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#ttr fatten Correspondent •V- deem it rieht to state that we do !lot at all times ourselves with our Correspondentsopinions. J It was a good many that the Royal A gri. cultural Society pitched it, tent near and it is likely to be a long while before it comes again. Speoial efforts, extending over the best part of twelve months, had been put forth to make this 8how a great eucceas. The Prince of Wales was elected President for the year the exhibition waa to be visited by the Queen a splendid pme Hat^ was got together; the Lord Mayor took np the matter »d onened a fund at the Mansion House to cover the expenses; an accessible and appropriate site was secured; and an international character was given to the whole affair. With all these favourable surroundings, only one condition was required to make the Show the greatest success in the Society's annals. Fine weather was indispensable, and fine weather might certainly be expected in the first week of July. As a matter of fact the Show has been comparatively ruined by the torrents of rain which fell day after day. The Queen was compelled to postpone her visit fully half a week on account of the terrible weather. The first shilling day fell 15,000 short cf the average attendance in great provincial centres of industry like Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Wolverhampton whilst the ground was little better than an enormous quagmire. The Society is dis- heartened at the result of so much effort; disappointed at the sum total of so much expectation. About this time we should be witnessing the very height of the London season. The papers ought to be writing of garden-parties and open-air jetes, of a House of Commons emptied by the desire of itsmem ™ ° amusement, of a Government wearied by the heat and of Society exhausted by the multiplicity of its numerous engagements. All the elements of one of the most fashionable years are round about ug enter- tainers ready to dispense their hospitality, the presence of the CWdie Francaise, the Royal Agricultural Show at Kilburn, a dulness in home politics releasing peers and commoners alike from too close an attention to business, and a cheapness in prices which acts as an encouragement to expenditure. The outward and visible signs of that commercial and agricultural depression, of which so much is heard, are not seen in the West-end of London. Yet the season baa been socially a failure. Everything has been spoilt by the rain, which prohibits garden parties, makes out-door gatherings impossible, saturates the pleasure-seeker wherever he may go, cripples trade, and threatens a bad harvest. There has been no such summer since that of 1860, no such wild moist winds laden with rain from the Atlantic, no such a lowering of spirits at a time when the days are at their longest and should be at their brightest. Meanwhile the Volunteers are preparing for their annual outing at Wimbledon. The camp opens on Monday the 14th inst., and the riflemen are in hopes that the clouds will have exhausted themselves before this great national competition comes on. Many a vicissitude have the marksmen experienced on this famed Surrey common in the way of weather. Sometimes, as in 1868, they have had to endure heat of an equatorial temperature, when people were falling dead from sunstroke in the streets of Lon. don. At other times, as in 1875, they have carried on their labours in the midst of a rain- fall which has made the camp one of the most diamal places that it ever entered into the ima- gination of man to conceive. The tents have been inches deep in water, the volunteers themselves more than ankle-deep in mud. The Wimbledon prize meeting has now become a great national institution; and yet it does not seem so very long ago that the Laureate sent forth his stirring appeal of Riflemen, form It was in the summer of 1859 that the man- hood of England enrolled itself under the volunteer banner, just as the Emperor Napoleon had returned victorious from the Italian war. It is only a couple of decades ago but the mighty changes that have since taken place will fill many a volume of European history. The ceremonies observed in conveying the body 01 the Prince Imperial of France from South Africa to England, corresponded in a great degree with those which accompanied the remains of the First >i apoleon over the same sea nearly forty years ago. It was on the 9th of May, 1840, that Lord Palmerston, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wrote to Earl Granville, the British Ambassador in Paris :—" Her Majesty's Government having taken into consideration the request made by the Government of France for permission to remove from St. Helena to France the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte, your excellency is in- structed to assure M. Thiers that her Majesty's Govern- ment will, with great pleasure, accede to this request." On the 30th November following the Belle Poult frigate, commanded by the Prince de Joinville, one of the sons of King Louis Philippe, arrived off Cher. bourg with the remains of the great Captain on board, and amid a demonstration of enthusiasm, it was taken to Paris, where it lies under the gilded dome of the Invalidea, the home of the old soldiers, answering in some respects to our Chelsea Hospital. It was the awakening of the Napoleonic fervour at this second funeral of the famous Emperor in the French capital, which is said by some writers to have been the cause of the ultimate fall of the Orleans Dynasty and the restoration of the Bonaparte f&mily to power in the es. tablishment of the Second Empire, which came to an end in 1870. As the death of the Prince Imperial is intimately associated with the war at the Cape, it may be useful to recall the fact that hostilities have now lasted exactly haif.a-year The British forces crossed the frontier stream of the Tugela on the 12th of January and ten days afterwards we experienced the terrible disaster of Isandula. In its catalogue of misfortunes, not the least of which was the slaying oi the Prince on Whit-Sunday, this war will long stand out conspicuous in our history. We got over the Afghan difficulty with very little trouble-the savage tribes in that mountain- ous region evidently being destitute of mUitary capa- city whatever may be their bravery. But the Zulus have manifested great skill in the defence of their ter. ritory, and their courage in attack has more than once been shown. They have exhibited quite as much craft as the Ashantees, who, in Sir Garnet Wolseley's campaign against them in the beginning of 1874, so well imitated the bugle calls of the English that it re- quired an experienced ear to detect their cease firing" when our troops were directing their rifles against them. It is gratifying to know that the memorial to the departed Prince is already a great success. The Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway ate its joint-presidents, the Duke of Teck heads the list of its committee, which includes the names of many members of both Houses of Parliament. The demonstration of respect to the memory of Lord Lawrence, on the occasion of his funeral in West. minster Abbey on Saturday, was a striking testimony to the appreciation in which the services of this dis- tinguished administrator were held. One by one the great men who stood forth so conspicuously in the terrible days of the Indian Mutiny, are passing from na. Lord Canning, the Viceroy of that day, has been dead more than half a generation, so have Clyde and Outram Sir Henry Lawrence, Sir Henry Havelock, and Sir Hugh Wheeler were long since called to their rest and now Sir John Lawrence himself has gone to join the vast army of the majority. In no fitter place could he lie than in our great national Walhalla, where we delight to honour the remaios of our eminent poets, our greatest heroes, our most accom- plished authors, our most profound philosophers, and our wisest statesmen. The grave of Lord Lawrence is close to those of Lord Clyde and Sir James Outram, who with him bore a share of that tremendous responsibility that fell upon our public men in India when the foundations of our Oriental empire were shaken amid the shock of the Sepoy mutiny. Some, like Havelock, who died within a few months, were soon removed from the scene of their labours and their anxiety but Lord Lawrence has been spared to the nation two-and-twenty years; and his funeral has shown how his unquestionably great public services were estimated. The conversion of disused churchyards into recrea. tion grounds has made much progress in London within the past few years. This has been 6 caf. more especially within the precincts of the city i se > where the removal of the resident population to the suburbs at night and also upon Sunday, has left many a church congTegationless, while its churchyard has too often fallen into desolation and decay. The hand of improvement has now reached St. Paul's itself, where the laying out of the gardens surrounding the metropolitan cathedral which for some time has been in progress under the supervision of the city architect is now nearly completed, thus giving the churchyard an appearance which strangely contrasts with its former condition. The whole of the plants selected for the gardens are ever. greens. At the north-eastern corner a massive granite fountain is ia course of erection. Our forefathers, in laying out great cities, were obviously guided more by considerations of the utilitarian than of the beautiful; otherwise we should never had such hideous structures as Newgate in the very heart of the capital, nor churchyards in our midst without the slightest attempt at ornament or relief. The last-mentioned defect is now being rapidly remedied; and Horsemonger- ane having gone, the day of doom for Newgate ought not to be far distant. Six years ago the Shah of Persia came over here to learn something of western civilization, and a meeting has now been held in London for the purpose of form- ing a society which shall spread amongst na little of the civilization of the East. While Penia could learn a great deal from us, it seems that we, in turn, can derive a great deal of good from a knowledge of the arts, literature, and folk-lore of Japan. A wonderful country is Japan, and marvellously clever are its people. The specimens of Japanese art which come over to this country certainly cannot be surpassed here, while Japanese students enter themselves at our public schools and universities and carry off prizes in the faces of their English competitors. Like China, Japan was strictly exclusive until, at the cannon's mouth, it was made to open its ports and its commerce to the enterprise of Europe and the United States. The subjects of Queen Victoria and of the Tycoon alike reap the benefit of this and although the Royal Asiatic Society has hitherto included within its operations Japan as well as India and China, there are so many features of interest in the art and litera- ture of the first-mentioned country, that it is in con- templation to form a separate institution, so as to bring its products more immediately before the EDg- lish people.
THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW ATj…
THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT KILBURN. THE Q r E E N'S VISIT. The Queen day „Dpga#Vten o'clock. Between the station sh jw-vwd there were thousands of spectators, who f ^heerld the Royal party and withm the Showyard there^ amuch l^ger lUmblage than on any previous morula? The cattle were brought from their lairs, ad solemnly conducted ID Indian-file procession, flrsc past the bacTand then past the front of the Boyal carriage, thus making the entire circuit of the ring. Theprize- cattle had their ample cheeks adorned with the variously coloured ribbons of the classes in which had won dis- of the march past" from Monday t Standard. — .0. .L- .1 +J..4 The procession passed at once to the centre 01 ine rinf» where the Queen sat in her carriage while the prize winners defiled before her. Although several heavy showers fell, the hood was not once raised, and thus spectators on all sides were enabled to get an un- interrupted view of the occupants, while successful exhibitors doubtless felt a. thrill of pardonable pride as they noted the deep interest so evidently taken in'all the prize animals. First came the shorthorns, proudly conscious of their comeliness, and bearing themselves with stately grandeur. Her Majesty had the Champion stopped for closer inspection, and worthy of admiration, indeed, looked Mr. Hutchin- son's heifer, and that grand descendant of a long line of winners, Telemachus IX. Next to pass slowly with ponderous strides and toiling deep through the clay were the rent-paying Herefords, the dark red Sussex, and the dainty-limbed Devons. In this breed her Majesty has ever taken an especial intereat. and she looked long at the two champion wm^rs. wMch have earned such high distinction for Mr. Walter F«tJaing, whose stock were the first founders of the Windsor herd. The longhorns, with sullen countenance and unwieldy gait, came next, to form a break between the Devons and the equally shapely Jerseys, which in their turn were stopped while her Majesty scanned with appreciative eyes the symmetrical forms of the cup winners. The Ayrshire milk givers, the bulky polled Angus and the diminutive little cattle of Kerry P^sed more quiakly, though the first prize-winner had to be brought back and formally presented after going some distance beyond the carriage. Then came the few foreign animals that have been entered for the many prizes offered by the Mansion House Committee, by which it was hoped that many competitors would be attracted from France and other countries. Many of the classes allotted to those animals are, however, devoid of entries, and the few sent over are scarcely fair representatives of their various breeds. Last of all to pass the Royal carriage was that famous cross between a shorthorn and the wild white cattle of Chillineham—Lord Tankervilles Adam. "Then came the horses, the huge Clydesdales ae- corated with gay-coloured ribbons, as they might have ZTi'toJ L tb. glomo., adorned by some "young Herminia, to bear an honoured warrior in the fight. Next the lighter- limbed SuffolkB, and the lordly thoroughbreds, walk- ing with long swinging stride, curvetting and displaying their symmetrical proportion proudly as became animals of high lineage and noble bearing. Mr. Clare Vyner s Due de Beaufort, winner of the jBICO prize, was especi- ally admired, and his presentation to the Queen was a matter of much ceremony, for he would insist on first showing that he could back like a true courtier. The hackneys and ponies having passed the saluting point, returned and went by again, this time at the trot. Then much diversion was created by the strange appearance and eccentric behaviour of mules and asses? and, lastly, the French horses were paraded. some of them led by grooms in jackets of bright scarlet satin. To these classes the Queen paid marked atten- tion, and showed much interest all they passed by her at different paces. Mr. Jacob Wilson. Mr. B, M. Jenkins, and the many members of the Council pre- sent had the honour of being presented, and the pro- cession moved from the ring amid loud bursts of cheer- ing and many expressions of loyalty and affectaon from the assembled countrymen. It had been intended thataviaitahould be paid to the International Dairy, but the road thither was found to be impassable, and having declared that she was not only pleased but delighted with the display Bhe had just witnesed, her Majesty left the ground attended by the Prince of Wales on horseback, and driving again to the Qaeen s- park Station, returned to Windsor aa she had come by the North-Western and Great Western lines.
A FRENCH FUiTE IN LONDON.
A FRENCH FUiTE IN LONDON. In London on Monday" nursing, the Prince of Wales, accompanied'by the Puke of Edinburgh, opened the new Xg ofthe French HosplUl In Leicester-place Duringhli progress through the waids the Prince of Wales made par- ticular inquiries Into severe1 of th? In tL kind words of encouragement to the sufferers Ini afternoon their Royal Highnesses, with the Princess ol Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke a'^ Duchesa of Connaught, and Prince Leopold yialtedtbeFrencnFeteat tbe Albert Hall, which was attended bL Li CorpB Diplomatique. The stall* wtpe pr^iJedover by many English ladies of rank and by the Fracjdse.-ifte Times of Tuesday gives terestlng description of the openlpg 0#re»oBy, féte of Monday, A festival quite unexampled in London ^as ceie.- brated yesterday in the Albert-hall, and is to be con- tinued thismorning. Before the very successful fite began, one of the principal institutions for the benefit of which it waa given was inspected by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. This:I* the French Hospital, in which one room, a light, cheerful apart- ment, used as the saloon for convalescent, is hooce- forth to be known by the name of the Prince do Galles," Lisle-street was gaily decorated with flags, and the band of the Garde Répnblicaine, who have come to London for the fgte by the permission of M. Grévy, took up their position outside. Just before one the Prince of Wales drove up with Sir Dighton Probyn, followed by the Duke of Edin- burgh, who was attended by Colonel Clerk- M. Sel- lenick, the bandmaster, whose breast is covered with decorations, ordered the band to play, God biess the Prince ef Wales." Their Royal Highnesses entered the hospital between rows of green palms and exotic flowers, and were received by the French Minister (the C.mte de Montebello), Comte de Florian, the Marquis des Netumieres, Dr. Vintras, senior physician, Mr. Cormac, consulting our. geon, Mr. Colomiati Meredyth. Mr. A. MKellar, Mr. de Meric, Mr. Baume, Mr. BlumenthaL, M. Vandenbrande, M. Elzingre, hon. trewnrer, Mr. Eugene Rimmel, hon. secretary, and other gentlemen, and conducted round the wards. The serving sisters of the Sacred Heart, under Sister Francesca, who are the nurses of the hospital, were presented to the Princes, and in the Board-room their Royal High- nesees drank, at the request of the committee, a glass of champagne to the health or healthiness of the hospital. The homely and comfortable arrangements of the two houses which form the edgblishment gave much satisfaction. Their Royal Highnesses drove awav after signing in the visitors book Albert Edward P." and "Alfred." The page immediately preceding these signatures bore the sign-manual of Mdlle. Bernhardt, the market value of which as the fete in the afternoon showed, ranges from 10s. to £ 10. She had written "Je n'al Jamais tant dotire la rietu.ise qu' aujourd'bul. 81 jétab relue je vous donnerals un beau local; 11 etant qu artiste, je vols offre mon talent.—SARAH BERS34PPT." The crowd which lined the streets cheered loudly for the Princes as they left, and next clamoured for La Marseillaise. The band of the Garde Réoublicaine had been playing a lively air from Fatinitza, but did not refuse to gratify the demand for the stirring hymn of the Republic. The tricolor of France waved during the morning over the great front por ico of the Albert-hell, and here, long before the hour of two, which had isaen fixed for the opening, there waited a large number of carriages and those they had brought. From the time the doors were thrown open till the band had ceased playing, at about six, there was a constant stream of well-dressed visitor into the arena of the Albeei-hall. It is impossible to say how many were present. Five thousand tiakfiW had been issued. They may not all have bees aoJd. In addition to this, just £ 1,000 in entrance-money was taken at the Albert-hall itself, and as the admission money was Me.. this represents 2,000 people more. To these are to be added the free holders of seats in the amphitheatre and boxes. The visitors were not merely from London. U. Leon Say, the Minister of Finance of the French Republic, arrived in the morning on a visit to his niece, the Comtesse de Montebello, came to the fete and left again last night the richer by the Album of the Comédie Fran^aise, and the poorer by some few hundreds of francs. M. Patinot, Prefect of the Department of the Seiae-et-Marne, came ovep with the quietest and most pleasant travelling com- nanions, 4,000 roses, which were offered to assist the bazaar by the Department of the Seine-et- Marne The Princes and Princesses of our Royal Wnnse" who had promised their gracious aid ^Tthfl'work were more than equal to their word. «tJThoxes next to each other which bear the arms ^?nce of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh of the Prin greater part of the afternoon, were occupied for t^ princeM of Wales with their Here were the P rjnce88 Louisa Victoria, Princess to* 'S pri»c«. Maad—the Dake Victoria the Duke and Duchess of wdDucfaeseofEdinbur^t^of Batten. c',ow?Pri»« «f s'wd-. »»<1 'h« Highnesses were the Coiatesse d 1 Clark, and Mr. F. Knollys; M.ss C^ry and Colonel Clerk; Captain Fitzgerald, the Hon. A. ¥°»e, ana Baron von Roggenbach. The Royal party did 9 t remain here, but leaving the little Princess made tnfl descent into the crush below, Baron von Roggenbach. The Royal party did pot remain here, but leaving the little Princess made the descent into the crush below. The arena had become in ten minutes from the the opening a confused symphony in pink, white, and blue, through which flitted richly apparelled forms with waving hands, some scattering flowers, aocie offering sweetmeats. Two tall policemen aided the Count de Montebello to divide the throng before the Royal party. The Prince of Wales was thus enabled to purchase a box of bonbons from Mrs. Langtry, who stood in a fiat yellow bonnet and wearing a brocaded dress at the stall of the Com- I tesne de Billow. The Princess of Wales bought two little white kittens with blue eyeft from Madame Sarah Bernhardt, The Prince of Wales bought a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in oil, and a sea painting, and the party lingered for a long time at the stall at which, aided by Mdlles. Martin, Blanche Barretta, and Thenard, Madame Bernhardt laboured indefatigably all the afternoon, haranguing, writing, raising the price upon her admirers, till she had taken at the ena the largest earnings of any stall -£256. Her smaller photographs were soon ex. hausted, The fans painted by her own hand went early in the afternoon, and an American enthusiast bought a fan at a neighbouring stall and paid her a £ 10-note for signing it. The Princess of Wales s kit- tens cost her Royal Highness JS10, and the Prince of Wales threw down a nandfal of notes to settle his accounts as he left. "n a Sti tris genireux" was the verdict. The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold bought photographs of Madame Sarah Bernhardt and tickets for the tombola, and the Duke of Connaught obtained one of the fans by the artist's own hand. The stall was a marvel of horticultural decora- tioD, with exotics in all the costly vaBes. At the Com- tease Steenbock's stall. the Prince of Wales bought of Miss Baddeley two Japanese parasols. Lady Skel- mersdale had the honour of presenting the Princess of Wales with a bouquet; the Duke of Edinburgh and the Dake of Connaueht paid 10s. 6d. for their button- holes to Countess Karolyi and Lady Skelmersdale. Prince Leopold purchased two statues of Sbvres- Paul I. and Catherine II.—at Madame de Bii'ow's stall and Lady Garvagh, who in a splendid violet costume was the most conspicuous figure at the Baroness de Penedo's stall, where also, however, Miss Schlesinger, Mrs. Arthur Kea. nard, Mrs. Batt, and Mrs. Molesworth stood, sold an Indian flower-stand to Prince Leopold. Mrs. Wheeler in black bonnet and light-flowered dress, with lace cuffs, was selling roses for Mrs. Guinness. It was here that the Prince of Wales enriched his collection by two paper lamp-shades, a photograph case, and some deiert-knives in a case. The Princess of Wales bought a paper weight, a shot bird reposing on a marble slab. Mra. Cornwallis West was selling cigars and giving but little change. Even more inexorable on this point was Sarah Bernhardt, who for a purchase of 8a. gave no change from a j65 note. Mrs. Sassoon stood at a stall in the centre. Miss Jessel sold for the Countess Steenbock. Lady Hood, in yellow satin, was at Madame de Bylandt s stall, where the Prince of Wales bought for B25 a figure in white porcelain of the Empress Eugenie in her early days of Empire. At the Comtesse de Monte- bello's bmitique, the Prince of Wales bought a picture of a Zouave by Neuville, the Duchess of Connaught ordered some Sevres, and the Duchess of Edinburgh bought chocolate. Countess Marie Miinster and Mrs. Percy Mitford assisted the wife of the French Minister at this stall, which realized JE200 for the charity. The Prince of Wales bought of the Marquise de la Ferronays the peasant kneeling, in white Sevres, to his lady-love, which we yesterday described. the Hon. Mrs. Stonor's scimitar paper-knife was sold at its marked price of £10. Paper-knives varied in price from 16s. tofciu, *nu roses were sold, a handful as a makeweight to a shilling cigar, or for a guinea each. This was the price wnicn Mdlle. Reichemberg received for each ef two wbw the Duchess of Edinburgh bought of Snzel, and this was the price paid to Miss Stonor for a rose by a Spanish grandee. This lady stood at the entrance selling roses, and obtained B23 for the charity for these flowers alone. Miss Leigh, in white laced dress, ana with white ostrich feathers in her hat, and is Carew, in red and black, helped the Hon. Mrs. St o in gaining her JEL40 for the fund. The Prince stopped to give champagne cup and tea to his friends at Mrs. Ronalds'* stall, at which noble and gallant gentlemen assisted, attired in bib and tucker, and Lady Charles Beresford and Mrs. Oppenheim helped to Bell the strawberries sent by Alfred de Rothschild. The Princes of Wales bought from Madam be Btilow an elaborate basket from Conseil of Paris, and the Duchess of Edinburgh ac- quired at the same atail a large vase by Baccarat. Madam Favart's return was the second of all in amount, no lets than £ 240. Mdlle. Samary assisted to dazzle visitors y vivacity, and sold to the Prince of Wales wid others her own photographs, wonelerful examples of Jeanneq It was amusing to hear M. Coquelin bargaining Madame Favart, M. Pelaunay was among th^arlieat purchasers here. Mdlle. Croi^ette realized £ 200 from the purchases of the Prince and Princess of W of the other buyers who thronged her stall Here were Mdlle. Broisat and Mdlle. Mane Loyd, while M. Febvre assisted his colleagues. Mdlle. Martinotf, Lady Howe, Lady Clarendon, Mrs. Borthwick, Lady Howard de Walden, Lady Wilton, and Madame Bourdanchon should also be mentioned amopg the most successful of the dames vendeuses. All the Diplo- matic Body were there. Noticeable among them sailed along in full orange robes the Chinese Am- bassador. The band of the Garde Kepublicalne began wttn "God Save the Queen." The new marche indienne by M. Sellenick, dedicated to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was a great success. The Prince of Wales's March by M. Febvre, of the Comédie Franchise, was also played. Incidentally we have given some of the amounts of the first day, Mdllie. Bernhardt took £ 256, Madame Favart £230 (including the sale for B30 of Bastion- Lepage's portrait of Jeanne Bamary), the Comfesse de Montebello took JE200, Mdlle. Croizette, £200, the Mar- quise de Ferronays £140, the Comtesse de Florian 2W, Madame de B,landt £140, Mrs. Ranalds over £100, Mrs. Adair £ 91, Countess Steenbock JE122. It may perhaps be assumed from these figures that the average of the 20 stalls was jE150, which would give a total of £ 3,000. To this is to be added £1,000 for money at the doors, and an unknown amount (which may, perhaps, be £2.0(0) for tickets. A gain of £ 6,0<X> is thus not unlikely, and this without any stupendous calamity to repair such as powerfully affepted the minds of those who contributed to the gre&t CGlJ^ctjon in the Paris Opera-house for the sufferers of Szegedin.
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The Daily Telegraph, in their account of the fete, iayj Bat the ladles who were so active with thelrrose baskets, clear caws, tombolas, and wheels of fortune did not ™°™- polUethe I'nVot tfte The afternoonwasloordluately hot, even to the verga of mflCopatton; and mow» lady fainted when buffeted about U* of fashion. Once down in the 1 difficulty ment with courtesy was a matter minds of and accordingly It occurred to the the Hon. Oliver Montagn, Lord Charies Bereslora, ana a^yeral of their gallant eompanton«, icei cro»dfld assemblage cool ana g the ^ot but Americas tails, cups, chimpague, aEd comforting tea, the acCl°n f^JftMons' and handed "HI*1 ALAO,LTY wattow yas n ht d the refreshment about creature comforts, a, le.hauded for of the bye-standers. lbey s? dlvlna Into while the gentlemen did the rough work'of ^yJa| Into lce-palls and lifting uilTgeveral ladles who covered their 5 7.1 Were a"lltel,^ muslin aprons snl took the money Mtlev costumes with musto]p^ A flre.,creen Is with anstasrtfy that1 wa nt )n ltl way> a rosebud sets no doubt a Wtf .doctrine of chance Is a distracting off a frock coat, WhctheF on such a day the pnictfcaf relief*01 This tea DOt appreciated as muohasanythlng^
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS WALDEGRAVE.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS WALDEGRAVE. morning at her rewaepoa previoM nighti havtoTbSen Siwelf for some days, she came to London b»' the vL a daughter of one of the most LadyWaldegravewas^ Jq]^ Bfaham> By birth JewThi Smarkable man, who added to his reputation Jew, thisjrema, ragan(j popular songs, became by composing jC,. MCj, 0f JJngland, and died at a ripe "irTinW-fi Lady Waidegpaye was born at the old age in 18.0. w&s married four tiines. Her ^hn^nd was'Mr. John James Henry Waldegjraye, first husband w „ 0X< Not iong alter his de«tb. of Navestock, lg40( ghe married the seventh Eari ij ™ who died in 1846. She then came into of Waldegrave who dieclhiii e8Ute9 io npsseesion o jn the following year she became fessez$pdS George Granville Yernon Harcourt, ^irnrk Eldest son of the Archbishop of ToS S ,Wa8 Ct,lche8t0r Fortescue, now Lord Carlir»gio«.$.. tk of Lady Waldegrave creaws & sro^ in EneHstfsociety that will long be felt. Her rtunwm Strawberry-hill and Carlton-gardens were in many Kt atrawbe y political sympathies were un- respesta »n bQ(. men of aQ parties were to be mistakably h frequenters of her draw- found a"lonK ma glopefv associated with Q^wrv-hill •' the little playthipg konee'' which Strawbewy h 1 > builfc and decorated 11 littje mffre Horace Walpo n ag0. In 1842, after the well- than a bundre y determined to restore ^Tnterest which this strange Gothic mansion had the Regged. The taek was by no means easy hnt'her'resoiu&on jseemed to increase in proportion to /affi^nltilaa shT hs4 to encounter. In the end Strawberry-hill became wfcftt » w/riter on the, subject n! ••a first-class country house W 9 f«, hni«es are palaces without, hewaye?, losing: much of the distinctive characterwhich Walpola had impressed upon it.—-Monday s Timet.
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In notice tip death of the CounteaBWatdegrave, the Pall Mall remarks that t « ™ that will cause very B'noero^row ^ndon circle. The position she ^cupied « society was based not ^y.^d^ ^f he^hich makers gave them a jjjyjljr charm W^degraveflike ^.e l^toLac^r LieS"iw"tint »»»■« guests at Strawberry-hill and Carl'°fcnf many Cambridge House in former day P, were to be found many Liberals « bfjt all shades of political1 v'^h^d^littfe presented at theas pleasant gatherings, wh or nothing of a party nptpre about them, a tuBm. present were welcome, and w,ere l. tL selves welcome, without reference to the yiews they might happen to take of the public question. of the day. Lady Waldegrave was, indeed, so thorougbly good-natured that it would have been quite foreign to her temperament to take into consideration the.poli. tiaal pro Less ions or convictions of her numerous irienaa and acquaintances. She delighted in collecting them around her, and to make other people happy seemed to be the chief happiness of bar life. Few, if any, ever had a more tender heart for her own particular friends, or a more general friendship for her fellow-creatures, than Lady Waldegrave. This was the secret of her popularity, which was of a far higher character than çhe worthless article that commonly goes by the nai»e."
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Preparations are being made at Barrow-in-Furness for opening out a large import trade In American livestock. The Forness Railway have commenced the ejection or cattle lairs and slaughterhouses near the new docks, capable of accommodating 8.000 head of cattle. The sanitary arrange- m«nts are under the supervision of Dr. Saunders, medical officer of the City of London, who has reported favourably of the site. Barrow is within easy distance of the Meat northern cattle markets, tmI » large trade Is expected to develope,
THE FUNERAL OF LORD LAWRENCE.…
THE FUNERAL OF LORD LAWRENCE. (J 1 On Saturday the mortal remains of Lord Lawrence, the great Indian administrator, were laid In a tomb in the nave of Westminster Abbey, close to the graves of Outram and Clyde.-The following account of the impressive ceremony Is from the Standard of Monday John Lawrence of the Punjaub' was carried to his grave in a manner singularly appropriate to the severe dignity of his character and the modest splen- dour of his career. Round his tomb was collected a great multitude of his countrymen and countrywomen -soldiers, sailors, statesmen; men who have proved themselves worthy pillars of the Empire in every quarter of the world, who have already immortalised their names on foreign battle-fields, or who have added a new lustre to the humbler services of civil life. It was right that Lord Lawrence should rest in the burial ground of Kings and Princes, great generals, great administrators, deathless orators, philosophers, and bards. This much be may fairly have anticipated for himself, and probably he would have wished or expected nothing more. The last occasion on which a famons Indian public servant received the distinguished rite of sepulture in West- minster Abbey was when Sir George Pollock, who ended his days as Constable of the Tower, and whose intrepid zeal bad in years gone by retrieved the honours of a disastrous Afghan campaign, was laid by the side of the "Lion of India," Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, who had put down the Mntiny, and who was already sleeping within these venerable precincts. It is close to this spot, immediately opposite the pulpit, not far from the stone which proclaims the resting place of Sir James Outram, near where moulder the ashes of Isaac Newton, Charles Barry, Robert Stephenson. that there will be found the grave of Lord Lawrence, the latest of a long list of men who. after a lifetime devoted to the building up of the fabric of England's Eastern Empire, have foundthe "recompense of their toils and dangers" which Bnlwer esteemed not inadequate; or who, if their bodies are elsewhere, have here their exploits marked by monumental stone or effigy. In the single chapel, as it now is, of St. John, St. Michael, and St. Andrew, are the tablets that tell us of the deeds of Captain Edward Cooke, who perished of the wounds received when, in 1750, he captured the French frigate La Forte, in the Bay of Bengal; and of Sir George Pocock, the hero of Chan- dernagore, who fell two years later. In the north transept are buried, or are commemorated, Sir John Malcolm, the soldier, statesman, and patriot, who could descend, without feeling that he sank, from the command of armies and the government of an Empire to become a peace-maker in village quarrelø It Lord Canning, Viceroy of India, hard by his illustrious father, who died plain George Canning; General Sir Eyre Coote, who expelled the French from the coast oi Coromandel and defeated the forces of Hyder Ally, and who is immortalised by a huge and not too tasteful device of Victory hanging the medallion of a hero upon a trophy, while the Mahratta captive and the little elephant in front recall the scene of the exploit; Warren Hastings, whose mortal remains lie at Daylesford Sir Herbert Edwardes, the hero of the Punjaub Vice Admiral Charles Watson, who delivered the prisoners in the Black Hole at Calcutta; Sir Stamford Raffles, Governor of Java Sir George Staunton, who concluded the Treaty with Tippoo Saib in 1784. Such is the company of Apglo- Indian celebrities, to which must flow be added tbe name of Lord Lawrence. If his funeral on Saturday last was not technically a public one, it was certainly a national one. Among the crowd which filled the nave and choir were many famous and familiar faces. There were countenances bronzed by the sun and eloquent of a life passed in those tropical latitudes where John Lawrences name was once accepted as that of a present di- vinity. The civil as well as the military servants of the Crown mustered in great force, and in addition to those identified with the functions of government was a large contingent of persons who, it may be pre. sumed, represented definite Indian interests, but whose interests were not of an official character. It was signi- ficant, it was eyen pathetic, to note in tfce cro^d faces whose dusky hue proclaimed their Eastern were several Hindus who had come that they might pay their tribute of respect to the man whose name was in his time a household word from one end of our Indian Empire to the other. At half-past eleven o'clock the Abbey was crowded and silent. In the nave immediately opposite the place selected for the interment were rows of seats, four deep occupied by some hundred persons. As one passed into the choir, the stalls on either side were filled with gentlemen and ladies clothed »8 <!eePP8t however, in the show of dusky mourning thare was. Scarlet uniforms were not wanting, and while their appearance constituted a relief, it seemed at the same time to intensify the melancholy of the pitchy pro. dominance of hue. All this time the silence was profound. Not a ray of sunshine strayed into the dim recesses of the build- ing. statues on the northern sule of t^ e ch wore a spectral appearance, ftut seemed stjarcefy mor motionless than s&o living an4 hre&tbipg jasn$11$j women gathered round them. At a quarter totwelv a tbe Dean of Westminster walked quickly up the aisle, said a few words to one of the attendants, a d disappeared. The low, plaintive notes of funereal music broke out and seemed to take possession of the entire edifice. Then there were silence and expectancy ence more. The midday chimes of the Abbey sounded forth, the great clock struck once, twice—thrice— twelve times, and within aa many seconds as one might copnt on tfce fingers cf a single hand the clear notos of the yojee oftVe Raanof Westminster were heard in the nava beyontj—11 aw tfte jesurt rection and the life, saith the Lord j he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Every syllable of this was distinctly audible, and the solemn sentences produoed an emotion that was equally touching and spontaneous throughout the assemblage. The funeral procession was about to enter the choir. The pean led the way. There, at the bead of the proceeaiop itself, ifere Sir Charles Brownlow, w!no carried j>rd ^awrenop^ ojrdefs. apd General Rfynell Taylor, who bore the coyopet, both on cushions of crimson velvet. Immediately afterwards came the coffin, covered with the light blue cloak of a Knight of the Star of India as pall. Upon the silken coverlet there rested wreathes of immortelles and stephanotis, lilies and laurels. The pall-bearers, moving at measured pace, with noiseless tread, beside the coffin, were eight of the closest intimates of the once Governor General of India. To the left were General Beecher, Sir Wm. Mnir K.C.S.J-. ffor(i Napier of Magdala, and the Earl 'oFshaftesbury i and op t|ie ricjit, Sir Henry Norman, Sir Robert Montgomery, Lord JJorthbroo#, and Sir Stafford Northcote. The military men of this little escort were in uniform, with medals and decora- tions. Behind came a train of mourners belonging to Lord Lawrenoe's family, the chief place being taken by the present baron, the suooessor to the title, who was accompanied by his mother. Lady Lawrence, the Hon.Mrs. g. A. Lawrence, the Hon. Maud Lawrence, the Hon. fiutier'C Lavrgnco, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Randall (eldest dauahter of the late peer), Rev. C. and Hon. Mrs. Walford, Miss Gaster, Mr. Buxton, Dr. and Mrs. Goodall, Sir G. and Lady Young, 1^« Kennedy, Sir Erskine Perry, Sir James and Lady Stephen, Colonel and Mrs. Jeffrejs, Captain ^ast- wick and other private friends.?' Here follows a H#t of th; general body of mourners imengst whom were—Lord Torrlhgton, who representee tier Mafesty the Queen; Baron Solvyns, who represented ine Kim; of the Belgian*; the Archbishop of York. Lord CardweU, Lord Cranbrook, Lord Derby, Lord Granville, Lord JSmiy, Lord Harrowby, Lord O'Hagan, Earl Fortescue, Lord Leigh, the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M P., the 8peaker of the Souse ot Commons, the Eight Hon. Eobert Lowe, B'r L. Mallet, Professor Fawcett, M.P., Sir E. Buxton. »ir,J. Fayrer. Sir Cecil Bead on, Sir Henry Eawllnson, Slr, Forsyth, Colonel Yale, Hon. E. Drummond, Sir Lewla Peiiy, general J £ Stracney, Sir £ Cllve Bayley, Sir .John Adye, $c., it0* It Lord Cranbrook and Sir Stafford Korthoote, aa well as the pall-bearers, remained close by the coffin during the whole of that portion of the service which was celebrated in the choir. The majority of the re- mainder took up their position in the space in front of the reredos. The spectaele now presented was impres- sive in the extreme. There, on the velvet-covered treasles, in a line with the statue of Peel, lay the body of the man to yhose life and memory all present had cow to do bopoftr. Toe gloom qt the Al}bey was pro- found, and awnfigphere ^aji fuU of ^verenpe ana awe. Again the notes of tbp choir were heard, ana there pealed forth from the organ bywn of mourn- ing and praise. These echoes had aparpely died away when the opening sentence of the leason was heard, and just as the words I by man came also the resurrection of the dead' were uttered, the first flash of sunshine which had been visible that day suddenly penetrated the Abbey. Its multi-coloured rays fell full upon fcho cc.-lpttired effigies of famous men, on tbe coffin and the iittle groug of p?il-bearers gathered round it, and on the mourners beyond. Its appear- ance produced a visible effect, and perhaps there were some who recognised in its swift and glad effialgencs as sure an intimation of immortality as Wordsworth discerned in the recollections of childhood. The leggon came to an end. There was a minutes intesvaf of stfept prayejr or meditation ^twrupted by more than Sue pob? „«i, 1 most solemnly pathetic part of tne cevetnony etfl re- mained. The coffin had yet to be committed to the newly-dug grave. The procession formed anew, and the place of sepulture was reached. On^ again an interval of breathless silence, and agam the interrup- tion of that silence by the utterance of the Bacred Vords. Again, music gave relief to a sentiment almoBt too oyerjyrought. Then there was another pause. The coffin was lowered int? tbg newly-dug grave, and Dewi Stanley's solemn voice WM UawJ, jouncing the most impressive words of the English Church Seryice, Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust No one who heard on Saturday the tone in which these words were pronounced will ever forget it, and ere they had dfed away there seemed to come yet a second time what if BeetapcJ a not altogether idle superstition to in- terpret as m'o^D 3 a' h8p^e?l^d Another sunbeam shot its radiance windows and lighted up the scene. All eyes were lifted upwards, nor had the splendour died away when the Dean of Westminster read the final prayer and the crr.9f* chanted the last hymn. Tb<?° diction, vhlch went home to the hearts of all., more flowers and wreaths wpre poijred into the dark void, and the touching because natural. spontaneous, and unadorned ceremony was at an end. The brass plate on the coffin bore the inscription, first Baron Lawrence, died June 27, 1873, aged ba years."
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In Westminster Abbey, on 8unday aftern^atthechoral service at three o'clock! Dean Stanley preached In the chotr on the Impressive event of the previous d^-Wetidre the following condensation of his serm«n from iM -l inyee. Dean took a* his text the words in J oshua and of good courage, for un to thls people shalt thou divide For an Inheritance the land whiohl ■O their fUers to^ve the^ ^Z^ to JS coarageoBs th»t thou mayest gbserye to do accorfUng to aU the law which Moses mv servant cpmmanaed thee turn not from It to the right K « to TlS left, that thou Wa,est prosper wbitbdrsoeTor thou goest", Dean Stanley said :-There are few more saddening thoughts and experiences of human life than the sight of great opportunities offered and lost, of ohamMJtera suddenly breaking down, of the ruin effected by tne want of vigilance and firmness. We see the panic of $rmiea, when the ^oldest lose their heads, and, from mere bewilderment »nd confusion, precions lives ana noble causes are thrown away. Weeee Churches wasting days and weeks and yean in discussion on the moat trivial ciueations, while the weightier considerations of removing stumbling-blocKa, ot enlarging liberty, and strengthening the mental and moral resources of the whole are parsed by as if they did not exist. But in proportion to the keenneesof thin grief, whichan ancient writer well called the bitterest of all griefs, is the de- light in opportunities seized, in character under the Btress of misfortune or danger or temptation tried and not giving way. We delight to think there are times when circumstances give full employ to hands which the rod of empire might have swayed." We are roused to a new sense of the value of great institutions and high offices when we see that they call forth virtues of which before we knew not, but which when called forth are at once a vindication of those offices and in. stitutions, and also diffuse their own savour far and wide. This is what the Apoatle means when in the epistle of that day he speaks of the earnest expecta- tion" waiting "for the manifestations of the sons of Gad." This application of our knowledge to the anxious problems of human life, this unflinching de. termination to see things as they are and to act in- dependently of what is thought and said of us by others, this perception at the right moment of the right thing to be done and the right word to be said this presence of mind which can bring all our faculties to bear on the very danger by which they seem likely to be dispersed and dissipated, in the accidents of fire and Bhipwreok, in the sudden alarms of battle, in the shocks of revolution—these are the qualities which in some measure the humblest of us should strive to attain, and which the most gifted of us should beware of losing or squandering. It is these manifestations of unexpected strength which give the charm to those famaus Bcenes of fiction when Achilles suddenly breaks out from the Grecian camp. or when Ulysses throws asiae nis rags ana SMIKS WUOO his deathful bow across the threshold of the suitors. These are the qualities of a soldier-statesman. Such a character, such a man, was that whose earthly close we yesterday commemorated. To speak first of the mission which moulded the character, it was like that of Joshua, if not to found, yet to save an empire. The Indian Empire What an inheritance in that name has been handed down from our fathers to us India, the new world which Alexander the Great fint revealed to Europe India, the home of the earliest traditions and language of the civiliaed races, the scene of the mighty conflict between the most absolute monotheism and the most elaborate polytheisms, the scene of the mighty struggles by which a handful of our countrymen built up a portentous empire; the India of Clive and Hastings, of the illustrious states- man Bentinok, which was sanctified by the missionary zeal of Martyn, of Duff and Wilson, and by the en- lightened wisdom of prelates like Cotton and Heber Into the rioh and varied land we had inherited we had transfused the soul and mind of Christian Europe. We had in turn enhanced our wealth and power by the pos- session of the gorgeous East. It was this vast fabric which 20 years ago suddenly tottered to its ruin. Never, perhaps, in history was a larger demand made upon the efforts of individual responsibility. Never, perhaps, had so much depended on the inBtant energetic efforts of a few. But in that dark hour there appeared from behind the veil of ignoranoe which so often separates the mind of the English people from the affairs of India character after character, we might say hero after hero, who by the strength of tadividual purpose and of unwavering confidence in the goodness of their cause, not only warded off the world-wide calamity which had burst upon them, but also dis- closed to the eyes of Jingusnmen a near, 01 warriors and statesmen such as we hardly knew that we pos- sessed. It was the very darkness of that crisis, the overclouding of the brightness of the fortunes of England, that pnatyed U8 to aeo, as we w*ald not have seen in broad daylight, the oonstellation of brilliant stars that adorned the courts and campa of India There was Havelock, whose march into Lucknow was followed step by step with an eagerness and anxiety crowned by the mingled exultation and lamentation with which almost in the same moment we heard of his victory and of his death. There were the two Vioeroys who met in Calcutta at the very criaiii-the one who in all that city showed the only face un- blanched by fear, ^he ot^r \yho sacrificed the troops whfch'wer* to have'secured his own suocess m Cmna. There waa Nicholson, worshipped in his army and by the nativea; Outram, the Bayard of Indian warfare, and Clyde, the veteran of a hundred fights. Side by Bide those two rival cbiefs slept together in that church and now, himself laid at the feet of those mighty soldiers, as they also at the feet of their predecessors in the early wara of Afghanistan, there came the last and greatest of all, the survivor of the two Q,r9\c brothers, of whom it was not too much ta say that during the momenta of &at terrible time they Uorp 03 'thei; Atlantean shoulders the whole fabric of British existence in India. It was the happy fortune of the younger that he survived to make us familiar with his form and features, his face and character. He belonged, indeed, to that type of men of which the English race is so grand a represen- tation. It was witn gooa reason tuas wnen an illus- trious artist wished to depict in the stately hall of one of our gieatest palaces of iusti9e ^e signing of the Magna Cbarta, he selected? the ragged countenance and roQgh, manly bearing of John Lawrenoeas the likeness of the chief among the barons of England, who won for ns our liberties against King and Pope. He was English, yet Scotch and Irish also by raee and character. On an occasion like that we would rather dwell upon the inward spirit that lighted and prompted the action of his "deedful life. Deedful indeed it was, and the hearts of Englishmen would beat for many a day as they xead of that tremendous march of 30 miles a day, under the bupmg heat of an Indian sun, which did more tha^ any other one thing to saye Our Eqapirp. Jt w^s eaid that modep luxury wag destroying the plain living and high think- ing of old. We might recall as an antiseptic to those corrupting influences the example of that Spartan simplicity, carried sometimes perhaps to excess, but rooted in the genuine modesty and granite solidity, which, if we could not always imitate or command, we could not help admiring. We heard also in modern days that the responsibility of the great officials in our distant dependencies iB of necessity related and enervated because of the increased control e^erqised from the central source of pobe ao, and it m«,y be inevitable but, nevertheless, there would always be a lesson of profound instruction in the example of a man who had the foresight to discern what was needed to be done and the courage to do it without fear of the consequences and without regard to his own fame and fortune. We often heard it said that to the cause of party all other influences must be subordinated, that for the sake of keeping a party together no interests are sacred that ap- pointment must be made regardleBo of ^thess. li^o such thought, sti]l less anf 'tfedtyght cf personal ^ggr^naiQeuaonv, entered into the noble son! which has passed away. He did not stand alone in this respect, and the noble service to which he belonged was penetrated with the apirit which the Emperor Alexander Severus held among the chief sources of the power of the early Christians, that they gave away their offices to the best men, without respect of persons. His unbroken success in India he owed to his thorough knowledge, and if he failed in tome of his undertakings in England he owed it to a lftfik of knowledge wfliph he himself deplored. He was a fine e^amplp of the value of India as a school of tra'n'nS> breeding of a race of civil and military administrators in whom it is ingrained, pot alS ft theory, nui fts a duty, to study those complex forms qf human cha- racter. so unlike our 9WP, nd yet sc deeply instruc- tive fot us to contemplate, even without regard to the usefulness of Buch a study for their effective governance. It was this wide-Beeing circumspection which made every word of rebuke from him, to Englishmen or natives, come with double force. A story of him was worth recording as an instance of his lofty dealing and good influence upon inferior mindg. During the conduct of some important cause fo? a young Indian Raiah, the Prmcf endeavoured to plaoe in his hands, trn^r tfce table, a bag of rupees. He apgwergd at otioa, M Young man, you have offered to an Englishman the greatest insult which he could pos- sibly receive. This time, in consideration of your youth, I excuse it. Let me warn you by this experience never again to commit so gross an offence against an English gentleman." Many of them would never forget the moral effect upon themselves of his indefatigable, un- tiring industry, so long as health and eyesight werp left to him—his profound contempt fo^ the i^Ie. lounging, loitering habits m ^hioh tjo nfoeh ci hnman existence Ja expanded and destroyed. Any one who Baw him felt at once that his presence had a certain majestic dignity and assured repose, which made us feel con- fident that in his presence, and in whatever emergency, we were perfectly safe. He was not only a leader of men, but a leader on whom men could rely without the apprehension of those sudden weaknessess and betrayals by which some of the most gifted of the human race have diffused around them a sense not of security, but of mistrust. We were reminded when we saw him of that passage in Isaiah which says, Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire ? That to say, who Bhall endure thp scotching {Jame of temptation, danger, pain* How sfeall wp g^in that supernatural strength ? And the answer of the prophet is the only true one, He that walketh righteously." But if we ask further why and how is this, the pro- phet's following words give a reply. Hill place of defence shall be on the strong rocks, bread shall be given him, his water Bhall be sure. That is to gav. he s^ll be l&e a man in an impregnable fortress. Thoogh the earth be wrapped 19 ft circle of flames, he will look down on the raging sea of fire without fear. There is a well of water within the citadel which will not fail. The upright Christian man, whether martyr or missionary, statesman or soldier, looks down on weakness, pain, and obloquy as contemptible. He has the bread and water which should not fail, an undefiled conscience which gives him invincible courage. Such was the inner character which formed the spiritual basis of that mountain of moral strength. In his early days his friends called him "Iron John." As time rolled on his character came to rely more and more on religious influences, his gentler nature became developed, he submitted to fail- ing powers and failing eyesight, and became each year more prepared for the great change which at last suddenly overtook him. farewell," the Dean ex- claimed, great Pro-copsul of our English Christian Empire Where shall we look in the times that are coming for that disinterested love, that abounding knowledge of India like his ? Where shall we find more prepared for the great change which at last suddenly overtook hiip. farewell," the Dean ex- claimed, great Pro-copsul of onr English Christian Empire Where shall we look in the times that are coming for that disinterested love, that abounding knowledge of India like his 1 Where shall we find that resolution, mind, and countenance, which seemed to cry to ns. II I This rock .ban fly 11. rfoui Its firm base as soon Ml! The sermon was hpayd hy a very lftrge and crowded congregation, which included many of those who had been present on the previous day. The tomb, marked by wreathB of white flowers arranged upon it in the form of a cross, was visited again by many of the listeners.
ANGLO-INDIANS AT THE FDBBBAIi.
ANGLO-INDIANS AT THE FDBBBAIi. Under the heading "Anglo-Indians at I*ord Laurences Funeral," The Times of Tuesday gave an extreipely lnt«e»i- lng article, from which we make the following e*tracw. "The solemn pageant enacted In Westminster Abbey on Saturday morning was esseutlally a chapter in jr our Indian ISmpfre. Anglo-Indians qf bo'bservices. »o dlerg pure and simple, whose honours h^ve all been woni ln hard warfare; civilians on whose breasts war medals glWr tened, and soldier politicals, a race of men of whom India is justly proud, mustered in large numbers to follow to the grave the rugged chief whose unconquerable energy had Inlused Itself into not a few of those present, and been the foundation of their brilliant careera. ThronslDg the nave and choir of the noble restlng- place of England's mighty dead were men of ail countries and of all creeds, anxious to pay their tribute of respect to the mortal remains of him who not inaptly has been styled the I saviour of India: prominent among the mourners was (be decorated group of PunJ»ubee% men whose dashing gallantry or stlu more daring ocounsel enabled our great Pro-consul to hold the Province he ruled so well. and to convert it into a base of operations against the mutineers of Htndostan. Indian officials from all Presi- dencies, and British statesmen of every party, joined In the long procession, the sombre hues of which were brightened up by the uniforms of soldiers on whose breasts medals for theSutleJ. Punjab, the Mutiny, and frontier cam- paigns were an evident token of comradeship with the de. ceased peer. Two men, whose names are inseparably con. nected with the administration of the Punjab, led the cortsge. Sir Charles Brownlow, K C.B was fitly selected to bear the decorations and medals of the deceased A quarter of a century ago, when adjutant of the 1st Sikh Infantry, Lieu- tenant Brownlow was dangerously wounded in a border skirmish near Peshawur. The soldierly qualities displayed In the affair with the Momnnds, and subsequently in the Bozdar hills, attraoted the attention of the Lieutenant- Governor of the Punjab so when the Mutiny broke out, and hir John was casting about him for men to train the warlike population of the Punjab and lead them against our common foe. the mutineers, Lieutenant Brownlow was selected to raise a regiment. The algulllettes of an Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty, the Knighthood of the Bath, medals for China, Umbeyla, Hazara, and Luahat prove the wisdom of the selection, it was meet that an officer of the Punjab Frontier Force should have preceded the bier of his old chief. "Following Sir Charles Brownlow, carrying the Baronet's I coronet of the late peer, was Lieutenant-General Revnell Taylor, C.B., C.S I. &ts gallant deeds are Uttle knowT at home; but the Bayard of the Frontier bean a name in the Punjab second to none. As assistant to Sir Herbert Edwardes. Reynell Taylor, In 1847, did good work in the pacification of the turbulent Trans-Indus provinces, then belonging to the Sikh kingdom. The murder of the British officers at Mooltan was the signal for the second Sikh war and Edwards, throwing aside the task of pacification, moved rapidly on the focus of rebellion and played a gallant part In the oapture of the city. Mooltan in our bands, Reynell Taylor, accompanied only by untrained Pathans, swept up the border clearing it of bands of Sikh soldiery. He relieved DeralsmaU Khan, borrowed an oM honey-combed piece of ordnance from the Nawab of Tank, and with his raw half. armed rabble laid siege to the Fort of Lukki, held by two regiments of Sikhs with ten guns. The story of that siege is unknown in England, thougn no finer feat of arms was ever performed by an Englishman. The smattering of fortifica- tion learned at Addiscombe stood the young Cavalry subaltern in good stead; trenches were opened, sap-rollers made of bags filled with cotton plucked from the fields; stones from the river bed of the Kuram used In lieu of round shot—any and every expedient was tried. Without one single soldier, with no hope ot reinforcements, in the midst of a fanatical Mahomedan population, and threatened by an army marching down the Kurum Valle) from Cabul, Taylor never thought of ninoning; his energy infected the Pathans, his perseverance overcame all obstacles, and after a siege of a month Lukki capitulated and the Trans-Indus provinces were secured to us lor ever. Thirty years ago rewards were sparingly given, and though since the siege of Lukki Reynell Taylor's services have been of no little account, he still remains a Companion of the Bath. His tact and courage held theDerajatforusin 1857, and as political officer In the Mabsud Vazlrt Expedition and at Umbeyla, he showed that he possessed other qualities than those of a dashing soldier. Acting an pall-bearers were General John Beecher, C B., R.E., one of Lord Lawrence's most trusted lieutenants in the Punjab, a I soldier civilian,' whose ruild yet firm rule is even now spoken ot in kindly remembrance by the Pathans of Hazara and Yusufzal; Sir \yiiliaaa Muir, now a member of the Secretary of State't Council, and who previously held the posts of foreign Secretary to the Government of india, memher at the Viceroy's Counott, and Finance Minister at Calcutta; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Her- man, K.C.B., C.I.E., who as an ensign was *.rtgads- Major to our early expeditions in the Peshawur Valley, and as a lieutenant was Adjutant-General to the troops in the field under Lorg Clyde; Sir Robert Montgomery, whose Imperturbable coolness saved Lahore, and whose fertility of resource stamped out mutiny in the capital of the ?ui>iab. £ i6rd Napier of Magdala, In England by change, was tnere to do honour to his old chief. As military engineer to the Board of Administration Colonel Kapler planned the defences of the Punjab frontier, draw up schemes for bridging the Indus—schemes which to thii day, in spite of his Lordships earnest remonstranoes, are still unfilled as a soldier, Colonel Napier joined in more than one expedition against the border tribes, and when the Mutiny hrcfee oat made for himself a name which, like that of the great man whom on Saturday he followed to the 'o,mtt. will ever be connected with the bravest doaAA oi Indian history. Lord North. brook, too, was t^ere, doing honour to the ex-Viceroy whose PAUcy no approved and whose steps he tried ta follow. £ iir Stafford Northoote's previous connection with the India Office during Lord Lawrence's Viceroyalty enabled him to show that, though differing in politics, he was ready to bear testimony to the sterling worth a man whose sole thought was his country's good. "Following the body, chief among the mourners, was his brother, Sir George, who gave forty years eg his life to the Indian service, who was a witness, of the murder of our envoy in the last Afghan imbroglyo, a prisoner In Cabul, one of the band of soldier civilians who under his two younger brothers pacllfe^ the ?-uni»b, and who subsequently, in 1867, held Bajpgotapa safe from rebellion. There, too, were Sir Seymour Blane and Colonel Randall, staff officers to John Nicholson, who fell at DelhI, and by him confided to the care of his old master, Sir John Lawrence. Later these officers served on the staff of the Viceroy-the one as military secretary, the other as A.D.C.—and linked with them was Captain H. Lockwood, who also was an A.D.C. of Lord Lawrence. Tnere, too, was Sir Joseph Jj:«yrer. the doctor whose tender care soothed the 1",t hours 01 Sir Henry Lawrence, and Colonel \VllaoQj A. UC. to the Queen. These two, amid the turmoil and the din of that gallant siege, followed$he eider brother to his soldier's grave in the Resi- dency at Lucknow; and now, 32 years later, they act as mourners in Westminster Abbey to the younger. General ( Younghusband, Q.B., 0.3.1., Chief of the Punjab Police, an Irregular Cavalry soldier ot more than Punjab reputation; General Johnstone, C.B., head of the Revenue Survey of the Punjab, a participator in every expedition of note on the border; General Keyes, C.B., who 25 years ago as subaltern was selected by Lord Lawrence to roorga-i ntze a disaffected regiment, who, slnoa then, has served In upwards of a dozen different frontier wars, who for eight years held the most important command In India, the Punjab frontier SVrce, and who has planned and led four separate ^editions; Sir H. Lumsden, who raised the Corps Ot Guides. Sir ALghton Probyn, Y.C., C.B., the prebfl chevalier of India, attended on behalf of the Prince ot \Vales. He. too, is of Punjab fame. As a subaltern he served In the 2ud ?UDjab Cavalry, and leading a squadron down to Delhi, highly alstinguished himself in the Mutiny. Thence he was called to the command of a Punjab regiment, which he led In China and at Umbeyla, and now worthily represents India in the household of the Prince ot Wales. Sir F. Pollock, Sir Douglas Forsyth, and Mr. George Rlcketts, C.B., district officers, whose coolness in the hour of danger held in check the disaffected in the large tracts under their charge, followed their late QhM*^ and beside them were soores of old Anglo-Indians," After engiMerAting others connected with the Indian fer- vice; who were present on the ocoasion, The Times thus concludes their article The ceremony was worthy of the occasion. There were statesmen there of the highest rank, who, sinking differences of party, crowded round the open grave, anxious to do honour to one of the most Illustrious men of the present generation and as the eye fell on the group of bronaed and decorated Anglo-Indians who had never hesitated to risk their lives ia furtherance of the peliet by which the late peer held India lu his iron grip until help from home should arrive, it seemed, indeed, that <ri laying him to rest by the side of Clyde and Cuitrapj,, fellow workers in the same field, borne to the toi^b by colleagues who reverenced his name, lattice had' ^t last been done to John Lawrence of the PuBjab."
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THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CETEWAYO. Official telegTams from General Clifford, at Piptermaritz- burg, have been received via Madeira by the Secretary of State for War. The following particulars are given respecting the peace negotiationa :— SATC^PAT. JuNip 14 —Resident Magistrate Fynn "^J msiug wa has for warded to the Lieutenant-Governor (?) —1" hegan by informing them that I was only going to ask them sueh questions as would enable me to judge whether I should be justified in sending them on to my chief, Lord Chelmsford, now in Zululand carry. ing on the war. The headman, Umfanzi, then made the following statements We are Umfundi and Umkisimana, Zulu mes- aengers from Cetewayo. I am Induna of Umqueteg. wena kraal of Lama, not a military one, close to Ulundi. I am sent here by Cetewayo to ask for time to arrange a meeting of chiefs, with a view to arranging ceace, We did not go to the Head White Chief because Fynn at Rorke's Drift, whom I knew, told me the Great White Chief was in Zululand, and we had better see Shepstone and the second White Chief, who were at Fietermaritzburg, so we came on here advised by Fynn. I have been here about twioe a year for the last six years as king's messenger, but not as chief. I am nothing bvit a messenger, and I have no authority from the King to treat for peace, or to do anything besides delivering my message, asking if time will be given to assemble a meeting of chiefs. [ know Mr. ^hepatoma, Mr. Galway, and Bishop Colenso. I have fsgen Bishop Colenso in this town, and also at his place in the country, but I do not wish to see him now, and I have not asked to see him. 1 want to see the Great Ckief, as the King ordered me to do. I only came here to deliver my message, and because Fynn told me so. This is the J.7th day since I left the King's kraal. I am an old man and cannot go so fast as I could when I was young, and heavy rain detained me three days. The King told me to hurry on and return quickly. It will take us seven days to get from here to lbabanango Mountains, if we go by Rorke's Drift. We only know of two other messengers sent by the King. One is Sint- wanga, the name of the other we do not know. They have been sent to the lower column because Cetewayo thinks there are two chiefs of equal power, one with the upper column and the other with the lower column. They are sent like us to ask for time to get out by the door. The King does not know the name of your big obief, and we do not neither. We are the same mes<> sengersthe King Bent to Fort Buckingham with the game message we have now, only then our orders were not to go to your chief as now, hot to go to Fort Buckingham and wftit$or the answer there. We de. livdrod our meaaage to the military cniet mere, and he sent the message on. The chief was at Ekowe fighting, and the answer did not come for two months. When it came it was that the great chief was surprised we were still there; he thought we had gone back to tho King long ago. The officer at Fort Buckingham advised us to go to the Great White Chief, but wo laid no, those are not the King's orders; orr orders are to come here, and now we will return and tell the King, and it was half of the third month when we got back to him. We told him what had taken place. He consulted his great chiefs, and then sent us with the orders. We now have to go and see the Great White Chief, and that is now what we are trying to do. I have no power given me but to aak for time. The King sends his mes- sengers first, because it is the custom of the country to do so, %ni not to send a great chief till arrange- menta baye been made where the chiefs are to as- semble to talk about peace. We have no power to talk about terms of peace. None but messengers have yet been Bent. The messengers sent to the lower column went before the fighting began. They were detained and did not return to the King's kraal till we did,' I said I was satisfied they ought to be sent off at once to Lord Chelonaford. I would give a letter, written by me to Lcrd Chelmsford, to U nfanzi, to be given by him, with his own hand, to Lord Chelmsford, and outside the letter I would say that no one but Lord Chelmsford was to open it; this appeared to pleaae them much. I said I would write to the com- manding officers along the road they were going to look after them, and to the officer at Rorke's Drift to see them safe to lbabanango, Would a white man be Bafe going with them? Yes, they said, quite 1 and they wished one could be sent with them, but still more, the King would be pleaaed if a white man was sent to him. I Baid I could not send a white man alone into Zululand with them, because my chief did not approve, Still less could I send one to the King, because I was only under the big chief. Anything they wiahed to say about peace, or anything else, they must say to the big chief when they saw him. I asked them if they bad come here wishing to see Bishop Colenso, or to send any message to him. 1 hey said no; they had not. and did not intend doing so. They came to see the military chief and no one else. Two friendly natives will accompany them to Colonel Black, 1st 24th, commanding at Rorke's Drift, and on with them to lbabanango. They start at 9.30 a,m. to-morrow.
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UtisalkiwoMS Jntflligmffc HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. WEATHER FORECAST.—The following cable message has been received at the London Office of the New York Herald, from the Herald weather bureau, New York: Disturbance preceded by depression will arrive on the British and Norwegian Coasts, between the 9th and llth inst, rains, lightning, south-west, veering to north-west gales low temperature follows." COLONEL MOORE, V.C.-An Old Brother Officer" writes to The Timet.— Sir,—One cannot but feel glad that the personal bravery of Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, late 88th, but now of the 93rd, in the late Caffre War has not been overlooked. As one who knows the circumstances in which he earned the Victoria Cross, I may mention-what is naturally omitted in the official account—namely, that after receiving the assegai in his arm he rode off, and finding it impossible to extract the barbed point, he pushed the bead through and thus extracted himself. He then had his arm tied up, and continued to ride, In command of his party, till be returned into camp. No braver man, nor more heroic, unassuming act of bravery ever earned the token of valour. HYDROPHOBIA IN PARIS.—It appears from statistics drawn up at the Prefecture of Police in Paris that the number of cases of dog madness certified last year was 502. They were distributed through the four seasons as follows First quarter, 141; second quarter, 175: third quarter, 133; and fourth quarter, 53. To judge by these figures, there are fewer cases in the summer and autumn than in the winter and spring. The differ- ence may be due to the more energetic measures taken in the later months of last year. The Prefecture of Police announces that all dogs not provided with collars bearing the name and address of the owners will be seized, taken to the Prefecture, and. if uiij claimed, killed. SINGING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.—A report just issued by the Education Department shows the extent to which singing is systematically taught in elementary schools, and the proportions in which various methods are used. In England and Wales 697 schools use Mr. Hullah's system, 534 use the old notation with the moveable "do," 44 use more than one system, and 2,297 schools upe Mr. Curwen's tonic-solfa system. The remaining 19,921 by far the larger proportion teach by ear. In Scotland only 10 schools use Mr. Hullah. system, 105 use the old notation with the moveable- "do," 25 use more than one system, and 1,338 use tonic-solfa. The remaining 1,404, a lees proportion than in England, teach by ear. MAXIM TOR BARBERS.—A penny shave is a pensy gained. -Judy. AN OLD WBECK.-An Ystadt newspaper states that a diving cutter engaged in surveying the bottom of the sea at Sandbammer, Sweden, fished up about the middle of June a large anchor and three oaken casks, containing a powder resembling potash. To the anchor was attached a large hempen cable, and the anchor atook was marked Collingwood, N. Shields. Both, anchor and casks showed signs of age, and were sup- posed to be from eighty to a hundred years old. At the place where they were found there appeared to be' hundreds of similar easks, in fact a whole bottom1 cargo, but no attempt to recover them would be made' until the nature and value of the contents had been* ascertained. For this purpose samples have bees sent to Professor Blomstrand, in Lund, for examine" tion. "A PEEP."—A Correspondent of the American J&gister writes :-In some parts of Georgia and Florid* they have a comical expression to indicate distance-" about a peep or a peep and a half," or about mile and a peep." I recollect riding in the autumn of 1877 through an immense yellow pine forest in Eastern Florida on the way to Jacksonville. We stopped at & miserable shanty some miles from anJ other habitation, all alone in the midst of that grand expanse of timber* land and white sand, to inquire the way to the next river-fojd. An old cracker," as the poor whites are contemptuously called, came to the door of his hut and bawled out, You uns must go on for about a mile and a quarter and then its only a peep or p'raps a peeg an' a half furder Generally speaking, a peep means the distance :)\1e can see through the woods at "clearing"—a place where the forest has been cut- away and the road is laid open for some distance. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS.—On the Under- ground Railway.—Guard (to country-looking party who has inquired the way out): Do you know you've been riding second-class with a third-class ticket? You'll have to pay excess.—Country L. P.: Oi'll be be biled if I dew. I paid tuppence for my ticket, and I got in a carriage wi' a 2 on it. [He was let off.- Judy. ORIGIN OF "UNCLE SAM."—It is said the namv originated from Samuel Wilson, a beef inspector at Troy, N. Y., during the revolutionary war. Heo WM very popular with the men in his employ, and was always called Uncle Sam. The boxes of provi- sions were shipped to a contractor named Elbert Anderson, and were marked E. A, U. S." A joking: workman was asked what these letters stood for. tv which he replied he did not know, unless it waaElbert; Anderson and Uncle Sam. The joke "took," and afterwards packages marked U. S. were said to belong, to Uncle Sam. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.—The following" are the average prices of British corn for the week ending July 5, as received from the inspectors and) officers of Excis« —Wheat, 42a. barley, 24J, 6d. ? oats, 24s. 2d, per imperial qr. Corresponding weelc last year i—Wheat, 46s.; barley, 37s. 2d.; oats, 27s. lid. INTERNATIONAL METEOBOLOGY.-Amoog other re- commendations made at the recent meeting of the Inter- national Meteorological Congress was the adoption Of the meridian of Greenwich as the starting-point for the construction of synoptic weather charts. In the event of another"meridian being used in the construction of metrological charts the Congress recommended that the difference of longitude between the meridian em- ployed and that of Greenwich should be stated on tb& chart. General Myer, Commander of the United1 States Signal Corps, has arrived in Paris, frem Bomeh on hia way to London, where he will have an inter" view with the Meterological Board, for the purpose Of eatablishing an understanding in matters of commo* interest, especially on the subject of exchanging toW grams with America, so that both nations may enjoy a daily summary of the weather en each continent.— Nature. SUNDAY CLOSING.—A town's meeting" convened and presided over by the Mayor of Liverpool. at the desire of requisitionists, has been held in St. George'* Hall, when resolutions in favour of the Sunday Clos- ing Bill now before Parliament were adopted. THOSE PRINTERS !—A Bucking Poet Laureate com- posed a nice little poem on "A Dead Love (a rather sentimental effort) and gave it to the editor. He ap- proved it and handed it to the printer. It appeared as a A Dead Dove." The writer was horrified, aDd begged the editor to correct it, which he did in this manner We have been requested to correct a typo- graphical error in the title of the poem in our last issue. For dove' read dog. A DESIDBRATux.-The place where there is space to turn round in-Eutem Room-melia.—Judy. CROWNING A ROSE QUEEN.-On Saturday the annual excursion in connection with St. Austin's fields, Walworth, London, took place, the locality selected being the Crystal Palace. The party, numbering aomc 500 or 600, prooeeded from the Priory, New Kent-road, shortly after ten. The crowning of the Rose Queen, which has been revived by the ProvoBt of St. Austin'* Priory, the Rev. George Nugee, took place in the central transept of the Palace. Her Majesty on this occasion was a comelv young maiden named MiØ Jessie Archer, who, by reason of her good behaviour and maiden-like conduct during the past yeat, was the chosen of her sex of the locality for the reception of Ü. floral crown. The Rev. Father Nugee, after the coro- nation, presented the queen with a Bible and testi- monial, accompanied with a gift of 25. Other awards were made to deserving recipients. MATRIMONIAL CHANCES —Many romantic are related of marriages resulting from correspondence between strangers. Here ia a story of a pair who, sJW exchanging letters, met by appointment (says tj>* Court Journal.) "The surprise with which she dis- covered that he, instead of being twenty-Beven, tail# dark, and aristocratic, waa forty-Bix, stumpy, red headed, fat, and bow legged, waa only equalled by the rapturous amazement with which he discovered that she, instead of being willowy of figure, just eighteen, with warm goldeu bair, an opalescent com* plexion, and blue eyes like limpid lakes, was six fee* one, it sbe was an inch, fifty-two if she was a day* weighing three and twenty stones if sbe did an ounce* and with no warm yellow or any other hair of be* own. AN IMPROMPTU RmE.—A San Francisco masm bought a sugar hogshead the other day to use as water tank. It was delivered in front of hie taonse, above Stockton. He crawled inside to determine 00 to its being water-tight, when it began rapidly to roll down the hill. At the Kearney-street crossing it knocked down a horse and buggy, and Jumped cletf over a furniture waggon near Montgomery-street" Near Battery-street it upset a car on the track and switched off into a wholesale drug store. Whea the passenger was taken out he screamed Fire 1 for about tifteen minutes without stopping. He couldn't remember exactly what ,had happened, but had an unutterable conviction that something was wrong. THE ZULUS AS SKIRMISHEBS — It was a sight well worth seeing, the quick, decitiive way in which the Zulus ran from cover to cover-no delay, no crowding -they seemed to know intaitively what hill or bush to make for, and get there at once and when compelled to retreat from them by the Uhlans," would make off to the next position near which our column would have to pass. In the rear they were equally active, keeping as close as our rear-guard would allow theia on the heels of the column, seldom showing themselves, but harassing us the whole way. It was fortunate that they had few Martinis amongst them and were sueh bad shots, the nearest approach they made to hitting one of us being knooking a carbine out of conductor's hands. If we could only get our men to BkirmiBh like that! The habit is born with them though, and has not to be drilled" into them, as into our soldiers; besides, we could never make a British soldier so active as they are. -Blackwood for Jwty THE YOUNG GIRL AND HER HAiiL-A chawinfi story of a hair has recently been told as having occnr* red at Vienna (says the Court Journal). A poor girl with beautiful hair went to a barber to sell it. He tried to make a close bargain, saying hair was plenti- ful this year, and declared be could only give her eight florins. The little maiden's eyes filled with tears, and she hesitated for a moment while threading her fingerq through her chestnut locks, Finally she threw her- self into a chair and said, "Then take it quickly." The barber was about to cut off the fair tresses, when a gentleman sitting in one of the chairs interrupted him, and Bpoke to the girl. My child," said he, why do you sell your beautiful hair ? "My mother has been nearly five monthsiil. I cannot work enough to support us. Every thing has been sold or pawned, and there is not a penny in the house." No, no, my child if that is the case I will buy your hair, and give one- hundred florins for it." He gave the girl the note, the sight of which dried her tears, and he took up the barber's shears. Taking the locks in his hand, he selected the longest hair, cut it off, and put it care* fully in his pocket-book, thus paying one hundred florins for a single hair. He took the poor girl's l address, in case he ahoald want to boy another at the* same rate.