The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

preceded by the Lord Provost, and accompanied by
a number of gentlemen already named. Loud cheers
greeted him, which he answered by lifting his
bonnet and bowing.
The Rev. Professor Milligan, D.D., one of the
Deans of the Chapel Royal, then offered up an ap-
propriate prayer, after which Mr. Leslie, chairman
of the subscribers to the statue, reading the follow-
ing address :

" TO LTIS ROYAL HIGICCESS ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF
WALES, &C.
" May it please your Royal Highness,
" This statue which your Royal Highness has graciously
come to inaugurate is intended as a lasting memorial of
the sentiments of devoted loyalty and ardent attachment
which the inhabitants of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood
entertain towards her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen,
and their sense of the blessings they enjoy under her bene-
ficent reign.

" The idea of erecting this statue originated with some
tradesmen of the city, immediately after the visit of her
Majesty to Aberdeen to inaugurate the statue of the late
lamented Prince Consort. The proposal was cordially sup-
ported by all classes in the city and county, including a
large number of the working men of Aberdeen.
" The committee of subscribers beg to express their gra-
titude to her Majesty for her kindness and condescension
in affording such ample opportunities to their artist to per
fect the model, and trust that the statue now about to be
unveiled will, as a work of art, be satisfactory to her Ma-
jesty and an ornament and honour to the city of Aberdeen.
" The committee also desire most respectfully to thank
your Royal Highness for kindly acceding to their request to
come to inaugurate this statue, and to express their loyalty
and attachment to your Royal Highness, the Princess of
Wales, and the other members of your Royal Highness's
family.

" That her Majesty may long be spared to diffuse the
blessings of good government and example, and to enjoy
the happiness of reigning over a loyal and devoted people,
is our earnest and constant prayer.
"In name and by appointment of the committee of sub-
scribers, " WILLIAM LESLIE, Chairman.
" Aberdeen, Sept. 20, 1866."

Mr. Westland having presented the Prince with
the address, his royal highness accepted it, and
said :

" Gentlemen,—lt bas afforded me the greatest satisfaction
of attending here this day by wish of her Majesty and at
your invitation for the purpose of inaugurating the statue
of the Queen, my dear mother. Iler Majesty has desired me
to express how much she appreciates the motives which
have led the people of Aberdeen to give this lasting
evidence of their attachment and loyalty to her person,
of which she has had so many proofs, and whose sym-
pathy in her great sorrow has touched her so deeply. Her
Majesty's satisfaction is much enhanced by the cordial
unanimity which has combined all classes in your city
and county in the erection of a work so grateful to her
Majesty's feelings, and so satisfactory as a work of art.
On my part I have to thank you, gentlemen, for the expres-
sions of attachment you have been good enough to make
use of towards myself and the Princess of Wales and other
members of the Royal family, and I heartily desire to join
in your prayers that her Majesty may long be spared to
reign over a happy, devoted people." (Cheers.)
The Prince then, advancing to the front of the
balcony, pulled the cord affixed to the flag which
enveloped the statue, and in a second or two it was
unveiled amid loud and enthusiastic cheering. The
Prince expressed his high admiration of the statue,
and warmly complimented Mr. Brodie on his suc-
cess. Before leaving the balcony his Royal High-
ness also congratulated Mr. Leslie, chairman of the
committee of subscribers, and Mr. Alexander Yeats,
their secretary, on the success of their labours.
Inscribed on the pedestal of the statue are these
words :

" VICTORIA, D. G. Britanniarum Regina, 1866."
When the ceremony had been completed the
Prince drove to the house of the Lord Provost,
where his Lordship and Lady Anderson had the
honour of entertaining his Royal Highness and a
distinguished party at luncheon. At 10 minutes
past 4 the Prince and suite left by special train for
Abergeldie Castle.

Court of Common Council.

THE GAS QUESTION IN THE CITY.

A special Court of Common Council. was held
yesterday at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into
consideration a report of the Special Gas Committee
delivered in at the sitting of the court last week, re-
lating to the important question of the supply of gas
to the citizens of London.
Alderman FINNIS presided as locum tenens for the
Lord Mayor.

The report, which extended to considerable length,
and which had been printed, set forth the various
proceedings that had been taken by the committee
with a view to break up the monopoly enjoyed by the
three gas companies that at present supply the City
with gas, and to obtain a better, cheaper, and purer
supply than is at present furnished. The report stated
that in accordance with the suggestion of the commit-
tee of the House of Commons that was appointed to
investigate the subject, they had made proposals to
all the existing companies for the purchase of their
works, and it appeared that although the answers
they received from them were couched in different

terms, they were all to the same effect, namely, to
decline the proposition. The report congratulated
the court and the public that although the bill they
had introduced into Parliament for the purpose of
enabling the corporation to erect works of their own
to supply the city with gas, had been rejected, still
their efforts before the Select Parliamentary Gas
Committee had led to the satisfactory result of ob-
taining a report from that committee which entirely
endorsed the opinions arrived at long before by the
citizens of London and the public generally, that the
gas, as at present supplied by the existingcompanies,
was deficient in quantity, and in purity and in illu-
minating power, and of an exorbitant price, and that
the late Home Secretary had expressed his intention
of giving instructions that abill should be introduced
into Parliament as speedily as possible, based upon
the report of the committee of the House of Com-
mons, and with a view to remedy the evils that were
complained of. The report also stated that the com-
mittee had been in communication with the present
Home Secretary upon the subject, and he appeared
to be fully inclined to carry out the views of his
predecessor in office, but the committee at the same
time observed that it was in their opinion very ne-
cessary that the matter should be earnestly pressed
upon the attention of the Government, and they
therefore recommended that they should be em-
powered to continue to act and take such steps in the
matter as they might deem to be expedient.
Mr. J. F. BoistrEms, the chairman of the special
committee, on moving that the report be agreed to
by the court, and that the committee should, be em-
powered to continue their labours, went at consider-
able length into the various proceedings that had
been adopted by them with a view to carry out the
wishes of the court. He recurred to the course that
was taken by the select committee of the House of
Commons, and said that notwithstanding that
committee was not favourably constituted as re-
garded the corporation, and the strenuous opposi-
tion made by the different gas companies, they were
compelled to agree to the report, which must be
considered exceedingly satisfactory to the public
with regard to the
important objecttheyashheadproin:
view. It was estimated that the different
com-
panies had expended £lOlOO
ceedins, and the expense inc
had been about £B,OOO. uorirnedoty potshiengcommittee
A discussion then took place upon the question,
but almost all the speakers were on one side, namely,
in support of the recommendation of the committee;
and eventually the report was agreed to unani-
mously.

A report was brought up by Deputy Fry, the
chairman of the improvement committee, recom-
mending that a sum of £400,000 should be raised
upon loan for the purposes of the Holborn Valley
improvement.

The report was agreed to, and the court adjourned,

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Pilgrims in the Landes.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
BUGLOSE (Department of the Landes), Sept. 15.
Close to the spot which marks the limit of the Landes
and La Chalosse, on the right bank of the Adour, about
nine miles from the town of Eax, and in the midst of a
desert, stands a chapel long renowned in the traditions of
the country. This shrine, which was for centuries the ob-
ject of the deepest veneration among the populations of
those sterile tract; is known as the Chapel of Notre Dame
de Buglose, from the statue of the Virgin which it contains;
and it attracts crowds of pilgrims every autumn from the
neighbouring departments. La Chalosse, in Lower Guienne,
once formed part of the territory of the Dukes of Aquitaine,
and St. Sever, its principal towns, owes its existence to a
Benedictine Abbey founded there towards the close of the
10th century, but the very ruins of which have long disap-
peared. No spot could better be chosen by a recluse for me-
ditation and prayer than that on which stands the Chapel
of Notre Dame. The bleating of the flocks that now and
then traverse those vast plain; covered here and there with
patches of scanty verbage, the sharp stroke of the wood-
man's axe among the distant firs, the roar of the waves of
the Gulf of Gascony breaking on the sandy coast, but
which is softened by distance into a murmur, or the
moaning that comes from oat the depths of the pine
forest as the ocean breeze sweeps through it, are the
only sounds heard there. To the north and east of the
shrine extend the sandy and apparently boundless
plains ; to the west, the vegetation of the Mare-
nien ; to the south the horizon is bounded by the jagged
peaks of the Pyrenees, and in the foreground the eye re-
poses on the wooded uplands of the Chalosse, bathed by
the waters of the Adour. On one side is a desolate steppe ;
on the other are rich slopes, smiling valleys, and fields
waving with corn.
The spot on which the chapel of Notre Dame de Buglose
stands was the site of an ancient oratory, which had been
resorted to from time immemorial for devotional exercises,
and the statue it contained was endowed by popular super-
stition with wonderful gifts. During the religious troubles
of the 16th century it was laid in the dust, and the statue
disappeared. An edict of Jeanne d'Albert, Queen of Lower
Navarre and Bear; and mother of Henri IV., who intro-
duced the reformed faith into her States in 1567, ordered
that all the rural oratories and chapels, " which tended to
keep alive silly superstitions, as well as the shrines in the
towns and village; should be demolished, and the materials
turned to useful purposes." One of tha first of these resoits
dear to the devout and superstitious, that was treated in the
way the edict of Jeanne recommended was the Saint Cha-
pelle of Buglose. It was burnt to the ground in 1570. It is
handed down in the traditions of the country that its great
attraction and its great ornament, the statue of Our Lady,
was saved from destruction by a few zealous worshippers,
who threw into a morass near to the fountain, still called the
Fountain of Miracles. In the course of time the memory of
the miraculous gifts of the Sainte Chapelle began to fade
away ; the pilgrimage had long ceased, for the few persons
who knew where the image was concealed died without
intrusting the secret to any one. An accident disclosed its
hiding-place. The story runs that, about 100 years after
its disappearance, a herdsman of the parish of Pouy, who
used to drive his oxen to the edge of the morass, remarked
that one of his animals• constantly strayed from the rest of
the herd, plunged into the water, and remained there the
whole day, occasionally raising his head and lowing pite-
ously. This occurred so often that the man's curiosity
was roused. He followed the animal, and found him lick-
ing what appeared to be the feet of a woman's figure,
which just rose to the surface of the water. He at once
ran off to announce to the priest of the parish what he had
seen. The priest got together a number of men and pro-
ceeded at their head to the morass, and after a good deal
of labour reached the spot where the ox was still standing
nearly covered with water. They pulled out the statue
and bore it away in triumph. A rude pedestal was piled
up on the spot where the kiosk or chapel that coves sin the
miraculous fountain now stand; and Notre Dame de Bu-

glose received once more the homage of her worshippers.
The traditions of its miraculous gifts were not quite obli-
terated. They were soon revived, and the annual pilgri-
mages were resumed, and have continued to the present
day. The Bishop of Dax ordered the statue to be trans-
ferred to the church of Pouy, in his own diocess. It was

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placed on a car drawn by oxen, and was fol-
lowed by crowds of people, who flocked in from
the country round about on hearing of tho re-
covery of their long-lost relic. When the procession
had advanced about four hundred paces the oxen sud-
denly stopped, and neither the shouts nor the goads of the
drivers could make them move ono inch further. It was

called to mind by some of the old inhabitants that the spot
where the oxen stood motionless was the identical site of
the ancient oratory whiCh was burnt in compliance with
the Queen of Navarre's edict. The clergy and the people
believed they discerned a supernatural agency against
which it would be impious to attempt to struggle ; and the
place was fixed upon as the site of a newchapel, where the
statue should find a permanent resting-place. A collection
was opened for the buildiug. The Bishop, the Marquis de
Payenne, and other noble families were the first to contri-
bute. In less than two years the edifice was completed ;
and on the first Monday of Pentecost of the year the chapel
was consecrated in presence of a vast concourse, and with
great pomp. In the course of time the chapel was found to
be insufficient for the crowds of worshippers who increased
every year. Ten years ago a new and more elaborately
ornamented structure was raised on the same site; and the
statute of the Virgi❑ and Child enthroned with due solem-

nity. Pope Pius IX. issued a Brief granting a "plenary
indulgence" to all who should visit on the day of its con-
secration, confess, communicate, and pray between the
hour of evensong and sunset, before the high altar, "for
concord among Christian princes, for the extirpation of
heresies, and for the exaltation of our Holy Mother the
Church ;" as also to those who should perform the same
devotional exercise during the same 'hours, on
the anniversary of its consecration. The fountain
which is hard by the Church, is enclosed within a kiosk ;
and the water is carried by pipes into a large marble re-
servoir for the use of invalids who, after drinking at its
source, hope to complete their cure by bathing .in it. On
the walls of the chapel of the fountain are hung up
crutches, staves, and other votive offerings attesting the
efficacy of these waters. Three miles from the church of
Notre Dame de Buglose is the birthplace of St. Vincent de
Paul, on which a chapel has also been built in his honour•
The pilgrims who visit Buglose never fail to pay their
homage at the shrine of the saint, and these have for some
years past become so numerons that the directors of the
Bordeaux and Bayonne Railway have built for their special
accommodation a station midway between the roads, con-
structed by the municipality, that lead to the two churches
of Notre Dame and St. Vincent do Paul.
On Sunday last more than 150 persons from :the en-
virons of Bordeaux from Bayonne, Aite, Tarbes, Pau, and
the Basque country assembled together on this usually de-
serted spot. In accordance with the wishes of the clergy
of the department of the Landes, Pius IX. authorised the
crowning of the statue. To give more solemnity to the
act, the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Bishops of
Aire; and Dax, Puy, Tarbes, and Soissons presided at it.
As the parish church of Buglose could not contain a fifth
of the number, many of whom had arrived during the
night, it was resolved to perform the coronation in the open
air. At the entrance of the village of Buglose a triumphal
arch, formed of branches of the fire tree, shrubs, and
flowers, was raised in honour of the five prelates who were
to take a leading part in the solemnity; another of similar
materials stood in front of the church, and the houses and
trees in the intervening space were decorated with flags.
The tricolour was planted in the centre of the town ; and
the Pontifical banner displaying the Tiara and the Keys
floated in the Court of the Missionaries and in the alley
leading to the " Chapel of Miracles." In front of the chapel
a platform was erected for the bishops and their attendant;
and on it stood an altar gorgeously decorated, at which
mass was to be performed by the Cardinal. To the rear of

the altar, but rising high above it, stood the throne on
which the statue was to be placed during its coronation.
The Prefect of the Department and the other public func-
tionaries had seats on a lower platform, and to the right
and left of the altar benches wore arranged in the form of
an amphitheatre for the clergy and others who were to
walk in the procession. The Orpheonist Society of Daz
and the Philharmonic Societies of the neighbouring de-
partments had a reserved space of their own ; 800 places
were kept for those who had got tickets of admission to
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morning was beautiful, not a breath stirred the
fet:n, and
the sun rose in a perfectly cloudless sky. The bells of 20
parishes repeated the signal. Crowds of men, women, and
children poured in from the railway station, and moved
along to the chapel reciting their rosaries Twelve altars
had been erected in the open air, and in tents for the per-
formance of mass, and at the high altar that rose from the
foot of the statue, masses were said without ceasing from 4
o'clock in the morning till half-past 8. At this hour a peal
of bells and a salute of artillery announced that the cere-
mony was about to open. The people left the places re-
served for those who were to take the lead in the proces-
sion ; and the bishops, the canons, and archpriests forming
the escort of honour awaited its coming under the trium-
phal arch. It consisted of three separate corteges,--the
Trophy, the Shrine of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Mira-
culous Statue. The first was opened by a detachment of
sappers with drums and trumpets, cross-bearers, choristers
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ties ; while pilgrims walked on both sides carrying banners,
on which wore inscribed the moseremarkable facts relating
to the statue —its discovery in 1620, the pilgrimage of the
Bishop of Dna the same year, the pilgrimage of the Queen
of Spain in 1709, and the Brief of Benedict XII. in

1723 according various privileges to the Church of tro
Dame de Buglose. These were followed by censer-bearers,