The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

..,',/ \, era are iii • ill IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OP LORDS.—TatrassAr, Arm 19. The Loan Cruaccuzsa took Ms mat os the modes& st lw &sleek. TM Duke Si NOUTIVIOIIIII.IIIII7I promoted • polities Irma Derriagtos, in Cemberised, against the bill for allow ter marriage with a deceased wife's sister or ekes. TM Brighton Improvement Comisiesiemrs sad Huai- Cerpeeaties Bill, the Lands Improvement Company's El% sod tbe Herowithy Bridge Bill were severally read • aseesd time. JURISDICTION OF THE STANNARY COURT AMENDMENT BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the mooed reading Of Ibis bill. He said la the pr state of the home (there 'NM roily two or Wee peon ia a mesdamob he should sot New eater Into • cateseut of the °Notts of the bill. The wale quota's' that would arise would be on the different Mouses. and be Amid, therefore. take Om use mane se 41 " i0 = 0614 _ SI Lord Lyndhurst in Mercies to the 0a university Bill—maks the statement es going ills ormmitam TM ball ma thee read • 'mood time, and their lordships adjourned at • gustier past eve o'clock. gOt er.preoA. TO CORRESPONDENTS. aftwtkiniesis belie led lot " The Elena," Looks Ifeesime ewer, mu& be at the Mee, 10, Ihneerohireme. ley Two Oink ea the dm et paleteelion. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —lllarstan, la. Da Alterman, 41. JUL Toossarm—lieralas, u. bles......Attersoos, LONDON, FRIDAY. APRIL 20. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. PROGRMS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. DESPATCH FROM OEN. CANROBERT. (ii mammas ►XD BRITIAN DINT OP MI DAILY MVO PARIS, FIIDAT MORPIIIPO. Oren. Canrobert writes on the 14th that the stip.- eiseity of the artillery of the Allies was becornin4 moss Ind mon certain. Our troops are now masters of many strong positions on the enemy's left. We ere approaching the place sensibly. ZLZO7IIO TALIO3/.711.) (IRON TEE COZZZIPONDIKT OP ?HI DLILT NSW.) BERLIN, FRIDAY. A despatch from the Crimea, dated the 14th, states Irt ea the night bike° a great advantage had been aimed y tbs Allies. The /ram Zeilting states that Russia declines Ong any specific proposals on the Third Point. (FlOlll TI MIMI ) EIIPATORIA. Aran. 6. The Allis. have demanded 20,000 men to be sent • dews to Sebastopol—it is imagined for the assault. The embarkation begins to-day. Omer Pasha goes I►sorcow. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY stitutions. How this can be cone is not for foreigners to determine. The work demands r 1 *Keough and intimate knowledge of the premailing opinions ask social relations of the Free* petiple. Coostitation& monarchy for Francs, titeagh Me peat Istsaag principles mast coincide with those of ooasti tutional monarchy in England, or in any o ther country, must necessarily vary much in its details. In the peculiar position of the EMPEROI. the extension of the political privi- 1 leges of his people will require to be set about with es much of caution as of firmness ; but it must be un dertaken, if his dynasty is to be permanent, and his name honoured by Posterity. The scene at °oddball was not without its lesson for ourselves. With the exception of the diplomatic and political celebrities who, with their fairer rela tives, occupied the space nearest to the dais, the assembly consisted almost exclusively of the middle classee—of the middle classes of the metropolis. They cannot but have felt ti.at the appearance of the EMPEROR among them expressed his anxiety to cal-, tivate their good opinioa and their good will. The most powerful monarch of the Continent has thus borne testimony to the power inherent in the middle classes of England. He has not forgot ten the 10th of April, 1848. He knows that the middle classes of England, while jealous of their rights, are still attached to order and possess courage and energy to defend it. This ought to add to their confidence in their own political influence, and in the natural sound sense and business talent to which, as much as to their wealth, they owe it. And this, combined with the lamentable and humiliating weak ness and frivolity displayed of late by those who have hitherto been exclusively entreated with the charge of executive goveromeat, ought to urge them on to amid their right to a larger share in the admi nistration of public business. They who yesterday played the part of hosts to the Emperor of the Facrtat are scarcely more than a drop in the great ocean of the middle claws of England, and yet their moral and intellectual power commands the homage of monarchs. It behoves those who possess such influence to exercise it for the common weal. To allow themselves to be entirely engrossed by the lucrative pursuits of commerce—to remain inert and leave the political concerns of the State entirely in the hands of an exclusive and not very capable class —is treason to their country.—Doily Nan. tARRIVAL OP THB BALTIC FLEET AT BIEL, 4 . 011011 THII P7.N? 0111 TIM DAILT ;taws.) KIRI., Tavaaaar, 2 p.m THE DEAD DUKE AND THE LIVING EMPEROR. -0-- THE TERMS ACCEPTED. At tae meeting of capitalists at the Treasury at 'to °Weak this morning—Barou L and M. Beho lding), Baron James Rothschild (from Perim), Sir A. acklieskild, Mans. Gumtree, James Capel, T. A. Hanby, &c., present—the Chancellor of the Bache goer stated that only one tender had been received, via, the following: The British fleet, under Admiral Dundee, twelve 'Were, with the Vulture. Bulldog, and Firefly, have jut arrived here and anchored. no OUILDHALL MANIFESTO. eonformity with the public notice issued by the Treasury, we have the hoaoar of submitting the following of for the loan of sixteen THE LOAN. t agree to take the whole of the sizteen millioar, Three per Cent. ooneolidated Annuities, with dividend from the 6th January last, at par, payable, In instalments, at the periods stated in the said notice, upon recemlng for each' 1001. en annuity of fourteen shillings end 4:pence—say 14s. 6d.—terminable in 30 years, to commence from the 6th LONDON, APRIL 20, 1855., - . . lastest, payable half-yearly ; and we an aceordlogly ready to pay the required deposit upon the same. We remain, Sir, very respectfully, TOW' obedient servants, N. M. ROTHSCRILD. After reading the above, the Chancellor of the F.zohequer stated that the government were pre pared to accept those terms; it was not neces sary, therefore, to open the paper containing the minimum. NOT three years have passed since a long, mournful procession wound its way through the Strand towards the City. The Duke of WELLINGTON, the conqueror of NAPOLEON, was being carried to his last home. The greatest General that England has ever seen was borne, amidst the sighs of a nation, to his grave. Thousands of the young and old, who witnessed the oeremooial of the funeral of the Duke of WELLING TON, looked on, yesterday, with delighted eyes at a procession which owed its interact to the fact that the nephew of the man hom the Dose had vanquished was proceeding to a banquet given in his honour by those who were formerly his uncle's bitterest foes. The dead DUES represents a dead era ; the living EMPEROR, let us hope, represents something better. We remember, at the time of the DUKE'S funeral, being struck with the solemn, measured tramp of the soldiers, the mournful wailing of the music, the strsnge &admen which appeared upon the faces of the spectators. Yesterday the contrast was striking. The new EMPEROR'S antecedents can scarcely be considered such as to make him popular with the people of a free country. Nevertheless,' there was evidently a deep impression amongst the spectatori that here was the master of the position in Europe. The dead DUKE went to his grave amidst the tears of a nation, the living EMPEROR went to Guildhall yesterday accompanied by the aspirations of millions. The furcersl of the Dugs represented the death of an antique state of society ; the triumphal procession of the EMPEROR typifies the advent of a new age. NAPOLEON the THIRD in spite of his antecedents, the herald of a new order of things. It is he who by his alliance with Eas t aid has given liberty to Europe. If he has abridged To the Bight Hon. the Chancellor of the Ezohequer, &c Tae reply of the Emperor of the Fauna to the address presented to him yesterday, in Guddhall,wu remarkably felicitous. Firm in tone, comprehensive in intellectual grasp, lucid and simply elegant in ex plains), and evincing a thorough knowledge of the sodience to which he spoke, the speech stamps him • etatansan and a man of genius. If his future acts peal his present words, he will occupy a prominent lad brilliant place in history. With sound judgment and tact he received the own pli wants paid to himself as Istaided for the French nation, thus identifying him self with his people. With equal sagacity he pro *aimed his conviction that "England and France an naturally united on all great questions if politics, commerce, and human program, ghat agitate the world from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from the Baltic to the Black Bee." He enunciated a great truth when he declared that, "It is only by following the narrow Sessiderations of political Melly that our union [i. e. atomise of the nations] eau be dammed; whereas Uwe follow the dictates of common sense alone, we shall be sure of the future." Equally important was his declaration that the address was " right in inter. parting my presence among yon as a fresh and con sisting proof of my energetic massaged= in the pramention of the war;" and that he believed the imperially of France and England to their antago nists was owing to their standing "in the van of !teams and enlightened ideas." Buch views sad midmost§ bespeak a man who is a ruler by mature, eau more than by position. And the impression they were calculated to make was deepened by skilful allusions to his pretreat reception, ind to the feelings with wh:oh he had learned to re gard England when an exile. Nor ought it to be immed over in silence, that the obvious bet anobtru aim sympathy with which the Farness hang upon his wards while be was speaking enhanced to all who *ere present the impressiveness of the Kew. FREEMASONS IN TURKEY. OAO3I OP TEE DAMP POWS) Although freemasonry bas for more than thirty years been generally supposed to exist among the Moham medan*, and trues of it were fated In Turkey by the Busies Man after the campaign of 1829, yet they were too slight to prove the fact; and it fs only within the last few years that it was satisfactorily demonstrated by a Ger man freemason chancing to pass through Belgrade, where he di covered a manalili ledge, to which he erss invited, and where he received a hospitable reception. It appears now to be peeved beyond all doubt that the Tartish bro thers who exercise their masonic duties, under the name of Dervishes, are to all intents end purposes the same as our own order of freemasons, with but very little differenoe in their customs and ceremonies, and making use of exactly the same signs, words, and grips, to recognise each other. The Turkish freemasons appear to be in a more elevated state of civilisation than is usual amongst t►e Orientals aenersily ; their views of religion are far higher than those imposed by Idamism; they reject polygamy, contenting themselves with one single wife, and at the masonic banquets the women appear unveiled—a striking proof of the mutual cenhdenes the masonic brethren repose in each other. The Belgrade Lodge, called Alikotaeb, is compelled of about 70 members. The Muter of the lodge, whose name is Distil Ismael Zsholek Mohamed Feeds, is at the same time Grand Muter of all the lodges in European Turkey, and is directly connected with all those of the whole of I the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, end Persia, in which latter the freeenuou amount to more than 60,000 members. In Constentinople there are no lea than nine lodges, the most! numerous and important of which is that of the dancing dervishes, called Birkedshi Ticker. The Turkish free- masons wear as a'symbel of the brotherhood, besides a small brown shawl embroidered with mystical figurer, a flit polished, twelve-cornered piece of white marble, with red dish brown spots, about two inches in diameter, suspended by a white silken cord round the neck. These spots repre sent the Mops of blood, and ere symbolic of the death of Ali, the founder of the order in Turkey, who was barba rously put to death by the then Sultan, for refusing to reveal the secrets. The above-mentioned Djani I-mael, Grand Master of the Lodge of Belgrade, a venerable Turk of the old school, is honorary member of the Lodge of " Baldwin under the Lime tree " at Leipsic, several mem bers of which lodge have received diplomas frem the Ait ken& at Belgrade. BARON OSTEN•SACREV AND THE WOUNDED OFFICERS OF 11. M.S. TIGER. The following is a translation of a testimonial pre. slotted by Buon Oeten•Bseken to Henry Doraville, Beg., surgeon of her Majesty's late ship Tiger, a few days after the deaths of the wounded of that ship: _ Odessa, 18.1 t (28tb) June, 1854. " Desirous of doing justice to the talent, seal, and courage displayed by Mr. Henry Doraville, in his position of .urgiloa of her Britannic Majesty'. Ist* steam frigate Tiger, during and after the loss of that *Dip in the neighbourhood of this town, I attest by this pretest that, according to the testimony of the physician in chief of the 3rd Corp d'Arinfie, which is confided to me, Monsieur the Counsellor of State Skriprahinsky, as well as the physicians of the city, Messieurs Dietrich. and Wegner, who participated with him at a constit ution requested by Dr. Domville, at the bed side of the now deceased Captain Hiffard, the amputation of the thigh, and the dressing of the other meet dangerous wounds of Capt. Gifted, were performed soeceding to all the rule. of the art, and with a complete success, which ought to have led to the cure of the patient, if toe eircumstanees, independent of the operation end mental.depreesioa, bad not neutralised the resources of science, and all the efforts of devotion, of which Dr. Dom sill* showed proof up to the last hour of the deceased. "I also certify that the midshipman John tithed, and the sailor John Trainer, were also operated on, on board the Tiger, during the aurae, but the severity of their wounds was the only cause of their almost imminent death darieg their transport to the Ql&S&Etillie Hospital. (Signed) constitutional freedom in France be has crushed for 'ever the possibility of universal despotism in Europe. The instinct of a people is seldom wrong, and this was manifested yesterday along the whole line of the procession. The reception of the EMPEROR was ;, not load but deep." It was clear that in the minds of the spectators the past events of the man's life were merged is the deeper meaning of his present significance. With the dead Duna let us hope that our hostility to France died. With the living EMPEROR let RE look forward to pesos and freedom for ourselves and Europe.—Doily News. A paragraph appeared in our yesterday's imp's,- lee, is which oar Ruggeri& eorrespondent's litter was stated to have hue copied by the Sun without acknow ledgment. This fa denied by the Sun of last night, in • style of language which we should in veils attempt to emulate. Oa liquify, we find that the somspondeat who fitruislisd us with the information has misled us; that it is not the latter of cut► Zapatoria corrisspoedent that was sopied into the Sm. Bevies thus dons judos to our ocatemporary, let us do justice to ourselves. Ist us tura over the pages of our contemporary for the last week. Will the Sam day that es the 12th iaata•t it task from the Daily New without acknowledgment three odium of translated composition, declaring that " the following is the article referred to in our telegraphic despatch," while, in I fast, it had received no telegraphic despatch on the subject ? Will ft dewy the on the sums day, sad p the elms page, it transferred from the Daily Mimi a letter on military easkiserlas which filled ass of oar gleans. sad that it again simeeeled its origis ? Will it deny that the telegraphic dispatch, from Kiel, which it published on the 14th inst.— that its fist column of news at the 16th, a past of it tele graph* wad this remainder special cornspowdesse—that "L'Alde-duCesp (liberal de Ss Msjest6 l'Bmpereur de toutes les Russia', " BARON OSTIN-SACLEN." Colonel Cadogan, who has been appointed British Colaiewitoaer to the Sardinian head•gauters in the But, pried through Tarts, oa Baader, on his way to Con wastinople. The MessiaA is to be produced at Rotterdam rest Fridey oft as extraordinary seal*. The choir is to be tessa. posed of 200 penseas, bat that which gives peculiar interest to the entortainraint. is tho intended performance of the soprano solos by Jenny Lind. M. Mises ham sent to his printers the manuscript of the foulest volumes of his great work. L'Esstaire des Caseulat et de r Ampere. Flags of the various natioos who will take part in tits Presek Exhibition ars now bring placed aroma t h e central hall. The fiat number et a now publication of some promise, maid Revue Universe& des Arts, has Jest ap peered. It is to be published simultaneously at Brussels and at Paris. The names of the eontribiten include some distingaished writers in Frazee, Belgium, Italy, end SwitaelleaS. At the Royal Italian Opera, to-morrow evening, the Royal bon, together with the whole of the doeorations, will remain as ea t►e occasion of the state chit. The opera is Foal* with Mille. Jimmy Ney as Leonora. The Prefect of the Seine and him colleagues of the ateeicipelity of Pads are invited too grand banquet at the Msuafoa•hoese to-morrow. The provincial mayors are also kilted to meet Baia Hausman and friends on this oo asalme. t7i_ rome of the telegvaphie despatehes pkblishid is the day made, the heed of its "latest saws • ' were severally takes from the Deus New without acknowledgment of their ems, ? Finally, will it duty that may last night it trans famed to its columns a short article from our impressin of yesterday, sad evaded acknowledgment of its source by attributiog it generally to 0 a noising paper"? These are innings which the Sim, by the warm it has takes, compels me to ask, and to which only one newer h poseihn. They relate merely to the war noses of the lest seven days; otherwise more Mg vast examples of piracy might be exposed. Will any_ one, for instance, however inexperientred is the induct of newspapers. say that oar recent paper re the death of Currey Bell ought to have bon reprinted without Wiwi- 1 ties of iteseeree ? With or without en alteration of the stamp laws we en, therefore, obliged, in eeltdefeairt, to sell for a law of espyright and amtee.ible tsinaah to solaces it. The claws proposed by Sir C. Lewis give us and other Lir traders is newspapers so more protectios than masuiae t■Ars already enjoy la the copyright of their designs. Of none those who live by piracy will object to such a law, sad, satorally enough, they will pour out Billiergate against these who ask for it. But luckily foe kneel moo they on not leghlaten.—Deily New. Holding the principles to which we are devoted, we do not affect to repose implicit ematidence in ittroixon UL ; bat we should have eared an Akar to troth had we expressed •ourselves lase warmly of hie appearance at Guildhall au we have dons. And we ars disposed to _ _ bail the proceedings of yesterday as of good Awry for the future. The EittEsoa's visit to the laity, and the whole tone and tenor of his dinar , *ere an appeal to the public .of England--an oak& oar to rot himself right in the eyes of the AO& *mph; and his emphatic sllssion to his beteg 0. Owes ruler of the French nation, was a reoogni tioa of the people as the only source of legitimate power- We lay stress upon these fasts because among the u geserous and enlighteued ieses" which Samm:am attributed to the Fres& and English itatioos, we believe a deep-rooted /awe Odell liberty is be the most important and inerefieshia We have Q a previous coossion frankly miiirodApe our etayletles that the majority of she Pm* poops ors actuated to the vanuarehicel fors et gotormalt. 41 . 11 that the Nan's= Family is the only me whisk bee a edam* hold oa the silbselmis call 4111 111 1 Emioni of the French to be able Is IMAM& Agit so a dynasty. We are therefore autism that head of this family should seek to establbk .aitee on the only stable basis---thas et papist Admiral Mackay, a distinguished officer is the Preach service. is dangerously ill. In the House of Lords, on Monday, the Earl of Albemarle will move for certain rattans relating to the trade with Russia, and will 'squire whether " hoe Ma. j.aty'a tioverensoat latond, with a view to brims the wee to a speedy coeolussoe, by prohibitory duties or any Mho sweat, farther to restrict the trade with that ocentry." M. Vrintland, formerly private secretary to King Otho, bat who had bees 'bilged by the minister to noise his poet sheet • year bask, has mum& his functions eau the Mises pests. Tms ARMY BIJOU Basanorou—Ma. Rommel; COMMIT= —As there wee sot a asSoient number of hoe. members ptomain yesterday to constitute a queen, so regairod member beteg sena, the meaminee esguatesd to , this day at twelve. The members peacoat were Mt. Rios*. the ehriesee, Lord Seymour, Omen' Peel, mud Sir J. flames ; sad the winsome* is attendee's wee Sire. 'bo's'ns sad Mr. Osesmileary Smith. &spinal': MILITARY Couioa—Ths ociessitiss, es this stater met patents, for the ant time to imam their mem of pressedieg. Oa Wedassday, Baron James Rothsshild visikd the Lag el tie Belgians, at the Chains is Leeks', se- Maim is Peri fa the *ening. . . The sew Lord High Colsmiteloser of the lorriae Ithods, Sit Jobs Moan, wind at Cads is the 9th. wool was to Len out the 12th. Linen kos Bt. Petenbtrg, of thelOth, date ills N 4& was still avers. TM re-opealag of tbs as* at tin Noti was awl anestal beton tbslosk of Mg. 1., APRIL 20, 1855. VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH. THE IMP. ME CITY. such a time, will draw 4101 M the bonds of mutual friendshi p sad cuitamou interests so happily uniting the two sosatrise. The card's] slliance of two such mighty pin g . ; 0s snouted and sealed by intimate and frank interment be, tweet their rulers, must sway the destinies of all, will out the pride of our common enemies, increase the confiding. of our allies, and give new vigour to our arms. _ . (=OM THE conax mammas.) Ha Majesty and Prince Albert acoompaoied by their Imperial Mejesties the Emperor and Empire of the heath, and the Prince of Lettingen, arrived at Bucking tam Palette at 28 Wastes past .twelve o'clock yesterday tea Windier Castle, mated by a detachment of Life guards. In atteadesee oa the Emperor end Empress were the Mimes d'Etsling, the Countess de Montebello, Baroness , its Malaret, the Merchioness id Ely, the Hon. Mary Sey. Miro the Marshal Count Vaillant, the Duke de Haman°, NMI L 9 Comte Ney, Colonel Fleury, Marquis de Tun isians, Cooat Teacher de la Pagerie, Earl &mere, and Lord Alfred Paget. Ia attendance on the (Isms and Prince were the Duchess of Wellington, the Viscosities Canning, the Hon. Cerolioe Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Maclonald, Lord Ri , Lord George Lennox, Lwd Charlie Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour. The royal party occupied tea lathe Queen's carriages. The Doke of Welliogt• a, Earl Spencer, the Marquis of Bresdalbene, the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Edward Bowa ter, Major-General Wylde, and tier Master of the House hold, received the Emperor and Empress and the Queen and Prince in the Grand Hall, and her Majesty and hi, Royal Highness accompanied their Imperial Majesties up the Grand Staircase, to the rooms in the east front of the Palates, prepared for their reception. A Guard of Honour, composed of the Scots Fusilier Gaud*, was ea duty within the quadrangle, and on the arrival of the illastrious party the band played Portant pour la Brie." The Prises of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prises Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Alice, Helens, aid I.,stor, sad Prince Leopold, attended by Lady C. Berrie,. ton, General Bir E. Bowater, and Lieutenant-Genera Sir F. Stoat, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the It of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs, arrived at the Pekoe at a quarter before 10 o'clock, having fled from Windsor by a special train on the Great Western Railway. The Emperor and Empress of the French left Bucking ham Palace for Guildiallost 20 minutes before 1 o'clock, attended by their suite, escorted by a numerous detachment of the Life Gaarda. w. condom our narrative from yesterday's 'spree : THE GUILDHALL. At sine o'clock yesterday morning the sealant town resi dence of those civic notabilities, Messrs. Oog and Magog, still resounded with the stroke of the hammer, and was populous with paper caps and white aprons. The City polies had been posted at their several stations, but had net at that early hoar got up the ocessiozal fierceness lASI makes them so terrific to apple-women and little boys es days of great public festival or civic solemnity. A magma cent awning was in preparation in Guildhall-yard, and within the ball itself the tasteful designs of Mr. Bunnies were in progress of rapid development. The trophies of tricolour and Union Jack had been placed at the bases of all the Gothic spandril', and the walls were decorated with medallion portraits of the Queen of England and the Emperor of the French. Everywhere inscriptions sug gestive of the rather scarce successes of the Crimean war were conspicuously posited, and miles of bales were being laid down fur the accommodation of the favoured ticket holders; and even then one or two ladies end gentlemen who claimed relation ship with "the early bird" had taken their seats, amidst sawdust and shavings, in the front of the unfinished gallery. Gradually the bustle of preparation cleared away, end the morning sun, shining thrt.ugh the gothic windows, showed enough to indicate that the Guildhall was about to become the scene of one of its most gorgeous pageants. The I dais was a miracle of splendour, considering the short time daring which its dhoorations had been prepared. TLe salads was covered with crimson cloth, upon which were placed two chairs of state, resplendent in gold sad velvet, for the Emperor and Empress. Oa the Emperor's the eyoher "N " was emblazoned, and a similar decoration, with " E," was observable on that of the Empress. The canopy was at once costly, native, and in good taste. The drape. flee were of velvet of the imperial colour, and the upper portion of white and gold, the whole having • truly repal and imposing effect. The only things wanting were the imperial Bees ; but it would have hardly been possible to have prepared these Napoleonic emblem,. As a consequence of the wise distribution of labour, which is the rule in the corporation, there was a great appearance of efficiency in the arrangements for the reception of the company. The aldermen and common councilmen were regularly brigaded, and, armed each with wands surmounted by the imperial eagle, exercised • polite but at the same' time iotl.•zible control over the perpetually surging multi- I tude. Opposite the dais, on the right, was the compartment allotted to the foreign ministers, sad this was at • very early hour filled with diplomatic uniforms. The Price* of Carini, Neapolitan minister, was conspicuous in light blue and silver; the Turkish minister in his fez; and the Danish, Brosilian, and Spanish ministers, in the colours of their respective countries. The Turkish minister received en ovation on bis entrance, and the cheering was sustained for several minutes. Behind this diplomatic congress the ladies mustered in great force, and gave great animation and brilliancy to the scene, by their good looks and gay and handsome costume. Opposite to the foreign ministers was a space railed cf for the cabinet ministers, and other dis tinguished guests, and as each of its privileged visitors arrived, their position in public estimatim was pretty clearly indicated by the amount of the plaudits. Sir C. Wood, for instance, was received with appalling silence, the Earl of Clarendon with a fair amount of applause, and Lord Palmerston with loud and lusty cheering. The Mar quis of Salisbury, Lord Canning, and Mr. V. Smith, were allowed to instal themselves without notice. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by the brave Captain liaise, the hero of the night ride from M'Kenzie's Farm, was late in arrival; between them they shared a very hearty aid genial reception. Behind this distinguished group the ladies again cumulated, and on the opposite side of the gangway a vast gallery rose up to the feet of Oog and Ma gog. which was deesely filled with fashionable company. Over the entrance to the hall the band of the Blues were stationed, and daring the day performed the following se. Intim of music: Overture, ..... Selection. Le Chalet Waits, Frublinerbotea Select n. Preemie War March or the Priests, Athens Overture, Guillaume Tell rtominL tlegeetion, Mina= de la Columns Sutter. Welts, Pair Star Overture, Zamps Overture, Manilas ............ Select:as. Etats du Need Welts. Tans Parka beitieLias. t oases del Lass lterslnL Packet Tars The Emperor was hebited in the uniform of a Preach g 10E6er—dark blue end gold, ant wore the Ribald and George, and also the Star of the Order of the . Garter, and the Scar of the Legio. , of Honor. The Empress wore a flounced green satin dreg, each 13111611 covered with whim Brussels lam, and a shawl ot white Bremen Ism. Her Imperial Majesty wore a white mope bonnet with Marabout feathers. His Excellency the Count Walewski, the Ambassador of Frown, and the Countess Walewski, and Marshal Count Valliant, French Minister of War, accompanied the Em• peror and Empress, who were also attended by the Princes., d'Esaling (Grande Mennen), the Countess de Montebello, Baroness de 'Want, the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Duke de Bataan, Colonel Le Comte Ney, Colonel Fleury, Marquis de Touhogeon, Cocci Tascher de la Palen., Lieut.-Colonel 'toucher, Earl Somers, Lord Allred Paget, and Sir Frederick Stavin. All the gentlemen were in uniform, and Conan Wa• nick! and Manhal Vaillant both wore the Grand Cordon of the Lrgion of Honor. The iUustrious party wen conveyed in sir of the Queen's state carriages, and the carriage in winch the Emperor atm Empress were seated was drawn by a pair of cream colnureo horses, and was attended by four of her Majesty's footmen in state liveries. The Emperor and Empress rents-Ltd to the Palace at a qaarter-past 6 o'clock, and were received by Lord Bruen Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain. Viscount Palmerston had en audience of the Queen in the afternoon. The Queen, Prisms Albert, and the Emperor and Em press of the French, left the Peace at 25 minutes put 9 o'clock, attended by a numerous court, to honour the liuyal Italian Opera with their prisenos in state. The Queen wore a dues of bine and gold brocaded silk, trimmed with gold blonde. her Majesty wore a diamotia crown. The Empress wore a dress of whits oaths with flotsam &rodeo de phones marabouts. sod edged with a Wogs of the lama feathers. liar Imperial Majesty won a diadem of diamonds and emeralds, and the insignia of the orders of Isabel of Purtupl and Marie Louise or Spain. —. _ The Emperor wore the uniform of a Frsneh general, with the ensign, of the Order of the Outer. Prier; Albert wore a Field Marshal's oviform, with the ensigns of the Legion of Honour sad the Garter. The Queen and Prince Albert and the Eatperer sad Empress occupied the same carriage. the eighth. The seventh carriage contained the Prisons d'Beding, the Duchess of Wellington, Marshal Coeat Valliant. Ma the Duke of Wellington. The sixth carriage contained the Comes@ de Montebello, the Viscountess Causing, the Marquis of Breadathane, and the Doke de Bassdno. The filth carriage contained Earl Bonen, the Mar chioness of Ely, the Countase of Elwin, sod Viscount Cons bemire. The fourth carriage contained the Hos. Mary Seymour the Barmen de Malaret, the Count de Montebello, and the Maquis of Aberoorn. The third carriage contained Earl Somers, Lnd Rivers, and Viationnt Sydney. Tho aimed carriage contained the Hon. Flora Macdonald and the lion. Carolina Cavendish. and Lord George Lennon. 1 "By lb* wiae policy of your Majesty's reign A n 0 " sa. 1 eientjealousies have been appeased, and the flags of bum and England now mingle their colours alike in the Bade and in the Eut. Ranged together in • righteous unis e , braving like hardships, and sheddieg their blood side by side in victory, the soldiery of our united armies and the seamen of our combined fleets have learned to regard each other with the love of brave and generous comrades, mo a t only to the love they bear their respective countries, and while each are the feelings, tee rejoice that unthaws akin Ito these are growing daily, and sinking deeply into dui breasts of the people of these great and neighbourieg nations. " None can doubt that the allied forces thut animated, led in perfect harmony by commanders of tried skill and valour, and guided by united counsels ..t home, will achieve by arms the just and unambitious object of the pew i t war; unless, as we may hope, the Pante of assembled states. men shall yet avert the calamities of protracted warfare by the speedier negotiation of an honourable sad enduring peace. The first carriage contained the Hon. Enamor Stanley, Hon. bliss Bulks', the bedchamber woman to the Queen, and Lord Cowles Fitzroy. The Yeomen of the Gears were on duty in the Grand Hall. A guard of honour from the Guards was posted in the quadrangle with its band, which played the French national air on her Majesty taking her sat in her car riage. The royal cortege was warted to the theatre by a detachment of the household °every. Previous to the departure of the Qamn and her illus. trims pests, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prism Alfred, the Princess Alias, and the Prince of Lefebvre, with Lord Cowley, Colonel the Hon. C. B Phipps, Sir Edward Bowater, end Hr. Gibbs, proceeded to the theatre. Her Majesty was also preceded to the opera by Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Seymour, Calmed Fleury, Colossi Coast Key, sad the Marouis de Tosloageoa. This cordial reception, therefore, of the chosen ea puissant Emperor of the French by the illustrious Atovereigi who reigns over these realms, and lives in the hearts of the British people, we regard as a type of a close and laws, friendship between the two wimp., and the happiest SIM of a returning time, when, undisturbed in the envoi course of civilisation, the nations of Europe may agalu by aside the sword, and resume their exalted rivalry is works of beneficence alone. Her Royal Highness the Disobeys of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawes, Lady Faaay Howard, Barytes. de Speth, and Sir George Cooper, arrived at bar residemee, Clarence Howe, St. Jame's, yesterday afternoon, fres Frogmen. The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New- Won, 1 31• 412 5-Sardass, yesterday. The Colassissionen preens were the Archbishop of Caaterbary, the Archbislop of Teak, the MargaW of Btandford, M P., the H.■. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, Sir Jobs Pattesoa, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Rev. C• 11111 Selwyn, and Mr. Henry $10,011100411 (Secretary). Mr. Craafard, M.P., had an interview with the Chaatiellor of the Bachequer yesterday at his official reel dee*. is Dawalatetrest, to preens a manorial from the Distillers of Cesepbeltos and Islay. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-Mita* yes terday to tie Gotersees of Hong Hoag, Co7loo, sad the Knoritioo. RETURN OF THE EMPEROR AND " We ere earnestly anxious further to express to you Isapesiel Mejesty the lively pleasure and roes/Wel admire. tion with which we have seen you accompanied os this happy =Won by your illwtrious consort 11.. r Majesty Empress of the French. We tender to your Majesty a s ezpreuion of our confident hope that you may ever fad is the affections of domestic life the best a , lace and eat which this world can aired under the care§ and weight cif the high &stilly you are now fulling wi h such comica l , power and moderation, and we hrvently pray that life sad health may, by the blessing of Providence, be vottbsdid to your Majesties for many years to come." The Emperor listened to the address with deep iateme. received it most graciously whin headed to him by the Lord Mayor, and then read with excellent emphasis imam pronunciation the following English reply : " My Lord Mayor,—Afar the cordial reception I ham experienced from the Queen, nothing could effect as wee deeply than the sentiments towards tLe Empress and myself to which you, my Lord, have given expression an the pet of the City of London ; for the City at London represents available resources which its wide commerce affords but for civilisation and for war. Flatteriog as are your praises, I accept them, beaus they are addressed much more to Fr.nce than to Reef. They are addressed to • nation whose interests are tally everywhere identical with your own. (Immense cheetiag.) They are addressed to an army and • navy united to year own by heroic companionship in danger and in glary, (Cheers.) They are addressed to the policy et the Ora governments, which is based on tau* on moderates, ud on Natio. (laud cheers.) " For myself I hive retained on the throne the am sentiments of sympathy and esteem for the English peoyle that I professed as an exile, while I enj .yed here the his. pitality of your country—(protracted cheers)—sad if I have acted in accordance with my conviction!, it is that the interests of the nation which Ina chosen me, no lea thin these of univ:raal civilisation, have made it a ditty. (Cheers.) ladled, England and France are naturally united on all the great questions of politics end of haws progress that agitate the world—(cheers)—fro-m the sham of the Atlantic to those of the Mediterranean—lron the Baltic to the Bleck Sea—from the dt si-e to abolish slavery to the hope of amelioration for all the countries of Rem. I see in the moral as in the political worll that than an two nations, but one course and one end. (Lad cheers.) "It is then only by narrow considerations and pitiful rivalries that our union can be dissevered. If we foie, then the dictates of common sense alone we shall be son d the future. (Great cheering.) "Ton are right in interpreting my presence •mongetya as • fresh and convincing proof of my energetic co•opemtlsa in the prosecution of the war, if we fail in obtaining sa honourable peace. (Great oheeriog.) Should we so fail, although oar difficulties may be great, we may surely must upon a successful result—(cheers)—for not osly are ea soldiers and our teflon of tried valour—not only do the two countries possess within themselves unrivalled resource, but above all—and here lies their superiority—it is beaus they stand in the van of generous and enlightened ideas. (Cheers.) Weber: A. Adam. It is understood that our Imperial visitors will mem to Fames via Dover tomorrow. Tbs Baglish sad neat& Royal Mail Steam Paakot Company ham austonseed that two of their stamen ak mined as part of the Imperial squadron will take of board excursion parties, sad afford them the opportunity of witnessing the ealsarkaties at Dever and the landing is Frames. The Potash Admiral, Viacom Chabannes, hoe hie flea on board the Dome, Stamm corvette, is Dover harbour. The sinew ship of the line Austerlitz is ordered off Dover, to staled Me embarkation of Um Emperor. 6triiii. Weber. In the opposite gallery, one or two unpretending-looking gentlemen were stationed, armed with • small mysterious, bat perfectly harmless, apparatus, whose business it was to preserve, by means of the photographic process, a pictorial memorial of the day's proceeding.. Although a little oat of place here, we may mention that the Emperor en his arrival speedily recognised the presence of this little group, and with his national sympathy for art, give them frequent opportunities for fultllliog the object of their attendance. The C..mmon Council, wearing their gowns of masirine blue, mustered en muss, and, as of right in their own hall, a cured for themselves the best possible pieces; being closely packed in two small railed-off spaces right and left of the dais. So matters stood for • long and somewhat weary period, during which Cabinet Micisters chatted freely to the Aldermen, and the Foreiga Ministers as freely to each other as their various dialects would permit, and in the intervals the hand played morceaux of its programme. At last the fanfare of the trumpets was heard, every one was on the tiptoe of excite meet, and slowly the imperial procession passed up the central avenue, sad deployed right and left of the dais. The ap pearance of the Emperor and Empress was the signal for a loud, long, and %minims, demonstration of welcome. His Imperial Majesty wore hie usual military uniform, bat with the addition of the star and ribbon of the Garter, with which he had been invested on the previous day. It is a singular (act, that the ribbon worn by his Imperial Majesty on this occasion was the identical one which had recently been sent home from Russia on the death of the late Emperor. The Empress, as soon as her position on the dais permitted of her being generally visible, was not only the observed of all observers, but the ad mired of all admirers. Her Mainly wore a white honest, light and delicate as a snow flake, and a green dress elaborately decorated with lace, and looked so charming that any attempt at description must utterly fail in doing jostles to the impression which her Imperial lifsjony's pre sence made upon the crowded and brilliant company that on her entrance rose up ea all sides to bid her, City fashion, a hearty welcome." She was In perfect health and good humour, and sustained her part in the trying eareinotnal of the day with winning grace and a most irencient queenly dignity. The Emperor was also most gracious and conde scending, and the impressive manner in which he read his remarkable reply to the corporation address was the snidest, of general oommendatioo. Having now fairly seated them on their chairs of state, we most endeavour to give, for the benefit of those who were not present, some collective imprint *ion of the appearance of the interior of the Guildhall at this culminating moment. At the top was the gorgeous canopy, and beneath it stood before the chairs of state the Emperor sad Empress of the French. Right find left veas a semi-etrele of brilliant court uniforms worm by Marshal Valliant, Dee de Buono, Lord Alfred Paget, lad the other members of the French and Hagfish warts. The Domes d'Hossear of the Empress gave life and lightness to this portion of the picture, and the whole rested appropriately en the breed rim of maiming blue *fantod by the oomprinsed Common Councilmen at the s:dee. Immediately in front were the I , brilliant cabinet and diplomatic compartments, and behind 1 1 these dense rows of gaily dressed company rose gradually to the opposite end of the hall, and gave to the old interior all the many-coloured brilliancy of a flown thew. The band played "Partant pour la Syria," end after a short pause, which the Empire, and Empress seemed good-naturedly to prolong, is miller that the suriosity of the eampany might be fully gratified, the Lord Mayor, in his robes of state, the Recorder similarly attired, and all the aldermen ar d great slabs officers, advanced to die dais, when the Recorder read the following address t " TO ins ntritizAz =MIT Tall 111E1101 or Till " The eyes of all who suffer rite instinctively toward the west, because our two nations are even more powerful from the opinions which they represent than from their armi s and their fleets. (Tremendous cheering.) " I am deeply grateful to your Queen for 'audios me this solemn opportunity of exprening to you my owa sentiments and those of France, of which I am the later ' preter. (Cheers.) " I thank you in my own name, and in that of the Eta. press, for the kind and hearty cordiality with which you have received us. (Cheers.) We shall take back te France with to the lasting impression mode on mini thorouthly able to appreciate the very imposing spectsels which England presents, where virtue, on the throne, directs the destinies of a country under the empire of liberty without danger." The Lord Mayor then presented the aldermen in meas. sion, and the Guildhall Committee, who were all most graciously received by the Emperor and Empress, and then a procession wu f.rmed, headed, with imposing effect, by Mr. Sewell, the swordbearer—who looked u If he meld take Sebastopol single-handed—from the dais to the canal chamber. This comfortable but rather confined apartmeet I had been for the two previous days under the entire astral of Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, who now for the forutk time have been the successful pur,eyors for royalty in tie City. To show the extraordinary (frills that wee made by the Messrs. Staples to do justice to this me tr►ordinsry occasion, it may not be uninteresting to men lion that the napkins were trimmed with lace, end ask* dared with the imperial and City arms; the Doyleys were of imperial green velvet, fringed with gold, and spangisi with bees and the imperial cypher. The win* gismos ems elaborately carved with appropriate devices, and the buoy of their workmanship attracted the marked notice of del Empress, who showed them to the Emperor, aid bilk seemed highly pleased with the design. The down plates were a spinal effort of the great Ckilebrooke Dale Pettseli made is seven days, and were of a beautiful imperial psi. tern on the celebrated turquoise ground, the groat digit:llff of high-class porcelain. In addition to this, there w she en thetable a service of the celebrated Da Bury pink, whiik is fotended for the French Exhibition. -gor the Warta.' sssnt Waif, the subjoiaed bill of fare will lid* with e& dent eloquenos TOTACIES. Potap de tonne .lair. • Bisque d'eorevisses. Paige de nide d'oireaug Chin*. Consommi de volatile. 11171111111 CHALIDZa. Cantos aux lees herb.,. Ruffs en nines. COtelettss d'agneiti woo berteola eerie. Petites bosieblis I la Reins. 111T9318 FROMM& Filets de truitts a. la ravigote. Cbaud-froid de bicassioes. Foies pas de Strasbourg. Magoonnaise de turbot aux liftoff. Gateau de ptarmigan aux Unfelt Blanqutte de volaille a la geld*. OROSIIIB PISCES. Paianneaux eratriee. Bore de ganglier I Is BoLimienng. Gros galloon a. la Royale. Diode en gelastine a la Pariaienne. Cachou de leit Napolitaine. limbos de Salisbury an ein de Madan. Baron of beef. • r " Miry it plisse your Majesty, MMIAAMM.P. Daimon de truths de Perigord. " We, the Lord Mayer, Alderman, sad Commons of the 811111106 Woes de pluviers. As Seeidelt of a serious nature marred to Lord City of Loadoa, in Common Ornatail assembled, desire to ~_Pstftsi , „. , B ° ll f .,lui.,...itatursi• As P st g s° sh Ws" ' Creme i N vaaills. staabopo, son of tbs aael of Caemena i dd, y ester d ay o ff er to your Majesty our hurtful 000gratalations oa the 1.7" . Ina ...... e. Compote transom. imars ing. His lordship, a liousamenc j a tbp Royal H em arrival et your Majesty sad the Empress of the Froash is all s ea o t es crabeisete. Golfo de hese,. Glands. WS carmated oa a spirited ekerpr ; whoa in at. this country as th° V s " . of ear mast 8*".•• Qum: Bah. ilk Puhmatss• Brioche ila Snows& Paelesiturehyard, opposite Mr. Fred. Goodymes, his bens sad oa behalf of oar fellow-eitinsas sad earselees, we 111111111 L sUppsd is the side, and fell on its rider, breaking hi. j a i . humbly tender to your Majesties the wsrmiset o:peados of Rout &lasts. East beef. Lord &alma was 'immediately amnia into Mr. Fad. our graiii". for the "Wilai 'lit by which you have Boat lamb. Beast camas Goodyear's lieser,where the greatest Wadies Ira promptly deileed to bloom oar ele7 as this •lalliselhieti aY' Anosset the wises were Jchsanisberg, of 1822; BMW paid. Mr. Bala, seeped, of Bemlase, was as lam sm. "The attention of Baron sad the world is already flied Crimea% of 1826; Malvoisie, made from rapes of Malt mooed to Ns 401111161110. and sat tbo fast.,.. After a y. ,an the attitude of dignity sad malted strength displayed by Ida; sad Sherry of 109 years old. This wino, which too minis( shoat two bears his ladahlp was swayed to his Freese sad Great Britain is the pressat we, sad the pinhead at the moderate figure of 8001. a bati. I,o l_ l bursas ma Repeat's-put. • • riming of yew Majesty, invited by um beloved Chess g$ validate' ipiallty sail 'Naar. The Empress est is 11° on tt tion bo a an ; the o with Was dassl as e glibly' The and and Emi peat eeiv the end i: short' pith %woe their Ming The r MIDI? the el Jecin3 Enrol Tb mama dabs &Bel 1,. t be lu