The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1847. tive results. Thus, in St. Saviour's workhouse, the introduction of stone-breaking as a payment for bed nd breakfast had this remarkable effect on the num ber of casual poor : Member pVIMINI Number af.er Weeks. tie to Stooryard. Weis °peels( We ope rung Decrease. the Stoney/ad. Rest 3,917 First 303 2,614 Sowed .. 4,261 *teed . 343 4.038 Third .. 3.3113 Third Mill 776 10.1 ti Of course, with every workhouse open to receive casual paupers, no machinery for identifying these applicants could possibly be applied. The pauper goes his round of unions, changing his name and story as often as he finds it convenient. Even it detected in an act of vagrancy, what would be punishment to others is found to be no punishment to the regular tramp. He rather likes a prison than otherwise. He certainly prefers it to the workhouse. He will break windows and tear his clothes to get sent there, from time to time. The evidence of A. 8., one of this vagrant class, is curious : Chairman : Have yon been in gaol very often ? I have been.—Did you get tared of being in gaol ; when you pleased were you put out again ? In goingabout aad getting so very little food at the different unions 1 got to feel very bad. You have a comfortable bed in prison, and I preferred going there at times to get a little rest. —What is the longest time you ever were is prison ? Two months.—Did you begin to weary of it at the end of two months ? Yes—What is the longest time you would like to stay when you went to recruit yourself ? Not more than a month. And again : Mr. Wsklev : Do the vagrants like the workhouses or the gaols bat ? The gaols they prefer; they do anything to get there; they go to these places for an excuse to commit all sorts of crime., such as refusing to work, breaking windows, tearing up their clothes ; particularly across the water ; that is, on this side of the water now.—ln order to get into gaol* on the other side of the water? Yea—That is the reason they commit offences? Yes.--Have you known them com mit offences for the purpose of getung into Brixton gaol ? Yes, I have been among theta myself.— What are you *peak ing of now ? I have been at Bromley and at Chislehuret. I hare been committed there with a gang of forty or fifty in a day for refusing to work, sad we bare been sent to Maid stone—Forty or fifty sent at one time? Yes.—How many police took them ? Sometimes one or two ; sometime* only orie.—And how were they taken there ? They would go very willingly ; the policeman would tell them the road to go, and be would go behind them—Did they appear cheer- int or melancholy on the road ? Very cheerful; they were pleated to think they were going to have some food, which they said was not allowed them in sufficient quantities at the unions where they had been. It is certain, in fact, that as our prisons are managed just now, we have ne punishment by which to deter the vagrant from his mendicant existence. Notwithstanding its hardships (and with this class it is a life of privation and misery) he prefers its pre carious returis to the wages of honest labour. The cause of the preference lies deep in a particular variety of human character. It is strong in the Arab and the Gipsy, and a bastard form of it make' the tramp. This class, it is evident, requires a peculiar kind of treatment, quite different from any that can be applied to the labourer out of work, whose destitu tion is no crime, though improvidence may have a large share in producing it; or the immigrant Irish family, who, mischievous and barthensome as their presence among us may be, should be dealt with as victims rather than offenders. The casual ward of the workhouse, as it exists, is an abomination, and must continue to be so, even in the best managed establishments. A central asylum, partaking largely of the character of a penitentiary, should be erected for the reception of the vagrant. In such a place a strict discipline might be enforced, cleanliness would be insisted on, the persons of all applicants for relief would be known and their applications registered; the tramp, if he had no settlement, would be detected and punished as an offender, or if he had a settle ment, dismissed to his parish; while the more de serving would no longer be exposed to the contami nation and degradation of the vagrant ward. To carry out the scheme of such an asylum might require modifications of the existing law. But with such an asylum, the law as it affects vagrants might be strictly carried oat, which can never be the case at present, when destitution lumps under common titles sad common treatment all shades of poverty, from that of the unfortunate but industrious labourer, to that of the dare-devil degraded pariah, who positively prefers wandering misery to industrious and 'settled comfort. NATURE is a great artist. In the revolutions of empires, with the skill of a tragic poet, she uniformly makes a burst of prosperity precede the crash of overthrow. On this principle she was lavish in the liberality with which she yesterday co-operated to add fresh splendour to the annual pageant of our civic sovereign. Though we already touch the close of the first de cade of gloomy November, the sun shone bright, and the air was mild as in spring. The crowds who can make a holiday out of anything, were abroad, jostling and eyeing each other with sympathising looks of gladness. And the bright sunshine lit up the gay colours and metallic splendour of knights of the fourteenth century, state carriages d /a Louis XIY., lancers of the era of the peninsular war, policemen of the last new cut, not forgetting " BACCIIVA drawn by leopards." Nay, the very tide paid homage to the new Loan MAYOR, and carried him and his suite to Westminster, our occa sional contributors assure us, with unwonted celerity. Yet were these conspiring favours of the elements lavished upon an empire tottering to its fall. They were akin to the intermittent triumphs which at times cast a gleam on the last feebleness of the Byzantine emperors. For, alas! Lord Mayors no longer are what Lord Mayors once were. When London and the metropolis were synonymous terms, and when the City companies were realty industrial powers, the Lord Mayor was somebody. Now, how ever, the dominions of the Lord Mayor are but as a speck in the huge metropolitan map, and the ROTHSCHILD% and BARINGS, though they may inscribe their names as members of the companies, do it after the same condescending, half-ashamed, make-believe fashion that kings and statesmen have for centuries been in the habit of doing. Unlike the May-day processions of Jack-in-the-Green and the November processions of GUIDO FAWKES, now per formed by professional mendicants instead of real sweeps and schoolboys, the Lord Mayor's page an t is still filled by bond fide performers; but there is an end of its reality. For all useful purposes, the mayor and aldermen have been superseded by the superintendent of police, or might be by a stipendiary magistrate. hay, there lack not hypercritics who will have it that the civic dignitaries, instead of being merely melees, are positively mischievous. Some of these eevillers maintain that the great end and aim of the Mansion-house potentates, is to keep a sham con servancy of the Thames in the field in order to prevent the introduction of a real one, and to uphold the dangerous ' as dirty, nuisance of Smithfield. Nor do they stop here ; but, catching at the announcement that yesterday's procession was preceded by a sump tuous breakfast and followed by a redundant and luxurious banquet, they go on to enlarge upon the gluttony of corporators. They speak of charitable trusts, instituted centuries ago by GRESHAM andothers, and allege that though the rents of the lands thus left to the management of civic companies have since been quadrupled, and even multiplied to greater amounts, the exact sums " nominated in the bond" continue to be annually expended for purposes of charity, or the promotion of education, while the surplus is devoured by the overgorged members and their governors. They speak of one company, with its twenty-four dinners in the year, at which all the luxuries of the successive seasons are laid on the groaning board in surfeiting excess, and the o'er cloyed gluttons encouraged to carry large part of them home ; of another, at whose monthly stuffings the silver spoons laid before the guests are looked upon as gifts to them. They tell of the profusion of rich and rare wines at these civic feasts, and of the retirement of governors to indulge in yet more costly and luxurious draughts in aristocratic seclusion. The details combine the voluptuousness and extravagance of a SARDA NAI`ALUS, with the unimaginative vulgarity of un educated men, enriched by the routine of the most mechanical arts. Our grumblers proceed to multiply the annual gorging and swilling of each company by the total number of City companies, and to add the analogous teats of the corporation properly so called, and the minor feats of real trading asso ciations which ape the manners of the ancient com panies. The total presents an aggregate of gluttony that is positively appalling. Had the amount of the sums thus spent in sordid crapulous indulgence in the City of London since the beginning of the present century, been hoarded, it might have sufficed by this time to found and endow schools sufficient for the whole population of school going age. Or it might have erected and stored with volumes, libraries adequate to the wants of the whole adult population. Or it might have paid for the removal of all 'mimeos and obstructions within the walls, for the opening op of the architectural master pieces of our ancestors, and for adorning the City with works of art of which a nation might justly be prowl. And the funds by which any of these honourable ends might have been accomplished have been scanda lously wasted in glutting the most beastly of human appetites. For this reason, do we feel that the civic dynasty is doomed—that its days are numbered. The house holders within the jurisdiction of the mayor and alder men complain that the appointment of these authori ties is vested in an electoral body, the majority of whom, visiting the City only to transact business, reside at a distance, and have little interest in con straining them to discharge aright their municipal functions. The wealthy and intelligent merchants and traders of London feel that the commercial in stitutions and laws of the City are irreconcileable with the wants and usages of modern commerce. The other metropolitan districts are tired of a mu nicipal constitution the existence of which they are only made aware of when projected improvements are thwarted to show the power of office-bearers. Lastly, the mass of the liverymen are becoming ashamed of the farcical character which the City in stitutions have assumed in the dotage of their senility. The absurdity cannot last much longer. Now that sweeps have become ashamed of their May-day mummeries, and school-boys too manly to play with the big ugly dolls christened after the hero of the gunpowder plot, grown men will grow shy of enact ing the Governor of Barataria part of a Lord Mayor, with his state coach and men in armour. If not more virtuous than those which preceded it, this age, at least, cherishes the tasteful vices. The gross gluttony of civic feasts is becoming unsavoury to all. All these influences tend to the elimination of lord mayor and aldermen, with their concomitants. The senators of modern London can not do better than emulate (in their corporate capa cities) the CATOS of old Rome when their constitution was overturned. Having in Barticmy Fair put down the last rival nuisance, the corporation cannot close its labours more gracefully than by putting down itself. Thus alone can it conciliate public opinion, which is so bent upon seeing it superseded by an effi cient framework of municipal government for the whole metropolis, that even the return of Mr. D. W. HARVEY to parliament would have been welcomed, in the conviction that his irresistible predilection for attacking old friends and colleagues would have en sured his making an immediate and deadly onslaught on the City authorities. The chief topic which occupied attention in Paris on Monday, exclusively of the affairs of Switzerland, was the approaching contract for the loan. The pro ceedings of government in relation to it are canvassed freely by all the opposition journals. We give the following from the Steele: The loan which is to be contracted for on the 10th, is the subject which occupies all minds. The Minister of Finances, in order to obtain a higher price, is endeavouring, by indi rect means, to reduce the prices of the rode: which will be i thrown upon the market. He is said to have renounced the idea of inducing the Caine desDepOta to refrain from making tenders, but persists in calling upon the Bank of France. The backers, on their side, have not forgotten that the exchange of Paris lost by the two last loans, and wish to obtain the present upon better terms. We hope that capitalists, en couraged by the solidity of public credit, will not show any want of confidence. Their interest is the same as that of the state. Every contractor who makes a tender for a loan, is, by the very act, a speculator for a rise, and works against himself, if he does not show that he estimates the public property at its real value. In such eases, courage is judg ment. On former adjudications, the rentes created to repre sent the loan brought with them • premium anterior to their creation. This premium, which consisted of several months' arrears of dividends, constituted a profit which must have entered into the calculations of those intending to make ten den. The new loan will be upon different terms, for the dividends will begin to run until December 22, posterior to the date of the contract. The price of stock at the present day represents at once the capital and the dividend falling due. Thus, supposing the 3 per cents. to be quoted on Change, on Nov. 10, at 76f. 65c., this will give 75f. 50e. for the principal, and If. 15c. for the dividend. If the loan be taken at the price of the day, but which we do not mean to prejudge it will be, at 75f. 50c., it would be a 4 per cent. stock under another form. The terms of the instalments, di. vided at stated periods of 25 moatke, give to the contractor an advantage which may be estimated at about 2f. 70c. per cent. But in order to have the complete enjoyment of this the contractor and shareholders must be in a position to make a profit of their money until the payment becomes due. At all events, the delays granted by the government for the payments must be favourable to the placing of the loan ; and so far it appears to us to be to the interest of , the public. In another part of the article, the Siclele, alluding particularly to the announcement of the intention of the Bank of France to take part of the loan, says : For the hut two days, the usual organs of the Bank, the Presse and the Dibats, have been striving to defend the de cision come to by the Council of Regency, to take a share of the loan to the amount of 25,000,0001. We have up to the last moment refused our belief in such conduct; but its apologists have become too violent for us not to be convinced that this determination is positively come to. People never contend too warmly for the theory of rights which they do not intend to exercise. Thus it has become an avowed fact, that the Bank is willing to take an interest to the amount of 25,000,000 f. in the new loan. We say is willing, because in fine the intention is not yet acted upon, and we know not yet whether partial tenders can be made. As the Bank will take only 25,000,000 f out of the 250,000,000 f., an under standing must be come to with those who take the rest. Hitherto no one has been mentioned but M. de Rothschild ; and M. de Rothschild may say to the Bank, I have no need of your assistance, and will not give you any part of the loan, without receiving a considerable premium. Or, what would come to the same thing, may not an hypothesis put forth by the National be realised ? May it not happen that M. de Rothschild will refuse to give up any part of the loan to the Bank without stipulating that it shall pay in the first two instalments ? By that be would gain two months, till Jan. 8, the day for the opening of the Chamber*, the moment when confidence and money re-appear, and with them a rise. A gain of 4 per cent. may be easily realised, and all, or nearly all, has been sold, without drawing the purse-strings, with a profit of 10,000,0001., if not 12,000,0001. It is true that the Bank, on its side, will not have made a had bar gain: It will have created for itself testes to the amount of 1,000,000 f., or a revenue of 15f. per share, at 4 per cent. ; or an additional capital of 4001. will be added to each share. Who, then, can complain? No one, undoubtedly, except the opposition journalists, captious spirits, who are ever ready to find or create causes for blame in all things and at all times. Be it so; but, as we are one of them, let us be permitted to give our reasons. Yea! we have already said, and we again repeat, that the measure taken by the Bank is untenable in point of law, dtsutrous in a financial sense, and dangerous in a political point of view. The detailed report of the proceedings of the Swiss diet, on Thursday last, the result of which we gave yesterday, has reached us. The legislative body of the confederation has shown a great solicitude to render it apparent to Europe that, in the extreme exercise of its powers, it has neglected nothing which could have tended to avert the necessity of executing its decrees by armed force. In the present measure no immediate reference is made to the question of the Jesuits. It is the separate league of the seven cantons only which is the declared object of attack, and it is the dissolution of that league which the commander in-chief of the federal army is ordered to effect by armed force. Three documents have been adopted by the diet on Thursday. 1. The decree for the dissolution of the Sonderbuind, and the order to General Dufour to execute it. 2. A proclama tion addressed to the federal army ; and, 3. A manifesto containing a detailed view of the questions which divide the confederations, and a vindication of the policy pur sued by the Diet in relation to them. These were seve rally adopted by the majority of twelve cantons, and two half cantons, which has sanctioned all the former decisions. Immediately after, couriers were des patched to all the cantonal governments, and the French ambassador sent a messenger with despatches to Paris. - Mr. Peel had a long conference with M. Ochsenbein on the morning of the 4th, at which it was reported that an offer of mediation was made on the part of the British government, bat that the president de clared that matters had gone too far to admit of that mode of arrangement. As we mentioned yesterday, Friburg will be the first point of attack. Thirty thousand men, commanded by Colonels Burckhart and Rilliet-Constant, were directed to this object, and were to assemble on Friday last. General Dufour left Berne on the evening of the 4th for the frontier of Lucerne, but it was supposed that he would take no offensive measures until the result of the move ment on Friburg was known. The refusal of Neufchatel to supply its contingent was referred to the committee of seven, and in the meantime the occupation of that principality by the federal troops had been countermanded. No ob struction, however, had been offered to the march of the federal troops through its territory. The dici- I aims et Vaud and Geneva had passed through it on their search to the . German cantons. The difficulty with the half canton of Bale-Ville had been adjusted. It famished its contingent of ar tillery to the federal army, in addition to a double contribution in money. Its infantry, the disp o sition of which towards the Sonderbund was doubtful, was retained for cantonal service. A letter from Lyons says, that on the 4th two battalions of Valaisans had passed by the Sorneteh, and having forced a Bernese poet passed into the territory of Friburg. Le Conservateur states that the federal military stores at Lucerne, belonging to ths federal government, have been placed at the of the council of war of the Sonderb und.ah rool i rdin g to the Leeblaltern, the Austrian ambas sador, after having left Switzerland for Constance, proceeded from the latter to Bregenz, where, it is said, he will remain until the cessation of hostilities. The following is the text of the decree which orders the execution by arms of the decree against the Sonderbund:— The federal diet, considering that by the decision of 20th July of this year the separate league (Sonderbund) of the seven cantons of Lucerne, Uri Schwitz, Unterwalden, Zug, Friburg, and the Valais, was declared incompatible with the dispeeitiona of the federal pact, aad in consequence dis solved • that the said cantons have been held responsible for the ob servance of this decision, and that the diet reserved to itself to take the ulterior measures which circumstances might require; considering that the delegates of the Son derbund cantons did on 20th July depose their declaration that they would not recognise the decision of t diet; con sidering that the said cantons have, before as well so after the 20th July, snide extraordinary military preparations. and constructed entrenchments; that they have caused arms and ammunition to be brought from abroad, evidently with the intention of opposing, even with arms, the execution of the decision taken by the diet ; considering that the said cantons, fat from paying respect to the decision of the llth August, by which they were formally exhorted to abandon all that could disturb the tranquillity of the country, have, both before and after this decision, acted in contraven tion of the decision by restoring the entrenchments, and by continuing their extraordinary military prcparations ; con sidering that the said cantons have refused access to the can tonal authorities, to the federal representatives nominated by the diet ; that almost everywhere in these cantons the cir culation of the conciliatory proclamations of the federal diet has been forbidden, and that in the canton of Lucerne this publication has even been declared subject to punish meat; considering that the propositions of conciliation which have since been made have been rejected by the said cantons, and that all efforts tending to bring the cantons back, by pacific means, to the recognition and the execution of the federal duties which they have sworn to discharge have remained without result ; considering that the delegates of the said cantons did , on 20th October, leave the diet and ' the federal town, and by such as act, coinciding with the declarations and the military dispositions which have since bean taken, have placed themselves in open war against the ecinfederation ; considering after all that it is the im• pensive duty of the federation and of the diet to cause the decisions taken by it to be respected, in conformity with the principles of federal law, and to employ all federal mean' to be prepared for a state of things so threatening to the in terior and exterior safety of the federation : " In conformity with Art. 1,6, and 8 of the federal pact, the diet has decided what follows: Art. 1. The decision of the 20th July of this year, relative to the dissolution of the eeparatc league (Son derbund) formed between the cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwits, Unterwalden, Zug, Friburg, and the Valais, shall be put into execution by means of arms. 2. The com mander-in-chief of the federal troops is charged with the exe cution of the present decision. 3. The diet reserves to itself to take ulterior measures according to circumstances. 4. The vorort is charged to transmit the present decision to the commander-in-chief of the federal troops, to the federal council of war, and to all the cantonal goveLm . cote." We have advices from Rome to the 30th, and from Naples to the 31st ult. All efforts to dissuade Car dinal Ferretti from retiring from office had proved unavailing. He is succeeded by Cardinal Amat, legate of Bologna. The most painful regret prevailed in consequence at Rome, not from any distrust of the new Secretary of State, but from a deep sense of the lose to the liberal party of so firm a friend as Cardinal Ferretti has proved himself on so many trying occa sions. Cardinal Amat, with the best dispoeitions, has yet to master the official business, and learn to frus trate the tricks of the foreign diplomatists with whom he will be surrounded, the chief object of some of whom will oe to obstruct the progress of every liberal policy. Two re-actionaries, M. Somtucci, under secretary of state, and M. Mastorri, have been dis missed from office, and are replaced by M. M Beg, a nephew of Cardinal Ferretti, and another liberaL M. Lavelli was named governor of Rome in place of M. Morandi, who had resigned. Profound tranquillity continued in the capital. In the letters from Naples there is nothing to qua lify the information already received. the same picture of unmitigated despotism, military tribunals, arbitrary taxation, and a despairing and impoverished people continues to be presented. A letter from Turin of the 3rd says . _ _ Today, which is the King's fete, his Majesty left for Genoa. Early in the morning the streets leading to the palace, and in particular the square and long street of the Po, were crowded with people wearing a blue riband at the breast, and many of them carrying flags, and singing songs composed for the purpose. The King rode through this crowd on honetack amidst cries a thousand times repeated of " Long live Charles Albert! Long live the King of Italy ! Long live reforms and Pius IX. !" His Majesty was escorted by a numerous staff, with his two sons by his side. Flom tine to time he put his handkerchief to his face to conceal his emotion. All the shops were closed, and the balconies of the houses dressed out with flags. When the King ar rived at the bridge of the Po he alighted from his horse, and entered a carriage to continue his route to Genoa. There were several ladies in full dress in the crowd, and they joined in the songs of the people. The shouts of the people, when the procession u• rived in trent of the house of the Minister of the Interior, who is said to have advised the late decree of reform, were tremendous. The police had their arms reversed, and very few gendarmes were seen in the streets. In the evening the theatre was illuminated, and surge in honour of the King were sung by the actors and the audience. The syndics of Genoa published the following pro clamation on the 2nd instant : Fellow-citizens, —When you desisted, at the desire of your municipal magistracy, from those demonstrations which, though legitimate and inoffensive, might have be come inconvenient or dangerous, by too frequent repetition, we assured you at the time that oar beneficint sovereign was maturing those institutions that formed the object of your desires, and will be the firoundwork of your happiness. fhe hopes of all are now being realised, for you are ac quainted with the sovereign acts already sanctioned, which are a pledge of happier days to come. His Majesty King Charles Albert will, according to custom, be among us on the evening of the 4th inst. You yourselves have expressed the intention of illuminating your dwellings, as a mark of sincere exultation ; and we, while approving your intention, exhort you at the same time to carry it into effect with de corum, while we inform you that all the public buildings will be illuminated also. You were the first to acknowledge the propriety of pacific demonstrations of gratitude towards the excellent prince who will leave his people in no point in ferior to others in that civil life that is now rising proudly in every Italian province. Preserve unaltered the dignified tranquillity you have hitherto observed, as a homage to the sovereign, and a sure pledge of social progress. • - - - - - - Festivals nod rejoicings have taken place at Novara, Alba, Carmagnola, Mondovi, Pineralo, Cirie , and other places of the Piedmontese dominions, on the occasion of the recent reforms. "If a letter from Rome is to be believed," says the Constittakinnel, " the Doke of Lucca, being exceedingly short of money, has not only disposed of his duchy, but sold his gallery of pictures to a rich Englishman. Unfortunately, the duke's agent, it is said, after having touched the price, has fled to America." _ The Nourelhate of Marseilles states, on the autho rity of a letter from Naples, that the Neapolitan government has declared that the law of the 13th August last, lowering the duty on salt, and abolishing the tax on the grinding of corn, is not to be appli cable to Sicily. MADRID, Nor. 3. On Monday night the troops were ordered to re main under arms, and other military precautions were taken, as in times when the public safety is impe rilled. As there appears to exist not the least syrup ton of even a tendency towards popular disturbance without, the only explanation which these warlike preparations admit is the existence of a danger which menaces the government from some high quarter within. In fact, it is supposed that General Narvaea, first deprived of his portfolio from a disinclination of the Queen to despatch business with a minister by whom she had been so brutally insulted in the arrest and banishment of Mirall ; next condemned to submit to the thousand expressive slights with which offended sovereigns know how to mark their displeasure; lastly, foiled in his attempt to turn out Cordova and Roe de Olano, by the official tenacity of those courtiers receiving encouragement from the throne —tottering in his seat of President, and per haps receiving some intimation from his new advanced poet in the Palace, the governor Mirailores, that his dismissal was imminent, deter mined to fall back upon his old resource, the army, and to make some decided demonstration to show that he was not disposed to abandon his post without an appeal to arms. If this should be the correct inter pretation of the military movements of Monday night, it is highly probable that Narvaez will have only precipitated his fall by so rash a defiance of the head of the state. The Queen is not of a temper to be inti midated easily, or to be braved with impunity by a subject ; and as, in each a case, she might count with certainty upon the national support, it is to be sup posed that the latent spirit of her character will not fail to assert the supremacy of her authority, and to , appeal to councils by which she may be delivered from such prtetorian tyranny. Her natural resource for advice, under such circumstances, would be Chris tina ; and Christina would take advantage of the crisis to put in her moat decided partisans. But to throw over Narvaez with safety, the chiefs of the army must be gained. If Concha were a friend of Christina, nothing would be simpler; but no sort of alliance exists between them. Her chief supporters are civilians, as Martinez de la Rosa, Mon, and Pidal. It was the want of a powerful military ally that made the Queen Mother entertain the notion of advancing the Duke of Montpensier to a high command in the Spanish army. If the Queen then Sod that Christina is impotent to cope with the military superiority of Narvaez, she may probably seek protectors against his tyranny in another quarter. She may, perhaps, call Espartero to take his seat in the senate. Meantime, it is said that the Duke of Victoria has refused the post of ambassador in London. This re fusal, foreseen by the Spanish government, was fol lowed, we hear, by the communication of an order, through Istaritz to remain in London until the government's fur ther pleasure should be known. As all the progresistas expected great effects to follow from Espartero taking his seat as senator in the approaching parliament, this is a blow to their hopes which has drawn forth loud complaints from the Eco. The demonstrations of sympathy with M. Guizot which the Heralds gives on the affairs of Switzer land, are received with great dissatisfaction by many even among the moderados. The Clamor's challenges conwrniag money abuses affecting the interests of the nation have attracted some attention. Don C,esario Saenz, himself a pro , gresista, has written two letters explaining the part which he took in the transactions with Ardoin, the banker, during his stay at Paris, and denies the charges of the Clamor. However, it is inferred from his assertion that his accession to the demands of Ar doin and Co., on Sept. 27, had not readied him in an " official form," that he was not devoid of extra official information to the same purport. A letter from Paris, in the Espanol, of yesterday, affirms that the diplomatic negotiations between Eng land and France, with respect to the Spanish succes sion, will in all probability decide in proposing to the Spaniel government the re-establishment of the Salle law; and that the opinions and wishes of Louis Phi lippe upon this subject have latterly undergone a very decided change. Unless France were quite sincere in uniting with England to propose the re enactment of the Salle law, such a law could hardly be carried through the present Cortes : but a bond fide union of both governments would soon break down all peninsular opposition. In the meantime we have been so often secretly counteracted by France, while she has overtly extended her hand in co-operation, that even if the negotiations at Paris should have such a result as the correspondent of the Espanol supposes, it by no means follows that the French ambassador should not receive instructions to foment the opposition at Ma drid, which has been given up at Paris. Other letters from Paris give out as certain the appointment of M. Bacourt as ambassador at Madrid, and insinuate, ri diculously enough, that his knowledge of the English language has a diplomatic meaning. 'I hey say Roncali is to be made Captain-General of the Havannab, and Pavia or Fulgosio are talked of as his successors at Madrid. Gaertner, aide-de-camp to Narvaez for several years, and his companion abroad, has been appointed commander-general of the pro vince of Huesca. . _ . The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, with his eon, arrived at Seville, on Oct. 30. Miraflores, the Duke of Gor, and the Prince of Anglona, are talked of for the presidency, and two vice-presidencies of the senate in the coming session. The moderados have been victorious in the municipal elections hitherto in every district but two. ITALY.—LEGIIORN, Ocr. 29.—Ibrahim Pacha arrived here this day, on board a French frigate, coming from Malta. His suite is composed of forty persons. It is said he intends to pass the winter at Pisa. BELGlUNl.—Baessets, Nov. B.—The King pre sided in council on the 7th, when the speech from the throne yes presented for his Majesty's definite sanction. The King also gave an audience to Baron de Vriese, the newly ap pointed governor of the province of Namur. The chambers I will meeton the 9th. _ _ HOLLAND. —Tag HAGUE, Nov. 6.—lt will be recollected that, some time ago, the father of a family of seven children made a claim on the Dutch government for the support of the seventh one, grounding his pretensions on the imperial law of the 27th Nivose An. XI I 1., a law passed, as the foregoing dates and month show, during the occupation of Holland by the French. The claim was resisted on the plea that the law in question was an obsolete or a repealed one. The claimant, however, with true Dutch pertinacity, only urged his claim the more vehemently, and at last in duced some able legal gentlemen to come to his aid. An action was accordingly brought against the government, and the final upshot was that the claim was pronounced to be a legal one. Immediately after the publication of this im portant decision a host of fathers forwarded similar claims to the government on behalf of their respective seventh child. The majority of those claims were allowed, and the government (as stated in the Journal de la Ilaye of this evening) has laid before the States General a bill for rasing 70,000 florins for carrying into effect the provisions of the imperial law in question, and for paying the expenses (36,000 florins) of the law-suite referred to. By the 29th Nivose the state was charged with the expenses of educating the seventh child ; the present government, however, have decided on paying 2.10 florins per year, for four years, to each father of a seventh (living) child, instead of taking upon itself to provide for the education of the latter. It appears that, during the current year, 136 children will be thus provided for; 363 in 1848; 460 in 1849 ; and 512 in 1850. From the last year, until 1861, the number of children will gradually diminish, and in the year 1861 only three children will be placed as a burthen on the state. In that year only will the law be repealed, so that existing rights will not be injured. PRUSSIA.—BEEsinu t OcT. 31. The Silesian journals are full of the details of the inundations caused by the overflowing of the Neisse, the Oder, and the Katzbacb. The losses caused by the inundations are said to be con siderable. _ _ . . HESSE DARYBTADT, Nov. 3.—A servant belonging to the Count of Gorlitz hat been taken into custody. The maid cook of the count, having remarked that this domestic had drawn near the dishes prepared for his master, and touched them, mentioned the circumstance to the Count of Gond.. The latter refused to tote them, and immediately seat for the medical Councillor Stegmayer, who, on exa mining the contents, found a great quantity of verdigris. M. Stegmayer immediately caused the men to be arrested. This person had been for several years in the service of the Countess de Gorlitz, and had been attached but a few weeks since to the puma of the count. The father of the do. mestic has likewise been taken into custody, and a great number of valuable articles were found in his possession. WURTEMBERG.—Uut, Nov. I.—The Rhenish Observer, in t letter of the above date, says " What has been announced by certain papers, as to the probable movement of troops towards the Swim frontier, is without foundation ; nor is it true that the grand duchy of Baden and Bavaria are making preamitioas to increase the troops at the frontier." 618 EDEN.—Srocimoul, OCT. 26.—1 t is asserted that on account of the spread of the cholera the diet will assemble for the future in Malino instead of in the capital. Forty houses were lately destroyed by fire in Fahlun. The entire coast from Kellen to Tornea is placed under quaran tine, in order to guard against the cholera. Jenny Lind has safely arrived in Stockholm. MOROCCO. TANGIERS, Ocr. 27. ABD-EL KADZR.—A letter of the above date in the Prose says : M u ley Abderrah ma n has left Rabat to proceed to Mequinez, and from thence to Fez, where he fiat present, and from which place he proposes to observe the events of the Riff. Un fortunately winter approaches, and it is to be feared that the operations, which are scarcely commenced, may be inter rupted by the bad weather. The exactions and cruelty of the emperor towards his subjects already bear their fruits. The tribes which he has despoiled and decimated rose after his departure, and pillsgedseveral convoys destined for him. Some of the imperial troops were obliged to turn back to chastise the insurgent., who have tied to the woods and mountains, to again make their appearance when the Moorish army shad be opposed to Abd.el-Keder. The au thority of the ex-Emir, which had been shaken in the Riff, is at present stronger than ever. The Emperor at length comprehends the danger of his procrastination and teen poriaing ; three of his Isom, Si-Mohammed, Muley-Solisnan, and M uley-Ahmed, have received orders to go at the head of 16,000 men against A.bd-el•Kader, and to do everything to arrest his progreis, and destroy his influence. It i. now 114M0 days since the three princes left Fez. Si-Mohammed and Marley-Solinsan have entered Tata, where they have shut themselves up with 8,000 men, and Muley-Ahmed has gone into the mountains of the Riff with the rest of the troops. The struggle, consequently, is about to commence, and Abd-el.Kader is not without anxiety. There is a great agitation in the deira, the council being divided ; some propose to attack the imperial army in front, others wish only to annoy it by skirmishes, to divide it in order to de stroy it in detail, so that the numerical weakness may be made up for by military skill and promptitude of operations. Abd-el-Kader appears irresolute, but it is supposed that he is decided to fight a pitched battle. some decisive event is, therefore, about to take place, and it may be affirmed that all will depend on the attitude of the tribes of the Kiff. If they join Abitel-Kader, the Moorish troops will be worsted ; if, on the contrary, they join the Emperor, Abet el-Kader is lost for ever, and will have no other resource but to with- The surface of the Austrian dominions being 11,577 square miles, and each square mile containing 10,000 jocks, the total area is 115,770,000 jocks, and of these, we find by the above table, 98,092,941, or nearly nine -tenths, are under cultivation. While in England, out of 52 millions of acres, 34 millions, or not quite seven-tenths, are cultivated. But it must be borne in mind that, in Austria, the cultivation in many places is not very productive, and that nowhere is it tarried to that perfection in which it is seen in this country. The value of these agricultural products is thus officially stated : £ Land-Tae. Austria-under-the-Ems Austria up the Ems .... Styria Citinthis and Cirniola 2,434,116 10,318 Coast Land .......... Trel „ 3,734,288 6019 Bohemia ._ 20,443,419 5.4137 Moravia and /212mi0 Galicia Dalmatia Venice Military boundary-- 3,481,748 102,360 Hungary 42,080,253 .—„, 440,522 Trinitylvmlia Total £137,502,474 t 3,862,23 7. According to this statement, the produce of the soil is taxed at the rate of nearly 3 per cent. ; the highest tax, nearly 10 per cent., is in Venice ; and the lowest, I per cent., in 'lnner,. In estimating the comparative amount of our own agricultural produce, we must bear in mind that the average prices in Austria are scarcely one-third of what they are in Great Britain. If the high prices in Great Bri tain are not indicative of asound economical system, still less so are the low prices of Austria, especially of Hangaria, where they must be looked upon as a great national calamity arising from the want of roads through the centre of that pro vince, and from other causes, which we shall probably treat of in a future article. draw to the desert, or surrender unconditionally to France. The ex-Emir is doing everything to maintain himself in the Riff. He is making great preparations, and the rest of the Hechem and the Bent-Amen who have escaped from the disaster of their tribes have joined his army : they thirst for revenge, and are most anxious again to meet the Emperor's troops. The number et the men who have thus come to swell the battalions of Abd-el-Kader is calculated at 2,000." AUSTRIAN STATISTICS. Having in our former article given a sketch of Austria's foreign commercial activity, we shall now endea vour to present our readers wit► a view of the internal con struction and condition of this great empire. The following table shows the population as compared with the surface, according to the census of 1842 t I ,V i g y S'— Provlacan. §; l 3 : Pii Mja Austria wader the lbw. 313.8 4579 16493 306411 1417783 4124 up the Mad 332.4 6833 127161 147214 8.541741 1.543 708.6 3789 10225 s 1961 2 0 983744 2519 m Carthis dal . Qtrabols 293. n 1894 118251 15730. 746496 2140 Coon Load INA 948 orml 117776 486436 2.16" Tyrol 60.1 WO 1196.11 INTO 842788 168 5 lk.hodml9 . 902.7 17018 57 4 970 971563 4219140 4740 Moravia asdillarla 470.0 3672 308717 405442 Tt.n73' 4646 Maki& Dalmatia 212.3 977 74619 66677. 401641 laud Lombardy 375.1 2741 299627 3148. A. 7100741 434 Vualca 4167)814 304214 423221, 2202:411 1311 11urgrary ..... Tratvrylvartia 964.8 234 317500 314119 2108405 2796 Military Bouadarko 8810 3970 141610 130817 125050.3 1747 Total 113774 874549 5036544 7444108 35804151 Yrl3 Now, this total of 115,774 square miles is equal to 218,440 English square miles. There are 164 souls to every English square mile in Austria, while in the United Kingnom there are 27 millions of inhabitants on an area of 120,354 square mile., or 225 to every square mile. This difference arises chiefly from the geological tormatioa of the Tyrol, Dalmatia, and the military boundary, which makes those districts but ill suited for the small amount of cultivation they receive, and some parts of them inc ipable of any cultivation. The inhabited districts contoin 773 towns, 2,468 marketplaces, and 64,218 villages. The population consists of 17,674,715 males, and 18,129,487 females; of these 508,195 are soldiers; 24,874,139 Roman catholic.; 3,504,431 Rus sian Greeks; 2,9 5 4,975 Greeks; 1,207,309 Lutherans; 2,037,479 Protestants ; 45,769 Unitarians ; 668,900 Jews ; 2,949 of various sects. In 1842, 293,846 couples were married ; 1,445,210 souls were born ; and 1,131,98-5 died. The illegitimate births were Ito 71, by far the largest proportion, as might be expected, being in Vienna, where it was as Ito 2. Of the deaths (Hungary not included), 8,104 were unnatural ; and of these, 917 were suicidal, 51 by hydrophobia, 617 by murder, 6,409 acci dental, and 40 by capital punishment. In 1842, the population was 36,201,671. The population does not on an average increase more than one per cent. per annum. Turning our attention to the cultivation of the soil, we And it thus distributed: Zbe Court. WINDSOR, TCE.SDAY.—To-day was the birthday of the Prince of Wake. The first battalion of the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards on duty here were inspected this morning by the Queen and Prince Albert, who were accompanied by the Prince of Wales and also by Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prince'. Alice. The inspection took place in the Home Park. Count Dietrichatein, the Austrian Ambassador, and the other vi sitors of her Majesty, with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, were present at the inspection. The Queen had a dinner party this evening. The company included the Duchess of Kent, the Count end Countess Dietrichstein, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, Baroness de Speth, Dowager Lady Lyttelton and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, Sir George and Lady Couper, L ieut.-Col. Craufurd (commanding Gre nadier Guards), and Lieut. Col. Smith (commanding Royal Horse Guards). The Duke of Cimbridgc left his residence at Kew, yesterday, for the Royal Military College, at S indhunt. A deputation, including Messrs. John Savory, Thomas W. R. Morton, and James Bell, hid an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Rome-office. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at their resi dence in Chesham-place. yesterday, front Richmond Park. Dr. Nicholl had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey.—Dr. B. Hawkins had also an interview with the right hon. baronet, at the Home-office. BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCE OP WALES.—On the occasion of the birth-day of the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Kent came over from Frogmore-house and breakfasted with the Queen and Prince Albert. A splendid birth-day cake adorned the table. On the top of the cake, upon a crimson cushion, wee the crown of the Prince of Wales, surmounted by a plume of marabout feathers. Around the base of the cushion were a variety of cornucopias, tilled with bouquets of rare flowers from the royal conserva tories. [From last night's Gazelle.] FOREIGN -OFFICE, Nov. s.—Tho Qaeen has ap proved of Mr. L. Farruiria, as consul at Malta for the Sultan of Turkey ; and of Dlr. W. B. MacCebe, as consul in London fur the Oriental republic of the Uruguay. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nor. 6. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Sre. apt P. 11. Mundy to be adj., Voung, who rung= the adjutancy milt Nov. IL—Coma of Royal Eugneers.—bre. Capt. C. F. Skyring to be eapt., v. Broughton ; Finn Lieut. C. C. Owen to be sec. captain, v. Skyring ; Sea Lieu t. R. IL Mallen to be Ant lieut., v. Owns. RETURN OF LORD HARDINGL—It hu been al ready announced that the steam frigate Sidon was to be ready to convey the Earl of Dalhousie, the newly-appointed Governor-General and suite, to Alexandria, en route to Cal-. cutter. The Sidon is to be at Alexandria by Dec. 4, is readi nem to embark Lord Hardinge and suite, en route for Eng- I.tnd front Calcutta, and to convey hint to Marseilles or Portsmouth, as be may desire. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. The annual state procession of the Lord M ayor, sheriffs, and other civic dignitaries, to Westminster, took place yesterday, according to =memorial custom. The pagea nt , as it passed through Thames -street, displayed all the be. painted and bedizened pomp of a daylight theatrical caval cade, wherein the chief actors were grave magistrates and rich merchants. Comparing the show with similar exhibi_ tions in former years, there was little to attract attention, unless it was the formal impressment into the service of about half a hundred of the old tars of Greenwich, earl of whom in his characteristic national (hospital) ccotume was provided with a tin shield and a baton, and thus caps risoned, the pensioners of England's navy marched two and two in front of the Fishmonger-sheriff, whose connexion with the sea was thus strongly indicated. A multitude of sight seers waylaid the procession on its progress down Queen-street and through Thames-street to Blackfnars bri4e, but the precautions taken by the police to maiutain index were successful in preventing accidents. The water procession reached Westminster-bridge shortly before 2 o'clock, when the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and Wiens constituting the civic earli . ge, disembarked, and proceeded on foot to Westminster Hall, while the barge of the Stationers' Company went on to Lambeth Palace to make the usual presentation to the Archbishop of Ca n terbury of the almanacs published fur the ensuing year.—The Lord Mayor, pree e d a d by the City Marshals, and attended by the late Lad M a y or, the recorder, sheriffs, aldermen, and under sheriffs, on entering Westminster Hall, advanced to the Court of Ex chequer,and having taken his position in the Queen's com a ' bar, the recorder, in a laudatory speech, introduced to th e court the Lord Mayor elect —The Lord Chief Baron ad. dressed a few words of congratulation to the new dignitary. the usual oaths of office were then administered to the Lori Mayor by the Queen'. Reniembrancer, and the ex-Lord Mayor having handed in his accounts, the Recorder, in the name of the Lord Mayor and sheriff., invited the Lo r d Chi ef Baron and his learns brethren to the banquet at Guildhall. The Lord Mayor, attended as before, then left the court, and proceeded in succession to the Court of Queen'. Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Courts of the L rd Chan. (eller, the Mauler of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor of Eng land, and those of the two Vice-Cnancellors, where the invi tation to the banquet was repeated. This concluded, the civic authorities re-embarked, and proceeded on their return to Guildhall. _ . TILE BANQUET AT Gritnua it. commenced shortly bef o r e seven o'clock. The preparations were upon the usual exten sive scale. Some judicious means were adopt, d for im proving the lighting and ventilation of the interior, by the construction of a large conservatory adjoining one of the prin ripe' apartment.. This was made ornamental as well as useful by good store of plants, and the addition of a pie. tonal representation of Henry VIII. and his retinue em barking from the Tower of London. The picture included a view of old London-bridge covered with houses, and a sketch of the ancient cathedral of St. Paul. From the ailing of the great hall were suspended the two magnificent chan deliers which were manufactured for the occasion of the ban quet to her Majesty the Queen, soon after her accesion. These chandeliers measure twelve feet in diameter, and are of coloured glam, having the royal arms and initials with national emblems painted in the several compartments, and being enriched with prisms of cut glass produces on the whole a most beautiful effect. On each side of the hall the walls were illuminated with almo-t innumerable gas jet' along the whole of their Gothic compartments and cornices. These and various other parts of the ball were tastefully ornamented with tl spa, batmen, pieces of armour, and military trophies and devices, Tarnished from the stores of her Majesty's ordnance. In the great west window was displayed the Star of the Order of the Garter, composed of brilliant glass drops, which has al ways been an object of attraction. In the window at the opposite or east end there was this year introduced a novelty of a singularly curious and beautiful character. At the bath of the window, and immediately over the Lord Mayor's meat, were the words, " God save the Queen !" in large and brilliant letters, and immediately above, in the midst of an elaborate trophy, was placed, in honour of the birthday of the Prince of Wales, a magnificent plume of feathers with the usual appendage of royal coronet and motto, " lett Dien," This object measures nine feet in height, and, with the ex ception of the stems, which are of gilt metal, is composed entirely of spun glass of the finest texture and most dazzling whiteness; the fibres which constitute the feathery portioe of the plume are as fine as hair, and have the son and glossy appearance of silk ; their flexibility admits of being formed into the most perfectly natural shape, and thus a highly graceful elegance has been preserved in the whole arrange ment. This singular adaptation of glass was said to be the first known instance of its kind. It is altogether an ob ject of great beauty and skill as a specimen of art. As a matter of curiosity it may be added that the combined length of the several fibres of glass employed in the construe, tion of this interesting ornament is equal to 50,000 miles. The Court of Exchequer was converted into a dining-room for a portion of the guests, for whom accommodation could not be provided in the hall itself. It was ornamented with a num ber of large and fine paintings, including the one recently presented to the corporation of the King of the French (described in another column). This picture, which contains the portraits of most of the leading civic function aries, was an object of much attraction throughout the evening. The council chamber, with its collection of paint ings and sculpture, was appropriated as usual for the pre sentation of guests to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress prior to the banquet, and as the retiring room afterwards. B 3 an outlet at the upper end of this room visitors passe through a small ante-room into the Court of' Aldermen 's chamber, elegantly fitted up as a withdrawing room. From openings made by the removal of the two large windows at the en of this apartment, the company obtained a view of another new embellishment, more startling perhaps than any thatpreceded it. This was a representation of part of the Alpine pass across Mount Simplon. In this instance an attempt has been made to convey an idea of the grand. or and wildness al the scene, not merely by a painting on a plain surface, but (after the manner used at the Colosseum) by erecting actual structures, and employing other accessories to represent the various features of it. The scene therefore occupies the whole area of a large courtyard, and may in fact be called a model of the locality it represents, which is the gorge and gallery of Oondo, with the waterfall of the Frascieodi, en ibe Italian side of the Simplon, about four leagues from Demo D'Ossola. It is intended by the corporation that all these decorations (including the plume of feathers, the Alpine scene, and the conservatory), shall remain up for use at the Polish ball, which will take place on the 17th inst. Accommodation was provided for between 800 lad 1,000 Rests. The arrangements were directed by the Lord Mares committee, and were unexceptionable, except so far as the position asaigned to the reporters, who were so placed that it was all but impossible for them to hear a word of what was passing at the principal table ; but as this was an inconve nience shared in by at leas: live-sixths of the whole company it was no doubt unavoidable. The hall was opened to the .nrited at half-past three o'clock, and many of those who bad not joined in the procession to Westminster made their appearance at that early hour. But it was the return of the procession that brought the crash, and from the arrival of the first carriage of the cortege until the hour of dinner, the announcement of guests ; and the musical salutes which greeted the more important of them were incessant. Lord John Russell arrived shortly before half-past six, and was received with the most enthusi astic greetings. The other members for the City of London, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Auckland, and Lord Denman, were also cordially welcomed. On the right of the Lord Mayor at the upper table sat the late Lord Mayor ( Ald. Sir G. Carroll) Lord Russell, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hen. Fox. Maule, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., the Duke de Broglie (the French ambas sador), the Prussian, American, Dutch Mexican, Saxon, Swedish, and Sardinian Ministers ; the 'Hon. Sir Edward Cast, Count de Jarnac, Mons. Felix Cotter, Admiral Dun dee, Admiral Prescott. Hon. W. Cowper, H. Rich, /I P., Sir C. G. Young (Garter), J. Parker, Esq., M.P., H. Tufnell, Esq., M.P., IL G. Ward, Req., M.P., B. Haws, Esq., R. W. Grey, Esq., M.P., Sir Felix Booth, Bart., Mr. Sheriff Cubitt and lady ; and on the left the Lady Mayoress, the late Lady Mayoress, Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice Wilde, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Sheriff Hill and lady, Mr. Justice Creswell, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Justice Williams, the Attorney-General, Lord Dudley Stuart, Right Hon. W. Biogham Baring, J. Pattison, Esq., 11. P., Baron Rothschild, M. l'., J. Walter, Esq., M.P., de. no dinner (which, with the exception of the turtle soup, of which, as usual, there was a profuse supply) was cold. "Non nobis " having been cbaunted, and the " loving asp" having paned, the LORD MAYOR gave the following toasts in succession " lier Majesty the Queen ;" " The (Nita Dowager, and may she speedily return to this country with restored health ; ' " His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the rest of the royal family ;" all of which were drunk with the accustomed honours. The Lola MAYOR next gave : " The Navy and Army," coupling the toast with the health' of the Earl of Auckland and Sir E. Cust. The Earl of Auckland, on the part of the navy, and Sir E. Cult, on the part of the army, severally re turned thanks, assuring their host that the approbation of their country was the highest reward the two services which they respectively represented aspired to.—The next toast was, " Preeperity to the City of London and its trade." The Loan MAYOR next gave "The Right lion. the late Lord Mayor," passing upon him a high eulogium in respect to the manner in which he had performed his duties as chief magistrate during his year of office. Alderman Sir G. CARROLL returned thanks. It gave him great gratification to find that his conduct during his year of office had met with their approval, and he assured them that next to his own consciousness of having done his duty to the best of his ability, this public expression of the satis faction of his brother citizens was his greatest reward. The Louo MAYOR then said My lords, ladies, and gen tlemen, we are honoured here to-day by the presence of many distinguished guests, and amongst them not only are there the ministers who conduct the affairs of this country, but many who represent the interest' of the most important foreign nations. I look upon their presence here es a most gratifying circumstance, and as the best security we can have for the maintenance of the amity and peace of Europe and the world. (Cheers.) In the maintenance of peace the true interests of all countries consist" ; and in coupling with the toast I am about to give you the foreign ministers who have done as the honour to be our guests to-day, the health of the Due de Broglie, the ambassador of France, I am sure you will agree with me, that between no two coun tries is it more important for the interests of the world and of civilisation that the relations of amity and peace should continue than between France and England.—The toast was enthusiastically responded to. _ _ . The Duc DE BROOLIB returned thanks ; but, owing to the cause before referred to, whether he spoke in French or English we are unable to say, for not one syllable of his ob servations reached our reporter. 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