The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-08 00:00:00

AND CAMPBELL AND MARQUIS OF LORNE.

"May it please your lordship, on this, the 21st anniver-
sary of your lordship's birth, we, the brethren of Inverary
St.. John's Lodge, No. 50, would add our congratulations
to those of the thousands who regard with joy this happy
event. From the records in our possession of the proceed-
ings of our most ancient order, we find that very much was
done by your lordship's noble ancestors, many of whom
were members of this lodge, in consolidating and extend-
ing its power and influence by the introduction of various
distinguished personages. The brethren, therefore, most
humbly thank the great Preserver of mankind, who has
hitherto watched over your lordship, and brought you to
the age of manhood, and we earnestly trust that the same
all-seeing and loving care may be over you during all your
future career. Descended from a lung line of ancestors,
illustrious in council and great in war, and from a father
whose name is not only famous in the senate of his
country and councils of his sovereign, but is cherished
by all who regard progress in science, literature, and
religion, your lordship is blessed with many and
brilliant examples to guide you in the bright career we
anticipate for you. May your lordship adorn the proud
name bequeathed you, whether it be in the legis-
lation of the empire or on the field of battle ; whether it be
in the arena of science or literature and research, or
whether it be in promoting progress and happiness in the
walks of sociai life. In each and all may your lordship be
eminent; and that your days may be long and happy, and
that the blessing that maketh rich and addeth no sorrow
may be yours, is the prayer of your lordship's wellwishers,
the brethren of Inverary St. John's Lodge, No. 50."

The members of the Lodge were ushered into the
drawing-room, where they were received by the
Marquis, the Duchess and the younger members of
the family being present.
The W.M. of the Lodge called upon the secretary
to read the address, which having been done,
The MARQUIS, in reply, said—Gentlemen, be-
lieve me I accept with great pleasure the address
you have been so kind as to present to me, and in
which you speak so kindly of my parents, and
in terms which assure me of such good wishes for
my own welfare. Although not myself a Free-
mason, I assure you it is a great gratification to me
to receive from the St. John's Lodge such congratu-
lations. Although we outsiders who are not Free-
masons can judge but little of the aims and objects
of your institution, and of the mystic emblems you
bear, yet one fact is open and patent to all, that
your order has found favour in all lands, and that
it embraces within its limits Buell numbers of all
classes and all nations of men as no similar society
has ever at any time been able to include. Gen-
tlemen, I thank you for your address, which I shall
ever remember with gratitude.
Towards noon the provost, magistrates, and town
council met, and agreed to a minute conferring on
the Marquis the freedom of the royal burgh.
Shortly afterwards the Marquis drove from the
castle to the County Buildings, where he was re-
ceived by the provost and magistrates, and, in pre-
sence of a large number of townspeople and others,
presented with the burgess ticket.

Provost M'TAGGART, in presenting the ticket,
said—My Lord Marquis,—ln name of the magi-
strates, town council, and community of Inverary,
I congratulate your lordship on attaining this, the
21st anniversary of your birth, and request the ac-
ceptance of the freedom of the burgh. Your family
have been long and intimately connected with Inve-
rary. The first of your ancestors who could have
been a freeman of the royal burgh was the Marquis
of Argyll, and I have here the original minute of
the town council dated in the year 1660, admitting
the Lord Marquis of Argyll a freeman burgess and
guild brother. (Cheers.) I thought it might be in-
teresting to ascertain whether the first Marquis
of Lorne had been a burgess, and on looking over
our records, though I do not find him admitted
under that name, I find a minute of the town
council, dated in the year 1720, admitting
his grace John Duke of Argyll and Green-
wich a freeman burgess and guild brother.
(Cheers.) I will only allude to one other entry in the
records of the corporation, which is an intimation
Made to the town council by the Marquis of Lorne
on the 6th of Aug., 1845, followed by the expres-
sion of the wishes and the hopes of the burgh on
the occasion ; and the present town council, ani-
mated by feelings similar to those of their prede-
cessors, have taken this the earliest possible oppor-
tunity of requesting your lordship to become a
burgess. With your permission I will now call
upon the town-clerk to read an extract of this
morning's meeting of the town council. (Great
cheering.) ,

The Clerk having read the minute,
The PROVOST continued—l have only to add
that the council regret that the highest honour in
their gift is no more than the freedom of the
burgh. (Loud applause.)
The minute, which was engrossed on vellum, was
then placed in a silver-mounted casket and handed
to his lordship. The casket was made of oak
obtained from a timber of one of the ships of the
Spanish Armada, which was wrecked among the
Western Islands. The casket bore, on a circular
plate, the arms of the town of luverary, and was
otherwise decorated with fleurs de lys and the
marquis's monograph. Inside was an inscription
mentioning the occasion of the, presentation.
The Marquis of LORNE in accepting the freedom
of the burgh briefly replied, thanking the provost,
magistrates, and town council for the honour they
had done him.

This concluded the proceedings in the Town-hall,
and the Lord Provost, magistrates, and members
of the town council then proceeded to the town
cross, where a large number of people had congre-
gated.

The PROVOST (who was received with cheers)
from a position in front of the cross addressed
the assemblage in the following terms :—G-entle-
men—Many of you must recollect our last general
meeting at the cross, which was for the purpose
of wishing happiness to the Marquis of Lorne
on his marriage with a lady whom, though we had
not then seen her, we have since learned to love and
respect. On the present occasion we come to tender
our good wishes to their eldest son on his attaining
his majority. He has hitherto followed the example
of his parents, and a brighter or better example we
could not wish him to follow. He has mixed in the
sports of those of his own years ; and the old, like
myself, have seen his growth and heard of his pro-
gress) and it is difficult to say whether he is most

liked and admired bythe old orthe young. One thing
is certain —he has gained the hearts of all. So much
for the past. For the future, if there is any faith to
be placed in the old prophecies regarding the second
" lan Ruadh," so long looked for, he has a great and
glorious career before him, and however great and
glorious it may be, it cannot be more so than we
wish. Let us, then, join in drinking " Long life,
health, happiness, and prosperity to the Marquis of
Lorne." (Great cheering.)
For the purpose of duly honouring the toast the
magistrates had provided two barrels of beer, the
contents of which were distributed amongst those
present, and drunk amid the heartiest rounds of
applause, mingled with a general expression of good
wishes for the Marquis of Lorne, and the noble
family of which he is so promising a member. The
assemblage broke up into groups, who set about
enjoying themselves in various ways.
At two o'clock a salute of 20 guns was fired, in
alternate rounds,/ from two cannon placed on the
summit of • Duniquaich, and from a third, which
was recovered from the wreck of one of the ships of
the Spanish Armada, wrecked near Tobermory.
At four o'clock the townspeople and the tenantry
were to dine together in a large pavilion erected
near the castle. In the evening there is to be a
grand display of fireworks from Duniquaich, with
bonfires on several of the neighbouring bills. The
Duke and Duchess of Argyll are to give a ball at
the Castle.

On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be games,
regattas, balls, &c.

The rejoicings will be general throughout the vast
estates belonging to the Duke of Argyll ; and alto-
gether the coming age of the Marquis of Lorne is
likely to be an event that will live long in the recol-
lection of all who take part in its celebration.

The tenants on the estate of Roseneath were
entertained to a sumptuous dinner in the inn at
Roseneath Ferry, on Monday afternoon. The
health of the young nobleman, and of the other
members of the ducal house of Argyll, was
drunk amidst enthusiastic applause. The servants
and retainers were at the same time entertained at
dinner in the mansion-house. The feuars of Kil-
creggan and Cove assembled in the volunteer drill-
hall at Cove, and partook of a sumptuous enter-
tainment, and cordially pledged long life and hap-
piness to the young marquis ; and the Roseneath
Artillery Volunteer Company, commanded by Cap-
tain Lang, mustered at their battery at Kilcreggan,
and fired a salute. At nine o'clock a large bonfire
on the top of a Will west of the mansion-house was
lighted, and had a fine effect.—bcotsinan.

The Atlantic Cable.

-AP.--

The completion of this important undertaking was cele-
brated by a dinner at Birmingham on Monday evening,
when the Mayor (Mr. E. Yates) occupied the; chair. His
worship proposed, " The Men of Science, whose genius,
applied to the laws of electricity, has enabled thought to
be transmitted on the instant from Calcutta to London,
and from Ireland to California—the men of commerce
whose skill has made and laid the instrument of commu-
nication, and the owers of the Great Eastern who have
devoted their unrivalled ship to the glorious and success-
ful enterprise of laying the Atlantic telegraph cable."
He quoted the official telegrams announcing the completion
of the great work, and the congratulatory messages which
had been transmitted between her Majesty and the President
of the United States, and the mayors of London and New
York; traced the progress of electricity from the discoveries
of Galvain in 1790 to the present date; and paid a just tribute
to the genius of Volta, Franklin, Priestly, Stephenson,
Wheatstone, Fairbairn, Douglas, Field, Brett, Whitehouse,
Gooch, Glass, •Elliott, Newall, Horsfall, and Wright, by
whose researches and labours the great work had been
brought to a successful termination. His worship concluded
an able and eloquent speech by referring to the spirited
shareholders of the Great Eastern, whose energy and capi-
tal had provided the means by which men of science were
enabled to overcome the obstacles and difficulties incidental
to their enterprise, and spoke in complimentrry terms of
the vice-chairman, Mr. Alderman Hawkes, who, through
all the vicissitudes in the life of the great ship, might claim
the distinction of belonging to the select few who, by in-
vesting their capital and retaining their interest in the
undertaking, had given evidence of their faith in the genius
of Brunel and the mighty mission the great ship was de-
stined to fulfil.

Alderman HAwfus, in returning thanks, expressed the
pleasure he felt in being present at the celebration of
an event too great to be fully realised, and which
might be considered in every respect a God-like enter-
prise. Putting to shame the men who thought only
of wealth, and whose greatest ambition was to be grovel-
ling in riches, and attached to money-making schemes,
science has shown that there were "giants on the earth,"
even in these days, worthy to be assistants to the gods,
who by their genius had established communications
between clime and clime, and consummated the union of
nations. The first message transmitted through the
cable announced that the inhuman ravages of the needle
gun in the savage warfare between Prussia and Austria
had been suspended, and that the "good tidings of
peace" had been proclaimed. That day a response had been
heard from beyond the banks of the Mississippi, "that
martial law had ceased in that country." These were
auspicious announcements, worthy of the messenger that
had conveyed them. With regard to the great ship, he
was proud of his connection with that enterprise, and
thought that the highest honours were due to the gallant
Captain Anderson, who had steered the best ship that ever
was built across the trackless 'course of the Atlantic.

Mr. Councillor WALTUR ably supported the toast, and
referred to the honours which were due to Birmingham for
having taken so important a part in the manufacture of
the cable.

A number of addresses were delivered in honour of the
great undertaking. •

A deputation from the British Horologieal Insti-
tute, introduced by W. T. M. Torrens, Esq., M.P., Alder-
man Lusk, M.P., and Valentine Knight, Esq., president,
had an interview with Sir Stafford Northcoto at the Board
of Trade yesterday afternoon, to impress on the Govern-
ment the necessity of removing the obstructions to the
manufacture of watches, occasioned by the present arrange-
ment at the Goldsmiths' Hall for assaying and stamping
watch-cases. The following gentlemen were present :
Messrs. Jno. Jones, V. P. Jackson, Mylne, Bickley, Storer,
Thickbroom, Scharf, Evans, Browning, Leaver, Beck, and
Mr. Moore, secretary.

THE SATURpAYHALF-HOLIDAY. —Further acces-
sions to this movement in the retail trades of the metropolis
took place on Saturday last. At the West-end a number
of the jewellers' establishments commenced closing at two
o'clock ; and in the city seven of the leading houses in the
india-rubber trade adopted the same hour. Arrangements
approximating to those already adopted by the silk-mercers
and drapers at the West-end were commenced in other
parts of London, the drapers at Islington closing in most
cases at 5 o'clock, and those of Victoria-road, Pimlico, at 6
o'clock. Various houses in the upholstery and drapery
trades in the Borough also closed at 6 o'clock, in place of a
much later hour. In the east of London a large reduction
in the hours has recently taken place, the leading drapery
firms in the Commercial-road now closing their establish-
ments at 6 and 7 on the Saturday.
REPRIEVE OF A CONVICT.—The convict John
Banks, convicted at the Lancaster assizes for the wilful
murder of Ann Gilligan, at Preston, on the sth July, has
been reprieved by the Home Secretary. This decision,
though welcome from motives of humanity, has been re-
ceived with some surprise, and is attributed to the clemency
of Mr. Walpole, as Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence,
declared that " the jury had found the prisoner guilty
upon evidence which it would have been impossible for
them to have found any other verdict ;" and further, " if
from feelings of compassion they had found him guilty of
any other crime than that with which he was charged they
• would hare found him guilty of an offence different from
that which he actually committed. There never was a.
clearer case of murder proved." In face of this declaration
it was not generally expected that the memorial praying
for a reprieve would be favourably entertained.
RUMOURED Loss OF THE YACHT MOSQUITO.—
General circulation has been given for the last few days in
Queenstown to a report of the loss of this well-known
yacht, by collision, on her way to Swansea. The rumour,
we believe, was founded on a telegram which was received
on Thursday evening from Mr. Houldsworth, father of the
owner of the Mosquito, by the captain of a brig which
arrived here about 10 days since with a slight damage to
her quarter from a collision. The telegram inquired if it
was a cutter yacht—such as the Mosquito—with which he
had come into collision. The captain of the brig states
that the collision took place so suddenly, and that there
was such a heavy fog up at the time, that he was unable
to distinguish what sort of craft ran into him. At the
Royal Cork Yacht Club, of which Mr. Houldswortb,
owner of the yacht, is a member, the only definite infor-
mation of the affair is that the Mosquito left the harbour
on the Friday after the regatta for Swansea, and has not
since arrived at her destination. This is now 14 days ago.
--Cork Examiner.

" LORDS AND LADIES." By the author of " Mar-
garet and her Bridesmaids."—There are few novelists
whose works are more welcome than those of the author
of the popular story of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids,"
and her numerous readers and admirers will assuredly re-
ceive with pleasure a new book from her pen, bearing the
attractive title of "Lords and Ladies," and which promises
to be full of those vivid and entertaining sketches of cha-
racter which give such a peculiar charm to this writer's
stories, independently of their grace, originality, and in-
Wrest.