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 housetop
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 be seen, the white fluttering
welconie 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
(lid it with a cheerful winning grace which is almost pecu-
liarly his own. The , enthusiasm as his Royal Highness
drove very slowly alimgavas 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 welconie it would be
very difficult to say' more than this. Near the Leeds
Infirmary the scene was really fine. . 'the 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 fee's, 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 those who saw it. Such was almost throngl:.
out the welcome accorded to his Royal Highness front
the moment he left TemPleneWszun 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.
Prom the central roof hung, in alternate row's, baskets of
the most exquisite plants, white the ornamental buttresses
which ran into the court were made still mere ornamental
by being wreathed in the most artistic manner with groups
of „ivy and masses of artificial climbers. 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 Backe-round of which, again, was 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 and most strikingly beautiful. All the
places were well arranged, and, considering that the area
at the disposal of the Executive Cominitt•ee 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 prooessiOn entered the hall,
and as the Prince took his place on the dais, the assembly,
which hail risen to receive him, cheered till his Royal
Highness had to how 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 aduress. To this his Royal
highness graciously replied, and expressed the disappoint.
merit which the Princess had felt at having been unable to
be 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 Treaeuees Exhibition.- To this also the Prince
returned a gracious reply.
The illutninatim s at night were very effective,' and the
streets crowded to a late. hour. The company invited
to the Mayor's bail began to assemble at ten o'clock. The
Prince of Wales, however, did not arrive until mi•lnight.
He led the Mayoress into the ballroom, and a qua trifle 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 oo 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, alxint a thousand in all, were sumptuously
regaled. All the nobility and gentry \vim attended-the
opening of the Exhibition were present. The decorations
of the barroom haul been, A utrusted to fauraut, and
were puperb.

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Circular

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 Helston, 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 sui 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 corn-
patiy.

By the accounts of the storming of Alagdala
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 iu 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 in a similar conflict—' The 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
Northern 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 him.
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 in facilitating au
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 inciderk°
may precipitat3 it. The attacks of Mr. Servant
Armstrong and Mr. Hayter are, it thinks, " dange-
rous." The Ecening Post considers it natural that
an independent member should desire to put an
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 &sign 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 /300 worth of
other prizes will be shot for. English volunteers
are expected by the Association to attend and
compete.

AParliamentary return issied on Monday shows
that the number of voters on the electoral roll of
the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin,
on the let 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 his 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
freshly- sharpened razor, prepared to attack hire'
with it. The son tried to escape, but Duscber
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 throngh
the muscles. The son made a few steps and fell
covered with blood. The neighbours at once
arrested the murderer and banded 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 Levi'
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, 0
one of the Convention, voted for her death. flex
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. The
contrast of this ignominy with the unyielding pride
expressed by her bearing and face is most tragical'
The drawing is one of a collection bequeathed 11
the late M. Rennin to the Imperial Library.
The statements published with respect to the re-
port of the Irish Church Commissioners are no°
said to be " premature."
At the sitting of the Customs Parliament ea,
Tuesday, the Commercial Treaty with the States 01
the Church' was adopted without discussion.
The Courrier des Alpes relates that a nursery
gardener of Chambery, M. Burdin, has just
a victim to a sad accident. A few days ago, half"
ins gone gathering simples in the mountains of tile,
vicinity of La Chapelle-Blanche, he happened to al'
his finger slightly with his pruning-knife,
but too e
no notice of the injury. Soon after, in tatting t.
stem of a poisonous plant, a drop of its viciouno.
juice fell upon the wound, which from that moment
got got worse and worse, and ended in causing 1.5: °
jaw, which proved tnortal.nWhile M. Burdin, 30112
was attending his father's funeial, a fire broke et
in his house at Chambery, and deetroied it.
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