members, Mater of the Trinity-house, Deptford

Strand, act. .
We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the Cinque
Port and borough of Dover, in council assembled, beg to
congratulate your lordship on the cessation of the more
urgent of your lordship's labours by the prorogation of par-
liament, and to express our hearty welcome to your lordship
on your return to the Lord Warder's ancient residence
within the liberties of the Unique Poets, hoping that
the portion of your lordship's leisure which lyou
may be able to pass amongst us may conduce
to the invigoration of your lordship's health and
strength. We shall ever remember with grateful feelings
the detremination of her most gracious Majesty the Queen
to preserve and maintain the time-honoured jurisdiction of
the Cinque Poets by the nomination of your lordship to the
distiegunhed office of Lord Warden. And we think we may
with a laudable pride refer to the evidence of our appre-
ciation of your lordship's willingness to accede to her Ma-
jesty's which was so unequivocally expressed and
so universally shared on the occasion of your lordship's
recent inauguration. In commemoration of this and other
claims to the respect and gratitude of this corporation and
port, we have been anxious to perpetuate the memory at
our official connexion with your lordship by placing your
lordship's portrait, painted by one of our distinguished
fellow-townsmen, in our ancient hall. And we
thankfully acknowledge your lordship's Enthrone in
affording us the requisite facilities for accomplish—
ing this object ; and in now hoeouring with year
presence the ceremonial of its presentation to the town.
When it is remembered that the portrait will be associated
with those of the eminent Duke of Dorset, who held the
office of Warden in the reigns of Queen Anne and of the
Kings George 11. and ILL, and of the great Duke of
Wellingtos, who was removed from his earthly honours
whilst at the Warden's official residence of Weimer Cul*
we trust that the memorial will be universally recognised
as most appropriate. We earnestly hope that in the fulfil.
meat of your 'lordship's high and responsible duties you may
be blamed by Divine Providence with uninterrupted health
and energy, and that our sense of your lordship's public
services as filet minister of the crown and a senator of the
realm may by this day's proceeding be recorded by future
generations still revering the honoured jurisdiction of the
Cinque Ports.
Given under our corporate seal io our Council Chamber
at Dover, this fifteenth day. of August, in the tweet-sixth
year el her Majesty's reign, in the year al our Lord, 1862.

Lord PALIMSTON, in reply, laid—Mr. Mayor and gentle-
men of the corporation, I can assure you that I feel
deeply the honour yon are doing me by this address and
by the oocuiou upon which it is presented to me. I was
highly flattered when her Majesty was pleased to confer
upon me the high and dignified office of Warden of the
Cinque Porta, an office rendered valuable by the recollection
of those who hive held it in former times, and by the anti.
quity to which its history extends. But, gentlemen, it has
been a source of great eatisfaction to me to find that
the choice which her Majesty was pleased to make of
the individual to fill that office has been sanctioned by
your approval, and that now, when I return to you, a year
after my first presentation to you, you still evince the
kindly feeling and regard of which you made such satis-
factory and pleasing demonstration this time twelvemonth.

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It will be a mune of great pride to me that you have thought
fit to place a permanent representation of the fleeting indi-
vidual who now has the honour of addressing you in this
ancient hall amongst the effigies of those distinguished men
who have formerly held the office I now have the honour to
hold. It must indeed bee source of great gratification Many
man living to find the memory of himself placed in oar
nexion with the records of that eminent and distinguished
man the Duke of Wellington, of whom it may truly be
said there never was in the history of the world any
man who conferred greater benefit, upon the country
which produced him, and I may say, upon the whole face
of Europe keel/. (Cheers.) To find one 'a representatiou
placed. in conjunction with the memory of so great and dis-
=pushed a man must be • source of the greatest pride
gratification to any living man. (Hear, hear.) lam
also the more gratified to find that the picture which you
now behold is the work of a most distinguished artist of
your own town, one of your fellow-townsmen, who hu
shown by the meow with which he has finished this Odom
that he is worthy of the town to which his family and him-
self belong. Gentlemen, there are °carious upon which
ancient institutions are found to conflict with modern im-
provement, with the improved organisation of the present
time, and when that is the case nobody can regret that
those ancient institutions should either be modified or
swept away to make room for the more improved
arrangement. which modern times have suggested. But
that is not, lam happy to say, the case with that Ave
which I now have the honour to hold ; and where ancient
institutioosare not found to conflict with modern, improved
organisation, it is a wise policy to perpetuate, them and to
connect the radition of the past and the existence of the
present with the anticipation of the future. (Applause.)
I trait, therefore, seeing that the office which I hold has
already been adapted to the arrangements of modern times
by the withdrawal from it of some of those singularities
which fitted an ancient period, but which are not so math
in harmony with our present arrangements--I tine, that
the office, being now fitted to the time in which we live,
maiming oonnected with the most honourable traditions
of all the district to which it belongs—l trust that that
office, when I in the course of nature shall cease
to hold it, will be conferred on others after me,
end that them honourable recollections which belong to the
urangements of the Cinque Port will be kept alive in the
memory elf their inhabitant., and will serve as au incentive
and as emulation to induce them to rival the good deeds of
those who have gone before them for centuries and ceu•
fairies. (Loud applause.) Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I beg
again to return you my most sincere thanks, and to assure
you lam deeply sensible of the honour you have now con-
[erred upon me.
Loud cheers followed the conclusion of these °beer's-
time, and continued till Lord Palmerston had left the hall,
which he immediately did, attended by the Meyer and the
members of the corporation, said the principal military au-
thorities, among were Mejor-General Btotherd, Colonel
Cuppage, ILA., Colonel Rotten, 8.A., the Hon. Captain
Chetwynd, &c.
Occasion was taken of his lordship's presence in Dover to
uses • new bridge connecting the present iron bridge (the
Wellingtm) with Stroud-street. The new construction is
of iron, is designed by Illemrs. Walker and Burgess, the
well-known engineers, and will be known NI the Palmerston-
bridge. On this occasion it was decorated with triumphal
arches, evergreens, fie^ &c. His lordship was attended by
the members of the borer Harbour Board, the registrar
(Mr. J. Stilwell), the engineer (Mr. B. Bees). sod other
officials, and after passing over the bridge, and cracking a
bottle of wine in the centre, he formally declared it opened.

BANQUET AT THE LORD WARDEN HOTEL.

Lord Palmerston Ina subsequently entertained at •
banquet given by Mr. J. Birmingham, the Mayor of Dover
at the Lord Warden Hata

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In responding to the toast of his health,
Lord Par leaerox sati—l beg you to accept my most
unfeigned and heartfelt thanks for the kind and feeling man-
ner in which you have been pleased, Mr. Mayor, to propose,
and the hearty manner in which you, gentlemen, have been
pleased to respond to the toast. If I have been successful in
my public career, it has been owing entirely to the seat-
awe of my colleagues and officers. (Hear, hear.)
With the ability and sound judgment of Eng.
lishmea, they have been able to carry out every-
thing necessary, and whatever merit is due belongs to
them. (Hear, hear.) I do not claim any honour for myself,
but for those by whose ability and energy this honour has
been sustained. (Loud cheers.) With regard to the office of
Lord Warden,which I have the honour to hold, I must con-
fess that when it was first offered to me by her Majesty,
there was • doubt as to whether it bad not
outlived its proper time ; bat I found it was an office so
bound up with the organisation of the country, that I con-
sidered it would be laying the axe to the wrong root to
destroy it—(cheers)—and it was my belief that in accepting
the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Porta, I was
not only maintaining a dignity honourable to the district
to which it belongs, but also a dignity honourable to the
country. (Cheers.) I may have had other reasons, too,
for I have it from a very high medical autho-
rity that there is no district in England more
healthy than this of the Cinque Ports—(cheers)—
and after the impure air and pregame at the House of
Commons how pleasing is it to enjoy the balmy breeze from
the country. (Cheers.) This year the arrives here shown
the importance and the value of Dover, and to the English-
man it had more endearing associations. If he was about
to quit his native shore it was in many eases the laid spot he
left with regret, and it was the first to which he returned
with the pleasant feelings of home. (" Hear," and cheers.)
The Roman poet has reproached the inhabitants of Britain
with being unfriendly and inhospitable to strangers. In
those days, perhaps they bad no reason to be partial to
visitors—(a laugh and applause)—but at the present time
foreigners came amongst us to give and take, and to exchange
their commodities with one common feeling of benefit.
(Cheers.) Yon have at Dover a harbour extending
its arms, and ever open to receive a friead;
and you have upon your heighte—(lood and incessant air
plause)—you have upon your heights certain other things
(renewed applause)—equally ready to open wide their
mouths to receive a visitor if he comes in any other
way. (Prolonged •pplame.) Although I see around this
board those who are probably indebted to the healthy
air of this district, and one who was a volunteer in
the time of Mr. Pitt, and who, I doubt not, would be equally
ready to join the volunteers of the present day if his ser-
vices were only requiNd, the object of England is peace;
but we wish to be on a footing of good feeliog and inter-
mune with our neighbours. (Applause.) It has been truly
said that the faults of men are known only at a distance, but
their good feelings are never known until we have an oppor-
tunity of judging and appreciating them. (Hear.) I look
upon the great Exhibition as one of the means of
securing that international communication so essential to our
national prosperity, and I look upon Dover as having been
One of the great chariot wheels which have conveyed the
visitors to the metropolis. They would return with pre-
judice destroyed, and anxious to cement the solid peace
which it is my trout may continue as long as human peace
and happiness may endure.
The toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers" again brought
Lord Palmerston to he; feet. He returned thanks for him-
self and his colleagues. Men who were able to do anything
were best pleased when they bad a great deal to do ; and
although in the past session they bad not passed any laws
of great pretensions, there had been many measures of great
utility and usefulness. (Hear, leer.) In the hope sad trust
that these had met the approval of the country, he ten'
dered his thanks. (Applause.)

The noble lord having proposed "The Mayor of Dover,"
and also "The Ladies," returned to

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)

Muyiies, 25, fishmonger, was iodicted with having
f.r.A a signature to a post-office order for 54
Mr. Clerk and Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Rabton
a, feuded the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was in the employment of a
bran named Richardson, a flah-salesman, and by some
!wane got possession of a letter which contained the post-
, dice order in question. On the 24th July, Messrs. Grundy,
f Maidstone, having occasion to make a remittance of W.
to Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, in London, obtaiued a
poet-office order for that amount, which they en-
closed in a letter, and forwarded to their correspoodenta.
Neither the letter nor the order were, however, received by
Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, but the order was presented
at the money order office by a lad, and the clerk, knowing
that Messrs. Simpkin and Co. had their post-office orders
paid through their bankers, thought it rather peculiar that
this one should be presented in that manner, and asked
the boy who presented it where he got it from.
He said be got it from Mr. Simpkin' and he produced
a piece of the letter in which the order was enclosed.
He afterwards, however, said he had it from his brother,
who turned out to be the prisoner, who was asked how he
became possessed of the order, and he said he picked it up
at the corner of Etutolph-lane. The prisoner was told that
the order was stopped, and be said be must have been
a flat to have sent it, as he might have known
that it would be stopped. The prisoner was taken
to the money order-office- by the officer, and he was shown
the order, and was asked if be knew the signature, and
he said, yes, be did it himself, and again repeated that
be had picked it up at the corner of Botolph-lane. When
his attention was called to the portion of the letter in which
the order was enclosed, on which was the signature of Mr.
Grundy, he said be tore it from the paper that was
round the order when be found it, and he gave it to his
brother so that he should not forget the name. He said
he tore up the rest of the paper and threw it away.
Mr. Habton addressed the jury and called several wit-
nesses, who pee the prisoner an excellent character.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of uttering the order
knowing the signature to be forged, but recommended him
to mercy on account of his good character.
He was sentenced to eight mouths' imprisonment and bard
labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)
WORSHIP-STREET.
SINGULAR INCIDINTB DI ♦ PROTICTION ORDER.

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Catherine Geoffrey, • comely and respectable looking
woman, about 35 years of age, was granted a protection
order under the following circumstances, as deposed to
by her upon oath, and she said—l am the wife of Henry
Geoffrey, • bricklayer by trade, and was married to him on
the Bth of January, 1856, at Old Bethnal-gresa Church. I
resided with him in London-tenace, and Warner•p/ace,
Hackney-road ; and during that time learnt that his right
name was Johnson, the other an assumed one ; that ha
had been transported for life about the year 1829 in conse-
quence of a robbery committed by him on the Easter Sun-
day of the same year ; that after • considerable period be
obtained a ticket of leave for any country except England
—despite of which restriction he did come over here, and
married me as I have stated. I lived with him for two
years and a-half. On the 3rd of July, 1858, he deserted
me, but at the mine time left me • maintenance for twelve
mouths, namely, 501. He promised to send for me at
the end of that period, but has not done so. Three
months after he left me I received a letter from
him, stating that he had arrived safely at Tasmania, but
not enclosing any money. I have not baud from him
since, nor received a remittance through any channel in his
name. I have been informed that he took a woman with
him from England when he left me. I have set up in
business since my desertion, funds for which purpose were
supplied to me by an uncle, and by my lawful industry
hale acquired in the confectionery trade chattel' and stock
to the value of about 1301., and I am fearful my husband
will return and deprive me of it. lam also desirous of
ascerratiolog whether I must go in the name of Geoffrey or
of Morgan, which ens my name by a first marriage.
It was not understood that any information upon the
last•mentioned point had been obtained by the applicant.

SOUTHWARK.
MING POCUTS AT THE FORZHTIRH' ME.

ConieVuteol;;;r7loaepAiarnell,a;iWilltatn Mon-
tague, three smart-looking young fellows, were brought
before Mr. Burnham, charged with picking pockets at the
railway terminus, Loudon-bridge, during the purge of the
Foresters to the Crystal Palace.
George Holmes, 212 M, said that be was on duty with
other detective constalles outside the London-bridge
railway terminus in private clothes while vast crowds of
persons were proceeding towards the Crystal Palace en route
to the Foresters' fete. He there saw the prisoner. busily en-
gaged among the crowd, and FarneU and Connor crossed
over to Waffle's corner, when they went up to a female and
took something from her. The crowd was so great then that
he could not get near them, but perceiving Beogough and
Burch, other constable.. near he pointed out the pruoosn
to them, and told them to watch them. Witness teh maw
Montagu join the other prisoners, and they passed down
Duke-street towards Tnoley-street. Wittier followed them
and baud from his brother officers that the prisoners had
gone into a public-house near. He followed them in, and
with the &mistimee of the other constables, took them into
custody. k'arnell had an old alpaca coat on hisshoulders. Co
asamiumg it he found it verydirty and ragged,and the pockets
were so cut that be could hang it ea his arm and conceal his
band while picking pockets. He believed them all to have
been convicted. Witness added that vast numbers of
people were robbed yesterday, and he bad no doubt the pri-
soners and their companions bad reaped a rich harvest from
the Foresters and their friends.

The prisoners denied the accusation, bat
Mr. Burtliam remanded them for a week to enable the
police to make inquiries into their character.