The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1867.

METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAYS.
HORSE SHOW, AGRICULTURAL HALL,
ISLINGTON,
May 25th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st.
TANG'S-CROSS is the NEAREST STATION. Fre-
quent TRAINS between the CITY; PADDINGTON,
NOTTING-HILL, HAMMERSMITH, KENSINGTON,
and all intermediate Stations.

FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.-
The FOURTE ENT H ANNUAL EXHIBITION of
PICTURES, the Contributions of Artists of the French and
Flemish Schools, IS NOW OPEN.
Admission, Is. Catalogue, Id.
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TORN ' GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOO rn PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant iragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—.11,ed Bull Wharf; 93, Upper
Thames•street. London.

DEAFNESS. The ORGANIC VIBRATOR.—
It fit into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing
noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear at public
assemblies. Every other kind of hearing instrument. Nume-
rous testimonials for inspection. -S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39,
Mbemarle-street. Piccadilly.

A VALUABLE PACKAGE OF TEA.
A CHINESE CADDY.
containing 161bs. of really rood Black Tea, sent carriage. free
to any Railway Station or Market Town in England, Ireland,
Scotland, or %Vales, on receipt of 405., by

PHILLIPS and CO.,
Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, E.C.

L. 11)7A1g, 36, cTRACECHURCII-STREET,

CITY.
HYAM, 189 and 190, TOTTENHAM-
COURT-ROAD, WEST.

LHYAM'S ATTIRE FOR MEN, BOYS,
• and Youths for Immediate Wear, for the Season of
1867, is upon the most extended scale, and at greatly re.
duced prices.

HYAM'S GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT
. is replete with every novelty for the Season,
including West of England Cloths, Fancy Coatings,
Trouserings, &c., &c. Fashion, fit, and taste in combina-
tion with reduced prices.

LHYAM'S LIGHT OVERCOATS FOR
. the Present Season embrace every novelty in de-
sign and material, no Garment can be made to fit better.
They are tasteful and elegant, azd very moderate in price,
varying from 165., 18s., 215., 285., to 355.

HYAM'S STOCK OF SURTOUT COATS
-I-A • for the Season is not to bo surpaised for beauty,
quality, and fit, well-made, and handsomely trimmed, 305.,
365., 425., 505., 555., to 635.

LIIYAM'S STOCK OF BUSINESS AND
. Walking Coats for the season is specially.designed
in every Fashionable Style and Shape from the choicest
materials. Prices for Business Coats, 12s. Ed., 15s. 6d.,
18s. 6d., to 21s. Walking Coats, 215., 235., 355., 425., to
50s.

LHYANI'S STOCK OF GENTLENIEN'S
. Trousers for the Season, comprehends all the
novelties. Such a rare display is not to be seen elsewhere.
12s. 6d., 13s. 61, 14s. 61, 165., 17s. to 21s.

lIYAAI'S STOCK OF. WAISTCOATS
for the Season contains the most beautiful patterns
and materials. ss. 6d., 6s. Gd., 7s. 6d., 9s. 6d., 10s. Gd., to
12s. 6d.

HYAM'S BESPOKE DEPARTMENT
L. maintains its renown for talented cutters, accu-
rate fit, and durability of Workmanship. The Materials
are new in design and style, and the assortment is the
largest in the Kingdom. rices are framed upon the
most economical basis.

HYAM'S YOUTHS' AND BOYS' ATTIRE
for tho Season stands pre-eminent for taste, excel-
lence and cheapness. L. HYAM still maintains his fore-
most position in this Department.

LHYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR SCHOOL
. and every day wear are especially adapted fur
the Season, and will be found to be exceedingly strong
and durable, 18s., 215., 255. to 30s.

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR BEST
L. Wear, choicest material, finest qualities, beau-
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Parents and Guardians. 30s. to 355.

lIYAM'S BOYS' SUITS MOST
L. strongly recommended as combining all the excel-
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a gentlemanly and elegant apparauce. 335. to 4os.

LIIYAM'S BOYS' SUITS ARE MADE IN
. every Style and Shape, including the Knicker-
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or braided, and adapted to a variety of tastes. The
greatest care is taken both in the goodness of material
and soundness of workmanship—thus ensuring that dura-
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YOUTIIS' SUITS OF A PIECE ADAPTED
for Youths from the Age of 14 to 18 years can be
had in great variety of material, most tasteful in design,
at a small advance on the above prices.

HYAM'S MODE OF BUSINESS IS
L• to buy all the most Fashionable Fabrics direct
from the best Manufacturers, thus avoiding all interme-
diate profits; to have all Garments made under his own
supervision, in order to insure good Style and durable
Workmanship and Make. Every article is marked in
plain figures, at the lowest possible price, thereby in-
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equitable dealing. No Garment need bo kept after pur-
chasing if not approved.

L. lIYAM, 36, GRACECHURCII-STREET,
CITY.
L. HYAM, 189 & 190, TOTTENHAM-
COURT-ROAD, WEST.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
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rwo Hundred Afedioal Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curative treatment of HEi;NIA. The use
of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here
avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while
the requisite resisting power is supplied by the bloc-Main
Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close-
ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during
sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss,
which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum-
ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to
the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, ifs., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable toJohn White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all oases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs. -Sprains, &O. They are
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like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 105., and 16s.
each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 223, ?i coadilly. '

PAINLESS SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY.
Just published, price 3d. Post free four stamps.
TOTAL ABOLITION OF PAIN
IN DENTISTRY.
By Messrs. GABRIEL, the old established DENTISTS,
64, LUDGATE-HILL, CI ry,
56, HA RL EY-ST RE E r, London
134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

THE REV. DE. LEE.—We regret to learn that
this rev. gentleman, the minister of Old Greyfriars, Edin-
burgh, and Professor of Biblical Criticism in the Univer-
sity there, has been seized with an illness which is likely
to prevent his being able to defend his " innovations in
worship" before the General Assembly of the Scottish
Church, to which he had appealed. Riding home on Wed-
nesday afternoon, after a visit to Lord Dunfermline, at
Colinton-house, about four miles distant, the rev. doctor,
while near the west end of Princes-street, fell off his horse
in a fit of paralysis, and was lifted up in an unconscious
state, though unhurt by the fall, which the groom attend-
ing him endeavoured to break. He was taken home in a
cab, and he rallied considerably in the course of the even-
ng, but groat anxiety is felt as to his condition.
Slavery has reached its high-water mark in Brazil.
On the Bth of April the Emperor signed a decree abolish-
ing slavery after twenty years from date, and giving ab-
solute freedom to slave-born children from this time on.
Two millions is the number of those whose ',emancipation
is thus deferred ; but it is safe to predict that other causes
than death will have greatly diminished this figure by
1887. The institution was moribund in Brazil from the
moment the slave-trade was annihilated (1850-51), and,
besides the fact that manumissions are common, and liberty
attainable by those willing to make the effort, colour is no
bar to civil and social advancement when once the person
has become a freeman. Manumissions, therefore, will con-
tinue, liberty will still be bought, and with all the more
eagerness that the parent and the child may enjoy the
same status ; while the progress of liberal ideas without
and within the empire, even if no political revolution en-
sue, will tend to shorten the term of emancipation both in
public opinion and on the statute-book. The news will
inspire the World's Anti-Slavery Conference that meets
shortly at Paris, for except in the Spanish provinces its
attention need scarcely be directed to the 'Western hemi-
sphere ; and nowhere in America is slavery making head.
A LARGE TOPAZ.—The largest topaz known was
last week deposited at the Bank of France. It is of Bra-
zilian origin, and measures 7-1- inches in length by 4 t inches
in width, and about the same in thickness. It weighs
more than oklb. However valuable this stone may be from
its brilliancy and size, it is still more so from its artistic
merit, as on ono face is engraved a half-length Christ
breaking bread at the Last Supper. This composition was
executed with the burin and diamond dust by the owner
of the gem, Andre Cariello, formerly director of the Naples
Mint.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May 27.

On Saturday evening, Cardinal Cullen, accom-
panied by his secretary, Cid Rev. Dr. Moran, the
Rev. Monsignor Forde, the Rev.. Dr. Spratt, Mr.
Webb, and Mr. Wigham, waited on the Lord
Lieutenant at'the Viceregal Lodge,
and implored
his Excellency to use his influence to obtain a com-
mutation of the sentence of death in the case of the
convict Burke. The Mayor of Clonmel has con-
vened a meeting of the Council to be held this day
for the same object.
A petition lies for signature at Trinity College,
addressed to the Lord Lieutenant, praying for the
commutation of the sentence on the Fenian con-
victs. It has been signed by the Rev. Dr. Moore,
Vice-Provost; the Rev. Dr. Salmon, Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity ; the Rev. Dr. Carson, Dr.
Stokes, Regius Professor of Physic; Dr. Tolken,
and 14 other Fellows of the College, including some
of the most eminent men in the University.

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At the Roman Catholic Cathedral Marlborough-
street, and the various other Roman. Catholic
churches yesterday, the prayers of the congregation
were requested-for the happy death of the convict
Burke.
Charles F. O'Bt4ti, kno\vn among the Fenians
as Col. O'Brien, was found guilty of high treason
at Cork on Saturday evening. M. Francis Wyse,
of Brickhill, proved that the prisoner came to his
house on the morning of the 6th of March at the
hea:d of an armed party of 50 or 60 men ; that he
demanded arms, and, being refused, searched the
house, and took a gun and pistol, for which he gave
a receipt, signed, " Francis Lemass." Jas: Mahony,
a milesman on the Great Southern and Western
Railway, deposed that he saw an armed party that
morning tear up the rails and cut the telegraph
wires. Constable Brown, corroborated by his wife
and a sub-constable, described the attack on the
police barrack at Ballykuocklin, which was burnt
and sacked, the prisoner being the first man to
enter the barrack garden. Mr. George Roun-
tree Kemp, manager of the wine department
of Messrs: Clery and Couff's establishment, identi-
fied the prisoner as having held a situation under
the Messrs. Clery, and identified his handwriting in
the letter written by him the day before the rising
to Mr. Clery, stating that he was about leaving

Cork to see his mother, who, the letter stated, was
lying dangerously ill in the country near Lismore.
He also identiEd his handwriting in the entries on
the back of his certificated citizenshipof the United
States, of the entries of his arrival in America in
1857, and his departure from America in 1862. Ile
believed the receipt given to Mr. 'Wyse for his arms
to be in the handwriting of prisoner ; the prisoner
had been bookkeeper, accountant, and correspondent
to the Messrs. Clery's establishment. The majority
of the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy on
the ground that he had shown an anxiety to save
the lives of those who were in the power of the in-
surgents. The Chief Justice said he would forward
the recommendation to the proper quarter.. The
sentence was deferred.
The Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Soli-
citors have presented an address to the Right Hon.
Francis Blackburne on the occasion of his retire-
ment from the Bench, in which they express their

admiration of his judicial character. The address is
signed by J. T. Orpen, as president of the society.
Mr. Blackburue, in his reply, expresses his gratifi-
cation at receiving such a mark of approbation from
a body whose members he so highly esteemed.
The telegram announcing that Burke's life would
be spared has caused an immense relief to the public

mind. Anxious and angry feeling, which was deep-
ening and spreading every hour, has
_given place
to grateful exprAions of loyalty to the Queen.
James O'Brien, found guilty on Saturday of high
treason at Cork, was sentenced to death this morn-
ing. Coghlan, Lombard, Downey, M'Sweeney,
.her, and Cummins, all pleaded guilty to treason-
felony. Sentence was deferred.

This being the first day of Trinity Term the
several law and equity courts were opened with the
usual formality.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

VALETTA, May 22.--There have been no move-
ments in the squadron since the departure of the
Commander-in-Chief, except that the despatch-boat
Psyche, Lieut.-Commander Sir Francis Blackwood,
went out yesterday to try her engines, and returned
the same day, the trial being reported satisfactory.
The following have left this island during the week :
—Capt. Watson, Ist battalion Bth Regiment; Lieut.
Grenfel, 60th Rifles ; Major Deedes, 60th Rifles ;
Major Hamilton, 2d Battalion Bth Regiment, and
family; Lieut. C. King, Mrs. (Lieut.-Col.) Savage,
Lieut.-Col. Williams, 60th Rifles, and family ; and
Mrs. (Capt.) Gardner and family. The Maltese
steamer San Paolo, which arrived during the night
from Tunis, was, on entering port, detained in qua-
rantine. It appears that cholera has broken out
among the lower classes of the Jewish population,
and one or two cases occur almost daily, The Ma-
homedans and Christians are as yet free. On the
receipt of this news a meeting of the Board of
Health was immediately convened, and a quarantine
of 21 days established on all arrivals from Tunis.
Telegraphic communication with Tunis has been
interrupted for some time past.
His Italian Majesty's corvette Eurydice, Captain
Bartelli, sailed from Spithead on Saturday morning
for Cherbourg.
It would appear that the famous Palliser shot
have not yet quite placed the attacking power of guns
above the defensive power of armour plating. On
Friday last a 6-inch plate, taken at random from a
heap of plates just rolled by Messrs. John Brown
and. Company, of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, for her
Majesty's ship Repulse, was fired at in the proof-
room of the Thunderer target ship at Portsmouth,
and resisted with extraordinary success the at-
tempts made to penetrate it with three descriptions
of projectile from an 8-inch smooth-bore gun. The
distance from the muzzle of the gun to the face of
the plate was 28ft., and full powder charges were
used. Five cast-iron shots fired on one spot,
about 16 inches square, only produced an in-
dentation at the deepest part of less than three
inches, with a very slight appearance of cracks
confined within the circumference of the indenta-
tions. A crucible steel shot from the same 8-inch
gun only produced an indentation of 2.88 in., and a
Palliser y get iu to a depth of
2 46in.
chilled shot could only
Orders have been received at Chatham for the
depot of the 34th regiment to be held in readiness
to proceed from the garrison to-morrow to Ports-
mouth, there to await the arrival of the head-quar-
passage home
from
ters
India.
and service companies, now on

Yesterdaytroo pMajor-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
the
the Chatham district, completed his
s in
first half-yearly inspection of the forces under his
command by the inspection of the Ist Division of
the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, quartered at
Sheerness. General Murray, who was accompanied
by Brigade-Major Lynch, and other officers, was
received on his arrival by Colonel R. 11. Crofton,
and other officers of the division, and proceeded at
once to the parade-ground, where the whole of the
officers and men of the depot brigade were drawn
up in review order. After inspecting the batteries
Gen. Murray visited the barrack-rooms, non-com-
missioned officers and men's quarters, hospitals,
gymnasium, reading-rooms, offices, &c., and subse-
quently again inspected the officers and men in
gunnery and other exercises, returning to head-
quarters in the afternoon.
The 68th Regiment, now at Portsmouth, is under
orders to proceed to camp at Aldershott, where it
is expected to arrive in the course of the present
week. The regiment will be quartered in G, 11,
and E lines, North Camp.

ROYAL GEO

GRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

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Yesterday afternoon the anniversary meeting of

this society was held at Burlington llo'ise ; Sir

Roderick Alurchison, Bart., the president, in the

chair.

The report of the council gave a very favourable
account of the financial state of the society and its
general, progress during the past year. As many

as 147 fellows have been elected, and the receipts
amounted to £5,085, being an increase of £lBO on

the preceding year. The expenditure amounted to
£4,052, which was £255 less than in 1865. The
report also mentioned considerable additions to the
library and to the map departtnent ; the number of
sheets of maps added being 2,426, of atlases 8, and
of diagrams and views 37.
The President then presented the medals which
had been awarded by the council. The Founder's
medal had been awarded to Admiral Alexis Buta-

koff, for being the first to launch and navigate ships
in the sea of Aral, au achievement which led to the

establishment of steam navigation on that sea and

up the river Jaxartes into the heart of Turkistan ;
also for his subsequent successful survey of the chief
mouths of the Oxus in the Khanat of Khiva. A
brother Russian officer received the medal on behalf
of Admiral Butakoff, and expressed the gratification.
he felt TiV,loing-so commissioned. '1 he Patron's
. medal had been awarded to Dr. Isaac J. Hayes, an
American, for his expedition in 1800-61 towards the
open Polar sea, where he attained a more northern
point of land, in Smith's Sound (81 deg. 35min.),
than had been remhed by any previotis navigator.
Mr. Adams, the American Minister, attended to re-
ceive the medal in the absence of Dr. Mayes, and
in presenting it to him the President made some
complimentary remarks on the value of the services
for white the medal had been granted.
Mr. ADAMS expressed great satisfaction that a

citizen of the United States should have received
such an honour from the Geographical Society, in
the proceedings of which society, he said, great in-
terest was taken in Am3rica. Though no practical
results had yet been obtained by explorations in the
Polar seas, they should not be discouraged, but
navigators should pursue their researches iu the ex-
pectation that some important advantages would
ultimately be derived from every new discovery.
He adduced the case of Columbus, who set out on
his expedition in the expectation of. arriving at China,
and the object he did not expect to find had proved
of far greater importance than the realisation of his
expectations could. have been. S 3 it might, to some
extent, be u hit moletn navigators. That which
they did not expect to find might prove of greater
importance than what they had anticipated, and it
was impossible- to limit the importance of any dis-
covery that tended to enlarge the knowledge of

mankind.
The PRESIDENT then delivered the annual ad
dress, which occupied nearly one hour- and a half
He commenced with an obituaryl'notice of the
fellows of the society who have ' died during
the past year, dwelling particularly on Col.
Everest, and the great services he had rendered in
the furtherance of geographical knowledge by his
trigonometrical surveys in Northern India. The
late Professor Rogers was also spoken of at some
length, but the other fellows who had died, of whom
there were 43, were for the most part only briefly
mentioned. The greater portion of the address re-
lated to the 'probable fate of Dr. Livingstone and to
the condition of Central Asia. Sir Roderick con-
tinues to entertain great hope that Livingstone is
yet alive, and that he will return after having
solved the problem whether there is an outlet on the
north of Lake Tanganyika towards the Albert Ny-
anza, or whether that lake is the ultimate source of
the Nile. The accounts that have appeared in the
daily papers purporting to confirm the report of
the death of Dr. Livingstone were, he said, only
repetitions of the statements first received from the
runaway porters, who there was good reason to
believe were not worthy of credit. The expedition
about to be undertaken by the Government in search
of Dr. Livingstone would be ready to start on the
9th of June, and within six or seven months at the
farthest it was expected that positive news would
be received whether Dr. Livingstone had been killed
or had passed into the interior. Sir Roderick in-
clined to support the opinion that Lake Tanganyika
flows into the more northerly lake, and that the
estimation of the level of the former, which had
been supposed to be lower than the Albert Nyanza,
was not correct. Turning
.from Africa to Asia, Sir
Roderick entered at great length into the considera-
tion of the question whether the Se'a of .Aral had
within historic time been joined to the Caspian or
been dried up. The latter opinion had been ex-
'pressed by Sir H. Rawlinson, who conceived that
the river Jaxartes as well as the river Oxus at
one period, not many hundred years distant,
flowed into the Caspian. Sir Roderick Murchison,
considering the question from a geological point
of view, arrived at a different conclusion. He con-
ceived that at some geological period far anterior to
historic record the whole of that part of Asia was
depressed and covered with water, but that the land
which now separates the Caspian Sea from the Sea
of Aral had been elevated long before historic times.
He then adverted to the papers which had been
read during the present session relating to that
portion of Asia, especially to the paper, by Captain
Sherard Osborn, on Central Tartary, and also
to the researches of the Russians in that part of
Asia. Ile took occasion to point out that the object
of Russia was to establish a more free communica-
tion with China, which would now be practicable by
the navigation of the river. Jaxartes, and to express
the opinion that our Indian' possessions would be
in no danger from the proximity of Russia,
which would be rendering a benefit to mankind
by occupying a region now possessed by the most
savage tribes. The progress of geographical dis-
covery in Northern India, in South America, and
in Australia, was then briefly noticed, and it was
stated that an Anglo-Egyptian expedition had been
suggested by Sir S. Baker for the exploration of
the interior of Africa, of which Sir S. Baker was
willing to be the conductor. Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, in concluding his address, said he felt that
the society ought to choose a younger man for their
president ; if, however, he was honoured by being
re-elected for the next year, he would do thehs utmost
to forward the objects of the society, ut must
then positively resign.
The balloting papers for officers for the ensuing
year were then examined, and the scrutineers de-
clared that there had been-no alteration in the list
proposed by the council. Sir Rtd
erick linpey
Murchison was elected president ; the vice-presi-
dents elected were Vice-Admiral Back, Mr. F.
Galton, Sir Henry Rawlinson, and Major-General
Sir A. Scott Waugh ; and the secretaries, Mr.
Markham and Mr. Major.
The meeting then adjourned.
The annual dinner of the society took place in
the evening at Willis's Rooms—Sir Roderick in the
chair. Mr. Adams, the American Minister, sat on
his right hand, and among the distinguished persons
present were Lord lloughton, Lord Strangford,
Lord Enniskillen, Sir li. Rawlinson, Sir G. Lee,
Sir Charles Wyke, Sir Charles Nicholson, Sir R.
Mayne, Sir P. G. Egerton, Sir T. Fremantle, Sir
G. Back, Captain Crown, of the Russian navy, the
Chief Justice of Mauritius, &c.
The usual loyal
.toasts having been drunk, the
toast of " The Army and Navy" was proposed, to
which Sir 11. Rawlinson and Sir G. Back returned
thanks.
The " Health of the Medallists" was next pro-
posed, for which Captain Crown, of the Russian
navy, returned thanks on behalf of Admiral
Butakoff, and Mr. Adams on the part of Dr.
Hayes. The latter observed that he would not
repeat in an after-dinner speech what he had
said in the morning on receiving the medal, and in
allusion to such speeches he said they might be con-