Year: 1866

FORM Denomination.


From the London Telegraph, October II.


We note with regret one minor characteristic
OF the Glasgow programme-we mean the pro-
minence given to General Neal Dow, of the
United States. Though that gentleman is the
author OF the Maine Liquor Law, we have no
objection to him personally; he is an old
American politician, and is, we presume, an
estima5le man. But what Business has an
American with an English political meeting ?
he can represent no section or party or force
that has any thing to do with the final adjust
ment of our home affairs.


His presence can only mslead outsiders into
the belief that the aim of the Reform movement
is, in some degree, 10 Americanze our institu-
LIONS. There could not be a greater mistake.
There is nothing American in the aspirations
even OF our most advanced men; the virtues
and faults, the truths and eXaggerations of the
national party are, at the best and worst Bri-
tish to the core. While keeping clear, then, of
every importation, we can best deal with our
own affairs. Toryism has trick OF holding up
the United States as a bugbear. During the
four years agony of the Great Republic, it made
the civil war text to prove that rotten
boroughs were salvation and when the war
ended in a triumph of freedom, it tried to ex-
plain away the facts. But we have always held.
and we still hold, that to us America can afford
neither an example nor warning. Democracy
in the United States has no connection with
reform here. The Queen is not more reverend
kind of Presi0ent-the House of Lords is not a
Senate-nor Is there any other parallel between





Doubtless our conservative friends will try to
prove that the presence OF an American gentle
man like General Neal Dow indicates the enthu-
siasm of Glasgow for universal suffrage and ult
mate civil war, since our journalistic enemies
have two curiously opposite ways of treating q
Reform meeting. With one voice they saw. at
was very small assemolage less by ffty or
sixty thousand than the Reformers report"
with the other voice they assert, This demon
stration shows the danger of giving votes to
such great number of thoroughly united and
sternly democratic workingmen." Doubtless
we shall have the same ambiguous voices TODAY
and tomorrow, and we shall hear them again
next session.


Inauguration of Aberdeen Water Works


by Queen Victoria,


The Aberdeen Water Works were formally
opened on Tuesday, the 10th of October, by her
Majesty. The ceremonial was short and simple
On the arrival OF her Majesty at the reservoir,
the band played the national anthem, PRAYER
was offered up by the Clergyman of the
parish, after which Sir Alexander Anderson
presented an address to the Queen, to which she
read the following reply:-


thank you for your dutiful address, and am
very sensible of this fresh mark of the loyal
attachment OF my neiPhbors, the people of
Aberdeen. have felt that, at a time when the
aauentlon OF the country has been so anXiously
directed to the state ot the public health, it was
RIGHT that should make an eXertion TO testify
my sense OF the Importance of work so well
calculated as this to promote the health and
comfort OF your ancient CITY,"


The Queen then, assisted by the Lord Provost.
turned an ivory handle over silver disc which
opened the gauge tank and admitted the water
iuli i now INTO the main reservoir the band play
me and the large crowd cheering heartily She
tnen declared the works opened.


tnis ls the nrst time the Queen has spoken in
public since the death of the Pri nee Consort.
The Scandal about Queen Victoria I'm n


swiss Newspaper.


From the Morning Star, October H.


Can it be true that the English Minister in
Switzerland has actually endeavored to make
an International affair out of some paltry rub.
bish in the Paris correspondence of the Lam
same GdzeRe Such is the story now beine
published in every paper, and which, although
In circulation here several days, has not been
contradicted. 1t seems'that the Lausanne Ga.
zette, OF the 28th of September, had paragraph
In Its Paris letter 1"containing very serious i'm
putations against Queen Victoria" Fancy
serious imputations" against Queen Victoria
IN the Lausanne Gazette, and anybody on earth
caring about them The Hon. e. Harris our
Minister, did, however, care about them. He
leit an indignation which was In itself honest