The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

PRESENTATION TO SIR BARTLE FRERE.

A ceremony of somewhat novel character took
place yesterday at Willis's Rooms—the presentation
of an address from native Princes to the ex-Governor
of Bombay, who doubtless thought that there was
an end to all such honours when he bade farewell
to the Presidency. Addresses of this complimentary
kind are sometimes, as Lord Lyveden said, expres-
sive of a sense of favours to come ; but in this in-
stance the value of the tribute cannot be depreciated
by the imputation of unworthy motives. Sir Bartle
Frere has finally given up the position in Bombay,
which he held with so much credit to himself and
advantage to the natives under his rule, and his
work in India itself is probably done. The Princes
of Kattywar, therefore, were not tempted by in-
terested considerations to pay their respects to an
officer who no longer is placed in connection with
their sovereignties. It was a spontaneous and an
unexpected compliment to a distinguished member
of that class of our countrymen in India which has
well maintained the honour of this country in the
eyes of great native potentates.
It would be assuming too much familiarity on the
part of the public with Indian affairs to suppose
that they are acquainted with the services and
career of Sir Bartle Frere, and, therefore, it is
not likely that they know very much about the
Princes of Kattywar. Nevertheless, they are rulers
of no small renown or consequence in their own
dominions, the members of a gallant race, ruling
over a brave and warlike people, and fully compe-
tent to discriminate between good government and
bad. These Princes and chiefs are, as a rule, tri-
butary to the Guicowar or to England, the former
rights of the Peishwa now being vested in this
country. Kattywar is in the province of Guzerat—
so much geographic knowledge was doubtless pos-
sessed by every one present at the ceremony yester-
day—but even the Anglo-Indians, except from the
Bombay side of India, must have been indebted to
Sir Bartle Frere's speech for much additional infor-
mation. The Princes who signed the address—
about 20 in number—are sharing in that wonderful
progress to which the ex-Governor referred yester-
day. They have not been insensible to the claims
of education, and they are anxious to get a railway
constructed through their part of the country—a
project whisk has been talked of since the days of
Lord Dalhousie. Even in a land which is proud of
" long descents" the potentates of Kattywar are re-
spectable, for their families date back, as Sir Bartle
Frere told his friends yesterday, to a period long
anterior to the Crusades. The ancestors of some of
the Princes who signed the address formed alliances
with the Solymans. What the present rulers are
doing may be judged from the general condition of
the IVestern Presidency. The enterprise and spirit
of the natives—especially of the Parsee community,
which was largely represented at the meeting yes-
terday—have placed Bombay in the van of progress
in India. The immense and rapid changes which
Sir Bartle Frere spoke of are certainly visible to a
larger extent in his former seat of authority than
elsewhere. As all classes of Anglo-Indians and na-
ives a imit, the improvement is greatly due to his
personal exertions—to his courage and spirit and
untiring energy. The ceremony yesterday has a
speci d significance in the proof it affords that the
native chiefs are not hostile to " innovations " if
they are properly prepared for them, and that
they respect a firm and wise ruler who will recom-
mend to them such reforms. The message from
Kattywar has, therefore, more interest than ordi-
nary incidents of the kind.

Many o?. the Anglo-Indians concerned in the
actual government of India who happen to be now
in London were present yesterday, and there were
also several ladies in the room. The address was in-
troduced to the company by Lord Lyveden, iu a
speech of great cordiality and good feeling, in which
the audience werereminded of the successful labours
and very marked services of Sir Bartle Frere in the

course of his long Indian experience. The: Princes
who signed the address, of course, were not pre-
sent, but they were represented by an r ,gent, and
every care had been taken that their 1, Ater should
be put before the ex-Governor in a gratifying and
afpropriate form. It was read, and. received very
warmly, and evidently gave peculiar pleasure to Sir
Bartle Frere. The entire company, native and
English, were stirred into real. enthusiasm by a
speech made by Mr. Dadabhoy Nov rajee, who is a
member of the Parsetjee family, and a man much
respected. He praised Sir Barad Frere so judi-
ciously for the works which he has .done best, and
pointed out the merits of our rule iu India so
shrewdly and faithfully, that when he had finished
the applause was loud and earnest. So.long as just
and upright men, he said, were sent to I; idia as its
rulers Great Britain would be loved and respected,
and its rule would prove a blessing, as it bad been in
times past, no matter what might be said of minor
defects and errors. The people of India neoded, he
thought, such men among them as Sir Bartle Frere
to lead them from the immovable prejudices and
inertness which long subniission had engendered.
The speaker continued in this strain for some
little time, and then Mr. Bannockjee Cur-
setjee: made an admirable address. Sir Bartle
Frere's reply to all these assurances of re-
spect and goodwill greatly interested the
company, and doubtless it will afford equal plea-
sure to the Prince and chiefs of Kattywar. He
accidentally gave a fitting commentary upon his
own career when he remarked that the only right
by which Englishmen held India was that which
they were always willing to acknowledge—" the
divine right of good government." In this expres-
sion, and also in remarks to the same purpose which
fell from Mr. Dadabhoy Novrajee, the native gen-
tlemen present expressed their acquiescence by loud
applause. The native speeches were certainly not
the least striking feature of the meeting,
Sir Bartle Frere was warmly congratulated by
several speakers upon the post he now holds as
member of the Council of India, and Lord Lyveden
expressed somewhat significantly a hope that his
recent knowledge of India—the India which exists
to-day--would be of great use in that body.
Finally, a vote of thanks was given to Lord Lyveden
at the request of Col. Sykes, and upon that the
company broke up.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBAOI INSTI-
TUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S., iu the chair. There were also
present Admiral Sir George Sartorius, 'K.C.B.,
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral M‘Hardy,' G.
Lyall, Esq., Col. Palmer, Captain De St. Croix,
W. 11. Marton, Esq., Col. Fitzroy Clayton, Capt.
Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the institution,
and Richard Lewis, Efq., the secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, rewards amounting to £595 were ordered to
be given to the crews of the following lifeboats of
the institution for their noble services in saving life
during the late fearful gale :
The lifeboat stationed at Poole, Dorset, saved 46
lives from the brig Contest, of Guernsey.
The "Grocers'" lifeboat at Mundesley, Norfolk,
rescued seven men from the brig George, of Sun-
derland, and the schooner, Restler, 'of Peterhead.
One of the crew 'of this lifeboat had plunged into
the boiling surf to snatch one poor fellow from an
inevitable death.

During the fearful storm of Sunday the lifeboat
Princess of \Vales, at Holyhead, was engaged
throughout the night in her noble mission, and
actually succeeded in rescuing 52 lives from six
different wrecks,
The Penarth lifeboat saved the crew of 11 men
of the brig Marie, of Griefswald, Prussia.
The Caister lifeboat, " The Birmingham No. 2,"
assisted by a steam-tug, brought the Norwegian
schooner I'olydera and her crew of five men safely
into harbour.

The Sheringharn lifeboat saved three persons from
the schooner Hero.

The Buckie lifeboat rescued the crew of four man
of the sloop lieliens, of Alloa, N.B.
The Donna Nook lifeboat brought ashore six men
from the schooner Esk, of Montrose.
The Pakefield lifeboat saved one man from the
brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields.
The Licensed Victualler lifeboat, stationed at
Ilunstanton, was the means of rescuing 16 men
from the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg.
The Lowestoft lifeboat also succeeded in saving
two men from the brigantine Madora, of Yar-
mouth.

The Yarmouth surf lifeboat brought into harbour
,he smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her crew of

seven men.
The Whitburn lifeboat rescued six men from the
brig Jenny, of Whitby.
The St. Ives lifeboat had brought ashore one man
from a wrecked vessel ; the boat had made three
attempts to rescue the shipwrecked crew.
The Winterton lifeboat saved two men from the
Sophia, of Colchester.
The Skegness lifeboat, the Herbert Ingram,
rescued two men from the Aunt, of Boston.
The Sutton lifeboat, the Birmingham No. 1, saved
seven men from the brig Clarinda, of Sunderland.
'1 he Portrush life boat rescued, after two pre-
vious attempts, six men from the brigantine
Virturius, of Liverpool.
The Bradford lifeboat, at Ramsgate, brought the
brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of six
men, into harbour, and likewise saved the crew of
eight men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfieth, mak-
ing a total of 193 lives rescued by the lifeboat of
the institution during the recent heavy gales from
different shipwrecks.
The lifeboats of the institution at Newhaven,
Porthdiullaen, Bembridge, Hasborough, Dover,
Kessingham, and many other places, had also been
out with the view of saving life. In some cases the
vessels had happily got out of danger ; iu others the
lifeboats had arrived in time to see the ships iu a
thousand pieces and their crews drowned. Such a
terrific gale has not been witnessed on our shores
since the storm which wrecked the Royal Charter
on the Anglesey Coast. Various rewards were
grante.l to the crews of different shoreboats for
saving life from shipwreck on our coasts.
The committee expressed their deepest commisera-
tion with the families of the poor men who perished
from the Gorlestou beachmen's lifeboat on Tuesday
morning last, on the occasion of the boat capsizing
with a shipwrecked crew on board, and voted fifty
guineas in aid of the fund now raising for the relief
of the families of the deceased lifeboatmen. This is
a salvage boat, belonging exclusively to the beach-
men, and in no way connected with the National
Lifeboat Institution. It is the same boat that un-
happily capsized nearly two years since with a fatal
loss of life. 'There is a fine self-righting life-
boat, belonging to the institution at Gorlestou,
but hitherto the beachmen have not made much use
of it. The committee also expressed their Jeep sym-
pathy with the relatives of the suffers at St. Thomas,
in the West Indies, during the late fearful hurri-
cane there.

The committee decided to form a lifeboat station
at Milford Haven. Titus Salt, jun., Esq., of Brad-
ford, had liberally contributed to the institution, the
boat, and its equipment. Mrs. George Burgess had
also presented to the society the Stonehaven lifeboat
and its transporting carriage, &c. It was reported
that the late R. Ilewen, Esq., of Oltlgate, Morpetb,
bad left a legacy of £25, free of duty, to the institu-
tion. It had just sent a new lifeboat to Grooms-
port, near Belfast; the cost of the boat had been
placed at the disposal of the society by a benevolent
lady (Mrs. D.) residing in Berkshire. It was stated
that it was proposed to hold a bazaar in Exeter in
the early part of next year in aid of the funds of
the institution. A letter was read from M. Stan-
dish, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Police at Mel-
bourne, in which he asked to be supplied with two
thousand copies of the instructions of the institution
for the restoration of the apparently drowned. He
stated that these instructions had already been
issued in placard form to all the police stations
in that colony, and he was happy to state that
the constables acting upon the instructions had re-
suseitated many persons who would otherwise have

perished. We would suggest that a copy of these
instructions might advantageously be placed in the
hands of every policeman iu the United Kingdom.

Reports were read from Capt. J. R. Ward, R.N.,
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the inspector, and Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., the
assistant-inspector of lifeboats to the society, on
their recent visits to the coast.

A very able report of a special committee, of which
Admiral Ryder was the chairman, on the state of
the lifeboats of the institution, was read and ap-
proved. Payments amounting to nearly £2,300
were ordered to be made on various lifeboat esta-
blishments, making a total of £29,650 expended by
the institution on its 186 lifeboat stations during
the eleven months of the present year. It had also,
during the same period, contributed to the rescue
of 1,027 lives from various wrecks, nearly 200 of
which had been saved by its lifeboats during the
recent heavy gales. Altogether this noble society
had contributed from its establishment to the saving
of 16,928 lives from shipwreck. It was stated that
the pressure on the funds of the society in carrying
on its great and national work was very heavy at
the present time, and that during the past few days
£2,700 of its funded property had been ordered to
be sold out. It therefore hoped that the British
public will strengthen the hands of the lifeboat
society at this stormy period, when its lifeboats are
engaged night and day in battling with the storms
and in snatching our fellow-creatures from ship-
wreck. Sir Thomas Tobin, of Cork, sent the insti-
tution the first instalment of £lOO, being a contribu-
tion from the 24,000 persons whom he solicited to
contribute towards the penny subscription lifeboat
which Sir Thomas is now so zealously promoting.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
at Guildhall, at whieh the Lord Mayor (Alderman
Allen) presided.

THE NEW DEAD-MEAT MARKET AT SMITHFIELD.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, the chairman of the Markets
Improvement Committee, brought up a report from
that committee, which embodied a report made by
Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect, having re-
ference to the progress of the works of the proposed
meat and poultry market, which is in course of
erection upon the site of the ancient market at
Smithfield. This report detailed the proceedings
that had taken place at the building during the
year, and the result appeared to be of a very satis-
factory character as to the progress of the works.
Mr. Taylor said he was sure it would be most
gratifying to the court to hear the report that was
made by the architect, and he believed he might
state that within 12 months of the present time the
market would be in full operation. (Hear, hear.)
He could also inform the court that applications
had already been made for more shops in the mar-
ket than they had to dispose of, and before the
market was completed they should have a tenant
for every shop that could be built. (Hear, hear.)
The report was then formally agreed to.
THE PROPOSED NEW CATTLE MARKET IN LONDON.

The Loan MAYOR then said that the Remem-
brancer had a communication to make to the court,
which was of considerable importance, and which it
was considered advisable should be received with
closed doors.

Strangers were accordingly ordered to withdraw,
and the court sat in deliberation with closed doors
for nearly three hours. It was understood that the
subject brought before it was the negotiations that
had taken place between the officers of the corporation
and the Government in reference to the bill pro-
posed to be brought in by the latter for the
erection of a new market at the waterside
for the slaughtering of foreign cattle. The
Government, in the first instance, expressed their
intention to place the building of the new market
under the control of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, but this course met with strenuous opposi-
tion at the hands of the corporation, who regarded
it in the light of an unfair attack upon their ancient
rights and privileges in reference to the question of
markets in the metropolis. Various communica-
tions have taken place between the Markets Com-
mittee and the Lords of the Privy Council upon the
subject, and it appears that the result is that the
Government has consented to leave the erection of
the new market entirely in the hands of the corpora-
tion, who very naturally feel somewhat elated at
the triumph they have thus achieved.