The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

THE SUB, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEINIING, AUGUST` 80, 1865.,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1865.

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It is satisfactory to notice that the ceremony- of the
inauguration of the memorial to the late PRINCE
CONSORT has been successfully got through, and that
nothing was wanting to conduce to the prosperity
of the undertaking. This has been, in truth, a sad
and solemn task, but its pomp and grandeur are
outweighed in most minds by the peculiarly impres-
sive and interesting attributes of the scene. Domestic
life, in its sorrows and sympathies, was shadowed
forth in that pageant no less than the mighty mean-
ing of the outward and visible wish of doing honour
to an illustrious Prince, who was the pride of Ger-
many and the worthy consort of the Queen of
ENGLAND. For the first time for many years all
the children of the QUEEN met on this occasion.
It certainly was an appropriate one, and well
calculated to bring painful and pleasant recollec-
tions to their minds. It is no exaggeration to
say that the children of Queen VICTORIA have
had the wisest training that has ever fallen to
the lot of the young scions of a Royal house.
They have been instructed as members of the
great human family ; and while they have been
carefully taught what pertained to their position,
they have seen the world to a greater extent
than many might have deemed practicable. Prince
ALBERT could have wished for no more graceful
tribute to his memory than this celebration at
Coburg. It was, in every sense of the word,
a fitting offering. The statue is in itself a work of
art that commands attention, and all its surround-
ings are calculated to impress the beholder. Mr.
TREED, the sculptor, has fulfilled the task intrusted
to him in an appropriate manner, and it must have
been very gratifying to the members of the Royal
Family to see the work so admirably performed. On
part of the pedestal there is an inscription of the
names and titles of the Prince, and at the back the
date of the erection of the monument, with these
German words of the Psalm—" The righteous shall
live in everlasting remembrance." Such is an ap-
propriate motto for the monument. All must feel
for the QUEEN and her family, and rejoice that they
were thus enabled to fulfil their desires, and to
witness the Inauguration of this Statue to the me-
mory of the loved and lost. At the same time, the
people of this country cannot but think that it is
one of the drawbacks to a higher rank of life that
sorrow may become too prolonged. In humbler
spheres important duties must in time take the place
of sad reveries and mournful tributes. It is truly
said in the beautiful lines on the burial of the dead,
" Then cheerily to your work again." It cannot be
said that anything has been left undone that could
do honour to the memory of the late Prince ;
and it now remains that the strict seclusion
in which the SOVEREIGN
all has remained should
at
be exchanged
events for a partial resumption
of the duties of her high office. It is unfortunate
that, in losing the lamented Prince, her MAJESTY
was deprived of the only one who had a right to
advise her; but it is still to be trusted that she will
listen to those counsels which assure her of the
claims which still call her back to the land of the
living. The example of her lamented husband is
before her, for he never failed in his appropriate
work, and she will find in fulfilling her public
duties the best consolation that can be hers, until
in fulness of time " GOD'S love shall set her at his
side again" whom she so deeply mourns.

Republican America appears to be divided into
as many factions and parties as any of the older
states who have the problems of centuries to settle.
The cessation of the war which has for the last four
years given incessant occupation to the tongues and
pens of rival politicians has now developed fresh
difficulties and given rise to fresh discussions and
dissensions. The PRESIDENT has an awkward posi-
tion, and the honours which have baen so suddenly
and unexpectedly thrust on him have hitherto proved
very thorny. He is apparently a man of much de-
termination and perseverance, and he certainly
needs those qualities in his Presidential capacity
more than he required them in fighting his way up
from the lower ranks of the people. There is un-
fortunately a party in the North to whom the
termination of the war means nothing more or less
than the political extermination of the South. They

are eager to confiscate all property, to deprive the
whites on one pretext or another of all political
rights and to hand them over to the negro, to whom
a vote at present can have very few attractions.
If this extreme section had their way they would
soon either kindle a fresh war by driving the
Southern people to extremities or they would
crush them down under a martial law which
could not possibly be maintained over such
immense territories, and so vast a popula-
tion. Happily the PRESIDENT refuses to be dic-
tated to by these extreme Radicals, as they are
called in the States, and has hitherto, with one
or two exceptions, shown more moderation than
could have been expected of him, and he has
reaped the reward by rapidly rising in European
reputation. At first his antecedents, and his un-
fortunate display at his inauguration as Vice-
President,
combined with his repeated diatribes
about the guilt of treason, excited considerable
uneasiness among the English well-wishers of
America and the Americans. Lookers -on see
most of the game, and Englishmen who have
watched the fluctuations of the war with the in-
tensest interest, are perfectly convinced that the
life and vigour of the Southern States cannot
have been so suddenly trodden out, and that the
policy which would seek to impoverish and de-
grade the people will only serve to keep alive
the smouldering fire. The accession of the Vice-
President to the supreme power was therefore
looked upon with some misgivings, and the arbi-
trary proceedings at Richmond, coupled with the
cruel severity with which the ex-President of the
Southern States was treated, tended to increase
the feeling. Whether the responsibilities of power
brought calmer reflection and more enlarged views,
or whether the opinion of Europe has weighed with
President JOHNSON, it is certain that he has discou-
raged the extreme views of the Radicals, and has
preferred to ally himself and his party rather with
the Democrats than with the rival section. The
power of the Republicans and Democrats has con- I
siderably strengthened Mr. JomisoN's position, and
will leave him free to carry out his own notions of
Southern policy. The task of reconstruction is
difficult enough in any shape, without the added
perplexity of the weakness occasioned by divisions
in the North itself. The South, exhausted by the
natural reaction after its prolonged struggle, is just
now in a condition favourable to pacific efforts,
and it will be a thousand pities if the fanaticism of
the Radicals puts unnecessary obstacles in the way.
Mr. JOHNSON'S scheme is as fair as could be ex-
pected, with one or two exceptions. He has ap-
pointed a Provincial Governor in every Southern
State, with the duty of assembling a State Conven-
tion to recognise the State, and to make such
alterations in its constitution as will bring it in
harmony with the existing laws of Washington.
The abolition of slavery and the re-entrance into the
Union are the two great points insisted upon, and
these no one can quarrel with. The great drawback
is the confiscation clause, which virtually takes
all Southern property over the value of $20,000 out
of the hands of it owners. It has not as yet been
pushed forward with any great rapidity, but it has
gicen rise to a feeling of great insecurity among the
Southern owners of property, and it has done much
to increase the unpopularity of the central authority.
It is most unwise and impolitic, as well as a harsh
and unjust clause, since it is absurd to measure a
man's loyalty in inverse ratio to his property. Be-
cause he has lands or factories above a certain
value he is disloyal, but if his goods do not
quite come up to the specified amount he
may be trusted to keep what belongs to him. The
feeling against this confiscation system is so strong
that Mr. SLIDELL'S property in Louisiana was sold
at an eighth of its value, from the unwillingness of
people to buy confiscated estates. Two of the Pro-
visional Governors have recently addressed the
people of the States under their charge, Florida and
Texas. Governor MARVIN of Florida spoke frankly
and boldly. He reminded the people of Florida
that on the outbreak of the war the Confederates
had confiscated the property of Union men, and
showed that the reverse of fortune had now con-
fiscated the property of the Southerners. They
were, he said, a conquered people, and at the mercy
of Government, but he assured them of its clemency.
The black man could never, he said, be enslaved
again, and he exhorted them to give him a fair
chance, to teach and encourage him. Governor
MARVIN was no stranger to his hearers, being one
of the oldest citizens of Florida, and deeply interested
in the welfare of his State. His words are, there-
fore, likely to weigh with the people. Governor
HAMILTON, of Texas, was more downright and less
conciliatory in tone, but still he boldly urged the
duty of the white man towards the negro. Unfor-
tunately the Northerners have nearly as much to
learn as the Southerners in this respect. We can only
hope that both sides may profit by the mistakes and
misfortunes of the past in their conduct for the
future.

The Exhibition of Working Men are among the
most prominent features of our present time, and it
is, indeed, difficult to overrate their importance, or
magnify their influence. At Birmingham, on last
Monday, the Industrial Exhibition of Working
Men for Birmingham and the Midland Counties
was inaugurated. The scene at Bingley Hall was
a very impressive one, and general satisfaction
appeared to prevail. Lord LYTTELTON delivered
the inaugural address, and he did so very successfully.
The noble lord rightly appreciated the real use of
such undertaking as the one before them, by de-
claring that they purported to increase the
voluntary and intelligent intercourse between the
different classes of society. This is, in fact, why
these affairs ought to be encouraged, and why con-
stant support should be afforded to them by all who
are of ability and influence. Lord LYTTELTON also
adverted to the great change for the better which
had taken place of late in the intercourse between
classes. DANIEL DEFOE wrote, one hundred
and fifty years ago, concerning this matter, and
said that although the rich knew something of the
doings of the poor, still, on the whole, their suf-
ferings and their views were, so to speak, carried on
published,the
author entitled
showed
by themselves. In recent times a remarkable book
wt:iss‘t‘hTathethTewriochNaantidonpso,'o'r were
dine
as little known to each other as if they were a
separate and distinct •
nation, though living within
the borders of England. The noble lord observed, in
respect to. these writings, that they would not be
found so appropriate and characteristic as descrip-
tions
of these days. It may be questioned, indeed,
if the twenty years that have elapsed since Mr.
DISRAELI penned his work have not wrought greater
changes than the long period which passed between
the sayings of DEFOE and the publication of "Sybil."
Doubtless, the spread of education has had a great
deal to do with the happy results of which these
exhibitions are a striking proof and a worthy testi-
monial.

There was also considerable force in what Lord
LYTTELTON said regarding the mingling of classes,
and especially that the working classes themselves
desired it. The desire which each evince to know
something of each other is shown by the literature
of the day. The works of fiction most prized by
the lower classes are those which d.tail the doings

of the aristocracy ; and, likewise, it is well known
that accounts of the existence led by the lower and
humbler ranks are welcomed by the upper ten
thousand. This is as it should be, for it is a great
mistake to suppose that a community can really
flourish and attain to the standard of effi-
ciency if its several component parts are not
on terms of amity and intimacy. Lord LYTTEL-
TON quoted those words of Scripture eminently
suited for the occasion, "To every man
his work;" and such exhibitions as this at Birming-
ham is peculiarly calculated to encourage this feel-
ing, and promote the object which divine precept
and human experience declared the wisest and best,
the most likely training for here and hereafter. As
Lord LYTTELTON said, " Why should it not be en-
couraging to the artisan to see his works admired ?"
on the same principle that men of the better classes
appreciated the National Gallery and collections of
sculpture, and as Mr. DICKENS might feel when the
" labouring people of this country literally devour
his writings." It is a great point gained for mutual
appreciation of each other's excellencies to prevail
among separate classes. Jealousies and prejudices
are sure to predominate to a certain extent and a
great degree, but these may be counteracted by
judicious efforts. Birmingham, as the noble lord
said, is a very appropriate place for such an exhibi-
tion, on account of its great variety of " trades."
There seems no reason to fear that these exhibitions
should not proceed and prosper, and that they may
do so will be the earnest aspiration and heartfelt
wish of all who appreciate their importance, as pro-
moting intercourse between classes, and furthering
the general advance of intelligence and enterprise
among the community.

Loss OF THE SCREW STEAMER GLASGOW.—The
Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Glasgow
was resumed yesterday, when the statement of Captain
Manning was taken. He said that he had been in the
Inman service about three years, and had been appointed
master in July, 1864. The cargo was stowed by stevedores,
under the superintendence of the officers of the ship. The
ship was well found and in good condition. Witness had
inspected the cotton in the steerage after the ship sailed.
It was built up with rolls of leather, outside which were
tires of boxes. From the outside of the boxes to the cotton
the distance was about six feet. He described the means
adopted for extinguishing the fire, and said that everything
that it was possible to do had been done to save the ship.
With reference to the saving of the passengers, he spoke
very highly of the conduct of the captain of the Resolute,
who, he said, threw overboard 50 or 60 tons of coal to ac-
commodate the people from the Glasgow. There was
plenty of hose on board. Captain Harris observed that
there was no doubt that the loss of the ship had been caused
by an accident, but the result showed that it was very in-
judicious to carry cotton in the steerage. In this case it
had no doubt led to the destruction of the vessel. Lights
had been taken amongst the cotton contrary to the com-
pany's regulations. It was stated by Mr. Bardswell, solicitor
for the owners, that the vessel was insured for £15,000,
but that the freight and passage meney were uninsured.
He believed the vessel was worth about £25,000. The
Glasgow was, he believed, the fourth ocean-going iron
screw steamer ever built, and one of the oldest in exist-
ence. The assessors stated that they would forward their
roport to tho Board of Trade. The captain's certificate
was then returned to him.

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The
81st half yearly meeting of the shareholders in the
General Steam Navigation Company was held yesterday at
their offices, 71, Lombard-street—Mr. John Wilkin in the
chair. The report of the directors and a statement of the
accounts for the half-year to the 30th June last were read to
the meeting and unanimously adopted. The customary
dividend of 14s. per share, being at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, was declared ; and the cordial thanks of the
proprietors were voted to the chairman and directors for
their continued exertions in the management of the com-
pany's affairs.
MR. POTTER AND TRADES' DELEGATES. Mr.
Potter has been censured by his fellow-workmen.
The report presented at the annual delegate meeting of the
trades of London on Monday night contained a passage in
which the council said they could not refrain from stating
their conviction that the terms for arbitration in the Staf-
fordshire strike offered by the Earl of Lichfield and ac-
cepted by the masters had been rejected by the men in
consequence of the 'glowing promises of support held out
to them night after night at the irresponsible meetings
convened by Mr. Potter. An amendment was moved and
seconded that this portion of the report should be struck
out, and a noisy discussion took place, but in the end the
report was adopted entire.

DIOCESS OF LINCOLN.—The Bishop of Lincoln
has offered the vicarage of Holbeach, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Prebendary Morton, to tho Rev. George
Beatson Blenkin, MA., of Corpus Christi College, vicar of
Boston. His lordship has instituted the Rev. J. H. Cheales,
M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, to the vicarage of
Skendleby, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on the nomination
of Lord Willoughby D'Eresby ; the Rev. Wm. H. Cantrell,
M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, vicar of Atten-
borough with Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, to the rectory
of Bulwell, in the room of the Rev. John W. Armitage,
M.A., and has licensed the Rev. J. L. Gurney, M.A., to the
curacy of Riseholme, on the nomination of the Ven. Arch-
deacon Kaye.
RUSSIAN TRADE WITH EUROPE.—Some interest-
ing particulars have just been published at St.
Petersburg respecting the trade of Russia with Europe in
1864. According to these data exports in that year ex-
ceeded those in 1863 by over 30 millions, amounting to 171
against 140. Of these 164 millions were sent to Europe,
and 6 millions to Finland. The exports of grain (54 mil-
lions) showed an increase of 10 millions ; wool (19 mil-
lions) exceeded the previous year by 4 millions, and lin-
seed by 6 millions (18 against 11). The exports of flax
and tallow, on the other hand, each diminished by 700,000
roubles, the former, in 1864, being 15 millions, the latter 9•
The chief remaining articles of export were hemp and
wood (5 millions each), bristles and tow (2 millions each),
cattle, potashes, various unworked metals, hempen thread,
oil, seeds, rope, butter, and undressed leather, 1 million
each ; hemp and flax fabrics, raw silk, linseed and hemp
seed, oil, furs, gallnuts, fish oil, horses, rags, candles, and
caviare. half a million each. In the total exports raw pro-
duce is represented by upwards of 150 million roubles, and
from 15 to 20 millions only remain for manufactured goods.
In 1863 the export of bullion amounted to 59 millions, in
1864 to 21 millions. It will be remembered that in 1863
the Bank of Russia exchanged its notes for coin up to the
sth November. Imports in 1864 showed an increase of
17 millions over the previous year, amounting altogether
to 144 millions, 3 millions of which were derived from Fin-
land. Goods not subject to duty imported by Government
and companies from abroad are not included in these
figures, but will be comprised in future accounts, as it is
evident no proper commercial balance can otherwise be
struck. The chief place among articles of import is occu-
pied by cotton, in value 22 millions against 9 millions in
the preceding year ; tea follows with 8 millions against
previous 10 millions. This latter reduction is due to the
increase of duty upon imports taking place across the
European land frontier. A diminution was also observed
in sugars (8 millions against 10 millions), wine (7 mil-
lions against 8 millions), metals, fish, silks, and drugs.
Increase, after cotton, was perceptible, in the import of
machinery and models (7 millions to 5 millions), coals (in-
crease, 1 million), wool (1 million), chemical products
(1 million), salt (2 millions), worked linens
.(1 million),
woollen and hempen fabrics, &c.:

GLENFIELD STARCH.—As an article of domestic
use starch is of great importance, because by its
aid the beautios of the female costume can only be tho-
roughly developed. Foremost among the producers of
that necessary and all-important article stand the Messrs.
Wotherspoon ; because, not content with manufacturing
it in the old conventional manner, they have devoted
both time and money to the improvement and production
of an article of commerce which has secured to them the
patronage of royalty, and which has become one, we
might almost say, of universal use. From the Royal
laundry down to the humblest establishment of the same
description Glenfield Starch is in daily use, and, did
space permit us to give the statistics of the amount pro-
duced, consumed, and exported, the figures would asto-
nish the most careless observer. That the article is one
of superior quality the shirt front and turn-down collar
of every man of taste bears unmistakeable evidence, be-
cause none but an article of first-rate quality would 'im-
part that unimpeachable gloss and smoothness which now
so greatly distinguishes the linen of " young England."
The manufacturing establishment of the Messrs. Wother-
spoon must be one of great extent, because not only do
they produce starch in enormous quantities, but they pro-
vide the public with confections and biscuit to an extent
' almost incalculable. The purity of the articles is un-
doubted, because in each of the Great Exhibitions of Eng-
land, France, and America, in 1851-3-5, and '65, they
received prize medals for their contributions.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We have much pleasure
in calling the special attention of visitors to the metro-
polis to Madame Tussaud's instructive and highly-interest]
ing exhibition in Baker-street, where relics;innumerable
once the property of the Great Napoleon and other dis-
tinguished personages, everywhere meet the eye. Life-
size models of the monarchs of England, from William the
Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, all being attired
in the gorgeous costumes of the respective periods, may
likewise be seen ; and in the chamber of physiognomy are
effigies of the late notorious criminals.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUiER'S TELEGRAMS.)

LITERATURE.

The Student's English Dictionary. By John Ogilvie,
LL.D. One vol. Pp. 814. Blackie and Son.
One of the most exquisitely printed and carefully
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Edinburgh. It is a Dictionary at once Etymological,
Pronouncing, and Explanatory. It has been edited
by the Editor of two other dictionaries already
famous in their way, " The Imperial" and " The
Comprehensive." Dr. Ogilvie, it should be re-
marked, has been assisted in the labours of
compilation applied by him to The Student's
English Dictionary, now under notice, by Mr.
Richard Cull, F.S.A., under whose hands the Pro-
nunciation has been very carefully adapted through-
out to the best modern usage. Word after
word—from Aaronic to Zymotic--:--will be found
to have been traced back to its ultimate
source, the root or primary meaning being in each
instance inserted, and the other meanings very fully
given according to the most reliable authorities.
Scattered through the letterpress are about three
hundred illustrative wood engravings. Alike to
teachers and to pupils at our more advanced schools
and colleges, the " Student's Dictionary," here
issued from the press by the Messrs. Blackie and
Son, will be found to be not simply acceptable, but
absolutely invaluable as a long-looked-for book of
reference. According to the old slang of pro-
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nothing less than a necessity. Once placed upon
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within reach, upon the study-table—we can't very
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information is never superficial oP incomplete. It
is always directly to the point—remarkable at once
for its terseness and its completeness. All the more
accomplished philologists and lexicographers now
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Bishop Colenzo v. the Chancellor of the

Exchequer and Others.

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It was stated in The Sun of the 14th inst. that Dr.
Colenzo, Bishop of Natal, had filed a bill in Chancery
against the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Attorney-
General, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Vice-Chancellor
Page Wood, Mr. Hubbard, and others, seeking to compel
them to pay over the amount of his salary from the Colo-
nial Bishoprics Fund, which has been withheld during the
last two years. The defendants in the case have filed their
answer, and have fully set out the circumstances under
which the fund was formed. In June, 1853, the council
of the fund appropriated a capital sum of £lO,OOO for the
establishment of the bishopric of Natal, and Dr. Colenso
was nominated bishop by the Duke of Newcastle, who was
then Colonial Secretary. The defendants urge that they
had nothing to do with the appointment of Bishop Colenso.
Having adverted to the letters patent and the recent judg-
ment of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, the de-
fendants say in their answer, " We are advised that, in ac-
cordance with the said judgment, the letters patent are null
mid void so far as they purport to create any diocese or to
confer any legal authority or jurisdiction on the plaintiff,
and that the plaintiff has no power to exercise the func-
tions of a bishop in the colony of Natal, or at all events,
has no jurisdiction as bishop in the colony, and is not him-
self subject to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Cape Town
as his metropolitan, or to any other
_spiritual or ecclesias-
tical jurisdiction wltatever ; and we submit that, if such is
the case, the objects for which the funds hereinbeforc men-
tioned were inscribed and invested have not been ob-
tained, which objects were, in the first place, to secure
the pastoral care of a bishop for the clergy and people
of the diocese of Natal, and, in the second place, to
bring such bishop under the jurisdiction of the
metropolitan, himself being subject to the Archbishop
of Canterbury. And we declare our belief that none of the
contributors to the Colonial Bishops' Fund intended to con-
tribute towards the support of a bishop such as the judg-
ment of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy
Council has decided the plaintiff to be ; that is to say, a
bishop without any jurisdiction over his clergy on the one
hand, and entirely independent of all metropolitan juris-
dicLion on the other." The defendants proceed to allege
that the clergy of the diocese of Natal have refused obedi-
ence to BiskOn Colenso ; that one of the fundamental prin-
ciples of all arraticTements for the erection and endowment
of colonial bishoprics 'vas the maintenance and preservation
of strict connection, in dociiine and discipline, between such
bishops and the United ChurC:4 of England and Ireland ;
that all the archbishops and bishops of such Church are
trustees for the endowment of the see of Natal, and, as such,
are authorised to withhold the income from the plaintiff.
The case will be argued before Sir John Itomilly, in the
Rolls Court, at the commencement of the forthcoming
Michaelmas Term.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market the arrivals of English wheat
were moderato. The supply of new produce was received
in very middling condition ; consequently old wheats were
held at fully late rates. Generally speaking, however, sales
progressed slowly, at Monday's currency.
There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on sale. For
most descriptions there was a moderate demand, and prices
ruled firm.

Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request,
at full currencies.

With barley the market was very moderately supplied.
The trade was firm for all qualities, at fully late rates.
The malt trade was firm, at fully late rates.
Oats were in good supply. Most qualities were in steady
request, at about Monday's quotations.
For beans and peas the trade was firm, and late rates
were well supported.
The flour trade was steady on former terms.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch B2O 160 810 20 150
Irish
Foreign 7,600 250 16,120

30 sks.
4490 brls.
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OP GRAIN.
For the week ending Aug. For the corresponding week
26, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 48,026-45s 4d Wheat 47,958-42s 7d
Barley 1,052-30s Od Barley 1,083-28s 7d
Oats

THE QUEEN AT COBURG.

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(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
COBURG, Aug. 27.

There were uneasy glances at the clouds all day
yesterday and the day before at Coburg, and anxious
consultations of the weather-glass. But such a sun
blazed out at daybreak this morning, and held so
undiminished a sway in the heavens the whole length
of the day, that I hardly believe the Queen's pro-
verbial spell over the weather ever was more tri-
umphantly asserted than on this occasion. The little
town of Coburg had put on her best holyday dress,
and every house was gay with garlands, festoons,
and streamers, coats of arms, masses of flowers, and
every variety of simple but tasteful devices. Every
window-sill, every mullion and cornice, up to the
topmast gable, was mantled with evergreens. The
last finish had been given to the public buildings in
the Market-place. The Town-hall and the Govern-
! anent offices were hung with flags drooping down
from the roofs to the basement, and the same vivid
colours waved from lines and flagstaffs all across
the square. These colours were chiefly the green
and white of Coburg, the black and white of Prus-
sia, the red and yellow of Baden, the red and black
of Wurtemberg, and the red and white of Darm-
stadt. The Union Jack and the Royal Standard of
England were not forgotten, nor yet that German
tricolour, that unfortunate Schwartz-Roth-Gold,
which never, perhaps, more emphatically than at
this moment represented a bare idea, a mere geo-
graphical expression.
The heavier wrappings had been removed from
the statue of the Prince Consort, and there it now
stood, in the centre of the square, with no other
covering than a thin white linen cloth ; opposite to
it was the Queen's pavilion, an elegant structure, all
scarlet and gold, with a canopy supported by 11
columns, and above it, in two escutcheons sur-
mounted by a royal crown, the arms of England
and Coburg, and again over the crown the English
standard. All round the square, right and left and
opposite, were the tribunes, all walled with ever-
greens ; some for distinguished strangers, others
for the notabilities of the place. The profusion of
all that nature lavishes, most lovely and most charm-
ing to the eye in field, garden, or forest, gave the
somewhat homely but not commonplace, and, in-
deed, highly picturesque, town a look of half-rural
festivity, which had little to envy the more gorgeous
shows of motley drapery and glittering tinsel with
which southern lands usually celebrate their solem-
nities.

The crowd, even the privileged many who had
admission to the reserved galleries, began to fill their
places soon after two in the afternoon. So broil-
ing, pitiless a sun I hardly ever remember having
to withstand on the north side of the Alps. Hats
and umbrellas screened us only imperfectly ; the in-
tense glare made eyes and heads ache. Yet before
us, together with the Duke's battalions muster-
ing up in the square, and whole legions of students
and schoolboys in their tiny saucer-like caps with
invisible brims, there came upon the torrid pave-
ment two fair bands of young damsels, all dressed
in white, but distinguishable on one side by green,
on the other by pink ribands. All these girls had
wreaths of flowers in their hands, all of them were
bare-headed, bare-armed, bare-shouldered. How
they did manage to hold their ground for two roast-
ing hours is what we could not help wondering all
the time.

At a quarter to four their martyrdom and our
own was rewarded by the arrival of Court car-
riages bearing the suite of the Royal personages.
Soon after them the Royal personages themselves
made their appearance. In the first carriage, the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Alfred ; in the
second, the Princess of 'Wales, the Crown Princess
of Prussia, and the Prince of Wales ; in the third,
the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Princess Alice,
and the Crown Prince of Prussia ; in the fourth,
the Princess Clementine, the Princess Amalia, and
the Duke of Brabant ; in the fifth, Prince Louis of
llesse, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Augus-
tus of Saxe-Coburg ; in the sixth, Duke Ernest of
Wurtemberg and Prince Leopold ; in the seventh,
Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe, Prince William
Lobenstein, the Prince Hereditary of Reuss, and
Count Alexander Mensdorff ; In the eightk, Prince
Philip and Count Alphonse Mensdorff.
In attendance upon the Queen were the Duchess
of Roxburgh and Lady Churchill, General Grey, and
Sir John Cowell, lately created a K.C.B. by her
Majesty at Rosenau. In the suite of the Prince of
Wales, Colonel Teesdale and Mr. Holtzmann ; at-
tached to the Duke of Cambridge, Col. Clifton. In
the suite of Prince Arthur, Capt. Elphinstone, &c.
The friends of the late Prince Consort assembled
here from England and from all parts of Germany.
I noticed Playfair, Professor Hoffmann, &c., Lord
Granville and his secretary, the Hon. R. H. Meade,
were in attendance, and also the Hon. C. A. Murray,
her Majesty's Minister at Dresden, and Mrs.
Murray, &c.
The pavilion was soon filled with all the Royal
personages, who took their seats and waited for
the Queen's arrival from Rosenau. Soon after 4
the bells from all the steeples in Coburg set up
their loud peals, the cannon thundered from the
fortress on the hill, the bands struck up the solemn
notes of the English national anthem, and the
Queen's carriages drove up amidst the loud shouts
of the multitude. In the first carriage were her
Majesty, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice ;
in the second, the ladies and gentlemen of the
Queen's suite. Of the Royal family only the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were
absent. They had remained at Rumpenheim, the
summer residence of the Landgrave of Hesse. The
Queen was received at the carriage door by the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg. She soon appeared in her place in
front of the pavilion ; she wore deep mourning,
black dress and bonnet, with a black veil thrown
back, and under her bonnet that cap a la Mary
Stuart with which the English public have lately
become familiar. The Royal ladies around her wore
colours, and the variety of their lively costumes
presented a striking contrast to the sable hues in
which the principal personage was attired. Prince
Leopold and Prince Arthur wore Highland costumes.
Prince Alfred wore the Coburg uniform. All the
other Princes and their attendants displayed the
English colours.
The Queen stood up in her place whilst anthems
were sung by the chorus, with an accompaniment by
the band. She stood up while the Burgermeister of
Coburg, from a very low platform in the middle of
the square before the statue, delivered a long—an
unconsciously long—address, every word of which
was lost to the tribunes, and to which no answer
was vouchsafed. When the speech came at last to
an end there were more lofty strains from the band,
more peals of the bells, more discharges of artillery,
and at a given signal the linen wrappers of the
statue collapsed, and the gilt-bronze of the hero's
effigy stood out, all glittering in the flaming sun,
with its countenance fixed upon the countenance of
the Royal lady by whose unwearied love it had
been reared on its pedestal.
Presently the bevies of damsels in green and pink
ribands, who had been so long baking and waiting
for the performance of the part assigned to them in
the ceremony, stepped forward, and one by one laid
before the pedestal their wreaths and garlands.
There was a new anthem by the chorus, and as its
last notes died away the Queen withdrew, and we
all thought she had gone back to her carriage, when
she was seen at the head of all her family, walking
across the square up to the monument, where she
handed to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg the bunch of
flowers which had long lain before her on the balcony
of the pavilion. Those flowers were laid by the
Duke on the pedestal, and along with them all those
of the Princesses and Princes, till the fragment mass
rose high up to-the feet of the statue.
Her Majesty then walked back to the pavilion,
and presently her carriage left the square amid the
loud shouts of the deeply-moved people. The whole
ceremony lasted hardly 20 minutes. When the last
of the Royal carriages had disappeared, the multi-
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the market-place, broke in like a swelling tide upon
the empty area, which was soon black with its swarm-
ing masses. Only a few minutes later, the Queen,
who had been driving round the gaily-variegated
streets, reappeared once more unexpectedly on
the densely-beset square to obtain one more
glimpse of the newly-inaugurated monument.
The crowd, among whom her carriage could with
difficulty make its way, greeted her enthusias-
tically on her progress, and it was noticed that
as the Queen passed she had a smile and a kind
word.for the sculptor, Mr. Theed, who, together-
with Messrs. Thomas and Winterhalter, were stand-
ing on the steps of the pedestal.
I have been concise, and, no doubt, dry in the
above description, because the scene, although pleas-
ing, and even touching, had nothing in it that could
be called imposing, and the very atmosphere of the
place seemed to give it something of German domes-
ticity and sentiment. The feelings of those many
actors and spectators in the cermony could not,
however, be analysed so briefly. There were not a
few among those present whose imagination could
go far back into the past and bring it to bear on the
present with all its whelming contrast. Even as the
principal personage stood before me in her weeds on
the platform of that pavilion, my memory could
conjure back the image of a young, almost too young
Princess, as she passed before me, much closer than
I saw her now, all dressed in white, between two
lines of her loyal subjects, on the terrace at Windsor,
more than five-and-twenty years ago. The career
that was then opening led to one of the most fortu-
nate and glorious reigns in English history ; but its
lustre, after so many years of domestic bliss, was
partly obscured by a great domestic calamity. The
sharer in all that happiness and that greatness—he
who was at that time just expected to come over to
England from this very spot—where was he now ?
He now stood before her " even with such majesty,
such warm life," as all the trick of art can give, but
was no less a mere recollection, a monument of the
' past ! _ _

There was many a moment in that short space of
20 minutes that sent a thrill through the veins of
even the most collected and unimpressionable
spectator. The cannon announcing the Queen's
arrival, her appearance in front of the platform,
the falling of the drapery that enshrouded the " dead
likeness," none of these was so overpowering,
nothing took us so much by surprise, as the simple
act of the Queen walking up to the monument to
pay her tribute of affection to the dear departed.
That, I believe, was the essentially German part of
the performance ; it was the touch of nature that
came home to every man's bosom. One could almost
have cried out " Music, awake him ; strike 1" and
expect the transformation in the " Winter's Tale"
reproduced before us. Her Majesty went through
the whole ceremony with her wonted command over
her feelings. The Princess of Prussia was visibly
affected by the scene before her.
The sun was too painfully dazzling, and the gilding
of the bronze too vivid, to allow one to do justice to the
merits of the statue as a work of art, or to enable me
at this moment to give a description of it. The
model has long been before the London public, and
every one is aware of the rare advantages the
sculptor, Mr. Theed, had, in his long intercourse
with the Prince Consort, in the mask he was allowed
to take of the countenance after death, and of the
still rarer skill with which he availed himself of those
advantages again and again to reproduce the most
perfect likeness of a countenance so familiar to all
of us—a countenance in which the worth within so
happily harmonised with the outward beauty ; a
countenance no less endeared to all beholders by
the most exquisitely kandsome set of features than
by the effable benevolence of its expression.
The execution in bronze by the Nuremberg
founders is greatly to the satisfaction of the artist
himself. The statue is 10ft. high. The pedestal is
of polished granite, and bears in front an inscription
with the names and titles of the Prince—" Prinz
Gemahl von Gross-Britannien and Irland," with
the dates of his birth and death ; at the back the
date of the erection of the monument, with the fol-
lowing words—" Das Gedachtniss der Gerechten
bleibt in Segen" (" The righteous shall be in ever-
lasting remembrance"—Ps. cxii., 6).
His Highness of Saxe Coburg gave a reception in
the evening, at 9 o'clock, in the handsome "Giant's
Hall," a splendid room with immense caryatides, in
the Ehrenburg, the town palace. Most of the
Royal Family of England were there, with their
relatives. The Queen was not present, and it was
understood that she would not quit Rosenau for the
evening. The assemblage was select, not large.

His Serene Highness Prince George of Solms has
arrived at the Hanoverian Legation in Grosvenor-place
from visiting the camp at Chalons. The prince leaves
town in a day or two for a tour in Scotland.
The Duke of Leinster has been entertaining a
family party at Carton House, Maynooth, including the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, Lord and Lady 0010
Fitgerald, Mr. and Lady Jane Repton, &c.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have arrived at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have
arrived at their residence in Arlington-street, from passing
several weeks at Bournemouth, on their way to Hatfield
House, Herts.
The Earl and Countess of Essex have arrived at
their country seat, Cassiobury Park, Watford, from the
Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun have arrived
at Long's Hotel from Paris.
The Earl of St. Germans is expected to return
home shortly from the Continent. The noble earl has
derived great benefit by his visit to Spa.
The Earl of Clarendon is expected shortly to
arrive in town from Wiesbaden.

The Earl de Grey has left Carlton Gardens to
join the countess at Studley-park, near Ripon. Viscount
Goderich is quite recovered from an attack of measles.
Lord Stanley, M.P., is staying with the Earl
and Countess of Derby at Knowsley Park, near Liverpool.
The Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have arrived A
Knowsley.

Viscountess Royston and infant daughter/
according to the last letters from Paris, are both doing Well

VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LAMBTON PARK.—About
three thousand volunteers were reviewed on MondAY At
Lambton Park, Durham, by Lord Durham and Colonel
Roney. After the review there was a sham fight, which
was much enjoyed by the spectators. One accident marred
the pleasures of the day. Probably by the indifferent
serving of the vent of his gun an artilleryman had his aril/
shattered, besides sustaining other injuries.
FUNERAL OF A VOLUNTEER AND FREEMASON Al
WlNDSOR.—Yesterday at two o'clock the remain°
of Mr. Charles Stuart Voules, solicitor, of Windsor, and
one of the leaders of the Conservative portion of the COil"
stituency of the Royal borough, were interred at the
cemetery in the suburbs of the town. Mr. Voules, in addi-
tion to holding several municipal officers in the borough/
where he was much esteemed and respected, was a mere"
ber of the Berks Volunteer Battalion, and also master of
the Castle Lodge of Freemasons. The funeral was 011'
ducted privately, but the corpse was met at the entrance
to the cemetery by the Windsor Volunteers, under the
command of Captain the Hon. Leslie Ruthven, and the
members of the Castle and Etonian Lodges of Freemasons'
and followed to the grave, by the side of which the
Mr. Rooke, who performed the ceremony, delivered
funeral oration.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND UNJUST WEIGIIIS.
—A number of councils-general in France have
pressed a wish for a revision of the law in the sale "t
weight and in the adulteration of articles of food, se' „,t11:
the penalties should be heavier and more efficacious.
council of the ludre-et-Loire has done more ; it has
companred the wish with a proposal which might be tr 3,70
formed into a legislative enactment. According to it, 13,0,
and imprisonment should in the generality of cases a..st,
lished, and publicity substituted. This last,would cono,oo
not merely of a placard or a paper—which
board torttio
be
almost as soon as posted up—but of a large there
hooked on to the shop of the offender—to revain to
one, two, or three months, according to the gravity of
offence. DER /1.1
CONVICTION FOIL INFRINGING THE wit- 1,0
At tu
COUNCIL TO BURY DISEASED CATTLE.--
Lodge
Chelmsford Petty Sessions, Mr. J. Seabrook, of 01d
ortior
Farm, has been summoned for infringing the Nee. the
in Council by not causing a cow which had diectruos'ecu..
cattle plague to be buried on the premises. The!! the
tion was instituted by the committee appointeds_lo the
neighbourhood to endeavour to stop the progreosthe de"
cattle plague. It seemed that a cow, belonging t 0 defeo-
fondant, died of the cattle plague on the 21st., "
the ,
Al
tin
dint sent for a knacker, who came and flayed of
on the farm, and took it away in his cart for ther!rilut it
being boiled down. The defendant pleaded guilT_ order
was urged on his behalf that he was not aware of tuu
in Council. He was convicted in the mitigated Penal
£lO with 19s. costs.