The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-01
EX-PRESIDENT GRANT.
Continued HonOrs in e ns land.


LONDON, May 30-Ex-President Grant and
wife will dine with the Duke of Wellington,
June 2. A subsequent invitation from Earl
Beaconsfeld for the same day was deferred to
q day not yet fixed. A reception will be given
the general at Minister Pierrepont's residence
on the 9TH of June and dinner and reception
at Lord Houghton's on the 9TH. He will at
tend the Ascot races on the 18th of June. On
June 16 he will dine at Kensington Palace
with Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorue
on the 2lst at Minister Pierrepont's with the
Prince of Wales, and on the 18th at Pierre
points with the Duke of Cambridge. Seven
other invitations to dinner by distinguished
persons have not been accepted on account of
previous engagements. The following invita-.
tions have been accepted, but the days are not
fixed: To dinner with Earl Derby, probably
between the 9TH and 18th of June; to dine with
the Queen and attend the Queens concert and
ball at Buckingham Palace, day not fixed be-
cause the Queen is at Balmoral and the date of
her return is uncertain; and dinner with the
Lord Mayor at Guild some time in June. The
Prince OF wales has arranged to receive Gen.
Grant at the Marlborough House Immediately
after his arrival, and it is understood the
Prince will also give dinner in his honor but
no day has been fixed yet. 1t is stated that
Grant promised the Mayor of Liverpool to re-
turn, probably on the 2Sth of June, to accept a
banquet proffered in his honor. The general
and party will arrive at London Road station
at Manchester this morning, where they will
he received by the Mayor and other members
of the corporation. The party will proceed in
carriages to Whitworth's gun factory, the
Assize Court and Royal Exchange, and after
wards proceed to Town Hall, where an address
will be presented BY the City Council The
General and Mrs Grant will remain guests of
| the Mayor at Mayoral apartments in Town Hall
| this evening, and will proceed to London to-
chester tomorrow Gen. Grant, train will stop
few moments at Bedford, at the special re-
| quest of the Mayor and corporation, and an ad.
dress will be presented.
LONDON, May 31.-The presentation of the
freedom of the city to Gen. Grant has been
decided at special Injecting of the Common
Council.
At his reception at Manchester yesterday
Gen. Grant responded to the Mayors speech as
follows:
1t is scarcely possible for me to give utter.
| ance to the feelings evoked by my reception
| upon your soil, from the moment of my arrival
| in Liverpool, where have passed a couple Of
| days, until the present moment 1 may be al
lowed to say that no person could be the recip
| tents of the honor and attention you have bes
towed upon me, without the profoundest emo
| tons. Such have been excited in me and
| find myself unequal to their proper expression
| 1t was my original purpose, on my arrival il
| Liverpool, to hasten to London, and thence
proceed to visit the various points of interest ir
1 the country. Among these l have regarded
| Manchester as the most important. (Hear.
| AS l have been aware for years of the grea
| amount of your manufactures, many of which
find their ultimate destination in my OWL
country, so am aware that the sentiments o.
the great mass of the people of Manchester wen
| out in sympathy with that country during tn
mighty struggle in which it fell to my lot tt
take some humble part. The expressions o
the people of Manchester at the time of oul
| great trial, excited within the breasts of m,
countrymen a feeling of friendship towards
them, distinct from that felt toward all Eng
land, and in that spirit l accept on the part O.
my country the compliments paid me as thei
representative, and thank you.