New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-22

scarcely cottage but exhibited some sort OF
decoration while great display OF flags nut
tered from the Towcester windows. Their mot
tos, grant, were not always appropriate LOT
why should inhabitants of little towns bid Lofd
Palmerston "welcoms to Great Britain" is not
easy to decide, ndinvolyeS an Alcxandrne suS'
picon.-as nearly every public festival or ceie'
braion in England is pretty sure to do. Aroy-
al one also attaches TO q crown and the letters
v. p. unless it may be suppose TO mean WIS.,
count Palmerston. But Success to the fro-
moters Of the East and West Junction" was un-
excephonable.
As to the ceremony itself, need say very III
tie about it, "What is true ia not new and
what is new is not true" as was remarked on
some quotable occasion. The weather was hot'
and the crowd moro so. My chief recollection
is that somebody was always treadirg on my
toes. The barrow was everything that could be
desired mahogany, ornamented with silver, and
therefore admirably adapted to its purpose. The
silver spade sparkled in the sunlight as if it sp-
preciated the honor of being handled by the sis.
ter of one premier and the wife Of another.
What becomes, l wonder, of these preposterous
implements ultimately Are they put under
immense glass cases (such as Mr.. William Skies,
housebreaker proposed to accommodate bis
friend Fagin with, and exhibited in drawing
roomsi Arc they let out like epergnes at west
end dinner partiesi Are they melted down into
spoons for railway directors, or are they sorupu'
lousy preserved at some central record office OF
railwaysl However, tho sod ives cut by Lady
2. According to French proVer5, it il the
first step that costs. Is this true OF railroadS'
In the present case suppose it is materially so;
for as tho whole entertainment was provided ct
tho expense of the Company, and as everything
was done very literally, the cost of cutting the
first sod must have been very considerably
above the average Of what its Successors are
likely to be.
As for tho speeches, are they not recorded in
the daily papers, think they must have been
above the average, for Lord Pelmerston kept
awake during the whole Of them-a feat which
he rerely aecomphshes Tor so long uhe III
the House Of Commons. Anybody who was
present saw him at his best, the free-and-easy'
familiar, ehaGy. "comic old gentleman who has
"h0eyhggled" the British nation until past
three score yean and ten, who Ike grandpapa
GiuAnormand in Victor Hugo's novel doesn't
believe ID God very much" but does believe in
popularity and eZpediency. A representative
man, in his way, is Henry Temple, Lord Palm
e.ton.
The Prince Of Wales is enjoying visit to the
Channel Fleet Here is q paragraph from the
1thenaum which should interest Americans: -
a picture OF no ordinary interest he's just been
secured by the Directors of tho National Portrait
Gallery. 1t /, the portsait OF :. T. Coleridge,
painted by the American artist, Washington Ais.
ION. considered BY Wordsworth ard other friends Of
the poet tho most satisfactory likeness that ever
was painted by him."
have literally nothing else to write about
this week. 4. q. q.