The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

BALMORAL, Wednesday.
The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks,
yesterday, at Invercannie.

Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince
Arthur.

The suite consisted of the Duchess of Roxburglie,
the Hdn. Emily Cathcart, Sir Stafford Northcote,
Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel
Ponsonby, Major Elphinstoue, Mr. Sahl, and Dr.
Robertson.

The royal party drove to Ballater, where a special
train was in readiness, which conveyed them to a
temporary station at Inchmarlo, where her Ma-
jesty was received by Sir James Burnett, Lord
Lieutenant of Kincardineshire, and Mr. Davidson,
of Inchmarlo, through whose ground the royal party
proceeded to Invercannie.
On arriving at the reservoir the Queen was re-
ceived by Sir Alexander Anderson, Lord Provost of
Aberdeen, and the Police Commissioners (by whom
the works were undertaken), the Earl of Kintore,
Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, the members for
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and many of
the gentry of the neighbourhood.
A detachment of the volunteers of the district
mounted as a guard of honour.
After the delivery of a prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson, minister of the parish, the Lord Pro-
vost of Aberdeen presented an address to the Queen,
who was graciously pleased to read an answer.

Her Majesty then turned a watercock (which ad-
mitted the water into the reservoir), and declared
the works to be open.

At the conclusion of the ceremony the royal party
returned by the same route to Balmoral.
On passing Inchmarlo-house her Majesty was
graciously pleased to accept a bouquet, presented to
her by Miss Davidson.
The Queen drove in the afternoon with nine()
and Princess Christian.

Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, attended by
the Hon. Emily Cathcart and Major Elphinstone,
rode to Ballater, and paid a visit to Dr. and Mrs.
Jenner.

Sir Stafford Northcote had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

The Sheriffs' Inaugural Banquet.

Last evening, Mr. Alderman Waterlovi and Mr.
Francis Lycett, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex,
entertained a large party of gentlemen at a banquet
at the Stationers' Hall, on the occasion of their
pointment to the offices they respectively hold.
Among the company present were— Mr. Alderman
Copeland, Alderman Sir John Musgrove, Bart., Mr•
Alderman Sidney, Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart.,
Mr. Alderman Finnie, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden,
Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Alderman William Law-
rence, M.P., Mr. Alderman Abbiss, Mr. Alderman
J. C. Lawrence, Mr. Alderman Dakin, Mr. Alder-
man Besley, Mr. Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Alder-
man Stone, Mr. Alderman Cotton, Mr. A. 5.
Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Charles Capper, M.P., Mr.
T. Cave, M.P., Mr. James Goodson, M.P., Mr•
Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr.
George Moffat, M.P., . Mr. Alderman Sheriff,
M.P., Mr. William Tite, M.P., Mr. M‘Cullagh •
Torrens, M.P., Mr. Holland (Governor of the
Bank of England), Mr. Huut (Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England), Sir John Thwaites
(chairman of the Metropolitan Board of
Works), Mr. Henry Pownall (chairman of
the Middlesex [magistrates), Mr. Horace Jones
(City architect), Mr. Under-Sheriff Crossley, Mr.
Under-Sheriff de Jersey, Mr. Edmund Hodgson,
master of the Stationers' Company, and the war-
dens, treasurer, and court of assistants of the Sta-
tioners' Company, the mayor, aldermen, and mem-
bers of the corporation of the city of Worcester,
the mayor of Nottingham, Sir Charles Crosley, Sir
George Hodgkinson, Mr. Thomas Cotterell, Mr. W.
H. Twentyman, Mr. H. J. Nissen, Mr. J. E. Saun"
ders (chairman of the City Lands Committee), Mr.
James Waterlow, Mr. A. J. Waterlow, Mr. Conn'
cillor and Sheriff Stollard, the master wardens and
court of assistants of the Spectacle Makers' Cora-
pany, Mr. H. Giffard, Q.C., Mr. D. Evans, Mr.
W. B. Waterlow, Mr. H. Sykes Thornton, Mr. W.
Campbell Sleigh, Mr. W. Metcalfe, Mr. John
Lycett, Mr. Peter Graham, the high bailiff of South-
wark, Mr. Thomas Rudkin (chairman of the Mar-
kets Committee), Mr. Lawley (chairman of Local
Government and Taxation Committee), Mr. George
Ledger,,the Rev. Allen T. Edwards, M.A., and the
Rev. G. T. Perke, M A
• •

The loyal toasts having been duly honoured, bar:
Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Health of the Lora
Mayor," which was responded to by Mr. Alderman
FINNISS, in the unavoidable absence of his lordship•

Mr. AldermanWATEßLow then gave " The House
of Commons," coupled with the name of Mr. Al-
derman Lawrence, M.P., who, in returning thanks,
said that that assembly was fully prepared to take
into its consideration the necessity for extending
the basis on which it existed. It would not become
him to express an opinion upon the subject at such
a momont as the present, but he might be permitted
to observe that there could be no doubt that the
house would meet the wishes of the people in a fair
and prosperous manner. There were other questions
however, which would be pressed forward in the
House of Commons, and brought to a satisfactory'
conclusion ; as, for instance, the education of the
people, the homes of the people, &c. —questions
which he was quite sure would be discussed in such
a manner as to cause the benefits arising from the°
to be fairly distributed amongst all classes of the
community.
Mr. Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Mayor, Al-,
dermen, and Corporation of the City of Worcester,
of which city the hon. gentleman expressed himself
proud to be a native, and intimately connected with
its manufacturing interests.
The MAYOR of Worcester, in returning thanks'
alluded to the exertions which had been made by'
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow to improve the O
dwellings of the poor, and stated that be most r,
dially coincided with him in those praiseworthy'
efforts.

Mr. TITE, M.P., proposed " The Health of the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex," observing that, aa
far as Mr. Alderman Waterlow was concerned, he
was quite sure that there was no one in this room,
no one in the City of London, who did not highly
approve the exertions he had made, and was Btu'
making to improve the homes of the poor. He (I\l.l'
Tite) was at the same time happy to testify to the
merits of Mr. Alderman Waterlow's father, who
was present on the occasion, and who had, alwa93,
identified himself with movements for the benefit 0'
the poor. The office of sheriff was an ancient office'
It existed before that of the mayor, through the
worst time and under the worst form of govern"
ment, and it had always maintained the rights an
privileges of the City of London. In reference to
Mr. Sheriff Lycett, the hon. gentleman said that by
the aid of his own exertions, he ha,d become one °,
'
the merchant princes of the City of London, and
was fully entitled to the honour which his fellovir-
citizens had recently conferred upon him. (Cheers.)
The Sheriffs respectively acknowledged the corn'
pliment, Mr. Alderman Waterlow expressing the
great pleasure he felt at the fact that his father, t°
whose good example he was greatly indebted for hi°
success in life, had been spared to sit beside hula °a
this (to him) most interesting occasion.
" The Magistrates of the City of London" w3l
the next toast given, and Mr. Alderman Copelaa"
returned thanks.
Other toasts followed in succession, and the all-
tertainment was brought to a close shortly bef°l.o
11 o'clock.

L,WHETTIER BEES WORK AT NIGHT, I have beef
often asked. They certainly do, as in looking a
them in a glass hive by means of a lighted candle, I 113 f
always found thorn to be apparently busy in various No Y';
A swarm put into an empty straw hive, quite new, lat°
ib
the evening; will have a considerable quantity of c°l'l6
completed by the next morning.—EnwAnD 4MB, in pil°
a Wok