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Cambridge, and the members of his suite, in the
same order in which they had arrived. As soon as
it was noticed that he was about to depart many
ladies and gentlemen left their places and hurried
round to the Floral Hall, and him Imperial
Majesty's departure was accompanied by the sure
flattering testimonies of respect as attended his
arrival.

An influential deputation from the Cotton Supply Amo-
elation had an interview with his Imperial Majesty yester-
day, at Buckingham Palace. The deputation was intro-
duced by Fuad Pacha, and the object having been
briefly explained by Mr. Cheetham, hi P., an address was
presented to the Sultan a tknowledging the lively interest
which hasaniformlybeen takenby his Majestyand hisgovern-
inert in theobjects which the association seeks to promote.
The association had also learn. with sa.isfeetion that im-
mediately preceding his Majesty's departure for Europe,
a law was promulgated grant'ng to foreigners further
rights in holding real property in the Ottoman
empire, a measure wlrch, if fully carried into
operation, will doub:leas be highly beneficial, and will
enlist foreign capital and enterprise in the develop.
ment of the resources of his Majesty's dominions.
His Majesty's reply was made in the Turkish language,
which was translated into French by his Highness Fuad
Pacha, He thanked the deputation for their address, and
the sentiments expressed towards him. His visit to Eng-
land had a double object in view—to testify hisattachment
to this great country, and his gratitude for the services
which it had rendered to Turkey • and also to ascertain the
means by which itsand its prosperity had been
brought about. He progress
ben touched by- the reception
which the English people and government bad given to
hhn. He knew how much the cultivation of cotton had
contributed to the wealth of the two countries ; and there-
firm he desired that his government should continue to
favour so important a branch of industry. He thanked the
association for the assistance it had lent to his government,
and he hoped their good porticos would be long continued.

(THOM THE COURT NETTEMER.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Jute 15.
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan received the Diplomatic
Corps accredited to the Court of St. James's at Bucking-
ham Palace yesterday afternoon. The reception was held
in the bow drawing-room. The royal body guard of the
Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the hall and upon
the grand staircase. A guard of honour of the Cold-
stream Guards was mounted in the court of the
His Imperial Majesty entered the bow draw-
mg-room at half-past two o'clock, attended by his suite.
The foreign ambassadors and 'ministers, who had pre-
viously assembled in the bow drawing-room, were then
introduced in the order of precedence by his Excellency
Muslims Pacha, the Turkish ambassador at the Court of
St. James's. They included the Austrian, Russian, and
French ambassadors, with their councillors, semetries,
and attaches ; the ministers of Italy, the Nether-
lands, the United States, Denmark, Brazil, Spain,
Sweden, and the Hansa Towns, with their seine-
taries and attaches ' • and the Charges d'Affaires of Belgium,
Bavaria, Portugal, Prussia, and Persia, with their secre-
taries and 'niches. At this reception Mr. P. Gadban,
the Turkish Consul-General in London; Mr. Orawshay,
the Turkish consul at Newcastle; Abdullah Ydlibi, the
Turkish consul at Manchester • and Mr. George Richmond
Collis, the Turkish consul at Hinningham, were severally
presented to his Imperial Majesty.
Soon after three o'clock his Imperial Majesty,
attended by the same members of his court and
by several officers of her Majesty's household, received
most of the members of her Majesty's ablest and go-
vernment, who wore severally introduced by the Earl of
Bradford, Lord Chamberlain.
In the course of the morning and afternoon the Sultan
received the following deputations :—From the Corpora-
tion of the city of Manchester ' • from the Cotton SApply
Association of Manchester; from the directors of the
Ottoman Railway Company; from the Varna Railway
Company ; from the American Community of Manchester,
Liverpool, and London ; and from the Community of
British Jews.
His Imperial Majesty drove out in the afternoon
attended by Djemil Pacha, his Imperial Majesty's ambas-
ardor at Paris, Reouf Pacha, and Halid Bey, and visited
, the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park. Major
General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel Hen:y Pon-
, minty, and Mr. Moore were also in attendance
upon his Imperial Majesty. His Imperial Highness
Youssouff Izzedin Effendi, attended by Reouf Pasha and
Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales at Marlborough-home, and afterwards
called on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at
Glougaster-house. The band of the Royal Hone Guards
attended at the palaoe In the morning and the evening,
and played a selection of music.

[TWOPENCE

exhibition. Some little disappointment is felt on
account of the slight competition in one or two
classes, and thoinferiority of others. Thethorough-
breds and hunters are not remarkable as classes
for either their quality or quantity—a rather sur-
prising circumstance considering the splendid
hunting country which the district of the show in-
cludes. Of these horses it is generally considered
there is nothing better than a fair average
show. Roadsters and carriage horses are
so good that ore is led to regret there are
not more of them to look at, and the same remark
will apply to ponies. The great strength of the
horse department is in the Sullen'. They are a
superb collection of chestnuts, such as is seldom
seen on one ground, and the trials in the fine ring
appropriated ifor the purpose were worth witness-
►ng, if only to note the improvement that has
taken place in the celebrated Suffolk punches.
The horses are not quite so punchy as they were 20
years ago, but they still preserve their main points.
Owing to the scanty attendance of spectators the
leaping of the hunters was a much more business-
like affair than it generally is, and very different
to what it will be (luring the week, should the
weather change. The Royal Agricultural Society
very properly do not, like other societies, make the
leaping the great attraction, and do not erect grand
stands for the convenience of those who delight in
equestrian skill. Where the plan is adopted no
doubt it pays, if it does nothing else, but it is
questionable whether it does anything towards the
improvement of agriculture, the invariable rule
being that thousands of horsey ladies and gentle-
men flock to the ring and leave the rest of the
show unvisited. The Royal Society do not, how-
, ever, neglect this part of the programme, and
twice a day, from to-morrow morning till Friday
afternoon, special trials will take place. Passing
to the sheep, we come to a succession of classes of
uniform excellence. The downy pohions of
Suffolk are almost the Paradise of sheep farmers,
and if this district did not furnish admirable sheep
it would have been something to wonder
at, but not expect. Leicester', Cotswolds, Lin-
coln', Oxfordshire', Southdowns, Shropshire',
and Suffolk* are about equally represented,
and represented so well that the judges were puz-
zled to decide between the competitors. The
names of the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Marl-
borough, Lord Walsingham, Lord Braybrooke, Lord
Sondes, and Mr. Holland, M.P., occurred frequently
in the catalogue as exhibitors or breeders of prime
sheep. Pigs were good, ugly, and numerous, but
the dairy produce was hardly worth bringing.
There were but nine entries of butter, and one of
cheese. Lady Caroline Kerrison's name was
amongst the nine who tried for the prizes for 61b.
of fresh butter, and she obtained the first prize.
Poultry of all classes were of the best description,
and in no decreasing quantity, but the judges de-
clared the cheese to be beneath mention.

The miscellaneous articles that find their way
into the implement catalogue increase every year
in variety and in number. Machines made to
shell peas and slice cucumbers, family mangles and
washing machines, patent gate posts, and cow-
house fittings, water carts and cheese presses,
clothes wringers and garden chairs, mowing ma-
chines and grinding mills, tanned leather and
sausage machines, silkworms and screw jacks, arc
added to the standard implements of husbandry
arranged over the greater portion of the ground.
Steam ploughs are excepted, those popular speci-
mens of the machinist's craft, as has been said,
being worked in an adjoining field.
A large quantity of tickets have been sold for the
horticultural show to-morrow. In the evening
there is to be a discussion at the Athena um on the
best means of meeting the losses occasioned by the
cattle plague.

His Imperial Majesty has been pleased to confer
upon his lircelleney Mosurus Bey, Turkish Ambassador,
the rack of NueMr, with the title of Bache.

THE BALL AT THE INDIA-OFFICE.—The trans-
formation of the spacious quadrangle at the new Bli*.
office into a magnificent sulk de toile is being rapidly
accomplished, and there are already abundant proofs that
the ball to the Sultan on Friday next will be on event well
worthy of the country and of the Oriental taste and re.
quirenients of his Imperial Majesty. To convert an open
court-yard into a bap -room is no easy task, but to perform
such a duty amid a chaotic umas of building materials and
workmen's tools, would seem to be an operation closely
approaching the impracticable ; and yet this is the teak
which Mr. Digby Wyatt has undertaken, and which,
when completed, will have been aecompliabed within a
fortnight. Part of the interior of the new building re-
presents a quadrangular court-yard open to the sky, and
surrounded by granite columns, gracefully proportioned
windowe, and richly carved ornaments of various forms
and degrees. This open space has been temporarily roofed
over, and the ground beneath has been covered with two
stibetantial floorings, one above the other, the uppermost
being so prepared as to render it admirably adapted to
the purposes of dancing. This will form a hall-room 90
feet in length by Gi feet in breadth, anal on
three aides are corridors 20 feet wide, which will
be left entirely free to the company. Refresh-
ments will be provided in the upper corridors. The
colour of the decorations will partake, to a great extent, of
white and gold, the latter, it is said, predominating ; bat
it would be difficult to convey even an approximate idea of
the style of ornamentation, as little can be seen at prevent
beyond the evidences displayed by the workmen nud
artists of the onerous labour they are celled upon to bring
to completion. At one end of the ball-room will be erected
a dais and a throne, and at this point every arrangement
will be made for the convenience of the royal party. An
orchestra will be constructed at one side of the room, be-
tween the corridors on the first and upper floor. There will
be three entrances to the building—one in St. James's.
park, smother in Cbarles-street, and the third in the large
quadrangle facing Kini-street.
ARM/NAUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.—
Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the members of this
society, under the presidency of the Duke of Argyll, was
held in the lecture-hall of the Society of Arts, in the
Adelphi, for the reeding and discumion of papers, and
generally for the advancement of the society's -interests.
The attendance, which was not numerous, included several
ladies. Dr. Smyth read a paper, which was afterwards
pronounced by the noble chairman and several of the
members to be an able and exhaustive one, entitled " Le-
periments practically demonstrated by the lows by
which birds fly, and their application to a now machine
for aerial navigation." One means of propulsion to be em-
ployed in working the machine, as en soxilia to the forms
vapour heat, would consist of explo.ive gases to be
attached to the machine by indiarubber cells.
A machine constructed upon the doctor's plan, with
one-hone power, would weigh about 2olba. Major Phil-
lip., of Wimbledon, who said his ideas of aerostatmon were
first suggested to him by watching the flight of vultures
on the East Indian mountains, also read a paper deecribing
au invention of his own, priced upon a system of planes
and wheels, having attached to them a kind of a feather.
shaped dapper or wing to work upon the air. Steam
would also have to be employed in this case. A paper by
Mr. Fred. Bourne, C.E., wax read by Mr. Le Neve Foster.
end another by M. H. Reds de St. Martin, who proposed
what ho called " a novel apparatus for aerial toe tion,"
and stated that the resisting power to be employed in his
invention would prove as simple and effectual as • string
attached to the schoolboy's kite.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—The only haziness transacted yesterday in the commit-
tees upon railway and other private bills, tram in the
House of Lords. In room D their lordships proceeded with
the further consideration of the Midland and Glasgow acid
South-Western Railway Companies' Bill, and the Midland
Railway Bill, and at their rising a further adjournment
until this day (Tuesday) was ordered. The Bill of the
London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway having passed
their lordship's committee, was reported to the house. In
room B the select committee on the Railway Companies
Bill and the Railway Companies (Scotland) Bill pro-
ceeded with their consideration, and adjourned uutil this
day (Tuesday).
LIST OF VOTER/I.—Saturday is the kW day for
the payment of rates and texas, so as to qualify to be on
the next registration list.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—It 11101 been arranged that
250 of the 19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer, in uniform
shall line the lower terrace and side walks this eremitic,
and at a given signal, simultaneously light up the terrace
with the meet brilliant lights as an imperial sad royal
salute to the Sultan and the Prince of Wales. The effect
of this sudden and extended illumination, witnuosed from
the Palace and the corridors, will, it is expected, be ma-
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