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London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

Chamberlain, and the Clerk of the Chamber (the

ministerial officers on whom the duty of conducting
the ceremony devolved), wore each his official robe
—that of the Chamberlain in particular being cots-
spicuous for its elegance, Here the Court, taking
no manner of cognizance of the presence of Royalty,
but assuming the indifference of the House of Peers,
which reads a bill for deepening the Thames, or
adding salt to the sea, before the coming of her
Majesty to open Parliament—the Court of Common
Council, we say, began, in that lordly assembly and
splendid hall, to read the minutes of the previous
Court, which were duly confirmed by a show of
spotless kid-gloved hands. The routine ceremony
of taking up the Freedom, the same with his Royal
Highness as with any other entitled by birth to the
privilege, then began by Mr. Woodthorpe, the
Town-clerk, reading the resolution passed by the
Court of Common Council at their meeting on the
12th March last, as follows :
"Resolved unanimously,—That his Royal Highness
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, be very respectfully
requested to take upon himself the freedom of this City,
to which he is entitled by patrimony ; and that upon his
acceding to this request his Royal Highness be presented
with the copy of the freedom, enclosed in a casket, in testi-
mony of the affection and profound respect entertained by
this Court for his person and charaster." (Cheers.)
Mr. SEWELL, the Clerk of the Chamber, read the
official record of his Royal Highness's title to the
freedom, which was in these terms
Chamber of London, Bth day of June, 1893.
Born without the liberty of the City, to wit, at
Buckingham Palace, in the county of Middle-
sex, 9th of November, 1841.
"His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
K.G., &c., son of his late Royal Highness Francis Albert
Augustus Charles Emanuel, Prince Consort, Duke of
Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, K.G., &c., a citizen
of London, came before the Chamberlain, the day and year
aforesaid, and desired to be admitted into the freedom of this
City by patrimony, because he is legitimate and was born
after the admission of his father into the said freedom. The
admission of the father is entered in the book marked with
the letter H, and bears date the 28th day of August, in the
fourth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and
in the year of our Lord 1840."
His ROYAL HIGHNESS then read aloud, and after-
wards subscribed, the subjoined declaration, which
was handed to him by the Chamberlain, and which
is a customary form long in use in the Corporation
on admission to the freedom. The copy from which
the Prince read was printed in letters of gold, on
crimson watered satin, bound in morocco leather :
" I, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, do solemnly declare
that I will be good and true to our sovereign Lady Queen
Victoria ; that I will be obedient to the Mayor of this
City; that I will maintain the franchises and customs
thereof, and will keep this City harmless, in that which in
me is ; that I will also keep the Queen's peace in my own
person; that I will know no gatherings nor conspiracies
made against the Queen's peace, but I will warn the Mayor
thereof, or hinder it to my power ; and that all these points
and articles I will well and truly keep, according to the laws
and customs of this City, to my power.

"ALBERT EDWARD.
" The foregoing declaration was made and subscribed at the
Guildhall of the City of London, this Bth day of June.
1863, before me,

"BENJAMIN SCOTT, Chamberlain."
Mr. SCOTT, the Chamberlain, addressing the
Prince, said— . _

" May it please your Royal Highness—The Mayor, Al-
dermen, and Commons of this City in Common Ccrincil
assembled, having very respectfully requested that your
Royal Highness would be pleased to assume the freedom of
this City in virtue of the citizenship of your late lamented
father, and your Royal Highness having condescendingly
presented yourself to comply with the legal formalities in-
cident to such a step, it devolves upon me, in accordance
with custom, to address a few words to your Royal High-
ness. The Corporation of London feels gratified by the
kindness which induces your Royal Highness thus to pre-
sent yourself to claim, as of right, that citizenship which,
under the circumstances, it is precluded from• conferring as
a gift. It may interest your Royal Highness to learn that,
although the present proceedings are in accord with the
invariable practice of this ancient
hat mu h
not nicipality, in the
exercise of franchises confirtmed, thoug originated at
the Norman Conquest, yot, the present, it is believed,
is the first instance of a Prince of Wales claiming the free-
dom by patrimony ; that is, as a son born subsequently to
his father's admission to citizenship. The congratulations
which which I tender on this occasion assume therefore a s 48
what exceptional, though I trubt a not
unacceptable orm.
I attempt not by any words of eulogy to enhance
Royal Highness's estimation the worth of the freedomin your
by
enumerating the distinguished princes, statesmen, warriors,
patriots, and philanthropists whose names are recorded on

" My Lord Mayor, Mr. Chamberlain, and Gentlemen,•—
It is, I assure you, a source of sincere gratification to me to
attend here for the purpose of being invested with a privi-
lege which for the reasons you have stated you are unable to
confer upon me, and which descends to me by inheritance.
It is a patrimony that I am proud to claim—this freedom of
the greatest city of the commercial world, which holds its
charter from such an ancient date. My pride is increased
when I call to memory the long list of illustrious men who
have been enrolled among the citizens of Loudon, more
especially when I connect with that list the beloved father
to whom you have adverted in such warm terms of eulogy
and respect, and through whom I am here to claim my free-
dom of the City of London. My Lord Mayor and gentle-
men, the Princess and myself heartily thank you for the
past—for your loyalty and expressions of attachment to-
wards the Queen, for the manifestations of this evening to-
wards ourselves, and for all your prayers for our future
happiness." (Cheers.)
On the motion of Mr. TRUSCOTT, Chairman of the
City Lands Committee, seconded by Alderman
COPELAND, it was resolved, in conformity with an
ancient custom, "that the address of the Chamber-
lain and the reply of his Royal Highness be entered
upon the journals of the court, and printed in the
minutes."

Alderman Copeland and Alderman Wilson, the
two senior members of the Court of Aldermen, were
then presented to the Prince, as were also, iu turn,
Mr. Lawley and Captain Parker, the mover and

seconder of the resolution in the Court of Common
Council, and Mr. F. Wyatt Truscott, the chairman
of the Entertainment Committee.
With these formalities the ceremony terminated,
and the Royal visitors withdrew from the Hall,
but, presently returning, the ball began, the Lord
Mayor leading off in a spirited quadrille with her
Royal highness the Princess, immediately in front
of the haut pas, and the Prince with the lady
Mayoress. Prince Alfred danced with the Princess
Mary of Cambridge ; and the Duke of Cambridge,
Lord Mount Edgecumbe, Lord and Lady Bury,
Major Teesdale, Colonel Keppel, Mrs. Stoner, the
Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord de Grey and Lord Harris
took part in the quadrille. For nearly two hours
the dancing was maintained with unflagging spirit,
her Royal highness joining repeatedly, and the
Prince still more frequently. On one occasion, the
Prince of Orange engaged the Princess for a part-
ner in a quadrille, Prince Alfred dancing with the
Lady Mayoress, and the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge with the Lord Mayor. At times the Duke
of Cambridge, the Prince Reuss Schleiz, the Duke
of Manchester, Lord Granville, Lord Grosvenor,
Lord Bury, and other distinguished persons, joined
in the dance, which was conducted in an open space
in front of the dais, kept with difficulty from the
eager crowd of guests who passed to witness it.
Shortly before 12 o'clock the Reception Com-
mittee, amid a flourish of trumpets, led the way for
the Royal party to supper in the Council Chamber,
the Lord Mayor conducting her Royal Highness
the Princess, and the Prince the Lady Mayoress.
The Council Chamber on this occasion presented
a grand and royal aspect. Its pretty lantern and
tapering roof had been exquisitely gilded and deco-
rated by Mr. Crace, and from the four columns on
which the dome rests depended large gilt baskets
filled with flowers. The lights from above were so
arranged as to fall softly upon the portrait of her
Majesty in her coronation robes. The east end of
the Chamber was filled in with mirrors, which were
jast sufficiently seen between the tall, rich, green
banks of heaths and ferns and palms to make this
most beautiful end of the room seem
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The north end of the Chamber was devoted to a
display of the almost untold wealth of the wealthiest
corporation the world has yet seen, and from the
floor almost to the ceiling this side of the Chamber
was hidden by massive gold plate, which in glitter-
ing array rose tier above tier in one great pile, over
which the statue of George 111. seemed t
watch with outstretched hands. In mere :pp:p-
ence it was a magnificent and most suggestive pile
of almost unknown value. Here were salvers es
large as baths, quaint beakers, and flagons formed
like dragons, bears, and cocks; tall old tapering
cups of the time of the Tudors, with finely-pointed
lids like spires ; salts as big and massive as modern
footstools, made at a time when they were really
used to mark distinction as to rank, when the Court
sat above the salt, and the Livery below this ancient
emblem of hospitality and welcome. The City
companies all poured forth their wealth of cups and
salvers to place them at the service of the Lord
Mayor on this occasion ; and the silver plate was
sent literally by tons, but scarcely any but gold was
allowed a place on this magnificent buffet. Almost

Beneath this grand trophy of centuries of well-
preserved wealth the table of the Royal party was
spread in horseshoe form, and this, too, like the
buffet, was almost covered with the finest specimens
of art in gold and silver which the City possesses,
while over the seat of honour hung the great sil'Yer
ehaneelier belonging to the Fishmongers' Company.
At this Amost regal table the Lord and Lady
Mayoress presided, the Princess of Wales being on
the right of the Lord Mayor and the Prince on the
left of the Lady Mayoress. On the left of the Prince
of Wales sat the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince
Alfred; on the right of the Princess the Prince of
Orange, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of C
brid„e. The other visitors who had the honour of
supping with the Royal party were Lord Granville,
Lord Palmerston, Lady Palmerston, Sir George
Grey, Lady Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord de
Grey, Lady de Grey, Sir C. Wood, and Lady Mary
Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Duchess of
Somerset, Mr. Cardwell and Mrs. Cardwell, Lord
and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Mr. Villiers, the
Duke of Wellington and Duchess of Wellington,
Lord and Lady Sydney, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Turkish Ambassador,
the Austrian Ambassador, the Countess Apponyi,
the French Ambassador, the Bavarian Minister,
the Baroness de Cetto, the Italian Minister, the
Netherlands Minister, the Danish Minister, the
American Minister and Mrs. Adams, the Sava
Minister, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister,
the Spanish Minister, Count Nesselrode, the Duke
of Richmond, the Duke of St. Albans, the Dul-A
of Buccleuch and Lady Victoria Scott, the Duke
and Duchess of Manchester, and the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland.
After the supper and before returning to the ball-
room in the Hall the Royal party were conducted
through the Court of Aldermen. On ordinary
occasions there would have been little to show
them here, but its heavy decorations and overloaded
ceiling, in which Thornhill's picture is set in a
massive-looking frame in the roof, like a cheap
cameo mounted in mosaic. It was not this, how-
ever, which they were taken to see, but a pleasant
and rather graceful little surprise which the corpo-
ration had prepared for the Princess. In a large,
deep recess, occupying nearly one side of the court,
was a lovely moonlight scene of a palace with a
broad-spreading lawn reaching down in the fore-
ground to where the real plants and ferns had been
artistically arranged by Mr. Scott, so as to make it
seem almost a continuation of the picture. This
picture, which, lit from behind, made an exquisite
moonlight scene, was a picture of Prince Christian's
Palace of Bernstorff, where the Princess Alexandra
was born, and standing in the centre of the lawn
was a portrait of the Princess herself, as if in the
act of moving forward towards the entrance of the
mansion. Regarded only as a most effective scene
by moonlight the picture would have been worth a
visit, but it was evidently dearly welcome to the
Princess as the picture of what was once her home,
and she was earnest and animated in her praise of
it. The whole idea of showing her this picture, as
it were, en passant, made it a well-timed and deli-
cate compliment to her visit, and the corporation
must have been more than repaid by the evident
gratification it afforded her. It was one of the
prettiest incidents of the night.
The general company supped in a lofty and com-
modious apartment over the Reception Saloon, and
of precisely the same dimensions, designed to ac-
commodate nearly 600 people at supper at one
time, and immediately contiguous to it were three
smaller rooms, adapted for the occasion by flooring
over the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common
Pleas, and capable of accommodating about 300
more. These several apartments were prettily
lighted by star shaped gaseliers, suspended from a
mitered roof, and the walls were draped with a ma-
terial of pink and white, cool and agreeable to the
eye. About 60 or 80 of the more distinguished
guests supped in the Court of Exchequer, and some
of the general company, unable to find room else-
where, took refuge in a tent erected in the open
space in front of the Town Clerk's office. The sup-
per for the whole company, some 2,000 in number,
was furnishedby Messrs. Ring andßrymer, of Corn-
hill, and, with all its appointments, was worthy
their reputation.
At 2 o'clock the festivity was at its height, though
the departure of the Royal guests was evidently
near at hand. When they did at last take their
leave no etiquette could entirely restrain the warm
testimonies of affectionate respect which bid them
farewell. Their departure caused a momentary
blank, and the most distinguished visitors hastened
to follow the example set by the Royal party. It
was not, however, by any means generally emu-
lated, and the chandeliers were struggling feebly
and inffectually against the dawn before the festi-
vities ended, and long before the last guests had de-
parted from this, the greatest, the most magnifi-
cent, and certainly the most successful of all the
many great entertainments of the City.

41 EsskYs AND REITIEWS."—This apparently in-
terminable ease will come before the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council on Friday, the 19th inst. It
will be remembered that on the hearing of the case Dr.
Lushington condemned Dr. Rowland Williams, the author
of the article "Bunsen's Biblical Researches," to one year's
suspension from his benefice, and the Rev, 11. B. Wilson,
author of the article entitled " The National Church," to
the same amount of punishment, upon which both the rev.
gentlemen gave notice of appeal. It is said that both Dr.
Williams and Mr. Wilson intend to dispense with legal as-
sistance before the Judicial Committee, and that each will
argue his own case, that of Dr. Williams being taken first.
THE CENTRAL RELIEF
CommitteeLivnFFUN washe D—T
meeting of th
Manchester yesterday ; Sir J. Kay Shuttleworth pies
past week had been £2,270 lls. 3d. ; balance
in the bank,
11 reported
receipts of the
£362,465 12s. 10d. Mr. Commissiom
ner Farnaay
of
per-
that held.d a weekly
The honorary secretary reported that the
that the de ease in the week ending the 310,8 th. M
58The total
102,316 persons,
decrease since the 6th of Decemberl
The hon. secretary's
sons in receipt of relief in 27 Unions wwasse
leaving 169,597 still chargeabeeee.,
by which it appears
monthly report for May was prnted
with the end of April
at the end of May as compared
books The attention of the committee
decrease of 72,000.
shows a inspectors and by infor-
mation
was called by the reports of their
that the total number of persons in receipt of relief on the
numbers of persons not belonging to the class of mill
able
- from individual members to the fact that consider..
operatives as well as persons ordinarily relieved from the
parochial rates had been admitted on to the relief lists dur-
ing the winter months, and still continued in receipt of re-
lief. It was, therefore, decided that a circular should be
ththeemvathriofusurnelisahsseths
ofe Central
prepared, directing the attention of the local committees to
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in receipt of relief from them, and
urging upon them the
expediency of an early revision of h •
t eir relief list, with a
view to the reduction of the number of persons of the classes
referred to now upon the relief funds. Grants were made
to 13 places from the general fund to the amount of £6,000,
including £3,000 to Manchester, and £2,000 to Preston.
Grants were made to Tintwistle, Crompton, and Broad-
bottom of £292 from the Employment and School Fund.
Grants were made of £4O 2s. to six of the local committees
for the superintendence of labour.

THE THAMES AND THE TYNE.—During the week
commencing 15th of June there will be no less than
three great skiff matches between London and Newcastle
men on the Thames ; the great match being that between
Robert Chambers, of Newcastle, the present champion of
the Thames, with Green, of Australia, for £2OO a side and
the championship of the world. Chambers left the North
for London on Saturday, and will take up his quarters at
the Feathers Tavern, Wandsworth. He is accompanied by
the veteran oarsman Henry Clasper and Edward Winship.
He will row the match in the beautiful skiff, the Princess
Alexandra, with which he beat Everson, the Greenwich
waterman, early in the season. Teasdalo Wilson, a New-
castle man, will row Drewitt, of London, in the second
match for £lOO a side; and the third skiff match for the
same sum will be between Cooper, a Tyne boatman, and
Everson,
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in training on the Thames. These impending
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great matches are attracting much attention on the Tyne,
and in the north country generally. The betting at New-
castle is at present 7t04 on Chambers. Drewitt is backed
at 6 to 4 on the same river, and in London 6 to 4 is bet on
Everson in the third match.