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THE COURT. -+--
THE COURT. -+-- TEE Court is nominally held at Balmoral, but here, says the correspondent of the Edinburgh Courwnt, the Queen is distinguished for the absence of every- thing approaching to ostentation or parade. A sub- dued quietness seems to pervade the_ whole establish- ment, so much so that it is almost difficult to realise the fact that the Queen of England, the sovereign of the mightiest empire that the sun shines upon, is dwelling in the midst of us. Her Majesty is frequent- ly seen walking by the river, accompanied by one of the princesses or a lady in waiting, attended only by a. footman, or driving out with a retinae not dis- tinguished from any private lady. It is the exhibition of these simple tastes and habits that has endeared her Majesty so much to the unsophisticated inhabi- tants of Deeside. „ PREVIOUS to their Royal Highnesses departure for Scotland the Prince and Princess of Wales stayed at Marlborough-house, and proved in the most gratifying manner that everybody was not out of town. They paid a visit to the Crystal Palace, where they lunched. They also went to the Adelphi to see the wonderful acting of Mr. Jefferson. Another day, and upon the last evening before their departure from London, they dined a.t Gloucester-house with the Duke of Cambridge. Both were in excellent health. On Friday evening the Princess of Wales, with the infant princes, Albert Victor and George, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and their children, accompanied by the Princess Hilda of Anhalt, left the Euston- square terminus of the North-Western Railway by the 8.40 limited mail express for Aberdeen, on their way to Abergeldie. Here were two saloon carriages to the train for the Royal party, and two additional carriages for the suite and attendants. There was no crowd or press on the occasion. The general manager and other head officials were present, and the Royal train started on its journey at the exact time. Their Royal Highnesses and suite arrived at Aberdeen about one o'clock on Saturday afternoon. After a stay of a few minutes, during which the Deeside engines were affixed to the Royal carriages, the parties drove off for Aboyne, to post thence to Abergeldie, which they reached shortly before four o'clock.. xr. PRINCE AMADETJS, second son of his Majesty ivmg Victor Emmanuel, arrived in this country on Saturday afternoon, upon a visit to the English Court. Prince Amadeus, who is travelling" under the title of Count Pollenzo, was accompanied by his Excellency the rarquis d'Azeglio, Count Maffei, and the Marquis do Baldo. The route taken was viá Calais and Dover, where the Royal travellers arrived by the mail boat at half-past three in the afternoon. Mr. S. M. Latham, vice-consul for Italy at that port, received his Royal Highness on landing at the Admiralty Pier; and Mr. E. T. Way, of the South-Eastern Railway Company, escorted the party to a saloon carriage attached to the company's mail express train then upon the pier. Precisely at 3.45 p.m. the train conveying the Royal visitor left Dover for Charing-cross.
POLITICAL GOSSIP. ---
POLITICAL GOSSIP. LORD PALMEBSTON has been visited by his old enemy the gout, and was in consequence unable to attend the Bristol ceremonies. COLONEL HERBERT, M.P., has again been so ill that an eminent physician went from Dublin to see him, but he is rapidly recovering. He has been prayed for in the Roman Catholic cathedral, Killarney. THE Canadian Parliament has declared itself per- Meetly satisfied with the result of the mission of the deputation to the English Government. Doubtless "tost persons are satisfied when they get all they *ant. IT is a curious thing, but a fact, to see a masonic »odge established in Rome under the very nose of the Police, and doing without fear all that it wishes to do '80 well are its affairs kept. The lodge is known 1Inder the classic appellation of "Fabrius Maximus." A REPORT has gained circulation that the Emperor of the French is about to decorate the Mayor of Ports- outh (R. W. Ford, Esq.) with the insignia of the Region of Honour. It is also rumoured that a Monument will be erected on the Governor's- grean to Commemorate the meeting of the fleets at Portsmouth. FRIDAY night's Gazette announces the appointment ^Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B., to be ^miral of the fleet. Sir Thomas is the father of Mr. jjaillie Cochrane, M.P. for Honiton. Inconsequence of 'tis appointment several changes have taken place 4raong the higher ranks of the navy, ending in the Amotion of Captain Clifford to the rank of rear ^ttiiral. AN extraordinary Parliamentary return was pub- lished on Saturday. It contains, in a tabular form, length of time oceupied by the Irish mails between f'OQdon and Holyhead nearly every day since the ^ginning of October, 1860. There are over 100 pages figures, each page containing about twenty columns "numerals.. Mr. C. G. ADDISON, the barrister appointed to jMse the lists of voters for the western division^ of has fixed the following days and places at which £ °Hrts will be heldBromley, Monday, Sept. 25; and Tunbridge, Tuesday, Sept. 26; Tenter- SSl and Cranbrook, Wednesday, Sept. 27; Tunbridge 3lls, Thursday, Sept. 28; Maidstone. Friday, Sept. West Mailing, Satarday, Sept. 30; Rochester, jJ'odnesday, Oct. 4; Gravesend, Thursday, Oct. 5; pttfoid, Friday, Oot. 6; Lewisham, Oct. 7; Black- ,,9ath, Tuesday, Oct. 10; and Woolwich, Wednesday, 11. ^LECTION EXPENSES.—The official return of the *penses incurred by three out of the five candidates contested the borough of Greenwich at the recent eneraJ. election has been published. Mr. Alderman .?Wona' election oost him 42,105 17s. lid., made up JL the following items, viz.:—Hustings expenses, 6s. 6d.; printing, stationery, postage, and adver- ;lf!ettients, £ 567 6s. 3d.; committee-rooms, £ 30618s. 4d.; Triages.. £ 252 Is. 6d.; clerks, messengers, can- if^ers, &c., £ 690 5s. 4d.; and agent a tee, dUHU bir L« -^right's election cost him £ 2,481 Os. 5d., made up 'j the following items, viz.: — Canvassers, &c., ?|j260 9a. 5<3.; committee-rooms, £ 292 18s. 4d.; ^ting, advertising, &c., -8397 12s. 2d.; cabs, &c., \M21 12s. 7d.; boards, £ 66 6s. 6d.; Miscellaneous ex,Dencl;t-e, Qlo2 19S. lid.; returning officer, I*?1 11?Aiak sub-agent, £ 52 10s. 0d. and J?! T? f candidature of Sir J. H. Jewell, Baronet, cagfc him £ l 2u q3, 2d., com- Sed of the following items:— Printing, advertis- |$\ stationery, and post^Q?> ^LO 12s. 7d.; bill- ,3.' p?«9t'VAtee'r°om3 and hire of for meetings, ild C3nvasserg) J-'S 16s. 2d.; clerks, £ 151 6s., ^messengers and ex- o>es, £ 42 9s. 9d. ;.fees toagenta^io. raturni JV £ 72 9a.; carriages, Ji. *1.; check clerks, a,58 18s. 10d.; and sundries, £ 38 18s. Id No b the expenses of the other candidates, Captain and Mr. Baxter Langley, is given. The elec- Y;11 expenses incurred by Lord G. Manners, M P., ari(j (jNwit Royston, M.P., in securing their election fGr •ji^bridgoshire, have just been returned at 1,576. y e noble lords were returned unopposed in conjunc- > with Mr. R. Young, M.P.; bat preparations maae for a contest until the withdrawal, {i^°st at the eleventh hour, of Mr. H. J. Adeane, it. late Liberal member. Agency cost Lord. ur. fibers aud Lord Royston £ 732; clerks, £ 10»; ^ters, £ 273 conveyances, £ 108; sheriff's charges, jw > while miscellaneous items and the personal ex- Ti^es of Viscount Rovston foot un for £ 223 more. expenses of General Pee), M.P., and Mr. T. H ,in their unopposed re-alection he borough of Huntingdon, have been returned at ttii Of this amount, £ 220 was paid to Mr. E. Maule 5j.^aSent; while the town-clerk's charges were £ 63, was f°r printing, stationery, and adver- ^•0 trifling balance remaining was absorbed holers, the police, and the keeper of the town-hall. the Expenses of Mr. H. Berkeley and Sir S. M. Peto, tiw^GCeasfal candidates for Bristol, have been re- *Oi at £ 4,498 5s. 8d., and those of Mr. T. F. Fre- the defeated Conservative, at £ 1,614 13s. 6d. I{", Wells the expenses of Captain Jolliffe were only -tlÔO II.nd those of Captain Hayter £ 195, including Sheppard for conducting the election, jolt's seat for West Gloucestershire bad jie the moderate outlay of £ 93 Is. 2d.; Dntton expended £ 329 183. 4d. at ?.ster; and Viscount Andover and Mr. J. Talbot Sy £ 438 8s. 3d. and £ 457 7s. 8d. at Malmes- 6 eleotion auditors' returns for Oxfordshire, rr Cl,ty, and Woodstock have just been issued. -i«Ilie:v Waa re-elected for the modest sum of Colonel North for £ 68 3s. 8d., and Ned for -^f'6 17s. lid. Mr. Cardwell's unop- 0cketoi v coat him .2387 13s. 5d., £ 210 being j « by agents, while Mr. Neate's disbursemel t, amounted to £ 120 2a. lOd. Mr. Barnett's contest at Woodstock caused an expenditure of .£363 lbs. 4d., while the defeated candidate, Mr. Mitchell Henry, expended X539 13s. 6Jd. It is rather singular that 2 the conveyance of voters should have cost Mr. Henry .£130 Os. 4d., while Mr. Barnett's outlay for a larger number of voters was only .£56 10s. 9d.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. --
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. THE first edition of the "North-West Passage," written by Viscount Milton, M.P., and Dr. Cheadle, having been rapidly exhausted, the publishers, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, have advertised a second edition of that valuable work, which is now ready. LONGFELLOW, the poet, is said to be engaged on a new story in verse, the incidents of which are drawn from the war. The measure is chiefly hexameter, and the poem will possess some of the characteristics of "Evangeline." A NEW and superior edition of Cassell s History of England," illustrated with 2,000 wood engravings, is about te be issued on toned paper in weekly and monthly parts. The first number will be out on the 4th of October, and the first part on the 30th of the same month. THE grave has now closed (says the Athenceum) over the last of a poet's household. The widow of Moore rests by her husband's side. The voice of song had long been silenced in the little bower at Sloperton, where she who once listened lived on the memories of the old sweet echoes:— -In future hours, some bard will say Of her who heard and him who saiag the lay, They are gone! They both are gone! The papers which have announced the death of Mrs. I Moore, early last week, have agreed in mis-stating her age, which they set down at sixty-eight. As she married Moore in 1811, this would imply that she was only fourteen when she married the bard, who was then in his thirty-third year! The difference between their ages was by no means so great. Another, and a graver mistake, is the repetition of the malignant assertion of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker," made by him almost before Moore was buried, that the poet was a husband that cared little for his wife! This assertion gave great pain to Mrs. Moore, and was resented by Lord John Russell. The "Right Hon. John Wilson Croker," however, only aggravated his unmanly offence by sneering at Moore's widow as Lord John's interesting victw." All this malignity was the fruit of well-nursed wrath, which was excited by the fact that fifty years before Moore had omitted to name Mr. Croker in the notes to Anacreon. Setting aside the terrible affliction of the loss of all their children, the home of Tom Moore and Bessy was a happy one. Because his journal only records his Sittings abroad, and barely alludes to his home except in notice of some labour there, and thankfulness that he had leisure to perform it;—because he sang lightly of Brilliant short pleasure that flashes and dies,— men are apt to forget that the poet was a solid scholar, and that his knowledge of patristic litera- ture was more real than his acquaintance with Fanny of Timmol. It has also been said that Moore seldem or never alludes to his wife in his poetry. He was not publicly uxorious, but all his allusions are in exquisite taste, and a hundred pas- sages in his diary are testimonies to the worth of his admirable wife, and te the high estimation in which he held her. "Then come," he says, in his metrical invitation to Lord Lansdowne to dine at Sloperton- Then come-if a board so untempting hath power To win thee from grandeur, its best shall be thine And there's one, IODST the light of the bard's happy bower, Who, smiling, will blend her bright welcome with mine. IT is proposed to purchase by subscription and to preserve, as a memorial cf Chaucer, the Talbot Inn, in the Borough High-street. The testimony of admira- tion thus proposed would be so far imperfect that it would be hard to prove any portion of the structure in question to be so old as the time of Chaucer. THE graceful compliment which we paid to the French people in erecting a monument to Lieutenant Bellot, in the front of Greenwich Hospital, our neigh. bours have returned to us fey erecting a monument to Dr. Jenner at Boulogne, which, with appropriate ceremony, has just been uncovered. May such cour- tesies oontinue between ns for ever! EXPERIMENTS have been made at Birmingham to try the effect of the magnesium light when attached to a balloon in the air. The experiments were very striking in their effects, the light thrown forth being most brilliant, lighting up the whole heavens, and ilium lusting the streets, houses, and crowds of people with a distinctness almost equal to day. A JET EXHIBITION has taken place at Whitby. It consisted of works of art exclusively formed in jet, and was held in St. Hilda's-hall. The Marchioness of Normanby opened the exhibition. In all there were forty-one prizes awarded, which will be distributed to the winners by the Marchioness of Normanby at the close of the exhibition. To mark the recent retirement of Dr. Corrigan from the Presidentship of the King and Queen's College, Dublin, to which office that gentleman had for several successive years been re-elected, a marble statue and a portrait in oils are to be placed in the hall of that institution. The portrait is by Mr. Catterson Smith, President of the Royal Hibernian Aaademy, and now in the Dublin International Exhibition. The commis- sion fer the statue is placed in the hands of Mr. Foley, R.A., who is also engaged on a similar work of Sir Henry Marsh, M.D., for the same institution. AMONG the reoent acquisitions to the South Ken- sington Museum are a vast number of articles pre- sented by the Rev. R. Brooke, of Selby. In addition to those previously announced, as derived from the same source, the following may be mentioned as re- presenting whole classes of objects: Medallions, miniatures, bead-work, ornaments for personal use in steel and gold, bijouterie, and suits of clothing-com- prising court-suits, both for ladies and gentlemen, and portions of the same. including lace aprons, embroidery. brocade,man tillas,boddicesi waistcoats,skirts,kerchiefs, trimming, epaulettes, sword-belts, swords, sabres, shoe- buckles, buttons, pins, necklaces, and a host of such things, mostly of the eighteenth-century manufacture. The same gentleman has also given many gold and silver coins, principally of the last and preceding cen- turies, and of Portuguese, English, French, and Irish minting, and, in addition, several books. Other par- chases and gifts include a boat-shaped incense-holder of rock-crystal, probably Spanish, c. 1540,-A sweet- meat box, decorated with chasings in silver and attri- buted to J. Callot, c. 1620,-Plates of enamelled Rho. dian or Persian ware, painted with roses, scrolls, &c., -A portrait of Mrs. Everard, by Gainsborough, pre- sented by W* Freeman, Esq.,—A pax of gilt metal, with champleyé enamels, French, c. 1340,-A circular rilievo of the Saviour bearing the cross, gold, repousse, German, c. 1370,—A boxwood box and cover, with a neck and knob of silver chased, the body carved with the events of the Passion, Venetian, 14th century (?),- A bottle of rock-crystal, oval, with scroll foliage cut in relief, Byzantine-Greek, eleventh or twelfth j century,—Medicine-chest, covered with green satm embroidered with flowers in white s^tin and gold fchread; the interior fittings consist ot six phials of ruby glass, with silver-gilt tops, a two-hand ed cup, 6P°°a. patula, diminutive spoon and fork, all silver- 5 French, first half of the seventeenth eentury, said I to have belonged to Louis XIII. -A pair of lady's shoes, said to have belonged to Queen Charlotte, &o.
A NOVEL JOINT-STOCK COMPANY.,
A NOVEL JOINT-STOCK COMPANY. A number of gentlemen who are interested in the elevation ot the working classes have commenced a company, called The Clayton Forge Company," for the manufacture of boiler plates and of bar iron, on the principle of dividing profita ^^the workmen and the customers, The scheme, shortly described, is as follows:—AJl profits up to ten per cent. will belong to the shareholders; all above ten per cent., after pro- viding for repairs airi renewal* of plant, is to be divided into three eq«ai portions, the first of which will belong to the shareholders, tho second to the workmen, and tbe third to the customers. The subdivision amongst the workmen are-to be in accord- ance with the wages earned by each, and the subdivi. sions amongst the customers according to the pur- chases made by each. Thus the scheme says to the shareholders, "We hope to pay you something more than 10 per cent. for your investments;" to the workmen it says, "You shall no longer have reason to complain that your employers get an undue share of the profits, for if they earn more than 10 per cent, you shall share it; and to the customers it says, "Our best exertions shall be at your service, and you shall not pay too much for your iron, for if we earn more than ten per cent. you shall have a share of the excess as exfra. discount. We believe that Messrs. Briggs, the colliery proprietors of Normanton, have already tried the division of profits amongst the workmen with good effect, and there is every reason to believe that the principle will spread not only in that but in other employments. The division amongst customers is a new idea, and is of csurse intended to secure orders in all states of trade and, we hope and believe, will be found to answer the purpose of the promoters.
EXTRACTS FROM: ' PUNCH:" &…
EXTRACTS FROM: PUNCH:" & FUN." —— Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly. It's a singular fact that, whenever I order My goblet of Guinness or bumper of Bastl, Out of ten or a dozen that sport round the border Some fly turns a summersault into my glass. Oh! it's not that I grudge him the liquor he's tasted (Supposing him partial to bitter or stout), But consider the time irretrievably wasted In trying to fish the small animal out! Ah! believe me, fond fly, 'tis excessively sinful, This habit which knocks even bluebottles up; Just remember what Cassio, on getting a skinful, Observed about ev'ry inordinate cup Reflect on that proverb, diminutive being, Which tells us Enough is as goed as a feast;" And, mark me, there's nothing more painful than seeing An insect behaving so much like a beast. Nay, in vain would you seek to escape while I'm talking, And shake from your pinions the fast-clinging drops, It is only too clear, from your efforts at walking, That after your malt you intend to take hops. Pray, where is your home ? and oh! how shall you get there ? And what will your wife and your family think ? Pray, how shall you venture to show the whole set there That Paterfamilias is given to drink ? I have known, silly fly, the delight beyond measure- The blissful sensation, prolonged and intense- The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure, C Of drinking at somebody else's expense. But I own—and it's not without pride that* t, wu it-- Whenever some friend in his generous way Bids me drink without paying, I simply postpone it, And pay for it amply the following day! Automatica. SIR,—'TJflu may have read in the Times of the 2nd inst. the allowing account of the mechanical con- trivances, invented by Mr. Appold, and applied to practical uses in his own houstf:- The doora opened as you approached them, and closed after you had entered; water came unbidden into the basins; wheu the gas was lighted the shutters closed: a self-acting'thermometer prevented the temperature rising or falling above or below certain fixed points; and the air supplied for ventilation was both washed to cool and screened to cleanse it from blacks. Even the gates of Kis stablerard opened of themselves as he drove through, an<$: closed again without-KMS&mmg. Stimulated by hia example, I intend to set to wort to invent the following arrangements for my own do- mestic UqA 1. A fire that wHY go out every night and return punctually by nine the next morning. 2. A kettle that will boil with rage whenever I am insulted. 3. A paying-out machine for the especial benefit; of dunning creditors. 4. A clock that is always running itself down. 5. A golden hunter that will wear wheat." 6. A hair-trigger which will do its own hair. 7. A hat that will take itself off, goodness only knows where. I More of this when my inventions are perfected. In the meantime, I am yours, R. CHIMEDES. Answers to Correspondents. PIFFLES.—If your happiness depends upon it yon may tell the girl of your heart that the first celery cried in the streets is a head that is bawled early. But if she doesn't laugh, don't yon cry. A Nora KEEPER.—Your butcher had no business to call you an old cockney for leaving off beef, though you did drop your aitch (done). ANGELINA tells us she is "just married" (we are glad she just managed it; it must have been a near shave), and wants a few household receipts to begin housekeeping. As beef ia not certain she had better pot a few geraniums instead. They will be nice with bread and butter for lunch. In making pies she should remember that flattery is never thrown away, and butter the dish, or they may not turn out well. When she happens to forget, to order in any dinner she had better roast her husband till he looks done quite brown. In order to see whether sausages are made of pork or of kittens, get a string, tie a wisp of paper to the end, and drag it about near the sausage. If the sausage runs after it it is not fit to eat. If it does not, it may or may not be, accor- ding to circumstances.
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THE LAST NEW THING IN HATS.—An impecunious friend of ours says he wants a new hat "like old boots." We have heard of an animal that had a foot like a warming-pan, and a body like the keel of a ship. but a chapeau resembling an antiquated pair of Wellingtons is scarcely to be imagined. POOR FELLOW !—An acquaintance who has been eating and drinking anyhow for some years, is reduced to such a state that the coats of his stomach are all out at the elbows. THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN.-HaMMC&: "You're a very bad boy, indeed, for hitting your little sister, and (threatening to box his ears) I've half a mind-" Boy Have you got half a mind, mamma dear ? Hem! well, that's not so bad for a woman! EARLY PIIMTY.-Matilda Jane (catching the pastor after Sunday-school), "Oh, sir, please what would you charge to christen my doll? NOTHING NEW.—Absent Old Gentleman: "Oh! Ha! Postman, eh ? My name is—er—is—er—"— Rural Postman All right, sir Mr. Robinson. No letter for you, this morning, sir!" Absent Old Gen- tleman Deeear me! Do you think there will be one —this afternoon ?" YORKSHIRE CAUTION. — "Why, my dear fellow, how is it you are not at the St. Leger ? I thought you lived at Doncaster ? said a friend, unexpectedly meeting another on the promenade at Filey Bay. Yes, and so I do," was the reply, but the fact is, I am at present a forlorn melancholy exile. It's true I rent a drawing-room floor by the year in Doncaster; but there is a clause in the agreement that I am always to turn out during the racing week. During that week the people Ðf the house make nearly as much as I pay them during the remainder of the year. That is why you see me here. This is the fourth day of my banishment, and if you have any charity in your soul you will invite me home to dinner, and comfort me in the best way you can." "HAVE YOU READ His SPEECH."—The Bishop of Oxford may, if he likes, allege the cattle disease to be a punishment on the English because they have not subscribed sufficiently to the memorial to the late Prince Consort; but foreign cattle are also diseased, and even the unctueus Samuel will hardly say that Continental Europe was bound to aid in erecting that monument. We fear that he must disoover another crime, if he is resolved to go beyond natural causes. Meantime it is clear that if oil-cake will do our beasts any good, we know where to go for any amount of oiliness. FROM BOULOGNE TO FOLKSTONr,At Boulogne- sur-Mer a statue to Dr. Jenner has recently been erected. There was some question as to the inscrip- tion. What motto," said the Maire, shall we giveto this Jenner al benefactor?" An English nobleman, residing at Boulogne for the season, readily answered, Jenner sais pas."
READING INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
READING INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. The formal opening of this exhibition took place on Wednesday, under circumstances of considerable cere- mony. From the time when the notion of holding a local exhibition here was started some months ago to the present, day its promoters have met with continued success. The patronage of her Majesty was secured at an early period in its history, and her example induced the nobility and gentry of the county almost without exception to throw themselves into the move- ment with such cordiality, and to send eo many pictures and articles of vertu, that it has almost changed its character, and become a fine art exhibition instead of an industrial one. It will, therefore, be no particular wonder if it should prove more attractive than most local exhibitions. The opening oeremony was performed by the Bishop of Oxford, who pronounced the inaugural address in I the presence of the mayor and corporation of Reading, the mayors of Abingdon, Newbury, Wallingford, and Maidenhead, the lord. lieutenant of Berkshire, Lord Abingdon, the county and borough members, and a large assembly composed of the magistracy and gentry of the town and county. The exhibition is held in the Town-hall, the use of which has been liberally granted by the mayor and corporation of Reading, and as the building has recently been handsomely decorated, and a new organ erected, it forms a very suitable place in which to hold an exhibition of this description. At one o'clock the building was crowded by a dense assemblage of elegantly-attired ladies and gentlemen. Shortly after one o'clo(gk the bishop of the diocese, the lord-lieutenant, the county and borough members, the mayor and corporation, and vice-patrons, com- mittee, and other officials, entered the room, the princi- pal personages passing up the open space kept for them, and proceeding to the platform, when the mayor took the chair amidst the plaudits of the assembly. The Bishop of Oxford opened the proceedings by pronouncing a short prayer, after which the version of the Old Hundredth Psalm, commencing with All people that on earth do dwell," was sung with fine effect by the Reading Philharmonic Choir, under the direction of Mr. Strickland, the organists for the day being Mr. W. H. Birch and Mr. J. H. Burton. The Mayor then came forward, and in a few appro- priate words detailed the origin of the exhibition, and the success which, through the gracious co-operation of her Majesty and the nobility, their efforts had met with, coveluding by calling on the bishop to deliver the inaugural address. The Bishop of Oxford then delivered the inaugural address, after which the exhibition was declared to be open, an announcement which was received with a round of cheering, on the subsidence of which the Hallelujah chorus of Hatidel was sung. In the afternoon a numerous party sat down to an elegant luncheon, served in the countv hall bv Mr. Rose, of the Upper Ship Hotel. Among the company present were the Mayor and corporation of Reading; the Mayors of Windsor, Newbury, Wallingford, and Maidenhead; the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, the Bishop of Oxford, Viscount EverslSy, Major-General Seymour, Sir C. Russell, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, Mr. Benyon, M.P., Sir J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Sir F. Goldsmid, M.P., Mr. G. S. Lefevre, M.P., the Rev. T. V. Forbery, the Rev. A. P. Cust, the Rev. T. Ball, and many of the principal residents in the county.
OUR MISCELLANY. .,--+-r'
OUR MISCELLANY. --+-r The Bride and Her Groom.—BY POLICEMAN X. From the Standard:- 0 pleasant ia a parson's life- Beneath no cares to writhe, To spend your trooly rooral days Midst smiling rustics bly the; And drive your Poney carridge hout f Colleotin of your Tythe. But hevry rose has got a thorne, Vioh him that smells it feela; Though at a distans hit alone Its peoty looks reweals- And even Parsons has sum cares Beyond their daily meals. Sometimes his curates goes estray, Or Bishops thwarts his course; Sometimes hit is a unpayed Tythe, Sometimes a limpin orre;- Sometimes it is his childering dear- So 'twas with Mister + Vioh + by name he was, but not I hopes by nature so; Miss Alice was his daughter fair, And she had chose a Bo (The brightest eyes that shoots fourth darts Will sometimes hame them low). Equestering exercise she took Whenever she'd a mind, George Smith, the groomb (haged 18 years), He shQuld have rode behind- But hoft he cum up side by side, Miss Alice was so kind! And to the stables she would go Her darling nags to view (Vich whilst she kissed their noses warm- As most young ladies do- Preaps, by haccident, the mite Have fondled George's too). Vich wen her father came to find This orrifying fac, I ope he neither swor nor oust (No parson so should ack), But he gave Miss A. a scolding sharp, And Mister George the sack. Ho, fancy these young loviers then, Ow sad their fate did loomb- Pore Alice she was sent upstairs, And ad to keep er roomb; And pity us was the fliction hof That pore young Boy the Groomb. But love at locksmiths laughs, they say, And so (it wosn't right) Sly Alice, wen 'twas dark, displayed A burnin paper light, Attractin George, to whom she vowed, We'll fly this very night." Then she goes and packs her cloze (Vich sum was her mamma's), And down the ivied wall she climbs, Dispizin locks and bars, And to the Rail five miles they walks By lite of moon and stars. Vich Alice then esumed kermand (Has females loves to do), And took his capital away (Vioh were just X5 2s. Od.), And bought two tickets for herself And George to Waterloo. Ven Doctors'- commons waked that morn, The coves in aprins white Observed (vich was to them a sweet And eoul inspirin sight) Oar Innicents a wanderin round In anxshus puzzled plight. Beneath the Arch those veskits vite, They led the infants in, But R! too soon they turned them out, Whilst lookers-on did grin— Without her Pa they couldn't get A Lisins to begin Their true love's course untimely ehecked By hobsticles like these, Towards Wandsworth.common off they s4, And sat beneath the trees, And sor the windmill turnin round, And herd the eacklin geese. Vich rooral sounds inspirin hope, They joins each other's hands, And off they goes, and tells the clerk To publish of their bans, And takes a lodgin in Love-lane In a terras called St. Hans. But soon to that abode of Bliss Inspector Lovelace came fit's hodd that such a man as im Should av a hammerous name), I And on a vile phelonious charge He stopped their little game. Pore George he took afore the Beak, Where Mister + erose, And swore he steeled his daughter's heari And likewise stole her cloze (Vich she it was as rifled him, As well my reader noze). Brave Alice boldly pled his caws And did herself avow J That she it was that pland their flite Becos "there was a Row And that it was a equal flame She redly did allow. But all er smilin blushin looks They wos of no aveil To save her George from being Boon Remanded to the jail, Until so be as he might find Two good substanshal bale. They bore him faintin from her sight, And hall is ope he foand In thinking with wot faithful love j His Alice did abound— That Hargel in a h&t and cape And spotted musiin gownd! But, hout on fiokle woman's ove A week had scarcely past Hare Alice broke the vows she award From life to death should last, And flung away the faithful heart That clung to hers so fast. She told him he might Go away" She'd never see im more "— Inspector Lovelace, standing by, It pleased his very core, And off to Oakham Mister + His perjured daughter bere! On Venidav last when George came ap His Alice was not there! To him the Beak who set him free Spake nothing but Despare— His fond young hopes he thought woa wieekdd Upon a quicksand fair. But 0, faint-hearted George mistook! (Like many a other man). Ven Aiiee bade him Go away" •, 'Twas all a artftri plann By soothing Pa, to keep him safe From Lor'a tremenjus ban No sooner was the case dismissed, Than Alice, quite elate, i Declared that now, till 21, She patiently would wait, And then to George she would return, And be his married mate! 0 sore it grieves the Parson's heart Sach desperate words to hear, But hacting like a man of sense He faced his fate severe. (That he would have to yield at last He saw wos very olear.) A wilfull man," said Mister +, We know must hav is way— Hay foresheory, so will girls: k' No longer Ilo say nay- That she may not her choice repent I earnestly do prey So Friday last, in Wandsworth Church, There was a wedding gay, And George and Alice one were made By Mr. Gower that day. The belles ring out! the people shout! True love has got its way! R wonderful is woman's waYS, To pleasure or to vex i T No wonder that they ev ,;u A Solemnun perplex.- ||aBHpp* >- O Soos&nJ lovelier than The loveliest hof thy Sex Be true to me, as I to thee, Thy changeless Sept. 11. PLEAS* IAN X. A New Gender.—" Of what gender is Thomas P, asked a teacher of a grammar-class. Thomaa is cf the masculine gender," replied his pupil. Of what gender is Susan ?" oontinued the teacher. Susan is of the crinoline gender, of course," was the quick reply. Sleep Worki-ng.-Goethe, Coleridge, and other eminent thinkers, state that their waking thoughts are often reproduced with great vividness during a dream, and even in a more elegant and imaginative form. Goethe, in the morning, often wrote dowu thoughts and phrases which had in this way occurred to him. Coleridge is said to have composed his peem of the Abyssinian Maid" in a. dream. Lord Thar!ow, when a student, read much at night. Once, at college, being unable to complete a particular line in a Latin com- position, it rested so on his mind that he dreamed of it when he went to bed, completed it in Ilia sleep, wrote it out next morning, and received many compli- ments for its classical and felicitous turn. Dr..Gregory sometimes remembered, when awake, phrases, and illustrations which had occurred to bim when asleep, and which be at once adopted in his lectures onaeccnnt of their peculiar foroe and fitness. Occasionally, the work done during sleep is of the humortua kina. A literary man, at Edinburgh, had one day been much amused by reading Piron'a witty epigram on the French Academy; and in a dream, on the following night, he composed a parody or imitation cf it, caostic in its satire on a learned society at Edinburgh. In another instance, a gentleman, after reading an ac- count of cruelties practised on Christians bv Turks, dreamed of a scene of the kind, during which a Turk mocked the suffereis with doggrel rhjmea; the rhymes were distinctly remembered after the drea.mer awoke, -CasseIVs Family Paper. The Punishments of Solcliers.-Unth ig- norance prevails as to the punishments inflicted on soldiers, and the mode in which military law iø adminis- tered. The murder of Major DeVere has revealed in un- expected quarters the existence of an idea that any officer can order any soldier to be flogged at a moment's notice, and that for trivial offences the obsoltit tor- tures of the picket and the wooden saddle are resorted to. It is true that these erroneous impressions would be at once dispelled by a reference to "The Queen's Regulations," but this book does not usually foria part of an ordinary gentleman's library, and its con- tents are not attractive to the general reader. Powers of dealing summarily with email offences ara given to officers commanding regiments, but they cannot order one single stripe of corporal punishment. IA order to give the commanding officer the power of managing his six or seven hundred men, four weapons are placed in his hands: he can stop a man's (pay who has been absent without leave) for five days ke can imprison him with hard labour for seven; send him to drill for fourteen; and keep him in prison for seven days more. Any soldier can appeal to a court-martlal against de- privation of pay, but on all other subjects the lieu- tenant. colonel's decision is final. Men are seldom im. prisoned except for riotous behaviour or insubordinate, conduct, but when they are so treated the paiushment is marked upon them for some days by the close shearing of their looks, a disgrace by which even the most hardened are affected. In former times, tke powers of lieutenant-colonels were much moreexten- tensive, and there were officers who, according to the phraseology of their biographers, made their regiments hells upon earth; but these heroes are almost qllite extinct. Although reference has been made to the Queen's regulations, the true authority for the im- prisonment of soldiers is derived from tb* Mutiny Act passed annually by Parliament. Tj^e saction m which the awards for specific offences may be seen is headed Crimes and Punishments.—1st. DivineServi.ce;" leav- ing the intelligent reader to draw his own conclusions as to whether this is a crime or a PuLiEhment; and ia this the minutest directions are given for the guidance of members of courts- maxtial.-pall Mall Gazette. The Ladies and the Lords in 173a.-Ono of the most humorous sketches say a a modern maga^ino is that describing the attempt made in the year 1738 to exclude the ladies from the gallery of the use of Lords, and the signal and most meriad failure II: which so ungallant an attempt resulted. The ladits, headed by Lady Huntingdon, the Duchess ci Queens- bury, Lady Westmoreland, Lady Cubham, Lady Archibald Hamilton, Lady Charlotte Edwip, and others, presented themselves at the door at nine o'clock m the morning, and were informed by Sir William Saunderson that the Chancellor had made an order against their admittance. "The Duchets of Queens- hnrv. t,hA miuadron, pished at the ill-breeding of a mere lawyer, and desir.dh.m to let them upstairs privately. After some modest refusals he swore by G-- he would not let them in. Her Grace with a noblo warmth, answered by G- they would come m snitfl of the Chancellor and the whole House. i'he stratagem by which their eat*ancei was at length secured reflects great credit on their sagacity These Amazons now showed themselves Qualified- the duty # even of foot soldier; they stood there till five in the aftirLoon, without either sustenance or evacuation, every new and then" playing vollejs of thumps, kicks, and raps against the door, with so much violence that the speakers in the House were scarcely ht-ard. When the Lords were not t. be conquered by thia, the two Dachesses (very well apprised of the use of atrategem in war) com- manded a dead silence of half an hour; and the Cban- cellor, who thought this a certain proof of their ..ab- sence (the Commons bting also very impatieneftoenfei), gave order for the opening of the door; upoa which they all rushed in, pushed aside their competitors, aud placed themselves in the front rows of the gallery. They stayed there till after eleven, when the .House rose; and during the debate gave showed marks of dislike, not only by sinnes and wiritc's (which have always been allowed in such cases); out by noisy laughs and contempts; which 1 supposed the true reason why poor Lord Heryey sroke no- miserably.