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The Queen went down to the camp at Aldershot on Monday, to review the troops assembled there on their return from the Crimea. But the rain fell incessantly, and confined her Majesty to her pavilion. In the evening the rain ceased; and the Queen, Prince Albert, the Ring of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales, and the Count of Flanders, went over the camp, inspecting the quarters of the men, and taking an interest in the liv- ing souvenirs—cats, dogs, and birds—they have brought from the Crimea. On Tuesday the rain fell heavily from early morning. Nevertheless, the troops were ordered out, and marched to an open space about two miles from the camp, and were there drawn up in two lines on the open heath. Here they stood, the rain falling thickly and the wind blowing keenly, for above an hour. As there seemed no probability of fairer weather, the Queen proceeded to the ground in a close carriage, Prince Albert and the guests riding on either side. In this way her Majesty drove in front of both lines, and the troops marched past in open columns of compa- nies. Certain men were then selected to march with all the officers of the regiments up to the Queen's carriage, about which they formed three sides of a square. The rain now ceased for a moment ; the Queen's car- riage was thrown open; and her Majesty, in riding costume, stood up and addressed the selected men in the following words. "Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, and Soldiers—I wish personally to convey, through you, to the regiments assembled here this day, my hearty welcome on your return to England in health and full efficiency. Say to them, that I have watched anxiously over the difficulties and hardships which they have so nobly borne ; that I have mourned with deep sorrow for the brave men who have fallen for their country ; and that I have felt proud of that valour which, with their gallant allies, they have displayed on every field. I thank God that your dangers are over, whilst the glory of your deeds remains. But I lamw that, should your services be again re- quired, you will be animated with the same devotion which in the Crimea has rendered you invincible," The men gave three cheers, rejoined their standards, and the regiments returned to quarters. The Queen, after luncheon in the pavilion, re- turned to London.
Soon after the Queen's arrival on Monday, "it appears that Lord Ilardinge, whilst engaged in conversation with her Majesty-, was sud- denly attacked with a rush of blood to the head; that, feeling a giddi- ness, he grasped at a table, which rolled awayfrom him, and he fell powerless to the floor. The grief and regret arming from this occurrence were more than transient to her Majesty ; who frequently sent to inquire about Lord Hardinge after his removal to head-quarters. He rallied in the evening, and was conveyed to town at an early hour next morning."
Sir William Williams of Kars was returned Member for Caine on Wednesday, without opposition. He arrived in the town from Bowood escorted by "an immense concourse of horsemen and pedestrians." His proposer was Mr. William Wayte, his seconder Mr. Benjamin Bailly. Having been declared duly elected, General Williams returned thanks in that style now so familiar. -
"The object I have in presenting myself before you is =tinged by any- thing like selfish motive or personal ambition. My real motive in coming forward is to endeavour to serve you and to serve the country in this her present state of transition from war to peace, by advocating the preservation of those military institutions which cost us so much blood and so much mor- tification to reestablish after the commencement of the late war. I there- fore hope you will consider that! do my duty if I pursue that course—if I try to protect those institutions which will protect you from future invaders, and make the name of England respected throughout the nations of the World. As it is with individuals, so it is with nations ; no great nation, however great in other respects, can with safety stand in close proximity with other nations, armed to the teeth, unless provided With similar means of defence ; and! am therefore quite sure that what I say will hold good— „that we should watch Pelona?' over our military institutions. No person womu inuin or going unarmeu, ins pockets full of gold, among men whom he knew to be jealous of his personal character anu covetous of his wealth ; 'and I am satisfied that you will agree with what I said when I landed at Dover, and what I have since repeated—that we should be careful above all things to keep ourselves in a position to preserve the wealth which the industry of ages has collected in this country. Since the time of Wil- liam the Conqueror—and he came to this country having some pretensions to the throne—no conqueror has ever set his foot on our soil; and if we would continue to be able to mike this proud boast, we must not neglect our military resources.” (Cheers.)
He had another object : he desired to render some service to Turkey— a country which he was sure possessed great vitality. He was sure it was the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to do everything they could for Turkey, in conjunction with our gallant allies the French : and if those whom he then addressed could only have seen the heroism displayed by, the Turks who had stood by him in the hour of danger, they would agree that they were worthy of all their esteem and sympathy. Sir William left Caine soon after his election, to dine with the Lord Mayor of London.
Betsy M‘Mullen, widow of Daniel M‘Mullen, a flour-dealer at Bolton, has been committed by the Coroner on a charge of poisoning her husband. The statement is, that she accelerated or directly caused his death by giving him repeated doses of tartarized antimony : she obtaindd the mineral by
purchasing of a_druggist " quietners "—powders intended to cure drunkards of their propensity to drink. M'Iolullen was a drinking man—he frequently indulged in " drinking-bouts " ; but Mrs. liNdullen was a worse tippler_ she "seldom went to bed sober." The two bad insured their lives for 1001.' to be paid to the survivor ; to obtain this money is supposed to have been the prisoner's motive.
The West Riding Magistrates, sitting at Bradford, have sent three men to prison for highway robbery attended with violence, and committed two others for taking part in a similar offence but of a more atrocious character —the victim was so beaten and kicked that he now lies in great danger.
The week has been unhappily fruitful in disasters involving a consider- able loss of life.
Eleven colliers have perished by an explosion of fire-damp in Brewer's Deep Pit Colliery, at Minnie in Wales. Ten had descended to work at night ; probably one took a naked light ; there was an explosion, and all were killed. The eleventh sufferer, who had descended to the aid of his fellows died from choke-damp. Seven persons perished on the Tyne from the overloading of a boat. Four Sunderland shipwrights were drowned ill try- ing the sailing qualities of a new yacht. A squall came on, and she cap- sized. Four were saved.
A frightful collision occurred in the Mersey, near the Rock Lighthouse, on the Cheshire shore, at two o'clock on Sunday morning. The iron steamer Mail was coining in from 'Dublin, With eighty passengers on board. The Excelsior, another iron steamer, was leaving Liverpool for Belfast As the two steamers approached, the people of the Mail feared a collision, and the engines were stopped and other precautions were taken—but in vain ; the Excelsior struck her on the port-how' crushed through everything, and cut the Mail down to the water's edge. Anumber of Irish labourers were sleep- ing under the spar-deck of the Mail, with their heads against the side of the port-bow—they were crushed by the bow of the Excelsior and in the _ ruins of their own ship. Six were killed on the spot ; and of ten who were taken to the hospital at Liverpool two soon died. The two steamers were locked together for an hour ; when they got clear, the Excelsior was so little damaged as to be fit to prosecute her voyage ; the Mail, too, did not make any water, and tug-steamers towed her to Liverpool.
A fearful gale broke upon the Shields coast soon after midnight on Tues- day morning, and raged for some hours. Several ships and fishing-boats were driven on shore or lost. The crews of two fishing-boats were rescued by steamers ; apparently, had there been no steamer to help them they would have been drowned. Numbers of fishing-craft had gone out to sea on Monday- night : it is remarked that if good barometers had been placed in the fishing-villages, the sudden fall in the mercury, which occurred in the evening would have warned the fishermen not to encounter the coming perils of the night.
The extensive cotton-mills of Mr. Joseph Ainsworth, at Bolton, were de- stroyed by fire on Thursday morning". There were 80,000 spindles in the
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