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The arrival and entry of the Guards into London on Wednesday is the most conspicuous incident of the week. The three battalions who have seen service in the Crimea had been concentrated at Aldershot as they gradually reached the country. They belonged respectively to the Grena- diers, the Scots Fusiliers, and the Coldstreams—in number about 3200. Early in the morning they were brought up by railway to the Nine Elms station of the South-Western Railway ; which formed the point of de- parture for the ceremony. Here the troops were formed in column, fear

abreast, each battalion preceded by its band • the whole under the com- mand of Lord Rokeby and Major-General Crawford. Shortly after eleven o'clock the column began its march • crossing the Thames by Vauxhall Bridge and proceeding by Millbank, Parliament Street, and Whitehall, Charing Cross, and Pall Mall, to Buckingham 'Palace. The footways and the windows of the houses were full of people. Peers, Peeresses, and Members of the Commons, looked out from the windows of the Houses of Parliament. At Whitehall the crowds grew denser ; there was a more brilliant show on the balconies and at the windows ; and the effect of the long line of soldiers with fixed bayonets, marching steadily up the open space defined by the splendid Uniforms of the Life Guards rising above the out- line of the dark masses of people on either side, terminating in masses congregated in Trafalgar Square, was picturesque and exhilarating. The cheers of the people were answered by the Guards, who set up a shout on recognizing the Duke of Cambridge. The ladies showered sprays of laurel on the troops as they passed; and the immense multi- tudes all around were suddenly alive with motion, waving hats and hand- kerchiefs. Turning to the left, the troops marched along Cockspur Street into Pall Mall ; where the windows of the Clubs were filled with ladies, and the pavement was crowded with gazers. Wheeling to the left, the column passed by Marlborough House into the Mall, and marched up the avenue to Buckingham Palace. There was no end to the crowds. The Mall was lined four deep on either side ; in front of Buckingham Palace the people were more closely packed ; while all along the railings sepa- rating the Green Park from Constitution Hill up to Hyde Park Corner, they clustered as thick as they could stand. The windows of Bucking- ham Palace were occupied by ladies and officers in uniform. In the centre of the front there is a 'balcony : the balustrade had been covered with red cloth ; and here the Queen, with the Prince of Wales on her right, the 'King of the Belgians, his son and daughter, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge, and Prince Oscar of Sweden, had posted themselves. As the head of each column emerged from the Mall, the Queen and her guests rose and waved their white handkerchiefs ; the people keeping up a running cheer. The sun shone brightly, and the sight was very pretty. Entering the enclosed space in front of the Palace, the troops marched in slow time before the Queen, and so on to Constitution 1E11; thence making their way to Hyde Park. In the largest open space in Hyde Park, four battalions of the Guards who have been doing duty at home, but comprising many.son soldiers who have served in the Crimea, were drawn up fronting Park T e. There were three intervals in the line thus formed. The ground set apart for the inspection was kept clear by cavalry and police and framed by a dense line of spectators, four, five' and six deep, fringed externally by a fluctuating body of persons who had failed to obtain places. An inner line extending along the front had been set apart for those privileged with tickets of admission ; and here the gentry were gathered. The ground was strictly kept, and many who were entitled to pass beyond found it impossible to do so. Sir George and Lady Grey, it is said, owed their successful passage of the barrier, interdicted by the Police, to a reporter and Lord Palmerston found a champion, in Mr. Evelyn De- nison. As the Crimean Guards marched into the :Pirk, they wheeled into the intervals of the line already formed ; .and'the officers in com- mand of the Crimean battalions formally handed them over to the Colonels of their respective regiments. For the rest of the day, the whole brigade, nearly 6000 strong, remained under the command of the Duke of Cain- bridge. Prince Albert, who was on the ground as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, now rode off to meet the Queen. Her Majesty drove on to the ground in an open carriage, preceded by a detachment of cavalry, and followed by a large number of general officers according to rex& and se- niority. When the Queen reached the saluting-point, the troops pre- sented arms and the bands of the brigade played the national anthem. Her Majesty then, followed by her showy suite, drove along the line and returned to the flagstaff. Prince Albert rode up to the Queen's carriage; the general officers formed in line opposite her Majesty ; the bands of the brigade, united into one, took post opposite the flagstaff; and the whole of the troops marched past in quick time, to the air of "See the conquering hero comes." Having resumed their petition in line, the brigade marched in line up to within a hundred yards of the flagstaff. Here they were halted and ordered to "stand at ease." This was to -enable the men to place their bear-skin caps on their bayonets and cheer the Queen • which they did most lustily. After this, the Queen bowed to the troops, and drove away. When she had gone, the ardour of the crowd could no longer be re- strained. They broke through the barriers and rushed in a mass upon the Guards, cheering as they ran, and exchanged that close and personal greeting with the returned soldiers which many must have prized 'beyond even the presence of the Queen. -At length the Duke of Cambridge got the men into order again, and they marched to their respective destine- -lions. Most of the Crimean troops remain in London ; those they replace have gone to Aldershot and Windsor. One battalion has gone to Dublin.

The Lord Mayor gave a dinner at the Mansionhouse on Wednesday, in honour of Sir William Williams of Kars, and invited a host of gallant officers to meet him ; including the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Gough, Major-General Bentinek, Sir Colin Campbell, Colonel Lake, Colonel Teesdale, Major-General Scarlett, Sir Hairy Jones, and Sir Charles Na- pier. Besides these the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord John Russell, and Lord Panmure, were present. In reply to the health of Sir William Williams of Kars, the General, as is 'his wont, remembered his Kars friends, and regretted that he had omitted on other occasions to name General Kmety and General Kolman ; and he praised the valour and endurance of the Turks. He seemed much touched by the way in which the Duke of Cambridge had spoken of him earlier in the evening, and also by the honour of having his health proposed at the Mansion- house.

"It is an honour so far above my merits, so far beyond even the brightest of my dreams, that I assure you 1 am at a loss to express my sense of it. I began my career at Gibraltar, and afterwards visited among other places Tarifa; and I assure you that when I read the motto inscribed on that fortress—when I real, 'between the bricks and stones, 4Rurrah for brave Gough '-1 little thought that I should have had the honour of having tu) health drunk by an illustrious assembly like this including among its mem-

bers that brave general I am now, as the Lord Mayor-has informed

you, a Member of Parliament ; and I will tell you what I said in my ad- dress to my constituents on the occasion of my election. I asked them, whether they thought I should do my duty as a Member of Parliament if I did not advocate the maintenance of the efficiency of the army which has just returned covered with glory from the Crimea ? They one and all answered that I should not. The Lord Mayor has alluded to my havinos• be- come a burgess of the city of London the richest city on the face of the earth—a city which has heaped up veal riches, and which I hope will go on heaping them up to the end of tame. I ask my fellow citizens, as I asked my constituents, whether I should be worthy of the praise they have awarded me if I did not to the utmost of my -power endeavour to keep up the effi- ciency of the Army ?" (Loud cheers.) Lord Panmure speaking for "her Majesty's Ministers," reminded the company of Sir William Williams's exclamation at Dover—" Wo to the country which neglects the art of war ! " Although he did not wish the country to rush into great and expensive armaments, he did ask them to aid the Government in maintaining the Army and ?Navy in a state of efficiency, which would enable it to be ex- panded as occasion required, so as never to place the Government under the necessity of sending out a band of raw recruits to fight the battles of their country. He thanked the Lord Mayor for giving him an opportunity of expressing to General Williams the admiration and the gratitude of the Government at his gallant conduct.

Lord John Russell, replying on behalf of "the Members for the City of London," said he was glad to bear the character which General Williams gave of the Turkish army, as it inspired him with the best hopes for the future. That army, by the military qualities which had been ascribed to it, was well calculated to defend the country to which it belonged; and he only hoped that, in any future contest in which it might be engaged, it would have a chief like General Williams. In conclusion, Lord John said he had no doubt that the House of Commons would agree to the measures necessary to maintain the efficiency of the Army when it is put upon a peace establish- ment. •

Mr. George Peabody, well known as a wealthy American residing in London, gave a dinner at the Star and Garter Richmond, on Friday last, to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. This ceremony has been performed for some years by Mr. Peabody, and has hitherto been simpry a curiosity. The existing rela- tions between the two countries gives the banquet a higher political cha- racter this year. The room was decorated with the busts of Queen Vic- toria and George Washington, the eagle of America, and the flags of the mother-country and her obstreperous offspring. Mr. Dallas sat on the right of the host, and Mr. William Brown, M.P. for South Lancashire, on his left. Among the American guests were Mr. Crosskey, United States Consul at Southampton, General Cadwalader, the "distinguished ,American" who was to have been presented to the Queen when Pro- fessor Mahan's costume stopped the way, and General Mercer' "one year younger than his country." Among the English guests, besides Mr. Brown, were Mr. John Macgregor, M.P. for Glasgow, and Captain Mackinnon, KN. British North America was represented by Mr. Ca- meron of Canada. "The loving cups" used were. made of English and American oak—one was passed Eastward and the other Westward. The first toast was-" The Day we celebrate " ; next came "Her Majesty the Queen" ; then "The President of the United States" ; and after- wards the health of persons present. The principal speeches were de- livered by Mr. Dallas, General Cadwalader, and Mr. Cameron.

After giving an idea of the growth of his country by contrasting her population, wealth, and territories, in 1776, with those matters now, Mr. Dallas said-

" When Americans look back at the short period during which their country has existed upon the theatre of the world, they have some reason to be proud; nay, Igo further—this great country, whence sprang the chief stock of tlle United States, has reason to be proud. In all our great cha- racteristics we may be said to resemble the people of Great Britain. We are brave ; we are commercial; we are free ; and, perhaps, in some respects We transcend them in having carefully separated civil and religious liberty. But resemblances of this sort, gentlemen, instead of being the cause of har- mony add union, are often the cause of difficulty and dispute. Two brave inen are equally fearless of each other ; one will never yield to the other on a point of honour, and thus they sometimes come into collision. Two merchants pursuing the same course of adventure will sometimes find their interests clash. The spirit of the press, too, which in free countries should ever be free, often brings on a state of feeling which requires to be dealt with by the wisest and most conciliatory measures. It is a matter of sincere regret, but perhaps it is in the order of Providence, that the freest nations are not always the sincerest friends." General Oadwalader spoke of the 2,000,000 Tflite men, commanded mostly by officers of their own choice, who can safely be trusted with and who do duty as militiamen in his country ; and then he seemed to follow up the idea started by Mr. Dallas- " The American people at large are a helpful, instructed people, and believe that the pen as stronger than the sword. Naturally left to them- selves, they prize the comforts of peace; and if ever a difficulty should arise with any nation, it will probably find its origin in a national characteristic. Sir, shall we say that we belong to the genus irritabile ? We are a par- ticularly sensitive race, and we need not (amens. ourselveli) disguise the fact that difficulty may arise fromsome unwise, untruthful, unehristianlike irrita- tion. In all kindness be it spoken, the example is before us; I believe the public press in England can hold in its hand the key to the American heart. My countrymen are naturally disposedto respect themselves, and feel kindly disposed towards England. Be assured, Sir, the American daughter is of herself willing to bare her breast to nurture and sustain her venerable parent. I am confident, if her Majesty the Queen or her Royal Consort (for the Queen is a lady and the Amerman people are a gallant people) should

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visit her dominions n Canada and return home through the United States, that the Royal progress would be everywhere hailed with as much respect and as much enthusiasm as would be shown by her,, own loyal subjects. There is in the United States a large Conservative crass who are entirely -removed from the arena of politics, and I can say that these good people think that the public press in .America and the public press in England can 'well afford to consult the national peculiarities of each other. Allow me, Sir, to propose the toast I have in my hand—' Great Britain and the United Stales ; frank intercourse, cordial friendship, and perpetual peace between them.'"

This toast called forth the loudest acclamations. Mr. Cameron con- trasted the iron rule of our old Colonies with the kindness shown to the new. England was a stepmother to her old Colonies, a nursing-mother to the new—directing their energies aiding their enterprises, • and con- .ferring on them "the inestimable boon of self-government." England had made Canada the anomaly of an independent dependently. She allowed her to pass her own laws of trade and navigation ; nay, even to make her own treaties, as witness the Reciprocity Treaty, which had already increased the export trade of Canada five hundred fold. The time might come when, in the world-wide struggle of freedom against despotism, British hands and hearts in the Colonies from Newfoundland to Hudson's Bay, and American lovers of liberty from Maine to the Pacific, might circle these islands of the sea to defend them with their wooden walls against the despotic powers that desire to trample the life out of liberty, and England might owe her preservation as a nation to those who had sprung from her

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The City Corporation have on hand a plan for extending the right of voting in the election of Aldermen and members of the Common Council to all occupiers within the City whose names are on the Parliamenta7 register ; and Mr. Stuart Wortley is to bring it into Parliament. This is not to be a "final measure." As soon as possible, the Court will make " all " the necessary changes in the Corporation. At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Tuesday, the Court adopted, by 54 to 18, a report from the Corporation Bill Committee stating these in- tentions. Mr. H. L. Taylor and others severely kctured the party for not being in earnest. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Dakin stated that Lord John Russell had consented to support the Corporation plan.

The Early Closing Association held a meeting at Willis's Rooms on Thursday, to promote the Saturday half-holiday movement, which has made great way of late. Lord Stanley presided, and made a speech fully explaining the objects of the meeting, and the advantages of the course proposed for general adoption. The meeting was likewise addressed by Mr. Kinnaird, Lord Shaftesbury, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Mr. Monekton Mines, Mr. Lilwall, the Secretary of the Association, and the Bishop of Soder and Man. Several resolutions were moved and carried unanimously: they set forth that great benefit would arise from the adoption of the Saturday half-holiday, combined with the earlier pay- ment of wages, and that it was the duty of the meeting to assist in the attainment of those objects.

The gentlemen who, under the lead of Mr. Oliveira, are anxious to re- duce the duties on foreign wines, held a conference at the Crystal Palace on Wednesday, and dined there to promote that object.

An action for breach of promise of marriage—remarkable for the heavy damages awarded to the injured party—was tried before Mr. Justice Willes, at the Guildhall, on Monday. Mr. Woodfine, a brewer of large property at Hornchurch, proposed to marry Miss Margaret Smith, the daughter of a retired clerk in the Audit Office. The offer was accepted, the wedding-day fixed, cards of invitation issued, a house taken, and two carriages bought. A fortnight before the wedding-day, Mr. Woodfine, acting apparently at the instigation of his mother, postponed the marriage. When an explanation was asked for by the Smiths, it appeared that the Woodfines held that i

the family had been insidted by the omission to send an invitation to a " branch ' thereof ; that Mrs. Woodfine , the mother, had taken a dislike to her son's bride ; and that the notion had entered into the heads of the Woodfines that the Smiths "despised tradespeople." However, a recon- ciliation was effected ; another wedding-day was named ; and all seemed to be going on smoothly, when the old quarrel broke out afresh. Mr. Wood- fine called upon and insulted Mr. Smith ; and on seeing Miss Margaret by herself, proposed to marry her on condition that the ceremony should be performed in private, and that none of her relations should ever cross the threshold of her new home. She indignantly refused, and sued Woodfine for damages. There was no defence. The Jury found a verdict for the lady, and amerced her recalcitrant suitor in 3000/. damages.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Kingston and Howard two of the American hotel-robbers, were convicted, Kingston of stealing 651., and Howard of feloniously receiving it; and were sentenced to five years of

al servitude. Mr. Sandiland, a Boston solicitor, proved the case. He slept at the Great Northern Hotel; in the course of the night, 565/. in country notes were stolen from his pocket, by some person who had un- locked the door from the outside and relocked it afterwards,—a trick effected by means of an ingenious instrument of American invention. Kingston was staying at the hotel, and the notes were traced to him and Howard.

On Tuesday, Henry Stevens pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing jewel- lery from the shop of Mr. Cockayne, in Mark Lane. Stevena and another man had gone into the shop on pretence of purchasing ; Stevens's compa- nion seized Mr. Coekayne by the throat, nearly strangling him, while Stevens loaded himself with plunder. The robbers ran off: but Stevens was seized by a man who was passing, Joseph Williams. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. The Recorder directed_that a reward of 51. should be given to Williams.

On Thursday, Towers, Horwood, and Fleekhart, were tried for the bur- glary at Stamford Hill, where violence was used to the inmates ; and John Peyton, for feloniously receiving a watch which wits part of the property stolen. In this ease the burglary was evidently planned and executed with great skill and daring, part of a wall having been broken down to gain ad- mittance to the house. The occupier, Mrs. Humphreys, a very old lady., was tied in her bed, and clothes and pillows placed over her head, so that she was almost suffocated before her servant came to her aid. The servant was tied to a chair. After a long investigation, only Fleckhart was con- victed. Sentence of death was recorded; but the actual punishment will be transportation for life.

Ladies of fortune and hi,„,01 position are at length to be relieved from the annoyance of Mr. Richard Dunn's mischievous madness. After pestering Miss Burdett Coutts for so many years, he lately selected the Princess Mary of Cambridge as his victim ; sending her letters proffering his love, pre- tending to see that she encouraged him in public and that she wished to meet him privately. He actually went to St. James's Palace and saw one of the Princess's mai 'a. After many of his impertinent letters had been received and some of them returned to him, it was found necessary to call in the aid of the law. Mr. Henry, the Bow Street Magistrate, Issued an order directing an inquiry into Dunn's sanity. He was brought up at the Police Court on Thursday. The facts respecting the letters were proved. Dr. Lavers and Dr. Sutherland, who had been directed to examine Dunn, deposed that he was insane. Dr. Lavers said—" My first interview with him was at his own lodgings. He then stated that iris reason for writing letters to the Princess was that she had given him an unmistakeable look of recognition while riding in her carriage, and that the Duchess of Cambridge, who sat by her side, reproved her for it. This, he said, was so obvious that it drew the attention ef a bystander, a gentleman, who spoke of it to him at the time. Afterwards at my own house, he stated that the daughter of a no- bleman (whose name he mentioned) had wished him to marry her, and that the father, a marquis, had offered to settle an annuity of 3001. upon him. Be said that two young women, whom he met in Bond Street, were sent to look out for him by the Princess ; and that while he was conversing with ' Sarah ' the Princess's waiting-maid, at her residence, the Princess herself was waiting on the stairs, and would have come down to him but for the servants. He said that the Queen also was in love with him, and the Pa- lace-doors were thrown open to him; but he had purposely avoided going that way. He said the landlady of the reading-room in Bury Street, St. James's, which he used, had told him repeatedly that the servants of ladies of distinction had been sent to inquire after him." Dr. Sutherland came to the conclusion, from what Dunn had said and written, that he was a dan- gerous lunatic likely to attempt his own life or the lives of other people. Dunn, who had violently and insolently cross-examined the witnesses, made a long and rambling speech to the Magistrate. Mr. Henry said= There can be no doubt about the falsity of all the allegations and statements proved to have been made by you. The possible excuse for you is that which Dr. Sutherland gives—that you are a person of unsound mind, and labouring under delusions. If this were not so, I should make some very strong ob- servations on your infamous conduct; but it is my clear conviction that you are not a person of sound mind, and therefore I shall order you to be placed under restraint." Defendant—""I appeal to the gentlemen of the press to do me justice, which you have not done.