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THE GRAPHIC August 6, 1881 131 THE NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT IPSWICH suburbs, but there is little there which can suffer much hurt from the presence of a multitude. Now the greatest stickler for popular rights must admit that grass is not unproved by being poached into mud with the treading of many feet or trees benefited by being loaded with bunches of boys. Trafalgar Square, being a stony wilderness, cannot be hurt much, and the only damage done on Tuesday evening was theac'cidental upsetting of two granite posts which seem to have had a very shallow foundation. It was really quite a sight to see the crowd at seven o'clock occupying the whole of the square, covering the steps of St. Martin's Church, and swarming on the terrace in front of the National Gallery.

Some Continental exile, beholding a London multitude for the first time, may have had his bosom stirred with memories of 1792, 1848, and 1871. But there was not a revolt, much less a revolution. After Mr. Bradlaugh had spoken the great assemblage peacefully dispersed, a few roughs excepted, who rushed to Westminster Palace under the belief that the elect of the boot-making borough would on that evening attempt his forcible entry into the House. Without desiring to underrate Mr.

Bradlaugh's influence, it may be presumed that only a small portion (the inner ring probably) of the persons assembled represented his actual adherents. But he is a man, if not of eminence, at all events of notoriety, and numbers came either to gaze on his personal aspect or for the chance of hearing his sonorous voice. It is no reflection upon the gentleman whom we may term the open-air Member for Northampton to say that an equally vast multitude would doubtless assemble if a certain "unfortunate nobleman now languishing in prison were allowed out (for one night only) to exhibit his portly person and air his eloquence in that same Cockney Areopagus. NOTICE. The Half-SJieet this week, though delivered in the middle of the paper, must be placed for binding between pages 140 and 149.

INSTALLATION OF THE CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER On Wednesday last week General Sir Richard Dacres, G.C.B. was formally installed as Constable of the Tower of London. The ceremony took place on the Governor's parade-ground, Tower Green, where the garrison, composed of a detachment of the Coastguard Royal Artillery and a battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was drawn up in review order, with band and colours, together with the Yeomen Warders in their ancient full-dress costume. The Lord Chamberlain, Lord Kenmare, K.P., accompanied by the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby Fane, arrived at the Queen's House at one o'clock, and the representative of Her Majesty received the Queen's keys of the Tower from Lieutenant-General Maitland, C.B., the Lieutenant of the Tower, who was attended by the other chief officials.

A move was then made to the parade-ground, where, after the band had played "God Save the Queen," the Coroner of the Tower Hamlets read the Queen's patents appointing Sir R. Dacres Lieutenant and Custos Kotulorum of the Tower Hamlets and "Constable of the Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower." The Lord Chamberlain delivered the keys of the Tower, in the Queen's name and on Her Majesty's behalf, into the Constable's hands. The Yeoman Porter cried, God save the Queen," and the Yeomen Warders answered, "Amen." The troops presented arms to the Queen's keys, whilst the band played "God Save the Queen." The Constable thereupon handed over the keys to Lieutenanl-Generat Maitland, C.B., for the Resident Governor, and proceedeil with the Lord Chamberlain to inspect the troops and the Yeomen Warders. The Lord Chamberlain then returned to the Queen' House with the Constable, and gave him formal possession of it, upon which Sir Richard Dacres gave it to Major-General Milmati. C.B., for his occupation as the Resident Governor, and the cert mony concluded by the Constable being officially presented to tlie assembled officers.

A MATCH AT LAWN TENNIS The Lawn Tennis Championship Meeting, held recently in the grounds of the All-England Club at Wimbledon, occupied sever.v days, and attracted a large number of critical spectators. Our sketch was made during the progress of the fifth round for the All-Comers' Prizes, played on Monday, the nth between Mr. W. Renshaw, of the Cheltenham Club, and Mr. H.

F. Lawford, 0 the All-England Club. In the five sets, forty-four games were played, out of which number Mr. Renshaw scored twenty-four but the number of strokes won by each was far closer, Mr. Renshaw scoring 148 and Mr.

Lawford 146. Twenty-four of the games were won by the server, while twenty fell to the striker-out, and thirteen of the games were called deuce. The time taken in playing the five sets, exclusive of a few minutes or so between the sets, was an hour and three-quarters. Mr. Lawford played well in the first and fourth sets, but was slack in the third set while Mr.

Renshaw, though at times very brilliant, did not place the returns with his usual accuracy, though in this particular he improved very much during the last set. Neither player seemed up to the form exhibited in their previous contests at Dublin and at Prince's. In the final round, played on the next day, Mr. Renshaw beat Mr. R.

T. Richardson, of the Hooton Club, by eighteen games to nine, his stroke, known as the Renshaw smash," gaining fourteen aces, five in each of the first and third sets, and four in the second. All through this match Mr. Renshaw played in much better form than on the Monday, his placing being far superior, and his strokes at times were very brilliant while, on the other hand, Mr. Richardson showed hardly any of the really fine play which he has before displayed this season at Dublin, Manchester, and Prince's.

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AS IT MIGHT BE If we were now for the first time planning out a city like London on the banks of a fine river, we should probably take care to prevent private owners from seizing upon and appropriating the banks of the stream. Between the private buildings and the river a thoroughfare of some breadth ought to be rigidly preserved for the uses of the public. Our forefathers were quite aware of the propriety of this arrangement, and in old days there was, within the City boundaries, a public road between the houses and the tideway. Gradually, however, this road was encroached upon by sheds, in time these sheds were replaced by permanent buildings, till by degrees it dawned upon an easy-going and unobservant public that bit by bit they had been diddled out of nearly all their river frontage. Englishmen went over to Paris, Frenchmen came to London: each returned home impressed with the same idea.

"The Thames is a far finer river than the Seine, but while Paris possesses miles of mag- Ipswich is one of the oldest borough towns in England. In 991 we read of the destruction of Gyppenswich, as it was then called, by the Danes, and under the reign of Edward the Confessor we hear of it containing 800 burgesses. William the Conqueror erected a castle for its protection, and its first corporate charter was granted by King John. Apart from its trade, which, as the River Orwell is navigable to this point, was considerable, Ipswich subsequently enjoyed a large share of the woollen and coarse linen trade, which, however, has now been greatly injured by the cheaper goods made in tlie North. In the 1 3th and 14th centuries also Ipswich was a favourite resort of priests and monks, there being a large number of churches and several religious houses.

The town is still quaint and old-fashioned in many quarters, some of the streets being irregularly built and narrow. Unlike, however, many other towns with a past history, Ipswich has always shown considerable public spirit, and a wish to keep up with modern times. Thus the streets have been paved and widened, new public buildings have been erected, while last week Ipswich was the scene of great civic festivities on the occasion of the inauguration of a new lock leading to the docks, of a new Post Office building, and a new Museum. Chief amongst the visitors was Mr. Chamberlain, M.P., the President of the Board of Trade.

Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., and Sir Richard Wallace had been invited, but were unable to be present. The ceremony of opening the new lock gates took place first.

A steamer, the Glen Rosa, containing Mr. Chamberlain, the Mayor, and the civic dignitaries of the town, went for a short trip down the river to the boundary of the Ipswich Dock Commissioners, and, returning to the Dock, passed through the lock. Mr. Bateman, the engineer of the work, then said a few words respecting the lock itself, by which vessels drawing 18 or 19 feet could be admitted and he was followed by Mr. George Mason, the Chairman of the Dock Commission and then Mr.

Chamberlain made a graceful speech, congratulating Ipswich on the beauty of its river and its display of public spirit. Next in the programme came the opening of the new Post Office, where the Mayor despatched the first telegram to the Postmaster-General, informing him the new building was being declared open for public business, and several telegrams were received for the East Anglian Daily Times. The Mayor having made a speech and performed the opening ceremony, the procession once more re-formed and wended its way to the New Museum, a handsome pile of buildings, which has been built from the designs of Mr. Horace Cheston, 1, Great Winchester Street, E.C. Here the Curator, Dr.

J. E. Taylor, made a speech, recapitulating the efforts which had been made to found the Museum the nucleus of which was a Natural History Museum, established in 1846. From that time the collection had continued to enlarge, and in 1853 the management passed, by Ewart's Act, into the hands of the Corporation. In 1876 Sir Richard Wallace accepted the Presidency, and purchased and presented to the Museum a valuable geological collection which, together with the specimens already obtained, enabled the Museum to exhibit one of the finest collections illustrative of local geology in Europe.

Courses of lectures on subjects connected with geology, botany, zoology, physical geography, and kindred sciences are continually given; while attached to the Museum is a good Free Library and Reading Room. The new buildings, in which accommodation has also been provided for the Schools of Art and Science, have cost about 7,000. After a speech from Lord Henniker, the Mayor declared the buildings open, and then the whole party adjourned -to a dejeuner given by the Mayor in the council chamber. In the drawings of the Post Office and the Museum our artist has been assisted by photographs by Mr. Vick, of Ipswich.

A BALLOON GARDEN PARTY The Balloon Society of Great Britain celebrated its first anniversary by a garden party at Lillie Bridge Grounds on Saturday last. The chief feature of the entertainment was a large balloon constructed of a new material, of which indiarubber is the chief component part. It had been intended to use it as a captive Amusements gp 1 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN, i GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS. Every Evening: at 8. Commencing SAT RDAY, August 6, Director and Musical Conductor, Mr.

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Decorations of a very novel character by Messrs. Liberty and Regent Street. PROMENADE, ONE SHILLING. Doors open at 7.30, commence at 8. Box-office open daily from Ten to Five.

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THE EMBANKMENT AS IT IS nificent quays, squalid tumble-down wharves or more substantia modern erections completely bar the unlucky Londoner from taking a promenade along the banks of his native river." It is doubtful whether the Thames Embankment would after all have been made, but for the chance that there was between Waterloo and Westminster Bridges a mud flat, unsightly at low tide, which tempted the reclaimer. At last, after many delays, and serious opposition from greedy landowners, the Embankment was completed. It cost us ratepayers a vast sum of money, but we did not grudge the money, and we were proud of the work. But is the Embankment all that it might be We answer, No, a hundred times, No In the first place, owing to the way in which in this boasted land of liberty private interest is suffered to override public convenience, there are not nearly enough thoroughfares leading to the Embankment. Except to the initiated it is a puzzle to get there from the Strand, and so numbers of persons who would like a breath of air from the river do not attempt it.

The Board of Works would have done much better if they had spent some money in opening every riverward street in the Strand on to the Embankment, instead of filling the Duke of Northumberland's balloon, but the weather proved so unfavourable that this idea was abandoned, and at half-past five the balloon made an untrammelled ascent in charge of the well-known aeronaut, Mr. J. Simmons, C.E., whose portrait we give, Colonel Brine, C.E., and Mr. Baden Powell. The balloon took a north-easterly direction, and, crossing the river twice, passed over the river Lea north of Blackwall.

The extreme height attained was 7,000 feet, and a first attempt to descend to mother earth was made near the Essex Lunatic Asylum, but the grappling iron not catching, Mr. Simmons ascended once again, and went on to Hutton, near Brentwood, where a successful descent was eventually made. The balloon had travelled twenty-five miles during the hour it was in the air. For seventeen minutes the balloon was in the clouds, and during that time its occupants felt as if they had water in their ears, a sensation which continued for a couple of days. Mr.

Baden Powell states that after the descent had commenced, and when at a distance of 1,000 feet from land, the balloon fell in with a contrary current of air, which was so strong as nearly to blow off the hats of the aeronauts. To return to the garden party some 2,000 persons responded to the invitations of the Society, which, though only a year old, already numbers 1,000 members..