The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-08-15 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FLEET. Nothing exactly in the shape of an official pro. gramme has been issued in connection with tar forthcoming visit of the French squadron to Patemouth, but the following arrangements have bete made by the authorities in order to give the visitors a fitting reception. The fleet, unda Admiral Gervais, will arrive off the east end of err Isle of Wight on the 29th inst., and will betzogeotl a portion of the English fleet and escorted Spithead Roadstead to Cowes, opposite °shine Place, the marine residence of the Queen, when they will anchor. On the following day Admiral. Gervais, and probably some other officers of thesquadron, will dine with the Queen, and the fiat will then steam back to Spithead. Whether the. inspection of the fleet will take place in Cowes Roads or at Spithead is a matter which will be left for her Majesty to decide. On the same day (Friday) the officers will be entertained at a ball at the Town. Hall,Portemonth, by the naval authorities. On 1b following day (Saturday) Admiral Gervais and the officers of the Beet will be the guests of the Mayor' at a banquet at the Town Hall, at which numerous English officials of various departments are expected. to attend,and no effort is being spared by the Mayor to shew the thoroughness of the welcome which ft Is intended to offer to the naval representativea of a neighbouring State. Sunday will be a dia see, and on Monday many of the officers are ;red to journey to London to visit the Naval 'bide. In the evening the men of the fleet will be entre. tamed at the Town Hall,to which they will probably be accompanied by several of the officers of the squadron. The decorations, marquee, and other extra appurtenances which are to be erected for the reception of the officers and other distinguidad • guests will remain in position until then, and ut• augment the effect of the entertainment. A visit to We Dockyard and other places of interest is not at all improbable if time will permit, but much most remain unsettled pending the arrival-of the vessels. Before proceeding to the ball on the night of the 21st, the officers of the Beet are to be• entertained at dinner by Admiral the Earl of Charwilliam, and the naval officers at the pout. &terthus early the interest taken in the visit of squadron is is being made manifest by the flambee of visitors engaging snites of apartments in the towsv whilst marine trips round the fleet are already bast organised. Beyond this there is not much elPyr tunity for outdoor demonstrations, but the inhabit' ants have pleasing recollections of the last visit of a French fleet to Portsmouth in 1865, and a general desire prevails to give the visitors a hearty "FelCOMP.  The captain of the steamer Alameda, which "hol arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, reports tho% Lieutenant Philip Hodges, late of her lits}edfs' Navy, who was a passenger in the vessel, cow mitted suicide by Jumping overboard on the 14ds. 4 ult., soon after the steamer sailed. An extraordinary discovery has been made is the parish church of Flemington, a small village on the borders of Wiltshire and Somerset. A large 1110141 goassaoribiesed,uwpanasdtoniottididssloditixthathefteemmor af,thshalip weonstrugretvigieercelYthatinen. they succeeded in clearing out the insects. Oil search being made, one hundredweight of boor' was discovered secreted in this sinrdar hive.  , A new company under the title of the New Buckingham and Adams Cycle Company, Eamit.°3/ has just been registered for the purpose of mg and carrying on the business of Buck= and Adams, Limited, of the Coventry Wo#s, Small Heath, Birmingham. The authoness? capital of the company is £20,000, divided in 4,00 ff shares of £5 each. The directors are Mean. Joseph Gothard, George James Eveson, end Harry Percy Cook (late with Mr. William Bown), nllOl ing director, and Messrs. Jeffery, Parr, and are the solicitors. It is not intended to offer sof of the shares for publis subscription. Has it ever been remarked (asks the," Era that of the score or so of lines inscribed on the famous Jubilee drinking fountain at Stratford-oe. Avon—the gift of an American admirer of Shakespeare to the British nation—one line alone can confidently be said to be of Shakespeare's own writing ? The inscription begins, very prelleel-Y, with the brief statement that the fountain wile "The gift of *an American citizen, George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, to the town of ghat: spears, in the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria and it ends with a pleasant quotation from Washington Irving's " Stratford-on-Avon." But be' tween this beginning and this end are two. inscriptions, both of which occur in plaYe 0113" monly set down as Shakespeare's : the .fansO. verses prophesying the joyful days of Elt.aablik from "Henry the Eighth," and a homely ne— Honest water, which ne'er left a man in the ' from the less famous and certainly less • " Timon of Athens." The latter is no . Shakospeare ; but there is probably no authority who would nowadays ascribe the b. ml compliment to Elizabeth to any poet Fletcher—a great and delightful poet, but is way connected with Stratford-on-Avon.  , 6 .