the furniture of Walmer Castle, he having purposed to refurnish it, and to receive a brilliant company therein at the close of the Parliamentary Session.
The Installation. On Wednesday, the 28th of August a ceremonial took place at Dover which must have been one of the grandest events of modern times. Not only had the nomination to the office of the Premier given general satisfaction, but the gratification was increased by the circumstances that notwithstanding the abolition of the Wardenship had been so definitely fixed upon as to cause a bill for the purpose to be privately circulated amongst the members of the House of Commons, the retention had afterwards been secured by the vigilant activity and reasonable representations of the Cinque Ports themselves. Another circumstance which tended to give eclat to the ceremonial (as the Hastings News put it) was the fact that at no very great period before the death of the lamented Lord Dalhousie, a movement – noble and patriotic in its character – had sprung up and secured the respect and admiration of opponents, and had, in numberless instances, made converts of those who could not at first admit the necessity for, or believe in the utility of the volunteer movement. The advent of Lord Palmerston to his new office afforded an opportunity for the first general assemblage of the Artillery and Rifle Volunteers of the Cinque Ports before the chief under whose orders they served – an occasion which was sure to draw forth a considerable muster of men for review, while it would give the means for testing their progress and efficiency. “A full and particular account of the installation pageant will be found in volume 1, pages 1 to 3 of The Premier Cinque Port.” Also under the head of “Bailiffs and Mayors”, vol 1, pages 42 and 43, some account is given of Lord Cobham who was installed as Lord Warden in 1598. Since the reference was made to that event, the writer has come across the following in a volume of the Camden Society: “Aug. 30th, 1598. .... The Lord Cobham was installed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on Bartlemew day at Caunterbury, at which ceremonious solemnitie were assembled 4,000 horce, and he kept the feast very magnificently, and spent 26 oxen with all other provisions sutable. He, the Lord Thomas Howard, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Stanhope, are in speach to be sworne shortly of the counsaile....” Harry Brooke, Lord Cobham was attainted in 1604, and died 1619.
Memorial Window
The stained glass memorial window to be placed in All Saints church in honour of the late Earl Waldegrave, was finished by Mr. Gibbs, of London in Feby. 1861. The subject is “The Crucifixion” set forth in thirty life-size figures, with the distant cities and temples of Jerusalem, the tracery head filled with angels. The window is 12 feet -
