The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-19 00:00:00

AFFAIRS IN GREECE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 17.
MINORITY ON LORD STANLEY'S MOTION RE-
SPECTING THE AFFAIRS IN GREECE.
PRESENT.

♦RCHBISHOP.
York

Minto BARONS.
Morley Cremorne
Oxford Churchill
Scarborough De Manley
Spencer Dunally
Strafford Dufferin
Suffolk Eddisbury
Uxbridge Elphinstons
Waldegrave Erskine
Yarborough Foley
Zetland llolland
VISCOUNT. Bowden.
Clifden Hatherton
BISHOPS. Howarkde Walden
Chester Kinnaird
Down Langdale
Limerick Lovat
Manchester Londesliorough
Norwich Methuen
St. Asaph Milford
SAXONS. Overstone
Alvanley Foltimore
Beaumont Say* and Selo
Byron Sudeley
Camoys Vivian
Campbell Ward
Colborne Wodehouse
Crewe Wrottesley

DIJILES.

Leinster
Norfolk

MARQUISES.
Anglesea
Breadalbane
Conyngham
Donegal
Headfort
Lansdowne
Westminster

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ZIELS.
Besborough
Carlisle
Chichester
Cowper
Craven
Effingham
Fingall
Fitzwilliam
Gesford
Granville
Grey

Ilchester
Leicester
Leitrim

PROXIES.
EARLS. BARONS.
Ducie Carew
Essex Cloncurry

ARCHBISHOP.
Canterbury

DUKES.
Devonshire

Fortescue Cowley
Gainsborough Dacre

Hamilton
Roxburgh
Somerset
Sutherland

Ketimare

Dentnan

Kingston
Kintore

Dinorben
Dorchester

men.qmsES.
Bristol
Clanricarde
Normanby
Sligo

Lindsay
Lismore

Dunfermline
Keane

Oriel

Monson

EARLS.

Burlington
Bruce
Citarlemont
Clarendon
Cork*
Cottenham
Derby

Radnor Montfort
VISCOUNTS. Mostyn,
Bolingbroke Portman

Falkland Itossmore
BISHOPS. Stanley of Alderley
Hereford Stafford
Peterborough Stourton
BARONS. Suffield
Abercromby 'Yana
Auckland Vernon

PAIRS.
Duke of Bedford Lord St. John
Lord Leich Earl Somers
Lord Stuart de Decles Earl of Erne
Lord Belhaven Ear: of Lauderdale
Duke of Grafton Earl Airlie
Lord De Freyne Earl of Longford
Earl Cornwallis Earl Brownlow
Earl of Rosenery Earl of Orford
Bishop of Durham Marquis of Ailsa
Lord Dormer Duke of Beaufort
Earl of Camperdown Lord Sherborne
Lord Lilford Earl of Munster
Earl Powis Earl Pomfret
Earl or Devon Viscount St. Vincent
Earl Arundel Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
Duke of Leeds Earl Bathurst
Earl Sefton Lord Downes
Earl of Shrewsbury' Earl of Beauchamp
Bishop of Worcester Bishop of Rochester
Earl Fitzhardinge Viscount Exmouth

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday the 17th, the important subject
before the House was the Second Reading of the Irish
Lori-Lieutenancy Abolition Bill. The wonder seems
to be, that any of the opposers should have opposed it.
There might have been opposition somewhere, but
nobody would have expected it to be where it was. The
opinion of the Llouss on the whole was finally expressed
by a majority of 295 against 70, for the abolition of the
office.
Oa Tuesday, everybody was on the alert to trace any
consequences which might display themselves, of the
movement on the previous evening in the Lords. The
crop of symptoms was small. The Ministers looked
particularly hilarious, till they composed themselves to
balmy sleep. They certainly looked like men resigned,
if resignation is in the wind. Perhaps they have deeply
meditated on the unsatisfactory nature of human power,
and ere arrived at that state of satisfaction at having it
taken from them, which ascetic piety sometimes aims at.
Perhaps they have done nothing of the kind, nor mean
to do; but intend to let the fly settle on their car with-
out further notice.
The only token which was elicited in any way, was
that a Member on the Liberal side asked maliciously
when the proceedings initiated on the opposite side on
the question of present quarrel were to be gone on with;
and received en answer of the kind which may be popu-
larly described as hacking out.
On the same evening the Member for Manchester ♦i-
gorously pushed his motion for a Commission to be sent
to India—of course he must bo the chairman—to inquire
into the impediments to the growth of cotton. One good
effect it had, was to bring out an entire disavowal of
design to check or keep back the growth of that pe-
culiarly Indian product. Indeed why should there be,
unless so much as might belong to a general system for
mismanaging India, or more properly for managing it
up to the point of goodness which gives the maximum
of gain with the minimum of effort?
On the whole a great deal of good was evolved by the
debate. A general acknowledgment was declared of
the necessity of endeavouring to make the country inde-
pendent of the slave states of America. Cuba and Wind-
sor Castle are sufficient for the minds of all. An effort
to represent the taxes wrung from the native cultivators
of India as expended for their use and benefit, should
have been met with an inquiry how those taxes have
actually been expended, when the answer must have
been, in war. When it is acknowledged, as
it was in this debate, that most or all of
the conquests in India are losing concerns as far as re-
venue is concerned, is it conceivable that the native cul-
tivators should not have been racked to the extent of the
possible, before such a termination was admitted? And
the question ought to have been pushed to a division. A
deb ate without a divison goes for nothing. A division
is what impresses things on men's minds and on the
public, and starts a question with the means of calcu-
lating its progress hereafter.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, June 19, 1850.

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terest,

THE SALE OF BEER.
The Select Committee of the Lords appointed to
consider the operation of the Acts for the sale of
beer have agreed to the following report :
That the Committee have met, and considered the
subject-matter to them referred, and have examined
several witnesses in relation thereto.

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The Committee, on their appointment last session, pro-
ceeded in the first place to take the evidence of those who
have charge of the police of the metropolis, and of some of
the great towns, and subsequently of those who, as chief
constables of counties, or as magistrates, have had spe-
cial opportunities of observing the effect of beer-houses i❑
country districts. Having, however, been appointed late
in the session, they found themselves unable to pursue
this course to a great extent; and as considersb!e delay
and expense would have been the consequence of calling
for the attendance of a large body of witnesses such
as would have been required to ascertain the effect
of the law in different parts of the country, they
issued circulars berth.° they separated for the session,
addressed to the chairmen of quarter sessions, and the
chaplains of gaols, and the chiet constables of counties
where such officers existed, and, in counties where the
Rural Police Act is not in operation, to the clerks of
petty sessions, desiring their opinions on several points
connected with the inquiry. The result of these latter
has been thrown into a tabular form, and will be f iund
to contain opinions upon the subject which are of the
highest value.
On their re-assembling in the present session, the Com-
mittee proceeded to examine several parties, themselves
interested, either as brewers or beer-sellers, in the sale of
beer ; and they have had the benefit also of information
on several points connected with the Excise from the
Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.

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A number of petitions from various places has also
been referred to them, representing in many cases the
opinions of municipal bodies, of boards of guardians,
and of magistrates, as well as of individuals and COW-
gregations, stating in strong language the evils which
they conceive t ) have arisen from the existing legisla-
tion as to the sale of beer, and praying a remedy in
various terms.
Some petitions bare also Leen referred to them from
parties interested in the trade, either as brewers or
beer-tellers, praying that no change in the existing law
may take place.
Ou a review of all the statements and opinions which
have been thus brought before them, the Committee
have no hesitation in stating that the expectations of
those who proposed the existing system have not been
realised. Their object appears to have been to create a
class of houses of refreshment, respectable in character,
brewing their own beer, diminishing, by, the. supply
of a cheep and wholesome beverage, the consump-
tion of ardent spirits; and thus contributing to the hap-
piness and comforts of the labouring classes, But it
appears that of these houses only one-twelfth brew
their own beer; that a very large proportion are, as in
the case of public-houses, the actual property of brew-
ers, or tied by advances to them; that they are- noto-
rious for the sale of an inferior article; that 'the con-
sumption of ardent spirits has, from whatever cause, far
from diminished; and that the comforts and morals of
the poor have been seriously impaired.
It was already sufficiently notorious that drunkenness
is the main cause of crime, disorder, and distress in Eng-
land; and it appears that the multiplication of houses for
the consumption of intoxicating liquors, which under the
Beer Act has risen from 88,930 to 123,396, has been
thus in itself an evil of the first magnitude, not only by
increasing the temptations to excess, which are thus
presented at every step, but by driving houses,
even those under the direct control of the magistrates,
as well as other originally respectable, to practices, for
the purpose of attracting custom, which are degrading to
their own character, and most injurious to morality and
order.

Coincident with this increase in the facilities for in-
toxication, it appears that crime has increased in a
frightful ratio, the commitments for trial in England
and Wales in the years 1848-1849 being in the pro-
portion to those of 1830-1831, the first two years after
the enactment of the Beer Act, of 156 to 100; and that
this is not a mere casual coincidence the Committee
have the strongest reasons to believe from the
general evidence. subinitted to them, but more especially
from that of the chief constables of police, and the chap-
lains of gaols, who have the best opportunities, the one
of watching the character of the beer-shops and of those
who frequent them, the other of tracing the causes of
crime and the career of criminals.
The Committee do not Mean to assert that there are
no houses under the beer-shop licence conducted with
propriety, and even advantage to the neighbourhood; on
the contrary, they have evidence of their existence in
London and some other towns, where houses highly
rated, and kept by parties of respectable character, fur-
nish a valuable accommodation to the middle and work-
ing-classes; but they speak of the great mass of low-
rated houses in town and country, frequented by persons
of the lowest character, and giving no security for good
conduct by the capital invested in the business.
Of such as these the Committee have received one uni-
versal condemnation.
The main defects in the present system may be thus
described :—First, the unlimited multiplication of the
numbers of such houses, which the Committee have
already alluded to, and to which they need not fur-
ther here advert; next, the want of security for
the character of the beerhouse•keeper. There is no
previous investigation ; all that is required is a
cerlificate of character from six ratepayers of a certain
value; and the inefficiency of this security, if common
experience in such matters were not sufficient, would be
amply established by the instances which appear in evi-
dence of such houses being kept by parties who have
forfeited their licence as victuallers for misconduct, and
oy thieves and convicts.

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Again, the rating prescribed by the Act is too low in
itself; and it is still further lowered in effect by devices
for giving a fictitious value for rating, to which it ap-
pears that parish officers too often lend themselves.
Further, there is no security that a beer-house shall
not be established in a remote locality, away from traffic
or population, deriving all its resources from unlawful
practices, 'which shun observation and siscape control.
Ibis evil is, of course, most keenly felt in country dis-
tricts, and especially where there is no rural police.
But, perhaps, the evil of all the most difficult to deal
with is the absence of all control save by legal con-
viction—a result, by the common consent of all the
witnesses who have spoken on the subject, almost
impracticable to attain; the parties who frequent
the beer-house being usually unwilling to give
information of what passes within; and, if they do,
being met by other witnesses is contradiction, who are
always ready for such a purpose, and who are sufficient
to prevent the facts from being ascertained. The only
fact of disorder which is open to observation is irregu-
larity of hours, and for this only are they practically
amenable to the laws.
To this it may be added that it is no small evil to have
a class of houses thus established frequented exclusively
by the labouring population, who thus lose the benefit of
some control from contact with persons of superior sta-
tion, such as was exercised when both the employers and
the employed frequented the same public-house.
The magnitude of these evils has led to a widely-
extended feeling in favour of an abandonment of that
part of the existing law by which consumption on
the premises is permitted. But the existence of houses
such as the Committee have before noted, conducted
under a beer licence with propriety and advantage,
and the length of time which this system has already
endured, have made the Committee unwilling to contem-
plate a change so extensive, until experience shall have
proved that it is impossible by other means to abate the
evil.

With this view they would make the following sug-
gestions for legislation on the subject; premising that
their general object has been, by raising the rating of
nouses hereafter to be licensed for the first time, to
diminish gradually in some degree their number, and to
raise their character; to take better security for the
character of the individuals holding beer licences; to
give some discretion to magistrates in regard to the
locality of the beer-houses; and to confer more.efficient
means of punishment.
Some other minor provisions are suggested, the object
of which will need no explanation.
SUGGESTIONS.

That licences to sell beer not to be consumed on the
premises he issued as at present.
That all houses whatever for the sale of beer shall be
open to the visit of the constable or police; and that
their doors shall be closed for the sale of all articles
whatever at the hours fixed for houses licensed to sell
beer for consumption on the premises.
That all parties now holding a licence to sell beer for
consumption on the premises, and not having forfeited it
by misconduct, receive their licences as heretofore from
year to year, without any fresh condition; and that in
respect to all new applications for such licences, they be
still issued by the Excise as at present, but only on pro-
ducing certificates from the magistrates in petty sessions
that they are satisfied as to the rating and character of
the applicant as hereinafter provided.
That no such certificate shall hereafter be granted
for the first time to any person rated at less than 101. a
year within the parish for a house, with the buildings
and yard connected therewith, in which the beer is to be
consumed, no other land or premises to be included in
the rating; nor where the population is not less than
2,500, to a house, with similar restrictions, rated at less
than 151.; nor where the population is above 10,000, to
a house rated at less than 201.; the rate required by the
existing law in the same cases being severally 81., 11/.,
and 151.
That the parties intending to apply for licences should
give notice of such intention to the clerk of petty sessions
not less than one month before a day in every quarter to
be fixed for that purpose by the magistrates; such no-
tice specifying their own names and residences, and the
site of the intended beer-house, and also the names and
residences of not less than six persons rated at not
less than 81., 101., and 151., according to the population,
who are willing to certify to their character.
That these particulars shall be affixed to some public
place. to be fixed for the purpose, for not less than three
weeks before the day fixed by the magistrates.
That on that day the parties applying for licences
shall appear with not less than three of the parties who
are willing to sign the certificate of their character, and
with the overseers of the respective parishes, who shall
produce the rate-books.
That the magistrates shall not grant the certificate
for a l icence to any applicant:in respect of whom it shall
be est ablished to their satisfaction that he has been con-
victed of felony or misdemeanour, or that having held a
spirit or beer licence, he has forfeited it.
That it shall be open to the guardians of unions, or
overseers, or to parties acting on the authority of a ma-
jority of a vestry, to object to the granting of any certi-
ficate for a licence, on the ground of remoteness from
population or traffic, and to the magistrates to withhold
it on that ground.
That any breach of the terms of the licence shall be
punishable by fines, or fines and suspension, or in graver
cases by loss of licence.

That no person licensed to sell beer for consumptio❑
on the premises keep a shop for the sale of any other
article, save refreshments and tobacco. •
The coffee-shops to be open to visit by the police.
That debts for intoxicating liquors drunk upon the
premises be not recoverable by law.
That for evidence of sale it be not necessary to prove
the passing of money.
The provissions which the Committee suggest in re-
gard to the sale of beer should be applied equally to the
sale of cider, as the same evils exist in both cases.
Before the Committee conclude, they would further
state that sufficient vigilance does not appear to be exer-
cised by the inferior officers of Excise in preventing the
consumption of spirits in houses only licensed for the
sale of beer, but they would leave to the proper autho-
rities the task of suggesting the most efficient remedy.
And the Committee have directed the minutes of evi-
dence taken before them to be laid before your Lord-
ships, in addition to the said evidence taken before the
select Committee of this House in the last session of
Parliament, together with an appendix and an index to
the whole of the evidence.
May 3, 1850.

(From the Chronicle.)
Did any of our readers ever hear of beer being
"down?" Does the memory of the oldest inhabitant of
Great Britain carry him back to a period when malt
liquor was either lowered in price or improved in qua-
lity, in consequence of a reduction in the prime cost of
the raw material? Such a phenomenon is of familiar oc-
currence in cognate branches of trade and manufacture.
The retail price of bread, for instance, rises and falls, not
only from year to year, but from month to month—
obeying, with tolerable precision, the periodical fluctua-
tions in the wheat averages. Butcher's meat is, indeed
—from causes which we do not now stop to analyse—
less liable to these oscillations, so far as regards the
charge on the consumer; yet the prices paid from time
to time by the retail tradesmen at Leadenhall and
Newgate-markets bear a pretty regular proportion
to the figures which indicate the returns obtained at
Smithfield by the grazier—as these, in their turn, are
governed by the cost of grass, hay, oilcake, and other
fodder. But who ever heard of anything of the sort
occurring in the commercial history of that national
beverage which, in its various forms of beer, ale, and
porter, is as much a working man's necesssary of life
as bread, beef, and bacon? While every man, woman,
and child in the United Kingdom has a personal
interest in the Mark-lane price of wheat, that of
barley has hitherto been exclusively the concern of the
agriculturists and the brewers. Of all the nurevealed
secrets of trade, it strikes us that none is better deserv-
ing of investigation than this.. We know of nothing
like it. So far as we are aware, the breWing business is
the only great national manufacture in which fixed
returns are combined with a fluctuating outlay—in
which the widest variations in the cost of the
chief raw material never appear in the selling
price of the finished article. Looking over the
average prices of barley fur the last dozen years (were
we to take weekly or six-weekly averages, the facts
would be still more striking), we find that, from 395.. 6d.
a quarter in 1839, it gradually fell from 275. 6d. in 1842
—a declice of about 30 per cent. Thence it rose to
445. 2d. in 1847—an advance (from 1842) of no less
than 70 per cent.; and during several weeks of 1847
the price was 555. and upwards—or cent. per cent.
above the average of 1842. During the last three
years, the article has been Pretty steadily falling; and
for the six weeks ending the Bth instant the average is
225. sd.—a fell of exactly 60 per cent. since the spring
of 1847. Yet, through all these remarkable changes in
the prime cost of the brewer's raw material, the selling
price of his manufactured article has remained un-
changed—our beer, ale, and porter are not a
farthing per pot cheaper, nor the value of a
farthing per pot better, with barley at 225. than
at 555. Let us pursue our arithmetical researches a step
further. From a return recently presented to Parlia-
ment we learn that the quantity of malt annually made
in the United Kingdom (taking the average of the last
two years) is about 38,500,000 bushels, or upwards of
4f millions of quarters. After making the requisite
deduction for the increase of bulk which the
grain undergoes in the process of malting (100
quarters of barley yielding from 105 to 110 of malt),
we arrive at four-and-a-half millions of quarters of bar-
ley as the quantity annually malted; and this, at 225.
per quarter, which is the difference between what our
brewers have been paying for their barley during the
past six weeks and the average price of the year 1847
—gives us very nearly five millions sterling as the rate
of annual profit which the collective brewing interest
are at this moment making, over and above the
gains which satisfied them three years ago. Or—
to bring the matter more fully home to the reader's
imagination—a London firm brewing (as one house
actually does) 115,000 quarters of malt yearly is netting
rather more than 120,0001. per annum over and above
the profits of 1847. This enormous surplus profit of five
millions sterling per annum, at present pocketed by the
brewers of this country (for we believe not one per
cent. of it goes to the publicans)—solely in conse-
quence of a reduction in the price of their raw ma-
terial, the benefit of which the public are not allowed
to share—is a subject which will, we hope, receive
the attention that it merits from all classes of readers.
Here is one of the first necessaries of life, on which the
country is contentedly paying the amount of a second
income-tax for a few manufacturers to divide among
them. In an age when the usages of commerce, the
discoveries of science, and the policy of the
Legislature are progressively cheapening the cost
of subsistence in all directions—when cheap
bleat], cheap tea and toff, e, cheap sugar, cheap
beet and mutton, cheap postage, cheap locomotion, cheap
gas, and cheap government, are respectively either the
trophies of past struggles or the watchwords of present
ones—the working man's beverage is quietly suffered to
remain an exception to the universal rule, and famine
prices are pertinaciously maintained in the midst of plenty.
It is a grievance which any one of our political parties
might most fitly take up—yet they one and all let it alone.
We have sanitary reformers, whe go prying into every
nook and cranny of society in quest of remediable causes
of disease—but not one of them has a word to say against
an extortionate enhancement of the price of the poor
man's beer, which adds immensely to the temptations to
adulteration. We have financial reformers, who tell us
that we are all crushed to the earth under the burden
of taxation, and who make a conscience of grumbling
over every penny of public expenditure—but they
raise not a murmur against an annual subsidy of
five millions sterling to the brewing interest. We have
a Country Party, who talk as if they were ready to rebel
against paying a malt-tax to the Queen—but they pay a
second malt-tax to the brewers without breathing a
whisper of complaint. Our distressed agriculturists are
pinching and screwing in all directions (so they say), in
the vain endeavour to make both ends meet—they are
even docking the wages of their labourers—but it never
occurs to them that something at least might be saved
by cheapening the beer which they give them. It is true
they are not very lavish in their distribution of the ar-
ticle; yet every little helps, and we have never heard
them disclaim the thankful acceptance of the smallest
trifle. Above all, they are at a stand-still for want of a
genuine grievance—and yet, when there is a really good
one staring them in the face, it seems as if they could not
see it. Seriously, we do not know that our agricultu-
rists could anywhere find a better question to take
up than this of the price of beer.. They want higher
prices for their corn—higher prices are only to be got
by diminished supply or increased demand—the former
is, as the dullest of them must by this time know,
totally out of their power—why not, then, see if
c
there is not some legitimate and feasible mode of
the latter? Of course, the repeal of the
malt-tax would do something towards it ; for,
though they do not pay
the impost (except so
far as they and their labourers are consumers of the
taxed article), the increase of price arising from the
duty operates as a check on consumption and a limita-
tion of demand. But, as it happens, the malt-tax can-
not and will not be repealed, for the Exchequer wants
the money. It is obvious, however, that the end would
be equally well secured by any other process by which
beer might. be cheapened to the consumer. Whether
five millions of taxation on malt liquor be saved from
the Exchequer or from the brewers, it comes to exactly
the same thing as regards the extension of the barley-
grower's market—the only difference being, that in the
one case_ he would, and in the other he would not,
haveto pay extra income-tax as a substitute. As
for the effect of cheapness (from whatever cause
arising) in stimulating the consumption of commodities,
our agriculturists have but to refer to the fiscal and com-
mercial history of tea and coffee—if they can so far
overcome their aversion to free-trade statistics—and they
will be able to form a notion of what it is that they
arelosinpi
losing by
of beer in the face of cheap barley.y this brewers' combination to keep up
a high
One word in conclusion to the " interest" whose ex-
orbitant and usurious gains we have now held up
to public animadversion. Breweries are not like rail-
ways—a class of undertakings in which free compe-
tition
gs impossible. Compe-
tition thPerametaienaniflaYctusrpeeaokfinbeer is merely difficult—
and difficulties of this sort are sure to be overcome
as soon as there is a clear understanding on the
part of the community that the thing is
worth doing. From the moment tho public be-
gfriene-totrasdeeemulcted,byan end of the combination, of one of the fair and natural results of
a selfish trading
ques-
tion; and it will in that case fare best with those who
are the first to make an "equitable adjustment" between
thatpru theyst
prices—there
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is virtually
prime cost and selling prices.

LIE STEAM-SHIP PACIFIC.—This splendid vessel,
arrived in the river on Friday last, now lies in the Sloyne,
and yesterday was thrown open to the public, at a charge of
one shilling each, the receipts to be applied to enhance the
funds now being raised for the erection of the Church and
Schools for the Blind. She will be open to-day on the same
terms, and as she sails hence on Wednesday next, there will
be no other opportunity for the public visiting her. Her
length is 290 feet; beaus, 43 feet; depth of hold, 32 feet;
and her tonnage 3,000 tons, American measurement. Her
engines, which were manufactured at the foundry of Mr.
Allaire, New York, are each of 1,000-horse power. She has
accommodation for about 170 passengers. The grand saloon
is furnished in the most splendid and magnificent manner,
surrounded with large and beautifully carved framed mirrors,
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THE WATERLOO BANQUET.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the battle of Wa-
terloo, the Duke of Wellington gave his annual banquet
in commemoration of that greatest of all his military
achievements, at Apsley-house, to the gallant veterans
who sluired the dangers and honours of that memorable
victory.
It has been customary for the personal friends and ad-
mirers of the " Great Captain" to offer their felicitations
on the glorious 18th of June, and this year the compli-
mentary visits throughout the day were exceedingly nu-
merous, comprising many officers of the army and a host
of personages of rank, among whom Prince George of
Cambridge, Prince Castelcicala, the Danish Minister,
Count de Wielhowski, Chevalier Hone, the Duke of
Richmond, the Marquis of Breadslbane. General the
Marquis of Londonderry, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Worcester, Field Marshal the Marquis of Angle-
sey, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Marchioness
of Cony tigh am, the Marchioness of Cornwallis,
and Lady Cornwallis, the Earl of Mulgrave, the
Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Ban-
don, the Earl of Verulam, Earl Manvers, the Earl of
Po tvis, the Earl and Countess of Brownlow, the Countess
(Dowager) of Verulam, the Earl and Countess of Jersey
and Lady Clementine. Villiers, the Earl and Countess of
Wilton and Lady Eglinton, the Earl and Countess of
Cottenham and Ladies Popys, the Earl of Ellenhorough,
the Earl and Countess Nelson, the Earl and Countess
Craven, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Countess
Dowager of Nelson and Ladies Fanny and Susan Nelson,
the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, the Earl Jermyn,
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Viscount and
Viscountess Holmesdale, Viscount Newport, Viscount
Combermere and Miss Stapleton Cotton. Viscount and
Viscountess Mahon, Viscount Somerton, Viscount Cran-
borne, Viscount Lascelles, Lord Ashburton, Lord Er-
nest Bruce, M,P., Lord J. Manners, M.P., Lord Mark
Kerr, Lord and Lady R. Grosvenor and Miss Grosvenor,
Lord C. Manners, M.P., Lady Willoughby D'Eresby,
Lord and Lady Walsingham and Miss Frankland, Lord
Wenloch, Lord Methuen, Lady Jane Peel, Lady Rolle,
Lady Fuller, Lady Emily Drummond and Miss
Drummond, Lady Augusta Cotton, Lord and Lady
Burghersh, Lord and Lady Arthur Lennox, and Lady
Beaujolois Bury, Lord Dunkellin, Dowager Lady Cow-
ley, Lady Gowan, Lady Bruce Francis, Dowager Lady
Langford, Lady Lewis' Lady Maria West and Misses
West, Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Lord and Lady Col-
chester, Lady Brooke Pechell and Miss Pechell, Lady
Antrobus and Miss Antrobus, Lady Hervey Bathurst,
Lady Charles Somerset and Miss A. Somerset, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, and Baroness. North and Miss Doiyle,
the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Right Hon.lthe
Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John and Lady
Charlotte Guest, Sir Hugh Flume and Lady Campbell,
Sir Thomas A Acland, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir George
Seymour, Sir Augustus Clifford, Sir Charles W. Thorn-
ton, Sir George and Lady Grey, Sir James Kirkland,
Sir George Brooke Pechell, Sir Richard Sutton, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel A. Wood, Colonel and Lady Catherine
Buckley, Major-General Brown, Lieutenant-Colpnel
Charles Phipps, General Meyrick, Hon. F. Villiers,
M.P., Colonel H. Bentinck, Colonel Codrington, Sir
Frankland Lewis, Sir John and Lady Shelley, Colonel
Owen, E. Bouverie, Mr. A. and Lady Elizabeth Drum-
mond, Mr. and Lady Mary Ross, Lieutenant-Colonel
W. G. Cameron, Hon. Major and Mrs. Cotton, Major F.
B. St. John, Captain and Mrs. Arthur Duncombe, Captain
Clifford, R.N„ Captain Kincaid, Captain and Mrs P.
Somerset, Captain Macdonald, the Accountant-General
and Mrs. W. and Miss Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Shelley
and Miss Shelley, Mr. Grenville Berkeley, Mr. Clive,
Mr. B. Botfield, M.P., Mr. George Bankes, M.P., ;Mr.
E. Johnson, Mr. H. H. Lindsay, Mr. A. B. Hope, M.P.,
Mr. Gilbeat Elliot, Mrs. Bertie Percy and Miss Percy,
Mr. and Mrs. Verchoyle, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Grim-
way, Mr. and Mrs. E. Grimstone, Mr. R. Grimstone,
Mr. C. Clifford, Mrs. Stuart Mackenzie, Misses Mac-
kenzie, and others far too numerous to mention.
At the time appointed for the entertainment a consi-
derable crowd of persons gradually collected in the front
of Apsley-house in Piccadilly, and by 7 o'clock it re-
quired the diligent exertions of a strong body of the
police to preserve anything like order in that great
thoroughfare. The police, it is due to state, exercised
the greatest forbearance, and no possible complaint could
be made of the manner they discharged a very irksome
duty.
About 7 o'clock the noble and gallant guests invited
to the banquet began to arrive, and in several instances
the gallant generals, whose names were familiar to the
public from their renown in arms, were loudly cheered,
the Marquis of Anglesey and Viscount Hardinge carry-
ing off the greatest share of plaudits from the public,
particularly from a rather respectable concourse of per-
sons whose medals and clasps denoted that they bad
served under those distinguished officers.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Marquis of Abercorn, Major-General Bowles, and
Colonel Bouverie, arrived from Buckingham Palace at
seven o'clock precisely, and the Noble Duke was in
waiting to receive the Prince Consort on his arrival.
The full band of thq Grenadier Guards (the Duke's
regiment) was stationed in the inner hall, and on the
Prince's arrival saluted hies with the Coburg March.
The Prince Consort, after an interchange of cour-
tesies, was conducted by the Noble Duke to the draw-
ing-room, where the majority of his gallant guests had
assembled previous to dinner.
At twenty minutes past seven dinner was announced.
It is quite unnecessary to attempt todescribe that which
has so often been detailed; the appearance of the table,
as in its principal features, was precisely the same as
noticed on previous occasions. The magnificent Portu-
gues plateau, with its hundred trophies, tilled the centre
of the table; at each end, visa-vis,the two most remarkable
were Napoleon and Wellington, statuettes of the best class
of art, and worthy of the accomplished designer,
Count D'Orsay. Two beautiful dwarf vines,
overburdened with the juicy fruit, were con-
spicuous amongst the ornaments, and two immense
vases, the gift of a continental Sovereign, overflow-
ing with flowers, were also admirable. dill the dessert
service was of gold, and what ornamental plate was dis-
played on the table was of the same precious metal. At
the north end of the gallery was the beaufet loaded with
some of the most valuable gifts to his Grace--Flaxonan's
incomparable—shieWilie vase from the titled classes, the
costly'and elaborate candelabra, fromthe citizens of Lon-
don. &e. In the vacancies between the windows looking
into Hyde-park were large vases containing flowers. As
the Duke, accompanied by Prince Albert and followed
by his guests, passed from the north drawing-roona to
the gallery, the band played the familiar air of " The
Ruast Beet' of Old England."
The Duke having taken his position at the table was
supported on the right by Prince Albert and Field-
Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, and on the left by
his Excellency Prince Castelcicala and Sir W. Gomm.
Covers were laid for 80 guests, and the subjoined is
an authentic list of the gallant veterans present on this
(the 35th anniversary) occasion.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G., Colonel of

the Scots Fusiliers (attended by the Marquis of Aber-
corn, Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness), and the
following Waterloo officers :

Field4larshal the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.8.,
and G.C.11., Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue).
General the Earl of Strafford, G.C.8., and G.C.H.,
Colonel of the 29th Foot.
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.8., Colonel of
the 2d Foot.
General Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.8., and G.C.H.,
Colonel of the 45th Foot, Glovernor of Chelsea Hospital.
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart.,
K/CLi.eßu.,teannadn
Lieutenant
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K.C.H.os
Lieutenant-General Lord Seaton, G.C.8., G.C.M.G.,
and G.C.H., Colonel of the 26th Foot.
Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, K.C.8.,
and G.C.M.G, Colonel of the 40th Foot.
Lieutenant-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, G.C.8.,
Colonel of the 53d Foot.
Lieutenant-General Sir James Macdonell, G.C.8., and
K.O H., Colonel of the 71st Foot.
Lieutenant-General James W. Sleigh, C. 8., Colonel
of the 9th Dragoons.
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur B. Clifton, K.C.8.,
and K.C.H., Colonel of the Ist Dragoons.
Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8.,
Colonel of the 57th Foot.
Lieutenant-General the Hon. E. P. Lygon, C. 8.,
Colonel of the 13th Dragoons.
Lieutenant-General Sir Geo. Scovell, K.C.8., Colonel
of the 4th Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant-General Lord Saltoun, K.C.B. and G.C.H.,
Colonel of the 2d Foot.
Lieutenant- G eneral Henry Wyndham, Colonel of the
11th Hussars.
Lieutenant-General Sir Edw. Bowater, K.C.H.,
Colonel of the 49th Foot.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8.,
Colonel of the 13th Foot.
Major-General Sir H. W. Rooke, C.B. and K.C.H.
Major-General H. D'Oyly. Colonel of the 33d Foot.
Major-General the Hon. H. Murray, C. 8., Colonel of
the 7th Dragoon Guards.
Major-General Thomas Dalmer, Colonel of the 47th
Fcot.
Major-General James Hay, C. 8., Colonel of the 79th
Foot. _ _

Major-General Sir H. Dalrymple Ross, K.C.8., De-
puty Adjutant-General of the Royal Artillery.
Major-General Douglas Mercer, C.B.
Major-General John Reeve.
Major-General Archibald Money, C.B. and K.C.
Major-General E. Parkinson, C.B.
Major-General R. Llnellyn, C.B.
Major-General Richard Egerton, C.B.
Major-General James Grant, C.B.
Major-General Thomas W. Taylor, C.B.
Major-General Felix Calvert, C.B.
Major-General Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.B.
Major-General A. Macdonald,
Major-General Lord James Hay.
Major-General James Shaw Kennedy, C.B.
Major-General Lord Sandys.
Major-General G. Bowler.
Major-General T. W. Robins,
Major-General Roderick Mantel'.
Major-General W. L. Walton.
Colonel H. Dawkins.
Colonel M. Childers, C.B.
Colonel Thomas Wildman.
Colonel John Martin.
Colonel the Hon Heley Hutchinson.
Colonel Sir J. Maxwell Wallace,
Colonel W. G. Moore.
Colonel James Simpson.
Colonel J. F. Love, C.B. and R.H.
Colonel the Hon. G. Anson.
Colonel Lord Hotham.
Colonel the lion. George Cathcart.
Colonel G. W. Horton.
Colonel E. P. Buckley.
Colonel Charles Yorke.
•
.Colonel Berkeley Drummond.
Colonel tames Charles Chatterton.
Colimer C_. taacelles.
Col4nerAs'it. Clark Kennedy, Ca and