The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

THE MAJORITY OF THE MARQUIS OF

BUTE.

(From the Scotsman.)

The rejoicings in Bute in honour of the majority
of the-Maxquis of jlitexommenced ottFridaawere
resumed on Saturday, and from early morning till
late in the evening there was a continual succession
of festivities. The weather was brilliantly fine, and
the proceedings were entirely s uccessful. About
'half-past nine o'clock the Bute tenantry, numbering
about 120, assembled on horseback at the village of
Killiecroy, and, under the superintendence of Mr.
Henry
.Stuart, Mr. C. G. Shaw, and Mr. Baxter,
were marshalled in processional order. They then
marched to Mountstuart House, passing through a
grand triumphal arch of flowers and evergreens
which had been erected at the foot of the avenue.
On their arrival in front of Mountstuart, they
formed square, in the centre of which Lord Bate's
carriage was drawn up. About ten o'clock the
Marquis of Bute appeared at the front door of the
house, and was received with loud cheers by the
assegibled farmers. His lordship entered his car-
riage, which was approached by Mr. Charles Dun-
can, president of the Bute Farmers' Society, who
read a congratulatory address from the Bute
tenantry.

The MARQUIS, in accepting the address, said—
Gentlemen, I receive from you with a pleasure
which is not formal, but sincere, the address which
you have just offered me, and I rejoice to know
that the feelings which it expresses are those with
which you really regard me. I feel towards this
island all the proud affection which has for centuries
bound my fathers to its soil, and I know how many
there are among you whose attachment to it is not
less hereditary than my own, and I am glad to feel
that our family and it have been from generation
to generation connected together. I trust and be-
lieve that the bond is one which it will never be my
doing to weaken or destroy. On the contrary, be-
lieve me that it is my desire, by following the ex-
ample of my father and mother which you set
before me, to knit it closer and closer.
Three cheers having been given for the noble
lord, his carriage drove off, escorted by the mounted
farmers. The procession arrived at Millhole, the
boundary of the burgh of Rothesay, at 11.15, and
the noble lord was there received by the provost,
magistrates, and council of Rothesay, and detach-
ments of volunteers. A procession was then formed,
and proceeded at a slow. pace along the beautiful
road which skirts the bay, entering the town by
Bishop-street, and as it passed the various coigns
of vantage where crowds of people had taken up a
position, the marquis was greeted with loud cheers.
The procession arrived shortly after 12 o'clock at
Victoria Hall, where the freedom of the burgh was
presented to the Marquis of Bute at a banquet.

In the afternoon there was a distribution of £2OO
among the poor people of the town, the schools
were entertained to fruit and cake at Lord Bute's
expense, and the volunteers were regaled in the
Bute Hotel.

An address from the Commissioners of Supply
of the county of Bute was presented to his lordship
in Mountstuart House during the afternoon, and
briefly acknowledged.

About four o'clock the marquis entertained about
five hundred of the county gentlemen, tenantry,
and chief inhabitants of Bute to a grand banquet,
in a splendid pavilion erected for the purpose in
front of Alountstuart Housr.

The lion. GEORGE FREDERICK BOYLE, Wll3 was
received with .oud and prolonged cheers, pro-
posed " The Marquis of Bute." (Loud cheer-
ing.) Ile said—That name, gentlemen, is
associated in our minds with the past, with
the present, and with the future. With the
past because it brings to our memory recollections
of his revered father—the friend of his tenants, the
treasurer of the poor, the banker of the unfortu-
nate. (Loud cheers.) That expression will recall
to the recollection of some of you his extremekind-
ness of heart to certain less affluent depositors—it
will recall to your recollection that he rekindled the
fire on many a humble hearth, and restored joy and
energy to many a life. (Cheers.) As to the pre-
sent, I would remind you that we are now drinking
the health of one who, in the localities with which
he is connected, potently touches three of the
greatest interests of the country--agriculture,
manufacture, and the mercantile interests. (Cheers.)
As to the agricultural interest, it is needless fur me
to remind you of his lordship's large estates in
Bute, Ayrshire, and Galloway ; and as to the manu-
facturing interest, I need scarcely remind you of
the very intimate connection of the house of Bute
with the manufactures of Rothesay, which were the
precursors of so much of the manufacturing prospe-
rity of Scotland. (Cheers.) Of his connection
with the mercantile interest, I will only remind you
of those great docks at Cardiff, which recall to
our recollection the days of ancient Venice,
where high and ancient nobles had the most
personal and intimate associations with the
mercantile prosperity of the great republic.
(Cheers.) Having glanced at the material
interests associated with the name of the Marquis
of Bute, I would say one single word in reference
to the scat which he will have in the Senate of this
nation. It will be in your recollection that his an-
cestor filled the highest and first place in the Legis-
lature as Minister of the Crown—(cheers)—and,
gentlemen, I am sure that I only express the hope
that, without necessarily treading in the footsteps
of his ancestor, he will at least follow him in taking
a leading place in the deliberations of the nation.
(Loud cheers.) Some of you may be inclined to say
to me, " You have dwelt upon what is material in
his position—you have dwelt on what is social and
political, but you have said nothing about his per-
sonal endowments." Now there are two reasons why
I have not done so : the first is, because of his pre-
sence amongst us to-day ; and the second is, be-
cause of 'the modesty which has been so singularly
characteristic of him, and which I iunteltituld to
be the first presage of ,:thQ,:nbility with which he
Fill 0., frictrastirittitslied position. (Cheers.) The
iaiver that the foundations of a building are made
the sounder and higher is the superstructure. (Re-
newed cheers.) 'We are now at the close of a day
which I am sure will never be banished from our
recollection. It has been marked ou the part of
our noble host by an act of hearty benevolence re-
ferred to in the .Victoria This day has
been marked by unselfish enjoyment, having its
source in the prosperity of another—such unsel-
fish enjoyment having its roots in all that is
highest and finest and noblest in human nature.
(Cheers.) And now one parting word as to

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the future.. Be yours, my lord, a distin-
guished place in the councils of the nation, be
yours the respect and amity of an ancient royal
burgh ; and at the close of a long and prosperous
and an honoured life may your name be embalmed
in the affections and traditions of a grateful
tenantry. (Loud cheers.)
The Marquis of BUTE, who was received with the
most enthusiastic cheering—the whole company
rising to their feet and waving their handkerchiefs
—in reply, said : Your kindness has already given
me to-day more than one opportunity of express-
ing to you with how much feeling it is that I re-
ceive from you all the signs of attachment which
you are- good enough to afford me ; therefore I
will not say much to you now. There is nothing
I have to say. I can only thank you very
warmly for the way in which you have just drunk
my health, and I hope that this occasion will only
be the first of many acts of kindness which will pass
between us hereafter--(cheers) —a series of acts of
kindness which I am privileged to know are a tradi-
tion here now from my father. I can only hope
that by endeavouring to follow him whom you
have set before me as an example, I may some day
or other be considered by you to have earned for
myself the good feeling which you give me now
for the sake of those who are gone. (Loud cheers.)
There was a grand display of fireworks on the
lawn after dark. The effect of the fireworks, which
were prepared at great expense by Mr. Barlow, of
Glasgow, was very grand.

A RCHIEPISCoRi L A R17'1131E2 IC.

(From the Examiner.)

Archbishops Trench and Beresford, like certain
seaside forts, have been left us as legacies by Lord
Palmerston. That distinguished Minister did
many good things in his day, but he likewise did
some very unwise ones. He made some excellent
appointments in the English Church; but from
the fatality which seems to rest upon all unreal
and unreasonable institutions he could not escape
when he came to fill up vacancies in the anti-Irish
archiepiscopate. Aristocratic himself in his lean-
ings, he understood Ireland too well to make over
again the mistake cf nominating philosophers like
Dr. Whately or fanatics like Dr. M'Ghee. He
knew that the former could never obtain either a
popular following or a r opular hearing, even from
his own ptivileged sect ; and he knew that the
zeal of men like the latter could only serve to make
the seething
.cauldron of religious animosity boil
over. Ile thought his first duty was to keep the
peace,—at least not to run the risk of a breach of
it in Ireland ; he therefore refused to allow the
formation of volunteer corps, thinking that their
bl Ink cartridge practice might lead to bloo:lshed ;
and he therefore resolved to dispense Church
patronage solely with a view to political interests,
for which alone he regarded it, in a country like
Ireland, as capable of any use. The family of
Beresford had had the primacy for a possession for
forty years ; and possession is nine points of the
law where equity is out of the question. The
house of Curragnmore, time out of mind, had never
beet, without rich dioceses as part of its means of
noble livelihood. Lord Palmerston was a gentle-
man, and so, when the Most Rev. Lord John
Beresford died, he thought the best thing he could
do was to make the Rev. Marcus Beresford Arch-
hishop of Armagh. The mitre of Dublin soon
afterwards fell into his hands, and, by way of being
consistent and impartial, he bestowed it on the
scholarly son of the house of Trench, whose heredi-
tary skill in appropriating episcopal " fat things,"
and capitular " wines upon the lees well refined,',
had hardly been outshone by that of the Bourkes,
or even of the Bere,fot ds. The Establishment in
Ireland, as Sir Roundell Palmer reminds us, was
Dart and parcel of " the sword-in-baud lantation "
begun by the Tudors and finished by the Stuarts.
Its richest prizes and most splendid emoluments
had been kept for generations among the heirlooms
of the great families. They said they had a right
to them—at least a better right than anybody
else ; and, while they are allowed to last, we do
not distinctly see what other use there is for then.
Like the costly and massive fortifications already
referred to, they looked the thing admirably—these
archiepiscopal thrones of Dublin and Armagh ; and
seemed admirably manned withal, so long as there
was no enemy in sight. But how do they stand
their first attack ? Do those in command know
what to do or which way to fire ? Within the last
few days mitred manifestoes have been put forth
by the most reverend authorities in these be-
leaguered places, inspired apparently by the Chinese
hope of frightening away assailants by holding up
pictures of all that is fierce and formidable. They
do not exactly say that they are more unmet ous
than the besiegers ; but they go as near to it as
long-sleeved logic will allow, by roundly asserting
that, as their flags and uniforms are the same as
those of a great army beyond the sea, they ought
to be treated with as much respect, and regarded
with as much fear, as if all their religious relations
at a distance were actually within the walls. Arch-
bishop Trench appeals to history, and tries to ac-
count for the smallness of his available force by a
series of stories founded on fact, bit very
ill-
founded thereon. He would have us believe that
Anglicanism, as preached by the freebooter cap-
tains of Elizabeth and James 1., was fast becoming
a prevalent and popular faith, when in a fit of
desperation, treacherously and unprovokedly, the
Catholic population rose on their benignant con-
verters and swept them in 1641, for the most part,
into the sea. What Cromwell did to repair the
mischief soon afterwards, and how the penal laws
prolonged the hope that, by dint of pitiless cruelty
and brutalising oppression, religious disaffection
would be at length stamped out in the land, the
most reverend father in God of the Dublin garri-
son does not say. He has taken care to put that
down in what the Dutch used to call " The Forget
Book." But it is not forgotten. The injured, in-
sulted, persecuted, and plundered people have
grown and multiplied in Egypt. That they ought
not to have done so Archbishop Trench makes out
clearly to his own satisfaction. Sectarian ascend-
ancy laughed for glee when Drogheda
,And Wex-
ford fell; it shouted for joy on the bloody fields
of Aughrim and the Boyne ; it chuckled at the
cheat practised in the treaty of Limerick ; and
sipped its ecclesiastical claret in sanguine idleness
during the whole of the eighteenth century. As
its plethoric limbs grew numb, it let slip some of
the cords wherewith recusancy and nonconformity
were bound ; and these, intoxicated will their new
liberty, and impatient at what was still withheld,
broke out in 1798 in United Irishism. Presby-
terians and Catholics were once more put down,
and the fears of ascendancy laid to rest by the so-
called Act of Union, which declared the un-national
Establishment in Ireland to be henceforth' part
and parcel of the national Establishment in Eng-
land. On this miserable make-believe of a guaran-
tee, which does and can guarantee nothing that is
false in fact and repugnant to justice and reason,
the planter Church has relied from that day to
this; and Archbishop Trench is unwise enough to
think that its invocation will deter Parliament
from dealing with the subject. Archbishop Beres-
ford is hardier still in his angry assertions. He
plunges into statistics as blindly as his metropolitan
brother takes a header into history. In astound-
ing defiance of the notorious figures of the case,
the parliamentary successor of St. Patrick asserts
that, if to the minority of Churchmen in England
we add the insignificant minority of Churchmen
in Ireland, the two minorities will outnumber the
demonstrable majority on this side the Channel,
and the obvious and overwhelming majority on the
other. This is archiepiscopal arithinetic—tlx
algebra, we presume, of the orthodox astronomy
that insisted on Galileo denying that the earth
went round the sun.

This event, which, barring accidents, is to 'be pulled off
6n the 17th November, is already exciting an immense
Amount of speculation. Our aquatic correspondent,
writing from Putney, states that though Kelly's backers
are sanguine as to the success of their man, they
do not for a moment shut their eyes to the
fact that Randford's style of doing his work
in the Thames Regatta proved him to be an opponent
of no mean order. Whatever may be the result of this
particular race, it is admitted that the Northerner is des-
tined, unless he deteriorates in some unaccountable
manner, to occupy a foremost place in the estimation of
rowing men. Even those who had money on against him
when he made his appearance on the Thames were com-
pelled to appreciate, and in several instances openly
to admire, his performance. It is no secret
that neither of the men intend to spare
themselves in training for the important event, and who-
ever is fortunate enough to be between Putney and Mort-
lake on the afternoon fixed for its decision will have an
opportunity of witnessing the perfection to which
preparation for an aquatic struggle of such mag-
nitude may be brought, and will probably see
one of the most fiercely - contested matches ever
known on the Thames. The Londoner, who at the time of
the Thames Regatta was rather out of sorts, appears now
to be in good health. Every arrangement it is understood
will be made and strictly carried out at the forthcoming
race to preclude any of those " difficulties " which have
of late spoilt so many of the best events on the river,

THE WANING POWER OF NAPOLEON.

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Speaking of the danger of war the Pall than Gazette
says that its being bred in France is the clearest
circumstance in the whole imbroglio. That it is
created by the Emperor himself is the belief
of almost everybody who believes in it at all. And
so it may be. And yet it is possible enough that he is
preparing unwillingly for a war which, though it may
revivify the fast-fading hopes of his dynasty, may also
ruin them in one campaign. If it be true that the Emperor,
seeing himself more and more isolated as a sovereign
amongst sovereigns, and as a monarch amongst his people,
listens within anxious and yielding mind to the plans of
ambitious soldiers who are always for " striking a blow,"
then what the Emperor is doing is very natural, but not
very noble, or likely to accomplish more than the post-
ponement for a little while of the inevitable day when
another break will be made in that " dynasty" of his. All
—but the enfeebled mind (we will not answer for that)—
the conditions which might excite him to such a course
are present in enormous force. That he lives more and
more in isolation, that his good " cousins " throughout
Europe and many of his subjects at home are dropping
away from him, is one of the most natural things in exist-
ence. The leaf that falls from the tree to-day, and cannot
be stayed, is not more strange a sight than the
waning power of a ruler like Napoleon 111. Personal
Government is a splendid undertaking ; but there is a
certain law of nature which makes it unstable always,
and which at least leaves nothing so obvious about it as
that it must soon come to an end. " Napoleon is France "
may be a pretty boast when Napoleon is forty, when
time has not yet revealed the cost of the pedestal on
which he stands, when everybody agrees to postpone, as
something too remote to affect the conduct of the hour,
the momentous question, What will happen when Napo-
leon isn't France? Personal government might be the
most perfect thing on earth, if wisdom and benevolence
could prolong a ruler's life and sustain his faculties
under the weight of laborious years ; as it is, the most
excellent sovereign of tlit kind has to resign after a little
while, and he tmore completely has been the government
the more probable it is that after him will be the geluge.

THE METROPOLITAN EXTENSION
RAILWAY.

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On Tuesday morning a select party or gentlemen went
for a trial trip on what is called the Metropolitan Exten-
sion Railway, being, in fact, an extension of that admi-
rably-convenient line which was originally-known as "The
Underground," but the more euphonious and in
every way better name of which is " The Metropolitan."
The new portion traversed by Tuesday's party
in perfect ease and comfort commences at Praed-
street, Paddington, at a junction •between the existing
Edgware - road and Bishop's - road stations, passes
through Paddington proper, crosses the Uxbridge-road, •,•
skirts Kensington Gardens, looks in at Bayswater,
touches at Notting-hill and Kensington, and has •
its present termination in the Gloucester-road, in
a district which was once vulgarly Old Brompton,
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more genteelly Earl's-court, but which, we believe, has
now been absorbed in the all-absorbing, South Kensington.
The Metropolitan Extension boasts of • five stations.
Corning westward, the first is at Paddington, immediately
facing the Great Western Hotel, with which establish-
ment it is connected by two subways. The second is at
Bayswater, in the Queen's-road, just south of the well-
known tavern the Royal Oak. The third is at Netting-
hill Gate, in the Uxbridge-road, a few yards east
of where the old gate used to stand, and close
by Pembridge-crescent. The fourth is in Kensington
High-street, almost immediately facing the Ken-
sington Vestry Hall ; and the fifth is in Gloucester-
road, Old Brompton, lying between Hereford-square on
the one side, and the enormous " terraces " and "gardens "
and "places" which attempt to arrogate to themselves a
factitious importance by tacking on " Queen's Gate, Hyde
Park " to their otherwise insignificant names. All these
stations are capital specimens of simple and tasteful archi-
tectural decoration. The platforms, which are all 300 ft.
long (with the exception of that in Gloucester-
road, which is 400 ft.), are approached from an
elegant balcony, running crosswise, with staircases
descending to the up and down sides respectively, while
the arrangements for ladies' rooms, lavatories, &c., are
decidedly superior to those found on much more preten-
tious lines. The length of the new extension railway,
which has two lines of rails on the narrow gauge principle,
is from end to end—that is to say, from the junction with
the main line at Praed-street to the terminus at
Gloucester-road —about two miles and a half. It is
intended to carry it on as far as Alfred-place,
opposite the South Kensington Museum, a third of
a mile farther, where it will join the Metropolitan
District line, extending thence to Palace-yard, and finally
intended to pass along the embankment to Cannon-street.
This is, however, looking some time ahead. The line
traversed on Tuesday, and which will be open for public
traffic on the Ist proximo, has easy curves throughout, the
sharpest being one furlong radius upon leaving the main
line. The traffic will commence on the Ist of Octo-
ber. It is intended to run ninety trains each way
throughout the day, at intervals of from six to eight
minutes, and it is calculated that the entire distance
between Gloucester-road, Earl's-court, and Moorgate-
street will be traversed in thirty-three minutes. At all
the stations a refreshment-room is provided, under the
management of Messrs. Spiers and Pond, the only con-
tractors bold enough to attempt to slay the dragons of
Mugby-junctionism and conventionality, which have so
long been the bane of railway travellers. It is long since
the public have had such a boon as the opening of the
Metropolitan Extension Railway will prove to them.

Three men were killed by the falling of the wall of
sin old houso whiet was. being taken down in Belfast on
Monday. Others wore injured.

GREAT YARMOUTH.—At the North Norfolk re-
vising barrister's court, at Great Yarmouth, a lengthened
argument took place with reference to an objection made
by the Liberals against 500 Conservative voters of Yar-
mouth, on the ground that being still de facto electors of
that borough (which will not be disfranchised until the
close of the present Parliament) they could not be placed
on the register for North Norfolk for 18G8-9. The bar-
rister (Dr. Abdy) took time to consider his decision.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT BRIGHTON.—A very
serious accident happened a few days since at 2, Regency-

square, where M. Pericles Zarifi, a Greek gentleman, was
visiting some friends. While he was in the balcony the
woodwork forming the front of the structure suddenly gave
way in the centre, and the unfortunate gentleman fell
headlong to the pavement. By the fall be sustained a
severe lacerated wound at the top of the forehead, a wound
of the cheek, and abrasions of the altin over the arms and
legs, but fortunately no bones were broken, and he is now
in a fair way of recovery. —brig/don Examiner.
THE DEAN OF ELY ON THE Cntuten.—The
Dean of Ely preached a sermon at the parish church,
Kendal, on Sunday last, advocating, at the request of the
bishop of the diocese, the claims of the Church Duildini;
Fund of the Diocesan Society. Towards the conclusion
he spoke as follows :—" It would be wrong in me within
this place to introduce any political sentiments, but I feel
bouud to say, while enforcing on you the claims of this
society, that the signs of the times clearly indicate
that members of the Church of England will
have to do much more than they have hitherto
done for their Church. Whether it may have been from
indifference, or from too much reliance upon what has
been done for them by those who have gone before us, it is
quite clear that the Church will before long have to rely
far more on herself than she has yet done. The Church
has hitherto been sheltered under the protection esta.
blished for it in formei days, but by the aid of these
societies, and the devotion of the people to the main.
teuance and the protection of the Church, she will be
prepared to exist without such support, dependent Quiz
anon the eternal MUCH of her Gnat thed..l.

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