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slow augmentation , the gradual upswelhng , of this remote announeeinent . r At ftcst it , wa » little more than > , vibration in ,, the air ; thea : ft low murmur , as p | , gnats in the evening ; then a more solid and reco $ 4 w » able sound ; then a compound noise of trarnpingyand shouting , growing loader and more distinct as the column grew nearer ; and then the ( xuards-were At hand . They came on , curving round the corner into the square with a grand continuous , torrent-Ulse flow ; the Grenadiers first , the Scots / Fusiliers second ^ the Coldstreams last ; each preceded , by its hand , while the Fusiliers , in addition , had inarching before tijenx a set of Highland pipers , who . if we . had reason to congratulate our ears ) were
not playing . At this point , ; the shouting was nearty , though not so universal nor massive as we had expected . Hot that there was any want of interest in the gallant Guardsmen- ^ the faces of the spectators , half joyful , half sympathetic , sufficiently attested the contrary—but ; the roar of voices was rather a dropping fire than a fusillade . From , the window of an adjoining house , however , -wreaths of laurel (¦ *• the laurel , meed of mighty conquerors" ) were thrown down , and later in the day we saw one of these carried on the colours . Of the colours , we must not forget to say that . their shattered and rent condition —telling plainly of the tempest of battle—excited the deepest interest ; and men might be heard reminding their neighbours , as they pointed to one
particular . banner , that , " that was the flag which was first planted on the heights of Alma . " The soldiers seemed in the most perfect health . Their bronzed faces had a thoroughly martial and manly character ; and among the veterans—those few who yet survive of the original body—some noble beards and mustachios , worthy of the knights of old romance , spread , forth brown and bristling from under the black bearskins , some of which , by the way , together with the coats ( though these , with a very few exceptions , were the new-fashioned tunics ) looked faded and weather-stained . Many of the soldiers were singularly young—mere striplings , who had probably not been long in the Crimea ; but all were well-built , muscular , and gallant fellows .
From this point , the procession swept on through Cockspur-street and Pall-mall ( the club-houses in the latter street affording in their balconies capital standing or sitting rootu for the ladies , who were radiant in silks and smiles ) , and , entering the Mall in St . James ' s Park between Marlborougli House and St . James ' s Palace , proceeded to the residence of the sovereign . We must here borrow some details from the account in the Times : — " Within the gates of the Palace , there -was manifested as-eager and as intense an interest as -without .
The balcony over the principal entrance had been prepared for the reception of her Majesty , the Royal family , and guests ; and , for at least an hour before the rattle of the drums indicated the approach of the troops , the Queen herself , the King of the Belgians , several of the younger members of the Royal family , and some of the ladies and gentlemen of the suite could be seen through the windows immediately behind the balcony , eagerly watching for the appearance of the bayonets which carried the heights of Alma and withstood the flower of the Russian army at Inkerxnan . "
The appearance of Lord Cardigan at tins spot , mounted " on that famous charger which carried him into and out of the desperate charge of Balaklava , " was hailed , according to the Times , " with shouts of approbation , mingled with only a few hisses . " The Duke of Cambridge and his aide-de-camp , Sir James Macdonald , were received , with loud cheers . On the troops approaching Buckingham Palace , . " Her Majesty leant slightly forward over the balcony , and the satisfaction with which she welcomed her brave , Guards / was manifesb even to those who were without the JPalaco gates . At the end of the Mall , the troops turned to the left , entered the south gate of the Palace , . and paeaed under the balcony oh -which the
Queen and the Royal party were standing to receive them . As the troops entered the enclosure , her Majesty wa , vod a white handkerchief , and as they passed before her she further testified her pleasure at their presence , And her gratitude for their services , by bows and smiles , to which tho troops responded by cheering most heartily . After tho Grenadier Guards had passed from the end of the . Mall , there was a slight interruption of the lino of marchy owing to the crowd breaking in upon tho reserved apace , from which the utmost exertions of tho police and soma Life Guards , who were stationed at
that point , could not immediately drive them back . The result was that a considerable portion of tho Fusiliers had to pass this point in broken formation , and then to run on in . order to overtake their companions and reform the column to pass before the Queen . With this exception , tho progress of the troops was uninterrupted , and this did not interfere with the order of their march before her MajoBty . The three regiments marched through tho enclosure , each experiencing from her Majesty the same gracious reception , and each responding with tho same hearty cheers . " The troops then proceeded to Hyde Park , where
they were reviewed ; by the Queens , With , the exception of the space kept *> pen for the displays the park was crowded with pedestrians ( carriages-and horses being excluded ) , and the top of ? tho Marble Area was also thronged . : . ( .,, _ , " Awnings covered with bright pink or crimson cloth were erected fin the tops of many of . the houses in Parklane , from which , and from the windows beneath , hundreds of persons commanded a view of * , the exciting scene , which , if it lacked tbe distinctness vouchsafed to a closer inspection , had an immense advantage in . the magnificent coup cTceil which it afforded . . Here and there , within the Park , a temporary scaffold , witbitafuH complement of occupants , reared ¦ its -outlines > i above : the
surrounding crowd . The fall of one of these overladen structures unfortunately caused two women injuries , more or less severe ; and just before the arrival of the Queen , a poor woman , in , humble life was . carried away by four policemen bleeding severely from the fracture of one of her legs , occasioned , it was said , by a kick from the horse of one of the cavalry soldiers < employed in keeping the ground clear . The open space assigned , for the review _ was maintained by detachments of . tbe Horse Guards ( Blue ) , the 2 nd Life Guards , and . the 3 rdJLight Dragoons , stationed at intervals along th ' e , lilies , . "
under the command respectively of Colonel , -Forrester , Colonel Williams , and Colonel Unett ; and in . th ^ s duty they were assisted by a large body of the ^ fetrppolit ^ n Police , acting under the personal superintendence , of Sir Richard Mayne and Captain Labalmondiere-,, JLord Hardinge , the Field Marshal Comrnanding-inrChief , was prevented being present at the ceremony by , the accident he met with at Aldershott on Monday , and from . which Tie is but slowly recovering . The Quartermaster-. General , Sir Richard Airey , was also unavoidably absent , owing to a mishap which has afflicted him with partial blindness . " .
The technical details of the review we need not repeat , while recording that it passed off with the utmost enthusiasm ; but two incidents of the day—one ludicrous , the other touching—we must add from the columns out of which we have already quoted : —• " Sir George Grey , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , and Lady Grey , remained for some time among the crowd , excluded from the space ' around the saluting point , and . it was not until he appealed in a good-humoured way to some gentlemen inside the barrier , in attendance from three of the morning newspapers , one of whom he recognized , and to all of whom his person was well known , that the Home Secretary was relieved from a position with the novelty of which he himself appeared not a little amused .
" After the Queen retired from the Park , an incident of singular interest occurred , for which inohe Seemed to have been prepared . A vast crowd of the htrmbler classes , who had been pent up for several hours behind the barriers along the northern side of the enclosure , spurning all further attempts at control or resistance bv the cavalry and police who kept the ground clear , broke the ranks at a vulnerable point , and , shouting with a wild kind of delirium , rushed at full speed towards the Crimean heroes , yrlio were still formed in squares , and seemed not a little at a loss to account for this ebullition of popular enthusiasm . But the long-cherished desire of hundreds to meet among the troops relatives and friends whom they had not seen for so long an interval of time , and who had undergone vicissitudes and privations and earned renown in the defence of their
country , explained it all , and , with this spontaneous and touching exhibition , the spectacle terminated , which will long live in the memory of all who witnessed it . " Among tho incidents of the day , it ma } ' be mentioned that Lord Rokeby , according to the Daily News , " recognized amongst the spectators a Crimean soldier in plain clothes , who had lost one arm , and whom lie warmly shook by the hand . . Here and there , too , was to be seen a weeping parent or relative , in whose mind this ovation but too keenly reawakened sorrow for those whom the casualties of war had taken away for ever . " The same paper also notices " the presence of a little , dog , led by a string by one of the Suppers , and said to havo passed through tho whole of the siege of Sebostopol , and to have figured in many a brush with the enemy . "
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THE AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE . A unaK number of American gentlemen ( upwards of one hundred ) , and a smaller number of English gentlemen , met on Friday week , July 4 th , at tho Star and Garter , Richmond , to celebrate the anniversary of tho declaration of American Independence . The host was Mr . Peabody , a gentleman from tho United States , who , since tho year 1850 , has been in tho habit of commemorating tho great event in his country ' s history by bringing together , in festal amity , natives both of tho old and tho now lands , and thus obliterating those feelings of jealousy and soreness , tho presence of which has already done much mischief to tho true interests of the world , and tho softening down of whoao intensity ia particularly needed at the present moment . Tho grand dining hall was fitted up for the occasion with busts of tho
-Queen and of Washington , the American eagle , this standards of England and of the United States , - and other appropriate decorations * - ; Mr . Peabody took the chair shortly after seven o ' clock , supported on the -right by the Ajnerican minister , Mr . Dallas , and ) on the left by Mr . William Brown , M . P ; for Liverpooli : ^ After , dinner , Mr . Peabody , producing- ; two- caps , one of English fabric , the ether of American oak , said , " These cups of love > and peace , filled from -tttfr sarttis fountain of good , cheer , I send , one to tbe East and the other to the West -,. and , ' when they meet in the CH-drag bound , may they pass with the touch of friendship . *' { jGheer * . ) The two cups were thm passed round ; Me . Peabody driuking to the guests from -each ) iState of the and to
Union separately ^ afterwards e from u 'xna England and her Colonies . " - He next proposed' tfib toast of " The day we celebrate , " -which was received with loud acclamations . " Her Majesty the Queen" -wafe afterwards toasted , Mr . Peabody observing that he had never yet known an American who would not drink that toast with as much enthusiasm as the most loyal of the Queen ' s subjects . ' The toast w *» received with great cheering , and was followed . by *' Thev President of the United States , " also warmly honoured . Captina Mackiunon , R . N \ , proposed " The Memory of Wfish ^ ington , " which was drunk standing and in silerrtfet " The health of his Excellency , the American Minister , *'
Tvas proposed , amidst loud cheers , by Mr . William Brown , M . P ., and acknowledged by Mr . Dallas in < ai eloquent address , in the course of which he observed :- ^ -i" We are , as a country , but eighty years of age ; we are at this moment honoured by the presence of one of th * leading men of America , General Mercer , who is only one year younger than his own country ( cheers ) i btr ^ notwithstanding the youth of our country , how justlyproud may we be of her ! ( Cheers . ) At the time off her birth , she was a puny creature , sickly , feeble , diminutive . Look at her now ! ( Cheers . ) She then contained but 2 , 500 , 000 people . Her population is no ^ 27 , 000 , 000 ! Her territory was then a margin of the ) Atlantic . It is now an immense continent ! Her wealth
was then comparative poverty . Her resources are now actually exhaustless ! " Of these facts , he thought that England had as much reason to be proud as the Unite / f t States , seeing that English blood has formed the main stock of the American people . Alluding to thepresent differences between the two nations , he observed : — " Two brave men are equally fearless of each other ; one will never yield to the other on a point of honour , and therefore they sometimes come into collision . Two merchants pursuing the same course of adventure wilX sometimes find their interests clash . The spirit of the press , too , which in free countries should ever be freej often brings on a state of feeling which requires to b 0 dealt with by the wisest and most conciliatory measures .
( Loud cheers . ' ) It is a matter of sincere regret , but perhaps it is in the order of Providence , that the freest nav tions are not always the sincerest friends . ( Hedr , hehrlS I cordially concurred in the first , second , and third toasts that were proposed . With Tegard to the second " , permit me to observe that , if there is one feature of the American character more prominent than another , it 19 the heartiness with which they receive the toast of the lady whose name is always foremost in the hearts b | F Englishmen . { Loud cheers . ) I ask my countrynae ^ who are acquainted with the universal spirit of Americaj who know the extent to which we carry our civilization , whether we do not always drink a double bumper to the ladies in preference to the gentlemen . " ( Cheers an ^ laughter . )
General Cadwaladcr , in proposing the toast— ' * Great Britain and tho United States ; frank intercourse , cor- ^ dial friendship , and perpetual peace between them , ' * took occasion to remark that he believed the public press in England could hold in its hand the key to the American heart , and that he felt assured , if the Queeri were to visit Canada , and to return by way of'th ' Q United States , she would bo received with the utmost enthusiasm . Several other toasts followed ; and , iri the course of a speech delivered by the Hon . Mr . Cameron ^ dilated the differencebe
of Canada , that gentleman on , - tween tho conduct of England to her colonies now an ^ at a former period . " England , " ho said , " has made Cunada the anomaly of an independent dependency . She allowed her to pass her own laws of trade and navigation , nay , even to make her own treaties , as witness the Reciprocity Treaty—( cheers)—which had already increased the export trade of Canada five hundred-fold . " The company separated shortly before twelve o'clock . The national airs of the two countries were played at intervals during tho evening .
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AMERICA . Tine Presidential nominations and canvnssinga form the chief subjccto of interest in the United States at tho present time . The names now put forward for tho Presidency and tho Vice-Presidency are : —For Proefdont , Democratic , James Buchanan , Pennsylvania ; Republican , John C . Fremont , California ; Know-Notliing , Millurd Fillmoro , Now York ; Know-Nothing Boltere , N . P . Banks , jun ., MasBachusetts ; Know-Nothing Sub-Uoltcrs , It . V . Stockton , New Jersey ; Abolition , Gerritt Smith , New York . For Vice-President , J / C Br « cken-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2149/page/5/
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