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THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 13, 1858. 1102 the cavalry for one son, and the artillery for another. LORD AND LADY LYNDHURST, and the Hon. Miss Copley, who have been residing several months at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, are expected in town early in the ensuing month. The veteran lawyer and states man, we are gratified to add, is in the enjoyment of the best of health. VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON arrived in town on Tuesday from Broadlands. The noble viscount and her ladyship have been honcured with invitations to visit the Emperor and Empress of the French at Compiilne. TIIE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AND MRS. DISRAELI have arrived in London from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Volittcal. Guildhall in the evening, at which there were present among the guests—the Earl of Carlisle, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of York, the Hon. and Rev. S. W. Lawley, the Hon. \V. E. I)uncombe, and the city members, Mr. Westhead and Colonel Swyth. The Lou] .Mayor presided. After several toasts had been drunk, The LORD MAYOR proposed the " Health of the Earl of Carlisle," which was received with enthu siastic cheering. The Earl of CARLISLE rose, and, after a few pre liminary observations, expressive of his pleasure at being present on so interesting an occasion, pro ceeded to say : You have this day, my lord, with your fellow•citizens planted in a conspicuous position wthin this venerable town some of those cannon which formerly frowned—ay and spoke, too, in most destructive accents from the walls Sebastopol. If they were merely to serve as the memo rials of national strife and of continued ill-will, I could scarely have congratulated you upon the grant you hsd obtained. We only now know the Russians as those whom we found brave and skilful foes, and whom we are now glad to look upon as friends. Nay, more, we trace with , anxious interest and sympathy the course of the young Emperor, who did not begin, but who ended the war between us, and who seems now intent on developing the pacific resources of his mighty empire, and striking off the yoke and fetters of the serf. I wish we may have reason to say quite as much of all our allies in the late war. But those guns, however, may be justly considered as the monument of deeds nobly done by all classes of our fellow subjects; of the brightest achievement and no less heroic endurance of the officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom ; of the just renown of that army which seemed to come out of its sharp and fiery ordeal with more freshness, and glow, and vigour even than marked them at its opening. No doubt the pluck was at all times the same; but, in point of health, of equipment, and of general efficiency, they kept advanc ing with every strain of the conflict, and the greater the wear and the tear grew the toughness of their fibre, and the brightness of their polish. Most suitably, then, will these old Russian guns, transferred from their past theatre of strife and bloodshed, become the spot where you, my lord, this day have placed them, close to the circuit of these ancient walls whose mounds formed the encampment of old Roman Emperors, which witnessed many an em battled array of feudal England, and which looked down, I believe, upon the widest plain of a peaceful Lind, and where, I trust, their ministry of death and destruction being now accomplished tbey will have found their undisturbed and final resting place. My lord and gentle men, our military friends have not been able to join us on this occasion from a feeling, if not an excess, of delicacy, which we must respect although we must still regret. But they will know that, whether present or absent, all our hearts bound to our brave defenders, to whom we owe it that we can meet together in splendid civic halls and quaff the peaceful and friendly gob;et. And, as an expression of our feelings towards the military service generally, and an especial recognition of the memories of this heroic anniversary, henceforth only to be happily associated with the glories of an united patriotism, I beg to give to you, " The brave men who perilled their lives in the Crimea in defence of the liberty of nations. The noble earl, who was loudly cheered throughout his speech, having resumed his seat, Captain Mar shall, of the 2nd Life Guards, returned thanks. In responding to the toast of " the City members," Mr. J. P. B. Westhead, M.P., confessed that notwith standing the strange views which at this day, and in certain influential quarters, are expressed on peace, it appeared 'o him war seems a positive duty. He proceeded to say : I should be sorry for one moment to appear to attack on this occasion any person who may differ from me in regard to this question of war and peace, but I think that that talented man, Mr. Bright, the other day at Birmingham, admitted, perhaps, quite as much as it is necessary for me, or for any other Englishman, to contend for upon this question. I took an extract from the speech of Mr. Bright, which, with your permission, I will now read. lie said : I have not, as you have observed, pleaded that this country should remain without adequate and scientific means of de. fence. I acknowledge it to be the duty of your statesmen at ell times, with all possible moderation, but with all possible efficiency, to take steps which shall preserve order within and ou the confines of your kingdom. Well, I shall be content with that, and there will be no difference between myself and Mr. Bright on that subject, except on the question of degree. I assure you I cannot but feel a sympathy for those brave men who went forth and perilled their lives in the Crimea, maintaining, as they did most gallantly, the honour and fame of our country. An orator, to whom I alluded, said that he supposed many of those brave men wbo fell were forgotten by all but their mothers. Not so. It is, indeed, bat natural mothers should weep over their sons, though they cannot but feel the glory that attacht.s to their name, falling as they did in the cause of their country. Yon have not forgotten those heroes, and their names, which I understand are recorded in connection with the ceremony of the day, are placed on the stones of the pedestal on the site which.yon have selected for these monuments of British fame. Colonel Smyth, M.P., who also acknowledged tho compliment, observed in the course of his speech : We are met today to celebrate a great event —an event which you have, in my opinion, most p roperly taken th is opportunity of celebrating. We desire to du so, not, au nes said by my noble friend (the Earl of Carlisle), if ha will allow me to call him so, in any vi n di ct i ve or boastful spirit ; we wish not to revive any of the pain s or t h e heart. burnings which occurred at the time of the Crimean w ar; but we are met to-day, and 1 don't hesitate to say so pub. licly, to celebrate a great victory—a victory which woali not hays been worthy of the fame it has obtained if our foes had that day been less gallant, our enemies been less persevering than they were. We desire in this city of York to express our admiration of the gallant deeds that were performed at lnkermann,—our commiseration and our mourning for those who fell on that bloody held where over-matched and surprised British soldiers held their ground spinet countless numbers, whom the timely arri. val of our French allies enabled us successfully to resist. The hon. gentleman concluded by expressing an opinion that we do not take as much care as we should of the British soldier. Among the other toasts were " The Lord Mayor," " The Dean and Chapter of York," " Earl de Grey and the Yorkshire Hussars," and "Miss Nightingale and the Ladies who assisted her in the Crimea." On the same evening about seventy of the men resident in York who in arms served their country in the Crimea, sat down to a dinner which had been provided by public subscription, when the valuable services of the army were duly acknowledged. A CABINET Comectr. was held on Monday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were:— The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakingtoo, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. THE BOARD OF TRADE has very wisely resolved to help poor coastmen and fishermen with weather glasses for use on our exposed and dangerous shores. Government has placed a barometer, experi mentally, at St. Iv, s, and mean to place another in Mount's Bay. The Scotch Fishery Board has tried the experiment with success. THE INDIAN RELIEF FUND, up to the present data, including interest accruing on investments, amounts to 433,620/. Of this sum 127,286/. has been de spatched for distribution in India, besides which power has been given to the authorities in that country to draw for 10,0001. more. At home reliet has been granted to the extent of 35,727 L, and, as the expenses of management during the entire period (including upwards of 4,0001. for advertising) amount to only some 6,0001., there is a balance of more than 205,0001. still available. The committee have given a general account of the distribution made at home ; 86 widows and orphans of officers, 2 , i, orphans of officers, 298 widows, and 423 children of soldiers, 6 widows of clergymen, and 23 widows and orphans of civilians, have shared in the relief which the munificence of their countrymen provided. Rittrogolitan. THE NEW LORD MAYOR. ALDERMAN WIRE was sworn iu, on Monday, at Guildhall, as Lord Mayor of London. The p r esen• tation of the new chief magistrate to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer took place on the following day with the usual formalities ; the civic progress from the realms of Gog and Magog to Westminster attracting, as usual, large crowds of sight seers. THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET. The grand banquet given by the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs to celebrate their accession to office tack place in the Guildhall. The hall was decorated for the occasion with great splendour, and when the whole of the company, including Ministers of State, commanders in the army and navy, civic functionaries , the corps diplomatique, the judges and members of the episcopal bench, all in their official costumes end accompanied by their wives and daughters en stands toilette, had assembled, the scene was altogether a dazzling and animated one. The principal guests began to arrive about sis o'clock, and were received by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress in the chamber devoted to tha deliberations of the Common Council. The appear ance of the Earl of Derby, Mr. Disraeli, and the lmding members of the Government, was Lallel LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. AT the dinner given by the Prime Warden and Livery of the Fisrnongers' Company, on Tuesday, Lord SHAFTESBURY, in returning thanks for his health, availed himself of the opportunity to reply to the remarks recently made by Mr. Bright on the con stitution of the House of Lords. The noble lord said :—At a great public meeting not long ago, he observed some very erroneous but very weighty words fall from the lips of a very distinguished orator, who, speaking of the House of Lords, said it was a proud, exclusive, arrogant body, and that the inscrip tion over the doors of that house should be one which bore these ominious worth, " No traders ad mitted here." Now he would take this opportunity of saying that neither himself nor any other member of the House of Lords whom he knew could be any party either to the use of such an expression, or to the adoption of such a principle as that motto might be supposed to illustrate. He believed, indeed, that every other member of the House of Lords was as deeply convinced as he was that the grand distinction between the peerage of this country and the nobility of every other country was that the British peerage had been, still was, and by God's blessing would continue to be, recruited from every class, rank, and order of her Majesty's subjects. The whole force, the intellectual, mural, and be might say the physical vigour of our aristocracy was sustained by this peen. liarity in its constitution ; because, if we looked for example to the Spanish aristocracy, we might see how the exclusiveness of their system, and their close intermarriages amongst themselves, had reduced them to the most miserable effigies of men ; whilst in this country the main strength of our hereditary peerage, and its unimpaired preservation, were due to the fact that the doors of their house were thrown wide open, and ever ready for the admission of every man who by his intellect and character was enabled to command success. Depend upon it the House of Lords had done wisely in this respect, and not only as a matter of Christian feeling, not only from a sense of justice or patriotism, but even with a lower view of self-interest, for their own sakes, and for the sakes of those who were to come after them and inherit their position, they might desire, as he knew they did, to have their own body still recruited from amidst the ranks of the people, because it was from the people that their strength was drawn. But if at this moment there could be found in the peerage any one so foolish, so arrogant, and of so contemptible a spirit as to maintain the sentiment which was alluded to by the great orator at Birmingham, the exclusiveness even of such a person as that would be ready to make an exception in favour of the great Company of the worshipful Fishmongers of London. MR. BRIGHT'S PEACE PRINCIPLES. THE inauguration of two guns captured at Sebastopol and presented to the citizens of York by Lord Panmure during his connection with the late Govern. ment, took place on Friday. These trophies of war were carried in procession through the principal streets of the city, prior to their being deposited in their final resting-place, which is within a few hundred yards of the castle. The military would have joined the procession had not a countermanding order been received from the Duke of Cambridge, who gave as his reason for making the order that if the soldiers were allowed to take part in the proces sion it might be looked upon as an unfriendly act towards a now friendly power. This order bad also the effect of preventing the officers belonging to the btbilussars irom attending the grand banquet in the nprdoitetetirvle —otarAboastfai lIIIP/lIIIPIIRPIIIPIIIINRPMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM . . 102• THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 13, 1858. ..................... ~.. 'dry for one son, and the artillery for Guildhall in the evening, at which there were present Colonel Smyth, M.P., who also acknowledged he among the guests—the Earl of Carlisle, the Hon. and coNmvpolaimreemnt:totobse-drayvetdo cinelethbreatceoaursgreeaotf event an —n-t Very Rev. the Dean of York, the Hon. and Rev. S. you have, in my opinion, mostvi LADY LYNDHURST, and the Hon. Miss W. Lawley, the Hon. W. E. I)uncombe, and the city who, we been residing several months at members, Mr. Westhead and Colonel Stnyth. The ass said mofycneolebbleraftrila Woh'eedtesairrel °tot. Cdartctsolde, e)n,natifth, he tohireuivrve'ainnyalolithe pains or the hew -Sea, are expected iu town early in Lord Mayor presided. spirit iatl;lowwemweistho not 'h. The veteran lawyer and states- After several toasts had been drunk, ed to add, is in the enjoyment of The LORD MAYOR proposed the " Health of the burnings which occurred at the time of the Crimean car; but we are met to-day, and 1 don't hesitate to say so pus. licly, to celebrate a great victory—a victory which you'll Earl of Carlisle," which was received with enthu not hays been worthy of the fame it has obtained if oar IUNTESs PALMERSTON arrived siastic cheering. aeration suit . foes had that day been less gallant, our enemies been le 'om Broadlands. The noble n have been honcured with The Earl of CARLISLE rose, and, after a few pre neror and Empress of the persevering than they were. We desire in this city " liminary observations, expressive of' his pleasure at Yorkadmirationiii at to express our of the gallant deeds that being present on so interesting an occasion, pro- were performed at Inkermann,—our cemmi EXCHEQUER AND MRS. ceeded to say ; our mourning for those who fell on that bloody field where len from Hughenden over-matched and surprised British soldiers held their You have this day, my lord, with your fellow-citizens ground spinet countless numbers, whom the timely • planted in a conspicuous position wthin this venerable val of our French allies enabled us successfully to resiet. town some of those cannon which formerly frowned—ay The hon. gentleman concluded by expre • and spoke, too, in most destructive accents from the walls opinion that we do not take as much mpg an Sebastopol. If they were merely to serve as the memo- care as we rials of national strife and of continued ill-will, I could should of the British soldier. Among theanodthecrhtaopastetrs woferle,o‘r‘kT,,he,,Lii:ciarrdl dMesuyorre; MOUSE OF scarely have congratulated you upon the grant you had obtained. We only now know the Russians as those "The Dean whom we found brave and skilful foes, and whom we are and the Yorkshire Hussars," and " Miss Nightingale 'den and now glad to look upon as friends. Nay, more, we trace with anxious interest and sympathy the course of the young and the Ladies who assisted her in the Crimea." lah Emperor, who did not begin, but who ended the war On the same evening about seventy of the men `l' his between us, and who seems now intent on developing the resident in York who in arms served their country in 'v to pacific resources of his mighty empire, and striking off the the Crimea, sat down to a dinner which had been yoke and fetters of the sect. I wish we may have reason provided by public subscription, when the valuable n to say quite as much of all our allies in the late war. services of the army were duly acknowledged. ' But those guns, however, may be justly considered as the monument of deeds nobly done by all classes of our fellow subjects; of the brightest achievement ad no less heroic endurance of the officers and A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Monday at the 'there of the United Kingdom ;of the just renown of official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, army which seemed to come out of its sharp and in Downing-street. The Ministers present were:— ordeal with more freshness, and glow, and vigour The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the 'ban marked them at its opening. No doubt the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl '.s at all times the same; but, in point of health, of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of sent, and of general efficiency, they kept advanc- Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir E. ulwer Lytton, very strain of the conflict, and the greater the General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, \ tear grew the toughness of their fibre, and the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord Johu 'of their polish. Most suitably, then, will Manners. 'en guns, transferred from their past theatre THE BOARD OF TRADE has very wisely resolved to •dshed, become the spot where you, my ye placed them, close to the circuit of help poor coastmen and fishermen with weather whose mounds formed the encampment glasses for use on our exposed and dangerous shores. stars, which witnessed many an em- Government has placed a barometer, experi t England, and which looked down, mentally, at St. Iv, s, and mean to place another in `est plain of a peaceful land, and Mount's Bay. The Scotch Fishery Board has tried efistry of death and destruction the experiment with success. 1 tbey will have found their THE INDIAN RELIEF FUND, up to the present data, g place. My lord and gentle- including interest accruing on investments, amounts ve not been able to join us on to 433,620/. Of this sum 127,286/. has been de pot an excess, of delicacy, we must still regret. But spatched for distribution in India, besides which event or absent, all our Power has been given to the authorities in that 'rs, to whom we owe it country to draw for 10,0001. more. At home relief 'id civic halls and quaff has been granted to the extent of 35,727 L, and, as id, as an expression the expenses of management during the entire -vice generally, and period (including upwards of 4,0001. for advertising) ries of this heroic amount to only some 6,0001., there is a balance of v associated with more than 205,0001. still available. The committee to give to you, have given a general account of the distribution the Crimea in, made at home ; 86 widows and orphans of officers,'- orphans of officers, 298 widows, and 423 children of roughout soldiers, 6 widows of clergymen, and 23 widows and I Mar orphans of civilians, have shared in the relief which In the munificence of their countrymen provided. , Mr. h- Rittrogatitan. THE NEW LORD MAYOR. 'MERMAN WIRE was sworn in, on Moodie', at Ildhal3, as Lord Mayor of London. The presen s of the new chief magistrate to the Barons of drt of Exchequer took place on the following the usual formalities ; the civic progress -ealms of Gog and Magog to Westminster s usual, large crowds of sight seers. LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET. 'quet given by the Lord Mayor and -!brate their accession to dice t0t,1.: \U. The hall was decorated for 'eat splendour, and when the ncluding Ministers of State, nd navy, civic functionaries, judges and members of eir official costumes and , -1 daughters 01 rands to was altogether a arrive about sus ~d mayor and voted to the lie appear' and the hailed