The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

THE RECEPTION.

The Prince was in a plain open carriage and four, pre-
ceded by two outriders in scarlet liveries. He wore a
plain morning dress, with the riband of the Garter across
his white waistcoat. Beyond this and the escort there
were no signs of State whatever. What, however,
was wanting in the procession was amply made up
in the demonstrations to receive it, for to the good
townspeople of Leeds the Prince seemed to be all in
all. Every window was thronged, every how' top
covered. All the houses were rippled over with waving
pocket-handkerchiefs, and even from distant by-
streets in which the people could see little, if anything,
of the little that was to he seen, the white fluttering
welcome could be discerned far and near, while the roar
of cheers and clapping of hands were almost deafening and
certainly incessant. To these continued and evidently
most heartfelt manifestations of welcome his Royal High-
ness had to bow his acknowledgments on every side, and
did it with a cheerful winning grace which is almost pecu-
liarly his own. The enthusiasm as his Royal Highness
drove very slowly along was almost boundless, and when-
ever a halt occurred in the little procession, as it did very
frequently, and often for rather long intervals, the
cheering. around the Prince's carriage was as long as it
was loud, and as a demonstration of welcome it would be
very difficult to say more than this. Near the Leeds
Infirmary the scene was really fine. '1 lie front of the
Town Hall was lined with volunteers, and up the hill
leading to the Exhibition every avenue - was thronged,
every window crowded, and every housetop covered with
spectators. These seen under the bright sun, amid the
almost endless waving of flags, garlands, and banners,
and, above all, amid the continued cheering, clapping of
hands, and flutter of handkerchiefs, made up a scene of
welcome and enthusiasm which cannot easily be described
or forgotten by these who saw it. Such was almost throng] .
out the welcome accorded to his Royal highness from
the moment he left Ternplenewsam till he alighted at the
Exhibition buildings. To the central hall of the Exhibi-
tion visitors were admitted at eleven o'clock. It was
beautifully decorated, and its chief decorations were those
which are always most effective—flowers and ferns.
From the central roof hung, in alternate rows, baskets of
the most exquisite plant.i, while the ornamental buttresses
which ran into the court were made still inure ornamental
by being wreathed in the most arti-tic manner with groups
of ivy and masses of artificial clunburs. The round
dais. with a demi-throne, stood well out in the centre of
the hall, the background to which was formed by the
orchestra, the background of which, again, \VHS filled in
with climbing shrubs amid a golden trellis. Altogether,
in spite of the great heat of the day, the effect of the
whole was cool aed most strikingly beautiful. All the
plkces were well arranged, and, considering that the area
at the disposal of the Executive Committee was very
limited indeed in comparison with the demands made upon
its space, nothing could have been better managed.
His Royal Highness arrived at the building shortly after
one o'clock. A lengthened procession entered the ball,
and as the Prince took his place ell the dais, the assembly.
which had risen to receive him, cheered till his Royal
Highness had to bow repeatedly in all directions. What
then followed was, as it generally is on these occasions, a
matter of the purest routine. The National Anthem was
sung, and at its conclusion the mayor and corporation ad-
vanced and presented an adorers. To this his Royal
and expressed the disappoint.
Highness graciously re plied,
ment which the Princess had felt at having been unable to
he present. Then Mr. Beckett Denison, chairman of the
executive committee, read a loyal address from that body,
which referred to the origin and traced the progress of the
Art 'treasures Exhibition. To this also the Prince
reterned a gracious reply.
The s at night were very effective, and the
streets crowded to a late hour. The company
invited
to the fityor s ball began to assemble at ten o'clock. The
Prince of Wales, however, did not arrive until mi
He led the Mayoress into the ballroom, and a qua irille was
immediately formed. The Prince opened the ball with
the Mayoress, and the Mayor of Leeds with Lady Fitz-
william for his partner. Dancing went oa with great
spirit until a late hour. The Prince of Wales and a select
party had supper in the Mayor's state rooms ; covers were
laid for fifty ; the other guests of the Mayor and
Mayoress, about a thousand in all, were sumptuously
regaled. All the nobility and gentry who attended the
opening of the Exhibition were present. The decorations
of the ballroom had been entrusted to Messrs. Morant, and
were superb.

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LONDON, May 19.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield.

Mr. Edward W. Cox, of the Western Circuit,
Recorder of Ilelston, is to be raised to the dignity of a
Sergeant-at-Law.

The death of Sir Benjamin Guinness is an-
nounced.

The president of the Royal Academy has an-
nounced that the next exhibition of the Academy
will be held in the new rooms at Burlington
House, and that the apartments which would be
ultimately at their disposal would be large enough
for the exhibition of 1,500 pictures. The present
rooms only afford wall mu face for 900.

A great convalescent hospital seems likely to be
added to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, through the
munificence of the shareholders of a railway com-
pany.

By the accounts of the storming of Magdala
which have come to hand this week it seems that
the Snider rifle has played a most important part
in the taking of that place. To describe the fight
after that weapon came into play would be only to
describe a battue. Its sharp, short cracks follow-
ing each other in breathless succession were the
death-knell of the Abyssinian cause. The unfor-
tunate foe had no longer even the shadow of a
chance, but went down like grass before the
scythe.

The. " printed extract" which provided Colonel
Stuart Knox with the materials for his attack upon
Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons on Thurs-
day evening, and which is alluded to elsewhere,
has been doing service in the country. At a meet-
ing of defenders of the Irish Church, held at Car-
lisle on Thursday afternoon, a letter was read from
the Yen. S. P. Boutflower, Archdeacon of Carlisle,
concluding with the following sentence :—" And
surely we ought not to despair when we call to
mind the words, too memorable to be forgotten,
with which the very leader of the assault himself
cheered on in bygone days our fathers and our-
selves iu a similar conflict—' rhe Church in Ireland
can never be destroyed but by a recreant Senate
and an apostate nation.' " The words thus des-
cribed by Archdeacon Boutflower as " too memor-
able to be forgotten," and as being those " which
cheered on in bygone days our fathers and ourselves
in a similar conflict," are now recognised as those
used by Mr. Whiteside in 1866 ; and the reports
of the proceedings in the House of Commons on
Thursday night having revealed by whom and
when they were really uttered, there is a good
deal of speculation as to the manner in which the
archdeacon will get out of the dilemma in which
his familiar quotation of the " memorable " words,
so cheering in bygone days, has placed him.
Sergeant Armstrong's motion for a vote of want
of confidence is discussed in the Irish papers. The
A/art/tern Whig thinks it " thorougly justifiable in
the abstract." Mr. Disraeli it regards as unteach-
able. Though the opposition have sought to keep
on tolerable terms with the Government, "Lord
Mayo's statement about the charter to the Catholic
university showed plainly that the repeated votes
of the House of Commons, and the strong expres-
sions of opinion even from the ordinary supporters
of the Government, have had no effect upon hint.
The Daily Express says :—" Want of confidence in
what part of the -Ministerial policy ? Is it in their
position with regard to the Irish Church? This
the House has already condemned, and the
Ministry are at present employed iu facilitating an
appeal from this censure to the country at
large. . . . The Government have refused to
accept the decision of the existing House of Com-
mons upon their policy as the expression of the
national will, and no amount of importuning can
induce them to alter their determination." The
Evening Mail believes that the Ministerial crisis
has not passed away, and now hedges towards the
stage on which small rather than great incidents
may precipitate it. The attacks of Mr. Sergeant
Armstrong and Mr. Hay-ter are, it thinks, " dange-
rous." The Evening Post consi lers it natural that
au independent member should desire to put au
end to a " situation ignominious for the Liberal
party, compromising to Parliament, and peculiarly
unfortunate for Ireland."

It is stated that " Colonel " Nagle left Ireland
with a conviction that the design of the American
Fenians was utterly hopeless. He is said also to
have acknowledged that the Americans have been
altogether deceived as to the state of Ireland.
The Irish Rifle Association will hold a contest at
the Curragh on the 26th and three following days,
when the Abercorn. cup and about £3OO worth of
other prizes will be shot for. English volunteers
are expected by the Association to attend and
compete.

A Parliamentary return issued on Afonclay Shows
that the number of voters on the electoral roll of
the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin,
on the Ist day of January, 1868, was—Oxford,
4,190 ; Cambridge, 5,440 ; and Dublin, 1,871.
An itinerant knife-grinder, named Duscher,
arrived three evenings back, accompanied by his
family, at Munster (Haut-Rhin), but as he bad
been drinking freely he found a difficulty in getting
a lodging for the night. Very much exasperated,
he began to abuse bis eldest daughter, accusing
her of not having carefully searched for one, and
at length seized her by the hair and began beating
her cruelly. The second son, a young man of
eighteen, went to his sister's assistance, when the
father suddenly turned upon him, and seizing a
freshly-sharpened razor, prepared to attack him
with it. The son tried to escape, but Duscher
rushing forward struck him on the neck, inflicting
a wound from the nape to the shoulder blade, and
repeating the blow, cut his arm completely through
the muscles. The son made a few steps and fell
covered with blood. The neighbours at once
arrested the murderer and handed him over to the
police. The young man expired in the hospital
the next morning.
The Dispatch, once at the head of the weekly'
press so far as circulation was concerned, but
which has long had a struggle for existence, has
passed into the possession of Mr. Edward Levy,
the principal proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. It
is a pleasing sign of the times that the Dispatch,
which was once noted for its infidel scurrility',
has of late years completely changed in this re-
spect.

At Nenagh Petty Sessions on Saturday two
street players were committed for two months'
imprisonment with hard labour for playing what
the police described as " Fenian tunes." The men
pleaded ignorance.
The Journal Illustre gives a fac-simile of a sketch
of Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold,
taken by David, the painter, who had himself, as
one of the Convention, voted for her death. Her
hands are tied behind her back, and straight wisPs
of hair—she had cut it close herself that morning
—escape from under the hideous prison cap. l'h°
contrast of this ignominy with the unyielding prnl°
expressed by her bearing and face is most tragical'
The drawing is one of a collection bequeathed by
the late M. liennin to the Imperial Library.
The statements published with respect to the re-
port of the Irish Church Commissioners are OW
said to be " premature."
At the sitting of the Customs Parliament 011,
Tuesday, the Commercial Treaty with the States 01
the Church was adopted without discussion.
The Courrier des Alpes relates that a nurser,'
gardener of Chambery, M. Burdin, has just fallen
a victim to a sad accident. A few days ago, has"
ing gone gathering simples in the mountains of 001
vicinity of La Chapelle-Blanche, he happened to cu
.t
his finger slightly with his pruning-knife, but too.ice
no notice of the injury. Soon after, in cutting.tbuo
stem of a poisonous plant, a drop of its viel°_t
juice fell upon the wound, which from that monaei_u_
got worse and worse, and ended in causing I.oc_Y:
jaw, which proved mortal.;; While M. Burden,
was attending his father's funeral, a fire broke on
In his house at Chambery, and destroyed it.