The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTON AND IRE

CINQUE PORTS.

Yesterday Lord Palmerston was formally installed
in his office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
with much pomp and circumstance, and amid every
demonstration of popular enthusiasm. The curious
and interesting ceremony, vividly recalling the an-
cient glory and importance of this historical group
of haven towns, and reviving not a little of the
pagentry and state of bygone times, took place at
Dover, the principal of the fiveports, and the centre
of the Lord Warden's jurisdiction. Every effort
had been made by the "barons," jurats, and com-
monalty of the ports to give a cordial and fitting
welcome to their chief on his entrance upon the
duties of his office, and to celebrate the event with
becoming jubilation and splendour. Those efforts
have been crowned with a triumphant suc-
cess. The noble Lord Warden received from the
future subjects and retainers of his quasi palatinate
a most hearty greeting. Every auspicious circum-
stance combined to impart eclat to his induction.
The glorious sunshine lent its richest aid to
bring out all the picturesqueness and beauty which
nature and art have lavished with so prodigal a
handlupon Dover and its neighbourhood. The an-
cient.castle, which Mathew Paris in his day de-
scribed as clavis et repagulum totius regni, and which
in spite of the altered conditions of modern war-
fare, possess a high strategical value in connection
'with our sea and land defences, looked nobler and
grander than ever; and the frowning battlements
of the neigbouring heights, the bold and beetling
cliffs—blinding in their dazzling whiteness—the
lovely bay, whose waters lay sleeping below, as
smooth and refulgent as a burnished mirror, toge-
ther with the unwonted animation and gaiety which
pervaded every nook and corner of the old town
and port in connection with the day'S festivities, all
gave to the entire picture an indefinable charm, the
potent spell of which stirred the pulse even of the
most blase inhabitant. The Lord Warden himself,
at this his first official visit to the seat of his new
authority, could not fail to be as much impressed
with its external aspect as he must have been gra-
tified by his reception from the townspeople.
No such gala day as yesterday has been known
at Dover since the Cinque Ports—some 20 years
ago—gave a memorable banquet to their late illus-
triou,s Lord Warden, the Great Duke, when the
" Barons," and several thousand other auditors from
far and near, were electrified by the glowing elo-
quence of Lord Brougham, to whcm the task of
panegyrizing England's " hero of a hundred fights"
was so fitly confided.
The lieges of Dover were astir from an early hour
giving the finishing touch to their triumphal arches,
floral devices, flags, banners, and other tokens of
rejoicing. The streets from the first of the morning
were literally alive with the townspeople, and the
concourse was hour by hour increased by the steady
influx of strangers brought from a distance by the
excursion trains and steamboats.
THE REVIEW.

The programme of the day's festivities commenced
with a review of the various corps of Cinque Ports
Rifle and Artillery Volunteers, which was held on
a fine plateau behind the Castle. The rendezvous
of the troops was at Waterloo-crescent, whence they
marched to the review ground accompanied by their
bands, and followed by thousands of the towns-
people and visitors. The route lay up the Castle
Hill, no ordinary acclivity to ascend in quick time
under a blazing sun, whose intensity was greatly
aggravated by the chalky soil, which seems at once
to retain and refract the burning heat. A scorch-
ing atmosphere, however, was unheeded by the im-
mense mass of the ardent holiday keepers; although,
indeed, before the military spectacle was half over
several of the Volunteers had to involuntarily retire
from the ground through their sufferings from the
sultriness of the day.
The different corps on the ground, with their re-
spective officers in command, were :—The Margate
Rifles (under the command of Captain Cox) and
Artillery (Sergeant-Major Caveler) ; the Deal Rifles
(Ensign Carney); the Ramsgate Rifles (Captain
Young) and Artillery (Captain Hammond) ; the
Dover Artillery (Captain Wollaston) and Rifles
(Captain Churchyard); the Hastings Coast and
Marine Artillery (Major V. Harcourt) and Rifles
(the Hon. Captain Waldegrave) ; the Tenterden
Rifles (Lieutenant Saunders) ; the Folkestone
Artillery (Lieutenant Clarke) and Rifles (Captain
LeithT; the Hythe Artillery (Lieutenant Andrews),
and Rifles (Ensign Watts):

Lord Palmerston rode over from Walmer on
horseback, accompanied by the Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., and arrived on the ground about 1 o'clock,
the troops, who numbered in all somewhat under
1,000 men, were drawn up in line to receive. His
Lordship wore the uniform of a Lord Warden—a
blue cloth coat with red collar, and his Grand Cross
of the Bath. He was assisted by Colonel Luard,
Assistant Inspector of Volunteers in the South-Eas-
tern District, by Brigadier-General Garvoch, Com-
mandant of Dover Garrison ; General Dalzell ;
Colonel M‘Murdo ; Colonel Ambrose, 2d Buffs;
Colonel Cnppage, Commandant of Artillery of the
South-Eastern District ; Colonel Aylmer, R.A ;
Lord Elcho, who appeared in the uniform of the
London Scottish, and other officers. The manoeuvres
through which the Volunteers were put were of an
ordinary and simple kind, and were performed with
steadiness and precision. Having marched past
their chief, and executed several skirmishing move-
ments the review was brought to a close. The Lord
Warden and his suite then proceeded to the Castle
to luncheon, and on entering the archway he was
received with a salute of nineteen guns. Here the
proces%ion was formed, and left the Castle by the
drawbridge in the following order :
Cill9.us Porte Volunteer Artillery Corps.
'Governors and bt"Pn,y-Oovernors of the several Forts and
Castles witbilx the Cinque Ports, two by two.
Mayors of the Cinque ports, accompanied by their Recorders,
Town Clerks, and Coroners, with their Barons and
Returned Men in their Gowns, two by two,
preceded by their respective Mace-bearers and officers.
Two attendants of the Corporation of Dover, in Livery.
Sergeant of the Admiralty in his Robes, bearing his Silver
Oar.

Proctors of the Court of Admiralty, „bed
Registrar of the Ports, robed.
The Judge of the Chancery and Admiralty Conrt,, in his
robes.

Surrogate of the Cinque Ports of Admiralty, in his robes.
Lord Warden's Secretary.
The Lieutenant of Dover Castle.
Trumpets, &c.
The Lord Warden.
Officers and Cleatlemen attending on the Lord Warden,

Riding.
Such of the Barons of the Cinque Ports as were there,
two by two.
Cinque Ports Volunteer Rifle Corps.
The route was lined by the 3d Buffs. Every win-
dow, balcony, housetop, and many stands specially
erected for the accommodation of spectators, where
a view of the procession could be obtained were
tested to their utmost capacity, and tumultuous
cheering was kept up along its whole course until
it arrived at